The Brain is an Advanced Fractal Antenna

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Mystery of the Cathedrals


Preface to Mystery of the Cathedrals


read with a 369 twist to it

3 Having reached the pinnacle of knowledge, could he refuse to obey the demands of Destiny? No man is a prophet in his own country. Perhaps the old saying gives the occult reason for the convulsion produced in the solitary and studious life of the philosopher by the flash of Revelation. Under the influence of that divine flame, the former man is entirely consumed. Name, family, native land, and all the illusions, all the errors, all the vanities fall to dust. And, like the phoenix of the poets, a new personality is reborn from the ashes. That, at least, is how the philosophic Tradition would have it

6 Thanks to him, the Gothic cathedral has yielded up its secret. And it is not without surprise and emotion that we learn how our ancestors fashioned the first stone of its foundations, that dazzling gem, more precious than gold itself, on which Jesus built his Church. All Truth, all Philosophy and all Religion rest on this unique and sacred Stone. Many people, inflated with presumption, believe themselves capable of fashioning it; yet how rare are the elect, those who are sufficiently simple, learned and skilful to the complete the task!

9 The hermeticists – those at least who are worthy of the name – will discover other things here. From the clash of ideas, it is said, light bursts forth; they will recognize here that is from the confrontation of the Book and the Building that the Spirit is released and the Letter dies. Fulcanelli had made the first effort on their behalf; it is up to the hermeticists to make the last. The remaining way is short, but it is essential to be able to recognize it and not to travel without knowing where one is going.



Fulcanelli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

3 One should at least realize that the author of a work of such high quality would not abandon it the moment it came into the world, unless he had pertinent and compelling reasons, long pondered, for so doing. These reasons, on a very different plane, led to the renunciation at which we cannot but wonder, since even the loftiest authors are susceptible to the fame that comes from the printed word. It should be said that the case of Fulcanelli is unique in the realm of Letters in our day, since it derives from an infinitely superior code of ethics. In obedience to this, the new Adept attunes his destiny to that of his exalted predecessors, who, like himself, appeared at their appointed time on the great highway like beacons of hope and mercy. What perfect filial duty, carried to the ultimate degree, in order that the eternal, universal and indivisible Truth might continually be reaffirmed in its double aspect, the spiritual and the scientific. Fulcanelli, like most of the Adepts of old, in casting off the worn-out husk of his former self, left nothing in the road but the phantom trace of his signature -- a signature, whose aristocratic nature is amply shown by his visiting card.

6 'My old friend,

'This time you have really had the Gift of God; it is a great blessing and, for the first time, I understand how rare this favour is. Indeed, I believe that, ini its unfathomable depth of simplicity, the arcanum cannot be found by the force of reason alone, however subtle and well trained it may be. At last you posess the Treasure of Treasures. Let us give thanks to the Divine Light which made you a participant in it. Moreover, you have richly deserved it on account of your unshakeable belief in Truth, the constancy of your effort, your perseverence in sacrifice and also, let us not forget ... your good works.

9 'My wife, with the inexplicable intuition of sensitives, had a really strange dream. She saw a man enveloped in all the colours of the rainbow and raised up to the sun. We did not have long to wait for the explanation. What a miracle! What a beautiful and triumphant reply to my letter, so crammed with arguments and --theoretically-- so exact; but yet how far from the Truth, from Reality. Ah! One can almost say that he, who has greeted the morning star has for ever lost the use of his sight and his reason, because he is fascinated by this false light and cast into the abyss . . . . Unless, as in your case, a great stroke of fate comes to pull him unexpectedly from the edge of the precipice.

12 'Your old . . . .

15 Does not this phrase apparently contradict what I stated twenty years ago, in a study of the Golden Fleece¹, namely that the star is the great sign of the Work; that it sets its seal on the philosophic matter; that it teaches the alchemist that he has found not the light of fools but the light of the wise; that it is the crown of wisdom; and that it is called the morning star?

18 This statement corroborates and completes the no less categorical and solemn one made by Basil Valentine (Douze Clefs):

21 Cum luce salutem; with light, salvation.'

24 I will stress this point, although I am sure that few will thank me for it: we are truly concerned with a nocturnal star, whose light shines without great brightness at the pole of the hermetic sky. It is, therefore, important, without allowing oneself to be led astray by appearances, to enquire about this terrestrial sky mentioned by Vinceslas Lavinius of Moravia and dwelt on at length by Jacobus Tollius:

27 It is essential to consider well that the sky and the earth, although they are confused in the original cosmic Chaos, differ neither in substance nor in essence, but become different in quality, quantity and virtue. Does not the alchemical earth, which is chaotic, inert and sterile, contain nevertheless the philosophic sky? Would it then be impossible for the artist, the imitator of Nature and of the divine Great Work, with the help of the secret fire and the universal spirit, to separate in his little world the luminous, clear, crystalline parts from the dark, coarse and dense parts? Further, this separation must be made, consisting in the extraction of light from darkness and accomplishing the work of the first of the Great Days of Solomon. It is by means of this process that we are able to know what the philosophic earth is and what the Adepts have named the sky of the wise.

