The Peril of
Great Price
The text of a talk given at Parklands by
Eugene Halliday Ishval Audio 103
Tonight we are going to talk about...
What are we going to talk about David?
D.M. The
Peril of Great Price.
E.H The Peril of Great Price. It begins
with a quote, so much shortened, about a poor thing but mine own. An oyster,
highly undesirable in itself and with a pearl hidden in it.. How many oyster
swallowers are there here tonight? Aha. How do you deal with an oyster? What do
you do with it? Do you chew it?
Chew
it and swallow it.
Chew it? What school did you go to?
(laughter)
Swallow
it.But that was years ago.
You mean in the days when tradition still
existed.
This is terribly important, because in
the Ancient World, oyster meant woman and chewing a woman is a waste of time. (laughter).
What it meant was do not waste time putting teeth into it. Teeth means
analytical judgements. Dents, analytical judgements are symbolised by teeth and
to try to analyse a woman is a total waste of time. What you have to do is have
nothing to do with them, or, if you do, swallow it whole, don’t bite it, the
days of biting should finish by the time you have ended your first year.. I
don’t mean in courtship.
So the oyster is a very ancient joke about the
woman of herself. I’ll ask you oyster experts about the anatomy of the oyster.
How much structure has it got?
Very
little.
Very little, that will do, very little.
How much structure has a woman got? (laughter) very little? Well actually they
are not committed to it, not to structure. Structure is pronounced with an
umlaut on the U like [stricture] Any structure is a stricture on the aesthetic
sense. And you know that women can feel in a far more sensitive manner than a
man can because a man has hardened his intellect so much that he has destroyed
most of his sensitivity. So the woman, symbolised by the oyster is a soft
bodied thing with a hard case around it. The hard case is a defence that any
woman has against external structure.
Imagine ther is a structure called
Universal Logic outside the oyster shell, inside is a very soft, sensitive
being actually able to sense changes in moon phases. Do you know that many
marine creatures come up to greet the moon, just before the full and they stay
up there until it wanes and then they go down? They are actually so sensitive
that when they are in the depth of the ocean they know when the moon is coming
up and they go up to meet it. And when they have said, “Hello”, fotr a couple
of days, they go down again. And women are like that. They are very sensitive
to a universal force field tat they arre
hard, or case hardened against external imposition of strict logic.
Now this very same thing, the oyster, so
soft, can make a marvellous [meatable] hard, near spiritual thing we call a
pearl and that pearl is a product of irritation. This means that if a man has
got a woman
Or an oyster, and he inserts into it an
irritant which is a hard point and well defined form, the oyster who hates it
so much, because it is formal restriction, will surround it with a secretion
and turn that little irritant into a pearl. So that if a man owns a woman and
knows how to irritate her she will produce a pearl of great price.
Now the art of irritating a woman is
rather more subtle than irritating an oyster. In an oyster you just you just go
down wait until its mouth opens and pop a little grain of irritant sand or some
other minute thing. With a woman it is very difficult to find out what will
irritate her and what won’t so you have to be terribly alert and study her most
carefully to find out what is most irritating to her.
[Take] that knowledge of space, time.
Power, associations, form, sequences, place, emotive tone and if you manage to
find out the art of irritating woman she will come out with wonderful wisdom. .
It is this wisdom that is symbolised by the pearl.
You notice the word ‘pearl’, it is a
word with PL which means Pi Law or reason, with an ear, listening between the P
and the L. Now that ear is sensitivity to cosmic sound, the shabda of Hindu Philosophy. To be very
sensitive to sound is a remarkable gift to woman, not so common in men because
they tend to defend themselves against what they believe is the non-rational
statement of the woman. So they shut their ears to what they believe are
non-rational statements. So women are not irrational, irrational means bad
reason. Women are non-rational, not irrational They do not commit themselves to
obey the strictures of logic.
Now it is a very great errorist game of
stimulating the oyster or the woman because it is quite unpredictable by the
reason. It is a marvellous study, the basis of which is treated in Hindu
Philosophy very thoroughly, but unfortunately – fortunately very symbolically,
so it is almost incomprehensible to undo the symbolism. But we will try to do
that a little.
The Universe itself is known only to knowers,
that is to say consciousness is that in which reality is known. Everything you
do is in your consciousness. What is not in your consciousness you do not know.
Yesterday I was talking to a very
intelligent fellow about this and I asked him if he was aware that he had a
body. And he said, “Yes, when I focus on it.” Was he aware of the chair? “Yes,
when I focus on it.” Was he aware of the Sun about ninety three million miles
away? “Yes, when I focus on it.” Is that knowledge in consciousness or not? Yes
when you focus on it. So focus is tremendously important. There is
consciousness which is an infinite field and there is focus within it. And the
word is fo, FO which is short for force and ‘cus’ which is from the Latin word
meaning to strike, so focus means ‘strike’. And when you have within your
Infinite Field of awareness a sudden grasp like that, that is
conceptualisation, the ‘cept’ means catch, capture. You strike it and don’t let
it get away, that means focus. If you do not focus, you do not know.
Now a very interesting word, vidya, which means knowledge with an A,
privative in front of it, avidya,
means not knowledge. But the knowledge is the impediment to the not-knowledge.
That is to say that when you know a particular thing you have excluded from
consciousness, by your focus all that you haven’t bothered to focus upon. So if
you focus upon any finite, you unfocus upon the Infinite. Now the Infinite
itself is called omniscient, it knows all there is to be known but only if you
de-focus from a finite.
Now the whole art of meditation consists
in expansion of focus. Contemplation is higher than meditation because it
grasps the whole reality and remember the whole of reality is very big and if a
person is used to only finite focussing on minutes, little things, and it has
taken those things out of their cosmic context and made them private, private.
