"Unity through diversity" is one of the core concepts of Systems Philosophy as coined by Laszlo around 1970. It also matches your embedded micro/macro-cosms model.

In my opinion, the basic symbol necessary to understand consciousness is Ouroboros. The Head is the recipient soul-substance and the Tail is sensory information, transformed into a world view. It is usually shown as a Dragon or a Serpent. The Dragon is a giver of knowledge.

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Reflections & Projections are time/space relativities of the inter/extrapolation of ConsciousNess.

There are three principal Reflection/Projection modes – the alternating, whose manifestations complement each other – the contrary, where they contrast each other, and the dualistic R/P, whose manifestations appear separate.

The alternating R/P is typical for the Orient, whereas the contrary R/P has been dominating the Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Hellenic cultures and became the foundation of the dualistic R/P that determines the Occident and its cultures.
(Orient & Occident represent here R/P systems as well as cerebral & global hemispheres)

Every R/P mode has a characteristic time/space and corresponding life- & death rites.
In the alternating R/P the dissolving body (soma) is left to earth, fire, water or air, while the psyche is kept alive with rituals – particularly where it is believed to be essential for the re-incarnation of the soma aspect.

In the contrary R/P the body receives a space, or room, furnished with life-utensils, while (notably in Egypt) symbols and data-cards (Stele) are employed to keep the diseased present. With the doubling of the R/P field, that space is perceived as another world (or dimension) wherein the deceased has to justify his existence to the gods in charge of it – i.e. of the measures and values it is composed of.

In Dualism the times & spaces of the living & the dead are not only divided, but also fractured by the counter-dynamics of its R/P fields. Thus the dead wind up in heavens above and hells below, while the spaces of the living get subdivided into sections for you & me, pasts & futures, inner & outer worlds, one for psyche and one for soma, in short: times & spaces for everything they fear from death – and hope from it as well, since their existence is not only determined by their fear of death, but also by their fear of life.

Existence is to realise ConsciousNess. In the alternating R/P system, existence appears as a change and in the contrary as an action/reaction that triggers in Dualism feedback-emotions (mostly in form of fear) and promotes notions like existence being a fight, or even a will, of survival. However, fear is not will, but weakness.

Fear restricts the interactivity of psyche & soma. (mind & body)

The myriad varieties of psyche-soma relativities and the ways they affirm and express themselves, demonstrate the innumerable Selfrealisation possibilities of ConsciousNess and its lust & joy of existence.

In undivided R/P systems the lust & joy of existence are revered with sex, art & war, and in some cultures with the sacrifice of the body to the feast of life. In the Occident, where the separation of life & death culminated in the sacrifice of the son of its god, and where the lust & joy of existence got corrupted by a religion that thrives on misery and merchant-emotions, not only lust & joy degenerated, but also the understanding that when the body dissolves, there remains that which is reflected & projected as its life and death.

Thus there is the death of those whose existence is determined by fear & hope – and the death of those who associate it with the death of the dogs.

There is the death of the one who consumes himself in the fire of Selfrealisation and there is the dissolution of the one who determines his life as well as his death. To him existence is the Great Ritual and death the crown of it.

Who designs his life with death in sight, can be certain of a rich life as well as of a rich death.

Survival concepts may intensify the experience of existence through emotions like fear & hope – but they also confine it into a time/space with a deadly exit.

On the tip of the Ouroboros' nose are transhumanists/futurists...on the rump of it is the primevalist. The symbol of Ouroboros is more one to describe eons of time and how time repeats (inasmuch as solar systems rise and fall, and rise again ad infinitum)...so the future is in the past...the past in the future. It being one of my favorite symbols also, helping to understand no matter how deranged transhumanists and the shackles of science and tech. determinism become it will eventually return to a less complex, less sterile, lifeless, and less human-exceptional world.

The meaning of this symbol is multifaceted and allusion to time is just one of them. To me it indicates time, space, matter, consciousness and so on. We can interpret Ouroboros as we need. In this case, it refers to the structure of soul. The head means spirit and the tail is matter, two main parts of man - spirit-body. The nexus of this symbol is inner-space we exist in. The circle is life cycle and the foundation of reality. Dragon is transcendence, the Creator.

