The symbolism of the Cosmic Egg
The Cosmic Egg is, according to all ancient metaphysics, the fundamental building block of Reality.
Maharshi Kanada, the Indian sage and philosopher, called them Atums, [not atoms],
over 3,000 years ago. Some people call them ‘Dust’
Genesis 2:7 “God formed man of dust . and breathed into him the breath of life”
Niels Bohr, the Nobel prize winning physicist, said that atoms were not ‘physical’
Niels Bohr - Atomic Physics and the Description of Nature" (1934)
We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts
as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable
and observable only through their interaction with other systems
So more like the pins in a pinball machine
Both Bohr and Kanada thus conceived of the Atum as an Egg shaped spiritual object.
Physicists call all the spirit we cannot perceive [including that in the egg] ‘dark matter’
Wikipedia Dark ‘matter’ is a substance or form of energy thought to account for
approximately 85% of the universe and about a quarter of its total massenergy density
Levels and layers the Elements
If one takes a cross section of this Egg, it is composed of five main Elements:
Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Aether.
Five gold rings
This was never meant to be taken literally, it was a way of imagining these ‘levels’,
as though water was being heated
Earth was apparently solid [like ice] and the only thing we could
actually perceive with our 5 senses. Like the shell of an egg
But when it was opened, although we could ‘see’ nothing there was Water,
Air, Fire and at the centre the Unmoving Mover and the Holy of Holies.
Like an Easter Egg
or a Faberge egg
or a crystal ball
or an orb
Good vibrations
We can imagine these layers like the lines on an Ordnance survey map.
Viewed from above, as a map, the appearance is flat
and the contours are shown as lines on the map.
But it is possible to take a cross section of the map and produce a ‘contour map’,
by marking out lines on a piece of paper,
corresponding to the height of each line on the map and then drawing a line
from the map to the correct height line. Where the height lines crosses the map line,
you then mark with a dot where they meet.
Once you have drawn all these lines, then you join up the dots and you get a picture
of what a cross section of the countryside would look like sideways on
Triangles and Cones
The same is true of the Cosmic egg one cross section shows a flat earth,
that based on vibrations shows a triangular cone
like a temple porch
Or a bell
or a shaman’s
or magician’s hat
or a bishop’s hat
or a constellation like Triangulum Australis
or a Christmas tree
or a hill like Silbury
or a volcano like Hokusai’s Fuji in Japan
Pyramids
If we now go back to the egg, and we draw stepped lines
to represent the different ‘vibrational’ levels. What we end up with is
A pyramid like the Ones in Egypt
or like Chicken Itza in South America
or even like Borobudur In Java in Indonesia
or perhaps a ziggurat like that at Choga Zanbil
Wells
But this is going up. If we map the same lines going down the ‘vibrational’ levels, we get
Dante’s Inferno
or an Indian Step Well
Music of the spheres
Overall therefore one has spheres within spheres within spheres. A bit like
A Chinese puzzle ball
or an onion
or a Russian doll
And the lines of ‘vibration’ corresponding to the Ordnance survey increases in height,
look very like the musical scale with its seven [or more] lines
and its notes - or runes
Hence the Music of the Spheres
The Planets
BUT, the central Aether level is far far more complex than we described,
because the rise in vibrational levels through the Elements is -
relatively speaking - quite shallow and would probably look more like a plain on a contour map
But when we get to the Aether level the contour map
would suddenly rise up to great heights
or a mountain like Mount Fanjing, Guizhou province, China
or a windmill driven by the breath of the gods
or perhaps a stupa in Tibet, Bhutan or Nepal
or an Indian Linga with its yoni
or even a mandala
Indeed, the end result is something not too dissimilar to an octopus
Ascension
But as we can see from cup and ring marks, there is always a route of ascension
stairs maybe for those who cannot ‘fly’
or a processional way a cursus.
And where there is a will there is always a way