IDEOGENESIS Transformation of a purely spiritual "inspiration" to a seizable reality. Esoteric teachings are mainly based on three principles that may be interpreted in many ways, and on different planes of thought. One of them is : Idea ‒ plan (concept) ‒ shape (form) ; another is spirit ‒ soul ‒ body; another : Will ‒ wisdom ‒ agency; another still is : Thesis ‒ antithesis ‒ synthesis … ‒ and so forth … ‒ The essence oft the middle Principle oft he three ‒ the Image or Soul Principle ‒ consists in the the fact that it is a Force, which trans- fers the ‹idea› onto some substance or spiritual substrate, in order to generate a physical (subtle, not yet material) form (i.e. order), or a shape as a physical manifestation able to express the idea in a way that can be experienced (conceived, perceived). ‒ The ‹image›, thus, is some kind of life, too. Indeed, this force ‒ this image ‒ is, in essence, the principle of Life itself. Take an example: One subtle form of life of an idea is the WORD. The creator gods ‒ the «Heart of Heaven» in the Popol-Vuj ‒ go: « … Mountains, they said ‒ and mountains there were …» This functional principle, among other, is expressed by the Cadu- ceus of Hermes (i.e., in Egyptian, the One Born of Heaven ‒ or : Heaven reborn). This symbol shows how the two opposedly polarized currents of the soul issue from the Heart, are entwined with a vertical axis of Spirit, which connects the human Sanctuary of the Head with the Sacrum ‒ the Sanctuary of Life. This is the golden rod given by Helios to Hermes ‒ the rod that became his sign as an ambassador or messenger ‒ and on which the two fighting snakes he encountered on his way, peacefully coiled up, pacified. This is another image for the triple principle just ment- ioned. ‒ Now, said image or functional principle of true life may of course be conceived and studied as a concept ‒ as a plan ‒ and thus can be studied. This is a first phase, in which the Image is still static and emanates no force yet. ‒ As an author said: «In the beginning, the Image is a silent shape, like a sculptured idea». 1 ‒ In this phase, we entirely dedicate ourselves to the development and refinement of the mental concepts of True Life. But these concepts are without real impact ‒ they are still static and inane. The central question here is therefore: How can a mental concept like the one expressed by the Caduceus of Hermes gain life for the seeker, so that from static it becomes dynamic ‒ so that the idea is