""There is an Eastern tale which speaks about a very rich magician who had a great many sheep. But at the same time this magician was very mean. He did not want to hire shepherds, nor did he want to erect a fence about the pasture where his sheep were grazing. The sheep consequently often wandered into the forest, fell into ravines, and so on, and above all they ran away, for they knew that the magician wanted their flesh and skins and this they did not like.
"At last the magician found a remedy. He hypnotized his sheep and suggested to them first of all that they were immortal and that no harm was being done to them when they were skinned, that, on the contrary, it would be very good for them and even pleasant; secondly he suggested that the magician was a good master who loved his flock so much that he was ready to do anything in the world for them; and in the third place he suggested to them that if anything at all were going to happen to them it was not going to happen just then, at any rate not that day, and therefore they had no need to think about it. Further the magician suggested to his sheep that they were not sheep at all; to some of them he suggested that they were lions, to others that they were eagles, to others that they were men, and to others that they were magicians.
"And after this all his cares and worries about the sheep came to an end. They never ran away again but quietly awaited the time when the magician would require their flesh and skins.
"This tale is a very good illustration of man's position."
Monday 28 February 2011
Sunday 27 February 2011
Friday 25 February 2011
Saturday 19 February 2011
The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 5
The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 5
6
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD
“Here you should know that your contemporary favorites
very often use a notion taken by them from somewhere,
I do not know whether instinctively, emotionally,
or automatically, and expressed by them in the following
words: ‘We are the images of God.’
“These unfortunates do not even suspect that, of everything
known to most of them concerning cosmic truths,
this expression of theirs is the only true one of them all.
“And indeed, each of them is the image of God, not of
that ‘God’ which they have in their bobtailed picturings,
but of the real God, by which word we sometimes still call
our common Megalocosmos.
“Each of them to the smallest detail is exactly similar,
but of course in miniature, to the whole of our Megalocosmos,
and in each of them there are all of those separate
functionings, which in our common Megalocosmos
actualize the cosmic harmonious Iraniranumange or ‘exchange
of substances,’ maintaining the existence of everything
existing in the Megalocosmos as one whole.
“I once told you that there is localized in the head of
each one of them as well as in us a concentration of corresponding
cosmic substances, all the functioning of
which exactly corresponds to all those functions and purposes
which our Most Most Holy Protocosmos has, and
fulfills, for the whole of the Megalocosmos.
“This localization, which is concentrated in their head,
they call the ‘head-brain.’ The separate, what are called
’Okaniaki’ or ‘protoplasts’ of this localization in their head,
or, as the terrestrial learned call them, the ‘cells-of-thehead-
brain,’ actualize for the whole presence of each of
THE HOLY PLANET “PURGATORY” 778
them exactly such a purpose as is fulfilled at the present
time by the ‘higher-perfected-bodies’ of three-brained beings
from the whole of our Great Universe, who have already
united themselves with the Most Most Holy Sun
Absolute or Protocosmos.
“When these higher parts of three-brained beings, who
are perfected to the corresponding gradation of objective
Reason, get there, they fulfill precisely that function of the
Okaniaki or ‘cells-of-the-head-brain,’ for which function,
as I have already said, our UNI-BEING COMMON FATHER
ENDLESSNESS condescended at the creation of the now existing
World, to decide to use for the future those coatings
who obtain independent Individuality in the
Tetartocosmoses, as an aid for Himself in the administration
of the enlarging world.
“Further, in each of them, in their what is called Vertebral
column,’ another concentration was localized,
called there the ‘spinal marrow,’ in which there are precisely
those what are called denying sources, which actualize
in their functionings in relation to the parts of the
head-brain just such fulfillments as the ‘second-order
newly arisen Suns’ of the Megalocosmos actualize in relation
to the Most Most Holy Protocosmos.
