The Language of Nature, by Vinyasi Subtext: The Seventh Seal The structure of nature may be likened to the study of a language. Unlike our own alphabet, nature's is composed of four---each is a reorganization of the same material along different lines of inquiry. The first alphabet is a list of one transcendental element that gives both unity to the other lists as well as providing for their diversity. This is the study of Being. The second list describes the core of manifest reality as being individuality. From this study springs theology, or the Veda. The third list describes the median of reality as being vibration, or consciousness---also known as prana. From this evolves Art as skill in(or the capacity for) action. The fourth list organizes the periphery of knowledge as structure, or Akash. From here, science is born: the means(mechanics, or properties) of action. Being Transcends Unity and Diversity Individuality Segments Duality Through Polarization of Opposites Consciousness Augments Existence By Providing Coherence Through the Impelling Force: Anti-Energy/Matter, or Spirit Space Diminishes Existence By Dissipating Coherence and also Provides the Material for Structure: The Lag of Time in Space The second, or Ishvara list, gets its structure from 2 ^ 10 = 1024. It gets its name from the first individual on the list: The Almighty. It is sub- divided along the lines exemplified by the I Ching: 2 * 8 * 64 = 1024: (2 Seg- ments to Individuality) * (8 Prime Individuals) * (64 Subsidiary Functions)=== better known as yang/yin, eight trigrams, and sixty-four hexagrams. The two segments to individuality is personality and essential nature. When we pray, our prayers reach the outer active personal nature to God. When we meditate, we increase our rapport with God's inactive impersonal, or essential nature. In both cases it is a two-way street along each line of: dialogue and rapport, expectancy and innocence, invocation and consecration. The eight Prime Deities with their essential natures are: The Four Lists, Greek Elements, Mystic Symbols 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 Being: Water Ring Individuality: Air Mace Inversion Consciousness: Fire Conch Increase Space: Earth Lotus Decrease I Ching Trigrams Yang Zodiac Yin 컴컴컴컴 컴컴 컴컴컴 컴� Individuality Personality Essential Nature 컴컴컴컴컴컴� 컴컴컴컴컴� 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 The Creative Ishvara, Purusha The Almighty Penetrating Brahma, Sattwa Wood The Creator Clinging Vishnu, Rajas Fire The Sustainer Still Shiva, Tamas Moutain The Destroyer Joyous Ganesh, Vata Lake Wisdom Abysmal Uma, Kapha Water Mother Nature (kap-ha, not ka-fa) Arousing Surya, Pitta Thunder Power The Receptive Dharma, Kama, (Intelligence) Evolution Desire Subtext: The (East) Indian Conception of Time Subtext: The Creation Myth, An Alternative to the Big-Bang, The Predecessor to Hollow Planet Theory Subtext: Electronic and Chemical Nomenclature Back in the early days of scientific reawakening during the renais- sance, electricity was theorized before the postulation of atomic theory. Elec- tric current was thought to be positive and current flowed from a positive to a negative potential. Eventually, theoriticians cleaned up their act by reversing everything. It was assumed that if a charged particle sits at the center of an atom, it must be positive. But we know that the proton is uninvolved with cur- rent flow. It is only the electron which moves from place to place. Positive gets its meaning by virtue of being the reference to which all else is referred. Negative is the point of perspective. It gets its meaning by being the opposite point of view to the positive. I know the stillness of silent space is consi- dered the reference to all energy and matter interactions, but virtual activity below the threshhold of actuality is the blueprint, and hence positive reference point, to the still vacuum of space. Activity is a positive quality, while receptivity is a negative one. The passivity of space is receptive to the vir- tual inclinations of possibility. Protons may be at the center of the electron's orbit, but it is the virtual potential of electrons to flow that is the refer- ence to charge. It is acknowledged that we have the charge nomenclature in reverse to what should be, but are disinclined to change it. In consequence, chemistry also suffers from the same error. Cations, the positively charged ions, are given top billing in the naming of a salt, while anionic, or negatively charged ionic, names are suffixes---sodium chloride for instance. The name would be more representative of reality if it were in reverse: chloride sodium. It use to be a hundred years ago: chloride of sodium, but we reversed it. Why all the fuss? 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