I am a man, a man with a blog. A man with a blog that pretended to be a man writing a blog. What I didn't know was that the blog was writing me. I pretended that I knew a lot, and that I understood even more, but I am nothing but a man. I cannot jump into the sky and reach escape velocity -- 17,500 mph. Even if I did so I would died almost immediately from my blood boiling without the 15 pounds per square inch of barometric pressure which holds me together.
I cannot reach the horizon even with outstretched arms and if I were to walk sideways forever-- like the end of a rainbow, the horizon would just continue to evade me
I cannot sink down into the earth past its thin crust and into the magma or the yoke of the earth, the sphere of iron and nickel which is at the center. I would be crushed by the pressure and cooked by the temperature.
So I am a man. I -- man; you -- man; womb -- man; human -- -- 1 level. Not two levels, not three or four, but one level. I learned this in Africa. I was there in South Africa very few days ago, and where the anthropologists and the archaeologists and all the other "gists" have said that Africa is the birthplace of man and the cradle of civilization, it has been hearsay for me until now.
When I stepped off the plane and onto African soil I knew, and I know.
One man -- human -- 1 level.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Aloneness -- the Lesser and Greater Freedoms
Again, it has been along time since I have posted. My apologies to those who have been following this blog.
The goal of Yoga is a Sanskrit word called Kaivalya; it is difficult to translate into English. It is usually translated as "aloneness", but has nothing to do with loneliness. Perhaps it's better translation would be the use of multiple English words such as permanent and unsullied imperturbability -- One who is single and incorruptible; a person who is objective and sees reality exactly as it is in itself, and in whom the three Gunas or three forces or holy Trinity have become un-braided, so that one becomes absolutely free of all lower laws connected with this incarnation.
This does not mean that one's body is no longer subject to gravity, and it does not mean that one's mind is no longer subject to the flickering attention, but certainly it means that one's emotions belong to one's Self, and are not in control of one's manifestation; rather quite the opposite. In one who has reached Kaivalya, one is considered JivaMukti, that is freed while alive.
Then a MAN can do. He spends the money but the money does not spend him. He smokes a cigarette butt the cigarette does not smoke him. He does, but nothing happens through him accepting by the will of the higher forces to which he had submitted. He becomes a servant of the Almighty. He can leave or return to life at will. He has WILL, where as most men are simply blown back and forth by a confluence of desires and aversions.
How does a man reach this station, which is not a passing thing but something permanent?
How does a man gain these freedoms? As he is, he is under local laws. You may get away with breaking them, like jaywalking or smoking in a non-smoking zone. He may go through a red light and not get caught. Then again, he might get a ticket. He might suffer a misdemeanor or even a felony conviction.
If this man joins the military he falls under military law. This releases him from local ordinances so that the police who arrest him cannot detain him except to call the military police, who come and get him. Perhaps they will simply forget about it or ship him off somewhere els or he will go to the brig and suffer a court-martial, but this is not likel unless he breaks a military law, so he has freedom from a lower law but is subject to a higher law which is more strict.
Perhaps this man in the military then joins special services -- he may then be freed of the military law and placed under diplomatic law. He may become a special agent and not be under any lower laws, excepting the law of his commander -- but he must not get caught breaking those laws or he might simply disappear or be court-martialed and shot or hung as a traitor.
So forth and on and on. There are laws everywhere, and one cannot escape all the laws, but one can place oneself under higher laws and be freed of lower laws.
More to follow soon.
The goal of Yoga is a Sanskrit word called Kaivalya; it is difficult to translate into English. It is usually translated as "aloneness", but has nothing to do with loneliness. Perhaps it's better translation would be the use of multiple English words such as permanent and unsullied imperturbability -- One who is single and incorruptible; a person who is objective and sees reality exactly as it is in itself, and in whom the three Gunas or three forces or holy Trinity have become un-braided, so that one becomes absolutely free of all lower laws connected with this incarnation.
