Violet Lightbea
03-20-2004, 10:49 PM
The mystery of life, the trend of existence, the stupendous secret which life locked from our view behind the gate of birth, send out their silent challenge with the radiations of every star, and on the hushed breath of space itself.
Through out the passage of time a hundred mighty minds have wrestled the secret of their own existence, and have explained, propounded or denied the mysterious source of themselves, and of all around them.
The statemnets of these great thinkers stand out like scattered stars in the dark sphere of our worldly knowledge, some point north, and some south, some giving a big light and some a small.
Space and time, force and matter have been subject of vast number of theories, hypotheses and declarations, many of the brilliant and intriguing, but most of them apparently in disagreement one with another.
The ancient savants explained life in terms of planes, the modern scientists work in terms of vibrations, while our most advanced thinkers prostulate in terms of dimensions.
If we could ascertain what these terms actually signify we might discover points of resemblance between them.
Possibly, when gathered together they might be made to form a coherent whole which would cast clearer light upon the mystery of our own composition, the purpose of our existence, and the manner in which that purpose is being carried through.
As we are going to formulate some orginal theories we will avoid all contact with ancient thinkers and savants for the present, as well as the spheres of poetry, religion and philosophy in whose language they expressed their genius.
Instead, true to our concept that the present age is being preeminently ruled by the scientific aspect of Deity, we will seek to read the Divine massage and lesson as it is instilled into this world through the medium of science, confining ourselves for awhile to the realm of scientific conceptions.
Perhaps the highest peek of modern scientific thought of laast century has bee achieved by Einstein with his little understood Fourth Dimension.
As most of us have no preconceived ideas about this seemingly abstruse subject, with will provide a suitable starting-off point in our search for the secrets of the universe .
Do not let us be put off by the word 'Dimension'.
We have chosen it in order to keep the train of our meditation in 'modern' terms, and to prove that it is not necesssary to borrow the language of the Eastern mystic nor of the western bible in order to penetrate the mysteries of being.
We shall avoid the use of scientific terminology also.
No matter how involved or difficult a subject may appear to be, i believe it is possible to describe it in short simple terms, in clear phrases which can be understood by clear straight minds.
Our trouble is that some of us have lost the habbit of straight clear thinking.
We are inclined to meander around, we conclude beforehand that certain subjects are beyond us and would not interest us; we shy like wild ponys at unaccustomed thoughts; we twist and turn rather then face new ideas.
We are liable to gape at long winded scientific postulations, allowing ourselves to be hypnotised into stupefaction by them.
The average intelligent person is, however , able to understand a vast amount more than he might expect to do, provided it is put to him clearly and shortly, and his own mind is attentive and quit.
i have as proof the profound changeI have been able to effect in my own menality simply because I realised how ell worth while would be the effort.
Once the mind is cleared, it is annoyed by the amount of involved verbiage in which essential facts of life are wrapped up.
Mr.Einstein made mountains of calculations and figures around his fourth dimension, which acted as an impregnable fortress against the average mind, and isolated his work completely from human life.
A few specialists appreciated his discovery and gave it he celebrity it deseves.
Yet who understands the value of his work ?
who uses it ?
who are those people who acclaimed it doing about it ?
For the ery reason that is seems so unapproachable and unpractical I suggest that we think about Mr.Einsteins discovery until we tune in to the secrets which lie behind it.
We can best build up our approach to this Forth dimension by first considering the lesser dimensions in their respective order.
The word 'dimension' comes from the latin dimension, meaning a measuring.
The initial practical human reaction to things is to fi9nd out their size and shape.
This can be ascertained through measurement.
The first measurement is simply the spotest didtance between two points, and gives us the straight line.
This corresponds somewhat to the FIRST DIMENSION, which is merely the first elementary movement through space in one direction only.
The consciousness of a creature living life of one dimension could be compared to that of a blindworm streched straight along the ground, immovable !
the first-dimensional consciousness could not be aware of space at all, except on a flat surface, and moving in one direction.
