Symbols

1 Symbology

Plato said that abstractions are realer than the things that they are abstractions of. That we can name something as a "chair" because the physical item has a close enough match to the real perfect idea of "chair". Thus the real world is made up of Idealities and the world we perceive is an image of the real world with objects, actions and relationships that more or less match up to the real Idealities.

Aristotle said bushwah. The world of physical things is the real world. By relating to the world we form mental images of things and from these images we make abstractions and then name the abstractions. There is no such thing as the real Ideality of "chair". There are only objects that more or less function as chairs and so we name them "chair".

As might be expected, Blavatsky's Ebionites have a different take. In looking at abstractions or symbols they see condign and uncondign. Condign is necessary and fitting. Uncondign is your usual arbitrary representation. A horse can be designated as sus or pferd or ma or any of any number of noises. Language isn't arbitrary but if you don't know a language it might as well be. That's Uncondign.

Condign is fitting and necessary. That there are moving lights in the sky called planets that fit the pattern of the Tetractys fairly well is interesting but not Condign. However that the fifth member of the Tetractys is Conflictuality and Red. That's Condign. There is a necessary developmental relationship there. That the ten commandments count down from ten to one and the commandment in the Five position concerns Murder. And that Murder necessarily involves Death. And that Death necessarily involves Conflictuality. That any and all other relationships might be involved in Murder, but that Death is necessarily involved. That's Condign.

The fit of each of the commandments to an Element of the Tetractys is Condign. The order of the ten commandments is Condign to the order of the Elements of the Tetractys. The whole thing is a Cryptograph. And Cryptographs are on purpose. They can't be faked and they can't arise by accident. Cryptographs are a Mechanism. Their presence can be quantified. Real odds against some pattern being by accident can be measured.

Ten to one against happens all the time. Nothing significant there. Can be dismissed as non significant. Hundred to one against, very unusual. Probably not an accident. Shouldn't be dismissed. Best to look to see what the mechanism might be. Thousand to one and up. Forget accident. There's some mechanism there. Finding what it is may be difficult but there is some mechanism.

An arrangement of ten like the ten commandments has odds of exactly 362879 to one against it being random. Odds like that mean it's a Cryptograph. It's on purpose. It's Condign.

Condign symbols in a Quantum world are interesting and may be psychologically active in some way. Condign symbols in a Recursive world are much more interesting than that.

In a Quantum world you have quantum entanglement where a particle can be in two different places at once. Something done to it in one place is instantaneously measurable in the other place. It's not action at a distance, it's just that the object acted on is in two places at once.