Cyclic Law
Our thoughts
on Cyclic Law, we have done (indistinct),
they tend to get forgotten if we don’t remember this strange fact of
Cyclic Law we can become depressed when we are not moving forwards. We will
have a few illustrations of it and if we can remember what it is about, we will
not be surprised if we don’t make a continuous forward movement. When we draw
our force map of the absolute we cover the paper with circles and these circles
are zones of influence. Now they are not static, they are dynamic and as you
know every line is a point propagating and every point is an impulse. Now
impulse is inpulse the reason the letter M is there
instead on an N is because it is followed by the letter P and the P is a
labial, you make it with your lips and therefore economy says why not make the M with
your lips as well instead of saying in pulse you say impulse. So the word
impulse means inpulse and there is the sign of Saturn
if there is no inpulse there can be no expulse. There
must be a contraction onto a point and as soon as the point has come to be by
this contraction it must let go itself again if it doesn’t the thing will be
static and is not within the nature of power to remain static.
Also as this
power is sentient power there would be no purpose in it remaining on a point
because if it remains in any state whatever continuously it will lose
consciousness of that state, because the only way it can retain consciousness
is by varying the content of consciousness. If it contracted itself onto a
point and remained at equal contraction then it would lose awareness of that
fact, only by varying the intensity of the contraction can it retain awareness
of it. This is from our basic law “constant stimulation equals no stimulation”.
So as soon as we bring it by impulse a point to exist we have become aware of
it and it becomes time to let go of it, so that when we remake it we can re
become aware of it. Now if we make an
impulse in one point and then let go of it and then in the next second make
another impulse adjacent to it and then let go of that one and make another impulse
adjacent to that one we have one two three seconds and in each second there is
a pulse an in pulse and the movement from point one to two to three is
apparent. There is a contraction in the place one which brings a point to exist
then relaxes and point two contracts and makes a point it relaxes, point three
contracts and makes a point. Now there is then visually an apparent progression
of a point from place one to two to three but really no point has gone. This is
why we say “ all motion is apparent motion”. Now because of this law that says “constant
stimulation equals no stimulation” you have to let go of what you have got.
Relax and come at it again later and this is a law that is quite rigid, the
absolute power is power it cannot by its very very
nature be static. It can only create the static by opposing forces to each
other and as soon as it has opposed forces to each other then it brings to be a
point of opposition. This point of opposition is for the moment a point of
awareness but if it is retained at equal tension continuously it will lapse
from consciousness and therefore it must be let go again. Now this is a big law
and it covers not only the tiniest parts of a second but it covers the second,
the minute, the hour, the day, the month, the year and centuries, millennia and
so on. This law of the cycle is the big
law. If you try to hold an idea in your mind you will find that this idea will
disappear very shortly if think it has
gone forever you may become depressed if you know cyclic law you can expect to
see it again later. Now you may know of a little simple experiment with the
human eye where the eyeball is fixed by a little mechanical device so that it
can’t move. You then shine into the eye, onto the retina, a light it may have a
certain shape in a mask on the source of the light. But what happens is this,
the retina sees this light and then very shortly it doesn’t see it. The eye
being unable to move the same part of the retina is stimulated by the light
quickly tires and the light disappears. So when you allow this experiment to be
done with one of your own eyes you see a light then you don’t see it then you
do and then you don’t then you do it pulses in and out. And if it were not for
this fact certain peculiar thoughts would arise in consciousness. Now imagine
the human eye and there is the iris and there is the pupil in the middle, a
hole, through which you shine a light onto the retina. Now imagine the retina
is made of little elements pointing at you like a bunch of er
spring onions tied together or like your fingers. But when the eye can move and
the light shines on the part of the retina, at the moment that part of the
retina begins to tire your eye flickers and thus moves light onto another part
of the retina not yet tired. And by the eye flicking in this way you can keep
up continuous stimulation, apparently. You can come back to a portion of the
retina that was tired a few seconds ago and let the light fall on it again and
it won’t be tired now it has recovered. What we are saying is this that the
very nature of power, sentient power therefore of our own substance involves
cyclic law, that whatever we know shortly we are not going to know and then later
we may know it again. But If we don’t allow this cyclic law to exist if we
forget about it, and it tends to be forgotten by the nature of cyclic law periodically.