First-dimensional existence expressed the primal urge or push forward of life.
The SECOND DIMENSION is found when a line or direction can be taken at an angle to the first plane or straight line.
We then find other shapes coming into existence, such as the cross, the square and triangle, our two measurements giving us its length and its width.
The important aspect of two-dimensional life would be that of intersection.
Two different lines of force, two opposing currents meet. They may intersect, cross each other, or fuse, Interaction of some kind must take place, which was of course impossible with one direction.
Such interaction must necessarily be either attraction, repulsion, or fusion.
In either case a certain amount of cohesion must be produced.
For it needs cohesion even to resist.
So that the second-dimension would express the second primitive urge towards life, that of attraction or cohesion.
The artist and the draughtsman have to work in only two dimensions, that is to say upon a flat surface, and their art consists in expressing three-dimensions when using only two.
Once cohesion is established a centre or core is formed, and around this centre a form takes shape.
A centre or core can attract or repulse in ALL directions, so that at this stage life has become released from the flat surface, and can produce solid objects, and the THIRD-DIMENSION.
This third dimension or measurement gives the thickness of our subject, so that with length, breadth and thickness the dimensions of all physical life may be ascertained.
The sculptor works in three dimensions.
If the didtance from the core of an object to its surface is the same in all directions the result is a ball or globe.
There fore in the third dimension the curve is born, and circular movement, or rotation, is demonstrated.
At this stage an object can rotate or move in all directions, through all the agles.
The third-dimension, whos scope includes the first two , covers all motion and all shape in the physical world.
It gives us the rotating sphere, and therefore the atom, the planet, and the solor system, and all the life which is built up from these .
Therefore, after the primal urge, the push forward the WILL
to live of the first dimension, followed by the ATTRACTION
and cohesion due to the second dimension, PHYSICAL LIFE
appears in the third dimension as rotation and vibration.
This trinity of dimensions corresponds to the Holy Trinity.
in which there is the first aspect of Deity, WILL, the father, the primal urge.
The second ascect of Deity , LOVE, or attraction, the SON
and the third aspect of Deity , the LIFE, the MOTHER, the feminine ascpect or the holy ghost( aka god force) ,
Spirit crystallised into physical life and manifesting therin.
For we must not forget that all is Spirit, physical matter being spirit at a lower vibration. As the scientists put it, all is ENERGY in the last analysis.
So during the earlist stages of our train of thought , even the simplest of the dimensions are acuiring a deeper significance, and are linking up with powerful forces.
We can class the lower three dimensions as belonging togather in their expression of the outward physical side of life; and as it is the third dimension which actually produces form, we shall refer to all three dimensions in future under the heading of the Third Dimension.
During many thousand years the human mind has become intensely productive in everything that belongs to the third dimensions.
The fine arts and all the emenities of living are the resultof the effort of the human spirit to express its inspiration in the world of form.
All further possibilities were the monopoly of the poet, the dreamer and the philosopher, some of whom met their chance by forecasting many of the inentions of the future to a incredulous world.
The artists the architects of those days were often scientists as well, and their work was the greater for it.
Are we able to read the massages in divine language which third-dimensional life expresses to us, and the lesson which humanity has had to learn from it ?
It is the lesson of meterialism, the dealing with and the conquest of solid matter.
The law which governs is the law of seperatism.
Physical life expresses itself by means of infinite divisions and separations, forming ever-increasing numbers of isolated objects, their isolation being caused by the fact that in the lower dimensions of form life each object requies its own space, and there is no interpenetration.
Man has learnt the lessons of Separatism extremely thoroughly; in fact it has become ingrained in him .
Under its sway he has produced multiplcity in all activities, His ideal has been to have many things, not few.
His speech has become ever more complicated and full of words.
His possessions and needs have become innumerable.
His architecture and design degenerated from simplicity to fussiness of detail.
