PREFACE
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SUMMARY
PART I.
PART II.
PART III.
PART IV.
NOTES
�Individual-Private vs. Material-Public
If I premise that X is the meaning or depth of Y, and that God is the greatest good, when I make a chart juxtaposing the Individual with the Material and the Private with the Public, there is the suggestion that God is the meaning of life. This shows that I am on the right track, for that is my definition of God�God is the being with significance, the meaning with objective value. God is that-which-at-least-equals-the-earth, as creator and destroyer. The most earnest thing is to ask the meaning of truth, and when one asks, one must ask of the whole, of the unity, for fragments are unfounded. Even reason requires faith on the matter of understanding any one thing. To understand any one thing is to understand a single view on the unity. It�s a metaphorical awareness, a qualification of the real.
To describe a unity I must draw a circle. This is the convergence of an infinite number of axes radiating at every degree and fraction of degree, each describing the center by presenting a balance. Each of these axes exists to posit a particular condition of the center. They radiate so that they may relate to eachother. Axes that are equivalent run parallel in two dimensions. Since all axes run through the center, any parallel axes exist in the same space, and represent the same truth. The second dimension allows for variety, but can only be significant with the understanding that the graph represents a unity, which is to say, there is only one truth in the middle, and in the context of those axes, it is the whole truth, the universe, the mind of God, the soul, the human condition, the beating heart. It is hunger of any kind, or temptation, or the light in a time of darkness. It is the conjugal union, the key to every door. So long as any two axes describe a union of significance, a circle may be drawn about them demarcating deviation from the place where the two qualify one another, necessarily producing an aspect of the real.
The center is not zero, or the absence of qualities, instead we must see it as the second truth, the place where both ends are true. This may require one to stop believing that opposites are contradictions in the simple sense of having a mutual annihilation of significance. Symbolically, black and white are actually more significant together, at least if we must describe a unity. In the context of truth, we must say that gray is not both black and white, for black and white are both still realities, which is to say, they may yet come to be. I am assuming that all meaning is found in the unity-that-doesn�t-self-destruct. This is necessary, because any amount of reason fractalized whatever certain knowledge I may have had before I found language. A unity is always a unity of objects, for while to perceive objects is to become singular, any perception is necessarily a perception of objects, of subverted truths. It may be helpful to see the center of my pie-chart as a representation of all the extremes, while the perimeter represents zero or the absence of meaning. If life weren�t significant, perhaps we wouldn�t perceive it, and so in a sense the center mark represents any perception, and the axes are ways in which it could become meaningless.
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