{Political Circles}[8th July 1987]

[Redbook4:15-19][19870708:0100]{Political Circles}[8^th July 1987]

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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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