Conference A29
The Law of the Pendulum.
It is interesting to have a wall clock at home, not only to know the time but also to reflect a little. Without the pendulum, the clock does not work; the movement of the pendulum is deeply significant.
In ancient times, the Dogma of Evolution did not exist, so the wise understood that historical processes always unfold according to the Law of the Pendulum.
Everything flows and ebbs, rises and falls, grows and decreases, comes and goes according to this wonderful Law. It is not strange that everything oscillates, that everything is subject to the sway of time, that everything evolves and devolves.
At one end of the pendulum is joy, at the other is pain; all our emotions, thoughts, yearnings, desires, oscillate according to the Law of the Pendulum.
Hope and despair, pessimism and optimism, passion and pain, triumph and failure, gain and loss, certainly correspond to the two extremes of the pendulum movement.
Egypt arose with all its might and dominion on the banks of the sacred river, but when the pendulum swung to the other side, when it rose at the opposite end, the land of the pharaohs fell and Jerusalem, the beloved city of the Prophets, rose.
Israel fell when the pendulum changed position and the Roman Empire arose at the other end. The pendulum movement raises and sinks empires, brings forth powerful civilizations and then destroys them, etc.
We can place the various pseudo-esoteric and pseudo-occult schools, religions, and sects on the far right of the pendulum.
We can place all materialist, Marxist, atheist, skeptic, etc. schools on the far left of the pendulum's movement. Antithesis of the pendulum movement, changing, subject to incessant permutation.
The religious fanatic, due to any unusual event or disappointment, can go to the other extreme of the pendulum, becoming an atheist, materialist, or skeptic. The materialistic, atheist fanatic, due to any unusual event, perhaps a transcendental metaphysical event, a moment of unspeakable terror, can lead them to the opposite extreme of the pendulum's movement and turn them into an unbearable religious reactionary.
Examples: A priest defeated in a controversy by an esotericist, in desperation, became incredulous and materialistic. We knew of the case of an atheist and incredulous lady who, due to a conclusive and definitive metaphysical event, became a magnificent exponent of practical esotericism.
In the name of truth, we must declare that the materialist atheist, true and absolute, is a farce; they do not exist. Faced with the proximity of an inevitable death, faced with an instant of unspeakable terror, the enemies of the eternal, the materialists and the incredulous instantly pass to the other extreme of the pendulum and end up praying, crying, and clamoring with infinite faith and enormous devotion.
Carlos Marx himself, author of Dialectical Materialism, was a Jewish religious fanatic, and after his death, he was given funeral pomp of a great rabbi. Carlos Marx, elaborated his Materialist Dialectic with only one purpose: "To create a weapon to destroy all the religions of the world by means of skepticism". It is the typical case of religious jealousy taken to the extreme, in no way could Marx accept the existence of other religions and preferred to destroy them through his Dialectic.
Carlos Marx, fulfilled one of the Protocols of Zion, which says verbatim: "It does not matter that we fill the world with materialism and repugnant atheism, the day we triumph, we will teach the religion of Moses duly codified and in a dialectical form, and we will not allow any other religion in the world".
It is very interesting that in the Soviet Union religions are persecuted and the people are taught materialist dialectics, while in the synagogues the Talmud, the Bible and religion are studied and they work freely without any problem. The masters of the Russian government are religious fanatics of the Law of Moses, but they poison the people with that farce of Dialectical Materialism. We would never speak out against the people of Israel; we are only declaring against a certain double-dealing elite that, pursuing unconfessable ends, poisons the people with Materialist Dialectics, while secretly practicing the religion of Moses.
Materialism and Spiritualism, with all their sequel of theories, prejudices, and pre-concepts of all kinds, are processed in the mind according to the Law of the Pendulum and change in fashion according to the times and customs. Spirit and matter are two very debatable and thorny concepts that no one understands. The mind knows nothing about the spirit, nothing about matter. A concept is nothing more than that, a concept. Reality is not a concept, although many concepts can be forged about reality. The spirit is the Spirit (the Self) and can only know itself. It is written: "The Self is the Self and the reason for Being is the Self."
The fans of the God matter, the scientists of Dialectical Materialism are empirical, and absurd one hundred percent. They talk about matter with a dazzling and stupid self-sufficiency, when in reality they know nothing about it. What is matter? Which of these foolish scientists knows? The much-touted matter is also a concept that is too debatable and quite thorny. What is matter? Cotton? Iron? Meat? Starch? A stone? Copper? A cloud or what? To say that everything is matter would be as empirical and absurd as to say that the entire human organism is a liver or a heart or a kidney. Obviously one thing is one thing and another thing is another thing, each organ is different and each substance is different. So, which of all these substances is the much-touted matter?
Many people play with the concepts of the pendulum, but in reality, concepts are not reality. The mind only knows illusory forms of nature, but knows nothing about the truth contained in such forms. Theories go out of style with time and years, and what one learned in school turns out to be useless later. Conclusion: nobody knows anything. The concepts of the extreme right or the extreme left of the pendulum pass like women's fashions; all these are processes of the mind, things that happen on the surface of understanding, nonsense, vanities of the intellect.
Any psychological discipline is opposed by another discipline, any logically structured psychological process is opposed by another similar one, and after all, so what? The Real, the Truth, is what interests us; but this is not a matter of the pendulum, it is not found between the swaying of theories and beliefs. Truth is the unknown from instant to instant, from moment to moment.
The Truth is in the center of the pendulum, not on the far right and not on the far left.
When Jesus was asked: What is the Truth?, he kept a deep silence. And when the Buddha was asked the same question, he turned his back and withdrew.
