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

MISS R. Is the desire to dress well necessarily a sign of considering oridentification?MR O. No, it may be very different—it may be based on quite differentconsiderations. It may be quite real and quite necessary.MR S. You stated that it is necessary to learn how to store up energyfor advancement—that we now use up all our intake for living. Howcan we learn to accumulate such a reserve or store?MR. O. About that we will speak later to-day or next time. But this isthe second question. The first is how to stop waste, how to stop leaks.There are too many leaks in the machine.MISS G. What exactly is meant by 'knowledge'?MR. O. Well, it is just meant in the ordinary sense. Take what youordinarily call knowledge. There is no need to try to formulate suchordinary ideas. What was necessary to understand was that knowledgeis not all that we can want; that knowledge is different from being, andyou have to work by two lines—on knowledge and on being. Onecannot replace another.MISS W. Is knowledge used up and replenished, or is it more in thenature of a store which can be borrowed from?MR. O. I don't quite understand the question. Both probablyMISS W. Can 'intention' be one of the three forces?MR. O. In some cases it may.MR. M. Are the earth, the sun and the planets different hydrogens? Ifso, what is the hydrogen of each?MR. O. No, you see for celestial bodies like that there is a differentterm. They are called points—'points' in the scheme of creation.You remember the diagram of Three Octaves of Radiation? In thiscase, Absolute, sun, earth and moon are called points. It can beestablished which hydrogens pass through them—even which hydrogensthey are themselves; but at present we don't need it; althoughin the Table of Hydrogens you can see where each hydrogen comesfromMR. M. Does any of the forces 1, 2, 3, passing through a hydrogencause it to become a different hydrogen?MR. O. No. They cause it to become either carbon, oxygen or nitrogen.It depends which force passes through the hydrogen.MR. H. Nature is to me a word that personifies the forces governing allthat happens on our world and in the cosmos, God the spirit or single