The Ever-Present Origin - Michael Goodnight - Editor

characteristics of the structures, whose next grouping includes theirrespective sign, essence, and properties, we must consider for a momentthe ascriptions made above for the integral structure that result from theirparticular relation to space and time. Its four-dimensionality representsultimately an integration of dimensions. It results in a space-and-time-freeaperspectival world where the free (or freed) consciousness has at itsdisposal all latent as well as actual forms of space and time, withouthaving either to deny them or to be fully subject to them. To what extentthis space-time freedom can be realized in life, to what extent it iscompatible with the occurrence of presentiation, and to what degree it canbe related to what we call the diaphainon - these are questions which areresolved to the degree that we become aware of further elements thatmake up the individual structures.Let us now turn our attention to further cross-sections. If we recall thepreviously mentioned sign, essence, and properties for each individualstructure, the following new cross-section results:Structure 2. Sign 3. Essence 4. PropertiesArchaic None Identity (Integrality) IntegralMagic Point Unity (Oneness)Non-directional unitary interwovennessor fusionMythical Circle Polarity (Ambivalence) Circular and polar complementarityMental Triangle Duality (Opposition) Directed dual oppositionalityIntegral SphereDiaphaneityPresentiating, diaphanous “rendering(Transparency) whole”As in the case of the dimensioning, it is again evident from the sequenceof signs that we can observe an increase or expansion in the course of themutational series. Our choice of signs is not arbitrary but rather an organicoutgrowth of our exposition of the individual structures. The signs do notdistort or denature the objectively given state of affairs any more or lessthan in any instance in which we describe or represent something; everydescription or representation contains an alien factor not present in whatis described, inasmuch as we are compelled to impose an order onsomething undeniably organic that confronts our linguistic and conceptualmeans, and to arrange sequentially an obviously complex event.The signs convey the extension of the point to a circle, the break-up of thecircle by the triangle, that is, the division of the circle into sectors - thequantitative increase and extent of the mutations. Conversely, we can seein the rearrangements that determine the given essence of the structuresa countermovement; the increase of dimension by which consciousnessgains extent and scope is inversely proportional to the qualitativecharacterof the individual structures, which undergo in each instance areduction or diminution of value or intensity. The incrementation ofconsciousness does not correspond to an increase within the relationship34