The Grammar of Soul

THE GRAMMAR OF SOUL

-WHY WE CALL IT by one word EVEN THOUGH HARDLY ANY TWO THINKERS MEAN MEAN THE SAME THING BY IT.

Plato - Formal Essence of the Rational Faculty
("that which knows through reasoning")

Aristotle - Blend* of 1. formulable essence 2. material nature in: => 3. 'enmattered formulable essence'. De Anima, Bk. 1)

=> 4. Bk. 2 The actualization of that which is alive (functioning) in a potentially living thing. ("vital essence" of individual members of the natural classes of infima species: that which animates the particular man, dog, horse, etc..)

Aristotle's survey of his predecessor's views characterized soul* (*the term under discussion) as:

A. the moving principle in self-moved things; itself self-moved (like fire).
(cf. Plato's "7th (perfect) motion in the Timaeus.)

B. the cognitive faculty: that which thinks, reasons, knows experience through causes
=> In his synthesis, these become

C.

D. This is mirrored in the formula "God is thought thinking thought": the force of creation-by-attraction that constrains all things existent in the universe into being, through formal essence-love (of their own, of its peerage, of God, the eternally stable center of the perfect spiral motion (The Great I AM resonance))

Christian

Apart from particular New Testament passages or patristic teachings, the doctrine that a Personal Creator I AM incarnate in a historical individual, completing the totality which the natural kind called "humanity" on earth by a single member if that infima species....(this doctrine, with ramifications) is the revelation TO that humanity of what their soul is. Although Christians who follower the tradition of Thomas Aquinas readily weave together this supernatural soul with Aristotle's three grade natural soul + active reason, as thought totalities these arise from different sources and complete their unity* (*7-phase cycle reducing to => 6 + 1) in different ways. However, there is a great affinity. The yet deeper affinity, when the metaphysical affinity of these are matched ("faith completes reason"), can be shown to lie in Gurdjieff's system (below). But that is OK. Truth is older than religion, and there is a lot of it that didn't make it into The Bible, especially the further back, and outward, one goes.


Descartes (Modern)
Kant (Critical)

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Freud, Jung, Reich This initial Triad defined the metaphysics of Depth Psychology, replacing the where the grammar of "affections of the soul" once reigned. These men were scientists, following an empirical method; their work could not in principle begin by assuming a supernatural soul any more than empirical biology could begin by positing 'entelechies' to explain developmental material causes. However, science and metaphysics don't run along the same rails. (Not just my idea; its what religionists alway say about scientists: "you only study effects, not ultimate causes".)

FREUD

Used four models of psychic functioning at different stages of theory, roughly following the order of development of psychoanalysis as a discipline:

1. neurogenic process mediated by synaptic interactions: the Systems model (conscious, pre-conscious, unconscious; superceded later).
2. Instinct theory. Libido -- the energy of psychic process (later: Jung's "interest") motivating the sex drive. Its appetitative character explains the all-pervasive telos of the psyche to find in Conscious Perception that, and only that, which is desired. Subjectively, desire is for pleasure; hence the acme of pleasure during the involuntary orgasmic reflex response ("ejaculation") is an instinctual telos, nature's gratification of her own desire for joy of being. The Pleasure Principle: that which organizes what is perceived does so in a way that satisfies a conscious or unconscious wish.

Freud later notoriously abandoned the Libido theory as a monadic theory of psychic energy, introducing the notion of a "death-drive", "Thanatos", that begins to gain ascendancy after mid-life, when the expansive vitality of youth begins receding. Under its sway, the psyche lives to see death. At first Freud thought the masochistic (self-hating) manifestations he was seeing in humans was a vast sexual perversion, the result of internalizing sadistic aggression with energy of libido converted into anxiety over sex-punishment ("feeling so good is bad"). But the sheer amount -- quantity of some sort -- of obsessiveness with death led him to posit a separate strand, thus suggesting a cadaseus visual for instinct theory.

