Quadrant Model of Reality: Quadrant Model of Reality Book 1 Religion Last

Maimonides is considered one of the greatest Jewish philosophers of all time. He says there are four perfections

Square 1: The first kind of perfection, the lowest, in which people spend their days, is perfection as regards property — the possession of money, garments, furniture, servants, land, and the like. The possession of the title of a great leader belongs to this class. There is no close connection between this possession and its possessor. It is a completely imaginary relation when, on account of the great advantage a person derives from these possessions, he says: “This is my house, this is my servant, this is my money, and these are my workers.” When he examines himself he will find that all these things are external, and their qualities are entirely independent of the possessor. When, therefore, that relation ceases, he that has been a great king may one morning find that there is no difference between him and the lowest person, and yet no change has taken place in the things that were ascribed to him. The philosophers have shown that he whose sole aim in all his exertions and endeavors is the possession of this kind of perfection, seeks only perfectly imaginary and transient things; and even if these remain his property throughout his lifetime, they do not give him any perfection.

Square 2: The second kind of perfection is more closely related to man’s body than the first. It includes the perfection of the shape, constitution, and form of man’s body; the utmost evenness of temperaments, and the proper order and strength of his limbs. This kind of perfection must likewise be excluded from forming our chief aim; because it is a perfection of the body, and man does not possess it as man, but as a living being. This is in common with the lowest animals; and even if a person possesses the greatest possible strength, he could not be as strong as a mule, much less can he be as strong as a lion or an elephant. He, therefore, can at the utmost have strength that might enable him to carry a heavy burden, or break a thick substance, or do similar things, in which there is no great profit for the body. The soul derives no profit whatever from this kind of perfection.

Square 3: The third kind of perfection is more closely connected with man himself than the second perfection. It includes moral perfection, the highest degree of excellence in man’s character. Most of the mitzvot (precepts) aim at producing this perfection; but even this kind is only a preparation for another perfection, and is not sought for its own sake. For all moral principles concern the relation of man to his neighbor. The perfection of man’s moral principles is, as it were, given to man for the benefit of mankind. Imagine a person being alone, and having no connection whatever with any other person, All his good moral principles are at rest. They are not required, and give man no perfection whatever. These principles are only necessary and useful when man comes in contact with others. The third square is doing.

Square 4: The fourth kind of perfection is the true perfection of man; the possession of the highest intellectual faculties; the possession of knowledge of G-d. With this perfection man has obtained his final object. It gives him true human perfection; it remains to him alone. It gives him immortality, and on its account he is called man. The fourth square is the rational.

Examine the first three kinds of perfection, you will find that, if you possess them, they are not your property, but the property of others. According to the ordinary view, however, they belong to you and to others. But the last kind of perfection is exclusively yours. No one else owns any part of it, ” They shall be only your own, and not strangers’ with thee ” (Prov. 5: 17). Your aim must therefore be to attain this [fourth] perfection that is exclusively yours

Jeremiah, referring to these four kinds of perfection, says : “Thus says the L-rd, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; but let him that glory in this, that he understands and knows me.” (Jer. 9. 22,23).

Sukkot is a Jewish holiday which commemorates the 40 years that the Jews wandered in the desert. Jews take four species of plant. Rabbinic Jews use four branches and one fruit, and kairite Jews use four plants. In the talmud the plants are In Talmudic tradition, the four plants are identified as

Square 1: a lulav – a ripe, green, closed frond from a date palm tree. The lulav has taste but no smell, symbolizing those who study Torah but do not possess good deeds.

Square 2: an aravah- branches with leaves from a willow tree. The aravah has neither taste nor smell, symbolizing those who lack both Torah and good deeds.

Square 3: a hadass – boughs with leaves from the myrtle tree.The hadass has a good smell but no taste, symbolizing those who possess good deeds but do not study Torah.

Square 4: an etrog– the fruit of a citron tree. The fourth is different from the previous three.The etrog has both a good taste and a good smell, symbolizing those who have both Torah and good deeds.

The Four Holy Cities is the collective term in Jewish tradition applied to the cities of

Square 1: Jerusalem,

Square 2: Hebron,

Square 3: Safed and, later,

Square 4: Tiberias, the four main centers of Jewish life after the Ottoman conquest of Palestine. The "holy cities" concept dates to the 1640s,[1] with Tiberias joining in 1740, resulting from the creation of an association between the cities for the collection of halukka (funds for the needy).

Malkuth, the base of the Tree of Life, represents the four page cards of the Tarot. The four page cards are

Square 1:The Page of Wands

The Page of Wands is a great card to have in the present position, Wands are a symbol of creativity, and exploring your creative side with youthful exuberance in the present can pay off handsomely. The Page of Wands in the present position suggests thinking differently, or outside the box.

When The High Priestess appears in your reading, your need to seek out a solution to imbalances may isolate you as others feel you are behaving selfishly.

Square 2: The Page of Pentacles

The Page of Pentacles is a tricky card to get in the present position, this card teaches about how to handle money. The good news here is that you might have more money than you have ever had before in your life, but you may behave childishly with your finances. Like childhood itself, the money may be gone before you realize it.

Square 3: The Page of Cups

The Page of Cups, in the present position, indicates vulnerabilities in relating to others. Perhaps someone is offering nurturing in order to get something from you for themselves. A child is not sophisticated enough to spot this type of deception. This could also indicate behaving badly toward someone else.

square 4: The Page of Swords

The Page of Swords in the present position is like a breath of fresh air. Children speak unpleasant truths. You may confront an unpopular boss who intimidates other people. Swords represent words and ideas and the Page of Swords speaks his youthful truths to intense effect in the all-too proper adult world.

The Israelites were divided in four groups when they arrived at the Red sea with the egyptians trailing them the four groups said

Square 1: "Let's jump into the sea" this is the weak idealists who do not want to fight.

Square 2: "Let's return to Egypt", this is tge conservative guardians.

Square 3: The third said "Fight" this is the artisan doers who are seen as bad.

Square 4: The last group said "Raise the voice against them". The fourth square is the rational. The fourth square is associated with miuth and speech as i pointed out in the five senses. The fourth square is philosophy whichh is related to speech. This is according to writings of the library of Qumran.

During the Seder meal a child will ask four questions, the child may sing these four questions. Why is this night different from all other nights?

1. Why is it on all other nights we eat chametz or matzah, and on this night only matzah (unleavened bread)?

2. Why is it on all other nights we eat any kind of vegetables, and on this night only the bitter ones?

3. Why is it that on all other nights we need not dip even once (our food), on this night we do so twice?

4. Why is it on all other nights we eat sitting upright or reclining, and on this night we all recline?

Answer to the four questions – short version.

1. The slaves of Egypt ate unleavened bread. During the exodus from Egypt they had to leave in a hurry and had only unleavened bread.

2. The bitter vegetable is a reminder of the bitterness and hardship the Jews had to endure as slaves in Egypt.

3. The salt water used to dip food into, symbolizes the tears of the Hebrew slaves.

4. In ancient times only free people leaned back at the table while enjoying their meal. Slaves had to sit up straight.

The Four Mitzvot (commandments) of Purim Purim is joyous Jewish festival which commemorates the story of Esther.

The evil Haman (prime minister) plots to wipe out the Jewish people of ancient Persia.

Esther married the king, who at the time did not know she was a Jew.

Queen Esther outsmarted Haman and saved her people.

This is the festival to party, show compassion, wear costumes, and have a great time.

1. The Mitzvah of Megillah (scroll) Ester (the book of Ester) The book of Ester is read twice to retell the Purim story yearly in the synagogue. The first sauare is a reading. The first square is mental.

Every time Haman’s name is mentioned, his name will be overpowered by rackets of feet stomping, shouting and graggers twirling. Children will arrive at the synagogue wearing costums.

2. The Mitzvah of Mishloach Manot This requires a Jew to give at least two gifts to a friend, a neighbor or relative. The gifts are of food ready to eat.

This may be for example nuts, fruits, and potato chips and so on. The second square is giving to friends. The second square is relational and about friendships. It is related to the guardian.

3. The Mitzvah of Matanot L’Evyonim – Charity This is the obligation of giving charity gifts to at least two different poor people. The third sauare is giving to the poor. This is an action and it is going beyond the bubble of friends to somebody you may not know.

4. The Mitzvah of Purim Seudah This is the requirement to take part in a festive Purim feast. This Purim party is most joyful. At some Purim feasts a lot of alcohol is consumed.

These parties may also involve wearing costumes. This is a feast to celebrate that the enemy once more was conquered. The fourth square is related to death and transformation associated with the costume. It is also related to eating and sex. I discussed how knowledge is related to death sex and eating (the mouth) in a different book

Four cups of wine at Tu B’Shevat – New Year for Trees This is the day for calculating the age of a tree. A tree is considered to have aged one year on Tu B’Shevat.

This is important according to Leviticus 19:23-25 :

“When you come to the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden, three years it shall be forbidden to you, it must not be eaten. And in the fourth year all their fruit shall be holy,.. But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit.”

Notice how the first three days the fruit is forbidden. That is the triad. The fourth day the fruit is holy. The fourth square is transcendent and holy, connected to the fifth square which represents God. The fifth square represents God and it os ok to eat on the fifth day.

Tu B’Shevat is on the 15th day of the Jewish month Shevat (late January, early February) “Tu” means 15th.

This festival may be celebrated by planting a tree and eating fruits native to Israel.

Four cups of wine may be consumed during the blessings at feast this day.

1. The First cup is white wine.

2. The Second cup is white wine mixed with a little red wine. The second square adds onto the first by adding red wine

3. The Third cup is red wine with a little white wine added. The third square adds onto the first two. The quadrant model is a holistic model with each square adding onto previous squares. It is also a relative dominant model with each square having qualities of the other squares, but each square embodying mostly its own quality

4. The Fourth cup is red wine. The fourth transcends the previous three

The dreidel is a popular spinning wheel. The game spin the dreilel is played at Hanukkah. Each side has a Hebrew letter printed on it.

The four Hebrew letters of the dreidel are;

Square 1: nun –

Square 2: gimel –

Square 3: hey –

Square 4: shin. These four letters are the initials for the phrase: “A great miracle happened there.” (Nes Gadol Heyah Sham).

This is the miracle of the oil.

In Israel the letter shin is replaced with the letter peh, making the initials of the phrase “A great miracle happened here”.

How to play “Spin the Dreidel”.

Each player starts with about 10-15 pieces of chocolate, nuts or whatever. Each player places one piece on the table. The youngest player starts the game by spinning the dreidel. Players take turns spinning the dreidel.

Depending on what side is up when the dreidel stops appropriate action is taken. The game is over when one player has won everything.

1. The dreidel lands with nun up: nothing happens.

2. The dreidel lands with gimel up: the player wins the whole pot.

3. The dreidel lands with hey up: the player wins half of the pieces in the pot.

4. The dreidel lands with shin up: the player adds a piece to the pot.

There are four Matriarchs – foremothers.

1. Sarah: She was the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac

2. Rebecca: She was the wife of Isaac and mother of the twins Esau and Jacob

3. Leah: She was the wife of Jacob and mother to six of Jacob’s twelve sons; Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. She was also the mother of Jacob’s daughter; Dinah

4: Rachel: She was the wife of Jacob and the mother of two of Jacob’s twelve sons; Joseph and Benjamin Jacob had children with four different women. Leah – Bilhah (Rachel’s servant) – Zilpath (Leah’s servant) – Rachel

Pardes (Hebrew: פרדס orchard) is the subject of a Jewish aggadah ("legend") about four rabbis of the Mishnaic period (1st century CE) who visited the Orchard (that is, Paradise):

Four men entered pardes — Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Acher (Elisha ben Abuyah),and Akiba.

Square 1: Ben Azzai looked and died; Square 2: Ben Zoma looked and went mad. Going mad is more of an emotional thing whichnis why it is the second square.

Square 3: Acher destroyed the plants. The third square is bad and destructive. The third square is the doing square

Square 4: Akiba entered in peace and departed in peace. Akiba is the transcendent fourth

At the head of the angelogical system described in rabbinic literature are four archangels, corresponding to the four divisions of the army of Israel as described in Numbers 2: "As the Holy One blessed be He created four winds (directions) and four banners (for Israel's army), so also did He make four angels to surround His Throne — square 1Michael,

Square 2: Gabriel

Square 3: Uriel

Square 4: Raphael. Michael is on its right, corresponding to the tribe of Reuben; Uriel on its left, corresponding to the tribe of Dan, which was located in the north; Gabriel in front, corresponding to the tribe of Judah as well as Moses and Aaron who were in the east; and Raphael in the rare, corresponding to the tribe of Epharim which was in the west."

