Morris, Lawrence S.

Note Books ofL. S. M.: Orage Lectures. [1927-1928] 133p., illustrations. Unpublished typescript.

Lawrence (Larry) Morris was-along with C. Daly King, Sherman Manchester, Gorham Munson and Wlm Nyland-a key member of Or age's New York inner circle and Gurdjieff group during the late 1920s while Orage was editing the English edition of Gurdjieff's typescript of Beelzebub's Tales. Morris' notes cover thirty-two weekly meetings in New York City, interspersed with breaks, from January 17th to December 27,1927 and from March 19 to May 28,1928. Most of Or age's discussion focuses on Beelzebub's Tales.

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1 Preface (undated) 90 October 31, 1927
4 January 17, 1927 90 November 7, 1927
8 January 24, 1927 93 November 28, 1927
11 February 7, 1927 94 December 5, 1927
22 February 21, 1927 97 December 14, 1927
26 February 28, 1927 99 December 27, 1927
30 March 7, 1927
35 March 14, 1927 103 March 19, 1928
48 March 28, 1927 106 March 26, 1928
53 April 4, 1927 108 April 2, 1928
58 April 11, 1927 109 April 9, 1928
65 April 25, 1927 114 April 30, 1928
73 May 16, 1927 117 May 7, 1928
77 May 23, 1927 122 May 14, 1928
82 May 30, 1927 125 May 21,1928
85 October 17, 1927 130 May 28,1928
89 October 24, 1927 134-5 Quotations from Morris Notes ~ .... , -' .

Note Books of L.S.M.

Orage lectures. ~ew York

Preface

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This preface is to the Book what an overture is to the opera.

The ideas to be developed are indicated lightly. The expressi6n is not by direct statement but entirely by parable. Compare Swift' 8 Tale of a Tub. The preface is called a naming.

"When commencing a new venture, it is customary everywhere and S always to recite---- in the name of the Father, the Son, and also

in the na:ne of that Holy Ghost, said to be mown only to the'pries~

and a few of the leamed----". . ... _ (.·:~c

Father is the Intellectual center -:.~~.-:- '. '. - .. ~~

Son is the instinct1 ve center ..,. . ~

Holy Ghost the emotional center /o >«: . '~'-"''"~'~ • j

The "higher" emotional center, i.e. the "heart", ~·1.e. 't.he capacity,'! for emotional understanding of thingsps they are9 IYVerence, awe ~ " real love etc. is the Holy Ghost

The Boo~ thus opens with an invocation to all three centers. Wholenes~ but wit¥pec1al attention to the Holy Ghost. That is., this Book is

to be re"ad from the real heart. - .' .... "

It is true that it is not "customary everyWhere and always to recite . such words", at least in our experience; but G. wif!he's to suggest

at the outse~hat peings living normally would undertake all ventures in this attitude of Wholeness; and that zln all the rest of the. . . Universesuch in fact 1s the case. But in our little corner, due to.~';,;. local co'nd1tiona, we never undertake anything in this attitude. , ... '0: :~"':'

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-.:.----- therefor, placing my hand on my heart(but in parelU[thes1a:~:~( he adds"which is well known to be below the sto~eA----1. e. we ff:t~mt at.s ke our solar plexus for our heart. we have no real emotional.:.....~r~5· understanding developed, no Holy Gh~ost, no neutralizing force, h!}---.~ says" I have no wish to write this oookn •. ~e 1s compelled to write ., <"1

by Will, which 1s indifferent to personal 1.nclination ,; . c' • ~::

The attitude of the ~reface is the attitude of Beelzebub: and the attitude i~ which Self-Observation must be undertaken by eac8 one of us.

Important considerations lead him to writes book. What is a book?(see 4 later). Further: Will begin with a Preface, because other books do

i. e., will follow convcrrt LonaL methods so Ions 8S .useful... _ .... _ . __ :

But ""reface. will be a warning. Art (see later)consists:of conscious::: variations from the usual. And the art we know ordinarily 1s aa. a .~ natural as the song or the nest o-r.s bird. The nest o-t the oriole.; c~' seems to us more per-rect than the nest of the snipe- but we attributs. no value; similarly Shakespeare or ?licheel Angelo.' lie will not·be.)i~~~ creature Qf custom ; but will use .customary form ana add something .' .' not merely different but better and thus fulfill two purposes. . .. -;' .. ~\

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Be will address h1s readers. Notice his tone. This is the 8tt1tude~~:~ and distance we will take in addressing our object of observation ..

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take. it very seriously, non- identified. ~mused but _ not unkind - •. ;~~:-:; ~

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that is the worldly body. II (word 'local' in the book means of this planet. We are squalid villagers in the C~smoa.

»e will not use the language of the intelliganzla, i.e. our local dialect of thought, will not write in the language of &rammerlanr not gra~~iBns of words but of logic. In short, ideas in thls book will not be presented ln our habi t~ thought patterns. .:

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Our intellectual life i·s based on chance associatlons. Only when our habitual S Bsoclatlons are broken up can we begin to thlnk free1.f~-: .. Our a ssoc4lstlons are mechanical; a whole mood can be destroyed ""'-_~: for example by the use of one word wl th a different group of _/ _.. assaciations(In midst of B serious discussion, introduce a vulgar word)

In what language shall he write. ~e has begun in Russlan but. csnnot So on because he ls golng to treat of Fhllosophlcal themes.- ~

( Russlan is a mixture of Essence and ersonallty. Russians wll1 philosophize for a short timej and then drop into gossip and yarns. Russian is excellent for stories in the steam bath( this refers

not reelly to the RU8sian language but to the Russian psychology)

Also English is useful for practical matters but inadequate for abstract thinking of the Whole.This also is of the English psycholog and not of words. It is of the wa1t of tho~ht. There is no language in English for speech about self 'I" and" you" are excluded. . RUSSian and English are like a soup which contains everythlng

except "you" and "I". English cannot confess .. In an English or Russian psychological state, we cannot tell the truth about ourse1ve

'J.he English are the 'Osychological that ~s sociological not bl10g1ca1 descendants of the anclent Romans, the :ermens,of the Greeks

He is familiar with two languages, RuSSian and Armenian; the Armenia 30 Or 40 years agol (l.e.development of every person from essence- . to covering of persona11ty) Engllsh is persona11ty; Russlan, hs1t~~dha1f; Armenian Is essence,~ pure. But In Armenlan one cannot . express modern ideas, because modern Ideas are not about essence

he was fami11ar in childhood with Ar~ian(i.e., we all are essentle but as we grow up, we "learn Russian and English" i.e. take on soclologioal influences. Aremnian used to be pure(essential) but in 30 Or ~~_y-ears has acquired neighboring wordsi.e psychologically has grown ful1fre<B~~"'"XA.X to be interpreted as the history of Man

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Native Greek was his first form of speech, imfantl1e,(posture, gea ture etc); but unfortunately cannot use Greek(In case of ~ consciou8 person, behaviour is s language. {esus said" watch what ~ do)

because somebody wou~d have to translate, 1.e. explain hi8_ b~~viou~

How to get out of this language mess? Heigh ho!Wl11 get over the difficulty

(G. ~ uses the word life in the book. He merely asserts that

l we exist; but says we can live • Life consists In voluntarily getting over voluntarily imposed difficulties. Arrangement of ideas etc wi~be behaviour:Native Greek

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Every style indicates the psycho logy from which it is written.

There are tubercular, cancerous, syphilitic styles. The latter is diSintegrated, glittering short sentences, epigrams etc. It is very seldom we find a book or work of art which is not symptomatic of pathologic disturbance. But in this book G. is not writing from impulse, wish, etcRe is cons~ructing this book as an imnlement to bring about a given effect • ~e has disliked the language of the inteiligenzia since ch l Ldhood, because he is a Black Sheep •.

Suppose there is one sheep in a flock who realIzes the two things which we consider especial to sheep: mutton and wool. If he continueH to develope this realization it will alter his attitude from other sheep; he will become the black sheep.

He suspected that our bodies are mutton and wool~.e. that our bodi~ are stations for transferring energy up and down regardless of . our own purposes; and we fail to realize that our intellection is ...... mechanical reactions

While a "teacher of dancing"(that is of movements teaching our bodies to make non- habitual movements) he learned that man has two modes of speech (thought)

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When speak&ng or writing you often use words for which you have no personal experience. If you ask yourself"Have I So personal content for this?" you will realize the difference. There is often nothing but literary associations. Veterans speaking of front trenches and Journalist whJ stayed at home speak of front trenches on two differer planes of psychology

Animals have only real experience; human beings hhve both, can pretend and often get away with it.

Can you, as a literary critic tell the difference bewteen a style which is only words and style which is words plus content?

( Song of Deborah in the Old ~estament). It still is not art even if written out of the fullness of a heart; because its content d~pends on accidental associations.

This book destroys existing values in art and is deva~stating to a sincere person.

He w1ll write in a manner befitting a teacher of danc1ngi.e. 8 person who is d1recting his moveeents

Hew Warns you; you may find cacopanies which will be diagreeable and will make you not want your ~aily meali.e., your habitual associations

You may think I'm ~oung. I'm not young. I have lived long enough to have "eaten dog'i.e., swallowed my pride, endured disagreeable~ sensations; fatigue; .ma d e an effort; swallowed negative emotions.

"I stand on my own feet". Beelzebub has hoofs(Individuality)

Boots are aoc Io Logd oa L aids.

The compulsion for writing the book is a realization of logical need I propose to allocate certain sums to those who return the book after beginning iti.e., if you listen to these ideas a lftfle

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who bought a freshly gathered, 1.e.(from some one~ractising the method) red pepper, which looked beautiful but made the tears ptlur from his eyes and his face burn. The wily bookseller w111 urge you not to return{A.R.O.); but if the book is digested it

will be for your health and the health of those near you. '

The book w111 be 11ke the red pepper, disagreeable ton our mental and e~ot10nal association and to our inert1a.

Beelzebub own feet unfurled comes later Beelzebub is an "I" who has and W111. He is speaking to begun S.O. and 18 by way of

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indiv1dua1ity, abi11ty to stand on h1s consc10usness which can be furled and w111. Explanation of use .Of this symbol . I

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developed Ind1vidua11ty~ Consciousnes& Hassein, who is any little"I" who has develop1~ these three_functions.

We have B. in us, undeveloped. The book may help us develope him. Wish 1s always fo~r against1.e.polarized. When freed from polar 1zat10n 1t becomes Will. It st11l conta1ns its double potentia11ty but contains the two 1n one and 1& directed by reason. -Hence ·the symbol of the two horns sprouting from the head which 1s the seat of ~he M1nd or Reason. Finally: he is a "teacher·of dancing" . of Ihe ~vements, aleo one who d1rects the three streams of move~ent, inst1nctive, emot10nal , intellectual

All 1s nonsense but 1s right so long as things that don't .ex1st, ex1st. Th1s 1s a d1g at those who console themselves.over «BIIl· 0~~tReB11zat10n of non ex1stence of things , by fall1ng back· on one of them.

"I have spent the n1ght wr1t1ng th1s. Now __ I shall sleep and you go about prepar1ng s meal of first food. J+6 has pz-epar-ad us a meal of th1rd food • Go on st1rr1ng to maRs 1t th1ck w1th water. (a nour1shing aoup. water, our usual assoc1at10ns)

Terrify1ng suggestion that all our thought depends on chance assoc1ations ; for I rea11ze that I have been us1ng these ideas for two years, hoping to assim11ate them into myoId set of values

and enr1ch these latter without giv1ng t~em up. ~ thought the new ideas would widen the scope, extend the perspect1~e and give var1ety to the content. Now, I feel the actual framewo~k becoming valueless. W111 I go far enough to lose the old values which gave 1ncent1ves and then perhaps not be able to go on to new ones of s different order!'

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~he preface de~ned the att1tud~. Also mentioned a form of tho-ugh1 corr spend1ng to two forms of consciousness

Willow discuss the third form

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There are three kinds of food. To digest , we need two shocka, one at "mi." of air digestion. This shock mus t be conscious and from within. It is given by conscious impressions, taken by 8.0. Each S.O. ls a spoonful of food to bul1d the astral body. -

Bodles snd corresponding states of consciousness 1:- Food, body waking and sleeplng consclousness

2:- Air splrlted or astral body self- consciousness

3:- Mental for cosmic consciousness. We have no fact

and have no mental body at all

The thre~ stages of S.O.

1:- S.O.

2:-Partlclpation

3:- Experimentatlon

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At first lt is not "I" who observes. The above three takes us to the " m1" of air exercise. Then we _m..l3t :13-v~ ~x:;~~~.J:; O~~ t:1.0UE;ht

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1:- lmaglne ourselves in a different body ~~ady lnto Fox)

2:- Write down what somebody really thinks of you; and you wlll flnd it requlres unusual processes.

I~ The Boo~ , we wl11 find graded exercises ln thls kind of thought

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~ ?hought in Forms(l.e. so much of astral meachanically

th ought as we p~8sess) but is a different sort.

6rdlnary -imaginatlon conaists in assembling known _~lmages lnto new patterns

Objective thought i» an attempt to understand the nature of things :< as reasonably eXhibited. (To understand the reason in the mind of the Creator. Start on the assumption that the Whole ls intelligible, a process being played thrJugh; man with a function; but not yet _ . intelligible in termlB of our reason as so far developed.

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word, Emotion only three sevenths understood{such words as

sin, sacrifice, purgatory) If an indivldual can develope reason he will come in contact with #1 and will put content into the word he now knows

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Why Beelzebub was on our Solar System

It was the year 223 in Objective time, after the creatlon of the world{I923) It was on the ship Karnak in Space, between the solar systems. This means in complete detachment; from here impartial

~ observation may be made. The ship was passing from the Mil~ Way

to the Pile Star. He was on his way to a conference. The implicatioIJ being that the universe is reasonably and intelligently conducted and that there are many details to be taken care of.

There is 8 suggestion that beings may develope from unconscious age~

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"mutton and wool" to reas:mable agents.

Beelzebub was reluctant to go on this journey, because he had Just r~turned, an old being, to his Dlanet Varitas, after long exile. What is it has been exiled7The "Ih, Objeetive reasoning. B. haa returned by great effort. Later will show how.He is marked by hls

experiences and has aged. ~

In youth he had been taken into service on the Sun Absolute, in attendance on His Endlessness; that is he had obtained a moment

of non-identified Observation. "remember the first moment of Obs." he had dropped back to the emotional or instinctive center. Thls la comparable to having been on the Sun Absolute and then exlled.

B. then was young and thought he detected so~ething irrational and he interfered, that is in a moment of illuminated S.O., he tried to correct something he saw wrong. °e was banished to a re~ote corner of the Universe, Solar System Ors. We try to correct from Solar Alexus, Ors. We are all identi~ied with the Solar rlexus• But our solar plexus is a disconnected and disorganized center. One result of continiued S.O. would be the khitting up of the solar plexus with one emotion toward a situation instead of struggle

B. was sent to -ars(Plenets are emotional moods) Our m:>ods are determined by earth, instinct~ive center. We live on the earth. But -ars' mood is the mood of overcoming, more frequent· in some people than others There is a Yenus mood , li\:::rcur:1(J)a mood, etc

B. was with his associates(early ideas of fairy tales, occult ideaa put in different ce4ls than scientific ideas, forming a magnetio center. These are the associates of B. The magnetic center makes reception of these ideas easier. Ors had been neglected, Solar 6lexus B. and his associates were sent to Mars. Some of his associates~grated to other planets either voluntarily or be~use of general needa. B. stayed on MBrs and organized an observatory to observe remo~e corners of the universe. Th1s is the first reference to

·J.he method. Afterward this observatory became famous but not until after many improvements had been made

~eneral application:Must practice S.O. a long time and make many discoveries before developing Reason.Personal: G. worked thirty years before he was able to publish The -ethod.

Ors was neglected but occasionally m' ssengers were sent. Jesus Christ trained among the Essenes, an Egyptian sect. B. played a necessary part. This does not refer to the temptaion on the mountain •• His Observ8~ alBO Egypt~, that is he added a practical method to Christ's mesB8ge addressed to the solar X"lexus .. ~--:

'lhe first objection often made to The Method is that it is selfish. Christ says: take no thought for yourself and B. says: taka th--ought only for yourself because only then will it Qe possible to ta ke thOught for others. 'l'he Gno a t Lc a introduced Ths e thod into Christianity. But the early Christians expelled the Gnostics.

~esus recogn1zed the valus of The ~ethod and 'pleaded with His Endlessness to restoreB. although ~esus own followers denied Ths'

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His Endlessness pardoned B. on account of hlsCogn1zanae, i.ehia liv1ng for understandlng--- Life. WE LIVE FOR UNDERSTANDING

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So B. is back in the center of ~the megalocosmos, that 1s he was ident1fied with his true center, h1s real "I". His prestige was not spoiled by his errors and indentificatlonB, for mlstaken

identlficatlons enrich the flnal one with the true center. So B. a and hls attendants were with the crew on the sh1p Aarnak.

l!;ach was busy with his duties'pr his belng-lntel:!ction. Most of what

we do ~ done mechanically; but when we do somet'hing, putting ..... · .

into 1 all of our three actualized functions, thlnking, feeling, d01ng, his is a being aot , altho still mechanical

lfarnak 1s an Armenian word, mean lng our body as put lnto the grave The shlp is our body, travels on the planet, the planets and the systems

B. he s his grandson Ha ssein •. Who is tia sse in?

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Organ capable of listening to B. or

the magnetic center. Open to suggestion from the undeveloped "I"

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Hasse1n listens and what he takes in he will applY.

It.The Book is of words uttered by "I", what is understood will be acted on. Nothing I have not ~known and yet nothing whiaS I ordinarily realize. The Book is to provoke ~ own understanding.

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" More radiant then the Sun, purer than the snow, subtler than the 'ether, is the Self, the Spirit within ~ Heart. I am that self, thai

Self am I" Bassein is representative of the Self in us. &;

. B. undertakes the education of Hassein; and H. was always with him and eagerly devoured all that he heard •. "Interest" is a chem1.val. process, heating the crucible. (Light, heat, weight, psychological. attitude must precede qualities we attribute to objects

tia8sein is stirred emotionally by being with B- and accu~ulat1ng raW material of thought, combining the two, he actively ponders.

A hun , B.'s faithful servant, his body, which he always takes with him

i!eis seated in the topmost cabin under B dome (the head) s~rveying'

the unt.ve r-sef mt nd ) B. is speaking of the . Solar system Ors{solar.:::.!"

flexus) of experiences we a 11 have. He. 'was ta 1 king of Venus . _~.> -;::;; discussing love) ---) . > --='::~> ,- . ~~'-~~~-: 5.-I; Interrupted by the.Yaptain of the Sh1p-who'asks B.'s advice' '-:'''''_:=~3 Capta1n ij CommonSense) "If we continue. we will run 1nto gas" ._;~ {1f we keen on w1tn this d1scuss1on of love we w1l1 come into an - ~:. a~~~ct of the situation Which will be poisonous to y:)ung Hassein} -.~:-

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.B." says either we detour (hedge:j, finesse., evade the issue or/:X: ~ atop and think(Venus. love, Christianity). _The line of love will.~j~

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We will stop and talk about ships( ships are means of c omnum.c e t t on between centersi.e. methods(Met~od of S.O. is a Ship)

Ships when he began the method were very clumsy that is G. spent years of effort and travel searching for a method. All thbse he foune were w~Bsteful of most of their energy in clumsy approximations.

B. finds this pre~nt ship so slllDle that one :night t~ink himseIr on a planet i.e thi~method seems to be a natural and logi-cal conclus1 of behaviourism, yet is not contained in it. He sends th capatain of1 and offers to talk to H. about anything he wants to hear.

H. asks the right questions, showing a real deSire to know, without which B· would not talk ~

Are there beings on t~~l the nlanets of that system with which you were identified? Yes, except on planets too young or too far from the Sun, with potentiality of becoming Souls. Their externa~ forms va~ according to physical constituents(form determined by biology)

An element is present on this planet which is not on the others.

t~ to Lmag Lne the sa:ne three centers in different phy s i ca L forms Creatures on Mars, large trunks, little legs, large shining eyes, which light up the darkness, wings (imagination); eyes (power to

see meaning in dark places. On a planet, a little.lower, t~ey are coated with fur(three centered essences, dipped into chemical element of any given planet and a s aume a form. This is not Lnce rnat.Lo nns ] This is like el~tro-plating, if one can assu~e the dbJect was invis

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Also a planet of the seeond order, the Moon, which B. observed(What is the Moon in us?) Frail bodies and strong spi~its, figures like ants. Swarm results visible. H.should find results visible in him. Climate variable from extreme eold to extreme heat

Behind the Moon earth beings have form like that of B. except their skins are a little slimier and they have no tail (consciousness)

no horns, Willi no hoofs, individuality. They have invented boots

or personality, a pretence that we have true individuality but not real de~ences as shown by the fact that we are touchy, open to vound s of vanity, s~:f-pride , etc. The psyche also is illperfect

due to abnormal conditions, establishvd after physical birth, leading us to develop abortive, 1l0nstoous reason, unlike reason on any other planet

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B. is the prototype of a complete individual; H. the nucleus of the magnetic center; the companions and kinsmen are other eells.

B. begins a series of stories in reply to definite questions from H. H. i8 interested ,like every magnetie center in questions as to the nature and pur-co ae vo r life; what response to such words as immortalitJ other at at e s of consciousness ,. etc

H. asks "iVhat are Souls 'i" and "Are there souls on all the nlanets1' Planets are emotional states or postures)the body passes through' movement from posture to posturer e:notlons as of body. Can we pass from mood to mood?

The use of the term ship will be familiar to th~se who know the two sohools of Buddh1sm, esoteric and exoteric, greeter and lesser

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vehicles. They refer to two psycholog1cal methods.

~ransition from one e~otlonal st&te to another at will; for example fDo~ anger to reverence; this is ~ove~ent fro~ one planet to another This presupposes an :reanlzatIon--- a ship-- a vehicle, found wIthin ourselves, the Body Kesdjan results fro~ the first three stages of the method:S.O., Participation, Experimentation. Those who have practIced these three ~can thus pass fro~ ~lanet to planet, by the technIque of change of I~ages. The greeter passage from Sun to ~un r-equ t r-e s the thIrd body, arhange of t nt.e Ll.e c.t-ua L states\t.g

corrt e mps Lt.Lon to meditation, to ecstacy, to Logic. r

~e aave astral matter; but no astral body; mental ditto. The 4ethod wIll do what other methods have been developed for', to form astral and mental bodies--- Souls, Self and Cosmic Consciousnessi.e a

I consciousness of cos~ic phenomena •

These shIps the ~Jtain mentions here include religious institutions Which promised to carry the1r de'votees from earth to heaven

Three types of ships; three psychological stages of religions devel opment

1:- Everything done physically. Sacrifices, etc; fumes produced which caused pathological results., Introduced to astral phenomena their appeal to physical senses, ~clumsy flight from planet to planet • .Drief, uncertain. Astral - plane, physically de:nonstrated

2: -S~mbols. Astral plane symbolically represented

3:- ~erfect method with all extraneous machinery left off.Cf. Three forms of reason, words, forms, objective. Psychological processes require ~ethod.

Captain is respoqsib!! for conduct of ~thod (Orage , a junior apprentice) Th: vaptain started young and earned his rank. His father had been made governor of a system(not all those capable of being vapt~ins are captains(there are other jobs beside those of conducting groups). This Vaptain had intended from the beginning of his inter~st to be a captain ..

~arlier ships were cumbersome and employed substances surrounding

ala. planets; not psychic, not psychological • For exa:nple , in seance astral pheno~enB materialized in fumes of freshly spilled blood.

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Improve~ts were made by St. ene~a, who for his good work was allowed

to go to Purgatory. r It seems odd t~at Purgatory should be ~ reward; but certain ideas can be realized only in certain e'llotional states ldeas in the Book can only be realized in pvrgatory, which is that moodresultlng from an emotional understandiHg of what one's objective duty is and at the sam~e time realizing that we are not yet prepared to carry it out. ~ental anguish is the energy supplied for certain realizations. If we continue S.O. through the three steps, we will certa inly go to Purgatory·

In purg~tory St. venema imnroved the method by the discovery of the Law of i"alling. (This is d iffieult to understand and sugge sta two lines of thinking Palchological GraVity

1:· Consider the illusion of space in a dream, a psychological space in which things fall. What is the origin of Space, ~all, Gravity, in

ourselves •

2:- WhBt'is meant by fall of tone. From one rate of v~bration to another. A note struck dies down the scale. Each planet and each solar system is 8 note in the octave; one rate of vibration. Transition is a change from one ~ate of vibration to another.

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The practice of the ~ethod produces a change in the organism.

Strike ~ne note Bnd perhapsa falling note will productffectB on lOi

T ' w

notes. he change i8 indirect. The _ethod was invente by St. VenemE

(associated with the ,herBpeutics) L1nk this with the three psJchol- 0Sical stages of re11gion

It-Ancient rle~raic

2:-St. Venema, Therapy. Jesus sprang from or~anizations, inclUaed bJ the Ther8~euts and was at first hailed as a ealer, which was onl)

a minor part of his work.

3:- Method of {osus • No machinery. Abolished all the Clumsy mechanism of the Schools by which he had been trained, with at least machinery ~sed in ordinary living

Law of ~alling. Everything falls to bottom, stable points, converg1r. lines t~ bottom of each mood from others. No mood cut off from all others(At moment of conception, all planets conspire; according to distance, in rate from rate of germ as hereditarily determined), There are seven main moods; but also a disorganized cloud of astero1 by which we are ordinarily governed. WE very seldom experience purel one of the seven main moods.

~arlier ships were cumbersome, hard to steer from planet to planet, mood to mood. Slow. Space is an externalization of difference of rate of vibration. How fast can you move from mood to mood by S.O.?

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St Venema's system had a disadvantage, It felt a pull when trying to naVigate past other planets(temptation to fall into by-products) ~lanets on the left are negative states: depression, despondency b1tterness, despa1r. On the r1ght are planets where you feel you can do something other than the thing you started out to do(temptat1on

to turn energy into a part1cular art , science, etc ins~d) .

Question: Why solar and planetary images? ~ .

~Jor emotional states are related to images in intellect, dependent Planetary 1mages for emot10nal C'enter. Solar images for 1ntellectuU center

An angel is a fully developed three center be1n&The rumor of th1s ne method soon spread ,intersolar and 1nterplanetary. Soon after there were experiments open to allC:Apply this to GurdJieff's "last degree of occultism 1s co~~onsense"

Tesus exemplified publicly the psychological stages of the rise of the soul from the death of the body. He voluntarily abandoned his body. This ended closed i~struction.for the whole world is the ~ccul

school of uesus• ~

This ship 1s PSYChologiCaleffort wh1ch replaces the older m~thod of fa1th, hope and love. The capta1n describes this sh1p (the Method )

they now are on. I.Z'"

fhe cylinder is the torso • Juxtaposition. _enerator is Effort. (At first of self obs. the ~thod aims to produce a consciousness

of self and the co s mo sp'Lan J 'he re., now, in this body.

The cylinder in the barrel is h~rmetivally ~ealedJ and its energy ceases to escane by waste(w1th the seal of ~ermes, who taught the method). Gas, fog, planetary emissions(nega~ive states) are automattcally dispersed and the-ship passes from planet to~planet

or from Sun to Sun, ver,yv rap1dly because there are no conflict1ng states. Th~denser the substances to be dispersed, the more eff1cienJ the genera~or works. The passage 1s more rap1d. (trans1tion from

low to high more rap1d where there is resis~tance, external circum

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These new ships control their own cJurses. Earlier religions required devotees to stay. There were certain early conceptions of the church as an Ark, 8tay~ in it and be sa~e, be carried mechalcalJ to Paradise. Contrast this with self-direction. The difficulty ~

a heretic had in setting hims~f out of the Artk. These ships were not only cumbersome but had within thems~ves no possibility of

Self-Initiation .......

Chap vI

This parable is in mechanical (psychological) terms.

Perpetual Motion; (the notion thatsomehow or other we achi\e immor tality. an im~ortal body is a machine capable of perpetua~ motion, power, etc. Th1s is a satire on these notions. "many went insane". Everyone tried to set up a religion, whether he was qualified for the Job or not. Some trusted to knowledge, some to luck; and some

~cause they were crazy.

:~ All the systems or cults, all the pathological states produced by

I ------r1tUals, moasteries, systems of breathing, fiiets were such.

But in the!r best and real values moral, pysiological, emotional based on superstition. Amateur religions a~source of degeneratlion All religions w1thout Method are superstitions.

How would all this have ended i~ some one had not proved by means known only to himsel~ that perpetual motion was impoasiblei.e. that an era of rationalism is negative. They had thought of everything but AIR ~a1r octave) e.g , Weight; asceticism. Machine made of . astral body, poorly organizedmay continue as an animal: hence the Birth Stories of B ddha. The length of life of the physical body

is cramped by a wa~te of energy. Under ideal conditions, that 1s living from birth 1n a soc1et,J not merely a small commun1tY6 where~very one was engaged i~orking for development of consc1ou&n~

with the effects o~ this on inst1tutions, the body might surv1ve for four or~1ve hundred years; the astral body sever.zty thousand time as long; and the mentsl body as long as the un1verse. Due to t the wretchedly sh0rt existen~e of the body, there 1s not enough time to organize the astral body, unless one works professionally with the ~intensity o~ a fanat1c

Yalue of reviewing pictor1ally •

In Initiate is one who 1~lt1ates.

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Eecomlng aware of genu1ne duty. Th1s has nothing to do with usual morality. Duty 1s in the sense of obvious funct10n.

We are accustomed to think of the body as a machine; and every machine has its proper use as determined by its structure. This 1s so wdth the body •• Morality would consist of its use in accord

with its structure. Conce1ve of the Arch- engineer of the Universs judging us by this standard. -But .the body has not only an 1mmediats use, it has other potentialities. ~ analogy, consider a group of savages who find an auto and use it only as a hut. Speaking techni~: this is immoral. Our psyche is treating our body in this way. This is the mora11ty of which Hassern becomes aware. " duty" i& not to another organism but the duty of utilizing the bodyb in fullscope

of its functions. This becomes a concept outside of the usual moralitye.g., if we assume for the moment that we have three brainsand are in the habit of using only one, we are two thirds short of

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duty, that is genuine. H. was Dondering, "What is the matter?" asked B.

H. admits having new thoughts; he now understands that everything he has and uses came to its present state through the labor and auffering of many beings, and much unnecessary (gratuitous) .

suffering. We do not thank those beings, we take everything to!' granted. H. says "From youltalk with the Captain~ I have become aware with all my being; and "think with remorse I as to wha~and why all these blessings. What are the duties laid upon me by my existence? What must I~do in return for all this? This question i~ the ba sis of any mora Ii ty~

I the body is not a machine with a function, . this has no mean1ng If it has a function, it is an obligation.

H.'s question is the question of every three centered being at a certain stage: What is the meaning of my life? And what do I OWe? I must make a distlnction between I am a body and I have a body

" I" is potential. Duty applies to liP. Must have had-a-realization of "I" as dist1nguished from "It"

I' Hasseln, realize I have a body. Presumably it has a designed use; but 1 do not yet know what its potentialities are. How can I use i~ The final chapter of the Book summarizes the answer as developedd thr~ugh the Book:Good and Evil. We are machines with potentialities but the discovery of these potentialities' is not ~n our personal power.

B. answers: n:,"ou must not think or w~rry about all this just now When the time-comes you will understand and knowwhat you must do. You are still young"

All we can expect from the magnet1c center now is a moment of realization. We are still young. 'No duty now", but will understand. and know what you must do.A t present can have only the mora11ty of the pupil, the .morality of effort. Our only duty is to try to learn our duty, and prepare ourselves. Later whete become aware of what our Job is, we will do iit. ~t the energie in you move among the energies~n It

He who is too lazy every day to learn everything he can, will be unable later, wh~n he realizes his dUty, to p~actice it. Purgatory: when ~one realizes what one should do and has not the necessary technique. No need for undue haste. Prepare. Perha~s

we knew before we came. Cf. ce~ain myths. ~rodigal S9n , originated with the Gnostics. Hymn of the Robe of Glory. The son went off, not in a huff but in search of a robe which had been stolen. Fell into adventure and forgot his mission. When eating with swine--i.e meChanical life, he remembered his missionI and returned to his father.

B.: "I/a1l glad for your future that you have a sked this queat.aon, Th~s.'word "glad" B. might never have used if he had stayed at home; but has l1ved in_foreign surround1ngs and side by side with his proper nature, a second body was formed also real. H, could not have been otherwise and his father COUld. see occasion to rejoice/ But B. , thanks to his misfortunes is "glad".

Different1ate between a being whose,completion is mech~cally arrived at and a being who developes by effort.Angel---'" Asn. On some planes perhaps beings develope without gaps of scalel w1thout effort, hence w1thout sin, hence without rea11zation, hence without gladness,( as dist1ngu1sged from happiness)

~ gI~~thing which happened could not be otherwise, we could not b

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There are planets where everything is nat.ur-a L, evolution without e r ro r-t ; no religionjno gaps in octave.

B· pOints out the adv~ntBge of our disadvantages. Fully developed :dan is superior in realizati~n to the angels. Man becomes the mind of God. Angels and arch-angels are His higher emotional venters. God thinks with human entities. It is possible to be unhappy and §lad •

. Not Good and Evil; but henceforth Goodbnd Dad. Nietsche

It " r'

Bad is amateur, failure to carry out. ~

There is no positive evil force I merely the difficulty of the prob:

B:" Ask me a question

H. Tell me any thins you like. I shall be interested because you tell it" (Flattery) An effort to avoid the effort of for~ulBting a ~uestion

H.ITell me about those---- eh--- those 'Slugs' " B. "What?" He knew damn well

H. "Those - beings like us, but with slimier s kin( smoother, hypocri ti.< B. " I know .t.hem wellj they are very peculiar. This planet is in c~rtain respects unique and hence interesting, if only pathological. I. offers psychological behaviour not found on normal planets (tegend tbat this ~net is called the Ridiculous Planet or The

L' natic A-£ylum of tae World. G. B. Shaw somet imes uses it in this a"etitude.~Shaw inherited this from Luc tan , who got it from !1~:-1~') B.: "I saw their rise and wCltched their dvvelopmen\. I almost saw the creation of the planet itself. It had not yet cooled when he

lirrived on Mars. '

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First , he will tell about Cosmic Troubles. -ene af.a of The Moon. B, and his companions were busy adjusting th~mselves to life on

~rs. Suddenly the ~hole planet was shaken. A stench arose. .

