VESSELS
Vessels hold content. "Chosen vessels." Earthen vessels . Cheap vessels. Alabaster vessels . Empty vessels. Human vessels. Contents of vessels vary: from oil to grain to meal to flour to sugar to water to beer to wine to powder to mankind.
Vessels do not fill themselves nor determine the character, nor the capacity of their contents, as tools.
Rather, vessels are modeled, made, filled by others, including humans.
Humans being "animated" beings, who are "self-conscious" seem to be independent with two options: They may choose to accept or to reject their lading or assignment.
"Options" implies that humankind may choose not be what he/she was modeled and made to be. This further tacitly implies the presence of "free will" within human vessels
That implication is not true. "Free will" is modeled within mankind, within its own range. As trees bend in the wind; as molten rock flows as lava; as clouds form and disperse, mankind also has its divine ranges of movement. Such leeway is in the character of its model, as in trees' , rocks', water; yet divine law holds.
Elsewhere, in THE GEOMETRY OF ART AND LIFE by Matila Ghyka (1977), botanical and human applications of this intuited "divine law," are mathematically termed: PHI, (1.618...) when coupled with Fibonacci series (1,1,2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21...), demonstrating: "gnomonic growth." These principles are succinctly discussed, beautifully illustrated by equations, and are repeatedly re-exemplified in his chapter "The Golden Section."
Monday, December 11, 2017
VESSELS
VESSELS
Vessels hold content. "Chosen vessels." Earthen vessels . Cheap vessels. Alabaster vessels . Empty vessels. Human vessels. Contents of vessels vary: from oil to grain to meal to flour to sugar to water to beer to wine to powder to mankind.
Vessels do not fill themselves nor determine the character, nor the capacity of their contents, as tools.
Rather, vessels are modeled, made, filled by others, including humans.
Humans being "animated" beings, who are "self-conscious" seem to be independent with two options: They may choose to accept or to reject their lading or assignment.
"Options" implies that humankind may choose not be what he/she was modeled and made to be. This further tacitly implies the presence of "free will" within human vessels
That implication is not true. "Free will" is modeled within mankind, within its own range. As trees bend in the wind; as molten rock flows as lava; as clouds form and disperse, mankind also has its divine ranges of movement. Such leeway is in the character of its model, as in trees' , rocks', water; yet divine law holds.
Elsewhere, in THE GEOMETRY OF ART AND LIFE by Matila Ghyka (1977), botanical and human applications of this intuited "divine law," are mathematically termed: PHI, (1.618...) when coupled with Fibonacci series (1,1,2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21...), demonstrating: "gnomonic growth." These principles are succinctly discussed, beautifully illustrated by equations, and are repeatedly re-exemplified in his chapter "The Golden Section."