2 by 2 is the quadrant

Tefillin (Askhenazic: /ˈtfɪlɨn/; Israeli Hebrew: [tfiˈlin], תפילין) also called phylacteries (/fɪˈlæktəriːz/ from Ancient Greek φυλακτήριον phylacterion, form of phylássein, φυλάσσειν meaning "to guard, protect") are a set of small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah, which are worn by observant Jews during weekday morning prayers

The ultimate origin of Hebrew "tefillin" is uncertain.[3] The word "tefillin" is not found in the Bible, which calls them ṭoṭafot. The Septuagint renders "ṭoṭafot" ἀσαλευτόν, "something immovable."[2] Some believe it refers to a charm, similar to the Hebrew neṭifot, "round jewel."[2] The Talmud (Sanhedrin 4b) explains that the word ṭoṭafot is combination of two foreign words: Tot means "two" in the "Caspi" language and Fot means "two" in the "Afriki" language,[4] hence tot and fot means "two and two", corresponding to the four compartments of the head-tefillin.[5] Menahem ben Saruq explains that the word is derived from the Hebrew Ve'hateif and Tatifoo, both expressions meaning "speech", "for when one sees the tefillin it causes him to remember and speak about The Exodus from Egypt."[6]

The Vilna Gaon, who wore the tefillin of Rashi, rejected the stringency of also laying Rabbeinu Tam, pointing out that there were sixty-four permutations for the arrangement of the tefillin scrolls

64 is four quadrant models. It is also the number of the Merkaba vector field elucidated by Nassim Haramein.

W is normally written with three peaks, but on the totafot worn between the Jews eyes has four.

Four biblical passages which refer to the tefillin are placed inside the leather boxes.[2] These are: "Sanctify to me..." (Exodus 13:1-10); "When YHW and H brings you..." (Exodus 13:11-16); "Hear, O Israel..." (Deuteronomy 6:4-9); and "If you observe My Commandments..." (Deuteronomy 11:13-21). They are written by a scribe with special ink on parchment scrolls (klaf).[2] The Hebrew Ashuri script must be used and there are three main styles of lettering used: Beis Yosef – generally used by Ashkenazim; Arizal – generally used by Hasidim; Velish – used by Sefardim.[19] The passages contain 3,188 letters usually take between 10–15 hours to complete.[20] The arm-tefillin has one large compartment, which contains all four biblical passages written upon a single strip of parchment.[2] The head-tefillin has four separate compartments in each of which one scroll of parchment is placed

On both sides of the head-tefillin, the Hebrew letter shin (ש) is moulded. The knot of the head-tefillin strap forms the letter dalet (ד) or double dalet (ד) (known as the square-knot) while the strap that is passed through the arm-tefillin is formed into a knot in the shape of the letter yud (י). These three letters spell Shaddai (שדי), one of the names of God.[2]

The shin on the forehead is made up of four peaks, which is abnormal. But it is elucidating the quadrant four in my opinion.

Tarot cards have four suits

Square 1: Swords

Square 2: Cups

Square 3: Pentacles

Square 4: Wands

There are sixteen court cards of the deck, reflecting the 16 squares of the quadrant model. The court cards represent the royal court of each suit, including a King and a Queen. Each set also contains one Knight and one Page.

Confucianism was sort of the ancient religion and Philosophy of China. The Four Books are the authoritative books of Confucianism in China, thought to have been written by Confucius and his descendants, directly articulating his thought. These books fit the quadrant model pattern. They are

Square 1: Great Learning. This book teaches one how to learn and investigate and covers political philosophy and Chinese philosophy. The first square is always mental and related to learning.

Square 2: Doctrine of the mean. This book teaches people rules of behavior. The second square is always homeostasis an order.

Square 3: Analects. This book records conversations that Confucius has and it is expected that people who read and recite this work are to follow the rituals it provides and do as it teaches. The third square is related to doing.

Square 4: Mencius. This book records Confucious's descendant Mencius speeches. As opposed to the analects, the speeches of Mencius are poetic and long and drawn out. The fourth is different from the previous three and is more poetic and philosophical, which is the nature of the fourth square.

According to Confucius there were four classes of people, or classes of people. He called these the four occupations. These classes fit the quadrant model pattern. They were

Square 1: The shi. The shi were considered the knightly order, and kind of low-level aristocratic lineage similar to dukes and marquises. The shi wore long flowing silken robes. The shi were seen as like warriors, but were not taken seriously as warriors but were really just aristocrats. They were more known for scholarship and intellectual pursuits. The first square is always mental.

Square 2: the nong. The nong were agriculturalists. Farmers were looked highly upon in Chinese society and even were seen as at the level of the shi. The second square maintains order and structure and homeostasis, and because farmers provided food, the nong represent the second square.

Square 3: the gong. The gong were laborers. The third square is the doing square. These were artisans and craftsmen, and they often produced their own food, but they had no land, unlike the nong. They are not seen as good as the first two classes.

Square 4: the shang. Square four is always different from the previous three. The shang were merchants, and were sort of considered outcasts in Chinese society because they did not produce their own goods or food. They were looked down upon. The fourth square is always different and does not seem to belong.

At the heart of Chinese mythology are four spiritual creatures (Sì Shòu 四獸) -- four celestial emblems -- each guarding a direction on the compass. In China, the four date back to at least the 2nd century BC. Each creature has a corresponding season, color, element, virtue, and other traits. They are

Square 1: Tortoise (Black Warrior) = North, Winter, Black, Water

Square 2: White Tiger (Kirin) = West, Fall, White, Metal

Square 3: Red Bird (Phoenix) = South, Summer, Red, Fire

Square 4: Dragon = East, Spring, Blue/Green, Wood

According to the Ancient Chinese the earth was divided into four squares, in the form of a quadrant. The empire of middle earth was set in the middle of four seas surrounded by four barbarian people. The chief of the four mountains had to keep peace among the peoples. The four great kings protected the Jade Sovereigns in the four regions of the world.

In Chinese mythology, the xiao is the name of several creatures, including the xiao (Chinese: 囂; pinyin: xiāo; Wade–Giles: hsiao1) "a long-armed ape" or "a four-winged bird" and shanxiao (Chinese: 山魈; pinyin: shānxiāo) "mischievous, one-legged mountain spirit".

Cangjie (Tsang-chieh; Chinese: 倉頡; pinyin: Cāngjié; Wade–Giles: Ts'ang1-chieh2) is a legendary figure in ancient China (c. 2650 BC), claimed to be an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of Chinese characters.[1] Legend has it that he had four eyes and four pupils, and that when he invented the characters, the deities and ghosts cried and the sky rained millet.

Four Mountains (traditional Chinese: 四嶽; simplified Chinese: 四岳; pinyin: Sìyuè) variously interpreted from Chinese mythology or the most ancient level of Chinese history as being a person or four persons or four gods, depending upon the specific source. The figures feature prominently in the myth of the Great Flood, and the related myths of Emperor Yao (in whose reign the Great Flood began), Gun, Shun (Yao's successor as emperor), and Yu the Great (who finally controlled the flood waters during the reign of Shun, and later succeeded him as emperor).

Mythologist Yang Lihui sees Four Mountains as four gods of a set of four mountains, with Four Mountains referring to the actual mountains themselves.[1] K. C. Wu sees Four Mountains as being a ministerial position established by Yao to "oversee the mundane affairs of the empire", but points out that a real description of the functions of this position is lacking, nor is it certain whether there were one or four persons holding this ministerial position; however, he goes on to say that the evidence suggests the existence of four of them, and that they were charged with keeping themselves knowledgeable about what was going on throughout Yao's domain and advising him upon request.[2] The importance of Four Mountains can be seen in their key role in selecting Gun to be the first to be put in charge of controlling the flood, then, later, in nominating Shun to be Yao's co-emperor, and later successor.

The name "Four Mountains" in Chinese uses 四 (sì), the standard character/word for the number four, plus 嶽 (yuè), which refers to a great mountain, or the highest peak of a mountain — in contrast to the usual word for mountain, 山 (shān), which may also be used to refer to a mere foothill or other geological prominence.

Cosmology

Anthony Christie relates the figure of Four Mountains to the Chinese cosmological idea of a square earth, with each of the peaks representing one of the four cardinal directions which the ruler would tour, and at which he would perform various imperial rituals, upon taking possession of his realm. The person or person(s) of Four Mountains being afterwards present in court then symbolized the completion of the ruler's having taken possession of his entire realm.[3]

In the garden of the taoists there are four beneficial animals,

Square 1: the phoenix

Square 2: the unicorn

Square 3: the tortoise

Square 4: the dragon

The four learned arts of the Chinese were

Square 1: the guitar

Square 2: the chessboard

Square 3: books

Square 4: painting

Chinese communism fights the four ancient regimes

Square 1: ancient civilization

Square 2: old habbits

Square 3: old customs

Square 4: spiritual patrimony

The Four Stages or Four Levels are from the Traditional Chinese medicine book Discussion of Warm Diseases by Ye Tianshi, who lived from 1667-1746.

The stages, in order, range from surface (or "light") sickness to internal (or "deep") death.

Square 1: Wei level

This level is treated by releasing the exterior (diaphoresis)

Wind-heat

Summer-heat

Damp-heat

Dry-heat

Qi level Edit

Square 2: The Qi is treated by dispelling heat and promoting body fluids

Lung heat (heat in chest and diaphragm)

Stomach heat

Intestines dry-heat

Gall-bladder heat (heat in the lesser yang)

Stomach and Spleen damp heat

Ying level

Square 3: Ying (Nutritive qi) is treated by cooling fire and tonifing the yin

Heat in Nutritive qi portion

Heat in Pericardium

Blood level

Square 4: The Blood level treated by tonifing the yin and qi and stopping bleeding.

Heat Victorious moves blood

Heat victorious stirs wind

Empty wind agitates in the interior

Collapse of yin

Collapse of yang

Separation of yin and yang (Death)

In Chinese mythology, the goddess Nüwa or Nügua repaired the fallen pillars holding up heaven and later created human beings. The ancient Chinese believed in a square earth and round domelike sky or heavens, which was supported by four pillars (cf. Axis mundi), or four mountains reaching from earth to sky.

Kunlun Mountain[1] (traditional Chinese: 崑崙山; simplified Chinese: 昆仑山; pinyin: Kūnlún shān), or known just as Kunlun, Kuen-lun, Kwenlun, or by other transcriptions is an important and mythological mountain in Chinese mythology. The mythological Kunlun Mountain should not be confused with the real, geographic Kunlun Mountains. Various locations of Kunlun Mountain are proposed in the various legends, myths, and semi-historical accounts in which it appears. These various accounts describe it as the dwelling place of various gods and goddesses, together with marvelous plants and creatures. Many important events in Chinese mythology were located on Kunlun Mountain, according to Lihui Yang, et al. (2005:160-164).

It is an axis mundi

As the mythology related to the Kunlun Mountain developed, and was influenced by the introduction of ideas about an axis mundi from the cosmology of India were introduced, Kunlun Mountain became identified with (or took on the attributes of) Mount Sumeru. Another historical development in the mythology of Kunlun, (again with Indian influence) was that rather than just being the source of the Yellow River, Kunlun began to be considered to be the source of four major rivers flowing to the four quarters of the compass, according to Anthony Christie (1968:74). The Kunlun mythos was also influenced by developments within the Daoist tradition, causing Kunlun to be perceived more as a paradise than a dangerous wilderness. (Christie, 1968:75) Another trend argued in some recent research, is that over time, a merger of various traditions has result in an alignment of earthly paradises between an East Paradise (identified with Mount Penglai) and a West Paradise, with Kunlun Mountain identified as the West Paradise, a pole replaced a former mythic system which opposed Penglai with Guixu ("Returning Mountain", and the Guixu mythological material accumulating around Kunlun instead, through a process of merging these two original mythological systems (Yang, et al., 2005:163).

Jambudvīpa (Sanskrit: जम्बुद्वीप) is the dvipa ("island" or "continent") of the terrestrial world, as envisioned in the cosmologies of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, which is the realm where ordinary human beings live.

The word Jambudvipa literally refers to "the land of Jambu trees" where Jambu is the name of the species (also called Jambul or Indian Blackberry) and dvipa means "island" or "continent".

It is the axis mundi.

Markandeya Purana and Brahmanda Purana divide Jambudvipa into four vast regions shaped like four petals of a lotus with Mount Meru being located at the center like a pericarp. The city of Brahmapuri is said to be enclosed by a river, known as Akash Ganga. Akash Ganga is said to issue forth from the foot of Lord Vishnu and after washing the lunar region falls "through the skies" and after encircling the Brahmapuri "splits up into four mighty streams", which are said to flow in four opposite directions from the landscape of Mount Meru and irrigate the vast lands of Jambudvipa

According to Hinduism, Lord Shiva, the destroyer of ignorance and illusion, resides at the summit of a legendary mountain named Kailāśa, where he sits in a state of perpetual meditation along with his wife Pārvatī. He is at once the Lord of Yoga and therefore the ultimate renunciate ascetic, yet he is also the divine master of Tantra.[7]

According to Charles Allen, one description in the Vishnu Purana of the mountain states that its four faces are made of crystal, ruby, gold, and lapis lazuli.[8] It is a pillar of the world and is located at the heart of six mountain ranges symbolizing a lotus.[8]

"The shape of the stupa represents the Buddha, crowned and sitting in meditation posture on a lion throne. His crown is the top of the spire; his head is the square at the spire's base; his body is the vase shape; his legs are the four steps of the lower terrace; and the base is his throne."[

Directional world trees are also associated with the four Yearbearers in Mesoamerican calendars, and the directional colors and deities. Mesoamerican codices which have this association outlined include the Dresden, Borgia and Fejérváry-Mayer codices.[27] It is supposed that Mesoamerican sites and ceremonial centers frequently had actual trees planted at each of the four cardinal directions, representing the quadripartite concept

Chinese priests did fortune telling through magnetic needles and TLV mirrors.The square TLV mirror, named after the pattern formed by these letters, is a model of the earth and the needle provided an ‘independent’ direction in the universe. It was used eighth hundred years before magnetic needle was used in navigation. The subdivision of the various directions could be more precise when using the magnetic needle and sixteen or thirty-two directional points were possible. The division was in factor of four and the TLV mirror reflected the tetrad.