30 'As for you, as soon as you see his star, follow it to the Cradle, where you will see the lovely Child.'

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Mystery of the Cathedrals


Preface to Mystery of the Cathedrals

All Truth, all Philosophy and all Religion rest on this unique and sacred Stone.[/B]

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http://www.energeticforum.com/psychi...tml#post195924

Every [Sacred] Book is the Truth 16

Lead Books of Sacromonte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They were discovered in the caves of Sacromonte, a hillside outside the old city of Granada, Spain, between 1595 and 1606, and comprise 22 volumes of "lead books", each one consisting of a number of inscribed circular lead leaves, laced together with lead wire and bound within folded lead covers; which were found together with burned human remains, identified by lead plaques as being those of Caecilius of Elvira (Cecilio, Cecil) and eleven followers, supposedly martyred under the Emperor Nero. References in the "books" claim that they were inscribed by Arabic-speaking Christians during the Roman period, and deposited with the martyrs' remains. The books are conserved in the Abbey of the Sacromonte.

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a Harmonic Cascade Effect just like Karma .... it is neither good nor bad .....

karma is impartial, is brought about by harmonious
applications of natural laws FRATER ALBERTUS

you can also call it a Harmonic Cascade Effect of Ignorance

a fractal construct has an 'efficient function', it has a fractal ergonomy to them, they function on multiple levels and in multiple dimensions:

"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; only the dose permits something not to be poisonous." ParaCelsus

here is an example of Harmonious Destruction



from: http://www.energeticforum.com/genera...society-2.html

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Panic in the New World Order .:: Kenneth Bager - Fragment Eight (The Sound of Swing) ::. - YouTube
Saturday June 23, 23:02

"For the first time in my career, I see the international establishment, sometimes called the New World Order, facing a crisis so large that its very survival is at stake. For the first time, these people are scared. There are not many of them. In his book, "Superclass", author David Rothkopf estimates that there are only about 6000 people at the top of the pyramid of world power and influence. They are mostly males, and at least a third of them have attended America's most prestigious universities. Most of the others have attended comparable universities in Europe.

A Daisy Chain Of Debt: The problem is, the Northern European governments do not have any money to serve as lenders to Greece, Spain, or Italy. They are borrowing money at rates not seen before in peacetime Europe. These governments are expected to intervene and lend money to the Greek government. But every northern European government is now faced with the additional responsibility of being the lender of next-to-last resort to the large commercial banks inside its own borders. Who is going to lend northern European governments enough money to bail out southern European governments? Which lenders think this is a good idea today? At today's rate of interest, not that many. That is why interest rates are going to rise. But when long-term interest rates rise, that will lower the present market value of all of the bonds in the portfolios of the lenders.

So, on the one hand, investors have to pony up the money to lend to the governments, and the governments need the money to recapitalize the banks in their own borders. This leads to the next problem: in order for the lenders to lend money to a government, they have to write checks on their bank accounts. What happens if their banks should go under? Who will lend money to the governments? In this daisy chain of fiat money, credit, and debt, the European Central Bank is the lender of last resort. It is the lender of last resort because it has the legal authority to create money out of nothing. It can buy IOUs issued by governments, and it can lend money to banks, so that the banks can buy the IOUs of governments.

I can remember almost 40 years ago listening to a speech by a young hotshot economist at Yale, who informed us that there would be a new currency system established in Europe by the year 2000. This was an accurate forecast. It was established in 1999. The hotshot later moved to Harvard. He has generally disappeared from public view. But it was clear from his enthusiastic speech that he was convinced that this new currency system would create a completely new economic order in Europe. Boy, was he right!

The new economic order in Europe is now disintegrating. The establishment politicians, bureaucrats, and spokesmen are looking in horror as the system which their predecessors designed to work permanently is disintegrating. Not to put too fine a point to it, but this is reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's promise about the thousand-year Reich. It lasted 13 years. This year, the euro had its 13th birthday. So far, it has not had a happy birthday.

