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And finally**, the (so far as I know) complete system:

	→	*↓→	ATTRACTION	→	↓
	↑	↓*/	←UNITY←	←\↑?*	↓
→	SIMPLIFICATION	↓		↑	ORDINATION	→
↑	/	LOVE		HARMONY	\	↓
↑	↓				↑	↓
REVOLUTION	REVELATION		☼		INNER ACTION	OUTER ACTION
↑	↓				↑	↓
↑	\	CREATION		EVOLUTION	/	↓
←	FRAGMENTATION	↓		↑	COMPLICATION	←
	↑	\	DIVERSITY	/	↓
	↑	←	DISTRACTION	←	←

*[These vertical arrow lines are dashed in the ms diagram.]

[In the ms these three diagrams [see last previous entry for first and second] are represented as roughly drawn circles with square and (in the second and third) diagonal crosses; the arrows follow the circles. Due to the apparent limitations of Google Blogger's fonts, these cannot be fully represented there in tables.]

It is worth restating this (in a rather messy diagram) in order to emphasise that everything else is a gloss – to illustrate it in one way or another. This is why a certain amount of mutual contradiction among symbols is not crucial (as it were) – they are, after all, only symbols. Only symbols! As if that resolved anything....

One of the strengths of this diagram* is that it highlights the ambiguous nature, and dangers, of Attraction. After all, with the exception of Anger, all of the seven Vices may be seen as a form of Attraction.***

**[See last previous entry.]

***{cf. Dante: Purgatory (Sayers' Notes)[in her translation of Dante's Hell/Purgatory/Paradise, presumably.].}

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All these more-or-less corresponding systems* serve

(a) to indicate possible earlier “thought” along the same lines, conscious or unconscious, as a kind of reassurance and confirmation of probable validity**; and

(b) to fill out the bare bones along lines already developing (as with xP in the marginal note on the previous page***).

But it is the bare bones that count: and every symbol must fit in with those principles just as the principles must fit in with with real experience.

The Cardinal principles were, I think, the first part of all this to manifest themselves to me, possibly the Outer Circle ones first****; possibly also along with &/or in the shape of the four Cardinal Archetypes acknowledged to embody them, many years ago; but arising out of a pre-occupation with the pattern# apparently emerging in current events and modern history, particularly of the United Kingdom. It is worth restating these fundamental principles: first, the Cardinals, then (and with less certainty even now) the Diagonals.

	→	ATTRACTION	→
↑				↓
REVOLUTION		+		ACTION
↑				↓
	←	DISTRACTION	←

(I guess that this [above] came first, with or without its rotation.)#*

	→	ATTRACTION	→
↑	↓←	UNITY	←\	↓
REVOLUTION	REVELATION	☼	INNER ACTION	OUTER [ACTION]
↑	\→	DIVERSITY	→↑	↓
	←	DISTRACTION	←

[In the ms these three diagrams [see next entry for third] are represented as roughly drawn circles with square and (in the second and third) diagonal crosses; the arrows follow the circles. Due to apparent limitations of Google Blogger' fonts, these cannot be fully represented there in tables.]

*[See recent previous entries.]

**[As symbolic mental representations or models, at least in most cases, presumably. <20160530>]

***[See last previous entry but one: [Redbook4:14][19870707:1000b]{Virtues and Vices (2) [continued]}[7^th July 1987], fn2.]

****which are the most certain.

#{refs. at III[[Redbook3:87-92][19870402:2106](DEVELOPMENT OF THE CIRCLES)[2nd April1987]].87}

#*Actually the notes suggest that Revelation preceded Revolution. <880307>

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The older order of Vices (on p.13)* is pleasing in that almost all of them appear fleetingly or are hinted at in the characters of the corresponding Archetypes in [2]. So, perhaps to a slightly less exclusive extent, do the Virtues. Apparent anomalies might be Sloth, for xS** (although the error which she confesses after her dance [in[2]] is due to lack of forethought, and is uncharacteristic of the other Archetypes); and Hope, for +Mk. This last, however, raises complex and interesting questions as to what +Mk is actually doing; I do not think that Hope is necessarily out of place.*** On Outer Circle (and perhaps Inner?) here, even Faith becomes difficult, and Caritas (Love – for God) has not yet arrived; but Hope is still possible, and can carry you through.****

*[[Redbook4:13-14][19870707:1000]{Virtues and Vices (2)}[7th July 1987]]

**{See p.19 [[Redbook4:19][19870708:1035]{Temperance and Sloth}[8th July 1987]].}

***{cf. II[[Redbook2:307-311][19831024:1000e]{Dream: The Peace of God [continued(3)]}[24th October 1983]].310 – The Underworld Bus?}

****cf. Pilgrim's Progress {– at Vanity Fair (near Distraction), Faithful (who joined early) is killed and Hopeful replaces him. (cf. III[[Redbook3:38-39][19870326:1543s]{Pilgrim's Progress: as Outer Circle? [continued]].39.}

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Somewhere I have picked up the idea of Uriel* or JeRemiel (probably Uriel) as the Destroyer**, but I cannot remember where; nor can I find it in my readings of the last few days. (In looking for which, I discover that Brewer's*** list of 7 Christian Archangels is different from [the Book of] Enoch's!)