When it cleared~ off it was found that the earth had split with t~o_ fragments thrown off. Cause was a comet of long path on its first t trip. Bumped the earth and the planet Konda or Kunda. A violent shock. The earth so recently formed that the atmosphere which actss as a buffer had not had a chance to form(effect of the atmosphere on meteorites) His Endlessness was hastily informed(System of nerve com~unication informs the brain sthat a stone has fallen on the foot. This takes a time interval. from the Sun Absolute{executive brain ) a commissi0nP-f specialists in world existence were sent. {In certain cases definite cells dispatched, human cells at a certainptage. Emergencies, when normal methods and instinctive reflexes are not fast enough. (See later Chap. on Time}

The commiSSion landed on Mars because it was near and B. met them. B. was on a planet slightly higher than ours, and therfbr knew ahead of time. The commission allayed their fears. There was no

danger of catastrophe. -

:I.'he archangel Algematant, a personified state of intelligence -

Alge (Algebra, math (mathematics). A\being whose components are of

a nature to understand algebra and bathemetics(Called in the ~ble , principalities. Algematant was an engeineer and explained: The split off fragments lost their momentum, before leaving the spatial

, sphere of the J!;arth and did not- pass the edge. According to the

'Law of ~alling, they began to f~ll back. But the earth was moving ned they came under the Law of Catchi~ Up. Falling and Moving. Moving i8 the ellipse , they describe! Both movementf havp psychol ogioal parallels in us. It is desirab e that the cen er 0

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gravity -ahou Ld- be moving fa ster, so that one pa rt should be always catching up bul not fall in. "I" must not tall on "It",

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erhaps I the Method striking on it like a comet may break oft "I"

The taIling ana catching up may operate'

Glory be that harmony is established'

This split oft of a Moon I happened by Bc~ident. Archangel 8akaki thought that these fragments might aorce tt me getF>ut ot their~orbits and cause troub~ unless Borne measures were taken(danger of hearing the Method and understanding it. Measures must be taken about the tragme nt "l)spli toft)

He decided the earth mus t supply the fragment with special sacred Vibratlon, which could be formed only by certai9Psychic organlc torma of lite

"Askokine"(the vibration), conscious labor and vOluntary (intentional suffering". Lite developlng on the Moon depends on radlations from this earth, as the ~arth depends on emanations from the sum.

Keep the Moon trom talllng. The effort that subvened the Moon is

a solar and cosmic purpose.

They ask pe r m ea t on of Hls Endlessness to create __ the necessary . organic lkfe. His Endlessness glves permlssion. He does not acttvely bring about any change in the three centers but 8versees them.

The large fragment "Lunda "ergo" changed to the Moon

the s!llSller fragment is Anulios. The esoteric name- of the Moon is still LUnda .cerga• The contemporary belngs on the earth do not even know of the existence of Anulios; but the i-nbabitants ot Atlantis knew of it and called 4nulios also br. a name whic meant "-~e that never allows to slee~ in peace". Cf. 'The Shaving ot Shagpat" lleredlth "Tbe Discourager of Hesitancy" who carried a scimetar.

Later we will learn what these fragments are in us. Contemporary beings do not know beacuse it is beyond their sighS--- insight _, ~rometheus was the Foreseer--- beyond psychological Visi.on.

~eir grandmothers never told them.

_alry tales feed the magnetic center. But none of our talty tales t tell that there is a little moon. If any one saw it thrJugh telesco-p he would pay no attention)If any one who was a psycho-logist or philosopher tound in himself an ache for perfection(remorse, duty)

he would pay no attention and think it an aerolite, not real)

But we are not likely to see it for we are in the days of mechanical lnterpretation. Such words as re~orse, sin, unfulfilled duty have no meaning

In us is a potential center technically called Anullosj also a partly potential center called the Moon,

Cosmlc analogies • Moon Food ConsciOUS Labor and Voluntary suffering. The Labors of .l~ercules. The Golden Fleece~ Ulysses.

To supply the Moon with a'-lot of AS kokine.To relieve men t1ll they are able to do-;.so_. eerseus. _

The archangel Sakaki saw to it th;t the laws of seven and three operate Independently and concurrently on the surtace of the ~art~ vegetation and other beings. Among the bipeds, slugs

Heptap.a barsch1noch::::E Efta parabarshinoch, Seven making One

~ria maslksmno,":II' 'Iriamon1a three making one

~ of seven 1a the Law of Evolution

Law of Three- 1s the law of Psychology

On this planet the two can proceed concurrently and independently

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On other planets , they are interdependent.

Sak3k1 had to oroduce an organis~ capable of conscious labor and voluntary suffering. ~ence the gaps ; and hence the psychic life

here is unique. ~

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~ast week was an experiment in sustained attention of imaginat1ve understanding. Fragmentary attention fails to make up a whole, to bind isolated thoughts into a Whole. Attention ~ust be sustaine4. How soon did I give out?

Consider the e?ic quality of this setting and the beings.lt is a _ sort of dialogue between a fully realized being and one not fully realized. B. beg1ns in a detached position from which he observes the body of the Cosmos, as we when beginning S.O. should be detached

and impartial. In all that B. says to H. it is implied always that axwkmi. the whole physi~l universe has a purpose and that he under stands it. Matter is an agency. ~art of it is at certain notes of t the octave, such as nlanets, solar systems, beings, etc have practicl not ~stical, not theoretical function,and each part either fulfills or does not fulfill this function.

S1milarly we have a ma t e r-La L COS'IlOS. l'he first truthful thing we can Say is "I have a body". From which posit ion are we to observe its use,

What can it do?What use can "I" make of it? I •

B. can look at the planets and say"I understandttheir use" • The i!I!p lication is that the universe is logival and ~tional. For what pur-ooae am I/(the listener). B. speaks as "I" or mind and refers to the physical universe as a means of attaining something for himselfl " I" can extract from practical experiences with this body, an actlve understanding of ita6se. An objective reason. The universe ls to be used for the educatfon of souls; for beings who have attained object ive reason •• For. those who have understood the obligation is on God, to maintain the universe. Only those who have understood this and

ta ken their part, are entitled to be ca lIed "souls", partners or sons of God and not slaves.

H. vakes interest ln this ~lanet; but it is one a~ong millions, and not the c~~ter of life

~he Singular life on this ~lenet is the result of an accident. Our moon was not given off naturally but was the r:.'sult of an accident All planets naturally give off ~oons;but the eB~th was pr~maturely de 1i ve red of ips moon a nd ~1;3n::::::: :: S'"J.::d,E 1 l::ial :)f lif\.! nad t o be developed to supply special radiations{see recent scientif1c

ex ..... .=..,...~~ ... ts 0'1 r-~~~"'''·o·~- ·., ... n ..... 1···--::+s)

:"Jw_.::.1,0 J. d ......... H...,_ J..t.;;) _v· _.J_ • .l_ ....

Hol'; 00 we expla in the fact that we who'cone t de r- ourselves intelligent, 1f we review our life at the end of e a ch ccy, find we have behaved

11 ke idiots, cowards, poltroons, 1dle creatures. We would condemn 1J such lives if we judged another 1mpart1ally; yet we preserve our e~ equanimity. Why such indulgence?

Why after the end of each civilization do we fail to preserve or make use of its excellences. Zgypt in art and ~cience;India in philosophy and religion; China 1n personal relations. Why do not succeeding gen erations bulld on these? Why are we not in reelity the "he1rs of all the ages?". There has been only B broken and discontinuous movement. There seems to be apeed 1n us for destruct10n. Instead of standing on the Shoulders of tnepreceeding civilizations, we have climbed up

from almost nothing to a place st1l1 inferior in many sc1ences anda arts to those of the ancient c1vilizations

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Why do we believe and hope in "prog.re ae" when we have proof before our eyes that bt.he race has not progressed?

Or personally, when I cannot do this (observe)now, how can I expect others to do 80. Or if I am, say a reformer and observe my own failings how can! expect my effort to be carried out?

.IiIake an impartial survey of the world, its continents, its isl:nds its "aces" its history ,:its languages. What impartial judgment can

we ~ake. We are growing ~ore mechanical every day, if ~ssible. Devot~ a few ~inutes each day to such a survey. Such effort must precede any understanding of the following chapter

1lh.y :'Jan Is Not Man

What claim, do we make to be superior to the animals? In reason, 1i'J 7.·J.·_~1::', W::3~ 1s man+One who understands why he is alive(Does

_ a sheep understand mutton .and wool? Do we understand Moon-food and S

Sun-Food?) "

What the body 1s for?- What Life is for? What to do with the body? How to live and what values to attain?Not one of us, in spite of all ph110sophy knows why he is a11ve. We receive body at birth to play with, and not one of us knows wh~ or what game 'he is playing.

The sheep can see their shepherd; but we'can see no biological species superior to us. Who are they? No one emJloys physical force over us. We are so complacent and uncritical that we take it for granted that we fulfilling human functions. The.problem of why not never presents itself to us ~s a real problem(e~tional, intellectu~ as it did to the writers of~enesis, for example. They ssid ~tho logically but intelligently,-that degradation came through succumbiD€ to the temptations of the inst~inctive center. Put in a garden wher~ we are expected to care for the garden; but we ceased to make effort and soon were out of Paradise. This is the psychology of Genesis.

G. gives a myth which is related to The Method , and is designed to produce a p01gnant relizat10n of our state. Premature de11very of Moon--- Catastrophe of the Co~et{ unusual state of emotion) Two pieces s~ruck off l leaving the earth deprived of two functions for nor~l development Take this personally: Wh) have we not the adavantage of normal methods of education and development.

The nature of this ~lanet is such that the catastrophe will always be repeated in the organ1c life on it. Individuals will pass through the same stagethat the planet passed through. The individual repaa'tB_the history of the species, back to 'the original parent, the planet; which had two parts struck oft.

1: - Consciousness of my body "

2: .. Consciousness of the world in which ,I live. (Normal a cco mpe nt.mer of life, since no longer organic parts, to be reconquered by feed1ng I.e. each of us mus t make special. effort, must teed these- potent1al--=.. 1ties, to make them actua11ties). Such words as God, service of God' -creligion, etc have no meaning tor us. On some planets there is perhaps a natural develODment o! education, SCience, etc. On our planet, the sponge of oblivion is always passed over every great syatem. There must be alwys eftort. Thanks to this effort B. can say "I am glad H, HI understand diease as well as healt~."

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B. talks to H.; These slugs had three brain systems; but due to external condltions began to develope unexpectedly mechanical reason(With mechanical reason we can for instance understand the ldea thBt we are organlc mechanlsms.

When Sakaki and hls c~mmlssion returned aUittle later to see how life was coming on, he found here mecha'}chl reason and had to .... · decide what measures to take. If creatures will not make voluntary effort"labor or suffer" perhaps by virtue of their mecha~~cal effort will avoid lnvolutary effort( to attaln self consciousness and cosmic consciousness) reallzing by their mechanlcal reason that they were mechanical slaves, used for a purpose, they do not understand, it was p~ssible they might prefer not to live.

If we realized emotionally our mechanical natures, that is without the possibl1ity of self or cosmic consciousness as in behaviorism, suicide would follow. Sakai saw that our mechanical reason w~uld one day discover this; and arranged to prevent these effects.

i.e we would refuse to be such slaves with a resultant upset to the cosmic equilibrium. ,With the arch chemist L izas, an organ was designed to turn values upside down and proVide imaginary pleasures.

The physical analogy is with the use. eSDcially in the ~ast at certain periods of opium--- or consider the limited amount of el~tricity in the atmos~here. Its greater mechanical use has allowed ldt! less biologically. If Will requi~es electrivity, then as the use of elctricty increases, Will will d~minish. Luizas must have don« one of two things, either released certsin elements in the atmospher« or denuded it of some

Our Lucifer was a chemist. Superstitious notion of a special organ, all rot. Atmosphere was treated tdDrevent realization

W have heard of the separation o~the centers, e.g, when taking. ether, by drugs, or by such fatigue as induces autOintoxication.:

But all our centers are separated from two other centers, with which they would be connected if we were normal

8:- Emotional realization of things as they are(true emotional) b:- Understanding of why we live (true intellectual)

We know we will die; unlike animals we are aware of our mortality y8t we behave like anima Is. W know we are all t o be butchered but we do not know when. How is it possible to love?Our emotional center is separate from our mechanical knowledge. This was the

work of ~uizas /xAa Imaginary pleasures.We have three groups

of our activities, intellev-tual, emotional, physical. We know the body is mortal; perhaps the intellect is not. Obviously we should in theory live for und~standing, reason, etc. Yet 99% of our,effort

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time emotion, is spent on pleasures of the body. ~2~rxa~~ra.e : -

Paraphrase ordinary talk in terms of animals

The Forcea of heredity'are not me cha m caL ('1) Saturn L""1zaa,:both r: good and evil responsible for doping and for the possl~iI1ty.of livng KWndebuffa ••• Sane be1ngs but doped and therefor behav1ng as if

not sane. The organ Kundebuffa turns values upside -down

men take instinctive values as highest in face of proof to the contrary. Luizas returns satisfied that the organ will work.

men wl1l not suspect they are doped and will live 1n illusory sat1s faotions. B. will later point out to H. the results of thsi dislocatlon of centers

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B. and his kinsmen return to :.!&s and set up an Observatory(IAars an emotional attitude outside the range of Faith, now doped.

They visited Saturn, found beings ~ore highly developed. Saturniana rare a~ong us. They haveunderstandlng of the First ~aw of Life "love all that breat~s", which is the firsts obligat1on on a Ll., responsible beings. ~hese peoole were congeniroe to B '

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Later on gives examryle of Tolstai, though not naming him, who without any real knowledge of Life or Self became regarded as the author of

a modern gospel. G. knew Tolstol, who was naive and self-1gnorant. Why do we give credence to his statements, when we have no way of checking them up?Suggestibility. Do not apply reas~n to ideas presented to us, in certain ways. Not susceptible to ideas but to forms']1n which they are presented. Why will we, kndwing oertain authors to be fools, read their books with respect. We, know1ng certain education to be bad will Eend children there; knowing ~ certain ideas to be bad will act on them. Flying in the face of our knOWledge. This is fundamental in man. Analyze this. Why books are written?Why do peo~le believe Tolstoi's gospelIDecause we never ' verify by applying personal knowledgeand effort. Why not? It involves effort of self -knowledge and consequent estrangement.

~eings on this planet differ in color according to ~limate and race distinctions are purely a matter of p¢udice. Personal distinctions vary according to main causes, among which are heredity and . conditions at conception; but the psyche 1s always the same, espec~llJ in suggestibility. Mass suggestion especially in relat10n to War.

Why are we not the heirs of old civil1zat10nst Every c1v1lization hE been destroyed byb man 1n the madness of war fever. So long as we

are suscept1ble to war fever ~ long can there be no general prograH Later G. gives examples of Leagues of Nations going back to Dabylonl

aka as an examul,e the conception of the word "Hero". B. says to H. ~A hero 1s among us one who voluntar1lyundertakes some labor for the benefit of creation, the_whole, not s ome part of it" Cf the dicovery and pro~lgation of the ethod, involving effort of which we are utterly incapable. G. sp~nt thirty years in the satisfaction of a rational curiosity. G. is a Juvenile hero. On the planet earth the word hero exists and is usually 8~plied to those who most easily

fall under the war fever and slay many others. Adm1re those who do not fear deat~ho do not fear those whom under suggestion, they re@rd as enemies. In this state of trance, we are ready to destroy or be destroyed. No gods nor dev.ils are to blame. ~elngs induce it in themselves and in each other.

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We tried! last week to establish a point of view about: the human race. Did this state of mind last7A little on Tuesday, less on Wed. gone on Thurs or only an intellectual memory without emotion.

Great difficulty in maintaini~n elevated intellectual- emotional state. It is s great deal to have experienced it for a momen~. Parallel the effort to non identify with this creature who is ....... ·yoursE ~n~he effort to observe and non-identify with the species. ~a~ualities and phenomena

In the Book iSa history of the origin of man and an objective description ot him. These facts are not new; but are chaotic and disorganized within us; they are not in our consciousness. Survey r your own knowledge of the species, using only i~formation, already obtained with a view to formulating and generalizing. Consider the five main races. Tr,ynto imagine in one generalization you~ctual knowledge of these five main races ~s they are at present inhabiti~ the globe. ~ach has had a history. an you stste the~eneral charac teristics, cammon to all the member~ of the human species.

Specify in detail the ~f~xmRocKrdefects under which they labor not limited to certai~aces or eolors, but common to alll human beings. "results of th:e introduction of .Kindebuffa'!

A catastrophe split the ~lanet, consequently every. being on the plar repeats its history. There remains in .us a certain objective standac

by which we find these characteristics de~lorable

1:- Self-love: from thinking oneself entitled to things one has not earned by conscious effort--- in extreme form Harcissism.

2: -fanity: A balief that t:le:oe a re e Le nent s in our organism of which we may be proud. No matter what theory we may have about the accidental character of our qualities, we cannot help being proud.

3:- Touchiness, sensitiveness. Whether a fact is true or not. 4:- Hatred, toward those whose radiations affect us unpleasantly thougb we recognize it as a weakness.

5:- EgOism, in the form of believing that an organization to which I happen to be attached is superior to others.Often especiall~ displayed in impudence in which we think that we/without the

qua Lt r rce t i.ona, are better fitted to render service than others.

These are universal faults. How does it happen we have these trait~ The myth answers: because we are biological products of an abnormal planet. We are normally abnormal. We7start as abnormal because these traits are abnormal to real Essence.

There are two kinds of reform:

L cal .

" Universal

Any reform which might be brought about in conditions of civiliz~~~~ , say in the U.S. at present. would be local and the effect on the species microscopic. The great religious reformers have not tried

to change any given oulture; but to change the chemistry of the

-human psyche, for the whole species. The level Si-Dobetween mechanical and self- conscious is the level of this type of reform. Theestablishment-of Self- Consciousness as an individual aim is the beginning of the technique of every religious reformer. All reforms take their place in the Ootave.

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In the following chapters will be a critique of the tec~ique of religious reforms. The rest of the Book will atte~orto evalusae methodl of all religious reformers, ~ncluding ~esus Christ fr~m the point

of view of the transfor~ation of human'effort.

Why do all refor~ die out? Whya are all results temporary? The ps~ chology ~st change. Given this method and the method of each religious reformer, we can institute a criterion of criticism. ~

The F1rst Descent was in helD of a ~ar1tas1an who had come to'this planet and seeing the bad conditions had undertaken a reform. A var_ itasian is such as being as we would be if we were normal. !lany of

us may become Caritasians . -

This Caritssian finds people suffering injustice, sweating to pay taxes and carry ourt Durposes which have nothing to do w!th" their own needs. ~e undertakes reforms and falls. ~e undertook from a sense of pity to'-reform the world by instituting what he considered would be

a humane form of·government. Notice B.'s indulgently contemptuous af,tirude towards the futility of this type of reformer.

B puts H. on guard against certain-sentimental notions about the hnrnan race. Thos slugs have double natures. They talk as if"butter WOUldn't melt in their moths; but when they act are abnormal and monstrous. Hassein is destined some day to effect a Change in the human psyche. The"descent" is a aries of lessons in ways not to

approach"human beings. "

O. reads the story. B. is appealed to for the ~aritasians failure

." is trouble"Bome to himsilf and might become so to all. A failure of

a religious reformer has 8 very bad effect. The ~ailure of Christianity has done much to discredit 'the princi~le of L~ve 8S a basis pf religion. It should have succeeded. The principle of L~ve in pursuit

of knowledge is indispensable, yet consider how repellent it is to

many intelligent pe~ple'of culture because of its association.

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B. descends to earth, a parallel·with Hindu literature, (Cf. Mahaba~t·a} ~r1shna, the "I" t occasionally intervenes. Also there is a parallel with the steps we must take 1n observing, participating and experiment1

B. flew to earth on the Ship, ~ccasion, the approJriate moment, when the maximum of means is pr-esent

We are seized gy occasions , a self- conscious being seizes one •. 'l'he home port of this ship wa s .;;;!ars I which is the mood of overcoming of becoming self-consciOUS.

~e landed on the continent Atlantis, which afterward disappeared. If we reprodue psych~ogically the history of the planet, what is Atlantis in us and what compares in us to its eng~ing(Maeterlinck) ·l·he Buried Continent in us

Essence is what we know to be truly us. We have only a few moments in our life when we aot from essence mostly we are artificial. S.O. and Participation begins to disinter, to bring to the surface that buried psychology in us

Historical e ccur-acy NOT GUARANTEED ",

The apital of Atlantis was Samnios. This was dominant just as to day the !ntellectual sub center of the instinctive center. This character izes our civilization at present.-We can chart a civilization according to its center of gravity. "Capital" in the Book refers to the center

of gravity of the dominant classes.

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King Appolis , with whom B. I S "young and inexperienced kt naman"

(One who had begun to observe his organism), The human species in their chie~ center at SamnioB, had taken offense and g~t himself eound(identlfied) with King Appolis. The y~un~ ~aritaslan had become friendly wittiK ng Appolls(I had become friendly wlth It)

The K1ng needed lots of taxes. (Thlnk of a well endowed personality committed to the necessity of malntainlng for lts organlzatlon the status to whlch it ls accustomed. Personal applicatlon??

Suppose S.O. should threaten your abillty to do your chosen work and keep up other mechanical status, as intellectuals, phllosophers artlsts, etc. To malntaln thlsJone has to put out a great effort read boo~, go places, see peopleetc. This ls comparable to the ALab K4ng Anpolls has to exact from his subjects.

In general human belngs do nothlng in regard to obllgatlons, voluntarlly undertaken unless some fear is induced of incurrlng dlsllke, dis~favor etc of others.

In the absence of the nossiblllty of dlsagreeable consequences, we are tempted to abandon any voluntary resolution, when it becomes irksome.

We are without ~scle of our own. We artificially create these dlsagreeable consequences and attrlbute them to external agencies.

King Appolis spared nothlng , not even hlmself, nor hls subjects component cells, llke a man'~lth a passion for fame ln art, liter a ture , or any t~lng else.H e had a passion for hls objective.

be used threats and measures~ What threats do you use to yourself?

You must do this or that", a psssion for self-disciryline.

We may csll ourselves the arch-dodger. Has any one with this passion ever admltted ln moments of candor the tricks he has employed for kkeplng hls organlsm at work when it wanted to stop? ~' How Orage persuaded hls organism for fifteen years to keep on edltlng the New Age

Thls seemed unjust to the Carltaslan, who grew indignant at the Klng and told him so.

They talked lt over Bnd made a wager. By thls the King was to employ o~such methods as were approved by the ~srltaslan. Then

if the cltlzens falled to pay the Varltaslan undertook to make thls good.

(By -products wlll come; but "I" cannot guarantee any immediate advancement of values of personality. There may even be a temporary decline.

Q:- Will The -ethod improve ~ efficiency ~n writing, etc? Ans:--- Yes

Q: -- At once?

Ans. -- Cannot tell; maybe at once, certainly event~ally Q:- But suppose I cannot afford any temporary diminution? Ans.-- Then do not start The Method.

The garitasian promised immediate' improvement.

King Appolis accepted; his subjects stopped paying and began to sneak back(Organism gives up effort)

But the Caritasian's vow was vo~untary. If one finds in an involuntary vow, a mechanical reaction, and if voluntary a conscious reaction, the latter is thirty thousand times stronger

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The Caritas1an paid 1n all he hscHeffort at S.O.etc) Then hill klnsmer sought stimulation (attended groups). ne appealed to Mar.(H 8 kinsmen are cells 1n the magnetic center) ne was anxious ana appealec to Resson. A conference wss held. This cannot help "I". The msch1neIj being wound up, it cann~t return to its original atate.

The literal application of this eee~s to be the effect on the organ1sm of any pr-e ms t.ur-e reform, an sttempt to change for experimental reason anyone thing, for a moral reason may have incalculablE effects. Any local change may bring serious consequences Which are not recognized as corisequences.

KIng Appolis is the C0mmon sense of the world; and must not submit to an embrblogical, undeveloped 111". We must not make experiments contrary ('0 common sense although "I" is a being of a higher reason, Such an experiment is against the health of the 0rganism

Help me return .!..!.lll!. '.

K~ng Appolis retired. There was a conference of "I's", discussing the escapade of one ~f their number. They advised X-ng Appolis to

restore an inferior form of government. •

The Varitasian th~ught the subjects would make an effort out of Love

(sent1mentality of modern liberalism) (ideslistic anarchism) Xropotkini They lab~red under the illusion that human beings are naturally Just. They are so by theory in our minds but are not so in action •• The '~I' s" advise a return from an idealistic form of government to one tyrannical and realistic, people .being What they are,

Why does the p~08pect, the positive hope, of increasing our conscioul powers act less powerfully as 8 lever of effort than the fear produced b,y description of our diseased and abnormal state7

LogiC alont-ould make the small effort needed , very desirable.

B"'t not from a mere hope can we get the ene£y; but from an emotional] understood realization of decadence, of approaching death, etc .

A system of rewards alone is not enough it is necessary to have punishments also, e.g a threat of staying awake till the film of

the _day is finished, or get up and read or go without breakfast!

A greater effort is needed now to restore; after a~apse of S.O. a ~ch greater effort is needed

Every ~rganization has its own clock. The ~velopment of S.O. i8 like the growth of a seed; it cannot be sta\c and must pass thr~ugh phases in its allotted time or it will die~

Hater need not be given every houri but, say, once a day. A liberal amount of time but not indefinite. I. must receive food appropriate to each phase or it will be impossible to g~on to the next, with out going beck to the original state.

When beginning S.O. development takes place in a pattern and with a time-schedule; and withing this time phase, the food of effort ~st be given; else the next·time will respond anew or not at all. No one knowa how many seeds there· are in the magnetic center

two, three, four?Lim1ted and i~eneral, not more than two.

This is why it is dangerous to propound the Method to someone who may hear it and not be able to !'keep in the seed-plot", t o keep actively in touch or may commit the Sin Against the Holy Ghost Which is the only sine which may be committed involuntarily, that ill destroying in any being the lest seed of potentiality.

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This ti~e is determined by each organism.

We go back to the story

There was an attempt to repair, just in time, the trouble which - 11I had been caused. The government was restored to tyranny. Does any other method work? INquire in y;urself. K-ng Appolis got results which the Car1tasian could not. The ~aritasian found this spectacle so distasteful that he returned to !Jars, and .Lat.e r- on became a good bailiff i.e. he retired to a school to learn more of himself

Apply this to sociological and personal reform .

Those are entitled to be social reformers who have experience of h~~rbeings in all statea of existence, action, e~otion, etc.enly auch are enti tled to legislate on behalf of human kind. Other-wise their opinion is based on insufficient knowledge or on insufficent ti~e.

When you have known a person, in a state of starvation, terror, panic, wealth, drunkennessetc etc. His present state is only a temp orary criterion.

Naivety of style represents naivety of "I's" question. Co:nplexity will give co~lexity of style.

Wext Chapter is the Relative Unde~standing of Time.

B. says: "I have buried in this book certain bones, so that certain dogs with great curiosity and strong scent may dig down to them and, strange thing, when they have done so, are ·men" Effort is useful to Understanding.

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There is an effort in the Book to see the human species as one would any other species of animal. As if one read a book on the dog, its nature and dieasee. Historical, physiological etc

The beginning of Objective Reason •• L8ter will speak of Divine Reason i.e., ~reason contemplating the human species and observing to what extent it fulf~lld or fails to fulfill its functions, a function of the being i-n terms of use. It is needful to understand the ~urpOS6 before we can say whether the being is or is not fulfilling its function, ~he function of the being in terms of use.

Survey the species to make certain state~nts applicable to all human beings at all times, either positive or negative-

Such a survey has always shown traits regrettlble, even to human reason.

These w~uld be interpreted by 1:- religious observer, as sin 2:- philosopher as stupidity

3:- by sociologist as due to an unfavorable environment.

We do nor know what conditions acco~pan1ad the end of extinct species e.g, mastodon. -erhaps the planet no ~lo-nger offered favorable condi tions. -erha~s this is true of the human species.

W~F8dd a personal survey: each individual finds he has behaved f6olishl~y, stupidly, even madly. The philosopher me~y notes thismd says"Man is uncivilized and uncivillzable" 'l'he religious teacher is impelled to deal with this and try to effect a change. The great religious teacher is convinced that the world is as it Iis but

is not yet convinced that it cannot be changed.

van you underatand sympathetically his attitude to this problem; h~ efforts to find proper methods, etc?

Q:- For whst does M~~ exist?

Ans.:- To attain within hi~8elf Objective ~as~n.

~lf ~me's time should be s oerrt in pondering how to,. live in the ligt bf t~e ~re8son attained.

The p~eceding chapter dealt. with the dangerQ ot a premature a~tempt at improvement. Until a long proces& ot-self-ascertainment has been gone through an attempt to improve may produce a corresponding defect while removing the defect in question. An animal is what it can be. It, has no obligation; but man is under an obligation to develope his potentialities, which have not yet been realized.

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Self-1mprovement is a~ 5rrangernent between the three centers , xNimcb

an arrange~nt of which is already existing.

Selt -perfecting is a realization of potentialities not· yet developed

B.'s young kinsman was not the only one of his tribe in A~lant1s. The others were not interfering by direct means. (perhaps they were teaching the Method) They might have been trying to raise the rate

of vibrstion; for the maintenance of a higher rate is the most effective way of causing change.

Our civi11zation is not built on preceding civilizations. Science is really a ~petitlon although it thinks it is f~ding things tor the first time.

You will find it stated several times in the book (true or not) that in at least two civilizations preceding historic times, electrical inventions were carried to as high a point as in our own times.

G. claims to have taken part in an exAedtion ex?loring the Gobi

Here twenty yards below the surface they came upon the remains o~m city; below that another, then another still. present tribes havano traditions nor names for these; and this makes Egypt seem of yesterda;

Atlantis is taken as the .starting point of ~n; not ~use it was the starting point in Tf~' form; but as a three centered being. Brevious beings had forrn but the air octave had not yet developed/.

We .. can assume the aarne c uant t t y of intelligence in the Greeks and Romens as in ourselves; but they applied it to art, phi10s~phy, mathematics, whereas we have applied it to mechanics. It is improbable that the Pythagorean school of -athe~tics was inferior to modern. Euclid was a beginners manuAl.

Our two handicaps: 'f!e are not on the shoulders of·the pastjandLife-r is too short to atta in Consciousness, even to .at.t.a in the' kind of ·~,i '. :.: which we can conceive. We start comparativel, 'late; we can estimate; c that the JO. b would take several centuries. Considered in cold blood .'" it rea lly4>do.es .not seem worth. while . stsrting; but that·i t - may be '-:' worth 'while ~iS8 different matter-.-'

Why is our life so short? Why have we not a normal life of three or four centurie •• The answer depends on two issues.

a:w a question of time -

b:- a quest10n of three centera

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".", r <Under the last we are like 8 clock wound 'up with three springs, which .-:~~~~'~'<:vary acco~lrigto heredity and -early env1ronment.-··,

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but all three are wound up to run for two or three centuries at

lea at. What prevent s them from doing so? "he "regulator" is not operating properly. What is this regulat~r? The effort to become s self-conscious. This effort begun from the age of responsibility (,l7 or 18) automatically guarantees that the organism would run that long. G. has described several people whom he had met, who had

found this idea as children and profited by it. .

Q:-Wbat do we call Time?

Ans.: The duration of the unwinding of the spring.

We are fa~iliar with the differences of time in dreams and when awake. And the experience of the man whose head was dipped in a

bowl of water. What is the nature of Time in a dream? What is the relation between intense experience and an absence of a~eness of the passage of time? Or of the opposite when time seems 'to go slow? Intense experience makes time short, absence of experience, long. Einstein said "the more that happens , the less time"

Suppose that under your eyes a tree should be presented in successi~ stages of its growth, as on the ~vie screen. How would we feel about time?

Our period up to responsibility ordinarily passes normally, with growth which winds the springs, one by one. Lnfancy, childhood, adolescence; then man or wo~ hood. A prenat~re adolescence is considered abnormal because we have this series in mind; but man hood now presents d10rdered phases, with no ordered suc~ssion.

G. says that timeig normal up to age of responsibllity; and after that it "plays triCks"; as above. This is because the three centers act , not unde~supervision; but accidentally in response to accidents from without. The natural regulator is r-e noved at the '.' age of responsibiliyy, when this stage is passed a new regulator should be applied by the individual.

l'he difference between the waking and sleeping state is that in the wa king state t he three centers a re magnet ica lly c o nne c t ed , 'l'here is a tendency for each center to imitate the other two, a mutual hypnotiame.g., an unnecessary knitting of brows etc during thought. This activity of motor centers is not needed; and there is much wast of energy through this mutual hypnotism. ·he lack of this hypnotism is a partial explanation of the swift passage of time during a dream

Up t~ and including y~uth there is a winding up; t~en comes the running down. In early childhood the, magnetic tie is not formed;

it approximates our sleeping state. lhe child begins slowly to _ "wake up", as this IIlo1!etic tie is formed. Then it is im'JOssible to "act with childish impulsiveness", that is from one center alone

I draws in the other centers. _

It is possible to break these ties by drugs etc; but effort in the instinctive center is so d,eleteri'ous that it is often impossible

to restore the tie or the instinctive center may perhaps be destroyed. It is preferable to use the psychological drug EFFORT.

Illus. Should this room and we-in it shrink to a pin polnt, no change would be noticed. G. takes as an example , life in a drop of water. The Heading of this chapter is The Relative Understanding

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Ti~e is the potentialty of expe~ience. The dur&tion of time is i8 each center wound up; and Objective ~ime is the nu~ber of experiences potentially contained in the center in question. How many ca~acities of ex~erience does each center c~ntain?

These experiences can be successive or with intervals, sequentially or si~ultaneJusly. The time of our lives will depend on the rate by w~ich these potentialities are exhausted, by experience, that 1s 8 u b J e c t 1 ve ly ,

2y accident certain diff1cult experiences with people cause us

to unwind in a few minutes, or days, or months, years o~potential unwinding. We cannot say" our" experiences, when they happen to us and happen too fast for us to be si~ultaneously aware' of and hence prof1t from the~; too fast for us to use.

Ti~e is in t~is sense, personal. This does not nean that if all beings had the re,3ulator at v.o r-k that unwind1ne; would take the sa~e ti~e; but each would get the full benefit from it.

Exa~ple of two men, one spendingbne hundred and the other one thouaal dollars. ~ach spends purpos1velyl the measure of time is not the quanti;y but the manner of spending, a difference in the mode of experiencing • The flow may be experienced equal~ and identically by a~l beings or cosmoses(human being, ~lanet, sun, milky way, the ~niverse of univerees.

~I~ot ion is in terms of Spa ce T1me is 7>osi tl ve--- i"ather Space is-negatlve---'Mother Motlon is Life

Our visualization of these t~ree; Objects; ~ence three dimenSional'

A~ present we experience abnormally because chance can at any

'oment exhaust~ our potenuialities, either thr,ugh movement, feeling thinking. If we in control could ch~ose, this ~ould mean a proper use Jl 'I'Lrne , In saying we "have very Ii tt Le Ti 'De", we mean we have very few potentialities left unrealized.

O~age read Chapter.

Men use the unit of a year, the revolution of the planet about the sun. The ancients took a longer periodthan this.