To have a private thought is to be private of other thoughts not included in
the definition of the private.
Now the whole of attempts to meditate,
contemplate gain the condition called Samahdi,
which means the original seed of being, and t expand consciousness because when
you expand consciousness you also expand power to be. Consciousness and power
are fundamentally identical. The word for consciousness in Hindu philosophy has
a god personified is Shiva, and the
word for power is shakti, and power
is feminine and consciousness is masculine. This is tremendously important for
the relation between males and females. The male, through condensing himself,
focussing on ideas, has forgotten that ideas are actually power. How many of
the men here, when they think, actually think that they are handling power? Or
do they think they are handling ideas which are not power.
What do you say Eric? When you think do
you think you are handling power?
Eric:
I am conscious that it is power that is being dealt with.
Can you control it as power or are you
dependent upon the idea?
Eric:
It is not the way with me. Sometimes I am captured by the idea and then I
forget it is power I am dealing with.
When you are captured by the idea, idea
is Greek for form, you are trapped in identification with the form and every
form is under the law proper to that form. Like a triangle has a law of three
sidedness and a square of four. If you identify with the triangle then you can
only think of three-sidedness and their relationships and the inside and the
outside. And so you cannot adequately think about the meaning of square if you
are identified with triangle. So if you identify with the idea and forget that
it is power you are trapped in the form.
I was talking yesterday, a bit about
racism and pointed out that racism is not merely on the horizontal plane, it is
also vertical. Horizontally you might say there is a black person, a brown
person a yellow person, a white person but vertically there is a hierarchy of
powers within social divisions and that is also racism. How do we show that? We
take an example from India. One upon a time in India there were what we, as
Europeans call aborigines. That means people that were there, as far as we
know,, from the origin of the country. And those people were smallish, very
dark people with frizzy hair. And then there came in through the North West
Passage particularly, some other colours yellow, brown and white. You know the
Greeks, the Scythians, the Persians and so on, invaded India through the North
West Passage. And when they got there they defeated in battle the Aborigines
who were dark, and made a class distinction vertically saying the darkies were
the ones we defeated. So we put them at the bottom, and the whites who were at
the top were the most violent people the earth has ever known, their supreme
work of art being the Hiroshima bomb. They did the definitions, it is always
the victors that do the defining after a successful war. The definitions are
made by the win. And that simply means the definitions are convenient to the
winners. It does not mean that the definitions are true.
Now, imagine, in that conquest there
arose a division which is called caste system. But the word for caste there, Varna, means colour. So the original
division there was a colour one, whites at the top, yellow, browns, black, and
the whites who were the most violent, did the defining what was and what was
not worth bothering about. So when we think about racism we don’t need to think
merely horizontally, we can think vertically in any society. For instance,
southerners particularly were more influenced [than northerners] by the Norman
Conquerors so a Norman French vocabulary and pronunciation is found south more
than in the north. And all that we call four letter words in the North are
really Anglo-Saxon, Jute and Danes, not Norman French. The only words they had
for the sub-Latin divide, ‘copulate’, was considered to be very low down the
scale socially. So if you spoke Anglo-Saxon or any of the North languages
during the period of the Norman Conquest, you were definitely low down the
scale socially, and again we had a difference of languages and colour
tendencies.
So, when we think about this fact,
racism is not merely horizontal but also vertical. There is an much enmity
between the very, very high white and the bottom black as there is horizontally
between the black and the white at the same social level because you can have a
black emperor like we had, say Haile Selassi or the one that loved napoleon and
became a new black Napoleon in Africa, supported by the French, and then not
supported and removed, and now lives quietly somewhere in France with the remnants of his furniture.
But division can occur horizontally or vertically so we must not think about
racism merely as the difference of colour on the same level. Within that
discrimination there is a vertical difference of power, difference of social
levels difference of monetary levels.
Now the perilist thing is to recognise
the meaning of HR. The letter H, eighth letter, H means hierarchy and the
letter R means discrimination. When you see a simply English word like HOUR,
hours it means a division of time but not only time, but of power, why, can
somebody tell me why it is a division of power as well as time?
So
that it can function within itself.
Well how did the division arise of time
into power?
Of
time into power?
Of time into power. It is quite simple.
In the morning it is colder when the Sun has been away all night it is colder
and as the Sun rises up to the zenith, you become aware of its power and you
put your edelweiss hat on.
Now the division of the day and the
division of the Moon and month and the division of your spring, summer, autumn,
winter is a difference of power, not merely of time. In the winter you don’t
need to protect yourself too much against sunlight on your head or in your
eyes, but in high summer you do. So the word hour means a unit of time and it
also means power discrimination.
Now the peril of disclosing the pearl is
this. When a person becomes habituated to a certain mode of thought they begin
to believe that their habitual thought process is the basis of reality and they
cling to that thought process as security and security then takes the form for
civilising. They have words which they unconsciously worship or consider to be
the basis of their security. If then, a person comes along and utters a word
that contradicts the habitual word of a survival pattern of other people, the
ones who are contradicted will react and possibly kill the person who
introduces that strange word of contradiction. We know this in the case of
religions, because we have the authority of all the great religions that men
who saw too clearly too much and said what they saw were persecuted and driven
away by emperors, by kings, by priests, out of civilisation. Ant critic had to
leave and the more clear his mind the more critic to be. The peril of great
price is precisely this, that when you discover by listening, that is the ear
in pearl, when you listen carefully
you will hear not only the sound of nature, of animals and the wind, the rain
and so on, but you will hear in the human being, in the voice of the human
being, evidences of hierarchical beliefs. E know this because people are fonder
of certain words than they are of others, people who have rested their security
on certain ideas and verbal forms that represent those ideas and those ideas
and word forms will be defended by them, and if you contradict them you are in
peril. What you have heard, and, remember, the first defence of a sensuous oyster, the sensuous life of
pleasure-loving is represented by the oyster’s soft body and it defends itself
against a hard, harsh realities of the irritant and it covers up and makes a
beautiful body which is not irritant at all. And that pearl in the oyster
corresponds with a concept built up in the mind to defend the sensuous side of
a human being against interruption.
