Swedenborg's Ethnosemantics

Use (Context)

Freedom

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CONCLUSION,

CHOICE,

APPEARANCE OF ACT

desires

5 Frame (Contention Point)

confirmation

innate/connate

generals

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JUDGEMENT

FRAME/FOCUS

conscience

LAD

bracketed intentional sets

higher memory

Medium (Argument Syntax)

mixed medrum

understanding

analytic reasoning

series & orders to infinity

analogic

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THOUGHTS,

THINKING

reflection

topical

glossolids

TDM

Function (Involvement)

inner sight

habit

instincts

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IMAGINATION,

IMAGERY,

WORDS,

MEMORY

pretopical

lower stability

particulars & reproductive function

inner sensation

redintegrative

structure

connectivity

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PERCEPTION

inner sensation

redintegrative

structure

connectivity

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PERCEPTION

Note 4: Brown Intellect is innate/conate and racially universal (="GENETIC CULTURE") within the spiritual (non-material) genes or organs with which each individual is born. These act into the body beginning with the finest cortical fibers within cortical cells from where they descend into the cortical cells and fibers eventuating in the afferent/efferent systems. This level has been recognized by: example Plato ("Ideal Image" of "Form") Aristotle ("teles" or "first-end"), Kant ("a priori and metaphysical"), Chomsky ("LAD"), Husserl-Kates ("bracketing universals or intentional sets") Eccles ( "pure consciousness"), Jung ("unconscious" or "Archetypes"); and in: Bible ("in spirit or seeing in a vision"), Poetry ("inspired or Muses") Humanism ("source of human potential or infinite creativity"), Law ("inalienable rights" and "human motive"), Religion ("conscience"); and uses of: "innate ideas", "categories of thought", "thought-forms", "universals", "invariants", "pure", "subtle", "outside time/space", "spiritual", "higher", "inner", "abstracted", "formative", "developmental", "inherited". The "pure intellect" acts into the simple cortex within each cortical cell (or "inmost crerebrum"). Thus it is a higher action involving finer substances. The higher the action the more easily the substance needs to change its state hence the finer it must be. Also, the finer the substance the more it can change its states the more perfect and infinire its varieties and possibilities and hence "intellectual power." The inmost or common sensory acts into the thoughts and gives them distinctinctlveness ("intellectual lights" vs. "obscurity" or lack of ability to comprehend/understand). Thoughts are in obscure consciousness until made distinct by their infusion with the common, universal, general (see "FRAMING" and "STANDARDIZING" and "ABSTRACTING" and "TITLING" and "SIGNIFICATIVES" and "VALUING" and "FOUNDATIONS" and "JUSTIFICATORY PREMISES" and etc. * This acting into is actually a concurrence or correspondence or harmony or consentient which takes place through organic interface where two distinct systems can harmonize or assume corresponding states. Note that it is always the finer that concurs with the grosser never the reverse.

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"Universal truths" (Brown) act into "ideas" or "thoughts" (Blue) which come from "meories", "images", or "words" (Green), thus giving particular ideas a general light wherein the ideas light up as it were or become distinct in intellectual awareness or consciousness. Hence without universal truths ("truths of faith") no higher thoughts or judgment. Lower thoughts cannot raise themselves into higher but rather the higher (which are innate) perceive the lower and set themselves to correspond. Hence it appears that the lower is lit up when actually the higher which is lit up is now harmonizing with the lower. The experiencing of the higher intellect in correspondence is the highest consciousness available to the rational mind or intellectual sight ("vision of heavenly things").

When conscious awareness or the mind is withdrawn from mixed thoughts (Blue) and abides in pure intellect (Brown) the reasons that come forth are pure judgments from spiritual truths. Hence they are universal and higher outside the particulars of time and space. They are "bracketed out" (Husserl-Kates) and abstracted; and though from material originally it now by correspondence has escaped time and place. These reasons can now become conclusions in the will; hence at that point one acts from higher consciousness or universal principles (see: Kant). Furthermore this higher judgment can then mature and be perfected. Hence experience from the sensory ascends is abstracted and helps perfect the innate or universal (see "marriage"--Kates).

