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______________________________________________from THE WORD: A PHILOSOPHY OF WORDS
The Word, Representation
The word representation simply means the action, condition, resulting state or concrete result of having presented again or again and again.
It is a noun of verbal action. It is that which represents something. It is a being or state of being, a likeness or a model which presents (or brings before the mind again and again) a something, which something the representative is entirely dependent upon for his own being.
The word representation is an altogether dependent word, meaning nothing more than verbal action, agent or agency for that which he represents as representation. Thus is it necessary to establish the noumenon or the noun principle of which the representation or idea is phenomenon, because it is a passive entity being acted upon by its agents to represent it. This principle or principal actor employs its agents to represent it. This principal actor may be anything from the lowest immoral conspirator to the highest spiritual principle. It is therefore necessary to classify the word representation before it can be specifically treated or defined.
Its highest signification is found to be in Realm II of the table:
Realm I
DIVINITY: The highest Principle, doctrine, or Doctor—The Logos—who prescribes, assigns, directs, teaches and employs divine ideas or spiritual representations.
Realm II
SPIRITUALITY: the highest and fullest and completely representative agent of The Logos; the spiritual logician, wisdom who presents again and again the doctrine of The Logos-Principle; that holy (wholly) spiritual substance or under-stanc-ing which wholly represents Realm I.
Realm III
MORALITY: the moral law, doctrine and literacy that represents Realm II; the moral qualities such as constancy, fidelity, moral courage and its agencies which are the representatives of spiritual logic and wisdom.
Realm IV
PHYSICALITY: those models or pictures which represent a purely physical thing or a person—or a physically prescribed human doctrine, or a humanly representative theory.
Realm V
IMMORALITY: the highly trained sensuous and sensual representatives of material doctrines; the doctrines pertaining to the voluptuous Eve and the highly sensitized Adam; the doctrine of physical matters or matter or maters; the practices of human knowledge or human nature in its lowest form; subanimal action and impulse.
The foregoing table and analysis shows that each type of representation is dependent upon a peculiar doctrine for its existence, its action and its position—its state, its quality, and its condition—which state or position or realm has its doctrinal precept, premise, source or basis.
A doctrine or doctor must have his practice. He must teach or prescribe remedy; must convey information or admonition; must make ac-cure-d or accurate; must act upon that which is passive to its or his action.
If one places himself, as entity, in Realm V, he presents and re-presents some kind of subanimal or submammal (unnatural) doctrine; some humanly prescribed and only humanly possible performance, prompted by the lowest degree of human nature. He assumes himself to be born of the Eve-kind of man-kind who is the mater (character) of Cain who represents artifice (the skill of spear or lance; the trickery, guile, deceit or murderous maneuver) of the kind which would acquire or possess thereby. The mater Eve characterizes or represents or typifies matter, materiality and the materialism growing out of her kind of doctrine, which doctrine may be physicality—the baneful usurper.
If one places himself in Realm III he may present the moral side of his character on the one hand, and he may present and represent the physique or mammal side of his nature on the other. Meta-physically, he may be in sympathy with both natures, thus he may represent a duplicity of standard until the morally absolute and positive supplants the mammal and sub-animal negative through the action of soul or the science of soul—con-science.
If one places himself in reality; if he identifies himself as being spiritual; if he re-presents The Logos as a logical idea; if he lives as a valid manifestation or representation of The vital Logos-Principle; if he functions as love or spiritual sentiment; if he acts as agent of The Logos-Soul by expressing spiritual virility, fertility, purity or immaculacy—then he is empowered to act as representative of The Logos-Soul. Then he has placed him-self (his entity or his soul) in Realm II, which is his true status.
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