{Becoming and Being}[4th August 1984]

[Redbook2:345-346][19840804:2115]{Becoming and Being}[4^th August 1984]

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The triplet 'Sense-Decide-Act' from systems design, which I recall trying to fit to a similar triplet which [SX] picked up in the Far East (A+B=C), is interestingly fitted to the circles. [SX]'s insistence that triplets and triangles were what mattered – fours and squares were definitely out – led me to try a synthesis in which it was easy to identify triangles in squares – the question was, which triangle(s)? Sense-Decide-Act provides a possible answer, as follows.

The identifiable points common to triplet and quadrilateral are Sense and Act in the triplet corresponding to Revelation and Action in the quadrilateral. Given that movement is round, not through, the quadrilateral, Decide should be Unity/Attraction or Diversity/Distraction. The 'Inner' Circle, regarded as preferable, would make Decide occur at Diversity, not Unity; the 'Outer' at Attraction, not Distraction. This might be thought surprising, as Unity/Attraction is generally regarded as somehow preferable to Diversity/Distraction, in terms of Light v. Dark, Good v. Evil.

But the crucial distinction is of Motion and Station, Becoming and Being. The symbols attached to these points reflect this distinction in everyday terms. At Diversity is found the Magician, the Magus, the Serpent, Wisdom; at Unity is found the Fool. Sense-Decide-Act on the Outer Circle will pass through Attraction at the Decide stage: Attraction to Action. On the Inner Circle Wisdom will be at the Decide stage. The point is that both these circles involve Motion: not necessarily physical motion, but the motion involved in passing from one stage to another. (e.g. Sense-Decide-Action), i.e. Becoming. In motion Wisdom is required.

Unity is essentially a station of Being: on the outer circle Attraction provides an impetus to continue the motion, and to decide in this way is foolish in the outer world. The Fool in fact has no place in Becoming because he is beyond it: but in Being he is the only pure state, being at rest on a revolving World and the final point on the entry to that Non-being which is the centre of All. Becoming—Being—Non-being.

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