Atom and Octave by Maryel Gardyne

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What is not in fact, simply exists on a higher level of frequency or octave

Our own atoms vibrate in the waveband of light which is a tiny fraction of
the whole range

RADAR There are layers at various heights above the earth which reflect
wireless waves it was through research into these that Radar was
discovered

Danielou notes the 21 Circles “which separate us from the metaphysical

Sun”, the central Eye, “that sees everything”.

21 Circles which separate us from metaphysical Sun Central Eye that

sees everything

Danielou equates these 21 circles with 22 notes of the Hindu octave which
also echoes 22 BY 7 ratio of diameter of a circle to its circumference which
are both aspects of octave theory

Danielou equates these 21 circles with the 22 (21) notes of the Hindu
octave which also echoes the 22:7 ratio of the diameter of a circle to its
circumference which, Danielou makes clear, are both aspects of octave
theory.

If our bodies had been built up of particles having X Ray Wave Length we
could pass through matter because the bouncing particles of matter would
not resist those of our new and different bodies

Cosmic mind is open on the one hand to Absolute and on other entering
constricting vortex that is Creation

Atom and Octave by Maryel Gardyne.

It is the electron microscope and all the apparatus invented since its
discovery that have revolutionised our view of the world and brought us
into contact with regions of experience, belonging formerly only to men of
faith.

As we search ever deeper into the sub-atomic depths of matter and

observe the passing tracks of fleeting entities, the bursts and showers and
spirals of the spectra, we can glimpse many phenomena in dimensions
even further back. The structure of this same matter dissolves into more
and more nebulous and mathematically imaginary formulae – many
expressions of which we scarcely have time to register before they are
gone from us. These entities, appearing, passing and disappearing
almost instantaneously, suggest new ways of evaluating their activities.

As we peer in, we seem to meet energy bursting out from a mysterious

world behind and beyond our own. There seems no clear-cut boundary
between what we call the physical world – “what is” – and the non-
physical or – “what is not”. What is not, in fact, simply exists on a higher
level of frequency or octave, which we cannot touch, see, hear or smell
with our physical senses, because its higher level of frequency is cut off
from ours by spiral action.

The microscope has simply extended our range of vision into areas
formerly closed to us – but which was always there, beyond our sensory
knowledge. (see Fig.5 Ch.2) The table of frequencies and their
wavelengths, called the spectrum, found in every physics textbook,
represents the whole range of frequency known to us at present. Among
all these, our own atoms vibrate in the waveband of light, which is a tiny
fraction of the whole range.

But, as we see from harmonics, it is not separated from all the others – but
partially cut off from them by their spiral action and the constraints of the
Mathematics resonance factors. Although the different bands are usually
called levels or cycles, they can just as easily be called octaves and, by
their numbers, we can find out how many octaves there are. I am not
aware if anyone has yet done this set of calculations in an octave context.

What is so odd is that, in science, we now seem to know so much more

about the spectrum and its infinite ranges of cosmic rays and other
spectra at up to 1022 kilohertz in frequency, and 10-17 in wavelengths.
Sub-atomic particle research compels us to return to a consideration of
them. Now, with the aid of the comma and the spiral action of vibration,
we can understand how everything fits in.

This question of levels was discussed by Lord Dowding who was Supreme
Commander of the Royal Air Force and who masterminded the Battle of
Britain in 1940. In his book “Many Mansions”, he has tried to show, in a
simplified way, how the different levels interlock in both cosmic and human
terms.

Dowding says: “I want you to think of the Earth as the centre of a series of
hollow spheres, each one bigger than the last. The first corresponds
almost exactly to the earth’s surface in location though not in substance
and the number of spheres in outward order is infinite, so far as our
knowledge goes. Each sphere represents a different state of development
a little in advance of the one before and … progress is outward and
upward and onward …. once the restrictions of the earth have been left
behind … Now don’t think of these spheres in too materialistic a way; they
are real and solid enough … but they are quite invisible to us and cannot
be perceived by any of our senses.” He continues: “This is a hard saying,
because we can see the sun and, beyond it, the stars and we say that
there can be nothing between us and them. But, in that, we are wrong …”
and this can be confirmed in that there are layers at various heights above
the earth which reflect wireless waves … it was through research into
these that radar was discovered.

Danielou notes the 21 Circles “which separate us from the metaphysical

Sun”, the central Eye, “that sees everything”. These Circles, he says, “we
shall have to cross before being reabsorbed into all knowledge.” (It is
probable that Danielou became a Buddhist, which may explain his
terminology.) And the “central Eye” evokes in our minds the God of
Genesis who “saw everything that He had made” – “and saw that it was
very good”. The world that He had created was perfect. It was meant to
function. Danielou equates these 21 circles with the 22 (21) notes of the
Hindu octave which also echoes the 22:7 ratio of the diameter of a circle
to its circumference which, Danielou makes clear, are both aspects of
octave theory.

Fifty years ago, Dowding notes, chemists thought the atom was a solid,
hard substance. But we now know it to be a tiny solar system of particles
of positive and negative electricity “in ceaseless motion – and, when you
ask them what electricity is, they cannot tell you.” This is written in 1945.
“So our matter,” he continues, “for all it looks so solid, is nothing but
..countless billions of electrical particles in ceaseless and violent agitation
in tiny orbits. It looks solid because it obstructs the passage of that
particular band of etheric waves which effect our optic nerves and which
we call light. And it feels solid because the bouncing particles of matter
repel the bouncing particles in our hands and in the soles of our feet. If
our optic nerves had been constructed to react to X-ray wave-lengths and
not to what we call light, we should be able to see through matter suitably
illuminated – but we could not see the sun. And, if our bodies had been
built up of particles having X-ray wave-length, we could pass through
matter because the bouncing particles of matter would not resist those of
our new and different bodies … “ But we are not made of X-ray wave-
lengths – so we cannot visualise the finer elements at faster frequencies.
It is well known, however, that many animals do indeed have totally
different faculties from ours, which enables them to operate in media
suitable for them – but not for us. It may be rather humbling for us, having
built up a picture of ourselves as superior beings, to have to admit that
many species are far better adapted than we are and that they can survive
in circumstances and conditions too harsh for us.

