LESSON NUMBER 25 WE STILL SEARCH FOR SIMPLICITY

We live in a bewildering world which confuses us only because we do not know it. A primate would be similarly confused about a watch. To him its wheels would have no meaning because both the mechanics and purpose of the watch would be incomprehensible to him.

Yet the watch is very simple to you. Its mechanics and purpose are perfectly familiar to you. You regard it as a very simple thing to understand.

You are confused about Creation because you do not know it. Likewise, you are confused about The Creator because you do not know Him. Also you are confused about the mechanics and purposefulness of matter and motion because you do not know them. You may think you need not be interested in knowing about matter and motion because it seems difficult, but you MUST know their cause, and that is very simple. Without this knowledge you are like a ship without a navigator.

You MUST know Creation, for your body which you are building, is one unit of it. You must know how to control it. You also must know it for what it is instead of what you think it is. When you become familiar with it as being but certain states of motion you must know that those states of motion are wave-records of your desires just as a picture is the record of the painter’s desire.

A manufacturer produces a better product in the measure of his knowledge of his product. Your body is as much your product as the products of your factory. Millions of years of your desire produced it. In one minute the desire of your will can alter its entire structural balance in either direction–toward life or death–without the slightest physical action upon your part.

The medical profession can make enormous strides in its great service to man by starting upon a basis of greater knowledge of CAUSE of the countless effects it encounters. In its search for CAUSE of effects in matter its beginnings should be in a greater knowledge of motion which matter is, and the relation of Mind to motion which polarizes or depolarizes body structure, or unbalances its polarity to form destructive tissues and destructive electro-chemical reactions.

It is for this reason that we must talk in simple language while taking matter apart to see how and why it ticks as we have to take the watch apart for the same reason. The need for simple language is great because the things which shall be told to you about motion needs the replacing of old concepts with new ones. These new concepts must become new foundations for comprehension of things not yet known or even dreamed of in Nature.

All mankind is still in as primate a stage concerning the CAUSE and PURPOSEFULNESS of all effects of motion as the early man to whom you are trying to explain the watch. When you have finished explaining one thing to him in the simplest words you could find you would have to explain one thing after another about the wheels, the gears, the central shaft and its extensions before he even faintly comprehended its mechanism. Even then he would know nothing of its motivating force nor the principle of time itself.

No matter how simple your words are you would find it very difficult to make that thing which is so simple to you seem simple to him. You would find yourself using the simplest kind of words as though you were talking to a child.

That is what I have been doing for the first 24 lessons–just attempting to lay a simple foundation for the motivating spirit in the still center of the universal shaft from which all power is extended for its cycles of divided and multiplied power, and to which all wheels are geared through each other to manifest the tick–tick–tick–of the heartbeat of the universe which spells out the time sequences of every action-reaction of Creation.

And so it is that I must find simple words and simple examples to explain fully to you the tick-tick of the divided universe of time and space which has one tick on each side of every equator to balance each other’s unbalanced condition and repeat it upon the other side of the equator as the other tick of the Cosmic pendulum.

YOU SIMULTANEOUSLY LIVE IN TWO WORLDS AND YOU MUST KNOW BOTH OF THEM THOROUGHLY–AND THEIR RELATION TO EACH OTHER

The universal pump would not continue to unfold this appearing-disappearing two-world universe if it were not for that electric interchange of motion from one side of an equator to the other as long as the energy of DESIRE divides the undivided still Light into pairs of moving lights.

Suppose, instead of my having used the words appearing-disappearing universe in the above paragraph I used the words living-dying universe–Or growing-decaying universe–or generating-degenerating universe–or gravitating-radiating–positive-negative–male-female–hot-cold–or centripetal-centrifugal universe.

No matter which pair of words I used they would all have the same meaning. They are all of them the compression-expansion strokes of the piston which pumps opposite pressures FROM EACH OTHER TO MAKE BODIES SEEM TO APPEAR OUT OF NOTHING AND THEN DISAPPEAR INTO THAT SEEMING NOTHING WHICH IS THE REALITY OF ALL SEEMING.

