Absolute "Understanding"
In all your getting get understanding...Prov; 4:7
In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with GOD, the Word became God....John 1:1
Community Development
"THE MISSING KEY"
"Absolute Understanding"
While we navigate this GAME of Life it is imperative that we "ABSOLUTELY UNDERSTAND", how
our "Constructed Society" operates. Within the pages of this work I have tried to create some constructive thought based on AWARENESS of the workings of this “Matrix” in which we live and exist and have our “Being”. Hopefully this publication will begin to provide a degree of “Understanding” regarding the universe, the earth, the systems of the world, and society as a whole, in relation to our individual experience.
"On the road that leads to ABSOLUTE UNDERSTANDING you must cross the river called DECEPTION via the bridge of AWARNESS"
AWARENESS IS THE KEY! Although, we sometimes believe there is no hope, however simply being aware can initiate thought that leads to better decision making for you and your family.
We have been imprisoning ourselves through the massive power of our own trust in people, places or things that is not based on knowledge. We have been socialized to just believe. Beliefs that have been and will continue to be developed by the use of “WORDS” within language structures. First and foremost we must understand the True power of WORDS.
In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word became God” ..Holy Bible John I:I
“Absolute Understanding” begins and ends with this. It is the use of words, that create, and or manipulate this society, whether written, spoken, or sung. It will be “Absolute Understanding”, of words that will re-direct our path. We are controlled sometimes willingly, through the choices we make based on disempowering beliefs, and the things we read, watch, and listen to.
Most of the words that we believe cause us to be power-less under the rule of this elitist super-empires. However, that is just part of the illusion. Even those representing these empires suffer from the same debilitating programs that we do. "You cannot enslave another without enslaving yourself." As we free ourselves, we free those enslaving us.
We must first realize and accept the fact that we do live in a “Socially Constructed Matrix.” Then some thought should be given as to what that really means to you and your family.
To begin your investigation, you should ask;
What is the matrix?
Who does it effect?
When and Where did it have its origin?
How was it created?
How is it maintained?
This web page represents my lifetime commitment to "Community Development". Through the years I have attempted to make a difference in the world. And, like most community developers I have utilized numerous techniques and strategies that have culminated in very little true success. We who function as modern-day developers must redefine and realign our "Thinking" and our approach.
Our new strategies must begin with UNDERSTANDING, and AWARENESS By evaluating, and analyzing the systems that make up our society, and by realizing that the power to change those systems comes from within (the Kingdom of God lies within) each individual that comprise society.
" We must BE before we can DO, we can only DO to the extent of what we ARE, and we ARE what we THINK"
In order to reclaim what "God" envisioned for earth we must reconnect ourselves to our "True Being", the "Spirit" man bound in a physical body. When we realize the divine-ness of who we are, we will then begin to function as individual spirits living in harmony with the universe.
We then realign ourselves with the "Natural Laws " of the Universe, producing the "Kingdom" God intended. We must turn off those "obnoxious disempowering" programs and beliefs that have been running us for generations.
This is not a war – this is an awakening. We are talking about taking our power back through a total transformation of the mind based on “Absolute Understanding” - the unrecognized, missing key.
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Our mission.
Our mission is pretty simple; we offer information that we think will help people to live better, see through the lies, eradicate disempowering beliefs , and break down old ways of THINKING and BEING that no longer serve our society. It is my UNDERSTANDING that true UNDERSTANING or the lack thereof is the essential problem for us as citizens of this world. Therefore, creating the "chaotic society" in which we now collectively live and interact.
We examine what we UNDERSTAND to be the most important problems in our failing society today, we discuss potential solutions and alternatives that might help us to rebuild our society from this mess we find ourselves in, and offer commentary based on True (Spiritual) UNDERSTANDING of our strange and wonderful lives within this living, energetic organism we call Earth, the Universe and the Multiverse.
We publish articles that inform and challenge our thinking and preconceptions. We speak our TRUTH and offer a platform for other people to speak their TRUTH. And we hope that, in some small way, we bring some degree of AWARENESS that will contribute to the sustainable, humane and enlightened future we know that looms on the horizon of our foreseeable future.
Disclaimer
The information and or articles shared via this website are not necessarily the views or opinions of the editors of this site.
The intent of all articles is to bring-forth AWARENESS, thereby initiating thought about the various subjects related to the world and the inhabitants of this universe.