Michael Tsarion believes that there were four main ancient cults that have remained until this day and are the foundation of religion. They go by different. Ames but he theorized they were the
Square 1: solar cult
Square 2: lunar cult
Square 3: Saturnian cult
Square 4: stellar cult

Central in Native American mythology is the four directions and characters and colors and animals and gods throughout the myths represent these directions. The four directions are the four squares of the quadrant.

In Aztec mythology there are four gods that created all of the other gods. These gods are

Square 1: white tetzcatlipoca Quetzalcoatl of the west, who is light and mercy. The first square is related to the idealist and is empathetic.

Square 2: red tezcatlipoca Xipe Totec of the spring God of gold- the second square the guardian is wealth and structure and homeostasis and the second square is characteristically attractive

Square 3: blue Tetzcatlipoca huitzilopochtli of the south is the God of war. The third square is destructive and bad and is related to the artisan.

Square 4 black Tetzcatlipoca of the north is the God of judgement deceit and sorcery. square four has a bad quality and is related to death.

In some Native American cultures, the medicine wheel is a metaphor for a variety of spiritual concepts. A medicine wheel may also be a stone monument that illustrates this metaphor.

Historically, the monuments were constructed by laying stones in a particular pattern on the ground oriented to the four directions. Most medicine wheels follow the basic pattern of having a center of stone, and surrounding that is an outer ring of stones with "spokes" (lines of rocks) radiating from the center to the cardinal directions (East, South, West and North). These stone structures may or may not be called "medicine wheels" by the people whose ancestors built them, but may be called by more specific terms in that nation's language.

With the Native Americans a tubular smoke tip projects from each of the four cardinal directions on the bowl.

The four ages, or four Suns, that these gods produce, in the mythology of the Aztecs, is the quadrant model pattern represented in mythology. Some scientists think that the myths are a mythological attempt to describe evolution of species. The ages are

Square 1: jaguar sun. The inhabitants of this age were giants who were devoured by Jaguars.

Square 2: wind sun. Inhabitants in this age were transformed into monkeys and the world was destroyed by hurricanes. Inhabitants survived by becoming birds.

Square 3: water sun. This world was flooded making the inhabitants become fish. A couple escaped and became dogs.

Square 4: earthquake sun. This is the world in which humans live and it is said it will be destroyed by earthquakes.

There are four Mayan codices. Again the fourth is always different from the previous three. The fourth codex is questionable. They are

square 1- The Madrid codex

square 2- The Dresden codex

square 3: The Paris codex

Square 4: the Colier codex

The four Tezcatlipocas had a parallel in the (older) Mayan belief in the four Bacabs. The Bacabs were canopic gods, thought to be brothers, supporting the sky, and might be four manifestations of a single deity. Each Bacab presided over one year of a four-year cycle.

In mayan culture four giants support the celestial roof

The five Djani-buddhas were part of a system of meditation exercises called Vajrayana. Vajra is thunderbolt in sanskrit). The flash of lightning symbolizes the speed and clarity of insight The Vishva-Vajra emblem is composed of two crossed vajras, symbolizing the truth.

Candi Sewu (Tjandi Sewoe) complex, near Prambanan (Indonesia) represents the general plan of a mandala. The main temple is cruciform in shape, reflecting the quadrant, and is positioned in the middle of an enclosed area and surrounded by the ‘Thousand Temples’, protected by a second wall. The Candi Sewu has a cruciform ground plan and four stairs in the wind directions. The central part of the building is surrounded by four cellas, one of which leads into the main room (from the east).

The Navajo creation myth illuminates the quadrant model pattern. This creation myth is the central myth to the Navajo and used for healing rituals with sand paintings. Merci Eliad points out that origin myths always have a central significance to people's because there is a desire to return to the glorified beginning. There are four worlds in the Navajo origins myth

Square 1: the first world is dark and contains a fire God who is masculine within a feminine goddess like a yin and yang. The first man and woman are in this world. There is also a salt woman.

Square 2: the second world where the people of the first world ascend to and it is full of sparrow people who welcome the people. Square 2 is always nice. But man and woman struggle with cat people and are forced to the third world. The fire God kills a pair of twins he creates so that they can become transmitters of life.

Square 3: the third world is an evil world full of snake people who are evil. The third square is always evil. Begochidi who created the pair of twins in the previous world, creates animals, birds, plant life, and rivers. But all speak one language.

Square 4: the fourth world is where there is differentiation between humans and nature. The fourth is always bad. There are four sacred mountains created, and these four mountains, fulfilling the quadrant model pattern, are the sacred mountains of the Navajo. There is a flood caused by a coyote in this world like the flood of the Old Testament. According to the Navajo, humanity is currently in the fifth world. Aztec mythology takes the same form, saying humans are in the fifth world.

The Navajo creation myth takes the same form as the Hopi creation myth, both fulfilling the quadrant model pattern.

The Navajos belief is that their Creator placed them on the land between the following 4 mountains representing the 4 cardinal directions:

Mount Blanca (Tsisnaasjini' - Dawn or White Shell Mountain)

Sacred Mountain of the East

near Alamosa in San Luis Valley, Colorado

Mount Taylor (Tsoodzil - Blue Bead or Turquoise Mountain)

Sacred Mountain of the South

north of Laguna, New Mexico

San Francisco Peaks (Doko'oosliid - Abalone Shell Mountain)

Sacred Mountain of the West

near Flagstaff, Arizona

Mount Hesperus Dibé Nitsaa (Big Mountain Sheep) - Obsidian Mountain

Sacred Mountain of the North

La Plata Mountains, Colorado

In the Navajo creation myth their is a constant trope of things happening "four days later" after an important event.

An example is in the autumn, the four Holy People called to First Man and First Woman, and visited them, but they did not speak. Four days in a row they visited. On the fourth day, Black God said, "You must cleanse yourselves and we will return in twelve days."

Another example is most of the people had been killed. First Man said, "Perhaps the Holy People will help us." In the morning, he saw a dark cloud covering the top of Chʼóolʼį́ʼí, the Great Spruce Mountain. In the night he saw a fire on the mountain. He said to First Woman, "Someone is there. I must go to them." "No," she said. "There are many monsters between here and there. It is not safe for you." The following day the dark cloud remained on the mountain, and at night the fire appeared a second time. This happened the third day as well. On the fourth day, First Man said, "I must go. I believe there is a Holy Person on the mountain who can help us."

Another example is After four days, Haashchʼééłtiʼí, Talking God, and Tó Neinilí, Water Sprinkler, returned. The twins had already grown into big boys. "Shinálí (Grandsons)," Talking God said, "We have come to run a race with you." "We will see how fit you have become," said Water Sprinkler. They agreed to race around the mountain. The boys ran fast, and the two Holy People ran slower. But soon the boys became tired and the Four Holy People came up behind them and began taunting them and whipping them with switches of mountain mahogany. As they approached home, Talking God and Water Sprinkler ran past them and won the race. "We will return in four days to race again," they said, and departed. In the evening, the boys were sore and tired. Níłchʼi, the Wind came to them and said, "Practice each day and grow stronger." In four days, Talking God and Water Sprinkler returned, and the four raced again around the mountain. It was a faster pace, but just as before, Talking God and Water Sprinkler ran just behind the twins and whipped them with switches. Again the Holy People said they would return in four days to race again. And again in the evening Niłchʼi came and encouraged them and urged them to train. Each day the boys trained, and in the third race, Talking God and Water Sprinkler no longer whipped the twins, but had to run their strongest to win the race at the end. Four days later they returned to race a final time. Again, the boys started very fast, but this time they did not tire and slow their pace. They led the whole way and won the race. "Well done, Shinálí," said Talking God and Water Sprinkler. "You have grown into what we wanted you to become. Now you can serve well those who have nurtured you.

Not only is four days the constant recurrent theme, but also four years, for example, for four years the men and the women lived apart. During this time the food that the women harvested became less, because they had no tools, while the men grew more and more food. But each group longed for the other. The women sought to satisfy themselves with bones and feathers and long stones. The men tried to relieve their longing with the fresh meat of animals. One man, Kʼíídeesdizí, tried to satisfy himself using the liver of a deer. Owl called out to him to stop. "This is wrong," Owl said. "No good can come of this separation. You must bring the men and the women together again."

The number four pervades the myth. Black Thunder and Blue Thunder approached the twins in the myth, and wrapped four blankets around them. They wrapped them in the blanket of red dawn, and the blanket of blue daylight, and the blanket of yellow evening, and the blanket of black darkness. Then Black Thunder and Blue Thunder lifted the bundled twins and lay them high on a shelf.

First Woman and First man carried Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé to their hogan, and First Man made a cradle board and tied her in it. "Now she will be my daughter," he said. First woman took the baby and breathed on her four times. "Now," she said, "she will be my daughter." At the end of the second day the baby laughed for the first time. The Coyote named Áłtsé Hashké arrived and said, " I was told that my grandchild laughed for the first time." First Woman took charcoal and gave it to the Coyote saying: "This is the only thing that lasts." He painted his nose with it and said, "I shall know all things. I shall live long by it." Satisfied with the gift, he departed. Since then persons always receive a gift when a baby laughs for the first time, and the First Laugh Ceremony is performed.

Changing Woman climbed a hill. Looking in the distance she saw many monsters approaching from the south and from the west and from the north. She made four sacred hoops. The white one she threw to the east. The blue one she threw to the south. The yellow one she threw to the west. The black one she threw to the north. At once a strong wind began to circle the hogan. "The wind is too strong for the monsters to enter," she told her sons. We will be safe for one day. But tomorrow the power will be gone." At night, the twins spoke softly to one another. "The monsters are coming for us," they said. "We must leave so the others will be safe." Before dawn, they left and ran down the holy path to the east.

When the Sun left on his journey across the top of the sky the next morning, he took the twins with him. At noon they came to Yágháhookááʼ, the hole at the top of the sky. "Now show me where you live," said the Sun. With the help of Níłchʼi, the Wind, the twins, pointed out the four sacred mountains of the four directions, and Dził Náʼoodiłii, the Travelers' Circle Mountain, near the center. "We live near there," they said. "All that you have told me I now know to be true, my sons," said Jóhonaaʼéí. "You will succeed against the Monsters, and in your war against them you will make the final passage from boyhood to manhood." Then he sent down a streak of lightning onto the top of Tsoodził, the Blue Bead Mountain that was the home of Yéʼiitsoh, the Big Giant, and the twins slid down it

In the Navajo creation myth their is a constant trope of things happening "four days later" after an important event.

In the Navajo creation myth in the fourth world they saw that they were on an island in the middle of a bubbling lake,[11] surrounded by high cliffs.[12] At first the people could not find a way to get across the water to the shore. They called on Water Sprinkler to help them. He had brought four great stones with him from the Third World. He threw one to the east. When it hit the cliff wall, it broke a hole through it, and water began to flow out of the lake. He threw a stone to the south. He threw one to the west. And to the north he threw one. Each stone created a hole in the cliff, and the water of the lake became lower. A lane now connected the island to the shore to the east, but it was deep with mud. The people called on Níłchʼi Dilkǫǫh, Smooth Wind, to help them. He blew steadily for a long time, and finally the people were able to leave the island.

Also in the third world of the Navajo creation myth on the morning of the fourth day, Talking God and Water Sprinkler appeared with a large bowl of white shell and a large bowl of blue shell. The people gathered around them. They placed the bowls at the water's edge, and started to spin them. The spinning bowls created an opening in the water which led downward to a large house with four rooms. First Man and First Woman traveled down the passage and into the house, and behind them crept the Coyote named First Angry. In the north room of the house, they found Big Water Creature asleep in a chair. Her own two children were there, and also the two missing daughters. First Man and First Woman took the hands of the girls and led them back through the passage and on to the bank. Behind them, Coyote carried the two children of Big Water Creature, wrapped in his big skin coat with white fur lining. There was great celebrating because the lost girls were returned.