This does not mean that one's body is no longer subject to gravity, and it does not mean that one's mind is no longer subject to the flickering attention, but certainly it means that one's emotions belong to one's Self, and are not in control of one's manifestation; rather quite the opposite. In one who has reached Kaivalya, one is considered JivaMukti, that is freed while alive.
Then a MAN can do. He spends the money but the money does not spend him. He smokes a cigarette butt the cigarette does not smoke him. He does, but nothing happens through him accepting by the will of the higher forces to which he had submitted. He becomes a servant of the Almighty. He can leave or return to life at will. He has WILL, where as most men are simply blown back and forth by a confluence of desires and aversions.
How does a man reach this station, which is not a passing thing but something permanent?
How does a man gain these freedoms? As he is, he is under local laws. You may get away with breaking them, like jaywalking or smoking in a non-smoking zone. He may go through a red light and not get caught. Then again, he might get a ticket. He might suffer a misdemeanor or even a felony conviction.
If this man joins the military he falls under military law. This releases him from local ordinances so that the police who arrest him cannot detain him except to call the military police, who come and get him. Perhaps they will simply forget about it or ship him off somewhere els or he will go to the brig and suffer a court-martial, but this is not likel unless he breaks a military law, so he has freedom from a lower law but is subject to a higher law which is more strict.
Perhaps this man in the military then joins special services -- he may then be freed of the military law and placed under diplomatic law. He may become a special agent and not be under any lower laws, excepting the law of his commander -- but he must not get caught breaking those laws or he might simply disappear or be court-martialed and shot or hung as a traitor.
So forth and on and on. There are laws everywhere, and one cannot escape all the laws, but one can place oneself under higher laws and be freed of lower laws.
More to follow soon.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
The Invisible Speck
We are going to perform a little thought experiment. First, I want to take us up the scales of the ray of creation, but I will walk us up slowly, so we don't take too big a leap.
You sit and read this, and consider your body. It is in one place at one time. It has weight and it has life within it. Now it is large, but how big is it within your apartment or house? Still pretty big.
What about your block, your neighborhood? Now you may still be quite large, but you are only one among many as you go to the store and say hello to the people you see every day, shopkeepers and other neighbors.
What about your town or city? Depending upon the size of your town you may get quite small, or in the case of NYC, you may disappear in the crowd altogether. This means that you are now a speck.
What about in your country? You are now indistinguishable, unless you hold public office or in some other way are one of the few that are in a position to be known, a writer or singer or actor, where the compass of your activities have so to say, enlarged your "image" so that you still exist as an individual, but even then, as yourself in one body at one place at one time you have disappeared from view.
What about the Earth? Can you be seen from outer space? Of course not. Some aspects of the works and structures of mankind as a whole can be seen from low altitude orbit, but not an individual person. Everyone has now disappeared. What about within the Solar System? Even all of life on Earth is now just a super-thin coating on a small planet, like a smear of gold plating that is one micron thin, on a planet with an atmosphere that is also a thin wisp of gas held tenuously to the planet by gravity; the outer edge of which is allowing molecules to fly off and arrive as they are wont to do. Where are you now? Your body, your mind, your emotions. They are as if they do not exist whatsoever, except as part of an almost invisible slime of biomass under a tiny layer of gas on a tiny planet.
Now we move to the galaxy, our Galaxy, which we call the Milky Way. Can you find yourself in the Galaxy? Perhaps you have heard that the Earth exists on a subdivision of ring "D" of the Galactic arms, far from the center of the galaxy, way out in the suburbs so to speak. Now not only your body and entire self have disappeared, but even the Earth has become a less than minute speck. Where are you in all this?
What about the known universe of known galaxies and intergalactic dust? Even the Milky way is now one of billions of galaxies, all of which exist as a somehow whole. Where have you and "I" gone? We have become as less than nothing in this scale. Nothing that is nothing that is nothing that is nothing. What kind of microscope do we need to find ourselves? Where would we begin to look? How could we even find our own Galaxy, Solar System, Planet, Land Mass, Self?