If you forget about it then when you are not knowing something you think you
ought to be knowing you think you are back pedalling or loosing time or you haven’t moved. People often face a
problem and do what they call solving the problem when they find perhaps five
or ten years later they find they have not solved the problem at all. The
problem isn’t solved because then they proceed to react in a manner they
thought they had transcended. When this happens it is an example of cyclic law
again.
Now let’s
see how we can conquer it, we sometimes see old diagrams in which there is an
eye in the middle and round the sides are the signs of the zodiac. And this eye
is looking and it is looking at the sign of the zodiac and its arc of vision is
travelling round the zodiac. Now factually we do undergo the shifting of
stresses in the body when you have a meal then forces go into the stomach to
digest it and that moment forces leave another part of the body, you have so
much available force at a given time. This force can do a certain amount of
work of a certain order. If you place it in your stomach while you are digesting
a meal you very probably if you are not careful rob your brain for the time
being. Everybody knows what it means to have a large meal of potatoes and then
a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes later become drowsy. Now what we are
saying is if we like to look at the human body. We put the three parts of the
body in here we can say that just as the forces travel round the solar system,
the earth is travelling around the solar system and the earth is being exposed
to forces different in March from the ones it will be exposed to in September
and so on.
The fact of this exposure to different forces
in a cyclic manner means that the organism is undergoing different stimuli from
month to month. Now as moments of consciousness depend upon a variation in the
content of consciousness, therefore your content of consciousness is going to
vary throughout the solar year unless you have a method of
stopping it. There is an old Chinese saying the says “if it is winter think
about summer, if it is spring think about autumn”. Now this is the kind of
trick, a psychological device, to help you to conquer cyclic law. We have a
belly, a chest, a head and a coordinator. Supposing you decide that you will be
very very cleaver and you will start work on
coordination. What does coordination have to do, it has to fly very rapidly
from the belly to the chest to the head to the chest to the belly and back
again. Flying up and down, because if it doesn’t fly up and down and watch the
urge, watch the feeling, watch the idea. Fly back over them all if doesn’t do
this it is simply not coordinating it is a scanning device to see what is the urge
doing what is feeling doing what is thinking doing. And if you actually try and
do this you find after a time that you will start to tire and this tiring
process is according to law. We know that tiring is the same thing as ( tora-ing,)
that is the law. The law says if you keep on doing the same thing you will tire,
you will lapse from consciousness because constant stimulation equals no stimulation.
If you forget this law you will become depressed at certain points because you
will be convinced that you haven’t moved. You know the old saying if you sat in
the back of the cart you can see how far you have come, if you sit in the front
you will see how far you have got to go. Sitting in the front of the cart can
be very depressing; sitting in the back of the cart can be very elevating. You
might even suffer from St Pauls disease, exultation of spirit or sheer swell
headedness. Sitting in the back of the cart and seeing how far you have come
compared with ordinary mortals can help you to become pleased and positive for
the time being. But if you go and sit in the front and see how far you have got
to go it has a sobering effect, now what we tend to forget if we are not
careful is this, we are not training ourselves for time. We are how many years
before we thinking about training generally, let’s say 20 years of life have
gone, we may have 40, 50 left. We have
50 years to play about and to put yourself in order. You are not playing
about with yourself and discovering
yourself for time because if that’s all you were doing it for you would be wasting time. This is absolutely
essential to remember, if you forget that you are preparing yourself for
eternity and think you are preparing yourself for time you can become very
disappointed in your progress. Because in effect if you think you are preparing
yourself for time you think you are going to get perfection within a week or a
month or if you are very patient within six months. But in fact you are not
going to get your perfection in such a short time and you should not get your
perfection in such a short time. You are not training for time, you are going
to be definitely dead within a few years apart from nuclear weapons you are
going to be dead by cyclic law. So no matter how hard you work how clever you
become how perfect you become in time your body is going to fall apart, and
therefore you are not training for time. So that you shouldn’t be surprised if
the prize being eternal the temporal work should take all the time you have
got.