*[See last previous entry.]

**Neither: it is Perseus who is the Destroyer in Ancient Greek (per Huxley, The Dragon), & (Persona) the Mask (& death mask/assumed role) in Etruscan/Latin, i.e. xP with her political role-playing and name-changes is Fragmentation – but also Creation the other way <19870708.0040>

In this respect, [2] remains her book despite the apparent concentration on xS at the end – much as [1] is +K's book (+K at that stage still incorporating xS) despite the concentration, in much of the second half, on +M. <0100> [But as (re)numbered, [1] would appear to be actually +Mk's book, and [2] xS's book....]

***[Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Centenary Edition, 1970; 1971).]

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This* hierarchy** of vices comes from E[ncylopaedia] B[ritannica] XVII.382 (instead of Dante***):

KEY:

[S.C. = Sistine Chapel]

PRINCIPLES (Archetypes).

Virtues (Angels).

Vices (Demons).

<Some correlations>.

II High Priestess

0 Fool#

(Extra-verts)

V High Priest

(Army Officers)

(BELPHEGOR)

TXIII Death

ATTR-ACTION

Sagittarius

(LUCI-FER)

SLOTH

(+C)

PRIDE

S.C. Heremias. Left Ignudi.

SIMPLIF-ICATION

(TRUTH)(?)

VII Chariot

ORDIN-ATION

Intuition

TEMPER-ANCE

Innocence

UNITY

PRUD-ENCE

Scorpio

Intellect-ion

{3rd eye per Dante – hence Scorpion?}

Aquarius

(xS)

LOVE

TXIV Temper-ance

(RAPH-AEL)

HARM-ONY

(xA)

(Doctors, Lawyers)

Lupus The Wolf

↓

(RAGU-EL)

TXXI World

(SARIEL)

Cetus, The Sea Monster

REVOLUTION.

(+K)

REVEL-ATION

INNER-

(+M) ACTION

-OUTER

Libra

Red Horse ה

(LEVI-ATHAN)

ENVY

CHAR-ITY

(GABRI-EL)

?←☼→?

(MICHA-EL)

FAITH

AVAR-ICE

(MAM-MON)

White Horse ה

Civil war.

TVIII Justice ↓

Conquest

Aries

(JEREM-IEL)

(URIEL)

Virgo/ Astraea

([-]SC Erithraea's ½ Scale)

(xP)

CREAT-ION

(AZRA-EL)

EVOLU-TION

(xL)

(Anxious Dispositions)

Innovation

FORT-ITUDE

JUSTICE

Implement-ation

(Army Officers)

FRAG-MENT-ATION

TXI Fortitude

DIVERS-ITY

COMPLI-CATION

Crater The (Empty) Cup

GLUT-TONY

Taurus

(+Mk)

LECH-ERY

(BEEL-ZEBUB)

HOPE

?TXVIII Star?

(AZMO-DEUS)

III Empress

DISTR-ACTION

IV Emperor

(Artists, Introverts)

Orion, The Hunter

ANGER

Cancer

Canes, The Dogs

(SATAN)

?Black Horse

Famine

II Magician

(Some correlations added later e.g. <870710>)

[S.C = Sistine Ceiling.]

[In the ms diagram, a square & a diagonal cross are extended radially from the centre some way into the surrounding names, virtues, &c..]

[A simpler and less cluttered version of this diagram (in a specific context) is at [Redbook4:39][19870712:1000h]{Research and Development [continued]}[12^th July 1987].]

I like this one too; in some ways it fits**** even better with the actual characters in [2]. (But note that xS#* seems to identify Satan with Lucifer as seen by Man – but does she explicitly endorse this? The E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] elsewhere describes Lucifer and Satan as interchangeable -- the early Church Fathers having renamed one the other. There is, of course, a close connection between +Mk and xS on the one hand and {+Mk} and xA on the other, so this indeterminacy is probably acceptable).

*{underlined}. (Apparently that of some Mediaeval scholars. <870710>

cf.p.[[Redbook4:3][19870705:1745b]{Virtues and Vices (1)}[5^th July 1987] ]3.

**as a hierarchy, starting with Lucifer (Pride) <880811>

*** [Purgatory. See [[Redbook4:3][19870705:1745b]{Virtues and Vices (1)}[5^th July 1987]].]

****Note that the Vices are active or positive on the right, passive of “consumptive” on the left – & see [[Redbook4:38][19870712:1000]{Clogs to Clogs}[12^th July 1987],] p.38. <870712>

Note also that the Virtues are more attached on the left, more detached on the right? (but [[Redbook4:39-43][19870712:1000]{Research & Development}[12^th July 1987],] p.43). <[87]0712> [& [[Redbook4:65][19870820:18??#]{Passive & Active Vices}[20th August 1987]]

#{See [[Redbook4:59][19870820:18??]{Innocence and Truth}[20th August 1987]]p59 & [[Redbook4:66][19870820:18??#]{Archangels <870821>}, Vices, VIRTUES, Gifts of the Spirit [20th August 1987],p]66 [# is at top centre of diagram.]

#*In her exposition of Creation. {[2] (& [cf.] S&C 22/0).}

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