How far do your arms reach out? Three feet on either side? How long is your stride? Two to Three feet? What is the range of your personal purview? Can you effect the machinations of other men? Can you change the "world"? Or do you, as so many others do, think about things well outside their purview; talk politics and about conflicts that are on the other side of the world. Are your opinions strong? Do they carry any weight against the events you discuss? Or are they simply barroom dreams, that make you feel better, either as a relief or as a "mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" scream?
You bemoan the injustices of man. Do your feelings and emotions have any force? Can they change anything outside of your purview? And how large is your personal purview? What is under your authority? Your health? Your financial well being? Your social life?
If you look carefully, you might see that nothing whatsoever is under your own real and substantial purview; the weather may change, your luck may give out; what the gods have granted you may be taken back.
What do you have that is your own?
You sit and read this, and consider your body. It is in one place at one time. It has weight and it has life within it. Now it is large, but how big is it within your apartment or house? Still pretty big.
What about your block, your neighborhood? Now you may still be quite large, but you are only one among many as you go to the store and say hello to the people you see every day, shopkeepers and other neighbors.
What about your town or city? Depending upon the size of your town you may get quite small, or in the case of NYC, you may disappear in the crowd altogether. This means that you are now a speck.
What about in your country? You are now indistinguishable, unless you hold public office or in some other way are one of the few that are in a position to be known, a writer or singer or actor, where the compass of your activities have so to say, enlarged your "image" so that you still exist as an individual, but even then, as yourself in one body at one place at one time you have disappeared from view.
What about the Earth? Can you be seen from outer space? Of course not. Some aspects of the works and structures of mankind as a whole can be seen from low altitude orbit, but not an individual person. Everyone has now disappeared. What about within the Solar System? Even all of life on Earth is now just a super-thin coating on a small planet, like a smear of gold plating that is one micron thin, on a planet with an atmosphere that is also a thin wisp of gas held tenuously to the planet by gravity; the outer edge of which is allowing molecules to fly off and arrive as they are wont to do. Where are you now? Your body, your mind, your emotions. They are as if they do not exist whatsoever, except as part of an almost invisible slime of biomass under a tiny layer of gas on a tiny planet.
Now we move to the galaxy, our Galaxy, which we call the Milky Way. Can you find yourself in the Galaxy? Perhaps you have heard that the Earth exists on a subdivision of ring "D" of the Galactic arms, far from the center of the galaxy, way out in the suburbs so to speak. Now not only your body and entire self have disappeared, but even the Earth has become a less than minute speck. Where are you in all this?
What about the known universe of known galaxies and intergalactic dust? Even the Milky way is now one of billions of galaxies, all of which exist as a somehow whole. Where have you and "I" gone? We have become as less than nothing in this scale. Nothing that is nothing that is nothing that is nothing. What kind of microscope do we need to find ourselves? Where would we begin to look? How could we even find our own Galaxy, Solar System, Planet, Land Mass, Self?
How far do your arms reach out? Three feet on either side? How long is your stride? Two to Three feet? What is the range of your personal purview? Can you effect the machinations of other men? Can you change the "world"? Or do you, as so many others do, think about things well outside their purview; talk politics and about conflicts that are on the other side of the world. Are your opinions strong? Do they carry any weight against the events you discuss? Or are they simply barroom dreams, that make you feel better, either as a relief or as a "mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" scream?
You bemoan the injustices of man. Do your feelings and emotions have any force? Can they change anything outside of your purview? And how large is your personal purview? What is under your authority? Your health? Your financial well being? Your social life?
If you look carefully, you might see that nothing whatsoever is under your own real and substantial purview; the weather may change, your luck may give out; what the gods have granted you may be taken back.
What do you have that is your own?