Now all HR are biased in two directions;
right side brain towards pleasure and all non-rational pursuits, like music,
the arts and so on; and the left side is dedicated to reason, so you would say
the left side of your brain is like a man and the right side is like a woman.
And the right side will defend like a man and the left side like a woman and
the right side will defend itself against reason when you try to insert a
rational proposition into your pleasure loving half of your mind.
Now when somebody for years has been
building up a system of concepts until they made a smooth, spherical, round,
all containing view of the world which protects them and gives them the
security they believe they need, then if you come along and smash that
structure, which you can do with a word, then they will react, often violently.
Many critics have been put to death; Galileo had to bend the knee for saying
that the Earth went round the Sun and not the reverse; Bruno was burned at the
stake for saying the centre of Infinity is everywhere and the circumference
nowhere because it decentred the ecclesiastical authorities of his day. So,
when you learn by listening carefully to tones of voice you will find out that
some people like and some dislike the same words and you will hear tones in the
voice of approval and disapproval of every word they hear. And if you are not
careful with your words you can find out you have said the wrong word, and something
can be said in a second with one word that will totally destroy the fundamental
self-consistency of a world view embodied in a conceptual structure which is
the pearl to which to that person. When it says in the New Testament, “And they
will think in those days they are doing God a favour to kill you,” it means
that when your structure of ideas [ ]
spherical, perfectly hard is threatened from outside by somebody with a nice
drill that can go through your pearl, because their pearl, their defence system
in the world is to them their God, they are worshipping their defence system,
not the invisible Infinite God, they are worshipping their defence system and
when you attack that system then you have threatened to destroy their God and
they will think they are doing their God a favour by destroying you for
uttering this destructive word.
Now you know there is an expression in
Yoga Philosophy, sankya, that nama rupa, name form are really
inseparable. The name of a thing and the form of a thing go together and most
people think that a name is arbitrary. You see a creature and say, “That is a
dog, that is a cat, that is a horse,” and so on entirely arbitrarily, so most
people believe. Do you believe that the names you have got for things, say like
the word ‘thing’, do you believe that word is the true sound name of a thing
such that the very existence of that thing depends on the pronunciation of that
word, or do you think that words are arbitrary?
Yes,
No.
The German hund, is it the same as the English dog?
No. One dogs your footsteps and the
other hounds you down. They are different functions. Now every name has a
corresponding form in this manner. The Universe itself is energy power,
feminine, non-rational power, feminine power, it just goes and does what it
wills to do without any consideration of anything other than its own will. And
when it moves, it vibrates, why? Because every movement of energy is within the
Universal energy so any local movement is a movement against the environing
forces. There are forces all round. Force is Infinite. If you move a little bit
of it you are moving it against the resistance of the Infinite Power. You will
agree with that? You cannot move without encountering a resistance. Typical
demonstration, - if you hit yourself and feel the power in your hand you receive
power and the resistance in your skull, don’t you? So
you cannot apply a power without getting a resultant kick back from the thing
you apply it to. That is like Newton, to every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction. If you know that then you have to say this, if the power of the
Infinite is sentient, that is, feels itself and then locally you identify with
a given body or a part of the body called fist, and you punch another part of
Universal power with that fist, the Universe will react against your punch and
this is called kama, KAMA. It is the
same as the European Cupid, name means desire. Now when you desire you go out
to get your K and your M, the MA, ma
which again is feminine is nothing but “I want,” and the K is in control. There
is KA. Control action, MA, appetival action, two together kama, same as our European Cupid.
How do we feel if we know when we desire
that is kama, we start a process of
reaction and must put a letter R into kama
and turn it into Karma? Karma means we have started a reactive
process because we have acted. How do you feel if you believe it? You are all
power, your body is power, your mind is power, your emotions are power and the
moment you allow power to move, it is moving as a finite within an infinite
field of power which we expect upon that power necessarily and unavoidably so
that you actually start that opposition that is going to defeat you when you
try to do something, because if you identify with the finite and its
limitations you actually start a non-limited infinite response. Now in the battle
between the finite and the Infinite who is going to win?
The
Infinite.
The Infinite but does the finite like to
believe that?
No.
No, that fact is the origin of the
Luciferan Satanic myth. When a very powerful being became so excited at his own
brilliance that he thought there was no reason why he should not become even brighter and more powerful
than he already was.. So he made extra effort, dragged more power in, but because he was finite the extra input of
power contradicted itself within him, blocked its own motion and from being
free, brilliant spirit it became the mineral world, a stone, which is why there
is an STN in Satan and stone. Every person is an ST one, self crucified one if
he identifies with the finite or limited purpose in himself. Any purpose.
Purpose is that which is set out beforehand in the mind for realisation later, pro positum. For the positing you set up
an idea and then you try to make your body obey the idea and then you try to
make every other body obey the idea and you have started an infinite reaction
to your positing intent.
Now, if you think about that it
generally makes you cautious about what you release because the response is
Infinite, and your consciousness, your finite purpose is limited and the
limited cannot defeat the unlimited and that is why it is said the victory was
won before the foundation of the world. It is inherent in power that victory is
already there, there is no way of avoiding it.