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Developmentally: judgment is perfected in adult life after imagination and ingenuity weaken their reliance upon thoughts and the mind can be withdrawn from them or abstracted/bracketed out.

The higher intellect (Brown) remains shut until it perceives states in the lower intellect (~lue) it can correspond with or harmonize. Hence the lower intellect must be developed first through culture and use (155), and these learned contiguities are then abstracted when the innate higher intellect can harmonize with these contiguities. Then it matures and subsequently enters into all thought speech and action. True and good are then instantly perceived and in distinct clarity or confirmation. (163)

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Note 2: Green Imagination is an activity from "acquired correspondences" acting within "natural correspondences." Thus when perceptual activity (Yellow) acts contiguously with the representational images of the imagination they then enter into a co-established harmony or concurrence. However, the harmony and disharmony between the two activities (Green vs. Yellow) is innate and recognized and accompanied with affect (+ or -).

Note 3: Blue Thoughts is an activity that results by correspondence (innate harmony) when the imagination activity (Green) is abstracted from images and objects (example re-ordered and re-connected hence, changed in their state of harmony). (harmony resonance, positive state)

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[contiguous action = "correspondence"]

{"harmony"=resonance=positive state=acquired natural}

A change of state in thoughts (Blue) is a change in the external state of the "pure intellectory" (Brown), to which an inner change can correspond and which corresponds through "harmony" (reciprocal resonance). Natural "correspondence" (innate) between thought and intellect exists as to compatibility so that the intellect judges the thought as to truth and good vs. false and evil.

Note 5: Black Conclusion relates the pure intellect to the activity of the soul. The latter is higher and pertains to "spiritual intelligence". The soul operates upon the natural through the pure intellect. Neither is dependent on experience but recognizes changes of states in themselves produced by experience.

Note 6: Determination into Action is a "gyre" force where the sensory turns into the motory and is always active but inhibited or not by the intellect. The cortical cerebrum is both a "common sensory" and a "common motory" acting to expand (systole sensory) and constrict (diastole motory) constantly in synchrony with respiration and blood circulation and enters into all other activities (omnipresence).

Note 1: White Form is the ultimate activity of the soul in nature. Form is the determinated force of the soul imprinted in a substance which gives it its quality. Form is the essence imprinted. Form's quality sets its harmony and disharmony such as what or how it corresponds with (resonates, concurs, acts together with, synchronous). Form is the essential quality of entities. Form varies in perfection example :

less perfect

perfect

angle

triangle

trapese

circle

spiral

vortex

("Gestalt Psychology"--see (175-184 RP)) (see ES Notes LAJ 1975) Note that SENSATION (organs of periphery) is the least perfect form while PURE INTELLECT (inmost of cortical glands) is most perfect in form ("first") in nature.

Forms are capable of change of state. The higher (purer, prior, simpler) the form, the greater its number of states (example, brain vs. eye or muscle or gland). A state changes to another through transformations (example circle to ellipse). The perfect form is unchangeable (example, only once circle but an infinity of ellipses).

A form is the capacity of change of state in a substance. When or change of state occurs a new form comes into being. Each new form has its own harmony. Forms can exert modifications without change of state through expansion and compression. This is a topological change, leaving form unchanged. These modifications exert force or pressure or harmonies upon adjacent forms. Hence a never-perfect form is a source of infinite other forms, forces, harmonies through its capacity to change states indefinitely.

Forms are "determined" into substance where they create states and changes thereof. These are created successively (prior to posterior); but in each new form all the prior forms exist simultaneously. Hence forms occur in series and hierarchies; likewise their harmonies and correspondences .

