Dionysian Triad Fractals and Epistemological Holism in an Integrative Methodology for Science and Theology - a constructive postmodern approach using a pre-modern mystagogy

Relax! I didn't post the above-titled essay below! You can read it, if you want, by clicking here.

What is posted below is a footnote to that essay that I thought some might enjoy

Be well,
KiKi
"Noveau-Dionysius"

Here it is:

Note: I wrote: "Collapsing this conjunctive-disjunctive awareness dualism is no mystical feat." This should be nuanced. This phenomenon is at least analogous to some mystical states which yield profound but ineffable ontological insights.

It does not escape my notice, that the pre-modern Dionysian triad fractal resembles some post-modern holographic theories. More importantly, it may be just as valid to consider the Dionysian recursive movements as fugal, its interweaving voices being analogical, anagogical and mystagogical.

The analogical voice uses the kataphatic and metaphorical, uses words and symbols (and sacrament) deals with efficient causes (and, in a sense, instrumental causation), "proceeds" and is therefore ergotropic and operating in the realm of energetic causation. It corresponds in trinitarian theology to the efficacious will effected by the Son, to action. This is why the mystic says all can be well. This is the New Covenant and the illuminative way. Our prayer is meditatio and operatio. This is where code and law and goodness came together in a Person, the via and where legalism can corrupt.

The anagogical voice uses the apophatic and the ineffable, deals with logical causes (and, in a sense, formal causation), "returns" and is therefore trophotropic and operating in the realm of nonenergetic causation (morphogenetic fields? implicate order?), however concealed this realm may be (as with telos). It corresponds in trinitarian theology to the permissive and designing will effected by the Father, to intention. This is why the mystic says that all may be well. This is the Old Covenant and the purgative way. Our prayer is lectio and oratio. This is where creed and doctrine and truth, the veritas, was revealed and where dogmatism can creep in.

The mystagogical voice uses the unitive which has no need for words and symbols (contrasted with the apophatic which wishes it could effable about the ineffable and struggles in its faltering, foundering and floundering attempts to do so), deals with final causes, is a "resting place", the liminal threshold (on the borders of chaos?), the juncture where, paradoxically, the mediating principle dissolves all dualisms in an unmediated and direct encounter with Reality. In this crossing-over between gatherings and dismissals, between discipleship and apostleship, between every I and every Thou, the teleological is revealed and the implicate/explicate order unconcelaed. It corresponds in trinitarian theology to the desiring will effected by the Spirit, to desire. This is why the mystic says that all will be well. This is Pentecost and the unitive way. Our prayer is contemplatio and collatio. This is where cult and ritual and beauty, the vita, are experienced and where ritualism and magic can pervert.

Eschatologically, the conflation of desire, intention and action correspond to a mandatory will. This is why the mystic says all shall be well. This is the beatific way. This is where every tear shall be wiped away.

Because of natural theology and revelation, the mystic says you shall know that all manner of things will be well. The hymnal says the hopes and fears of all the years are met in Thee tonight, Bethelehem.