the following is an attempt to show a
mirrored reflection of a series of letters
which remain identical in reflection, i.e.
a 'w' is reflected as a 'w', though with a
change in its placement or perspective.
the .US letter 'N' is thus, reflected as the
.RU 'N' as an example of this mirroring.
if one were to 'rotate' the letters that are
identical in the mirror around a vertical
axis they would remain the same letters.
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if one takes a mirrored surface and makes
the bottom half opaque so that there is no
mirroring, and considers the mirror itself
as a middle-state between the outside of
the mirror, in this case +1, and the interior
of the mirror, -1, with zero (0) as the axis,
somewhat like 3 states of charge, - + N,
the mirror-plane as being zero, existing
as an intermediary between the options.
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whereas, if taking just two numbers of 0 and
1, without a mirrored surface, on the same-
side of the experience and outside of para-
dox, 0 and 1 are undifferentiated and have
identical qualities detaching mathematics of
addition, subtraction, division, multiplication
when considering relations between options.
is it because without paradox or differentiation
in the binary yes/no or true/false, it has a bias
which has no 'depth' or 'dimension' or 'time'..
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if a 'situation' were to have truth as a subclass within
a false-environment, yet if a perspective were to shift
it may be possible, with paradox to also access its
inversion in a falsity within a truth-environment, it
seems that choosing just one, as is today required,
instead of both, would be to privilege on view over
another-- binary 'logic' has such an inherent bias.
thus, a private-view can be chosen over a public-
view of an event, or vice-versa, but never both as
an integrated and integral, more full, understanding
of the questions and responses actually possible.
(above diagram of venn diagrams in mirror-state,
or 45 degree offset. also it can be a torus shape.)
MIRROR: "with reference to the imaging and
reflective function of thought, it symbolizes
knowledge, self-knowledge, and consciousness,
as well as truth and clarity. -- It is also a symbol of
the creation, which "reflects" the divine intelligence,
as well as of the pure human heart, which, for
example, God (in Christian mysticism) or the
Buddha merges into himself. The mirror is
associated metaphorically with the eye or face
(as the mirror of the soul)...." p.132
The Herder Dictionary of Symbols
IBSN 0-933029-84-5
_Mirror: "As a symbol, it has the same
characteristics as the mirror in fact; the
temporal and existential variety of its
function provides the explanation of its
significance and at the same time the
diversity of its meaningful associations.
It has been said that it is a symbol of the
imagination- or of consciousness- in its
capacity to reflect the formal reality of the
visible world. It has also been related to
thought, in so far as thought - for Scheler
and other philosophers - is the instrument
of self-contemplation as well as the
reflection of the universe. This links
mirror-symbolism with water as a reflector
and with the Narcissus myth: the cosmos
appears as a huge Narcissus regarding
his own reflections in the human
consciousness. Now, the world, as a
state of discontinuity affected by the laws
of change and substitution, is the agent
which projects this quasi-negative,
kaleidoscopic image of appearance and
disappearance reflected in the mirror.
From the earliest times, the mirror has
been thought of as ambivalent. It is a
surface which reproduces images and
in a way contains and absorbs them. In
legend and folklore, it is frequently
invested with a magical quality- a mere
hypertrophic version of its fundamental
meaning. In this way it serves to invoke
apparitions by conjuring up again the
images which it has received at some
time in the past, or by annihilating
distances when it reflects what was
once an object facing it and now is far
removed. This fluctuation between the
'absent' mirror and the 'peopled' mirror
lends it a kind of phasing, feminine in
implication, and hence - like the fan -
it is related to moon-symbolism. Further
evidence that the mirror is lunar is afforded
by its reflecting and passive characteristics,
for it receives images as the moon receives
the light of the sun (8). Again, its close
relationship to the moon is demonstrated
by the fact that among the {ancients} it was
seen as a symbol of the multiplicity of the
soul: of its mobility and its ability to adapt
itself to those objects which 'visit' it and
retain its 'interest'. At times, it takes the
mythic form of a door through which the
soul may free itself 'passing' to the other
side: this is an idea reproduced by Lewis
Carroll in ~Alice Through the Looking Glass~.
