NPPR: Commentary Line 137 Lemniscate
Ghetta Life
ghetta_outta at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 24 09:42:33 CDT 2003
Check out this sculpture inspired by the Indian yogi B.K.S. Iyengar:
http://www.business-services.upenn.edu/arboretum/afterbks1.html
> > My understanding of Shade's joy in it had been as a natural pattern
>from which a spiritual component can be derived, as in this quote from Max
>Heindel:
> >
> > "Humanity as a whole is slowly progressing upon the path of evolution,
>thus very slowly, almost imperceptibly, attaining higher and higher states
>of consciousness. The path of evolution is a spiral when we regard it from
>the physical side only, but a lemniscate when viewed in both its physical
>and spiritual phases. [...]
> >
> > "In the lemniscate, or figure 8, there are two circles which converge to
>a central point, which circles may be taken to symbolize the immortal
>spirit, the evolving ego. One of the circles signifies its life in the
>physical world from birth to death. [...]
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