Three-dimensional structure of the internal cosmos
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- By John Eagles, November 2, 2006.
- This page is part of an ERW course, Divine Principle, section The Triune Ideal.
Here i want to propose some ideas for how the internal cosmos could be structured. With 'internal cosmos' is meant: the cosmos understood by looking at the main characteristics of everything in the cosmos.
Why would the inner structure of the cosmos be three-dimensional, or four-dimensional when we add the dimension of time? First, when i try to understand the structure of the cosmos there come to me three different kind of dualities, not two and not four. Second, there is reason to believe that the external cosmos of space and time is an expression of the internal cosmos. Because we perceive the external cosmos of space as three-dimensional, the internal cosmos could also have three dimensions.
The dimensions of the internal cosmos are represented here in space, but should not be understood as simple space dimensions. The dimensions of the internal cosmos are dimensions of characteristics.
What are the main dualities in the cosmos?
- The duality of internal and external. For example, we have an invisible mind in a visible body. In our mind is an invisible heart of love. Energy is invisible but expresses into visible creations.
- The duality of positive and negative. All things are made from particles. These particles essentially have either positive or negative charges. In the world of nature and the human world we know of the concept of yang and yin. We humans exist as males and females.
- The duality of spiritual and physical. The entire cosmos is a unity of spiritual and physical aspects. Spiritual is an energy expression of more refined energies, while the physical can be understood as more condensed energy.
A human being is sometimes called a microcosm. All elements that can be found in the cosmos can also be found in man. In man also the above three dualities can be found. Man is a unity of mind and body, man is a unity of male and female, and man is a unity of the spiritual and the physical.
The three-dimensional structure of the cosmos can be pictured in the following way, using three axes to show the three dimensions.
We see here a structure that contains 6 positions. In a two-dimensional plane we find four positions. The positions together form the foundation of the inner structure of the cosmos and can be called four-position foundation (two-dimensional) and six-position foundation (three-dimensional). The final position of a resulting external creation is a unity of the other five positions, of the original energy, of spiritual and physical aspects and of positive and negative characteristics. All entities in the universe have this inner structure, and also the cosmos as a whole.
What is the form that results from this structure? When we connect all positions we get the form of a regular octahedron.
When we look at the regular octahedron we can also understand it as a square bipyramid, two pyramids that are put together with their bases.
When the inner structure of the spiritual cosmos is one of the two pyramids and the inner structure of the physical cosmos as the other one of the two pyramids, it makes sense that pyramids have been used as the form and construction to attract spiritual energies from the cosmos and to make contact there with the spiritual world.
