These are the fundamental stages of everything described by Salamah Pope in her Bapak's ideas workshop. They're part of an overlapping cycle - each cycle has four parts but the last is the same as the first of the next cycle - i.e. transcendence and chaos are of a connected nature.
They're meant to be symbolised by fire, air, water and earth, but it's tricky to figure out which way round. Salamah has air as separation and water as unity, but I think the creative process is meant to be the reverse of that, as fire comes first being desire, then air as the cool feeling of release, then water being the transmission mechanism, and finally earth as the result, the new child that has been conceived. This was the way Bapak described it. Hence air is separation and water is unity.
In society, I guess this would be the separation of human beings into nation-states preceding the unification of humanity in international society. The one is necessary for the other. And finally the forth stage is transcendence, whatever that means. Reason dictates that it is something in relation to the purpose of our lives. The reason why the seed was sown in the first place.
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