The next morning, animals began running past the village from the east. Deer ran by, and turkeys, and antelopes, and squirrels. For three days, animals ran past, fleeing from something. On the morning of the fourth day, the people sent locusts flying to the east to find out what was happening. The locusts returned and told that a great wall of water was coming from the east, and a tide of water from the north and from the south. The people ran to the top of the mountain Sisnaajiní. First Man ran to each of the other Sacred Mountains, took dirt from each, and summoned the Holy People, and returned to Sisnaajiní. Turquoise Boy came bearing the great Male Reed, and First Man planted it in the top of the mountain. All the people began to blow on the reed, and it began to grow and grow until it reached the canopy of the sky. Woodpecker hollowed out a passage inside the reed, and the people and Turquoise Boy and the four Holy People all began to climb up until they came out in the Fourth World.

In the third day of the Navajo creation myth in the autumn, the four Holy People called to First Man and First Woman, and visited them, but they did not speak. Four days in a row they visited. On the fourth day, Black God said, "You must cleanse yourselves and we will return in twelve days."

At the end of four days they gave birth to twins.

Hopi legend tells that the current earth is the Fourth World to be inhabited by Tawa's creations. The story essentially states that in each previous world, the people, though originally happy, became disobedient and lived contrary to Tawa's plan; they engaged in sexual promiscuity, fought one another and would not live in harmony. Thus, the most obedient were led (usually by Spider Woman) to the next higher world, with physical changes occurring both in the people in the course of their journey, and in the environment of the next world. In some stories, these former worlds were then destroyed along with their wicked inhabitants, whereas in others the good people were simply led away from the chaos which had been created by their actions.

Their creation myth details the journey through each of the four worlds, which fits the quadrant pattern.

According to Aztec mythology the present world is a product of four cycles of birth, death, and reincarnation.

The Inca called their empire Tawantinsuyu, which means "the four suyo". The empire was divided into four suyo, or regions, whose corners met at the capital, Cusco. The four suyo were

Square 1: Chinchay Suyo (North)

Square 2: Anti Suyo (East; the Amazon jungle),

Square 3:Colla Suyo (South)

Square 4: Conti Suyo (West). The name Tawantinsuyu was a term describing a union of provinces.

The foundation myth for the Inca says that the Inca civilization started with four men and four women, bringing to mind the quadrant model.

Pachacuti was said to be a great Incan ruler who reorganized the kingdom into four provincial governments with strong leaders:

Square 1: Chinchasuyu (NW),

Square 2:Antisuyu (NE)

Square 3: Kuntisuyu (SW)

Square 4: Qullasuyu (SE)] The capital of the Incan Empire was Cusco. Pachacuti is also thought to have built Machu Picchu, either as a family home or as a summer retreat, but it is beleived that Machu Picchu was constructed as an agricultural station.

The Popul Vuh, the religious text of the Inca, was divided into four books, also resembling the quadrant model pattern.

Tenochtitlan was the capital of the aztec empire. It was divided into four sections, and the aztecs specifically saw this as a cross and considered the symbol sacred. Tenochtitlan was considered a very sacred city state.

Chinese mythology is permeated with fours, and it is said that these four's or fives are related to the compass. When there is five or five, it is said that the fifth is the center. In many cultures the fifth and sixth are related to up and down . An example of four in a Chinese myth is the four benevolent animals

The Four Benevolent Animals included:

square 1: the Qilin (麒麟), the lord of furry quadrupeds;

Square 2: the Dragon (龍), lord of scaly animals;

Square 3: the Turtle (龜), lord of shelled animals; and

Square 4: the Phoenix (鳳凰), lord of birds.

They were juxtaposed with the "Four Perils" (四凶, Si Xiong), which were ambiguously described in the classics as monsters, barbarians, or circumstances

The Zia Indians of New Mexico regard the Sun as a sacred symbol. Their symbol, a red circle with groups of rays pointing in four directions, is painted on ceremonial vases, drawn on the ground around campfires, and used to introduce newborns to the Sun. Four is the sacred number of the Zia and can be found repeated in the four points radiating from the circle. All in all there is 16 lines in the symbol. 16 is the squares of the quadrant model. The number four is embodied in:

the four points of the compass (north, south, east and west);

the four seasons of the year (spring, summer, autumn and winter);

the four periods of each day (morning, noon, evening and night);

the four seasons of life (childhood, youth, middle years and old age); and

the four sacred obligations one must develop (a strong body, a clear mind, a pure spirit, and a devotion to the welfare of others), according to the Zia's belief.

Kuterastan is the creator in a creation myth of the Kiowa Apache from the southern plains of North America. His name means One Who Lives Above.

According to them Four Deities created creation.

The story of his creation tells that in the beginning, before there were earth or sky there was only darkness. Into it came a small and thin disc with yellow and white on its alternate sides, and inside it sat Kuterastan, a small bearded man no larger than a frog. Kuterastan is described as awakening and rubbing his eyes. When he peers above him into the darkness it filled with light and illuminated the darkness below. When he looked east the light became tinged with the yellow of dawn, and when he looked west the light was shaded with the amber tones of dusk. As he glanced about himself clouds in different colors appeared. Then again Kuterastan rubbed his eyes and face, and as he flung the sweat from his hands another cloud appeared with a tiny little girl Stenatliha sitting on top. Stenatliha's name translates as the Woman Without Parents. Kuterastan and Stenatliha were puzzled where the other had come from, and where were the Earth and Sky. After thinking for some time, Kuterastan again rubbed his eyes and face, then his hands together, and from the sweat flying as he opened hands first Chuganaai, the Sun, and then Hadintin Skhin, or Pollen Boy, appeared. After the four sat a long time in silence on a single cloud, Kuterastan finally broke the silence to say, "What shall we do?" and started the creation.

In the story of creation for the Kuterstan four deities appear. Then these four deities create creation.

After the Earth has been created Kuterastan sang a repeating refrain, "The world is now made and it sits still" and the four Gods were finished.

The Tarot of the Egyptians (Thoth Deck) has symbols represented which are explicitly said to be revolving, notably that of the Tetragammaton. Seeming contradiction between symbolic elements is understood to be only the opposition necessary for balance, through their implied revolving movement. As a representation of the expansion implied by the 'the sign of the cross', the letter Tau is symbolized as four-fold through the revolving symbol of the Tetragrammaton.

Zuni mythology is the oral history, cosmology, and religion of the Zuni people. The Zuni are a Pueblo people located in New Mexico

The Zunis also have four worlds

In a version of the Zuni creation story, people initially dwelt crowded tightly together in total darkness in a place deep in the earth known as the fourth world.

Awonawilona took pity on the people and his two sons were stirred to lead them to the daylight world. The sons, who have human features, located the opening to the fourth world in the southwest, but they were forced to pass through the progressively dimming first, second and third worlds before reaching the overcrowded and blackened fourth world. The people, blinded by the darkness, identified the two brothers as strangers by touch and called them their bow priests. The people expressed their eagerness to leave to the bow priests, and the priests of the north, west, south and east who were also consulted agreed.

To prepare for the journey, four seeds were planted by Awonawilona's sons, and four trees sprang from them: a pine, a spruce, a silver spruce and an aspen.

Notice again the recurrence of four. There are four worlds four seeds and four trees in the primordial myth.

The bow priests then get four sticks. These four sticks are prayers sticks, one from each tree.

Notice again the common recurrence of four sticks four days four worlds. There is the characteristic recurrence of the fours. And again, notice how the fourth is always different from the previous three. That is the nature of the quadrant model pattern.

On their fourth day in the first world, the bow priests planted the last prayer stick, the one made of aspen. And this is about the end of the creation myth.

There are examples of myths in other cultures that express the quadrant model. According to Hesiod's theology there are four primordial Greek deities.

*Square one: Chaos. This is the void.

*Square two: Gaia. This is mother Earth. Gaia is homeostasis and order. That is the second square.

*Square three: Tarturus. This is the underworld. The third square is bad.

*Square four: Eros. Procreation. The fourth square is knowledge/sex.

Fortune was a central philosophical and religious notion to the ancient Romans. Fortune was considered a goddess. Fortune was depicted as a wheel, and there were four stages of fortune according to the ancient Romans. They were

Square 1: regno-I shall reign. The first square is the idealist who represents hope.

Square 2: regnavi- I reign. The second square is the guardian who is content and comfortable.

Square 3: sum sine regno- I have reigned. The third square is negative, representing a descent. The third square is always bad.

Square 4: regnabo- I no longer have a kingdom. The fourth square is bad too.

There is a popular television show called the wheel of fortune, which is literally a reference to the goddess Fortune. Machiavelli mocked fortune, seeing fortune as feminine and the opposite of virtue, which was masculine. Machiavelli therefore thought things should not be left to fortune and you have to make sure you are prepared.

The Greek poet Hesiod describes ages of men that fit the quadrant model pattern. They are

Square one: The golden age. Hesiod states that men of this age are wise. They do not have to work and they live to a very old age. The first square is characteristically related to wisdom. The first square is the mind. The first square is good and conservative.

Square two: The silver age. Hesiod describes that this age is an age where the people worship the gods but they are ultimately kicked out of this age due to impiety. The second square is related to religiosity.

Square three: The bronze age. Hesiod depicts men of this age as hard and tough and warlike. This age is characterized by war. The third square is the most physical and it is destructive.

Square four: The heroic age. Notice how the first three ages are named after metals. The fourth square is always different. During this age men live with demigods and heroes. The fourth square always has a sort of transcendent quality to it, that makes it different from the first three.

Square five: The iron age. This is the current age where Hesiod declares might makes right and the world is full of evil.

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. The fours bring to mind the quadrant. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves. Zeus is similar to the Roman Jupiter and the Hindu Indra.

Hecate or Hekate (/ˈhɛkətiː, ˈhɛkɪt/; Greek Ἑκάτη, Hekátē) is a goddess in Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding two torches or a key[1] and in later periods depicted in triple form. She was variously associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, dogs, light, the moon, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, ghosts, necromancy, and sorcery.[2][3] In the post-Christian writings of the Chaldean Oracles (2nd–3rd century CE) she was regarded with (some) rulership over earth, sea and sky, as well as a more universal role as Saviour (Soteira), Mother of Angels and the Cosmic World Soul.[4][5] She was one of the main deities worshiped in Athenian households as a protective goddess and one who bestowed prosperity and daily blessings on the family.[6]

Depictions of both a single form Hekate and triple formed, as well as occasional four headed descriptions continued throughout her history.

The ancient Greeks saw themselves as decedents from four tribes.

Square 1: the Ionians

Square 2: Dorians

Square 3: Aeolians

Square 4: Achaeans

Rome is considered one of the greatest Empires of all time. According to historians, ancient Rome was divided in four districts, the ‘Urbs quattuor regionum’. They were

Square 1: Suburana;

Square 2: Esquilina;

Square 3: Collina:

Square 4: Palatina.

After its initial two-part development the unity of Rome was moulded from four districts or sectors. "Quadrata Roma" was what Rome was known as at the founding of Romulus, the founder of Rome, because Romulus divided it into four parts.

The seven Kings of Rome fit the quadrant model pattern. They are

Square 1: Romulus. Romulus was a good king. The first is always good.

Square 2: Numa Pompilius. He was a king who established order, structure and religion in Rome. The second square is order.

Square 3: Tullus Hostilius. His name means hostile. The third square is always bad and destructive. He was a warlike king.

Square 4: Ancus Marcius. He was a philosophical king. The fourth square is related to intelligence.

Square 5: Lucius Tarquinius Priscus. This is the first square of the second quadrant. Priscus was very into order and political structure, structuring things like the senate.

Square 6: Servius Tullius. He built temples and was very popular. Square 6 is the second square of the second quadrant. This square is the most associated with order and religiosity. He helped people like the poor. He served people, hence the name Servius. The sixth square is related to serving people. It is faith. The sixth personality type is the ESFJ who loves to help people.

Square 7: Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. He is the third square of the second quadrant. The third square is always bad. He was proud and the monarchy of Rome ended with him.

The Colosseum of Rome was a central place of the Ancient Roman Empire. Gladiator fights would occur in the Colosseum, which would entertain the citizens of Rome. The Colosseum had four grand entrances, representing the quadrant model pattern. There were four sectors and four levels of the Colosseum, revealing the quadrant model pattern. The levels signified the stratified society of Rome, and seating on the separate tiers was determined by class. Each of the four sectors had tiers of seating:

Square 1: The first tier, called the Podium, which means the place of honor, was for the most important Romans - the Emperor, the Vestal Virgins, the important priests and members of the Roman Government including the Roman Senators. The Podium was like a flat platform, or terrace, measuring 15ft wide

Square 2: The second Tier - Maenianum primum: This seating was reserved for the non-senatorial noble class called the Equites, or knights consisting of fourteen rows of stone or marble seats.

Square 3: The third Tier was originally reserved for ordinary Roman citizens, the plebeians, but seating was divided into two sections:

Maenianum secundum imum - the better, lower seats for the wealthy plebeians

Maenianum secundum summum - the upper seats for the poor plebeians

Square 4: The fourth tier - Maenianum summum in ligneis: The final level was wooden seats which were set up in the gallery running around the very top wall of the amphitheatre which were added during the reign of Domitian. The fourth is always different from the previous three. Originally there was three tiers of the Colosseum. But later a fourth was added. The fourth is always separate.

