Hidden Group
A seldom-used value representing the way in which one independent entity can emerge from another. Examples would be when a religion emerges from the actions of a prophet (that is, a religion in the abstract sense, not a religious organization in the concrete sense) or when a new skill arises from the genius path of the practitioner of a related skill (the emergent entity in such a case can be thought of as a minor deity dedicated to that new skill).
Two Hidden Groups (Hidden Group One from Promethium, Samarium and Europium; and Hidden Group Two from Neptunium, Plutonium and Americium) are possible in any periodic object. Hidden Group One arises out of the genius path associated with Interior Group One, and Hidden Group Two arises out of the genius path associated with Interior Group Two.
Because the Hidden Group is a group, it is represented by an EcoRelation (like Interior Groups? and regular groups), indicating the relationship of the parent entity to its emergent offspring.
The three values which a hidden group can take are: sacrificial satisfaction (like Group I), evangelical predation (like Group II), and commensal laudation (like Group III). They also correspond to the first three elements of the new entity's own periodic table, as show in this chart:
parent's elements Promethium? Samarium? Europium? OR Neptunium? Plutonium? Americium? hidden group values sacrificial satisfaction evangelical predation commensal laudation offspring's elements Hydrogen Helium Lithium
The difference between the Promethium-Samarium-Europium series and the Neptunium-Plutonium-Americium series is the difference between principle and a culture. First a minor deity emerges to represent the principle, then a culture emerges to carry it forward (and perhaps worship the god). The minor deity is a triple composed object; the culture or religion is a quintuple composed object.
Since Lithium is the first step in The Pattern which is past the Prenatal Balance, it represents the post-birth entity, which is now past the point of being something else's interior life. At the point where reaches commensal laudation, it emerges as a separate entitity which can grow and develop independent of that from which it has sprung. If the immortal statistics of the parent's spirit have progressed to the point where apotheosis is possible, she may be offered the chance to role-play a deity representing this emergent being the next time she dies, but the parent entity itself is no longer responsible for the development.
See also Interior Group and Group
— Scotus - 10 May 2003
