Presentation 49

Let's come to the 49th out of 52 presentations, which means after this morning's we'll have just three more and that will bring 2015 a the year of preparation to its conclusion, to its close to its finishing. We're looking all this year at the future and the new past as a dynamic energy continuity of time. And as the first dimension, we have been consistently looking at angles of vision. Which is not limited by time. Time indeed is the first of the four dimensional continuum of space time of the universe. But. Vision belongs to the infinite. It belongs to an ecology of consciousness. That flows, that swirls, that has its double chirality within that infinite field. Which has the ability to have angles of vision by which one can view, see, hear, existentially, touch that. Space time. Especially when it is indexed by time, which gives us the usual quality separating a civilization from a culture. A culture will always live within the natural cycle. A civilization will always have a calendar. It will have a way of articulating a structure of time. Which generally in its beginnings will follow a cycle, a cycle of nature. But that cycle of nature will show up. In different cultures differently, but will show up in civilization differentially. So that one in a civilization becomes used to their being. Fractions of whole numbers, which doesn't really occur in the cycles that are limited to a natural integral to the seasons, as one could express it succinctly. Thus in a culture there are the Four Seasons, but in a differential civilization, increasingly, with time being calibrated in a calendar, there is not only natural cycle of the moon monthly and a cycle of the sun annually, but there are larger cycles. There are, for instance. Ways in which one can expand the moon's cycle from a month. To an annual sequence that expands to 19 years. So that a true civilized understanding of the moon's cycle is to expand it differentially so that it includes all of the aspects of a 19 year lunar cycle. And the same with annual computations. In a year, there is a return and a return back to the beginning of the year, which varies. Sometimes it was the spring equinox, sometimes it was the winter solstice, occasionally even the summer solstice or the autumnal equinox. But always a culture will be tuned in to seasonality in a cycle, and it fits with the integral. Differences, but similarities of a natural cycle of space time, even in a natural integral. But as civilization. Is beyond that in the sense that like the hand, it is the thumb, it is a fifth dimension. It gives the ability to have a finer, firmer grasp of what it is that time. Turns out to be not so much that it is seasonal, but that it, especially now with a fifth dimension of visionary consciousness. Time has form not just a cycle, but it has its form of expansion and development. And as this fifth dimension comes into play, the hand becomes recognizable and finally realizable as a watershed. For our experience on this planet. About 35,000 years ago. Art was born in the Paleolithic. There were artists in the Paleolithic for the first time on this planet. And the immediate quality that was singled out in Palaeolithic art that early. Were red dots, red splotches. To give presence points, as it were, to the compositions of the animals. And some abstract figuration. But about 20,000 years later, 20,000 years ago. Those dots, those red dots. Became red handprints in a chiral form. There was an impress of the hand. There was the hand. Against which the most red pigment was blown. Taking the hand away left an imprint of the hand in a negative. Whereas the other was the impress of the hand in the positive. So that by the time that you have some of the great French Paleolithic cave art like Peck Merril or like Lascaux, one has the impress of the hand in Paleolithic art, showing that there was a beginning of a transformation from cultures to civilization. That what was coming into play took a long time in terms of years, decades, millennia to refine itself. One of the great discoveries. Was that not only is there a an artistic visual. Impress, which is chiral. It is the negative. Result left over. It is the impress. Put on in that double reality. It began to show up in language. And as language developed, it began to have its expression also in these kinds of symbolic. Forms. And those symbolic forms began to be developed initially as presents points. As counting points. As the keeping track. Of numbers. Of numeracy. In dealing with an advance from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic. Where in the Neolithic the animals selected became tamed. The plants selected became tamed. The minerals from which the color comes by the way, were selected, The metals were selected. And increasingly the taming in the Neolithic led to the taming of social cultures out of the hunter gatherer bands, into tribes, into groups, into cities. And as that happened and the numeracy of the points of counting became collected under. Glyphs. That initially were limited to the way in which the counters. Had not only been presence points, but had become small sculptural pieces like a monopoly piece or a game piece like the pawn in