In Search of the Miraculous

worlds. The worlds of the third order, created by the three forces which act semimechanically, no longer depend upon the single will of the Absolute but upon three mechanical laws. These worlds are created by the three forces. And having been

created they manifest three new forces of their own. Thus the number of forces acting

in the worlds of the third order will be six. In the diagram the circle of the third order is designated by the number 6 (3 plus 3). In these worlds are

created worlds of a new order, the fourth order. In the worlds of the fourth order there

act three forces of the world of the second order, six forces of the world of the third

order, and three of their own, twelve forces altogether. Let us take one of these worlds

and designate it by the number 12 (3 plus 6 plus 3). Being subject to a greater number

of laws these worlds stand still further away from the single will of the Absolute and

are still more mechanical. The worlds created within these worlds will be governed by

twenty-four forces (3 plus 6 plus 12 plus 3). The worlds created within these worlds

will be governed by forty-eight forces, the number 48 being made up as follows: three

forces of the world immediately following the Absolute, six of the next one, twelve of

the next, twenty-four of the one after, and three of its own (3 plus 6 plus 12 plus 24

plus 3), forty-eight in all. Worlds created within worlds 48 will be governed by

ninety-six forces (3 plus 6 plus 12 plus 24 plus 48 plus 3). The worlds of the next

order, if there are any, will be governed by 192 forces, and so on.

"If we take one of the many worlds created in the Absolute, that is, world 3, it will be the world representing the total number of starry worlds similar to our Milky Way.

If we take world 6, it will be one of the worlds created within this world, namely the

accumulation of stars which we call the Milky Way. World 12 will be one of the suns

that compose the Milky Way, our sun. World 24 will be the planetary world, that is to

say, all the planets of the solar system. World 48 will be the earth. World 96 will be

the moon. If the moon had a satellite it would be world 192, and so on.

"The chain of worlds, the links of which are the Absolute, all worlds, all suns, our sun, the planets, the earth, and the moon, forms the 'ray of creation' in which we find

ourselves. The ray of creation is for us the 'world' in the widest sense of the term. Of

course, the ray of creation does not include the 'world' in the full sense of the term,

since the Absolute gives birth to a number, perhaps to an infinite number, of different

worlds, each of which begins a new and separate ray of creation. Furthermore, each of

these worlds contains a number of worlds representing a further breaking up of the ray

and again of these worlds we select only one—our Milky Way; the Milky Way

consists of a number of suns, but of this number we select one sun which is nearest to

us, upon which we immediately depend, and in which we live and move and have our

being. Each of the other suns means a new breaking up of the ray, but we cannot

study these rays in the same way as our ray, that is, the ray in which we are situated.

Further, within the solar system the planetary world is nearer to us than the sun itself, and within the planetary world the nearest of all to us is the earth, the planet on which we live. We have no need to study other planets in the same way as we study the

earth, it is suffi-

cient for us to take them all together, that is to say, on a considerably smaller scale

than we take the earth.

"The number of forces in each world, 1, 3, 6, 12, and so on, indicates the number of laws to which the given world is subject.

"The fewer laws there are in a given world, the nearer it is to the will of the

Absolute; the more laws there are in a given world, the greater the mechanicalness,

the further it is from the will of the Absolute. We live in a world subject to forty-eight orders of laws, that is to say, very far from the will of the Absolute and in a very

remote and dark comer of the universe.

"In this way the ray of creation helps us to determine and to realize our place in the world. But, as you see, we have not yet come to questions about influences. In order

to understand the difference between the influences of various worlds we must better

understand the law of three and then, further, still another fundamental law—the Law

of Seven, or the law of octaves."

Chapter Five

WE TAKE the three-dimensional universe and consider the world as a world of

matter and force in the simplest and most elementary meaning of these terms. Higher dimensions and new theories of matter, space, and time, as well as other categories of

knowledge of the world which are unknown to science, we will discuss later. At

present it is necessary to represent the universe in the diagrammatic form of the 'ray

of creation,' from the Absolute to the moon.