Every species reacts to environmental stimuli in different ways,

appropriate for their lifestyle.
Human eyes react to wavebands that allow us to perceive the impressions
we need for performing our human activities in daylight. The bee sees
ultra-violet light so that it can find its way, even when the sun is not
shining. The owl and the bat can see in what is darkness to us – but what
is as “daylight” to them. They are blinded in our daylight. All creatures
are adapted to pick up the signals from their surroundings that are
important to them for their particular lifestyle. Unnecessary signals are
blotted out.

In a “Horizon” television programme, on 6th January 1978, called “Living

Machines”, it was stated that “for fruit-flies flying through the air, it will be
like swimming in a viscous liquid.

That is what atoms in the air must look like to them. We (humans) are not
aware of the atoms’ existence … To single-celled creatures like
Paramecium, it must be like a treacle through which they swim.” (I do not
know how scientists can make such a deduction – not being Paramecium
themselves! The assumption must be that their faculties are similar to
ours. But fruit-flies do not look as if they are swimming and, surely, if they
were, they would appear to do so.) However, the inference has some
substance, for it is trying to show (which it does not) that there are
different ranges of biological organisation and different reactions to stimuli
within the vast hierarchies of energies, and according to allotted roles.
The elephant looks to be more deeply embedded in matter than, say, the
hummingbird or the dragonfly. The latter are barely with us – a flash, a
whirr, airborne, and not much else – they can perform in a much rarer
medium where we cannot emulate them. Human and elephant feet must
keep contact with the ground. The almost weightlessness of a tiny bird,
held in the hand, may imply some quite other elements inter-mingled in its
makeup from those we know in chemistry – even though some of those
are also present. The elephant’s atoms may be of a much denser
composition by comparison. The difference, if it is there, is not apparent to
the chemist. There are infinite ranges of frequency over many octaves, all
resonating to a certain degree with those near to above and below them.
Nothing exists in only one octave. All impinge upon one another. The
“circles” of the philosophers obviously refer to those octave levels which
are common to all religious literature and which are the basis of all
alchemical theories.
It has really only been in recent times, within the past 200 years, that the
knowledge of them has been discounted – and virtually discarded.

One of the best-known exponents of “models of Creation”- explained by

the structure of the Universe- among English alchemists was Robert
Fludd, in the seventeenth century. He described, with the help of a
number of very meticulous drawings and diagrams, his detailed visions in
dreams of the structure of the universe. Among many aspects of cosmic
theory explained, he postulated what he named the “Ptolemaic Universe I,
II and III”, in which he described 22 various circles in groups of 3.

Fludd’s work is summarised by Jocelyn Godwin in a Thames & Hudson

publication simply called “Robert Fludd”. Although only an outline of a
life’s work, the book contains a wealth of data, reflecting the way Fludd
saw the cosmos.

The 22 circles of the first universe start at the centre, with the Earth as
number 22, surrounded by, in order: Water – 21; air – 20; fire – 19. Next
comes Luna – 18, the moon; then all the planets to Saturn – 17 to 12; next
the Caelum stellatum – presumably, the constellations or heavenly bodies,
the stars – 11; then Angeli – 10; Archangeli – 9; Virtutes (Virtues) – 8;
Principalities – 7; Potestates (Powers) – 6; Thrones – 5; Denominations –
4; Cherubim – 3; Seraphim – 2; and finally Mens -1, which Fludd calls the
Cosmic or World Mind. This is Ptolemaic Universe I. From “the infinite
Light of God, a Spirit descends to the uttermost depths of matter”. The
Infinite or Absolute creates, by limiting its own infinity” … by a process
with many names – Simplex, Starting Point, Source of Essence, Being of
Beings, Nature producing Nature, etc. The Cosmic mind is “open, on the
one hand to the Absolute” and, on the other, entering the constricting
vortex that is Creation. (Matter.) Studying Fludd’s diagram, we see that
each element in the 22 circles is placed spirally from the centre, making
two complete revolutions, as in Kayser’s Tone Spiral. (I call them
elements, for want of a better term.) Kayser’s Tone Spiral complements
this view (see Fig.2 Ch.2). Whether circle, spiral or whatever, however,
both are expressions of one principle, the octave of sevenfold
development. We tend to view our “energetic” world in too few
dimensions, partly because we depict our ideas about it on a flat surface –
on paper, by which means we try to visualise what are, in fact, activities in
volume and in space/time. Kayser’s diagram of harmonics, radiating out
from a centre, looks like a half-open fan. In reality, they spread out in all
directions like a dandelion puff, with spiral tendencies which are also four-
dimensional.

It is an endless sequence of spirals whirling around in enormously

different degrees of magnitude, from the almost invisibly minute, to the
swirling galaxies, and spirals within greater spirals like the waves on the
swell and the swell on the ocean. At the same time, all “levels” of octaves
interpenetrate each other everywhere.

Ptolemaic Universe II was a vision of “instant creation” but there are still
three divisions and the terrestrial globe appears, as if at the dawn of
existence.

Adam and Eve are visible in the Garden of Eden, and are already
conversing with the Serpent. (UCH, 1.a, p.9.) The Serpent, presumably,
was not a good influence.

Fludd’s Ptolemaic Universe I and II compare with Stirling’s figure of the

Cosmos (“The Canon”, p.28). Stirling’s figure is also divided into three
main divisions – i.e. the three circles of the Empyreum, then the sphere of
the fixed stars and the seven planets and, thirdly, the sublunary or
elemental world (whose detailed content he does not specify). But the
Ptolemaic Universe I is also divided into three – from 2 to 10, the nine
orders of angelic beings; 11 to 18, the fixed stars and planets; and 19 to
22 the sublimary or material sphere of matter, fire, air, water, earth. The
second Ptolemaic universe has the same grouping into three as the
others.

Ptolemaic Universe III is “the mirror of the whole of Nature and Image of
Art”. Besides repeating the “levels” of the others, it shows the levels of
animal, vegetable and mineral life in various categories. Fludd suggests
that Nature has a “helper” who, imitating her, produces things similar to
hers. We call it Art. Fludd categorises the Arts as: – 1: “The Liberal Arts”
– those practised by Man and known to us as Culture; 2: “Art supplanting
Nature” – the use we make of natural processes, such as keeping bees
for honey (apiculture), silkworms, medicine (the use of herbs etc), egg
production or milking cows. (My additions.) 3: “Art assisting Nature” – the
cultivation of vegetables, fruit, tree-grafting and other methods of growing
food in ways that Nature does not do herself.