This alone is sufficient explanation of the
custom of covering up mirrors or turning
them to face the wall on certain occasions,
in particular when someone in the house
dies (21). All that we have said so far by no
means exhausts the complex symbolism of
the mirror: like the echo, it stands for twins
(thesis and antithesis), and specifically for
the sea of flames (or life as an infirmity) (50,
51). For Loeffler, mirrors are magic symbols
for unconscious memories (comparable with
crystal palaces) (38). Hand-mirrors, in
particular, are emblems of truth (4), and
in China they are supposed to have an
allegorical function as aids to conjugal
happiness as well as a protection against
diabolical influences (5). Some Chinese
legends tell of 'the animals in the mirror'."
pages 201-02. A Dictionary of Symbols,
j.e. cirlot, Philosophical Library NY c1962.
*note: substituted 'ancients' for 'primitives'.
some numbers as symbols:
~Zero Non-being, mysteriously connected
with unity as its opposite and its reflection; it is
symbolic of the latent and potential and is the
'Orphic Egg'. From the viewpoint of {wo|man}
in existence, it symbolizes death as the state in
which the life-forces are transformed (40,55).
Because of its circular form it signifies eternity.
A Dictionary of Symbols,
j.e. cirlot, Philosophical Library NY c1962.
~One Symbolic of being (40) and of the
revelation to {wo|men} of the spiritual essence.
It is the active principle which, broken into
fragments, gives rise to multiplicity (43), and is
to be equated with the mystic Centre (7), the
Irradiating Point and the Supreme Power (44).
It also stands for spiritual unity - the common
basis between all beings (55). Guénon draws
a distinction between unity and one, after the
Islamic mystic thinkers: unity differs from one
in that it is absolute and complete in itself,
admitting neither two nor dualism. Hence,
unity is the symbol of divinity (26). One is
also equated with light (49).
A Dictionary of Symbols,
j.e. cirlot, Philosophical Library NY c1962.
....
_Inversion According to Schneider, the
continuity of life is assured by the mutual
sacrifice which is consummated on the peak
of the mystic mountain: death permits birth;
all opposites are for an instant fused together
and then inverted. What is constructive turns
to destruction; love turns to hate; evil to good;
unhappiness to happiness; martyrdom to
ecstasy. Corresponding to this inner inversion
of a process is an outer inversion of the symbol
pertaining to it. This gives rise to a reversed
arrangement of the symbolic structure. When
the symbol has two aspects, the inversion of
one determines that of the other... ...'symbolic
logic' of Inversion is, it hardly needs to be said,
closely bound up with the myth of sacrifice; this
explains the sacrifice of the Carthaginians and
pre-Columbian Mexicans. There is a psycho-
logical basis to this, since the mind, through
the process of sublimation, is always promoting
inversions and metamorphoses of this order.
Ambivalence, contrast, paradox, or the
~coincidentia oppositorum~, are capable, on
account of their transcendent implications, o
pointing the way to the other world, or of pointing,
in a more practical way, to the focal point of
Inversion. Jung observes that this is why the
alchemists would express the unknowable
by means of contrasts (33); and Schneider
notes that, since the world is a duality, each
phenomenon or thesis is denoted by its
opposite. The closer phenomena come to
the focal point of Inversion, the more they
tend to collide with one another. The
numerical expression of Inversion seems
to be two and eleven {{11}}. Symbols of
Inversion are: the double-spiral, the hour-
glass, the drum shaped like an hour-glass,
St. Andrew's cross, the letter X, the quiver of
arrows, and, in general all that is X-shaped.
Hence, the superstitious act of crossing the
fingers is tantamount to tempting Fate;.... An
instance of positive, historical sublimating--
such as that in which the Roman army was
made to pass under the yoke at Caudium--
transformed into one of glory (with its
characteristic expression of the triumphal
arch, which was a particular obsession of
the Romans)..." p.151-2.
A Dictionary of Symbols,
j.e. cirlot, Philosophical Library NY c1962.
