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su-fa · W133

sufa · purity of heart, structured affect · ✅

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Domain ethics / affect / theology
Class quality / inner state
Type compound
Register standard / ethical / theological / contemplative
First use Matthew 5:8 (Beatitude: "the pure in heart" = lo-zo-li su-fa).

Composition

su (structure/order) + fa (affective substrate) = ordered-affect = the quality of having an organized and non-conflicted affective substrate. Head-final: fa (affective substrate) is head; su specifies that the affective substrate in question is characterized by order rather than disorder.

Definition

purity of heart; structured affect; the state of one whose affective substrate is organized, ordered, and free from inner conflict or corruption. Not merely an absence of evil but a positive orderliness of the inner life. Greek katharos (pure, clean, unmixed). In the Beatitude: "pure in heart" = those whose inner affective life is well-structured.

Notes

Three-stage pipeline recall: se → fa → to. The fa stage is the pre-evaluative felt-tone substrate. su-fa = fa that is ordered/clear: the felt substrate is not muddied by conflicting desires, self-deception, or disordered impulse — it is structured. This allows se (perception) to reach to (concept-formation) without distortion. In the Beatitude, su-fa is the condition that allows "seeing God" (lo-ze lo-be-go-li se): only when fa is ordered (su-fa) does the perception (se) of the divine reach the to stage without distortion. Compare: fa-no (W095) = affect inactive (possibly numb, not ordered) su-fa = affect actively ordered, structured = purity

su (primitive: structure/order), fa (primitive: affective substrate), fa-ki (W093), fa-de (W094), vo-ne (W118), wi-no-ra (W132)

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