W- have taken it because of th~seasons. The instinctive center attaches itself to the seasons. But there are also emot10nal and intellectual seasons. A certain emotional season, e s g ;.; which lasts 99 years. A period of an intellectual year extends over an age of civilization

In what intellectual season " am I bor-n t i n what e no t t ona L season am I? The instinctive year ls for. children; the e~otional year for artists; the i~tellectual year for real scientists

certffEn anclents t09k seasons of more i~portance to them than the external ones '

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ts po s s t b e to know Time, only relatively; it cannot be unde r-at o oe

by reason, nor can it be sensed.

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~idngift'erent Ico~'110Sefi, there are all octaves,L the on lv _diffarence

~n soa e the ele~ent of time 1s the aa:ile, the Order or tne

unfolding of e~perience. The way in whioh they act is the same but the duration is different. There is no end to the octaves (in numbeI Only Time stands alone; the Unique SubJective-

The Subjective is the potentiality of experience. ~

Where there is process, no matter on what 8cale, Time will blend it self with it. For a creature in a d r-o o of water Time "makes 1tself 'TIicroscopic" and gives those beings the saw sequence. 'l'he process of expe~ience, the flow of ti'TIe, as we or beings of other CJamoses. For beings in the drop of water there is the same harmonra relation lhey are tfiton, grow, ~arry, get Sick, die, are destroyed.~They

have winte~spring, SU'TI~er~

Time never comes objecttvely into existence and can never be an object. It is the Infinite PotentialJ Subjective, ~he potential Objective, the realization. Time is the absolute potential of all experience.

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None of us live our natural period, nor experince Time nor~lly·

This is because our three centers are not unwound normally, because they are not under a rgulator. aence we have no normal understanding

of Time of those who are fully developed .and who do not experience faster than they can use it.

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The previous c~pters are on abnormality. In this there is a certain sugge stl ve statemnt of the Nature of Normal ~n

What should a normal human being do, be, know?

lro~ our abnormal understanding of Time, experiences are too fast to be received into our consciousness. In this room, different colors sounds, etc affect my c he mf at z-y ; but I am unaware of most of them.

B. says our lives are growing shorter; by thls he means we ma ke consciouS use of fewer and fewer experiences. The tltle of thls Chanter,' The Arch - Absurd.

G, is a~are t~t what he is about to say Is all10st incredible. Its sub-t t tIe ls Discovery according t c .rt.he Ta les of B. that our sun gives neither heat nor light

B. is indignant; he is capable of pity. He makes a survey of the olanet he has left, with sympathy but in a detached way.

They live in c ond t t t ons created by themselves, which are not becoming to three centered beings. "~eco!'Iling " means both fitting and that which will enable t he n to become. Any normal cognizance of the c o amo a in which they live has disappeared from their psyche·

This is the first indication of what a normal, three centered being would be. Just as we are aware of the flora and fauna of nature and the characteristics of c t v i Lt z'at t on , so three centered beings would be aW!l'~e of the functions of the COS11OS, those of the moon related to the sun--- all the cos~lc phenomena, in the midst of Which we dwell

This means a direct personal know Le dz e , a "being know Le dg e " or a pers:)nal knowledge, not just hearsayThave we any personal Xnowledge of the structure of the atom?) I have a pc?onal ~owledge of the

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difference between the city and t~e cJuntry. • says that e~ry

three centered beinS should nJr~ally know the cosmic pheno~ena whieh affect UR w t t hout our now being swa re of them. .....

This i8 caused according to the myth by Kundebuffa (So~e HindUB

used a ~etaphor of mirrors.)

KUndebuffa was introduced to prevent the acquisition of such knowledge for fear of destruction.

But Kundebuffa was r-emoved later, t.na t is o r'g e n fc conditions were r-e move d , The responsibility is now on human beings.

Plato said his :tepublic could be set up only if he could have newly born children to start with; but 8i:-.~c ~E' l:"oulC' h£>vE'- to €r.:::-Joy cC~:~3 for their education, he resarded the problem as practically insoluble)

Fuoes being no IJnger generated, (by fumes education being

continued). There ore thousands whose intelligence is s~perior to their conduc~,; they are freed from sUPerstition in reeard to ralig ion or morals, but teach their irrational conduct to their children. How many subscribe for others to that which they would not consider proper for themselves

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m~at do we know about heat, da r k, lisht, cold'? We know by personal

knowledge. wi assume that light and heat co~e directly fro~ the sun. What would human beings do if they knew ( s '::nsed), that nothing so material as light comes from the s~n and that the sun is itsel~ cold and icyl Would it send heat to t~air ~isshapen planet, which is the shame of the solar system but~hich eventuRlly may redeem the Whole solar system(The Ugly Duckling)This is in many fairy ~ tales, the doctrine is often enshrined there, where they would not be suspected of pr-opagand a , The troubadours were emissaries of an occult society.

Light and heat are not universal. They are particular to certain localities and to certain conditlons(cartain planets). The yegetable and animal kingdom have different perceptions than we of light and heat. ~e are contributing to these phenomena.

'l'he Whole of our un t ve r-s e I all observable phenomena) exist owing to one system: Trogo{I ate) auto(ego) ego (I) crat (govern~ent by)

"I J my self eat It -- I eat myself, and this is the nature of ::ny life,

The food 1 eat is changed into the cells of my body, I am what I have eaten and digested

The un"iverse is a c o mpa r'a b'Le being which eats to live and lives to eat. Every uart of the physical universe is the product of eating of the flI"(God). This idea ties up and throws light on

many myths: certain early rites of cannibalism; the Holy Com~nion; the tradition of the early Christians that Christ cut off parts of his flesh and that the disciples literally drank his blood ,.

~J. body eats --- and is substantiated; where is "I"?

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ThiS system was created by H1s Endlessmsas, when only the Sun Absolute

ex1stedknd where HiS All Grac10us ~ndlessness still exists. It is impossi~le to explain clearly at this ~int. We have a body whose e every cell is accounted for;Whert.is "I '?

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lie qa1) offer no ~vl":;ence of the existence of I , yet we can be

!l:iPl! sr it. Similar1y we saY"God IS". GurdJieff never says"lives"

but "exi st s " ; ex- out of ; t at s , manife at s , to be; that state of being which is capable of mantfesting itself.

The primary fact of being is "Istence", but the "ex" is necessary for proof, co~municBti8n. Th~s does not affect its essence ~sfience--- existence

I -------It

It is always passing up or down the scale; all ele~ents are undergoi~ change, a conflux o~ chemical elements, so~e moving up the scale of their own octave, others down, in evolut10n and involution.

These are proceeding in a c co r-d anc e with two cosmic laws, (one system, two laws)

1:- Holy·Tr1allazika'1ll10~laterTriallonia) three 'TIaking one

2: -Efta para barshinoch (later Uepta etc) Seven making one.

1:- 1s the Law by wh1ch 90sm1c Substances can interblend and form the COS'TI08 according to Law two.

Every note i8thre~ld; and the successlon of notes i8 sevenfold. The eighth note is a r~,etition of the flrst(See Modern Physics)

All ele~ents yet discovered tend to fall into gr~~ps of seven or eight Why is seven so COTIllOn in natural phenomena!

In co~pleting a circle, by what lmpulse does it return to its startine po i.nt t. Number is n8t 8ub,lect -to Kundebuffa

An attempt to objectify what we have hitherto called "I"; to emptrr "I" of all objects which can be object1fied. "I" carr never observe'rlt I~ is under the law of Seven

wlw is under the Law of Three

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"II~ is composed of Consciousness, Individuality and Will. Can these everr be seen?

Th~ subjective world is seven; the objective, three

The phenomenal is seven; the noumenal , three ~

"I" is a vacuum fro'TI which 1s exbreted phenomena. See later exper1merit which ~ight be reproduced of generating forms 1n a vacuum.

To understand this Chapter, one should have a metaphysical background and be familiar ",ith failure • .:II.any previous answers which have failed. One should be capa~le of und .rstanding the dlffe~nce between the potential and the actual. The potential exists.

~ead Seurat on this nroblem.

Defore the universe was actualized, God existed on the Sun Absolute. *e planned and constructed the Universe on laws of architecture, so to speak. Everything objective was three fold, ev-erything subjective was sevenfold

Sitting i8 the result of seven reciprocal thrusts. Why do certain. buildings stand and others fall? Those that stand are seven fold •.

Why do certain sentences fail to stand alone? They are not aphorism_ and rnusto have the buttress ~f introduction and subscription.

They are not under the law of seven. Certain works of art of the ancients ~ere built on the law- of seven, so as ~o stand, to be a T~

Ruskin'- S-ven Lamps waa on the trail but beca~e confused. .

~·Jmake a"'wo1'k o!' art on the s a ne laws as the un i ve r-ae s On Ly those were creators who could create things which exemplified the seven fold

laws of the universe. Hokusai aaid that when he dled, he hoped to

S-oin that body of artists who drew in light and created flowers. Blake's "Tiger, tiger etc". The c orrt e mpoz-ar'y use of the word "creator" is ridiculous

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This body will wear ~ut; we take the wr~ng food or the right in

insufficient a mourrt or excess. Suppose one took only the .. food needful to renair worn tissue. We don't know how to do this Bnd consequently a r-e a Iw ay a taking into the body aub s t.a nc e a wh~ de~ leads to death, We live under ignorance, hence time.

When God saw his own demise approaching , he m~de a survey of the laWE of existence and saw that if he could establish 8el1'- feeding, -a bao r-b ill§ only the food needful to restore wear, he could bec~me endless, Th~ is he c~uld defy Time. Having assured his existence, he then c~~ld say I have Time for self-perfecting. We , as co~ponent cells have 3 chance to share this endlessbess.

B. has ;reat gratitude, greater than we are capable of that he exists in this endless body; but refers with slight disrespect to His ~ndlessness for being willing to remain in this state.

B. is not convinced that it is worth it for an intelligent being.

If that is to be all. This criticism is really directed at human belngs~ho when they achieve a certain state of content, cease to strive to realize t"'"!ei~still - undevelopedxptilt:5Nnii:tti~sl( potentielit Our ~ea~~esses are the source of our strivi~

Energies which should be turned into developing of new powers are diverted into producing gratifications, for the planetary body.

If ha pp t ne as t s taken as an end, the fundamental illusion of Kunde bu~fa, truth, d~velo~ment, etc. become by-products.

If our ai~ is Truth and Self-6erfecting, t~en hsppiness may be a by -'Jroduct f~o:n t he actual!z1ng of ')otentiB li ties,

~rtain stages may sometimes be accompanied by !1appinessi s~meti:nes by unharypiness. Hap'Jiness is not 3 criterion.

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It see~s ?resumptuous for anyone to pretend to ~rite on this subjact-- The Ultimate Meaning of the Universe.

I see1lS presumptuous on our part to attempt to understand and yet it is often reiterated throughout t!1e book, that the normal state of a human being is to attempt to understand this. ·"enan said that

no 'TIEr.. aho u Ld be ashamed to be unable to a nswe r=u'Lt Lmat e questions.

but s hou Ld be a s hs 'TIed. not to be t nt.e re at.ed in them. U

Cf. the first Book of Genes1s ~here G~d brooded over Chaos,

T1is d e t.a c hed rea s on sno"Jld be our- attitude.

SU~'Jose w e are asked at Death, Nie~sche's"Well, what has been your e x oe r i e nc e of being a human being? The question assumes that you have experimented with life and that you have brought h~me a report. This is the attitude of a scient1fic observer, who is also an exneri:nenter

Consider the s oe c Le a ; "e can make a series of objective statements on the race; a critique of human beings. In the preceding chapters the cancluEion is reached tha'human beings are degenerates; that i8 through thousands of years they have become stea<tily less and less ac:ual, with ·less desire to realize their potentialities.The race is still at the head of biological e~01ut10n but is deteriorating / The result is that we accept as normal, things which are abnormal. Lettus su~pose a race who in isolatio~loses interest in ed~ting its children, develo~1ng its intellectual life etc. If none were exempt no one would be aware of the deterioration,

If confr:mted with the w or-ks of his ancestors , he would be faced with a problem. Without any objective stan<!ard we have no way of telling whether we are degenerating--- and if so, how much?

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This book attempts to set up a standard for a no r-ms L t'eing, perhaps not even ~n historical ti~e. But there 8re certain ~ecords, e.g.

it was said last week that one of the normal senses of a human beine was an awareness of t~e C08~OS in which it is living. Our com~on birthright is to understand this C08~OS, just as a man b~rn on one continent is aware of the existence of another. Astrology and ancient religions were often based on personal sensations. These now become superst1tions because these sensations are no longer ours.

Others (below) which 1nclude certain powers for wh1ch at present we ha ve ns 11e s only

Before co~1ng to personal, we must have certain analogy with the uni verse. We cannot understand the universe unless there is a certain corresDodence with us, whether we are its product or it is our ~rojectron. Otherwise, there is no contact. If we are, e.g, three centered, it ~st be for us to unders~and. ~his does not ~ean that our knowlwdge exhausts it; but our knowledge' is conditio~ed by our means of coming into contact with ~t. One of the frequent exercises of i~agination 1n the Book is t~e frequent shift from the personal to the universal.

frogo-auto- eg6- c z-aa t , have you during the week t.hou.rht. of the significance of this? Man is the result of his eating; the Universe

is the body of H1s Endlessness. Was there a Sun Absolute before the Uhiverse came into existence? What does this mean? This is unintel ligible to one who has not tried to rna ke a distinction between "I" end It • If I have experienced thi8 im~ediacy,I can understand the statement that God was before the world. The Sun Absolute in us is the highest of ~eason, the brain. If our first being was threefold, every thing subsequently in creation tends to become threefold. This is called Trinity, or three- in one/or God, or Triamazikamno (triamoniE) It means simply that the nature of Man is inherent in creation.

There is a~endency for it to manifest itself pr~gressively in a ~ three fold manner. ~nce we have three brains. ~ach brain corresponds to one of th~three original forces(We repeat that our knowledge may never exhaust it}. The degree of our realization is the measure of

our d eve lopment

What are the three brains? What are faund 1n each? Why do two alone produce the an1mal, and not human?It tekes three to produce reflection ,TWo ~roduce sensation and e~ot1on.

Sensation, Emot10n, Image. The an1~al lacks the third brain wh1ch combines sensation and e~otton into the image/ hence it 1s incapable

of reflec~lon and i~agination .

We see things in three. In absence of the fourth center, we have no ground for discussing what we see.

indicat10ns 1n preced1ng as ste~a of evolution. Fully revealed only in 8 perfect product. There are no sharp lines. It shases off as in the octave; but there are notes---- elthJough this does not destroy Cont1nu1ty and the "restorials". Continuity and d1scontinuity. It 1:& l~~ossible to aay:aere one leaves o~f and t:e next begins

( universal, ~etal, vegetable,. invertebrate, vertebrate and ..:4an

~Ili,,_ ~".t "

Return to day11ght. Following these explanat10ns to be neither accepted nor rejected ; but first w1l1 clearly formulate and under stand

This phenomenon of daylight manifests itself to hu~an beings by the presence 1n the atmosphere surround1ng the planets of a chemival SUbstance --- Okidanoch, electr1city.

The three forces of the world are assembled as three in only one element- Ok1danoch

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Hence w~en it enters any Dlanetary b~dy, the three forces are then distributed to their res~ective centere and proceed to cuild up.

It is often said in modern physics that we 8re the rpoduct of electrl 7he throe forces are in t~e~sleves

Affir~ing----- positive---- ~~a5e making

Denying ----negative-----sensation

neutralizing--- reconciling--- e~otion

We will later discuss the mis~use of el~tricity

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In entering into any being there takes place a process called Aa-ee-o-u-a. ~emorse, or wish to evolve. In practtcal terms the wiSh of an inferior to be like a superior ~hen in ~is presence.

Any rate ~f vibration when in the ~resence of a higher rate, strives to become the higher. Remorse in the elements. One of the means by which evolution is brou5ht about,i.e., not merely by inner impulse. mechanical progress is a1ded by shock, which 1s merely the presence of a higher rate

Three -fold elec·tric1 tyj cf. atom of hydrogen: one e Tc t.r-on , one proton; the third forc~ 1s that Which holds these two in rexlation c r , m~ and wo:nan become f'a t he r and mot he r only in relation to the Child. proton and erctron are related so as to produce atom.

What is the atom in ~tself? It 1s inviSible

We~are the third force. ?Jind ._~r:e cannot .se e the g r oup; we see only the individuals making it up. nave you ever see1a crowd? only the i:ndividuals

proton--- positive

el~tron negative and the relation between them is the

a~om, itself. One atom of electricity cons1sts of three forces

yet 1s one. .

When Aristotle b~he sec;ibon of his book on metaphysics, he meant, to discuss space, time, thought, force, in light of doctrine he had

received from p;thagoras; but he never got on with it. -

nefer back to what happens when in presence of a higher rate of vibration, just as a given note will go sharp when a higher rate

1s strucktz- Aa-ee-o-ua 0-

Electricity is the act~ive or gro~ing ele~t in a being. It is this which responds to the-higher rate of vibbration.

Q. Has the rate of vibration of thought been measured?

Ana. %e9, we are constantly l1a:{ine; this rne e aur-e aerrt but r:-ughly. Why do we say, a weighty th~usht? a ligl1t'~re11&rk?

He is tnt.e r ru ot.ed by s o me one who says what a bout, a sweet girl

0.: when we say this 1s any particular case, it gives an indication of a certain physical criterion of taste.

Electricity is not the only source of vibrations; the whole universe is their source. Our bodies are materialized sets of vibrations,

We co~pare with the outer world as a piano with a series of playera who playas passing. '::e can o.fLy respond to t.he extent of our abilities.

Electricity produces the po s s Lb i Li-t.y of being av ar-e .

The external world does not consist of objects; nor is our own body an object, merely temporary conglomerations of ability to respond in the oresence of vibrations.

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,roces. of physical evolution owed to one growing element of elptric

ity. Both Dewey and Whitehead have this idea that there are no objects; that there is nothing in t~e un1verse but forces~

But how can we catch a force?Only in a temporary conglomeration.

But every c~nstituent ele~ent is always changing. The real thing is what Whitehead and Dewey call process I change. Fixity is on Iy r-e La t Lv and r-ough , Change of what ? we say "~!atter"; but matter is only a prejudice. The universe is really the actualization of forces.

Mary Johnston a s ks : "Is this r-e mo r-ae of the elements, connected

with &nulios?" ....

Ans. Yes, a higher rate t~n the earth.

Anulios, ~arth , MJon Three centers. The earth is between Anulios' and t he :\loon; be twe e n h Lg he r' and lower rates.

The tendency uf the higher to go toward the lower, the abnormal to the normal

Our education leaves off where very ancient education began. Between the ages of 18 and 2l"the idea listic period: when wa iting for some thing to give more meaning to life than they see de~onstrated in the lives of those about them. Life is especially full of electricity at this period. There is no institution to give training. Then the moat idealistic become the m'Jst disappointed and turn cynical, become cranks or c~m~lt suicide. It is the aspiring period, aspiring to

.a realization of potentialities. Full of 'Jk1danoch. ifuen in a civilization which tends to become more and more instinctive, that is food at one end and sexa at the other I diSillusionment is most sharp. '.L-hen mo s t idea lists become most inst inctive, sex indulgence etc

Extreme use of electricity for mechanics means less f:>r pay cho Log L use.G. _says tWJ previ~us civilizations have g:>ne down because of too much such mechanical use. ';"-;e bee orne very clever in the instinct1ve center and unable t o 5row after, Bay I 18, that is to grow psycho Log Lcr Electricity broken d own , degraded to lower rate of vibration. spli t3 ~aylight is the first response that Okidanoch makes to the higher

rate of vibration reaching this nlanet r rcm the sun and moorr, "

Emanation~ from the sun not in themselves with the nature of light when received directly in the atmosphere surrounding this planet produces in Okidanoch a certain aspiration or remorse which we call light because we then can see objects.

use of ritual, musidetc to nroduce an e~Qtional state in which

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ce r-t.s in idea s may be und e rstood or "seen", not me rely translated in

street terms, analogy with light. When t~e elements are in this state we can "see" objects

S.O. is a higher rate of vibration. When we observe, the elements "9

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of the body will t~e!Dselvesaspire, suffer re~orse, i.e. adapt themselv

to "I" I

This must be direct. If one merely thinks about S,O., it is not direct but is refracted through the mind. Uence this excludes a wish to change any phenomenon observed, whrch would be the process of S.O. refracted t~rough one of the other centers.

Direct observation causes sunlight.

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In any being, the three systems tend t~ become coated making three centers. ·rom each tends to develo~e a bodyI-;Planetary 2;-SpirltuBl

- (XesJan- &stral) 3:- Body of mind or Obj. ~aBon or Soul Correspodlng to each 1s a form o-f reason

Planetary--- instinctive

_.A Spiritual being or essential, capable of und e r-at.and Lng formsand

ideas - d'

Mind-------- divine , capable of understanding rea Bon or why thlns1are

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Things we B~e accustomed to

The what:>f the World-- pe r-ha os modern physicists at The 1lhy. God created an intelligible Vl:>rld an also a

sight.

°rd ina ry sight

Spiritua~ si~jt, not ~sychic but Insight

Gives foresisht and behind sight, i.e. simultaneity ;f sigRt.

their b~st

c o r-r-e apod Lng

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Three bodies; t~~ee forms of reason; three forms of 81ght-- a complet~ hums n be ing.

But we have at ~r~sent one body only(within it two other cente~. r: H r cu t (' (, r r'e ~ :;:-c'c' ~ :- [: t{)C~ e s )

l"lane t£ 1)- [. ~ C::-:' s nd s ?lritua I and intellectua 1.) d r-e a rna and words-- not facts.

The three brains are developed to t~e extent the bodies are.e.g.

a good body-bra!n,partial spiritual, very slight mental. The cereb~ is the least dev~l.JDed, visceral next; the instinctive, t~e best. 96% of our ex':)e~ience is instinctive; 3% emotional; 1% in.tellect

96% of our civilization is con.ce~ned with the body.

3~ with art

I$ devoted to ~1Y • The quantity of pure research that can be carriec on is limited to about I%, GrBt ine~ia not only in individuals but

in civilizati:>ns. Humanity s~ands on its head.

~he Instinctive is now Positive.

~erebral -------- -·egative. •

~~otional is neutralizing but leans toward the i~stinctive. All this is abnormal. We should change by opposing to the instinctive aome thing in name of .te a aon ,

The Characteristic of the ~natinctive center is INERTIA~ that is to

·continue doing ~hat it has started; habit, in the largest sense Intelligence is against habit; because no two situations are really the same. Intelligence would make a new activity each time; the ;.'. in.stlnctlve me~ely offers habit.

:3reakin-:- of habits expe.rimentally for positive intelligence, the beginning of reason(if it is broken for utilitarian reasons, then it is me~ely the instinctive center) but if experiementally then it is merely subservi~ reasJn.

Originality and Initiative vs :~~et~tion.

Although circu~s-:'ances and our minds change this is the instinctive. ~7e can continue to auba e r-ve our natural functions and also develope our own c on sc ~o:.rS::less •

=rains in any being is the place in the total organismkn which are located the origins and collected results of impuls~s and reactions; the s?rings and milieu for collection of responsesSimultaneously sJurces and registers,

These .three brains sre his life and experience; his precious possession, hence the second co~mand~ent:

During ordinary existence it is com~anded ~~ beings should avoid those perceptions that may injure the purity of theirbrainsi.e., the ...u.s intenance of TIe a son; cf. our fear of going mad.

Only beings who have lost their r-e'a aon can ever admit that reason has not the highest value

Only throe centered beings can be conscious of the possibility of beco~ing fully developedi.e. reach Divine ~eason.

BUt in us these three possibilities exist in vain.

beings of the earth, because of their conditions of existence have made this planet a festering wound in the Cosmos.

We "have almost a sane equipment

3~ Brain, Affir~lng in the head Erain, denying in the spine

Drain, reconciling, we have in us but it does not act as a nass

as in other t~ree centered beinga. Instead of the heart we have the solar plexus, a congeries of nodes, not harmonized into single sy s t.e ns capable of emotions. 'I'h ey are O!1 varying things at

t~e sa~e time and hence are not capable of Will, ~

With the procesQ of S.O., there begins a consolidation, a gathering of the limbs 'Jf OSiris by Isls. Thls reunion cannot be brought about through the instinctlve center, only by the Affirming zrain with relation to the whole,

"I" is these potentialities, aQ yet unactualized.

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The Timaeus of ~lato contains the cosmogony of ~ythagoras

Beelzebub's Qecond descent to the rlenat.

Eefore taki!13 up thls chapter, let us re~ind oursel~es of the beginning of the book, its place, time and personnel.

B. represents ourselves with our potentialities realized, the

n oz-ma L or ideal :nan, His rmc t t on of this "Jlanet is finished; and

he has all 'Jf human e xpe r-t e nce behind hini, Lnc Lud Lng a critique of human nature. ne is o b jec t kve , without pf.1udice, ~n fact be nevo Lent., Had ~nn existing on this planet for some ~ault. This suggests that the I is~already in exile and that we have made the error of

1dcntify1ng_::mrselves with a part of our potentialit1es instead of the whole. He has made ~seof his ex11e to lead a conscioue life sparing no 2ffort-to develope all the technique possible.

~ begins with account of 11fe on other planets. Whether such life exists or not we need not say; but at a!1Y rate such life, if th~~e. deDends on emanations or radiations from solar sources.

B. -and the "'aptain discuss trans-solar ships. Under this parable

are discussed various techniques for developing super- c'JnsciousneSB l'here are f')ur r or-ns of consciousness: sleeping, waking, self amd cosmic.

·he peculiar~lty of beings on this rylanet is du~ to special eondlt~o!1s; they are unique, especially in the nature of their

rea son. Why do .1 t.hink that the rna jori ty of pe 0':>10 I meet are fools? Why do the majority of people whom I meet think I am a fool?

And why are we both right? Why do we all recognize the essential senselessness of people. This is taken for granted and used in all dealings with crowds. Why do we have such d Iff"iculty in behaving ~ reasonablily even in ~crowd with our own standards?

rqHscussing Ships we encountered the "Law or - aIling", giving a psychological meaning to the law of gravitation. Th tendency of a a high note of vibration to fall:i.o.a lower note/ In this sense, space beco~es merely a difference between rates of vibration.

What is the distance between two notes? If interested in space and time read S. Alexander, a physIcist. You will meet Bucnfentences

a s Space is the rIo the r of Time, .

Then disc:lssion of ships led to perpetual Motion; and under this

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We, here, to nig~t, are bodies, not s ou l s ; and shall probably not survive death.

In certain periods, w~ole civilizations have made this the t~uch st~ne of values. Is it poasib'e to conceive a machine which would last and work in any substance. The answer is yes.

This discussion arouses in Ha s se Ln reflections on "be co-mng c-onac Loi of genuine duty". On beco:ning adult , we enter on certa in r-e apona L' 1lities

Hasseln thinks: I am here on this planet, among two hundred thousanc :nillion others, surrounded by nature who supplies enjoyment etc

How ~ch does it cost to maintain this?

What do I owe for all ~ am getting? Is life of value?

• Possibility for experience belongs to life.

gassein realizes: nothing just sprang into existence; and every t~ing is maintained and developed by effort. Not only nature but people labor to ~intain this civilization,

Hassein is over corne by this realization. We come into the world "entitled" to nothing. What entitles us even to mother-love?

... ·ajEUre pr-o npt a it ; and u Lt Lme t e Ly we must repay in conscious effort

But it is now entirely pre~ture says B. to H. , to conSider, or even to think of repaying. It cannot be that until you understand how much you ow~etc. any atte~pt to repay now would be pre~ture and even lead to g~eter debts. H.'s only duty now.is to an increased understanding. Jur morality is that of pupils.

In return for H.ls display of genuine emotion, B. will tell him what he wants to know. H. asks about sxx~slugs • A slug is a one centered being which has no further potentialities; but we as three centered beings have the possibility of d~veloping three bodies. As long as we are satisfied with one body, we s r-ee s Lug a in regard to our potentialities.

explain

I~ order to ~EX~rIB what we are , we must go back. Mythf the geneslE or the Moon

·he earth was ~oing along peacefully, when it collided with a

c ome t and had two pleces struck off. If the ')lanet !!.2..Q. a who Le 1 t was left denrived.

We are organically the product of the ryl~net and ~y be eXgected to renroduce the organiC defieiencies of the rylanet.

All that we call nature, including ourselves Is a sort of skin

on the planet. ~his spli~ nersonality is na~lve t~ all llfe on the nlanet. All of us at any given moment "I and it

Discri'!!inate between what 1 do and what .L would do cf,- St. raul. in the ~th a com'Ilissfoner is sent fro~ the Sun Ab8~lute, to see What ~st be done to preserve the equilibrium of the system, for altering one planet affects the others. ~.g. If earth's weight was reduced by one half other planets would find themselves nearer the sun; and their year shortened, with catastrophic .events produced.

No pebble can be thrown into a at r-e a n with out affecting the ~alance of the earth on its axis

Sakaki comes to inve~tiga~~ and finds the two fragments had not gone beyond the solar system. They had gone part way and t~en began to fall back; but meantime the earth had gone on 1n 1ts orb1t 80 that it was always felling and uever catch1ng up(1.e., our higher e rno t.Lo na L and intellectual centers)

lhese must be supplied a certain sort of rad1ation from this planet

au onl t ed only by labor and effort. Why this curse of labor, · ..... this necessity of effort? Why the apparent malevolence of God. Accord1ng to the ~th, t~is is not malevolence; but a result of necessity.

Nn one can escape the necessity of effort. Even when idlenss seems possible, men engage in various unnecessay enterprises, leaving ~aceful circumstances to put the~selves into action,

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The substance der1ved from effort 1=s called Askokin, What 1s it? a sort of sweat, physical, emotional and mental. This is perhaps the only service we render at present to the universe. This may be paid, either consciously or unconsciously, (as at presnt) .

If voluntary or consciOUS, the same substance 1s y1elded but the individual himself Drofits from it.In th1s way, the curse 1tself becomes a blessing Plato seid "God's curses are opportun1ties"

~akaki undertook to farm on this planet, inbrder to produce this sweat. He arranged that on th1s planet the law of seven and the law of three should operate not interdenendently but 1ndependently. SakM is responsible forr-the split pe r-oriaLf.t.y between "I" and It

"I" is under the .LIaw of Ihree (only t.hr ee functions of consc t ouaneea )

-It~is under Seven, Color, sound, even processes of the body, d1ges t10n

Bodies do not help 1n consciousness. Why is the body not retalctive of the mind'? Why this unfitness be tween the body and consciousnesa? Why are we like strangers in it?

Distinguish between the three .:t"tmct1onEf o:fhcotlsoioasness within~'" or during anyone of the fQur statss of consciousness.

~akak1 ~de it practically impossible for men to be me~ We suffer but we are not to blame; the fact that 99% of the time we are without sense, ~ster1cal, vain, egOistic, stupid etc i8 the truth.

It was sranged to insure effort or suffering. A suspicion that we were usea for th1s purpose m1ght ar-t se i see later) so another

- device was introduced

A~cide~ merely means, not w1thin our poss1ble calculation; but acc1dent of col11sion between the earth anda comet is with1n some cosmic calculat10n and for 80me purpose.

~bnorrnality 1ncludes not only human nature but all rE\_nture. cf. St.

aul 1n Romans"the whole of c r-ea t t on groaneth and travs ileth etc. II .c.arth suffers fQr s o ne t.hf ng wh1ch happened far away. But m1sfortunes are also opportun1t1es ,. 1f met and handled exper1mentally

If met by co~plain1ng and asking why one 1s p1cked on, one will suffel just as much 1f not more. /

I~ met experimentally as s'n opportun1ty to solve a problem, there 1s__...... muscle d ev e Loped , of the highest ~se. ...,.,-- .

There 1s;a relation between B.'s revolt and th1s catastrophe

B. represents mind. The fQr~ of_1ntel11gence which he represents

1s only/possible through meeting and overcoming certain diff1cult1EHi Effort is needed to convert knowledge 1nto ~nderstanding. B. had -to.--.;:

sweat to unders_!,and what he knew /_.

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The organ produc1ng th1s s~11t was called Kundebuffa; i~ was t~e effect of certa1n c~nditio~s in t~e atmosphere, just a~ c=rtain con ditlons ryroduce, say, baldness.

Sakaki and Luizas, t.he arch -c he ni at.Lphy s Io ) arranged that human e. be1ngs sh~uld dsvel~pe a certain disease, ryroduc1ns certain psychological ~nifestations, ~tive to the d~e8se( as intestinal disorders produce ir.:'itability. This spina1f1taease or-cduc e s the'.

sa~e effe~t as if one had taken oDi~. / We walk down the Avenue in

a state of somnambulism or we undertake some job which we do not

know how to undertake or carry it thr~ugh in an extravagent expenditure of energy. ;Ve have the facts but we are unable to assemble t he n

Xundebuffa has been ren~ved.ItB function is no longer necessary; the organ is vestigial. It once had the function of keepin~ us crazy. How, we are b~n sane but become insane through the influence of our elders, education, c~nvention, desire to be like our neighbor. Education is the enemy of t.ne hu na n race.

i::la ka ki returned and B. S€t UD and observatory. S. o. this ~ve him add1tional lenses, so that he was able to observe distan~ Jlanets etc It is i'Ilpossible to Jlake an objective survey of human race as a whole which is what is required to understand the Book, without adding the lens of S.O •• We may not be able at present t~ see the relation between listening to the t~nes of ones o~n .voice and carrying on

certa in imaginative acts. •

War is one of the peculiarities of the beings on this planet. It 1s due to our conventional education. We discuss it and carry it on ~ without realization of its horror. An inhabitant of another planet where the idea of carrying it on and killing was repugnant as some loathsome crime a'Dong us, would shrink from coming here,

Then why did Sakaki and Luizas arrange this lunacy? Perhaps there h~d to be more blood. Cf. Seances of early religions; evocations in fumes' of blood, a crude and obvious meAns to strik~he limited imaginations of ~riJitive pe0ples. I~ gave them real horrors to convince them

of the su~ernatural and create reSDect for the priests.

Perhaps the normal death rate was not enough; the moon cried for more· So it was given wars(See later chap. on ~ar)

This peculiarity was not unique to certain moments of madness; but

was prep,ared for from birth by certain trance conditions. Call a man

a "hero I, who is p repa red to th.rdw away his own life., i. e. to commit suicide in order to nur-de r-, We have only to c ons rce r what would be a reasonable line of conduct to realize that this is the acme of unraeaso ableness. The "hero" has been specially c:mditioned.

The~ame the First Descent to Atlantis, whether geographically correct or not is not ~ur conce~nt

B. was on a ~ission: A aritasian reformer had come to a hasty conclu sion that the way to reform was to let pe~Dle do as they wished,

be lieving they would do the "right thing". - They had not first ta ken the trouble, which B. gad taken, to.understand human nature.

How much will we do merely through love of The goodQ the T~ue, the Beautiful?

There is disillusionment of the premature reformer who does not realize that he is at~king not local, but universal problems, and must have an universai understanding. So with us, attempts to make reform without first preparing ourselves.

