{The Sphere}[26th October 1990]

[Redbook8:43][19901026:1102]{The Sphere}[26th October 1990]

19901026.1102

[continued]

But* the Sphere’s the thing: wondering how I would start off explaining it, as I have agreed to do,** I suppose the answer to be from the centre outward. So the first concrete manifestation is of those free-floating Qualities expressing themselves as Angelic Spirits in flight, drifting purposefully from an invisibly*** bright Centre through a medium of clear Light (and appearing in fictional form, potentially, as the chief characters in my book).****   What Love is There!

- - - -

*[See (cf) last previous entry]

**{Did I? To [H] perhaps?}

[See [Redbook8:41][19901025:1351]{Redundancy}[25th October 1990]]

***[sic – originally ‘blindingly’, struck through in ms]

****(eg [2])

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{Material Concerns}[26th October 1990]

[Redbook8:43][19901026:1102]{Material Concerns}[26th October 1990]

19901026.1102

Sheer tiredness depressed me yesterday; today, with more energy (and much to do, [W] being still ’flu-ish), I am content again here at [home at] [CH]. But a leetle [sic] concerned about money: our 6-day holiday cost us £274, and our overdraft, set up for work on the house, is now around £1600* (rising by £250 each month before, I hope, falling again).

*{That’s nothing! Now (2/{91?}

our debts are:

O[ver]D[raft]	£2000
B[arclay]card	£750	**
Access [card]	£200
Storage heater	£200
Solicitor	£80	(re wills)
Catalogue	£40
Inmac	c[£]80	Disks &c
Total	£3350
Savings £700
Cash c£500	£1200	Tot[al]

** includes £600 new computer

}

You think that’s big! Now:

Priv[ate O[ver]D[raft]	c£2100	(House)
Bus[iness] O[ver]D[raft]	c£1200	(Car)
Barclaycard	c£850	(Computer)
Catalogues	c£200
	c£4350

– & no cash. But I think

we’re stabilised...

except for laser printer &c,

c£800, to buy [which was not in fact bought at that time].

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{A Dream: In the Presence of [G~]}[25th October 1990]

[Redbook8:42][19901025:1351c]{A Dream: In the Presence of [G~]}[25th October 1990]

19901025.1351

[continued]

In a dream or dream fragment this morning I remember that I soared up through the roof of some sort of square temple; descended peacefully again to the floor; and found myself, not exactly bowing but perhaps crouching under the tremendous, the overwhelming quality of *|the|* presence of G~, or +K, in a kind of bay** of the temple.

It occurred to me that in*** a place that is Other, like the [...]land, you will tend to find the 4 cardinals**** more than the 4 diagonals,# because the latter are here more, in this actual World; and here, you will tend to find the 4 diagonals more than the 4 cardinals, because the 4 cardinals are more There, of the Other.

Whether this is in fact correct, I cannot say; but I do know that as I awoke[,] the tremendous quality of the presence of G~ became simply the friendly and nearby presence of +K.

*[*|the|* inserted in ms]

** or side-chapel

***{“in” as written [& subsequently struck through & reinstated]}

****ie g~, a~, m~, c

#ie r~, j~, u~, s~.

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{Decreased Resistance near Absolute Zero}[25th October 1990]

[Redbook8:41-42][19901025:1351b]{Decreased Resistance near Absolute Zero}[25th October 1990]

19901025.1351

[continued]

I suppose the decrease in resistance as absolute zero [temperature] approaches could be perceived as an analogy, or even an example, of the way the Universe exists by limitation.

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{Redundancy}[25th October 1990]

[Redbook8:41][19901025:1351]{Redundancy}[25th October 1990]

19901025.1351

My brother-in-law [H] had, I discovered, been made redundant five weeks ago, in an unpleasant way and through no fault of his own. Although they are worried, both he and [S] my sister are vastly improved: humanised, apparently by this experience, and straightforward again.

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{Sine Waves?}[25th October 1990]

[Redbook8:41][19901025:1200]{Sine Waves?}[25th October 1990]

19901025.1200

I need – if and when I return to simple maths – to look at the way sine waves interact with each other, to add to, change and cancel each other.*

We returned here** at 9pm last night (having reached Hillingdon, only to have to return to Clapham for The Handbag). I was, being tired, a little sad to find my first ‘commercial’ story returned as unsuitable. This was the one with the unconscious death-and-rebirth symbolism, and a search in inward spirals. So I shall obviously have to try much harder to be thoroughly commercial.

*ref [[Redbook8:104][19901108:1417]{Travelling Cycles}[8th November 1990],] 104

**[ie home]

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{The Integrated Cycle [continued]}[20th October 1990]

[Redbook8:40][19901020:0835b]{The Integrated Cycle [continued]}[20th October 1990]

19901020.0835

[continued]

But* I am not sure that it is right to give ‘Politics’ to M~ and ‘Culture’ to G~ in dynamic chronological terms, even allowing for horizontal mixing.

It might be better to say that M~-G~ is the political-cultural axis, and emphasise the quality of change or of process at and around these points – eg Outward Action – Revolution, Left – Right, etc..

It is the label ‘cultural’ for G~ which is seriously misleading, as it does not allow for the characteristic revolutionary activity of the times. (What about ‘socio-cultural’?)

*[See last previous entry]

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{The Integrated Cycle}[20th October 1990]

[Redbook8:40][19901020:0835]{The Integrated Cycle}[20th October 1990]

19901020.0835

[nn] [...] Rd, [...],

London*

The integrated time-circle** still raises problems.