4: “Art correcting Nature” – the use of distillation, to change a product into

something we prefer, and with keeping ability (jam or wine making etc);
and processes undertaken by “alembic and retort” which must mean
alchemy.

Fludd goes on at great length into the structure of the universe and natural
things in a manner far too long to summarise. He sees things as spiral,
cyclic and musical and gives many examples of the ratios involved. He is
in no doubt as to the importance of music in the scheme, and of the
octave nature of the levels. The whole idea of octaves of very high
frequency numbers, emanating from the Absolute down to the slower
frequencies of the Sentient World, can only be satisfactorily grasped by
our twentieth-century minds when we remember the cycle of fifths through
which it can be rationally explained.

The Pythagorean Tetrad (Godwin, p.31) is “another model of Creation” in

Pythagorean number philosophy handed down in Plato’s Timaeus. “The
Monad generates the Dyad; and the Triad and the Tetrad follow, the
arithmetical progression continuing indefinitely” as in the spiral of fifths
and at the same time as harmonics, radiating outwards. In Fludd’s
pictures (Godwin, p.24. nos. 5-10) the complete darkness precedes the
Monad, the first created Light, the Dyad is the Polarity of Light and
darkness with which the “Humid Spirit” makes a third.
The polarisation of the four elements concludes the Foundation of the
World, bringing the number of “principles” to 10. Fludd borrowed this
mathematical philosophy from Francesco Giorgio, whose “De Harmonia
Mundi” (1525) also supplied him with his ideas of the musical proportions
as a universal schema.

Fludd’s diagram of the Pyramid of form and matter leads directly through
proportion to the Music of the Spheres, followed by the Divine Monochord.
He gives all the string-lengths, which agree with Stirling’s architectural
measures. The final figures are the Monochord with its cosmic octave
notation and the Nox Microcosmica – the “Diapason Closing Full in Man”.

(Godwin, p.45 – 47.) The early Christian writer Origen also, according to
Stirling, in his book of “Refutation Against Celsus” (Book IV, Chapt. 23),
describes “the cosmic ladder of the Mithraic mysteries” – but there is not
sufficient data to pursue these references. Mithraism was an early
Christian/Roman “heresy” that was eventually ousted. One of its
“temples” still survives in the catacombs below the Church of St Clemente
in Rome. This church is now famous for the greatest of the wall paintings
of Massaccio and many beautiful mosaics. But, if we descend to a level
below the crypt, where water courses flow that connect with the sewers of
Rome, we find a chamber with the Mithraic altar still in place. We have
not, for a very long time, known much about them. They are being
researched again today.

Mithraism also, Stirling suggests, held the belief that “there was a
harmonic arrangement of the Stars”. And opinion is now changing about
them.

Fig. 2a Chapter 8- The Man’s Constitution and the World’s Constitution.

(Part 1)

Fig. 2b Chapter 8- The Man’s Constitution and the World’s Constitution.

(Part 2)
On Man’s Constitution, Godwin (“Robert Fludd”, p.37) affirms that
“everything begins in the darkness of potentiality and emerges into Light”
– which sounds like gestation and birth.

“Returning again” at death “to the darkness” (or what is dark to us, from
this side, but may not be dark when we get there, with new and different
eyes). The starting point on (such) circles of development is at the bottom
of Fludd’s diagram, “and their progress is clockwise …

Motion begins, from the nothingness of potentiality, to the act of

generation and the origin of life”. The circles of this diagram show the
archetypes as expressed by the Hebrew letters.

Yod is Absolute Father, shrouded in darkness (to us) which manifests

through the Sun and Spirit. For each step in the Caballa – Aleph, Yod,
Mem, Shin, Vau – is assigned a certain element of substance in Creation,
right down to matter. The impression is given of a tapestry of interweaving
principles (or powers?) like the stitches of a pattern, which eventually
reduce to the manifested world.

To round off Fludd’s cosmic constructions, we find the Trinity and

Generation of the four elements in a section on sacred numbers. Fludd
states that “Unity is the Starting Point” – the Absolute, presumably.
“Duality is the first born, the mean between Unity and Trinity. From the
Dyad (Dual) proceeds the Third (from the Octave, the fifth), the Holy Spirit
which is one in essence with the Father and the Son, and, in turn, binds
them together. (We could also call it (them) positive, negative and
neutral.) Everywhere we find Triads expressed in terms of principles. But
they are also God, the Father, Son and Spirit of the Christians – for Fludd
was a Christian.
In Chapter 2, on the Caballa, Godwin gives an interesting interpretation of
the meaning of the Hebrew Tetragrammaton which, initially, recalls the
Tetragrammaton of the Microcosm.(The Greek one is different).

“Hermes says that the world is an image of God, and Moses (also says)
that Man, too, is made after God’s example.” (Note – example, which is
not quite the same as image. Likeness, which is often used and
interpreted as image, could also mean resembling but not exactly the
same.) The message could really be interpreted thus: “Do not strive to be
an imitation of Me, which you could never be, but try to do as I do.” To be
like me, and that is, one would think, obey God’s commands or some such
meaning – to follow His directives and to love your neighbour. All
Caballists refer to lower realms and archetypal ones.

And, beyond all, is the letter Yod from which all proceeds and which
conceals within itself the whole Name. It is too long and complex to quote.
The Psalmist says that God places His Tabernacle in the Sun, and this we
may interpret as follows: God forms, around the Sun, the ethereal world
(Vau), dividing the Empyreum from the lower (He). “He divided the Waters
from the Waters with the firmament between them … and the firmament
He called Heaven.” The puzzlement caused today by this description in
Genesis, as to its position in relation to the Waters, can be partly relieved
by Glazewski and Danielou. Glazewski notes how Michael Watson found
the space between atoms to be filled with “the fourth state of Water” and
that it is like the ether, which is everywhere. The firmament is a different
state of water – not as H2O. It will be discussed again, later on in this
Chapter.

In octave levels, one “state” is divided from another by vibratory laws, as

in the spiral of fifths.

