representational inquiry regarding meaning » concrete conditions » transcendence
The symbols for L-phase nodes are horizontally oriented disks, but they're wobbling disks, and so they extend more or less into the vertical dimension, marking out levels in a developmental progression. The F-node resolves into the vertical axis representing ideality; it thereby represents the final stage in a developmental progression, just before another developmental progression of higher order begins. At the completion of each developmental progression, greater orders of complexity are integrated into a more richly complex whole.
The letter F is used to represent this node primarily given the relation of its traditional numerical value (6) to the other L-phase nodes as arranged in a triangle. See letter L for an explanation.
Our letter F is derived from a sign (the letter vav) probably depicting a mace with handle and head such that the sign is a vertical segment with a small circle at the top. Graphically, and with a healthy helping of creative appropriation, the vertical segment could represent a resonant connection between self and world—or psychological and physiological—as in the alchemical "as above, so below" (often symbolized by an hexagram) or the Biblical "on earth as it is in heaven" (Matthew 6:10). In each case, the connection expresses an ultimate non-duality. This non-duality doesn't mean that two elements cancel to 0, and it doesn't mean that two elements become 1; it's both of these yet neither. It's indeterminate, transcending our ability to conceptualize.
It's also worth noting that vav was very prolific, giving us not only our F, but also our U, V, W, and Y. All of the nodes associated with these additional letters (except Y) express activity in some way—as experiencing as such in the case of W, as a particular mode of experiencing/attending/valuing in the case of U, and as the dynamic presentation of that which is experienced in the case of V. This reinforces the interpretation of F as involving a resonant connection and not a static connection. Moreover, while U and W occupy central positions in the A- and I-phases, respectively, it's fitting that F occupies a central position (together with C) in the L-phase.
