Introduction to Iconography - Thunder Bay Conference 

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All vectors are approaching the same vertex lately in numerous fields of study.

@@marcus8710 Or they always have, and you're just noticing it.

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Maybe we're 'circumambulating but movable' when we are made of matter - trapped, compressed light - and collapse into the 'fixed but directed' mode when we are without a body.

Circling around Christ could describe how we believers stumble toward our salvation, constantly veering off course and then repenting back toward God. Or the way the Church has honed its theology, by correcting heresies and counter-heresies. Or the way human societies have tried to correct toward an ideal system. Also, consider what this circling motion on a horizontal plane would look like from the front: exactly like the motion of a pendulum.

The way in which qualities appear in your awareness. The nature of your attention.

@@reverie4632 Yes. I'd agree with an internal attention hierarchy. However, this can't be totally accurate because individuals can end up establishing the wrong hierarchies, which can lead to "hell". That is why, I thought, Christianity existed was to help individuals think through their own hierarchies by comparing that with Jesus "the king". But I'm struggling to understand the value hierarchy of Christianity.

​@@matthewgardner1473 total hierachy contains its negation, which is not total, and is therefore fractal. Christ is the king of the fractal hierarchy. Hell is the sinner's experience of the Love of God. Everyone worships their own god, which is the unifying principle of their attention hierarchy. Christ is the king of all unifying principles. Jonathan's talk is about the relationship of unity to multiplicity. From a horizontal perspective, the relationship between unity and multiplicity can be visualised as a triangle, which is a hierarchy of attention. From a vertical perspective, the hierarchy of attention would appear as a circle with an inside and an outside, and a centre and its margins. That recurring fourfold fractal transformation of unity to multiplicity and multiplicity back to unity, or that non-duality between duality and non-duality, is what Jonathan is talking about. It is the relationship of something to everything. You are paying attention to something right now. It is also about the transformation of zero to one, or of absence to presence, or the relationship between something and nothing. Nothing is simultaneously something as a word and the no-thingness that is beyond all words. It is the hypostatic union of Christ, which is the relationship of humanity to divinity and of finitude to infinity. Christ as Logos made flesh is translated to Word in English. Hypostasis is also the literal meaning of understanding. Everything is Mary, mother of God, which is tautologically internal to something, which is God the Son, and to nothing, which is the Holy Spirit. God the Father is the source of everything, something and nothing that is simultaneously within everything, something and nothing. You are always paying attention to something, which is why you can only access the Father through the Son. Remember your death and the Resurrection of Christ. It is the final reconciliation of all opposites.

@@matthewgardner1473 watch this video: Dialogos with Christopher Mastropietro: Narrative, Symbol and Mt Sophia