Formulae of Space

[A narrative is] a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events.

[the term parable] translates the Hebrew word “mashal”—a term denoting a metaphor, or an enigmatic saying or an analogy. In the Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition, however, “parables” were illustrative narrative examples.

13 : 10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
13 : 11 And he answered and said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. -- Matthew Chapter 13 (ASV)

We are born into and live in stories, streams of narrative spun like webs of light around us from the moment we are born. Who we are, where we’ve come from, these are the building blocks of the Self and each of these stories are incorporated into that larger Story. Central to that greater story is the idea of Purpose, the seemingly natural or inborn propensity of human beings to ascribe meaning to events that transcends the simple cause and effect of history

Like all Christians, Valentinians regarded the Bible as authoritative scripture. They were the first Christians to write extensive commentaries on the Gospels. Their unconventional interpretive methods were frequently criticized by their contemporaries.
--Valentinians and the Bible , David Brons

13 : 12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.
13 : 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
--Matthew Chapter 13 (ASV)

Narrative meaning is created by establishing that something is a part of a whole and usually that something is the cause of something else. It is usually combined with human actions or events that affect human beings. The meaning of each event is produced by the part it plays in the whole episode.
To say what something means is to say how it is related or connected to something else. To ask the meaning of an event is to ask how it contributed to the story in which it occurs. It is the connections or relations between events.

Contra Ratio

Part I. The Nature of the Logos

Phase 1: Myth Cycle: The operation of the Logos occurs through the process of auto (or self) resurrection after His defeat by the Dragon / Leviathan in which he is killed and then swallowed by the Cosmic Dragon. It should be noted that the Logos is born after the Dragon, his ‘brother’ and therefore is, in some sense, lesser than Typhon. In the Z0 (Gnostic) refraction of this myth, the resurrection takes place as a culmination of events initiated by the Daughter of Eternity, Sophia or Barbelo. This is shadowed in the resurrection of Lazarus in the Gospel of John.
John: 11 : 32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
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John: 11 : 38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
John: 11 : 39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
John: 11 : 40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
John: 11 : 41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou heardest me.
John: 11 : 42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the multitude that standeth around I said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me.
John: 11 : 43 And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
John: 11 : 44 He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
-- American Standard Version John, Chapter 11

Here, while Christ is the operator and is not resurrected himself, it is a gloss on the myth, particularly when it is noted that the story of Lazarus is a foreshadowing of the resurrection. Indeed, the very next event in John is the entry into Jerusalem fulfilling Zechariah 9 : 9 . It is also telling that the raising of Lazarus is instigated by his sisters, one of which is Mary, the Magdalene . Compare with the Secret Book of the Coiled Dragon:

Barbelo sang the Leviathan into sleep, weaving her spells around him and binding him in threads of Silence. Then she sang the Great Spell of Creation , the Charm of Creation calling to the Logos as he lay wrapped in the Shroud of Darkness. Within the Darkness, the Son of light awoke from the Dream of death, hearing the call of the Daughter of Eternity. And the Logos spoke and the Word came like a sword from his mouth and the Leviathans' heads were cleaved from His body and the blood flowed through the abyss and into the void and gathered there. And the Logos rose up over the Leviathan and spoke the Word of binding and the corpse fell through the abyss and came to rest amidst the ocean that was created out of the blood of the Leviathan. And the body of the Leviathan became the firmament and the Blood of the Leviathan became the great salt sea.

Notice, also, that Christ performs the miracle in answer to the entreaties of the sisters, as “Jesus loved Martha, and her sister” It seems likely that the author of John inserted the story to foreshadow the mythical process that Christ was to enact in at Jerusalem. The defeat of the Leviathan is, of course foreshadowed in the story of Jonah, referenced as a prophecy of the Resurrection:
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet: -- Matthew: 12 : 39

An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of Jonah. And he left them, and departed. -- Matthew: 16 : 4
These verses are reiterated in Luke 11:29.

Therefore, we have the mythological precedent for the resurrection in the “Scriptures” and we might speculate, that the Jonah story is, like many in the Hebrew scriptures, a refashioning of earlier (non-Hebrew) myths. The defeat of the Leviathan and the conquest of the Abyss is achieved only is the Logos resurrects himself, by force of will. The Barbelo’s role indicates her relationship with the Logos as “syzygy” or passive (feminine) half of the male-female personification of a Gnostic aeon.

Theological Abstraction

Phase 2: The primary method for N-Space theology is a variation on the hermeneutic technique of Narrative Theology
An important development in Christian theology during the second half of the twentieth century was what we might call the ‘narrative turn’. By ‘narrative turn’ I mean the idea that Christian theology’s use of the Bible should focus on a narrative representation of the faith, rather than on the development of a metaphysical system that draws infallible logical inferences from the data of revelation.

Phase 3: Orders of Magnitude – a concept abstraction is constructed from properties and forces defined for the Order of Magnitude (OM) of the system where OM=2x . This is required since the definition of a [N]system is defined as having a System Order of Magnitude (OMs) of 3^x and defined by the abstraction values of the macrocosmic reality it is derived from. The absolute value for each level in Order 2 system is calculated:

Magnitude:

Abstracting the definition of the (meta) physics produces the equations defining any Narrative system. This can be seen by applying the method to the physical universe, taking the “human” order as OM = 2 (x=1).

Abstract of Universe:

All forms (objects) within the OM=2 layer are formed from matter and therefore made of crystallized Ojas. All object interactions are defined as the exchange of Ojas between any object and its environment (including other objects).

Operations Across OM Boundaries

Phase 4: Amenta in the mythos was the secret earth of the nocturnal sun. In the eschatology it is the spirit-world in which the dead become once more the living, and attained their continuity by being proved and passed as true for all eternity. If they failed, it was here they died the second death, and never rose again. Amenta was the world of the blind, the deaf and dumb, the maimed, the halt, and impotent because it was the world of the dead.

Thus the miracles of the canonical Gospels repeat the mysteries of the Ritual…
-- Ancient Egypt - the Light of the World by Gerald Massey

It is a prime axiom of certain esoteric currents that the physical world may be “read” as an allegory for the next (higher) level or OM. This is most apparent in scripture where the actions of the individuals in the story are reflected as amplified in the next or upper world. Massey points out, correctly, that the miracles of the Gospels never occurred on Earth but rather in the higher realm, the Egyptian Amenta. This should not be confused with the astral, which is a continuum with the physical world that is vibrating at a frequency higher than the senses can perceive. The OM of the astral is, therefore, equal to that of the material universe. Whether or not the events actually took place is irrelevant to the discussion; it is the connection with the higher region that is important. It is then, possible to conclude that the New Testament, as the Old Testament and the Book of the Dead are gates or doors to contact with that realm.

It ought to be obvious that this is the fundamental theory underlying ritual and its degenerate cousin, magic. It is not a case of simply reading events in light of the mythic frame, whatever that may be in a particular case, but also, more importantly, the possibility of influencing the future via rightly performing the Rituals on Earth that they may initiate the current we wish to invoke, whether this be the loftiest spiritual union or obtaining (in the case of the sorcerer) the gratification of some base desire.

In any case, there is a base formula which can be derived (and applied) by the aspirant in performing the “Ritual” , in any mythic redaction (Egyptian, Gnostic, Christian or whatever). An example of the fore-mentioned formula is incorporated in the Alchemical document The Vision of the Temple: