The Rolling Plains of Universal Geography

Now, I'm sure that you know how to form a picture in your mind's eye… It's really quite a simple thing to do - just allow the picture to take form and see where it leads you. You can easily visualize a bright clear daytime sky above you; a deep bright blue sky turning before your sight as you start to rise up from the ground and away from the planet. At first you're rising slowly, still feeling the tug of gravity pulling at your feet... Your heart beats slightly faster as you try to adjust yourself to the reality of what is happening, of what you are now able to do. But then as you continue to ascend higher your pulse settles into a steady rhythm and gravity's hold gradually releases you into the endless sky.

And so you are climbing effortlessly higher through the air, moving more rapidly upwards now, rising faster towards the firmament. To your right you can see the sun casting shimmering beams that vacillate across the horizon while you keep rising in perspective… Everything around you is charged with a vibrating force that you can feel through your fingertips as you reach out to the sun. The sky commences to turn a deeper hue before the approach of the atmosphere's edge. Sparing a backwards glance reveals to you the earth as she drifts away into a mass of green and blue and swirling clouds. You turn your sight afresh towards the approaching space above you.

And now you've broken through the atmosphere's edge and have emerged fully into outer space. Somehow during this transition the sun moved from its previous location and has now repositioned itself almost directly before you, seeming to fill the entire galaxy in your vision before adjusting to that of a bright star. The moon rises up over the earth's horizon into full view, shining a soft azure reflection of the sun's glow.

As you move past the moon and further into space the realization that you aren't breathing, that you don't have to breathe at all, first dawns upon your consciousness. All of the energy you need is now within you. And while your lungs are no longer filling with air, your heart continues to pulse a slow and steady rhythm. Your heart and your pulse settle into a firm beat that echoes throughout your awareness. You are moving faster now, coasting past the moon and away towards the sun. Before long the sun slips away as you arc outward, heading towards the further reaches of the galaxy.

The planets flash by in seconds and you move ever faster away from the sun, remembering with a clear and present calmness that all of the energy you need is within you. Rushing faster beyond Mars and Jupiter, slipping through Saturn's rings, racing past Uranus and around Neptune and outwards towards Pluto, you can feel the joyful anticipation of seeing all that lies beyond. Then Pluto slips by you and now you are ascending away past the galaxy and you can see other galaxies joining the one you have just left, falling into place and forming into the Milky Way. You perceive this as an immense curve of luminous stars and undulating mists that roll and turn beneath you with the graceful force of relentless momentum and dynamics.

Soon you've hurtled past the Milky Way and you see other constellations forming and falling away as you continue to streak outwards through the stars. Giant clouds of gas converge and roll by as you move outward and through, outward and through; clusters of galaxies fall away into larger forms until it seems that the entire Universe is unfolding before you, expansive flowing space and stars and energy and colours and light… And just when you think that this is all that there is, that this is all that there could be, something else seems to emerge. Something more.

What you are seeing is starting to manifest past the stars, somehow. You can see something on the other side of the stars. It all emerges so slowly, because at this point the stars are extremely distant, millions of light years between them, so that your perspective changes very slightly as each moment passes, and with every beat of your self sustaining heart, this unknown tableau starts to form on the other side of the stars. Something like the shadow of a line seems to be presenting, a gently rising meridian that ranges completely across the span of the Universe itself.

As you approach this tremendous phenomena you now see that this line you've detected is but a differentiation of shade. Above it is light and below it is dark; very subtle, almost imperceptible, but growing more pronounced the closer you move towards it. And now forms are commencing to slowly materialize between the stars, forms of colour and pattern… Above there are the slightest tinges of blue; so slight, barely extant between the stars… And below this emerges the faintest hint of deep wandering… green…

And that is when the understanding hits you, causing your heart to expand like a balloon in your chest. What you are looking at, larger than the stars, vaster than the conceivable Universe… Is land. Land and sky.

