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The Straighter the Line
The Straighter the Line
This next concept is very difficult to grasp and realize, but I am going to put it out there anyway. You can always work on it. Here it is:
All existence (our very life) keeps going through the sum total of the endless repeating cycles of which it is composed. It is even more direct than that, and I am going to get very abstract for a just a moment.
Our very existence is only by virtue of our awareness of these cycles or circles. And now for the hard part: Everything is (or continues to exist) only by returning, repeating and restating itself. That is, everything we know and can have any awareness of has to somehow persist or exist long enough for us to experience it. The converse is also true.
That which does not re-instate or repeat itself (in other words, that from which we get no return) is not for us. In fact, that which does not return for us (come to our awareness) comprises the sum total of our ignorance. We ignore it. It does not register. Our consciousness then, that which we are aware of, is made up of the endless returns or returning of cycles. Don’t panic. I am going to try to make this clear.
This is not an easy concept to grasp, but it is an essential one, and if you can get it, it will make your study of astrology much easier. Let me rephrase:
Our consciousness, in other words, that which we are now aware of, is made up of whatever lasts (holds together) long enough for us to see and experience it. It persists, and we perceive it. Every thing we can see lasts long enough to restate itself, and these endless re-statements or returns make up our conscious life, and only that.
When we reach the “point of no return” in any project, we abandon that direction. When something ceases to restate itself, to return on itself, it drops from our awareness and is forgotten. Everything that “is” only “is” by having the strength to last and exist. If it loses that strength, it no longer persists.
Everything is only by returning. It is by the returns that we know anything. If we reach the point of no return on any subject, it is just that: the point where there is nothing coming back. It becomes like a straight line for us.
This concept is difficult, so let’s drop it for now and take another approach at the same material.
Our entire life can be viewed as a process of investment and returns, giving and taking, and this process endlessly repeats itself and can be studied in the form of cycles.
