by Ernest L. Norman
Salutations, brother and sister; I am an individual of royal French birth, who lived upon the earth in the 1700’s. My father was a nobleman. I was then known as Joseph Louis Lagrange, something of a mathematician and a scientist. My time of life on the earth was somewhat later than that of Galileo, who preceded me in a transmission. However, my interest here with you is very similar to his; and so that you will better be able to trace a continuity in our discussion of philosophies in our visitations, I shall explain somewhat the personal nature of my life on the earth at that time. As a mathematician, I was useful in the service of humanity in postulating the theories in the problems of space and time and the concepts which later enabled Einstein to formulate his basic theories of relativity. I also expounded theories which related to the mathematical formulas or principles which were more pertinent to the mechanics of the earth at that period. Isaac Newton had formulated very definite theories in astrophysics and the mechanics of the universe at a somewhat earlier date. I also gave changes in mathematical structures, which gave a common denomination of ten, as opposed to the previously accepted numerical equivalent of twelve. There were also some changes and clarifications of the metric system of measurements, which before my time had been both confusing and puzzling.
Now that I have given you a brief digest of my activities as a scientist upon the earth, we shall go directly into the business of the exploration and the digestion of the various facets of knowledge and wisdom as might best be conceived in our explorations of Aureleus. Until now you have somewhat thoroughly explored the Grecian, the Asian or the Hindu, and I believe too the Egyptian portion of the city. Now we shall ascend to one of the higher points, on one of the towers of a great church here in this city, which is a part of the outer section of the center of the city of Aureleus, so that we may best look out over the city. You will thus be enabled to get a better view of the entire landscape as it is composed, as was described by Galileo, of numerous buildings, churches, museums, and individual dwelling houses of the many thousands of philosophers and various scientists who have lived on earth at different periods of time.
In order to avoid a little confusion in your thinking, we shall say that philosophy is in itself not a pure science, nor is it classified as such. Philosophy can and does assume many individual forms or component parts of the aspects of the life of the individual, as was explained in previous discussions. Now that we are in the observation portion of this great belfry of this large church, I might mention, incidentally, that this church is one of those now in existence in France. Looking out over the city, you will see the various buildings; and since it would take a very long time to pursue the course of the streets and to inspect each building individually, we shall stand here quietly near the rail of this observation balcony and look out over the city while we discuss some more of the relative facets of the philosophies and ideologies as they were conceived on the earth plane at the period of the Renaissance and Reformation.
In my life I lived to see the death throes of the great Holy Roman Empire; and by the time I had passed from the earth, the courts of inquisition were already being banished and outlawed in countries like France, England, and other places where they had previously existed. Spain, however still maintained somewhat of a tyrannical disposition of the inquisition in a form something of a government within a government. But generally speaking, the yoke of tyranny was almost overthrown.
By now I hope that you have formed in your minds something of the various and, may I say, contradictory aspects of the various philosophies. We may begin with the Jewish Dutchman, Spinoza, and his classical philosophies, and those who were somewhat directly opposed to the empirical doctrines of John Locke. We could discuss the monadic concepts of Leibnitz and find it also was somewhat different in many aspects to that of Kant, the German philosopher. Fredrick Jacobi also was violently opposed to many of the concepts which were contained in the philosophies of Immanuel Kant.
Several of the other philosophers who came later attempted to combine the various spiritual and mystical elements of philosophy with those of the more materialistic or empirical doctrines. Swedenborg realized much of the spiritual concept. Spencer, in the late 1800’s, however, seemed to combine elements which were so judicially chosen and placed that they presented a more factual and interpretative philosophy of life. Emerson, in his essays and other works also attempted somewhat to pacify many of the opposing factions in the philosophical realm. Many of the other philosophers whom I could name at this time changed horses in the middle of the stream, if I may use one of the more familiar colloquialisms, which is interpretative in this type of switch in the mental processes of thinking.
