Zero and the Nine Numbers of Creation

[UltraBudgie]

Circling back to this. I think that one problem in discussing these models is that, since their scope is so wide, they are inherently analogous, and even at that level no analogy is flexible enough to fully encompass the scope of the models. So, I feel left stuck with pure geometry, which beyond making pretty diagrams, is applicably intractable -- it reduces in practice to so many systems of viewing the "Universe": are we talking about the journey of the individual soul? The progress of unifying our relationships with others in the world to our own connection to the Divine? The models via which we conceptualize or are shaped by God? Perhaps our relationship with other intelligences, beyond the sphere of this singular world? When we talk of "moving from sphere to sphere", is that a reformation of the world, or of our mindset and thoughts, our relationships with others, the objects of our attention, our emotional scope, or what? There's so many way to see it. And it seems, the answer is "all of that", and more. Each level of the sphere is one which both affirms the models within, and invalidates any limited conceptions of scope as seen from "within". So the geometric models fail, in being "scientifically useful", as they are unable to helpfully predict; they only guide us and affirm after we have moved beyond them, at which point we view them with new eyes and find them (the good ones, anyway) useful once more. It can be very frustrating! But I suppose that is in some ways an indication that we're on the right track. Thank goodness for the solace of Bhakti, the wanderer's friend.

I feel somewhat lost in a hall of mirrors of mirrors, models of analogies of perceptions, fragments of the Divine attracting and repelling, fulminous and elusive Mercury.

Sorry if I'm going "round in circles". Sigh. It hasn't been an easy month.