We simply hope that our readers will be enlightened, informed, and entertained.
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POINT WITHIN THE CIRCLE
A Point is simply location or a center, without length, breadth or thickness. Not having dimension, therefore, a point cannot be said to be a thing (No Thing). A point is nothing materially speaking.
It cannot be proven by any physical sense for no one has ever seen or felt, heard, melt and tasted a point. Yet we know that it is the beginning of geometry and while its physical existence cannot be proven by the senses we are all positive that it does exist. With out it no geometrical .operations could begin. Were there no point, neither line, surface, nor solid could be produced. It is the foundation upon which the three physical dimensions must stand.
The Point has been adopted in many circles (including the Masonic Order) as the symbol of Deity; The Great Architect of the Universe. As representing the ONE God therefore , it primarily means ONE, the center of all things.
The word "Point" is derived fro the latin word "Punctum" which means to go no further back.
Within the Circle of the universe there are multitudes of points and all these might be piled one on the another on the central point and it would, yet be one point. So all things come from and return to God.
We will now take up a discussion of the Circle. The Circle is an unending line same as eternity ie… without end. This circle representing unending time and space is taken as the symbol of all things of the universe (mater).
The O readily symbolizes the endlessness of matter and of eternity.
the O, the endless existence of that which is the indestructible primordial matter, the eternal Mother of all things
O is the eternal feminine, matter, the universal Mother, personalized in ancient religions by such goddesses as Isis, Cybele, Mylitta, Aditi, Venus, Juno and others
If we would search the whole universe for some symbol which most truly expresses the nature of God as First Cause and Father, we must choose the Point. Of God as Absolute Being there can be no likeness or similitude either on earth or in heaven. Of the Absolute nothing can be said. We may only call it THAT. It has no attributes save that it is Eternal, Changeless, and Causeless Cause. It is inherent in all things and pervades all space. It is the Root Principle from which emanate both Spirit and Matter. Yet the point is the symbol which most nearly represents God as Absolute Being, for the point has neither form nor dimension, and has therefore no external existence; yet it is potentially everywhere and is the beginning of all forms and the source of all dimensions.
It is especially of God as Father (Hebrew, Kether), First Emanation of the Absolute, that the point is symbol. As the Father is Spirit or First Cause, the point is that invisible source from which proceed all forms. We may therefore rightly consider the Point as the first letter of our symbolical alphabet. What “1” is to numbers, and “A” to letters, the Point is to all geometrical forms. The point, as does the number 1, represents unity. Pythagoras called it the Monad,” the individualized spirit of man.
14 The Secret Doctrine, 3rd Edition, Vol. 1, p. 121. 7
“The dot,” says Manly Hall, “is the first departure from things as they eternally are. It is the first illusion of the self, the first limitation of space, even as spirit is the first limitation of self. The dot, or sacred island, is the beginning of existence, whether that of a universe or man . . . . The dot is spirit, and its symbol in the Chaldaic Hebrew is the Yod . . . . The dot symbolizes the cause; the line the means; and the circle the end . . . . The line therefore is the symbol of the dot in growth or motion.” Again he said, “God is the dot, the first island floating in and upon the permanent depths of unlimited existence.”
We come now to the Circle. The circle is no number, yet it contains all numbers. It is the naught, the cipher, or sepher, from which all numbers proceed and into which they all eventually resolve. It is All, for it has neither beginning nor ending. It is the point expanded to infinity. Of all symbols, the circle is the most mystical, for it is the symbol of infinity and eternity—of boundless space and endless time.
The circle is the “ring-pass-not” which establishes the limits of manifestation, whether of a man or of a universe. Indeed, it is the symbol of that manifestation, even as the point is the symbol of THAT which has no manifestation. If the point, as we said, has no dimension, the circle contains all possible dimensions. The point ever retreats within itself, out of time and space; the circle, ever expanding into infinite time and space, embraces all things. The point symbolizes THAT which is the cause and potency of life, the circle symbolizes that primordial substance out of which all forms are created. It has been called many names: “chaos,” “void,” “waters of space,” in Sanskrit “Mulaprakriti” (undifferentiated substance), “night” or “naught.” It is Omega, the Cosmic Mother, source of all forms. When Deity uttered the mystic formula, “I am Alpha and Omega,” He might have said, “I am the Ultimate Source both of life and form; I am the universal Father-Mother.”