Extroversion/Inversion of libido" directions of flow, outward or inward, toward objects of desire. Outward: in "object-cathexis"; desire gratified by relating to an external object. Inward: in "narcissistic cathexis": desire gratified on the own body (can also be the basis of narcissistic object-cathexis)

3. Developmental-Dynamic model. Related to instinct theory as stages of development of psychic organization, beginning with birth trauma as prototype of neurogenic anxiety. L. deMause established that birth, itself, is the culmination of an entire formative period, retained in affective- reactive memory as "a previous life", transited by a Cosmic Battle (the source of the anxiety, later replayed endlessly by repetition-compulsion -- the 'soul-band' on the grammatical template through which flows the Etherokrilno.

The polymorphous, oral, anal, Oedipal, post-Oedipal (ego-centric) organizations of flow-of-libido overlay the material sealed from direct memory by the trauma of birth, spawning Great Fantasies in tiny just-awakening imaginations, then and later (in 'flashbacks'). This is the material of perversity when mal-adaptive adult consciousness blocks normal object-subject routes of cathexis, and 'loops up' one of the split-off contents of the Original psyche. We all go through the same stages of development, as different types of individuals-to-be, blending own-gratifications with others as "we", in states of regression, return to these original Archetypal contents. Also affecting development are the "vicissitudes of instinct", or (in G. terms) what is provided by external circumstance for the nourishment of our being-blood and the quality of completing factors of individual totality.

The theory of repression of instinct belongs to the dynamic model. Its mechanisms include denial, reaction-formation, projection-reversal, activated in the interest of preventing contents incompatible with the conscious attitude (accusatory voices cathecting guilt) from gaining entry to it. Blessed be the man who need not avoid the contents of their own unconscious.

4. Personality Theory. Freud arrived at the tri-partite Ego, Super-ego, Id division of basic factors analyzing individual personality after publication of The Ego and the Id in l923. His analysis of the Ego dissolved what had previously been assumed a unity of its own into a variable determined by its intermediate relation to an instinctual "active" (libidinal) drive, and "NO-saying, watching, Punishing agency" -- theoretical descendant in Freudian theory to the notion of "Ego Ideal" (what the ego desires to be, expects of itself), transformed into the main link to Thanatos (which has no hesitation in asking for its death -- which is why the Ego has got to keep its head out of its ass) .

JUNG

Jung paid psychosemiotic respect to the Greek Intellectual tradition by retaining the term "Psyche", associated with Latin Feminine Anima (=>Athena, Athens) as a category of explanation. "The Soul" he takes as the feminine side of the Psyche, whether the personal gender is male or female. Thus philosophy, defined as "tendance of the soul" is for either.

This is the metaphysical "right wing" of Freud. It de-sexualizes psychic energy and took collective dreams as expression of historical eras. A Mystic, The Hierophant, True Captain on the Sea of Being.


REICH

The Orgone Energy Ocean is breathed into our body through the nose, lung, pores of the skin -- in states of dilation, lugubrious sensuality; then discharged. It is a purifying act of communication through matching active-passive elements of the Omni-Present-Okidanokh. This is the metaphysical left-wing of Freud, following the libido theory.

Gurdjieff

1. The Emotional Brain Center.

There is that which manifests through the second being brain of three-brained beings. (individual persons); this, as the Neutralizing
force in respect to the head-brain, Active, and spinal brain, Passive, is required to complete the totality of functions of the person. .

