The Blackberry Walk

Eva 3.0+1.0 is no longer to be released shortly after it's Goliath of a wait. So we shall ponder on the meaning of this sum - doesn't 3.0+1.0 just equal 4.0? Why not just call it 4.0, Anno? Anno is a big fan of esoteric Christianity and it's many forms, so let's tear out the guts of this archetypal sum. The axiom of Maria, an expression with its origins in alchemy is thus: "One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth." A seemingly impenetrable phrase, in fairness, yet the question of the attainment of 'fourness' the feeling of completion, the four cardinal directions of the mandala, is of the utmost goal for the alchemist. Plato's Timaeus holds a similar conundrum in the opening line as said by Socrates "One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth". The banquet cannot be complete without four, after all, Plato says. Plato's influence certainly surfused the alchemical tradition, however, with alchemy itself having many of its dictums originating from Neoplatonism or its inversion, Gnosticism. The aforementioned getting the "one from the fourth" refers to the idea of 'oneness' in the Neoplatonic model wherein 'the One' held a role of vital importance since it was the singular entity from which all emanated. This oneness, therefore, is understood in man as a fourness, since man cannot comprehend the true oneness. Then what of the significance of trinity as seen in Christianity, for instance? Is the Christian tradition with a trinity instead of a quarternity fundamentally incomplete? According to Jung, it is. Trinity can be understood as a totality going in one direction - like an arrow pointing towards the heavens or the underworld. The Holy Trinity as a force of all goodness exist in contrast to chthonic triples like the three heads of Cerberus, for instance. Jung also had a deep seated desire to make a quarternity out of the trinity, writing in Answer to Job that the trinity of God only forms a completion when combined with the opposing factor, that of Satan, combining good with evil to form a whole. The 3 of the trinity is added to the 1 of Satan to make a quarternity. Furthering the idea of quauternity in Christianity, Mary is said to offer completion to the the trinity by making up the Son and the Father with a feminine element. Jung congratulated the papal establishment profusely despite not being Catholic for the papal bull sent out in 1950 declaring that Mary instead of dying ascended into heaven. On top of the withstanding dogma that Mary was free of original sin, there is support for the idea of this quarternity. The alchemical world grappled with making the quartenity out of the Holy Trinity, as seen in Jakob Böhme's example below. As seen above (as below), man was his answer to this issue. Man is Böhme's '+1.0'. But what will be Anno's? The very notion that there can't be an Eva 4.0 means Anno thinks the story won't be satisfyingly concluded. Yet it was named such from the start so Anno doesn't seem to think it ever could be. Another potential interpretation is that Anno is achieving a quarternity albeit with something exceptionally left-field we could never predict. The new movie will be apples and oranges - the counter is bumped onto a new coefficient. And out of this extra '1.0' may come the '4.0', just as the axiom of Maria predicts. Yet the Japanese title with the repeat symbol is hard to square with this idea. And again the cover for the new movie, involving converging tracks, seems to indicate convergence and unity of there story. So in completeness, from the hints, 3.0+1.0 will: 1. Form potentially dissatisfactory completeness via a very different movie - a devil compared to the trinity. 2. Convergence will be achieved through repetition from perhaps a different characters perspective. 3. And out of that extra 1.0 at the end, shall come the completeness, the fourth. These are just my speculations however, for when this movie finally arrives.