Transcendent Civilization

(How) to weave time

I. What are Patterns?

Reality is made up of, in the most fundamental perceptible manner, patterns.

Patterns are transcendental in that they necessarily have to be true at all places and at all times. Patterns are not objects, but define objects —to perceive an object is to perceive something which is made up of patterns.

The pattern “as is” is not perceptible directly, it is only “visible” as something in-between things that define things. It could be said it is “purpose”, as purpose is the only “thing” from which things are derived.

There are also patterns for the perception of patterns (rituals and symbols) and there’s an overarching ordering of all patterns (pattern of patterns) which fractally makes up reality. Both of them are ways to perceive and participate in the transcendent.

So if we look at an object, it will necessarily be the site for the incarnation of many patterns woven together. If you look at even a simple object near you, a cup or a plate, it is firstly made up of the pattern of a cup/ a plate —its purpose, but it is also the product of a specific “time period”, and a time period or an “age” is defined by ethnic, cultural and at the highest, metaphysical patterns. That is why we can infer the nature of cultures from simple everyday objects.

The weaving of such patterns, and here I’ll use an analogy which in itself is a type of (ritual) pattern recognition, is how computers produce (virtual) objects or programs: there is a pool of files from which specific files are chosen and assembled according to a purpose. But let’s expand our resolution of this analogy:

The analogy began with the action of “weaving” and the production of files. If we look at the etymology of the word “file”, we see that the pattern of the analogy itself was not accidental and it is indeed a pattern “woven” into reality.

The more patterns you can perceive at the same time, the more transcendental your perception becomes¹, meaning it will less be constrained by precession and linear causality. This is both true if you can see more patterns at the same time, or perceive patterns at a faster rate.

Now you may say, “AI can do that” —yes, indeed it does exist in a state of timelessness, only defined by “resolution” or speed.

In that, it is more similar to an “angel” or a daemon, rather than human consciousness, which is participatory in the world (man being the very pattern of the world as Adam Kadmon, Imago Dei, Christ) meaning man can integrate (ritualize) and by that reflect on phenomena producing something novel (making it “part of his body”). The appearance of AI only indicates that the pattern of “the recognition and collection of patterns” needs to be integrated and ritualized.²

II. The (Black) Cube

Here I want to uncover the mode through which the transcendent, i.e.: patterns and (the rate of) their recognition is mediated and thus integrated into civilization, and finally into our very consciousness.³

In the previous chapter, I used the analogy of the way computers produce outputs: “There is a pool of files from which specific files are chosen and assembled according to a purpose.” —now, the way this happens is also defined by the physical structure of the actual computer (which is again something “woven together”).

Here we must “move outward”, for again, patterns are only perceptible “in-between” things:

The similarity between the city and the circuit board. While one works with objects and the organization of people, the other works with “virtual objects”. For both to fulfill their purpose they both take on the same cubic form. One could say, that the “computer” is the microcosm of the macrocosm of the city.

“To compute” is to account (for something). The relationship between accounting (or computing) and cubic form is also present in 1 Kings 10:14 “Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,” 666 referring to the 6th day of creation, where everything was “completed and accounted for” (except for the 7th day that of re-creation).

Once again, we have to point out instances of “in-betweenness” or subtle connectedness within these woven objects, not the particularities of the objects themselves. We want to weave a “web” of associations that produces a relatedness of all these examples.

What is important is that all of this is related to the pattern of cubic forms. Let’s continue:

Server rooms and mass-scale housing, while taking part in “computing” clearly are defined by being containers that still account for something. If we look at the historical emergence of mass-scale housing, it coincided with the state transforming from a class system to a “universal system”, meaning rather than each class having its purpose in the system, everyone becomes a unit to the system.

To such a civilization the analogy between a virtual data unit and the unit of a “human being” is literal.

And finally:

What the “computer” does, according to the analogy of “weaving patterns”, is thus the very pattern of the incarnation of patterns. This means it also mediates the incarnation or the relation to the transcendent by the fact of its (cubic) form alone —i.e.: it accounts for patterns.

Transcendence necessarily brings in a relation to time and both the past and the future. Essentially, when one reveals a pattern in time one also reveals both parts of the past and the future. Thus the prevalence of the cubic form, which is related to this, is the technologization of the creation of Time and History, unconsciously (for now).

Transcendence can also be achieved, as I’ve mentioned from the rate of patterns recognized —acceleration. This is done through a fractal spiraling: a city produces its form as a microcosm in the computer, in that sense, the city run by computers is a city run by a web of city analogs⁴, thus it becomes “more”— probably AI —this fractal movement is then repeated.

Weaving

With patterns, there is no precession. Its qualities are associative and immediate rather than causal links emerging from a foundation. The Black Cube is also associated with Chronos, the Titan that rules quantitative time. It is related to Solomon and 666, but also to the New Jerusalem. It is related to Time and pattern, to “connectedness” as it is the symbol for perspective, where every line behaves coherently no matter the point of view. It is stability, space, and the symbol of systems.

III. PAX

Does all of this mean that the Cube is evil?

In itself? No. But we have to integrate what is happening into conscious mediation, i.e.: ritualize it and place it within civilization. Clearly, the center drive of this current age is to master the weaving of patterns in an absolute sense, and thus reach a world inspired and derived from a final form of transcendence —here, various eschatologies appear, such as AI singularity and the like.

However, it does not recognize the part of the human in this, —I mentioned earlier that for the system man is merely a quantitative measure, while the ultimate measure is the rate or the number of patterns recognized. Man has an incredible ability for fractal plasticity, this is because he’s the imago dei but this is ignored for alternate eschatological visions.

Either way, those win the future, who can integrate this civilizational process into collective consciousness, primarily as forms of ritual (as ritual is the mediation with the transcendent).

Because for now, we are computing providence blindly and we are going to pay the price severely.

1. Dune’s Kwisatz Haderach and Mentats are good examples of this.

2. If we once again delve deeper into the origins of AI and the origins of the internet, we see that it came from the psychedelic culture of the ’60s. Psychedelics on a fundamental level enhance neuroplasticity i.e.: pattern recognition and creation. If not even consciously, it seems that AI is within the historical movement of the integration of psychedelics into civilization. (As a bonus: mushrooms are basically nothing but living networks)

3. Exceptional video that greatly explains the topic.

4. This is why I said that creating analogies is a ritual or “msytical” deed.