Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum (The Journey of the Mind into God)
Ask grace, not doctrine — the soul's six-winged ascent from creatures to the ecstatic transitus beyond all knowing
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Itinerarium Mentis in Deum (The Journey of the Mind into God) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | not engaged |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | not engaged |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | not engaged |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum (The Journey of the Mind into God)
Both eternal and temporal. The ascent takes place in time but aims at the eternal; the transitus is a foretaste of eternity.
Space
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum (The Journey of the Mind into God)
Finite, substantival. The external world is the starting point of contemplation but is transcended in the ascent.
Matter
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum (The Journey of the Mind into God)
Substantival, conserved. Creatures are real vestiges of God, not illusions; the body is good but subordinate to the soul.
Observer
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum (The Journey of the Mind into God)
Embodied, active, ascending through six stages. Knowledge of God is immediate in the transitus, beyond all conceptual mediation.
Energy
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum (The Journey of the Mind into God)
Finite, substantival, conserved. The created order is sustained by divine power.
Information
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum (The Journey of the Mind into God)
Conserved. Every creature expresses a divine idea (exemplarism); the soul persists through death to resurrection.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Itinerarium's systematic six-stage structure sits in tension with its own conclusion: the transitus abandons all intellectual operations. The text is a philosophical argument for the insufficiency of philosophy — a rational demonstration that reason must be transcended.