Chris mentions: 

> The followers of E.O. Wilson might offer an evolutionary
>psychology answer. They suggest that the types and shapes of vegetation
>that we select to 'beautify' our dwellings bear a strong resemblance to that
>which would have been found in the habitats where we evolved over a couple
>of million years. Such notions are hotly debated, of course. I guess that the
>suggestion is that, amidst Jim's tertiary qualities, there are instincts - what
>exactly is an 'instinct' ?

"For those which are connected with her essence in a following order,
proceed from her [the anima mundi] according to the power of the fourth
term(4) [feeling/valuation], which possesses generative powers; but return
to her according to the fifth(5) which reduces them to one." (Timaeus 36B). 

"...the world which he brought into being was a blessed god." (Timaeus)

Instincts are bundles of emotions. They supply the rich texture of life
being lived immediately, the indeterminate. They arise from the unconscious
which is like the sea. vast and unbounded by anything the naked eye can
appreciate. They are the primitive feelings of family, community, planet,
nay universe, the source. The vast unbounded free energy of the void
represents the imperishable sense of being, the ultimate boon. 

"One, two, three -but where, my dear friend Timaeus, is the fourth?"

Jung: "one of the four is absent because he is *unwell*.... the missing
element was he so much desired was the concrete realization of ideas." 

The fourth is feeling.

"...if the most differentiated is thinking, or the intellect, then the
inferior, fourth function is feeling." Hence the words of Timeaus: "One,
two, three -but where, my Timaeus, is the fourth." 

The instincts (feelings which cause goose flesh)  are the 'breath-being' or
'anemos' (=wind) that lofts the fluffy clouds along. Clouds have no
foundations, they float, free. They are metaphors for bodies wafted along by
the breezes or stationed and dispersing. 

"Three we brought with us,
The fourth would not come.
He was the right one
Who thought for them all.

(Goethe, cf. Faust)

Feeling is all;
Names are sound and smoke."

Jung says the fourth is the thinking function (undifferentiable thought).
"The fourth would not come." Exactly! It wanted for some reason to stay
behind or below. (P. Types, Jung, Def. 30)

"Three of the four orienting functions are available to consciousness. This
is confirmed by the psychological experience that a rational type, for
instance, whose superior function is thinking, has at his disposal one, or
possibly two, auxiliary functions of an irrational nature, namely sensation
(the 'fonction due reel) and intuition (perception via the unconsciousness).
His inferior function will be feeling (valuation), which remains in a
retarded state and is contaminated with the unconscious. It refuses to go
along with the others and often goes wildly off on its own. This peculiar
dissociation is, it seems, a product of civilization, and it denotes a
freeing of consciousness from any excessive attachment to the 'spirit of
gravity.' "

What is other than the one is the double. "...God did not praise the second
day of creation, because this day (Monday, the day of the moon) the
binarius, alias the devil, came into existence (cf. the etymological
relations between G. zwei, 'two' and Zweifler, 'doubter'. [In english., cf.
duplicity, double-dealer, double-cross, two-faced. -translated from German].
The US $2 bill. 

The other is the one who will not come along: feeling. If thinking is the
superior function, then feeling is inferior. 

Satan as the fourth function:

"Theologians who believe in Satan have maintained that he was created good
but that through the use of his free will he became evil. What necessity is
there to assume that he is the inevitable fourth principle of evil in the
Godhead - the fourth member of the quaternity? 

Jung:

"Because the Three are the Summum Bonum, and the devil is the principle and
personification of evil. In a Catholic quaternity the fourth would be the
Mother, 99 percent divine. The devil would not count, being <me on>, an
empty shadow owing to the privatio boni, in which the Bonum is equal to
ousia (presence)." 

"We cannot imagine a state of wholeness (quaternity) which is good and evil.
It is beyond our moral judgement." 

















 I think Gregory Bateson couldn't get any closer than
>"an explanatory principle" - or other compelling forces deriving from our
>genetic heritage, which persuade us to favour certain aesthetic characteristics
>in our ambience. Think of the affinity or attraction of fountains and 
>open fires
>and gazing into pools (aquaria) which all seem to exert a tranquil mildly
>hypnotic influence upon consciousness. Is this because we are attuning to
>a primordial echo which resonates deeply and touches an instinct of the kind
>that animals must feel when they select their preferred habitat ?
>
>I think you can bake and eat dandelion roots ? I think even grind them into
>a kind of flour. They sure look nice with goldfinches feeding on them a cold
>sunny spring morning.
>
>C.L.
>
"In Arizona I remember soft fluffy clouds catching colors reflected
everywhere. Long narrow clouds trailing off into the horizons."



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