Thursday, February 23rd, 1984

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, JUNE FRITCHMAN SEMINAR NOTES

(TYPED)

FEBRUARY 23, 1984

EPISTEMOLOGY; FOURFOLDS

TOPIC: Epistemology

SUBJECT: Fourfolds

SUBSUBJECTS: Astrology, Cosmology, Buddhism, Hinduism, Plato, Jung, Scholasticism

DIAGRAM embedded in these notes:

• FIGURE 1984 0223-1. Three Levels of the Cosmos and Astrology.

TYPED by JF 2018; REFORMATTED by IT 2023

NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (V08.1). From JF Notes.

• In 2023, IT updates prefatory matter and footer, fixes errors/typos, adds one diagram, reformats to accord with new conventions.

• See also WG Class 1984 0217a and WG Seminar 1984 0301 for related material.

• These seminars took place on a Thursday.

1984 02/23 Thurs AM SEMINAR at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Comparison of Systems - Fourfolds

[JF Notes Begin]

Two 4-folds in Plato's scheme - prototype for the other schemes.

[FIGURE 1984 0223-1. Three Levels of the Cosmos and Astrology. Facsimile scan of diagram from Astronoesis, p. 271.]

Natal chart only is at lowest level; speculations and questions as to what matches up with what.

Are the psychological functions the precursor of the World-Idea, or prior to the World-Idea? - only arise once you have a perceived world… elements also prior? In the houses, within the World-Idea--locate psychological functions. Planets and signs are immanent in the houses.

Belief [Plato's divided line] immanence of the intellectual and reasoning in the primal image. He [normally] doesn't realize what constitutes that -- when he realizes that, he's in reason & intuition. Inherent in the primal image is the belief of the source that constitutes it to be what it is. If the native is part of the primal image, part and parcel with that is the belief which constitutes him. Belief, the inherent demand in the mind of what it constructs; the mind believes in what it does (dream example), so belief is inherent in the (constructed object).

Question about non-dignities: Non-dignities refer to the conformity of the function at the four levels.

Rulership - the function must conform to the idea in toto, at the intellectual level - always in conformity with the idea as a whole.

Exaltation - the dignity must conform to the contents within that unity.

Detriment - The function must conform to the feeling (before) the (belief) aspect.

Fall - must conform to the (sensibility) that that aspect can project of itself.

Or can organize everything by the triple mode Knowing Willing Feeling or Uranus Neptune Pluto.

===========

1984 02/23 Thurs PM SEMINAR at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Cosmology, Levels

An idea has these four aspects: 1) unity; 2) being; 3) relation between contents & to the whole; 4) sensible qualities.

[diagram of cosmos, similar to that on Astronoesis p. 271, Fig. 117]

The mind perceives the world, within that perception the psychological subject arises; the four functions are within that psychological subject and its world.

Buddhi Ahamkara Manas Sense will be mirrored in the psychological subject's mind. By the first experience of sensation they go away.

From the images, you will extract certain beliefs, then organize them into a concept, then [you get] certitude/intuition.

AD: Try cardinal fixed mutable as intraverted, extraverted, centro-verted.

Buddhi - septiles - intellection

Ahamkara - quintiles - form of reason

Manas- regular aspects, system of beliefs (manas reorganized by Uranus Neptune Pluto)

The reason-principles are operating through the bhutas or psychological functions.

Jung's psychological functions are embedded in the matter; the gnostic functions operating without that matter are the unembodied reason-principles.

Non-causal - transits; causal - natal chart.

The only thing that can know the embodied psyche is the unembodied psyche.

The way the archetypes manifest in various ways … the grades of clarity in matter, primitive to more ethereal.

[JF Notes End]