Gospels of Thomas and Philip and Truth - Syriac Christian Church

structure of [Mahayana] Buddhist philosophy is based on an idealistic monism’;
compare also the polymorphic incarnationism of the Bhagavad Gita 11:5: ‘Behold my
forms in hundreds and thousands— diverse, divine, of many colors and shapes’.
XII. Iconology: a person is the consciousness of one’s particular set of sensory
images, some or all of which are symbolic; God is the universal consciousness of all
imagery and symbolism.
1. Ego is consciousness (subjectivity, passivity, substance, noumenon)
1.1 of images: things
1.2 of meaning: concepts
1.3 of oneself and other persons: incarnations
2. Imagery is sensory (objectivity, activity, attributes, phenomena)
2.1 consciousness and imagery are interdefined
2.2 the five senses
2.21 NB emotions are symbolic feelings
2.3 perception
2.31 we perceive our incarnations and their environment
2.311 two persons can and do perceive the selfsame image
2.32 we communicate via perceived symbols
2.33 coexistence = space
2.4 memory
2.41 memories are images from past perceptions
2.42 change = time
2.5 imagination/fantasy
2.51 hyperdimensionality
2.52 volition is choice among imagined actions (deliberation)
2.521 legality, ethics
2.522 Mosaic/Christlike as legal/moral norms
2.523 pardon/forgiveness transcends individual value-systems
2.53 karma is analog, not binary
2.531 thus e.g. Mt 25 as a binary parable of an analog event
2.6 dreams, visions, hallucinations
3. Meaning is symbolism (rationality, logos)
3.1 a symbol is an image which represents something(s)
3.11 e.g. utterances, gestures, pictures, alphabets, musical scores
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