Now let us look at focus again. It means
force-strike. Within the Field of Sentient Power that means power that feels
itself. There are an infinity of possibilities of self-finiting by
identification. You can look in your mind, see an idea, grab it, as they say,
“Did you grab that?” And if you do you commit yourself to an existence
determined by the limited nature of the thing with which you have identified.
So you have already defeated yourself from the moment of the first grab. Let us
think very carefully, when you focus your attention on anything less than the
Infinite you have committed yourself to defeat you either immediately, a little
later or a lot later. That is always three times in yoga theory, three times,
short time, middle time, long time. There is another three times past, present
and future.
Now the energy, as your Western
physicist tells you, energy is indestructible but can change its form, change
the form but not the fact of the energy. Energy is the capacity to do work,
capacity to activate itself and that is eternal. So that when you start
something you have started a process of eternal energy. You posit a stress
accent, you finite the power for you as identified. You do not finite the power
beyond your identification. You cannot finite the Infinite. What you can do is,
by focussing on a finite purpose finite your identification and therefore go
under the law of that identification.
One time, Trevor , you were teaching
P.E. weren’t you? Do you still do it?
T:
Not to the same degree.
Not to the same degree, so you changed
your degree of identification?
T:
Yes
Now has your energy therefore changed?
Has the energy or has form?
T:
there is not the same energy input.
Into what?
T:
The teaching of physical education.
No, but have you got energy as such
unchanged as energy?
T;
Can’t....
You have energy as such unchanged as
energy but the form of the application changes, yes? So the energy itself cannot change. The erg, ERG in energy means a unit of work
and Y at the end is the affirmation. You affirm a unit of work. You can change
the form of it but not the fact of its essence as energy. Now everything in the
Universe is energy.
Count the fingers on your hand, begin
with the little finger. The little finger is gross material, physical body,
that is energy as gross matter. The next finger is energy as emotionality,
energy as fluid feelings on the move; the nest one is energy as time practised,
thinking about temporal succession of events. The next one is energy as
conceptual grasping the idea of the whole world as a unit; and the next energy
is the will as pure initiative; and the next energy, the highest one, is pure
consciousness not considered as modified by the will, mentation, feelings or
physical body. But the energy throughout is identical, it is the energy that is
meant by shakti, the unconsciousness
of that energy is extensive and mutually permeable with the energy. So the
equation is shakti power equals Shiva consciousness and Shiva consciousness equals shakti power.
Now it is hard for an intellectual to
believe that because he can actually think that he can think without moving
power. I heard said he can think of an idea either as a force or simply as a
form without a force. Now, when we think of an idea as a form, not a force, we
call that abstraction. We have taken away from it, drawn away that abstraction,
hide away from [.....the draw door] We draw away the concept of power from the
concept of form and then we get rid of the concept of power, focus on the form,
and then we can’t do anything at all about it, we are at the mercy of the idea.
Is
this the battle between the priests and kings?
The battle between the priest and the
king, doesn’t Blake say, “The king and the priest must be tied in a tether
before two virgins can dwell together?” Observe ‘virgin means man and woman. Vir is man and gin is woman Virgin means a perfectly balanced person. But then it
splits into two, vir which becomes
King and gin which becomes the
church, the priests, yes? You talk about mother church don’t you?
Now every being, without exception, down
to the smallest sub atomic particle, every being is both consciousness and
power together. You can’t have consciousness that is not power, you can’t have
consciousness that is not power, or power that is not consciousness, but the
intellectual, civilised male has been trained to a high degree of abstraction,
so he thinks he can think without power. Think his ideas with power abstraction,
thrown away and therefore, when he thinks he can immobilise his will. That is
equivalent to a man murdering his wife. The feminine side of your being is
power, the masculine side is intellective initiative.
Now if you allow your intellect to murder
your power, it is the same thing as a man murdering woman. When that occurs,
which it does, to degrees, every day in family differences of opinion, it is
because Adam resented Eve getting Adam into trouble.
Now here is the Peril of Great Price. It
takes you a very great price and quite a long time to make a pearl in an
oyster. You know, in Scotland, they grow pearls in oysters by deliberately
inserting an irritant into the oyster. But, there will be no guarantee that
particular oyster will be irritated in the right way to form a good pearl, so
you might wait for years, drag them up, examine them, no pearl! You might
irritate a woman all your life and get no pearl. You have not had the right
irritant.
Now, what is the right irritant for
every being. The word ‘irritate’ tells
you, I and a couple of Rs and an I and a T and an A T and E. Now, the irri part means a point vibrating so
violently it gives rise to another point, that is I, double R I. Irri, and then you nail it, one on the
other, and you get a T, you have to eat that thing, you have to swallow that
pearl without grinding it with your teeth.
Let us think very carefully about this.
Every being is a unique individual, there is no such thing as identical forms
anywhere in the Universe. The nearest we might get to it, two pebbles that have
been rolled in a stream for a million years look more or less round. But if you
examine them; their chemistry is different, their shape is different, their
degree of density is different. If you get two so-called identical twins born
and they look fairly alike, enough to deceive a careless observer, but they
don’t look alike to a very sharp observer. I saw a couple of girls on TV being
interviewed on one occasion. When they came on I said, “Those identical
twins, that one was born after that
one.” They hadn’t said anything yet, but one stood respectfully waiting for the
other one to move, that was the second one born. It emerged in the interview
that their job was playing the front and
back half of a circus horse, and when asked the back legs was asked, “Aren’t
you annoyed always playing the back legs?” “Oh no I’ve always been the back
legs I was the second one born.” So even so-called identical twins in the womb,
in the same womb, one is on the right, the other is on the left, one is above,
one is below, one kicks out and bangs the other’s kidney, the other hits that with the first in the eye,
and they... this is a real fight you know.....
Supposing I am an ovum, yes? And I am
listening and I am surrounded by thousands of battering rams, and I am terribly
sensitive and I am listening, like this.
