THETA
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Symbols are portals to perception and letterforms in language, mundane to most, hold secrets to how we came to our current perceptions on life, humanity and consciousness.
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Greek as a script is deeply connected to our mathematics, physics and logic based systems. Not only the land of the antikythera mechanism, the oldest known computer but perhaps some of the most integral letterforms that hold weight in our material-science based constructs. Crossing the boundary of language and function. Especially phi ( ) and physicality/physics but also to symbolise the fibonnaci sequence in maths, psi (. ) psychedelics, psyche and psychology. One letter stand out in relationship to the planet Mercury and this is theta. The root of thesis, theology, thought, think and through.
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Perhaps the most poetic link of ancient Greek and ancient Egypt, and the mythologies that gave rise to the western construct mapping earth to sky, is in the word THOTH. Linking Greek's Hermes to Egypt's Thoth, both scribes and archetypal of the Mercurial ability to translate higher knowledge into perception, word, script and form. The letter Omega, bookmarked by two "Theta's" to make TH-O-TH. Here, the sun, the energy source and the ohmage of life, represented by OMEGA in the centre and orbited by Theta, Mercury, the scribe. The force in all of us that translates light and energy into form, forumlations, formulas, formation, uniform and systems of understanding. Instruments, appartus, devices, methods of calculating, experimenting, communicating. Light is information, all information is delivered via light & electricity and whatever translates it, like TH-O-TH, is the "messenger". From human form to machine apparatus, that which delivers the message, electrical impulse into some form of expression. That can then be understood, notated, referenced and identified. ​
WHAT IS THETA?​​
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Theta as a letter represents the boundary between body and mind and between our capacity to know in this dimension (body) but access realms beyond (mind). In the mind we are governed by both PHI and PSI. The physical (logic based binary intellectual finite system) and the psychological (illogical emotional imaginary instinctual infinite). Theta is the border between and mercury is always the planet that works in translation of these two states. In astrology, Virgo is the body and Gemini is the mind and both express Mercury. For Virgo the mind from the perspective of the body and for Gemini, the body from the perspective of the mind.
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In a bridge between logos/mythos, body/mind and lower/upper perception it also is a bridge to spiritual and scientific knowledge. With theta brain waves activated during prayer, meditation, lucid dreaming and certain psychedelic states. Illuminating the portal from known to unknown that those who have come to symbolize mercury and its letterform in Greek, Theta and who are the scribes, messengers, speakers, scientists, artists who successfully translate the cosmic light source of information into systems of understanding, philosophy, expression, performance and thesis.