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back to Fulcanelli for a moment

Mystery of the Cathedrals

INTRODUCTION BY WALTER LANG

1 TWO UNIVERSES: the universe of science and the universe of alchemy.

3 To the alchemist, the scientific universe is no more than an abstraction from a much greater whole.

6 Since alchemists are popularly regarded as at best deluded and at worst deranged, a claim that alchemy is not only science but Science, not only a religion but Religion, is apt to be dismissed out of hand as derisory.

9 In so far as any discipline is entitled to define its own concerns, this is entirely legitimate. What is not so tenable is to imply that because science has selected one possible universe, the universe of fact, and has been superbly successful in charting it, no other universe can possibly exist. Science, to be fair, does not exactly say this but it is very happy to see this implication accepted.

12 In effect: 'No case, abuse the plaintiff's counsel.

15 Is alchemy concerned with making gold? Only in a specific case within a total situation. Alchemists are concerned with gold in much the same way that Mesmer was concerned with hypnotism. The twentieth century took a single aspect of 'Mesmerism', truncated even that, and used the fragment for its own egoistic ends. It declared that it had investigated Mesmerism, exposed its ridiculous pretentions and rendered what was left 'scientific'.

18 Truly science drives out the spirit from the whole and proudly displays separate bits. Dead, all dead.

21 The action of an Absolute in differentiating a prime-source substance into a phenomenal universe is an operation in alchemy. The creation of galactic matter from energy and creating of energy from matter is alchemy. God is an alchemist.

24 All such energy transformations are fraught with great danger and the secrecy which has always surrounded Hermeticism is concerned with this aspect among others.

27 But it has taken Western technology so long to uncover a single aspect of the subject, how is it that Bronze Age Egypt and Pythagorean Greece reputedly knew the whole science? Here even the most guarded speculation must seem outrageous.

30 For evolution to take place, there is required at every step a shift away from less-organization towards more-organization. The mechanistic view asserts that this enhancement of organization, this negative entropy, could be progressively established from the mechanical consolidation of 'favourable' variations. Recent work in applying mathematical theory to biology suggests that there is a very big hole indeed in this particular bucket.

33 Statistically, evolution could not happen. As it demonstrably did happen, it must have done so not merely against probability but actually against the possibilities present in a closed system. The conclusion seems unavoidable: the evolutionary process was not a closed system.

36 It is an acceptable proposition that man was the result of a carefully contrived alchemical operation by Higher Powers is it not at least possible that he was given, in addition to consciousness, an insight into the transformation technique that produced him? On this assumption, modern man might have, in his own subconscious, fragmentary data which exceptional individuals could recover and assemble into a technology of alchemy. Inevitably such men would be aware of other men who had made the same immense leap and such groups would combine to create schools of alchemy.

39 On this assumption the technique of alchemy would have reached us as a transmission from ancestors whose existence we do not even suspect.

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42 Whether any, or a combination of all of these possibilities is the explanation of the presence of alchemy throughout human history, it is clear that alchemy existed at the dawn of the human story we know.

45 As always, however, knowledge of the technique was compressed; a torch was lit; an ark was launched. Before Egypt became totally submerged in idolatry the Great Secret was transmitted. ( passing of Yuigas )

48 Strange as the idea may be, Greece appears to have made less of her chances than she might. The Glory That Was Greece may have been a poor shadow of the Glory That Might Have Been.

51 To ensure its survival in some measure, they were obliged to compromise dangerously. They externalized some of it in the Zohar and maintained a small initiated inner circle. It may be that this circle, very greatly depleted, survived in Europe in isolated pockets like Cracow until the thirties of the present century.

54 If it is true that some 'beads of mercury' were reunited through Mohammed, two more were reunited in Spain. Out of this confluence grew a very large part of the whole of Western civilization which we have inherited and whose origin hardly one man in a million has ever suspected in seven centuries.

57 All the foregoing were the externalized forms of a major alchemical operation at an invisible level. Only one aspect however, that of chemical alchemy, used the terminology which has been subsequently identified with the word.

60 The genuine Christian alchemists -- estimated to number four thousand between 1200 and 1656 -- readopted a chemical code which had served in similar circumstances in the past. A certain principle of nature (rendered in the codex attributed to Hermes, 'as above, so below') ensured that the alchemical process at its hidden level could be represented with full integrity by the terminology of a lower discipline. This lower discipline -- metallic chemistry -- was all that the common life of Europe ever understood by the word alchemy.