a chess game. And those had been collected together. And put into a pouch, a clay pouch about the palm size. And eventually the pouch was replaced by not having to have. Keeping track of numeracy, of little objects inside of it, but that it could be written graphically on the outside and eventually the whole development from numeracy led to literacy. It took about 5000 years for that to happen. And with literacy came the ability to have a written language by about 4350 B.C. that was not only literate in that it could be written, but it was literate, especially because it could be read. And by reading the read as the hand, it began to give a definite tone to civilization, which then kept track of time, kept track of calendars. In the very largest way, not by the moon in its complexities or the sun and its complexities, but eventually in the stars by their constellation complexities. And in the way in which civilization began to be literate. Writing and reading and conscious. There came within about 350 years, about 4000 B.C.. The ability to reflect upon the writer who was also the reader who was now literate in that they glyph symbols began to be collected together as an expressive language in its writing and its reading. And it took about 2000 years for that to be singled out in a selection. Of various alphabets. So by about 2000, B.C. was the beginnings of alphabetical, written, read comprehension of language and civilization. In the meantime, from that 4000 year B.C. to that 2000 year B.C. developed a complexity that related to the way in which natural cycles over a very long time. We're understood as having also meta form, and that that metal forming led to the ability to not only read and write and thus recognize and think, but to a deeper quality than thinking. And that is realizing so that a written language holds recognition in art, in expressiveness, in the way in which language is written and read and thought. Into the development so that. The imagination, which was an integral part of the mind of the brain, literally. Became increasingly creative. In the sense of creative imagining. Which is how the vision field works, not how the natural field works, but how the conscious field operates. And so the operation of the operator who can who is literate, who can read and write, who can now by about 2000 B.C., write alphabetically. You have the beginnings of a very big step that has happened in civilization. The first is the development of discursive writing in its crude beginnings, no less. But nevertheless, that led by about 4000 B.C. to a few people being literate, they were able to read. They were able to write. And one of those first persons was a woman named Eve. She had eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. And taught that she taught the reading writing of that fruit of the Tree of Knowledge to her mate, her husband, who called Frere Adam. So in a sense, Adam was the first man because there was a first woman. So that reading and writing, recognition and realization have a feminine tone of being available for writing so that one of the deepest qualities in civilization is that the feminine can be symbolized by a open, a blank, a ready writing tablet. And that the masculine can be symbolized by the pen, the stylus, the pencil, the inscribing, the writing instrument. And so this comes down even as recently as about 350 years ago. About 1650 A.D. that the complimentary symbols of a feminine open blank tablet on her grave, On her coffin. On her sarcophagus. On her burial coffin. And her man having on his coffin at the same time, the stylus that he can write. And these two coffins are a part of a World Heritage site in India. It's in one of the cities on the river that sort of parallels the Ganges. And eventually they run together into a massive one of the world's greatest rivers. From then on, on the UMA further north is the capital of India, New Delhi, named as New Delhi, because Old Delhi was in that same vicinity, much smaller and profound, because just north of New Delhi is where a great war took place, a great battle. That decided a war took place at the one of the earliest junctures of civilization in India. And the field is still honored, the battlefield. It's called Kurukshetra, and it is the battlefield in the Mahabharata between the five sons of Pandu. The full hand of masculine capability and understanding that when they work together, they are defeated evil in terms of civilization. Against the princes of their adversary, the cruise. And that took place about 3200 B.C., so that the Numa River is a major river in Indian civilization. And about 128 miles south of Delhi on the Jaffna is Agra and Agra, famous for a number of great structures. But its most famous structure is the Taj Mahal. And the Taj Mahal was finished about 1653. It was built as a mosque in honor of a woman. An Islamic mosque, the most refined mosque in the world was built to honor a woman, the wife of the great ruler of India, of Mughal India. And her name was Mumtaz Mahal. And in our illustrated pages, you'll find a portrait of Mumtaz Mahal. And her husband was extremely powerful and he had this quality of. His name was Shah Jahan. And when his wife and she was