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.
Life of Moses
Moses climbed from light into cloud into darkness — and in that darkness found God most present
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Life of Moses (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| 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 | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| 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
Life of Moses
Epektasis implies an infinite temporal future for the soul: the ascent never ends, because God is inexhaustible. Created time is linear; eternity is not static but an infinite dynamic advance into God.
Space
Life of Moses
The spatial imagery of the work — the mountain, the cloud, the cleft of the rock — is allegorical: these are stages of the soul's ascent, not physical locations. God is infinite, beyond all spatial containment.
Matter
Life of Moses
Gregory defends the goodness and reality of matter and the bodily resurrection. The material narrative of Exodus is the vehicle through which spiritual truth is conveyed — matter and spirit are not opposed but related as letter to meaning.
Observer
Life of Moses
Moses is the archetypal observer-mystic: embodied at the start of the journey, transcending the body at the summit (both physicality). Agency is both: Moses strives upward, but God draws him. The divine is Personal but known only in the darkness of unknowing.
Energy
Life of Moses
The soul's inexhaustible desire for God is the spiritual analogue of energy — a dynamic, never-depleted movement. Created energy is finite and conserved within the divinely sustained cosmos.
Information
Life of Moses
God is beyond all informational capture — every concept is an "idol." Yet the soul's knowledge grows infinitely through epektasis. Personal identity is conserved through death and resurrection, and the universal restoration (apokatastasis) implies the conservation of all rational identities.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Epektasis — infinite progress with no final rest — is in tension with the Thomistic and beatific-vision tradition that promises a definitive seeing of God. The allegorical method distances the text from its literal-historical meaning, and the question of how much is Moses and how much is Plotinus remains open. Gregory's universalism (all will be saved) sits uneasily with the tradition of eternal damnation that became dominant in both East and West.