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

MR. O. It depends on the octave again. Some octaves are mechanical,descending. All ascending octaves have to be conscious, with effortevery moment.MISS C. Is the missing do below the moon the same as the one aboveall worlds?MR. O. We will speak about it when we come to it. But I will put it inif you like. It does not mean any special thing, but just that all the restis one thing. Take an apple: you have seeds, skin, juice, cells. You canstudy all these. Then you have the apple as a whole, the universe as awhole.Here we have Absolute; then all worlds and here there may be manyother similar or different Rays of Creation. The three forces in theAbsolute are one, three, but one. Each can be another, positive can benegative, negative neutralizing and so on, according to the need of themoment and the Will of the Absolute. The Absolute is supposed tohave absolute will, so it is called World 1. In the next, all worlds, theforces are already separated. Three forces, World 3. The next is allsuns, where there are three forces from World 3 and three of its own,World 6. And so on, down to moon, where there are ninety-six forces.There are two interesting things you must know. First, the Will of theAbsolute expressed in World 1 reaches only World 3 and cannot reach