Mmmm, well that side are knocking louder than this side, so I tend to
this side and those on the right side and those on the left differ in knock
power, those above and those below. And finally I pin the loudest knocker and
at that moment I open, whishth, and
the poor fellow is dragged in. He actually believed that he penetrated that
wall but he was allowed in, - terrible thought. What happens to male pride if
you think you have battered your way into a situation only to find, in a moment
of drunken confession, she confesses she let you in. What happens to pride at
that point?
Gone.
Gone. Well a gentleman didn’t tell me
this, a lady.
So everything whatever is unique. Let us
see why it should be.
What are the orbits of the planets, what
shape are they please?
Elliptical?
Elliptical? Yes they are not pure
circles are they? Why not?
Pull
and push.
Pull and push? Well couldn’t they be
equal pull and push? Why are they elliptical?
Because
elliptical they make it that shape.
Oh a very short tautology. They are
elliptical because they are shaped like an ellipse! You are cheating Peter, you
are at it again.
It
is because they are thrown further and further out.
Now what keeps the planets in the Solar
System?
Not many people done their ‘O’ levels
here I think. Aren’t little babies taught that the Sun gravitationally pulls
the planets towards it and their orbital velocities tend to throw them away
from it? And they take up a position of balance between a tendency to fall
under the Sun and a tendency to be hurled off the Sun. But, is the Sun still?
No.
Does the Sun move?
Yes.
Where does it go?
Round
itself.
No, it means simply rotating on its own
axis.
No,
no. It goes round in the Galaxy.
It has got another big star way out and
it goes round that.
Yes.
So, imagine the Sun is travelling and
the Earth is trying to go round it in a perfect circle. Can it do it?
No.
Now if you examine an ellipse that is
bent because it has been made around a travelling body which is travelling
round another body, which has been travelling round another body, which has
been travelling round another body which has been travelling round another body
to infinity, can there be any point whatever upon that orbital path that is
equal in intention, intention, extension, stress or strain?
No.
Impossible and therefore there is no
possibility in the whole of Universal manifestation and beyond, the
para-cosmic, nowhere is there a possibility of Absolute identity in every way.
Physical bodies are not identical, emotional fields are not identical, mentational
processes not, conceptual power not, volitional power not, consciousness
not. But consciousness as such, that is,
as not object identified does not come under discussion about formal
differences does it? Pure consciousness without an object has no differences at
all so it cannot be like any finited, identified consciousness which is
identified with a given body. So we can’t say we have a common field of
consciousness which keeps us all the same, can we? We have to say that although
consciousness like energy is energy, the forms and functions of it vary with
the positions, velocity and so on of the finite being under consideration or
the infinite under consideration, they cannot be identical.
So then, how are you going to make an
equation that the Spirit of man, is intelligence and will, the Spirit of man
can be identical with the spirit of another man, is that possible?
No.
So could you possibly get agreement
between two men about anything?
No.
So doesn’t that require tolerance about
differences of opinion?
Yes.
And could you possibly get identity of
opinion between a man and a woman when one is being rational and the other
non-rational?
Very
difficult.
Very difficult. Have you tried it or
didn’t you bother?
Right, everyone down to the smallest sub-atomic
vibration, a wavicle sub-atomically is unique to itself. Now the content of
consciousness of any being determines the way the being functions. So if you
have a different body, you have a different function, stimulation of the body
through the senses gives rise to an emotive response, then it gives rise to a
mentational, counting response, that gives rise to a conceptualisation view of
the world, that gives rise to a volitional intent and that moves within the
consciousness which itself does not change. So, how can there be any agreement
whatever other than absolute tolerance. We agree to disagree. If you had
identical viewpoints you could agree. Now, is there any way we could have
identical viewpoints about anything?
Peter: If you ... could see the world through my
eyes.
If I could see the world through your
eyes, is that what you said?
P: If
you could see the world through my eyes.
If I could see the world through your
eyes, would that be O.K? Only if I could see.P: No because that would mean identical....
Would I not have to identify with you?
You
would have to be in the same body, the same eyes, the same position.
Hmmm,
Peter then you could see the world through my eyes.
I would be right if I could see through
your eyes exactly, I would definitely be quite correct from your viewpoint. Do
you agree? Would that help me?
P:
No.
Supposing I reverse the suggestion, you
see it through my eyes. Can you do it?
P:
No.
Now it is actually possible to do this
you know. You can actually break the identification with your own body, with
your own body, with your own emotional field, your own mentation, your own
conception, your own volition, and deliberately identify with the body and
sense organs of another being and see the world as they see it. Do you know
what you tend to do when you do that?
Drop it immediately.
P:
Is that through fear of loss of your own body?
No, no. It is through the sheer
recognition of the stupidity of being like that. (Laughter) You have gone a bit
further than Peter.
Now remember, we have said before, all
attained yogis see exactly the same thing and they have a name for it. The name
is purna. PURNA. This is the
complete, whole reality, purna. I can
use that term and I can give you another term of it, shall I say pina, PINA, pina.
Now have you seen a bas-relief from the
Middle East from a few thousand years ago, showing a high priest with a pine
cone in his hand and he is holding it like this with the narrow point towards
the layman’s nose and threatening him with the pine cone? When you hold your hand like that and imagine
the round part hidden is in the palm there, and the sharp point is between your
fingers, yes? And the part hidden in your palm is round means it is not
punctilious, not precise. It is the wilful, non-analytic, non-structured drive
to power and is purely feminine. But the point where you hold your fingers
together and make the point of the cone is analytic, compressive, restrictive,
masculine. So that when the high priest went like that to the layman he was
saying, “I know more than you do because I am backed by feminine power, my
reason is the product of my power, yes?” Power is the origin of the intellect
not the other way round.