Monday, January 19, 2009
Working up the Scale--the Gayatri
The Gayatri Mantra is the most sacred mantra in Hinduism, and is to be said at least 12 times a day by all those born into the Brahman Caste. It is something like the Hindu Lord's Prayer; and there are two forms, the better known short form and the lesser known long form. Te only difference is in the formal preamble: The short form uses three and the long uses seven lokas or worlds or realms to address before moving to the mantra proper. I am going to expound on the long form, which begins in the following way:
Om Bhur;
Om Bhuvaha;
Om Svanaha;
Om Mahaya;
Om Janaha;
Om Tapaha;
Om Sat Yum,
And then the body of the mantra which I am not going to write, as it is not germane to this exposition.
Going from the top to the bottom, the sphere of influences gets larger and larger, so that the first realm or Bhur is the smallest and Sat Yum is the largest. This is important, that in one sense the form is upside down, and from the closest to the largest "worlds" or "realms". Here we go. Understand that Sanskrit is considered the Divine Language, and it's words each have many meanings simultaneously, and to translate into English (which is a surface language), is a daunting task:
Bhur is the realm of the Earth under us.
Bhuvaha is the realm of the Atmosphere
Svanaha is the realm of Space (but the word "Sva" means the "self" as in Svastika or the chakra Svanisthana)
Mahaya is the "Great" realm
Janaha is the realm of "Generating" or the realm of categories
Tapaha is the realm of Divine"Heat", or Ardor, or Work, or Effort, or Suffering, or Austerities.
Sat Yum simply means ISness, or TRUTHness or BEINGness.
So now we go in the other direction and make some comments:
Sat Yum is the Three in One of Gurdjieff's expositions of the three forces, which follows the Samkya; and the Trimurti, which are the three faces of God (Siva, Vishnu, Brahma), and his attributes which are Satchitananda. All compound words in sansrkit become ONE word, so Satchitananda is ONE but can be broken into three constituent parts.
Sat: Truth; Being; ISness; Suchness; Reality.
Chit: Awareness; Consciousness.
Ananda: Bliss; Unopposed Will; Unfettered Creative Force.
Now in the Three in One realm, there is the truth being and awareness of all that is. And as Mr. Gurdjieff tells us, this is unknowable, because our awareness cannot concieve of the third force or of the three forces as one seemless whole, but this is the exact same idea as the Holy Trinity of Chirtianity, which got it from the Sanatana Dharma, the permanent and neverchanging wisdom.
Just below the Singular Trinity there appears the realm of "heat". Ardor, Divine Love, Work and Suffering which exists at all levels of the Creation.
The Creator has two great laws or barriers that may not be breached, and they are the "objective speed of light" and "absolute zero degrees kelvin".
Scientists have gotten VERY close to absolute zero, something like .00000001 degrees above absolute zero, but to get that low takes more and more energy from outside to lower the temperature and more time to do it in because the less heat there is somewhere, the slower everything moves and takes. So that calculations have shown that to reach absolute zero would take more energy than exists in the entire universe, and it would take longer than the age of the known universe to do it in.
Now the word tapas, which has one of it's English translations as Heat, is so multivalent that a thousand words in english can convey it's meaning. There is no translation of Tapas into English.
But there is this fact, heat is ardor, and work, and suffering. It is the work and suffering that we are interested in. In the ascetic language of the Yogins and Fakirs (and taken up by the Buddha), all is suffering; all existence is "suffering". So all the austerities taken up by the fakirs (such as standing on one leg or pointing ones finger to the sky for TWELVE YEARS!) is a replica of the suffering of the Gods, like Shiva, who practices austerities for a thousand years or more in between visiting his wife or other duties or affairs.
I am not advocating keeping your arm up for 12 years, but some sit at desks making "money" for longer than that and they do not consider it a waste of their life-force. Who ends up with something permanent? Some business men think of these Yogins and Fakirs and think it is a "sickness" and a waste. I suggest that they might be those who "waste" what life they have. by seeking in THIS realm what is not here -- unending happiness and security.
But this Intentional Suffering of the Yogin or Fakir is designed to follow certain laws. One, to replicate the suffering of the Gods: in other words, to take a load off God by taking up some of his tapas and suffering. This is identical to the Christian vowing to make a gift of his or her suffering to the "Body of Christ"
Another aspect of this Intentional Suffering is to recieve what are called "Siddhis" or "perfections, where the Yogin is given powers and a measure of the authority reserved by the Creators regent, Great Nature.
