The Ever-Present Origin - Michael Goodnight - Editor

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chapters 5, 6, and 7, we would like to include them in severalcomplementary cross-sectional tables. We begin with those cross-sectionswhich complement the ones already given earlier for the forms ofrealization and thought in cross-section 11.a) and b). This results in thefollowing additional summary:ms of Realization and Thoughtessd) Expression e) Formulation f) Limits g) Valenceaic Presentiment Presentiment World-origin — —icicaltalralassociative,analogizing,sympatheticinterweavingvitalexperienceinternalized recollection,contemplation — undergoneexternalized utterance, experienceexpressionWorld-knowled ge, theconditioned“recognized” worldWorld-image orWeltanschauun g: the temporallycontemplated and boundinterpreted worldprojective speculation:Representatio World conception: theoceanic, paradoxical,n Conception, thought and conceptualized limitedthe perspectivalIdeation worldthinkingintegrating, renderingVeritiondiaphanousWorld-Verition: the worldperceived and imparted in open, freetruthunivalentambivaletrivalentmultivaleIn this connection let it be noted that the attributions for the integralstructure in these and subsequent cross-sections present only suggestiveindications and not perspectival postulations or positings. As we havesummarized these cross-sections on the preceding pages, we believe theirreiteration here to be unnecessary. Cross-sections 15,16, and 17 bycontrast will be treated differently:Structure15. Location of the16. Forms of Bond or Tie 17. MottoSoulArchaic (Universe) — (All)MagicMythicalMentalSemen and bloodProligio (prolegere) emotivePars pro totoand point-likeRelegio (relegere)Diaphragm and observing, internalizing Soul is identical toheart(recollecting) and life (and death)externalizing (expressing)Spinal cord andbrainReligion (religare): believing,Thinking is beingknowing and deducing58
IntegralPraeligio (praeligare): Origin : PresentCerebral cortex,presentiating, concretizing, Perceiving andhumoralintegratingImparting TruthWe consider cross section 15 necessary here since it complements thecross-sections 9 and 10; moreover, it is not unimportant that we take intoaccount the "numinous" role played by out organs in the awakening ofconsciousness, particularly as a residue of this once-numinous or manalikeefficacy is still effective in various places today. (The deficiently magicblood-and-earth slogan of the "Thousand Year Reich," which was defeatedafter only twelve years,is merely one example among many.)We have designated semen and blood as the solelocalization of soul in themagic structure because they most clearly expressthe original point-likedispersion of the soul over all "points" experienceable by magic man.Blood and semen were vehicles of the soul since these substances are thepre-eminentvital forces. The numinous property of such substances andfluids has remained effective down to our own mental era: the blood ofChrist is administered in symbolic, sacramental form in the wine; and thesemen has a major role, notably in the writings of the Gnostics in thenotion of the logos spermatikos. In Greece Hippias still called semen thelocus of the soul, while Critias located it in the blood.With the mythical structure an upward relocation of emphasis an theorgans considered numinous becomes evident: a shift from the vital to theemotive sphere symbolized and designated by the diaphragm and theheart. We observed this shift as we examined the changes in theindividual Greek numinous concepts, as in etor which originally denoted"blood" and later "heart." The diaphragm, moreover, is related tobreathing, and like the heart-beat, is a polar occurrence. In the mythicalsphere it is the heart that hears and is spoken to; sight does not yet play adecisive role. Hence there are good reasons why mythical bards likeHomer are represented as being blind; their view of the soul does notrequire an eye to view the visible world, but a sight turned inward tocontemplate the inner images of the soul.And finally it is generally known that as a consequence of the mentalstructure the locus or organ of so-called psychic processes is considered tobe the spinal cord and the brain. The first to make this claim wasAlkmaion, and present-day materialistic psychologists will be the last, forthis they can always invoke the Support of Descartes.The attributions in cross-section 16 will likely be comprehensible withoutfurther explanation. As to mythicalrelegio and mental "religion," theyprovide a basis for us to infer the existence of the proligio of the magicstructure, a term which expresses more accurately the essence of socalled"primitive religion." It is the tie to the "point" that has validity "for"(pro) magic man in the sense of the pars pro toto; and magic man'scloseness to origin makes it illusory to speak here of "religion," which59
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