From Pleroma to Actualization

Translating Potency

Planning often brings anxiety, and that is not unknown. Fears are part of daily life and can be rooted in something we may not always clearly define, but which exists as a constant. This is not a weakness but an opportunity to understand how to deal with something that follows us through time. In this context, we can talk about the concept of potency – something that exists as a possibility but has yet to become reality.

From a first-person perspective, there is no distinction between what is written and what is merely a thought process. However, from the position of the third person (an outside observer), the difference is essential. It represents the line between the potential – between Pleroma and Abraxas – and Helios – the visible (existing). The question is how to make that transition – how to move from potency to realization.

One of the solutions could be to find four points within the circle – four choices within freedom. Squaring the circle, as a mental process, can offer a way out of the chaos of possibilities. The square is structure, rules within freedom.

The four objective choices, aligned diagonally across the central point, show the way to establish balance.

In the middle, the central point has a gravitational nature and a directional path. The path is a symbol of the goal, and the goal is the translation of potency into actualization. But here, it’s important to understand that this doesn’t always happen under the influence of Helios, but sometimes we act under the force of Abraxas (chaotic and amoral), especially when the central point is unknown or undefined.

Helios becomes the key element that connects opposing sets. Through this lens, knowledge (or truthful, holistic understanding) becomes the central point that unites opposites. This dialogue between opposing elements enables the translation of possibility into action and the creation of order out of chaos – the balance of oppositions.

Doubling the Pairs

The number Two has implications of the feminine principle. The entire problem of the square, following Pythagorean mathematics (The Perennial Philosophy – Aldous Huxley), algebraically stands in the symbol of woman, in the number 2.

Four points make a square. A square implies two vertical and two horizontal lines. In the case of a square with a 16:9 ratio, the horizontal lines are closer to the center (the central point) than the vertical ones. The Earth symbol, in relation to the Sky symbol, is closer to Helios in this case. Considering that the lines are representatives of content, we will assume that this is the place where final choices can be made, which are necessary for secure and lasting existence. Choices that do not arise as a result of the “pushing force of the Cosmos” but as entities drawn by the gravitational force of the future.

On Differences:

Horizontal is the field, vertical are the constituents, the participants.

Horizontal is the context, vertical is individuality.

In the horizontal dimension is the community of everything, while in the vertical is only the individual.

The control of choices is divine power. It is the shaping of reality according to inner desire. It is the form-giving language.”