With Multiplicity and Reciprocal transformation added later to the earlier fourteen forms, there are now sixteen forms. While rereading the Futuhat in search of these two forms, we also noticed other patterns that fit none of the sixteen but seem hard to grasp by everyday reason. Our reader agents marked them with short names. This page is only the list of those markings: we have not yet read any of them side by side with physics, we have not looked for sources, and we are not stating any closeness.
Each line has the name of the pattern, a one-sentence description, and the sections where it occurs. The names and descriptions are our working labels, the reader agents' own words; they are not Dost's words.
List
- CHAIN OF RESEMBLANCE: a graded series in which each level is ranked as the one most resembling the one before it (Haba, light, air, water, metal, wood) (c1k6)
- YES-AND-NO: yes and no given together as the answer to the same question (c1k14)
- INTERMEDIATE STATE: signs of life and of death appearing together in the same body (c2k20)
- TWO-VIEWS: the same object appearing as different things in the eyes of two viewers, and it not being known which of them is blind (c2k23)
- BETWEEN-TWO-STATES: a state of being that is neither dead nor alive, continuing between two extremes (c2k26)
- CONSCIOUSNESS-ACTION SPLIT: others reporting that a person's deeds continue unimpaired while the person is beside himself (c4k43)
- SEEING FROM EVERY SIDE: the whole essence turning into a single eye and seeing every direction at once (c4k44)
- KNOWLEDGE-JUDGMENT SPLIT: the judgment operating according to the apparent evidence while the known truth stays as it is (c4k47)
- JUDGMENT ACCORDING TO LEVEL: the same event or matter gives two different but equally valid conclusions according to the level of the one who reads it (c4k50, c4k51)
- DUALITY OF ORDER: the same truth is lived in two orderings, before or after seeing (c5k55)
- INTERPRETATION: the beginning of a dream's or form's coming to be outside through the act of its being told and interpreted (c8k117)
- TASTE-TRANSMISSION: knowledge being obtainable only through the relevant sense or state, and not transmissible in words (c10k129)
- TRIPLE LINK: no contingent comes into being from one, but with a third (a middle term) linking the two (c11k140)
- TALISMAN: three dominating powers that surround the human being and cannot be lifted (thought, imagination, habit) (c12k145)
- ARTIFICIAL BEING: a being in human form, made from human seed in a certain measure and time, who lives a year but cannot speak (c11k141)
- HESITATION-CHOICE: on the tablet several possibilities continue, and when one is realized the hesitation lifts (c11k136)
- RETURN WITH A TRACE: in the return to the beginning, a trace of the separation remaining; the state returned to not being the same as the first state (c14k158, c14k164)
- OSCILLATION OF NEGATION AND AFFIRMATION: a single verb in the same sentence being negated, affirmed, and negated again, not staying fixed in any of them (c14k159)
- FINITE ATTACHMENT, INFINITE KNOWN: the bond between knower and known being a temporal attachment, and the known things being unlimited (c14k165)
- EXCESSIVE NEARNESS, INVISIBILITY: something not being seen because it is too near our eye (c14k166)
- ATTRIBUTION TO THE WHOLE: the act of parts that appear separate being ascribed to the whole and not to the part (c15k171)
- NO SECOND TO SEPARATE: the means of separating going to waste when there are not two sides to be separated (c15k171)
- TWO OPPOSITE NAMES AT ONCE: the same person being counted in the same sentence as one who believes and one who covers (c15k171)
- DIVIDING LINE IN IMAGINATION: the separator that establishes duality does not exist outside (c15k173)
- TWO PLACES, TWO TRUTHS: the same relation being told from the two sides in opposite ways, and both being true (c15k174)
- UNITING TWO FORMS: one being carrying together the forms of two different levels (c15k175)
- COMMAND BEFORE THE ADDRESSEE: the command being given while the addressee does not yet exist (c15k175)
- PROMISE KEPT, THREAT LEFT: the two kinds of word not having the same binding force (c15k176)
- FRONT FACE, INNER FACE: what appears outside and what is inside being under opposite rulings (c15k176)
- SIGN OUTSIDE, INSIDE: the same sign being visible in one place and being realized hidden in another (c15k177)
- SUBORDINATE PILLARS: knowledge, speech, and willing being subordinate to the addressee's own state (c15k177)
- ONE WHO KNOWS WHAT HE SEES HAS NOT SEEN: seeing being defined together with knowing that one cannot encompass what is seen (c15k178)
- RULING BORN IN THE MIXTURE: a quality arising in neither of two elements but in the mixture between them (c15k179)
- EXPLAINING IS NECESSITY: the one who explains knowledge not counting the explaining as from his own will (c15k180)
- KNOWING AND FAITH AT ONCE: two different levels being found together in the same person (c15k180)
- THE VISIBLE UNPROTECTED: what is more visible being described as more unprotected (c15k181)
- BEING THROUGH UNDERSTANDING: a thing coming into being by understanding the command directed to it (c15k183)
- TRIPLE STRUCTURE: creation being realized not with two ends but with a third term (the word) that links them (c15k187)
- ASYMMETRY OF DIRECTION: the bond between two sides being counted valid in one direction and not said or not holding in the reverse (c15k195, c15k197, c15k202)
- FORM NOT YET ENTERED: a person seeing his own form, which is in the state of fixity but has not yet appeared, before him like another's, and denying it (c15k196)
- VEIL OF EXCESSIVE NEARNESS: the reason a thing cannot be seen being not distance but being excessively near to it (c15k201)
- VEIL OF RESEMBLANCE: the renewed creation at every moment becoming invisible through successive similar states (c16k208)
- IDENTITY OF WITNESS AND JUDGE: the one who gives the judgment being the same as the one who witnesses the subject of the judgment (c16k208)
- NARROWNESS OF PARTNERSHIP: the breadth narrowing by the same field being counted as shared, and the ruling of the number being odd or even (c16k212)
What will we do with these?
For now we have done nothing. We will decide together which ones are worth reading; those chosen are taken up, like the other forms, first with Dost's own words and then with physics sources.