one of three wives, but she was the most dear wife to him. In fact, she was what we would recognize in our presentations over the last eight years. Is the theme of shared presence. That Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal were a shared presence tuning. When she died. She died because she was in childbirth with their 14th child. And if you're familiar with pregnancies and familiar with multiple pregnancies and familiar with the fact that it goes into double digits by the 14th child, her physiology was simply worn out and she died. It was a question for Shah Jahan that he had. Over used the love of his life to have more evidence of progeny and therefore of inheritors and etc., etc.. And so it partly an atonement, partly in appreciation, but all in that shared presence, excellence of spirit tune ability. He began building, having built the Taj Mahal, and it took all those years, more than 20 years, to refine it. And it's one of the most refined buildings in the world. When you go into the Taj Mahal. It is not lit by windows, it's lit by filigree lattice work out carved out of polished marble so that a kind of a filtered light enters into the Taj Mahal. And because its architecture is perfectly symmetrical, the only asymmetrical aspect to the Taj Mahal is that her coffin is a little smaller than his coffin, and the dais that holds hers up is a little shorter than the dais that holds his up. And that was an afterthought with persons who buried Shah Jahan because he died and was unable to finish his composition because the Taj Mahal on the river. Set back by several hundred yards of a long reflecting pool with two broad walkways and rows of trees was supposed to be complemented on the other side of the Yamuna by his. Mosque to. He died and they did not carry it out. They put his. Coffin, his dais into the Taj Mahal with her now on the ground floor. The dome that's above it, about 82 feet above it in this immense opening is actually a false dome, because the onion dome that is above that holding that dome of the hall, the larger dome is built so that it is like an onion dome so that its spire has a symbolic finial that reaches up. And at the very top of the finial with a couple of globes swelling in between, in metal is a crescent moon and a star. The hall itself is octagonal. It has four major sides. North, south, east, west. But at each of the corners there is a smaller side. And that this octagonal shape is a visionary aspect that had been brought into play. In such a way. That we can trace it back. Earlier in the Renaissance. Because we're talking now about the very close of the Renaissance into what we have called around 1650 as the reference wave for a new carrier wave that would come some 350 years later. That reference wave is energized by a renaissance that still was seeping into the generation of the fruition that some new huge step in civilization was happening had been initiated then. And of course, the same time that the Taj Mahal is being built. Isaac Newton. Is beginning on his quest in mathematics and in cosmology and in the hermetic development of an alchemical understanding, especially of history, of sacred history was a developing principle towards Principia mathematica. At the same time that live Netz was developing calculus from understanding in Amsterdam, from Dutch Jesuits returning from China that there was such a thing as the Ching, such a thing as the Tao te of the Ching, the yin yang of it, and was developing calculus from a completely supposedly different aspect. But those two aspects, as we are coming to understand, are related. So at the Taj Mahal and the development of mathematics zation of language. Commence about the same time and mature, especially in the late 20th century with the digitalization of language in the new character wave, the carrier wave adding a completely new ability to civilization, to its literacy, to its numeracy, to its ability to read and write on almost. What calculus does. It's an infinitesimal. Math amortization that can go all the way to zero and in a scalar that goes all the way to infinity so that we live at the cusp of a massive time form of civilization that has been progressively having its major nodes about every 2000 years. The Greek term for that double, 2000, 1000 year period, the double millennium is an on. We live at one at 2000 AD. There was one at zero or one zero B.C.E. or one ad. There was one at 2000 B.C., one at the original 4000 B.C.. The first one has Adam and Eve. The second has Abraham and Sarah. The third has Jesus and Alexandria and Mary Magdalene. And the fourth is now shared presence, realization. We're going to take a little break and we'll come back. Let's come back to We're looking at civilization. In terms of time forms. Which are very complex and turn out to be quite major and turn out to be keys to a calendar of not so much a cycle, but calendaring and ecology of a flow which has its resonances in between two fields. One is the zero field of nature. That by its very emergence has the quality of time energy as a dynamic that has an integral quality to its aspect, so that as soon as there is time, then then instantly there is the blossoming of space. And that space