Chapter 4- Mathematics: Exercise 2

Exercise 2 
(Forgiveness exercise)

Tools required:

• Hatchet [imitation]
• Cloth (preferably one which strikes remembrance or relevance)
• Twine or string
• Spade if needed
• Rubber gloves if needed
• Suitable ground for digging
• Person of trust to accompany exercise
• Breakfast
• Wafer & Water (to eat and drink)
• Ground cover blanket for comfortable sitting

The phrase “to bury the hatchet” did not imply “in our enemies back” but rather to bury it elsewhere other than where we may be sorely tempted to put it. In one sense there is humor to this exercise - for many are familiar with the phrase - and it can make for a saving balance if indeed there is a little lightheartedness accompanying this exercise of grief and of departure.

It is possible to formalize this forgiving in a way which should cancel the properties of obsessive griping within us. Ceremony can be marvelous as that pivotal point from which our futures can begin to change.

The pain and the suffering which accompanies any such grievance as we attempt to put to rest will, in some measure, always bear upon us - yet later become transmuted in Heaven - but it is not that that we seek here to alter, it is our hatred we seek to weaken, our self-scoring we seek to make blunt.

Directions:

(only to be attempted if not homicidal or suicidal please)

In the early hours of the morning (not noon tide or night)

take the hatchet carefully and deliberately place it in the cloth provided.

Bind with string so as to cover the tool comfortably and safely - quite tightly bound. 

Find a comfortable position outdoors with person of trust for this exercise and, having taken the abovementioned items, trace a circle onto the ground and place the material-covered hatchet within. Undo the binding and expose the metal.

Proceed to explain to the trusted person the woes of the situation which is causing the grievance. Whilst explaining whatever the sadness or insult which has provoked this constant pain and sore remembrance, place the right hand onto the hatchet and understand that a discharge shall travel up the handle and into the blade (much like the hammer of Thor). Try not to explain how you felt, but keep to the details of any events which caused the feeling. Proceed for as long as it takes - be thorough, not casual, in the remarking.

Now bind the cloth back up again, saying:

“I now commit all demons to Christ

to His Keeping and His Regard.

May my unsavory recollections be deposited here,

nevermore to injure any life, anywhere,

but may the goodness in this, the gentle warm earth,

now transform them with new life into new worth.”

Bury the hatchet.

After smoothing down the earth the trusted friend is to administer communion for you both. This can be done by taking the water and the wafer and simply reciting over them:

Blessed Christ be here with us.

In this water, in this bread before us,

be here now, be in part, be in whole,

that it will become in us,

and You shall become in us, as well.

Blessed Christ this is our first sup

after the death of a sadness,

which we now give over to Your Care. 

 

Please release us from the unholy banterings

which have bled from us our happiness.

Prise the corruption from our hearts

and free us into that peace which is forgiveness

that we may settle this bargain once and for all.

Forgive them their trespasses, and us of our own.

May we begin this new breakfast with Your Clarity,

Your Hospitality and Your Law,

the highest law of all - The Law of Love.

Amen

Proceed on with breakfast.

Chapter 4- Mathematics: Exercise 1

Exercise 1

Tools required:

• a vegetable dye (choose favorite color)
• a clear bottle
• water

After filling the bottle with water, drop dye (droplet by droplet) into the bottle observing the strength of the color each time. Work to find that intensity of color which is most pleasing to you- whether it feels correct being pale or in being darkened. 

When you have arrived at that color that brings joy, place bottle in some position of the household where the light may come through the color and it can be viewed from time to time.

Chapter 4- Mathematics: Recommended

Activities Recommended:

• Music appreciation
• Rock collecting
• Revision of own personal justice issues
• Routine planners & diaries to be used
• Observance of the Sunrise
• The working through of projects from beginning to end
• The completing of tasks
• Homoeopathic prescriptive for true confidence: Gold

Music is the highest manifestation of pure mathematics throughout Cosmic existence. As the veritable god of its import, it is the very best representative for communicating its wisdom both essentially and profoundly - just in the listening. (Brevity Maximus, brevity!)

