Hierarchy Index Cards - C
Carr
Card-C-26-01 and -02 Diagrams
Card-C-26-12 DEH 1. So also is the 8 [Hierarchy] a working model, as necessary, I believe, to our understanding of man as the model of the SS [solar system] is to our understanding of that. We can’t perceive you any more adequately than the unphilosophical can, but we can forge an instrument — the 8 [hierarchy], which will help us to see you more clearly. The 8 is a true Novum Organum. All psychology, philosophy, science, proceeds thus by diagrams explicit or implicit. Witness the mountain peaks & valleys & censors etc of psychoanalysis. Let us be more honest about our 8.
8 = Novum Organum: Centre Shifting. 2. Remarkable how infallibly (because practically necessary) we shift centre from ourselves to Earth, or to this place — town, village, city etc. This is only broken down by too-quick a revolution: then we become dizzy Y the Earth revolves around us. For the individualist this dizziness is a truer condition than ours! The dervish is, like the painter, striving to take up the view of the world as he sees it.
I suppose we will not shift centre to sun from Earth till we have practical reason to do so. Yet we do so in advance, by working-model methods. Thinking & religion are thus achieving, on a sort of provisional, incomplete, but noble & essential basis, what the future will achieve completely. This is Faith. This is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not see. We are like those who “not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, & were persuaded of them, & embraced them, & confessed that they were strangers & pilgrims on the earth.” (Heb. 11, 14.)
We cannot shift centre by sense: we do so by faith, anticipating sense. The worshipper anticipates the time when the Earth will be full off the glory of God: hopelessly inadequate but taking us far beyond sense. We have to send out scouts.
Card-C-26-19 Date: 12.44. Carr.
Index Card C-26
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