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.
Elements of Theology
211 propositions from the One to matter — the architecture of emanation, procession, remaining, and reversion in deductive form
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Elements of Theology |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| Time · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Cyclical |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Both |
| Space · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Mediated |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Absolute |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Energy · Conservation | 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
Elements of Theology
"Both": time exists within the generated cosmos; the One and Intellect are atemporal. Cyclical triad of procession-remaining-reversion.
Space
Elements of Theology
Emergent from higher realities; non-local because causes are present in effects without spatial location.
Matter
Elements of Theology
The lowest emanation; finite, emergent, dependent on its causes for being.
Observer
Elements of Theology
The soul ascends through intellection and theurgy; the Absolute One is beyond all predication.
Energy
Elements of Theology
Dynamis flows from the One; infinite at source, conserved in effects, reversible through epistrophe.
Information
Elements of Theology
The Forms are the primary information-bearers; eternal, substantival, conserved. Souls retain identity through embodiment cycles.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The One is beyond logos, yet the work is a 211-proposition logical system. Proclus addresses this through henads and theurgy, but the tension between transcendence and systematicity is structural and unresolved.