Pascal is reported to have said, “God is a circle whose center (point) is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.” The union of these two symbols, the point and the circle—or the point within the circle—becomes the most potent of symbols. It is the symbol of life encased in material form; the life-germ within the seed or egg; the divine spark or monad within man; God within His universe. It is the “Tree of Life” in the midst of the “Garden.” In still more ancient scriptures, it is the “Jewel in the Lotus.” In human anatomy, it is the symbol of the hidden force centers in the body, the “Chakras.” Astronomically, it represents our sun. It contains the secret truth of God Immanent— God the Absolute in manifestation. The point within the circle is the sign of power— Infinite Will released as a creative force.
A N K H
The Egyptians of remote past time had combined the two in the form of what is almost certainly the most ancient of cross symbols, the crux ansata, anisate cross, called by them the A N K H (more recently spelled E N K H), an O topping an I with a horizontal line at the point of contact. It represents by the O above, the endless existence of that which is the indestructible primordial matter, the eternal Mother of all things; and by the I below, it indicates the emanation of creative mind, or spirit power, from the heart of the great sea of first matter plunging downward. The horizontal bar shows both their conjunction and their separation, as does any
boundary line between two areas. But the median line is important also because it marks the meeting point between the two poles of spirit and matter, since it is at this point that all reality is brought out to manifestation through the union of the two. The ANKH is the astrological symbol of Life.
The Interlaced Tri Angles (Star of David)
" The Deity is one, because it is infinite. It is triple, because it is ever Manifesting"…. The Kabbalah
Kabbalah teaches that G‑d created the world with seven spiritual building blocks—His seven “emotional” attributes. Accordingly, the entire creation is a reflection of these seven foundational attributes.
They are: chesed (kindness), gevurah (severity), tiferet (harmony), netzach (perseverance), hod (splendor), yesod (foundation) and malchut (royalty).
These attributes are divided into three columns: right, center and left:
Gevurah
Tiferet
Chesed
Hod
Yesod
Netzach
Malchut
Correspondingly, the Star of David contains seven compartments—six peaks protruding from a center.
The upper right wing is chesed.
The upper left wing is gevurah.
The upper center peak is tiferet. Kabbalah teaches that tiferet finds its source in keter, “the Crown,” which is infinitely higher than all the divine attributes which are involved in the “mundane” pursuit of creating worlds.
The lower right wing is netzach.
The lower left wing is hod.
The center is yesod. Yesod is “Foundation,” and as such, all the other attributes are rooted in, and rise from, this attribute.
The star’s bottom that descends from its belly is malchut—the attribute that absorbs the energies of the higher six attributes and uses them to actually descend and create everything—and to “reign” over them.
wherein is concealed the very nature of Being and man’s relationship with God. Where shall we begin? What shall we say as to the nature of God, of the universe and of man? How can we describe the infinitely complex system of inter-relationships, which exist between God, the universe, and humanity? With what gauge can we measure or compare man’s kinship with Deity?
The answer to these questions is to be found in the figure of the intertwined triangles. Here is the key, which (as we shall try to prove) unlocks the mystery of Being and Manifestation. We see in the triangle a pattern or mould into which all things, whether in heaven or on earth, may be (symbolically) cast. It is the common denominator (numerically) of every aspect of manifestation. It is the figure by which every facet of reality may be evaluated and related. It is the measure of all things visible and invisible, and at the same time the gauge of the relationship of one with the other.
I suppose the most fundamental concept of Deity of which the human mind is capable is that He is one. Yet when the idea of Deity is expressed in terms of His attributes, that is, His relation to a universe, the One becomes Three; and we find universally the concept of God as a Trinity. This is true of all the great religions of the world, with possibly one exception, Islam. Even the Hebrew, of all religions mono- theistic, in its secret writings taught that the one God, through His Emanations, becomes first three, then seven and ten—the Sacred Sephiroth. The following statement from the Kabalah is pertinent to the subject: “The Deity is one, because it is infinite. It is triple, because it is ever manifesting.”
