C -threads glossary

CABOCHON

A gem or mineral cut in a convex, a more or less round outward extending exterior surface, imagine a ball or spherical shape, as opposed to a concave, imagine how a crater caves inward not outward.

CARTESIANISM

Cartesianism a term used to categorize ideas that originated with the 17th-century philosophy of René Descartes.  He established the idea of “cartesian dualism"  by  which reality is split into the mind and the matter.  Possibly understood as the reality conceptualized by the mind and the reality concretized by matter. 

CHAIN REACTION

Through fission an atomic bomb implodes, blasts inward, and brings together quantities of uranium and plutonium in such a way to create a critical mass.  This is the required weight of fissionable material that will sustain a chain reaction.  This causes the nucleus of the uranium or plutonium to be bombarded with neutrons which will cause the nuclei to split resulting in the formation of lighter elements, the release of more neutrons, and another violent  release of energy... a chain reaction.

CHEMISTRY

The science that deals with what the earth and the universe are made of.  The material that makes up the universe is called matter.  Chemistry is the science of what matter contains and how matter changes.

CONSCIOUSNESS: 

source -1921 edition definition New Dictionary of the English Language

  the knowledge of that which passes in one's own mind. 

source -pg30 Temple of Man -first published 1957  -R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz

"being conscious, or being conscious of one's self, that is ego consciousness" . ... "but with the formative consciousness essence as a starting point...founded on action.

.. the formative "consciousness essence" refers to a synthesis of "Being containing in itself it's own opposition", which is the creative function, and which will appear later as a generating power ..."   

"In this spirit, the material of form - from energy to the densest corporeal state- is nothing but a qualitative specification, an expression of the consciousness that seeks itself, through all its metamorphosis."  

"...psychological consciousness is now undergoing a modification of its foundation; its basis is no longer the specified thing, but the specification of the thing.  The thing becomes symbol and the function becomes reality. "

source- Britannica  -2025 online resource

"...a psychological condition defined by the English philosopher John Locke as “the perception of what passes in a man’s own mind.” 

"In the early 19th century ... Some philosophers regarded it as a kind of substance, or “mental stuff,” quite different from the material substance of the physical world. ..."

CONSCIOUSSNESS

 

CYCLE

a period of time from beginning to completion; a period of of time taken to complete series of events; a day of 24 hours; a week of 7 days; a series of days seen as the phases of the moon from new to full and back to new, feferred to as a moonth, month; the period of time as determined by days, 365 days for the planet earth to orbit around the sun;  twelve cycles of the moon equates to one cycle of the earth around the sun'

a period to time; a movement of time; a frequency in time

CYCLES

EDWARD R DEWEY