This is of
the utmost importance to realise and it is the thing we constantly tend to
forget that we are not training for time, we are training for eternity. Death
is certain all born being to date have statistically managed to get dead. And
therefore we haven’t even got one case that we know of that hasn’t been deaded. Even Christ resurrecting had to get killed first,
the question of whether we can resurrect after our personal deaths is open but
that we will die we have not one evidence statistically to suggest it is
unlikely. We are going die a physical death this body is going to fall to bits.
We can promise that with statistics of about 150 thousand years, human, and
several million of years animal, and considerably more vegetable. So we are not
training for time we are training for eternity and we would be damned cheeky if
we thought that by fooling about for a year or two years or three years we
could then establish ourselves in eternity without any further work. It is a
kind of short view it’s a short sighted view. It can’t possibly be a true view
that a thing of permanent value shall be gained in a year or two’s slaphappy
occasional work. So we will remind ourselves that we are working not for time
we are working through time for the timeless for the absolutely permanent. We
will then not be disappointed that if we discover that in three years work or
four or five or ten we have still got more work to do. We have got work to do
as long as we have a physical body. If when we finish up on the deathbed we’ve
accumulated enough directive forces in us to carry us into the next world with
the right direction that is all we ought to hope for. Not to have completed the
process in this time but to have established such a direction in this gross
body that after the dissolution of the gross body we will be able to say I know
that my subtle body now is so surcharged with direction of evolution of
consciousness that it can’t stop, it must go on.
And
therefore in Eternity the (A) trinity
the absolute state of power my evolution is going to continue. If we
remember this fact we will not be disappointed if standing on our left ear on a
block of ice and melting it does not land us into nirvana in three years
practice.
Now let’s
look a little more closely at this cyclic law. We cover the paper with our
circles we make ever so many every
circle is propagated from a point its own centre that point is the product of
an impulse or saturnine impression and is followed by Jupiter or expansion, ex-pulsion. Now the cyclic law then consists of the wheel
turning into the centre and from the centre so the cyclic law can be
represented by a continuous travelling to the centre and from the centre. That’s
one way of looking at it, also we can take any perimeter and realise because
there are no lines other than points propagating, points and impulses. Then we
can see cyclic law going round the perimeter the stress accent of any existent
perimeter is varying from moment to moment. If you could examine a billiard
ball cut a section through that billiard ball and look at the pulsations, the
molecular pulsations, constituting it you would find there is a cyclic ripple
running through it. No matter how small the cycle or how big the cycle there is
an impulse running round the perimeter and there is another one running to the
centre and from the centre to the perimeter all the time. This being so we can
say that the human being with his three parts can be considered like three
wheels and there is a force down here we will call the sexual force, who turns
on his circle and goes down to express himself up to recuperate his energies. After
he has done that another circle starts the circle of belongingness, goes down
wants to belong to people invites itself to a party and it climbs up and gets
bored stiff and doesn’t want to go to that party any more. If you belong too
closely to people you will lose your individual value if you go on a desert
island forever you will lose your belonging value. You have to leave and come
back in everything when you have gone through your sexual cycle then you go
through your belonging cycle you will go through your lets have dinner cycle.
When you have gone through these you will climb to another cycle, I like it
cycle, I’m indifferent cycle, I don’t like it cycle. When you have gone through
that you will go through the true thing, I perceive, I remember, I evaluate. Now
these are all little wheels within big wheels. You see here that we have gone
through, in effect, nine phases within three bigger ones. Let’s look at the
cycle again, there is the sexual impulse plays out , belonging impulse, food
impulse, liking something impulse, being indifferent to the same thing,
disliking it , perceiving things, remembering things, evaluating things and
then we go back again.
Now this
means that the energy inside your body is playing up and down the spinal column
there’s another cycle. If you expect to be able to fix your energy in any one
spot, we will pretend there is a spot up there called intelligence. If you
think you can hold that spot of intelligence in a few months or years work,
permanently, you are misconceiving the nature of the work. Constant stimulation
equals no stimulation and if you put yourself on that point of intelligence and
didn’t allow it to vary and didn’t allow yourself to come off it, you would
become unconscious. It is only by leaving and returning that you maintain the
content of consciousness that you know about. Up and down the spinal column the
forces are travelling there are various cycles and sub cycles. These is one
cycle rather an interesting one that takes place just under the eye. 58 minutes
4 seconds certain forces flow into the right side of the body and they come
back and there is a stasis and then they go into the left side of the body . So
one side of the body the will side is charged you
feel you can do things without thinking about them and then shortly after you
will be thinking about things instead of doing things. When you feeling will
full that seem’s right when you are feeling rational
that seems right. Whatever you are being dominated by feels to you right at the
moment you are being dominated by it unless there is inserted into you a
concept that it shouldn’t be like this. Now
this concept comes through the ears. The ear carried in a concept we will say
this is the concept of perfection the perfectionist concept and this said I
shouldn’t vary I should always be the same always equal. And then that tends to
reduce itself to a static concept in which by equal you mean static but this is
already false. Equal does not mean static it means scanning the whole field of
possibilities so rapidly that you accomplish the whole field and all its
contents.