11 III" Time is the Unique Subjective, the essence of what we ca

Experience is due to t hr-e e factors: Ext e r-na L st1mylus; Organ r'ec e t.v t ngj Med t u n -::>f c o nmunt cat i on,

What is it that experiences? "I". Alexander says -t.ha t ivity and Space 1s the field in which Time actualizes The Subjectivity:: of Ti'1le. Our tirne-li!Ilit, the degree e xpe r'Le nc e , in the three centers.

T1rne passes fastest for those whose centers are run out without our being aware of it and t ne n, l~oting our experiences as they pass is

c s I Led " ~Ja tcing use of T1 me "

l~!xt Chanter "The Arch- Absurd

L ght and ~eat local on this ~planet. Cf. S.O. produces no direct effect -::>nly c~nsequential effect. The sun not light nor hot.

E1l2nation 1s the influence exerted by any object or person, which does not involve any passage of !Ilatter. It is cOllparable to a magnetic field, surrounding a ~gnet. Every being exerts an emanation by its presence; even a table does this and its being is not negligible and its presence has an influence. The planets and sun of our system

exert two influences on us: Radiation, E'll8nation. Has this s ome bearing -::>n the ~odern doctrine of catalysis~

'l'he sun though c o Ld and dark by its presence within our system prod uces by its presence an etfect, a sort of shiver(As f-::>r exa'Dple one goes into a r-oom and says ' don't like the feel of it" e . It is the effect :::>f its emanations and radiations. Epectricity shivers. Re"'morse., wishing to be mor-e t :~an it is. e r-ha pa th~ origin of the growth of plants. Sti:nulation of 8TIareness in presence of a higher rate •• The mystery of growth is perhaps dual:Within; External stimulus.

Time is subject itself.

of our pC>8sible

If we fail to attain light , we only attain heat(Heat is "The light that failed"). I.o: we make an effort to understand certain ideas and s~ceed, we have a sense of light; if we fail, the sense of the i'1ll'.possibility nr-oduc e e an e mc t t.on , which 1s heat. • .Lhen we can unde r-i t.a nd why the image of r-e nor-se is used; this t mage' is a snake trying to bite off its own tail, in anger and disgust with'- itself. One fumes "Why can't I?"

A human being is the product of his own digestion. "I" watchEf's this cannibalistic pr:::>cess under the law of seven. Psychology functions under three. God is the same. We are the seees of the tree Ygdrasil Acorns aro'.lnd an oak. What is the rese!Jlblence between an acorn and the oak? What is the resemblance bet~een us and the Cos~os?

no can o~ly understand the ~rld as we can cq'Ile in contact with it. We are ac~~ns and we can see the law in us. uan we see the laws in the Universe? G. says Yes.

The prillordial substance is of three types or kinds. Electricity ijas positive, negative and neutralizing. Matter, energy, eibtricity, is

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the~e any difference in these terms? Modern phySicists speak of these

three. Can you differentiate, e.g in a hycrogen atom the proton is the nucleus and the el~tronx the move~ent of the e~~tron aroung the proton gives the exhib\tion of energy. ThiS is a high~y metaphysiacl

concept. Cl:::>se the Book. .

Of these three it is elctricity ~hicp contains all three. Substance here is na med etherokrilno. Cf. lJoctrine of ~lBya in Hindu philosophy Maya is the potentiality of ~tter. ThiS etherokrilno becomes different1ated into ~tter) energy and e~ctricity being the fir~t emanation from the Sun Absolute. The Sun Absolute is "I" "who Dr-e aras " Of what SUbstance are dreams made? Of this primordial sucst.ence ,' These r or-n in our sleeping state ana t.a ke Sharpe according to our thougbts. In dur waking state they move slowly but still are the resu~~ of con~cio'lsn~ss

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Our waking state is an objective dream. Thought alone will not sha~K the~ we ~ust use hands, to~lB etc. Sven in drea~s the three elemenNts are prsent. In consequence of this pri~rdial three fold ness, the most developed show a three fold ness ~ost clearly. nence we have three brains, each manifesting one of the three forms of electricity D~sitive, negative neutrelizing. A normal being is one in which

these correspond. Cerebral i8 positive, instinctive, negative, 0

and e~otional is neutrallzing. lee is of the reeson, No of habit and the body while the emotions r€concil€~ these. In this sense the e~otlons are spoken of as The Holy Gh~st.

Negative eTotions are the res~lt of the f~ilu~e of ~eE80n to overcome the l~ertiE of hElit.

';,hen this t s lr..vertec, like Feter who wee thus crucified r nd the inErtl~ i9 Greote~ ~~~= ~e~~~nJ ~~e~2 1s t~5 ~e~rytlve. T~e o~ly evxil !s t~e substitution of negative for positive. E.ls attempt to invert,; to restore the positive to the part positive by el~trification

Corresponding to the three bodies are the three for~s of Sight 1:- sight; 2:- insight; 3:- th~ugh sight,or seeing the reason of things

Oaeunderstandsthe How of thi~s Two, the what of things

three, the why of things ~

This presupposes three bodies. W have a good unde~standing of how _.a slight understanding of what; and no u nd e r-s t.a nd Lng of wh¥,: ~ature will not hel~ us to d .vel~pe the second no~ third. We are unconsciously supplY~ing the emanations and radiations needed.

We can develope the others; for while J.~ature has supplied the substance we squander these substnces in e inless plea sures. We should use them for conscious labor and voluntary sufferi~g

Original meaning of the word ecstasy---- standing outside of, a non identification? To day it has an opposite meaning' ,We nust continue buildi~g the second body. We cannot have objective reason without the third body. Is the Book an objective survey of humanity? If so G. must have the third body. Did Pythagoras practice the method? Blato?

How does ~oney give roots? The Objective Attitude; the Positive attitud Is it possible to take a Positive attitude mechanically?

G. when he went t~ t~e East. Whenever you have a p~rp~se, is not that pur'Jose itself of the first body.? My case, Hapoleon's ?

At te mpt, t o i'113,3ine a normal being

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Electricity and elemnt?

Sertrand Rue ae LL says lithe way in which things behave"

~atter , energy, etctricity but if all aatter is an actualization

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The Second Descent

This is the second descent fro~ ~ars.Atlantis had been engulfed in the earth, not drowned. After the geneSis of the ~oon, the earth· was reveolving a little unsteadily; Dut soon settled into permanent equilibrium which it has since maintained. It was in this sett11ng that Atlantis was engulfed. Consider the psych~losical pa~able Howeve~ spreading of the human race took place. There were three ~in centers of ~ivilization ~n the continent of Asia

The aboriginal cont1nent was replaced by three centers~

We are bau.n with essence, which begins at once to be engulfed by personality, by society, by suggestion(Essence --our biological

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potent1alities. Essence, what is bio}ogically native to U8j pe.!'80nality 1s what we have be c o ne , ersonality may or. may not be hs r-no n Lou s w i t h what we a~ biolog1cally

By the t1~e of B.'s second descent, the race had begun to grow up, to develope personality

The three centers located geogranh1cally were

1:- Tikland~a (Saracorurn) desert in eastern Turkestan. The sand w1th~hich it now is covered was due to a planetary catastrophe. 2:- Goblandia or J.t:.ralpleisi, where is now the Gobi Desert was

once a highly developed c Lv t Lt z a t.Lon , See Churchward, one c1ty be Loi another

3:- Genchania India

The reas~n for the descents

One day on ~..!,grs an e t.he r-og r'a m was r-e ce t ved , (by hearing~ The Co mmt a s : was sent from the S~n Absolute to the earth io investigate the effects of the engu1f1ng of Atlantis and to see if any adjustillents were needed in organic life. The Commission arrived. Luizas was accompanied by his retln~e of angels and seraphim{incarnate powers of reason and emotion). He concluded from ~ars that the catastrophe was not so terrible and an im'TIediate visit not necessary.Luizas inv~ ted B. to undertake a co:n~ission to visit the earth and atte:npt to limtt the custo~ of blood sacrifice, which was then a prominent feature of all religions. In each of these three c~nters blood sacrifice was on such a huge scale that the atmosphere was charged with the fumes and organic life on the ~-lo·:m began to take on monstrc shapes(O. speculates that perha~s the monsters of old tales were

a sort of sDiritualistic rnaterialzation caused by emanations of blood fumes on other o La ne t a c aus ing a bnorrna 1 experiences hera) Lulzas ask B. to limit or end this custom on the earth, not only because of its effects on the earth but also on the !-.bon. :. Like a good poli~ical agent, B. descends; takes the ship Occasion and reaches the vasp1an Sea. ue travels by r1ver{now the Aral Sea) Arnondar1a, now dried up a r-r-Lve s at city of Conkall{~nka11), the

center of T1klandia .J

He visited local cafes. Attaches importance to a strategic point of observat~on fr~m which civilization is to be viewed. fie talked with the natives. After a month or so he sX~~R~dx~x decided to e~ploy a local and prevalent superstition and build on it a doctrine.

We ~ust be on guard even against divine messengers, who may use prevalent superstitions for t~eir own purposes, as B. did for benefj of the Moon. We assume that the doctrine is for the avowed purpose

e s g , we assume that -if Jesus taught Love it was for our good; but he might have foreseen deleterious effects to us which were good for the COS'IlOS

B. found that the natives thought that the s0crifice of something dear to them was pleasing to God, ~nd since their flocks were dear these were sa criflced. B. i1.ad me r-e ly to sugge st that they sacrifice t he ms e Lve a instead of animals( might not be so good for human beings but if a~imal sacrifices dim~nisQed B. had acco~~lished his 'Ilissio~ This idea spread ran1dly and soon animals became a Lno s t sacrosanct How do we explain the attitude in India toward animals. They are regarded as holy. B.'s propaganda.The same peo?le who once had sacrificed, now revered them.

B.IS ~thod. Talked at great length to a prominent pulpiteer, and did not di~lge the real purp~se of his arguments; but they sounded plausible. e suggested that God wanted the development of reasonine and that all. creation up to man pesupposes Man and a fulfillment.-

by ~n of his organic functions. He exists to produce individuals capable of Objective Reason.Supply of objective by reasonable beinga

expected from this ;planet and all Uature is for this use. ~e contin ued "II you useHature for this purpose, you are using it eh!t~cally ~I_E. objectively) because for a purpose designed

Another argument he used·There exists a certain force called (India) "pr-a na ", Life-Force. B. sa id this wa s a substa nce (will BC ientists

be able to take it and animate a table?) or essence. It exhibits it self in a series of biological evolution and as kt developes, it reveals ~ore of its potentia~ities, capable of Will, Consciousness and Individuality_ Life -Force in us does not differ in any respect

except maturity (quantity of experience) from the animal and vegetable kingdom. There is only one LIfe and we are the highest biological ~developrnent. Man is ~ore actualized, and more conscious but in Essence ._the same.

The our-nos e of an is to dev e Lone from this essence, a ce r-t.s t n type of rtea son, w~ich will constitute him one of the permanent bra in cella

of all Life. ._

God is both .t.he Creator and an evolving being. He aims at d:=veloping by developing his brainfells. As we develope will, consciousness and individuality we beco~e more ready to take our nlace as one of the brain cells of the Universe. It is a necessity for the Universe

taken as a whole to d eve.Iope individuals having these three functions J.~

At about the age of 25 G.B.S. had a realization that ature aims at

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brains. All his ;:,aradoxes and Dleys flow fro~ this mechanically.

But let us define "brains" mor-e clearly. Ponder for a mo me rrt the thought that ~ature aims at individuals having Will, Consciousness and Individuality. A realization of this will draw together all

other kncrwaedge and ideas, as op"!JOsed to modern id«aa attempt to find a unity of thou3ht.It is like lifting a tenFpole with the canvas !hich had before lain shapeless on the ground.

he third Argument B. used was:

We have senses, so Mhat we can attain the objective which God

wants us to attain. lhey are pepered to make possible the development of that rteason which God wants

What do I hear?

What do I see? What use should I get from ~y tactiae sense?

These are tools for the production of consciousness. If so used

then they are ethically u=ed; if not so used then either childishly o~~onstrously. T~is hits Art. If sensations are used for aesthetic purposes ar there is a cesenertaion; they are enjoyed for themselves

instead of being used to attain an objective. Self-indulgence masquerades under the na~e of Art. ThiS priest took B. seriously

and spread the doctrine that animals should be used instead of being sacrificed. Since B. had not given him ~his objective aim, they went ' to ridiculous lengths; sentimentalized eni!D.ala. which is another self-indulgence masquearadi~ as Humanitarianism

But- other priests at*ked hi~s an heretic and put him to death. B. buried hiabody and arranged for the education of hiB soul·

"He who loseth hiB life etcH .

B; wa s r2Ca le-ed to A8 rs by another e t.ne r-og re m , more exiles were

o o mt ng r ro n aritas including the wo ma n t rrt e nedad by the local astrologer as his wife. tie had two sons; Tuluf(father of ilassein) Tulan

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Third Descent

Soon after the honeymoon, which lasted per~aps a Varitaslan fortnight but an earthly half century, B. goes back to earth to Goblandia

He landed ::)U a sea now cove red by s snd , the s e a of Gobi, in the mi~t of the Gobi desert. rie proceeded up stream, that is he dId not ~ follow his inclination. Our psychological experiences follow an . inclined plane and run downwarda(G. haa excavated and inveatigated

in the Gobi Desert, ue used a special raft, that is an artificial d device for OPPOSing our inclinations (S.O~ T~is with ~articipation and e xpe r-t ne ne s t.Lcn are" going up stream on a raft" -

Me reaches the capital; the citizens there took opium, chewed poppy seeds. The custom had spread widely and the popUlation had deGener sted. The King was a great- great- grandson of a being who had been conscious and he had inherited certain traditions, like the modern intelligenzia. ~e tried to stop them by legislation; forbade it and issued fines. This aroused curi01ty and increased the habit

cf. prohIbition. "iYhBt 1s the poppy seed? What are Itlil effects?

I:1 made it impossible to see reality,

If made peoole invert values-

It made it impossible for people to take the~r own experience for a guide e.g. tD~M one way of Itfewhich had not wealth nor happineas

and yet would despise it and seek other things beca~se recommended

by others. Compare in our day the role of advertising and the number of things we do and obtain which yield us no satisfaction. Publicity We are dupable, open to that kind of suggestion. We chew a poppy seed

This begins in our infancy when we t~ke our parents and nurses serioul The obedient child is the foreordained victim of the big saleman.

Effect .. , continued: ~ple mistook Ln su Lt s for words of love ~nd wo r-d s of love for insults. If a person tells me a useful tonic truth , which helps my growth and I resent it; but if he tells me something flatteril though perhaps deleterious to me, I am his friend for life

O.'s story:"you are a weak minded liar; you are planning ~ublic careeJ Look out for yourself"

Thia mad e people mistake a crow for a peacock. How many people who pasa aSI celebritiea as peacocks, great names; and in private we fimd them to be crows. H.G. Wells when rather young fell in with Hinton's booka. These were filled with extrao~lnary ideas. ne was a good mathe~~iciBn. HeIlI put these ideas in story form but was ave~ ~ bad story teller and remained obscure. Bu~Wella developed Hinton s ideas in his " Ti!lle- -achine. Hinton died obscure. The value was in Hinton, the salesmanship in Wells. We require good advert1sing

allch as Wells' wrapping of Hinton's ideas. We want what others are using •

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S~ift answered a question as what was natural Intelligence as ""See ing -things in the bud"

.Lhe original phrase which G. used woes "Time is the Unique Subjective" That is the bud. Now, think about it. from th1s a whole chapter unfolds'

Ouspensky asked why different beings ~d d1fferent time-perceptio~ and G. said "think about it; time is breath. This is developed in Ou apen s ky" a forthcoming book

How many ofnua could take G.'s doctrine neat?

In Goblandia, 3. preac~e~~he sa~e mission 2E to 8acrlfice~

~e ~ent to ~ndia. T~e party se:tinG o:f fro~ Gobldndla to India

'-by caravan. Conpa r-s b Le to for-nlng a group for t he study of I-l1:1du p'1i 10 s o phy (An es sliOy by Be rtr:',ndfius s e 11 on t he Freudian me t hod of dream inter~ret8tlon could be applied to waking dream~) Hypn~p6~pte. the only distinction between waking and sleeping dream~. So~etimea

dream figures are visible for a moment after w skt ng , -,

In relation to Self-Con8clousnea~, our present waking ~tBte w~uld appear to be what our sleeping state now appears to u~ to be.

With thi~ in view we could interpret t'1e day at it~ end like a dream; but ~ust take ell ~otivo~ ~nto account, not merely ~exu81~

It would reveal the phy~ical n&ture of the beinS. ~ussell'& o6sayAccident~ which occur~; accidents in dream. Alao true to whst we enc~unter in "real life", equally subjective, ~e are deceived into thin~ing them objective but are the product of hypno-~ompic i~aginBt During a dream we think it real for ~e have no other criterion.

B. pas8e~ with ~otiv4Bted caravan from Goblandia which Wa~ doped

to India , in search of pearls. Suppose this was a dream, how would we interpret it?G. is describing an objective dream. B. joined a party whic~ was going to study Indian philosophy. They made a conscious effort to reah a state where they could find reality.

They passed over places of enormous elev~tion, Himalayas, and placas devoid o~ =ven the possibility of vegeta~on; Bufferad cold and hunge:

Mountains are an attempt to pass from one form of ldealism to reality. Can only describe great a Lt t t ud e s w Lt.h great aridity of expres~ion(O.'~ atte~pt to get content int~ two eastern ter~~

used by ~x '.~ueller. Died erir-out.e , i.e. g2ve up). Hard to make the passage but this party made it. Arrived at Indian philosophy and

G. now give~ his critique of it, a critique by a ~an who actually arrived and understood •. We have IT d no one to give a wostern report ~n Indian philosophy. G in his youth read M~:4e Blavatsky From the Uave& and -Jung Le s of Hindustan and Secret Doctrine. G. went and reDorted that nine out of ten of her references are not based on fir~t hand knowledge. This cost hi~ nine years.

This party~ot to India and dissolved the myth ~hat th:s was the land of wisdom. G. was the Dalai Lama's collector of dues for the mona stery and wa s ent it led to e n t.e revery monx s t.e r-y in Thl:bet

.t1 e d t s c ov e r-e d e xt.r-s o rd t ns r-y elevations, a bno r-ma L d ev e Lo pmerrt s , &0 called :rl85ical pow~rs; but did not find one universal intelliG~nce. Occult powers were developed but they differed only from western

g e m u se a in type ( scient ific , lite ra ry etc) 'l"hey were di ve r-s t ons from normal typ e

Ke arrived in ~ndia, the third center(like the three centers of civi11zation 1n us:Tikland1a, blood sacrifice, instinctive Goblandi8, poppy ~eed, publicity, e~tional, Ind1a, Buddhi~m , intellectual. cf. put Buddhism back earlier. Sinking of Atlantia

8000 to 4000 B. c. -Leca 1 tradit ton in Ind 1a says that Gauta ma ws s the ~eventh of 8 series. ~erhaps G means the first Buddhism.

Had already degenerated. Buddha had realized that all,huffianity liuffer f r-o rn a planeta ry d lsea s e , ca Tl ed it Kunde buffs (Buffa me an s "reflo cte lioe 11fe as it i~ ln water, upside down

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Buddha told certain t~th~, planetary di.turbence, D~ne~1~ of tho moon etc and our planet being left lop-sided. Bu~ the sinking of Atlanti~ the need for Kundebuffs Was gone. beings ~ere now born naturally but education iii ba s ed on Kundebu"'fa and keeps r'e pe a t Lng an education based on a stete of things which no longer exi.ts.

The Buddha said"I will show you a personal method by which you Cliin return to a natura 1 state and begin y cu r own education", on S.O. , Participation and experience in two forms.

1:- C nscious Effort, 2:- Voluntary ~uffering.

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He divided t~ese :1, conscious effort

~. a:- S.O., the "only waJ" b:- Participation

c:-Voluntary Suffering. t ht s is not pain" This '118istake bred the dervishe8~tc. I is suffering in rasisting

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a mechanical response caused by another person who is distasteful

It ia self- restraint in resisting inclination and forcing a contrary action. Thilil iil su nme d up in Jesus' re!IlBrk"Love your enemiea. Not actual pain ;but psychologic. If for instance you do not return a blow, be on guard that you have not merely liIu~p~essed resentment, humiliation, etc, which would take hynocritical forma '.!ust take action expressing this leve, t.hus converting a negative emotion into an active one

If you overcome these consequence. by these two meana, your own gre will take place, inevitably, like taking a couple of bricks off a plot where a seed is trying to sprout. If you try , directly to develope understanding and consciousness, you will fail.

Within one generation of Buddha's death his d1sciples had decided i would be eesier to be either alone , or with those who were also trying. They would found a monastery or institute. After groupd instructed by Buddha himself had passed away, these groupa p Lc kad out very inaccessible ~laces. Great heights and they attempted tg develope abnormally, Yogi powers. Thia was based on a misunderstand Those who ge to Yogi are on the way to Thibet.

B. finds that all that Buddha had taught has been 90 corr~pted that his most sincere followers were most sincerely ~istaken. This d0ctrine. originally concrete, objective, normal, had

be c o ne mons t z-ous

When YJU do so~ething wholly intellectual, wholly emotional, wholly instinctive, you are sacrificing the two centered being(the other two center&). Every great intellectual genius ahd become so by a blood ~acrifice of two centers. Blood sacrifice is the abnoraml development of one center, at the expense of. the other two, since animals are two- centered beings.

The doctrinea of Buddha are still extant 1n a form intelligible to those who knew the norm-

i:- Prana B. seized on thia 2:- K.B.

Beelzebub tried to recall to so~e of these dBraded Buddhists, the doctrine-of Prana. Thia ia the Life-Forco and in human beinga

ia .0bJective rea s on; in a n Lma Ls instinctive reason.

~. tricked them into thinking that every time they killed an animal they killed a cell wh1ch might be necessary to their~n development and underatand1ng. Thia 1s true in terms of center~ but is silly as they took it

The idea took root. B. returned by way ~f Thibet. pasged aoms Qona~teriea, the Self-Tsmers. They had realized that our mechanical reaction. were like beasta and underto~k to tame themgelvea, think ing they were f~llowing Buddha'a teaching.

But B. ~aya they had to keep nightly watch i~ front of a ri~.~f fire t. keep off wild beasts(only at night). When we ars c~nscioua the~e wild beaats of negative emotions d~ not appearibut when we are eff guard, they can destroy

On the way t~ Thibet----- Voluntary self-immurera in sentry boxes/

B. felt Pit~. No one who has not been human can feel pity at sight of something so admirable and so imbecilici tried to make up for lack 0f neighbora by ferocious treatment of self.

On the heights of effort no Life i8 possible. A distortion of Buddha doctrine of enduring manifestations of othera; for he hsd required them to stay where they were.

In lower triangle objects preaented In upper triangle ebjectli che se n . Three successive magneta; the three wishe. of fsiry talea, toward which one becomes positive. They must be sequential-i.e. if the first is money, the second must involve the use of monsy made, and the th~ird invGlve both~ the proceeding

The develo~ment of a positive' attitude toward the first, not as an~ end but as a means for carryill€ out the second

perhaps it will be necessary to go around thill series :s'e'veral time s . '

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e.g.G. wanted to find out certain knowledge~in possessionef some one 4000 mile. away. He took up a trade and earned money, in order to' make the journey, in order to 'get the kno!'ledge., Thiliparhap. r:>: . repeat, ds re, mi. When positive ~ttitude ia e s t.a bt.t sbed on thi. -'-.

section of the scale it i8 impossible n for any one else t. '-'.

present 8 - magnet which will attraot.Paa. through the e mpt Lne a a ef :'.'.

fa, then choose obJectivea, exercising Will, to attain Objective .

.: Re a son.. ~. .. . ~- .- ~-.. . - .. :. ~ .. . _ __,

. In do, re, mi, the arm should be to develope the profesaional attitdc :.<',,,': at. taini_r;g each GbJeotive with a minimum of time, eff<trt. waste of ""__. . atrengt~ete., eliminating non- essential. and keeping body in

._ ., proper health. The lower. triangle then becomesp. training t~ - .

. ,'~ ;" .. ' ," :: _~_~-;:_' ';<'::';~, ~! ~ _ •• ' •.•. - ._._ ... ~ .; .-. l-~_' •• ,~'_ •• ; .,.

Another etherogram. Louizas was on Mar. and getting ready to come t~ earth, making 8 a.rvey Qf earth. If he were _pending a year, 389 of ours, 1uiz8S is not yet come but msy be expected any t1me.

The earth haa been giving troubli, the Himalayas have been rising (making 9 corresponding depression elsewhere) and the rotundity of the planet was getting uneven, This affects other planet •• The height must be r~duced. ~ay be use the magnetic currents af the sun with possible quakes. B. went back to Mara to tell Luizas about the earth. he gotb interested in the canal. ~n ~ars. One half arid, the other water. Our brain, fronj.half in bloom; back half empty.

To get the back into communication with the front, maybe hall some thing to do with LulzBs plans.

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to undertake the much more difficult, strenuous and prolonged pull

in the upper triangle. Work in the upper triangle will.thuQ be based on work in the lower triangle.

Distinction between a nr-a c t.t ca I mystic and a theoretical mystie • The above was the result of asking 0.: "You have put the suggestion in ~y head that I should make ~~ney. In adopting this suggestion, sm I not Just succumbing to one ~ore magnet, or mecham!cal~ty aa if

I had fallen under the influence of a banker whG had stimulated me to go into banking to rna ke money?"

0.: It i8 a magnet; but the difference b~een making money for a purpose and ~klng it for a career 11es in the attitude; and i. revealed in the use ~ade of the money, after·it is ~btained.

For the young banking apprentice, the career is an end in itself

and the attitude is negative. If your ultimate aim lies rar beyond that however, the money making becomes merely a tool and the attitude is pOSitive

atricyly speaki ng i~

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i. e sensation, image emotion, action

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TIe have always d iagra rnme d a a follows; but

At present drop back fro~ intellect and emotion into Sex(emotionsl center re~t1mulates sex; intellectual restimulateQ emotional and thus emotional, Sex

Artists and uhilosoDhers are either suspended on top of T~~ird Venter withoui-root~ ,yearning for bridge , without being able~-to find it; consequently they beco~e pathological, sentimenta~ 1dealists of one for~ o~ another, anae~ic, cynical; or drop into em~ional and become

altruistic; or into Sex. 'I

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Food. Normal return to Sex ~ndicated by dotted line. ~eneral cur-r-ene of society to day to ma xe circle up and back to Sex and Food ..

LIne will be drawn «iiiix A-------B and all activity in this civili zation go on inSex and Food and unless artists and philosopher have sent down roots they will be cut off

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Fourth Descent

The second and third had been to ~top the ~acrifice of twa centers to a third. We now discuas the sacrifice of one center to two. Keep in mind the proper re~tion~hip of the cen~trs;

Positive, Passive, neutralizing

Male, Fellale, Child.

B. enjoyed c o np'l e t Lng hi~ observatory on ~~ rs; 1. e. the ~ethod by which the unz~own part of ~ur p~ychology msy be observed-, including "heavenly bodies" which a r-e the highe r e mot ional and t nt e llectua 1 centers

There was iii person on S2turn whose knowledge of the method, and observ at10n~ were superior. As if to present these 1deas to the western wotl· he went to Thlbet to f1nd 2 person who was per~anently 1n a different world? on d1fferent nlanet). The $ethod i8 so improved that the h~enlY bod Le s are a million times nearer; that t s the ~!ethod is 1i0

t rnpr oved that an ordinary being can understand it, though still

far from a realization. We can now, ourselves form a notion of objective reason, pl.ayLng roles, etc, w1thout being able to actualize these ideas Cf. addition of B::>ok) Gornahoor hahr hahr and B. observing the earth. B. carne to the earth to collect a number of apes

to take them to ~1I1ars for exneri:n~nt. .

While tellin Hassein, th1s,- a sannor hand~8 B a tablet, which when placed at his ear, enabled him to he3r a me3s~ge whi~h had been received by the ether.

B. sayfi "What a strange coincidence,. this meS8Glge from Marlii tells me there isa great to do about this nroblem on earth, in America

( referring to the Dayton trial) ~Dates do not agree in this conver astion since it is supposed to be in 21 and the Dayton trial was in26

.c.srth men have long been interested in apes, usually in one of two throries: either men are descended from anes or snes from men.

IN Tiklandia, 8000 B. C. it was that apes were dec e nd ed from men. NCJi', thanks t::> Darw~n that men from apes.Note by ~E.B. ThiS is an entire ~isstatellent. ~arwin held that apes and men were both descended from iii 50 'Il8 11 'l19 mma 1

But we should a pp Ly the saying: Cherchez la fe ""J:ne r r-om Mullah He sr EddifiIf there are any anomalies in N8tu~, examine the feminine principle "

After the sinking of Atlantis the races were scattered and often the sexea were segregated. In this condition,.men satisfied themselves with homosexuality; but a woman entered into relation~ with male animals and the results were apes. ·J.·he psychology of all apes :iii

that of femalei in an hysterical mJod. Physically they rese~ble their quadruped male ance&tor. They have the psyche of the female'and the body of a quadruped. G. is here referring to philosophers and pr1esta Take a critical attitude towrds the race and ask how these two classes of be i ng s came into beLng , .continue to maintain t.he mse Lve a and obtain repect

The philosopher iii a speculator who deals in words.

The priest does not even oeal in words but in liymbols, whose ~eaning he no longer know.

When ess6ti6e= has disappeared (Atlant1s sunk}, there r-e ma Lna

personality in which t.he bt.hr'e e centers are separated. Not one of us iii one being. ~at unification is buried; and at the liurface iii only

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separated centers.It ig possIble to be highly developed in one,

rudi!!lentary in another and aprophied in the third '~.

In the of the

hiliitory repest Fro~ the point of view important ones because the first two Positive, ~le, intellect

~e3ative, feawle, instinctive

~he emotional center is the child.

Now , the intellectual center d oe s not seek out the Inst1Etptivelmd

does not d e mand a body for the intellect. 'l'he penalty is ho.no aexua Lt t.y Titivstion: the attempt to make wo r-d s take the place of breeding.

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history of the planet ig our p~ych::>loglcal history. Development theory; the embryo before birth repeats physiologically the

of the species. G. says that after birth, we continue to>

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of breeding the positive and negative, the two the neutralizing force is a chIld of ~t~xtimMZ

Consider the volumesm of metaphysics, where the intellectual center is of itSelf t~ing to ~roduce. ~he ~o6itive al::>ne produces no c~ild. Intellectualism is words anQ ~~od~ces no e2fect on the

eno t Lo na L c e nt.ar-, '1'he Yogi type is seLt a bs t r-ac t ed

The instinctive center is left to find some positive element, and not finding it within itself. looked for it in external stimuli (Priests and all activity into which no trUe intellectual element entered) The outco~e is so~ethingJ since there is ~ positive and a negative. A certain ~ind of emotion, but not hu~n,

A pes are those active beings a~::>ngst us whose activity is directed not according to objective reason

B. takes some of these to Mars to see if it is possible to make human beings of them(Can we , who are active apes, when this method is promulgated become human?)

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He alights in the same ship on the Red Sea beaauee'near A~rica This was the first continent to be peopled by three centered being~~ after the sinking of Atlantis

Three ceuters C ••

Firtst: Center .at Africa Sec::>nd Egypt

Third South Africa

~e decided to spend so~ time in E&ypt, where his observatory(later a c o r r-upt.ed f'o r-m knowl\as a pyramid) was being built

He proceeded by the Red Sea, via Sinai (of the Moon) to Thebes and

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airo, within easy reach of airo was a campu~ with buildings ftevoted

to the'observing 0.1 the heavenly 'bod t e s -;0:;. .: .. ,._- , ..... : _ .. ~~~._;-:- v-, - .•• :,:.-_-::.~.--_;

~ - -_ - .:- ... - •• ::~. j~ •• •• ."- ~--:-'.:

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B.Jt'"before describing t_his we' -nua t tell something of what .had, -, ;d_<;. '._ :.

happened 1n &tlant~s_~~_d .. ~_-;' .. _ .' - _ .'. _'. -- ,_ - _;<~~~ :,:~~<> .. -;~~'-'.~_,~~._:

_ For',the' firs·t time. a public' ;sociiety 'had been formed to:d1s'c·over. the~5e;> ._.natura;,of man.' Whi·le :in Egyptj:'he'put himself ·into '8 certain ~state:t'e~~;:~

.-~,~.of med1,t'atioIi;'ln ~which_1tvil!s pO£Jsibleto 'read certain' t!_lough~_fqr~si'i .. left thera'by-previous' beings who"had attained 'acertain"'degreeor'::j'''"'~

;; object~ya .re a son, (This may throw some li§ht on cert~n phenomena .... :. ;'-:::;::~or ~u.toma!-ic __ wrlt.!ng. vls10!lS' et-c. E.G. Light on thPath":.which .•... •. ~fl~."WBS .. su~o~l'_;c~lly~.,wr.it:t~n •. _.a}"el. ~.ollinB showed this. book to Mmme •. ;~<:: .:::~_ ,Blava.ts"ky:~~·_.who .. ssidlt ,lIta s a transla~ionor. a book «t , which only ; -:c··:.l' .

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In At Lant t s , t.h e r-e was a c e z-t a t n being who had a t t a i n ed a power of rna klng records In "thought matter", a s I '1l1Sht mould c lay or \7rl te on oa oe r , T~ese would last oractlcclly as 10I12; as the s t mo e ohe r-e , Th8~e' were vislble to B •. ··e c ou Ld put hlmself Into a c e r-t.a in state of vision and beco~e fully a~are of the contents of this partlcular ized substance, in certain for~s which can be t3';Jped and read in c2rtain states. Tbus in Egypt, B. learned of t~e foundation o~the society of AtlantiS,

Eelcotasse one day realized he had made some bBd ~lunders and was s~ disgusted that he reviewed his past life, i~pDrtially. he found this incident no more stupid than all the others, though this time the consequences were worse than usual. How m3ny ti~es have - done things so foolish or stupid, that if found out w ou Ld have rL(r\_i.ed aO'Ilething dear. When one brings consequences it seems :!lore stupid because more vivid

There was no correspondence between what he had done end what he had Wished and thought. A contradiction between his ability to do and hi£ wishes and theories of what he was doiog. We a??ly this reasoning to others and can polnt out their folly. Belcotasae applied this reason! to h I ns e Lf and said"! must be an e s oe c La L fool. others cannot be as foolish as I for they all look so well\ balanced."