{note: mirror may be considered a focal point
that inverts perspective, possibly as a basis
for perspective and the vanishing point, etc.}
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mirrored reflection of a series of letters
which remain identical in reflection, i.e.
a 'w' is reflected as a 'w', though with a
change in its placement or perspective.
the .US letter 'N' is thus, reflected as the
.RU 'N' as an example of this mirroring.
if one were to 'rotate' the letters that are
identical in the mirror around a vertical
axis they would remain the same letters.
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if one takes a mirrored surface and makes
the bottom half opaque so that there is no
mirroring, and considers the mirror itself
as a middle-state between the outside of
the mirror, in this case +1, and the interior
of the mirror, -1, with zero (0) as the axis,
somewhat like 3 states of charge, - + N,
the mirror-plane as being zero, existing
as an intermediary between the options.
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whereas, if taking just two numbers of 0 and
1, without a mirrored surface, on the same-
side of the experience and outside of para-
dox, 0 and 1 are undifferentiated and have
identical qualities detaching mathematics of
addition, subtraction, division, multiplication
when considering relations between options.
is it because without paradox or differentiation
in the binary yes/no or true/false, it has a bias
which has no 'depth' or 'dimension' or 'time'..
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if a 'situation' were to have truth as a subclass within
a false-environment, yet if a perspective were to shift
it may be possible, with paradox to also access its
inversion in a falsity within a truth-environment, it
seems that choosing just one, as is today required,
instead of both, would be to privilege on view over
another-- binary 'logic' has such an inherent bias.
thus, a private-view can be chosen over a public-
view of an event, or vice-versa, but never both as
an integrated and integral, more full, understanding
of the questions and responses actually possible.
(above diagram of venn diagrams in mirror-state,
or 45 degree offset. also it can be a torus shape.)
MIRROR: "with reference to the imaging and
reflective function of thought, it symbolizes
knowledge, self-knowledge, and consciousness,
as well as truth and clarity. -- It is also a symbol of
the creation, which "reflects" the divine intelligence,
as well as of the pure human heart, which, for
example, God (in Christian mysticism) or the
Buddha merges into himself. The mirror is
associated metaphorically with the eye or face
(as the mirror of the soul)...." p.132
The Herder Dictionary of Symbols
IBSN 0-933029-84-5
_Mirror: "As a symbol, it has the same
characteristics as the mirror in fact; the
temporal and existential variety of its
function provides the explanation of its
significance and at the same time the
diversity of its meaningful associations.
It has been said that it is a symbol of the
imagination- or of consciousness- in its
capacity to reflect the formal reality of the
visible world. It has also been related to
thought, in so far as thought - for Scheler
and other philosophers - is the instrument
of self-contemplation as well as the
reflection of the universe. This links
mirror-symbolism with water as a reflector
and with the Narcissus myth: the cosmos
appears as a huge Narcissus regarding
his own reflections in the human
consciousness. Now, the world, as a
state of discontinuity affected by the laws
of change and substitution, is the agent
which projects this quasi-negative,
kaleidoscopic image of appearance and
disappearance reflected in the mirror.
From the earliest times, the mirror has
been thought of as ambivalent. It is a
surface which reproduces images and
in a way contains and absorbs them. In
legend and folklore, it is frequently
invested with a magical quality- a mere
hypertrophic version of its fundamental
meaning. In this way it serves to invoke
apparitions by conjuring up again the
images which it has received at some
time in the past, or by annihilating
distances when it reflects what was
once an object facing it and now is far
removed. This fluctuation between the
'absent' mirror and the 'peopled' mirror
lends it a kind of phasing, feminine in
implication, and hence - like the fan -
it is related to moon-symbolism. Further
evidence that the mirror is lunar is afforded
by its reflecting and passive characteristics,
for it receives images as the moon receives
the light of the sun (8). Again, its close
relationship to the moon is demonstrated
by the fact that among the {ancients} it was
seen as a symbol of the multiplicity of the
soul: of its mobility and its ability to adapt
itself to those objects which 'visit' it and
retain its 'interest'. At times, it takes the
mythic form of a door through which the
soul may free itself 'passing' to the other
side: this is an idea reproduced by Lewis
Carroll in ~Alice Through the Looking Glass~.
