Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Looking at the 3D world as it is projected from the non-3D, we have sketched the role of mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms in maintaining it moment by moment. Let us look at the celestial kingdom, then return to humans who bridge animal and celestial kingdoms. It is easier to describe a bridge if one sees what it bridges.
This is a convenient scheme of things, not a scientific or religious characterization. Something seen in another frame of reference is not going to seem the same. Every context has its own boundaries around a thing, and so doesn’t quite describe the same thing; at most there is great overlap. So, let us define “celestial” in this context not as “heavenly” meaning the afterlife nor meaning astronomical realities. Here, “celestial” will mean the invisible substructure and superstructure of reality, the non-material yet essentially 3D forces that hold things together.
Your present civilization sees matter and energy as separate things, even though science famously recognizes that E=mc2, or, in other words, that energy and matter are different states of the same thing, or different states of the same energy.
Matter is slowed energy, so they must be the same substance.
If you do not hold firmly in your mind that energies are not in any way different from materials, you will unconsciously let them split off from one another, tempting you to consider them as if they were separate. Do that and the next step is to concentrate on one and ignore or even forget the other. This is how medieval understanding devolved into a disconnected spirituality and a disconnected materialism, a long slide that reached bottom at about the end of the 19th century. Then came the discovery of radiation and Einstein’s famous equation, and quantum theory, and science began – but only began – the long climb upward toward reintegration.
And spirituality?
That’s what we and of course many others are working on. Seeing the celestial kingdom again as a normal part of the everyday world re-spiritualizes matter and grounds energy. That is a statement that will repay consideration. Meanwhile, let us proceed to our classification scheme.
The celestial kingdom includes all the occult properties of matter. That which makes a particular piece of ground a “power spot” or a “sacred site” is a specific connection of the celestial kingdom to the geography of a given site. It is not merely a matter of minerals. The ancient Germans had their sacred groves of oaks. That was an example of the vegetable and celestial kingdoms inter-functioning. And of course the mineral structure had to be able to support the oaks. The animal kingdom contributed to a minor degree, in the sense of squirrels burying acorns, say, but primarily the animal kingdom benefited from, that is, luxuriated in, the portal thus created.
If I have the sense of it, you are saying power spots may be created by the interaction of the celestial kingdom with the mineral kingdom, or with both mineral and animal kingdoms.
Yes, and remember, humans are a part of the animal kingdom. So when humans recognize a power spot and build on it and in a sense magnify it, they too are contributing, in a way that other animals cannot.
Power spots are only special cases of the larger energetic superstructure of the Earth. A whole science of geomancy has existed, primarily in China, and a newer version has been developing in the West beginning in the 20th century with the rediscovery of ley lines.
Which of course implies that it was known in older times when the structures and highways were built that trace them.
There is nothing new under the sun. Also, there is more in heaven and earth than your science knows, Horatio. Also, there is nothing new or old – to vary the saying – but that thinking makes it so. But the point is less what has been than what is coming to be. Power spots, ley lines, etc., are the planet’s electrical grid, energy that carries potential, but is more passive possibility than active volition. For that, you get into “superstition” and “old wives’ tales.”
Yes, I’ve been waiting for this. Elves, fairies, sprites, salamanders, and all. I’ve never had to decide what I thought about all that. Instinctively I’ve been tempted to dismiss it all as nonsense; at the same time, I’ve learned to be a little careful about what I dismiss unexamined. Anything believed by many people over time has some truth.
Pixies, fairies, the little people, etc. – where do you think such ideas come from? If you say, “From the imaginations of various peoples,” that begs the question of why they imagined one thing in the place of another. Werewolves, shape-shifters, familiar spirits – do you think these, too, are only the imaginings of superstitious peasantry? You do, but not because you are seeing fact; because you are seeing through the mesh of your civilization’s filters. You can’t see them, except ever so faintly and uncertainly, because your culture gets in the way.
Dion Fortune certainly believed in at least some of them.
Plenty of people – respectable people, sometimes scientifically distinguished people – know what they have seen and experienced, but they know, too, what they dare not acknowledge lest their reputation be destroyed.
Now, let us sum up this so far: The celestial kingdom has its passive and its active side; its ley lines and its “supernatural” folk. Those are the extremes, and many phenomena in the middle. Only, bear in mind – and perhaps we have not yet said this – the celestial kingdom like the other kingdoms exists in All-D, obviously. Therefore, some aspects of it can never be experienced, nor weighed and measured, in 3D terms alone. They can’t be made sense of without taking into account the fact that the 3D shades into the non-3D.