To the Christian, He is Father, Son, Holy Ghost; to the Hindu, He is Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva or Creator, Preserver, Destroyer. In the ancient Egyptian Trinity, the relationship was definitely on the family pattern, Osiris, Isis, Horus, or Father, Mother, Son. Many other appellations, perhaps less personal, have been given to the Supreme. The ancient Greeks called him First Logos, Second Logos and Third Logos (Logos meaning Word). The Masonic Brotherhood knows Him as the Good, the Beautiful and the True. Universally He is recognized as the Omnipotent, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent.
We observe this same pattern in its philosophical application. There is first the objective world about us—the world of things. Second there is the Knower or the Self; and third there is an awareness or consciousness of the Self of his environment, the world of thought. The ancient Hindus called these three worlds Sat, Chit, Ananda. Fitting our pattern to more modern thought we have the triangle of Spirit-Life-Matter or Life-Consciousness-Form. In the purely physical world, we find that matter is known by its three qualifications, stability- mobility-rhythm or inertia-energy-law.
Space does not permit the cataloguing of all of the triplicities found in Nature. Here are a few of the more obvious. Light is broken up into three primary colors—red, yellow and blue. Philosophers see the universe as limited by Time and Space, and Measure as the relation between them. We may even say that “Measure” is three dimensional, namely—Distance, Duration and Direction. “Time” itself falls into the threefold category of Past, Present and Future. Vibration is translated to us in three modes—motion, sound and color. Our physical world is made up of three elements—gases, liquids and solids; and the infinite variety of forms resulting from their combinations are mineral, vegetable and animal. What we call electricity is a power resulting from the union of a positive and a negative current. Looking over the whole field of manifestation, we find the triangle as the geometrical pattern, with the number three as the numerical measure or gauge of its manifold phenomena.
Finally we come to consider man himself. When we attempt to apply the rule of the triangle to him, we come upon a most significant discovery—albeit a secret known to initiates of the Mystery Schools of all ages—that man is a microcosm, a little universe. In him is contained in miniature the vast macrocosm. Made in the “image of God,” his spiritual nature is an emanation of the threefold nature of God. This “likeness” to God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit is a triad of three principles, expressed as Will, Love- Wisdom and Creative Intelligence. The ancient Hindu term for this human triad is Atma, Buddhi, Manas. St. Paul recognized man as a threefold being when he said that he is a “Spirit, Soul and Body.” The personality, which is the Soul or Ego expressed or incarnated in the three lower worlds of mental, astral and physical matter, is also a triad composed of mind, emotions and physical body.
How intricate is humanity’s relation with the universe, and how intimate is its relationship with God, will be the subject of future studies. What could more truly express this relationship, with its infinite correspondences of parts, culminating in identification and eventual union, than the symbol of the intertwining triangles?
Question Marks
The Five Ws, Five Ws and one H, 5W1H, or the Six Ws are questions whose answers are considered basic in information-gathering or problem-solving. They are often mentioned in journalism (cf. news style), research, and police investigations.[1]They constitute a formula for getting the complete story on a subject.[2] According to the principle of the Five Ws, a report can only be considered complete if it answers these questions starting with an interrogative word:[3]
In the 19th century U.S., Prof. William Cleaver Wilkinson popularized the "Three Ws" – What? Why? What of it? – as a method of Bible study in the 1880s, though he did not claim originality. This became the "Five Ws", though the application was rather different from that in journalism:
"What? Why? What of it?" is a plan of study of alliterative methods for the teacher emphasized by Professor W.C. Wilkinson not as original with himself but as of venerable authority. "It is, in fact," he says, "an almost immemorial orator's analysis. First the facts, next the proof of the facts, then the consequences of the facts. This analysis has often been expanded into one known as "The Five Ws:" "When? Where? Who? What? Why?" Hereby attention is called, in the study of any lesson: to the date of its incidents; to their place or locality; to the person speaking or spoken to, or to the persons introduced, in the narrative; to the incidents or statements of the text; and, finally, to the applications and uses of the lesson teachings.
An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, when, where, who, whom, why, and how. They are sometimes called wh-words, because in English most of them start with wh- (compare Five Ws). They may be used in both direct questions (Where is he going?) and in indirect questions (I wonder where he is going). In English and various other languages the same forms are also used as relative pronouns in certain relative clauses (The country where he was born) and certain adverb clauses (I go where he goes).
Interrogative words in English include:
Primary Colors
A Point is simply location or a center, without length, breadth or thickness. Not having dimension, therefore, a point cannot be said to be a thing (No Thing). A point is nothing materially speaking.