What does Mr. Gurdjieff mean when he states that he has developed the power and force to "kill a Yak at a range of 10 miles"? Does anyone think this power and force comes for free?
No, Mr. Gurdjieff only developed such authority as he possesed by great suffering, intentional and with a knowledge of it's purpose.
Jesus is the exemplar of Intentional Suffering, and he underwent the Agony and Passion (both translations of tapas), with Intentionality and Purpose.
Later, the Desert Fathers followed the way of the Fakirs, like Simon the Stylite, who lived on top of a pole for years, of the other desrt fathers who wore wool cloaks, so that they would suffer an endless itching and disconforture, as a permanent reminding factor. The Arabic word for wool is "suf", so the term Sufi likely came from those Christians in North Africa who had learned from the Proto-Hindus, those of the Sanatana Dharma.
There is a rich tradition of suffering for Christ, without those who do so not realizing that they are folllowing a tradition of Intentional Suffering that goes back past the mists of recorded history.
Om Bhur;
Om Bhuvaha;
Om Svanaha;
Om Mahaya;
Om Janaha;
Om Tapaha;
Om Sat Yum,
And then the body of the mantra which I am not going to write, as it is not germane to this exposition.
Going from the top to the bottom, the sphere of influences gets larger and larger, so that the first realm or Bhur is the smallest and Sat Yum is the largest. This is important, that in one sense the form is upside down, and from the closest to the largest "worlds" or "realms". Here we go. Understand that Sanskrit is considered the Divine Language, and it's words each have many meanings simultaneously, and to translate into English (which is a surface language), is a daunting task:
Bhur is the realm of the Earth under us.
Bhuvaha is the realm of the Atmosphere
Svanaha is the realm of Space (but the word "Sva" means the "self" as in Svastika or the chakra Svanisthana)
Mahaya is the "Great" realm
Janaha is the realm of "Generating" or the realm of categories
Tapaha is the realm of Divine"Heat", or Ardor, or Work, or Effort, or Suffering, or Austerities.
Sat Yum simply means ISness, or TRUTHness or BEINGness.
So now we go in the other direction and make some comments:
Sat Yum is the Three in One of Gurdjieff's expositions of the three forces, which follows the Samkya; and the Trimurti, which are the three faces of God (Siva, Vishnu, Brahma), and his attributes which are Satchitananda. All compound words in sansrkit become ONE word, so Satchitananda is ONE but can be broken into three constituent parts.
Sat: Truth; Being; ISness; Suchness; Reality.
Chit: Awareness; Consciousness.
Ananda: Bliss; Unopposed Will; Unfettered Creative Force.
Now in the Three in One realm, there is the truth being and awareness of all that is. And as Mr. Gurdjieff tells us, this is unknowable, because our awareness cannot concieve of the third force or of the three forces as one seemless whole, but this is the exact same idea as the Holy Trinity of Chirtianity, which got it from the Sanatana Dharma, the permanent and neverchanging wisdom.
Just below the Singular Trinity there appears the realm of "heat". Ardor, Divine Love, Work and Suffering which exists at all levels of the Creation.
The Creator has two great laws or barriers that may not be breached, and they are the "objective speed of light" and "absolute zero degrees kelvin".
Scientists have gotten VERY close to absolute zero, something like .00000001 degrees above absolute zero, but to get that low takes more and more energy from outside to lower the temperature and more time to do it in because the less heat there is somewhere, the slower everything moves and takes. So that calculations have shown that to reach absolute zero would take more energy than exists in the entire universe, and it would take longer than the age of the known universe to do it in.
Now the word tapas, which has one of it's English translations as Heat, is so multivalent that a thousand words in english can convey it's meaning. There is no translation of Tapas into English.
