Tetrahedron

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The Tetrahedron is a schematic for understanding how individuated spirit experiences the world. Nodes of the Tetrahedron are:

• Physical (Pleasure, Pain)
• Emotional (Love, Hate)
• Intellectual (Right, Wrong)
• Spiritual (Infinite, Finite)

It is important to bear in mind that the Tetrahedron does not exist. It is merely a framework for describing the channels of consciousness. I believe this model encompasses everything individuated spirit has believed or is capable of believing.

Knowledge transcends this limited, temporal framework.

The limits of human belief have been transcended by great mystics and prophets throughout history. However, they are never able to describe their experiences to the less enlightened, and have always resorted to fables and parables as guideposts for the rest of us. Their transcendent knowledge is often appropriated by The Old Men in Robes, who use religious systems as a means of consolidating political power.

The connection between the individual and the divine is through the Spiritual Node; but the Spiritual Node cannot exist without the other three.