The Natural Sun
Announcements about our sun and its natural conditions
- Chapter 30 -
Domestic practice upon the first pair of sub-equators. Painstaking order and petty-minded wisdom
Regarding domestic order, this on the other hand is quite simple but then also complex. How can the same branch be both simple and simultaneously complicated? Nothing easier, for it takes only the required insight to see that a thing can be seen as completely easy and yet immensely complex.
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Take an apple and it will seem simple and monotonous externally. But open and examine it microscopically and you shall see it is of such complexity that the multiplicity of its parts will make you shudder and dizzy.
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Behold, such is the case with our equatorial residents. Entering a house and watching it together with its occupants for ten years, you will see hardly anything but repetitious monotony, simple and naive to the limit, to where a pigeon's flapping on Earth would give you more variegation than such residences, together with its occupants.
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But not so in its internals, for there everything is so complex and meaningful that the smallest thing would already make you dizzy when a household elder starts to analyse it for you, disclosing to you all the secrets and important aspects that depend upon trivia.
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I shall give you a couple of overabundant examples.
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You have a notion of symmetry and equilibrium: what however is your symmetry and equilibrium compared to such inhabitants' notion of symmetry and balance?
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Let us first take symmetry. If such a sun inhabitant came to your room and saw the objects such as robes, tables, benches, wall decorations and the like in fairly good order, he would clasp his hands above his head and after somewhat recovering from his initial horror would show you to a hair's breath how, due to such disorder an entire cosmic body is out of balance and that eventually with him everything shall be out of equilibrium due to that. He would prove to you that if one or other of the robes or other item were not shifted by a hair's breath, very gently and with great care, then in a thousand million years the entire visible creation could suffer the greatest disorder. And this he would demonstrate not only in the natural sense but also with extraordinary philosophical rigour, metaphysically, saying for example: but do you foolish people not notice that your thoughts have in the first instance to sort and consolidate themselves the way your domestic outfit is sorted. To what order shall these adhere however, when they see a chair next to a robe with some vessel on top of the robe bearing no relation to it; then in another comer of the room a bed and next to it a table and next to that something with no relevance to it, either permanently or even worse, temporarily?
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And he would further ask: do you know what wisdom is? Wisdom is the infinitely most perfect image in all things; it is the most intelligently calculated order, through which the highest wisdom of God created and maintains all things. How do you intend to ever gain wisdom if you take no care even in these small things so that they would be so ordered and shaped as to condition your eye to an order, allowing through such repeated seeing an inception to your thinking-process about at least these small things, getting used to order and from same move to another? Because if you keep no order where you can, getting accustomed to same, how do you want with this disorder-conditioned spirit to discover and view a higher order? Is not this just as impossible as trying with some unfortunate fraction to discover the root of a number consisting exclusively of even numbers; only then can you risk higher numbers in order to discover therein a well-ordered number that carries the causation of the full number.
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And a wise inhabitant of this belt would furthermore say unto you: do you know the weight of a heavenly body? "Do you know what makes it revolve around its own axis? Do you know what maintains it in free space? It is equilibrium. If, to start with, your dwellings are built symmetrically, none being larger or smaller than another, as well as uniformly arranged in all rooms as well as within them, then this effects no disturbance on a cosmic body's movement. Contrariwise however, it must be plain to you that such unsymmetrical and variable amassing of materials at one and the same point must bring about, upon a freely floating planet, a mathematical irregularity. If however the balance is only slightly disturbed, then this also transfers unto its movement, causing cumulative disturbances on its movement and consequent cumulative disorder: firstly in the temperature and secondly in the rotation, which is either speeded up or slowed down. If however such disorders are bound to arise around you on account of your awkwardness, when do you intend to uplift your spirit to a higher order and through this alone attain to wisdom?"
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Behold, this is an example of symmetry. But before throwing more light on it, we shall add something about equilibrium. Here you will ask: what other equilibrium is this wise man going to have besides the one with which he berated our deficient symmetry in the arrangement of our rooms?
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But I say unto you: this was no more than a hint of what such an equatorial arch wise man understands about equilibrium. Over there, equilibrium reaches such a degree that you cannot actually form a concept of it on Earth.
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On account of equilibrium, the apparel they wear must be weighed on precision scales, on account of which occupants of a house, even if numbering a hundred persons, must wear clothing of exactly the same weight and consequently suffer themselves repeated weighing of their clothing on set occasions and if differing by one or two dust particles in weight, then such exorbitant underweight must at once be balanced by augmentation.
