AS ABOVE, SO BELOW

"The teaching of the two
cosmoses is known from the
Cabala and other more ancient
systems. But this teaching is
incomplete and nothing can be
derived from it, nothing can be
built on it. Nothing can be
derived from it because this
teaching is merely a fragment
split off from another, much
fuller, ancient esoteric
teaching about cosmoses
or worlds, included one
within another and created
in the image and the likeness
of the greatest of them,
including in itself all
the others. "AS ABOVE,
SO BELOW," is an
expression which
refers to
cosmoses.

"BUT IT IS ESSENTIAL TO
KNOW THAT THE FULL TEACHING
ON COSMOSES SPEAKS NOT OF TWO,
BUT OF SEVEN COSMOSES, INCLUDED
ONE WITHIN ANOTHER.

"Seven cosmoses, taken together
in their relation to one another,
alone represent a complete picture
of the universe. The idea of two
analogous cosmoses, accidentally
preserved from a great and
complete teaching, is so
incomplete that it can give
no idea whatever of the analogy
between man and the world.

"In order to understand the
laws of relativity, it is very
useful to examine the life and
phenomena of one cosmos as though
looking at them from another cosmos,
that is, to examine them from the point
of view of the laws of another cosmos.
All the phenomena of the life of a
given cosmos, examined from another
cosmos, assume a completely different
aspect and have a completely different
meaning. Many new phenomena appear and
many other phenomena disappear. This in
general completely changes the picture
of the world and of things.

"As has been said before, the idea
of cosmoses alone can provide a
firm basis for the establishment
of the laws of relativity. Real
science and real philosophy ought
to be founded on the understanding
of the laws of relativity.
Consequently it is possible
to say that science and philosophy,
in the true meaning of these terms,
begin with the idea of cosmoses."
--Gurdjieff
--ch 10, ISO

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