The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe; complete early version manuscript, organized in four books with Preface and Epilogue
01/01/19881080-page complete working-manuscript with double-sided printing, used also as a review-copy with comments included; organized in four parts with the following Table of Contents:
Preface: The Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe
Book One – The Nature of Order: 1. What is Order; 2. The idea of “Life”; 3. The Wholeness which Exists in Things; 4. The Field of Centers: Degree of Wholeness as Degree of Life; 5. Fifteen Fundamental Properties; 6. The Fifteen Properties in Nature; 7. Each Thing has its Life
Book Two – The Ground: 8. Wholeness and Feeling: The Personal Nature of Order; 9. The Mirror of the Self; 10. Each Center is a Mirror of the Self; 11. Color and Inner Light; 12. The Ground of “I”
Book Three – The Art of Building: 13. Outline of the Art of Building: The Concept of a Single Fundamental Operation; 14. Always Preserve Wholeness; 15. The Process of Creating Centers; 16. The Craft of Making; 17. The Sequence of Unfolding; 18. Reach for Deep Feeling; 19. Emergence of a Being; 20. Life as Simplicity; 21. The Face of God
Book Four – Cosmology: 22. The Nature of the Universe
Epilogue.
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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 ...