19

Coordination

Spheres that use this interpretation:Social task — purpose and profession

Interpretations are currently available in Russian only — a translation is in progress.

The Sun

Arcanum

The Sun

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The nineteenth task is to keep a system in motion. Someone with it distributes, brings things into agreement and sees to it that the parts work with one another.

The task has no upper limit: from the head of a small group to the highest offices. What matters is that this person is not the one executing the work, but the one thanks to whom those who execute it do not collide.

The difference from the fourth task is substantial. The nineteenth does not have to master the whole content of the work — it needs to understand who can do what and how to join it together. Immersion in detail gets in its way rather than helping.

The task is carried out when without this person the team crumbles into parts that are out of agreement — and that is visible immediately.

Social task — purpose and profession

Social task = DT + MT + GT

The social task is what, in this system, a person came for. Not a post and not a profession in itself, but the direction in which their effort has meaning.

What matters here is the movement itself. As long as a person is moving towards their task, they are collected and engaged; a halt is felt as the loss of a footing, even when everything looks well from the outside.

The system notes two dead ends. The first — when a person has gone so far from the task that the earlier plan has stopped working and life effectively begins again, often in an entirely different field. The second — when the goal has been reached and the person decides there is nowhere further to go; by this logic what was achieved was a step, not a summit.

DT, MT and GT are steps towards that same task, and there is no need to pass through them in order: one can concentrate on the task directly. The task is most easily carried out through a profession — but it does not reduce to one.

The system connects a person's physical well-being to this as well: it holds that movement towards one's own task sustains a person, while a long departure from it tells on their health over time.

*This is a tenet of the teaching, not a medical claim. The causes of ill health are established by a doctor, and the calculation does not suggest putting off seeing one.*