Up and down the body these energies will go
and they will keep on going as long as you have got a body. Because this is so,
if you want to amuse yourself by accelerating your development in a rather
unusual way all you have to do is by feeling know where the energy is in your
body and this you can do by simply watching it and asking yourself “where am I centred now?” and as soon as you
feel where you are centred find the opposite point to it and deliberately
change centre. Now this will always produce in you a conflict and this conflict
will heighten consciousness. If you are situated we will say in the sexual
centre and climb right up to the rational centre that compares things at that
moment you will find between the two a field flux develops, you become aware very
consciously. A man who is passive to a
sexual impulse isn’t really aware of it. Supposing he decides he will try and
control it does he become less aware of it or more aware of it, In practice he
becomes more aware of it. As soon as you interfere you become more aware and
this is a method by whereby you use psychic law to defeat psychic law. Psychic
law still exists but knowing you transcend it by recognising it from playing
the things in opposites. It’s summer you stimulate winter most people do not visualise
snow on the ground in this weather yet in fact if you look at the trees now and
visualise how they looked in winter with no leaves on them you will have an
experience different from if you simply allow summer to speak to you now in
summer terms. To see summer in terms of winter is to see summer properly. “
What do you know of England, who only England know” ( quote from Rudyard Kipling . Puck of Pooks Hill) You know that brother Laurence’s great conversion depended on
something, he saw trees in winter and he said when I consider that these trees
now looking so dead will in the spring be covered in leaves I am filled with
faith. He saw death there standing up, no evidence whatever of a leaf and yet
he saw in his memory last spring and he said spring will come again. And that
meant that our life forces are conquering death and from that moment he began
to whistle very very cheerfully and he washed his
dishes and bought the wine with great skill always making a profit. He had
discovered something by looking inside himself about cyclic law. We had it
before on many occasions but it tends to lapse by the nature of cyclic law from
consciousness.
We have got
so much to remember but we are not training for time, we are training for
eternity. And Yesterday a young woman said to me, asking me, I have been
practicing Yoga that I learned in a ladies magazine, I have been standing on my
head to make my hair grow and her boyfriend said “ oh the article I read wasn’t
in a ladies magazine and I gathered from it that we stand on our heads, we
yogis, in order to make the body numb so that we can forget about it and become
all intelligence” now that is two versions of Yoga. Now we have said before we
have Karma yoga, yoga of action , we have Bhakti yoga
the yoga of love, we have Jnana Yoga the yoga of
knowledge, and we have Raja yoga the yoga of coordination or the yoga of kings.
There’s the four main divisions of yoga but they are only divisions of yoga,
you see coordination requires you to know to love and to do. And how can you
coordinate knowing and loving and doing unless you first know what knowing is,
loving is and doing is. You can’t put them together unless you experience them and
you can’t experience them fully except in terms of their opposites. You can
only know what doing is properly if you don’t do but think about doing. You can
only know what knowing is properly by doing something without knowing about it.
You can only know what feeling is by neither doing nor thinking. So you define
a thing in terms of its opposite.
There we
have a cycle where there are four yoga’s and they are going to keep rotating,
and there are various sub-divisions of Karma yoga such as Hatha
yoga all the yoga’s of action. Hatha yoga , physical
yoga Laya Yoga, Kriya
Yoga and so on there are many sub-divisions of these. Most of the sub-
divisions are in the realm of Karma because in the realm of physical activity
you can find an awful lot of funny things to do. You can thread bandages up
your nostrils you can pull them out dirtier then they went in. You can swallow
several yards of bandages into your stomach and pull it up covered in slime.