This would seat common women

Slaves were forbidden from the Colosseum

Chariot races were a main attraction in the Colosseum as Rome. Chariot races were very popular in ancient Rome. There were four factions that people rooted for in ancient Rome. They were the Red, White, Green, and Blue factions. The factions were

Square 1: The Red faction was dedicated to Mars.

Square 2: The White faction was dedicated to the Zephyrs.

Square 3: The Green faction was dedicated to Mother Earth.

Square 4: The Blue faction was dedicated to the sky and the sea.

In chariot racing there was four horses attached to one chariot. The form of the four horses fit the quadrant model pattern. Each faction would race against the other. These races were known as quadriga races.

The final governing system of the Roman Empire was the tetrarchy system. A tetrarchy is a system where four kings ruled. There are diarchies and monarchies and triarchies, but these ruling systems do not go beyond four. The four provinces out of which the kings ruled in the Roman Empire were

Square 1:Nicomedia in northwestern Asia Minor (modern Izmit in Turkey). It was a base for defence against invasion from the Balkans and Persia's Sassanids.

Square 2:Sirmium (modern Sremska Mitrovica) in the Vojvodina region of modern Serbia, and near Belgrade, on the Danube border) was the capital of Galerius, the eastern Caesar. This became the Balkans-Danube prefecture Illyricum.

Square 3:Mediolanum (modern Milan, near the Alps) was the capital of Maximian, the western Augustus. This became "Italia et Africa", with only a short exterior border

Square 4:Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier, in Germany) was the capital of Constantius Chlorus, the western Caesar, near the strategic Rhine border. It was the capital of Gallic emperor Tetricus I, and became the prefecture Galliae.

Jupiter, also Jove (Latin: Iuppiter [ˈjʊppɪtɛr], gen. Iovis [ˈjɔwɪs]), like the Hindu Indra, is the god of sky and thunder and king of the gods in Ancient Roman religion and mythology.

Jupiter rides a chariot with four horses, like Indra rides a White elephant with four tusks.

The Pythagoreans saw the quadrilateral supporting Hermes as the sign of infallible reason

In the Celtic creation myth there were four elements or powers that emerged from the God-head. Then the four elements, the four winds, and the four zones of the Earth are created. The celts divided the world into four zones.

The historic division of Ireland. The four provinces are Connaught, Ulster, Leinster and Munster, with Meath as an undescribed unit in the middle. They formed the political division of Ireland up to the year 1066.

For the celts the division of geographical place fit the quadrant model pattern. Also the division in time did as well (seasons). The Celtic year constituted of festivities based on the sun- and moon cycle. Four important moments are recognized in the year:

Square 1: Samain (Samhain). The new-year celebration in the night of the 31st of October and the first of November. The cattle was gathered and brought to the shelters for the winter. It was a time of contact with the Other World. People paid attention to the dead, story telling, and predicting the future. Bonfires were lit. At present, this event is still known as Halloween in Anglo-Saxon countries. In a christianized form this is the celebration of All Saints Day.

Square 2:: Imbolc (or Oimelg). This festivity was an observance of the shepherds, on the first of February, after winter. New lambs were born. This was spring and new life was immanent.

Square 3. Beltaine (or Beltene) was the summer celebration on the first day of May. The winter quarters were left, and everybody was ready for a new start. The war god Belenos was worshiped to provide a rich harvest and well being of the cattle. Beltaine is still alive in the Celtic areas of Northern Italy, France, Great Britain and Ireland. Driving the animals between two fires symbolically cleans the cattle.

Square 4: Lugnasad (Lughnasadh) was the moment of gathering of the whole tribe in the midst of summer (1st August). The time of bailing hay was over and the harvest of wheat and barley was immanent. This was the time of horse racing and other games and matches. In addition, marriages were arranged: by putting their hands through a hole in a rock the young pair promised to stay with together for one year and a day and then decide to continue or to divorce.

Four heads of horses in a Celtic sanctuary in Southern France, found near Roquepertuse, is an important Celtic engraving.

Although the Celts were Christianized, they maintained their original myths. The four sides of the high-cross in Gosford, Northumbria are decorated with illustrations of Nordic mythology, indicating the end of the world. The four sides bring to mind the quadrant.

The celts had four sacrifices, connected with the four elements. They were

Square 1: Death by air- hanging

Square 2:Death by water- drowning

Square 3: Death by earth- burying alive

Square 4:Death by fire- burning at the stake

The Talmud also distinguishes four methods of capital punishment. They are

Square 1: hanging

Square 2: stoning

Square 3:slaying

Square 4: burning

It was important to note that capital punishment was so rare in Jewish history that one year one person was murdered through capital punishment among the Jews, and it was called a bloody year. Nobody was ever given capital punishment because from what I heard the Jewish law was made in favor of the criminal so it was almost impossible to accuse anybody of a crime, especially since the Sanhedrin would try their hardest to give a person convicted of a crime the benefit of the doubt. The procedure was designed for the person convicted of a crime so much so that it was almost impossible to actually give somebody a capital offense. When Jesus was crucified he was crucified in a way not coinciding with Jewish practice.

In the Mythological Cycle of early Irish literature, the four treasures (or jewels) of the Tuatha Dé Danann are four magical items which the mythological Tuatha Dé Danann brought with them from the four island cities Murias, Falias, Gorias and Findias, when they arrived in Ireland.

They are

Square 1: stone

Square 2: spear

Square 3: sword

Square 4: cauldron

A Viking ring fortress is a type of circular fort of a special design, built by the Vikings in the Viking Age. They are also known as Trelleborgs. All Trelleborgs have a strictly circular shape, with roads and gates pointing in the four cardinal directions. These common structures are sometimes partially encircled by advanced ramparts, but these additions are not always circular.

It had "perfectly circular with gates opening to the four corners of the earth, and a courtyard divided into four areas which held large houses set in a square pattern.

Viking ring fortresses were in the shapes of quadrants.

In Norse myth there were four dwarfs who supported the sky.

They were placed in each corner of the world and their names were:

North – South – East – West.

In Norse myth we find Yggdrasil the Tree of Life.

Four deer lived in this tree.

Their names were: Dåin, Dvalin, Dunøyr and Duratro.

In celtic mythology Lir was the god of the sea. Lir and Aeb had four children, one daughter and three sons. The three sons are the triad.The girl was named Fionuala. One son was named Aodh and the twin boys were named Fiachra and Conn. The twins are the duality.Aeb died and Lir married her sister, Aoife. The four children were turned into swans by their jealous stepmother.

They were cursed to live as swans for 900 years. They had to endure the cold waters, charming their listeners with their songs.

The spell could only be broken if the children were blessed by a monk.

When Saint Patrick converted Ireland to Christianity the spell was broken. The children had grown old, but were baptized before they died.

There is "The Children of Lir”, sculpture in the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, Ireland.

The Sumerians, Accadians, and Babylonians all had four primary deities. For the Sumerians, they were:

*Square one:Enlil. the God of the air. The first square is the air.

*Square two: Enki. The God of water. The second square is water.

*Square three: Ki. The Goddess of Earth. The third square is Earth.

*Square four: Anu. The God of Heaven. The fourth is transcendent.

The division of Creation in ancient Egyptian mythology is a combination of two pairs of opposites, made up by the top-members of the ennead.

Square 1. Re (sun and heaven),

Square 2. Shu (the air),

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Square 3 Geb (the earth)

Square 4. Osiris (the underworld),

The cyclic nature in the four-fold division of the world of the gods is well developed in Ancient northern Egypt (Heliopolis). The structure of the supra-natural universe is a combination of two- and fourfold units adding up to a nine-fold unity. The ninefold unity is termed the ‘Ennead of Heliopolis’.

Square 1: The creation-myth starts with Atum (generated from his own) Square 2: Atum begets Sjoe and Tefnoet as female and male children.

Square 3: This couple begets Geb (earth) and Noet (heaven)

Square 4: They, have four children: Osiris, Isis, Seth en Nepthys (IV).

The format in Memphis (Sakkara), south of Cairo, is different than in Hermopolis, but the fourfold structure is the same. There are also nine gods involved. The text which describes this event is engraved into the ‘Shabaka Stone‘, around 700 BC.

Square 1: The primal unity, the god Horus

Square 2: Horus generates a primary four-fold division, represented by his four sons

Square 3: The two-fold division of Ptah and Sechmet makes up the visible part of the spectrum and the physical part, with Nefertiti. The third square is always physical.

Square 4: The fourth quadrant is Imhotep who is by Nefertum to form a trinity, sometimes expanded by Imhotep, the builder of the step pyramid of Zoser (2630 BC.), into a tetradic pluriformity.

The city of Hermopolis in Middle Egypt had a particular worship of the gods based on eight basic powers. They are separated in four pairs called the ‘ogdoade‘ of Hermopolis. They are

Square 1: Noen + Naoenet (the primal water)

Square 2: Hoeh + Haoehet (the endless space)

Square 3: Koek + Kaoeket (the darkness)

Square 4: Amoen + Amaoenet (the unknown)

The eight deities were arranged in four male-female pairs: Nu and Naunet, Amun and Amaunet, Kuk and Kauket, Huh and Hauhet. The four concepts represent the primal, fundamental state of the beginning.

The Ogdoad also appears in Gnostic systems of the early Christian era, and was developed by the theologian Valentinus in 160 AD.

In the gnostic philosophy the Tetrad was regarded with peculiar veneration, and held to be the foundation of the sensible world. The Pythagoreans worshipped the Tetrad and the Tetracyst seeing it as the most holy symbol, as I discuss in the philosophy section of this book.

Pythagorean theorem for (3, 4, 5) triangle Chou Pei Suan Ching 500–200 BCE note: the solution was using a 7×7 quadrant square grid. Chang performed the pythagorean theorem proof by using a quadrant grid.

A prayer of the Pythagoreans shows the importance of the Tetractys (sometimes called the "Mystic Tetrad"), as the prayer was addressed to it.

"Bless us, divine number, thou who generated gods and men! O holy, holy Tetractys, thou that containest the root and source of the eternally flowing creation! For the divine number begins with the profound, pure unity until it comes to the holy four; then it begets the mother of all, the all-comprising, all-bounding, the first-born, the never-swerving, the never-tiring holy ten, the keyholder of all".

The Pythagorean oath also mentioned the Tetractys:

"By that pure, holy, four lettered name on high,

nature's eternal fountain and supply,

the parent of all souls that living be,

by him, with faith find oath, I swear to thee."

It is saidthat the Pythagorean musical system was based on the Tetractys as the rows can be read as the ratios of 4:3 (perfect fourth), 3:2 (perfect fifth), 2:1 (octave), forming the basic intervals of the Pythagorean scales. That is, Pythagorean scales are generated from combining pure fourths (in a 4:3 relation), pure fifths (in a 3:2 relation), and the simple ratios of the unison 1:1 and the octave 2:1. Note that the diapason, 2:1 (octave), and the diapason plus diapente, 3:1 (compound fifth or perfect twelfth), are consonant intervals according to the tetractys of the decad, but that the diapason plus diatessaron, 8:3 (compound fourth or perfect eleventh), is not.

There are some who believe that the tetractys and its mysteries influenced the early kabbalists. A Hebrew Tetractys in a similar way has the letters of the Tetragrammaton (the four lettered name of God in Hebrew scripture) inscribed on the ten positions of the tetractys, from right to left. It has been argued that the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, with its ten spheres of emanation, is in some way connected to the tetractys, but its form is not that of a triangle. The well known occult writer Dion Fortune mentions:

"The point is assigned to Kether;

the line to Chokmah;

the two-dimensional plane to Binah;

consequently the three-dimensional solid naturally falls to Chesed."[9]

( We must note that the first three-dimensional solid is the tetrahedron. )

The relationship between geometrical shapes and the first four Sephirot is analogous to the geometrical correlations in Tetraktys, shown above under Pythagorean Symbol, and unveils the relevance of the Tree of Life with the Tetraktys.

In a Tarot reading, the various positions of the tetractys provide a representation for forecasting future events by signifying according to various occult disciplines, such as Alchemy. Below is only a single variation for interpretation.

Square 1: The first row of a single position represents the Premise of the reading, forming a foundation for understanding all the other cards.

Square 2: The second row of two positions represents the cosmos and the individual and their relationship.

The Light Card to the right represents the influence of the cosmos leading the individual to an action.

The Dark Card to the left represents the reaction of the cosmos to the actions of the individual.

square 3: The third row of three positions represents three kinds of decisions an individual must make.

The Creator Card is rightmost, representing new decisions and directions that may be made.

The Sustainer Card is in the middle, representing decisions to keep balance, and things that should not change.

The Destroyer Card is leftmost, representing old decisions and directions that should not be continued.

Square 4: The fourth row of four positions represents the four Greek elements.

The Fire card is rightmost, representing dynamic creative force, ambitions, and personal will.

The Air card is to the right middle, representing the mind, thoughts, and strategies toward goals.

The Water card is to the left middle, representing the emotions, feelings, and whims.

