February 17, 2005

• Modal Theology

  
  “We symbolize logical necessity
  with the box ()
  and logical possibility
  with the diamond ().“
  
  
  
  – Keith Allen Korcz,
  (Log24.net, 1/25/05)

  And what do we           

     symbolize by  ?

  On the Lapis
  Philosophorum,
  the Philosophers’ Stone -

  “‘What is this Stone?’ Chloe asked….
  ‘…It is told that,
  when the Merciful One
  made the worlds, first of all He created
  that
  Stone and gave it to the Divine One
  whom the Jews call Shekinah,
  and
  as she gazed upon it
  the universes arose and had being.’”
  - Many Dimensions,
  by Charles Williams, 1931
  (Eerdmans
  paperback,
  April 1979, pp.
  43-44)

  “The lapis was thought of as a unity

  and therefore often stands
  for

  the prima materia in general.”

  - Aion, by C.
  G. Jung, 1951

  (Princeton paperback,

  1979, p. 236)

  “Its discoverer was of the opinion that
  he had produced the
  equivalent of
  the primordial protomatter
  which exploded into the
  Universe.”
  - The Stars My Destination,
  by Alfred
  Bester, 1956
  (Vintage hardcover,
  July 1996, p. 216)

  
  “The possibilia that exist,

  and out of which

  the Universe arose,

  are located in
       a necessary being….”

  – Michael Sudduth,
  Notes on
  
  God, Chance, and Necessity
  by Keith Ward,
  Regius Professor of Divinity
  at Christ Church College, Oxford
  (the home of Lewis Carroll)

  See also
  The Diamond Archetype.

  For more on modal theology, see

  Kurt Gödel’s Ontological Argument
  and
   The Ontological Argument
   from Anselm to Gödel.

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