A New Look at Theosophy The Great Chain of Being Revisited

The Great Chain of Being

William Blake’s iconic painting Jacob’s Ladder was inspired by the Old Testament story in the book of Exodus (28:10-19). Jacob, the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham, was fleeing from his twin brother Esau who had vowed to kill him. On his way to a relative’s house, Jacob lay down for the night. As he was dreaming, he had a vision of a ladder between heaven and earth. God’s angels were on it...

Chain Rotations: a New Look at Tree Distance

As well known the rotation distance D(S, T ) between two binary trees S, T of n vertices is the minimum number of rotations of pairs of vertices to transform S into T . We introduce the new operation of chain rotation on a tree, involving two chains of vertices, that requires changing exactly three pointers in the data structure as for a standard rotation, and define the corresponding chain dis...

A Look at the Challenges of Boundary-Spanner Academic Leaders

The present study was an exploratory sequential mixed method approach, so the qualitative section of the study was done by descriptive phenomenology method. The participants in the qualitative section included academic administrators with managerial experience who by criterion sampling and saturation in the research findings, 12 were selected for the interview. Research tools in the section wer...

A look at signification of ‘then’ in the Holy Quran

‘Then’ as one of conjunctions, has many usages in Arabic language. Since one of its usages is in the religious texts and the Holy Quran so that its different usages effect on the style, meaning, and concepts, and also, due to the sensitivity and significance of the Holy Quran, understanding the exact meaning of this conjunction, i.e. ‘then’, and studying its various stat...

A New Look at the Transition State: Wigner’s Dynamical Perspective Revisited