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Part I. Effective-Meaning: Objective-Time
�1.a. Additional Development, Notes page 3
NOTE 4:
Immortality-Change : Life-Death :: Soul-God : DeathImmortality-LifeChange.
Instead of solving this puzzle, which seems all too general, and therefore error prone, we can simply look on Diagram 3 for the correspondences. We are looking for symmetry.
ImmortalityChange-LifeDeath defines the two axes of judgment forming the Objective World in the context of Subjective Perception. DeathImmortality-LifeChange must then...
Let�s switch it around so that the part that is not qualifying is placed first. So we have:
Soul-God : DeathImmortality-LifeChange :: Immortality-Change : Life-Death
The obvious thing here is that there�s a repetition of parts. Can we simplify the expression without making it meaningless? Afterall, each axis may be more than the sum of its parts. So let�s use the method we have been using all along: look at each half by itself to see if it already has intrinsic meaning.
Soul : God :: Death-Immortality : Life-Change
This seems to say that the difference between a Soul and God is the same difference between the dead and the living, or between the immortal and the changing. If we look at Diagram 2 we find that Death, Life, Immortality, and Change are the four corners of Judgment, or of the meeting between the Subjective and Objective. We can derive a number of things:
1. Life-Death is a measure of Soul-God
2. Immortality-Change is a measure of Soul-God
3. Because Time-World opposes Soul-God, it is measured by perpendicular qualities:
4. Immortal-Life is a measure of Time-World
5. Changing�Death is a measure of Time-World
Because Death-Immortality is ultimately an either-or proposition,~11 we can state that there are two possibilities for the Soul�s relation to God in the form of Judgment:
1. Soul : God :: Death : Life-Change
2. Soul : God :: Immortality : Life-Change.
Either the Soul is dead to God, or the Soul has a quality of God. This could be the same as saying, the Soul is either dead, or it has the potential to become one with God. So there is Death, Potential Death, Potential Life, and Life itself. Life is then becoming acquainted with the greatest potential good. In this case we can define Life in terms of morals: the greatest good is when the soul lives longest relative to the good it can achieve. )
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11. And since we are considering death to be the death of meaning, and hence meaningless apart from its relation to life� (we can say that the more a soul is part of the world, the more potential it has to become God.)
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