The Continuum Of Dissociation

Austin Osman Spare

Johann Faust - Höllenzwang (17th c.).

At the beginning of the 17th century, a book of black magic was published, attributed to the mythical Faust, and known by the title Höllenzwang. The library in Weimar owned a manuscript of this text, which Goethe was aware of. The document, which is difficult to date, is written in cabalistic signs and, according to a German gloss, contains a series of magic spells for exorcists.

The ‘Cognitive Science Hexagon’ redrawn from the original cover of the Sloan Foundation’s 1978 State of the Art Report on Cognitive Science

Evaluating Integral Metatheory

Hildegard von Bingen’s 23 litterae ignotae, letters for her constructed mystical language Lingua Ignota, ca. 1200.

Willy Schrödter, Commentaries on the Occult Philosophy of Agrippa

Hegel’s Dialectics

Dialectics drives to the “Absolute”,… which is the last, final, and completely all-encompassing or unconditioned concept or form in the relevant subject matter under discussion (logic, phenomenology, ethics/politics and so on). The “Absolute” concept or form is unconditioned because its definition or determination contains all the other concepts or forms that were developed earlier in the dialectical process for that subject matter…We can picture the Absolute Idea, for instance—which is the “Absolute” for logic—as an oval that is filled up with and surrounds numerous, embedded rings of smaller ovals and circles, which represent all of the earlier and less universal determinations from the logical development. [Fig. 1].

Since the “Absolute” concepts for each subject matter lead into one another, when they are taken together, they constitute Hegel’s entire philosophical system, which, as Hegel says, “presents itself therefore as a circle of circles”. We can picture the entire system like this [Fig. 2].

Place: the Harmonic Palace, a Bardic College research facility