All this is part of yoga but it isn’t all yoga maybe standing on your head is
good for the hair it should be, gravity helps blood flow. But If you stand too
long on the same spot of the head you will probably get less hair instead of
more.
Now the
cyclic law says, that whatever we are doing if we are not careful we will not
be doing very very shortly and if we don’t engrave
upon our minds the principle of cyclic law, we will forget it. If we don’t
devise a method whereby everything that happens we say this is cyclic law and I
must state the opposite. If we don’t devise this method then we are going to be
in a bit of a mess. You know that the sea when it is heaving about making its
waves in general terms the molecules of the water do not travel in the manner
the wave appears to travel. They heave up and down and the rising of one part
of the water is coincident with another part and this lifting travels along the
body of the water. But the water itself does not travel so that the wave is an
appearance. Now if we draw ourselves a simple sine wave like this there is a
complete cycle , we are going up ,right down and up to the middle again. There
is the cycle if we know that this cycle is really a cycle when the bottom half
of the cycle shifted one diameter we will know that the real nature of the
cycle is always this and our wave is an abstraction from cyclic law. Now the
man that does not know that there is a wave in his being that there is no
motion whatever in the whole of the universe that is not built on cyclic law.
When he is going up he will feel smart , he is a clever fellow, ambitious and
he is successful but if he gets to the top he must come down and if he doesn’t
know about cyclic law he is a failure because he is going down. But it can’t go
up without going down you remember our method of conquering manic depressive
psychosis. All we do is this every time we feel elevated we pull ourselves down
deliberately by stating cyclic law. This causes the amplitude of the wave to
diminish and we get a wave which is nearer the horizontal line. Every time we
pull down exultation of spirit the wave gets flatter, the moment we do this we
cannot be depressed. Depression is only evidence of previous elevation. If you
let yourself go up one foot above the median line you will be down one foot
below the median line at the end of the cycle you cannot avoid this. Now the
observer is not the observed this means we have the power to dissociate from
phenomena. Phenomena are the product formally of cyclic law we can conquer
cyclic law by seeing the opposites in the cycles, we can see the trough and the
crest to pre-suppose each other. There is no crest without a trough there is no
trough without a crest if we admit this we are alright if we don’t we are going
to be elevated and depressed alternately until we finally decide to commit
suicide on the slight up rise out of a wave of depression.
Here we are
and we recognise if we understand this cyclic law we can defeat it, we can
transcend it. It will still exist but by understanding its law we will get
above it. An aeroplane is heavier than air and yet if flies. How does it fly?
It flies by obeying natural law not disobeying it. If we obey the law of the
cycle we can fly above it but if we don’t know there is a cycle we will
certainly fall below it. Throughout the whole of our being and throughout the
whole of universal being cyclic law rules. If we don’t say this to ourselves we
are going to be in trouble we are going to think we are doing very very well one day and pretty lousy the next day, if we have
a high opinion of ourselves in one week
when we are doing wonderfully we are going
to have a very low opinion of ourselves when we are doing badly. And we might
when we are being very very low bump ourselves out of
the world and lose the opportunity for completing our education. Human birth is
hard to get there are only twenty thousand million physical human bodies on the
earth and there are an infinity of intelligence trying to get in. They can’t
all get in at once it needs time and time itself is a cyclic process.
To get into a human body and complete your
evolution is very very great good fortune to ignore
the opportunity is foolishness. To expect the process to be completed in a few
years effort is also foolishness but to accelerate ones development we must
understand the law. The great law “The Observer Is Not The Observed”, and
within the realm of the observed, the objective realm cyclic law rules
absolutely. To climb out of the dominion of cyclic law we must practice non
identification with it and to aid in this we must assert the opposite phase of
the cycle. If the cycle is down, there is a depressed state in the body and a
lack of knowledge we must say this is cyclic law, tomorrow I will be a genius,
and we must mean it. And if we are being a genius one day we must say (indistinct
word) tomorrow you are a moron. He who takes success and failure equally has
pulled himself onto this horizontal line and he is of equal spirit. He can if
he wants deliberately elevate himself like an actor does or he can depress
himself like a young girl trying to persuade a little boy to buy her a box of
chocolates. Whatever he does if he can pull himself onto the median line he
will be able to elevate or depress himself at will, but if he is not on the
median line he will not be able to elevate himself deliberately nor will he be
able to depress himself deliberately he will be elevated one moment by cyclic
law and the next moment he will be depressed by the same law.
