{Crosses and Squares (or Diamonds) [continued]}[4th August 1990]

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*

	Other’s Attributes	My Understanding
Cross (general)	Matter, Sacredness
Diagonal Cross		Ethics? Movement?
Square Cross		Holiness? Stability?
Square		Solidity?
Diamond		The Holy City?

A B A N D O N E D**

This seems inconclusive – it fragments as I touch it! The relationships and symbolism are obviously too complex for me now.

*[See last previous entry]

**[‘ABANDONED’ is written diagonally across the table in the ms]

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{Crosses and Squares (or Diamonds)}[4th August 1990]

[Redbook7:188][19900804:1125d]{Crosses and Squares (or Diamonds)}[4th August 1990]

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The relative patterns of diagonal and cardinal* can be unpicked from the C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] pattern:

**

I tend to think of the diagonal cross, and the square in which it resides, as being more representative of the O[uter] C[ircle], and the square cross and the diamond *** as **** the I[nner] C[ircle]. But not everyone would agree.

*[See last previous entry but one, [Redbook7:187][19900804:1125b]{Cardinals and Diagonals, Position and Movement}[4th August 1990]]

**[The difference in size of the diagrams & details is not significant]

***[in which it resides]

****[being more representative of]

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{G~}[4th August 1990]

[Redbook7:187][19900804:1125c]{G~}[4th August 1990]

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[continued]

*– Although, as I wrote that,** I was suddenly intensely aware of the quality and human appearance of G~, +K, within my mind and around my body.***

*cf III. [[Redbook3:44-46][19870327:2157d]{Separation}[27^th March 1987],] 44-45,

[[Redbook3:22A][19870326:1512]{Extract from [2] ms, 19870104 (p49)}[26^th March 1987],] 22A****

**[See last previous entry, final para]

***ie embracing me

cf [[Redbook7:176-177][19900730:1007d]{Crisis Resolution in Personal Cycles (6) [continued (3)]}[30th July 1990],] 177

****[This refers to a photocopy inserted in the journal ms at that point, but not included in the ts nor blogged, consisting of one unrevised ms page from [2] on which the relevant text is as follows:

‘... [under the] mounting blue haze a train from London snaked its way up the King's Cross line and into the city. On the southern footpath from the Chilterns, along the edge of the hill, I could see a figure walking towards me. Nearer than I had thought, being little more than child size, a slim figure with startlingly blonde, straight hair, cut short, and blue eyes: a young girl whom I felt sure I recognised. She sat down beside me on the edge of the Gog Magog hills: “[xS] is here.”’

I looked at her for a long time; and for a long time she gazed over Cambridge.

[…]

‘She turned, and smiled, and I knew that it was her, although three or four years older. "I am becoming serious! Ask."

"Ask what?"

"Whatever you wish."’

– & a marginal note near the foot of the page: ‘Rung by [Mrs B, the owner] in reply to our letter re [CH, the house which the writer & his wife shortly thereafter bought, & lived in from 1987 to 1992]’ see [Redbook3:146-147][19870408:1218f](Dream of [xS]: Significance)[8th April 1987]

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{Cardinals and Diagonals, Position and Movement}[4th August 1990]

[Redbook7:187][19900804:1125b]{Cardinals and Diagonals, Position and Movement}[4th August 1990]

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[continued]

I am curious about the relationship between the 4 cardinal and the 4 diagonal degrees of the C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] ‘circle’, in one respect. I have thought for some time that the diagonals tend to represent movement and the cardinals position, in relation to each other (not in any absolute sense, so far as I know). I know from experience that the cardinals are at least as strongly represented on the O[uter] C[ircle] as the diagonals, and vice versa* on the I[nner] C[ircle].**

The first attribution *** above, however, tends to contradict the second, if (as I have assumed), the O[uter] C[ircle] tends to be associated with change or movement and the I[nner] C[ircle] with position. So perhaps the last assumption is incorrect in an ‘inner’ sense: certainly although I can map outward change and decay on the O[uter] C[ircle] for myself, I was more aware[,] at the time[,] of stagnation; whereas now I am distinctly aware of rapid and fundamental changes.