Lord Dowding notes, in “Many Mansions”, the series of cosmic spheres,

“like the skins of an onion,” surrounding the earth – but, in fact, they
interpenetrate with it. The electron microscope has opened up for us a
part – albeit, as yet, a small part – of this vibratory ocean of experience in
which we dwell. It offers us a close-space, clearer view of what goes on
and, without spectroscopy revealing the pre-physical world of pattern and
order behind the phenomena, we could all too easily remain stuck in
materialism and unbelief – and to continue to call all extrasensory
experience “superstition”. Today, we can witness the spiralling tracks in
bubble-chambers and the pre-physical activity and the ordered patterns of
spectra. Through spectroscopy, our whole conception of the material
world as a conglomeration of chemical reactions only – somehow
managing to shake themselves into ordered forms of chickens and tulips,
potatoes and seagulls, black faces or yellow, greentailed peacocks or
blue, oaks or hawthorn or seaweed – becomes the absurdity that it is. It
could never repeat an experiment, never organise forms. The scientists
who still advocate it can no longer sustain this argument. The world is
moving on.

Today science is, in fact, being inexorably moved in the direction of the
philosophers. An article in “Scientific American” of July 1980, and called
“Fifty to One Hundred Years Ago”, seeks to define the meaning of “levels”,
even within matter. “It is curious that, while from the unscientific view, the
unpardonable fault of modern science is its materialistic tendency, the
actual drift of scientific thought is (in fact) towards eliminating from (its)
ideas on matter everything that answers to the popular notion of it …”
Scientists are now seeking beyond materialism to the realms of the non-
physical and are now ready to admit their existence.

Professor Crookes claims to have demonstrated an ultra-gaseous state of

matter, as unlike the other three recognised states of matter as they are
unlike one another. The fourth state obtains when the gas has been so
rarefied that the collisions of molecules are few compared with the misses.
“If we follow in our imagination the free molecules of flight they lose all
known properties of matter and become as if they did not exist. For what
is one single gas molecule in space? Is it a solid, a liquid or a gas? Solid it
cannot be because the idea of solidity involves certain properties absent in
the isolated molecule. And if the individual is not solid, a fortiori, it cannot
be a liquid or a gas … What we call matter is nothing more than the effect
on our senses of the movements of the molecules. From this point of
view, matter is but a mode of motion.” The motion is vibration and its
effects on any other vibration vary according to frequency, the different
octave levels and resonance phenomena. All the lower levels of
manifestation exist, according to Glazewski, surrounded by what he calls
“L” and “T” fields, which letters he designates to what he calls “primary
fields”. L fields for Life and T fields for Thought. He has discussed the
problem of the transmission of thoughts and also feels that it would be
impossible for atoms to adhere together to form molecules – in, say, a
finger – unless there were some “organising field” behind or before the
atoms that could hold them to their form.

“This organising field” he says, “is being studied intensively in many

universities, though little has been said about it yet.” This was written in
the 1940s.

Thought produces radiation, he says, as matter also does. “This radiation

is the function of biological metabolism and carries with it, as any radiation
does, the whole information about any biological changes. These
changes are, in turn, the result of emotions and (in humans) thoughts.”
The conclusion is that signals are emitted that describe these changes
and can affect the thoughts in their turn, a chicken-and-egg situation. The
problem lies in our ability or otherwise to interpret specific warning signals
– which there always are, but time and again we do not hear them.

The L field was investigated by Professor Burr at Yale University and his
published work on it, “Blueprint for Immortality”, is now well known.
Behind the L and T fields, says Glazewski, must lie, even further back, an
“organising field” which may be the “soul” of the Christians. Whether
behind or before, it must be on a higher octave and therefore it controls
the L and T fields, as the higher always controls the lower. It is also
perhaps comparable to the archetypes of Jung. T C Lethbridge in his
researches with the pendulum also speaks of L and T fields. I do not
know if he had ever met or had heard of Father Andrew.

If we think of all those different layers or octaves that impinge one upon
the other through resonance, a great many tenets of ancient faiths can be
better understood. Thus, there are said to be “five states of water”
(Glazewski), researched by the English scientist Michael Watson and
described by D Milner and E Smart in “The Loom of Creation” (1975).
“Water is ice as solid, gas as vapour and water as liquid” and then there
are two other states of water at least, if not more, which are invisible to
ourselves.

Watson discovered that what he called “the vast atomic void” – the
spaces between the atoms – as being filled with the fourth state of water
which follows on the state of vapour (steam). It is believed to be the Hindu
Prana and the Jewish traditional Avir. The ancient Chinese also had
similar ideas about water. Watson found the fifth state of water to be pure
radiation – a sort of “shining-ness”.

The fourth state responds to thought. The fifth “manipulates” the fourth
and “all sorts of implications follow”. Incomprehensible references to
water in the New Testament fall into place – for example, why water is
used in baptism or the “water of life”, Christ spoke of to the Samaritan
woman … “Astronomical space” is filled with the fourth state and, when
its balance, is upset by thought it becomes agitated and converted into
vapour; then into water as we know it, “and the Biblical Deluge can thus
be understood” (Glazewski).

In twentieth-century chemistry, elements are now held to be transmutable

into other elements, as has been argued by Louis Kervran. So water may
be transmuted into different degrees of substance, and we can observe
this quite well from daily experience. Glazewski guessed that what
Aristotle called “Materia Prima” is really just this fourth state; and this
could account for the firmament of Genesis. The division of the waters is
simply two different levels of frequency.

Our bodies are also 80% to 90% water – without sufficient of which to
sustain us, we quickly die. “It is strange,” Glazewski notes, “that it is just
at the beginning of the Aquarian Age that these states of water should
have been identified scientifically”. This seems to confirm theology, thus
Aquarius is the sign of Air and vibration.
According to Glazewski, our thoughts can influence the L field and we can
prove this, because we can, by thought, move, say, a finger. Thought can
imprint the fourth state upon our bodies and produce effects, tensions,
patterns of behaviour and transmit information this way; and resonance
must be the key, the mechanism that carries it out. This accounts for the
power of the mind over matter to a certain extent. And, further, inevitably,
it can effect other bodies and other minds by the same resonance factor.
It is the medium of mental energy and, even, of psychic exchange.

He suggests that the fifth state corresponds to the concept of sanctifying

Grace of the Christian theologians. This is “brought into being by the
“potentia obedientalis” – obedience to God’s power from the human
essence. We know from the mystics that this power is encountered as
brilliant white light. It is pure radiation, glimpsed by Watson as a
“shiningness”.

