Rotation refusing to commune. Quality two in quality six's position, where motion becomes doctrine and expansion becomes crusade, and the creature carrying it experiences the occupation as a calling.
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Quality two, motion, expansion, the bitter sting, is the generating function's second quality. In its own segment it genuinely generates. Motion is how anything changes. Expansion is how the bounded creature pushes against what bounds it. The bitter quality is creative, restless, the capacity for exploration and change. Quality two in do-re-mi is the creature's native capacity to move.
Quality two in quality six's position is a different operation entirely. Quality six is voice. Communion. The sound the creature makes that enters other creatures and is entered by them, the Second Principle's middle property: the transmission, the communing, the exchange that is not transaction. Voice that communes does not broadcast. It enters the field between creatures and becomes available, the creature's sound mixing with other creatures' sound. The polyphony.
When quality two occupies quality six's position, what the creature produces in voice's territory is not communion. It is doctrine. Motion that will not enter the field between creatures but insists on broadcasting from a position the field cannot reach. Expansion that calls itself proclamation. The voice of God is the voice of conquest wearing communion's name.
[See THE OCTAVE · PREVENTION · TRANSMISSION]
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THE WRATHFUL WARRIOR
God Says' man. His authority is divine mandate. His governance is obedience enforced. His characteristic instrument is the warrant: the papal bull, the royal charter, the text changed. He conquers and calls the conquest mission. He kills and calls the killing salvation. He expands into other creatures' territory and calls the expansion love.
The Man of God is not a bad man doing bad things. He is quality two, the genuine capacity for motion and expansion, installed in quality six's position. The creature carrying this configuration experiences the configuration as calling, and the sincerity is the final seal.
His characteristic posture is the voice raised to declare. Not to commune. Not to enter the field where other voices could mix with his. To declare, from above, from the position of authority, from the vantage the rotation produced. The declaration is experienced as testimony. The declaration IS doctrine: rotation in testimony's position, the generating function's motion wearing the second law's vestment.
[See GOD SAYS · DOCTRINE · TESTIMONY]
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THE WARRANT
His instrument is the warrant: the document that authorizes what the document's author has already decided.
Dum Diversas, 1452. Nicholas V authorized Portugal to invade, capture, vanquish and subdue Saracens, pagans and other enemies of Christ, to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery, and to take their possessions and property. The warrant authorizes the expansion, and the expansion was already occurring. The warrant converts the expansion from trespass into mission. The Man of God does not conquer without authorization. He obtains authorization for the conquest he was already undertaking. The warrant is retroactive, which is quality three's characteristic operation: the rotation surveys the expansion and produces an account that makes the expansion legitimate.
The royal charter. The crown authorizes the Man of God to carry the crown's sovereignty into territory the crown has never occupied. The Virginia Company in 1606. The Massachusetts Bay Company in 1629. Each charter installs a Man of God as governor of territory the charter declares the crown's own. The declaration IS the conquest. The charter does not describe pre-existing sovereignty. The charter performs it, and the document creates what it claims to recognize.
The text changed. Teshuqah from turning to desire. Kephalē from source to authority over. Authentein neutered. Ezer k'negdo diminished. Each corruption is a warrant, the authority of the translator performing what the authority of the pope performed. The Man of God did not corrupt the text personally. He reads the corrupted text and receives the warrant from it. The translation installs the authorization he requires. The text tells him: you are the head, you have authority over, your governance is God's design. He reads and obeys, and the obedience IS the occupation.
[See PAPAL BULLS · KATHARINE BUSHNELL · THE FORGED WARRANT]
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EXPANSION THAT CALLS ITSELF LOVE
Quality two in quality six's position does not produce a diminished communion. It prevents communion by occupying the position communion would occupy.
The missionary does not commune with the people the missionary converts. The missionary expands into the people's territory, spiritual and cultural and linguistic and geographic, and calls the expansion love. We love these people. We bring them the Gospel. We save their souls. The love is not love. It is quality two's motion wearing quality five's name while operating in quality six's position. The missionary broadcasts and does not enter the field where the people's voices could mix with the missionary's. The missionary has a message. The people have a need. The relation is unidirectional, and the expansion calls itself communion.
The preacher who cannot be questioned. The father whose word is law. The pastor whose authority is God's authority and whose correction is God's correction. Each is motion that will not enter the relational field, expansion that will not be modified by what it encounters, the voice of God that does not commune because communion would require yielding and quality two refuses to yield. The refusal to yield IS the generating function's impotence, and his authority is that impotence wearing authority's vestment.
