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[Anonymous No.13660421]

Esoteric manuscripts describe the shape of the universe as a torus.

In this model, the universe is a black hole on one of the sides of the torus, a white hole at the other side. The white hole is constantly spitting out new creations – new worlds – that live, thrive, then decline as they move around the outside to the reverse side of the torus, where they are absorbed by the black hole there. As they move through the center of the doughnut, worlds are destroyed then recycled, emerging on the other side of the torus – through the white hole – as new forms. Individual forms have been consumed; new forms have been created. And so the cycle of creation and destruction continues.

This torus is the physical shape of the universe, according to mystic sources, and the shape resembles that of someone eating, digesting, and defecating. Food in (at the black hole end), food processed (interior of the doughnut hole), food out (at the white hole end). In this way, the torus that is the universe resembles the interior shape of human and animal bodies: mouth at one end, digestion and transmutation of food in the center, anus at the other end.

And just as animals defecate, their feces fertilizing the earth and becoming new plants, that which was defecated gets consumed again in the form of a new dinner.

[Anonymous No.13660442]

One of the most interesting aspects of Gurdjieff's Cosmology is his idea of the Trogoautoegocratic Process or the Iraniranumange. This is the process that His Endlessness implemented to overcome the results of Time and Entropy, the inevitable running down of energy in the universe. He likens this to a universal perpetual motion machine that functions according to the Laws of Three and Seven. The Ouroboros or an image of one or two snakes or dragons eating their tails is a representation of this ancient idea as is Jacobs Ladder from the Bible..


As the original outpouring of the energy from the Absolute of His Endlessness elaborates itself down the Ray of Creation, it looses energy and becomes constrained by more and more laws. At the same time an anti-entropic flow of energy is working its way back up the cosmic scale returning to the Absolute to replenish its energy. This ladder of descending and ascending energies is called the Trogoautoegocrat. For Gurdjieff's description of this process, see Chapter 39 in Beelzebub's Tales.

[Anonymous No.13660443]

>>13660421
actually

[Anonymous No.13660458]

[Anonymous No.13660473]

>>13660421
Makes sense with science considering the big bang is an explosion from a single infinitely dense point and following heat death eventually all matter will be condensed to a single point.