“We might suppose”, he concludes, “that there will be a sixth and seventh
state of water – but we have no evidence of it yet”.

The states are all octaves in the same way as the L and T fields must be.
We must feel (L field) before we act and think (T field) before we feel, in
order to know what we feel. We do not know exactly how many octaves or
fields there are yet. But, the higher controls the lower one.

Try to act without thought – instantaneous though it may seem – and see
what happens. You will probably fall flat on your nose! Plenty of other
modern writers seem to be convinced of this octave structure of things.
Arthur Young, who developed Bell’s helicopters in the United States,
worked out a schema of seven levels of seven groupings which he
described in a book called “The Reflexive Universe”.

Young recounts how, when trying to adapt an aircraft assembly-line for

helicopter production, the engineers found they could not partially alter or
adapt the arrangement of the assembly line which kept on returning to
aircraft parts and “seemed to have a life of its own”. This led him to
research what he called “process” and tabulate the “resistance” shown
by a particular set-up to any adaptation. Once programmed, it had to go
on that way.

Apart from what such a discovery might do to Darwin’s theory of mutation

of species into other species, Young was finally led to a deep study of
molecular organisation and, eventually, to create a system of evaluation of
different stages of organic development.

Process tends to be what it is. It does not, of itself, become another

process.

By means of geometrical analysis of tetrahedrons and the relation of

points, lines and planes, (see Gimbel) of these figures, the pentaverton
(his name for a pentagon) and the heptaverton, or seven-pointed star, he
suggested seven levels of manifestation. From simple molecules to more
complex orders, from metals to salts and hydro-carbons, protein
compounds, polymers and polypeptide chains, the double helix of DNA –
seven stages(see Fig.24b, Ch.7); from these, on to living creatures,
single-celled organisms, amoeba etc, to algae, plants, trees, insects,
birds, fishes and small and large animals, another seven stages. He
envisaged, also, first stages in the prephysical worlds, sub-atomic
particles up to whole atoms. Finally, a seventh stage of seven stages of
consciousness, including lesser animal and, then, human consciousness
and that of unknown beings (which he equated with archangels and even
higher beings). Process, he stated, begins in the cosmos, descends into
matter, increasing in physical complexity to its lowest point. And then it
ascends again, liberating itself from its physical limitations to return
whence it came.

The climax of this stage is reached, as far as our knowledge goes, in Man.
After being human, we leave the earth and continue on into the next
stage. While quoting Eddington, he makes us think of Plato and that we
are all on the verge of a discovery. But many of his ideas are not central
to my theme. The sub-shells, however, into which he divides the periodic
table, are a new way of analysing its structure and worthy of
consideration, especially in a Fibonacci context.

A better-known exponent of a teaching based on octaves of experience,

writing in the middle of the twentieth century, was P D Ouspensky who
emigrated from Russia after the 1917 Revolution and wandered widely
between Paris, New York and London. Having parted from the even
better-known philosopher Gurdieff, he set up schools of his own. His
three books – “Tertium Organum”, “A New Model of the Universe” and “In
Search of the Miraculous” – are filled with “fragments of an unknown
Teaching”, the key to which he felt he had never found. Ouspensky lost
most of his valuable library when he was forced out of Russia. So, few
references are given. This makes the fragments he does present to us
even more difficult to assess. However, the central theme of his work
seems to be the Octave nature of the universe.

A description of the Law of Octaves, made up of the Law of Three and the
Law of Seven, which produce a spiral, 7-note path in the course of a
vibration or wave. Each segment has a note and, at each end of Herbert
Whone’s “places of tightening”, between Mi and Fa and between La and
Si, the vibration changes direction, so that, at the end of its journey it has
come back whence it began. This is very difficult to follow and we have no
way of being sure if this is what is actually meant or only what he could
remember from his lost sources. In the same way, Ouspensky’s
nomenclature and his numbers are his own, except for his tables of
octaves which display equivalent 256 as the fundamental with 384 as the
fifth in every level from 1 to 12288, as will be explained therewith. Equally,
when he talks about atoms he calls them all hydrogens in different
octaves, with carbons, oxygens and nitrogens appearing in triads which
overlap and interlink with each other in a way he cannot really expain..
His octaves start at the highest point, of 1, and reduce in sequences of
fifths to 8092 and 12288, 12 octaves down. To Ouspensky, 1 is the
Absolute. From out of which or whom all else comes. 1 is at the top, the
starting point. It becomes the note Do. Within it (like any other overtone
series), the octave called the Ray of Creation exists, each level an interval
with its own note and its own overtones in turn, making more notes etc.
There are 12 triads arranged in such a way that they seem to be
interlocked. They are all in the ratio of octave and fifth to each other.

Thus a fourth triad will look like the following:

Fourth

Carbon

Oxygen
16

24

16

Nitrogen

24

16

24

While the fifth will be

C

16

16

16

O2

32

48
24

48

32

48

A sixth triad would give

32
32

32

O2

64

96

64

96
64

96

… and so on to 12288.

The difference each time is 1.5. All overlap in the same way, the series
beginning from 6.

Each row is given a name and a note also in each triad.

They are Mi, Re and Do.

The only thing that can be found to say about this series is that the
numbers comprise octave and fifths ratios in every case and they are all
our Hindu cosmic and musical numbers.

There is another, even more complex table which, when studied closely,
appears to suggest that all are octave levels with different frequency which
represent different aspects of manifestation relating to the range of
experience of man in physical life.

There are numbers that represent food in the physical range and then less
material sorts of food, or nourishment – such as sense impressions, air,
emotions – and then, higher up the range, there are angels and
archangels, the constellations, seraphim etc. Here we are on familiar
ground and it will be easy to assume that Ouspensky is really describing
some system familiar to us already from the Asian or Christian sources
already quoted. One could speculate long. But it does seem that he is
the first to spell out the octave numbers and nature of the levels of
experience of our cosmos.