~e decioed to que2tion his friends, confessing his folly and ask them to conde~ him. But so disarming was his sincerity that t~e others confessed they Viere lef"0ing equally senseless lives·

He found a fe~ serio~s ones and formed a s0ciety ••

Ahaldan--- those who s e e x for en a t n and sense to existence, D r-e sen-c society IJoking for the cure of a radical insanity of our being in p,ossesslon of three centers, speaking different languagesJ

'the meaning and a t m of exf s t ence!", a society which ta xe s this ~iscovery as its aim. Eegin as a s~ll RrivBte group

begin to ~eet and confess and observe. ept diaries between meetings of obs9rvation

I:- undertook review of past life 2:- observation of current behaviour

3:- for~lation of results put before group for criticism

After some time decided they could do nothing about it unless they had access td so~e special knowledge. They divided into five groups for special search. Each individual ~st take all five to be co~ple1 l:-Observation outside their planet,i.e., outside physical body behaviour of other peoJle with the idea of cl&ssifying the~ according to type. Each of us knows hundreds of peo?le and have e~ough inform tion to set down. If we had done this seriously we would not ask "what are the types?" We would have a working know l edg e

2:-The second group was concerned with mathe~atics in its broadest sense. It has been suggested that thoug~ts vary in weight and in rapidity; feelings in intenSity; muscular movements in iNXBNX±~V stresses. Can you distinguish these weights, intenSities, stresses? This will be t nt roduc Lng measure into psychology. 'Jodern psychology is physiology. Investigating physiological changes, ap~lying vibrometers. But this is not psychological measurement, changes in psychological state. Who can discr~minate in himself between the weight of two thoughts. e.g., In one c ha pt e r G, says"Time is the fXXN~rx~fx~~x~eUnique Subjective". Contrast with two volumes of

A lexander on Time I Space etc Alexander says "Time is the father of Space" In the latter, 80 'Iluch is'Nx~~rxx~~dxaxxbeing i~plied 8S being understood before the sentence 1s understood, fanciful and yet has nothing to do with ~e. But G.ts phrase at at once greater

personal impact. "I" Thi t s similar

In Indian philosophy it is often aa Ld Tlme1s • s

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to G. 's phrase; but is slightly different because it is of different

weight . c·

Take e mo t Loris ; there 1s ~fa'Diliar eaying in Ame r-t c a "ram crazy about about it, whe!"e there is really but a moderate, degree of inte~t Those who have had genuine e~ot10ns do not thus use superlative expressions for mediocre feelings. When genuine emotions c omsct hey dr~p this use of 8N_e~latives. Even when speaking of the moat intense experiences et had, if they can imagine more intense experience, they wi I continue to use the c~mparaytive.

Distinction between stresses!can you tell the difference between

s e ve n and seven and a quarter;- a half pounds?

Third gr~up:obBervation of the perceptions and manifestatiQns of beings. Obssrve in our own manifestations and if possible in our percept ions. We rece i ve perceptions and y t e Ld ffi8p,iflta t ions

We receive at the uate of ten thousand per sec. lhaae undergo chal~ of vibration and issue 8sbehaviour. Like a threefold ~ll.

~eduction of behaviour to mechanical transfor'Dations of perceptions D~astic and radical. Perceptions are always rates of vibration and depends on the vibrations p~2sent in us, whether perceptions will change up or dQwn. If your vibrations happen t~ be low and in this state encQunter low vibrations, behaviour will bec~me still lower Your organism lowers the rate of vibration in atmosphere at large.

(see last week on Voluntary Suffering, an atte'Dpt ~o react nonmechanically, assuming 8 certain ability tJ cJntrol this mill) ~erceptions if run down, emerge 8S b6haviouri.e. potential perception for others of lower rates of vibrations.

It is possible in the long run by this tx~ means to determine the tone of each center. This gives collection 'f material for the next g r oup ,

Fourth Group

Physics and Chemistryi.e. observed c~nges produced in them by pas~

sase Jf ~erceptions. ~v2ryperception effects a change; it may

only disturb one or two neurons but to that extent we 9.re changed.

I didn't say that "7lanifes~aions had changed anything "no guilty act" Act is llerely nr-oduc t , Can be s t.o pped only by sQ1lething d one within organism,i.e., change of rates of vibration of the organism.

This can.~nly be dQne if the Qrganism is insulated, that is it can only be dJne thrJugh x~lxx~~x~xx~~xxx self- Qbeervation.

Act is m2rely reaction of perceptions as affected by the state of the organis~. Includes opinion{thought), feelings, physical rnove~ents. May' be _considered physically -or _chemically. ~We' speak of the "struggle within ·us. One force of .vibration encountering another force. We call 1 t e mba rra s sment, ·e_tc.'_·:~' _ -. .- .. --"

Fifth ·group_.:· Engaged_ in '8. study:- of those phenomena which occurred .t , wi thin themselves, owing m_erely ·to the fact that they had three >: .centers. e. g, ,while "r-e ad t ng new apape r , my lips move. When the inte~l~ , e e t.ua L center .w o r-ks I the Lnat.Lnc t t-ve tends to work t oo c r

Or, I observe a person in a ce~n state of feeling and though the perceptions Which caused the feeling are outside of ~ field of

perception, I tend to have analogous emotions .

This group studied exclusively human phenomena, human psychology. The Athaldans discovered however-that there was still further work

~~.};~, nece ssary .1116y had done, t~eir_.~~t ~_- .. ~;~c_,~-:::~~,~c::-:': .>. ;;_-- ..'. _

~,,~~_. They decided to .aend d eLeg at.e a .t.c. ,s~e if any more advanced students - ;;f_;'~'::::-Of thlsproblem ot the};r._csens~-:J..ss-~cC?~d':l?~::.~.~re e_l_~.~~?ere

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~hey sent ~~r8t tc t~E cELter cf Afric~.

AfricB is the substitute for Atl:::r.tis--- t::sot'o!lcl

ESypt ir-tellect

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.?etuY":1 to E. i -: EC-:=,t. ole stud ies their observatory to see if "they have any good technique- he had not thought of

The s e anc ient Egypt Lan s , de scendants of A l{ha Ld an s were se riously

at v.'Jr~{. They had a huge structure, five tubes pointing out and converging in one cha~ber with underground mirror, for~ing one i~age. Consider the five types of behaviour, cast into one co~posite i'1l8I3e. But the center of focussing was und e rg r-ound.

~Vhen B. returned to ldo rs , he put the center of f6cmss ing above ground, i.e. objective. ~akes focus as it were outside oneself. fgyptian in the ~lnd. In Egyptian mysteries the focus was inside. Ihe ~gyptian ~ethod only JOssi'ble with the in~elligenzia and developed,a special hierarchy of intelligence. But anyone can e~ploy B. 8 ~ethod. In ~gypt, it was never taught publicly.

Other buildings in this ~a~Dus; one had as its purpose the charting of winds and changing of climates. They knew how to affect we&ther i.e. psychologically, also externally; currents, winds observation of e~otional states; changing of moods, weather. You are in a low damp state. Can you c ha nge negative to p:ositive?

"iVhile the Egyptians were doing s otne t.h i ng PsyCholo§lcally, they were also affecting external changes. valled by Greeks '?.wsters of Dreams"

Deliberately i:nperfect copy of figure seen at Atlantis, when they discussed with KingAppolis in center of Akhaldian dall This figure had the head and bust of B virgin, connected with the main body bye a piece of a:nber; it had the legs of a lion, the body of a bull and the wings of an eagle. Thus there were faur parts, of which thre~ were connected; for a mbe r- insulates. Ol{idanoch of an organic kind which makes it l~possible to transmit the enrgy from three centers

to the fourth "

~e2ning: In order to recover our normal state, which had been render abnor~al, four things are necessary:

The laboriousness of the Bull, ability to continue working indefinit even blindly.

The legs of a lion; this labor ~ust be executed, with self-confidenc knowing every other being is unable to destroy it

_'.Vings: Bullish labor is not enough; wor:'{ must be carried on with asp1ration

head and breast stand for love; insulated to indicate that this love ~ust not be assocla~ed with the functions of the-three centers.

None of the intellectual, e~otional or instinctive experiences of the body a8 such. Breasts of the virgin indicate as yet no result

2 .ly potential. Virginity is potentiallty

he sa 11e symbol, t h ough changed wa s at the entrance to Thebes

The na ne in Atlantis was Conscience; in Egypt, the Sphinx, me+n Lng a question, an interrogation. In Egypt there were no wings; for the essence which had stimulated a s rd r-e t.Lon was now mt s s t ng

B. returns to Mars with some ~pes. ~e has to go to ~aturn to be godfather to a child born of ~ermaphrodite

On planets with satellites there are two sexes; the penultl:nate plan

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~6t differentiate energy into two sexes for satellites._On olanets without satellites there are either one se~or tnree: one, her~phrodit( three, three beings required. This is to say the hermaphrodite contain! two centers, positive and negative produce emotional. Tn three beings are the thre centers which produce the fourth.

How angels are produced: At birth they already have three bodies, e each subject to develo9ment but not as with us successive

On their ~lanet, three sexes. each specialize40ne of the three forCEs (of elctricity) but each ~a~truly a sexual berng. These three take~ rart rn a mystery ca Tl ed Lm'na c u La t.e Conception :a:Nixii:n:j:~xth

hen ea c h goes his own way a nd during period of c onc e pt t on ea ch thika only of the ~ssiah and of its particular conception. When the ~~raculous Birth draws near, the three draw together and beeo~e one being. Sventually from them e~e~ges an infant angel,

On earth only two sexes; the neutralizing force is rare and hard to c orne by, These two on eC>J'th produce" beings who develope physically fut only partially e~otionally and but potentially intellectually.

hey are born incom91ete and must work to obt2in this neutralizing force. fience Voluntary Suffering is local to this planet.

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~te of time of rational center, 1/7th of 1/7th shorter t~n the rate of ti~e of sense perception

make an experiemnt of restating in your own terms andpondering many of the frequent statelJents in the Book. ~eason will ~hen serve one of its functions. i.e. shortening the ti~e necessary for personal develooment, that is shorter than arriving by trial and error through the senses.

Fifth Descsbt

&by lon, the fith c o s mopo Lt t an center in the world. It was be tw e e n 3000 and 2000 B.e •

Tiklandia,Goblandia etc had all been of one nationality, provinCial. ~aby Ion was merropolitan. It was the acknowledged=metropolis of the Whole Dlanet; and to indicate its Dosition ~n the ~ast JeJule wrJte from right to lef~i. e, towards the-west, towards .Babylon. in t he '.'fest theytwrJte fro~ left to right. I~ north of ~abylon, fro~ top to bottom, if south fro'll botto:n tJ top. :'sssnt indicatiJn of historical position of ancestors

vause of the Fifth Descent. B, had noticed fro~ ers that the lensth of ~ens life was declining. It had be&n from seven to ten centuries. he could not tell the cause of this from ~3rs, so came to earth

to studyi-C ;

~ke effo:rt t o survey the whole species. Trace p.l!3t.qr_y and de2;eneratton of species. First opportunity to observe that C:~rta f ri centers were no longer three but one Lv e , Eabylon was the first' modern"center.--

Ideas were current th re of science, art, andreliglon that:_are still cur-r-errt , Until then the conception of science wa a based on the' development of normal potentia lities 'of normal _beings. ~ It had- been assumed that to develo~ the second and third bodies was one of the obligations of life. This was taken for granted just as education, marriage etc are-taken for~ranted_now. All conditl~ns were adapted

to this. A scientist from ~byloniatook advantage of c:>ndltions to

d eve lop ~()rm~?:~"lr'_ ~rt , literature, occupat ions , etc wer~subordinat e

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With Babylonian ti~es, int~itions aN~ potentialities waning techniques, accu~ulations of knowledge and facts substit~~ed. cf certain a n i na Ls and or-t mt t t ve Lnd Lv Ld Lua Ls , As intuitions wane 'Decmanical 'Deans were substituted; until we arrive at a "h l g h Ly developed rnode rn ac t e rrt Lat.!", who has no intuitions but an a na z t ng com-nand of

.ne c ha n Lc a 1 te6niq ue_ Science 1s bas~d on sense perceptions, a property of the- human ~ing as such eCO'Dpared with science based on accul1ulation of knowledge, and not thu fir§t hand sense perceptions, but by substituting technique,

In ~abylon, there was a congress of the new type of scientist, who had lost the sense of potentialities and thrown back on effort to discover

Should be able to see exa~le in elders; this exa'Dple gone, intuition were so lost that we are even in doubt when we hear them stated.

Let us assume t~em to include the develop'Dent of two othe~ bodies. Which of us can il1agine that we will in this life develope emotional and intellectual potentialities, that we will be co ne Platos or

Hypatias, which in pre-fi'abylonian ti:nes were normal. ____

When we 1 J'Jk at trees. e. g. we see t he m a S 'nate ria 1 for our use :he pre babylonian scientist recognized their utilitarian use but also saw.

Intuition as the latent potenti8ities in each individual and intuition as a function of each living being.

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In dealing with an Lrna Ls , e.g. the first intuition that the'y f:1lfill their functions in the c o s nt c scheme, as we fulf'ill ours. llIlan is only entitled to ma~e use of animals inso far as he is fulfilling his own function, i.e. development of' rea~on

If he is using them only for his appetites or comforts, he 1s missing one of' the natural values.

In this decline fro:n intuition to rationalism ca:ne the idea od th9~ G9clina of reli§ions; and we owe Babylon for the origin of the idea of "good" and ev t L", The world is an e no r-aoue apparatus for the_

t r-ans r o r-ni ng of eners::! up and down , with a ba lance rna inta ined by reciprocal feeding of rates of vibration "Abao Lut.e Good" w ou Ld be the ~9intenance of this equilibriu~. The idea of "evil" was intro duced when the individual identified h~mself with the wh'Jle process.

Now what s ppaa r-s a digression: d i s tr t but.t on of races. After sinking of At La rrt is.

Tiklandia

Goblandia

India:

About 5000 B. C. , due to the third cosmic 'misf'ortune, that befell -th1s· planet and cant inued for severa I yea rs, there. were winds -of such ,:.:,. >: ,,~ - intensity that the "mourrt e Ln ~pea_klJ_'were abraded and sand at.o r-ms '0 ~ . followed.Tiklandia 'and Goblandia- were obliterated.-.j. " .. '.: ...

There -La 'cur-eerrt no ?la.1isible "e xp Laria t Lon 9f how so la rge ,.8 pa rt of ~ I the 'earth's 'surface should' De "c ove r-ed withsand~- It -lies ·in the Go bd. :.!

-.: ~'':'-'for-a depth-of thirty··o1'.forty: feet.G.:"-:-says these-sand storms 'were '.~ p caused by the Moon, because the atmosphere of the Moon surcharged

- with e1Ctricalele~ents received py the earth fell ~o a sort of

- friction with t.he' earth "~". ~ .. ,.. -., 'r-:.--

. .:~ Of the pe op'Le" ot: qoblandla ona:_p~rt . went east_; and Settled in China' ':'':~~: .,(old histories_,'or-China ·.say~it~.waB·settled_rrom the west).- :.- ~.,,~--:- "'-

c:;;~;~.;._ Opa:_~a_~_ w.~_n~~:wE3.s~:_~B~d.~-,se_tt_f~~",~_~ox:?~e)_?ne_~ ~rt.. So.~th to. ~ersi~. =i.r:

3-,abylonia be c a ne t he c e nt.e r under the influence of t ne Akhald:::,ns W~1J 'TIade a w o r-Ld c s o i t a I out of the city, a univer:::it,:,- c e nt.e r T~e subjects of esoecial interest t::l the2e Akh&ldans:

1:- Physical s c Le nc e s 8S we know t ne m. G. says that all we know about e I'c t r-t c t t.y was :·:no'.lin t ne n , They a t ne d at the accumulation of fac.ta under the illusion that the c:J'!Cplexity of the existing civilization produced 8 change in ~sycho logy, But on the contrary, to the extent one is forced to depend on external, force, technique, help etc

we 'TIe a sure only weakness

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nowing and oing were developed at the expense of Being ". The i~

au~uration of t he 'c!odern period.

2: Uorality In absence of intuition of world ~ur90se, they were forced to collect data and give the subject interpretation.

What world view have I? Pure Chance? Government by an all wise and benevolent being? Do I depend ona ~indly providence? Or do¢ I view the Cos~oa as a school where I am set to acquire a certain understand ing?Or as a penal institution? Or as a gymnasium (as S011e Hindus) to acquire certain Dowers?

Set down your conception of Life. ACCidentally arrived at. One of a few. Interrogate yourself.

Find that however s~bjective and p9rticula~ heard in one of the stories heard t n c h i.L'Ih ood , ~+ is not an orislnel but. a derived conception. Ur17inality end generation of the truth disclaimed; yet all our thinking and lives colored by this broad concept.

But in Greece,~~Italy,in Modern 1ime also we are continuing to

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think the thoughts which were for~lated in &bylon.

One of the Scientists, Hamalinadlan read a paper on the Instability of Human Re a son "Skeptic ism of t 1e t nst.r-ume nt ", A ssumlng the mi.nd has been d~veloped in eV::llution, in response to needs, just as the. hand has. ~ence the brain has been developed only for the pur-pone '. ~f survival and cannot be of value for the dicovery of tr~th as such~

Second line of a rgu ne nt t We !.J10IT the 'Jri;i!1 of:)Ur dialectics.Each of us has seen only a s~811 part of natural phenoillena, so s11ell that ~e have no ground for prssins jud~ment on the u~ol~

Third wine of Attack: Kant. A species of logical introspection; our str.ucture presupposes cert2in(ch8racterlstics,)concepts of ti~e and space over which we have no control and w~ich limit. Xet each one attaches some importance to personal judgment

a~lindian was a crack scientist; had gone to all the schools including Egypt. "making thought material"

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In ~ncient Egypt as in modern ndia, the highest Yog~ c~~Eses

ma t e r'La Lf z.ed thought. This merely ma ke s c Le e r-e r- the e ub j ec t.Lve nature of thought. HamegLindian could see thought; but this was

no help i!1 solving the problem:Does Man survive Death? Hamalindean ad:nitted that i9spite of the a bund a nc e of Le a r n Lng , he knew nothing_o by personal e xpe'r-Le nne about the Soul, though he had. written books. __ on the su~ject- which his colleegues hed ~emired. ThiS is our st~t~.-Does c ny one Kl,;CV; tt.E't rr;2l: hE'S E 8::'1..:.1 c r its f'c t e ~

[ia:nalindean invites any one who has a rne t.hod .he ::as=;lDtt tried

to tell him and he will try it , ~o offers. namallnde2n retired 2nd became ~ far~er (relEted to first food)

O. reads: Pan-scientific congress to settle the question, is there a soul. The Tm:er of ~abel. This is the hope that by putting

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together all theories, he might c o nbt ne t he m and build a structure which 'NC)'Jld r-e a c h --eaven. Ha ms Lf nd e e n be g an by the e na Ly a i s of the of the train. u:::'i~'in of our o o i m on a , our l:r;Dre~slons • .AU31ycio &f Analysis of c ur-r-e rrt i)ehEviouisffi • As he s po ke his vo i c e be g a n

-to srow, moved ,,·tt:'":. rS2:'izatl'JD of what he W8S saying.

he ad~its that in one mood he could prove that ~en were just bodies and in an~t!1er that they Were just minds. ~et he was not a :ned10cre scientist but, had completed the highest studies. During this congress he hod f0110l:"eo c;; 11 the c o nf' Lj c t Lng theories end had <-,sreed in-v;ardly v; 1 th ~:!_~,

TOREr built o~ t~eories, ell plausible, yet of various con~i5te~cieE 8nd ~UEt collr~~e. Q[~rlinde2~ left t~em. ne is the tyoe of the CiEil""!._us~-:::-:ed ;':0('E:~'2: eciel'_-:~2t '::'-:c:::e rE:-:-SCr. ::'ci:-_£ C.':::E:.0 ,)~1 sensations is insufficient for any eSEential conclusi:)ns~

reuse ond dlsti~~uish this!

Eeing

n.nowing

Doin~. the t!1ree broadest types.

The type of 1geing is the rarest; and the d eje ne r-a t Lon of the rtt::ecles is ~easured by t!1e decrease in this type

~very one here is in the ~irst Ln s ta nce a be ing. "iVe 8 re d 1 st Lngu i shd fr81l t.he 8 n t ma 1. This doe s not mean the t we £: re super t o r but differentiates between Eni~l ~nd human ~eing

(:;an you distinguish, not instinctively. not emotionally. not behaviouri stici:a lly ? Then wha t is t.h e d Lf'f'e .l'ence?~ We can only say it is self-consciousness. ~W2reness of the stcte of ~e~ng.

It is po e s Lb'l e for us to c La s s Lf'y ourselves in the order of beings. Compa r-Ls on of orders. I CEL ci~tincuisl: -uetl:-eel-_ 8' s ta t e cf ~';&ll tc~r.[ [ree E' s t.rte c: i~l t e Lng , I can me a su r'e t.he degree in '\7~ich

c e r-t e i n f'a cu Lt Le e 2Y'e ::1:)::"": 2~[,::';> :':1 ~';8~1 -:::;(:i:q: ~hc:rl iL ill ~E:nt; Suppose for the ~0ns:J.t thSI'E ~-;Sl'~ r,o KXXXi..ixg e xt.e rv.aL ·,:orlc..

Slose your eyes end trj" t.o be tI!s:"el;y c cn s c t ou s o f y ou r-ae Lf',

a n you d1 stlngui sh .c ha ng e s t s !:.ing pla ce ~n your s t a te (psychic) -Can you dlstinguis!1 three ~Ein~forms of states: thin~ing. feeling xoving(~otor activity)?

'::"ach of these is susceptible of many su'b= s t s t.e a Collect ns~es of emotional and:~tellectuEl eteteE

Intellectual: c~ncentr8tion, attention. instinct, • PAin? Li5htne8~ !nterrog~te 'y'Jur.sE;lf;t~e :)(:G1:"!.n~:lC 0:- tec::..:~i(~ue c c Le nc e s nd Art of ~eing. Aware of psychic 3t~teE eS thGj OCCU7.

fT"'r1re t L'Lus t r-e t Lor.: ~Y' er how -ro"'''''y v"''''''iet'ec'i ~, ---_., ~ ~ "~.,,~.-

lc-- cL .1!. J dJ.~ , _ ,., . ...!.C'J.J. co ..... -.J_ _ c·:.. "!': __ •• ;' c1;;_ :::: __ ,-LI.:;;::.

of r~d: ineigLEtlon, rage, srleen. vexation etc

::=':o!Ile OLe t n our-sua t of :..r..!!cnleClg<3 -;;c,;..;lcj '0TOCeGG "c. l'.;o1' s cn , ':'c' o:eG cr; reading wouid be able to d8flne. ~iEht-say"indi~natlon 1s anger ~~.;; :=u·.,.....,.....,ioe" ...... -!-"ou..;. -::'1--- ""'e-~'"'o'" 1 kr.ow Ledrz e

- _1·..... _ ~:;1- -.J \, ~ ..... 1 - t.: -.1 ~~I _ - ...... 0 - .. It c'

Some one pur-au t.ng .Deir:g might be able t.o distinguish e had e s in h t ms e Lf w i t nout perhaps bEil::£:: 821e to dEfine them in current

t e l'!r.S •

Difference be twe e n knowl~e 2nd E,~;_Elysis of w o rd s a nd ur.c e r-s t.and Lng of s e Lf ,

Ea bylon instituted word r-e a o n Lng and put en end to the puzf'sul t

of 2eing. Substitution of Verbal thought for tYalned intuition.

Wp c o ne Ln t o the w o r Ld educable :enc s r-e corrupted by words.

~~nowledge is not the outco:ne of· Experience but of crysta llized concepts. POSSibility of the se~discovery of a means, with a serieE of exercises and arriving at a greater self-understanding.

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We are each of us in Hamal ndean. Suppose science succeeds.; the illus!o.

of Ha rpa Lf nd e an 21'.'AltsiX it. How shall we start?

Method : First Step-- ~hysic21 ~GhBVio~~

Second s t e p ; -- O'be e r-va t.Lon of psychic states as s uc h

a t.t.e nt ~c:~ o: ..... -:h[;;;:CGE. :'_'ntil now bo t h Lng -on

t.h i s ha s be e n :=::,1<1, 'ce c aue e e xt.e r-na L be hs v Lcu r is 8 La ng ue ge y,it~l t~:ree ~efi!-:!in(!8. 'Three ce~ters EiTultaneouely express t~BmE€lves

COr:.EEcut1vE and 1ncr62::1::e:ly sut t l.e r-e s d Lng trlr,g to lie;ht.

(Later on in c orine c t Lon ~-.-:t~: sur dr;:":T:c we ;,111 see part of training in "acting"). At present all this t e pr ema t.ur'e ":.::ut now givine teo distinct Etbtes.

Interrogation base-d on words, a useful e~perim€r:.t.

1Crality in B&bylon: t.w o schools: Dualist or Idealist, iJote':1ialist of' Atheist

The first a s eurned the ~i s t.enc e J:.:, t he wor-Ld of two princ iple s: Good and ad. w- find iqourselves tendency to classify things thus, not only' in relation to ovrrselves but absolutely. Thateach species shOuld so clEEsify things relEtlve1~i.e., in relation to its own purposes 1s na tur-a L • ItGood for me", conducive to 'JJY pur-co s e , This ~udgmelJt 1£ nur-e Lv "Y'elFtive c·: ..... c 1:=:··~·1'c·:~ r:·: ":..:.,1[.::::::_': ·~r t~--,-6 :·[.j&ct ltEelf. If I say Y'g;od in t t se Lr " I ~'!l ap-;Jlylng~'y pe r-s oria L judg ne nt w:-.:.ic:--,- ~8S ~ot~-_1.:-..g et:-:..1C21 1: .; :t(instrum0ntal) , with c o s m c meaning. 'Ihis double me a n Lng of the ~or0 "good" is the cause of most of our confusion

?his f's Ls e attribution of ne r-soris L to c.oEolute vs Lue s , tr e CEll mor2'ltv' fl tJ·-·~Vt··1sc-i~""'O~·~o·- 0';- -<-",,' ... ~ . .::t-'''ct''i C'T€cfir:.a pe r-aona L

- - ... J . ~ .... -- ... (~ __ L-t,_ I. - -- - \.------ -- ~ - - -., ~.t. - -Co. ~_--=- __

There is nothing in the world TIhlch is universally good o~ bad , In Bpi te of the fact that t h' s is c Le ar , none of us c a n r-e ~rc; in fro'n

liN d ,. _ h 1 t

uEing eOo end evil and feeling t~8t we ave s~~e c_~im 0 ~ss

jucf;Jlent, t':1Dn1-::s to E':-, ecuc('~i:;~',[::, cy r t e m "'!licn orir:in::ted in -E:cylonian ds y s , :'llo~~lity 1:'1&:2 i::O'tlt'-A-:Gr. :~~llc,-;-:':~( the c e c sdaac e of t he lEt';iti'J~_,)"f' Go"(}

':'"he no n-ono r-a L v t.ew we. 2 held ir:. -=:8 -cyl::mian d ay s by c: (5~:- .ip who were mechanicians.

::::verything in t";.e world in t: se:1ies of C["US8::: ~.<-~:C!1. p::'or;uce e f'f'e c t s 1'.''::ic:-_ 1.:', tU1":-::' ::',';CC't ,",.r·~s=c [T;G ;'l·OCUC'E; e f'f'e c ts , It is a circular

c ha nge w i.tnou t :nen'-ling. SpecllIE t 10n 8 s to oric;ins s.nd e nd E i "possible" The flrst school had turned orG~nic gJod and bad into ethical good

800 evil

J.he second s c hoo I c e '!le to the conclusion t:'l['t. there we. s no

psychology and no being •• The price that will be paid by modern technical psychalogy(see Watson) No psyche. I~ the Whole preoccupatiJn is Vi 1 th e xt e :T .. S 1 be h9 viour. Subt Le r physiology. Lose c e ns e o~ expe r icr.CE ot~-ltl' :~:.':-L Sel~~J':::. If ps ych i c [.ct:..-V":.:y 1::: C:::'::·<.;ctEG. cutin:rd.

c orrt j nur L'ly ::'6- u:'::':.:rtc cc·nclu:::i::L", ::'-:"1 -.:JE .:~:..::t ,:.::--'-::..L_~ _'E..c:'

~q ... ic 1£ 'bE£E.{ OT.i. i!'.:p:r€E[ioJ.£, i: \.E cc:lt.ct :,) :''J_)"_''3g9!.:U9 ~):O t~3 P9J~~3, 1)3i~ 71:"1 ~)~~31 J~ ~) ~:311cate the non exisJstence a of the psyche. We cannot reason about the psyche ';lith a being 311 of whose i4)reesiona are phys!oloSic?l.

~tson s~id: B~ur theory cannot interest me because it is based on fpcta which are not of my experience. I understand you to say: collect

the racta .

We cannot talk yet,can only gQ, dQ_. Collection of facts begins to give ground for new judg ne nt., A half{'century after Ha:nalindean_,came 8t AshiatisheiemBsh. Ha~lindean was the :nost highly intellectual scientist of his day.

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Be f'o r-e considering Ashia- mus t go t.hr-ough the steps of v t ev.Lng the human species objectively

~ach of us is the product of a long biological history; and also fro:n t~e moment of conc~ption; this biological heredity becomes subject to variations due to the particular time in the civilization in which we find ~urselves

If the e nv t r-pnmerit is d iscoura :sing to no ama ~'bioIOgiCa 1 purpose, hostility. I! favorable, sociological mBte~ials will aid bioloeival d eve Lo pmerrt

In this cvitique , there are certain implications; one of these is the conception of a normal_hurnan being. It is im;Jossible to arrive at this by taking merely the average of individuals. The sDecies

in process of degeneration may offer an average but ceases ofte~n to be noz-ma L, This disti~tion between aveY'age and norrnal is very important. This book defines the normal; and needs to be long

pond e r-edk before being grasped. G. often said to O. "What I am saying now, you will undeY'stand perhaps in a year or two years" Altho the statement.was clear.

A being, irrespective of sex, who at the age of about twenty one begins to find quite naturally in himstlf the development of that atate of consciousness which we call self-consciousness. ··e becomes aware of his body in the sense of being psycho logically in possession of it. This happens normally and is accompanied by devotion to

certain interests. Employment of means.

At the age of about thirty, another crisis in which he begins to become conscious of the world in which he lives; not merely this planet but other planets and his relation to the:n. This varies in individuals but the character of the stage is the same. Aware of total life ~urpo8e, function, etc. At first just sensing them.

No r na L three centered beings on other planets. On this planet , no phases, turning points after age of planetary majority. After this dependent on external t npr-e e s t ona r-e ce t aved up to"" this time. More or lesQ chaotic, unfolding in the p;sslb~lities of eRerienne laid up.

B.~s first effort to undeT'stand why this state. ne reviewed the

history of the planet , as it is useful for us to r-e v I ew the history of our individual lives. ~ f~und a catastrophe and split; eaoh individual r3peatlil this planetary accident.The results are Serious

but not fatal. The Moon and A nulios remained within the ~.ravitational field of the planet. This split is not ineradicable. It is possible

to develope nor~ally if only our sociological inertia which we call tradition had adapted itself •.

Kundebuffa is vestigial but tradition continues it. This 60ciologi~1 tradition must eventually be overc)me and seen through as a condition of normal development, It is impossible to develope through sociological ideas; it is not a question of eclecticism among the knowledges we have acquired. All this knowledge is useless in the absence of the development of e~sence, the biological germ.

This is the origin of the insistence on "being born again", not spiritually or occultly but be returning to the biological state

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before we were subject to sociology. ence the value of rev~iewing

life by pictures. I ... developes the center of o bae r-vs t Lon; - 'and "I" becomes something, as th~ panora~ of the metamorphosis of its own body passes bePtfre it. Ie- also leads to see~n the layers or cl3}otings and the transparence of the layers. The sociological attainments do not drop off. One sees the essential ~eactions due to p~riod, place

etc. .

CO!Ilparing ourselves with a conscious being,aware of function ask the

question which Ashia--- asked him&f._ • 4tA.1\. .J

He appeared in Babylon, shortly after Hama~~-. H. an intellectual aad analyzed mind. I~pressions are accidentally received. Are they sufficj for any objective judgment.

He decided there was no salv9tion in cultivating the mind; and went outto grow food i.e., to collect impreSSions, which no one could give him. ~e had abandoned reason and self-analysis , the ordinary sense of w or-d s and he was thrown back on the a t np l,e pastoral task of taking i~pressions of his own physical behaviour.

Ashia---, perhaps taking advantage of the wave pf intellectual skep ticism and diSilausionment; no solution of essential questions by gathering daea. e decided that and emotional awakening was needed but for the intelligenzia an e~tional appeal on the instinctive center is not sufficient; it must come over an idea, from beyond

reason. ~ence G. speaks ~f Objective Reason' ~

Ashia--- s~oke of ODjective Conscience

He began by questio~ing his own competence to undertake a reform ~ealizing that he also had been subjectively determined

We st out to make the coating of education transparent. In a state

of o~Jectivity he began to formulate the means to carry out his mission; and left a documant for a line of initiates, of whom to

day in Cntral Asia(Psychological as well as geographical essence) "

a few !Ilembers re~in. (Asia, essence; Europe, personality) # The steps he took; Legomonism transmitted, occult doctrine, or~ginall fully forrulated and transmitted by human means-

Title of the Document "The terror of the Situation". Suppose it is true that all of us are abnormal, that we have never seen and never shall see a normal human being on this planet. Suppose this species is degenerating and that we can be but dl~y aware of this; that we as species and as individuals are being carried inevitably down the scale of evolution. Consider efforts by Ashia~, B~dha, Egyptian

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civilization, etc. any atte~ts and all have failed.

Our stakes on As hia---'s efforts. The situation inspired him. as we know. This may give us an understanding of the intenSity with which

Ashiaiii went at it : .

o wishes he had the music which accompanies this section; this has __ -.:';

the same ideas e mo t t ona L'Ly realized 8S intellectually realized in _

The Book : : '".

His meditation. he began with the following prayer:i.e., he put

him~f i9a definite emotional a t.t t-t.ude , as pr-e c Lae as the phy~~_~!ll ..

or posture, an arrangement or emotiona

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"In the name of the c au se of my arising" , used instead of being born i.~. , we exist sensibly as a result of coating ourselves •.. cf.el~troly~ "I" am always; pe r-t od t c a t Iy c o ne s t o a manifestation. J.Thank whatever powers that "I" has it; that we 11~i as well BS are. My aim shall always be to be just toward everyt_ ing already coated and towards all originationQ of those existences ~till, to be. To ~e, a trifling particle of the all-great Essence, it was c o nma nd ed to be coated ·-with

a planetary body of the planet Earth. (And help men free themselves from the effectQ Qf Kundabuffa. ~reviou8 messengers had taken one of the~ three functions(Faith, Hope and Love) of three centered beings AQhia-- says that these three functions are natural to three centered beings. Resident in t~he essence of mEn as such.

A t first he t.h ought ton use one of the se .At seventeen he began to prepare his planetary body in order to be durtng the rest of his life impartialG. attaches importance to striving for impartiality.

In Babylon he ·observed the effect of SOCiological conditions on beings and began to doubt the possibility of using anyone of these three functions. Had ~nticipated the failure of Christianity, which assumes in us enough% essential Faith, Hope and Love, ~~~xpr~~~rt~~ X~~~~Nf1ax~2x~xtxxiixam on which to bas~ a religion. Observed

his intellectual contemporaries. Not enough baith., Hope and Love.

The properties of Kundebuffa so crystallized that their education became a substitute for their being.

