AION / PHASE : Z(9)

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1. Definitions – Angel of the Presence
What is the PHASE/Z?
PHASE/Z refers to a construct or system that maps conceptual categories onto a glyph which defines the INTERSECTIONS or relationship of the concepts to one another. The glyph is designed to provide a map of these relation ships. M-Space, the regions on the map are typed according to the INTERSECTION value of the zone. There are 3 types of region:
D3 space – the values of the concepts in themselves, without reference to any other category. “normal” (discrete) space.
S space – the INTERSECTION of two zones. On the glyph they are numbered as S(x) zones. There are always three S Space regions in the map.
H9 space – the INTERSECTION of all regions on the map. There is always one H9 space in a map.
PHASE/Z then, is a method that provides a framework for creating a synthesis of the concepts in the map. Do you understand what I am talking about?


PHASE/Z Glyph

What is the Logic Core based on?
T: Once the map is defined, and I mean once the conceptual nodes are set because the S and H9 regions exist as virtual space(s) if the D3 spaces are null. After the D3 spaces set, the map will initialize the base values (default) for the S and H9 regions.
After the glyph is activated, a program must be written that will set the two (if the work is in S-space ) or three (if H9). This is why the glyph is classified as a computer.
In what sense is the Map a Computer?
The map is a magical computer. Think of it as a logic engine, rather than a number cruncher.
How does it function?
Once the D3’s are set a set of representative data for each is generated. This could be anything from texts, like say the book of Revelation for the Astral, Newton’s Principia for the Mecha and the 120 days of Sodom for the bio. I actually have run this configuration. Then whatever rules are set in the program will juxtapose the objects, creating synthetic constructs, in this case, of words. It is similar to techniques used by the Surrealists and draws heavily on Burroughs and Gysion’s cut up methods, though the purpose of the work differs from both of these sources.


Map Example

What is the purpose of the machines? What are they used for?
The Surrealists were trying to draw out the unconscious, Breton makes it clear in his writing of the debt that Surrealism owed to Freud. Remember that while Freud is out of favor now, in the 20’s (1920s) he was considered revolutionary in the projects of humanism, to understand, without recourse to supernatural revelation, the ontological reality of “Mankind”. Burroughs was, in his own words, out to annihilate rational thought, to destroy the viral infection that is called language. In contrast, PHASE/Z has a positivist goal, to synthesis unexpected objects of whatever form which are seen as advancing the understanding of the Universe or existence or however the operator defines the object of investigation. Simply put, it is an attempt to map POSSIBILITY, with the implicit understanding that anything POSSIBLE is in some sense real and REALITY is therefore the sum of all POSSIBILITIES.
Is PHASE / Z an artistic movement?
T: No. It is not a movement at all, we make no distinctions between modes of perception or structure of knowledge. Aesthetic judgments are forbidden since they are intimately bound to apriori theoretical categories. The technology makes use of artistic concepts but this is a reflection of the state of civilization, in its broadest sense, rather than a condition of the project itself. In fact, the media of choice is digital computer software, which in itself is a product of theoretical advances, even synthesis, in science and technology infused with creativity. A computer is a machine, but in order for it to be used by a person, it must present an INTERFACE and that, the INTERFACE, is the first order INTERSECTION that started the entire process leading up to what the PHASE/Z is now.

Baphomet

What does the software do?
Computers, digital computers, are at the most basic level symbol manipulation machines. That’s where the PHASE/Z glyph can be compared to a computer, as a matrix for manipulating symbols. And computers can manipulate incomprehensibly large data sets, which allows the creation of PHASE-MAPS that are larger than anything that could have been created in an entire lifetime by an alchemist in the Renaissance, for instance, in a very short period of time. And of course data storage and retrieval and the facilitation of informatic homogeneity also exponentially increase the amount of information that can be included in a given map. And the maps are, as you know, the PRODUCT of the work.
Why does PHASE/Z use occult symbolism?
Simply put, the maps are the representation of the conceptual terrain circumscribed by the map’s definition. The PHASE/Z doesn’t simply analyze data, but attempts to find ways of seeing that were up to now, undiscovered. As for the symbolism, well, it is a basic tenet of magical theory that the process of gaining power is by Solve et Coagula; to break down the Prima Materia, purify it and then reintegrate it. The French magician Eliphas Levi discusses this in detail in his magnum opus, Doctrine and Ritual. He devised a symbol that is still resonant today, which he called the Sabbatic Goat, the Baphomet supposedly adored by the Knights Templar, etc. The right hand of the figure points up at the bright moon and on the forearm is written Solve, the left hand points down toward the dark moon and Coagula is written on the left fore arm. This is the basic formula of magic and also of the PHASE/Z. The alchemical process can be boiled down to three stages, the black the white and the red. These represent the phases of death, purification and resurrection. Levi is often dismissed as a crank and the person most responsible for his influence in the English speaking world, A. E. Waite fills the work with footnotes ‘correcting’ Levi’s so called inaccuracies. But this misses the essential point, whether Levi was aware he was doing it or not, that magic is a creative process, an art, not a science that makes all things possible through the creative juxtapositions of symbols within the mind.
The Baphomet glyph is a perfect example of what we are trying to achieve, the synthesis of a set of concepts, that may seem to be diametrically opposed to one another, like science and art or magic and religion (though this is a modern development it still holds due to its broad acceptance) and then distilling the result down into a single artifact or symbol, which can then be fed back into the process and become a component of a still larger map. This iterative function, incidentally is a cornerstone of Chaos theory which itself is the product of a similar techniques, what ‘serious’ researchers call interdisciplinary, and that is pure Solve et Coagula.