63 Throughout the whole European record of Alchemy, its genuine practitioners appear to have been under certain obligations which may in fact apply to 'artists' in the Work of every age. It seems that they are required to leave behind them some thread which those who come after may use as a guide line across the web of Ariadne. The indications provided must be in code and the code must be self cancelling; that is, an inquirer who does not possess the first secret must be infallibly prevented from discovering the second. 'Unto him that hath . . .' is nowhere better exemplified than in the attempt to study alchemical texts.

66 The strictly alchemical aspect of The Great Work has been quiescent in Europe for about three centuries but rare and exceptional individuals still find their way through the maze -- perhaps by making contact with a source outside Europe -- and achieve one or other of the degrees of the Magnum Opus.

69 The manuscript was the now famous Mystère des Cathédrales and its publication caused a sensation in esoteric circles in Europe. From internal evidence the author was a man who had either completed, or was on the brink of completing, the Magnum Opus. Interest in such an individual, among those who knew what was involved, was enormous.

72 One man knew better -- Fulcanelli's former pupil Canseliet. After a lapse of many years, Canseliet received a message from the alchemist and met him at a pre-arranged rendezvous. The reunion was brief for Fulcanelli once again severed contacts and once again disappeared without leaving a trace of his whereabouts.

75 While working as assistant to André Helbronner, the noted physicist who was later to be killed by the Nazis, Bergier was approached one day by an impressive individual who asked Bergier to pass on to Helbronner a strange -- and highly knowledgeable -- warning. This was to the effect that orthodox science was on the brink of manipulating nuclear energy.

78 Not a few were driven to the conclusion that Fulcanelli was a myth and that no such person had ever existed. The theory is a little difficult ot sustain in view of the existence of Mystère des Cathédrales. This work is authoritatively accepted as the work of a man who had gone far -- very far -- in the practice of alchemy.

81 But for all practical purposes Fulcanelli has vanished as though he never existed. Only his contributions to the literature of alchemy remains, Mystère des Cathédrales.

84 About one thing it seems impossible to have any doubt. The unknown who wrote Mystère des Cathédrales KNEW. Fulcanelli speaks as one having authority. By pointing to a glyph in Notre Dame or a statue in Amiens and relating an unknown sculptor's works to some ancient or modern text, Fulcanelli is indicating the steps in a process he has himself been through.

87 'Behold,' said Boehme, 'he will show it to you plain enough if you be a Magus and worthy, else you shall remain blind still.'

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Haven't we covered these

Mystery of the Cathedrals

A selection of these factors at random would include the Christian pilgrimage (based on the form established by the Cluniacs to St. James of Compostella); the Crusades; Heraldry; the orders of chivalry (cheval-ry: from the horse as a glyph of the alchemical 'volatile'?); castle architecture; the Gothic cathedrals; illumination and embroidery; the Troubadours, Albigenses, Cathars and Minnesänger; the Courtly Romances; the Arthurian Quest Theme (reuniting the Celtic pre-Christian Grail Quest); the Cult of the Virgin in Catholicism; the theolgical philosophy of Albertus Magnus and St. Thomas Aquinas; the Cosmology of Bacon; the devotional systems of St. Francis, St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa; the Wandering Players, Jester, harlequinades and Mystery Plays; specialized dancing; falconry and certain ball games; Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism; gardening (the Spanish Gardens); playing cards; the Language of the Birds concept; the Craft Guilds; archery; some medicine like immunology (Paracelsus) and homoeopathy; and cybernetics (Raymond Lully).

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Mystery of the Cathedrals

and cybernetics (Raymond Lully)

seems we have not explored this great Mind

Ramon Llull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ramon Llull (Catalan pronunciation: [rəˈmoɲ ˈʎuʎ], (ca. 1232[2] – ca. 1315) (Anglicised Raymond Lully, Raymond Lull, in Latin Raimundus or Raymundus Lullus or Lullius) was a Majorcan writer and philosopher, logician and a Franciscan tertiary. He wrote the first major work of Catalan literature. Recently-surfaced manuscripts show him to have anticipated by several centuries prominent work on elections theory. He is sometimes considered a pioneer of computation theory, especially given his influence on Gottfried Leibniz.[3] Llull is well known also as a glossator of Roman Law.