“It must without fail be noticed that in former epochs
there on your planet, your favorites knew something
about the separate particular functionings of the parts of
their spinal marrow and they even knew and adopted various
‘mechanical means’ for action upon corresponding
parts of this spinal marrow of theirs, during those periods
when some disharmony or other appeared in their, as they
express it, ‘psychic state’; but the information relating also
to this kind of knowledge gradually ‘evaporated’ and although
your contemporary favorites know that certain
particular concentrations are in this spinal marrow of
theirs, yet of course they have not the slightest notion for
THE HOLY PLANET “PURGATORY” 779
what function they were designed by Great Nature, and
in most cases simply name them ‘brain nodes’ of their
spinal marrow.
“Well, then, just these separate brain nodes of their
spinal marrow are the sources of denial in relation to the
separate shades of affirmation in their head-brain, precisely
as the separate ‘second-order-Suns’ are the sources of the
various shades of denial in relation to the various shades of
affirmation of the Most Most Holy Protocosmos.
“And, finally, just as in the Megalocosmos, all the results
obtained by the flow of the fundamental process of
the Sacred Heptaparaparshinokh from the ‘affirmation’ of
the Most Most Holy Protocosmos and from the various
shades of ‘denial’ of the newly created ‘Suns’ began to
serve thereafter as a ‘reconciling principle’ for everything
newly arising and already existing, so in them also, there
is a corresponding localization for the concentration of all
results obtained from the affirmation of the head-brain
and from all the shades of denial of the spinal marrow,
which results afterwards serve as a regularizing or reconciling
principle for the functionings of the whole common
presence of each of them.
“Concerning the place of concentration of this localization
which serves the common presences of terrestrial
three-brained beings as a regularizing or reconciling principle,
it must be noticed that in the beginning these threebrained
beings of the planet Earth who have taken your
fancy, also had this third concentration, similarly to us, in
the form of an independent brain localized in the region
of their what is called ‘breast.’
“But from the time when the process of their ordinary
being-existence began particularly sharply to change for
the worse, then Nature there, by certain causes flowing
from the common-cosmic Trogoautoegocratic process, was
compelled, without destroying the functioning itself of
THE HOLY PLANET “PURGATORY” 780
this brain of theirs, to change the system of its localization.
“That is to say, she gradually dispersed the localization
of this organ, which had had its concentration in one
place in them, into small localizations over the whole of
their common presence, but chiefly in the region of what
is called the ‘pit of the stomach.’ The totality of these
small localizations in this region they themselves at the
present time call the solar plexus or the ‘complex of the
nodes of the sympathetic nervous system.’
“And in those nervous nodes scattered over the whole of
the planetary body, there are accumulated at the present
time all the results obtained from the affirming and denying
manifestations of their head-brain and spinal marrow,
and these results, having become fixed in these ‘nervous
nodes’ scattered over the whole of their common presence,
are later also such a neutralizing principle, in the further
process of ‘affirmation and denial’ between the head-brain
and spinal marrow, just as the totality of everything arising
in the Megalocosmos is the neutralizing force in the
process of the affirmation of the Protocosmos and the various
shades of denials of all the newly arisen Suns
“Th
very often use a notion taken by them from somewhere,
I do not know whether instinctively, emotionally,
or automatically, and expressed by them in the following
words: ‘We are the images of God.’
“These unfortunates do not even suspect that, of everything
known to most of them concerning cosmic truths,
this expression of theirs is the only true one of them all.
“And indeed, each of them is the image of God, not of
that ‘God’ which they have in their bobtailed picturings,
but of the real God, by which word we sometimes still call
our common Megalocosmos.
“Each of them to the smallest detail is exactly similar,
but of course in miniature, to the whole of our Megalocosmos,
and in each of them there are all of those separate
functionings, which in our common Megalocosmos
actualize the cosmic harmonious Iraniranumange or ‘exchange
of substances,’ maintaining the existence of everything
existing in the Megalocosmos as one whole.
“I once told you that there is localized in the head of
each one of them as well as in us a concentration of corresponding
cosmic substances, all the functioning of
which exactly corresponds to all those functions and purposes
which our Most Most Holy Protocosmos has, and
fulfills, for the whole of the Megalocosmos.