Now we do not confine the characteristic elements of the personal philosophies into the realm of the pure philosophical interpretations themselves. We find such individual margins of personal identity contained in the pages of the various poetic works. We can also see in the interpretations of such great artists as Van Dyke, Rembrandt, and Rubens, their own individual personal works of identity. Even the brush strokes themselves are earmarks of the master who created the painting. In the field of music, the compositions, the chords, and the various tonal effects are likewise characteristic of the individual and are such an identification that after some familiarity with music, a person can very easily in a blindfold test immediately identify the compositions as they are being played on the electronic instruments of your time, or in the orchestrations as they have been recorded.
The point which I am making most emphatically is that in the personal correlation of your own interpretation of a philosophy of life, we can rightly assume that the personal philosophies of all of these various thousands of individuals who have lived on the earth plane came into being and passed into the pages of history simply because they were factional in themselves and contained only a small and individualized concept of the great and universal cosmos of truth. Such individuals, just as I myself who passed into what you might call the limbo of the vastness of space into the hinterlands or the spiritual dimensions, do so, not with the assumed authority that we have given so much or so little to the posterity of man, nor that our philosophies are in themselves invaluable or not subject to change. We in ourselves realize the insufficiency of such ideologies; and the new dimensions and in the new expressions into which we have evolved, we come to realize the insufficiency of such ideologies and philosophies. I would not have these words be misconstrued to belittle the personal efforts of those who have worked and striven and spent a lifetime in the expression of such formulative concepts of life. But only in the pursuance of evaluation of these concepts, do we as individuals avoid some of the pitfalls and mistakes; thus we can extract the elements of philosophies which are most useful to use. Consequently, we can use these elements as stepping-stones in our personal evolution.
However, do not assume at any time that you shall ever come to the time or place when one philosophy will suffice. It suffices only for one evolution. One of the greatest and the richest elements of my own personal progression into the spiritual dimensions was that I had been somewhat of a mathematician on the earth; and thus I was in a most receptive position to absorb the knowledge and wisdom which was so much about me. I found that there seemed to be some great Universal Mind here in these spiritual dimensions. It was not a personal mind, but instead a relative thing which through the law of harmonic relationship, automatically relegated and regulated each individual into his own proper sphere and dimension.
We could say that such a man as Einstein, who recently passed from your earth life into the pages of history, could not immediately ascend into the dimensions of the city of Parhelion, which is devoted to mathematics and sciences. Rather he would become acclimated to a certain degree in some of the lower orders of astral realms or dimensions, which would best enable him further to make his ascension into Aureleus, or more directly into Parhelion itself.
I never cease to be amazed at the regular procession of cyclic paths of determination and values as they are expressed in these spiritual dimensions; for there are no officials who direct you or who say that you must go to such and such a place, or that it is mandatory that you express yourself in any specific way. A person makes his adjustment automatically and with the greatest of ease in the direction in which he is of the greatest service, and one in which he can best understand the motivating principles of the dimension in which he finds himself.
One of the very interesting facets which I expressed in my earth life was in the study of the various laws of harmonics and its cyclic paths of relationship, such harmonic relationship as is expressed in the twanging or the plucking of strings in the orchestrated instruments. I found that strings had a basic or a fundamental frequency, as I termed this, not only in themselves, but that they also generated and regenerated these frequencies in direct multiples or proportions, which often reached fantastic proportions. I also found that the elimination of any of these harmonics changed the overtone of the string as it was plucked. You may best distinguish this difference to your own advantage by listening to one of the earlier versions of the piano, then called a harpsichord, and then to your modern piano. The difference here is that your modern piano has very thoroughly and effectively damped strings. By damping I do not mean the use of water, but rather the use of small felt pads which are placed near the end of the strings on the string board, which is underneath the framework of the piano itself. These felt pads automatically eliminate the higher wave train frequencies and thus change the overtone of the struck string to such an extent that the piano is an entirely different instrument. I also discovered the interesting phenomenon that two strings, when tuned in portions of octaves, would, when plucked simultaneously, produce a third harmonic structure, which, in the terminology of the physicist of your day, is termed a heterodyne. It is the principle by which the modern radio is tuned and thus is able to assimilate the various frequencies from the air, as they are passed from the transmitters.
