ELEMENTS OF METAPHYSICAL ARCHTYPOLOGY: BEEINGS AND DIFFERENTIALS
ELEMENTS OF METAPHYSICAL ARCHTYPOLOGY: BEEINGS AND DIFFERENTIALS

Summary/Abstract: The heterocosmical fiction of a world that the individual is heading to, a world possible at present as well as in the future had involved the idea of compensatory universe composed by worlds that are equally possible and accessible during the lifetime of after death (the vertical Christian universe, divided in stories by customs of the heavens, and the gnostic supra-storied universe with the 365 circles, or the Judaic Hekhalot universe). In the gnostic debate, the man has a double allogeneic identity: he is first “cast” into the world and isolated in a hostile, strictly delimited space, and then he becomes a stranger also in relation with his origins. Unlike the Christian’s position into the world, the position of the gnostic “is tensed in an insoluble anguish” which makes impossible his simultaneous relation to the physical world and to the divine space and which leads to confusion and eschatological pessimism. The frontier between man and world is doubled by the customs firmly outlined between man and God; in this point, the gnostic intellectualism of “extraction from the world” is fundamentally different from the Christian one which has elaborated a more nuanced vocabulary of the metaphysics frontiers with the purpose of marking the itinerary of the individual return to the celestial homeland. Reading the existential individualism in gnostic terms is useful in understanding the modern polychronic identity the origin of which could be represented by the gnostic motive of the man cast into the world.

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