Truth is not a matter of opinions, or theories, or prejudices of the extreme right or the extreme left. The concept that the mind can forge about the truth is never the Truth. The idea that the understanding has about the truth is never the Truth. The opinion we have about the truth, however respectable it may be, is in no way the Truth. Neither spiritualist currents, nor their materialist opponents, can ever lead us to the truth.
Truth is something that must be experienced directly, like when you put your finger in the fire and get burned, or like when you swallow water and drown. The center of the pendulum is within ourselves, and it is there that we must discover and directly experience the Real, the Truth. We need to self-explore directly to self-discover and know ourselves deeply.
The experience of Truth only comes when we have eliminated the undesirable elements that together constitute the Self. Only by eliminating error does Truth come. Only by disintegrating the Self, my mistakes, my prejudices and fears, my passions and desires, beliefs and fornications, intellectual entrenchments and self-sufficiencies of all kinds, does the experience of the Real come to us. Truth has nothing to do with what has been said or left unsaid, with what has been written or left unwritten, it only comes to us when the Self has died.
The mind cannot seek the Truth because it does not know it. The mind cannot recognize the Truth, because it has never known it. The Truth comes to us spontaneously when we have eliminated all the undesirable elements that constitute the Self, the Ego. As long as Consciousness remains bottled up within the Ego, it cannot experience that which is Real, that which is beyond the body, affections, and the mind, that which is the Truth. When the Self is reduced to cosmic dust, Consciousness is freed to awaken definitively and experience the Truth directly. With good reason, the Great Kabir Jesus said: "Know the truth and it shall set you free."
Concept versus Reality
What good is it for a man to know fifty thousand theories if he has never experienced the Truth? The intellectual system of any man is very respectable, but any system is opposed by another and neither one nor the other is the Truth. It is better to self-explore in order to know ourselves and to experience one day directly, the real, the Truth.
Who or what can guarantee that the concept and reality are absolutely the same? The concept is one thing and reality is another, and there is a tendency to overestimate our own concepts. Reality equal to concept is almost impossible, however, the mind hypnotized by its own concept always assumes that it and reality are the same.
If any psychological process is correctly structured using exact logic, and another different process is strongly formed with similar or superior logic is opposed to it, then what? Two minds severely disciplined within rigid intellectual structures discussing each other, arguing, about such or such reality, each believes in the accuracy of their own concept and in the falsity of the other's concept, but which of them is right? Who could honestly give guarantees in one case or the other? In which of them, concept and reality are the same? Undoubtedly, each head is a world and in each and every one of us there is a kind of pontifical and dictatorial dogmatism that wants to make us believe in the absolute equality of concept and reality. No matter how strong the structures of a reasoning are, nothing can guarantee the absolute equality of concepts and reality.
Those who are self-enclosed within any intellectual logistical procedure always want to match the reality of phenomena with elaborate concepts, and this is nothing more than the result of reasoning hallucination. Opening oneself to the new is the difficult ease of the classic; unfortunately, people want to discover, to see their own prejudices, concepts, preconceptions, opinions, and theories in every natural phenomenon; no one knows how to be receptive, to see the new with a clean and spontaneous mind.
It would be ideal for phenomena to speak to the wise, but unfortunately, the wise of these times do not know how to see phenomena; they only want to see in them the confirmation of all their preconceptions. Although it seems incredible, modern scientists know nothing about natural phenomena. When we see exclusively our own concepts in the phenomena of nature, we are certainly not seeing the phenomena but the concepts. However, the foolish scientists, hallucinated by their fascinating intellect, stupidly believe that each of their concepts is absolutely equal to this or that observed phenomenon, when the reality is different.
We do not deny that our claims are rejected by anyone who is self-enclosed by this or that logistical procedure; unquestionably the pontifical and dogmatic condition of the intellect could in no way accept that this or that correctly elaborated concept does not exactly coincide with reality. As soon as the mind, through the senses, observes this or that phenomenon, it immediately rushes to label it with this or that scientific term that unquestionably only serves as a patch to cover up its own ignorance. The mind does not really know how to be receptive to the new, but it does know how to invent very complicated terms with which it intends to qualify in a self-deceiving way what it certainly ignores. Speaking this time in a Socratic sense, we will say that the mind not only ignores, but also ignores that it ignores.
The modern mind is terribly superficial, it has specialized in inventing terribly difficult terms to cover up its own ignorance. There are two kinds of science: the first is nothing more than that rottenness of subjective theories that abound out there. The second is the pure science of the great enlightened ones, the Objective Science of Being.
Undoubtedly, it would not be possible to penetrate the amphitheater of cosmic science if we have not first died within ourselves. We need to disintegrate all those undesirable elements that we carry within us, and which, as a whole, constitute the Self of Psychology. As long as the Superlative Consciousness of the Being continues to be bottled up within the Self, within my own concepts and subjective theories, it is absolutely impossible to directly know the raw reality of natural phenomena in themselves.
The key to nature's laboratory is held in the right hand of the Angel of Death. We can learn very little from the phenomenon of birth, but we can learn everything from death. The inviolate temple of pure science is found at the bottom of the black grave. If the seed does not die, the plant is not born. Only with death does the new come. When the Ego dies, Consciousness awakens to see the reality of all the phenomena of nature as they are in themselves and by themselves. Consciousness knows what it directly experiences for itself, the raw realism of life beyond the body, affections, and mind.
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An ascent is always followed by a descent of equal magnitude. The middle line is the Truth. The Critical Point allows contemplating the two extremes to transcend the substrate, understanding is a faculty of the heart that allows reconciling opposites.
To achieve Understanding we must avoid polarizing ourselves in the Intellect or in Sex. Understanding is a faculty of the co-heart that allows us to reconcile opposites.