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This second being-brain is not. like the head-brain and tail-brain (spine), located in one spatially contained material organ. It does have a physical, that is to say functional anatomic basis, however, in locales distributed over separately organized parts of the body. When experienced as a totality, these locales are brought together on the token side of sign-use, in the solar plexus, or 'gut'. Otherwise, separately experienced, they are felt as in the chest, ('heart'), loins, 'hot spots', and so forth; each of these ways of experiencing the flow-of-impressions by feeling is a Completing Factor of the soul-totality. The flow of feeling itself is the Completing Factor for the functioning of the three-brained being as a totality. The myth of the Egyptian God Osiris whose body was cut into 14 parts by Seth and distribute up and down the Nile may be seen as reflecting the original human soul template, as an external objective correlate of the subjective completing factors: Our Soul scattered along the Nile (back when it still flooded). Isis re-assembled the parts; Thoth substituted a virtual for the real phallus to impregnate her, and from her womb came Horus, the 4th. He is perpetually at war with Seth, who was the 4th originally, perpetually revenging the murder and dismemberment of His Father Osiris. Gurdjieff himself called this myth 'gibberish', but I am including it as a descriptive account of what "soul" was for Egyptian and other followers of the template. 14 is double-7, the British Fortnight; it "breaks" in two as right-left, male-female, symmetrical circular patterning, visually displayed in the shape of the number sign 8. (14 => 8 as 7^, using "^" for "double"). Seeing* 8 =7^ involves shifting the grammatical framework, as in the formula (6+1) = 7 when "+" is a geometrical sign correlating a hexagram around a center (the 7th). In intentional contexts of sign-use, the expression "(6+1)" would not "equal 7", since what is communicated by one is different from communicated by the other, and "+" is conventionally take to signify arithmetic, rather than geometrical 'addition'. A particular mental operation is required, but its designation is ambiguous. When the transition is from one completing factor to another in a completing totality, the totality of these grammatical totalities, 'bent' at points of deflection from one grammar to the other, can be mapped in a circle of 7 units, drawn in one direction; meeting itself at a point of origin and retracing its steps in reverse as if from the other side of a Meobius/Torus. The iconagraphy of this structural dynamics has been laid out in brilliant visuals elsewhere.(See Pentachronic)

Constellation of the Completing Factors of the Psychic (Soul) Totality is by use of signs ("sign-use", S*), and that in two senses. A. By names and other unit designators, to bring together the over-all qualities of an object or situation, such as beauty, justice, etc. to which the soul-center relates; B. by arranging the categories of names in schemata (diagrams, graphs, maps, matrices, formal syntactical S* systems, I Ching, Tarot). The latter, B., is a reflection-in representation of the unity constellated in A.; that is, which is brought together by assembling the totality of Completing Factors into a whole.

It is through participation of the soul as a totality in ordinary consciousness that the person experiences Remorse of Conscience (no conscious completion without conscience). The vibrational quality experienced is the Nirioonossian-world-sound (Do absolute). It is heard through the essence-ring vibration as Aieiouoa. Those who ignored it in life, even (or especially) among those whose higher being bodies are coated, and hence indestrutable, relative to local flows-of-time, 'lose the possibility of blending directly with our Most Most Holy Sun Absolute' and wind up on the planet Purgatory. The Vibe of the Great I AM cannot get through to them.


2. Metaphysics of The Work. Although the capacity to experience the emotional life as a totality exists innately in each three-brain being, the ability to actually 'pull it all together' in a fully self-conscious act is not given except as a potential. The forever unspoken, forever being-spoken 'primordial' unity existed, indeed, before birth, before there was any 'center' or point of reference to relate the physico-psychologal flux retained in memory, but 'sealed' by the trauma of birth. Conscious efforts to make the original unity that becomes scattered and dispersed over and through the body after birth trauma are required to 'coat' the soul-centre as a unit, according to Gurdjieff. The Conscious efforts are called "being-Parkdolg duty"

3. The Third Being-Body (Man No 5)

The First Being-Body is the Planetary body (with three brains).
The Second Being- Body is the Kesdjan body (the coated essence)
this body is the manifestation of an inneer totality distinct from the personality, which is formed by blending inner and outer flow-of- process in a functional unity as part of coming to terms with reality which includes other people. The Kesdjan body, in distinction, is an inner development with an identity constellated from original soul factors, but dispersed through the Omni-Present Okidonokh. This body has its own blood, handbledzoin, requiring its own 'food' which consists in higher oxygens borne in the air. Vibrant handbledzoin is required to vivify qualitative experience. .


The Third Being Body is the coated crystalized particles vibrating in consonance with the prime source of all arisings, the sacred Etherokrilno.

It is the center-of- gravity of vibrational manifestation of Man Number 5, in Ouspensky's terms. The Kesdjan body has become sufficiently stabilized to act as conduit for the higher grade (6th) cosmic forces to crystalize.