Now whatever
practice we make and every person practices something somehow. Everybody is
trying to get somewhere whether it is lord of the realm of mammon or lord of
the realm of inner spirit and so on. Everybody is trying to get somewhere and
there is a technique of getting there and a person tends to attach himself to a
particular technique. But any particular technique whatever is not the whole
technique and therefore if you adhere to a particular technique for a long time
it will stop showing a profit. The person who practices Karma yoga, I have an
Indian friend a very handsome little boy, he can put his legs round his neck ,
put his tongue out a very long way, he can balance on the palms of his hands
and he can twist his body and hold his right toe with his left thumb all sorts
of funny things, and he landed in an English jail for six years by committing
bigamy. Now he did this because he thought that being able to distort his body
in this way he had license to perform various things. Now the courts thought
otherwise, when I discussed it with him he said he had failed to take into
account one or two points and he is now relatively a reformed character.
If you
decide you are going to get to heaven with Karma yoga and you analyse what
karma means you will find it involves another kind of yoga. Every yoga contains
the other yoga’s hidden in it. A letter R here is the differentiating power the
ruling power, the Rex, the rest of the work Kama is the Indian word for Eros.
The erotic impulse kama is desire, this is the erotic
impulse Karma is the ruler ship of desire. If you are dominated by desire then
that is kama and there is always anti-karma a hit
back at you, a reaction. This means that if you try to do Karma yoga the yoga
of physical things you are actually operating on your desire nature because why
do you desire to do Karma yoga? Why do you desire to do physical yoga because
you desire it and that isn’t in the realm of action. In the physical sense
desire is a psychic phenomenon. Now let’s look at the other one here is the Bhakti yoga and this is the yoga of love. Bhakta is a man who loves, what is to love it is a state of
the soul love, but to love is a verb it means you have got to do something and
you have got to know what to do. The Bhakta the Bhakti yogi himself knows what to do, he loves god he loves
Ishvara he loves the cosmic intelligence to this he
devotes himself. He doesn’t love the little lady down the street whose toes
turn in too much and has winkle tipped toes and so on, he doesn’t love her he
gets a high object. To get this he has
to be a Jnani yogi he must know what object is worth
loving and then he must proceed to do it to love is a verb he must do it.
Now let’s
have a look at the word for knowledge ( Indistinct section) truth now he had
the base of know KN in English now the base of to know is made up of Ga and Ah . Ga the very principle
of gulletel energies that is straight back in Kama
yoga again then Na in it means negate it. There’s your gullet negate it. Gna, you know by inhibiting your gullital
urge, if you don’t inhibit it you will never know. If you do inhibit it there
will be a conflict and you will become aware of the conflict so whether we take
Karma, Bhakti, Jnana yoga
it doesn’t make any difference. Each one has the other two yoga’s hidden inside
it and to neglect the two hidden ones is to fail in the one you have chosen.
You might do
the plough or you might do a lovely asana of a padma
or you might term the drum or do anything you like whatever you do it won’t
avail unless you do all there is to be done. It is no good doing a bit, to the
exclusion of the other bits nothing less than the whole work can make whole.
Many people thing that by breathing very heavily or over a long period or by
holding their breath in and having a haemorrhage or holding it out and just
getting a bit dizzy, it’s always safer to hold out than in, they think they
will get to heaven. They won’t, not unless they love heaven and know what
heaven is and then coordinate it.
Whatever it
is we know from the fact we are dealing with this absolute sentient power, this
spirit symbolised by this paper. The chemistry of all parts of space is the
same any mark we make on the paper no
matter how big no matter what shape it’s all on the paper. The marks are
nothing else but little illustrations of the fact that the paper can move that
spirit can mobilise itself, spirit can model itself, when it has done so it is
still only spirit. And spirit in no sense separable into particulars, it is
always and everywhere itself wholly. So if that spirit is a sentient power in act, it is sentient power knowing itself in act. It is a
triune power to neglect one of the trinity functions is to neglect the very one
you are concentration on because two thirds of the one you are concentrating on
are already belonging to the other two missing thirds.