Geological observances are a fine introduction to order and pattern, just as also are seed-pod segments and seashell geometric. Wherever there is a repetition and a progression borne out within the natural world we may experience its workings also - its very counterpart - within us.

 

Everything that has physical form within the world holds its place somewhere within our own constitution (physically, astrally or etherically) - everything. One of the underlying problems that the mathematically incoherent share is that they feel very isolated from all that is around them. The intrinsic sensing of the greater reality being mirrored within does not relate. There is mud on the lens distorting the true corresponding virtues. However, entertaining much thought on the aspects of graduation, beauty and pattern that manifest in the physical world shall recall the realities once more.

If you ever spend much time in the company of an astral wraith (a ghost that is lingering when the soul has moved on from it) nine times out of ten the sorry fellow is given to a constant repetition of itself, muttering on about some injustice which occurred during its lifetime now gone.

You may imagine at first that the injustice would relate to its passing - a murder or an accident perhaps, something which could not be addressed and still perpetuates. Yet with most of these occasions, even when that scenario has befallen the poor hang-about, it has not actually ‘taken in’ that final and awful event (if it did have one) - but instead is conversant in some petty or minor unforgivable which afflicted them when they were very, very alive. A great amount of very alive thought power has gone to feed the grievance over the years (thus creating this apparition in his form as it stands in re-enactment).

So what is being said is that it is of interesting note just how many individuals are bound and tied, even after death in part, by those things which they could not forgive and felt to be injustices which are unresolved unto themselves. It is therefore imperative that we address such problems in the here and now before we are committed to carry such burdens into realms they cannot pass. (See exercise for this below.)

The practice of writing down the objectives for the day and the week can enhance our own ability for self-review. It is advisable to attempt the achievable and then to take pleasure in its eventuating because of us. It is not so much an exercise of efficiency or of fixing the future and grounding ideas.It is still of the theme of one coming to find the dependable in life - that which we can assume, predict, qualify and self-determine. It relates to a self-confidence and self-worth.

The sunrise in all of its majesty heralds the day - spectacularly. Not only are those initial forces etherically enriching to our entirety, they are encouraging to our being. The proof of this comes in the very experience, you may know it well. It is not the bird of itself that may stimulate the trees into growth, but moreso the forces of the sunrise as they flow through into the bird and then soak through to the tree. Life needs be encouraged mostly at the beginning of each and every enterprise and no less with each new day is that same presence of encouragement abounding. 

Chapter 4- Mathematics: Contraindicated

Activities Contraindicated:

• The wearing of murky colors
• The wearing of worn clothes
• Gambling - and games of chance
• Tarot readings - and other prophesying mediums (runes, coins etc.)
• The reading of depressing fiction (with injustice unresolved)
• The keeping of irregular hours - night-shifts, social outings etc.

The wearing of murky colors does appear to have a total effect upon the consciousness concerning that naked person beneath the clothes. There are those colors which are clear, of ‘perfect pitch’ as it were; then there are those shades which are related; and further to that there are the muddied variety which ‘drone their tone’ instead of resonate their worth.

It is possible to experience colors in a variety of ways. Most folk do so unconsciously and the range that confronts us daily is interpreted as one large intricate picture, rather than seen and accounted for piece by piece. Yet the colors we adorn ourselves with, walk with and talk out from, not only feed our eyes continually but radiate a certain frequency in a particular way - depending upon what color and what grade of clearness it represents.

Ideally the mathematically incompetent should experience the entire rainbow on differing days - from pastels to brights - rejoicing in their clarity and brilliance. Colors of themselves hold much wisdom, relating firstly to the etheric world in which they incarnate most naturally and characteristically. 

Of equal importance to this is the dismissal of those old worn and favorite garments, which are so imbued with time that the odour has permeated the fabric. The burning of these pieces can be done with the optimism of starting afresh - whilst the tendencies to cleave into the habits and thoughts surrounding these clothes may also, with flourish, be commanded to depart.

