A Shapely and Handsome Fable, chapter 1

The following are tales of human knowledge and wit as described by Thomas Taylor in his Dissertation about Aristotle, noted, extracted, and written up in simple English by Teresa Pelka:
Hear ye a fable,
let a fable be announced.
Words may refer,
translate within same tongue,
as love or hate
affinity or contest.
Teresa Pelka

The name Aristo-teles may be interpreted as that for someone who likes good looks; the name Plato, with the Greek word πλάσσω, would suit someone in favor of good shapes. At the end, the book has a glossary. Resources (bibliography):
Thomas Taylor, ■A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle;
Thomas Taylor, ■Collectanea;
Thomas Taylor, ■Aristotle, Physics.

Philosopher Handsome spoke and wrote about knowledge like he had the legendary Manual for Earth and the Universe at hand. People admired his mind for a good embrace on the variegated domains of Nature.

Handsome papers became little known in their proper shape after emperor Justinian damaged schools of philosophy. Philologue Taylor says, since that time there has been much fallacy and nothingness in the place of proper philosophical schooling.

Handsome learned his trade, and his teacher was philosopher Shapely. Things between Shapely and Handsome may look discordant at times, but the two agreed on the main points, says the philologue.

Both Shapely and Handsome used words as being and supernatural to mean no ghosts or angels. “Beings” are those in the state of be-ing, and “super-natural” are those you look up in the sky. Natural was the surface of Earth, and the super-natural was above.

Handsome meant Earth when he said “physical” or “natural”. It was translation to say fysei in Greek and naturae in Latin. Handsome focused mostly on Nature, and Shapely liked to think about theory.

Some difficulty in reading Handsome works may have come with their concision. He would say in a few words what other people took a few sentences to tell. It was yet both Handsome and Shapely to say “God” alone, where they believed something was of the Design by the Mind. They did not mean God was on Earth. They meant the Design was by God.

Shapely wrote, True Be-ing was “perpetual and invariable in subsisting; allotted an essence that was established entire at once and together, without interval, impartibly in eternity”.

We could say today, it was some perfect stasis for any, also subnuclear thread, and that stasis was put on in a nick of time, in some super-natural niche to create a physical universe. Both philosophers would say the True Being was God — the same as people say Dior or Armani today for design and product. The original Creator is not the stasis. The original Creator made and used stasis.

Theories are today that if you halted an atom or about that amount of movement, you’d get a big bang. You’d only have to halt it completely or — perfectly, if to find another word. You’d have to find another world too, because no big bang would keep its place of origin intact.

We obviously have noticed that black holes were discovered in 1916, and the impartible by Shapely and Handsome pretty much covers the occurrence, but we resolved not to act surprised, throughout this work. Then, if you never act that, why be that.

It was not us to name the cosmic impartible. It does not really meet all semantic requirements for holes — you cannot see through them or consider anything actually leaking — and maybe they are sleeves of sorts.

It is not impossible people knew about those depth sleeves in Antiquity already.

Shapely says the world we live in derives from the True Being, but things have to be separate. It is an either-or, whether you want the natural world you live in, or something absolutely still for a while.

The natural world always becomes, says Shapely. It can exist only as long as its parts, though sometimes very tiny, sustain a spin and interval.

The nuclei are called atoms sometimes, but an a-tomos is necessarily something that cannot be split or divided. Ancients did not exclude humans from possession of such an impartible thing. There is probably something indivisible in every human being, they said. It allows eternal life after death of the physical body.

The human indivisible would not be the same as the cosmic impartible. “Soul indivisible fiber” might render the human phenomenon.

The something would be inside your body, but you could make observations on it relative to Earth gravitation. Suspended, people could swing as here. Having had some fun personally swinging, we would like to note, the inner factor obviously is not a propeller.

You would not readily ascribe the thing pictured below to muscle power only, were you ever to cut a tree. Everyone has own indivisible, the conclusion is. It couldn’t be the springs make it alone. Ask a physicist if there’s an equation.

We’ve found a few more such pictures. The indivisible or impartible — these can be synonyms in context — would allow play on gravity in this partible world. No animal could do the things. You’re volitional to do this. Apes have tails.

Some guys in Africa look like they naturally have had a tradition to balance something within their bodies against earthly gravitation. These here look like the soul indivisible allows coming at an interval with earthly gravitation. The indivisible carries sometimes, if you look at the purple fella.

