For instance, the idea that all is one. The idea is unity. (transcendental, it seems.) This unity is experienced by some as numinous, sacred, "magnetic", sublime. Freud mentions/describes the numinous as an oceanic feeling.
At the moment, I think that transcendental and eternal are synonymous. But I've already mentioned this. I also now think that the transcendent is just the numinous. Or shall I say that the word "transcendent" is, in my view, the description of an emotion.
A numinous concept is a radiant eternity, or "spirit-porn" (God makes love with a mirror..) "Beauty is the splendor of truth." The beauty/splendor is the numinousness/transcendence that makes this concept a numen, and not just a concept.
Negative theology is an attempt to purify or refine the numinous concept. "Truth is fairest naked," Schopenhauer tells us (who loved both Plato and Kant...)
The more naked the Truth is, the more beautiful. (Consider the law of gravity..the closer you get the greater the proportional pull.) To unite the transcendental numen with the most nakedly transcendental concept is to arguably reveal Truth perfectly. An ideal triangle. An ideal sphere.
It's a triangle. We have two types of transcendental and a pseudo-third which is their synthesis. First, we have pure number. Second, we have Pure continuous intuition of space and time (perfect geometry/music). Don't forget that physics time is an imposition of digital pure number on these transcendentally continuous intuitions..... And as the utterly essential synthetic third: logos, which is a maker of unity like number but also analogical, and a describer of qualia. Hegel demonstrates that philosophy is impossible w/o dialectical logic or synthetic logos. Eternity is engendered within time. P,P,& P recognized that pure number was transcendental but didn't understand, as far as I can tell, it's relation to logos.
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