Outline of My Third Oral Presentation

The Underlying Topical Fabric of the Writings

This is a presentation of Theistic Psychology, By Leon James, Sections 9.0.1.4.1, 2005,

online book at: www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/theistic

By Leticia Valle

 

Instructions for this oral presentation are found at:

www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy/g22-oral.htm

 

Three Concepts from the Underlying Topical Fabric of the Writings:

 

1) The Threefold Self

a) The Threefold Self is made up of three interacting domains of each individual.  These three work together in a cycle beginning with the affective which consists of our motivations that drive our thinking towards goals, and finally the physical acts we perform derived from our will and thoughts.  Our physical actions cannot occur unless they are first desired, thought out, and finally acted on.

 

AFFECTIVE---->COGNITIVE----->SENSORIMOTOR

Love

Wisdom

Use

Good

Truth

Appearance

Will

Understanding

Action

Intention

Plan

Execution

Source

Cause

Effect

Desire

Belief

Conduct

Spiritual

Intellectual

Sensual

Feeling

Thinking

Sensing

 

b) My opinion

- it is a constant cycle that we all practice in every situation

- the structure and function of our threefold self determines our personality, it is our entity

- I failed to realize that all of my feelings first had to be thought out before being acted out

c) Cultural and psychological aspects

- ex: “Think before you do/say things!”

- the Threefold self should be taught at an early age to help us better control our emotions

 

2) The Ennead Matrix

a) The Ennead Matrix is the formal framework that helps to unify the underlying topical fabric of the Writings.  The Ennead map was the pathway of regeneration that every individual had to go through. Each concept in the passages from the Bible can be identified as a mental state by charting it on the ennead matrix. 

SPIRITUAL
GEOGRAPHY

MENTAL ANATOMY

SENSORIMOTOR
ORGAN
("the sensory")

COGNITIVE
ORGAN
("understanding")

AFFECTIVE
ORGAN
("the will")

 CELESTIAL DEGREE
("third heaven")

S3

C3

A3

 SPIRITUAL DEGREE
("second heaven")

S2

C2

A2

NATURAL DEGREE
("first heaven)

S1

C1

A1

 

SPIRITUAL
GEOGRAPHY

MENTAL ANATOMY

SENSORIMOTOR
ORGAN
("the sensory")

COGNITIVE
ORGAN
("understanding")

TRUTH

SPIRITUAL THINGS

AFFECTIVE
ORGAN
("the will")

GOOD

CELESTIAL THINGS

 CELESTIAL DEGREE
internal man

S3

C3

celestial truth

celestial faith

A3

celestial good

celestial love

 SPIRITUAL DEGREE
interior man

S2

C2

spiritual truth

spiritual faith

A2

spiritual good

spiritual love

NATURAL DEGREE
external man

S1

C1

natural truth

natural faith

A1

natural good

natural love

 

-  affection, knowledge, and practice are required to acquire the knowledge necessary to decipher

the rational/spiritual meaning of the Bible’s contents

- The rational is something distinct from the natural – literal meaning

- ex:  Correspondences:  Turtle-dove = C1                    She-goat = A2

                                       Young pigeon = C2                 Lord’s Human = [A1 + C1 + S1]                  

b) My opinion

- we need to understand and apply the method of correspondences in order to develop higher genes of

rational consciousness that can elevate us to our rational heavens in afterlife – for eternity

c) Cultural and psychological aspects

- using the ennead chart to decode Sacred Scripture will unify religions

- mental states DO NOT know race, religion, color, or language

- the correspondences are universal and apply to all

- the scientific meanings extracted from Sacred Scripture will have different values for

different people because we are all unique but the correspondences will remain standard

throughout entire Sacred Scripture without restrictions from time and space

 

3) GOOD + TRUTH = RATIONAL

a) The rational is from good, but only exists from truth.  Good flows in by an internal way;

 but truth by an external way.  The rational is formed from the conjunction of good and truth:

GOOD + TRUTH = RATIONAL

- ex: The color green is not a primary color, you need to mix blue and yellow to make green

b) My opinion

- It makes sense to me because if we lived by truth without the presence of good,

we would make up convenient truths because man can reason

c) Cultural and psychological aspects

- We are constantly separating good and truth:

- examples:       - coffee vs. cigarettes

                           - using drugs

                           - eating disorders

- we cannot afford to separate good and truth if we want to develop rational minds

and elevate our minds to the higher heavens

 

Related Web Links:

www.bible.com

www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/409bf2004/valle/report2.htm

www.victorainweb.org/religion/swdbor.html

www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/theistic/ch5.htm

 

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