Otherwise, they’d be jumping their bodies entire, like the Riverdance with their shoulders and heads. The Riverdance obviously has its merits, and this here is just to compare. The African guys should have a show to tour the world too.

Naturally, Russians cannot be denied some spirit. By the way, if they have spirit, and you have spirit, and you go to war against them, as this seems to have been the fashion on Earth since Napoleon at least, would it be there is a guarantee you do not end up belligerent in some afterlife, only without the favorable earthly conditions? We don’t know; you reckon.

We know there are birds that “dance” similar to that African dance, but humans do not have wings and aerodynamic bones, so we believe this makes a whole lot of a difference.

Back to the general framework, Earth and the known cosmos are gated interval, spin and sustainment, which philosophy we shall discuss further in chapter 5. “Gated ” means there is a constant, like Einstein noticed with his mc square.

Says philosopher Shapely, about the gated thread and particle for the Sun, Moon, and Earth — they continue to need the True Being, that is, the perfect stasis. There would be something beyond time, or, to be realistic, beyond interval, in this relationship.

Oh, time. Imagine you were to sail in a slow tune, like the beginning of the Stairway to Heaven, or there would be something faster to choose, like this piece by the Sisters of Mercy.

Time is interval in our universe, this is why it would “slow” at the sleeves, or black holes, as the name goes. If it were objectively a dimension of its own, time would not slow for the deep sleeve horizon (or “black hole” horizon). It would be independent, because time is not really space. Well, we never believed in time travel, so we’re not disappointed.

Further, our belief in earthly quantity is not unyielding. Some guys would say it is unheard of in the physical world, that you can’t exactly measure it and it is. Superconductors yet have areas of uncertain charge, and you can go on without strict prescription on parameter.

We reckon, you don’t need a physical measure for a soul too.

Handsome never agreed to use the word to generate together with perpetuity, and his name for the True Being is the First Mover, but Shapely would refrain from excess emphasis on beginnings: you invoke the beginnings only if they are context.

Both philosophers partook in disputes with contemporaries, but much of those never could make any difference. Issues were raised if the First Mover or True Being would make all Earth part in something good, whereas everybody knew that some things were good, and some things were not.

There is yet an important note about anima, a Latin name among Greek ways to talk about the soul. Romans had the name animal for any earthly creature that could move about. What followed, some people started to think that people were animals, or intellect was different or separate from the soul.

The Latin was only to tell that people were the kind of life that by nature could move about. Plants could not, and they were life too.

Shapely noted, “Nature wove together with eternity”, to create man. The soul indivisible would belong with that eternal nature, and we may recommend ■philosopher Honeybee, in renown for excellence in matters of man.

Shapely and Handsome both made the reservation: that which makes, makes that which is made, and no more. In other words, the Creator gave like a bud, and all the rest is up to the human being.

Everybody has own fiber of eternity. The time he or she was born was the new beginning for him or her and that own fiber, from the bud. Any follow up yet is not God’s responsibility. Otherwise, Creation would be Driving, and life would be hell.

Shapely speculated, the Creator maybe made forms that could pre-subsist in the partible world, as paradigms could in language. Handsome opposed. He said, ideas could only exist in real time on Earth, and you could not have two real times. A verb does not pre-subsist for a noun. A verb is when it actually is. It does not mean you could not think about a verb when you say a noun. It is something about pre-subsisting.

Handsome would joke to ask, was there a pre-existent Design for ■horses to roll in the partible world?

Philologue Thomas Taylor included some words between Aristotle and Alexander the Great:
◊ Alexander wishing prosperity to Aristotle. You have not done right in publishing your acroamatic works: for in what shall we surpass others, if the doctrines in which we were instructed become common to all men? I indeed would rather excel in the knowledge of the most excellent things.
◊ Aristotle to Alexander, wishing prosperity. You wrote to me concerning my acroamatic works, thinking that they ought not to have been divulged. Know, therefore, that they are published and not published; for they can be understood by my auditors alone. Farewell.

Simplicius noted, Aristotle preferred obscurity to every other veil, and thus we read.

End of Chapter 1, philologist Teresa Pelka.

From the glossary

# universal: general purpose; see more in ■Wiktionary.

# variegate: to allow multiple frames or forms; From Latin varie & agere, cf. Wycliffe Gloss, ■Algat; cf. ■Wiktionary.

# wisdom: judgment, opinion; see more in ■Wiktionary.

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