CYCLE
ELEVEN
1. As spatial art to
spaced art, drawings to paintings, so spatial philosophy to spaced philosophy,
aphorisms to maxims and/or supernotes - the former
numbered from above (thereby maximizing spatial space), the latter numbered at
the side (thereby minimizing spatial space in deference to the prosecution of
spaced space ... with the assistance, where applicable, of enhanced in-text
capitalization). However, space is a
factor that has to be respected regardless of the type of space being
developed. For space is commensurate
with the Divine (being), and thus with true philosophy.
2. Being needs space,
but Being can be either negative and spatial or positive and spaced - the
difference, in short, between light (outer or inner) and spirit (outer or
inner). Hence whereas the negative
Being, for example, of the Clear Light of the Void is spatial, the positive
Being of the Holy Spirit of Heaven is spaced - the former woeful and the latter
joyful, speed and calm.
3. Being is only possible in space (plastic and
philosophical), just as Doing is only possible in time (musical and poetical),
Taking only possible in volume (writerly and
fictional), and Giving only possible in mass
(sculptural and dramatic). Whereas the
artist/philosopher is a be-er, the
musician/poet is a doer, the writer/novelist a taker, and the
sculptor/actor a giver - space, time, volume, and mass ... with divine,
diabolic, masculine, and feminine implications respectively, as germane to
spiritual idealism, emotional (soulful) naturalism, intellectual materialism,
and instinctual (wilful) realism.
4. Just as Being can be either spatial or
spaced, light or spirit, so Doing can be either sequential or repetitive, fire
or soul; Taking either volumetric or voluminous, water or intellect; and Giving
either massed or massive, earth or will.
5. The speed of light vis-à-vis the lightness of
spirit; the heat of fire vis-à-vis the brightness of soul; the coldness of
water vis-à-vis the dullness of intellect; the darkness of earth vis-à-vis the
heaviness of will. Space,
time, volume, and mass vis-à-vis air, blood, brain, and flesh.