It is true that there can be a comfort and a strength in an article of clothing worn - coats are wonderful in this, that our very identity becomes enhanced when we are cloaked in our favorite concealment. But one can notice with many of the mathematically deficient that there becomes a tendency not only to wear a favorite from time to time, but there are many shabby such favorites that seem to promote a relaxed weariness about their person as well. The coat may bring an aura of comfort or protection, of properness, of readiness, of strength etc. rather than that of the woolly jumper with the holes and threads dangling which moreover promotes the unkempt aspects about the soul’s condition.

The addiction to games of chance in this instance happens to be organic - being a symptom to the condition outlined. It occurs because of the compensatory need to correct the thinking, maintain the reasoning, and perceive what fits, what works etc. 

 

To feed such obsessiveness is debilitating to the self because although it can indeed be experienced that numbers and gaming all work to laws we may sense and may seemingly control or predict, the fulfillment is less than minimal and therefore creates yet more of the problem: namely the desire to comprehend the accuracy in life, rather than its apparent random nature.

Depressing fiction has been added to this list and alongside it we could put all dramas (film, theatre, even real-life acquaintances) which promote the concepts of injustice rather than the peaceful or positive aspects about any given matter. Once again there can be a frame to our thinking which represents this ‘randomness’ - a no sense nonsense, that unfairly (and rather badly) will cause but a constant threat to our insecure being should we go on to fixate about the upset at hand. If we indulge in murderous or dark thoughts, exaggerated by fiction (or even fictitious and paranoid obsessive concepts) then it happens that our tolerance becomes so weakened that the entire world begins to scare us witless.

Once again the problems may well be organic - to the point of being a physical illness or deficiency which is screaming at us to be heard and manifested in our knowing that things are not ‘right’ and as they should be somewhere within the bodily function.

Phobias and depressions are understandable in the context of the individual who has lost confidence in the existence of the higher laws around him. When he is unclear about the aptitude of life and of himself, when he no longer takes in the beauty and the truth made visible and it all appears to him with sameness - then depression and upset is quite a reasonable suffering to result.

The keeping of irregular hours appeals to the chaos rather than the order that is so sorely yearned for here within the individual. We may go on in defiance of our internal rhythms - eat and sleep at all hours, soak in the moonlight, hide from the sunlight - but the fallout from this erratic reckoning is that from this we can actually revert to the system of an infant rather than that of a grown adult.

What is meant here is that with a very small child there is within the makeover the provision for multiple feeds throughout a twenty-four hour period. The sleeping and the waking is dispersed in smaller episodes and the physiology is appropriately incorporating whatever routine at that time is being worked out. Here we are beginning at the earliest of efforts within our physical bodies to sense the correlation and correspondence of routines which are hopefully synchronized about us, coming from outside of us to answer a need within.

Not all babies have had the experience of there being a comfortable time period between need and answer, (depending too on the child’s own nature and tolerance etc.) - and not all adults are going to react similarly as a result of such experiences, because it can be that an adult in angst has had their infancy in ease, but fell out later with the timing in their life. 

However, what is known is that the very simplistic and episodic way of living is reintroduced to an individual when he gives over the daylight hours to irregular time periods of sleeping, eating, bathing, waking and so forth. These will cause a reversion back into a metabolism and an attitude which is endeavoring to adapt but at the same time quite ‘helpless’ to circumstance. He shall predispose himself to that baby-like dependency also in his attitude and lack of capability of doing for himself, disciplined as he should be.

The almost instant correction to this (and it can be perceived in a responsibility to follow an attitude of health and diet etc.) is to follow the farmer’s detail (or close to it) and live well in the day, and rest in the night. It truly is a wonderful restorative.

Chapter 4- Mathematics: Prayer

A Prayer for Mathematical Accuracy

To The Alpha Christ

&

The Omega Christ:

Keeper of the Highest of Laws -

The Harmonies.

Beloved One

I pray today

for unity

for Trinity

for Time and Space

and all Within

Your Divinity

Amen.

