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the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

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It must nevertheless be stressed that side by side with the distinct leanings of alchemy (and of the unconscious) towards quaternity there is always a vacillation between three and four which comes out over and over again ...

Science, Religion, and Magic in James Blish's "After Such Knowledge" Sequence

They assert that spirituality is essential, that it completes and encompasses a "quaternity" of human being, that it exists alongside mental health, and that I, as a therapist, must move toward consolidation of an existence that is spiritual (and soulful), if I am to move toward authenticity.

What if the spirit does not move me? A personal reconnaissance and reconciliation

On the other hand, God is not a quaternity, so far as we know; and if it is true that there are four real relations in God, it is also true that only in thought is one of them distinguishable.

On the (economic) trinity: an argument in conversation with Robert Doran

Mary, who appears to have functioned effectively as a part of a Quaternity (not a Trinity) Godhead, is demoted by Newman into the category of "goddesses," which includes Reason, Charity, Love, Nature, Ecclesia, Justice, Philosophy, Theology, Poverty, Right, Fortune, Noys, Dante's Beatrice, Silva, and Urania.

God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages

In the poem, George argues (drawing on Jung, geometry and alchemy among other sources), Threes regularly become Fours, or in his words 'the Trinity is completed in a Quaternity' (p.

Holderlin's Hymn 'Der Einzige': Sources, Language, Context, Form

Not even the slogan's Holy Quaternity is enough: our utopian pantheon of Supreme Goods should be flexibly polytheistic.

Utopianism from Orientation to Agency: What Are We Intellectuals Under Post-Fordism To Do?(1)

Two concepts emerge in the second essay that provide insight into the professor's thought: "(1) Because the natural world is understood inevitably in terms of quaternity, any tripartite structure is an artificial intellectual construct imposed on the natural or social world.

This discussion of the pervasiveness of a principle of quaternity in a great variety of religious, intellectual, mythic, and literary constructs ends where it began, in the basic definition of quaternity composed of two contrasts - of the spiritual and material elements of the world and the physical and mental powers of its human inhabitants - and it is appropriate that the basic definition of that quaternity by Black Elk, which can inaugurate a study of quaternity in both American Indian and Euro-American culture, can also be seen to inform the structure of literary works which derive from both of these basic streams.

The Rule of Four: Four Essays on the Principle of Quaternity

(209) And to make a quaternity in the mystery of the Trinity.

The Memra on the Parrot by Isaac of Antioch

From an archetypal perspective, the journey becomes a dual physical and spiritual hero's quest for a new totality of the self (Jung, 183-84) which neatly follows the Jungian scheme of the quaternity (Jung 175).

Self, world, and art in the fiction of John Fowles

He provides a table of alchemical patterns in the novel and argues persuasively that the structure of The Plumed Serpent parallels alchemical processes in the patterns '|Lawrence~ establishes on imagery of colors, elements, humours, and rituals, as well as in the alchemical meanings of such symbols as vessel, quaternity, dark sun, marriage, serpent and phoenix'.

D. H. Lawrence and the Trembling Balance

Jungian analyst and Catholic priest Dourley (emeritus religion, Carleton U., Ottawa) recounts his journey through Tillich, Jung, and the mystics: the road to the double quaternity; the psyche as sacrament: a comparative study of C.G.

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