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REFLEXIVITY
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The question Eugene addresses is the meaning of the term ‘reflexivity’. He draws a circle and then another round it, then two more, making four concentric rings, but says he should really draw seven. He draws a horizontal line passing through the centre and writes ‘H’ for ‘Hierarchy’ above the line and ‘M’ for Matter below it. The Hierarchy is based on initiative, the Matter on inertia. He numbers the circles 1-7 from both the top and the bottom, so that the number 4 is in the centre, whichever way we count, up or down. Number 1 he labels ‘Will’, no. 2 is ‘Love’, and 3 is ‘Act’. 4 is not labelled. Will initiates every act and whatever is willed it loves to will and whatever we love we tend to activate. So whatever in life we do, we do it because we will to do it. “If you initiate something, and then you charge it with love, it automatically goes into action.” The circles represent our world inside and outside, and the ‘Fall’ has been from inside to the world of outside things. The will, essentially central, has moved to the periphery of being to examine the material world – as in the Fall of Adam. The ‘fallen man’ believes there is nothing higher than himself. His intelligence in the head is his and he is identified with his physical body. Most men think that their reproductive potency is also theirs. “Now the belief that that power belongs to the man on whom it is only an appendage is a product of the Fall.” There is a will in this organ and therefore there must be love also, but it is the love of the Absolute to reproduce its creations, not that of the man. “The man who thinks, ‘I must chase that and I must reproduce through it’, is actually being used as a tool by the Absolute Will.”
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