Chapter 4- Mathematics - Absolute Beauty

Dietary Exercise Suggested:

(To be incorporated within the usual routine)

Dishes comprising grains, pulses, nuts, seeds and noodles - i.e. to take in many of the same thing.

Honeycomb (honey to be chewed from)

Commentary:

In past consciousness it was possible for a man to take stock of his herd without individually making a count of them. A merchant could assess his bounty, a caterer could sense the weights and the volumes of their ingredients, and travelers, by boat or by road would know the lengths they had gone and the distance yet to go.

It was possible to arrive at figures (much like we might in guessing games of ‘how many colored beans are in the jar?’) without addressing the sum unit-by-unit. Extraordinarily we all have the means to comprehend a body of units in such a way, without having to individually count them.

The experience of eating speaks to us on many levels. We have the sensations of the flavors, we react to the heat or the coldness of the food also, whether it is pleasurable or distasteful, depending as well as to whether we are hungry or quite satiated ... And then, the substance itself, taken into ourselves, is met with and tested and made known to us - from its taste and its texture to its qualities of nature. For some there are allergic reactions to foods whereupon they are as poisons to their system’s complaining - for others they are the joy of heaven, resplendent in verdant fecundity!

However if it is (and hopefully we eat our meal in joy) to be had occasionally as an intentional exercise, our food can become a very meaningful teacher to us - one in which a primary experience will cognise into concept, becoming a nutritive to the thinking, as well as to our body and soul. (Conscious experiences become assimilated by the ego, whereas unconscious impressionings become taken up and in by the soul.)

A plate of rice or a bowl of beans will, just by their organised mass, speak to us of both units and the whole. This in itself is useful, because, it is essential to the mathematical conceptualization that we can comprehend units before attempting to apply ourselves to formulas and equations - there needs be an idea of the actual unitary fragments existing intrinsically to a greater mass firstly.

A comprehension of area, of space, and of volume, of weight and of form comes in the comparison of the one grain amongst the many ... not only in the physical relation witnessed in the huddling of the tiny mass of grains, but also in the nature of that food, in what it itself imparts to us of itself in relation to the plant. That nature ethericly (apart from the noodle) has a sociological order to it - a community to it from which each fragment has and does form that little part. The inner knowledge of this may be known in our digestion!

The honeycomb introduces to us a free spiritedness amongst the containing order held crystalline within its nature. There is the sublimest of contradictions within this substance, and above those contrasts within there exists also the most beautiful harmony enlivened throughout.

The sanguine sugariness of the translucent fluid is given to expansiveness - alight with life, the effects upon the ego are encouraging and invigorating. When we consume sugars we are given to experience this expansiveness, whilst at the same time experiencing ourselves.

Usually when men and women concentrate upon themselves it happens (mindfully and egoicly in action) that they must narrow down from the world to do this. Whether it be momentarily or marginally it is an effort of constriction, of tightening, of closing all of the fissures that would otherwise distract them from that sense of self.

In balance to this we may also come to know the world and the souls about us - and, moving out from our cloistered self, through loving interest and curiosity, we can relax sufficiently to allow new information and sensorial experiences to find their way to us. We expand outwards in this action, and upon reflection or deliberation about any given thing we contract back in again.

Now, the unique quality that the honey endears us with is that it can bring about the aspect of expansiveness as well as that of containment - at the same time. We are inspired paradoxically to the peripheries of our own self-containment as it stands enough to explore experiences other than our own, but in no way departing our consciousness of who we are in that very process.

The honeycomb is the most fascinating of foods in that the honey itself has a fluidic nature which is given to crystalline processes (which enhance the thinking forces within a man) and are held within their little hexagonal walls, giving an individual segment to an otherwise fluidic and free force within. There becomes both thinking and freedom contained. (Added to this there are many minerals also that can be assimilated by the individual that would not otherwise be absorbed.)

And so, if it can be tolerated, the taking in of the honeycomb is remarkably beneficial from not only its unitary aspects, but in that of the harmony and sanguine beatification it brings as well.

