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

example, an advertisement) or I overhear a chance remark, a largenumber of unnecessary thoughts and emotions are started in me. Asimilar kind of unnecessary activity goes on when I am trying to thinkor to do something, particularly with my hands. On one scale these canbe explained as results of identification, but, on another scale, are theseunnecessary things examples of that movement which is referred to inthe statement 'moon controls movement'? I find it difficult to understandthat statement because I do not see the scale of the movementreferred to and also I do not clearly see the distinction between'movement' and 'mechanicalness of man'.MR. O. It refers to every movement. And so you need not takeexamples about which you are not sure whether they are movementsor not. Take simple examples.MR. L. I have been trying to see some relation between man's capacityto have such high hydrogens in him as Hi 2 and the laws shown in theRay of Creation. Are these higher matters in man in some wayconnected with the expression in him of laws derived from higherbodies such as the sun and our galaxy?M R . O. Maybe, but it does not mean very much. It is the same thing really.MR. L. The Table of Cosmoses seems to be a measure of differences inscale, but I do not see how it can be used in many comparatively smalldifferences in scale because I do not understand the meaning of theword cosmos. Will you please explain more about it?MR. O. No, I cannot now.MR. A . Can the Ray of Creation with its increasing number of forcesand with each world derived from the one above it be considered asthe activity of propagation? There seems to be a difference betweenthis activity and the propagation of a species in its own world.MR. O. Maybe you can consider it this way, but it will not help. Andcosmic activities we must take separately.MR. A . Is the following attempt at classifying the six main types ofactivity properly formulated?1. Those which serve to maintain the existence of organic life onearth. Propagation.2. Those which serve to sustain the life of the individual organismfor its customary period (man, seventy years) by feeding, i.e. absorbingmatters of certain density and transforming them into matters lessdense suitable to sustain the machine. Transformism.