~e decided to bring this planetary body to a state of~emptiness of impressions received in this life. Attempt to think of consciousneas blank of content but vivid. Only in this state would he begin to choose a method. A cended the mQuntain of concentration, Forty days and nights and ano~her forty days, and neither ate nor drank.

Then reviewed and analyzed all the phases of experience through which he had passed. Became merely an active experiencer. For next forty days and nights on his knees and to maintain his relatign with his ~ planetary body, every half hour plucked out two hs irs. Vsual exez-c t ae a of concentration cause sep8ration of certain body, whicn leads him

to think he leaves his planetary body. To remind himself that he is incarnated in a physical body. After these three periods he was free

from physical End emotional associations·

hen he considered how to Be more in order to carry out his mission. Development of Being as such. To know more is not to be more; to

do more is no t to be more. J:

It became clear to him it was already too late to use aith, Hope and Love; these functions were degenerate. Probably due to-the fact that

when Kundebuffa was removed the taste for ------ ------ so strong

They have Faith, Hope and Love, but how do they love and hope and - im what iethe nature of their Faith?

They have Faith but not independent arising from their :own nature;

it flows from other functions formed in them from infancy, with the result that they believe in what happens tohBve been presented by': impressions received. No essence centers •• POSSible to . induce in them _;. ~aith; k«~~in things of which they have no experience. Beliefs superimposed, chiefly on tickling of·weaknesses

Love:Differeneces in descriptions of ten different persons; but none would describe genuine Love

l:-functionQ to serve as mainspring for desire for perfection and ~ rest from labors for perfection.

2:- for sensations of bliss 1n the intervals which follow rest and effort

4:- for mutual poss1b1e a1d1nstriving to overcome the effects of kundebuffa

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Now one loves because others give encouragement or sti~ulus or praise; or because features resemble one for whom he ha-s a phj a t ca I polarity. Instead become crystallized.

Hope worse than the others, in a mangled state adapted·to tpe

we)mess of the psyche, consequently more and more crystallize~ and cannot get real ~alth, Hope, Love. The artificial hope is a~ys hoping for sometning :unreal, a paralysis of those functiong by whicb they might overcome the pr-o re r-t.Le a of KUndebuffa

The rsult is a nervous illness called Tomorrow. This afflicts those who by chance learn of the prsence of undesirable features and the efforts necessary. They always imagine they will be better able tomorrow.

lie returns to the ~untain and looks r or ot.he r- means. Is there any thin in Ug worth appealing to?Resson is ineffective b~use we flow into subjective mOKlds • No use preaching sanity to madmen; a mere presentation of a new truth in reasonable form is not enough.

In this chapter ia also a critique of the emotions. Not only our ideas, our sincerity, our falth, hope and love, our emotions Which

we think more profound are here questioned.

Then what is there still in eSSBBce which is not acquired nor corrupted? Our subconscious product of a few real irnpressiona

~e discovers a fourth sacred function: objective conscience, still

in its primordial state because never used in ordi~ary life and henve not corrupted. ~e devoted hi~self to the development of conditions for a few who would aid him to rediscover and develop this function. Attempt to discover analogy in us with wh4tlt he me/Ws b~ Objective Conscience(by function he means, psychological activity) e.g. an occasional sense that there must be some meaning to Life and that happiness is not 8 sufficient explanation; "sense of sin" but not

in conventional sense, a curiosity with a sense of guilt, a dim \' sense of having a purpose. Ecstacy, delight etc tinged with

sadness. But no conscious external appeal can be made since the conscieDs~ and even the subconscious listens through three fold corrupted channels. ~nce the individual must do something in

strange conditions. Self-observation with self-review.D~aw out from the subconscious and put into the conscious, the v~ice of Objective Conscience.

B. adds that during his sixth descent(1900-17) he looks for traces of Ashia's brotherhood. Found only one tablet with sentence erected in the city of Babylonia. Texts; reminders. One of these is the treasure of a br-o t.he rho od in central A ia (Asia is our substitute for Essence)These sentences of Fai~h, Hope and Love

1: - Faith with reason is Freedom; fai'th based on undertanding the -_::;

reasons why'

2:- Emotional:Faith is weakness _

3:":" Instinctive: Faith ·1.s stupidity.:-. .

4: ... Love with reason evo ke s "the· same in ~respo~se( emotional state : .. ) . with reason for being Ln :lo";e)::.) .

5: ... Emotional love invariably "evo ke Iii its oppo s Lt.e '.«

6: - Phy"aicallove depends merely on the accidents' of type and polarity

7:- Hope, a reasonable aspiration, with reason is strength 8:-Em~ional Hope is slaver,y

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9:-Instinctive Hope is disease.

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Aahia-'a effort from G.'s point of view is the most intellifent effort made by a human being at world reform.

He began by preparing himself; and concluded that all his ideai Qpinions etc were conditioned

~e made a review of his past life and emptied himself of all accidental impressions. Until then he could have no objective view of different methods ..... e c s ne to",native essential judg~ent which ha d not been conditioned towards aith, Hope and Love. pe found a native human qua Ii ty not dependent on cha nces of env t r-onmerit s • It .. wa i not needful to use a special vocabulary of people appealed to. ~ looked for something as fixed in the species as the nature of a lion or

a worf is fixed. ~e na'Iled this Objective Conscience and set about finding a number of pe~~le in whom this Objective Conscience was nearer the surface than in most. He chose thirty six, mostly from monasteries in the neighborhood. tie does not mean buildings but independent th1nkers, capable of thinking against current sociologica 1 trends. Every independent thinker "lives ina monastery~

he tau~ht CJs~ic truths, not yet truths to the thirty six

A:- Ideal pattern of the notentialities of man; the relation betweeen man and the COS110S. Octave and semi-tone as diffi:--ulty, presented

as theories.

B:- Then he directed their psychological effort so as to increase their awareneas(taught the method of 5.0. )

C:- Taught them so as t~ persude and convince one hundred others •

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two requirements : 1:- Self- understanding; 2:- Ability to nersllae

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and convince others.

He called these thirty six, priests. These persuaded and convinced

one hundred so that each of these could pe r-auad e and convince 100 others. "sons" and "grandsons" who could persude others, initiates. 5000 to 6000 B.C. beginning of priests and initiates. Self- perpetuatil

Since Babylon was the me t.r-o c o'l.La of the world, all Lnt.e L'Le c t.ua La '.'

were aoon within range and 1n a decade all were familiar with the· concept of O~jective Conscience; and it became a universally accepted standard of value a~Jng intellectuals.

For about three hundred years the civilization built on this prospe~ The political state, racial prejudic e etc disappeared; art, science etc underwent change and w.ere related to the standard of Objective Conscience. During this period of three hundred years was something approximating the Golden Age, with works of an international

character with universal values. This was ended by a counter revolutiol whose leader was Lentro hamox(Lenin- Trotzky; ilamox being Egyptina

and serving to give a mystical connotation with political significance:

F~rm of government that eventuated from thispropagandl$ of Ash!~and how this government was destroyed by ~entrohamox

Parallel between sociological story and individual application. IN each of us there is an Ash1a! and a Lentrohamox comparable to these If epic motives" in the sociolog1cal story.

Appeals to Faith, Hope and Love made to us to day, have already a tone of sentimenta11ty. A n appeal ~de with the~e for a base w03ld ·bring out a little revulSion. We would say ~this 1s not logiCa~i.e. we are intellectually on guard against it as a result

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of education. Same as Babylonians. We are equally clvllized and equally corrupt, demanding intellectual proof.

Yet Ashlat had before himU the example of the world's grCtest dialect ician and subtle rea8~ner end logician in Buddha. Acknowledged among fiindus as the greatest. Yet Buddha msde himself 80 mi8underst~od

that within a generation of his death his own disciples misinter~reted him. ~? Decause our reason is 8S condltioned a a 0ilr e mo t j on s , '

What ls 'rati~nal " is determined by our education. ence a fair skepticism includes reason.

Ashia! realized the way reformers before him had railed and that so would eve~one after him who appealed to Faith, Hope and Love.

He pr~p~sed tJ appeal to sJ~ething we have not yet rationalized; and which few of us unless in desperate circumstances has ever had personal knowledge of.

Why is a dog always a dog ? Why does it always behave like a dog? Why in certain circumstances go to its death?Why not behave, as we would say, reasonably? Behaves as it does because it is obliged to be what lt ls, be the outcome what iy may • Indifferent to lt whether rlslng or dropp'lng in the scale, whether multi~lying or becomlng extinct,It ls t lnnocent" ; has objectlve conscience.

Mineral, vegetable, animal, be~re man instinctively obey the law of tneir ~pecies. No need of psychological effort. A fixed species. No evil. Man is~ fixed externally, but psychologically has in hlm. every s~cies. Can on occasion be dog, mouse, lion etc. Examine your

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~elf and others. ElastiCity produces doubt as to real flxed.nature.

M.Bn is note "s t " in the ootave in which all other notes are fixed but with potentiality of other not~. -an an elastic species with ~ possibilities of dropping or risi sychologically

Introduces the problem of OoJecti Conscience a s a matter of choice and responsibility. Consciousness that no other animal possesses as a possibl1lty.

Animals are incarnate a c t.ua Lf t Le s ; the note "at " 1s pr-e ca r-Loua , a '.' responsibility. Possible ascent or descent, then realization of possibllities. Terror of the Situation, Ashial

Objective Conscience "awareness of possibilities, latent in him6elf~. Where right and wrong? A-mong possibilities are those of growth or of degeneration, in one race(?7?)

At one tlme choice of Dossibilities of degenerativR characte~ " apes" , not animals •. Criterion of values between up and down. ~~plied that man is a free agent.

~2ture as such is indifferent as to direction of Which p~ssibil'~ actualized~ Have bodies in a biolo§ical sense~for either movement. Criterion within. This "right" or wrong", no stural, cannot be sought in biological values and biological we fare is not a criIi~ criterion. Standard of right and wrong not only in biology but to ~ what ought to be. This introduces the idea of values for outsiderg, This introduces the idea which Ashia- calls "God", i.e. a determinnt that each develope his potentialities ina higher direction.

The apec t.e s below.man does not need this. In man who 'is the firtlt of c ; a biological species to occupy this .critical point in the scaleJ and '

to cooperate with the plan imposed on the universe by the founder·_

evolution of the universe at

Ashia-said that part of the scheme required that a certain petnt should appear a number of self-conscious agents, not servants who

w~uld cooperate 1n carrying out this arbitrary plan,i.e., no unive~s right and wrong

Choice between cooperation and frustration. In every human being thJ.: u L t t ma t e cr1 terion of v a Lue ; exemplified in expe rience s in which orie has felt that t~ere is so~ething one will not do, come what may.

Will not and can~ot--- essence of essence.

Aahia--- propose~ to being t~is into consciousness and build upon it The measure of t~e distance that our ordinary lives are fro~ thia

c on s c Lou ane a a is t he unseriousness with which we relgard the thinga that happen to us. We should carry a vivid sense of values into everything we did. hence Ashia--- instituted the ~ethod.

Objective Conscience ~eans "Consciousnesg of our Cosmic Duty"

Trees subseYVe certain cosmic functions as they cha~e ~ertain

solar e ne r'g i e s I emanations) into t e r i-e et.r-t e L energies. Vegetable king dom acts as tran~or~ing agant/deposits energies chemically into ~ planet. Human beings not possible until this had preceeded us. Hu~an bod t e s made fro::n vegetable and animal substances.

We als:) are chemicalll transforming agents. We enrich the chemical c~mposition of the ~laet wit~ ~ur bodies, energies not otherwise

collectible. ~

There are three transfor~ing centers; each transforms in an especial fbeld of energi9s. Solar~ into terrestrial

B t also accroding to the theory of the possibility that~ :DInersl, animal and vegetable this can be done and at the potentialities and powers be developed which will r~sult Individuality

Consciousness and

Will.(understanding, ~:)t biological but normal for human developmen~ Normal man and normal objective deve~opment by which this norm

can be attained.

What is this Norm (see last week, thecfifference between normal and average? Between standard and statisytcal

What is the aim 0 f existence?

Aghia--- defines-it in five items or commandments; and objective morality for pupils.

1:- ~aintenance of a state of readiness of the planetary body

which we happen to ha~ Qinherlted;thia is to be interpreted in a larger sense t nan merely health. "Readiness" t\:xcludea crystallized habits and special skills. Elasticity kept so that the body i~ ready for the use of intelligence#

Special skill w~ich is obtained by the loss of elasticity is a Violation of instinctive ~orality.

G. mentioned forty or. fifty crafts he had been interested in. In none Was he a speCialist. ~e had two purposes: to give the instinctive center the feel; to be readyffor potential needs *

Ancient Drama , see later des~ned to develop and maintain elasticity of function. A variety of roles, each role necessarily e~ployed

the body in different techniques. This had t:) be played phyal01ogi~lj

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We find in ourselves a feeling of critiCism in regard to a apeclal~t in any physiological field, e.g. gymnast. Consideration only part~ but is based on up a sense that the ideal development would be in

the direction of wholeness. Aaintain an elastic and ever-ready state.

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2:- The ai~ always to have an undl~inshlng curiosity and hunger

and thirgt for improving oneself in the way of being.

Three main p~sslbilities of hUill8n develop~ent; being more, knowing ~ore, doing more. It is yet impossible to formulate methodg for increasing being: "Oh yes, he knows everything but he, himself ilil nothing or "oh yeB~ he has done all sorts of spectaCUlar things but

himself is nothing ~

Our criticism implies a "conscious aim to know more and more c onc e r-n Lr. the meaning and purpose of world creation and world maintenance"

The ch~acteristic preoccupation of momentg of seriousness:what does life mean? We are only reduced to this question in moments of despair or danger;i.e., reduced to essence. Most of life spent in sociologtzin and when one is indifferent to sociolo~y, one asks this. This is of the essence. (Story of the cathode ray)

The Akhaldans in Atlantig took as their scientific objective, the discovery of the meaning and purpose of Life. This question recurs to all of us in our essential moments.

The A~khaldans the first and last scientific SOCiety to make openly its objective to answer this question. Modern science does not begin to touch the questions that arise in every man in essential mo~ents. "Why are we alive?" If an answer to this is necessary in order to cooperate and coppertaion is a conscious obligation, the interest

in this becomes a p~ctical need and not a parlor curiosity

4:-To payoff as quickly as possible the debt we have incurred in the Drocess of beco~ing conscious beings.

This introduces a sort of terror. That we are here as biological beings is a fact. At the same time , we are conscious, an individual. For individi~uality, plus biological existence, we are indebted to something. Not saying whether we are glad. At any rate we are psychol ogically and biologically experiencing through physical body and

~sychical ~~Ndi mechanism of coordination. ~

Can I say that I owe ~ biological body and nature, and that I owe my entity~---- but this already puts me in debt.I start my consciow existence in debt for the fact that I exist. Pay off? How? In order

to leave myself free, in order, voluntarily to undertake real servive for the Cosmos.

This is where Voluntary Effort begins, not to discharge debts but to carry forward a movement, which depends on individual initiative. Only when ~is Voluntary(conscious) effort begins are we in this Fourth: "to a im to payoff, quickly, the debt for one t s a rising and individiuality in order to lighten the burden of His Endlessness,a burden carried by a comparatively few shoulders.

5: -In the aim alwayJto help t.he . speedy improvement of all beings including those likJ oneself and others, to self-realization, in ·tha ability to say '~~am", with a content not dependent on external :~ phenomena; or at least not put hindrtances in their way.

These five objectives dictated by essences. Everyone in whom objective consciousness was active-would find himsllr forrnul~ting. - Our ordinarynlllves are far from this; we may have thought of these .. as ideals but not as practical obligations. What sort of morality

~ we have in place of it?

A lion is what it is; we are without a sense of good and bad; have right and wrong but corrupted into sense of good and evil by sociological forces

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yet our individual senge of right Bnd wrong is so vague, that only in occasional ~o~ents can we for~late with assurance. -'

How do we co~e to be without this clear sense of what is proper to man?

~t us asgume for the moment that these five are correcta aims. Then

why have we not been trained t o pursue them? _

Mytholo.gized in the Book as a S~lit in the Planet, into essential and artificial. Sociological values are produced at the expense

of egsence. Restoration to the species ~anJof his original potential itiea. Atonement--- at-Onerment, 8 reintegration of the psyche of man • I~pliea that at one ;polnt of history there is a possibility Sf reintegrating man who previously had been doomed to be fragmenta~

abits acquired when ~an was necessariliy fragm4ntary and when it WBI lmpossible to develope self and cosmic consciousness, perSisted in civilized forma

All civilization has become an impediment because based on conditionl which no longer exists and in which se~f consciousness is impossible

National distinctions, racial and caste; science and art. These began during the fragmentary period. Not one based on essence.

If essence demands the development of self and cos~ic consciouness, it follows that race} caste, etc are not based on Essence.

from pOint of view of consclouness, e.g.- an individual might be entitled to rank as superior, a High being; but fro~ point of view of race,~ inferior. Sociological values are not cosmic and vice versa, superior and inferior. There are men and women honored sociologically who from point of view of the cos~s are empty

of value,

How does it come that we unprejudiced as we think we are~are subtly under one or another of these prejudices, and cannot think

essentially without coloring our impressions~ ~ ...

A candid rigid, self-review of life will lead to the answer to

this question. Will discover the de~ree to Which all essential valuel are colored by orejudlces fro~ race, education, profession etc. Aehia-- undertakes to rouse this essential standard and leaves his disciples to their :::>wn devices.He aids by formulating a Norm.

It is very important to make this review.

You will observe that you find yourself in making this review predisposed to make Judgments of good and bad based on the conceptiol of self interest. Radical critiq~e of our existing conscious psychol ogy which all presupposes one value: egoism.

His critique that our greatest implicit value is egoism and not vOlu\ary cosmic service. Our individual conscience is the voice of - selfC-interest

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e.g: take simplest example, castes. Usually in three main grou~s 1:- ruling--- possessing

2:- fighting--- professional

3: - laboring-- industrial and agrari"an

What is the differe~e. found to be in the charcter of~their egoi~m and selfishness, the character of their cunning, the presence or ab

s e ne e of d01lin&ering; a federat10n of indi 'V1dua Is in whom self·ishnes 1Q supple'llented by certain v1ces, such as cunning, hatred and 1nhumanity. How dld the different castes come?Not by self-interest since all are equally egoistic but by cunning'

The ruling class has selfishness plus cunning; the professional as ~uch selfishness but with less cunning; and the mBnu~ has still less cunning. Tsere ls a contest between varying degrees of cunning. When the three combine we have a nation; when nations combine we have a race. None of them any guide to cosmic values. O. spoke of his conn nection with the radical labor movement.

Ego1sm and cunning are sociological values while cosmic values are essence and volun~ar,y service. Cosmic service is versus an inter play of egoisms. A crowd of individiuals 1s equally selfish. neither proposes a greater value to which they are willing to eubmit. A ~ larger number whether nation, mob or race has merely a numerical advantage.

A shia--- points to a criterion higher than both, by the degree to which objective conscience is lndividually realized. Ethical conflict. between indiviuals and races reconciled. Not for human functions but for developing functions~

Special technique. 5.0.; self perfecting; self expression.

FirQt step toward self realization and bringing into consciousness of objective conscience. AS,this is pursued awareness of purpose begins to dawn, and in the five commands begin to take on a personal meaning. They cease to be merely intellectually interesting. The individual then begins to lose his sociological coloring and sheds his sociological moralities. Ue grows more free and more responsible he takes on a seve~er morality(ordinar.y anti-moralist quite mechan ically moral)

Lentroha'lloxfell under the temptation to subetitute for the alm of· a cosmic consciousness the ai'll of happiness. Hap~iness resultlng from t~e dlacharge of a cosmlc purpose is dlvine happiness; but haopiness pursued for lts own sake ls tae opposite I

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Split personality in the case of Mrs Plper , see account of Dr. ~rlnct Mrs P. subject to attacks of amnesia and perhaps a year after would turn up pursuing a different occupation. She has about nine variation; of her personallty. This is an extreme case of a split or multiple' personality

The diagnosis of.the psychic condition of man is that he 1s suffering

as a race from split personality,

Do some of us under influence- of s~rong emotion, drug or drink ever . suffer temporary fracture, so to speak without memory' Try to imagine one of our friends attacked by amnesia. It is ~i!Ilpossible to rem.nd-~ them in thiQ state of their normal state. What means would you use

t o remind hi!Il of what he is?This is the problem of the religious reformer, dealing with the race to re!Ilind it of its normal condition.

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It is familiar to history that people under certain e~otional streaa ask : "Why a m I a Ii ve?". The v ags r-Le s of such a re very mu-ch alike

in all ti~es and races. This is responsible for religions, fol~lore superstitions, etc as well as poetry. There are occasional ~lashes

as w~en Mrs P1per sa~ys to hersel~ who am I?There are moments ot partial recollection of states of consciousness which once were. There is a Hind~8tory of the child who sang in the womb"Let mer· re:nem:: who I am" And his tirst cry after birth is "I have forgotten ", ~the. --- education; moments of "remorse" recollection. Otherwise

~o sense of meaning.

At one ti~e doctrines were concealed in fa1ry tales:lost doctrine and lost memory --t Sleeping princess, which is each of us. It we were awake to this we would be aware. The prodiga 1 San( see The

Hymn of ta Robe of Glory.} •• Voluntarily or onr rm s s t on we leave for a foreign country with knowledge of our mission; objective reason and objective conscience. En route we begin to forget. After a long period.of feeding swine, there is a flash of recollection. We are a absorbed in our associations. ~roblem of Ashia-- was that of any one ot us who was dealing with a friwnd suffering fro:n amnesia/

begin by talking about things the~ used to be familiar with and re~: memorable incidents, hoping the c~ance word will reawaken the memory. Or we take him back to familiar scenes; or begin to talk in terms

of present reasone.g Mrs Piper in a shop How do you like it? Where were you befoRe?Or if prese~ condition is below normal mighCtry rep~ch. The ~odigal Son re~ized because he was ltying on husks

the swine ate; The tJ}ethod of Ashia--- is the same. 'lhere is nothing occult about it or supernatural. It is just com~onsense.

Ashia--- began with thirty six, three centered ~eings with possibilit of development to six--- Enough to start with. ~ began by trying to remind them of their early association~.e. by Instructing them in cosmic truths, with which they were once familiar. I~plications that should be childhood possessions; for it &s not abnormal to be~sre of our place and runo t t on in the COS'DOS. Our abnormality'"\hatl\was tB matter of guessing. Ashia--- hoped that as he talked some chance

word would awaken their own knowledge of these truths. Not trying

to substantiate logically, but to reawaken ideas buried in the sub conscious. Ue supplemented talk with directions as to personal method,S~. Ouspensky uses the P\rase, self-re~embering. By attentio~ to the organism to rea~aken original identity( so that they should cease to be identified with the planetary body the ~.~ Country to which the Erodigal Son had gone}

Bv attempting to review the past l~fe and by doing it daily it

was hoped that a detached and objective attitude would be made easier to ta~ an objective attitude. try rev~iewing yo~past life pictorially ~lp in the daily reV(iew to take this attitude: ,

these things 'hanpened to my planetnry body. Wake each morning with ~ a little more detachment. Arouse a personal sense of shame as ~'t3~ a fulcrum for objective conec i ence..

TOW kinds of shame; by d i scove r i ng.. 1:a ilure in some convent Lona 1 duty or a sense of contrast between what YQu had been and what you have become. Recognition, ~irst think of 0 jective Conscience. Not' necessarily associated with an understanding of Objective Reason.

We realize that we know nothing; we have no sense of purpose, driftw: etc but these moments may merely leave us a little more desolate,

-he first difficulty e~lountered by Ahhia-- and later the CBuae or his failure. ~everthels~ this state the only sufficiently intense state to provoke the necessary energy or i~petus for attaining objective reason. Not one of us will ever understand the cos~os until it beco~e a personal problem; that is that we feel t~e need to end this ignouance. But how long may this Purgatory{emotion without power last?). Ashia--- for~lated simple rules ofobJe~tive morality. If ~ntertalned wIll induce intensif1cation of understandi of Objective rteason and Objective Consci~ce •

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2:- e ~ore, more conscious, more will, more 1ndividuality.

These five even if taken only mechanically will aid other measures for awakening objective consciousness{emotional center) and attaini Objective Reason (Intellectual center). Our present consciousness is in the instinctive center. Ashia--- trying to develope the two higher centers. Awakens the emotional center which gives a push

to develope the intellectual.

Ashia--- prepared a propagandist body, Consider the remarkable orgatnization of the Knights~emplars or order of Chivalry, where aome of the noblemen began appresnticship in the kitche~.

Co~pare the ~nergy with the effect of any propaganda now_to make people forego certain co~forts. Orage famlliar with Ely athedra~ before the site w~s a swamp occupied by wi~fowl. There was no stone. A small group of peJple ca~e using the name of the Christian religion. Stone w~s brought by the rive~. It was apparently a hopeless proJect. Those who began it must have haa a high degree of Will, consciousness and individuality~

Ashia--- proposed: I- Unlearning, 2- reeducation, 3- with a small number of reeducated people he would reeducate the whole race.

A religion reformed by purely psychological means'

300 -400 years, inscriptions, doctrines , sculptures, religions, traces of world-culture about 5000 to 4000 B.C. ,with a ruling

e La ss in agreement a s to the ends, a ims and means of culture. \'" U iversal language of ideas and ideals. Speech in terms of value w!th local variations.

Reaction was incarnated by Lentro-hamox, embodying certain resistanc (Lenin-Trotszky and results) Propaganda sim ..... ly based; ..Lt.h awakening of objective conscience it unfortunately happens that objective reason does not come to life and hence for a time suffer sense

of guilt without having means of co~ing to a rational understanding. e.g.: go so~ewhere with a purpose. By leaving the remeorance becomes fragmentary and the situation changes and cannot be carried out.

the degree of Buffering 1s the degree of importance once attched to the plan. Thus we have the same pang when we try to formulate

whence we came for we cannot re~ember. This state is almost unendurable. Most people in this state will take som! narcotic,

such as religion, service to others~ln desperation. entro-hamox

is the personification of the unwillingness in us to-tolerate any larger objective conscience without objective reason. ~entrohamox

Chooses :to work on those who have not yet developed any object1 ve ~ . reaeon. He started methodically. There were a small number of the~ dissatisfied who were beginning to think there was no hope of.f atta1n1ng reason in ~roportion to the suffering. tie said there wag .~

Only one thing for us 1n life and that was the pursuit of happinesg and happiness means not being obliged to do~L~!6S6

Freedo~ 1s the def1nit~ion of man; and freedom means choice, freedom from obligat10n •

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A shla-- had sald thatv man had a sense of obllgation to dlscharge the serJce for which he was created and would find himself ev.olvlng only to the degree he carried out this obligation. We did not ~ chaose this. --entr:)i1a!Dox crtlque that of a good philosopher but a pure ~ctionallst.gG s2ij t~9t I~ ~3n ~a9 created for service he was th6rf~r c~eEted £ zlrve. fa ~1~1 rG~udiete t~13 service and attain to absolute freedom. va!:';; -C':'2f'ty ::::121 ple'-l9i~l6 p Le a , It =-i~1cl3 '~9

L~ co r-t.a t n moods, ready to consider It ve~y c onv i nc Lng , ',Tny shou Ld »e O)ft~r just escaping from the ,role of mutton and wool i'ind ourselve "Ior~j lly o"bliScU ad to take on another service?He presented this under the terms of freedom and happiness and countered the propaganda of Ash1a---.L9n~r~~2tOX ~~2 not A ~o~star no~ ~ t~Eit~r. tiere ~5S nothing d Ls bo l i c o I 2.:-~ -i.::'e c1efaet of Ashill. Already in our r-e cson there is enough to defeat A shia---, vesus Christ or Buddha. Weakness of tentrohamox8s position. If"only from urge of state to ~ realize understanding; then without this urge such understanding is i!1lpossible. Credit God with some subtlety when Jesus said"Love your enemies" ~e knew the i~possibility and therefor taught a method by m~s of which these commandments could beiracticed.

When undertaking the incarnation of a worl God made certain emotion1 mo~al experience a pre-requisite for deve opment of reason. LBntro~mox figured it was possible ~o attain understanding without paying the price of e!1lotional , etc. ~ttonally he was right; but wrong in fact. There can be no cosmic consciousness without a sense of cos~ic obligation(objective conscience) Lentro]hsmox left out of account the emtional ele~ent both in himself and in the world.

In this sense he becomes the forerunner of our spiritual ancestors the Greeks and Romans, the beginnings of civilization for us. Anything before them we consider "anc i ent?", "Barbaric". G. says

the Babylonian ci~vilization was superior to the Greek. We date from the Greeks. G. says the Greeks descend , not from Aahia--- but from Lfibtrohamox, the rationalist without any higher emot1onal urge tWO possible streams but we inherited this ~ne.

A period of world culture, then revolt. We are the inheritors of the revolt. The ~radition was that the followers of Aahla-- withdrew

into small groups. Small cO!1lllunities found down even to the time of ~le%ander the Great; but the main line of tradition was rationalism ~ogranhically ,li~ited, individually_limited. These little caves and occult schools are our subconscious. ~entrohamox inaugurated the !1lodern, negative, subjective. Transfer froll cosmo?olitanism to egotis1 A 11 explanations of life are now based on personal p~Judice, for

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our preservation.We cannot formulate a philosonhy except from the

point of view of personal interest

~ietszche ssid I no longer ask of a philosopher , is it true?; but wa.t was the interest for the philosopher.

Even reform movements, industrisl, radical movements in England

must if there is no sense of o os ni c obligation become personal. , Without higher emotion all ph~losophy becomes a matter of the head with s view to personal welfare. Subjectively colored and egotistie'.:;, ally determined. Our ,reason being subjective is already -degenerate::} that is 'egot,lstically 'determined. E)ur world view is subjective. i. e , 3 the notion thBtthe . world is not an instrument formed by God for use and that he bEe no use ~or us; that God did not create the universe or any p~ctical purpose , likepa sensible being but out of sheer benevolence and only wants us to be happy,

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he accordingly likes chiefly those who are themselves happy or who rna ke others ha ppy. The implication is that 1 t Is our- chief purpose to be happy and the path to happiness Is to make others happy. Thls Is a childish attitude; yet It is Schopenhauer. Another variation is : that only indlvidual happiness counts; thlQ Is the phllosophyn of the ruling class, the subjectlve error .... into Which Nletzsche fell, that manking exists for the development of

a few supermen. Thls assumption is com~n to certaln types, the fiapoleonlc. The ooposlte Is another variati~n: that the indlvidua does not count. "What matters my happiness If there ls a little 'progress(? • Sociologlcal progress may be at the xpense of the indivi9uals who make up society, resulting in a collectlve orgatn~atlon of individuals devold of eSBence~ .

Still another variant:~odern science , Which proceeds by accumulat facts In the hope that some later generation will recelve understa Ing. Will not the habit of cellectlng more facts contlnue? Always postponing till ~omorrow --- ~habit of putting off. Tomorrow and a later genertaion the utilization of means which In themselves a of no use. Typlcal scientist.

The notlon of God as a father varies with subjective experience.

Or the notion that the universe Is a sort of school, where there is teaching(Maybe It Is a school where there Is learning but not teaching. .

Objective Reason is not to be attained by any s~bjective or egoistic emotion, personal anguish. Objective consclence necessary. G.'s cos~ology may sound rldiculous, but in competition with the infantile concepts whic~ are implicit in our point of view they a: manly and intelligent. We think we escape the cosmology b.Y being

frightened of specific words. .

I~ is a fact that the world bes a meaning and also that we have a relation to it

Ashia--- says: there is a method by which we can srrive at ant ~ objective understanding of what is

1entrohamox says: there is a means of accomodating oursdlves to

what is, without understanding what it is. .

The success of ~entrohamox was established by Greek ~tradition.

The Greeks were responsible for the corruption of human reason. As.

a resul\t is almost f~Possib'e for an objective conscience to be

developed Since then. he Romans are responsible for the corruption of the organic conscience

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We had been considering the purpose of the Fifth Descent.

Now the Sixth Descent to discover why the ex1stence of three centered belng~ is dl~ln18hlng. Recent statistics 1n Europe-and A~ericB

show an increase. Why does B. assume an decrease? Consider the parabl (Exere1se of the faculty which later beco~es intuition, guessing in reading the parable. perhaps this 1ndirect method of formulation is used to stimulate th1s faculty. Exercise patience and remain alert, reading b~tween the lines.) ,

What is B. talking about when he says existence is contracting?

Not directly of the body. Existence as three centered beings, exerc1 sing all functions, remaining elastic in all three centers.

At about 25 or 30, the majority of men cease thinking, not mechan1 cally but originally. At 40 cease to have orig1nality of feeling. They c~nt1n1ue to vegetate due to sociological hyg1ene but are on~or two-thirds dead. eerhans it 1s in the li§ht of this that B.'s state ment is to be read; a s "vita 1 statsi tics of three centered existence. What i8 the cause of this premature death?Failure to develope in children an objective conscience, the absence of this cry8tallizatio~ of emotional-moral realization.

This st.resses the t m oo r-t ance of two questions in reading this book. By what can we recognize Objective conscience? Have we got it? Knowing why we were born, what is proper to me and what is not prope~ or becoming for me, anart fro~ sociological right and wrong~

Innate sense of what is proper to a three, centered being. This would give us a compass as a guide to what for us would ~ right and wrong. Also give a stimulus, what is proper is deSirable, emotion leading to motion; steer to a recognized goal. This would have been a natu~ growth. beings normally brought up would: 1:- have had this compass

and consequently would2:- steer toward development of will conscios ness and individuality.

Normal human society with normal ed~tion would have fonnd all its members consciously arriving at development of astral and mental"

bodies with the objective of finally arriving at Objective Reason.· To ~nderstand at first hand the reason of world Origin and world me intenance

But we have a split personality(stealing our birthright, Esau, similar allegory of a split pe r-aor.a Lf t y)

We find substitutes for Objective ConSCience, WillJConsciousness and ~ndiv1duslity; Objective Resson , etc. We have these things by name only. Philosophy, Sc ience, Art, Religion, S~rt, health, (fell-being. These are merely names, shadows like ourselves,

e.g. Amundsen's airship passing over polar regions, so near that

his compass pointed nowhere in particular but merely moved. he had no criterion of direction. Suppose a conference on board; it would be forced to rely" on guesses. Conceive this .at at.e of mind. Any d1r e ct t on might be wrong. Even if we agree, this 'is no cr1terion,:. merely a pr-ac t LcaL unanimity(fallacy of the pragmatic school).' ~ This is our situation, our compass be1ng gone. None of us has any::

Clear interior sense of the direction of life. We are in space and -: co~pelled to move. The only d~rection in which we can move is that :~ agreed upon by those about us. hence the confidenc~ in sociological:~ £onventions, morals and ideals; It is a pragmatiC agreement. '~

he subjective criterion is either:individual, idiosyncratic rebelliOUS, etc or conventional

from an objective point of view ~here is not a pin to choose between them. Both are subjective.

