Manly P. Hall on The Dot, Line & Circle
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The Most Primitive and Fundamental of ALL symbols is the DOT.
The DOT, being most proximate to perfection, is the simplest, and therefore the least imperfect of all symbols.
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The Most Primitive and Fundamental of ALL symbols is the DOT.
The DOT, being most proximate to perfection, is the simplest, and therefore the least imperfect of all symbols.
The Keys to ALL knowledge are contained in the DOT, the LINE and the CIRCLE. The Dot is the Universal Consciousness, the Line is Universal Intelligence, and the Circle is Universal Force: the Threefold Unknowable Cause of All Knowable Exsistence.
In man the spirit is represented by the dot and conscious activity or intelligence by the line. Conscious activity is the key to intelligence, because consciousness belongs to the sphere of the dot and activity to the sphere of the circle.
The center and the circumference are thus blended in the connecting line: conscious activity or intelligence. The circle is the symbol of body and body is the limit of the radius of the activity of mind power pouring out of the substance of consciousness.
In the primordial symbols of the DOT, the LINE, AND the CIRCLE, are also set forth the mysteries of the three worlds. The dot is symbolic of heaven, the line of earth, and the circle of hell – the three spheres of Christian theology.
The Fall of Man is the descent of the ladder from the dot to the circumference; the resurrection or redemption of man is his return from the circumference to the dot.
All this gives a clue to the statement in the New Testament, "Whoso hath seen the Son, hath seen the Father; for the Son is in the Father & the Father in the Son."
In other words, whoso hath seen the line, hath seen the dot; for the dot is in the line & the line is in the dot.
In other words, whoso hath seen the line, hath seen the dot; for the dot is in the line & the line is in the dot.
The Dot, Line, and Circle are the Supreme & Primary symbols. The DOT is spirit and its symbol in the Chaldaic Hebrew, the Yod, is actually a Seed or spermatozoon, a little comma with a twisting tail representing the germ of the not-self.
In its first manifestation the dot elongates to form the line. The line is a string of dots made up of germ lives – the monadic lives of Leibnitz. From the seed growing in the earth comes the sprig – the line. The line, therefore, is the symbol of the dot in growth or motion.
The Sun is a great dot, a monad of life, and each of its rays a line – its own active principle in manifestation. The key thought is: The line is the motion of the dot.
It is noteworthy that the astronomical symbol of the sun should be the dot in a circle; for as can be deduced from the subject matter of this lecture, the dot, the circle and the hypothetical connecting line give a complete key to the actual nature of the solar orb.
The dot, moving away from self, projects the line; the line becomes the radius of an imaginary circle, and this circle is the circumference of the powers of the central dot.
Hypothetically, every sun has a periphery where its rays end, every human life a periphery where its influence ceases, every human mind a periphery beyond which it cannot function, and every human heart a periphery beyond which it cannot feel.
Somewhere there is a limit to the scope of awareness. The circle is the symbol of this limit. It is the symbol of the vanishing point of central energy. The dot symbolizes the cause; the line, the means; and the circle, the end.
The dot is the 1st illusion of the Self, the 1st limitation of SPACE, even as Spirit is the 1st limitation of Self. The dot is life localized as a center of power; the blank paper is life unlimited. The dot must sometime be erased, because nothing but the BLANK PAPER is Eternal.
This is ALL from Excerpts from a Lecture from Esteemed Esoteric Scholar & 33° Freemason Manly P. Hall.
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