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This three-part structure is the universal and permanent anatomy of human societies at every scale, from the family, to the company, to the school, to the nation. At every level of social coherence, you will need the rules people (Guardians), the innovation people (Traders), and the inspiration people (the artists, clergy, or third force).
— Jun 17, 2026 03:46PM
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The Holy Week/Bright Week cycle was the constitution of the Christian Roman Empire. When laws were put to writing in the ancient city (de Coulanges), they were conserved as sacred religious texts who were sung, ritually enacted. Politics derive from religion, the heavenly Jerusalem will be liturgised into existence. Failing to liturgise is to lose the city.
One remaining chapter from this amazing book.
— Jun 30, 2026 07:04PM
One remaining chapter from this amazing book.
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The Pattern is nothing, in a sense, but a unique way that being must allow itself to be crucified by all of the forces present in the situation that the Pattern is meant to heal - and yet, only being that conforms with these Patterns is stable, and only it exists.
— May 04, 2026 07:34PM
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Still an incredible reading
"Therapy is broken, and, I will argue, it is harming the human soul"
"Our passions cannot be healed through returning and analyzing the primordial chaos out of which we were formed"
"The task of the soul is to retrace consciously the steps by which creation itself first arose from non-being into existence, took on form, and became beautiful."
— Oct 21, 2023 09:43AM
"Therapy is broken, and, I will argue, it is harming the human soul"
"Our passions cannot be healed through returning and analyzing the primordial chaos out of which we were formed"
"The task of the soul is to retrace consciously the steps by which creation itself first arose from non-being into existence, took on form, and became beautiful."
