The Great Principle of Rhythm
Piers Clement
"Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all
things rise and fall; the pendulum swing manifests in
everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the
measure of the swing to the left; everything compensates."
My father was an English teacher at a secondary school, which
meant: guru, mentor, confessor and a lot of other things for
people going through a difficult phase of self-discovery. He
always used to tell how each year a new group of pupils would
come along with a song or group which claimed to express
something new and revolutionary; he would solemnly listen,
discuss and record on tape, whilst inwardly cherishing the
thought, the song may be new but the phenomenon not; as the
Preacher says, there is no new thing under the sun. The
shattering experiences (positive and negative) in our lives -
self-discovery, love, enlightenment, the birth of new life,
but also suffering, loss, bereavement and the ultimate
rejection by partner, family or community - we experience
them as something which has never happened before in the
history of the world, and only later do we come to see them
as our own special flavour of a product which has been in
existence since the beginning of time.
The Preacher, who was very much into rhythm, also said "To
every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose
under the heaven" - our spiritual journeys are at once a
forward progress and in another sense a cyclic one, the
pendulum swings, the seasons and tides return; we find
what seems to be a new place is often a spot we've visited
before, but we see it with new eyes, enriched by the
experiences which have passed us since the previous visit.
Does it then seem too far-fetched to extrapolate this to
not only one life but many lives (incarnations), not only
one universe but an infinity of universes either following
each other, or coexistent, or simply outside the bounds of
space and time as we know and can perceive them? The same
pattern, repeating itself over and over again, each time
benefited by the experience of the previous iteration.
PIERS
Clement
Version 1: 5 August 1997
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