The Grand Diagram

Every gram is a bit of writ. Every mark traces an arc, from infinity to infinity.

There exists—in truth, and therefore also in supposition—a master diagram. Since the Absolute Infinite can be supposed to have an absolute opposite in the idea of the one and only infinitesimal point, that point can be seen as the Absolute Center of the Absolute Infinite. In that most primordial case, the Absolute Infinite is the Infinite Sphere. This can be diagrammed.

See also Diagramming The Holy Dible.

Emphasis on Reference: Frame of reference, points of reference, pure self-reference, and such synonyms of reference as indication (as in Spencer-Brown’s calculus of indications), and sign and signification. In the case of REFERENCE, the Centerpoint is DIFFERENCE, as in the first distinction. Distinction goes hand-in-hand with Dimension, for the first extension of the first distinction is the first dimension. Extension is intuitively drawn-out in the arc of a diagrammatic mark. Explanation is here most literally laid out on a plain.

The final point in reference to reference is the ultimate reference: GOD is the pure hetero-reference where all possible reference actually ends up, beyond the limit-act of pure self-reference. God is the ultimate reference experience. Although this is the most available, most immediate and direct experience—for it is absolutely omnipresent—it is almost always overlooked, just like the pure Seer in its isolation (Purusha kaivalyam: the One; pure self-reference). How can we have the reference experience? Bufo. Boom. Poof. That’s it! This. Is. It. 5MeO. Sorry; anything short of the Absolute Breakthrough will not do.

Aligntenment and Spherituality are the result of the way of knowing, called jnana yoga. This path is maintained by a magical-magnetism that draws the alls (ΤΑΠΑΝΤΑ) to sink into the center. The overwhelming overflowing surplus of primary positivity is the nature of the Absolute Infinite, so when it exercises its freedom to posit the pure negativity of Absolute Singularity—The One, the Infinitesimal Point, Infinite Unity—absolutely everything coalesces to the CO-ALL-ESSENCE that is BEING-IN-ITSELF, or PURE SELF-REFERENCE: SPIRIT.

This is the Magnet of All Magnitude. The degrees of freedom are the orders of being, and they are the magnitudes that span the space opening between the CENTER and the CIRCUMFERENCE of the INFINITE SPHERE. The dimensions are depicted in a conic section of the top diagram (“Emphasis on Reference,” above the above), but here (“The Magnet of All Magnitude,” above) they span the poles of Negation and Position.

The Holy Dible, in the case of the Magnet of All Magnitude, is the Holy Dipole. You must wrap your frame (head) around this point, for this is the paradigm of the sphere!

Its logic is the opposite of the symbolic: it is diabolic. It is the opposite of inference: it is circumference.

In the case of the Holy Dipole, let us maintain our Latin refrain:

POLIS VERUS POLUS!

There is the play of the poles of the Infinite Sphere, if there is anything.

We are Poles of the Whole (ΟΛΟ)!

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Author: randolphdible

Randolph Dible is a lecturer in philosophy at St. Joseph’s University, New York, and a philosophy doctoral student at The New School for Social Research. His dissertation is titled Universal Ontology of the Infinite Sphere. He has recently published the chapter “First Philosophy and the First Distinction: Ontology and Phenomenology of Laws of Form,” in Laws of Form—A Fiftieth Anniversary (2023), and “Modulation to a New Key in The Syntax of Time: Peter Byrne Manchester and Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Common Telos of the All” in Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research (2023). Other recent publications include “The Inner Story of the Further Shores of Knowing” in The Further Shores of Knowing (2021) and “Eternity, Time, and Reality in Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Ontological Phenomenology” in Natur und Kosmos (2020). Recent conference presentations include ”Theodor Conrad and Hedwig Conrad-Martius on Versunkenheit: Psychological, Transcendental, and Ontological Phenomenology of Immersion” (NASEP 2023 conference, University of San Diego, June 2023), “Universal Ontology and the First Distinction: Spencer-Brown, Husserl, and Conrad-Martius” (Laws of Form 2022 Conference, University of Liverpool, August 2022) and “Phenomenology as Seeing Through the World: Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Vision, Method, and Doctrine of Universal Ontology” (North American Society for Early Phenomenology, Dominican University College, Ottawa, April 2022). He has published on mysticism in the Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research (2010), and his Masters thesis is titled Phenomenology of the Spheres: from the Ancient Spherics to Philosophical Cosmology (2018). Randolph Dible’s current research focuses on the historical hypothesis of an infinite sphere and its relevance to the interpretation of formation in the cosmologies of George Spencer-Brown and Hedwig Conrad-Martius. Associated with this thesis is a general theory of extension and dimensionality. He is presently Communications Director for the North American Society for Early Phenomenology (NASEP), former Director of the Webinar for the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience (SOPHERE), and current Assistant to the Editor for the journal Phenomenological Investigations. He is also a founding member of the Spencer-Brown Society, co-organizer and host of the Laws of Form Conference series, and co-editor of Distinction: Journal of Form and the book series Marked States: Series on Form.

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