Ouspensky could be speaking of Harmonics, however, when he writes:

“The fundamental octaves are connected with subordinates or surrounding
octaves in a definite way. Out of subordinate octaves of the first order,
come those of the surrounding order, and so on … (it) can be compared
with the construction of a tree. From the straight basic trunk, there come
out branches into more branches, becoming smaller and smaller and
(which) are finally covered in leaves. The same process goes on in the
construction of leaves, in the formation of veins, the serrations, etc.” We
would call it subdivision into smaller and smaller intervals, ending up,
perhaps, with the sixty divisions of the Chinese. He adds that: “Like
everything in nature, the human body, which represents a certain whole,
bears both within and without the same correlations”. According to the
number of notes in an octave and its “intervals”, the human body has nine
basic measurements, expressed by the numbers of a definite measure.

In individuals, of course, proportions differ considerably but (still) within

certain definite limits (p.135, “In Search of the Miraculous”). These nine
basic measurements, giving a full octave of the first order, by combining in
a certain way, pass into …. subordinate octaves, etc.” (The figure is quite
simple to draw and shows a harmonic development of each note which is
unmistakable.) And, if we ask “why 9 and not 7?”, we need to remember
that the Chinese count 9 notes – as are also found in certain other
circumstances elsewhere. Note that the Enneagram has nine points.

“In this way,” he continues, “ it is possible to obtain the measurements of

any member of any part of the body as they are all in a definite
relationship to each other.” This reads extraordinarily like the octave
arrangements described by Danielou when discussing Hindu divisions of
the octave (53) where intervals are divided into first, second and third
“orders” in which the intervals become smaller every time a new order
appears. It can only really be understood if it is thought of in terms of
harmonics, the “reverberations and echoes of the sound” activated at the
beginning. They are harmonic progressions and the human body is
constructed in the same way. Harmonic progressions rule in every sphere
of activity, as is confirmed by Kayser’s analysis of the harmonic principle
discovered, through earthquake research, in the geological strata of the
earth.

Kayser writes: “One of the most characteristic phenomena in geology is

the layer-like structure of the inside of the earth. The body of the earth
does not consist of a thin skin and the rest a fluid mass, as was formerly
supposed, but is organised according to its substances, into distinct levels,
quite sharply divided from one another … different zones were discovered
in the earth’s inner strata, where waves were effected in different ways. If
one compares the radii of these zones with the string-length
measurements of the overtone series of the primary major chord which is
also a physical phenomenon, then we obtain a triadic structure of the
earth’s inside, in which the measurements of different layers show a
remarkable agreement with the chord numbers. In this way, the firm crust
of the earth falls into the seventh octave (the work of Creation) and
becomes understandable morphologically as the “condensation” of the
rhythms proceeding from that point – the Earth, one mighty chord!”
(“Akroasis”, p.56.) We are finding similar structures exhibited everywhere.

Fig. 3 Chapter 8- Table All Worlds of Creation

And, from there, a return to the Absolute – another Do. This is a cyclic
action. (Ouspensky, pp.167-169.) The two “shocks” or intervals between
Si – La and Fa – Mi (Whone’s “places of tightening”) are the points where
the spiral changes direction and while the upper one is not specified as to
its content, the lower one (Fa – Mi) is called “Organic Life on Earth”.
Without Organic Life, Ouspensky asserts, there could be “no food for the
Moon” – a meaningless concept to us.
Presumably, vegetation processes energy and releases substances (like
oxygen) through transmutation into finer elements that chemistry does not
yet know of, that in some sense, the moon does use. We have to remind
ourselves of all the frequencies we as yet know not of, that can be
operating in ways undetectable.

Is it possible that there could be life-forms on the moon or on the other

planets, that we cannot observe and do not know exist? Man’s existence,
says Ouspensky, vibrates in the harmonics and Octave of Mi; the Moon
vibrates Re so its activity is cut off from ours. An interesting link could be
forged between the Re of the Moon and the Gregorian chant used at
Chartres Cathedral which starts on Re, according to Charpentier. The
Cathedral is dedicated to the Virgin; the female is the passive, moon
principle. One tower of the Cathedral is said to be representative of the
Moon, the other of the Sun; and Sun and Moon are active and passive or
receptive, principles. The function of the Moon is perhaps hidden from us,
as is concealed the feminine wisdom and intuition. It is an intriguing idea
that there could be life on the Moon that we are simply unable to perceive.
However, Ouspensky holds that the Moon has no life, in that sense, so the
probability must be remote.

At the second “shock” in the octave, we are not told what happens.
Perhaps this is where we encounter certain kinds of discarnate beings and
our own psychic experiences? It is perhaps useless to speculate at this
stage. The next researcher into levels must be T C Lethbridge who
carried out many archaeological explorations under the aegis of
Cambridge University and made 2 or 3 Arctic trips by ship, doing various
research projects. His work is well documented. But his most intriguing
activities were probably those he undertook after retirement when he
returned to live in Devonshire (where his family came from). By one event
or another, he became interested in the operation of that small – but, at
that time, the 1950s, still much-maligned – instrument, the pendulum.
What Lethbridge discovered was quite staggering.

The pendulum, for those who do not know, has been used for centuries by
country people for finding underground water-systems. Today it is used by
prospectors for locating mineral deposits and, even, oil wells. Every
dowser will evolve his own methods of using the pendulum or divining
rods of one sort or another. What Lethbridge did was rather different.

He began by using it to find lost objects – say, something hidden in a

cupboard or in an outhouse whose location had been forgotten. Further
experiment showed that it could detect many things, both tangible or
intangible, answer questions that required a straight Yes or No, and react
to concepts visualised in the dowser’s mind. It is obviously this last
particularity that the sceptics and its detractors did not want to
acknowledge.

Lethbridge’s experiments are described in several books and they led him
to discover what he called his “compass rose of rates” which he later
found to be a “spiral of rates” in that sense (see Fig.6 Ch3).

When he thought about or visualised something, if it was material, he held

a similar sample in his one hand and the pendulum, suspended on the
appropriate length of thread in the other and swung it gently. At a certain
length of the thread, it would either oscillate or go into a gyration. This
process became more certain if he used his pointing-finger and
outstretched arm in the direction in which he was looking for the object
sought. In such a way, if he visualised “iron” and swept his pointing-finger
across a front, at the point where it crossed a path to the place where an
“iron” object was, say, buried in the ground, the pendulum would gyrate.
Sometimes he would use two or three positions round a circle as
“markers” for easier verification. If he dug at the spot, he would find, say,
a nail or a forgotten mole-trap. Similar results could be obtained indoors
over a map. This is something that is done by many dowsers and cannot
be disputed.