is not a zero vacuum. That's the field of nature. But the zero field of nature is fertile so that the emergence of time instantly triggers the blossoming of space. And that all of this carries an integral cycle to it, because space itself is integral and undergoing in terms of making sure that time as an energy continues to become. The dynamic and the mass, the integral into practicality and the dynamic to relationality and thus the universe when it first comes into play. Does not come as a solid or a liquid or even a gas. But what we understand now is a plasma. And the plasma has two qualities to it that are interesting. That plasma has what we know in the early 21st century. Call a quark gluon plasma, the quarks being the seeds of mass of particle energy having a gravitational resonance and the gluons being particles that glue, they glue the quarks together so that larger particles can be made and out of three, not two, but always a third out of three quarks. Two of an upper and one of a down or make a proton and its complement one of the upper and two of the downers down quarks up quarks make a neutron at the same time as there being something dynamic like the electron whose dynamism used to be called orbiting the proton or the proton and neutron nucleus. But it's orbiting is not the orbiting of just some thing, but an electron will have a negative charge in the sense that it will be like they quality there of taking the hand away. The Empress is still there so that a negative electron is negative in the sense that what operates for it in an integral is its relationality dynamically to the positive charge proton. And this is apparent. On the level of recognition by the late 20th century and of realization in the early 21st century that we're looking at something that has a mysterious boundary. Because there's not only the electron as a negative particle in the electromagnetic attraction magnetic because of the gravity resonance wave. And because of the quality of electro dynamic electromagnetic dynamics, the electron is accompanied by a whole or sometimes characterized as a pocket, a pocket of openness that is existentially there, as much as the electron is there, existentially as a particle. The hole is so real existentially that by the late 20th, early 21st century, it can be used as an aspect in production of material, a further mass of further complexity of practicality. But just recently, just this year, just this season, the interface of the pocket bounded ness, which is rather mysterious with the practicality of the electron, becomes a source of peculiarity that adds mysteriously to the very quality of atomic structural possibilities of new kinds of matter. And they already were exploring what we're no longer just metals. Anything other than less complex than hydrogen, a metal but semi metals, and that these have now just a particular typology. But there are all of a sudden mysteriously just this year, 2015, they have a pair of types with exotic qualities now capable of being utilized in production, in mathematics, in engineering and manufacturing. And so we are right on the cusp of being able to imaginatively create with mysteriousness. Understood. Into a recognition that suddenly poses a pause before the realization. And it is a classic pause before the realization that leaves a pocket, a space, as it were, in the civilization, for there be there to be a panic relapse, a regressive return. Back to some other node of a time form. If you have, for instance, a regression of the reference wave of a carrier wave like our carrier wave came the analytic computes that this 1991. The reference wave is 1650. Really? 1641. Newton was born in 16. 32. If there's a regression to that reference wave, it goes all the way back to the previous reference wave. And the previous reference wave is 650 AD actually it would be about 641 ad. Take, for instance, Islam. In the previous reference wave, Muhammad had just completed a genius visionary life and had written the Quran. But those who found the power and elegance in the Koran gave them a sense that this was not just a recognition for realization, but this was an opportunity for victory. And so as early as within ten years of the writing of the Koran in its beautiful, high poetic, visionary genius. You have it seized as. Victorious. Means. And Islam. Is overtaken in that reference wave. Not immediately by the Koran and by Muhammad, but by the victorious jihad of Omar, leading their conquest by establishing a caliphate. Muhammad was never a caliph. The Koran is a beautiful, visionary classic of civilization. Understandable and realizable. Recognizable to anyone who is really civilized. This is a gem. Muhammad is genius. Jihad. Is a false seizure of the opportunity, not a recognition of the gift and a realization of the spirit dimensions. That reference wave was refined in the 1000 years leading up to the real reference wave for our time, which is the Taj Mahal. There is a great difference between the jihad of Omar and the Taj Mahal devoted to the woman Mumtaz Mahal. There's all the world and in between. If we take just a moment and we look at the portrait of Mumtaz Mahal, she is not wearing a black hooded robe or a full