Boundaries and Limits of Conception
The outermost words: the ones that name where thought and language stop, gathered in one place so the rest of the vocabulary can stand on solid ground.
A language for a civilization needs terms for its own edges. Not to pretend to reach past them, but so that everything inside them can be said with confidence. This is the section of the Lexicon that holds those terms, and reading it is the fastest way to see the shape of the whole.
It gathers the names of the Source and the names for the totality that flows from it; spirit; what transcends and what is manifest; incarnation; the ladder from archetype through prototype to instance; the beginning and the end; and the paired poles by which everything else is oriented — good, better, best, and Heaven on one side, their opposites and Hell on the other; deep, deeper, deepest; higher, highest. It holds levels of abstraction, the individual and local beside the universal and eternal, and the family of meta words by which the language steps up a level to look at itself.
Two disciplines govern it. The first is the limit statement: each of these names points and does not contain, and the pointing is said out loud. The second is that the absolute is not concretized — the centre is not turned into a thing, a faction or a possession, because a named and owned Absolute is precisely what the old order made of it.
What the section is for, practically, is orientation. A reader who knows these words can place any other word in the language: nearer the centre or further out, higher or deeper, universal or local.
Also called: the outermost words Stands on: The LIØNSBERG Lexicon · Limit Statement · The Ineffable · Meta Opens onto: ØNE · All · Transcendence · Immanence · Levels of Abstraction · The Creative Cascade · Do Not Concretize the Absolute · Heaven On Earth · Hell On Earth In play: beyond Sources: The LIØNSBERG Lexicon, "Boundaries and Limits of Conception" (draft; the section is a list of named entries, most without bodies) · lionsberg.wiki: The LIØNSBERG Lexicon Open: many of the section's entries are links to pages that do not yet exist — of eight sampled, two had bodies — so the boundary is presently drawn by names more than by articulations. Limit Statement, which governs how the whole section should be read, is among the missing.