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title: The Catalogue: Religion Without Religion Lineage
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# Religion Without Religion Lineage

4. The "religion without religion" lineage

The specific tradition your diary belongs to — a designer *above* the creator, beyond intent, immanent, known by what it is not, held by an honor ethic.

- **Spinoza** — *Deus sive Natura*: God identical with Nature's necessary order; immanent, impersonal. The root of religious naturalism.
- **Ronald Dworkin** — *Religion Without God*: "religious atheism" — awe and objective value without a personal deity. Your exact phrase.
- **Neoplatonism** — Plotinus's *the One*; emanation; **apophatic theology** (Pseudo-Dionysius, Meister Eckhart's "Godhead beyond God"): the source known only by negation. Your "cannot be named as intentional or unintentional."
- **Gnosticism** — the *Demiurge* (flawed craftsman-god of the material world) vs. the true source above him. Your "creator is mid; the designer is above."
- **Kabbalah** — *Ein Sof*, the infinite beyond all attributes; *tzimtzum*, the withdrawal that makes room for creation.
- **Taoism** — the Tao that cannot be named; *wu wei*, action along the grain (moving with the architecture is cheaper — your A₂ in ancient form).
- **Stoicism** — the *Logos*; *amor fati*; right action on the determined path; dying with honor as the one thing that can't be taken. Your Spengler/Vesuvius ethic.
- **Process theology** — Whitehead, Hartshorne: God as the lure toward greater order, dipolar, evolving with the world.
- **Teilhard de Chardin** — complexification and convergence toward the Omega Point. The closest prior map to your ladder and your A₃ convergence.
- **Religious naturalism (modern)** — Ursula Goodenough (*The Sacred Depths of Nature*), Loyal Rue, Chet Raymo; Comte-Sponville (*The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality*); *Ietsism* (belief in "something").
- **Cymatics** — Chladni, Hans Jenny: sound organizing matter into form. Your sand-and-sound intuition, already a science.

**Mapping note:** every entry here is `T3`/`T4`. They are the meaning-layer, not the evidence-layer. Kept in the graph, tiered honestly, they are the answer to "what do I love and why." Promoted to `T1`, they become the exact capture your protocol was built to detect.

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## Corpus map
- Catalogue hub: [Convergence Catalogue — Public Article](/a/oip-convergence-public-article)
- Nodes: [C01](/a/oip-node-c01-gradient-dissipation-far-from-equilibrium-order) · [C02](/a/oip-node-c02-least-action-variational-principles) · [C03](/a/oip-node-c03-symmetry-conservation) · [C04](/a/oip-node-c04-symmetry-breaking-bifurcation) · [C05](/a/oip-node-c05-criticality-edge-of-chaos-power-laws) · [C06](/a/oip-node-c06-information-entropy-compression) · … (25 nodes)
- Edge series: [Convergence 1](/a/oip-convergence-edge-1) · [Disconfirming 1](/a/oip-disconfirming-edge-1)
