📖 TEACHING BOOK • CHAPTER #29

the-law-of-the-pendulum

~14 min read•100% Free text

Book Audio Narration 🎧

Audiobook

The full text is freely available. To listen to the audio narration, sign in or register for free.

Conference 29 from Phase A.

CONF. 29 THE LAW OF THE PENDULUM

It is interesting to have a wall clock at home, not only to know the hours but also to reflect a little.

Without the pendulum the clock does not work; The movement of the pendulum is strongly significant.

In ancient times the Dogma of Evolution did not exist, so the sages understood that historical processes always developed according to the Law of the Pendulum.

Everything flows and refluxes, rises and falls, grows and decreases, comes and goes according to this wonderful Law.

It is not surprising that everything oscillates, that everything is subject to the swing of time, that everything evolves and comes back.

At one end of the pendulum there is joy, at the other pain; all our emotions, thoughts, desires, oscillate according to the Law of the Pendulum.

Hope and despair, pessimism and optimism, passion and pain, triumph and failure, gain and loss, certainly correspond to the two extremes of the pendulum movement.

Egypt arose with all its power and dominion on the banks of the sacred river, but when the pendulum went to the other side, when it rose at the opposite end, the country of the Pharaohs fell and Jerusalem, the beloved city of the Prophets, rose.

Israel fell, when the pendulum changed its position and the Roman Empire arose at the other end.

The pendulum movement raises and sinks empires, it gives rise to powerful civilizations and then destroys them, etc.

We can place at the extreme right of the pendulum the various pseudo-esoteric and pseudo-occult schools, religions and sects.

We can place at the extreme left of the pendulum movement all the schools of the materialist, Marxist, atheistic, skepticist type, etc. Antitheses of pendulum motion, changing, subject to incessant permutation.

The religious fanatic, because of any unusual event or disappointment, can go to the other end of the pendulum, become an atheist, a materialist, a skeptic.

The materialistic, atheistic fanatic, because of some unusual fact, perhaps a transcendental metaphysical event, a moment of unspeakable terror, can lead him to the opposite extreme of the pendulum swing and turn him into an unbearable religious reaction.

Examples: A priest defeated in a controversy by an esotericist, in desperation, became incredulous and materialistic.

We knew the case of an atheistic and incredulous lady who, due to a conclusive and definitive metaphysical fact, became a magnificent exponent of practical esotericism.

In the name of truth, we must declare that the materialist atheist, true and absolute, is a farce, it does not exist.

Faced with the approach of an inevitable death, before an instant of unspeakable terror, the enemies of the eternal, the materialists and unbelievers instantly pass to the other end of the pendulum and end up praying, crying and crying out with infinite faith and enormous devotion.

Karl Marx himself, author of Dialectical Materialism, was a Jewish religious fanatic, and after his death, he was given the funeral pomp of a great rabbi.

Karl Marx elaborated his Materialist Dialectic with a single purpose: "To create a weapon to destroy all the religions of the world by skepticism."

This is the typical case of religious jealousy taken to the extreme, in no way could Marx accept the existence of other religions and preferred to destroy them by his Dialectic.

Karl Marx fulfilled one of the Protocols of Zion, which reads: "It does not matter that we fill the world with materialism and repugnant atheism, on the day when we triumph, we will teach the religion of Moses duly coded and dialectically, and we will not allow any other religion in the world."

It is very interesting that in the Soviet Union, religions are persecuted, and the people are taught materialist dialectics, while in the synagogues the Talmud, the Bible and religion are studied, and they work freely without any problem.

The masters of the Russian government are religious fanatics of the Law of Moses, but they poison the people with the farce of Dialectical Materialism.

We would never speak out against the people of Israel; only we are only declaring against a certain double- playing elite who, in pursuit of unspeakable ends, poisons the people with the Materialistic Dialectic, while secretly practicing the religion of Moses.

Materialism and Spiritualism, with all their sequel of theories, prejudices and preconceptions, of all kinds, are processed in the mind according to the Law of the Pendulum and change their mode according to the times and customs.

