The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe; complete early version manuscript, organized in five parts with Preface and Epilogue
01/01/1988An approximately 900-page complete working-manuscript, with double-sided printing, and double column page layout; organized in five parts with the following Table of Contents:
Preface: The Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe
Part One – The Nature of Order: 1. What is Order; 2. The Idea of “Life”; 3. The Wholeness Which Exists in Things; 4. The Fiels of Centers; 5. Fifteen Fundamental Properties; 6. The Fifteen Properties in Nature; 7. Life Emerges from the Field
Part Two – The Ground: 8. The Mirror of the Self; 9. Pure Unity; 10. Color and Inner Light; 11. The “I”; 12. The Personal Nature of Order
Part Three – The Art of Building: 13. Outline of the Art of Building; 14. A Worked Example; 15. The Process of Unfolding; 16. Identifying the Major Centers which will Create the Field; 17. The Process of Creating Smaller Centers; 18. Actual Making: Creating the Smallest Centers
Part Four – Unifying Space: 19. Always Making Larger Wholes; 20. Unifying Space by making Wholes; 21. Wholeness-Preserving Transformations; 22. The Deep Feeling which Guides the Process; 23. Simplicity and Symmetry; 24. Emergence of a Being; 25. The Face of God
Book Five – Cosmology: 26. The Nature of the Universe
Epilogue: the Art of Building.
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book One - The Phenomenon of Life
01/01/2002
“The Phenomenon of Life”, the first volume of “The Nature of Order” series proposes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life and sets this understanding of order as an intellectual basis for ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Two - The Process of Creating Life
01/01/2002
“The Process of Creating Life”, the second volume of “The Nature of Order” series presents a dynamic theory of living structure. It begins with an analysis of transformations, which occur in nature, and the distinction between structure-preserving transformations, responsible for ...
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The Nature of Order - An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
Book Four - The Luminous Ground
01/01/2004
“The Luminous Ground” is the fourth and last volume of “The Nature of Order” series. In this volume, Alexander attempts to show the cosmological underpinning of the nature of order. The book has two goals. First, to show that the ...