On Messianic Semantics

I was not raised in a religious environment and the idea of a messiah has always seemed odd, but I can put it into a relative place with the semiotics of Peirce. Pragmaticism is about the semantic content of the would-be interpretant and this is semantically similar to “anointed one.” The birth material on a baby is the anointment I am referring to, in order to distinguish it from the social uses of the word. 

At any rate, Peirce developed the idea of a Community of Interpreters who could act as an officiating body of people who verified the intellectual purport of pragmatic content. That is, they are organized objectively and oriented to the future verification of a pragmatic standard.

This future orientation can be interpreted as “anointed” content to indicate their similar structure. It seems Science, Religion, Government and Corporations can have a common standard.

Like the related ideas of atman and tao in the East, the idea of the self is at least in part a product of cognition, grounded neither on faith nor on metaphysical speculation but on the experience that under certain conditions the unconscious spontaneously brings forth an archetypal symbol of wholeness. 

Jung, C. G., & Hull, R. F. C. (1960). The collected works: Volume 9ii. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. p. 69, ℙ 124.

Note the similarity of Jung’s insight with Peirce’s formulation of Pragmaticism, i.e. "...under certain conditions..." I would reformulate the proposition to be "How is the good (agathon) coming into being?, while pointing to the Copernican Revolution interpretation in The One Law of Mind.