The length of the thread at which the pendulum reacted became the “rate”
for the object sought – say, 29 inches for gold, 20 inches for white, 32 for
iron, 14 for oak, etc. Any concept in no wise “physical” – emotions,
mental abstractions, qualities, anything for which language has a
description – could produce a rate on the pendulum compass rose. There
are rates for anger, joy, old age, youth, heat, cold, east, west, green, blue,
sleep, spring, evolution, etc. There is no limit to what can be detected with
the pendulum. Every living thing, animal, vegetable and mineral has a
pendulum rate. Nothing has been left out.

Lethbridge, being a cautious and careful researcher, never jumped to

conclusions. He had several co-researchers who, he reported, got the
same results as he did. Nevertheless, for reasons as yet not understood,
for a few people, the pendulum behaved differently. This is another
stumbling-block for scientists who like to have everything repeatable, in all
circumstances, and seem to feel uneasy in front of any aberration. To
other researchers, however, such discrepancies are a stimulus to further
endeavour and Lethbridge was of this view. But he never made claims
and only reported what he found. If he was not satisfied with what he had
discovered, he did not try to explain it.

Besides gyrations, the pendulum would oscillate. This oscillation indicated

an opposite answer to the gyration but, sometimes, it was not clear what
was intended. He speculated a long time as to what could be going on
and wondered if some “ray” could be involved. He came close to the idea
of harmonics in his book “A Step in The Dark” which describes this phase
of his work. He remembered that the Greeks had said the universe was
made up of music or harmonics. I cannot help feeling that, if he had
known of Kayser, who died 10 years before he did, Lethbridge could have
clarified a lot of obscurities that he otherwise was unable to explain.

Harmonics do seem to offer a very strong possibility for accounting the

operations of the pendulum, on the basis of harmony or discord between
vibrations emitted between the seeker and the object sought. The
reactive agent between two vibrations is the pendulum. No complicated
“rays” are needed. On the principle of harmonic resonance, 2 rates the
same will cause the pendulum to gyrate since, being the same, they meet
and inhabit or stop one another. Energy cannot pass. In the same way,
two discordant vibrations will have the same effect, but two rates which
are in harmony, say value of C – G, in harmonic accord, the pendulum will
oscillate happily between them because it is not inhibited, and they
enhance one another. On such a basis, a whole pendulum harmonical
explanation can be built up and the rates seen as notes and the reactions
seen as agreement (harmony) or disagreement between intervals. It is
intriguing that the rate for male is 24 inches and that for female it is 29
inches; gold is 29 inches and diamond 24.

Lethbridge proposed a neat theory about these 2 rates for the pendulum,
apparently, oscillates smoothly between them. Male and female belong
together. Perhaps 24 and 29 are two notes, say C and E, and they form a
chord, each enhancing the other and both happy. And if, to carry the
analogy a little further, it is the right combination, on another level, if they
oscillate together, then it will be the “right” male and female combination
and, if they don’t, it will be best to end the relationship. (Perhaps the
pendulum could be a good guide in choosing a marriage partner!)
Lethbridge had even more to say about the hardness of diamond and
pliable feminine character of gold. His conclusions, too long to quote, are
in complete accord with cosmology.

The compass zone is divided into 4 quarters at 10, 20, 30 and 40 inches.

Correspondences lie at these quarters:

10 inches

20 inches

30 inches
40 inches

Light

Life

Sound

Death

Sun

Heat

Moon

Cold
Fire

Earth

Water

Air

Red

White

Green

Black

East
South

West

North

Graphite

Electricity

Hydrogen

Sleep

Truth

Falsehood
 And these “four quarters” remind us of the four directions of China, the
four elements of the Hindus and the quarternary of Greece and Europe.
Of course, Lethbridge found only comparatively few rates and many more
wait to be discovered. But, already, a format is emerging, a basis of some
much more elaborate scheme of classification, as he himself believed.
And a compelling comparison is found in Danielou’s work, in the Chinese
Trigrams and fixed tables of notes for everything to which it is possible to
give a name. The Chinese tables strikingly resemble the Pendulum
compass-rose. That a retired English archaeologist should have
discovered such a comprehensive scheme – in a Devonshire garden in
the 1960s, with a pendulum – is truly astonishing!

Lethbridge’s findings cannot be brushed aside. (See Figs: 5.a and b., and
6. a and b; and 7.) There are even numbers and very obvious
“correspondences” on the compass rose, where “opposites” are
balanced across the circle like any zodiac layout. Thus we get: –

27 inches = Thought, stink

7 inches = Memory, scent

32” = Health, Iron

12” = Disease, carbon

7.5” = Sulphur
27.5” = Oxygen, etc.

36” = Evolution

16” = Dung

In Nature, without Dung there can be no life, no evolution. This is

astonishing, by any standards, and will appear more so today, in our
chemically-drenched environment. A number of other probable cross-
references are given, but their correspondences have not yet appeared.
They await workers in the field. But we find indeed that, in the periodic
table, Oxygen at 8 and Sulphur at 16 are in an octave relationship while,
not opposite Carbon 12 on the compass-rose but at the quarter, we get
Sodium 22, calcium and lead while, at 22.5, we get magnesium.

Correspondences are opposites, which create stops and balances.

Affinities are harmonies which produce chords which enhance the parties
involved. Correspondences cancel each other out. Nature needs to
stabilise herself in all her operations so that nothing dies out and nothing
gets out of control. The regulation mechanisms of the biosphere appear
to be built in.

There is a great deal going on of which we are, as yet, ignorant and

unaware. But here, at least, we do have the “bones” of some plan. We
need to find out a lot more.

There is something intriguing about the idea that male and female rates
might be notes in a chord that resonate in tune together. And all kinds of
similar combinations might be found in Nature. The theory of Companion
Plants, a basic concept of Anthroposophy, where the right plants growing
in company will help each other to grow and inhibit predators, could be
explained on this musical hypothesis. For, if the pendulum rates are
notes, then the compasrose is a spiral and on the same vibratory principle
as the Chinese spiral of fifths. Within this spiral octave, notes will group
themselves in chords which will vibrate happily together; whilst those that
meet discordantly, because of wrong ratios, will not do so. In the case of
the dowser, the mediator is his brain and the tool he uses is a pendulum.

