The Oiko-symbolon

The Oiko-symbolon (ecology symbol), a resting ellipse bisected by a horizontal line, is a dyadic mandala of the Self, of the wholeness of a pair of opposites; in this case of man and Nature/God, conscious ego and Unconscious, individual and collective, and organism and Biosphere; i.e., microcosm and Macrocosm.  It is possibly more primal and certainly more essential and profound than any quadratic mandala.  It represents the 'tessera hospitalitatus', a friendship token broken into two halves which are shared between Host and guest when they part and meant to be a sign of recognition when the guest is received back by the Host to his House (in this case, the Biosphere).  Then the two shards are compared and when fit together they become as one again, creating overwhelming numinosity.  This token-mended is the sign of a new covenant between the two, never to be parted again and to stay in harmony thenceforth.

If this dyadic relationship is not remade, if the two halves of the above-mentioned dyads are not recombined as symbolized by the mended token, then the problem of human evil is not solved, Man and Nature will be destroyed, which will be the ultimate Evil.  And so this symbolon serves as the Ecology symbol.

Reunited under covenant, the two-become-one can deal with the ancient instincts that drive evil.  Only by combining the powers and talents of human conscious ego and the unfathomable Numinosum's undifferentiated-continuum adjustment can the problem be solved, in a transformation of the mind/Mind, an optimal reordering under the Self, which is the Drygand, synthesis of numinous God and the banal human.  He is striving to bring about the Menning, a manifestation of a state of integration of the human ego-mind's conscious clarity, focus, and pattern-recognition with God's Whole-system functioning.  Drygand mediates God and man, seeks to coordinate them progressively.  Something unprecedented will come from this cooperation.  Ecology is the master-idea of the Menning, combining the critical pairs of opposites into a single integrated system, beyond banal good-and-evil, overriding them, because saving the Biosphere is the ultimate Good, sine qua non.  In fact, Ecology is the new God, beyond the old dualist God.  Drygand embodies Ecology, as a dyadic chimaera similar to the two halves of the Oiko-symbolon fit together and bonded in union.  Ecology manifests the archetypal urge for survival of all Life, and Drygand is its incarnation, and its champion: God-Self-Nature-Life.

note: It is whispered that the rejoining of the Oiko-symbolon is the mythic cult-act of the reputed Ecological Mysteries, in which the initiate is received and welcomed back into the House by the Host.  Of this we can say no more.

Oiko-(Gk)-- from oikos= house.
Menning= the ecological culture-civilization.