THE ONTOLOGICAL ROOT OF THE WORD/VERBUM ALGEBRA

Algebra/El-Geber/Al-Jabir Al-GBR/KPR

The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing is the title of Gebers' book on Algebra.  

Algebra today is a branch of mathematics, concerning the study of structure, relation and quantity. The word Algebra is said to be derived from the treatise written by the Persian mathematician al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala. It is this book, this title that has given us the word algebra, AL GBR. The Title of the book he wrote when translated reads, "The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing." Thus it can be said that Algebra is the tool for working out the constant or reality or the missing link in the three moments to achieve completion, by calculation, by balancing the constantly changing projections. Algebra it can be said is the tool for calculating anything brought forward from the unknown or unconscious to the absolute conscious, absolute reality. Algebra helps us do this by triangulation and balancing. THE THREE.

We are told that Al-Jâbir/El-Geber was concerned with developing an all-embracing metaphysical yet natural a nd scientific system based upon immutable universal principles. It is assumed that his study of language, music, and numbers, led him to his conclusions. An analysis of the name of a thing was for Jâbir an analysis of the thing itself. In contrast he Pythagoreans who came before him said that all things can be defined and designated by numbers. The Persian mathematician, Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-wārizmī, in his book, titled Al-Kitab al-Jabir wa-l-Muqabala, also offered, that all things are and can be defined by their names, thus things are simply what their names (asmâ’) designate them to be.

It therefore seems logical for me to continue my research on the kpr/gbr ideogram, by looking at the designation of El-GeBeR, his name, the (asma) of the master himself, Jabir/Geber.

In the beginning was the word/verb and the word/verb was GOD.

Jabir’s cosmology and doctrine of artificial generation is simple, his cosmogony is thoroughly modern and at the same time even futuristic. Jabir incorporates the unknowable, but he does not leave us wondering regarding the unknown, simply by us offering the idea of a parallel creation.

Like Paracelsus he separates the idea of creation into “first creation” (al-kaun al-awwal) and the “second creation” (al-kaun al-thânî). The former as the act of God, instantaneous, the latter an act of man a process. The difference between the two he posits is that God acts in a timeless fashion, God IS, whereas man, in time effects Gods creation in a temporal domain, with the former being a precondition for the latter, man,  who imitates God’s work, requiring time to accomplish it.

The origin or formal development of any theory or theorem or doctrine of generation, abstract artificial or natural, we are told began 500 BC with Heraclitus. We have fragments of his ontological speculation. Heraclitus posits the "noumenon" or the process of becoming, as an "agon" or “strife of opposites”. Strife says Heraclitus, is the underlying basis of all reality. Strife he claimed was the balancing third factor,  the cause of change and change as reality.

Is the origin of the word 'Algebra' the ontological tri-literal root gbr/jbr. Is the name Al GeBeRe the abstracted triune that defines fact by calculation by completion and balancing? Is the name Jâbir an analysis of the thing itself.  The logical tool designed to find the "Golden Mean", the formula that is central and always applicable to the practice of governance, volition (self and social) of the free will. Does Algebra have an ontological root   that predate Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Jabir and Paracelsus by at least a thousand years?

GEBER/JABIR/KABIR/GBR/JBR/KBR are all of the same origin, all one and the same consonantal triune of transformation and transmutation, a word  designed to express the abstract metaphysical idea of the active principal of existence, the formula, the theorem of becoming, the logos, and the 'asma.' 

GBR is the tri-litteral, an abstraction, a hypo-stasis, a definition of what was named or meant by reality, 'Absolute Reality". GBR/KPR is the tri-litteral that captures the idea of three moments in time as one. A theorem, a mathematical proposition that can be deduced by logic from a set of axioms.  A theorem, vital to the creative process of becoming while keeping things in balance.