Federica wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 4:36 pm
Thank you for the introspective cues, Cleric. It would be interesting to hear where they take the reader. On gravity, the following has crossed my mind.
As spiritual collective of beings, our humanity was born in the warmth of Saturn, it awakened to life in the Sun environment, and grew up in the Moon’s. Therefrom we descended onto Earth. The Earthly environment is special in that it’s meant to host our awakening to the higher self, that is, the attainment of spiritual adulthood. And maybe, as a spiritual collective, we will always remember these Earthly eons as special times, similar to how each of us, in this incarnation, may recall the last years of education: basically a momentous but risky business, dense with potential for both painful mistakes and huge progressions.
So the Earth-being is our living home, or mother, hosting these momentous phases of our growth, and gravity is like its etheric body. Thus the physical Earth - the material planet with its attractive life force - is like the collapsed manifestation of the backdrop against which our collective incarnate existence, as humanity, takes definite shape, and impresses, at any given moment. In this sense, gravity appears like the force that continually precipitates the human environment into the perceptual spectrum - including all incarnated forms: our own physical-etheric bodies, that of animals, plants and minerals - and holds it together as a coherent flow of collective becoming that also keeps us connected to one another, through the common environment.
And because our entire incarnate flow of becoming (sensations, but also feeling and thinking) is filtered through the Earthly experience, gravity keeps recording for us not only the memory picture of our sensory interactions, but also the memory of how the higher thinking waves are continuously collapsed into the Earthly sphere, squeezed through the aliasing filter of our brain, to become our usual thought- and feeling pictures, in the wasteland of perception. [From the perspective of a physicist/mathematician like RP, I'm not sure what it means to imagine that the wave function is collapsed by gravity. Maybe that the quantum understanding is divested of one layer of abstraction, brought closer to a phenomenological approach, since the "non local" is somewhat re-contextualized within the scope of gravity? I'm not sure, and what that means in terms of his understanding of the universe.]
From another side, gravity as an outward force is also an energy of love. We are given a chance to harmonize our flow with the Earth’s life body, and to thrive in that alignment - a language through which we can connect with each other too, down to our physical interactions. All gestures of bodily movement, and those of creating, bearing, carrying, giving, taking, are all structured by gravity. And the inner gravity that drags the weavy field of ideal potential down into fixed configurations of thoughts is also a loving force, because it provides us with the favorable context in which the retracing work can begin, back towards the waves of living potential. So in this sense, the wasteland of perception, the sequence of perceived frames that make up our flow of becoming, which we have called “dead”, can be resurrected. The collapsed wasteland, pinned down by gravity, is also the solid foundation on which we can stand and educate ourselves on how to initiate the way back.
Great, Federica! I think you have caught the thread very precisely. Another angle on the above is that we can speak of gravity even in the first eon. Actually, there we have it in the cleanest form because all that we have on Saturn is nothing but a vast Cosmic spiritual state of imploding memory. Seen in an alternative way, we can say that it's not that the Cosmic memory shrinks/collapses but that the greatest delight of the Spirit is
to continuously outgrow itself. Thus the memory pictures can be seen as the attempt of the Spirit to expand and include in its consciousness an image of its form - which, however, immediately becomes a past form, because the new form is one that has consciousness of the old one. So we can imagine how this continuous outgrowing encompasses the whole present state in a new sphere of consciousness and thus the previous spheres seem to recede and implode toward the center. This reminds me of something:
RS wrote:
When it is possible to survey the period of life from the 56th to the 63rd year—and I myself am now in this position—one gazes at the influences exercised upon man between death and rebirth by Saturn, by the Beings of Saturn. This is an even more startling vista, a vista that causes bewilderment, nay indeed actual pain.
The Beings associated with Saturn are Beings who by their very nature take no heed at all of what they do in the immediate present; they act as it were unconsciously, under the sway of much loftier Beings into whose world they enter on reaching maturity. But as soon as they have done something, it stands there in powerful, living remembrance.
Try for a moment to imagine yourselves in this position ... I am not referring to any particular vocation or profession ... but just picture yourselves doing something, no matter what, and not noticing anything at all while you are actually doing it; but once you have done it, it stands there in living remembrance as an intensely vivid picture. Take a singer: he sings but is unconscious that he is doing so; he is simply being used by the Gods to sing. Imagine a large audience listening to him; as long as he is actually singing he is aware of nothing at all; he knows nothing, either about himself or about what he is experiencing. But the moment it is all over and the concert ended, the whole event is there and does not fade away; it remains and forms part of the content of his very life. On Saturn, man is the past, only the past.
Think of yourselves walking over the earth. As you walk you see nothing of yourself. But when you have gone a little further and look back, you see a little snowman—he is a figure of yourself as you were before you took the last step. Again you observe nothing, but walk on, and another little snowman stands behind you. And so it continues, with more and more little snowmen standing behind you. To all of them you say “I”.—Now transpose this imagery into the spiritual and you have the key to the nature of the Saturn Beings. Between death and a new birth man has to encounter these Beings—Beings who live wholly in the past. And there are men who in the elaboration of their karma have a particularly strong connection with these Saturn Beings.