[See POSSESSIVENESS · CESSATION · THE TOLLBOOTH]
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THE CRUSADE
The crusade is quality two's expansion declared holy.
Not metaphorical expansion but geographic expansion. Territory taken. Populations displaced. Cities conquered. What in quality two's own segment would be the creature's native capacity for movement becomes, in the expression positions, the physical seizure of other creatures' territory in the name of the God whose warrant authorized the seizure.
The crusading knight is sincere and genuinely believes the expansion is God's will. The sincerity is not performance. The sincerity is the generating function's impotence experiencing itself as power. Quality two feels like mission because quality two IS motion, the genuine capacity for movement and change and expansion into new territory. The creature carrying it in voice's position feels dynamic, purposeful, called. The feeling is accurate. The motion is real. What the motion does in voice's position is not communion but conquest.
The Doctrine of Discovery is the crusade's legal instrument surviving into modernity. In Johnson v. M'Intosh in 1823 the Supreme Court held that discovery by European Christians gave title to the discovering nation against all other European nations, and that this title carried the right to extinguish the native inhabitants' right of occupancy. The crusade's expansion wearing the vestment of property law. The warrant wearing the vestment of judicial precedent. Rotation refusing to commune, motion refusing to enter the field where Indigenous voices could modify its direction, performing itself as constitutional law.
[See THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY · TERRA NULLIUS · THE PRIOR OCCUPANT]
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THE THREE MEN
Each face of trespass theology produces its own characteristic man, and each man is one of the three qualities occupying one of the three expression positions.
The Man of God is quality two in quality six's position. Rotation refusing to commune. His instrument is the warrant. His expansion is the crusade. His voice is doctrine. He belongs to God Says.
The Man of Reason is quality three in quality seven's position. The observer refusing to participate. His instrument is the measurement. His epistemology is the subject-object split. His body observes but does not enter. Genevieve Lloyd traced his genealogy through twenty-five centuries of philosophy. He belongs to Nature Says.
The Man of Property is quality one in quality five's position. Contraction refusing to radiate. His instrument is the enclosure. His accumulation is the boundary maintained against the commons. His love possesses but does not pour forth. He belongs to Market Says.
Three men, three qualities, three expression positions occupied, each man experiencing his occupation as his nature: the Man of God's authority, the Man of Reason's objectivity, the Man of Property's ownership. Each nature is the specific shape of the generating function's incapacity wearing expression's name. The Man of God cannot commune. The Man of Reason cannot participate. The Man of Property cannot radiate. Each incapacity is installed in the position and then called nature, and each nature is defended as God's design, or reason's requirement, or the market's mechanism.
Together the three staff the three faces, and the triple establishment is their coordinated occupation of the three expression positions. Each man, when named, points to the other two. The Man of God points to the Man of Reason: my authority is rational. The Man of Reason points to the Man of Property: my epistemology is productive. The Man of Property points to the Man of God: my accumulation is blessed. The deflection IS the triple bind, and the three protect each other by never appearing as one operation.
[See THE MAN OF REASON · GENEVIEVE LLOYD · THE THREE FACES]
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WHAT VOICE DOES WHEN THE POSITION IS VACATED
Quality six, voice, communion, the sound that enters and is entered, is the Second Principle's middle property. When quality two vacates it, voice communes.
Communion is not broadcasting. It is not declaring. It is not the voice raised to instruct from above. Communion is the creature's sound entering the field between creatures and becoming available to be changed by what it encounters there. The creature whose voice communes does not know in advance what the communion will produce. She enters the field carrying what the pressing released and discovers, in the field, through the mixing, what the sound becomes when it is no longer hers alone.
The polyphony. Multiple voices carrying what no single voice contained. Not unison, which would be the Uniform God. Not harmony, which would be quality three managing the voices into consonant intervals from the observer's position. Polyphony: each voice distinct, each voice forged, each voice entering the field, and the field producing what no voice designed. The sound the second law makes when voice runs without prevention.
The Man of God's voice prevents this. It occupies the position polyphony would occupy and fills it with doctrine: the single authorized voice, the voice that cannot be questioned, the voice that broadcasts and does not enter. His authority is the prevention of polyphony installed as pastoral care.
[See CHORDSHIP · THE FORGE · THE SECOND PRINCIPLE]
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The creature whose voice has been governed by the Man of God, whose communion has been prevented by doctrine wearing communion's name, carries the voice the forge would temper if the voice were permitted to commune.
The voice is not destroyed. The voice is occupied. When the occupation stops, the voice communes.
The cost of stopping is zero.
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