But there is this fact, heat is ardor, and work, and suffering. It is the work and suffering that we are interested in. In the ascetic language of the Yogins and Fakirs (and taken up by the Buddha), all is suffering; all existence is "suffering". So all the austerities taken up by the fakirs (such as standing on one leg or pointing ones finger to the sky for TWELVE YEARS!) is a replica of the suffering of the Gods, like Shiva, who practices austerities for a thousand years or more in between visiting his wife or other duties or affairs.
I am not advocating keeping your arm up for 12 years, but some sit at desks making "money" for longer than that and they do not consider it a waste of their life-force. Who ends up with something permanent? Some business men think of these Yogins and Fakirs and think it is a "sickness" and a waste. I suggest that they might be those who "waste" what life they have. by seeking in THIS realm what is not here -- unending happiness and security.
But this Intentional Suffering of the Yogin or Fakir is designed to follow certain laws. One, to replicate the suffering of the Gods: in other words, to take a load off God by taking up some of his tapas and suffering. This is identical to the Christian vowing to make a gift of his or her suffering to the "Body of Christ"
Another aspect of this Intentional Suffering is to recieve what are called "Siddhis" or "perfections, where the Yogin is given powers and a measure of the authority reserved by the Creators regent, Great Nature.
What does Mr. Gurdjieff mean when he states that he has developed the power and force to "kill a Yak at a range of 10 miles"? Does anyone think this power and force comes for free?
No, Mr. Gurdjieff only developed such authority as he possesed by great suffering, intentional and with a knowledge of it's purpose.
Jesus is the exemplar of Intentional Suffering, and he underwent the Agony and Passion (both translations of tapas), with Intentionality and Purpose.
Later, the Desert Fathers followed the way of the Fakirs, like Simon the Stylite, who lived on top of a pole for years, of the other desrt fathers who wore wool cloaks, so that they would suffer an endless itching and disconforture, as a permanent reminding factor. The Arabic word for wool is "suf", so the term Sufi likely came from those Christians in North Africa who had learned from the Proto-Hindus, those of the Sanatana Dharma.
There is a rich tradition of suffering for Christ, without those who do so not realizing that they are folllowing a tradition of Intentional Suffering that goes back past the mists of recorded history.
Monday, October 27, 2008
A Small Note
Before going any further, I should say that this blog is my study, and attempt to restate Mr. Gurdjieff's teaching in my own way and with my own studies and knowledge. There are resources that contain much of this material presented differently -- "Fragments of An Unknown Teaching" by P.D. Ouspensky is usually considered the main textbook of the early teaching. Mr. Gurdjieff's own writings are the very last word, but they can be difficult for those who are unfamiliar with his ideas to read. There are many of his students that act as "stepdown transformers", and who make some difficult teachings of Mr. Gurdjieff easier to understand. J.G. Bennett; C.S. Nott; The deHartmanns; almost endless, and the further we get from direct contact with Mr. Gurdjieff himself, the waves he caused get more and more large but diffused, until they can be accepteed by almost anyone. Like dropping a large stone in a still lake, the vibrations create larger and larger circles, but smaller and smaller in wave strength. I hope to act as a step down transformer myself, but am writing it out "top down", instead of "Bottom up". Mr. Gurdjieff taught both, but he was with people directly to teach bottom up, and with lectures he taught top down, so the two could meet.
I have been using both ancient knowledges and up to date sciences to formulate a new approach. I have been occupied elsewhere, but will return soon to this project, which is frankly, huge.
Patience is the Mother of Will.
I have been using both ancient knowledges and up to date sciences to formulate a new approach. I have been occupied elsewhere, but will return soon to this project, which is frankly, huge.
Patience is the Mother of Will.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Everything, Worlds 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96, and Nothing
As promised, I'm going to try to explicate what Mr. Gurdjieff called the Ray of Creation and numerical levels of Hydrogens. World one is absolute unity and the divine fiat IS "World One" where the three attributes or three faces of God (Trimurti) exist together. In Sanskrit these are also called Satchitananda; reality/consciousness/bliss. The three laws are in ONE -- this is the Holy Trinity. This is symbolized by a circle surrounded by a triangle.
