With all this at first conceptual level the question will arise about what exactly is given in the Koran for the Distinction as the primary conceptual categories, from which should one develop his or her process of Life’s understanding and re-understanding. And at the second conceptual level you will be to solve the question of your ability to Discern “this” from “not this”, “one” from “another” in the flow of Life’s events.
Together with the Russians we have thoroughly studied the Suras where it is told of the Distinction. And I’ve understood that in the Koran the doctrine of triunity of matter-information-measure – the limit generalizations and the primary differences in the Universe – is openly expressed. This worldview is for everybody, not only for “esotericists’ elite”. Moreover opened for people during the last thirteen centuries it could be the stable basis for developing the philosophy, which will be alternative to one that maintains the public mind’s oscillation from materialism to idealism and back. However, the public philosophy nowadays is still expressing the defective worldview that is more corresponding to pharaohs’ times.
How do you think, Mr. Salem, why could it be possible? –Holmes asked.
I asked the same. As the answer the Russian showed me the “Book for Elementary Reading” by Vodovozov, published in St-Petersburg in the end of 19th century and used for the Russian Empire nationals’ self-education. The matter concerns ancient Egyptians’ views on the objective reality. I’ve made an extract. I hope it would slightly open you the secret of maintaining the biblical worldview stereotypes stability.
Holmes took the paper and absorbed in reading the English text.
“The main cast that ruled everything was the cast of clerics or zhretses. They directed even the tsar (i.e. pharaoh) how to live and what to do… The supreme divinity of Egyptians was AMON. Four divinities united in him. The substance, which everything in the world consists of, – goddess NET; the spirit enlivening the substance or the force making it be composed, change and act – god NEPH; the endless space occupied by the substance – goddess PASHT; the endless time, which we imagine during the constant changes of the substance – god SEBEK. Everything in the Universe according to Egyptian doctrine origins from the substance via the action of invisible force, occupies the space and changes with time. And all of this mystically combines in the tetraune[69] being AMON”.
Holmes finished reading and for some time silently looked at the landscape behind the window. It began to darken, quickly as always in these latitudes. Salem suggested going outside. Freshness of the near water was felt in the air. They entered the wide terrace buried in verdure and descending to Nile. The first stars appeared on the unfamiliar skies. In a comfortable gazebo, which too was decorated with garlands of rambling rose, the table with refined engraved silver dishes with fruits and sweets was served. Hot coffeepot made of Dresden Meissen china exhaled the aroma of the just made coffee. Salem invited Holmes to the gazebo and their conversation continued under the sky of Cairo.
As you see, Mr. Holmes, if we put aside the names of Ancient Egyptian gods, the substance will correspond to the modern “substance”; spirit – mostly to “force fields”; and “space” and “time” will remain unchanged from that time. That what Vodovozov told about Ancient Egypt shows, that the primary differences and generalizing categories taken as basic categories of the Universe in the modern civilization during the millennia remains unchanged. “Matter” understood as “substance”; “spirit” understood as “energy”, “force” and the ruling law, i.e. “information” and “measure”; and also “space” and “time” sometimes divided and sometimes united first in four-person Amon, then in “two-person” unnamed “space-time continuum” from theory of relativity, which is the unknowable container of the matter in any aggregative state.
And though, if to describe in details the word, meaning this primary differences, and interpretations of concepts connected with it changed many times during the Western civilization history, the one remained unchanged. “Information” was secretly hidden and unable to be separated among the primary differences from “spirit”, “energy” and “force”, which were equated in the Western worldview.
As for “matter”, it was equated to “substance”. And when working out in detail, divided into four elements or on the modern science language – states of aggregation of matter: “Earth” – solid substance; “Water” – liquid matter; “Air” – gaseous matter; “Fire” – plasma. And the natural force fields, which carry ordered energy and are invisible for the majority of people, merged with the information in the “non-material spirit”. What concerns the vacuum, which according to the modern ideas is far from the emptiness but is one of the states of aggregation of matter, it became “space-container”. And “time” turned into some sigh to indicate some impalpable incomprehensibility. In other words, everybody knows what the time is, but nobody can say something definite about it.
How does the historical experience show, during the history of after-Egyptian regional civilizations the worldview based on the four-person Universe remains itself. It only changed its forms of appearing before the society. And this worldview had done the way from the theological doctrine of ancient Egyptians about four-person Amon to the space-time continuum of the 20th century materialists. And the regional civilization, where it dominated the people’s minds, led the planet to the global biospherical-ecological crisis, in which the intrasocial crisis had been reflected.
But for all that one finds that some ideas obvious inside the worldview of triunity just become imperceptible, incomprehensible and indescribable within the categories of the four-personal Universe by the “languages” developed in culture.
Thus after conversations with the Russians and reading the attendant literature it became clear to me, that the categories of space and time are secondary concerning the measure. And so, time is simply a ratio measure of full oscillation periods of all the mutually enclosed processes in the Universe. Probably it became clear to me because the image of the mutually enclosing has existed in Russia and Egypt among their cultural heritage from the old times. For instance world-famous Russian doll “matreshka[70]” and pharaohs’ sarcophaguses one can see in the Cairo museum are the same constructions as they are. They differ only by size and purpose. If one has no measure he won’t be able to distinguish an enclosed construction from the enclosing one. That’s why during the history they only told about the space, but really measured it with subjectively chosen etalons.
Excuse me, Holmes, I seem to be carried away by new philosophical theories and probably have tired you. But thanks to them I was able to penetrate into the secret of Russian “picnics” and to understand how matrix methods of ruling work. It would be simpler to me to indicate the information, which these pictures contains; to refer the certain words, which are the code – the measure; and to show the defined result, which becomes a natural consequence of the objective process of the Universe – the triunity of matter-information-measure. But you understand, that without such wordy philosophical introductions my words would remain another hypothesis, which the press after September 11 is full of. May be my statement was somehow confused, but it was the first time I tried to retell and expound coherently that, what I used to reflect on when I was alone with my thoughts.
I beg you, Mr. Salem. You should not apologize. I listened to your story rich in new terminology very attentively, and it was quite useful for me, I assure you. Point is that I’ve heard some odds and ends, single theses, fragments of the new philosophy being born in Russia at different places and under different circumstances. Russia as the civilization has its own mission. And I wanted to understand it for a long time. We used to talk of civilization within the terminology East-West or North-South. Hearing you I tried to abstract my mind from biblical culture stereotypes, i.e. to overstep the limits of binary code: materialism-idealism, capitalism-socialism, plan-market, East-West and so on. Within the worldview alternative to the binary one (as I’d like to call it) Russia for me seems to be the civilization of measure; and the West directed on unlimited consumption of material comforts is the civilization of matter; as for the East closed on spirit practices created by “esotericists” for the crowd-“elitism” stability maintaining, it is the civilization of information.