Diagram of the Logos
During the "Great War" with C. S. Lewis, Barfield drew a schemata to facilitate in representing his views. Chapter 10 of Lionel Adey's book examines this "Diagram of the Logos" in detail.

Below you will find a rough approximation of Barfield's handwritten diagram.

 

Grammar
logos
Grammatical relation{s}

Magic power of names, etc.
'Holophrase'
(Cognate accusative)

--do--

Atributive Adjective
Subject, Predicate & Copula

See Aristotle Peri Psyche

Logic
logos
[Term(s) in logic]

Embryo-Proposition

Term    ) born
Proposition ) simultanouely
Term
Proposition and Syllogism

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meaning
Nous
[Mind]

 

Implicit

Explicit

Knowledge
Aletheia
[True or accurate knowledge]

hos episteme
[as knowledge]
(anthropos=dynamei epistemon)
[man understands by means of potentiality (capability)]

hos to theorein
[as (the) to perceive (contemplate)]

(anthropos=entelecheia epistemon)
[man=actuality (completion) of understanding]

Psychology
Psyche

[Soul]
psyche=somatos
entelecheia
hos episteme
[soul = of body
actuality (fulfilment, completion) as (like) knowledge]

Power of attending to one in many acquired

Power of attending to one in many applied

Egregorsis=somatos entelecheia
[Awakeness=actuality (fulfillment) of body]