“This localization, which is concentrated in their head,
they call the ‘head-brain.’ The separate, what are called
’Okaniaki’ or ‘protoplasts’ of this localization in their head,
or, as the terrestrial learned call them, the ‘cells-of-thehead-
brain,’ actualize for the whole presence of each of
THE HOLY PLANET “PURGATORY” 778
them exactly such a purpose as is fulfilled at the present
time by the ‘higher-perfected-bodies’ of three-brained beings
from the whole of our Great Universe, who have already
united themselves with the Most Most Holy Sun
Absolute or Protocosmos.
“When these higher parts of three-brained beings, who
are perfected to the corresponding gradation of objective
Reason, get there, they fulfill precisely that function of the
Okaniaki or ‘cells-of-the-head-brain,’ for which function,
as I have already said, our UNI-BEING COMMON FATHER
ENDLESSNESS condescended at the creation of the now existing
World, to decide to use for the future those coatings
who obtain independent Individuality in the
Tetartocosmoses, as an aid for Himself in the administration
of the enlarging world.
“Further, in each of them, in their what is called Vertebral
column,’ another concentration was localized,
called there the ‘spinal marrow,’ in which there are precisely
those what are called denying sources, which actualize
in their functionings in relation to the parts of the
head-brain just such fulfillments as the ‘second-order
newly arisen Suns’ of the Megalocosmos actualize in relation
to the Most Most Holy Protocosmos.
“It must without fail be noticed that in former epochs
there on your planet, your favorites knew something
about the separate particular functionings of the parts of
their spinal marrow and they even knew and adopted various
‘mechanical means’ for action upon corresponding
parts of this spinal marrow of theirs, during those periods
when some disharmony or other appeared in their, as they
express it, ‘psychic state’; but the information relating also
to this kind of knowledge gradually ‘evaporated’ and although
your contemporary favorites know that certain
particular concentrations are in this spinal marrow of
theirs, yet of course they have not the slightest notion for
THE HOLY PLANET “PURGATORY” 779
what function they were designed by Great Nature, and
in most cases simply name them ‘brain nodes’ of their
spinal marrow.
“Well, then, just these separate brain nodes of their
spinal marrow are the sources of denial in relation to the
separate shades of affirmation in their head-brain, precisely
as the separate ‘second-order-Suns’ are the sources of the
various shades of denial in relation to the various shades of
affirmation of the Most Most Holy Protocosmos.
“And, finally, just as in the Megalocosmos, all the results
obtained by the flow of the fundamental process of
the Sacred Heptaparaparshinokh from the ‘affirmation’ of
the Most Most Holy Protocosmos and from the various
shades of ‘denial’ of the newly created ‘Suns’ began to
serve thereafter as a ‘reconciling principle’ for everything
newly arising and already existing, so in them also, there
is a corresponding localization for the concentration of all
results obtained from the affirmation of the head-brain
and from all the shades of denial of the spinal marrow,
which results afterwards serve as a regularizing or reconciling
principle for the functionings of the whole common
presence of each of them.
“Concerning the place of concentration of this localization
which serves the common presences of terrestrial
three-brained beings as a regularizing or reconciling principle,
it must be noticed that in the beginning these threebrained
beings of the planet Earth who have taken your
fancy, also had this third concentration, similarly to us, in
the form of an independent brain localized in the region
of their what is called ‘breast.’
“But from the time when the process of their ordinary
being-existence began particularly sharply to change for
the worse, then Nature there, by certain causes flowing
from the common-cosmic Trogoautoegocratic process, was
compelled, without destroying the functioning itself of
THE HOLY PLANET “PURGATORY” 780
this brain of theirs, to change the system of its localization.
“That is to say, she gradually dispersed the localization
of this organ, which had had its concentration in one
place in them, into small localizations over the whole of
their common presence, but chiefly in the region of what
is called the ‘pit of the stomach.’ The totality of these
small localizations in this region they themselves at the
present time call the solar plexus or the ‘complex of the
nodes of the sympathetic nervous system.’
