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Psychosemiotics and Kant’s Moral Argument for the Existence of God


The Wikipedia entry under Suns In Alchemy is excellent. The title is a token spoof.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suns_in_alchemy

“The two suns in the hermetic tradition

There is a persistent belief in alchemical and hermetic tradition in the existence of two suns: a hidden one of pure "philosophical gold," consisting of the essential Fire conjoined with aether, and the apparent one of profane "material gold." “

This refers to the distinction between the upper vs. lower triads of S*, in the 7 stage hierarchical schema of token types.
Upper: <= S*7 theological; S*6 philosophucal; S*5 exiztential
Lower: => S*1 bio-neuropsychic; S*2 phenomenal; S*3 physical embodiment.

S*4, in the hierarchy of token types, is moral discourse, presupposing S*3 (‘my body’) as a lower totality; completed through time with karma, by S*5 predicates (‘What I did’). S*4 is the language of the moral agent, an autonomous, distinct “world” persons occupy (is ‘contained in’).

Moral agency is essential to the concept of what a “person:” is (cf. Rom Harre.) This “world” spans the given totality of body movement, voluntary – under will – and involuntary – by habit/instinct, by presuming to bring the inner acts of will under judgment. “Ought” imples “can” (Hume); therefore, the metaphysical audacity of moral judgment, pursued by reason as a possibility (Kant), leads to completion of the requirement of living under moral constraint – its law, or grammar -- solely under the condition that its content issues from a good will, not externally determined. Kant’s concept of the good will, taken with Aristotle’s definition of the hightest good as that which is chosen-for-itself, and lower goods chosen for the sake of it, leads to the “moral argument for the existence of God”: to predicate on the exiztential center of the lower triad, S*5, connects it through inner desire for its own completion, to S*7, the completing totality, by means of S*6.

“Philosophical gold” is the ancient alchemical token of a higher, more inclusive center of the rational “I”, contained in Tokenspace (content of consciousness under “I” of “I think”), contained in the “world” exterior-to-3D bodyspace – the cosmic totality. The connection of the Rational Ego (S*5, as the solipsistic, narcissistic “world” of my inner personal being, for myself) to that existeng external totality, is to the Sun as Reason to consciousness via (<=) the good will. The philosophical gold attained bythe work of alchemical transformation of the psyche is the Sun in the sky as known to reason: the Rational Sun, drawn in TokenSpace on chartes, cartesian coordinates, scales, is the model of the visible sun. This is the ruler of world S*3, going over to the moon as light in the visible sky.

These two suns illustrate the Hermetic dyad: “Everything is 2”. And: “THE CONTENTION”: is between the One and the Two; the One wants to fly away, but is held in the dyad below, one side tending to slavery , the other to freedom.

The "dark, consuming fire" of the material sun leads to its being called the "Dark" or "Black Sun." According to the Book of the Holy Trinity, after Adam's fall, tainted by Original Sin, man is made "from the black sun's fire."

This sets the stage for alchemical transformation by purification -- starting from the materia prima , by the work releasing the inner fire, to conjoin with the aether. “The black sun’s fire” is what “man” (the Archetype) is made to become free of. There is a very, very fine line between Jungian understanding of the uroboros, inclusing morality as One world of token types among the 7, and the polymorphous perversity of S*3 –S*1 lower “moon” triad, untransformed by the Work.