It cannot be proven by any physical sense for no one has ever seen or felt, heard, melt and tasted a point. Yet we know that it is the beginning of geometry and while its physical existence cannot be proven by the senses we are all positive that it does exist. With out it no geometrical .operations could begin. Were there no point, neither line, surface, nor solid could be produced. It is the foundation upon which the three physical dimensions must stand.
The Point has been adopted in many circles (including the Masonic Order) as the symbol of Deity; The Great Architect of the Universe. As representing the ONE God therefore , it primarily means ONE, the center of all things.
The word "Point" is derived fro the latin word "Punctum" which means to go no further back.
Within the Circle of the universe there are multitudes of points and all these might be piled one on the another on the central point and it would, yet be one point. So all things come from and return to God.
We will now take up a discussion of the Circle. The Circle is an unending line same as eternity ie… without end. This circle representing unending time and space is taken as the symbol of all things of the universe (mater).
The O readily symbolizes the endlessness of matter and of eternity.
the O, the endless existence of that which is the indestructible primordial matter, the eternal Mother of all things
O is the eternal feminine, matter, the universal Mother, personalized in ancient religions by such goddesses as Isis, Cybele, Mylitta, Aditi, Venus, Juno and others
If we would search the whole universe for some symbol which most truly expresses the nature of God as First Cause and Father, we must choose the Point. Of God as Absolute Being there can be no likeness or similitude either on earth or in heaven. Of the Absolute nothing can be said. We may only call it THAT. It has no attributes save that it is Eternal, Changeless, and Causeless Cause. It is inherent in all things and pervades all space. It is the Root Principle from which emanate both Spirit and Matter. Yet the point is the symbol which most nearly represents God as Absolute Being, for the point has neither form nor dimension, and has therefore no external existence; yet it is potentially everywhere and is the beginning of all forms and the source of all dimensions.
It is especially of God as Father (Hebrew, Kether), First Emanation of the Absolute, that the point is symbol. As the Father is Spirit or First Cause, the point is that invisible source from which proceed all forms. We may therefore rightly consider the Point as the first letter of our symbolical alphabet. What “1” is to numbers, and “A” to letters, the Point is to all geometrical forms. The point, as does the number 1, represents unity. Pythagoras called it the Monad,” the individualized spirit of man.
14 The Secret Doctrine, 3rd Edition, Vol. 1, p. 121. 7
“The dot,” says Manly Hall, “is the first departure from things as they eternally are. It is the first illusion of the self, the first limitation of space, even as spirit is the first limitation of self. The dot, or sacred island, is the beginning of existence, whether that of a universe or man . . . . The dot is spirit, and its symbol in the Chaldaic Hebrew is the Yod . . . . The dot symbolizes the cause; the line the means; and the circle the end . . . . The line therefore is the symbol of the dot in growth or motion.” Again he said, “God is the dot, the first island floating in and upon the permanent depths of unlimited existence.”
We come now to the Circle. The circle is no number, yet it contains all numbers. It is the naught, the cipher, or sepher, from which all numbers proceed and into which they all eventually resolve. It is All, for it has neither beginning nor ending. It is the point expanded to infinity. Of all symbols, the circle is the most mystical, for it is the symbol of infinity and eternity—of boundless space and endless time.
The circle is the “ring-pass-not” which establishes the limits of manifestation, whether of a man or of a universe. Indeed, it is the symbol of that manifestation, even as the point is the symbol of THAT which has no manifestation. If the point, as we said, has no dimension, the circle contains all possible dimensions. The point ever retreats within itself, out of time and space; the circle, ever expanding into infinite time and space, embraces all things. The point symbolizes THAT which is the cause and potency of life, the circle symbolizes that primordial substance out of which all forms are created. It has been called many names: “chaos,” “void,” “waters of space,” in Sanskrit “Mulaprakriti” (undifferentiated substance), “night” or “naught.” It is Omega, the Cosmic Mother, source of all forms. When Deity uttered the mystic formula, “I am Alpha and Omega,” He might have said, “I am the Ultimate Source both of life and form; I am the universal Father-Mother.”
