In Search of the Miraculous

"The ray of creation like every other process which is complete at a given moment

can be regarded as an octave. This would be a descending octave in which do passes into si, si into la and so on.

"The Absolute or All (world 1) will be do;

all worlds (world 3)—si; all suns (world 6)— la; our sun

(world 12)—sol; all planets (world 24)—fa; the earth

(world 48)—mi; the moon (world 96)—re. The ray of

creation begins with the Absolute. The Absolute is All. It

is—do.

"The ray of creation ends in the moon. Beyond the

moon there is nothing. This also is the Absolute—do.

"In examining the ray of creation or cosmic octave we

see that 'intervals' should come in the development of

this octave: the first between do and si, that is between

world 1 and world 3, between the Absolute and 'all

worlds,' and the second between fa and mi, that is,

between world 24 and world 48, between 'all planets'

and the earth. But the first 'interval' is filled by the will

of the Absolute. One of the manifestations of the will of

the Absolute consists precisely in the filling of this

'interval' by means of a conscious manifestation of neutralizing force which fills up the 'interval' between the active and the passive forces. With the second 'interval'

the situation is more complicated. Something is missing

between the planets and the earth. Planetary influences

cannot pass to the earth consecutively and fully. An

'additional shock' is indispensable;

the creation of some new conditions to insure a proper

passage of forces is indispensable.

"The conditions to insure the passage of forces are created by the arrangement of a

special mechanical contrivance between the planets and the earth. This mechanical

contrivance, this 'transmitting station of forces' is organic life on earth. Organic life on earth was created to fill the interval between the planets and the earth.

"Organic life represents so to speak the earth's organ of perception. Organic life forms something like a sensitive film which covers the whole of the earth's globe and

takes in those influences coming from the planetary sphere which otherwise would not

be able to reach the earth. The vegetable, animal, and human kingdoms are equally

important for the earth in this respect. A field merely covered with grass takes in

planetary influences of a definite kind and transmits them to the earth. The same field

with a crowd of people on it will take in and transmit other influences. The population

of Europe takes in one kind of planetary influences and transmits them to the earth.

The population of Africa takes in planetary influences of another kind, and so on.

"All great events in the life of the human masses are caused by planetary influences.

They are the result of the taking in of planetary influences. Human society is a highly

sensitive mass for the reception of planetary influences. And any accidental small

tension in planetary spheres can be reflected for years in an increased animation in one

or another sphere of human activity. Something accidental and very transient takes

place in planetary space. This is immediately received by the human masses, and

people begin to hate and to kill one another, justifying their actions by some theory of

brotherhood, or equality, or love, or justice.

"Organic life is the organ of perception of the earth and it is at the same time an

organ of radiation. With the help of organic life each portion of the earth's surface

occupying a given area sends every moment certain kinds of rays in the direction of

the sun, the planets, and the moon. In connection with this the sun needs one kind of

radiations, the planets another kind, and the moon another. Everything that happens on

earth creates radiations of this kind. And many things often happen just because

certain kinds of radiation are required from a certain place on the earth's surface."

In saying this G. drew our attention in particular to the nonconformity of time, that

is, of the duration of events in the planetary world and in human life. The significance

of his insistence on this point became clear to me only later.

At the same time he constantly emphasized the fact that no matter what took place

in the thin film of organic life it always served the interests of the earth, the sun, the planets, and the moon; nothing unnecessary and nothing independent could happen in

it because it was created for a definite purpose and was merely subordinate.

And once dwelling on this theme he gave us a diagram of the structure of the octave

in which one of the links was "organic life on earth."

"This additional or lateral octave in the ray of creation begins in the sun," he said.

"The sun, sol of the cosmic octave, begins at a certain moment to sound as do, sol-do.

"It is necessary to realize that every note of any octave, in the present instance every note of the cosmic octave, may represent do of some other lateral octave issuing from