It is not helpful to talk about REALITY and UNREALITY abstractly. These phrases, and many like them, such as the divided and the undivided, the physical and the spiritual or mortal mind and divine Mind, are commonly used, but if most people were pinned down with the necessity of explaining them to someone who “wanted to know” they would find themselves in a quandary. But you who are acquiring this new knowledge are able to explain all of such phrases.

Knowing what they mean gives you a supremacy of power over all things, of your own body as well as the universal body, of cultural things as well as physical, for out of the rhythms of the divided universe come the expression of all of the arts,–and from the undivided Light comes the Soul of idea which is extended to cultural and intellectual expression in the arts. Likewise, your knowledge of the secrets which lie hidden within the wave gives you mastery of universal mechanics, mathematics and energy expression.

Conversations are too much filled with abstractions and affirmations without comprehension of their meaning.

Refer back to Figures 8 and 9 on page 149 to exemplify my meaning. Now pause for awhile and recall what so many have called the great mystery of how solid and liquid bodies emerge from space and are swallowed up again by it, which means–how the divided universe emerges from the undivided Light of Mind.

Meditate upon this thought for awhile. I am not only trying to make you look upon Nature more simply, I am trying to make you look upon life and death more simply–as simply as you look upon sound and silence. I AM TRYING TO MAKE YOU KNOW THAT YOU CANNOT DIE.

When you breathe in you are manufacturing your body because you desire to live. When you are breathing out you are destroying your body because you desire to die. You desire to die as much as you desire to live. Do not be too hasty in denying this. Think about it for awhile. Let us think about it together and see if true thinking of Nature is not better than false thinking.

ACTION AND LIFE MANIFEST REST AND DEATH

Let us think about life and death again but let us not use those two words which have such a hopeful-dreadful connotation. Let us absolutely forget that pair of words by substituting instead the words MOTION and REST. And when you think of motion, think of it as being divided–and of rest as being undivided and indivisible.

Recall what I said about DESIRE itself being divided into two opposite expressions of energy–the desire to concentrate and the desire to decentrate. When you desire to manifest an idea at rest in your Mind you concentrate your thinking by setting it in MOTION, continuing to multiply that MOTION until you focus it into an imaged BODY of that invisible idea. In other words you wind up something which was invisible until it becomes visible. You generate a condition called “gravity”.

Then what do you do? You decentrate your thinking by setting your brakes against that multiplying MOTION until it ceases in REST. MOTION then decelerates until it comes to REST in the idea from which it started. In other words you unwind that which you have made visible until it becomes invisible. You radiate gravity into “space”.

Again I repeat the principle that all MOTION starts from a point of REST seeks a point of REST, and returns to the equilibrium of REST from which it sprang. Motion starts centripetally to wind up into formed bodies–and ends centrifugally to unwind them into zero.

Perhaps we may now formulate a definition of Creation based upon the above, as follows:

CREATION IS AN IDEA AT REST IN GOD’S KNOWING MIND, MANIFESTED BY TWO-WAY MOTION IN GOD’S THINKING MIND.

Deep thought upon this idea should reveal to you that LIFE is but desire for MOTION–and DEATH is desire for REST from MOTION.

Likewise, both LIFE and DEATH are but bodies of thoughts formed in the image of thoughts which come and go in thinking Mind forever.

The greater the vitality which generates power to multiply motion the greater is your ability to manifest LIFE–but the moment you divide that power, by depolarization, or fatigue, or anything whatsoever which reduces the power of your body cells to pump vigourously–that moment you express DEATH.

Now consider your desire in the morning to get into action, and to express that power vitally all day. Do you not equally desire to cease from action at night to relax–then still later to cease even the action of thinking by fully resting in sleep?

If you will weigh them both in your thoughts you will find that the desire for REST is equal to the desire for MOTION. REST is the direction of DEATH from which LIFE is reborn, for every condition in Nature borns its opposite condition.

Your desire to breathe in is equalled by your desire to breathe out–but when you breathe in you compress to express LIFE by acceleration of motion–and when you breathe out you expand to express DEATH by deceleration of motion.

When you breathe in you CREATE your body. When you breathe out you DESTROY your body. Your body APPEARS from the invisibility of REST–and DISAPPEARS from the visibility of motion. You are perpetually living and dying–growing and decaying–generating and radiating–moving and resting. Your body GROWS, from multiplication of motion. It DECAYS from division of motion. It GENERATES and RADIATES for the same reason that it LIVES and DIES, and the desire for each is equal. Neither can be without the other. Each is born from the other simultaneously, then borns the other sequentially.