Within the Franciscan Order, he is honored as a martyr. He was beatified in 1857 by the Blessed Pope Pius IX and his feast day was assigned to 30 June and is celebrated by the Third Order of St. Francis .

shall we explore some of his Alchemical work

The logo of the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas ("Higher Council of Scientific Research") is Llull's Tree of Science. Ramon Llull University, a private university established in Barcelona in 1990, is named for the philosopher.
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Mathematics, statistics, and classification

With the 2001 discovery of his lost manuscripts Ars notandi, Ars eleccionis, and Alia ars eleccionis, Llull is given credit for discovering the Borda count and Condorcet criterion, which Jean-Charles de Borda and Nicolas de Condorcet independently discovered centuries later.[15] The terms Llull winner and Llull loser are ideas in contemporary voting systems studies that are named in honor of Llull.[citation needed] Also, Llull is recognized as pioneer of computation theory, especially due to his great influence on Gottfried Leibniz.[citation needed] Llull's systems of organizing concepts using devices such as trees, ladders, and wheels, have been analyzed as classification systems.[16]
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Mysticism and the occult

Ramon Llull also had a strong mystical side, instanced in his work The Book of the Lover and the Beloved, written in order to illuminate weary, sterile souls. He was also interested in, and wrote about, astrology.

A synthesis of Llull's work was made by his disciple Thomas Le Myésier, in his Electorium. In the early modern period Bernard de Lavinheta connected Llull with contemporary hermeticism.
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Art and architecture

The inspiration by Ramon Llull's mnemonic graphic cartwheels, reaching into contemporary art and culture, is demonstrated by Daniel Libeskind's architectural construction of the 2003 completed Studio Weil in Port d'Andratx, Majorca. „Studio Weil, a development of the virtuality of these mnemonic wheels which ever center and de-center the universal and the personal, is built to open these circular islands which float like all artwork in the oceans of memory.”[17]
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Modern fiction

Paul Auster refers to Llull (as Raymond Lull) in his memoir The Invention of Solitude in the second part, The Book of Memory. Llull, now going under the name 'Cole Hawlings' and revealed to be immortal, is a major character in The Box of Delights, the celebrated children's novel by poet John Masefield. He is also a major influence on the fictional character Zermano in Thomas Salazar's The Day of the Bees, and his name, philosophies, and quotes from his writings appear throughout the novel. In Roberto Bolano's novel 2666, Amalfitano, a Chilean professor, thinks about "Ramon Llull and his fantastic machine. Fantastic in its uselessness."[18] Adan, Leopoldo Marechal's protagonist of the novel Adan Buenosayres (1948), mentions Ramon Lulio when he walks by the "curtiembre" (leather-tanning shop): He says: "Ramon Lulio, que aconsejaba no rehuir del olor de las letrinas a fin de recordar a menudo lo que da el cuerpo de si mismo en su tan frecuentemente olvidada miseria" (Edición Crítica, Colección Archivos, 1997. Page 312) ("Ramon Llull advised not to shy away from the smell of outhouses, in order not to forget that which the body gives out in its often forgotten misery.") In William Gaddis' first novel, The Recognitions, the final paragraph of Chapter II alludes to "Raymond Lully," as a "scholar, a poet, a missionary, a mystic, and one of the foremost figures in the history of alchemy."

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Mysticism and the occult

Ramon Llull also had a strong mystical side, instanced in his work The Book of the Lover and the Beloved, written in order to illuminate weary, sterile souls. He was also interested in, and wrote about, astrology.

A synthesis of Llull's work was made by his disciple Thomas Le Myésier, in his Electorium. In the early modern period Bernard de Lavinheta connected Llull with contemporary hermeticism.

The book of the lover and the beloved; translated from the Catalan of Ramón Lull with an introductory essay : Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

THE BOOK OF THE LOVER
AND THE BELOVED

TRANSLATED FROM THE CATALAN
of ram6n LULL WITH AN INTRO-
DUCTORY ESSAY BY

E. ALLISON PEERS LONDON

Various accounts are given of his burial. It
seems that two Genoese merchants begged his body
and carried it to Majorca, but some versions have it
that a great pyramid of light aided them in their
search for it,

Scholars have debated over
Lull's probable debt to sufism, on the one hand,
and, on the other, his influence upon the long line
of mystics who have followed him.

also : Richard Grove - Hour 1 - Learning vs. Schooling Red Ice Radio - Richard Grove - Hour 1 - Learning vs. Schooling

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Full text of "The book of the lover and the beloved; translated from the Catalan of Ramón Lull with an introductory essay"

3 Many Lovers came together to love One only,
their Beloved, who made them all to abound in love.
And each declared his Beloved perfection, and his
thoughts of Him were very pleasant, making him
to suffer pain which brought delight.