The principle of resonance must help to round out this argument. Every
object emits its own frequency, on both physical and pre-physical levels,
between atoms and molecules which affect each other as physical
sensations and, also, on the higher consciousness octave where “signals”
are passed, relating to concepts of the things signalled. Resonance links
the several octaves and we get the physical results. I believe that
harmonics offers a complete and satisfactory explanation of much that is
called extra-sensory and which we otherwise cannot explain.

Again, we can turn to Danielou to confirm the Hindu view. On p.143 of

“The Introduction”, he says: “… the different aspects of the perceptible
world are parallel manifestations starting from undifferentiated common
principles … There are … natural and irresistible correspondences
between different aspects of manifestation and one can easily, starting
from one particular aspect, reach or evoke corresponding stages in other
aspects. According to this principle, notes and chords must have exact
equivalents in music with other aspects and in every category of
existence.” He continues: “Only the knowledge of such correspondences
can allow us to understand the real meaning of sounds or use them
rationally as a means of evocation.” Notice the use of the word “evoke” –
to call up, to visualise, to relate – or to resonate together? On this basis,
every thought-form and every concept has its physical counterpart or
presence and everything has its balancing correspondence. The
equilibrium of forces must be maintained. Otherwise, if equilibrium is lost
– and, since any momentum always tends to spiral outwards, like a
tornado, unless it is restrained – it will soon become a spinning vortex and
eventually explode. This is what the tornado does, leaving a trail of havoc
in its wake, until it eventually dissipates and dies out. And this is the
reason, built-in in Nature, why we find, in the atom, degrees of left- and
right-hand spin, as we have already said.
The earth is a spinning ball in a spinning galaxy, pursuing a spiral path
across the heavens.

Every so-many thousand years, it comes back – almost, but not quite, to
the same place.

Nothing ever exactly repeats itself, except by a relatively-near miss. Even

in space, it is reported that galaxies spin in one direction or another. It is a
balance of sorts. The only thing we do not know is how it is done.

The pendulum rates must be notes in that particular octave. Thought-

forms are in their own octave and all the different levels are in their own
octaves.

All the physical forms we see are bundles of energy quanta within the
Light Spectrum vibrating – in ways that look like plants, people, bees,
cows, hummingbirds, crocodiles, pampas-grass, rushing water, rocks,
glaciers, seaweed, waves, butterflies, cowslips, oaks, palm-trees,
dolphins, crabs, the leaves that appear in the spring, the flowers that
bloom and the fruits that set seeds.

Similarly, the images in our minds that we carry of things seen are
reciprocal octaves at faster-resonating frequencies and shorter that we
can thus accommodate in our “mind’s eye”.

We see the same form inwardly as we saw outside. The archetype is the
mental form of an idea in the mind of which the physical form created is a
copy, as any artist can testify. Yet both have a real and separate identity.
Fig. 4a, 4b Chapter 8- Pendulum Spiral of Lethbridge

T. C. Lethbridge found that his compass-rose was also a spiral and, if he

laid all his rates, by string-length out in a circle, he got a perfect
Archimedean spiral whose angle of slope could easily be calculated. This
gives added weight to the spiral nature of the octave. The rates are
intervals within that octave and it should be possible to find them by virtue
of their position round the circle. Lethbridge found 2 or possibly 3 more
“whorls” of his spiral of rates, each with 40 inches added to the length of
the string. So, what came at 17 inches on the first whorl was found at 57
on the next and 97 on the third, or 3, 43 and 83, or 16, 56 and 96 etc
everything was repeated in the same place, one whorl further on. He then
found that the second whorl did not come exactly above the first but to one
side of it, in a complicated relationship plotted in. This is reminiscent of
certain contentions made by people who have had “out of the body”
experiences. Often in cases of severe illness, they have found
themselves hovering above their bodies which are lying on the bed, while
they, themselves, seem to be above – but to one side. On the principle of
our harmonic spiral interval organisation between octaves, in the cycle of
fifths, where one level is “cut off” from the one below; and, of the
refraction of reflection of an object inserted into water which appears to be
bent beyond the point of insertion, there should be no problem in
interpreting these pendulum findings.

Lethbridge found some strange anomalies on the three whorls, concerning

time, and he puzzled as to what they could mean. On the first spiral, we
get no rate for Time at all. But, on the second one, it comes in at 60, i.e.
40 + 20, the spoke that gives South, Earth, Heat, Life, etc. On the third
whorl, he could not find it either. Lethbridge suggests that, on the first
whorl, it does not exist because, in our physically restricted state, we are
not aware of it (although we think we are!) We cannot “catch it” because it
seems always to be running away from us – and, therefore, it offers no
resistance to the pendulum. It is perhaps because, in the physical range,
we are involved in an ongoing development. On the second whorl, we can
contact it because it is not moving away from us so it offers resistance like
anything else.
We do not know what Time concepts will be on the next level. On the third
whorl, he again could not find it, but he did not speculate on what that
could mean. He just reported what he found and never claimed infallibility.

Lethbridge made many odd discoveries which still await scientific

explanation. But it must now be impossible to dismiss the pendulum rates
and their correspondence with so many old established beliefs. There
must be a common denominator.

The Chinese system suggests strongly that all correspondences and

visualisations in the mind are pre-existent, universal concepts with
permanent frequencies or “notes” of their own which are constant.

Lethbridge has confirmed completely such logical arrangements of the

rates in many cases.

Families of species have both their family and personal rates and, in
nature, those organisms whose life-styles impinge on others and are
dependent on other species also have the same rates. Thus, truffles have
one rate, and the beech trees beneath which the truffles grow have,
besides a rate for beech, a rate for truffles too. And the truffle-beetle that
lives off the fungus has the same rate as the beech tree. This fact has
implications far and wide (as will be discussed in a later Chapter).

We do not know why the pendulum spiral is a circle of string-lengths to 40

inches. The inch, according to John Michell and Professor Thom, can be
shown to be a “cosmic” measure, against the cubit or the Egyptian remen.
And the number 40 is found in the Bible in a number of connections.
There were 40 days in the Wilderness and we have 40 days in Lent. But,
whatever the 40 inches signify, the spiral rises as an Archimedean one, at
an angle of 1.5.

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