Notes

New category of entries called "Notes," intended to capture rough sketches of scattered thoughts for possible later reference. Difference from (Re)Search posts will be the obvious lack of links to outside sources: simply pouring out some contents from my mind.

So I find myself circling around relationships in terms of the number one and the number eleven. 1 & 11. One is, obviously, the thing of itself, and eleven being two thing in themselves standing together in a relationship. Could be a human to a tree, or a fish to the sea, or a collection of bikes to a set of roads. Basically anything collected as 1 unit in relation to another collection becomes 11.

* 11 as the tarot card Justice.
* 1 as the tarot card The Magician.

Thinking within the tarot, I also bring in 2, which is what 1 + 1 come together to form, and get reference to The High Priestess.

Here I arrive at a model of duality: two things together become one thing, this one thing defined by the set of relationships between the two things—the ‘&’ in One and Other. Note that One as singularity, Other as singularity, with reference to the idea that a singularity is empty, yields that the whole of the manifestation is in the ‘&’, and that One all by itself is equal to nothing, or 1 = 0.

So we can bring in The Fool to this little tarot oriented structure, an interpretation of duality.

At the singularity that is formed at the meeting point of the empty polarities, there is a ‘balanced’ or ‘just’ relation: it is when the singularities are non-empty—already being influenced by the tugs of Other polarities—that the ‘just’ relationship between One and Other can become ‘unjust’ or ‘unbalanced’.

* Just & Unjust form a duality, as do Balanced & Unbalanced.

In the Rider-Waite deck of the tarot:
* The High Priestess holds The Law half concealed: 1 / 2; 1 whole, 2 parts; 1 in relation to 2; 2 = 1 + 1; 1 / 1 + 1; 1 and 1 and 1.
* There are the 2 pillars, One white and the Other black.
* A fourfold relationship between the pillars, the Priestess, and the Law.
* Connection between Law and Justice.

Note that ‘numerology’, as displayed throughout this post, seems as a three-fold mental tool, kind of like acrobatics, sleight of hand, and a filing system for the mind. The meaningful relations it creates are both illusory and real (much like any other meaning created by any other means), and, like all interpretation, are ultimately in the ‘I’ of the beholder.

* I as singularity is empty, I as Jungian Self is empty.
* I = 1 = 0.
* I = Interpretation.
* Interpretation dependent upon One and Other.
* O & O = I.

I need to reformulate some of my expressions. It seems better to express Martin’s “M = D + P” as M <=> D & P, and the same would hold for my “E = I + O.” This would make more sense out of Energy = Input + Output, mentioned in a previous post, which I now realize doesn’t quite hold with the notion of the Law of Conservation of Energy, as written about in said post—will have to amend that.

* I & O can also be thought about in terms of One & Other.
* Other is not-self (not One); i.e., O & ~O is equivalent to One & Other.
* O & ~O <=> M, where M = E.

For potential readers:
* <=> is parsed as 'if and only if'.
* ~ is parsed as 'not'.