Alithos anesti! Greetings, James! Maybe I'll write about the Biblical odes one day. I believe in their original form (with the second ode) they're a fractal triad, 3 × 3, like the celestial hierarchy, or the Triads of St. Gregory Palamas. I don't think any chiastic or ogdoadic shapes do the Biblical odes as much justice.
Chiastic causality - awesome! Now that you've coined it, it does seem like an obvious phrase. Funny how that works. Great article too - very skillful weaving between the temporal and eternal.
Thank you Cormac! This was wonderful to re-read.
In excitedly revisiting this, the question arises: do the nine Biblical odes of Orthros form a chiasm?
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Alithos anesti! Greetings, James! Maybe I'll write about the Biblical odes one day. I believe in their original form (with the second ode) they're a fractal triad, 3 × 3, like the celestial hierarchy, or the Triads of St. Gregory Palamas. I don't think any chiastic or ogdoadic shapes do the Biblical odes as much justice.
Chiastic causality - awesome! Now that you've coined it, it does seem like an obvious phrase. Funny how that works. Great article too - very skillful weaving between the temporal and eternal.
I described it without naming it in The Cosmic Chiasmus. In fact I had to go back to confirm that I did not in fact name it in that article.