are there really eight?
Jun 05, 2002 09:41 AM
by Eldon B Tucker
At 11:20 AM 6/5/02 -0400, you wrote:
Ademma Indraka wrote:
> And isn't it true that there is really 8 planets.
Around the sun? I believe that Pluto has recently been demoted to a
moon of Neptune....
Bart Lidofsky
I think Ademma probably means "globes" when he said
"planets." That is, he's asking if instead of seven
globes of the Earth Planetary Chain, there are eight.
That would be if you included the "eighth sphere,"
said to be "behind the moon."
With this way of thinking, you'd really get nine
rather than eight. You have the basic seven, one
lower, and one higher, making nine. The higher one
is really the lowest of a higher scheme of things
and the lower one is really the highest of a lower
scheme.
The same thinking would take us from a tenfold scheme
to twelvefold. The extra two making ten into twelve
would be the lowest of something higher and the
highest of something lower. It would look something
like:
HIGHER 01
HIGHER 02
HIGHER 03
HIGHER 04
HIGHER 05
HIGHER 06
HIGHER 07
HIGHER 08
HIGHER 09
HIGHER 10
HIGHER 11
HIGHER 12 = OUR 01
OUR 02
OUR 03
OUR 04
OUR 05
OUR 06
OUR 07
OUR 08
OUR 09
OUR 10
OUR 11
OUR 12 = LOWER 01
LOWER 02
LOWER 03
LOWER 04
LOWER 05
LOWER 06
LOWER 07
LOWER 08
LOWER 09
LOWER 10
LOWER 11
LOWER 12
The same idea could apply to cycles and time periods,
although it can get even more complex.
Some cycles run edge-to-edge, where one immediately
starts at the completion of the previous one. Others
may overlap and vary in length like the Races and
Subraces, or even have gaps between occurrences or
be otherwise intermittent.
How regularly does something happen it time? If
we consider everything as the effects of life, then
it depends upon what state that a particular life
is in. If it is under normal conditions, things
will go like clockwork. Under higher energy levels
when we encounter turbulence, things tend to get
chaotic.
-- Eldon
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