Topological changes (not "transforms") are modifications leaving quality and harmony unaffected. But they produce "variations in dimensions" . (185) Example shape and color of objects modulations of sound etc all of which are continuous changes. (Transforms are discrete changes.) Continuous changes or modifications are modes. ((vs. modality))

Forces and actions are modifications (continuous variation) while sensations and affections are changes of state (transforms) (discrete variation) (see catastrophe theory ) [R. THOM]

Note 2: Yellow Perception is an activity of organs. These are forms which are capable of changing their state (transform) in harmony (resonance) with atmospheric modifications (distal and proximal contact or communications).

	SWEDENBORG'S MODEL OF BEHAVIOR in RATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
STIMULI atmospheric modicifications	reception resonance	conversion harmony
SENSATION/PERCEPTION	(transfor or change of state by correspondence)(="trigger mechanism")("conversion")(affections)
WILL & ACTS	(affections) consent & permission	resonance/harmony
IMAGINATION, THOUGHT & INTELLECT	resonance/harmony	(natural & acquired correspondences) (affections)

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CONVERSION	these vary in accordance
RECEPTION	with the unique quality
RESONANCE	of each created form
CORRESPONDENCE	(example, no two brains are alike)
HARMONY	(see UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES & PERSONALITY & BIOGRAPHY)

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AFFECTIONS are "harmonies" and "disharmonies" in sensory organs (passion, suffering = reception and transform). Thus the WILL is affected by harmony in pure ideas, the INTELLECTORY is affected by harmony in images, the IMhGINATION by harmony in perceptions, the PERCEPTION...sensations and SENSATION...atmospheric modifications (etc.). The SOUL (or WILL) is thus aware of all the body s and intellect's affections (changes of state and harmonies). Each organic form (W - Bl) is restored and vivified by harmonies and destroyed and injured by disharmonies from its adjacent form. Positive or pleasant harmonies are desired and striven for (approach) while negative harmonies are unpleasant and avoided. Evil and falsities have opposing harmonies to good and truths and thus reverse what each finds pleasant and vivifying.

The organic forms (W - Bk) within an individual may not be integrated due to culture and experience so that the affections clash within the person.

Hierarchy of Agreeable Affections (196) RT
6) BLACK	------->	LOVE
5) BROWN	------->	LOVES
4) BLUE	------->	DESIRE AND WILL
3) GREEN	------->	CUPIDITIES
2) YELLOW	------->	(pleasures/delights/cupidites)
1) WHITE	------->	APPETITE: pleasures and delights

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The Regeneration of the Race: Swedenborg's Scientific Theology

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Color Hexagram Notation System (1975)

[A . Dole: Ben . 1] ( 1950) [RT: 150-170] ( 1742) [LAJ: ES-notes] ( 1975)

Color Hexagram Notation System (1975)

SABBATH
GOOD WORKS FROM LOVE TO LORD

BEASTS/MAN
LOVE (combatting evil)
"Acting from the Love to the Lord"(combat evil)

FISH/BIRDS
LOVES (right side)
"Acting from higher principles of dictrine."
(confirmation)

SUN/MOON/STARS
INTERESTS DESIRES (mixed sides)
"Enlightenment & love from Word."

LAND/SEA/GRASS/TRESS
CUPIDITIES(left side, biases, independence, selfhood)
"Shun evils as sins."

FIRMAMENT:above & below
APPETITIES
"Heavenly things in us are good; earthly bad."

LIGHT VS. DARKNESS
DELIGHTS & PLEASURES

Swedenborg's Model Shown by the Hexagrammatic Method

The 6 levels of consciousness possible to the rational mind.

BK

6

Br

5

INTELLECTORY
(pure intellect)
(highest natural)
(JUDGMENT)
(UNIVERSAL)
(ABSTRACT)

Bl

4

3

2

1

Dynamic Directions

= climbs up to its origin which attracts it as first end and love.

administrating titling

EXECUTION

voting abstracting

CONFIRMATION

debating outline

TRADITION

getting informed

ELABORATING

acquiring issues

IDENTIFYING
cataloguing
Norms SKILLS

Naming literacy

PREDICATING/STANDARDS

PREPARATION & STIMULUS CONDITIONS

Ten Plagues Issues

Color Coded Hexagram:Discourse Analysis

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