length loafer. She is a beautifully clad and she is clad in the familiar, jeweled, radiant beauty of the millennial development in Islam, which is characterized by the Arabian Nights, by Scheherazade. So the appreciation of Mumtaz Mahal and the Taj Mahal as the great appreciation. Of her gift of being that tablet upon which greatness in art and in spirit can be written. The Taj Mahal is one of the most perfect buildings in the world ever. Its only real rival for its size and complexity and perfect symmetry. Goes back to the highest Sofia belt in Istanbul Belt about 500 and ad built by the emperor Justinian for his wife, Theodora, who was the artist of that pair. And the highest Sophia is still there. Immensely, immensely impressive. Like the Taj Mahal. Which was constructed then because of 1000 years before, a great, perfect building was construction in Athens. On the Acropolis was the Parthenon devoted to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, the highest Sophia, the goddess of wisdom, the Taj Mahal, the wisdom of the feminine being available to receive that highest writing that is capable of writing something recognizable, realizable, true in that double transform way so that the simple natural integral cycle becomes a complexity of phases that have a geometry. Like an octagon or a square or a circle or a spiral chiral pair raised again to a certain level. Where the trigonometry jumps into a calculus of being able to deal with zero all the way, not only to one, but to infinity. It's an infinitesimal, infinite way of analyzing and improvable ever since and improved to the standpoint to where by the by the late 20th century, there were more books every year on New Mass than had been written in the total history of Civilization before. And we're still growing because there's no end in sight, because the insight is into an infinity and also able to appreciate the zero field that is fertile. Let's take an example. Not just India, because its whole development reached a tremendous jump. About 3200 B.C.. Yes, in the Mahabharata. But at the very same time, about 3200 B.C. in Ireland, on the Boyne River, one has the first development of what we know now today is Lagrange. Of a hillock that is immense size of a football field, but has only a small. Corridor that is its interior that leads to the center of that grassy covered. Hillock surrounded by a circular perimeter. And at the very center there is. A protuberance coming down in rock placement slab. Huge. That has a triple spiral on it. So that that Celtic symbol of 3200 B.C. and that India war of civilization Kurukshetra 3200 B.C., the beginnings of the stirring of what within three generations would be dynastic Egypt. The stirrings in China that would be the beginnings of the Ching coming very soon After that, you have this tremendous leap that comes to a fruition, especially about 2350 B.C., with a reference wave then that is ionic to the reference wave of 4350 B.C., which is when a written discursive language first was solidified enough that you began to have a population of people who could write scribes and people who could read. Those who engendered the dimension of vision, not because it was like a rare thing, but because it could be taught, it could be learned. There always have been men and women who have been rare visionaries. Lascaux was built and designed 20,000 years ago. And the architect left his signature. When you go into Lascaux now, you have to go into the false Lascaux. The simulation that was built near it because Lascaux is sealed off to prevent the complete oxidization of all of the murals on the left. The first image that's there let's go is the head and mane of a black stallion horse. And as you go down the concourse of the length of that cave at the very end is a rock slab protuberance like a broad stalactite. And on that you find the Black Stallion head and mane as well, the entrance. And not just the end of the hall corridor, but the turning point, because one then turns and comes back, emphasizing not the left hand wall going down, but the right hand wall coming back out. But instead of just coming back out to the entrance, it comes back to a spur. And if you follow that spur all the way to its dead end, you follow it to a chamber that is decorated with lions who will eat you up. It's a dead end. The only way to turn back from that and to come back on the other wall on the right wall has no illustrations at all until you have a gap in it. And in this gap, there is the beginnings of a plunge into a very deep hole. And on the cylindrical wall, as you were taken to that by being taken through Lascaux, it is there that you were pushed off the edge and as you fell. What was there before you in the torchlight? Was a charging rhino and a man with a bird had with an erection scared to death but did not die because you had been tied with what they found. The remains. After 20,000 years of a braided knotted cord, that bungee like, stopped you just before you would be smashed to death and you were pulled back out. The classic hermetic symbol 2000 years ago. Was Hermes Trismegistus holding up a torch of learning and reaching down with another hand and pulling one out by learning from the