Fair enough. Dragon=chaos before creation, and presumably involved in any eschaton unravelling. Interpreting symbols generically is a good idea..otherwise symbol drain can completely change the meaning over time (why I stick to original, barest bones meaning). Each to their own when it comes to hermeneutics to be sure; then, depending on how singular one's interpretation, it's a matter of where he falls on the esoteric<<<<<>>>>>exoteric gradation.

Dragon=chaos before creation, and presumably involved in any eschaton unravelling. — Anthony

Wouldn't agree that chaos is smth 'before' smth else. Chaos is not passive as some kind of unformed material. God is not beyond it. God = Chaos, it produces reality. However not as vacuum, but rather as plenum. Religion and mythology misinterpret this realm and the process of creation. I believe that reality self-creates without an external creator.

Aseity is the attribute of God you seem to believe in. Ultimately, I take a negating approach to what God is(n't). Intellectual honesty says "who knows?" Whatever you can say it is, it surely isn't. If it can be described by us...it is limned too much like us to circumvent anthropocentric delusion. As a specie humans have reified so extensively (resulting in the most high delusion, the anthropic principle) , they think they are the source of the abstract. Humans can't give rise to abstraction or observe it fully, it is the bailiwick of the supreme being, we are a part of it, and issue from it, but it itself is without describable attributes.

In other words, we can't have knowledge of Truth/Absolute/Abstraction. Where this is the case...we can understand it best through a passive, empty and receptive style of consciousness, or mode of being. It's lucid enough the mind inhabits a liminality between the active immanent and passive transcendent. Every active attempt to describe Ouroboros, then, limits it, or at best depicts the immanent part it is possible to have knowledge of.

What I believe is just a provisional theory or idea. It is not a religious faith, rather an intellectual curiosity. My intellectual template is an opposition between two types of continuum, mind is able to construct. The first continuum is composed of units, as in a fractal of (111111111) and the other of infinities as in a fractal of (∞∞∞∞∞∞). We can shape limited forms in the unitary continuum, as in science and in 'infinitary', where it would represent 'Chaos' taking shape or shaped by mind. However, mind can only make projections from unitary static/dynamic continuum to the infinitary. I fully understand that this is just a mental exercise, not the transcendence itself. The success is measured only by effectiveness. There is no God in (11111111), but there must be in (∞∞∞∞∞∞), God as everything. And the reality is (∞∞∞∞∞∞(111111111)∞∞∞∞∞∞).

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The constellations of the manifestations of ConsciousNess are interactive; their reciprocal changes maintain the balance of existence.

Every constellation comprises poles that determine its time/space. The poles unite in Here/Now, which thus functions also as transformation point of the manifestation.

The formation- & dissolution phases of the constellations are concurrent.

When a constellation dissolves, its components become part of another constellation.
The transition phase is commonly called “nothing” and interpret as absence of existence. However, there is no absence of existence, but only an absence of its coherence, or an (local time/space)interruption of its continuity.

To claim that the components of existence eliminate each other in order to survive is to claim that existence destroys itself in order to exist. This (for the dual/linear perspective typical) contradiction impedes the awareness that the combination possibilities of existence are infinite.

The ways the interrelations of the constellations of ConsciousNess are observed, reveal also the patterns and dynamics of the observers Selfrealisation attempts.

ConsciousNess is a self-complementary continuum stimulated by Will & Love.
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Will & Love are the strong force of ConsciousNess.

Will is the force of creation and Love the force that relates (unites) its manifestations.

Will has no cause, nor can it be deduced from effects – Will is cause and effect, both are united through Love.

Will is absolute – unless subjected to morals & purpose, or otherwise adulterated.

Will cannot be willed, as there are no two Wills.

Seeking the origins of Will and the construction plans of creation is seeking to avoid self-responsibility.

There are lots of talks about free will, usually motivated by the hope to get wishes fulfilled, but where there is Will there are neither wishes nor hopes.

Where Will is divided, weaknesses arise.

The force of Will & Love might be measured through weaknesses, but woe him who tries to measure it.