Philosophy: Weaknesses Transformed into Strengths

Characteristic Weaknesses Transformed into Strengths:
 

Virtues are natural to Man, and when desired, when called upon, when prayed for sincerely, deliberately and needfully induced, their messengers will beckon, and their characteristics shall be grafted to our being. The weakness shall be restored into that which it was originally destined to become, as follows:

Madness shall transform into Clarity. Having the ability for such straightforward perspective that will objectively and poignantly perceive coherently the inner and outer workings of the realities about us.

Megalomania shall transform into Brotherhood. Whereby that sense of overwhelming responsibility towards the world about us is diffused with an equal rendering, lessening the tension of our own ego about the matters to be dealt with.

Inflexibility shall transform into true Purpose in which we are given to our faith, our virtue, and our pursuits with an unshakeable equanimity also.

Contentiousness will become ennobled in our Defence of the Weaker and poorer of station and circumstance.

Aggressiveness becomes an attribute of True Courage (when called upon).

So the profile becomes one of the Champion of Higher Thought, indifferent to distractions, motivated by the inspired cause; courageous in the challenge, disciplined, fair and made noble -

 The Knight of Philosophical Enterprise.

Chapter 3- Philosophy: Exercise 3

Exercise 3

Tools required:

Egg timer (the sand in glass variety)

Rubber balls, solid or inflated (varying sizes)

Felt-tip pen

• Flip the timer and begin bouncing the ball. Count how many times you may bounce the ball before the sand runs out.
• Repeat the exercise counting each time and comparing the findings.

• Flip the timer and throw the ball from hand to hand. Count how many times the ball may be thrown before the sand runs out. Repeat.
• Flip the timer and throw the ball up against a wall and catch it again. Count how many times you may do this before the sand runs out. Repeat.
• Flip the timer and (having asked another to participate) throw the ball backwards and forwards to partner. Count the throws before the sand runs out. Repeat.
• Flip the timer, and using two balls now, and partner, throw in unison and catch accordingly, counting how many throws before the sand runs out. Repeat. Thank your partner for their participation.
• Take ball (just one) and write upon it with the pen a sentence which has just become meaningful to you. Without the timer, bounce the ball up and down, giving thought to this sentence and why you might have written it.
• Take a biodegradable ball to the seaside, cliff, or just to fence, and hurl it as far away as possible. Do not retrieve.

[Careful not to do hurt or damage, of course.]

Chapter 3- Philosophy: Exercise 2

Exercise 2

Tools required:

Telephone (connected)

or Postal stamp, envelope & paper

or Email facility

In this exercise (once a day) we may pick a random number or address of some person who we have never had contact with before. In the spirit of goodwill we dial the number or address the letter, making ourselves known to them saying:

“You do not know me - I have just ‘chanced’ upon your address, and have only just made contact with you to say that I hope and pray that your life shall be happy, fulfilled and everything good you do wish it to be.” 

 

 

Chapter 3- Philosophy: Exercise 1

Exercise 1

Tools required:

Seven colored stones

Seven colored pencils (corresponding to stone color)

Paper

Little bag

On the paper draw seven circles with the seven different colors. Taking out one colored stone at a time, place the stone into the first circle and then the second, until all stones are in the circles. They will not all be corresponding in the same color because their placing was unintentional.

Place the stones back into the bag and then try again with the indiscriminate matching. Notice if there is any pleasure felt when the correct match does occur. Pay attention to the sensation and the wanting which might follow for this to happen.

Repeat this process until tired of it. Then:

• Bring all of the stones out of the bag and hold them in the palm of the hand.

• Look at the colors.
• Look at the colors in relation to one another.
• Look and choose - which one resounds most prominently? Which one is the most attractive?
• Take this stone and put it within its properly matched colored circle.
• Follow on with the six remaining and place them within their respective homes too.
• Now position this paper and display somewhere amongst the lodgings that it can be seen from time to time, and pleasure can be drawn at the appropriateness.