Are there
any particular questions out of this?
Question:
Eric : it is
said we should not presuppose what the future holds for us and this could
equally well apply to psychic law. Presupposing that we are going to have a fit
of depression after a period of elevation is setting up that statement in fact
it may be delayed it or it may not come. We are going to set up the idea.
Not at all, (
Long Gap) but when we consider the nature of the cycle we are not considering
the future. We are considering the natures of cycles as such not in the future
but in themselves. Every cycle is a cycle it is a circle and if we draw half the
circle today and the other half tomorrow and thus giving rise to a wave it does
not alter the fact that on the first day the whole cycle existed and when we
said to ourselves at the top of the cycle there is the bottom of a cycle I am
not referring to the future we are referring to the nature of the cycle. We are
making no predictions about how long this cycle will last we are saying that
the cycle must complete itself, in any duration whatever. So we are not
presupposing in the sense that where the prefix pre means before. We
presupposing only in the sense that pra means
rationally inherent in the proposition to presuppose in this sense is to say within
the nature of cyclic law every element in the cycle must reoccur. We are not
saying if it is Monday ,Tuesday or Wednesday this year next year , sometime
never. But the law as such must complete itself in cycles. ( Repeat section)
Eric : it is
said we should not presuppose what the future holds for us and this could
equally well apply to psychic law. Presupposing that we are going to have a fit
of depression after a period of elevation is setting up that statement in fact
it may be delayed it or it may not come. We are going to set up the idea.
Not at all,
here you are taking presuppose and you are meaning by it sub posing putting
underneath before (M) but when we consider the nature of the cycle we are not
considering the future. We are considering the natures of cycles as such not in
the future but in themselves. Every cycle is a cycle it is a circle and if we
draw half the circle today and the other half tomorrow and thus giving rise to
a wave it does not alter the fact that on the first day the whole cycle existed
and when we said to ourselves at the top of the cycle there is the bottom of a
cycle I am not referring to the future we are referring to the nature of the
cycle. We are making no predictions about how long this cycle will last we are
saying that the cycle must complete itself, in any duration whatever. So we are
not presupposing in the sense that where the prefix pre means before. We
presupposing only in the sense that pra means
rationally inherent in the proposition to presuppose in this sense is to say
within the nature of cyclic law every element in the cycle must reoccur. We are
not saying if it is Monday ,Tuesday or Wednesday this year next year , sometime
never. But the law as such must complete itself in cycles.
Eric:
Well you
make a point in relation to work and not feeling like working er and this is again cyclic, and it has just been said that
when you are going to go into the office so when you don’t feel like working
then you should work and when you feel
like work you should not work.
E.H. Yes
Eric: Is
this so?
E.H. Quite
so, yes. If you want to defeat cyclic law certainly you must and if you don’t
you will be under it because you are either over it or under it. You can’t come
onto equal terms with it there is a hierarchy. Either you use your knowledge of
cyclic law and if you feel an urge you say “ I am feeling an urge because of
cyclic law” so I am going to disturb it , I am going to insert a little bit of
energy from my reservoir of energy stored up out of my numerous dindins. And I can move myself and on the other hand when
you feel like rushing out and doing something you say “ this is also cyclic law
, I will sit down and not go to the cinema now and see this marvellous film I
will sit here and wait until the others come back and say after all it was a
lousy film. The thing is to defeat by the opposite impulse the reigning impulse
and in so doing to pull down the variation knowing that when you have pulled it
down to the median line you have attained the very thing you need. Initiative
power freedom from the cyclic law and the ability if you want to do, to be
quite maniacal by act of will or quite depressive by act of will. That is you
can jump on the reigning cycle deliberately and then come off it again.
Question:
Pulling down to the median line doesn’t diminish content of consciousness does
it?
E.H. No the
effort to do it increases it. It isn’t easy to pull yourself down when you are feeling
on top of the world.
Question: No
but when we think of seeing summer fully by seeing what the winter was like
E.H. Yes
Question: we
are taking two opposite, but here we are lessening the distance between
opposites.
