Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it. – Giordano Bruno, Cause, Principle, & Unity

Common. All. Together. Shared. Soul. The fully-unfolded life of the Unique. Common-Soul. The shared and fully-unfolded life of the community-of-communities.

Everything is Unique, itself-in-itself and irreplaceable by any other. Each Unique uniques, or unfolds as that-which-it-is. The totality of this unfolding is the soul, the essence or form that the Unique takes in-itself. Every Unique unfolds in a world, as a world, among worlds. In-the-world, the Unique finds-itself appearing in a moment of many-unfoldings, the echoic sea of the already unfolding creating-begetting-proceeding of life-itself. As-a-world, the Unique unfolds a way-of-being that is particular to itself, en-formed by the Unique enfleshment of the anima that the Unique animates and the way that the Unique matters matter in its unfolding. Among-worlds, the Unique unfolds in a space-between other Uniques, each unfolding in their overlapping uniquing and intertwining in togethers, or shared-uniquings of unique togethers.

In-a-world, as-a-world, among-worlds, the unique togethering of each together intertwines with the togethering of others, forming a community, a together-of-togethers conjoined in their common unfolding. These communities themselves are togethers that join with other togethers in their common unfolding, birthing the community-of-communities. Each Unique unfolds their soul as the totality of their uniquing, en-habiting and en-worlding the many placetimes that grow in that unfolding. These placetimes are likewise planted in the unfolding of the togethers that these Uniques form, incarnating the commons, which is the shared-placetime of the unfolding of a community. The totality of the intertwining of all togethers in the community-of-communities, understood in terms of the whole of that unfolding, is the common-soul, whose commons is the cosmos and whose placetime is creation-itself.

The flourishing of each Unique as the good-that-it-is and in the good-that-it-makes depends on how their uniquing is joined in these patterns of togethers, tying the good of each Unique to the good of the togethers it is a part of. The good of each together then intertwines with the together-of-togethers, which itself intertwines with the community-of-communities. In committing ourselves to the good of a Unique, we then commit ourselves to the good of the togethers we together with that Unique, and ultimately to the community-of-communities that we form with all. This commitment is incarnated in the commons of our togethering, being en-habited and en-worlded in the intertwined, en-timed, and en-placed unfolding of each Unique. In intimately-committed togethers, this commons is the doma, the shared-placetime that incarnates the love of the together, soul-mates tending to the garden of the doma in attending to one another. This doma is the hearth of the good where each Unique is lovingly-brought-into ethical subjectivity, en-forming their own commitments and togetherings and en-habiting the good of the common-soul in en-habiting the good of their own unfolding. The good of all dwells in the good of each and the good of each dwells in the good of all.

To become who we are, we must become the cosmos.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. – Baruch Spinoza, Ethics prop. 29

Image: Flowers of the Universal Flowering by Pavel Filonov (1916)