one of three contrasting approaches to the structure of the Sideresis corresponding to a type of fatalism asserting that the scope of man and all other events (both to the benefit and detriment of humanity) were determined by events preceding them in order to fulfil the prophecy of returnism; this concept of how events are sequenced lends itself to the ultimate explanations of cosmic consciousness or divine intervenience; this, in turn, subjects the endeavour of transcension (return to the astronomical world) to human actions in the form of positive scope and negative scope. Scope is necessary