6 The Beloved made trial/bf His Lover to see if
his love for Him were perfect, and He asked him
how the presence of the Beloved differed from
His absence. The Lover answered: 'As know-
ledge arid remembrance differ from ignorance and
oblivion

9 Said the Beloved to the Lover : ' Knowest thou
yet what love meaneth ? ' The Lover replied : * If
I knew not the meaning of love, I should know the
meaning of labour, grief and sorrow.'

12 ' Say, Fool of Love, which can be the better
seen, the Beloved in the Lover, or the Lover in the
Beloved ? ' The Lover answered, and said : ' By
love can the Beloved be seen, and the Lover by
sighs and tears, by grief and by labours.'

15 ' Say, thou bird that singest, hast thou placed
thyself in the care of my Beloved, that He may
guard thee from indifference,, and increase in thee
thy love?' The bird replied : '.And who makes
me to sing but the Lord of love* to whom not to
love is to sin

18 The Lover asked the Understanding and the
Will which of them was the nearer to his Beloved.
And the two ran, and the Understanding came
nearer to the Bgloved than did the Will

21 The Lover came to drink of the fountain which
gives love to him who has none, and his griefs re-
doubled. And the Beloved came to drink of the
same fountain, that the love of one whose griefs were
doubled might be doubiecTalso.

24 They said to the Lover : ' Whither goest
thou }/ He answered : e I come from my Beloved.'
' Whence comest thou ? ' ' I go to my Beloved.'
' When wilt thou return ? ' 'I shall be with my
Beloved.' ' How long wilt thou be with thy Be-
loved ? ' 'As long as my thoughts remain on Him.'

27 The Lover was wearied, for he had laboured
much in seeking for his Beloved ', and he feared lest
he should forget Him. And he wept, that he
might not fall asleep, and his Beloved be absent from
his remembrance.

30 The Beloved filled His Lover with gifts of love,
and grieved not for his tribulations, for they would
but make him love the more deeply; and the
greater the Lover's tribulations, the greater was his
joy and delight.

33 The Lover set forth over hill and plain in
search of true devotion, and to see if his Beloved was
well served. But everywhere he found nought but
indifference. And so he delved into the earth to
see if there he could find the devotion which was
lacking above ground.

36 They asked the Lover : ' Wilt thou for another
change thy Beloved ? ' And he answered : ' Why,
what other is better or nobler than He ? For
He is the supreme Good ; He is infinite and
eternal, in greatness, wisdom and love ; nay, He is
perfection.'

39 The Lover rose early and went to seek his
Beloved. He found travellers on the road, and he
asked if they had seen his Beloved. They answered
him : ' When did the eyes of thy mind lose sight of
thy Beloved ? ' The Lover replied : ' Since I first
saw my Beloved in my thoughts, He has never been
absent from the eyes of my body, for all things that
I see picture to me my Beloved.'

42 The Lover beat upon his Beloved's door with
blows of love and hope. The Beloved heard His
Lover's blows, with humility, piety, charity and
patience. Deity and Humanity opened the doors,
and the Lover went in to his Beloved.

45 The Lover longed for solitude, and went away
to live alone, that he might gain the companionship
of his Beloved, for amid many people he was lonely.

48 The Lover feared whether his Beloved would
fail him in his greatest need ; and he ceased from
loving Him. Then he had contrition and repent"
ance of heart ; and the Beloved restored hope and
charity to the Lover's heart, and tears to his eyes,
that love might return to him.

51 The Lover sighed and said : * Ah ! What is my
love ? ' The Beloved answered : ' Thy love is a
mark and a seal by which thou dost show forth My
honour before men.'

54 As though mad went the Lover through a city,
singing of his love ; and they asked him if he had
losl his senses. ' My Beloved,' he answered, ' has
taken my will, and I myself have yielded up to Him
my understanding; so that there is left in me
naught but memory, with which I remember my
Beloved.'

57 They asked the Lover : ' Wherein is all thy
wealth ? ' He answered : ' In the poverty which
I bear for my Beloved.' ' And where dosl: thou
rest ? ' ' In the afflictions of love.' ' WhoJsJLhy
physician ? ' ' The trusl: I have in my Beloved.'
1 And who is thy masler ? ' ' The signs which in
all creatures I see of my Beloved.'

60



The Lover thought on death, and was afraid,
till he remembered his Beloved. Then in a loud
voice he cried to those who were near : ' Ah, sirs !
have love, that you may fear neither death nor
danger, in doing honour to my Beloved.'

63 They asked the Lover what he meant by perse-
verance. ' It is both happiness and sorrow,' he
answered, ' in the Lover who ever loves, honours and
serves his Beloved with courage, patience and hope.'

