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.
Hymns of Divine Love
I have seen the Light — the uncreated fire breaks into the monk's cell and transforms the body itself
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Hymns of Divine Love |
|---|---|
| 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 | Both |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-local |
| 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 | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Hymns of Divine Love
Created time is real and linear, but the mystical moment breaks into time from eternity: the uncreated light is timeless, and the mystic participates in that timelessness.
Space
Hymns of Divine Love
The monk's cell is a finite space flooded by infinite divine light. Space is non-local in the mystical experience: the divine presence overflows all boundaries.
Matter
Hymns of Divine Love
The body participates in the vision — this is not a disembodied mysticism. Yet matter is contingent and destined for eschatological transformation.
Observer
Hymns of Divine Love
The observer is the mystic in direct encounter with God. Knowledge is immediate: "I have seen." The observer is both active (through repentance and prayer) and passive (receiving grace). A personal God who chooses to reveal himself.
Energy
Hymns of Divine Love
The uncreated divine energies (energeiai) are infinite, real, and communicable. They flood the soul and can withdraw — hence reversible.
Information
Hymns of Divine Love
The knowledge gained in mystical vision is self-authenticating and permanently transformative. The soul is immortal; personal identity is conserved.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Personal experience versus institutional authority: Symeon insists on unmediated encounter yet remained within the Church. His bodily mysticism resists the Neoplatonic contempt for matter that pervades the tradition he inherits.