Paul Laffoley, Modalities of Power, 1967

1967

Medium

Mixed media on board

Dimensions

66 × 66 cm

Status

For Sale

Price

On request

Collect24 Art ID

C24-986209

Subject_ The Source of All Power in the Pluriverse. Symbol Evocation_ A three-dimensional section of the hypersphere that demonstrates pulsating energy. Energy emanates both from the hypersphere outward, and energy inward without entering the centroid of the hypersphere. Comments_ The monad or the hyper-sphere has within it three aspects of power; 1) the power to create, 2) the power to alter, 3) the power to destroy. All together these forces when mixed become the neuter, which unites the active forces with the passive. The active forces are manifest as time, which produce contraction (the within of things) and then conception. The passive forces are manifest as space, which produce expansion (the without) and then reception. The legitimate heir of Leibniz was the famous Jesuit scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955). His doctrine of evolution extended from an assumed inorganic realm through a biospheric meeting of cells of consciousness, and into his notion of the noösphere, which would lead to an Earth World Culture as a sphere of mind stuff. The noösphere would then climax at the Omega Point of time in which evolution would produce a hyper-personal consciousness that manifests as God in history.