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Ascend-Transcend
Transcension 1
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One who ascends to one toposophic, then transcends to the next. For example an intelligence may ascend to S1, retaining everything (or at least some of its nature) it had beneath S1, then transcend to SI:2, leaving behind everything of itself that was of S<2. Contrast transcend-ascend.

Often, however, the dividing lines are not this well defined: these terms are purely seen from the modosophont perspective, so that an entity that 'ascends' sometimes presents itself to modosophont observers as an expanded version of the original entity, whereas a 'transcended' entity rarely or never does so.

From a transapient point of view there may be no significant difference between the two terms, and the way a transapient presents itself to modosophonts is only a minor aspect of its existential reality.


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Text by M. Alan Kazlev
additional material by Steve Bowers 2024
Initially published on 07 October 2001.

 
 
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