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Notes regarding WdW
I, 71
1. Corresponds to NC I, 105.
2. Sovereignty in own sphere applies to particularized meaning of the law-spheres.
It has no meaning in totality because there is a coincidence
of meaning.
3. Dooyeweerd uses the word “elkander dekken” for the mutual
congruence of the spheres. Baader
also refers to congruency of meaning in this way:
Each part of such a systematic knowledge-philosophy is, just like each
limb of an organism, a whole, a sphere enclosed in itself; the one Idea
is therein as a particular determination. Just like each individual
limb of an organism, each individual sphere therefore breaks through
the bounds of its elements or of its separation, because within it it
is totality, and it represents the All in its mode, and in doing this
it founds a further sphere, that is, it extends itself virtually in
the combined spheres of the organic system. The system is arranged as
a sphere comprised of other spheres congruent with each other, although
distinguished by degrees among themselves and comprised in each other,
of which each [sphere] is a necessary continuing moment. From its own
elements or particularities, the system constitutes the whole Idea,
which also appears in each individual part. "Everything in the
whole, and the whole in each part." [Lichtstrahlen, 104]
The NC uses the word “coincide.”
4. Dooyeweerd suggests meditation on the cross of Christ
in order to have some Idea of the coincidence of meaning, the concentration
point of our heart. this idea, the intersection of the vertical and the
horizontal in the symbol of the cross, is also used by C.G. Jung with
respect to the coincidence of "opposites." This suggestion about
meditation on the cross of Christ does not appear in the NC translation.
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