To Reach A True State Of Unity, All Parts Of The Self Must Transcend Beyond Their Separate Levels. When

Theories can be crudely organized into a family tree where each might, at least in principle, be derivable from more fundamental ones above it

Bernard Carr, Universe or Multiverse?

Figure of hand from Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros ~1775

General map of Western Philosophy from Pre-Socratic through Modern era

Willy Schrödter, Commentaries on the Occult Philosophy of Agrippa

Austin Osman Spare

Alchemical drawings from Sapientia veterum philosophorum, sive doctrina eorumdem de summa et universali medicina (18th c.) BnF

In classical empiricist approaches, we could say that our ways of talking depend upon the world; to the extent that our talk is rooted, or grounded in what the facts of the world will permit or allow us to say, our talk is about what we ‘find’ to be there. 

On the other hand, in line with hermeneutical or interpretive views, it is equally true to say that what we take to be the nature of the world depends upon our ways of talking about it; thus, to the extent that it is they that ‘give’ or ‘lend’ it intelligible (and legitimate) structure and significance, it is as we ‘make’ it to be.

—John Shotter, Social Individuality Versus Possessive Individualism

Sophie Woodrow

Sea Creature porcelein - approx. 45cm

The Atomic Ladder of Life, from solid to liquid to gaseous to etheric to spirit.  From The Gate Beautiful by John Ward Stimson, 1903.