Stan McDaniel
Yogasayings
300. The triangle bears a special relation to the circle.
301. The circle represents a three-part transactional system: two poles and the energy between.
302. In Figure Five these three parts were represented by three ``levels.'' [64]
303. The threefold division center, rim, and area between, is another form of the same trinity. Top, bottom, and middle of Figure 10 are center, rim, and spiral of Figure Seven. The triplicity continues throughout the Spiral Castle.
304. This constant threeness stems from the fact that the central dynamic is concerned with synthesis. [136], [43]
305. The center of the triangle represents a change in level through unification. [122]
306. Change in level through unification, synthesis, is learning. Here we give the esoteric meaning of ``learning.'' To represent this, the center of the triangle is sometimes occupied by an eye (Figure Eleven). [14], [132]
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Figure 11.Synthesis as Awakening |
307. The opening of the eye is accompanied by an influx of energy, which comes from engagement in a new, more extensive and potent meaning pattern, ``shifting gears.'' [16], [42]
308. This process is pictured in the Four of Cups card of the Kabalistic Tarot: Three cups (the triangle) stand before the one who meditates. The ``fourth cup'' (the eye) is given from Heaven by the hand of God, which reaches out from a cloud. [Prologue]
309. The opening of the eye is the act that defines the dynamic of the system: the force that moves toward no-center. [173], [180]
310. It is awakening, expansion of consciousness. Here we give the esoteric meaning of ``expansion of consciousness.'' [35-36], [117], [257-263], [273]
311. Occult terminology uses phrases like ``movement to a higher plane.'' [123]
312. The opening of the eye is a symbol of creation. The act is the creative act,``insight,'' ``inspiration.'' [146], [140-145], [150]
313. In occult terminology such creative work in the spiritual dimension is also called the ``magical operation.'' [54]
314. Such powers are regulated by the fact that there is a change in being involved, which means a change in the context of motivation. [44]
315. The eye in the triangle represents a four-part functional unity, which can be put in the form of a ``sequence'': (1) ACTIVE; (2) PASSIVE; (3) DYNAMIC; (4) NEW LEVEL POTENCY.
316. The action (4) of the energy (3) created by the tension between the poles (1 and 2): The four-legged Magician's table, shown in the Magus card of the Kabalistic Tarot, has this meaning. The four legs support the ``Platform of the World.'' [313], [142]
317. The Tetragrammaton, representing the four letters in the Name of God, or YOD - HE - VAV - HE, is shown in Kabalistic imagery circled by fire and clouds.
318. The unity of the threefold polar system is expressed by the equation: the energy is the product of the poles. [34], [62]
319. A suggestive example of this: E = MC2. And another: CHOICE = HELL x HEAVEN. (See Figure One). [204]
320. These equations assert the transactional unity of the structural (vertical) axis, and the dynamic (horizontal) axis. [23-24], [79]
321. Quaternal unity is accordingly represented by a cross.
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Figure 12.Synthesis as Quaternal Unity |
322. This is the action of the creative will. Its result is freedom. [54], [316]
323. We assign the number five to the center of the cross.
324. ``Five'' is the number of freedom. [159-160]
325. The symbolic meaning of ``Five'' is very great. Careful attention to the text will show that ``freedom'' is associated with the eating of the apple, the opening of the call-system, synthesis of percepts, language, consciousness -- expansion without limit. [119], [135]
326. Freedom, in other words, is only understandable in the context of evolutionary processes, whose benchmark is biological: the mark of freedom is the five-fingered hand. [198], [36], [47]
327. The five-fingered hand signals a certain level of organization. Ultimately the energy in the universe is the energy of organization and disorganization, evolution and involution. [146], [232]
328. ``Freedom'' implies conscious control of the evolutionary process (self correction). [37], [45-47]
329. Atheism, cynicism, and dualism eventually must deny this possibility. [92], [130], [192]
330. What they deny, then, is the possibility of communication, or Conscious Love. [139]
331. Thus they blaspheme! [61]
332. But the existence of Science is a manifestation of this possibility. [235], [240]
333. Science, in its essence, cannot blaspheme. [99]
334. Since the act depicted by the opening of the eye constitutes a unification of levels, the exercise of freedom requires continuous alignment of choices toward equalization of body, heart, and mind. [162]
335. Effort toward such continuous alignment is called yoga. [278]
336. Its result is the Middle Path.
337. The Middle Path is represented by the center of the cross. [323-324]
338. When the center of the cross is made to correspond with the center of the circle, a composite emblem arises. (Figure Thirteen).
339. In Figure Thirteen the points representing freedom, the Middle Path, and Equilibrium are placed together. [165]
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Figure 13. Mandala |
340. We assign the number ten, traditionally the number of completion, to the center of the circle. Then Figure Thirteen yields the occult equation:
341. The marks we use to represent the number ten are `1' and `0.'
342. 1 has the shape of a vertical rod, one end ABOVE, the other BELOW. (We are reminded of the Dorje.)
343. 0 is a circle. (We are reminded of the cycling energy betweeen the poles.)
344. (5 = 10) expresses the principle that the Middle Path and its goal are the same. [219], [237], [266]
345. Bergson asserts that a thing is where it acts. [318]
346. Dewey says every existence is an event. [318]
347. But because of the continuity between the experiencer and the experienced, ``act'' and ``event'' refer here to movement in the spiritual dimension. Here we give the esoteric meaning of ``act'' and ``event.'' [232], [54]
348. (5 = 10) means that the pursuit and the goal are the same: the rim, the spiral, and the center are the same. [217-218]
349. (5 = 10) means that doing and being are the same. [214]
350. This is why the Buddha is called Tathagata:
"And again, O Subhuti, if anybody were to say that the Tathagata goes, or comes, or stands, or sits, or lies down, he does not understand the meaning of my preaching. And why? Because Tathagata means one who does not go to anywhere, and does not come from anywhere; and therefore that one is called the Tathagata (truly come), holy and fully enlightened".