Religion at and around C seems reasonable so far; and Economics at and around A~ is arguable if crises still turn out to be C points. In other words, the characteristic manifestation of religion is a personal crisis; the characteristic manifestation of economics is neither its crisis (slump) not its immediately preceding overheat (boom), but the solid real growth and real prosperity period before the boom.***

Religion and Economics are in opposition to each other.

*Our first visit to London in over 4 years!

**[]

***{? or is growth c[irca] M~,

& A~ Prosperity with signs of breaking?

(cf [[Redbook8:69][19901027:2305]{Fruitfulness and Decay}[27th October 1990],] 69)}

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{Gnome}[15th October 1990]

[Redbook8:39][19901015:2246b]{Gnome}[15th October 1990]

.2346

[continued]

*

#gnome, in European folklore, dwarfish, subterranean goblin or earth-spirit** who guards mines of precious treasure hidden in the earth. He is represented in mediaeval mythologies as a small, physically deformed (usually hunchbacked) creature resembling a dry, gnarled old man.*** Gob, the king of the gnome race, ruled with a magic sword**** and is said to have influenced the melancholic temperament# of man.

‘The term was popularised through works of the 16th-century Swiss alchemist Paracelsus in which gnomes were described as capable of moving through solid earth #* as fish move through water.’

– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 5:314ff

#**

#***

*[See last previous entry]

**U

***U

****(C→ S~→M~→?)

#U~(cf xL in [2])

[& in [1]?]

#*U

←┘

#**(my [underlining] emphasis)

[the final five words being continuously broken-underlined in the ms]

#***ref earlier Vol[ume](s) []

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{Nix}[15th October 1990]

[Redbook8:38][19901015:2246]{Nix}[15th October 1990]

.2346

‘nix, also called NIXIE or NIXY, in Germanic mythology, a water being,* half human, half fish,** that lives in a beautiful underwater palace and mingles with humans by assuming a variety of physical forms (e.g., that of a fair maiden *** or an old woman) or by making itself invisible. One of three attributes may betray the disguise of nixes: they are music lovers**** and excellent dancers# and they have the gift of prophecy.#* Though usually malevolent, a nix can easily be propitiated with gifts. In some regions, nixes are said to abduct human children#** and to lure people into deep water to drown.#*** According to some sources, nixes can marry human beings #****and bear human children.’##

– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 8:731

(my [underlining] emphasis)

##*

[‘a’~ on right is clearly a mistake for m~]

(I came across this quite by accident, while looking up Nixon (Richard). There’s nothing under Sylph, and only a lizard under Salamander; but: )##**

*r~ (Aquarius)

**g~

***r~, g~/G~?

****C,r~

#r~,a~

#*r~,g~,j~

[But see earlier [] re Circles Analysis & Synthesis degree of prophets]

#**R~

#***R~

#****r~

##(ff?)

[Unclear to what this marginal note refers]

##*cf ([2])/[1] xS: Dancer

[Not now in [1] as revised, but untypically in as-yet-unrevised [2], in which particular instance the R~-A~ connection is relevant:]

(?Dance connection R~ & A~)

##**[See next entry]

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{Cycles of Democracy [continued]}[15th October 1990]

[Redbook8:37][19901015:2120g]{Cycles of Democracy [continued]}[15th October 1990]

.2120

[continued]

This* is tenuous and speculative, a tiny and uncertain sample, until we consider that the sample cannot go further back in time; that the nature of the C degree is (among other things) a choice between politically democratic and fascist values; and that our own times, the third 2048C point in history, show so far a similar pattern to the previous one: a relatively small number of democracies existing so far for no more than a century or two; the political and cultural triumph at this time of those democracies; and (despite the new feature of a possible late surge to democracy, perhaps reflecting a much longer cycle), distinct signs of a move in democratic countries towards authoritarian methods which ultimately would make democracy in practice (not necessarily in form) simply a sham.

I don’t know of any other democratic stirrings, apart from a Scandinavian # one of, if I recall correctly, about 1,000 years standing – from the 1024 year C [point]?

*[See last previous entry]

**Iceland? [Isle of] Man?

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{Cycles of Democracy}[15th October 1990]

[Redbook8:36-37][19901015:2120f]{Cycles of Democracy}[15th October 1990]

.2120

[continued]

An interesting possible correlation in the 2048-year* {cycles} occurred to me immediately after I had recalled this dream** earlier this evening.

I believe it to be the case that village communities in contemporary primitive societies are run consensually rather than tyrannically – ie the headman tends to be chosen[,] ***|or at least accepted[,]|*** and acts as[,] a chairman rather than as a dictator. It may be a fair speculation that the emergence of city states, ie at around c2048bce, required (and evidences) [a] more monarchical organisation than any which might have worked for village communities.

What is not in doubt is that the relatively short-lived democratic/republican periods of the Greeks in Athens and of the Romans appeared in the G~ and R~ period (approximately) and **** disappeared again in the R~ to C period to 0ce.

*ref [[Redbook8:28-29][19901015:1710]{Four Thousand Years BC[E]}*[15th October 1990],] 28-29

**[See two last previous entries, [Redbook8:35-36][19901015:2120d]{A Dream: Of A Spoiled Ballot Paper}[15th October 1990]&f]

***[***|words inserted in ms|***]

****{very approximately}

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