(Conspiracy Nation, 06/19/05)
-- A "super-ball" was a popular curiosity decades ago. It bounced
higher than an ordinary ball. You dropped the ball and it fell "down"
to a hard surface, then bounced right back to almost the level from
which it was dropped.
What was really happening was a collision between two bodies, the
earth and the super-ball. The two bodies attracted each other. The
earth, much more the massive of the two, pulled tremendously upon the
super-ball. It appeared to fall "down," but to a Chinaman living on the
other side of the globe, your "down" is his "up."
Single atoms are miniature bodies. Annie Besant called them
"Monads." She writes that, "A Monad is a fragment of the divine Life,
separated off as an individual entity by rarest film of matter..." Her
"three qualities of matter" are inertia, mobility, and rhythm. (A Study In Consciousness,
1904)
These atoms are attracted to and repelled by each other. Some
"force" causes this: the same "force" which connects the super-ball and
the earth.
The atoms are gregarious. They unite and form larger bodies.
You are a "body." You exhibit inertia, mobility, and rhythm.
The other bodies affect your body via a "force." If the other bodies
are in a hurry, rushing around, there is a tendency for their increased
motion to subtly increase your own motion. Try taking a leisurely walk
through a city. The rhythms of the other bodies, including cars also,
constantly rattle your pace. You will keep having to deal with the
rhythms of the faster-moving bodies, adjusting your own rhythm to
conform to theirs.
Because of inertia, one of Besant's "three qualities of matter,"
once you have adjusted your own rhythm there will be a tendency for you
to permanently abandon your leisurely pace. It requires a continual
effort of the will to overcome the new inertia and bring your body back
to a leisurely pace. In an attempted leisurely walk through the city,
you will continually struggle against the "force" exerted by the other,
more rapidly moving bodies.
The Book of Daniel (12:4) refers to a time when "many shall run to
and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." This could be, in other
words, "The Quickening." On April 5, 1997, radio host Art Bell had as
his guest the late Father Malachi Martin, the "plainclothes priest."
Bell and Martin discussed the theory that "the pace of life has been
accelerating, most especially in the past several years" and that "this
exponential speeding up of our lives is all leading somewhere." (See
"The Quickening," http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Quickening.html)
Where this continued acceleration of motion is leading is to a
cessation of motion. An undercurrent of fear is prevalent these days.
"When will the peak oil hit?" "When will the housing bubble collapse?"
For many, to whom "existence" is tantamount to rapid motion, a
cessation of motion is perceived as "doom." What is existence?
Existence is ever-faster motion. Were the rapid motion to screech to a
halt, this (in the minds of many) signifies an end of existence.
In "De Divinatione" (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Divinatione.html),
Conspiracy Nation discussed
how, to the sagacious, nature is a book from which signs can be read.
This extends into the human sphere, since we too are a part of nature.
Our ever-increasing speed of motion is an omen, which can reveal much
to the wise.
Isaac Newton, wrongly perceived as a mechanist (i.e., all are
subject to blind, inevitable forces, see "Newton's Zeitgeist," http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Zeitgeist.html),
pursued many avenues of research. Among other things, he delved deeply
into Alchemy and the Bible. He was not the sort of "intellectual" we
have today: extremely compartmentalized into a narrow specialty. He
therefore could better see "the big picture." (Perhaps that would be
what "wisdom" truly is.)
One area of Newton's multifaceted research was into the notion that
the most ancient civilization, whatever it was, once possessed the prisca sapientia (venerable
wisdom). In one of his notebooks, Newton wrote, "So then the first
religion was the most rational of all others till the nations corrupted
it. For there is no way (without revelation) to come to the knowledge
of a deity but by the frame of nature." (qtd. in White, Michael. Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer)
Newton believed that this prisca
sapientia had been encoded into the architecture of Solomon's
Temple. He painstakingly "investigated deeply buried, anachronistic
aspects of theology, ancient wisdom and the canon of comparative
religion, immersing himself in the netherworld of biblical
roots." Newton, "like many other thinkers of his era, believed
the religious edifices of ancient civilizations were more than mere
places of worship. The ancients had not expended such enormous effort
simply to preserve their culture and their world-view [Zeitgeist]: they
had constructed temples and monuments as Earthly representations of the
universe." (White, op. cit.)
Compare the above architecture with the "building boom" of the past
ten years. What message are we encoding for the future?
Besides the obscenity of "building boom" architecture, another such
sign is the consistent portrayal, in movies, of maniacal driving as
"ultra cool." Over and over one sees the "hero" proving his masculinity
through dangerous, high-speed, car chases. In our "civilization" a
woman's breast is considered "obscene" yet reinforcement of harmful
motor vehicle behavior is given a "green light." It is "cool" to be in
a hurry.
The devil ("matter") plays his fiddle and we all (mostly) dance to
his tune. He picks up the tempo and we (mostly) respond with greater
frenzy. "The productivity is up." How fast can it go? Obviously, at
some point, the vehicle breaks down. Then what? Then we stop, look
around, and realize that we are still here.
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