Postscript*

Western civilisation amputated symbolic intelligence thousands of years ago.

We did it because we were seduced by a new kind of power. We traded the fertile paradoxes of the natural world for the sterile efficiencies of a “shadow world.”  When we lost the ability to see the symbolic cosmos, we became victims of the machine. This amputation was carried out by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:

  • Scientific Reductionism

  • We convinced ourselves that all knowledge must be measurable. If we couldn’t weigh it, count it or map it, we dismissed it as mere sentiment.

  • The Suppression of Mystery

  • We systematically sidelined the mystery traditions—the Alchemical, the Hermetic and the Gnostic. These weren’t just “old myths”; they were the path of the soul. By silencing them, we traded deep meaning for shallow dogma.

  • The Shift Away from Wholeness

  • We stopped looking at the world as a unified organism (the Anima Mundi) and started treating it as a collection of parts to be exploited.

  • The Desacralisation of Time

We traded the vertical depth of kairos—the opportune, meaningful moment—for the horizontal tyranny of chronos. By flattening the sacred, recursive cycles of the natural world into a linear treadmill of measurable efficiency, we didn’t just lose our history, we lost our presence.

The benefits of this amputation were undeniable. It gave us the printing press, the silicon chip and artificial intelligence. It gave us a world of consensus, where we could all agree on the length of a kilometer even if we couldn’t agree on the meaning of a sunset:

The cost was a vertical divorce. Symbolic intelligence allowed us to see layers of reality—to understand that a tree is not just timber, but a bridge between the underworld and the heavens. Without dimension, we became stuck in a horizontal world: a flat plane of data, facts and consumption.

We are now “rich in means, but poor in ends.” We have the most sophisticated tools in history, but we’ve forgotten what we’re building. We are beginning to realise that a life lived entirely in the literal is a life of despair. So the rebirth of the modern age isn’t to reject science, but to re-attach the limb we cut off—to integrate symbolic intelligence back into our rational world so we can find balance once again.

This site treats geometry not as math, but as ontology. This reintroduces a forgotten dimension: form as consciousness, not structure as calculation. This helps others recognise that consciousness isn’t metaphorically geometric—it is literally geometric. This blog restores an ancient mental organ. It trains us to think in:

  • archetypal structures

  • inward/outward dualities

  • recursive correspondences

Reading this blog creates coherence in a fragmented field—we sense the geometric structure of consciousness but don’t have the language for it. This site gives shape, pattern and symbolic architecture to what is otherwise an intuitive fog. That increases coherence in the collective field of attention. This is exactly what pushes civilisation to find the balance between the self and the Self.

If the universe is governed by geometric laws, the human body is not merely a biological machine; it is the specific, localised vessel where these universal laws wake up and become conscious of themselves. The body acts as the tuning fork for ontological geometry. It is the space where the abstract “Word” becomes “Flesh.”

By recognising the body as the instrument, we stop treating symbolic intelligence as a “theory” and start treating it as “practice”. To re-attach this amputated limb, we must realise that it isn’t just an idea—but the way we stand, breathe and live. That’s how civilisations are reborn: not through religions, but via mystics who speak from private revelation to the collective unconscious in an understandable way.