from HARPER'S WEEKLY: >judges in Pleasant Grove City, Utah, were weighing a free-speech suit filed by >adherents to the Summum church. Members of the church claim that the city is >discriminating against them by displaying a red granite plaque of the Ten >Commandments in a public park but refusing to display a monument inscribed >with their own faith's Seven Aphorisms, which were communicated via telepathy >from divine beings to a man named Corky Ra. Ron Temu and Su Menu, two Summum >worshippers, argued that the Commandments were compatible with the Aphorisms, >as both were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai. "If you look at them side by >side," said Su Menu of the two monuments while sitting in a metal pyramid and >drinking an alcoholic sacramental nectar beside a mummified Doberman pinscher, >"they really are saying similar things."<
the principles behind the seven aphorisms: I. THE PRINCIPLE OF PSYCHOKINESIS >This first great Principle embodies the idea that "All is Mind." It explains >that SUMMUM (which is the substantial essence underlying all the outward >manifestations and appearances which you know under the terms of "the material >universe," "the phenomena of life," "matter," "energy," "space-time," >"distance," "speed," "relativity," and, in short, all that is apparent to your >material senses) is SPIRIT. This SPIRIT may be considered and thought of as A >UNIVERSAL, INFINITE, LIVING MIND...< II. THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE >This Principle embodies the idea that there is always a correspondence or >correlation between the laws and phenomena of the various levels of being and >life. This aphorism, "As above, so below; as below, so above," gives one the >means of solving many a mysterious paradox and hidden secrets of nature. There >are levels beyond your knowing, but when you apply the Principle of >Correspondence to them you are able to understand much that would otherwise be >unknowable to you. This Principle exists at the various levels of the >material, mental, and spiritual universes and is of universal application...< [is this about fractals?] III. THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION >This Principle embodies the idea that everything is in motion; everything >vibrates; nothing is at rest; facts which science endorses and which each new >scientific discovery tends to verify. Yet this Principle was enunciated >thousands of years ago by masters of old. This Principle explains that the >differences between various manifestations of matter, energy, space-time, >mind, and even spirit result largely from varying rates of vibration. From >CREATION'S copulation (SUMMUM), which is pure spirit, down to the grossest >form of matter, all is in vibration. ...< IV. THE PRINCIPLE OF OPPOSITION >This Principle embodies the idea that everything is dual; everything has two >opposing sides; everything has its pair of opposites, of which all are ancient >aphorisms. It explains the paradoxes that have perplexed so many and have been >stated as follows: "Thesis and antithesis are identical in nature, but >different in degree"; "opposites are the same, differing only in degree"; "the >pairs of opposites may be reconciled"; "in and out of bond NOTHING and >POSSIBILITY meet"; "extremes bond"; "everything is and is not at the same >time"; "every truth is partially false"; "all truths are a paradox"; "there >are at least two sides to every story," etc. It explains that in everything >there are two opposing points or opposite aspects (complementarity), and that >opposites are really only the two extremes of the same event, with many >varying degrees between them...< [calling Dr. Hegel...] V. THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM > This Principle embodies the idea that in everything there exists a measured > motion to and fro; an outflow and inflow; a swing backward and forward; a > pendulum like movement; a tide like ebb and flow; a high tide and a low tide. > All things "come in and out of bond" between the two opposing points which > exist in accordance with the Principle of Opposition described previously. > There is always an action and a reaction; an advance and a retreat; a rising > and a sinking. This is in the affairs of the universe, suns, worlds, > humankind, animals, mind, energy, and matter. This law is established in the > creation and destruction of worlds; in the rise and fall of nations; and > finally in the mental states of humans. ...< VI. THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT > This principle embodies the idea that there is a cause for every effect; and > an effect from every cause. It explains that "everything happens according to > law"; that nothing ever "merely happens"; that there is no such thing as > chance; that while there are various fields of cause and effect, the higher > dominating the lower fields, still nothing ever entirely escapes the Law > (destiny). The masters understand the art and method of rising above the > ordinary field of cause and effect, and by mentally rising to a higher field > they become causers instead of effects. The masses of people are carried > along obedient to environment, the wills and desires of others stronger than > themselves, heredity, suggestion, and other outward causes moving them about > like pawns on the chessboard of life. But the masters, rising to the field > above, dominate their moods, character, qualities, and powers as well as the > environment surrounding them, and become movers instead of pawns. They help > to PLAY THE GAME OF LIFE, instead of being played and moved about by the > environment. They USE the Principles instead of being used. The masters obey > the causation of the higher fields, but they help to RULE on their own > level....< VII. THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER >This Principle embodies the idea that there is GENDER expressed in everything >-- the masculine and feminine principles ever at work. The NATURE of the >copulation of CREATION displays in this principle. This is a fact not only of >the physical level, but of the mental and even the spiritual levels. On the >physical levels the Principle presents itself as SEX; on the higher levels it >takes higher forms, but the Principle is ever the same. No creation, physical, >mental, or spiritual, is possible without this Principle. An understanding of >its laws will throw light on many a subject that has perplexed the minds of >humans. ...< http://www.summum.us/philosophy/principles.shtml [these sound so much like the 10 commandments that the latter could simply be replaced...] -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