This alone is sufficient explanation of the
custom of covering up mirrors or turning
them to face the wall on certain occasions,
in particular when someone in the house
dies (21). All that we have said so far by no
means exhausts the complex symbolism of
the mirror: like the echo, it stands for twins
(thesis and antithesis), and specifically for
the sea of flames (or life as an infirmity) (50,
51). For Loeffler, mirrors are magic symbols
for unconscious memories (comparable with
crystal palaces) (38). Hand-mirrors, in
particular, are emblems of truth (4), and
in China they are supposed to have an
allegorical function as aids to conjugal
happiness as well as a protection against
diabolical influences (5). Some Chinese
legends tell of 'the animals in the mirror'."
pages 201-02. A Dictionary of Symbols,
j.e. cirlot, Philosophical Library NY c1962.
*note: substituted 'ancients' for 'primitives'.
some numbers as symbols:
~Zero Non-being, mysteriously connected
with unity as its opposite and its reflection; it is
symbolic of the latent and potential and is the
'Orphic Egg'. From the viewpoint of {wo|man}
in existence, it symbolizes death as the state in
which the life-forces are transformed (40,55).
Because of its circular form it signifies eternity.
A Dictionary of Symbols,
j.e. cirlot, Philosophical Library NY c1962.
~One Symbolic of being (40) and of the
revelation to {wo|men} of the spiritual essence.
It is the active principle which, broken into
fragments, gives rise to multiplicity (43), and is
to be equated with the mystic Centre (7), the
Irradiating Point and the Supreme Power (44).
It also stands for spiritual unity - the common
basis between all beings (55). Guénon draws
a distinction between unity and one, after the
Islamic mystic thinkers: unity differs from one
in that it is absolute and complete in itself,
admitting neither two nor dualism. Hence,
unity is the symbol of divinity (26). One is
also equated with light (49).
A Dictionary of Symbols,
j.e. cirlot, Philosophical Library NY c1962.
....
_Inversion According to Schneider, the
continuity of life is assured by the mutual
sacrifice which is consummated on the peak
of the mystic mountain: death permits birth;
all opposites are for an instant fused together
and then inverted. What is constructive turns
to destruction; love turns to hate; evil to good;
unhappiness to happiness; martyrdom to
ecstasy. Corresponding to this inner inversion
of a process is an outer inversion of the symbol
pertaining to it. This gives rise to a reversed
arrangement of the symbolic structure. When
the symbol has two aspects, the inversion of
one determines that of the other... ...'symbolic
logic' of Inversion is, it hardly needs to be said,
closely bound up with the myth of sacrifice; this
explains the sacrifice of the Carthaginians and
pre-Columbian Mexicans. There is a psycho-
logical basis to this, since the mind, through
the process of sublimation, is always promoting
inversions and metamorphoses of this order.
Ambivalence, contrast, paradox, or the
~coincidentia oppositorum~, are capable, on
account of their transcendent implications, o
pointing the way to the other world, or of pointing,
in a more practical way, to the focal point of
Inversion. Jung observes that this is why the
alchemists would express the unknowable
by means of contrasts (33); and Schneider
notes that, since the world is a duality, each
phenomenon or thesis is denoted by its
opposite. The closer phenomena come to
the focal point of Inversion, the more they
tend to collide with one another. The
numerical expression of Inversion seems
to be two and eleven {{11}}. Symbols of
Inversion are: the double-spiral, the hour-
glass, the drum shaped like an hour-glass,
St. Andrew's cross, the letter X, the quiver of
arrows, and, in general all that is X-shaped.
Hence, the superstitious act of crossing the
fingers is tantamount to tempting Fate;.... An
instance of positive, historical sublimating--
such as that in which the Roman army was
made to pass under the yoke at Caudium--
transformed into one of glory (with its
characteristic expression of the triumphal
arch, which was a particular obsession of
the Romans)..." p.151-2.
A Dictionary of Symbols,
j.e. cirlot, Philosophical Library NY c1962.
{note: mirror may be considered a focal point
that inverts perspective, possibly as a basis
for perspective and the vanishing point, etc.}
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