system

112:1.17But the con­cept of the per­son­al­ity as the mean­ing of the whole of the liv­ing and func­tion­ing crea­ture means much more than the in­te­gra­tion of re­la­tion­ships; it sig­ni­fies the uni­fi­ca­tion of all fac­tors of re­al­ity as well as co-or­di­na­tion of re­la­tion­ships. Re­la­tion­ships ex­ist be­tween two ob­jects, but three or more ob­jects even­tu­ate a sys­tem, and such a sys­tem is much more than just an en­larged or com­plex re­la­tion­ship. This dis­tinc­tion is vi­tal, for in a cos­mic sys­tem the in­di­vid­ual mem­bers are not con­nected with each other ex­cept in re­la­tion to the whole and through the in­di­vid­u­al­ity of the whole.

112:1.19In ag­gre­ga­tions parts are added; in sys­tems parts are ar­ranged. Sys­tems are sig­nif­i­cant be­cause of or­ga­ni­za­tion—po­si­tional val­ues. In a good sys­tem all fac­tors are in cos­mic po­si­tion. In a bad sys­tem some­thing is ei­ther miss­ing or dis­placed—de­ranged. In the hu­man sys­tem it is the per­son­al­ity which uni­fies all ac­tiv­i­ties and in turn im­parts the qual­i­ties of iden­tity and cre­ativ­ity.

44:1.75. Har­mony of as­so­ci­ated spir­its—the very ar­range­ment and as­so­ci­a­tion of dif­fer­ent or­ders of mor­ontia and spirit be­ings pro­duce ma­jes­tic mel­o­dies.