The Real Root Of Alchemy Is To Be Sought Less In Philosophical Doctrines Than In The Projections Of Individual

All Light, Everywhere (Theo Anthony, 2021)

Hegel’s Dialectics

Dialectics drives to the “Absolute”,… which is the last, final, and completely all-encompassing or unconditioned concept or form in the relevant subject matter under discussion (logic, phenomenology, ethics/politics and so on). The “Absolute” concept or form is unconditioned because its definition or determination contains all the other concepts or forms that were developed earlier in the dialectical process for that subject matter…We can picture the Absolute Idea, for instance—which is the “Absolute” for logic—as an oval that is filled up with and surrounds numerous, embedded rings of smaller ovals and circles, which represent all of the earlier and less universal determinations from the logical development. [Fig. 1].

Since the “Absolute” concepts for each subject matter lead into one another, when they are taken together, they constitute Hegel’s entire philosophical system, which, as Hegel says, “presents itself therefore as a circle of circles”. We can picture the entire system like this [Fig. 2].

Linda Dalrymple Henderson, The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidian Geometry in Modern Art

astronomical/astrological diagrams

from an astronomical-astrological composite manuscript, alsace, 15th c.

source: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1370

How to Organize Your Holon “Congratulations!      Yes,        congratulations on your decision to form your Holodynamic        Holon. A Holon is the first level of organization in the        Holodynamics Society. It consists of 6 or more individuals        who meet together weekly to study Holodynamic principles,        apply the processes, and expand their holodynamic influence        into the community and across the world.”

from Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers

The Internet adores this second-person voice. There it is, at every cyber–street corner: Recommended for You, Suggestions for You, Here Is Something You Might Like. Behind each of these You’s, an algorithm sits at an easel, squinting, trying to catch Your likeness. But these algorithms are true Renaissance practitioners. Not only portraitists, they’re also psychologists, data-crunchers, and private detectives, extrapolating personality from the evidence of our past actions: from our online histories and, increasingly, from what they can eavesdrop, without any meaningful warrant, in the physical world. From all those toothsome bytes of behavior, they create an image of You.

Laurence Scott, "Hell is Ourselves"

Roberto Assagioli’s Psychosynthesis Star Diagram

Rudy Rucker, Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension