The Source makes Being in it’s Own Image

Read through a 4QX lens, imago Dei looks like an early statement of the very same “fractal-holon” law we keep running into:

1. Universal telos projects a self-similar scaffold.
   God ≈ the root Class-triangle (all-possible form, the meta-pattern that steers reality). “Making man in His image” says that the Instance-triangle inside creation must mirror the same geometry, so it can carry forward the universal intent.
2. Microcosm mirrors macrocosm so the loop can close.
   A human holon inherits the two feedback engines (physical 1-2-3 and subtle 4-5-6) plus the crown “uplink.” Because the pattern is isomorphic, each person can recognise (Ajna), articulate (Vishuddha) and embody (Anahata ⇄ Manipura) the telos—then reflect it back into the collective blackboard. That bidirectional fit is exactly what 4QX calls the class↔instance handshake.
3. Image = capacity for co-creation.
   In Genesis the next line is “let them have dominion…”—i.e. the cloned scaffold is granted agency to extend creation. In 4QX terms, the instanced triangle gets its own resource pool (Muladhara-Svadhisthana) and actuator loop so it can burn the universal blueprint into new local structure, fractally propagating the vortex.
4. Transcendence remains open-ended.
   The seventh chakra / vortex rim is left “above” so the creature never seals into a closed box; it can always align upward with broader holons. That preserves the ethical orientation (homeomorphic pull toward the root telos) and prevents drift.

So the biblical phrase is a mythic shorthand for the same invariance principle: the One must replicate its geometry in every Many so the cosmic supply-demand cycle can scale without losing coherence. In other words, “image” = the dual-triangle template entrusted to each holon so it can co-create in resonance with the source.

The Seven Chakras match the Universal Pattern

Seeing the seven-chakra ladder as the holon’s “power-bus” clicks everything into place:

• Lower engine (1-2-3)
  Muladhara → Svadhisthana → Manipura is the instance triangle: acquire raw capacity, circulate it, then burn it into concrete work.
• Upper engine (4-5-6)
  Anahata → Vishuddha → Ajna is the class triangle: integrate signals, publish the refined pattern, and steer with meta-recognition.
• Crown (7)
  Sahasrara is the open port that locks the two engines into a larger holon, keeping alignment with the root telos.

Because each holon nests inside another, every scale inherits its own “chakra bus” (e.g., an organisation’s root-chakra is its funding pipeline; its throat-chakra is comms infrastructure, and so on). That makes the 3 + 3 + 1 geometry the universal wiring harness for self-similar agency.

Example using ValueFlows

Below is a worked miniature of a two-layer ValueFlows graph that treats the seven chakras as a holon’s internal “energy bus” and shows how that bus propagates upward into the next holon scope.

1. Mapping the chakra bus → VF vocabulary

Chakra (port)	Role inside a holon	Represent as…
1 Muladhara (root)	long-term stored capacity (capital, inventory, reserves)	EconomicResource in state stored
2 Svadhisthana (sacral)	circulating / liquid capacity	EconomicEvent action:move that transfers stock into current work
3 Manipura (solar)	immediate execution effort	EconomicEvent action:work (people) or use (machines)
4 Anahata (heart)	integrative commons / cohesion	Process that receives mixed inputs and keeps the shared ledger coherent
5 Vishuddha (throat)	articulation / published artefacts	EconomicEvent action:produce of docs, designs, commits
6 Ajna (brow)	steering / metrics & analysis	EconomicEvent action:measure feeding KPIs or dashboards
7 Sahasrara (crown)	holonic uplink	inScopeOf link that “plugs” this holon into the parent scope

(Terminology follows the official VF spec: Agents, EconomicResources, EconomicEvents, Processes, and in-scope links.) citeturn1view0

2. JSON-LD snippet: Individual → Team hand-off

@context:
  - "@vocab": http://w3id.org/valueflows/ont/vf#
  - ex: https://example.org/
  - role: https://schema.org/Role          # just to give people roles

