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apparent in the development of aperspectivity.If we fail to recognize this still potent past legacy, it may at any timebecome critical and threaten to overwhelm us; and this would prevent usfrom perceiving the new with the requisite vigilance and detachment.Because of this, we will examine in the following chapter those incisiveoccurrences that have manifest themselves (to use our term) as mutationsof the consciousness of mankind. <strong>The</strong> results of these mutations are latentin each and every one of us in the form of the various consciousnessstructures and continue to be effective in us. It is our hope that this briefoutline of the nature of the unperspectival and theperspectival worlds hasclarified one point: the degree to which the aperspectival world must bebuilt on the foundations of the perspectival world if it is to surpass it. Andas we expand and extend the temporal breadth and depth of itstemporality, the bases for the aperspectival world will become broaderand increasingly supportive.Chapter 4Mutations as an Integral Phenomenon:An Intermediate Summary1. Cross-sections through the StructuresHaving attempted to present the various consciousness structures in theirtemporal sequence, in "longitudinal section" as it were, we should now,before addressing the most important attendant problems, turn to asummary that presents them in "cross-section" from a different vantagepoint. Besides ensuring an orderly survey, this will also demonstrate that,when speaking of the structures which constitute us, we are dealing withan integral phenomenon. Each and every one of us is not just the sum or"result" of the mutations described, but their embodiment as a whole - awhole that also contains latently the possible further mutation toaperspectivity (which we will describe in Part II below).Two considerations are fundamental to this provisional summary, one withrespect to its manner of presentation, the other to its main organizingprinciple. We must bear in mind that the cross-section in its entirety whichis to organize the material we have discussed so far will necessarilyconsist of various thematically ordered sections. Our task, then, is tosummarize the various mutually interdependent characteristics of theindividual structures in their respective unfolding throughout the course ofthe mutational sequence. This will provide the main point of departure forour summation: we shall have to inquire into the unfolding of theindividual characteristics, forms of manifestation, and interrelationships ofthe respective structures.32
Basic to this mode of consideration is the circumstance that we canascribe to the individual structures certain characteristics within theirgiven relationships to space and time. We have found two categories thatserve to express these relationships: dimensions and perspective. Whenwe summarize our previous discussion of the individual structures in theform of a cross-section, the following structuration becomes evident foreach of the categories mentioned. When read from the top down, itindicates an unfolding structuration, when read across a complementarystructuration:Structure1. Space and Time Relationshipa) Dimensioning b) Perspectivity c) EmphasisArchaic Zero-dimensional None Prespatial / PretemporalMagic One-dimensional Pre-perspectival Spaceless / TimelessMythical Two-dimensional UnperspectivalSpaceless / NaturaltemporicityMental Three-dimensional Perspectival Spatial / Abstractly temporalIntegral Four-dimensional Aperspectival Space-free / Time-freeWe are now able to see how every mutation of consciousness thatconstituted a new structure of consciousness was accompanied by theappearance and effectuality of a new dimension. This clearly underscoresthe interdependence of consciousness and a space-time world; for eachunfolding of consciousness there is a corresponding unfolding ofdimensions. An increase in the one corresponds to an increase of theother; the emergence of consciousness and the dimensioning imply andgovern each other. What we have defined as perspectivity is accordinglyonly one, although essential, aspect of the respective space and timerelation - an aspect which only stands out when viewed from the presentdayperspectivally rigidified world. This shows that consciousnessunfoldingand -dimensioning are accompanied by an increasing reificationor materialization of the world. <strong>The</strong>se two facts beget further new facts,suggesting thereby a kind of symmetry which in a remarkable wayunderscores the complex problem we can define as the problem ofmeasure and mass. This in turn will illuminate a fourth actuality, namelythe symmetry evident in the succession of the mutations, a regularity thatis revealing with respect to the mutations in their entirety, as well as tothe relationships of the individual structures in themselves, and can,accordingly, shed light an our present-day situation.This should indicate that our intention is not to systematize but rather toelucidate the living and working interrelationships, and to convey vividlythe vital and effective facts that result from these interrelationships.Before directing our attention to the cross-sections of further unfolding33
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