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Therefore everyone is weighed and the heaviest taken as the standard measure obliging the lighter ones to always carry an equalizing weight bringing them up to par with the heaviest. It is the same for women, the heaviest being weighed with the lighter ones having to bear compensating weights. The children are sorted into age groups and must always weigh their age-standard, which however is maintained by their being given a certain weight of lead right at the beginning which is reduced periodically so that the first accepted weight for juniors would remain steady to the next age group.
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In this way food also is always weighed with precision, being picked off the tree with utmost care and then transported home by two people in their exact middle and then laid in the exact centre of a dining table.
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After the fruits in their proper amounts are piled upon the table in utmost symmetry, two scales men arrive who position themselves on opposite sides of the table with exact steps, mathematically coordinate with the lines on the table, after which they both take fruits of sizes as equal as possible, weighing same with exactitude. After being weighed they are removed from the scales simultaneously and laid into a predetermined dish that is fastened upon a line. The scales men then move with equal steps to another line and weigh up a second portion and continue until all dishes are full. Whereupon the scales men move away from the table in parallel lines and deposit their scales at predetermined places.
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Following this, all move along mathematical floor lines and circles, in tandem steps and utmost silence to the dining table where they reach out for the dish simultaneously, consuming the fruits in strict order. After which, thanks is given to the great, wise Giver, and the table abandoned in the same way and rest taken.
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Upon a signal, all rise from their resting benches and move in pairs either to the interior house gallery or occasionally to the roof gallery. But these movements must be simultaneous so that none take a faster or wider step than the floor lines predetermine.
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Such movement however is the preferred custom only inside the house and up to a certain circle outside, beyond which every person can move more freely and deliberately, by virtue of the ground of their world not having to carry a heavy equilibrium - disturbing house.
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Such pedantic symmetry and equilibrium observance is also practiced at the colleges.
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Behold, from these two examples you now can gather the overall nature of the domestic regulations of the inhabitants of this sub-equatorial belt. All the other activities and arrangements have a similar rhythm, giving the impression of exceeding monotony and simplicity on the one hand, but on the other hand of such complexity as to make your greatest wisdom-pendants clasp their hands above their heads.
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You are amazed over it and say: "what degree of folly would it take to drag such regulations even into domestic order?" But I say unto you that your chiding is unjustified, for such is the nature of all wisdom, if not founded in love.
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Just go to the residence of an arch-scholar and watch his fastidiousness and let him also explain the positioning of things. And if you skilfully probe the man's soft underbelly, you will witness wonders of pragmatism of historical and mathematical exposition with great dignity and precision.
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On finding some old and cracked pot in the comer of his room, you probe for significance and he will firstly tell you the history of this pot and how it was used by Alexander the Great when ordered by his physician to take his healing potion when crusading in Persia; after which he will recite how it was handed down and finally reached his hands.
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If however you ask him how he can position such an exceedingly memorable and priceless piece of antiquity in such an unsightly comer of the room instead of as one aught, to store it with golden cloth jacket in a secret treasure trove? Then the scholar shall be able to expound to you with the greatest historical and mathematical certainty that Alexander the Great, after emptying his potion put it down in a corresponding comer of his tent such as it was found here and that the breakage was sustained by Alexander the Great accidentally kicking it.
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Behold, this would be this scholar's discourse about a more broken pot, which surely would testify of anything, sooner than to have once served the former Macedonian king. Were you to ask him about any object chancing to lie ever so disorderly and dust-laden in some comer of the room, then to your astonishment, he shall accurately explain its every crease and even the dust upon it.
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Wherefore you can gather the nature of wisdom and therewith its products, if not as said, found in the proper degree of love.
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This I have now made known to you, enabling you to discern the domestic order of our two types of equatorial inhabitants, but also see what there is to wisdom in itself. And precisely because My order and My own wisdom are infinite and unfathomable, not much else is left to the mere wisdom-merchants but to get into incalculable difficulties in all its elements.
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That this manifestation must appear to a love-based wise man as absurd and laughable is understandable, like seeing an actual donkey in a Roman Toga. For verily, this purely would-be wise man, from the spiritual aspect is no better to watch by a hair's breadth then a Toga-clad donkey at a speaker's podium.
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Presently we shall examine the spiritual and religious aspects and then swing over to another equatorial belt. And therewith let us leave it for today.