Science, which has been ONE science, and a necessary qualification for all the leaders of men, guarded faithfully by the priesthood itself, beame split up into a dozen sciences, each one going off in spledid isolation, until at last we find identical things masquerading unrecognied under various names.
Seperation finally gained utter sway, and man's earlier recognition of the unity of all life faded completly from his memory.
It was the era of self-development, of extrem egotism and intense sacrifice to the three dimensions.
I am speaking now of the great passing chapter of human history.
At times during this period art has reached marvellous heights, and meterial living symbolised by home life has been beutiful indeed .
Unfortunately , however, the more man concentrated upon third demensions, the more he become seperated from his hitherto involuntary recognition of and awareness of the higher dimensions, which we are going to explore.
He came in the end to adore his physical world and live only for what it could give him.
As most of this consisted of solid objects which could be taken from him, greed , possessiveness, love of power and the readiness to tyrannise were the results growing out of this unbalanced adoration.
His character become marked by extrem egocentrivity, and his activitys made for an ever more complicated existence, with an inreasing infinity of divisions and sub-divisions, each fighting to retain and increase its individual strengh and draw all sources of supply unto self.
This type of life produced greed, feer, the stronger preying upon the weeker, and finally despotism, when men began to come together under one leader.
The wiser tyrants would care well for his possessions both of men and goods, in his own interests.
The feudal system, as we knew it in England, was built up under this influence.
The chief or lord acquired sovereign authority over all his land and people.
The invisible strings of evolution pulled !
The lords came togather to a larger merging, counties and departments were formed, and latter little states, which stll embodied the spirit of possessiveness, aggressivness and sovereign authority.
Later a further merging took place , the nations appeared, which flourished through an even larger measure of acquisitiveness and sovereignty.
Actually the merging process was the first herald of the future death of separatism, but we have to take a very long view indeed to appreciate these vast epochs.
Hundreds of years will have passed ere man works his way entirely clear from the experience and the lessons of the third dimension.
Let this short indication suffice for the moment,
I another post we move on to different realms, always keeping the association in our minds between lower dimensions and physical life, the art and crafts, possessiveness and despotism.
Through out the passage of time a hundred mighty minds have wrestled the secret of their own existence, and have explained, propounded or denied the mysterious source of themselves, and of all around them.
The statemnets of these great thinkers stand out like scattered stars in the dark sphere of our worldly knowledge, some point north, and some south, some giving a big light and some a small.
Space and time, force and matter have been subject of vast number of theories, hypotheses and declarations, many of the brilliant and intriguing, but most of them apparently in disagreement one with another.
The ancient savants explained life in terms of planes, the modern scientists work in terms of vibrations, while our most advanced thinkers prostulate in terms of dimensions.
If we could ascertain what these terms actually signify we might discover points of resemblance between them.
Possibly, when gathered together they might be made to form a coherent whole which would cast clearer light upon the mystery of our own composition, the purpose of our existence, and the manner in which that purpose is being carried through.
As we are going to formulate some orginal theories we will avoid all contact with ancient thinkers and savants for the present, as well as the spheres of poetry, religion and philosophy in whose language they expressed their genius.
Instead, true to our concept that the present age is being preeminently ruled by the scientific aspect of Deity, we will seek to read the Divine massage and lesson as it is instilled into this world through the medium of science, confining ourselves for awhile to the realm of scientific conceptions.
Perhaps the highest peek of modern scientific thought of laast century has bee achieved by Einstein with his little understood Fourth Dimension.
As most of us have no preconceived ideas about this seemingly abstruse subject, with will provide a suitable starting-off point in our search for the secrets of the universe .
Do not let us be put off by the word 'Dimension'.
We have chosen it in order to keep the train of our meditation in 'modern' terms, and to prove that it is not necesssary to borrow the language of the Eastern mystic nor of the western bible in order to penetrate the mysteries of being.
We shall avoid the use of scientific terminology also.