The triangle symbolizes the three laws or forces which in Sanskrit are called the Gunas, the word Gunas etymologically comes from a root word meaning strand. It takes three strands to form a cord, or to braid hair. Even if you tie two strands at either end and twist them they will come apart. Therefore it takes three forces to create any stable phenomena.
This leads us to "World 3". The only difference between world 1 and world 3, is that in world three, each of the three forces seperate and can show up at each of the points of the triangle and "braid" together. This is what creates the Phenomenological Universe.
Remember that in world three, any of the three forces can show up at any of the corners of the triangle, and one can predominate over the other 2 -- we could call them active (or Rajas) or inertial (Tamas) or reconciling (Sattva). Physics could call them centrifugal, centripetal and revolving. In Chinese they are called Yang, Yin, and the Tai Ji, and in Christianity they would be called the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
This is called world three, or "world" of all galaxies. The entire visible and invisible universe.
Now under the inertia of the divine fiat the triangle can fold outwards, but this is already a mechanical movement.
Now we are in world 6 -- "world" of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. In addition to the three laws of world three, there are now three additional laws belonging to the subset of our own single galaxy. The laws that belong to any particular level are closer and stronger than the laws from the worlds above, so that now in world six, three laws that are particular to it are stronger than the three laws from world three, and accordingly, things are more mechanical and further from the initial Will of the Creator.
Next we come to our own Sun, which Mr. Gurdjieff calls a second-order Sun. It falls under 12 laws, nine from above and three of its own. Let's review: There is the law of the "Trinity In Unity", which is Three in One but which is a law unto itself but not a law at all, because there is no law that applies to it.
Then we come to world three where there are three laws.
This is followed by world six where there are six laws.
So when we get to our own Sun, named Sol, it has three laws of its own, plus six laws from world six and three laws from world three. One might use the image of a tree that every year builds a new tree ring. Every new tree ring contains within it all the other rings but is also larger in radius, and in each case it is the ring that faces the outer world, while all the other rings within it are protected and hidden. It is exactly the same with the laws governing the entire universe or cosmos. The three new laws that each new world falls under are the strongest and are the ones that face the outer world -- the higher laws get encapsulated inside of those outermost three laws.
Next, the Sun has a solar system which is subject to it -- all the planets. This "solar system" or "world of all planets" is under 24 laws, the brand-new three which belong only to it being the strongest, followed by the 12 laws of the Sun, followed by the six laws of the galaxy, followed by the three laws of all galaxies, and hidden within this entire Ray or rope or trunk of the tree, is the original law of Unity in Trinity, which is the only place which is under no exterior law. All other worlds fall under laws, and the more laws each world is under the more mechanical and difficult they become, as each new series of three laws circumscribes more and more of the "world's" freedom.
Next we come to our own planet, the Earth. According to our schemata, the Earth is under 48 laws -- 3 new laws which are its own and which are strongest and which face the outer "world", and 24 which belong to the solar system, and 12 which belong to the Sun, and six which belong to the Milky Way, and three which belong to the "world of all galaxies", or the entire phenomenological universe.
Finally we come to the Moon. The moon has three new laws of its own. If you have been following the layers as I have indicated by the analogy of the rings of the tree you will see that the moon is under 96 laws. Three which belong to it, 48 which belong to the Earth, 24 which belong to the solar system, 12 which belong to the Sun, six which belong to the Milky Way and three that belong to all and everything.
Since we live on the earth we have taken the Ray of Creation which travels from the very top all the way down through the Earth and ends at its satellite, the moon. But for every place in the universe there is a parallel Ray of Creation. In our own Ray of Creation, when we reached the Moon we have come to the end of our branch of the great tree of Creation. And if we were to use the solfege, or musical scale we would find the following schemata:
Do: Unity in Trinity
Si: The World of All Galaxies
La: The Milky Way
Sol: The Sun
Fa: The Planets As a Whole
Mi: The Earth
Re: The Moon
And finally at the very bottom past the moon we would find the lower octave of Do: Nothing, or the complete Void.
