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Old 03-17-2013, 11:28 PM   #1
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Nice painting, but to me it points at the crotch from where semen is reserved at an AI station, or Starbucks maybe.

Opposite this the crossroads must meet at the human heart where blood and water must be shed to point at currency in defeat that yields to tradition in its victory.

Plato's lengthwise split is vertically between our left and right so that our gender identities will be opposite to create a vacuum and a pressure bulge (so that we can suck and blow naturally, as profanity would say), that in essence is how the diagonal X points at the opposites between males and females in absense of their own unity after the lenghtwise split. Hence they they become one wherein he finds his life in her 'rigth' and she feels occupied by her missing 'left.'

Please note that woman as taken from man has no identity of her own as a created man, and therefore remains a void to fill, while he as an outsider to himself will be looking for a home for him, which then will be in her and so the two opposites will become one in the ideal that we as humans see and act upon.

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According to Plato, the strip of psychic substance which the Demiurge employs in the creation of the World-Soul is split lengthwise and then the two parts are joined together at the middle crossing each other diagonally, the result being a figure shaped like a X.
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I don't normally post links to my blog. But there is a reason I did it this way:

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It would help to quote the relevant passages. From Timaeus:

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This entire compound he divided lengthways into two parts, which he joined to one another at the centre like the letter X, and bent them into a circular form, connecting them with themselves and each other at the point opposite to their original meeting-point; and, comprehending them in a uniform revolution upon the same axis, he made the one the outer and the other the inner circle. Now the motion of the outer circle he called the motion of the same, and the motion of the inner circle the motion of the other or diverse. The motion of the same he carried round by the side to the right, and the motion of the diverse diagonally to the left. And he gave dominion to the motion of the same and like, for that he left single and undivided; but the inner motion he divided in six places and made seven unequal circles having their intervals in ratios of two-and three, three of each, and bade the orbits proceed in a direction opposite to one another; and three [Sun, Mercury, Venus] he made to move with equal swiftness, and the remaining four [Moon, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter] to move with unequal swiftness to the three and to one another, but in due proportion.
I don't know why he uses two motions, dividing the only inner motion. But without the outer/inner model, the demiurge doesn't need two pieces to begin.

Can you post or link to the relevant Proclus?
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