Pascal is reported to have said, “God is a circle whose center (point) is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.” The union of these two symbols, the point and the circle—or the point within the circle—becomes the most potent of symbols. It is the symbol of life encased in material form; the life-germ within the seed or egg; the divine spark or monad within man; God within His universe. It is the “Tree of Life” in the midst of the “Garden.” In still more ancient scriptures, it is the “Jewel in the Lotus.” In human anatomy, it is the symbol of the hidden force centers in the body, the “Chakras.” Astronomically, it represents our sun. It contains the secret truth of God Immanent— God the Absolute in manifestation. The point within the circle is the sign of power— Infinite Will released as a creative force.
A N K H
The Egyptians of remote past time had combined the two in the form of what is almost certainly the most ancient of cross symbols, the crux ansata, anisate cross, called by them the A N K H (more recently spelled E N K H), an O topping an I with a horizontal line at the point of contact. It represents by the O above, the endless existence of that which is the indestructible primordial matter, the eternal Mother of all things; and by the I below, it indicates the emanation of creative mind, or spirit power, from the heart of the great sea of first matter plunging downward. The horizontal bar shows both their conjunction and their separation, as does any
boundary line between two areas. But the median line is important also because it marks the meeting point between the two poles of spirit and matter, since it is at this point that all reality is brought out to manifestation through the union of the two. The ANKH is the astrological symbol of Life.
The Interlaced Tri Angles (Star of David)
" The Deity is one, because it is infinite. It is triple, because it is ever Manifesting"…. The Kabbalah
Kabbalah teaches that G‑d created the world with seven spiritual building blocks—His seven “emotional” attributes. Accordingly, the entire creation is a reflection of these seven foundational attributes.
They are: chesed (kindness), gevurah (severity), tiferet (harmony), netzach (perseverance), hod (splendor), yesod (foundation) and malchut (royalty).
These attributes are divided into three columns: right, center and left:
Gevurah
Tiferet
Chesed
Hod
Yesod
Netzach
Malchut
Correspondingly, the Star of David contains seven compartments—six peaks protruding from a center.
The upper right wing is chesed.
The upper left wing is gevurah.
The upper center peak is tiferet. Kabbalah teaches that tiferet finds its source in keter, “the Crown,” which is infinitely higher than all the divine attributes which are involved in the “mundane” pursuit of creating worlds.
The lower right wing is netzach.
The lower left wing is hod.
The center is yesod. Yesod is “Foundation,” and as such, all the other attributes are rooted in, and rise from, this attribute.
The star’s bottom that descends from its belly is malchut—the attribute that absorbs the energies of the higher six attributes and uses them to actually descend and create everything—and to “reign” over them.
wherein is concealed the very nature of Being and man’s relationship with God. Where shall we begin? What shall we say as to the nature of God, of the universe and of man? How can we describe the infinitely complex system of inter-relationships, which exist between God, the universe, and humanity? With what gauge can we measure or compare man’s kinship with Deity?
The answer to these questions is to be found in the figure of the intertwined triangles. Here is the key, which (as we shall try to prove) unlocks the mystery of Being and Manifestation. We see in the triangle a pattern or mould into which all things, whether in heaven or on earth, may be (symbolically) cast. It is the common denominator (numerically) of every aspect of manifestation. It is the figure by which every facet of reality may be evaluated and related. It is the measure of all things visible and invisible, and at the same time the gauge of the relationship of one with the other.
I suppose the most fundamental concept of Deity of which the human mind is capable is that He is one. Yet when the idea of Deity is expressed in terms of His attributes, that is, His relation to a universe, the One becomes Three; and we find universally the concept of God as a Trinity. This is true of all the great religions of the world, with possibly one exception, Islam. Even the Hebrew, of all religions mono- theistic, in its secret writings taught that the one God, through His Emanations, becomes first three, then seven and ten—the Sacred Sephiroth. The following statement from the Kabalah is pertinent to the subject: “The Deity is one, because it is infinite. It is triple, because it is ever manifesting.”
To the Christian, He is Father, Son, Holy Ghost; to the Hindu, He is Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva or Creator, Preserver, Destroyer. In the ancient Egyptian Trinity, the relationship was definitely on the family pattern, Osiris, Isis, Horus, or Father, Mother, Son. Many other appellations, perhaps less personal, have been given to the Supreme. The ancient Greeks called him First Logos, Second Logos and Third Logos (Logos meaning Word). The Masonic Brotherhood knows Him as the Good, the Beautiful and the True. Universally He is recognized as the Omnipotent, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent.