The force of Will & Love expresses as harmony, beauty & joy – the lack of it as discontinuity, sadness and filth.

Will & Love is also the force of imagination & inspiration – both are essential for self-design.
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Everyone is (ought to be) his own creator and has as such infinite self-design possibilities – each of them having, when motivated by the Will & Love to realize oneself, the potential to bring about a self-image wherein all creations complement each other.

Self-design is practiced in every R/P system and an option for him who is unable to realize himself in Dualisms and has difficulties with the Selfrealisation envisioned and practiced in the Orient.

There is active and passive self-design, the active projects and the passive reflects a self-image, both complement each other through Will & Love.

In the reflection Will & Love may be localized (reasoned, moralized, etc), but that brings about reaction-images which are not complementary.

In the projection is no space for reasons and morals – however there might be a lack of Will & Love that weakens the reflection.

To weak self-images strong projections may appear as a threat– but that should not restrain the projection, otherwise the force of Will & Love gets dispersed.
The same happens when the projection is tested, since the test affects the reflection - moreover, there is no test for perfection.
Nor is the projection to be charged with expectations, as they get amplified by the reflection, causing divisions and multiplications that interrupt the interactivity of micro- and macro cosmos and fracture the self-image.

The projection has to be free of emotions, reasons and other restrains, in order to enable the reflection to complement the self-image according to its Will & Love.

Self-design enhances the awareness of the Selfrealisation process. The awareness gets impaired when the self-image lacks lust and joy, is loaded and distorted with emotions, mistreated with causalities and moralities, subjugated to parasitical selfrealisation-attempts and/or infected with the possession virus.

Disorder arises when the Self-designer, instead of exercising his will, represents and executes the wills of “others” – adopts handed down identity rites – or subjugates himself to commercial, religious, ideological and collective identification schemes.

Self-design is subject to Will & Love, the strong force of ConsciousNess. The lack of it could be regarded as a personal debility-period, were there not the many representatives of the weak forces who, for lack of own images & orders, attach themselves to those of the strong. A relationship (in collective-images represented by rulers and serfs) that seems inevitable, since the strong and the weak forces are complementary and attempts to change this relativity are its balance-mechanisms in order for everything to remain as it is.
But the self-designer ought not to rely on such “auto-controls”, as he is responsible for every aspect of his order – and his weak and their weaknesses are part of it.

One manner of self-design is to arrange the components of the self-image according to their capability to complement each other. In such case it is of little consequence what its reference points are called, or which shapes, scales and quantities they present, as every unity is infinite. Nevertheless, it is recommendable to keep the reference points interchangeable and in small numbers, in order to have a flexible and clear self-image.

In rigid structures a reference point might receive disproportionate attributes and thus a priority that provokes comparisons which impede the interactivity of the components and the harmony of the self-image.

Ill ordered self-images may be rearranged with sex and drugs – but with care, as sex can alter the pole positions of the psyche-soma-relativity, whereas every drug has a particular potential and amplifies the intentions it is taken with.

Drugs can also be used to stimulate the imagination that helps furnishing the self-image – which ought to be splendorous, as it intensifies the awareness.

To claim a self-image being objectively true, is a lie and a fatal one, not because it hides an objective truth – as some of its gurus claim – but because it paralyses the creativity and makes the creator a victim, or prisoner, of his creation.

In the Occident it has become fashionable to import and copy Oriental self-design techniques and corresponding images, despite that they are based on cosmologies that differ profoundly from those of the Occident; moreover, every microcosm is bound to its macrocosm (& vice versa) and mixing cosmologies or R/P systems brings about confusion.

Self-design with the help of teachers and teachings seems to be the easiest, but is more complicated, since most of them have rules and restrictions regarding Selfrealization, not to mention, that every teacher has and represents a particular self-image. Moreover, how is one to realize oneself through the images of others, if ones does not know one’s own? And there is of course the risk of getting caught in parasitic images and in the traps of self-denial – that is: to be something else than one is.

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One cannot change oneself – but one can realize oneself.