Now this, of course, may be somewhat confusing to the untrained mind which has not had some basic knowledge in the field of electronics; however, I am discussing the facts to show you that everything is law, order, and harmony in God’s great celestial Universe. Nowhere except in the terrestrial planes such as the earth do we see such an abundance of inharmony and confusion; yet all that may abundantly and superficially appear to be great confusion is actually the beginning of the more basic and elemental forms of the laws of harmonic structures which will separate and regulate each individual into his own proper dimension. This of course comes with the first step of each individual who becomes an initiate. In a sense he becomes his own judge and his own jury by determining what it is that he shall do to direct his mind and his energies into his intents, so that in future evolutions of his life he will automatically ascend and re-ascend into the different dimensions which are more suitable to a higher expression of those concepts; and so, as a humble mathematician, may I give the strongest and most emphatic emphasis to your personal philosophy: it must include the concepts which explain the laws of the higher orders of cyclic motions. Faraday explained to some extent the formation of the suns and the various planets in the solar systems by the vortexes. Such law and order in the more constructive realms is also more or less displayed in all things about us. The law of vibronics and cyclic motion is in itself the fundamental concept of the great Intelligence which is called God, on the earth.
There was at one time an individual living on the earth named Calvin. It was he who formed one of the basic churches still in existence there. The Calvinistic religious influence includes the concept of predestination and various other concepts which regulate the individual to a philosophy of hell-fire and damnation. Such philosophy can or cannot be assimilated or rejected by the individual. He determines his own philosophy by the ability to think factually and constructively for himself; he must learn that such elements in a personal philosophy are widely diversified. Even in your own day you see that the elements of philosophy as expressed among the various Christian factions in your own country are extremely wide and diversified; and they all seem to say that the road to heaven can be entered only through their own doorway.
Now we here know what the doorway is; the doorways into the Celestial Kingdom, if you would call them such, are not through the portals of any one’s church, but through the portals of one’s own mind. As was previously explained in one of the earlier transmissions from the planet Venus, it all hinges upon the individual’s ability to form what is called a concept. Even the most mechanical and mundane processes of our daily life would become absolutely impossible unless we had learned through the reactionary processes of the objective and subconscious mind to manipulate these mechanical processes in our everyday life. Even the act of walking across the room would be an impossibility unless we had so preconditioned our mind into these concepts which move and motivate the various muscles of the mechanism known as the human body. So, ascending into the spiritual dimensions which separate man from this structure of flesh and bone, we do so on the premise that the mind must be so conditioned that it can accept the spiritual concepts which will place it in the direct line of continuity with such dimensions as are most suitable to our own individuality.
Again, a very emphatic statement that I must make is that there is absolutely nothing, and may I repeat, nothing which you can conceive in your minds at this day, and far beyond the limits which you can conceive even into the future of many thousands of years, which is not still entirely possible and does not exist in the mind of the great universal cosmos, which is the ultimate and destiny of all mankind in the evolution; and in order to enter into these higher spiritual dimensions, each one must follow the logical pattern of thought of a change in concepts. So whatever it is that you have conceived in your earth philosophies, you will begin to understand that such philosophies would be less than useless in such dimensions and in such realms.
After your many hundreds of thousands of years of evolutions, putting it into the equivalent of earth time, you will have conceived concepts in your mind which would defy description, and would cause you to be completely frustrated in your attempts to find any cohesive relationship with your present earth life; and you would even be unable to picture one small fragment of the evolutions in these future dimensions. You have already seen in a former exploration one of the higher of the Lords or Logi, called Serapis, who was known and lived on the earth at one time. In that presentation he appeared as a living lambent flame of energy, in which he functioned entirely without the customary arms and legs or the organism of the body; and even this, my brother, is only the beginning of the evolutions into which Serapis will yet evolve in his progression into the still higher dimensions.
But I must not confuse you; I must confine myself to channels which are more acceptable to the world in which you live. So, let us rest and mentally digest what we have witnessed and what we have discussed.
Your friend, Joseph.
Excerpt from The Voice of Hermes