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Let’s call them Circle One, Circle Two, Circle Three and - you guessed it - Circle Four. There is no need to call them that way or in that sequence, but from now on we’ll assume that Circle One is always at the top, Circle Two is the left one in the middle, Circle Three is the right one in the middle and Circle Four is the one at the bottom.
It looks like only Divine Principle texts use this way of explaining things, but the approach is actually quite common.
Circle One stands for the plan - or the maker of the plan (depends on what’s is being explained.)
Circle Two and Three stand for the components needed to carry out the plan.
Circle Four stands for the result - of the attempt to carry out the plan.
An example says more than a thousand words - not really, actually, but anyway, let’s have one.
Family XYZ gathered around the table to talk about er... Divine Principle and the Four Position Foundation. It started okay, but after 65 seconds or so it became boring. Obviously, a change of topic is in order.
So let’s talk about Pizza. If family XYZ makes it through 35-37 minutes of DP talk, including all sidesteps, then they want to eat Pizza.
That sounds like plan - write it into Circle One. We need to be a bit clearer than that, but after 1500+ pizzas over the last few years we pretty much know it’s going to be Salami (in this country it’s called All American - even though it’s Italian) and something with corn, chicken and other stuff, only the children know the name of it. And we pretty much know who’ll do the calling. Volunteers for a project like this aren’t difficult to find, even though the pool is limited. Add the telephone number of the place that delivers etc.
So, all this information concerning the idea and the info required for putting it into practice, goes into Circle One.
Circle Two: Somebody has to call the place. That somebody is called the subject. He/she tells the object what to do. The object is Circle Three - the pizza place.
This process, by the way is called ‘outsourcing’ - a form of delegation. It cost money, of course. Maybe more than it would to make the pizza by ourselves, may be. But we save time. Having to pay money for saving time is called a ‘tradeoff’.
It’s the job of the subject to provide the money and the object gets it when the Pizza arrives. If the Pizza doesn’t arrive, the object gets no money. If the Pizza isn’t what was ordered, the object gets no money. If the Pizza isn’t as good as it used to be, then the subject wants the money back or it will never ever give that object a chance to cheat again. Maybe if the object comes crawling back. Maybe.
This example just describes one of many possibilities in the vast realm of subject-object relationships. More about that some other day.
It’s obvious that everyone and everything has to work together here to get exactly what was planned. If there’s a fight over what pizza is to be ordered then it will take time, somebody has to leave, the pizza place closes , whatever. All kind of stuff can happen. It the shop is closed because it’s after 23:30 PM (that’s 11:30 in the US) then there is no pizza. If the shop is closed because it went out of business, we need to change the plan (Circle One) and call another place. You get the idea: Nothing really should be carved in stone. Be flexible.
Circle Four is the pizza, delivered, being eaten, family XYZ enjoys peaceful moments until the fight over the last piece begins.
That’s what Divine Principle says about the Four Position Foundation. It wasn’t that difficult.
Enjoy your pizza while it lasts.
Have a great day.
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