No matter how involved or difficult a subject may appear to be, i believe it is possible to describe it in short simple terms, in clear phrases which can be understood by clear straight minds.
Our trouble is that some of us have lost the habbit of straight clear thinking.
We are inclined to meander around, we conclude beforehand that certain subjects are beyond us and would not interest us; we shy like wild ponys at unaccustomed thoughts; we twist and turn rather then face new ideas.
We are liable to gape at long winded scientific postulations, allowing ourselves to be hypnotised into stupefaction by them.
The average intelligent person is, however , able to understand a vast amount more than he might expect to do, provided it is put to him clearly and shortly, and his own mind is attentive and quit.
i have as proof the profound changeI have been able to effect in my own menality simply because I realised how ell worth while would be the effort.
Once the mind is cleared, it is annoyed by the amount of involved verbiage in which essential facts of life are wrapped up.
Mr.Einstein made mountains of calculations and figures around his fourth dimension, which acted as an impregnable fortress against the average mind, and isolated his work completely from human life.
A few specialists appreciated his discovery and gave it he celebrity it deseves.
Yet who understands the value of his work ?
who uses it ?
who are those people who acclaimed it doing about it ?
For the ery reason that is seems so unapproachable and unpractical I suggest that we think about Mr.Einsteins discovery until we tune in to the secrets which lie behind it.
We can best build up our approach to this Forth dimension by first considering the lesser dimensions in their respective order.
The word 'dimension' comes from the latin dimension, meaning a measuring.
The initial practical human reaction to things is to fi9nd out their size and shape.
This can be ascertained through measurement.
The first measurement is simply the spotest didtance between two points, and gives us the straight line.
This corresponds somewhat to the FIRST DIMENSION, which is merely the first elementary movement through space in one direction only.
The consciousness of a creature living life of one dimension could be compared to that of a blindworm streched straight along the ground, immovable !
the first-dimensional consciousness could not be aware of space at all, except on a flat surface, and moving in one direction.
First-dimensional existence expressed the primal urge or push forward of life.
The SECOND DIMENSION is found when a line or direction can be taken at an angle to the first plane or straight line.
We then find other shapes coming into existence, such as the cross, the square and triangle, our two measurements giving us its length and its width.
The important aspect of two-dimensional life would be that of intersection.
Two different lines of force, two opposing currents meet. They may intersect, cross each other, or fuse, Interaction of some kind must take place, which was of course impossible with one direction.
Such interaction must necessarily be either attraction, repulsion, or fusion.
In either case a certain amount of cohesion must be produced.
For it needs cohesion even to resist.
So that the second-dimension would express the second primitive urge towards life, that of attraction or cohesion.
The artist and the draughtsman have to work in only two dimensions, that is to say upon a flat surface, and their art consists in expressing three-dimensions when using only two.
Once cohesion is established a centre or core is formed, and around this centre a form takes shape.
A centre or core can attract or repulse in ALL directions, so that at this stage life has become released from the flat surface, and can produce solid objects, and the THIRD-DIMENSION.
This third dimension or measurement gives the thickness of our subject, so that with length, breadth and thickness the dimensions of all physical life may be ascertained.
The sculptor works in three dimensions.
If the didtance from the core of an object to its surface is the same in all directions the result is a ball or globe.
There fore in the third dimension the curve is born, and circular movement, or rotation, is demonstrated.
At this stage an object can rotate or move in all directions, through all the agles.
The third-dimension, whos scope includes the first two , covers all motion and all shape in the physical world.
It gives us the rotating sphere, and therefore the atom, the planet, and the solor system, and all the life which is built up from these .
Therefore, after the primal urge, the push forward the WILL
to live of the first dimension, followed by the ATTRACTION
and cohesion due to the second dimension, PHYSICAL LIFE
appears in the third dimension as rotation and vibration.
This trinity of dimensions corresponds to the Holy Trinity.
in which there is the first aspect of Deity, WILL, the father, the primal urge.
