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What is necessary to the observation and interpretation of Semiotic Language is a context of communication to distinguish actual communication from ordinary and co-incidental occurrence. This is
Spiritual Context. Much of reality is determined by automatic processes.
The wind blows the leaf off the tree and the water streams down the hill by the force of gravity. Thus Semiotic Language is the manipulation by spiritual agencies, of automatic or other processes to produce some affect as a communication. Events are meaningless without a context of interpretation. This context can give to the ambiance of bird calls a meaning in which to listen and make an interpretation when the situation seems proper.
If a sudden storm blows in, it has no particular context and no specific meaning. On the other hand, if one had just performed a bit of magic, the intention of which was to produce a change in the weather, then a context is provided and the storm takes on a meaning it would not otherwise have had. If one thinks such as "What is my worth in this meaningless life?", and there suddenly appears a beautiful rainbow, there-then the question provides a context for the rainbow, which while it does not exactly answer the question, it may be of some reassurance.
Context can be something like the I Ching, which is a ready made system for interpreting chance mechanisms. The context is a question, in which the numerical values of the mechanism of chance as sticks or coins, is compared to previously written material as a comment on the question.
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