There is an argument in Christianity
about whether intellect predates will or will intellect. Franciscans and
Dominicans argue about that but the ultimate reality is that will creates
intellect as an instrument and the will is a bol, BOL, VOL, bolition, volition.
Volition is a ball and when you sharpen one end of it like point, like a pear,
it becomes intellect. There is no intellect unless you focus your will sharply.
So a person can be very, very wilful but they won’t be punctiliously accurate.
A woman may throw the dinner plate at her husband’s head and miss not really
because she wants him not to die yet, but because she is a rotten aimer. She
hasn’t had the wahuga, you know, the
practise in war, hunt and games to get the accuracy of throwing the javelin or
discus, or whatever. You know you need an awful lot of nervous control to be
able to throw accurately. The best way when somebody, a feminine throws
something at you is not to duck it, because if you did you might duck into it.
Think of that pear, notice the ear in pear,
and our pare[pair] is one form of it to show
there is a pear in [pare]pair.
One end is rounded. That is feminine one end is sharpish that is masculine and
that is a pear[pair] but isn’t that pear/pair not two? It is a being with a
round end and a sharp end, yes? Well the wilful end is round and comprehensive
and has a very whole idea of what it is going to do, namely, whatever it wants.
But the male, sharp end wants to do particular things accurately, so the male
end specialises in high ‘tec’ and the woman appreciating travelling to see
Father Christmas in which has been travelling round another body Lapland by
Concord. He doesn’t mind going on holiday if he survives the sharp end.
One young fellow said to me, I think I
have mentioned before to you, “Do women have more than three phases?” I said,
“What are the three?” He said, “Nagging moaning and sulking.” So I said, “Isn’t
there a fourth?” and he said, “Oh yes, sunbathing.” Now that is a fairly good
approximation. But why? Why do they have to nag, why do they have to moan, why
do they sulk, and why do they sunbathe whenever he is out of the house, then
wrap it up quickly, turn the sunlamp off, Five to five, put the pan on, put a
wisp of hair down to show you have been working all day? (laugh). You have to
think there is a war verum omna contria
omna the war of everything against everything. Why? Because the Infinite
Sentient field of Power can initiate anywhere within it anything whatever so
there is no overriding law controlling what happens to each little zone within
it. Every zone within it is uniquely wilful, intellectual, temporal,
calculating, emotively responsive and physically precipitate and every one of
them is absolutely justified in being so, because it is what it is.
You know what the Bishop of Durham said
recently to the question, “Do you believe in the incarnation of God in Jesus
Christ?.” He said, “Yes, course, God is being Jesus Christ in the place of
Jesus Christ, like he is being the Bishop of Durham in the place of the Bishop
of Durham, where I am.”
There
is that kind of sense looking at themselves there are all those aspects and I shall
focus on that and let it be.
Let it be? Can you stop it? Very kind of
you to let it be. You know it is inherent
no soon hear of conceit in the human race. I think I’ll just meditate on
Absolute Power. I will allow it to give me a message. I think that it is
wonderful! The absolute belief is much more intelligent. I live by grace given
to me by the Absolute. If I get an idea, “Thank you Lord for that idea. Do you
mind giving me also to go with it, the capacity for making it function.”
Haven’t we got to learn an absolute
humility because we are not quite as Infinite as the Infinite. We are only
nearly like that. Now a human being is a very marvellous being because it is
exactly half way and at the correct orbital distance dynamically, hermetically
between the Infinite omniscience of the Absolute and the utterly terrified
subordinated static condition of the inert mineral world, a stone. Vegetables
rescue themselves a bit from a stone, animals run about a bit, man can actually
meditate on and become alike in all respect except one, the Infinite.
What
do you mean there by half way, please?
Well, it has the bones, like minerals, he has
growing things in his body that we call vegetable systems,, that is a medical term
isn’t it? He has animal spirits, namely desires, he has mental processes, that
is mankind and he has spirit in his initiative. He can actually agree with the
Absolute being absolute and not want to usurp it. Hmm.
So
is it half way that realisation? So
man is actually a middle being between a stone and God.
Yes and he has the job of divinisation
of the stone. Man has been evolved in order to clear up the mess made by the
primordial, satanic form which produced the mineral world. You know the
material world is said to be in the grip of the Devil. That means in the grip
of minerality and inertia and stupidity, all that is meant by tamas, all that is meant by dark
nescience. At one end supreme enlightenment at the other end, black stupidity
and man is between and he can choose which way he moves, down or up. If he
moves towards less freedom, theologically we say he is on the way to Hell; if
he moves towards more freedom he moves towards what we call heaven. Hell is
inhibition; Heaven is balance of power.
Now, to get at this pearl, we have to
listen, I mean that literally. In our heads there is a centre which vibrates in
resonance with the Absolute. Now the sounds that the Absolute makes are sounds
of reality. You know these sounds in the alternation of compression and decompression,
and this alternation which we call sound at audio level is in everything
whatever that moves. Everything that moves vibrates. The reason it vibrates is
because of sound. It may be audio level for us or audio level for a beetle or a
microbe and we have our own gamut of responsiveness, but we are all vibratory
and if we listen we can actually hear inside our heads the voices of our total
ancestry sounding like a jumble of voices, called in the Book of Revelation,
the sound of many waters. And these waters are nations and people and
languages. Every ancestry you have ever had that was spoken has left a record
in our protoplasm of that voice and we can listen and hear our ancestors, to our first ancestor, the one we call God
that is the whole. We are sub-divisions of a whole and we can’t avoid that. It
is like a cell in your body, it can’t avoid being a cell in your body even if
it doesn’t like it, it is a cell of your body.
