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.