The Earth card is leftmost, representing physical realities of day to day living

The tetractys occurs in the following, the baryon decuplet, an archbishop's coat of arms, the arrangement of pins in ten-pin bowling, and a Chinese checkers board

Valentinian Secundus divided the Ogdoad into a right-hand and a left-hand Tetrad, and in the case of Marcus, who largely uses Pythagorean speculations about numbers, the Tetrad holds the highest place in the system. The reason why I argue the tetrad was such a valuable symbol to ancient people is because it elucidates the four parts of the quadrant.

In other places in Egypt, there is also a concentration of worship caught in a four-fold structure: the four crocodile-gods of Fajum, the four bulls of Hermonthis, Tuphium, Karnak and Medamud and the rams-heads of Chnum in Elephantine, Esna, Hypsele and Antinoë.

The ankh is the symbol of the cross/quadrant from ancient Egypt. Like in the Hebrew bible man is made from clay. It is interesting to note that clay is made of silicon, which like carbon is called the miracle element because of its four valence electrons. Silicon is shaped like a cross. Chum shapes the young king and his ‘ka‘ on a Potter's wheel while the goddess Hathor holds the ‘ankh‘, the symbol of life in the creation of man myth by the Egyptians.

The Sun god of the Egyptians was symbolized as a ram with four heads in the New Kingdom. In the Bhagavad Gita Brahma, the creator God, is symbolized as having four heads, bringing to mind the quadrant. The hindu God's have four arms, each tending to represent something.

In ancient Egypt the intestines of the dead were put in urns. The urns fit the quadrant model pattern. Each urn represented one of the four sons of Horus. They were

Square 1:Amset. The urn was shaped like a human. It contained the liver.

Square 2:Hapy. This urn was shaped as a baboon. It contained the lungs

Square 3: Doeamoetef. This urn was shaped as a jackal. The stomach was put in this urn.

Square 4:Kebehsenoef. This urn was a falcon shape. In it were placed the intestines. Each urn had drawn on it one of the four sons of Horus

The lake of fire in the book of revelations is thought to have its origins from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the lake of fire is surrounded by four braziers, which in the Old Kingdom is the style of a vertical burning flame upon four feet. Every aspect of the lake of fire therefore harkens to the quadrant model pattern.

For the Egyptians four is the sacred number of Time, measurement of the sun. Four pillars support the vault of heaven. And the number four represented God to the Egyptians

The Book of Gates is an Ancient Egyptian funerary text dating from the New Kingdom that discusses the passage of a newly deceased soul into the next world, corresponding to the journey of the sun through the underworld during the hours of the night. The most famous part of the book is the description of the four races

Square 1:"Aamu" (Asiatics). This corresponds to the Asian race

Square 2: "Themehu" (Libyans). This corresponds to the White race

Square 3: "Nehesu" (Nubians). This corresponds to the Black race.

Square 4: Reth (Egyptians). This corresponds to the Brown race.

The book of gates is known for its divisions of four. For example

The god Atum is depicted with the four directions in the eight scene.

Four apes worships the sun.

Four Gods carry a light in the 82nd scene.

There are four Gods in the 87th scene.

There are four Gods with rams-heads and Uas-scepter in the 85th scene.

Four apes with a human fist in the 90th scene.

In his well known book Friendship with God, Walsch writes that God presents four concepts which are central to the entire dialogue:

Square 1: "We are all one." This is related to the idealist who is abstract and recognizes the oneness of things.

Square 2: "There's enough." This is related to the guardian who tends to be content and comfortable.

Square 3: "There's nothing we have to do". Square three is always related with doing. Doing is the artisan.

Square 4: "Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way." This is related to the rational, who is not trying to force his ways on others.

The book is a part of a series of books called Conversations with God, in which the author claims he is literally receiving dictation from God and writing what God tells him to write.

The tao te ching has a well known aphorism that relates to understanding personality and psychology. I figure that I should mention it since we are on that section of this book. The aphorisms would contain two dichotomies. One is knowing and mastering. The other is yourself and others. This yields the four components of the saying of the tao te ching. It is

Square 1:Knowing others is intelligence. The first square is the idealist who is intelligent.

Square 2: Knowing self is true wisdom. Guardians could be said to be wise, in that they behave and are self controlled.

Square 3: Mastering others is strength. The third square is the doing square. Artisans are connected with strength.

Square 4: Mastering yourself is power. This is the rational.

The quote is

Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing self is true wisdom.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is power”

- Tao Te Ching

The four Dragon Kings in chinese mythology rule the four seas, each sea corresponding to one of the four cardinal directions.

The Dragon Kings live in crystal palaces. The palaces are guarded by crab generals and shrimp soldiers.

The Dragon Kings have the power to control the clouds and the rain, in addition to the seas. If they are upset, they will cause floods.

1. Dragon King of the East – Ao Guang

2. Dragon King of the West – Ao Run

3. Dragon King of the North – Ao Shun

4. Dragon King of the South – Ao Qin

A Dragon King is a deity in Chinese mythology commonly regarded as the divine ruler of an ocean. They have the ability to shapeshift into human form

There are numerous temples dedicated to Dragon King in China

The Great Work (Latin: Magnum opus) is an alchemical term for the process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher's stone. The philosophers stone is said to be able to turn a substance to gold. It had four stages that fit the quadrant model pattern

It originally had four stages:

Square 1: nigredo, a blackening or melanosis

Square 2: albedo, a whitening or leucosis

Square 3: citrinitas, a yellowing or xanthosis

Square 4: rubedo, a reddening, purpling, or iosis

The origin of these four phases can be traced at least as far back as the first century. Zosimus of Panopolis wrote that it was known to Maria the Jewess, the first true alchemist of the Western world. It has been suggested that rather than being a form of trying to turn lead to gold, alchemy was really a form of trying to understand the self and reality, which was done under the guise of a practical pursuit like turning lead to gold.

Mary the Jewess, the first alchemist of the western world, was known for her phrase

Join the male and the female, and you will find what is sought. Joining the male and the female in my opinion represents breaking out of ego identity/ body identity to the flow.

Mary the Jewess's most famous axiom, known as the axiom of Mary, was

"One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth." What Mary describes in this axiom is the quadrant model.

Carl Jung used this axiom as a metaphor for wholeness and individuation. It was said that Newton spent vastly more time studying alchemy and religion than physics.

Paracelsus, an alchemist, associated different spirits with each element.

Square 1: Sylph: spirit of air (curious)

Square 2 :Undine: spirit of water (inspired)

Square 3: Gnome: spirit of earth (industrious)

Square 4: Salamander: spirit of fire (changeable)

Totemism was the first form of spiritual or religious observance. Claude Levi Strauss is one of the most famous anthropologists and scholars of religion of all time. Lévi-Strauss noted four kinds of relationship between nature and culture within totemism. They were

Square 1: a species of animal or plant identified with a particular group

Square 2: a species of animal or plant identified with an individual

Square 3: a particular animal or plant identified with an individual

Square 4: a particular animal or plant identified with a group.

According to Lévi-Strauss, each of these four combinations corresponds to the phenomena that are to be observed in one people or another. They are

Square 1: Australians, for whom natural things are associated with cultural groups (moieties, sections, subsections, phratries, clans, or the association of persons from the same sex).

Square 2: North American Indians. A person is correlated with a species of nature.

Square 3: the third type of combination, the Mota people of the Banks Islands of Melanesia are an example. Here the individual child is thought of as the incarnation of a particular animal, plant, or natural creature that was found and consumed by the mother at the time that she was conscious of her pregnancy.

Square four- in Polynesia and Africa where individual animals were the center of group patronage and veneration. Some say that the remnants of totemism can be seen in the bible from referring to God as a bull.

Hoʻoponopono (ho-o-pono-pono) is an ancient Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness.After Simeona's passing in 1992, her former student and administrator Ihaleakala Hew Len, co-authored a book with Joe Vitale called Zero Limits referring to Simeona's hoʻoponopono teachings. " The mantra of Hoʻoponopono is repeating

Square 1: I'm sorry

Square 2: Please forgive me

Square 3: I thank you

Square 4: I love you

Ancients say that the audible sound which most resembles this unstruck sound is the syllable OM. According to the ancients it is the sound of being. Tradition has it that this ancient mantra is composed of four elements: the first three are vocal sounds: A, U, and M. The fourth sound, unheard, is the silence which begins and ends the audible sound, the silence which surrounds it. This sound is where Amen comes from.

Square 1: "A" (pronounced "AH" as in "father") resonates in the center of the mouth. It represents normal waking consciousness, in which subject and object exist as separate entities. This is the level of mechanics, science, logical reason, the lower three chakras. Matter exists on a gross level, is stable and slow to change.

Square 2: Then the sound "U" (pronounced as in "who") transfers the sense of vibration to the back of the mouth, and shifts the allegory to the level of dream consciousness. Here, object and subject become intertwined in awareness. Both are contained within us. Matter becomes subtle, more fluid, rapidly changing. This is the realm of dreams, divinities, imagination, the inner world.

Square 3: "M" is the third element, humming with lips gently closed. This sound resonates forward in the mouth and buzzes throughout the head. (Try it.) This sound represents the realm of deep, dreamless sleep. There is neither observing subject nor observed object. All are one, and nothing. Only pure consciousness exists, unseen, pristine, latent, covered with darkness. This is the cosmic night, the interval between cycles of creation, the womb of the divine Mother.

Square 4: The silence is the fourth. The fourth square is always different from the previous three. The silence is said to surround the sound. the fourth is separate yet encpmpasses the previous three. That is the quadrant model pattern.

In the Egyptian myth of Osiris, Osiris is killed and cut into sixteen parts, which fits the quadrant model.

Pascal, a Christian philosopher and great mathematician, is known for what is called, “Pascal's wager”. Pascal tried to weigh the consequences of believing or not believing in the God of Israel. He has two dichotomies; One is believe in God or do not believe in God. The other is there is a God and there is no God. This leads to four possibilities.

*Square one: there is a God--believe in God. This corresponds to the Idealist who is abstract and cooperative. Being abstract corresponds with there being a God. When seeing patterns God is evident. Being cooperative corresponds with believing in God. For Pascal it is good to believe in God; this means the possibility of eternal life.

*Square two: There is no God—belief in God. This corresponds to the Guardian who is concrete and cooperative. Being concrete makes it impossible to see patterns, so there does not seem to be a God. Being cooperative, however, leads to believing in God—the disconnect is problematic.

*Square three: There is no God--no belief in God. This corresponds to the Artisan who is concrete and utilitarian. Being concrete prevents the seeing of patterns, so God is not apparent. Being utilitarian leads to not wanting to submit to authority and do what others do; it leads to doing what works, and not believing in God. Pascal says that this would lead to being rewarded with the freedom to have fun by not needing to follow rules to avoid punishment. This is related to the Artisan who enjoys having fun.

*Square four: There is a God--no belief in God. This corresponds to the Rational. Rationals are abstract and utilitarian. Being abstract leads to seeing patterns, but being utilitarian there is no submission to orders. , which ultimately leads to punishment.

Pascal’s Wager

There is a God believe in God	There is not a God don’t believe in God
There is not a God believe in God	There is a God don’t believe in God

There is a free will vs. determinism debate in religion. According to Calvinist doctrine the Bible states that everything is predetermined by God, including whether or not one believes in God, which makes not believing in God undeserving of punishment. In the free will vs. determinism debate there are four possibilities.

*Square one: Hard determinism--everything is predetermined; there is no free will. This corresponds to the Idealist who is abstract and cooperative. Abstract people see patterns and make connections, recognizing that things are determined. They understand the quadrant model, and realize that it has determined everything. But they are cooperative, follow orders, and are very submissive to authority. Therefore they do not have free will. They worry more about doing what brings social harmony and maintains the status quo and inaction.

*Square two: Hard incompatibilism--things are not determined; there is no free will. This corresponds to the Guardian who is concrete and cooperative, and unable to see the connections and oneness of things. The tendency is to think that things are not determined. Guardians are also cooperative, focusing on behaving and belonging. Therefore they are more concerned with following rules and orders, therefore they do not have free will.

*Square three: Libertarianism--things are not determined; there is free will. This corresponds to the Artisans who are concrete and utilitarian, and unable to see connections. They do not see the oneness of things, and do not think things are determined. But they are utilitarian. They do what they want to do and what works. They are more spontaneous, not caring about the rule book or social harmony and maintaining the social order.

*Square 4: Compatibilism--things are determined; there is free will. This corresponds to the Rationals who are abstract and utilitarian. Abstract people recognize that things are connected; they recognize the quadrant model and see that everything is determined by this principal. There cannot be anything other than that which elucidates the quadrant model pattern. Only one thing can elucidate the quadrant model pattern. Therefore everything is determined.Rationals are also utilitarian. They therefore do not care about social harmony, following the rule book, and maintaining the status quo. They do what they want, and do what they think works and what does work. Therefore they have free will.

