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BETH
Beth (2), can be seen as the primary seperator, or container or physical support. It can be seen as the division between that which is contained and that wich is not. In Beth we move into the material, wherby it is the primary act of conciousness, recognising itself. In the Biological process we see it as Abstract Cell energy. We see a clear contrast between Aleph (infinite, unknownable) and Beth. In thinking about Beth, we create Beths of thought, the logical place where we realize Aleph. Beth can be seen as a roadsign, but we cannot think arbitrarily, with these signs pointing to the material world. Our minds should think non-arbitrary, and in Semantic generalities.
“Beth is not any of our Beths about Beth, such as container, matter, duality, separation, division. It is the Beth-ness of all those specific qualifications, across the entire range of structuration of matter and consciousness. Similarly, as we encounter each letter, Ghimel is not our Beth of Ghimel, but a sign for a completely generalized abstract organizational principle underlying all our Beths of motion, movement, change, interchange and relationship. In fact, Ghimmel is not in our Beths at all, but rather in the movement of our Beths animated by Aleph, of which we have no Beth (thought) at all.”
Having a new way of thinking, we learned to “Beth” in the most or broader spectrum of structure as opposed to specific objects.
Arbitrariness :
The absence of any degree of necessity between the signified and signifier of a sign. Makes the sign symbolic. For example, in English we say "bachelor" to refer to an unmarried man, but since we might just as well say "foobar", therefore "bachelor" is a symbol.
Principia Cybernetica: Semiotic Terms: Arbitrariness
In Hebrew, both Beth the letter and Beth the word, both spelled Beth-Yod-Tav, mean house. Beth, in formative semantics (a phrase for our non-arbitrary language) means an abstract, generalized container, the "houseness" of house. Beth is the container for the uncontainable, Aleph; in its most generalized sense it is Beth-El (Bethel), the Beth of Aleph, or the "house" of Aleph-Lammed, "God:" Beth-Yod-Tav -- Aleph-Lammed-(Phay).
Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in addition to signifying a basic creative energy or fundamental power, is itself spelled by the letters of the same alphabet of basic energies. This means that the letters are self-defining and self-signifying when their basic (generalized) meanings are understood. Each letter has an inner structure of its own and in half the cases, a role in the spelling and meaning of the other letters.
It is a trivial task to assign abstract meaning to twenty-two letters. It is much more difficult to spell those letters with meanings from the other letters in a consistent and coherent way, and account for their positions in a logical array of meaning. If the initial meanings are arbitrary, the system will fail as a language.
“Beth (2): Everything that exists is the conditioning of life and the life of the conditioning. Everything that is exists both internally and externally. Each germ of life has an envelope, which derives its movement from the great cosmic force of resistance to the life which is surging up from within (If the shell does not offer the right measure of resistance, the chicken will not hatch.) This whole duality of existence -- and of our own thought -- is conveyed by no. 2.
Suares, The Cipher of Genesis, p.65”
Blessed be.