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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