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

forces meeting together When three forces do not meet there is noevent, nothing happens The three forces are called positive, negativeand neutralizing Positive and negative we can observe in manydifferent manifestations Neutralizing force we are not accustomed tosee, although its presence is very clear in physiological and psychologicalphenomena If we know about the necessary existence of this force,after observation we begin to notice it, but when we do not know wedo not realize that this third element is there It is a very big subject,so it is quite sufficient if you remember this and try to find three forcesin every action Sometimes you may succeed Then much later we willcome to another aspect of this study, and in this way we meet Indianphilosophy really, only it is so mixed with commentaries that it isdifficult to find its original formThe Law of Seven (I will explain later why it is called the Law ofSeven), we will take first like this we imagine the world as a world ofvibrations going in different directions, different energies, all vibrationsgoing either up or down Suppose we take this line here as vibrationsgrowing from five hundred to one thousandThen in the distance between we can observe two very interestingphenomena While the vibrations grow and increase in frequency, theydo not increase regularly They increase for a time, then go down, thenincrease again and go down again So there are two places where theyslow down This is the Law of Seven At a certain period there wascreated a formula of this law which is a representation of a cosmic lawIt was shown as a musical scale in which two missing semitones showexactly this slowing down at two intervals between the seven notesIt is easiest to observe this Law of Seven in human actions You cansee how when people begin to do something—study, work—aftersome time, without any visible reason, their efforts diminish, workslows down, and if there is not some special effort at a given momentit changes its direction There is a small but real change in inner