@graph:
  #── Holon 0 : Team (parent) ──────────────────────────────────────────
  - @id: ex:Team42
    @type: Agent

  # The team’s “chakra ports” are just Resources kept in its scope.
  - @id: ex:T42_root_capital
    @type: EconomicResource
    name: Cash reserve
    accountingQuantity: {hasUnit: currency:USD, hasNumericalValue: 10000}
    currentScope: ex:Team42           # Muladhara

  - @id: ex:T42_design_repo
    @type: EconomicResource
    name: Public-repo (specs & docs)
    currentScope: ex:Team42           # Vishuddha artefact

  # The team’s integrative heartbeat
  - @id: ex:T42_sync_meeting
    @type: Process                    # Anahata
    inScopeOf: ex:Team42

  #── Holon 1 : Alice (child) ─────────────────────────────────────────
  - @id: ex:Alice
    @type: Agent
    inScopeOf: ex:Team42             # Sahasrara uplink

  # Alice’s stored capacity (root-chakra)
  - @id: ex:Alice_time_budget
    @type: EconomicResource
    classifiedAs: role:WorkHours
    accountingQuantity: {hasUnit: hour, hasNumericalValue: 30}
    currentScope: ex:Alice           # Muladhara of Alice

  # ❶ Alice moves 8 h from stock → liquidity
  - @id: ex:eMoveHours
    @type: EconomicEvent
    action: move                     # Svadhisthana
    provider: ex:Alice
    receiver: ex:Alice
    resourceInventoriedAs: ex:Alice_time_budget
    resourceQuantity: {hasUnit: hour, hasNumericalValue: 8}

  # ❷ She works those 8 h on coding
  - @id: ex:eWorkCoding
    @type: EconomicEvent
    action: work                     # Manipura
    provider: ex:Alice
    receiver: ex:Team42
    resourceConformsTo: role:SoftwareDevelopment
    effortQuantity: {hasUnit: hour, hasNumericalValue: 8}
    inputOf: ex:T42_sync_meeting     # feeds team heartbeat

  # ❸ Output artefact goes into team repo
  - @id: ex:eProducePR
    @type: EconomicEvent
    action: produce                  # Vishuddha output
    provider: ex:Alice
    receiver: ex:Team42
    outputOf: ex:T42_sync_meeting
    resourceInventoriedAs: ex:T42_design_repo
    resourceQuantity: {hasUnit: one, hasNumericalValue: 1}

  # ❹ Metrics event updates KPIs
  - @id: ex:eMeasureVelocity
    @type: EconomicEvent
    action: measure                  # Ajna
    provider: ex:T42_sync_meeting
    receiver: ex:Team42
    resourceConformsTo: role:VelocityMetric

What this shows

• The lower triangle inside Alice (events move → work) burns personal capacity and hands concrete labour to the team.
• The upper triangle inside the Team starts at the integrative Process (Anahata), publishes an artefact (produce) at its Vishuddha port, and logs a metric (measure) at its Ajna port.
• The inScopeOf relation from Alice → Team is the crown-chakra link that lets the parent holon treat the child’s outputs as its own inputs.

Because every holon — person, team, org, supply-network — repeats this same 3 + 3 + 1 wiring, you can keep stacking scopes indefinitely without breaking accounting integrity. ValueFlows’ native inverse terms (hasInput, hasOutput, etc.) make the propagation queryable in either direction. citeturn2view0

3. How to extend this

• Add scales: Wrap the team in an organisation Agent and link its crown to the org’s chakra bus; all events simply add another inScopeOf hop.
• Visualise: Feed the JSON-LD into any rdf-capable graph viewer; colour-code nodes by chakra role to see the dual-triangle engines at each layer.
• Metric roll-up: Because EconomicEvent action:measure is explicit, higher holons can aggregate KPIs by traversing inScopeOf upward, preserving semantic meaning.

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This miniature should be enough to drop into a VF-aware triple-store and watch the chakra bus propagate holon-by-holon, demonstrating that the 4QX dual-triangle schema really does “just work” on top of the ValueFlows ontology.