The tie it all up part 6 of the TOE.

The theory: Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six
Part Six - The final thoughts upon the Theory of Cohry Osborne and Eric strauss.

Note: To any reader who finds himself here first. Please, if you are willing, begin at the beginning of part one.

Note: To any who has read all preceding parts of the theory, thank you very much. There is no greater indulgence you could have afforded me than to read all of the theory from start to finish.

I am not guilty of choosing overly grand language if I say that this six part work - no greater than forty pages, and composed entirely in the blogger window - represents the culmination of my life's purpose and destiny.

It's frightening. I worry that, having reached this end so young, some aspecified and illogical supernatural force will rob me of my life or vitality. It doesn't make any sense, of course. It is just superstition run amok. I reassure myself thus.
But do not allow the above to mislead you into believing that these ideas belong to me. These truths belong to no one, though their origins lie in conversations between Cohry and myself. Where convention attributes authorship, then, let it bestow said conceit upon both he and I equally, for insofar as any conceit can be true, that division of credit is true and accurate.

It may yet prove that we were not widely read enough. Perhaps these ideas have already been deliniated elsewhere. It is possible. I attest with utmost force of conviction that the concepts contained within the work that concludes in this part 6 are of entirely original construction, and derived from no other specific writings. (Equally, of course, do I confirm that without myriad other specific writings, none of the preceeding truths could have been manifested in this mortal text.) So if there is another author who has arrived at these conclusions before us, I wish to know him, and to celebrate with him the presentation of these truths unto the people, credit be damned.

So, finally then, what are the ideas? They are simple enough, and deserve a final presentation.

Art is the act of manifesting immortal truth into mortal form, or the artifact born of such an act. A true, and therefore great and compelling, artwork is one which manifests an immortal truth, or an amalgam of immortal truths comprising a larger immortal truth, faithfully.

Immortal truths are entities of one of four Articles of Existence. These articles are time, light, space and agence. Each article expresses its truths through a specific medium. The media are, music, visual arts, mathematics, and text, respectively. Moral truths, though of the article agence, do not have an art medium, and can never be generalized, as it is not their nature.

There is much to be said regarding each of the arts. Music is the least well understood of all media, and a great deal about the strategies by which an artist can faithfully manifest the immortal truths of time can be taught and can be learned. Text, and mathematics, too are easily taught and learned. Each is much more well understood than either music or visual arts. Visual arts are particularly difficult to speak meaningfully about. Ironically, the visual arts have the most developed body of theory written about them.

Regardless, no specific strategy will ever provide adequate understanding of any art. No words will ever do more than point to any understanding at all. This is so because the truths of agence are not truths of meaning.


Please keep this last point in mind when reflecting on this work.


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