Free Will v. Determinism Debate

Hard Determinism- there is no free will everything is determined	Libertarianism- There is free will nothing is determined
Hard Incompatibilism- there is no free will nothing is determined	Compatibilism- There is free will and everything is determined

The Four Freedoms were US President Franklin D. Roosevelt's goals. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union. They were

Square 1: Freedom of speech

Square 2: Freedom of worship

Square 3: Freedom from want

Square 4: Freedom from fear

Joseph Smith, who founded Mormonism, carried what was called the Jupiter square. The Jupiter square contained sixteen squares.

And long ago before all of the science rules starting doing battle with the religious dogma, the 4×4 MAGIC square of Jupiter was revered, respected, and seen as having magical properties.

There is a popular book called the four Christian cults, which describe four groups of Christianity that are described by some as cults, which are square 1 Christian science, square 2 Jehovahs’ witnesses, square 3 seventh day adventists and square 4 Mormons

Ancient alien hypothesizers theorize that the gods of ancient cultures were actually aliens. A famous abduction experience is the Allagash experience, where four people were abducted. Two of them were twins. The twins represent the duality. The fourth was different from the previous three, later questioning what he experiences. Other famous alien encounters fit the quadrant model pattern.

Kaballah is the study of Jewish mysticism. In Kaballah there are five Worlds, or spiritual realms. These are

Square 1- Atziluth- emination

Square 2-Beriah-creation

Square 3-Yetzirah-formation

Square 4-Assiah-action

In Talmud studies there is literally constantly reference to "four types" of things. Rabbis will read an excerpt from the Talmud discussing the four types and then the four types would be discussed. Examples are

Square 1There are four types of people: One who says,

Square 1: "What is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine" is a boor.

Square 2: One who says "What is mine is mine, and what is yours is yours" -- this is a median characteristic; others say that this is the character of Sodom.

Square 3: One who says, "What is mine is yours, and what is yours is yours" is a chassid [pious person]. And one who says

Square 4: "What is mine is mine, and what is yours is mine" is wicked.

Another example from the Talmud is

There are four types of temperaments.

Square 1: One who is easily angered and easily appeased--his virtue cancels his flaw.

Square 2: One whom it is difficult to anger and difficult to appease--his flaw cancels his virtue.

Square 3: One whom it is difficult to anger and is easily appeased, is a chassid.

Square 4: One who is easily angered and is difficult to appease, is wicked.

A third example from the Talmud is

There are four types of student.

Square 1: One who is quick to understand and quick to forget--his flaw cancels his virtue. One who is slow to understand and slow to forget--his virtue cancels his flaw. One who is quick to understand and slow to forget--his is a good portion. One who is slow to understand and quick to forget--his is a bad portion.

A fourth example from the Talmud is

There are four types of contributors to charity.

Square 1: One who wants to give but does not want others to give--is begrudging of others.

square 2: One who wants that others should give but does not want to give--begrudges himself.

Square 3: One who wants that he as well as others should give, is a chassid. Square 4: One who want neither himself nor others to give, is wicked.

A fifth example from the Talmud is

There are four types among those who attend the study hall.

Square 1: One who goes but does nothing--has gained the rewards of going. Square 2: One who does [study] but does not go to the study hall--has gained the rewards of doing.

Square 3: One who goes and does, is a chassid.

Square 4: One who neither goes nor does, is wicked.

A sixth example from the Talmud is

There are four types among those who sit before the sages: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer and the sieve.

Square 1: The sponge absorbs all.

Square 2: The funnel takes in at one end and lets it out the other.

Square 3: The strainer rejects the wine and retains the sediment.

Square 4: The sieve rejects the coarse flour and retains the fine flour.

These are some examples of the quadrant model in the Talmud, but the Talmud is literally pervaded with such examples.

On April 15, 2014, there was a total lunar eclipse which was the first of four consecutive total eclipses in a series, known as a tetrad; a second one took place on October 8, 2014, the third one on April 4, 2015 and the remaining one took place on September 27, 2015. It is one of eight tetrads to take place during the 21st century AD. As with most lunar eclipses, the moon appeared red during the April 15 2014 eclipse.The red color is caused by Rayleigh scattering of sunlight through the Earth's atmosphere, the same effect that causes sunsets to appear red.Hagee also connects the solar eclipse of March 20, 2015 in the middle of the sequence.

The idea of a "blood moon" serving as an omen of the coming of the end times comes from the Book of Joel, where it is written "the sun will turn into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes."This phrase is again mentioned by Saint Peter during Pentecost, as recorded in Acts,although Peter says that date, not some future date, was the fulfillment of Joel's prophecy. The blood moon also appears in the book of Revelation chapter 6 verses 11 - 13,where verse 12 says " And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood".

Around 2008, Biltz began predicting that the Second Coming of Jesus would occur in the fall of 2015 with the seven years of the great tribulation beginning in the fall of 2008. He said he had "discovered" an astronomical pattern that predicted the next tetrad would coincide with the end times. When the prediction failed, he pulled the article from his website, but continued to teach on the "significance" of the tetrad.

Hagee would later seize on Biltz' prediction to write Four Blood Moon

William Wigan Harvey (on Irenaeus), and Richard Adelbert Lipsius (Gnosticismus, p. 115; Ophit. Syst. in Hilgenfeld's Zeitschrift for 1863, p. 445) have proposed Barba-Elo, 'The Deity-in Four', with reference to the tetrad, which by the report of Irenaeus proceeds from her. Her relation to this tetrad bears however no true analogy to the Col-Arba of Marcus; it forms only the earliest group of her progeny; and it is mentioned but once. Barbēlō" (Greek: Βαρβηλώ)[1] refers to the first emanation of God in several forms of Gnostic cosmogony. Barbēlō is often depicted as a supreme female principle, the single passive antecedent of creation in its manifoldness. This figure is also variously referred to as 'Mother-Father' (hinting at her apparent androgyny), 'First Human Being', 'The Triple Androgynous Name', or 'Eternal Aeon'. So prominent was her place amongst some Gnostics that some schools were designated as Barbeliotae, Barbēlō worshippers or Barbēlōgnostics.

Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung described several archetypes that are based in the observation of differing but repeating patterns of thought and action that re-appear time and again across people, countries and continents.

Jung's main archetypes are not 'types' in the way that each person may be classified as one or the other. Rather, we each have all basic archetypes within us. He listed four main forms of archetypes:

Square 1: The Shadow

Square 2: The Anima

Square 3: The Animus

Square 4: The Self

Jung describes that there were four stages of eroticism in the classical period related to four grades of the anima. They are

Square 1: Hawwah, Eve

Square 2: Helen of Troy

Square 3: The Virgin

Square 4: Sophia

The series is repeated in Goethe's Faust,with the figure of Gretchen as the symbol of instinctual relationship, square 1, Helen as the anima figure square 2, Mary as the personification of the heavenly Christian religious relationship square 3, and the eternal feminine as the expression of the alechemical Sapeintia. These were related to the four stages of the Eros cult.

Jung points out there were four stages in the Eros Cult.

Jung's view of the four stages of anima development:

Four stages of eroticism were known in the late classical period: Hawwah (Eve), Helen (of Troy), the Virgin Mary, and Sophia. The series is repeated in Goethe’s Faust: in the figure of Gretchen as the personification of a purely instinctual relationship (Eve); Helen as an anima figure; Mary as the personification of the ‘heavenly’, i.e., Christian or religious, relationship; and the ‘eternal feminine’ as an expression of the alchemical Sapienta. As the nomenclature shows, we are dealing with the heterosexual Eros, or anima-figure in four stages, and consequently with four stages of the Eros cult.

Square 1: The first stage--Hawwah, Eve, earth--is purely biological; woman ins equated with the mother and only represents something to be fertilized.

Square 2: The second stage is still dominated by the sexual eros, but on an aesthetic and romantic level where woman has already acquired some value as an individual.

Square 3: The third stage raises Eros to the heights of religious devotion and thus spiritualizes him: Hawwah has been replaced by spiritual motherhood.

Square 4:Finally the fourth stage illustrates something which unexpectedly goes beyond the almost unsurpassable third stage: Sapientia. How can wisdom transcend the most holy and most pure? – Presumably only by virtue of the truth that the less something means the more.

Thomas Moore and Douglas Gillette adopted and extended Jung’s approach in their exploration of the masculine psyche by using the collective archetypes of the King, the Warrior, the Magician, and the Lover. Obviously those four male archetypes can be translated and mapped in female clusters of virtues, specific attributes associated with four major female archetypes: the Queen, the Mother, the Wise Woman and the (female) Lover found in history and myths.

Toni Wolff, colleague and presumable lover of Carl Jung, identified four feminine archetypes: Mother, the Amazon, the Hetaira, and the Medial. Wolff at the first glance comes closer, but her model is a male-centered quadruple (male Anima structure) instead a male-female archetype symmetry: This is most evident in Wolff’s definition of the Amazon, who represents more a female in good contact with her Animus, furthermore the semi-divine Queen is missing, while her Hetaira is not quite a full lover.

Square 1: The Queen is the semi-divine leader responsible for the safety and well being. History and art have shown that every society must have not only a wise leader who is entrusted with guiding his people to success and comfort but navigate in unknown territory towards redemption. The responsibilities of the Queen are mainly on the unconscious side, but worldly benefits and virtues must be many as well. And if the Queen fails in her duties she is traditionally disposed and evil prevails. Her shadow sides are tyrant and weakling both disposing male energies.

Square 2: The Mother is like the Warrior today the most controversial of the archetypes, because of ideological former and current stereotypes. The two male (warrior) shadow sides are the Sadist and the Masochist. The Mother is a life giver who maintains humanity as the warrior clears the space for renewal and change. The prototype of the mother is, well – the mother. But there are shadows here too – the careless and the devouring mother.

Square 3: The Wise Woman, represents Logos according to Jung a feminine principle, is the archetype behind a multitude of professions like doctors, but also lawyers, teachers and priests. She sees the unseen. She is the prophetess, mediator and communicator of secret knowledge, the healer, counselor, teacher, and spiritual. The Wise Woman always has a tendency to abuse her power, being the negative , the witch.

Square 4: The Lover like the feminine principle Eros manifests energy and fertility of the nature. The gendering of Eros and Logos and synergy is a consequence of Jung’s anima/animus synergy. Lovers are at ease with our own deepest and most central values and visions. And only through union of the feminine and the masculine our culture and personality prospers and grows. The “me- society” of the impotent is sterile and without compassion and destroys any spiritual dimension.

Carl Jung was world renowned and is today even considered a literal prophet to people. His theory about psychological functions was a big inspiration in my book in that it lead to the theory of the 16 personality types of the MBTI Myers Briggs inventory.

These are the four stages of life, according to Carl Jung:

Square 1: THE ATHLETE

The athlete is the phase in our lives when we are at our most self-absorbed. There are people in our lives that have never made it out of this phase, or often revert back to it. Of the 4 stages, it tends to be the least mature. It is characterized by being obsessed with our physical bodies and appearance. For an example of the athlete phase, watch teenagers walk past a mirror. The athlete phase can be narcissistic, critical, or even both.

THE WARRIOR

Moving forward in our lives, we reach the warrior phase. This is where we begin to take on responsibilities and get the desire to conquer the world. Well, maybe not the world for some of us, but this is when we become more goal oriented. All of the sudden we can see objectives that we want to accomplish and the vanity of the athlete phase begins to fade. The warrior phase is really characterized by the struggles in our lives that early adulthood can throw at us. The warrior phase is also the most common pshase that people revert back to throughout their lives as they “re-invent” themselves.

THE STATEMENT

When the warrior phase in our lives is coming to an end, we find ourselves asking: “what have I done for others?” Your focuses shift from your personal achievements to accomplishing goals based on forwarding other people’s lives. This stage is often correlated to parenting, because your focus becomes providing a better life for your children, and what it is you need to do that. The statement phase for many people is much more than a correlation to parenting, and more about leaving a legacy or a footprint in life. The statement phase is a time to reflect on what you have accomplished, and how you can continue moving forward – not just for you, but for the other people in your life. As far as maturity goes, the statement phase is a huge step forward from even the warrior phase.

THE SPIRIT

The final stage of life is the spirit stage. In this stage, we realize that we are more than what we have accumulated – be it money, friends, possessions, good deeds, or milestones in life. We are spiritual beings. We realize that we are divine beings in a journey of life that has no real beginning and no end. The spirit phase is characterized by a sense of “getting out of your own mind” and focusing on what is waiting for us beyond our physical beings. The philosopher Lao Tzu proposed a question over 2500 years ago that perfectly describes the spirit phase: ““Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.”

