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

We must remember the interconnection of all these ideas, and keepworking on them Then later we may find fuller and fuller meaning inthemMISS D You said, I think, that the planets keep us in balance?MR O No, I never said that I said moon Moon balances us Planetsmake us what we areMISS L Will you tell us what you did when G dropped the stick?MR O Oh, I had not seen itMR A When you say planets make us what we are, are you usingterms of disguised psychologyMR O Partly, yes and partly I mean that everything in the samesystem is connected Many things in organic life depend on planets andthings which happen in organic lifeMR H I did not quite understand Do planets affect situations—warsand so forth?MR O Yes, they may create warsMISS R Do they affect different people?MR O They create different people Different combinations of planetaryinfluences create different essenceMISS R Then some people are influenced by some planets?MR O Combinations Some people by some combinations, otherpeople by other combinationsMRS N Does life itself come from the planets too?MR O According to the system yes It starts from the sun and passesthrough the planetsYou remember this diagram of the Ray of Creation and the octavecoming in as do at the sun, then si at the planets, then the earth's surface,the film round the earth, with the three notes of organic life—la, sol,fa—mi the earth itself, re the moon? This is the world in which we liveWe live on the earth Earth is one of the planets, planets are in SolarSystem, Solar System is one of the Solar Systems in the Milky V ( ay, ourgalaxy is one of many galaxies and all these are part of the AbsoluteMR H Are notes a way of understanding these things or does itactually mean ..MR O Actually in this case Every kind of creative movement, evolutioncan all be traced as coming by this Law of Octaves if you findright scale So it is not just languageMR M This is a descending octave?