The principle of The Divine Trinity underlies all that is herein stated and their expression is possible only through two-way interchange of motion between each pair of opposites THROUGH EACH OTHER.

CONCLUSION

When any of our loved ones “die” we rightly feel a great sense of grief and loneliness. All the knowledge in the world will not assuage the t expression of emotion.

That is as it should be. We are all of us actors in the Divine Drama of Creation and if its actors did not express emotions which are appropriate to the lines of the play they would be useless and purposeless actors.

Grief, suffering, loneliness and kindred emotions are as purposeful in the Divine Drama of Life as joyfulness, happiness and like emotions are purposeful. And being purposeful they are good.

Sunshine in Nature would be a calamity without shadow–and an artist’s picture would be purposeless and valueless without both sunshine and shadow in their balanced relations.

No matter how great your knowledge of the unreality of death may be,–no matter how strongly you may live in the spiritual world–you must not forget that you have a physical body which manifests spiritual idea–and that you live in both the divided and the undivided universes of CAUSE and EFFECT.

To have so much knowledge of the undivided universe that it leaves you cold to the emotions of the divided universe is to hold yourself aloof from the play, and render you purposeless.

I have often said that the greatest achievement of life is to learn how to take all things alike, but I do not mean by that that one should become an intellectual stoic. God’s body expresses all of the emotions and passions which result from a division of electric pressures into two opposite conditions. All of them manifest God’s thinking and they always balance. Storms subside–and the calm after the storm demonstrates that both are equally GOOD. The calm is lovelier after the storm just as the water is sweeter after the long drought.

What I do mean about learning to take all things alike is to be strong in the knowledge that all things are good–and every effect is divided into its opposite effect–and EACH of the pair is EQUAL to the other,–each equally GOOD.

Your capacity for joy and happiness may be measured by your capacity for grief and suffering. All of the knowledge in the world should not dehumanize you.

Your knowledge will, however, balance all opposite emotions and thus enrich you for having experienced them, while ignorance will breed fears, worries, superstitions and other unnatural emotions which act as a terrific burden to your progress.

Knowledge of universal law will give you courage to transform the greatest defeat which ever threatened you into your greatest achievement.

It will give you a philosophy by means of which you may meet the grief of death enriched by the knowledge that every experience is GOOD, in that every experience strengthens you to meet all experiences alike.

You will know that the emergence of LIFE from the universal equilibrium is not greater, nor better, than its return journey to the same equilibrium for re-emergence. You will know that the equator which borns LIFE has but transformed DEATH into another manifestation of life which is as endless in its eternal repetition as the undivided universe is eternal in its changelessness.

And so it is that I must still unfold to you in simple words and diagrams the undivided BALANCE of the changeless ONE and the divided balance of the changing pairs of opposites which manifest THE ONE.

You shall know that the undivided cannot be divided, but can seem to be.

And you shall know the perspective of time–and of the Cosmos–which makes all things seem to be what they simulate–but are not that which they simulate.

And you shall know that what emerges from one side of its equator is equal–but opposite to that which is on the other side–and that EACH WILL DISAPPEAR IN SEEMING DEATH TO REBORN EACH OTHER AS SEEMING LIFE. The anodes of the universe are likewise cathodes–and the cathodes are likewise anodes as surely as you, who breathe out, breathe in again to again breathe out–and as you who live, are dying as you live, and must forever die to forever live.

We shall, therefore, build thought-bodies and give them form in light-waves of octave tones and call them solids of matter which constitute that inexplicable objective universe of so many things which mystify us and leave us so grossly ignorant that we write down tragedies and calamities in our lives which should be glorious with golden fruits of ecstatic knowing–and we write upon life’s pages defeats and illnesses and breakdowns where naught but our ascension should be written.

All things on earths and heavens of this divided universe of God’s recorded thoughts are GOOD, because God’s thoughts are GOOD. You may be perfectly willing to believe this statement as abstract truth but BELIEF in it without KNOWING will not make you strong.

You must KNOW, for knowledge alone will make you strong.