{The Union Jack}[3rd October 1987]

[Redbook4:82-83][19871003:1202]{The Union Jack}[3rd October 1987]

19871003.1202

One of the considerations leading up to Circle theories (and there were many – including, as should be apparent from yesterday's entry*, Science Fiction –) was what might even more pompously be described as a meditation on the National Flag – the Union Jack. (This may have arisen from a remark of my father's, many years ago, that the Union Jack was one of the few dynamic national flags around – another being Japan's Rising Sun.) I tried to fit the four nations of the British Isles and of the Royal Standard into the Cardinal Archetypes (the diagonals having not then appeared, I think), ending up with something like this:

(a)

		(+C)
		England
(+K)	Wales	+	Scotland	(+M)
		Ireland
		(+Mk)

– or this:

(b[1])

		(+C)
		Scotland
(+K)	Wales	+	England	(+M)
		Ireland
		(+Mk)

[or (b2)]**

– but in fact the only one I am reasonably happy with is Wales.

These patterns can only describe the relationship of the four nations to each other within the Isles, i.e. not their relationships with others outside the Isles, nor the relationships of each one within itself; and even the relationships between the four might be different for different aspects or activities.

* [[Redbook4:78-81][19871002:2245c]{Spiritual Fusion}[2nd October 1987], presumably.]

**[(b2)] or,

	Ireland (Harp)
Wales (Dragon)	+	Scotland (Lion)
	England (3 Leopards)	***

*** – !

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