plunge that would have killed you. Except that the teacher knew that you had a braided Cairo loop of spiritual capacity and you could be saved from your plunge to death and pulled back out of that danger by this learning. All the time. 4000 years ago, balanced on that zero B.C. won a knife's edge. 2000 years before that, at the very beginnings of a discursive language that could be written and read the reference way for that at 2350 B.C. was a great writer, the first named writer who we know in history, and her name was Na Diana, and she wrote The Epic Myth Cycle of Inanna, and she wrote the 42 Temple Hymn Differential Poetic Voices Composition. And she was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad, who founded the Akkadian dynasty that replaced the 3200 BCE development of Sumerian cities into a league, into a federation, into an empire, and expanded it differentially so that eventually it included so many kingdoms in its spectrum that Sargon could style himself the first time on this planet as the King of kings from the island of Cyprus all the way to the Indus River Basin area in India. And at that time, by 2350 B.C., India was so advanced after 1000 years of advancement, beyond the origins of the Davos and the cruise and the Mahabharata, that the Indus civilization was immensely sophisticated more than any other place in the world. It had two great urban areas, two cities Harappa in the north and Mahindra Daro in the south, and they both had about a half million people. When the pyramids in Egypt were first being discussed. And it was 1000 years later. That the sudden influx of a whole fleeing tribal, civilized group of people whose original homes were in Central Asia had come to rest in what is today Afghanistan. And because of drought and catastrophe and so forth, there was a mass migration both ways. And the one migration that went into what has become Iran, most of them went through the Khyber Pass into northern India, to the Indus River civilization, and found that it was much more sophisticated than any other place, including the one that they came from and their first composition. Was the Rig Veda? About 5500 B.C.. It took until the 21st century for there to be a masterful translation of the Rig Veda in three huge volumes here. We even included the head translator, Stephanie W Jamison is here in Los Angeles at UCLA. And Joel P Barrington, Oxford University Press, 2014. It's the first time that the whole Rig Veda has really been translated because the previous complete translation was by Griffiths at the end of the 19th century. So that just now we're able to understand that the ancient invested language when it came into India became Sanskrit and the ancient invested language when it entered into Iran, became very much old Persian. And they have cognate values and syntax. And when we come next week, we'll be able to trace it and see. From the Rig Veda, the poetic as an index for the creme de la creme of the rig. Veda became the psalm. Veda, a summon is a is a song. It's meant to be sung out loud and to be heard, just like the Rig Veda is meant to be heard. But to be heard in a complexity that involves a whole ceremonial ritual durational cycle of the Sama Veda is meant to be read. And I have included in our illustrated pages here from published in New Delhi in 1965, the Sanskrit text with English translation Dve Chand Chand in Sanskrit in ancient Sanskrit is the the gift of protection in the sense of covering. It's interesting that the ancient word for the moon is Chandra Chandrasekhar, a very famous physicist from India. The same Veda is the song Essence of the Rig Veda. And within that Samay Veda. When we come next week, we'll take a closer look. Is one of the earliest Upanishads called the Chandelier Upanishad. Here's just a little bit of the introduction. The tune of the same vita the word Chan does is usually traced to the root chad. Meaning to cover it can very well be a derivative of the root Chunde. Having the meaning to please the melody of Saman is certainly delightful to the ear and the heart. And so the Sami Veda is called Chand does in this sense, the Shruti, the sacred writing, affirms this, that the Sami Veda is verily the heavenly world. Heavenly melody lifts one to the highest divine experience and the opinion of Regina Volke, who wrote the first Major Upanishad, which is called the Bri Hod Aron Yaka if on a shot. Shod. Is to sit. It's like an asana of learning. Upanishad means to sit at the feet of someone who is teaching, teaching into recognition from hearing so that you can read for yourself and recognize. And deepening expanding the recognition to realization so that you can read in between the lines into the context of which the words come as symbols. And at the very beginning of the Chan doga Upanishad, it talks about symbolic language being able to being epitomized and given a root kernel kernel. That kernel is ohm called that yogis. Meaning that in that particular spectrum of all the sounds that the human voice is capable of this word integrals to the point of being able to re explode them re revivify them into a radiance of recognition becoming realization through learning that is a shared presence. More next week.