This Ray of Creation leads all the way from "the Godhead" as Everything to "the Godhead" as Nothing. In Sanskrit, this point (mathematically a point has no dimensions, and is therefore as close to nothing as you can get geometrically) is known as the Bindu, and is exactly the same singularity from which the Big Bang arose.
Thus we have come full circle, like the Oroboros -- the snake that bites its own tail, and which is the symbol for infinity. It is also the secret alchemical symbol that the chemist named Kekule saw while in a hypnagogic state in front of the fireplace, after he was thoroughly exhausted trying to figure out organic chemistry and the benzene ring. He had a blackboard which he and his son had filled with chemical formulae over months of thinking until he was thoroughly exhausted, went out for a walk and when he came back he sat in front of the fireplace and took a nap. In his dream he saw a pit of writhing snakes (which stood for his chemical formulas), and suddenly he saw one bite its own tail -- and then more of the writhing snakes began to do the same thing. This was the oroboros, and he snapped out of his dream state and ran over to the blackboard where he began drawing the chemical formulas in a circle. This led to the discovery of the benzene ring, and opened the door to the beginning of the study of organic chemistry.
Funny what a dream can do.Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Two Invariable Laws
OK so I left you hanging with the last post. I know I have been talking a great deal about the three forces, and have promised to follow them down the waterfall of creation to explicate the numerical formula of hydrogens that Gurdjieff has left us. But today I want to talk about two laws that are absolute boundaries so far as reality goes, and upon which ancient wisdom and modern physics agree.
First, I have already talked about the speed of light being invariable and objective. As close as we might be able to get to the speed of light we can never reach it, and for exactly the same reasons, anything traveling faster than the speed of light (we haven't actually found anything doing that but it's theoretical name would be a tachyon) could never slow down to the actual speed of light and would have some other strange properties, such as gaining energy would slow it down and losing energy would speed it up, and it would travel backwards in time although, not in our universe, which is sub luminary in speed, but in a mirror universe containing only things that travel faster than light.
The other law which is invariable and objective is absolute 0°K. Anything reaching 0°K would not move, because it would have no energy whatsoever in it. Even in the vacuum of space there is no place where the temperature is nothing, and the entire universe is full of background radiation which has cooled to within 2.725 K of absolutely nothing, but can never cool to nothing or nothing would exist or move, and everything in the universe is moving, and movement requires energy, and energy = temperature. In fact it is theoretically postulated that even if we were able to create a vacuum and reduce its temperature to zero, or no degrees Kelvin, that vacuum would contain infinite potential and something called quantum jiggle, which might be described as the infinite potential trying to boil.
This is to say nothing of the fact that if some physicists were able to create a small place that they thought was a pure vacuum with a temperature of 0° Kelvin, that little hole of vacuum would move through space due to the rotation of the earth and the movement of the solar system in orbiting the galaxy, and the galaxy moving whatever way it moves, so that their little impressive experiment would only be impressive to us -- not to mother nature, even if she deigned to allow us to think we had arrived at creating nothing. Because, in fact, if anywhere in the universe reached a vacuum of absolute nothing, the whole creation would disappear. Talk about a black hole!
Now what if we were able to reach absolute zero. In our rational number series we can put zero in the middle and have positive numbers on one side and negative numbers on the other, like this:
-10, -9, -8, -7, -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ,9 ,10
If we were able to reach absolute zero Kelvin why couldn't we get even a lower temperature? Physicists, especially physicists who like the fantasy of time travel and churn out book after book about breaking the speed of light barrier and "time" travel (mostly through distortions of spacetime so as to provide loopholes and wormholes), don't seem to talk about breaking the temperature barrier of zero Kelvin to go lower. I wonder why not? Don't you?
Well really, that's all I wanted to say today. If there is a God or Almighty Creator, he needs to have some kind of objective laws embedded in reality, or else he would be a schizophrenic.
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