The second ascect of Deity , LOVE, or attraction, the SON
and the third aspect of Deity , the LIFE, the MOTHER, the feminine ascpect or the holy ghost( aka god force) ,
Spirit crystallised into physical life and manifesting therin.
For we must not forget that all is Spirit, physical matter being spirit at a lower vibration. As the scientists put it, all is ENERGY in the last analysis.
So during the earlist stages of our train of thought , even the simplest of the dimensions are acuiring a deeper significance, and are linking up with powerful forces.
We can class the lower three dimensions as belonging togather in their expression of the outward physical side of life; and as it is the third dimension which actually produces form, we shall refer to all three dimensions in future under the heading of the Third Dimension.
During many thousand years the human mind has become intensely productive in everything that belongs to the third dimensions.
The fine arts and all the emenities of living are the resultof the effort of the human spirit to express its inspiration in the world of form.
All further possibilities were the monopoly of the poet, the dreamer and the philosopher, some of whom met their chance by forecasting many of the inentions of the future to a incredulous world.
The artists the architects of those days were often scientists as well, and their work was the greater for it.
Are we able to read the massages in divine language which third-dimensional life expresses to us, and the lesson which humanity has had to learn from it ?
It is the lesson of meterialism, the dealing with and the conquest of solid matter.
The law which governs is the law of seperatism.
Physical life expresses itself by means of infinite divisions and separations, forming ever-increasing numbers of isolated objects, their isolation being caused by the fact that in the lower dimensions of form life each object requies its own space, and there is no interpenetration.
Man has learnt the lessons of Separatism extremely thoroughly; in fact it has become ingrained in him .
Under its sway he has produced multiplcity in all activities, His ideal has been to have many things, not few.
His speech has become ever more complicated and full of words.
His possessions and needs have become innumerable.
His architecture and design degenerated from simplicity to fussiness of detail.
Science, which has been ONE science, and a necessary qualification for all the leaders of men, guarded faithfully by the priesthood itself, beame split up into a dozen sciences, each one going off in spledid isolation, until at last we find identical things masquerading unrecognied under various names.
Seperation finally gained utter sway, and man's earlier recognition of the unity of all life faded completly from his memory.
It was the era of self-development, of extrem egotism and intense sacrifice to the three dimensions.
I am speaking now of the great passing chapter of human history.
At times during this period art has reached marvellous heights, and meterial living symbolised by home life has been beutiful indeed .
Unfortunately , however, the more man concentrated upon third demensions, the more he become seperated from his hitherto involuntary recognition of and awareness of the higher dimensions, which we are going to explore.
He came in the end to adore his physical world and live only for what it could give him.
As most of this consisted of solid objects which could be taken from him, greed , possessiveness, love of power and the readiness to tyrannise were the results growing out of this unbalanced adoration.
His character become marked by extrem egocentrivity, and his activitys made for an ever more complicated existence, with an inreasing infinity of divisions and sub-divisions, each fighting to retain and increase its individual strengh and draw all sources of supply unto self.
This type of life produced greed, feer, the stronger preying upon the weeker, and finally despotism, when men began to come together under one leader.
The wiser tyrants would care well for his possessions both of men and goods, in his own interests.
The feudal system, as we knew it in England, was built up under this influence.
The chief or lord acquired sovereign authority over all his land and people.
The invisible strings of evolution pulled !
The lords came togather to a larger merging, counties and departments were formed, and latter little states, which stll embodied the spirit of possessiveness, aggressivness and sovereign authority.
Later a further merging took place , the nations appeared, which flourished through an even larger measure of acquisitiveness and sovereignty.
Actually the merging process was the first herald of the future death of separatism, but we have to take a very long view indeed to appreciate these vast epochs.
Hundreds of years will have passed ere man works his way entirely clear from the experience and the lessons of the third dimension.
Let this short indication suffice for the moment,
I another post we move on to different realms, always keeping the association in our minds between lower dimensions and physical life, the art and crafts, possessiveness and despotism.