The notion of changing oneself is self-denial and most common in Dualism, because of its presumption, that the viewpoints which relate its manifestations, are having different time/space positions. A misconception that leads – due to the counter-dynamics of the (dualistic) R/P fields – to the assumption that one could be different than one is, and that one state of existence is imperfect and another better – or at least: more advantageous.

There are more perverse ways of self-denial, like the Judaic/Christian concept of Homo being the crown of a creation whose aim it is, that he subjugates its manifestations – and thus himself.

Another currently popular self-denial is the Occidental evolution- and selection dogma; despite that it should lead, according to its own logic, to the realization that every man & woman is what he/she projects/reflects and that therefore no one can be elevated or put down, improve, worsen or otherwise be changed.

The in every R/P system common (because most simple) manner of self-denial, is the causality concept, according to which a manifestation is either the cause, or the effect of another manifestation. A notion that not only undermines the self-response-ability of Homo, but makes him to a victim as well, even more so, when he tries to find causes for his existence and begins to reason it – and thus himself.
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Reason is a close circuit, as it compels to reason itself and thus to invent respective reasons, triggering a division/multiplication process which often determines the search for oneself and at times the identity rites of an entire culture.

Reason becomes fatal when Homo tries to reason his existence in order to confirm his interpretations of it, because this leads to an intellectual fundamentalism which justifies its thereby growing walls with its own reasons and deprives their builders (and victims) of the possibility to question them, by declaring them as their sole meaning and purpose. Nevertheless, reason might – when driven to its own limits – lead to the cognition that the entrance to its labyrinth is its exit as well.
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Order arises from Will & Love – disorders take place where this strong force of ConsciousNess is lacking.

There are no by chance orders. There are the manifestations of the alternating and of the contrary R/P modes and the - in time & space scattered- manifestations of Dualism (which sometimes do seem to relate to each other by chance). And then there is the Point of View of the R/P equation, the unknown factor of its manifestations, which cannot be known, i.e. reflected/projected, without fracturing their order.

Disorder is a discontinuity-field, or –phase, which disappears as soon as its components are transferred to, or absorbed by a unity.
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Unity comprises multiplicity and a corresponding number of possibilities to realize itself. When the possibilities are differentiated, multiplicity is established.

Unity cannot be measured, but only cognized and understood. The unities of measurements are half-measures that can be added up and concealed with unity-terms, but such Selfrealisation-attempts are self-deceptions as they veil the quintessence of unity and thus of SelfConsciousNess.

The dimension of unity can neither be related nor located – but only be experienced.

Dimensions that can be related, are division/multiplication abstructs. They may serve to focus on unity, but cannot effect it, since its time/space is not extended – wherefore unity disappears when manipulated.

10 Ego

Every manifestation of ConsciousNess contains an unknown factor, which – when known – becomes another manifestation - thus multiplicity is born. Multiplicity is the cradle of differentiation – differentiation is subject to the R/P modes - their viewpoints cause restrictions - restriction retards Selfrealisation.
Attempts to reverse this process are many and differ according to the R/P modes - but rarely seem to make it past Ego.

Ego is a close circuit that consists of 8 R/P poles with 2 viewpoints which relate the poles in a cube-like manner.
When the two viewpoints check each other, a pseudo-self-consciousness comes about that has deceived Homo in all hemispheres & ages and been the cause of most of his troubles – particularly concerning his Selfrealisation quest.

The worldwide increasing popularity of Ego is probably because its two viewpoints are used as time/space coordinates, whereas its pseudo-self-consciousness appears as a kind of unity.

Ego is also subject to the polarization-dynamic of Ra-Hoor-Khu, who, due to his Egyptian origin, represents moreover the contrary R/P mode, which enables to eliminate one of the two viewpoints and thus turn Ego into a R/P dynamic that relates itself through one viewpoint at a time (not to be confused with the Point of View of SelfConsciousNess).

The Ego mode of Ra-Hoor-Khu is only applicable in Dualism; it makes him who understands to handle the two sides (or viewpoints) as one, to the ruler of its dimension (and destroys the inapt user).

Ego is the favored operation field of the Self-designer and the Warrior, as it enables to eliminate that which opposes and to crystallize that which supports the Selfrealisation.