In these circumstances we fall into various so_phistries e.g.' .

the criterion of value is adaptation(evolut10n}. Much of psychoanalytJ

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ethics based on this. The whole of Jung's school baaed on this

"are we adapted?2" Jhen we mus t be right. This might becalled"hanging on or running down". It is the posture of maximum comfort.

bO- substitution of means for ends. If one has no end one will tend ~o overvalue th~ m~ans (and in proportion the end ceases to be realized). elg he end of ?h~sophy is truth; our means is Reason. But in absen! of Truth we tend to admire ingenuity of reasonios. in any given sChool. We succumb to brillianc~of process, epigram, reason ing, etc. This is worshipuing ~he means. There is the end of arriving at Justice is the end of Law. he means of arriving at Justice is impartiality. The method of impartiality is f~rmulated of rules applying to all. We have become legalists. We pursue legal forms and legality instead of psycho-logivaj forms and justice. Also , what ~ the end of Sex? • ~rom an objective pOint of View, it is two fold procreation and self creation, the creation in us of an astral and mental body. The procreation of planetary bodies; the creation of e~otional and intellectual bodies. Thanks to the Romans we find ourselves using it obJect1ess1y. r have substituted the pursuit

of pleasure derived from the process for the satisfactions derived from the realization of the end. Playing with Reason; playing with

Sex. Playing with forces, titillation, masturbation. Doomed to soc1010g1cal standards and approval. "beware, when all men speak well of thee". "do this to the Lord and not to me nit • A warning agains1 taking SOCiological criteria. We are bound to do this in the absence of objective criteria; the interior spring of actiOR being gone.

We run on three spr1ngs of a mecha\ncal kind, which are wound up

~ external circums~ances. ~ike a clock with three springs , dependi~ on external c1rcumstances and which cannot move, with self determiniD( In this chapter are some details of the winding, d@sree, intensity and kind of winding

aO- heredity and general biological ancestry

b)- conditions and environment at the moment of conception(conditions

~~s ulanetary; environment means local/circumstances •

c}- life in the complete sense/of parents and the part of the mother during period of gestation

d}- the being ma~ifestations of parents during period of co~ing of age of child "being manifestations" the behaviour which arises naturally from the being of the parents while the child is growing up e)- corresponding being or essential behaviour of other than paren~ who come into contact with the Child, associates

f)- good wishes of beings of the same blood, whether absent or nea~t; Old Wive's wisdom. What is the reason for this? celebration of birth

days etc '

g)- character of eff~rt made by a growing child to understand why

he is alive. This ·is hard for westerners to understand. The forms thi~ wonder tal!s is often embarrassin:'g to .parents. When we are asked

" how was 1 born?" meaning why am I allve;;,we give only direot

sexual significan 'e. If a true answerwera:given to a true question -::; we would probabl~ find ourselves telling a ssries o~ fairy tales with imnliclt and not e.ll[plicit answers to these questions. Thia

would satisfy t~e emotional cravi~~

These determine the potentialities of experience, which we later

" live out". Having been wound up the child goes out of this enlarged 8001010g1081 womb into the ~r1d~.H1s potent1811t1eB ar-e !1xed.

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Not all thoughts may be thought by it, though lat~r there may be an intense desire to understand certain things.

Not all e~otions mey be felt by it but certain emotional experiences later, at thirty or forty may be made possible by certain contact& with strangers or associate& for ten minutes. Also physical.

Experlence, what is it? Dewey's problem. The release by externa~ agencles of spring of ourselves that gives the consciousness of thought or e~otlon or actlon/ Assuming that we can experience 8 thought or emotion or action. Will an external agency tick it off? Accident? Chance? As a rule our emotional potentiality is ticked

off slowly, so that we still have reserves. In cases of Shell-shock large reserves are ticked off in a short time. It allo ls possible f for the intellectual center to be so stimulated by thought that the pote~tialities run out. Not through shock but through titiv(ation. reading to excess. Thinking without an objective. Following our

interests. Playing with reason.In reading we respond with intellect t to the thought presentedand in responding the potentialities of ~ being are checked off. ae is passive and after a few years of reading is incapable of an original th~ught,

Art: those who pursue have as alm an object of beauty. But when the object is presented they must make an emotional response automaticalll: ~t if this continues response ceases. e.g curators of museums.

TOse who maka pursuit, sooner reach the paint of having no more responses. They are then forced to re~at the formul~tion of what

were' once real responses, a psychopathological state. In this state they think they are now ready to enter a creative stage; that having exhausted the meaning and significance of the past they can produce. Cubism, futurism etc These are offspring of the aged, imaginary childr Socrates begs a contemporary artist not to give birth to wind eggs. Greece is reaponsible for the deterioration of the intelligence, and Rome is responsi~ for the degradation of Organic Shame. ~ermany:

1s responsi~ for the further subjectivity of the intellect in subordination to the emotional center. England has spread the propaganda for sport. How many times we hypnotize somebody into

doing something against his own good by ssying"oh,be a sport"

iVhy ha s this such influence?A phra se of blac k magic: "play the ga 11e" II crisket" that is effort without an object.· The quantity of effort is always the same. Again we are considering the means.

Intellect--- titillation.

Art and the aesthetic impulse exists for the discipline and. stating of beauty, which is the harmony of a being with its cause. ~he aesthetic sense gives a criterion of Droper function. If used apart from its purpose, merely for pleasure it has psychological results I psychopathic.

Similarly ·ability to make effort for the development of Will. Effort apart from Will corresponds to titillation of Reason, pleasure of aest~hetic etc. It is a substitution of the pleasure of the process for the satisfaction of achieving a goal. -

We are wound up with potentia lites to develop Will, Consciousness and Individuality. But power is mechatn'oally ticked off and age of each '1' center depends upon existing circumstances. I~ we are merely passively respondi~ , we remain untouched in Essence.

Is there any means ~ arousing our still unwound reserves?Of ceaSing to be an agent' G. takes the example of 8 cloek, which is wound for 8 certain period. But b.Y changing its regulator we can change its period of unwinding. Loosened it runs faster; tightened it increases longevity. The regulator is in us, but·we cannot change the winding .

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But if we can control the regulator we can deter~ine the period.

We have to refuse to respond to external stimulus ina mechanical way. How? The ~ethod. S.O. automatically tightens the regulator on all three springs. Or if we can wind uy. we can control intellectual, e~otional and physical longevity. he regulator is in us.

'If ... cannot change the winding. But why is a short life undesira_ble? ",ecause it is hostile to the deve Lo pmerrt of Objective naason. '

No chance. L1fe too short. Anything that pro~otes the lengthening of the intellectual, e~otional and p'hyslcal life has this reason.

2)- There is a subordinate method. 'Eransam keep". At present we have three centera wound up by the means described above; they have been ticked off to a certain degree; are partly unwound and exposed to

the chance that one may be unwound at any !Iloment and certainly

pa s s t vely. "Eransa:::nkeep"--- "I keep !Dy =elf"Not giving one selt' up to the associations ariSing from the functions of one center only. Giving oneself up and being absorbed. "I was absorbed in my reading" or in watching a ga~e. Often regarded as a highly desirable state. "one center only" • One should never become wholly absorbed: in processes of Reason; in love, beauty art, religi-::>n. ~ach of these is a necessary means toward an end but a total absorption has bad results

3)- ASSOCiations of ~hysical activity; craze for adventure, travel sport. "Eransa!Ilkeep", avoiding absorption. It' you are aware of your physissl behaviour you c~nnot become absorbed. Alwa~s try to be doing two different things at the same time. I.,tt ... pursuing art, also reason;

if reasoning, use your hands. One of the P~thagorean schools, arranged for the artist to be talked to and argu~d--with and made to answer questions, While engaged in his work. I might have prevented hi!De from doing good work; but in his purpose he did better.

We can now see the traces ot' those ideas in his work.

If an American is travelling, he sh ould think. If thinking you should also , do

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Our Objective inheritance is that we should know why we are ~n. To know this early in life and to be t r-a i.ned to carry' out its functions. Natural objects fulfill this. ~Plants produce seeds, Frustrati~ns delay but do not divert. There is great adaptability

in the vegetable world in overcoming obstacles. So in three centered beings with three brains for Objective Conscience. But since birth, training tends to press down and conceal this germ. We are robbed

of our birthright. Esau. No natural criterion. The difficulty is increased by the fact that we have no accurate knowledge as to origin or history of the planet, its geology or its races.

We have speculations by scientists and geologists and ethnologists. Can any one recall the precedi~ civilizations, their sequence, etc

and call himself their heir? There is only a ru~or that Civilizations have pr-eceded ours. We do not even know their culture, ~rt or phi~osophy; much Le ss inherit 'these. There is no c orrt inui ty ot' - knowledge. As specieS also we bave no direct contaot with our orlgi~' There are allfays rumors ot' the' existence of beings who· have charged .i themselves with continuity of knwwaedge • cos~ic and planetaryl

A secret knowledge. Tbese have regarde themselves as custodians of a Race. AccordiIl§. to G - there ha s been since I'\t'lantean times a cha in of Initiates or asters who have clai!Iled to have such knowledge. Orage says that for himself he hBs never met any such and so has no knowledge as whether there is any such continuity or as to whether such rumors are or are not true.

The Book:

The decline of babylonian culture; a pan-scientific congress.

A decision to ad~pt an~ther ~eans of transmission than by initiates :ecause they had noticed that in the case of war, the best were the first sacrificed and a~ong these were initiates. There was 8 club of The frIends of the legomonism or the ~ri'nds of Traditional Culture

(knowledge) (A word w~ich looks like Moon, M.E.B.) ~

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~~~;----, Chaldean, P thagoras~ Devised method of transmitting Knowled€

and Art. WIshed to transmit to remote descendants, across perIods of -sr, changes of clvlllza:ion or possibly even planetary upheavals. glanning for th~us~nds of years. What material? faper too perishable

ertain works of an into which consciousness had partly entered.: ~usic and Song" -

religious and social ceremonies, architecturre, Painting, religious and lay dance ,forms and movements. sculpture, drama

It was argued that wherever there was civ11ization these occurred. What we call Art is as natural to men as building nests to birds. These forms are indIg\enous and aboriginal to human beings as such. Pythagoras and the rest did not count these as anything unnatural. Another thIng: a marked vharacteristic is conservatism and tradition. Pythagoras counted that any innovation introduced by them could be counted on to endure, e.g., religious for~s. current

This "com~ttee" proposed to intr~uce into rmi1g1ams art certain ,innovation .. to se:vve later as a reminder and perhaps a language. lhey rejected literature not only on account of the perishability of paper but because literature is the most subjective of all the arts. It~depends on languages which change and die. Ancient languages now? Also lite~ure is a shape of shadows. Pythagoras wished to depend on things

Babylon was the metropolItans city of the world; had museums etc. Found two types of work of which we should call Art

1)- subjective ~"

2)- Objective r

Subjective works of Art are those which issue for self-expression.Co~mon in modern art It claims that the artist merely needs to delight himself to find himself thereafter delighti~ others. This art is related to the subject or person or ago • ~h1s 1s inferior to obJeciv~ art which ia

art devoted to an object, the transmiSSion of a state or an idea from the artIst to the beholder; a specie .. of calculated Influence; not in the sense of self-expession; but in the sense of self -conveying

e.g. primitive form of beggiilg letters, or for money or "thtrd degree" 1n which it is proposed to &.,rt upon others an influenc~. his is not §:1I11xaiudconfined to advantage for myself but for them. :l·nis is I18Jo~._....~·

art •. - ,

Minor arti soli~quy and money making' ,:

'ajor art· effort of converging certain ideas for the benefit of the';:: beholder. e.g. _The Bible ,. w1th its purpose to create a certain -state ~~ of being in the reader. This not; for the advantage of the writer. ~~ .. ~ Th1s "CO!Il'nittee" was in -8 po~1tion to choose the "best exam;>les of ·:;,f ... objective art. Pio""'k best examples of natural art. proposed t-oprosti·~.l t ut e the greatear'works ·of art of their day·-in order to ·write upon ·them·~' their own doctrine. They did not 1:-intend to harm them but. on the _cont,rar3 to introduce a new element to make-them more capable, of expressing

along side of the works of art, certain ideaa . .

Difference between what we would condid~r a perfect w~k of art and

a perfeot work of ..... srt, when they got· 'them in it. ..'. .

We say:._ 8 perfect work completely satisfiea our se~se of harmony

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that is every part of our sensory, emotional and intellectual being is satisfied, a harmony of imoressions.

~rom G.'s point of view, t~i8·ideal state of har~ony 1s the last thlng to be desired; lt is not tranquillity but merely a state of hlgher sleep. Be cause nothlng a roused that i8 d 1Jla r-nony , "a esthetic cont.e np l a t t on" ls a sublime sleep. Consclousne as is in abeyance.

But the object of this COrDcnittee was to make peo nl.e remember and not forget. If wlt~out injury to a work of art, they could introduce some thing which would arouse a conscious qUdstion, which in turn might provoke a further curlosity in regard to the work of art itself.

What is it whlch falls to s3tisfy and arouses curiosity. Something strange. Nobody says of Greek art: This is strange; what does it meab? It co~oletely satisfies. he mind fails. It evokes no curiosity.

But one looks at certain ~gyptian frescoes with a feeling of something strange and wonderful which it means. We.cannot despise the artist 0 of the work; it is clear he had the tec~kque and was not inferior to the Greeks as a craftsmen. This strangeness in a work otherwise perfect is a devi~e. It is aimed to disturb and not to please.

But for this is required a work which otherwise would have oleased. Egyptian • .ueonardo da Vinci, when exa mining anclent art had· a question: whY with such mastery obvious, did ancient artists make such and such juxtapositlons. G· says that leonardo ca~e near to finding the answer. This third for']] of 5rt the only klnd to which G. gives the nBme of ART Summa ri z e ;

Subjective art alms to gratify the artist. ObJ :'~"'iV2 ~'rt s t ns to satisfy the beholder Conscious art whileh stimu13tes th~ beholder to quest.ion consciousz:reS8 Which creates consciousness.

~hey allotted a day for e sch var~ety

Sunday: ~usic and Song. We are three centered but we are not always thinking, 1':;e1ing ~~ '~CUld ae ns Lng t oge t.he r-, The ordinary work o:'f s art happens to stimulate all three centers. We have no sense of any ,,,, interior disharmony. He introduced a variety of rhythms calculated •

to induce in any average hearer, a variety of disharmonious responaaes e.g, intellect, BBY, sadness; in emotion, joy; in instinctive a funer~ march. Si~ltaneously awaken grief, JoY, associations of burial. On hearing such melody, impossible to give it a name; strange beauty, (as when 8 dog hears a piano anc has its centers dis harmoniously a aroused) A hearer pulled in two or three directions would find himself uneasy. Instead of a higher state, one of unrest. yet not an unplea~t one because each of its co~ponents are beautiful. I~ these could be heard se~rately we would be pleased; but there are three separate r rates of vibration. Only when there is a conflict wlthbthe three centers)s there a chance of a reconciliation by a fourth.Art was used

to 'induce in -hearers the necessity of developing consciousness.

We will reduce you qy music to such a state that you will De forced to'S.O. 'to free yourselves from this aesthetic misery.

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Yonday: Religion and social ceremonies. Consider the large number of religious ceremonies extant. What was their original purpose?

For example the ringi:--..g of -sOOll at 'rna SSe Introduced in ,ceremony which pee ceded Babylonian times, to break a ritual which might otherwise be :-::' ~oporific and then to arouse to question , why?

~ay ceremonies: coronation of king~, inauguration of preSidents, masters of masons etc. Antedated Babylon but began to have new ele~ent introduced. Nudges to a sleeper., e.g., postures are often unnatural i.e., into Which we would DOt naturally fall and which is difficult

to maintain.Intended to make the qUestJoDt IQyer~~td6¥er~an~e from the natural. All ceremonies must inclu e h s

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unnatural , to. intended.

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Tuesday: Architecture. Innovations in structure I in interior

e.g. Cupola would naturally rest on four supports for the distribtion of weight. Arranged to have cupola rest on three dissimilar pillars

and that part of the weight of the cupola should be in itself.

In 8;t.Mlcl1el this is considered merely an oddity -'. Q..

The ~aj ~hal is a classic existing exa~ple of conscious art. Co~petnt

students can read in its consCruction. the rec&rd made. Form and ~

deviation trom form a language

Interior is a more subtle form of record, with dIfferent volumes of space. E.g. we can cansider this room a8 a series ot volumes of spaces two: one larger, one s~ller and a third broken with beams. If these volumes were broken , we could have a series ot symbols. But every interior has a different pressure of air( as in subway when passing under the river). The pressure ~t air in this room is different from that in a room differently shaped. It has different associations. If-_we know what associations with pressure of air, we could arrange pressures to produce certain dewired associations • Different at

the nave of a cathedral from that at the Altar. Pythagoras et al propased to use architecture as one would music and song to ptoduce this disturbance and this query. These associations are not merely historicl as we are inclined to think.

Wednes~a, Painting. Latest examules of introduction of divergencies

in Fersian of the 14th and 15 th, Cent. Again we have an agreeable disharmony, using contiguous colors in an unnatural way.

After seeing one color the complementary color is formes on the

retina of the eye; and this is a natura I sequence for the eye. It gi vei! pleasure for the eye to pass fro~ one color to the complementary on~ through the spectrum •• The Babylonians knowing the '"expectation of

the eye", put next to one color an unexpected color, which required

a conscious adjustment. It was pleasing but was disturbing. ..~

Thursday~ovements and Rhythms ,The rhythms were of two forms, religious and social. Varieties of danctof modern civilization.

I:- Phys~l center-- popular dances of the day.

2:- Dances of expression-- Isadore Duncan

3:-Ceremony-- rare in modern time

4:- P~llgious-- Hopi Snake Dnace-- an invocation but of what? They~ have forgotten. But there is introduced an invocation of a higher center in the dancer hi~self. A movement if accurately done will produce a certain psychological state. Popular dances taken and variations introduced. Whoever practiced would experience. Evoke certain disturbing contrary states. We cannot find a name for the effect. These movements were not d ee'Lgned by G.

Friday: Sculu1ure I

Representation of ordinary forms .J'

Modelling of imaginary objects: sPhinx and Assyrian Bull

Introduced variation·in accordance with a theory now lost. -According to this theory each body was constructed on the pr1ncipal of Seven !O-that each feature is a multiple of seven in some other feature.

hesa:ne is true of its details. If one feature were missing we could - . ·rePlace it from measurernentsof ot~ers.A Mathematical relation.

he committeee of Babylonians found this Canon of Seven taken for granted and employed no other. There were no oddities, Even a monstrosl1 waa created according to law and not according to an idiosyncrasy

of the artist.

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~rallel between the foregoing and The ~ethod ,

sually works of art are stimuli to harmonious 1mDressions and disharmonious associations in an impressions are new a~ memorable. First, it strikes one with surprise and then is never forgotten. Characteristic of impressions which reach the Essence

Conscious works of art give new and memorable impressions to those who had experience. A designed experience the object of which iQ to make the life be beholden to the work of art. That 1s it would introduce a variation into his natural behaviour. This would tend to mske himp conscious being snd in pr0portion as he could make this sequential and objective would it exemplify a work of art.

Faced with the fact of the Babylonian decline, a period of dark ages coming. How over this chaos should certain things be transmitted? How to transmit memory?

PFallel: YJu become to a certain degree conscious of certain ideas and certain values. Intuitions of objective consciousn~ss of certain ideas and certain values. Intuition of obJect1ve consc1nce, reason, 1Vhy does it not r-e na Ln t Why forget? Wars and civil wars~ What are wars and civil Wars in us? Emotional states of negative kind a8 a result of contact with others or of strife between centers,

What weknew, passes from the mind and is practically impossible to recall without having recourse to the original stimulus. Oblivion

of our state. Art is a constant restimulus. We need parallel means to these of music, architecture, etc in our own c0nduct# for the ~ntenance of certain states.e.g. a man in training for a race.

We have ~#ments of consciousness and need technique to maintain a ~

memory. e.g I have a body. This parallel w111 be made more clear in' the d t scuss ton of drama.

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Drama( end of first vol.)

D,..arna presupposes knowledge and control of the body. \'

I ama soul; I have a body. This proposes thBt the soul shall use the body. A three centered being is d1vided 1nto parts:

Planetary body-- three brains--- thre~ cenBters.

~, divine mystery 1s associated \'lith this concept1on.

lhe soul asp1res to be the actor. There is a technique by which the Boul can manipulate the body to express knowledge of and control over

the instr~ment for living

This also-npresupooses a lmowledge of types of people.

lhe number of types of planetary bodies is limited. It is th~~efor not hopeless to expect to arrive at final 2onclusions. nersonal id10syndasi maybe subsumes under about 2T,:types. he actor neverpcts slone/

It is necessary to recognize types. Also it presupposes that he has a concept10n of the role-he 1s to play 1n order to funct10n as ,& soul; thBt is be must be-aware Qf his mission. he must know his reason for acting as he proposes to act. in coope~~ion with the

!hole cosmic plan. : -,

Said that the ancient occult schools used the drama as exercises for oohaviour in life. Putting 2lays onto the' stage of life; to day we 'J ~st put plays on the stage."

he 'teachers had to kn~: ,

~he' nature of man; that he was three centered but that these ·centel3S ,~ almost never a~ted Simultaneously_from all three centers, varying

in age of centers according to degree of experience. ~ach new stimulus evokes for each center a parallel responsty-according to distribution . of experiences already received. So we sa~! overintellectualized,

over emotionalized. Now ·over" is imposaiole. We mean "under" in other" centers, ,

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"over inteflectualized, means "und e r emot t one Lt aed "; This makes

t mpo s s Lb'Le the perception of real drama; always me Lod r-a nat Lc .

gdd triangles, an "non-whole view" Teachers on gua rd against irregulir responses and would train to br1ng about a harmonious response

he can evoke discordand r-e s oonse a (see mus Lc , a b t-ve )

~ypes, the knowledge they were after is not occult and can be expreasec mathematically relative to the three centers.: or colloqually ..... Suppose you were asked to draw up an appropriate setting. speech. etc for a m1-ser. This would be inappropriate to Don Juan.

'Hser, alstatt, Don Juan, Hamlet, 1licBwber etc. Some novels specialize on 8 few typese.g Dickens. Each of us taIls into two in greater or

less degree according to idiosyncrasies, a type. It is true that tew

of us ma~itest this clearly. In the occident espec~ally the type is conceale~. The divination of type~ be~th the idiosyncrasies is soc 1010gy. the method is practical. We~ often say. You have to do it, to get the feel ot it. Pupils are expected to try things out to g.x

feel what it is like. become aware ot manitestations. A being is one

who experiences.

Experiences are physiological processes taking place when we are not aware. Changes of direction or division of streams in our blood vessels/ ~hes~ have psychic counterparts which we call our oonscious ness, While iqprocess ot experiencing.

S1md~taneously' the behaviour of the mechanism of the ma-ni-fest-B-tions._an1festat10ns are the means of com~nication

Stage set: a being underg~ing experlncings; manifesta~ions the only form of commun1cation. My subjective never becomes the spectator's objective. ~e can see only my manifestations.He will understand just

in the pr~portion in which I manufest sincerely .

Teachers wished to give control so the pupil would not just convey his experiencings but whateve~he wanted to convey, ~ A technique of insincerity? yes. This is a charge against a consoios actor. It is an assumption by the critic that spontaneity, a lack o~ ability to control a manifestation means greater s~ncerity.

But being unaware of and unable to control manitestations9/l0 ot

his experiencings are beyond his perceptions and hence 9/100f his manitfstations. A fractional sincerity. A conscious actor aspires to be aw~ of all and to choose and arrange in re.~tion to the type with wh1ch he is dealing. In order to do so he must sO!Detimes but very rarely act from one ceDter at a time. i.e presnted as a purely intellectual problem. lhe tendency i4 for other centers to join and distort the action of the center engaged.

Actors had to learn to act in one center or they would be otherwise excluded trom efficient participation in many situations. They must also learn to act si~ltaneously in all~ s±xaxxiaRa.eenters. St. Paul said, to be all things to all men. Technique of playing roles~

~imicry is part of· the play of children. Adults single out merely a few iJlPulse~likely to be sociologically valuable and leave others without development(except in pat.ho Log t ca L channels.). Guessing is the green blade of a power which if trained would develop into 'intUition with oertainty.Children srediscouraged from guessing or imagining

or telling lies. Modern thought is sutfer1ng from a lack of soientit:ic imag1ne-tion ?limicry ·is a seoond negleeted faculty. It 1s pr3servBtivve 'ot the elasticity of the planetary body. If trained it WQuld give control and make dramatic school and ~steries unnecessary.

lIIetgod: ... .

Pupil appeared on the stage and a play was improvlJed. G. says that certain ot the earliest plays of the Greeks were thus and some ~:testlmony in Plato;, tor he reports on ImprovldeA plays. There must be ? a oritioal audd ence a

~upil on stage, not thinking of plot but self interrogating as to inner state. What impulse do I feel? To shout? To go home?To write? To apeak to a policeman? "I'd like to tell the cop what .L think

of him" Catch one 'Jf these odd little thoughts as they pass through the ~ind.ln the wings, pup~ls are nervously waiting wondering what

r-o l,e he will be called on to play. "Hey, policeman, 'don''l you see those! two bums fighting?"0ther pupil enters he must play the role of the cop How will he behave?In order to qualify every pupil went about observint types and technique. Relation between thtl school and life. Older pupils had to play rarer roles. erigin~ of introduciIon in earlier plays of gods. Not intended to represent gods but men in states of ecstacy(~x-stasis} Echoes of blank verse, poetry, spoken in ecstacy. the Iliad wa,s p er-haps dictated and repeated verbally long before it was written down. In these role So. the actor had to produce aetual mani-

festations. In this sense, a drmatic school is a training for 8 u~iversal life. Pythagoras' co~mittee introduced variations.

What has just been describes is natural and could develop any where. The troubadours would Lmnr-ovf ae on d e ma nd v

Pythagorean variations. -

Enneagram,8 nine sided figure with seven main points and three sides

of a triangle '

.Lhe body under the law of seven; the pszyche Q~der the law of three x ~ ii3&mDlif«s::kIxiNXfir!lU[~xtl:taxmdpci:xxs.ven

~he ifI" experiences in three; the body manifests in -seven,

But in the octave of seven, there are two semi-tones, necessity ot an external shock. To make the mechanical law of seven corre~spondent to the ~onscious law of three requires a psychological Jolt at the proper moment. Counterpoint between experienCing and manifestation. The dotted triangle in the enneagram.

Miser not conscious of his experiencings or mad1ifestations -

fae inteniioOLot the schools to control experincings in order to c~ntro manitesta10ns~t we could control experience and act through the semi ' tone to give manifestations a different turn could indicate conscious action.

First: actors had to pass a test of (playing roles. Then he was allowed to take part in the second form:i.e. mysteries.

Difference between these mysteries and play in general- _

Introduction in the mystery of the se~i-tone in the octave. P!thagorean were scientific mystery creators. E.g. , policeman on some critical occasion when manifestation was expected would act differently indicating that only policeman by role but not bound to be a !olicemn - Could introduce an original act, not determined bybthe role nor natural. In~yster.Y is the extraordinary.

Begin by inducing in the spectators an anticipation; but then the

actor became himself and illustrated what the conscious soul would do _ under these circumstances. The spectator might be cha llenged at any - j moment. Concentration and ~- interrogation. It could not be said ~ , that the actor broke down; he had proved he could ¥lay the role perfectly.' The spectator was pr-ovoked to say Why? he question ,

led to 'the anticipation of some thing concealed of value to 'the spectator

Third room: Life ~ere the pupil was expected to take any situation ~nd play with uncoftsoious actors but so that he could be understood.

he Christian Mystery wa~ re~rsed first in occult schools. Then re hearsed by the Essenes. 'I'hen it was 'JPlayed historically, to affect thought, feeling and conduct through many generations.

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It is possible the Christian mystery was the final outcome of these Babylonian schools. It is logical whether there is historical continuity or not.

See "Fragments of Faith Forgotten" and see how Jesuli trained his pupils to dance, play roles etc. Juda 8 maYIll,be sa id to have had to p'La a most difficult role, certain to be misunrstood ; and like th~

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villain on the stage to be hissed by a naive audience.

Playing roles assumes a knowledge of our manifestations. not critic ally but instructiona11y (sociological improve~ent is a negligible object for the sou1)If you try to play up merly to improve for soci~ praise, it is little; but if this is regarded divinely, you learn what you are and how t.o nu se it.

First class of dramatic school

Second class, types. Review pictorially people I have met. I will

~.ind they fall into two groups; then study these types in action. :.lhird stage ; begins in pant.otm me ~

Fourth: Intervene in role, either for personal dvvelopment or to convey something important to the srectator. A significant act. The Life of Christ not the life of esus. Before and after~Uesus,

Divine mission consciously Christ· . .

Orage has seen G. play roles which few would condescend to, deceiving even his intimates,

What is left of the Pythagorean concept o~ the dfama?

Contrast ancient drama with the modern theater. he.modern has two Durooses

a ) - a muaemerrt ~

b)- propaganda or education (Ibsen, Shaw, alsworthy)

Not as ~ster,y, which is impossible because it requires conscious actors~ur actors imitate not from within but from without. They merely produce an illusion in the spectator, whereas the ancient acto:

had illusion and also elasticity. "

c)- the spectator is never challenged; he is merely stimulated to "rt!iC1 ~reviously recorded experience. Pictorial associations are provoked

sympathizing w1th him~f". The drama to day is not an experience

but a re-exper1ence-- titillation. It is not an influx of new material

but a sti~lus which s~ts old material in mot1on. It is evocative and not repesentative. rocreate but not create,

Its effect is the intensification of the mechanicality of both actor and spectator.

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he ship was npw nearing the planet where B. was going on a mission·

His hoofs moving on the surface of the deck evoked a phosphorescence thus indicating they were nearing a planet.Coming within the magnetic center of the planetBe~n to make preparations to land.

End of First Volume.

~ater volumes will deal with matter on this and on other plqnets.

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Here is a parallel with the Bible in that it opens with "co amo Logy and cosmogony, anrccount of the world anqwhy. It proceeds through a series of semi-historical episodes inte~voven with myths into which eventually come clear the major and minor prophets. The reader is expected to become aware of duty to God. Compare witg A hia-- ~ After the Objective Conaience is awakened comes the ew festament, which is The Method , taught by individuals. 0hJective reason after Objective Conscience. ~roceeds by instructions assumi~he method. It culminates by the elevation of the personal nature by the most diligent of disciplInes'

Thus the Bible may be considered as a drama, an objective work of art. G,' s Book}s perhaps a bible for the future. At any rate O. thinks

G had some such purpose in mind.

Ships: Methods of communication within the individiual, how to go to places and find forgotten things.We are also a megalocosmos with unknown parts spatially distant--- time and distance.Cos~ology is a concrete psychology.

qld Testament--- actualities

- ew Testament --- potentialities.

G.'s book has text, music and exercises. It is a co~plete method. First Phase; --- self Observation, Participation, Exper~rnnt Second Phase:--- Voluntary Suffering

Third Phase:--- Conscious Labor.

The thesis of the Book is that we as hu~n beings suffer and labor. This is obligatory although at times so distributed that some seem to escape; but the toatl tax is the same. two thousand million people annually yield this tax

The purpose of religious reformers is to show how this tax of suffering in addition to being paid can be turned to use. There is no idea that it can be 11~ted(Stories at times of task masters who have taken _, too large a share) But a personal advantage may be derived.

From Voluntary $uffering may come Consciousness

from ConseiJus Labor Will

From S.O., Partic. and ~xp. Individuality

Buddha's disciples within one generation fell! into error of thinking that they could suaprise consciousness in other than normal circum6~ce This resulted in Tibet.

Chapter on Apes. An ape is a caricature of a three centered being. An experiment to see whether man can be made to behave normally.

Visit to Egyp~. A scientific theocracy. Distribution of temples, school. etc according to 'human patternsprgans with physiologiC and psychic" " functions Whole of Country.It is possible to go to a spot and say

Here was a temple, a school and excavate

Fifth De acerrt , ". "

An "epic event. "Which events in "the planet stand out for me personally? . rtaal or Imaginary. Effect on O. when at age of fiteen he read iUato's a~count of the death of Socrates, was profuse weeping.

W do not Inow where we are. We may be lying asleep on an islando.

tlie Sun Absolute. Space and Time are psychological. Experience may be second hand Intuition and divine meaning of dreams. This is historical!: unimportant. What is important is its effect on us Objective a subJect1' fact.

Hamalinadir--- no personal key

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We are speculative in regard to the nature of the world, .. our function etc

Our Reason Objective ~eason Divine Reason.

~a!llalinadir still t hought, that 2x2 was 4 ......

A shia--- 8tudy~of human nature finds divin~forces of laith, Hope and Love degenerted through association with purely mecha~cal meanings. Also dO use reasoning. Appeal to Objective Conscienc~and me~ries of childhood. Platonic Doctrine 0 f recollection, anamnesis Already know but must be re~inded. hence Socrates interrogates and does not state. Dialectic developed in this~ The result of the work of Ashia--- was a planetary culture. At pres~t Babel, laboring for

a cosmo~litan culture, a belief that by introducing enough different languages and curt.ur-e and values, we will find a value.

Ruling classes not in agreement; not working toward the same aiml

If so the effect on institutions revolutionary. Under the regime of& a world state, the planet would be organized for functions.

Ireland: psychic, lines of force, magnetism

India: philosophy

Reaction of Lentrohamox constantly happening to us. ='''ea1ization pecomes merely verbal. e.g h3ve rG~lization of chapter on Time? nea ct t on, Greeks rc anon s L b1e for tec'·ll-.:i.ra 1· d. ren€~c:tion.

The day after you read the ch9?t2r cn ~ime, te~e up Alexander End engage i~ dialectics. ~ec~illic~l post 30rtem on a dead realization Greek dialectics.

The Romans sre re~ponsible for technical degeneration of Objective Conscience. The memory of ObJect-1ve Conscience in Roman Law.

Greek dialectics the degene~ation of human reason.

Roman Law for the de~eneration of Objective Reason.

~ater physiological inventions. Greeks and Romans at least corrupt~d on a higher plane. Later on lower.

Fee ~rmeD spirit(which has nothing to do with racial or geographical rmany. trototypes of psychological chara~teristics of ~~~a

rman type that degeneration takes the form of something phySiological.

How m~ny peo?le whom you know have underEtanding. I~ is of two types:loglcal understanding based on fact and rational understanding as ap~lied to the problem of ourselves. \Vhy alive? What values? Understanding is ne Lt.he r intellect nor intuition but equally positive. =ositive-- fsther- the intellect

Passive, -- mother-- the intuition.

neutral-- ~he child understanding.

The creation of the neutral quality is the object of this work. Psycho LogLea I systems ba sed on : Norms and Averages

The usual psychology is the sum of facts provided by current behavior

Contemporarypsycholgy measures by the average of contemporary manifestations at any one period.