Spirit and matter are two very debatable and thorny concepts that no one understands. The mind knows nothing about spirit, knows nothing about matter.

A concept is nothing more than that, a concept. Reality is not a concept, although many concepts can be forged about reality.

  • Spirit is Spirit (Being) and only itself can be known. It says: "The Being it is Being and the reason for Being is Being itself".*

The fanatics of the Matter God, the scientists of Dialectical Materialism are empirical, and one hundred percent absurd. They talk about matter with a dazzling and stupid self-sufficiency, when in reality they know nothing about it.

What is matter? Which of these foolish scientists knows? The much-discussed matter is also a very debatable and rather thorny concept.

What is the matter? Cotton? Iron? Meat? Starch? A stone? Copper? A cloud? To say that everything is matter would be as empirical and absurd as to assert that the whole human organism is a liver or a heart or a kidney. Obviously one thing is one thing and another thing is something else, each organ is different and each substance is different. Which of all these substances, then, is so discussed matter?

Many people play with the concepts of the pendulum, but in reality, the concepts are not reality.

The mind knows only illusory forms of nature, but knows nothing about the truth contained in such forms.

Theories go out of fashion over time and over the years and what one learned in school turns out to be useless, conclusion: no one knows anything.

The concepts of the extreme right or the extreme left of the pendulum, pass like women's fashions, all these are processes of the mind, things that happen on the surface of the understanding, nonsense, vanities of the intellect.

Any psychological discipline is opposed by another discipline, any logically structured psychological process is opposed by another similar one, and after all, what?

The Real, the Truth, is what interests us; but this is not a matter of the pendulum, it is not found among the swing of theories and beliefs.

Truth is the unknown from instant to instant, moment to moment.

Truth is in the center of the pendulum, not on the extreme right and not on the extreme left.

When Jesus was asked, "What is truth?" he was deeply silent. And when the Buddha was asked the same question, he turned his back and withdrew.

Truth is not a matter of opinions, theories, or prejudices of the extreme right or the extreme left.

The concept that the mind can form about truth is never Truth. The idea that the understanding has about truth is never the Truth.

The opinion we have about truth, no matter how respectable it may be, it is in no way the Truth.

Neither spiritualistic currents, nor can their materialistic opponents, they can never lead us to the truth.

Truth is something that must be experienced directly, as when one puts one's finger in the fire and burns oneself, or as when one swallows water and drowns.

The center of the pendulum is within us, and it is there that we must discover and experience directly the Real, the Truth.

We need to directly self-explore in order to discover ourselves and know ourselves deeply.

The experience of Truth only comes when we have eliminated the undesirable elements that together constitute Ego.

Only by eliminating error does the Truth comes. Only by disintegrating the Ego, my mistakes, my prejudices and fears, my passions and desires, beliefs and fornications, intellectual castings and self-sufficiencies, does the experience of the Real come to us.

The Truth has nothing to do with what has been said or left unsaid, with what has been written or not written, it only comes to us when the Ego has died.

The mind cannot seek the Truth because it does not know it. The mind cannot recognize the Truth, because it has never known it. Truth comes to us spontaneously when we have eliminated all the undesirable elements that constitute the Ego.

If the Consciousness continues to be bottled up among the Ego, it will not be able to experience that which is the Real, that which is beyond the body, the affections and the mind, that which is the Truth.

When the Ego is reduced to cosmic dust, the Consciousness is freed to awaken definitively and experience the Truth directly.

The Great Kabir Jesus rightly said: "Know the truth, and it will set you free.

" What good is it for a man to know fifty thousand theories if he has never experienced the Truth?

The intellectual system of any man is very respectable, but any system is opposed by another and neither one nor the other is the Truth.

It is better to explore ourselves to know ourselves and to experience one day in a direct way, the real, the Truth. 

  • CONCEPT AND REALITY

Who or what can guarantee that the concept and reality are absolutely the same?