Jung is considered by many to be a prophet. Like i said he established the foundation for the myers briggs model which sparked my discovery of the quadrant model of reality. He is famous bow for his red book which many see as a prophetic book of his visions other say it was him descending into madness. Jung said there were four stages into his individuation process into his step into the unconscious they were

Square 1: signpost 1 the cave he had a vision of a cave and an abyss

Square 2: signpost 2 ebtering the gatehe had a vision of the cave and entered it and saw a vision of a man/ prophet elijah and the daughter of herod who had john the baptizer beheaded (john tge baptizer was thought to be the second coning of elijah) and a house with columbs he had a vision of evenand ofysseus. Herods duaghter (herod was an edomite) tells jubg she loves him and Elijah tells jung that She is elijahs daughter. Elijah says he is one with herods daughter the woman that beheaded him and that he has been so for eternity and jung is amazed

Square 3: signpost 3 the magician jung passes the gate of the second part to meet a hermit reading the gospel of john. He meets the blind man the doctor the cook. He meets the god of the east. He is given the staff with a snake around it. He dreams of an old man flying through the air. He has a ring of four keys. He has a vision of a magician. It is philemon. He witnesses a story from ovid

Square 4: signpost 4 the fourth marker was the coming od the seven sermons to the dead. This is the conclusion of the red book. Jung said this fourth one was transcendnet. Thats the nature of the fourth square. It was differebt frok the previous three. It was the only one he published in his life. Here he meets Christ

Jung explicitly says these were the four markers that created his now renowned book the red book

Jung claimed that God told him that his purpose was to be a catalysst for the start of a new religion and a new age. It is true that the quadrant model of reality is the nature of existence,. Sinceis personality model helpedif to spark my idea of the quadrant model of reality, then he is rig

Timothy Leary developed the interpersonal circle which had four dimensions and 16 types. The quadrant model is 16 squares. Originally it had two dimensions and four types/ the quadrant.

The interpersonal circle or interpersonal circumplex is a model for conceptualizing, organizing, and assessing interpersonal behavior, traits, and motives (Wiggins, 2003). The interpersonal circumplex is defined by two orthogonal axes: a vertical axis (of status, dominance, power, or control) and a horizontal axis (of solidarity, friendliness, warmth, or love). In recent years, it has become conventional to identify the vertical and horizontal axes with the broad constructs of agency and communion (Horowitz, 2004). Thus, each point in the interpersonal circumplex space can be specified as a weighted combination of agency and communion.

Placing a person near one of the poles of the axes implies that the person tends to convey clear or strong messages (of warmth, hostility, dominance or submissiveness). Conversely, placing a person at the midpoint of the agentic dimension implies the person conveys neither dominance nor submissiveness (and pulls neither dominance nor submissiveness from others). Likewise, placing a person at the midpoint of the communal dimension implies the person conveys neither warmth nor hostility (and pulls neither warmth nor hostility from others).

The interpersonal circumplex can be divided into broad segments (such as fourths) or narrow segments (such as sixteenths), but currently most interpersonal circumplex inventories partition the circle into eight octants. As one moves around the circle, each octant reflects a progressive blend of the two axial dimensions.

There exist a variety of psychological tests designed to measure these eight interpersonal circumplex octants. For example, the Interpersonal Adjective Scales (IAS; Wiggins, 1995) is a measure of interpersonal traits associated with each octant of the interpersonal circumplex. The Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP; Horowitz, Alden, Wiggins, & Pincus, 2000) is a measure of problems associated with each octant of the interpersonal circumplex, whereas the Inventory of Interpersonal Strengths (IIS; Hatcher & Rogers, 2009) is a measure of strengths associated with each octant. The Circumplex Scales of Interpersonal Values (CSIV; Locke, 2000) is a 64-item measure of the value individuals place on interpersonal experiences associated with each octant of the interpersonal circumplex. The Person's Relating to Others Questionnaire (PROQ), the latest version being the PROQ3 is a 48-item measure developed by the British doctor John Birtchnell. Finally, the Impact Message Inventory-Circumplex (IMI; Kiesler, Schmidt, & Wagner, 1997) assesses the interpersonal dispositions of a target person, not by asking the target person directly, but by assessing the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that the target evokes in another person. Since interpersonal dispositions are key features of most personality disorders, interpersonal circumplex measures can be useful tools for identifying or differentiating personality disorders (Kiesler, 1996; Leary, 1957; Locke, 2006.

Originally coined Leary Circumplex or Leary Circle after Timothy Leary is defined as "a two-dimensional representation of personality organized around two major axes".[1]

During the twentieth century, there were a number of efforts by personality psychologists to create comprehensive taxonomies to describe the most important and fundamental traits of human nature. Leary would later become famous for his controversial LSD experiments at Harvard. His circumplex, developed in 1950, is a circular continuum of personality formed from the intersection of two base axes: Power and Love. The opposing sides of the power axis are dominance and submission, while the opposing sides of the love axis are love and hate (Wiggins, 1996).

Leary argued that all other dimensions of personality can be viewed as a blending of these two axes. For example, a person who is stubborn and inflexible in their personal relationships might graph her personality somewhere on the arc between dominance and love. However, a person who exhibits passive–aggressive tendencies might find herself best described on the arc between submission and hate. The main idea of the Leary Circumplex is that each and every human trait can be mapped as a vector coordinate within this circle.

Furthermore, the Leary Circumplex also represents a kind of bull's eye of healthy psychological adjustment. Theoretically speaking, the most well-adjusted person of the planet could have their personality mapped at the exact center of the circumplex, right at the intersection of the two axes, while individuals exhibiting extremes in personality would be located on the circumference of the circle.

The Leary Circumplex offers three major benefits as a taxonomy. It offers a map of interpersonal traits within a geometric circle. It allows for comparison of different traits within the system. It provides a scale of healthy and unhealthy expressions of each trait

The cosmogram was a core symbol of the Kongo culture. An ideographic religious symbol, the cosmogram was called dikenga dia Kongo or tendwa kia nza-n' Kongo in the KiKongo language.[1][2][3] Ethnohistorical sources and material culture demonstrate that the Kongo cosmogram existed as a long-standing symbolic tradition within the BaKongo culture before European contact in 1482, and that it continued in use in West Central Africa through the early twentieth century.[1] In its fullest embellishment, this symbol served as an emblematic representation of the Kongo people, and summarized a broad array of ideas and metaphoric messages that comprised their sense of identity within the cosmos.[4]

A widely used psychological test in this country the Leary Interpersonal Analysis Grid (1957) divides the four quadrants into sixteen sub-quadrants and allows one to grade each in terms of moderate-to-excessive tendency to behave that way.' The model was developed by Timothy Leary.

The Eight-Circuit Model of Consciousness is a hypothesis proposed by Timothy Leary and expanded on by Robert Anton Wilson and Antero Alli as well as Laurent Huguelit. The model describes eight circuits of information (eight "brains") that operate within the human nervous system, each corresponding to its own layer of the direct experience of reality.

Four of these, called the "larval circuits" and the "lower" set, deal with normal psychology. The other four are proposed as being "higher", and called the "stellar circuits". This latter group deal with altered states of consciousness, such as enlightenment, mystical experiences, psychedelic states of mind, and psychic abilities.

Leary thought that the first four circuits reside in the left hemisphere of the brain or the cerebrum. The later four were said to reside in the right hemisphere.

Angel Tech by Antero Alli, is structured around the eight-circuit model. In the book, the first four circuits are associated with robotic ("tech") aspects of humanity, and the final four are related to the "angelic" nature. It includes suggested activities such as meditations and construction of tarot-card collages associated with each circuit.

Leary believed that the first four of these circuits ("the Larval Circuits" or "Terrestrial Circuits") are naturally accessed by most people in their lifetimes, triggered at natural transition points in life such as puberty. The second four circuits ("the Stellar Circuits" or "Extra-Terrestrial Circuits"), Leary wrote, were "evolutionary offshoots" of the first four that would be triggered at transition points which humans might acquire if they evolve. These circuits, according to Leary, would equip humans to encompass life in space, as well as the expansion of consciousness that would be necessary to make further scientific and social progress. Leary suggested that some people may "shift to the latter four gears", i.e., trigger these circuits artificially via consciousness-altering techniques such as meditation and spiritual endeavors such as yoga, or by taking psychedelic drugs specific to each circuit. The feeling of floating and uninhibited motion experienced by users of marijuana is one thing that Leary cited as evidence for the purpose of the "higher" four circuits. In the eight-circuit model of consciousness, a primary theoretical function of the fifth circuit (the first of the four, according to Leary, developed for life in outer space) is to allow humans to become accustomed to life in a zero- or low-gravity environment

They system is divided into two fours and both fours fit the quadrant model nature in that their qualities reflect the qualities of the quadrant model squares

Robert Farris Thompson describes it as thus: "Coded as a cross, a quartered circle or diamond, a seashell spiral, or a special cross with solar emblems at each ending - the sign of the four moments of the sun is the Kongo emblem of spiritual continuity and renaissance par excellence. In certain rites it is written on the earth, and a person stands upon it to take an oath, or to signify that he or she understands the meaning of life as a process shared with the dead below the river or the sea - the real sources of earthly power and prestige, in Kongo thinking... The intimation, by shorthand geometric statements, of mirrored worlds within the spiritual journey of the sun, is the source and illumination of some of the more important sculptural gestures and decorative signs pertaining to funerary monuments and objects designated for deposit on the surface of funerary tombs, or otherwise connected with funerary ceremonies and the end of life."

History- The pilgrims who first came to America were very religious. They saw themselves as modern Israelites fleeing the old corrupt world of Europe to a new promised land. They saw the Atlantic Ocean as being like the Read Sea. America was like Cannan. The Americas were first divided into four distinct regions. They were

square 1: New England

square 2: Middle Colonies

square 3: Chesapeake Bay Colonies-Upper south

square 4: Lower south. The fourth was different from the previous three. The fourth is always different. A possible fifth region was the frontier.

Christopher Columbus interestingly took four voyages that fit the quadrant model pattern. Christopher Columbus was highly religious and thought he would help bring the second coming of the Messiah.

There are other interesting things related to the quadrant model in religion. For instance there were four very famous rabbis that are highly looked up to. Marshall Applewhite of Heaven’s gate cult had his members do four things that fit the quadrant model. Alien channelers often receive messages from aliens that fit the quadrant model. I had tons of examples of the quadrant model in these aspects on my phone but I lost all of my notes in a tragic scenario, but the quadrant model permeates, and I mean utterly permeates religious texts.

Joseph Campbell was a renowned scholar of religion and mythology. He said that there is a fourfold function to mythology. His fourfold division fits the quadrant model. It is

Square 1: the metaphysical function. Campbell said that myths are supposed to awaken an awe of the mystery of being. Campbell believed that symbols in mythology resonated with fundamental Truths of existence and helped to inspire insight and inquiry. While not literally true, myths were true in that they had metaphorical significance that was transcendent.

Square 2: the cosmological function. Explaining the shape of the universe. Campbell also believed that mythology was a proto-science for ancient people. Campbell felt that myths were an attempt to explain phenomena in existence such as the seasons that were otherwise incomprehensible.

Square 3: the sociological function. Campbell believed that myths glued people together and gave support to the social order and taught people what to do and how to do it. But he also noticed a common dimension of mythology called the hero's journey, in which a member of a group is asked to go above and beyond social conformity and consensus and even break rules in order to survive and help his people. So while myths confirm the social order, they also give some impetus to step beyond it and motivate evolution, which is a necessary component of survival.

Square 4: Pedagogical function. Myths are used to help guide people through stages of their lives.

Joseph Campbell was an expert of mythology and studied myths of people around the world extensively. It was his research that lead him to the conclusion that myths were not static but evolved. Mythologists agree with Campbell on his theory of the evolution of myth. Campbell pointed out four stages in the transformation of myths of different cultures. They stages of myth development are

Square 1- The way of the animal powers. These are the myths of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers which focus on shamanism and animal totems. The first square is always weird and very spiritual. Shamanism is very esoteric and animal totemism is considered very primitive but is considered by scholars of religion the foundation of religion.

Square 2- The way of the seeded Earth. The myths of Neolithic, agrarian cultures which focus upon a mother goddess and associated fertility rites. The second square is more peaceful and about homeostasis and order and sustenance, which is associated to agriculture. Campbell felt that totemistic and Mother Goddess worship remnants remained in later stages of myth development. The nature of the quadrant model is each square builds on the next and contains elements of the previous squares. There are Churches such as the Church of God and Christian Science that believe that the Bible refers to a mother Goddess, or at least contains evidence that a mother Goddess was once worshipped, and they even believe she should still be acknowledged.

Square 3- The way of the celestial life. The myths of Bronze Age city-states with pantheons of gods ruling from the heavens, led by a masculine god-king. Campbell felt that evidence showed that these cultures were more violent. An example of the violence can be seen in the Bible with the god-king of the Bible. The third square is always more violent and considered bad. The third square is more masculine.

Square 4- The way of man.religion and philosophy as it developed after the Axial Age (c. 6th century BC). Mythic imagery of previous eras was made consciously metaphorical, and were seen as referring to psycho-spiritual, not literal-historical, subjects. This transition can be witnessed in the East in Buddhism, Vedanta, and philosophical Taoism. The transition can also be glimpsed West in the Mystery cults, Platonism, Christianity and Gnosticism. The fourth square is always more mental and philosophical, and different from the previous three.

Joseph Campbell's 'The Hero's Journey' Reimagined by Lisa Paitz Spindler demonstrates four stages in the heroes journey that Joesph Campbell sayys that all heroic figures from all cultures parttake in.

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