In the same way we are cells of a cosmic
body in its totality is called the Body of God. It is structured in such a
logical way, free from any contradiction, it deserves the name Logos. And that
Logos is called the second person of the Trinity. And the first one is the will
that precipitated it. The Will is the Father, the Logos is the Son, the
activity is called the Holy Spirit.
Ow tis is true of every single being,
not merely of humans but of animals, of vegetables and minerals but in the
human being it has evolved to a level of receptivity such that now it can
verbally articulate its position. An animal can’t and barking and growling and
snarling is not sufficiently refined and complex to express abstract, metaphysical principles and
apart from sucking noises which plants make, they haven’t got a very large
vocabulary. If you listen, lying on the grass on a nice day you can hear the
grass sucking. Have you done that? You can actually hear suckings in plants.
Their voice is to suck, suck, suck. It is a nice little word in Sanskrit SUKHA.
In English it is the same as our word sugar; sweet. There is another one, spell
the same word, take the S away and put D, dukha.
That means impedance, pain, “I don’t
like it.”
So, if you block the end of a rose,
somebody gives you a rose and you block the end of it up with, say, sealing wax
or resin, and then put it in water, when it tries to suck, it can’t get the
water and it wilts and looks miserable and dies unless you cut the wax off and
put it back in the water. And it is not too late, it will suck and grow and
revive again.
Now human beings are exactly like the
mineral world, the plant world, the animal world and the human world, which at
its top level is divine world. But to be divine, you must be reflexive. You
have to understand that you are i the middle between the dead stone, dead there
means least possible motion, minimal
kinetic power, and divinity means maximum kinetic power for any created being.
It is attainable by anyone whatever who wills to get it, but the human being is
the only being up to now in evolution that has the articulate power to
verbalise and formulate an intention of divinisation.
Now to get it, remember, you have to
break inertias. The inertia of your self-image is number one enemy. You think
you have to preserve yourself as a finite, you set up a system of ideas to
support your belief that you are right to fight for your self defence. You put
this into verbal form, you make a verbal structure which is your world,
observe, ‘world’ is word, word with an L in and the L means at work, energetic
conjunction through stimulation. The world is only a word. Every human being’s
world is simply the theme that he sees and verbalises as his means of self-defence.
So, if somebody comes along with a word he hasn’t thought of which contradicts
some element he has thought of, he will become enraged because he starts
falling to pieces. He can actually disintegrate by the word, the word itself
won’t fit, it rattles biofield of the brain, it rattles other ideas. Suddenly
there is a blow out, what you call in modern jargon, a mind-blowing process and
the person is then very, very much reduced in capacity. And they may be so
shaken that they can’t fight their way back unless they receive very good aid
they won’t do.. So we have to recognise the big enemy is self-imagery as a
finite being wanting its own way and believing, foolishly, that it can get it,
and identifying with a vocabulary pattern which it embraces and adheres to and
defends with all its might.
So that is number one enemy. In one word
that is called pride
Now the next enemy is covetousness. This is
the story of the seven deadlies. What you find out you have not got and wish
you had, that is called covetousness. Now when you find you can’t get it then
it becomes envy. That is your third sin. Envy is a terrible feeling that if
only I had been able to do certain things which allowed my development, I would
have developed. But I didn’t, I couldn’t
and I can’t so I am envious.
Now after that comes anger, I become
enraged, what a horrible world that does not let me establish my proud-ful self
image. So the anger tries to smash things up. It would smash itself. I’ve
actually seen men in hospital who have actually broken their own bones by
smashing their arms against the wall in sheer rage that the body would not obey
them.
And then, when that fails to do it,
gluttony. I know exactly what this damned, obstreperous, rebellious world –
I’ll eat it. So you get a great big tin of biscuits and start stuffing. And you
think that if you can swallow all the power, all the power you can get out of
the biscuits, you are then equipped to make a come- back and smash right back against all opposition and
re-establish your proud image. Well you can’t really eat all that much without
getting a bit tight in the tum. Well, what do you do next?
You give up. You are so full you can’t
eat. Well there must be something I can do. I know, I will go to a brothel, I
will relax, I will find a charming lady who is power and she will nourish me.
She will succour me. SUCKER. And then after that, sloth. The other six deadlies
get me nowhere. I will go to sleep. It is quite logical.
Now the hardest thing for the self image
is to give itself up because it is
equivalent to a death equivalent to the death of the self image. Now, remember,
everything is energy, everything is power every idea that has structured the
egoic structure had made the self image, every one of those is a living
sentient power has integrated with other powers and wants its own way, and it
will not give itself up unless you personally smash it. Now this is very
dangerous, this is the peril, you pay a great price because you have to get all
your energies together and smash your own self image with your own effort. That
is what Jesus was doing in Gethsemane. It is very hard to smash your own self
image because you don’t like looking at unpleasant things. But if you actually
look in your mind and listen you will find a lot of voices supporting your
image self image and making excuses for it and you will hear them talking utter
drivel and you may have to say honestly, “That is drivel, that is an excuse,
that is nonsense. I cannot maintain this rubbish, I must fight it”. But the energy
that is formulating itself as its defensive mechanism fights you trying to
break it and unless you are terribly determined you won’t break it, it will
break you. It will make you miserable and back you go into your biscuits and
amusement arcade
Now, to get the energy necessary to face
that battle with the self image you have to concentrate very hard and that
means centre energy, focus energy and make a bullet out of it. Bullet means
with the will, and you have to shoot at your self image where you know it is
wrong. And you do know it is wrong, because you know you are not at your
physical body infinite so you can’t say you are a world beater physically, can
you?
I watched a programme of the Strongest
Men in the World a few months ago. Last year the man who won it was a lovely
blue eyed blond, great muscles, and he won. This year the title was taken off
him and he jumped up and down and looked quite annoyed about that and there is
another one came [crowned]. And there will always be another won’t there
Yes.
