02-28-2012, 06:32 PM
(02-27-2012, 12:00 PM)Icaro Wrote: As a child, I used to lay in bed for long periods of time without being able to fall asleep (wasn't ready for bed), and I would enter into a meditative state where certain visuals would appear. I used to see squares that receded infinitely into the distance.
If you were to take a pyramid and look upwards from the bottom, what would you see? The perimeter of each successive layer forms a square that gets smaller and smaller. The larger always supporting yet containing the whole. The base theoretically never ends, as layers expand outward infinitely, and the same is said of the other direction. It's symbolic of infinity.
A helpful note..
"The other meaning has to do with the same right angle, with its architectural squareness, as the device upon the breast of the actor."
And this..
Quote:Exercise One. This is the most nearly centered and useable within your illusion complex. The moment contains love. That is the lesson/goal of this illusion or density. The exercise is to consciously see that love in awareness and understanding distortions. The first attempt is the cornerstone. Upon this choosing rests the remainder of the life-experience of an entity. The second seeking of love within the moment begins the addition. The third seeking empowers the second, the fourth powering or doubling the third. As with the previous type of empowerment, there will be some loss of power due to flaws within the seeking in the distortion of insincerity. However, the conscious statement of self to self of the desire to seek love is so central an act of will that, as before, the loss of power due to this friction is inconsequential.
Can you see that Ra is painting the picture of building a pyramid by referencing the cornerstone? It was said that in the tarot, the square represents the material illusion. The first attempt at love represents the cornerstone of the pyramid (unity) we're attempting to "construct", which helps us tap the infinite. As we seek, when we are able to see through illusory boundaries, each realization empowers the previous by squaring the relationship, rather than trying to differentiate and build some kind of structure with unevenness. The power then doubles because unity is recognized.
Novel, intriguing ideas, Icaro! I've never considered or encountered some of the ideas you put forth here, especially the notion of decreasingly sized squares forming a pyramid and its philosophical implications. Great leads!
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi