Why a Geometric Point Holds the Key to Eternal Reality
In order to understand Cause, and how it relates to material reality (Effect) we need to know a basic principle of geometry….I know, I know…geometry? yuck!!
Hear me out…
Let’s begin with the simplest idea in geometry:
The point. You know what it is conceptually, but have you really given thought to it and its implications?
A geometric point has no dimension.
No length.
No width.
No height.
It cannot be measured and cannot be divided.
It is without form, undivided and exists in equilibrium.
"A point is that which has no part" — Euclid
Because it has no dimension it has no form, because it has no form it is not subject to movement and because it does not move, it does not change.
We have a word for something that never changes.
ETERNAL…
The Nature of Cause
Cause is like that point.
We can express the idea of a point, but expressions are not the IDEA of their source.
How do we express the idea of a dimensionless point?
Simple — with a dot.
Draw a dot on a piece of paper. It doesn’t matter how small that dot is drawn, it will always have a measurable length, width, AND thickness.
If you were to zoom your vision to the side of the dot, you would see it thickness in equal proportion to the amount of ink or lead that came off the writing instrument.
Three-dimensionally we symbolize the point as a sphere, and in religious scriptures they symbolize it perfectly in the form of … a seed.
He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.” — Matthew 13:31-32
What Jesus is actually saying is that the Kingdom of Heaven (Eternal Cause) is like a mustard seed (the point) and when planted, unfolds into material reality of our UNIverse.
Cause is a seed — not a material, quantitative seed…
Its a qualitative one.
What do I mean by that?
A seed does not contain branches, leaves, or fruit as things — but it does contain them as potential.
Within the dimensionless seed of Cause lies eternal qualities (which cannot be measured) such as Truth, Power, Law, Inspiration, Knowledge, Beauty, Love, Balance, Virtue, Desire, etc.
We cannot measure these qualities, but we KNOW THEM when we see them.
You may have come across the idea that we are living in a simulation — science is even beginning to prove this.
What they don’t yet understand is this:
Reality is nothing more than the immeasurable Mind-qualities of Truth, Power, Beauty, Knowledge etc, which are never created, but are simulated by measurable quantities in the divided universe, of moving and vibrating electrical waves which we call matter.
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein
The Seeming Division of Cause
Effect begins when unity (balance) is divided — or seems to be.
Remember, Cause, being dimensionless cannot be divided.
Effect is the division of Cause into two unequal conditions.
This division produces:
dimension
vibration
motion
change
Cause is still. Effect moves.
Cause is unified. Effect is polarized.
Cause contains qualities. Effect expresses those qualities in moving quantities.
Effect is measurable because it is divided.
A new concept for deep contemplation:
The fulcrum and lever.
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world" — Archimedes
The lever of the seesaw which a boy and girl oscillate is supported by a fulcrum.
That fulcrum point is motionless.
In fact, the seesaw could not move if it wasn’t for its still fulcrum.
The one outstanding characteristic of all material phenomena is that they move/vibrate.
our galaxy is hurling through the heavens
our sun is orbiting around the center of our galaxy
our planet is orbiting the sun
our planet is rotating around its axis
axial precession
apsidal precession
nutation
the pulsations of your cells
the movements of the molecules which comprise them
the unfathomable vibratory speed of atomic and subatomic particles which compose all things
Just as the seesaw cannot move if it wasn’t for its fulcrum, this material universe of moving, vibrating quantities of matter could not move if it wasn’t for its eternal still Cause.
Mind is that fulcrum. The universe is the lever.
Mind is Cause. The universe is the effect.
Why This Matters
Modern thinking begins with Effect.
It studies motion.
It measures matter.
It analyzes change.
But it asks Effect to explain itself.
Its as though science thinks Symphony No. 9 wrote itself instead of being created in the Mind of Beethoven.
That is why everything appears complex, fragmented, and unstable.
Cause is simple. Effect is multiplied simplicity.
“True knowledge is knowledge by causes.” — Francis Bacon
So the question is: How does stillness create motion?
This is what I will be revealing in the next post…
I am indeed! Thank you for the kind comments as well. I have the HSC, but am saving my money for the collectors edition. I start with Unit 1 in January just as Doc and Lao instructed. Matt Presti is also a good friend and I have been on his TEC Podcast twice.
Yes. Everything physical comes from the Non-Physical. I choose to call the Non-Physical consciousness.