The concept is one thing and reality is another, and there is a tendency to overestimate our own concepts.

Reality equals concept is almost impossible, yet the mind hypnotized by its own concept always assumes that concept and reality are equal.

Any psychological process correctly structured by exact logic is opposed by a different one, which is newly formed with similar or superior logic, so what?

Two minds severely disciplined within iron intellectual structures, arguing with each other, polemicizing, about this or that reality, each believe in the correctness of their own concept and in the falsity of the concept of another, but which of them is right?

Who could honestly give guarantees in both cases? In which of them, concept and reality are the same?

Unquestionably, each head is a world and in each and every one of us there is a kind of pontifical and dictatorial dogmatism that wants to make us believe in the absolute equality of concept and reality.

No matter how strong the structures of reasoning may be, nothing can guarantee the absolute equality of concepts and reality.

Those who are self-enclosed within any intellectual logistical procedure always want to make the reality of phenomena coincide with elaborate concepts, and this is nothing more than the result of reasoning hallucination.

To open oneself to the new is the difficult facility of the classic, unfortunately people want to discover, to see in every natural phenomenon their own prejudices, concepts, preconceptions, opinions and theories; no one knows how to be receptive, to see the new with a clean and spontaneous mind.

That phenomena speak to the wise man would be the right thing to do, unfortunately the wise men of these times do not know how to see phenomena, they only want to see in them the confirmation of all their preconceptions.

Incredibly, modern scientists know nothing about natural phenomena.

When we see in the phenomena of nature exclusively our own concepts, we are certainly not seeing the phenomena but the concepts.

However, the foolish scientists, hallucinated by their fascinating intellect, stupidly believe that each of their conceptions is absolutely the same as this or that observed phenomenon, when the reality is different.

We do not deny that our affirmations are rejected by anyone who is self-enclosed by this or that logistical procedure; Unquestionably, the pontifical and dogmatic condition of the intellect could in no way accept that any concept correctly elaborated does not coincide exactly with reality.

As soon as the mind, through the senses, observes this or that phenomenon, it immediately hastens to label it with this or that scientistic term that unquestionably only serves as a patch to cover one's own ignorance.

The mind does not really know how to be receptive to the new, but it does know how to invent very complicated terms with which it tries to qualify in a self-deceptive way what it certainly ignores.

Speaking this time in the Socratic sense, we will say that the mind not only ignores, but also ignores that it ignores.

The modern mind is terribly superficial, it has specialized in inventing terms made very difficult to cover up its own ignorance.

There are two kinds of science: the first is nothing more than that rotten of subjective theories that abound there. The second is the pure science of the great enlightened ones, the Objective Science of Being.

Undoubtedly, it would not be possible to penetrate the amphitheater of cosmic science if we have not first died in ourselves.

We need to disintegrate all those undesirable elements that we carry within us, and that together constitute in themselves, the Ego.

As long as the Superlative Consciousness of Being continues to be bottled up between the Ego, between my own subjective concepts and theories, it is absolutely impossible to know directly the crude reality of natural phenomena in themselves.

The key to the laboratory of nature is held in his right hand by the Angel of Death.

We can learn very little from the phenomenon of birth, but from death we can learn everything.

The inviolate temple of pure science is at the bottom of the black grave. If the seed does not die, the plant is not born. Only with death does the new come.

When the Ego dies, the Consciousness awakens to see the reality of all the phenomena of nature as they are in themselves and by themselves.

Consciousness knows what it directly experiences for itself, the crude realism of life beyond the body, the affections and the mind.

  • Complementary Graphics.

The Critical Point allows us to contemplate the two extremes in order to transcend them.

  • THE INNER PENDULUM.* To achieve Understanding we must avoid polarizing ourselves in Intellect or Sex. Understanding is a faculty of the heart that allows us to reconcile opposites.
  • End of Conference 29\.

Do you want the teacher's full video explanation?

Complement this chapter's text with the video lecture, student questions, and practical demonstration.

🎬 Watch Conference #29 Video→