“And in those nervous nodes scattered over the whole of
the planetary body, there are accumulated at the present
time all the results obtained from the affirming and denying
manifestations of their head-brain and spinal marrow,
and these results, having become fixed in these ‘nervous
nodes’ scattered over the whole of their common presence,
are later also such a neutralizing principle, in the further
process of ‘affirmation and denial’ between the head-brain
and spinal marrow, just as the totality of everything arising
in the Megalocosmos is the neutralizing force in the
process of the affirmation of the Protocosmos and the various
shades of denials of all the newly arisen Suns
“Th
3SOURCES OF ASSOCIATIONS
there flow
simultaneously in man three kinds of associations—of thought, of feeling and of
mechanical instinct. Most important of all is that not only do the three kinds of independent
associations flow simultaneously, but also there participate in all of them the results of the
three sources found in man for the transformation of the three natures of so-called "cosmic
vivifyingness." These sources are located in man as follows: the first, in a
part of the brain, the second, in a part of the spinal column; and the third, in a part of the
solar plexus. These three kinds of associations in one man explain that peculiar sensation,
noticed at times by everyone, as though there were several beings living in him. Those
who wish to acquaint themselves more fully with these questions are advised to learn, that
is, not simply to read but to immerse themselves in, that chapter of the first series of my
writings entitled "The Holy Planet Purgatory." On reading over what has just been written,
there involuntarily arises in me the question as to which must appear to the reader more
fantastic: that which I myself have written, or the hypothesis of our distant ancestors which
I have cited. It seems to me that every reader on first comparing them will find the one as
bad as the other. A little later he will blame only me, that I, in spite of living in this period of
civilization, should write such nonsense. He will forgive the ancestors, however, as he is
able to put himself into their position, and with the reason proper to him will argue
approximately thus: "How were they to blame that in their time our civilization had not yet
existed? And once having become learned, they too had to occupy themselves with
something. And for a fact, at that time, not one electrical machine existed, even of the
simplest sort." Not having been able to restrain myself, and once again having bared one
of my weaknesses, consisting in, as is said, "cracking a joke" at the most serious
moments of my writings, I wish to take advantage of this incidental digression from the
basic theme to describe a very peculiar coincidence
which took place a few days ago, in connection with the writing of this last book of mine. In
connection with the writing of this book there have been, altogether, many coincidences,
seemingly very strange at first glance, but which on closer scrutiny have shown
themselves to be according to law. Of course I shall not write about all these coincidences,
as this would not be possible—I would probably have to write ten other books. However,
for a better characterization of these strange coincidences and the consequences which
have arisen from them, hindering the exposition of this book, I will depict, aside from the
just mentioned one which happened the day before yesterday, also the first, which took
place on November 6th, 1934, the first day of the recommencement of my writing. As I
have already said in the prologue, I decided, after a year's interruption in my writings, to
begin to write again on the 6th of November, that is, on that very day on which, seven
years before, I had decided once and for all to achieve without fail all the tasks required
for my being. On this day, happening to be in New York, I went early in the morning to the
Childs cafe situated at Columbus Circle, to which I went every morning for my writing. My
American acquaintances, by the way, call this Childs among themselves Café de la Paix,
because this cafe here in America has served me during the entire period of my writing
activity in the same way as the Parisian Café de la Paix. That morning I felt like a
"mettlesome horse" let loose after having been confined for many months in the stable.
Thoughts were "swarming" in me, chiefly those thoughts pertaining to the work.