Then again, against this, the pattern of circle creation (Pascal’s ∆****/doubling) would suggest that cardinals would be more noticeable on the I[nner] C[ircle] then [on] the O[uter] C[ircle].# This is not so far the case at all.

*{(sic....)}

**(I’m sure I resolved once not to use abbreviations....)

***[in the first para]

****[Triangle!]

#{Not necessarily}

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{The Reservoir of Truths (2)}[4th August 1990]

[Redbook7:186][19900804:1125]{The Reservoir of Truths (2)}[4th August 1990]

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*Theodore Roszak in his review of Roger Penrose’s ‘The Emperor’s New Mind’** says of Penrose that: ‘He contends that the mind in all its higher functions remains radically mysterious. Its working is as much based upon aesthetic taste or “instantaneous judgement of inspiration” as on formal logic. Even in his own field of mathematics, Penrose believes that consensus is achieved when the individual mind “makes contact with Plato’s world of mathematical concepts”.’

This fits beautifully with many earlier C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] attributions:

***

– The point being that as higher Mathematicians and higher Scientists at c[irca] S~ follow the I[nner] C[ircle rotation, by C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] they will be carried by**** C to r~, g~ &c. and to a greater wisdom and understanding of the A~ semicircle.#

There are, of course, still dangers of getting it wildly wrong.

*cf V [[Redbook5:207][19880704:0000]{(Extract, & Comment:) The Nature of Mathematics}[7th July 1988]]:207

ref [[Redbook7:167][19900714:2218]{The Reservoir of Truths (Extract)}[14th July 1990]] 167

**N[ew] S[cientist] 19900804:60

***ref II.[[Redbook2:133][19780831:2240]{Narrative Dreams}[31st August 1978]] 133 [article referred to in fn, presumably],

& end [Redbook2:372[19850923:0048c]{The Man Made of Glass}[23rd September 1985] [article referred to in fn, presumably].

ref V.[[Redbook5:171][19880618:1855]{The Metaphysic of Metaphysics}[18^th June 1988]] 171

&c

****[sic – probably in the sense ‘via’ though possibly with an intended resonance with the sense ‘by the agency of’]

#(Boy, what a sentence!)

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{Dream: Of a military expedition}[2nd August 1990]

[Redbook7:185][19900802:2155]{Dream: Of a military expedition}[2nd August 1990]

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I really did think there was a sufficient danger of Iraq actually invading Kuwait:* mainly because of Saddam Hussein’s personality. So it is perhaps not surprising that last night I dreamt of columns or circles of aircraft coming together and merging into one circle or column** which then set off together – I thought for the Queen Mum’s birthday.*** ****Next, 3 thin, finned rockets flew towards us: we were excited at first, then realised they were dangerous; one in fact, on landing near us, exploded with great force.

That night, of course, was the night of the invasion.*

*[which happened on 2nd to 4^th August 1990, starting at about 2am local time, which is in a time zone 3(?) hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (but 2(?) hours ahead of British Summer Time)]

**The Coalition forces defending Kuwait/attacking Iraq? <910210>

***[Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother of the United Kingdom was born on 4^th August 1900 (& died on 9^th April 2002)]

****This next is a remarkable accurate description of attack by Scuds# &#* particularly by the slower-moving, lower-flying Cruise missiles whose arrival in Baghdad#** has been captured on TV film – but whose use (& that of the Scuds) had not, I think, been discussed at the time [of this journal entry]. <910210>

#[which Iraq launched against Israel and against the Coalition forces in Saudi Arabia during the counter-invasion period from January 1991, but is not recorded as having used in its original invasion of Kuwait in 1990]

#*[sic]

#**[presumably as part of the counter-invasion by the coalition forces]

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{Human Interest}[1st August 1990]

[Redbook7:185][19900801:2340]{Human Interest}[1st August 1990]

.2340

*‘On an intelligence quotient scale, the basic interests are health [ie the body] and sex. Then. Going up the scale, you add social status and money; games, amusements; techniques; arts; science.’**

(But cf. the comments earlier*** on quickness at A~ v[ersus] scholarship at S~; and the tendency for the R~-S~ sector to appear almost as fools.)

