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Dan posted an update 10 years, 3 months ago
P. D. OUSPENSKY
IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS
FRAGMENTS OF AN UNKNOWN TEACHING
1949“…CHAPTER V
A lecture on the “mechanics of the universe.” The ray of creation and its growth from the Absolute. A contradiction of scientific views. The moon as the end of the ray of creation. The will of the Absolute. The idea of miracle. Our place in the world. The moon feeds on organic life….”
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archivos_pdf/search_miraculous.pdf
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Ouspensky… now there’s a name I have not heard in a very long time!
Came across him whilst magpying gurdjieff. His description of man as machine is abrasive to my 21st century mind but tweaked to man as vehicle becomes palatable.
Here’s part of his response to the question, what is being?
It struck a chord in me.
When I met this system, it showed me that change of being was necessary, because we are not what we think ourselves to be. If we were what we think we are—if we had consciousness, will, if we could ‘do’, then only knowledge would be necessary. But we all think of ourselves differently from what we are in reality. And it is exactly this difference between what we are and what we think we are that shows what is lacking in our being. So two things are necessary: change of knowledge and change of being.
Ouspenski