[MD] Josiah Royce?

[Krimel]

dmb says:
Carl Jung, the analytical psychologist, said a few things about an already
existing symbol of wholeness and unity called a quaternity. He found
different versions of it in all kinds of places. Neoplatonism, the occult,
religion, alchemy. It's a kind of mandala, I guess. They can be as simple as
a circle divided in four by crossing lines or they can be quite elaborate.
It's basically a picture of symmetry, balance, unity of opposites - so
they're not too bad to look at. Maybe you can try to check out some images
on the web and see if any of them look like Royce's desire to you.

[Krimel]
Sorry John, I had higher hopes...

What is you have been up to this term Dave? First you give us this a week or
so ago:

Apparently, the lotus flower has been used as a symbol of wholeness because
of its mandala-like appearance, when seen at a certain angle anyway. (It
occurs to me now that the rose also looks like a series of concentric
circles when viewed from above and so can be see as a mandala too.)

OMG, the creator sees that mandalas are Jungian archetypes and invents
flowers that look like them. 

WTF, dude?

Royce... 
James... 
Bradley... 
...help the brother out, will ya?