Are we going older or not?
Yes.
Can I punch as hard now as I could when
I was eighteen?
No.
Wrong! That was mechanics you see, not
mine. I am meaning I have to fight dirtier now like any old dog. So we go older
and older and older and normally we go weaker and weaker, and weaker in th’arm
and head, don’t we?
Yes.
Now why do we get weaker in the head as
we get older, do you know why?
Lack
of interest.
Lack of interest, yes. How do we get
lack of interest
Lack
of energy.
How do we get that? Energy is interest.[
identification with all the things we are looking at.
Identification with failure, “Where has
my charm gone? Once I was a Valentino with sideboards.” I’ve got a sideboard
here, upstairs, belonging to my mother, but only one. I haven’t got a pair of
sideboards.
Now, when you meditate upon your losses
of power, you lose interest. Isn’t that dreadful?
Yes.
You can actually stop being interested
in interesting things because you can’ see how those things are going to give
you the power that you want to number
one top dog, top cat.
Now, when you come to face your
failures, you begin to lose interest. When you lose interest you are no longer
drawing energy in from the Infinite Field which you could do if you wished. If
you think, “What for?”
I know that Peter’s opinion of me won’t
improve if I practise on the barbells. Would he like me better if I could do a
handspring? [...........say yes] He said, “No, stop wasting my time. Why did I
want to do handsprings like an old man sitting on a gate? Wasn’t Louis Carroll
very aware of that? And how about “Goosey, goosey gander,
Whither do you wander,
Upstairs, downstairs,
In my lady’s chamber.”
What is the rest of it?
“There
is met an old man
Who
wouldn’t say his prayers,
So
I took him by the left leg
And
threw him down the stairs.”
There I met an old man, that is
Saturn-Chronos, my temporal self, “Won’t say his prayers.” My self image will
not give itself up will it? So somebody has to take it by the left leg, that is
the weak one, and throw him down the hierarchy to the bottom. And it is going
to happen to everyone. So you had better get in on the Right side of God quick.
That is why it is said in evangelising, “We must have committal, now. Give yourself up to your saviour.
Take Jesus as your personal saviour now because if you don’t you are out of
this hall!” Get out, forget it, you are not even going to get a hamburger!
So Jesus says, work while it is light
because the night comes when no man can work. In moments of sudden realisation,
work like mad before it goes because it won’t last, because the Universe is
rhythmical, sways, goes up, goes down, your universe rises and falls. When it
rises, become interested in something really valuable and then when you can’t
be interested, that will carry on by inertia and reappear later to be worked on
again. And the object is to smash the self image and become a true
representative of the Infinite, which you do by amusing it by be what is
called, a Suffering Servant. The word ‘servant’ is very amusing, it means ‘free
development of life.’
How does it do that? How can deciding
that to freely to develop life can [ ]
being a servant?. The ant at the end
means continuity of action in that manner. Servant means ‘free development of
life’. Now if you can make yourself of great service to all beings, what will
all beings do for you?
Nothing.
Do you think they might preserve you a
bit?
They
will help you develop.
Why would they do that?
Because
they oppose you.
If you serve them they will oppose you?
Sometimes.
They
will remember you.
Mmm, they will. When they remember you
they energise you.
You know your post mortem continuity of
character depends on whether people remember you. If they are indifferent to
you they don’t give you any energy. So whether you will give them a helpful
hand or a kick in the pants is irrelevant really, they remember you on both
accounts and if they remember you they are feeding your image within the
Infinite Field. So your immortality depends on how many people are feeding you
with their energies because they couldn’t be indifferent to you, because you
wouldn’t let them, either by excessive serving of them or by excessive
irritation of them to make Pearls.
Charming thought isn’t it. Now,
remember, to sum up, the peril, the great danger is this. Everyone you meet has
an inertia sustaining its self image. That inertia is a structure of ideas. The
ideas are embodied in names and the names can disrupt their image. And, if a
word comes from you and it disrupts their image, you are in trouble. Sorrow must
come, woe to him by whom. So would that make you feel more careful about words?
Yes.
Talking
about words that upset people....
Talking about words that upset them,
I’ve observed that occasionally myself. “I don’t wish to hear any of that
discussion.” The lady said to me, “I am not vanting to hear that.”
Now let us think about that a little
carefully shall we?
The oyster and the softness of it, means
a woman, but the softness is a disguise for Absolute Power, yes? It is just
that it has not got a high technical mode of approach. But it won’t give up its
power pursuit to sunbathing, that its weapon is sulking, moaning and nagging,
and unless a man can take those three weapons, he is going to crumble.
Remember men die statistically fifteen
years earlier than women because they structure themselves with ideas and the
ideas are very easily shattered by words. Now let us meditate very hard. When
you use a word to control thought, that word is called a mantra. Now man means
negate your mother. Your mother is your substance with its pleasure pursuit and
the N is your nous or intelligence whereby you negate your ma appetite and tra is a short form of torah, law, the law by which you negate
your own appetite, which is for power and superiority and self imagery. And you
have to negate it and you do it by use of the word. And when you think about
that word and repeat that word, gradually it establishes in you a belief that
you don’t need a self image in order to survive, you are an eternal being,
backed by the Infinite, serving the Infinite’s purpose and you do not need to
fight to survive. The Universe itself will help you to survive because you are
a part of the Universe, an indestructible part. And when you remember that and
believe it, you don’t need to fight to preserve yourself. Can you believe it?
Now to believe it you must have
sufficient energy to oppose your ancestral inertias that have been trying, for
thousands of years, to build up that self-image
Transcribed by M.L. March 2013