*ref [[Redbook7:152-153][19900618:1755]{The Circle of Conflict}[18th June 1990], ?152-]153

**Writing School Comprehensive Course, Blueprint 1-7, ‘Saleable Articles’

***ref Vol... [[Redbook4:120-122][19871007:2330]{Learning}[7th October 1987]ff;

[Redbook5:115-118][19880509:1135d]{Circle Perceptions}[9^th May 1988];

[& cf [Redbook7:125][19900421:0042]{The Scholar’s God}[21st April 1990]]

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{Scaling}[1st August 1990]

[Redbook7:184][19900801:2137c]{Scaling}[1st August 1990]

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[continued]

On scaling* – of what length of period is an event or process (primarily) part? – one easy clue may be provided by the period of event or process itself in relation to its apparent degree characteristics (But the identification of its degree, of course, is not always easy – due to contra-rotational,** diametric,*** and even circumferential**** resonances).

For example, a ‘G~’-type period lasting a little less than a decade seems likely to be the ‘G~’ of a 64-year cycle – and its actual dates, if we accept precise period doubling from C[ommon] E[ra] Year ‘0’, may confirm or refute that (or vice-versa – such systems are built up in blocs, not blocks.

On the other hand, an ‘M~’#[-]type period of a little over half a century is more likely to be the ‘M~’ of a 512 year cycle, and an ‘A~’ of about 500 years seems suited to be ‘A~’ of a 4,000#* year period.

These intervals are not chosen at random: a multiple of 8 seems plausibly likely to provide key periods within the general period-doubling sequence, from a kind of mathematical superstition.

*[[Redbook2:245][19820813:1945e]{Gearing, Transformation, Interaction, Contra-rotation, [Resonance, and Scale]}[13^th August 1982]; [Redbook7:10-11][19900105:1655]{Scale and Scaling}[5th January 1990]]

**[[Redbook4:62][19870820:1800i]{Circle Relationships [continued(7)] – Contra-rotation (1)}[20^th August 1987]]

***[[Redbook4:63][19870820:1800m]{Circle Relationships [continued(11)] – Diametrical Resonance}[20^th August 1987]]

****[[Redbook4:63][19870820:1800n]{Circle Relationships [continued(12)] – Circumferential Resonance}[20^th August 1987]]

#I keep substituting ‘A~’ for M~’

[This was a recurring problem in the ms, due probably to the importance of Action as the inner and outer qualities of M~; and also perhaps to the fictional names of +M (at M~) & +Mk (at A~) having the same initial letters.]

#*[ie 4096 years]

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{Qualitative Differentiation in C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis]}[1st August 1990]

[Redbook7:182-184][19900801:2137b]{Qualitative Differentiation in C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis]}[1st August 1990]

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[continued]

The analysis as given,* however, is not directly explicable by C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis], which tends to describe historical developments such as (in religion) Catholicism, Evangelicism and Liberalism as process rather than status.** All religious movements – in the extreme view, all movements – start from C (and presumably, all can be seen to end at C);*** their differentiation may be describable in terms of rotational direction, radial distance, and speed – both within each cycle and between related cycles.

*[ie in the newspaper article referred to in the last previous entry]

**[But attempts to describe the relationship between religions in C.A.S terms have been made previously in these Journals.]

***[Internally, presumably; speculative analysis elsewhere in these Journals appears to suggest that they make take internal and differentiating characteristics at least partly from their starting point on wider, broadly secular circles.]

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{Freedom within the Church}[1st August 1990]

[Redbook7:182 & 183][19900801:2137]{Freedom within the Church}[1st August 1990]

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I have been overdoing[press-]cuttings recently;* but I include this one** because it seems to me to sum up the strength (and weakness) of the Anglican Church so admirably: and to identify that tradition of intellectual freedom, even waywardness, the apparent lack of which so dejected*** me in the Church in Wales’ selection procedures.

*[ie presumably, in this Journal – see several recent entries]

**[A long article from The Independent marked ‘900801’ (at p19) copied in the ms on p183, which cannot be reproduced here for copyright reasons, is headed: ‘An established morality’ and sub-headed: ‘Because the Church of England embodies more than faith in God, the new Archbishop of Canterbury still retains a role in a secular age, argues Keith Ward’.]

***(?)[Possibly a quaere as to whether it is possible to use ‘dejected’ in this way]

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