We observe this same pattern in its philosophical application. There is first the objective world about us—the world of things. Second there is the Knower or the Self; and third there is an awareness or consciousness of the Self of his environment, the world of thought. The ancient Hindus called these three worlds Sat, Chit, Ananda. Fitting our pattern to more modern thought we have the triangle of Spirit-Life-Matter or Life-Consciousness-Form. In the purely physical world, we find that matter is known by its three qualifications, stability- mobility-rhythm or inertia-energy-law.
Space does not permit the cataloguing of all of the triplicities found in Nature. Here are a few of the more obvious. Light is broken up into three primary colors—red, yellow and blue. Philosophers see the universe as limited by Time and Space, and Measure as the relation between them. We may even say that “Measure” is three dimensional, namely—Distance, Duration and Direction. “Time” itself falls into the threefold category of Past, Present and Future. Vibration is translated to us in three modes—motion, sound and color. Our physical world is made up of three elements—gases, liquids and solids; and the infinite variety of forms resulting from their combinations are mineral, vegetable and animal. What we call electricity is a power resulting from the union of a positive and a negative current. Looking over the whole field of manifestation, we find the triangle as the geometrical pattern, with the number three as the numerical measure or gauge of its manifold phenomena.
Finally we come to consider man himself. When we attempt to apply the rule of the triangle to him, we come upon a most significant discovery—albeit a secret known to initiates of the Mystery Schools of all ages—that man is a microcosm, a little universe. In him is contained in miniature the vast macrocosm. Made in the “image of God,” his spiritual nature is an emanation of the threefold nature of God. This “likeness” to God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit is a triad of three principles, expressed as Will, Love- Wisdom and Creative Intelligence. The ancient Hindu term for this human triad is Atma, Buddhi, Manas. St. Paul recognized man as a threefold being when he said that he is a “Spirit, Soul and Body.” The personality, which is the Soul or Ego expressed or incarnated in the three lower worlds of mental, astral and physical matter, is also a triad composed of mind, emotions and physical body.
How intricate is humanity’s relation with the universe, and how intimate is its relationship with God, will be the subject of future studies. What could more truly express this relationship, with its infinite correspondences of parts, culminating in identification and eventual union, than the symbol of the intertwining triangles?
Question Marks
The Five Ws, Five Ws and one H, 5W1H, or the Six Ws are questions whose answers are considered basic in information-gathering or problem-solving. They are often mentioned in journalism (cf. news style), research, and police investigations.[1]They constitute a formula for getting the complete story on a subject.[2] According to the principle of the Five Ws, a report can only be considered complete if it answers these questions starting with an interrogative word:[3]
- What happened?
- Who is involved?
- When did it take place?
- Where did it take place?
- Why did that happen?
- How did it happen?
In the 19th century U.S., Prof. William Cleaver Wilkinson popularized the "Three Ws" – What? Why? What of it? – as a method of Bible study in the 1880s, though he did not claim originality. This became the "Five Ws", though the application was rather different from that in journalism:
"What? Why? What of it?" is a plan of study of alliterative methods for the teacher emphasized by Professor W.C. Wilkinson not as original with himself but as of venerable authority. "It is, in fact," he says, "an almost immemorial orator's analysis. First the facts, next the proof of the facts, then the consequences of the facts. This analysis has often been expanded into one known as "The Five Ws:" "When? Where? Who? What? Why?" Hereby attention is called, in the study of any lesson: to the date of its incidents; to their place or locality; to the person speaking or spoken to, or to the persons introduced, in the narrative; to the incidents or statements of the text; and, finally, to the applications and uses of the lesson teachings.
An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, when, where, who, whom, why, and how. They are sometimes called wh-words, because in English most of them start with wh- (compare Five Ws). They may be used in both direct questions (Where is he going?) and in indirect questions (I wonder where he is going). In English and various other languages the same forms are also used as relative pronouns in certain relative clauses (The country where he was born) and certain adverb clauses (I go where he goes).
Interrogative words in English include:
- interrogative determiner
- which, what
- whose (personal possessive determiner)
- interrogative pro-form
- interrogative pronoun
- who, whom, whose (personal)
- what, which
- interrogative pro-adverb
- where (location)
- whither (goal)
- whence (source)
- when (time)
- how (manner)
- why (reason)
- whether (choice between alternatives)
Primary Colors
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Blue
- Indigo
- Violet