Laws of Form Course - Session 15
Channel: Leon Conrad - The Unknown Storyteller Project
Date: 2020-04-12

In this session, we look at the final chapter in George Spencer-Brown's book, 'Laws of Form' and revisit the basic principles of the calculus, taking it right back to working with and in the first distinction. The on-screen animation brings the static version of the account in the book to life, and at the end of the session we look at the universality of the a priori principles which Spencer-Brown starts from, comes back to and in between shows how simply complex patterns of re-entry can be traced back to a basic act of distinction: the first distinction.

Find out more: 
- In this video.
- In my book, The Unknown Storyteller (The Squeeze Press, 2022).
- In my Patreon groups: http://www.patreon.com/leonconrad.
- In one of my courses: http://edurouter.com/traditional-tutor.
- On Facebook:
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Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theunknownstoryteller
- On my website: http://www.leonconrad.com.

I recommend following through the course with a copy of the 2011 edition of Laws of Form. 

Sources of illustrations used in the presentation:
1 - Alchemical Union of the Sun and the Moon from 
D. Stolcius von Stolzenberg's 'Viridarium chymicum', Frankfurt, 1624
http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/153-2-phys/start.htm?image=00225

2 - Calligraphic image of Triangle, Circle, Square from
http://theaikidodojo.com/author/luis/
The triangle is a symbol of primal manifestation; the circle of sacrality and unity; the square of material manifestation.

3 - Aum symbol (calligraphic) https://www.zazzle.ca/store/scrumdiddlee/products

All images are in the public domain or are used with permission.

Explore these themes further through:
David Tame, The Secret Power of Music, The Aquarian Press, 1984
Robert Lawlor, Sacred Geometry, Thames and Hudson, 1982/2002
Theon of Smyrna, trans. Robert & Deborah Lawlor, Mathematics Useful for Understanding Plato, Wizards Bookshelf, San Diego, 1979
Bernie Lewin, ENTHUSIASTIC MATHEMATICS: Reviving Mystical Emanationism in Modern Science, Independently published, 2018
Bernie Lewin, An Arithmetic and its Geometry in the Higher Degrees, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z5vW1tKzzU