Ptahhotep's Instruction:
The Seven Octaves of Vibration and the Ark of the Covenant

 (...) "Every creature on earth possesses these powers, but only in a form corresponding to his degree of development. He utilizes these powers too, but is not conscious of them. Or have you ever seen a person who gave thought to how it is possible to raise his feet or his arms? Or that he could - even though for only a short time - remove his whole body from the earth ... by jumping? Lift your arm and observe how you do it. Isn't it true that you contract your muscles and they lift your arm? Every moment of your body is brought about with a contraction of your muscles. But what contracts your muscles? Think a minute, my daughter, what?"
"My will, Father."
"Right. Your will. But if I ask you what your will is, can you give me an answer?"


"Father, I have often observed what happens when I want something. But I have only been able to notice that when I want something, I can send out a force and give this force direction. For example, as you just said, if I want to raise my arm from its relaxed hanging position - it hangs because the earth is attracting it - then this force which flows out of me through my will flows into my arm and forces my muscles to contract and through this to raise my arm".

"Very true", says Ptahhotep, "By virtue of the fact that your will power has flowed into your arm and muscles, you have conquered the enormous gravitational power of the earth on your arm. This is true when you jump too, but only for a short time, because your will power is only greater than the earth's gravitational pull for a short time. So you see time consumes your will power transformed into physical power. Time does that! And space? You've used your power to raise your arm, or your body in altitude, to remove it from the earth, hence to move it further in space. Thus you see that your power is consumed by two great factors: time and space.


If you could amplify your will power and store it within your body, you could conquer the earth's gravitational pull for a longer time and remain at a greater distance from the earth. You could glide through the air! You can't do that now because you haven't yet developed consciousness on this divine plane. The initiated, on the other hand, who are conscious on the divine plane, can draw directly on this infinite eternal source of power, without transforming it, and when they wish, float through the air just as long as they direct their will power against the gravitational pull of the earth.


The initiated person knows all vibrations and possesses consciously developed organs with which to use these powers. You know, for example, the power of thought with which we communicate telepathically. These powers too we control through a corresponding higher organ of our brain. Human beings don't even know they have such organs. The initiated is able to radiate the very highest of all powers, the divine, creative power. This is the power and radiation of life, of eternal being. The entire universe is alive and continues to exist by virtue of this power. To make conscious use of it lies only within the capabilities of the God-man, the only creature that is, in his consciousness, identical with God and radiates this power from his God-consciousness, his cosmic all-consciousness. No other creature could endure this power consciously" (...)

 
     
The Metaphysics in C.P. Cavafy... *