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INTRODUCTION

  All things in the world come from being.
And being comes from non-being.
Lao Tzu  

According to very ancient wisdom, there is an inverted pyramid of natural principles which exists in the Plane of the Eternal. The Plane of the Eternal is not located in any particular time because it has existed forever, and will continue to exist forever. Furthermore, it has been in every universe that has existed, is in every universe existing now, and will exist in every universe that will exist. It is a plane meant only to contain the pyramid of principles, and these principles are always present everywhere and everywhen.

Some of these principles are the laws, rules, axioms, and postulates which are very fundamental such as one is unity, one plus one is two, zero is the sum of an infinite combination of negative and positive numbers, space has three dimensions, triangles form rigid structures, life is the ordering principle, death is the disordering principle necessary to create more building blocks for life to use, and the sum of everything is nothing. Others (such as those relating to chemistry, biology, sociology, or history) are consequences of the more fundamental principles.

This pyramid is the ordering of the principles, with the most fundamental found at the small part, and those which are consequences of many consequences found at the largest part. The pyramid is inverted because the fundamental principle at the point is the base of all other principles, so all else follows. Each layer of the pyramid is the foundation for the principles found in the adjacent higher layer.

The pyramid, its principles, and the plane in which they reside do not depend upon anything. No person or mind need be present to appreciate them. They are present regardless. No universe need be present to contain them. However, they are the foundation of all universes.

There is an ancient myth about a No-Thing which was living alone in Eternity. The No-Thing writhed and changed into different states, yet Its sum was always No Thing. Primitive, ignorant, and alone, It experienced almost unendurable boredom.

As Eternity continued, It attempted to end its agony. At last, quite by chance, it writhed into a point which grew into a rotating sphere, rapidly expanding, reaching outward, consisting of alternate layers of positiveness and negativeness, each layer a non-particulate fluid, each layer a universe among an infinity of universes. This was the Word, the Vibration, the Sound, the Tone, the primal Lu, which created the universes.

The universes developed suns, planets, and moons. Eventually, intelligent life evolved, providing the No-Thing with true thought. The No-Thing began to learn. Because It was alone It was One, and when It was divided into the first states of positive and negative, It was two. Divided into many, It could experience multiple states of separation and continue to learn from It's own creations, subdivisions of Itself.

While the primal Lu continues to resound, the universes will continue to be created and the One will continue to learn, as art forms and stories unfold in the universes, each of which operates from fundamental principles which sustain lesser principles to form an automatic wholeness.

From ancient India comes a teaching that Brahma (supreme soul of the universe) breathes the universes into existence. This Brahma consists of a trinity of deities: Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Siva the Destroyer. The flute is the instrument of Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu the Preserver. This is a way of saying that the universes are preserved through the vibration of a sustained musical note.

Many of the ancient myths and teachings hint of multiple universes formed and sustained from vibration. Man has always been curious about his universe and its origins. Today, we are still attempting to find the answers.

 

The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured
as an outbreathing and inbreathing of "the Great Breath,"
which is eternal, and which, being Motion,
is one of the three aspects of the Absolute -
Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.
H. P. Blavatsky

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