A Record of Meetings held by P.D. Ouspensky - HolyBooks.com

they develop one from another. We take the world as world ofvibrations. Vibrations are supposed to go regularly, either increasingor decreasing. Law of Seven says that it is not so. All vibrationsdevelop, slow down, again develop, again slow down. It was foundthat between, say, a thousand and two thousand vibrations there aretwo intervals when vibrations slow down. This law was put into aformula. Later this formula of uneven increase of vibrations was usedfor musical scale.Everything in the world happens according to this scheme. Deviationof line of development [diagram]. This is what happens to all ouractivity when we do not know this law and do not know how to useit.Later you will see that there are many octaves in our machine. Wecome to the conclusion that we do not use all our forces. Why? At acertain point of the octave there is an interval where forces do notpass. If we want to be conscious, we must find this place and make aspecial effort. As a result, inner activity, instead of slowing down, willgo on even stronger. Then we must find a second place. If we givetwo shocks to our organism, we begin to develop. The first shock isself-remembering.The Ray of Creation can be regarded as a descending octave.Interval do-si is filled by the Will of the Absolute. Interval fa-mi:nature has provided here an instrument which gives the additionalshock between planets and earth. Without this shock certain vibrationswill not pass below planets, they w ill be reflected by earth. Organic lifeon earth is a sensitive film which helps to receive certain influences.All organic life on earth plays a certain cosmic role and has a cosmicpurpose. Organic life is attached to its place. Man, being so small, isless attached, is more free and can escape. If he does not escape, whilehe lives he is food for the earth, and when he dies he is food for themoon. Moon feeds on organic life; when it disintegrates moon sucks inall that is important for it. In this way moon grows.Organic life is arranged on hard principles: it eats itself. And mooneats all. In this way, Ray of Creation shows how everything isinterconnected—everything exists, not for itself but for several differentpurposes. There are many other sides to organic life.Organic life starts in sun (octave, sun - moon).Mi of the second octave enters into mi (earth). We can see how