{Scale and Scaling [continued]}[5th January 1990]

[Redbook7:10-11][19900105:1655b]{Scale and Scaling [continued]}[5th January 1990]

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Scaling is more* critical in the context of Human History [sic], and requires careful consideration and judgement. But we can start by establishing the lengths of periods which indicate the lives of particular institutions, and then simply allowing{,} in these cycles{,} only the events which play a significant part in the lives of these institutions.

For example, the current cycle of of the Christian Church** seems clearly to be a 2048 year cycle, given its initial and current features, and broad trends in the history of the Church as a whole seem to support this: local events in particular sects are of less significance in that cycle.

Similarly the cycle of ‘Barbarian’ or Germanic Europe, which appears to be the same, should only take account of matters of broad significance to that Europe.

The histories of European nation-states are unlikely to rise and fall on anything greater than a 1024 year cycle, judging by their histories to date. Within these, recurring patterns may occur at shorter intervals: the shorter the interval,*** the less the significance of events conforming to its pattern. Why I should have been able to find a 64-year cycle**** I don’t know, except that[:]

(a) it represents the approximate working life of modern/civilised Man; and

(b) it is 8².

8³, of course, is 512 years, which is the approximate period of the modern age to date; 8⁴ is 4096 years, which may be the approximate period of the European cultural cycle to date, since Indo-Europeans entered Greece and the Minoan civilisation began on Crete.#

*[See last previous entry]

**ref VI.... [probably [Redbook6:242][19890912:1140j]{Historical Circles (3) [continued (3)]}[12th September 1989](ff)]

***{(ie so strongly)}

****(8⁵ = 32,768 years, which has no significance that I know of.)

#{& of the Judao-Christian (& Judao-Islamic) cycle to date.}

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