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA236/En ... 29p01.html
And another one:
RS wrote:
Truth to tell, even an Initiate cannot see the circumstances of life between death and a new birth in which Saturn plays a part, until he has passed the sixty-third year of his life. Before then it is possible to learn about this existence in many different ways; but in actual vision it is possible to behold these happenings and their connections only when one has passed the sixty-third year of life. So you will realise why it is that I am only now speaking of matters connected with the Saturn existence.
As I said, Schiller developed his karma above all in the sphere of Saturn. To behold this Saturn existence in the way I have indicated, causes great amazement, because it is so different from anything one can experience on the Earth. In the consciousness of the Beings on Saturn there is only Past; there is no Present at all. But the Past is revealed in great majesty. Let me try to make a comparison with something that might happen on the Earth—it does not happen, but hypothetically it is possible. Imagine that you have no idea what you look like, you know only that you exist. You act, you do something—you do not see this at the time, you see it only when it has become the Past. You walk: you do not see your own steps or the movements you make; but immediately afterwards these movements change into a snowman—and you draw the whole movement after you when you look round and see what you have been doing! Such is the life of these strange Spirits upon Saturn. They are never aware of what they do out of an immediate resolve of the Present, but they perceive it only when it has become the Past. This is a difficult conception for the ordinary consciousness, but it is so nevertheless. Individualities like that of Schiller, who are also forming their karma, live in similar conditions of existence. Such individuals develop a wonderful vision of the Past. And so the soul of Schiller, before he was born in the year 1790, lived in the spiritual world with a majestic vision in retrospect of all the Past that was connected with his own karma. And then, on the Earth, this changed into the reaction: the vision of the Past is now transformed into enthusiasm for ideals of the Future. Schiller's ideals of the Future arose from his activity in connection with his karma during his Saturn existence.
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA240/En ... 01p01.html
Now this may sound indeed strange. It sounds like the highest beings are somewhat inferior. How could it be that we, feeble humans, have consciousness of the present, but these lofty beings don't?
Asking such a question bears great inertia from our present Earthly conceptions. We still imagine that the World exists as something objective, independent of any being, and thus time flows as an objective process regardless of whether anyone is watching. In this sense, some beings can observe it closely, while others may be 'looking in another direction', so to speak, and when they look back, they may have missed some event. So we imagine that the lofty beings are handicapped and they are blind to whatever happens in the present segment of the World-process and only grasp it later, while we are so advanced that we grasp the time that the Seraphim miss. This is, of course, not how things stand.
First, we have to realize that the inner life of the highest beings is very different. They don't have a private inner life, they don't reflect, don't make plans, don't desire things, and so on. Yet their inner life is the Cosmic phenomenal sphere of which we experience an aliased perspective. The imploding shells of this sphere are the 'snowmen' for the highest beings. All this forms the temporal backbone of our whole evolutionary existence. Everything else is a concretization of this foundational temporal envelope of potential. We are beings with consciousness of existence through time and having memory because our frames of existence are aliased from this foundational flow, which is the life of the highest beings.
Man's existence is folded in three more convolutions in relation to that pure Cosmic Time-existence. Now this 'snowman' process is reflected several times and is nested in one another. The most proximate to our lucid consciousness is that of our thinking. In its essence, our thoughts appear as snowmen. As a matter of fact, we gain intuition of the Saturn stage precisely when we are able to purify this fact and experience the thought process in this way. Yet in the full Earthly picture, this innermost sphere of thought is embedded in the snowman process of the higher context spheres. We can imagine that these spheres oscillate in complex ways one within another (remember the multiarm pendulum) and for this reason our thinking life is very complex. We can think of past, present and future precisely because our thoughts can reflect these complicated rotations. However, in its innermost essence, when we consider not what we are thinking
about (we can be thinking about past, present, future), but the flow of thoughts itself, then we have the essence of the Saturn snowman. The moment we begin to reflect on this fact, the spheres rotate out of phase (we enter hysteresis-like state). We think about past, present and future but we forget that we are thinking. So at its core, our thinking process is still a Saturnine snowman process, however, because of the complicated reflections, the thought-snowmen that we lay down, reflect not simply pure becoming but also how our thoughts, feelings and will should be directed according to our intuition of what existence is and what we should do with it. In the pure Saturn state we don't need to think, control emotions, or direct actions because, in a sense, existence is as simple as it could be - there's
a single attractor of existence: becoming the Godhead, continually outgrowing ourselves and encompassing the shells that we emerge from.
Seen in this way, we realize that our ability to think about past, present and future, is not something that makes us superior to the highest beings (as if we know more about reality than them) but is due to the fact that the primordial Time-memory flow is reflected and nested several times. Each eon adds a mirror, so to speak. In the first eon we live in the pure Time flow and behold only the implosion of memory (snowmen). The second eon adds a mirror, as if to have consciousness not only of
being the Time-memory flow but also as if consciousness tries to differentiate from that flow and partly objectify it. At the same time, however, the
innermost flow of that consciousness is still of the first kind, it's still laying snowmen. So it is in our fourth eon too. We behold swinging reflections of the original Time-memory flow, but now bouncing in the most complicated ways. Thus in a sense, we reach the possibility of a complicated experience of existence, yet at the price of being enmeshed in the reflections, deeply buried in the spirals of Time. And now we start retracing!