By this new comprehension you immediately achieve an even greater velocity, streaking forward and through the stars and into this immense and astounding reality. Your heart beats louder and stronger and a sound is growing deep within your mind, and as it grows you are able to recognize this sound as an infinite choir of singing voices that amplify your senses and sharpen your sight, for the land is now realizing into forms - great mountain ranges capped with snow sprawling down into valley ridges of rock and forest… And enormous rivers winding through the lower hills that lead into a warren of interlocking lakes between billowing fields of grasses, descending lower to a sea of shining clear jade water across a valley of gigantic breadth.

Above the sky is an expanding daylight blue flashing between gargantuan white clouds that circle upward beyond your sight. There is light everywhere but no sun, because the stars are still there, infinitesimal motes dancing amidst the span of this valley of light years. These galaxies are a light show that illuminates universal geography.

The immense valley turns below you as you soar through the softly rising atmosphere that has materialized around you. And this air is a buffeting breeze warmly rising to your lips so that you remember to breathe again, and the air is so sweet as it rushes into your lungs that the choir in your head rises in crescendo while strange oxygen floods your bloodstream and rushes your heart upwards in your chest. From the boughs of massive trees that could hold a thousand suns, flocks of glowing white birds alight into the sky and circle before you.

You fly deeper into this world unfolding gigantic and extraordinary, and with your ever widening eye you can see that the valley is slowly twisting into an ongoing spiral. The shapes of ridges and rock formations turn in the mist beneath your view. Countless rivers and channels spill into waterfalls across the face of the mountains that roam into the form of the emerging spiral that seems to now be rising upwards…

And as you climb forward you are starting to realize that the Law of Correspondence works in ways beyond your understanding, for this is not a spherical planet form that encompasses the Universe of which you have known until now. Nor is this some sort of synthesis between the Heliocentric Universe and the Flat Earth theory; what you are seeing is far beyond either of these concepts. Drifting by you the mists of spiralling galaxies coast across in endless turning forms that closer approximate the increasing spiral of the escalating valley. And along the mountain's edge there are sporadic bridges of rock that form gates from the ridge, and within those gates are portals to other valleys that spiral away into eternity.

As you gaze downward you now can see that there are structures appearing below, temples and whole cities dotting the landscape, intertwining the vegetation and forests. Giant carvings of beings in human form rise up from between the rolling hills. Their appearance galvanizes the choir within your head so that the voices seem to sing from the mouths of these carvings, and they are telling you that the sphere is but a sub correlative of the spiral, and the spiral is but a structure of the sphere…

This new polarity expands your minds eye through the patterns of birds and galaxies and over the spiralling valley, upwards until you can now see the great mountain. The great mountain sits at the end of the valley, colossal and seemingly illimitable, it is so incomprehensibly larger than any of the other mountains before it. And at the base of the mountain, surrounded by prodigious glaciers that shine like polished glass, there is a huge yawning cavern leading into the rock. You are now approaching the mountain: see it looming above to a distance beyond your ability to know… And the cavern widens before you with a rushing sound that drowns out the choir of voices, and the birds and galaxies have all left you as you enter the opening into the mountain.
Within the cavern all becomes light. Because now you see without looking, at a level even deeper than your mind, and you know that you are within a vortex, and that She is carrying you upwards through the light now, the vortex is carrying you through. And within the light there abide soaring frequencies moving in and out of form, and at the centre of the cavern He has taken form, and His hand is pointed upwards; you rise up along His arm and His hand to His finger.

And you know that you are rising through one of the Eight Pillars of the Universe. And the math in your mind does not understand, because you think that there is another Seven… But She smiles her response within your mind: With One there is always another Eight. This is the magic of Nine.

And His finger pushes upon your feet to send you along your way. I am with you always. Always. Rise up to the surface now. See it now above you; the surface of the waters. The eternal waters. You will break through into another air. Breathe life anew. And it goes on and on and on. Forever.

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