E.H. We can
only do that by taking the opposites to reduce the distance, Between summer and
winter you have got two other points spring and autumn,
Question: It
occurs to me that that with this shifting into the opposite position you could
be reducing the amount of experience you could get. I mean suppose you suddenly
became aware of an urge and you nip it in the bud like that well you haven’t done much really have you. But if
the urge takes effect then you cut it out there will be a degree of effort
involved isn’t it.
E.H. If you
under impulse manage to conquer it you will have an experience, you needn’t be
afraid of fighting an impulse and defeating it, if you can. The tendency for
the impulse to say but this is life, it isn’t life, its leakage. Life is when
you pull everything onto the median line so that you are free and then you look
at the prevailing cycle, the solar bandwagon if you like and you jump on it and
off it at will.
It’s a
question of the timing the idea again so you see if you are the median line
maybe the lady wants to be kissed if you are on the median line you will
certainly know about it. But if you are not you may be too depressed or you may
be so animated that you will kiss the wrong girl. This median line is not
static it so tremendously intensely conscious compared with the other two modes
that you can’t possible understand it during a depressed state nor if you are
in an elevated state because it is a highly compacted state. The whole of the
energy involved in the full amplitude of that wave is in the reduced wave the
median line. It hasn’t disappeared its compacted you feel more vibrant, more
intense all that has happened now is your frequency is higher, you haven’t lost
anything. Most people are terrified of this median line they think it means
death, it doesn’t, it means heightened sensitivity, heightened awareness,
heightened initiative.
Question: I
take it that there are also big cycles to people’s lives as well as small
cycles
E.H. There
are cycles from the smallest division of the second up to millions and millions
of light years. There are obvious cycle like the seven year cycle, in the body,
there are also cycles like the ( Indistinct word) cycle and there are five sub
cycles within the R and there are sub cycles within those. And even the breath
is a little cycle, how often do you breath? How many thousands of times do you
breath in a day? a hundred thousand. Each one is a little cycle out and in.
Question:
What’s the position between say immediacy and cyclic law
E.H. Immediacy
means you have got yourself on the median line because you can’t be immediate
if you are riding up and down on the cyclic law. You are conditioned by it.
Question: So
you are saying you transcend cyclic law
E.H. you’ve
transcended it in exactly the same way a man flying a plane transcends the so
called law that says that heavier than air objects cannot fly. You fly be means
of the law, you don’t break the law you utilise it.
Question: I
take it the first step is stopping serial thinking
E.H. The first step is serious, to think that
cyclic law really exists and it is quite a good thing to stop it. And that the
technique of stopping it is stating the opposite. Take a most obvious thing in
human relations, a relation of love. Do you find in spontaneous love, not
calculating love. Do you find that both people come together in the same
moment? Or do find that as they come together one of them turns away? Provocatively
where does this provocation come from, supposing they came together like a
couple of lampreys, would that be love? That thing they stick their mouths on
stones in rivers. What are you going to do, strike and miss the target and have
to read adjust heightens awareness. Oh there is a subtle purpose behind it all,
it is the tacit conspiracy hiding behind everything. Even behind the lampreys.
Can you imagine one lamprey getting jealous of another because it is kissing a
stone? They are terrible creatures they just go on going.. but you can imagine
a pair of those in an eternal embrace ...it would be to say nothing if not
boring.
Cyclic Law is very important and everybody tends
to forget it according to Cyclic law. Somehow you have to defeat it by writing
on your brain Cyclic Law exists. The night is closing in now so it will be dawn
soon when you get up in the morning and say what a lovely day, it’s going to be
raining. Say this to yourself so you do not depend on the external stimulus
situation when you don’t depend that if
you want you can go out in the rain with your mac on
and feel very very cheerful, like kiddies do. This is
the innocence that Jesus talks about that goes into the kingdom of heaven, the
mother thinking about the future health of her child buys it a large pair of
rubber gum boots and sends it out in the rain. It takes them off and treads
about in the gutter having leant them to a poor friend. Now the child is right
and the mother is wrong if the child has its own way it will at least become
hardy and if the mother has her way it will be quite unfit to let loose in
nature at all.
Somehow we
have got to see Cyclic Law for what it is, understand it, penetrate to its
meaning in every little thing. You mustn’t expect your emotions to remain the
same. If you declare everlasting love to x and then Friday you are wondering
why you said it.........................
Stopped mid
sentence.
End of
Recording.
Richard
Freeman