66 The Lover was gazing on a Place where he had
seen his Beloved. And he said : ' Ah, place that
recallest the blessed haunts of my Beloved ! Thou
wilt tell my Beloved that I suffer trials and griefs for
His sake.' And that Place made reply : ' When thy
Beloved hung upon me, He bore for thy love
greater trials and sorrows than all other trials and
sorrows that Love could give to its servants.'

69 The paths of love are both long and short. For
love is clear, pure and bright, subtle yet simple,
strong, diligent, brilliant, and abounding both in
fresh thoughts and in old memories.

etc ....

365 They asked the Lover this question : ' Wherein
dies love ? ' The Lover answered : ' In the de-
lights of this world.' ' And whence has it life
and sustenance ? ' 'In thoughts of the world to
come.' Wherefore they that had inquired of him
prepared to renounce this world, that they might
think the more deeply upon the next, and that their
love might live and find nourishment.

366 ' Say, O Fool, what is this_world ? ' He
answered : ' It is the prison-house of those that
love and serve my Beloved.' ' And who is he that
imprisons them ? ' He answered : ' Conscience,
love, fear, renunciation and contrition, and the
companionship of wilful men.' ' And who is he
that frees them ? ' ' Mercy, pity and justice.' ' And
where are they then sent ? ' 'To eternal bliss, and
the joyful company of true lovers, where they shall
laud, bless and glorify the Beloved everlastingly,
to whom be ever given praise, honour and glory
throughout all the world.'

[MonsieurM]

57 They asked the Lover : ' Wherein is all thy
wealth ? ' He answered : ' In the poverty which
I bear for my Beloved.' ' And where dosl: thou
rest ? ' ' In the afflictions of love.' ' WhoJsJLhy
physician ? ' ' The trusl: I have in my Beloved.'
1 And who is thy masler ? ' ' The signs which in
all creatures I see of my Beloved.'

Jason Mraz - The World As I See It - YouTube

The world as I see it, is a remarkable place
A beautiful house in a forest, of stars in outer space.
From a birds eye view, I can see it has a well-rounded personality
From a birds eye view, I can see we are family.

It's not hard for me to love you
Hard for me to love you
No it's not a difficult thing.
It's not hard for me to love you
Hard for me to love you
Because you are the world to me.

Yeah the world as I see it, is a remarkable place
Every man makes a difference
And every mothers child is a saint
From a birds eye view I can see, we are spiralling down in gravity
From a birds eye view I can see, you are just like me.

It's not hard for me to love you
Hard for me to love you
No it's not a difficult thing.
It's not hard for me to love you
Hard for me to love you
Unconditionally.

No it's not hard for me to love you
Hard for me to love you
No it's not a difficult thing.
It's not hard for me to love you
Hard for me to love you
Because you are the world to me.

You are the mountain, you are the rock
You are the cord and you're the spark
You are the eagle, you are the lark
You are the world and you're remarkable

You're the ocean eating the shore
You are the calm inside the storm
You're every emotion, you can endure
You are the world, the world is yours.

(It's not hard for me to love you
Hard for me to love you
No it's not a difficult thing.
It's not hard for me to love you
Hard for me to love you
Unconditionally)

No it's not hard for me to love you
Hard for me to love you
No it's not a difficult thing.
It's not hard for me to love you
Hard for me to love you
Unconditionally.

No it's not hard for me to love you
Hard for me to love you
No it's not a difficult thing.
It's not hard for me to love you
Hard for me to love you
Because you are the world to me.

Yeah the world as I see it, is a remarkable place.

[MonsieurM]

Discovery of material with amazing properties

Normally a material can be either magnetically or electrically polarized, but not both. Now researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have studied a material that is simultaneously magnetically and electrically polarizable. This opens up new possibilities, for example, for sensors in technology of the future. The results have been published in the scientific journal, Nature Materials.

The "8-armed candlestick" in this unusual image of the measurements is proof that the "walls" of the domains in TbFeO3 repel each other at certain temperatures and therefore lie at a fixed distance from each other. The signal from the "ordinary" chaotic domain walls would more resemble a fly swatter. Credit: Niels Bohr Institute

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Line blurs between man, animal: Monkeys do math, baboons seem to read, orangutans plan ahead

AP) The more we study animals, the less special we seem. Baboons can distinguish between written words and gibberish. Monkeys seem to be able to do multiplication. Apes can delay instant gratification longer than a human child can. They plan ahead. They make war and peace. They show empathy. They share.