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~Jan e:xists for a purpose not his own; this includes allI:--beings The norm of man is the discharge of the design for ~hich-he was created; like a ~achine made to do a certain w~rk. e was created

Dormal. .

CWing to certain circumstances this planet has developed as an abnormcl mac h Lne , which no longer fulfills its design. ~~nce -'.lJe exists on this planet by sufferance(grace)

A by-product of the fulfillment of a normal aim would have been complete happiness for us. We are no longer cappble of the happiness which accompenies the fulfillment of a design. We suffer in conse quence.

Defines what is considered to be a normal human being (see Bhagavadh Gita-~ow does he walk?;

Ponder the for~lation of a norm. We cannot begin to develop non psychopathically except on the basis of a norm.

A bnormality:self-pride, vanity, touchiness, egoism, etc. Third State!llent

There was once on the\9lanet a race of normal- men and women.

hen what happened? A planetary catastrophe.

The nature of th1s planet 1s now inimical to the development o~ a no r-ma L man.

Renan in 1865 sAid in his "Philosophic dialogues" "Nature is host1le to the dQvelopment of man and desires man I s imperfections."

G.' a theory i81 that this is true but not totally irremediable.

- though the chances areva million to one with the han~icap of educs t t ob

and the present attitude of society. This chance is strengthened by two things~)- the wish of the creator that his machines should function normally. hence messengers have been sent to point out

the abnormalities and -

2)- the continured existence in a IIp except HasnesmussosJOf Conscience an inward unrest at our abnormality. In a Hasnernus, the germ of a

conscience is dead; he is beyond shame. There is a sriving for ~'

perfection, which is practically impossible to attain.

All messengers agree on:

1)- the terror of tj-e situation

2)- this to be overcome; degeneracy, dependance on others and absorption in current ideals; social values instead of personal. iiesubst1tute a t ms instead of .making a good job of whatever we are doin~. This for our selves.- ~n exis~s for perfection.

The ilaethod is Observation of self and contrast with the,norm as defined by union of conscience with intellect,(intuition )

The norm becomes a framework into which observation is fitted.

This reveals the degree to which we we are normal or abnormal; what is -in cont raa't to what ought to be.

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ere begins o. s review of The Book. trying to formulate ideas

l~plied in the allegory.

Preface

There is a certain g r-a mma r- of association in every mind, i1two forms: '"

a)- association of words. •

b)- 88sociation of forms~ Reasoning, verbally and by ideas.

c)- N1ne-tenths of what we call -thought is 8 mechanical 8ssoctation of words. Say "agony" to a sup€r?1cial writer and he will say "anguish", "sweat", "dark night of the soul" etc, as readily as

a parrot.

c)- The association of form is dependent on personal experiences still an association but different from mere words.

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It is the form in Whichteasants often think; or those whom we call

" " -

understanding • I~ Dba strict reference to experience, a grammar

with people in whom the eXDeriences exist; avenues to a -ianguage not

in words(ge sture, voice etc.) a strict gra mma r , Attem:Yt to use language of understanding.

Man is(Norm) a being(a machine that feels) designed to encounter, to create and to overcome difficulties. Contrast this with view of -. man !ho believes that man exists for ~appine8s, Peaee, etc.

ay create difficulties in field of his own choice; but make aims which require effort to attain.

Overc~mingcounta; Results are the test •• No sentimentality, no attitude of the cricket player"well missed, old top" ..

nead Milton and see he was a fighting ~achine and spared himself no b Lame for his failures. No crown for the splendid failure.

See essay by J.F. Froude on Reynard the Fox. Practical effectiveness in overcoming.

We have respect for the person who encounters great difficulties even tho~h he did not wish to. (If he is crumpled, we pity; if he survive~erely, we cannot help according him our respect.

Or who volunt8rily creates difficulties~ i.e., who undertakes jpbs which require effort(stretching hims~ef) to achieve.

3)- ~ever do as others do(advice given by his Grandmot~er) become responsible for the way chosen and its results. That is: do things

in your own way. .

4)- Man is in essence, a passion fot'attaining a reaspnable under standing of the meaning and aim of existence. It is the value of value You may not suspect this of your~f, saying you are an humble

person. Take off the onion a few more skins: all ennuis, criticisms

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Ponder the sentences of last time, drawing on memory, reading association to use as pegs. Whether you accept or not does not matter. •

1)- Grammar in mind always operative; two kinds a, verbal, b. forms

ideas or mental energies. b. Those who have understanding. This can be cultivated by pondering, which is an effort to think of abstract subjects(metaphysics, cos~ology). There are many ideas in this book

we are incapable of understanding. We assume or the contrary that if the truth is stated clearly we can understand it, but we ~st develop understanding, not only by direct pondering but by handling present situations practically. Relation of time to needs; money and e xpe znd L t

Normal human being, designed to encounter, create and overcome difficultieiL.

A psychic being consists of its appetites.

When we speak of p~ychology. we speak of the kind of desire which animates it. Essence· is the kind of desire.

In case of human being the desire to encounter and overcome difficulties •• A figh-ting edge for the universe. We are completely happy only when thus engaged. When diverging from this norm we

are abnormal. This exolainds the ac.cumulated hatred in this book for

artists, sCientists,' poets in general. Practical men.

These substitute for normal aims viz. encountering and overcoming difficult~es some temporal form such as pursuit of beauty, acquiring of riches, material conquest of the planet.And as the artist influence other men the Book regards him as an evil influence. He tends to withdraw men's interests and energy from man's normal aim hence hostile to the great Bcheme

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1n ~he e8sen~ce of ~an in his normal stste is a hunger and thirst

A B~blical hunger and thirst for O'bjective Resson(meaning·and aim of existence). ~an is executively equipped tomeet diffic~lties, emotion allY,passionate for knowledge. ~an is a sword bent into a scythe of interrogation.

4)- Never do as others do. D~ things in your own way. If we ~r oonsider we are forbidden to i~itate others, we will concentrate on the situation and ask what we can do uniquely in this situation.

Ponder so that the theory may be definitely our own or else be also definitely rejected.

try and set down in YJur own words, the idea of life entertained by anyone of your friends or by yourself.

The man on a desert island has to settle such problems himself.

What is y~ur idea of the world? Is ths world merely chance? Is there design?Is there any c~nscious purpose?Any ai~ or object?

The current view is that the~~ is no ai~~that pr~topla8m for~ed accidantalll.etcIf life were accidental were conditions of life also accidental?14aterialisti·c hypothesis. Or any -=,other current point of view? SUch as that God is omnipotenet and all loving. The world being designed for.us entirely, not us for God. Done out of benevolence

and gratuitous.At no time does he need helpand presides over the ~niverse with no·other idea than that hls children should be happy. ,hat we have no obligation and no responsibility, no duty except to each other. At the aa me tille man wa s c onrrd s s toned wltp power over

the inferior species; and the sacrifice of millions of the lower~ creatures authorized etc. All this is a replica of the attitude of the ordinary, selfish, overindulged chAld towards its parents.

Not old enough 'not In years) to ~e~ize that nothlng comes to them which did not c oat, aome body, or .Nature, so:nethlng f

This Is a wlde spread attitude and Is the Chrlstlan doctrlne.

CosJlological Vlew. Impllclt In each person is the key to his behaviour

( chief feature)

Chap. 1 Is the first adumbration of this view.

That t he nwor-Ld that is knowable, the Obj<:;ctlve Un t ve r-se , is a work of consc ious creation; that 1 t is consc iously rna inta Lned and for a conscious puroose. It ls like a machine created for a conscious purpose. Of drawing from the machine sOllethlng whlch the creator of it wished. This Is not rnerely for our delig¥t, nor for fun but

in pursuit of an aim entertained by hlmself, he onus of the reason is on God. The point of view may be criticised as ant.hr-o oomoz-phd c ,

It is also theo~rphic.If it makes God In the image of man it also makes man in the image of God. :.Ani:nals do not make machines; man hEES reason to understand the meaning of machines;and Is· posSibly in a ~sition to understand the ~eaning of a machine, vaster than any he could hi:neelt make , --

Taough designed t-ohave a passion for undet~tanding and power to develope it man has departed from the norm. Uan is in a state ot,. hypnOSis. His normal understanding ha s been converted into abnormal. ~e has only glimpses, shadows of his'real passion to understand and to overcome. ~

~e cannot while the fumes of the drug remain pull ourselves together~d reason. We want to be reasona~le and cannot. We have a haunting conscience that we are not acting reasonably. The parable of

The prodigal Son. in- a far country(psyche) feedlng swine and aware of it yet cann~t re~mber his father's country. Broblems to bring ourselves to realize what we know and how to wwaken ourselves.

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There are no ~gical means which w~uld not destroy the possibility of a nor~l awakening

The only sure mea~s is a daily atte~pt to ponder the meaning o~ life

and by an attempt to deal with the situation not only without comp~ining but spiritedly. Here we have a taste of normal activity.

The phy s t c t at e conception of the na t ur-e of energy. Solar energy ..... is not !nexhaustible.Eertrand ~ssell • Dissipation ,of energy: inhBli~ and exhaling breathpf Brahm in the Indian tale. 1he solar system

~uns down. Not the poi~nt of view of this Book. Section devoted to the creation of a perpetual ~otion machine. brought into existence in Time but once made/it runs. I~ characteristic is that it had a beginning but no end. Though each part is subject to decay, it must be replaced. The Objective Universe is a perpetual motion machine. At one time it WaS brought into existence and arranged that the parts should be

r .p Lac ed , For this work of watching the mac hd ne and replac ing the pa rt

there is great need of attention; and with an expa~ding universe there is need f~r the superintendence of the mecha~sm.

This quite si~ly is G.ls cosmology: A conscious being created a perpetual motion m«lX~acll.n machine, always within his power but needing constjnt attentiori(growing family of worlgs) and so he prepared thr~-centered helpers of God. Society of ¥elpers, instead

of being slaves, which we are in any case •. But to·be conscious helpers

me ans co ~rking and undersstanding

Is there any response to that suggestion?It may be one of negative emotion to the sense Of our painful realization of our inadequacy. Realize our plight-- Terror of the Situation. And yet we are within easy reach of sanity, only a thin veil of il~ion separates us.

We are "poverty-stricken millionaires". brIiAXg Starving and no way to food by ordinary reason; and yet we have potentialities.

Those whJ have tried to draw put of themselves with sentences are someti~es surprised at their potentialities. Think highly of this ~ .

output in co~rison with co~plete ignorance; but little in comparison with potentialities.

Everything. and Nothing, a double e~otion in everything real, Passion to understand aims and meaning. Fitting himself executively to overcome difficulties. and to cooperate voluntarily.

His freedom is service is a paradox in all reality.

Threefold classification everywhere

1:- Sun & bsolute, (will talk later about what it means) representin? Reason.

11: - Any sun 111:- Any planet

Three orders of matter associated with +ntelligence, emotion, instinct God is c~nceived of as a Being whose intellectual body consists

of the Sun Absolute; his emotional body of alllr suns; his planetary body of the planets

the design for the three- centered beings on the planet is that they Should develop; and with the pursuit of understanding etc, the other two bodies will dave lop. The normal life of the astral body is a passion for understanding;. of the intellectual body the power to ~ understand. By pursui~ this normal development we gratify the needa· and create the body. here is no other way of develoPi~ normally. The pursuit of any minor aim will have the result of di~orting the growth, understanding etc,

D II Here occurs a section.entitled "Being aware of genuine uty

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Not arbitrarily imposed. We, already, so to speak, incarnate this Duty, as the structure of a machine carries embodied in it its purpose and functions. Structure is purDose manifested.

It is not a question of dfcovering a duty in us , not congenial to our mechanisms. Organic Duty: I.e Duty of acting according to our mechanism, organism. Distinguish the normal organism and presnt

a nbno r-ma L state. Start by a a kfng What d:> you think is wrong wit.h the human race; and try to forffiulate what you r2gard as the characteristcs of a normal human being. use imagination on one aide and criticism

on the other.To discover In ourselves divergences from the normal

~nd stimulation in attempting to become normal.

s e pencil and paper and being western trained write it out ,

For increase in articulateness and formulation of what you understand. Pass back and forth between S.O. and thought.

Question your psrsonal problems. Do you feel like risking having

your feelings scratched?~ason is a material substance. By living cons-c:.tantly and actively rea soning chance rna king use of when inhaled i enhanced, insight, imagination, etc

Atmosphere where monks have contemplated. Appetite for reason best exemplified in questions. man's reason is questioning, while his emotion is desiring.

In understanding pe op Le who are un sy mpat he t Lc is a questionJ. of associations. All my words are related to ~ associations. he same words In the vocabulary are related to different associations. Asso(Jl ciations much the same, words are different. Experiment with different

words. Interrogative attitude; intelligent trying( sympathy~s chemivallJ determined and outSide of understanding. You can hate and understand)

We are always engaged in a~oding difficulties. trying to reac~a

point where effort will cease. "Man iSK a boat, rowing in one dfrection and looking in another". Freud's discovery that whatever the explicit a im, we are rea 11y heading towa rd s extinction. . How much da I desire this cessation? How far do I diverge from the nor:n?

Is there a _ Third Gram!llar? Association of Words

Fo r-ma

Logic

Forms are manifestations of alaaae~(i.e. in time, the and merging

A creating phy~icist ~st meet the logical necessity of circumventing this process. ad no wish that it should be one form or another, No_ forms in his mind. merely the abstract logical use and logical possible solution

Thinking i~ Forms:~n is a three-brained creature. Not the example

but the idea on which built. e.g book on botany. Plan~ is an ascending spiral but at certain points byline the tree is a combination of all '. spirals in the vegetable kingdom. :.

Why the variety of forrns?Why a mechanism of spirals thus formed?

Still interrogating what.Answers in Objective Reson as to ~, -_ Forms:Plato: the idea of a chair"the quality of a Chair", an abstractio in the concrete. This is what is meant

man is in essence, a passion to understand and awi11 to overcome. Why? because designed to be an active coope~o~

... .L'

L gic. e.g.: hysicist saysQdissipation

unique subjective)

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~Bur8t. We have a wish. The wish is already an entity; you have ~8rbored a being. I+ may be of the ephernaridae for if ,no t_gratified :t soon may die. O~ if a little higher, it may live as long as i~ts e~ergy per~its. If your nature is rich, you may find desires which ~ill last all your life. Further, you may have desires which will

Jut 11 ve your body. In Saurat's point of view, our immorta Ii ty depends In our having desires which outlast the body. This might be a passion

~or understanding which outlives the pl~netary body. '

:ct. 24th.

Accidental association of words: Man who got e mo t Lo na L over "vengeance ! s mt ne " 'because his fa the r who wa 8 a minister had used it in anger. A"'S80ciation of ideas, when trying t o n acquire any different technique A l first we fumble; then "I've got the hang of it". I understand :I~\onto it. Si~ilarly get onto the idea that the universe was created

arid we, for a purpose of producing certain forces. ~uri08ity in regard to

:-row: practical

~hat: scientific

','i'hy: nhilosophica 1

!Yhat are they in their essences, these sentences? What is G. saying> 'lhere is a Verbal and a formal understanding of Death #

try to refor~ulate; the effort of doing this will result in formulations crystallizing almost automatically.

The progress from one for'll of understand:ng to another. is not by extension

G. classifies scientists into real and pseudo. The real seeker want to know "What" only in order to answer question"Whytl

Technique for developing;

Verbel association is developed by words.

Formal association is developed by association with wiser people. ~ertain persons who have associations with peasants, A rabians, etc.~ return with developed understanding, • Logical understanding is developed only by conscious preoccupations with que s t.t oriao r wha t is the 'JeC'ning and aim of existence.

Svery individu8l has es his genuine duty the development of Objective ·'eBson.Done by inquiry and pr-s par-Lng h Lmae Lf' to inquire. '?:hus like

an oyster, he developes his pearl.

Co~cious labor is labor for consciousness

~trort is psychological effJrt

Positive S.O. etc.

Voluntary suffering in increasing the effort expended. Effort is painful Conscious ~abor : Question~ng as to why

According to G. 's psychology there are only two fundamental emotions L~ve of being Bnd fear of Non~being.

All negative emotions can be traced to fear of non~ being ~hey thraaten to contract our being. All tnat eipands our being etc ex~anding our ego life. love we expand our being. It hate and fear, we contract it.

rhe Book of Dzyan , a Sans krit fragment in its opening stanzas

e s ks these questions. Madam Blavatsky' s "secret Doc t r-Lne " ia a c o mme n tary on these.

All beings are cla8&ified accJrding to their reason. ~ach is a step

~n a ladder. '

he reason of a being is the coor~inated sum of his normal functions

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_Bns is higher only bec8U2e the elements entering into it are ~ore co~~lex. Since the msJorirypof hU~8n functions are abnormal his reason is also abnor~al.

man by definition is superior to the ani~als,but in fact. his reason is e bno r-ma L,

Abnormality of man is summed up. The absen~of fear of Non-being. A rabbit threatened with death runs; man does not run •

';'lhat c o s no Logy?

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pOndering for e xs mp'l.e , the phrase "creative imagination"W'nat was Lnt e nc to be meant by it by the person who COined it and to us

Imagination is imagery. van I image something w~ich I have not seen?

which is not composed of objects I have seen? In a void? No

How does fancy differ? I~ is less precise. In greater artists, we have imagination; Iqlesser, fancy

What d t s t.Lngu t ahe s t What gives a difference of value which we na t.ur-e L'l.j assign. Come back to the word "creative" Is it fancy vs creation? ~ere is creatlon?Perhaps creative is an exaggsrated word; perhaps

d lrected". recollecting and recombinigplmages. I~ can be thus used f·or fancy is undirected. Dd r-e c t.ed i:nagin~tion but mus t be more than in it. What did Coleridge mean by it?

perhaps the phrase is relsted to creato~?

What effect has the faculty on a artist or thinker? Did it create somethingi in him?

What does i~ginatlon create? In the reader an elevat~on of mood, t~ a higher plane, a climb. But perhaps this is only a feeling. What is the evidence that I a:n not foolin~ myself?ifuat Evidence that I ahve climbed? ~see a Wider eXDanse and less detail.

~ake imaginative exercises. Survey the Population of th s planet asan exercise in directed imagination. It produces an elevation of spirit with inability to consider details.

Normal vs average. We have never seen the normal; only average and ._ banormal. We are sub-ordinary. w- must progress from abnormal throughordinary to normal

ordinary. Byron was lacking in human sensibility, which makes possible t~e genius-of his verse. But we think super ordinary.

Birth. Development of "I" The birth of the body is natural. In the development of the body we can find onl~ the pattern but stages are identical.

S. 0.. I~ Expe rirnentation. Youth of "I". Volunta ry Suffe ring. Conscious labor. -lohe result a fully grown "I" and t.he r-e f'or- its no r-na L life would begin. The soul has reached its responsibility and enters on i~ functions.

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External phase. Classify according to type. Modern psychologists are explorers without a map. This psychology offers ~map to the travelleer. There has been given to thIs planet a partIcular attention because

-it 18 a bnoz-ma L, a mote in the eye of the universe.

he moon was split off on a c comt. of an"acc1c1ent" • .?erhaps to develop a certain kind of BOUL Reading is a modern substitute for opinion w with the same effects onl~ o~cerebral center instead of e~otional Sakaki kept the passengers on a doomed ship playing poker

Just as the Enflish govt keeps the unpaid classes distracted with

. Cinemas, races and gambling. -

Kundebuffa is vestigial. The ~pineal gland 1s a vestigial eye. The appendix though still with some functions is vestigial.

Customs and habits are continued by sociological causes.

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Consequence: Do not pe~ple judge by what they have for theory 8nd ~ hear say and not by what they know. Practically anybody van be persvaed that read ing about Lmag Lna ry people is a forllodf experience We arao are apt t~ believe that experience is corn:nunicable that we can be taught by it •

or that we wish rest and p~8ce; or that to be rich is 8 happier state than to be poor; that people are inferior or superior a~cordin to their station in life or for their possession¥dr charm or educati or gifts. Such as a gift for writing, c~mparable to a wart or 8 prehensile thumb

That national greatness is a condition of individual happiness That a mu s erae nt.s a nu se

That distinguished cOllpany is brilliant That inspiration can take the p Lsce of work

That other p~ple's praise is satisfactory or that their disapproval is deb1iliatating. Praise acts as a sedative and disapproval prov~kesa sharp practice and a provocative attitude

That books, music and pictures are stimulating, a pathevic assumptio

that we are receiving passive i:npressions.

That leisure without previous work is agreeable. That it is possl ble to do no t.h mg ;

That fame has a real value or the possession of power or success. Continue this list.

i'hese are due to a general property of Kundebu ffa. W". are unable to

Ponder because pondering :nlght disturb our self-cal~ which is a ~ ~eace of mind wihhout understanding the ~eaning of life. Egoism 1s the substitution for right and wrong of "I lIke II and "I don't like"

I like or do not like It is good or bad

At is right Jr wrong

~astes are of the instinctive center

Emotional center; it 1s good ... . Intellectual csnter: lt is right or wrong for the effect inten~ded. The words "I like" and I doh=o t like should be left to children. means by which the influenc~ of the p~operties of Kundebuffa act:

Suggestibility is socl010gical , born in our biological structure. Of all the impreSSions received we note those indicated by suggestic "B'Lood-ciat.r-ea m'' the continuum of biology I Suggestibility the mechanism of our psychology.

We shall never understand any thlng without personal effort conscious labor which is labor to understand. We do not acquire mde r-at.and Lng by ex pe r-t e nce ,

~st obligations are fulfilled because of punishments and reqBrds.

~ Essentially there is no difference between man and woman. erhaps

man meets his problems with an intellectual emphasis and woman with emotional. But differentiation of sex does not arise until embryo - has passed this n~te in the third month of gestation

Vine and the tendril. tendril sent out by the vine to reconnoitre Sociological origin of a split personality for a child says

"Billy did so and so" We teach him to use I bringing about his own identification with his planetary body. We must attain the right to use the word "I" We must be a ble to objectify the body consider it -

as B possession._ -

"The kingdom of rteaven is within you and if ye know yourselves ye shall find it n. This saying was attributed to ~esus i~a parchment discovered about forty years ago.

Al01'\!"V,.,,,,.. ul"\l1""'R",lv~R Rnn v e shall be liware that ye are the sons of

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the .,.ather" date 8 bout 350 A. D.

pOndering always refers to the question ~ ratiocination to what

Why am I altve? Start by eliminating all the familiar answers.

Find all useless. No answer is left exc~pt the craving for an answer; ... he body ca n only d re a m "Who aha 11 de liver me from the body of t'his death"? Can only escape from dreams by disidentifying. Then "I" can wake up though the body consy!nues to sleep.

All undirected thought wastes the organism, wastes time, wastes energy (the da 1ly ra t t on )

In the intervals when not thinking of anything, think of sO!llething. If not pondering on these matters, think of practical problems.

The material for pondering is the forms of experience. P ndering

requires thinking in forms. ~

All vKpal c onmunt cat t cns are really Lmpoe s t b'l.e , or at least relativ~ We communicate by a recognition of a similarity of experience.

All experience is ineffable ; but we try to formulate certain forms of thougP,1t "at which we throw words". But the formulation is not ~he form:here are many p~sBible for~ulations for each form.

he wish of wishes in man is the wish to understand. but this wish Es broken up into a variety of w1shes; a~ush instead of a~runk.

~e variation accom~lishes noth1ng bu~ the fundamental wish re'lJ8ins/ -a!yths: OS1r1r was cut in pieces and scattered over tlte plQnet. It was the work of sis(wisdom) to reintegarete, rna ke whole -he n ~n is ~n.

Section on Ti'lle. - --

Time is a process that cannot be sensed, felt or understood. Only phenomen~ can be known but Time is the Unique Subjective never subject to be known

I am an ability to experience; but this ability to experience is determined by the organism .

... he poten,tials of my personal esperience are conditioned by the

winding of my three cen~rs. or brains. ~

At the present time our three brains act acco~ing to chance.

~he result 1s that experience teaches us nottling since the order in which such experiences occur depend~on chance an/not on logic or reason.

Illustration: a motor car that is run prJperly is subject to wear and tear; but if improperly run the rate of wear and tear is not determ1ned by its origlhal structure •• The incidents of life are not graded in

the order iux which we can de-rive real understanding.

With the development of essence, experiences would beg1n to flow tn

the right order. COincidences begin to occur more frequently as essence developa~ As if providence--- a co~incidence of octaves.

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Our planetary body exists for two purposes

1)- 8 tranforming of energies be~een sun, earth and moon.Like tides, To orovide a aoil in which a soul can develop.

At present only the c os mo s in a physical sense makes use of the planetary body. In this sense ,we are agents for the supply of food

to the-moon. .

Exercises. Thought varies in weight and rapidity; emotions in intenslty~

body in ~scular stress. Try and catch a though and approximate its weight. Compare the intens1ty of emotions.And muscular mouions in tensi<

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Act as if "I" exists and it will. Say "I have a body" end you will have one.A ~an is responsible for all his acts except in death pains, Sleep, food etc should be scheduled for organic needs •. The body has ~ny need 8 for which it ha s no wanns ,

~aattsfactlon of wanta destroys us; satisfaction of needs builds us up. Cf. Wagner's prose works.

There is a margin between need and want e.g sleep 11, 28, 27

~view of cosmogOny

Planets are being:s and have reactions as between peQple •• Their forms are not round but varied. When revolving they appear to spectaf as ·s~heres •• They com~nicate by emanations. (influence with~ut m8tter)~diations -- influence with matter. E.g. two planets ~eet ane mingle radiations; but see one at a distance------------------- ---frQ~ associations without power going out(catalysis)But abnormal relations between earth and moon.

A being's Reason is the sum of his normal functions.lf any are ~issing or abnormal, the total reason is abnor~al. ~sis of depreciat craze for food , sleep or any other function

tarth and moon, sick, Shivery, prGmaturely delivered.

e r-t.s t n vibrations are needed. Askokine --- effort. (WQ kinds of effort

~nvoluntary as deter~ined by external circumstances.

Voluntary. The first does no one any god; the second supp~ies will, development and energy, How make sane beings supply this A~kokin

they 30 to war and ar-e ot.ue rr i se Lns ane , K"ndeb~ffa' ...

Humans ceased to be able t to reason f:'om their experience. ~hey beca~e suggestible to slogans etc. 99% of our consciousnes s is in a trance subject to words.

Love all that breathes. Now there is no active pondering on this planet)perhaps a few score people)

Wh y do we not dare. Disagreeable consequencew. It may lead us to do sJ~ething Which will involve discomfort. K-B is an obscuring of the faculty of pondering

Egoism is measuring other people not b,y their needs but by ones own preferences, our likes and dislikes

We would desDise a doctor if he gave medecine according tJ his likes and dislikes. Yet we praise this in ourselves. "Sincerity" is an engine for being unjust to everybody; both those we love and those w \7 e .rEtht e.

Self- Love preferring ourselves and those with whom we are assJciated ~o all others including those who c~e s~pe~ior.

yanity

~ride. Ignorant presumption that the q~alities of the organism are d due to merit., Hand over the organism to a behaviorist, ca Ld pa ah

and calipee. Gifts and defects are due to biology and sociology.

If I pride ~yself upon iys gifts, ignorant impertinence; similarly if I apologize. We are most of us left in an uncomforta ble state of pride and some of sha me in 0 thers leading to effort at seltimprovement. Glorifisction for the organism from each of ~hese.

Our understanding is developed only bi voluntary effort and conscious labor. You know how much of 2ach you have made. Add them up and the su~ is yQur understanding. To the degree thBt you obse~ yourself

and make psychoogical energy, you are entitled to understanding.

All to act for t~e production of body and soul and all other unders~anding is Bonly verbal or formal

To God K-B is peace without understanding"

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feeding X-B. The Book-reading if done cJnsciously

petting and punishment the usual ways of pr-ovo k.l ng justice: br-t be ry and terrorism.

Ti~e the Unique Subjec~ive; the ability to experience.

Subjective and Objective dreams. Each t£mi time is personall the abil to experience. Why God became so concerned at seeing his time running short. ~ began S.O. he became awar-e of himself, of his body. When we become aware of the body we objectify it. The objectification of the body of God is this universe. Time had to support it.e. feed it I like us, But do we not eat before we Observe ourselves. hen we are eating to die. We eat, give out radiations and emanations; and when our organism is worn out, we die.

Every being has its own time.

Time is the I of I~

Struggle to make time instead of to pass it. uses of the planetary body

a cos~ic transfor~ing machine

b to make a soul. S.O. V.S. and C.~abor

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be Arch- Absurd.

~eelzebub shakes his head over the plight of beings on this planet

he Sun contains neither heat nor light. It certain substances were taken out of our atmosphere we would have neither heat nor light. Electricity in the a t.mo s ohe r-e "feels rem o r-ae " or aspirations to equal in intensity the ensnations from the Sun. When successful

the result is light. When unsuccessful, heatE.g. when presented with an idea such as thi8~00k, make an effort t o aund e r-at.and it. If

successful intellectual light. If unsuccessfu1, emotional heat. .

~rain of icel cool of foot, heart of fire

None of the heat from the heart should escape into the instinctive center

Okidanoch, the substance of life Scientists may make life, when th;y. understand the neutralizing or third force of el~tricity

Okldanoch can be used mechanically.or organically

the continued use of electric mac~1inery will bring a diminution of ~he abili t?, to think objectively and feel normally.

"Potential I is the neutralizing force.

Every being tends to become more and more particularized in its three fold ness. ~ey thrown out to what is known as evolution.

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O. read s from B. Russell's "A Free man's w<trship". B.R. is the rimalinadar of modern Europe. Another extract-- flussell's dream of happiness(cooperation instead of competition). e diagnoses to psychic causes in man which prevent coope ra t.Lon's De ac r-Lbf ng conse quences of. the properties of the organ K-B

Contrast modern psychology and philosophy's point of view with that of G.

rna ke a list of ten. quest ions which puzzle you

Second descent emanations

-18net~~tually dependent on each others n««oca------- and that these emeHat~oce&d princIpally from the organic kingdom on each

the organic kingdom is like a thin coat of varnish on the surface of a football. A skin.

As a ray of light falls on a substance, one color being radiated and the other rays absd'bed by the sUbstance/ I~e absorb

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for ~~ch of the ~nets, ~ature provides conditions for souls

'lh B ~ creation of those souls necessary for the Creator"

W e 0 ~ with all ~ts organs exists for one product Which is Seed ati~ily £gr~~~~~~~6 0Bti~nlt ~chines. J.he biologic value is our 1

that that is to end' a e same time G, says

In addition to reproducing, there must be producing

In addition to pr-oc r-e a t Lon which is biologic there must be c re st t on Which is psychologic. Instead of prolonging the species through 8 succession of ti~e, the prolonging of the indiv1dual and the abolitio Of time.

~ature provides conditions for both and is indifferent; but the creator's motive is to oroduce the sJuls.

". c·

en all the planets beings are graded according to their !teason"

Reason is the sum of noz-ma L functions.And there is a natural relation between beings and different R~asons "Relations as in physics. strl!i Standards ~n reasons are impartial. If beings of different reasons meet, the lower would not dispute the superiority.

A man really normal would not be harmed by anbrmal beast .

. A bnorrnal conditions of society result in natura 1 conditions being changed. A respected being demanded by inferior beings. nespect which to be real would be natural and inevitable

~n become famous because of oddities, defects etc.

he reasonable or rounded man does not attract attention; the oddity does.

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T .tird .Lie scent

liThe whole un cve r-se exista a s to its physica 1 body for the sa Ire of the Sun Absolute The Sun Absolute is the Uncve r-ae

1'he body exists that III" may unde r-s t and , The be at use to which the cells of the body and the body could be put and which would give them the most satisfaction is to increase Understanding of "I" who is their God. \' Analogy. Sun Absolute is X~ soxlx~sxt~ soul body of God

S .. ms.

IIWhat is called essence (G·,S,Shaw, L~fe Force) on certain planets

in certain beings coats itself as a cos~ic unit. 11WhiCh the divine reason may exist individually in time after this.

It a spires to be CO'1le a cons t t tuent cell of his bra in •• a cell in the highest brain of God.

"The substance of essence is called Pr~a(Sometimes said to be blood and nervous system Life ~Wd the ~lanetary body'~xblood.

Astral body is prana. of is

If crystallized in any orte, therafter one_must improve it in Divine Reason or reincarnate perpetually. Current occult groups say we sll reincarnate and have already done so in t1me. Accord1ng to the~soph1' not in recurrence Accord1ng to G. This is untrue. .

~incarnat10n 1s the~ception occurring only when indiv1duality

has begun~ When once Prana has begun to crystallize.

Then no escape; must go on ~h11e seed is gestated

II Blessed 1s be who ha s a soul; blessed 1s he who ha s none; but unhappy is he who has the conception of one"

Few in relation to the re~st; essence thrown into the melt1ng pot - from which new beings e~3rge bu1never the same essence. ear Gynt and the Button Molder. Many of us have an essence, not yet cr,ystallized and therfor not yet recognizable

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In proper condl tlonsK-B however developed from birth gradually atrophies"What are the proper condltloDs? Buddhas eightfold path

of rlgh} thinklng etc. When K-B is atrophied normal development begins he souls may dvelop raplcly Akhaldan-- seeker after the rneaniihland alm of e~stence, a po-o.erer. ~e'1lbers grade according to thei~~~nten~ty of desire. They\ffirm nothing they are only seekerE

The bell tent and the centra 1 pole I .....

Aim and meaning of exlstence may be an impossible aim but that aim ~ust be the tent pole

Pursult of this aim is rellgion

II ~!en used t o nl t ve between twe 1ve and fi te en hundred years" O. ha s no

i~ea how this is to be taken. No ev.ldence of any literal truth. ~e~~ps to be taken in the sense of activity in three centers. Centers run down~perlod of learning is ~ver but is a creature cappble of.learning which has ceased to learn. ay be said to be no longer

a. an ,

".Lhe reason that certain parts of the panet become nonulation and othe~arts become war areas is that those parts of the panet, vibrations only provided

population or by death.

't. venters of intensv

l~ature d e ne nd s frc by congested

Q.- "What is it to be ordinary"?A workman-like attitude to any job. If one ha s an ~~ra ordinary gift, this d c e a not mean that one must cease~o exercise it but m~st not be with an extraordinary psychology attached to it 'Just regard this extraordinary gift axxa from an ordinary po t nt nor view; not attaching too much value to what is

a product of biology.

Ordinary, sub-ordinary, extra ordinary.

To become normal we must first become ordinary, in psychology. Sub ordinary and extra ordina~ are identified wit h the lack or presence of some specia 1 gift "Ordinary" does not refer to the organism but to the psychological attitude to it. Must be non identified.

method cannot be proven the9retically. Psyche is always activive

psyche is always active a~~de~onstBatively, never passive and logical

Potentials are only e xpe r-Le nc e s b'Le but never 10gic8'11y d e nons t.r-a b'Le , Sp.etch y:::mr mind with exercises, efforts of real imagining in r-ea Lt t, SUch as exercise of i~agining total population on the planet etc.

or in place of the planet on the solar system in relation to H3rcu1es in the ~ilky Way, to other Milky ways