Work went so well that by nine o'clock I had succeeded in writing about fifteen pages of
my notebook without a single correction. I probably succeeded so well because, although I
should not have allowed any active mentation to proceed in me, I must nevertheless
confess that during the last month I had not made much effort, and consequently had
considered, involuntarily and half automatically, how to begin this book, which will be not
only the last but also the "collected concluding" of all my w
simultaneously in man three kinds of associations—of thought, of feeling and of
mechanical instinct. Most important of all is that not only do the three kinds of independent
associations flow simultaneously, but also there participate in all of them the results of the
three sources found in man for the transformation of the three natures of so-called "cosmic
vivifyingness." These sources are located in man as follows: the first, in a
part of the brain, the second, in a part of the spinal column; and the third, in a part of the
solar plexus. These three kinds of associations in one man explain that peculiar sensation,
noticed at times by everyone, as though there were several beings living in him. Those
who wish to acquaint themselves more fully with these questions are advised to learn, that
is, not simply to read but to immerse themselves in, that chapter of the first series of my
writings entitled "The Holy Planet Purgatory." On reading over what has just been written,
there involuntarily arises in me the question as to which must appear to the reader more
fantastic: that which I myself have written, or the hypothesis of our distant ancestors which
I have cited. It seems to me that every reader on first comparing them will find the one as
bad as the other. A little later he will blame only me, that I, in spite of living in this period of
civilization, should write such nonsense. He will forgive the ancestors, however, as he is
able to put himself into their position, and with the reason proper to him will argue
approximately thus: "How were they to blame that in their time our civilization had not yet
existed? And once having become learned, they too had to occupy themselves with
something. And for a fact, at that time, not one electrical machine existed, even of the
simplest sort." Not having been able to restrain myself, and once again having bared one
of my weaknesses, consisting in, as is said, "cracking a joke" at the most serious
moments of my writings, I wish to take advantage of this incidental digression from the
basic theme to describe a very peculiar coincidence
which took place a few days ago, in connection with the writing of this last book of mine. In
connection with the writing of this book there have been, altogether, many coincidences,
seemingly very strange at first glance, but which on closer scrutiny have shown
themselves to be according to law. Of course I shall not write about all these coincidences,
as this would not be possible—I would probably have to write ten other books. However,
for a better characterization of these strange coincidences and the consequences which
have arisen from them, hindering the exposition of this book, I will depict, aside from the
just mentioned one which happened the day before yesterday, also the first, which took
place on November 6th, 1934, the first day of the recommencement of my writing. As I
have already said in the prologue, I decided, after a year's interruption in my writings, to
begin to write again on the 6th of November, that is, on that very day on which, seven
years before, I had decided once and for all to achieve without fail all the tasks required
for my being. On this day, happening to be in New York, I went early in the morning to the
Childs cafe situated at Columbus Circle, to which I went every morning for my writing. My
American acquaintances, by the way, call this Childs among themselves Café de la Paix,
because this cafe here in America has served me during the entire period of my writing
activity in the same way as the Parisian Café de la Paix. That morning I felt like a
"mettlesome horse" let loose after having been confined for many months in the stable.
Thoughts were "swarming" in me, chiefly those thoughts pertaining to the work.
Work went so well that by nine o'clock I had succeeded in writing about fifteen pages of
my notebook without a single correction. I probably succeeded so well because, although I
should not have allowed any active mentation to proceed in me, I must nevertheless
confess that during the last month I had not made much effort, and consequently had
considered, involuntarily and half automatically, how to begin this book, which will be not
only the last but also the "collected concluding" of all my w
The Book of Matthew, Chapter 16
The Book of Matthew, Chapter 16
Holy-Affirming,,
Holy-Denying,
Holy-Reconciling,
Transubstantiate in me
For my Being.’
or
‘Holy God,
Holy Firm,
Holy Immortal,
Have mercy on us.’
“
18
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Holy-Affirming,,
Holy-Denying,
Holy-Reconciling,
Transubstantiate in me
For my Being.’
or
‘Holy God,
Holy Firm,
Holy Immortal,
Have mercy on us.’
“
3 FORCES
Holy-Affirming,,
Holy-Denying,
Holy-Reconciling,
Transubstantiate in me
For my Being.’
or
‘Holy God,
Holy Firm,
Holy Immortal,
Have mercy on us.’
“
Holy-Denying,
Holy-Reconciling,
Transubstantiate in me
For my Being.’
or
‘Holy God,
Holy Firm,
Holy Immortal,
Have mercy on us.’
“
Friday 18 February 2011
Wednesday 16 February 2011
East Coker
East Coker: "
here is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
here is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
here is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
here is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
Monday 14 February 2011
The Book of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13
The Book of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. | |
12 | For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. |
13 | And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. |
The Book of 1 Kings, Chapter 19
The Book of 1 Kings, Chapter 19
nd he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
12
And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
nd he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
12
And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Tuesday 8 February 2011
Friday 4 February 2011
YouTube - Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
YouTube - Dear Lord and Father of Mankind: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"
Wednesday 2 February 2011
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