Principle of Correspondence

[MonsieurM]

Learn that tune while fast asleep

Want to nail that tune that you've practiced and practiced? Maybe you should take a nap with the same melody playing during your sleep, new provocative Northwestern University research suggests.

The research grows out of exciting existing evidence that suggests that memories can be reactivated during sleep and storage of them can be strengthened in the process.

In the Northwestern study, research participants learned how to play two artificially generated musical tunes with well-timed key presses. Then while the participants took a 90-minute nap, the researchers presented one of the tunes that had been practiced, but not the other.

"Our results extend prior research by showing that external stimulation during sleep can influence a complex skill," said Ken A. Paller, professor of psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern and senior author of the study.

here is the interesting bit :

"The critical difference is that our research shows that memory is strengthened for something you've already learned," Reber said. "Rather than learning something new in your sleep, we're talking about enhancing an existing memory by re-activating information recently acquired."

but what if the thing I learned applies to almost anything ( Fractal ) ( Principle of correspondence )



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Brain structure helps guide behavior by anticipating changing demands

(Medical Xpress) -- Every day the human brain is presented with tasks ranging from the trivial to the complex. How much mental effort and attention are devoted to each task is usually determined in a split second and without conscious awareness. Now a study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers finds that a structure deep within the brain, believed to play an important role in regulating conscious control of goal-directed behavior, helps to optimize behavioral responses by predicting how difficult upcoming tasks will be. The report is receiving advance online publication in Nature.

"The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), which lies deep beneath the outer layer of the frontal lobes, is part of an ancient and enigmatic part of the brain," says Emad Eskandar, MD, of the MGH Department of Neurosurgery, senior author of the Nature paper. "Some have speculated that it plays a role in detecting errors or monitoring for conflicting demands, but exactly how it contributes to regulating behavioral responses is unclear, so we used a variety of scientific techniques to get a better picture of its function."

[MonsieurM]

a bit of star gazing forecast

Starwatch: The July night sky | Science | The Guardian

The Summer Triangle formed by Deneb, Altair and Vega dominates the high SE sky at our star map times, with Vega blazing only a little S of the zenith. Of the other leading stars, Arcturus is sinking in the W and Capella twinkles low in the N in the region where noctilucent clouds are making their annual appearance. Hovering above the horizon between the NW and NE, these are composed of ice crystals at high altitudes where they catch the sunlight to shine like bluish cirrus long after low level clouds are in darkness.

We need binoculars to glimpse Mercury in the bright WNW twilight during the first few evening of July, but it soon dims and sinks from sight.

Mars and Saturn are still on show in the lower SW sky though both have set by our map times. Saturn, mag 0.7 to 0.8, is slow-moving 5° above Spica in Virgo, the pair standing some 20° high and 30° below Arcturus as the twilight fades. Mars lies 24° right of Saturn on the 1st and dims from mag 0.9 to 1.1 as it speeds eastwards to lie 8° to the W of both Saturn and Spica on the 31st. Catch the Moon below Mars on the 24th and close to Spica on the 25th.

With Venus and Jupiter now together in our predawn sky, early risers are in for a treat. Ninety minutes before sunrise on the 1st, Jupiter is conspicuous at mag -2.0 but very low in the ENE where it stands 6° below the Pleiades. Over the coming minutes the brilliant mag -4.4 Venus climbs into view 5° below Jupiter. During the month, the two planets climb higher before dawn, while Venus slips farther away from Jupiter as both track eastwards against the stars of Taurus. The 15% illuminated waning Moon joins the show on the 15th, occulting Jupiter for watchers in SE England, as Venus stands 7° below and to their left and less than 3° to the left of Aldebaran.

July diary

1st 03h Mercury farthest E of Sun (26˚)

3rd 20h Full moon

11th 03h Last quarter

15th 04h Moon 0.5˚ N of Jupiter; 16h Moon 4˚ N of Venus

19th 05h New moon

24th 23h Moon 4˚ S of Mars

25th 18h Moon 1.2˚ S of Spica; 20h Moon 6˚ S of Saturn

26th 10h First quarter

28th 21h Mercury in inferior conjunction; 22h Moon 5˚N of Antares

*Times are BST

[MonsieurM]

After the sun popped one ......

another one popped :

Solar flares online — June 23, 2012

2 new crop circles found :

Milk Hill, Nr Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. Reported 25th June.

Cherhill, nr Calne, Wiltshire. Reported 25th June.



to be confirmed ......

ps : and i think it is going to pop another one ...... shams / sun