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The Book of Wesley

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Introduction to the Third Hundred

THE THIRD HUNDRED of The Book of Wesley is largely an elaboration of Wesley’s Theory of Relativity as introduced in the First Hundred (17). In it, he becomes increasingly preoccupied with mathematical formulae. (“Mathematics is the first great division of philosophy.” 279) Sometimes, however, it is difficult to tell if Wesley is referring to mathematics or to some other societal phenomenon. (“Potential is the product of initiative divided by opposition.” 213)

In this volume, Wesley begins his exploration of alternative systems. It contains immediately confessed errors and contradictions. However, the thought process can still be traced. It has been my effort once again to leave in the progression, even when stray thoughts seem abhorrently in error. We can only wait to see if Wesley returns to them to redeem them.

After all, it seems he has a long way to go before he reaches his conclusion.

Nathan Everett, editor

August 4, 1982

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  1. Consider this about motion (19, 199)—If you shoot an arrow at a moving airplane propeller, what are the chances that the arrow could get past it? Very slim. Why? Because the speed (motion) of the propeller exceeds the relative motion of the arrow.
  2. Thus, as far as arrows are concerned, the entire path of the propeller blade is a solid, not just the blades themselves. In fact, the solid area—being a circle—is over three times the area of the blades themselves—being a star—only because of motion.
  3. The mass being moved may be reduced infinitely as long as the motion is relatively increased. In other words, it would be possible for a thread to create an equally solid circle if one could propel it fast enough.
  4. This is the principle of what is known to us as atomics. We discover upon examining the atom that there is far more empty space than there is solid particle; and even the solidity that is there is doubtful. As a walking being made of atoms, I am more empty space than solid mass.
  5. The atom is therefore described in terms of relationships and balance, positives and negatives, and motion. It is nothing more than the pattern—the brainwave, if you will—of the universal conscious.
  6. Returning to the arrow, as you shorten it and/or increase its own motion relative to the moving propeller, you increase the chance that the arrow may pass the field of the moving propeller. So, a bullet fired from a high-powered rifle may stand a better chance of passing than the original arrow. To the bullet, the circular field is less solid than it is to the arrow.
  7. Thus, a person, being a highly concentrated motion, finds the universe by contrast to have great holes in it that one might pass leisurely through, but finds a table impenetrable because of its even greater concentration of motion.
  8. The solidity of an object, be it space, water, wood, or flesh, is therefore only relative to the motion of other objects it encounters (17).
  9. All laws are inherently oppressive. (114)
  10. The lack of law is a law in and of itself.
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  1. Each day, each hour, each minute we decide how much oppression we will tolerate before we rebel—that is, become civilly disobedient.
  2. Pendular Theorem (198). The universe is kept in constant tension (balance) by the forces of “potential,” “motive force,” and “pendular force.” Potential is how high a pendulum might rise. Motive force is the initiative that drives the upward movement. Pendular force is the opposition to the initiative drawing the pendulum back down.
  3. Potential is the product of initiative divided by opposition.
  4. Consider the swing of a pendulum. At rest, there is 0 initiative and 0 opposition, thus there is infinite potential. (0/0) The introduction of any initiative has infinite potential.
  5. As soon as the pendulum is set in motion, initiative begins to decrease and opposition increases.
  6. Eventually initiative reaches 0 at which time potential is at 0 regardless of opposition. (0 / x = 0)
  7. Then the cycle reverses and motive force (initiative) increases as opposition decreases until the pendular axis (convergency) is reached, at which time potential is again infinite no matter what the motive force has built to. (x / 0 = ∞)
  8. Atomic structure is an effect of the Pendular Theorem mandating a balance between positive and negative charges in an orbital pattern (tension).
  9. Pendular geometry may be one answer to the working and tapping of networks for energy.
  10. First, pendular plane geometry is tri-axial, assuming that a “point” is defined by three coordinates instead of two as in Euclidean plane geometry. Every point is held in tension by its initiative, its opposition, and its potential.
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  1. Truth is not a constant.
  2. Second, in pendular geometry, the axes bend at the point of convergence. Therefore, the “plane” in pendular geometry is wavy, resembling a phonograph record left in the sun.
  3. Erratum: There are no negative rays emanating from the origin. So, instead of six “spokes” in a plane, there are only three positive rays—x, y, and z—defining a plane. The plane may be conical or pyramid shaped instead of wavy.
  4. Truth and honesty should not be confused with each other.
  5. Creativity blocks seem to come in two varieties. First is the absence of any idea or concept. This type of creativity block is more commonly experienced by the conditioned non-creative person; in other words, the person who is taught not to think. The second type—more common to people who have rebelled against conforming education and/or who have engaged themselves in the arts—is a jamming of too many ideas in the creative path to let any through.
  6. A remedy for the first type of block is basically to de-educate the person. More on education later.
  7. One remedy for the second is to learn to focus on a limited number of the creative ideas recognizing that they will not all come to fruition. A person may need to focus on only one idea in order to clear the jam. His method may likely involve meditation. More on meditation later.
  8. The fastest way to burn out your engine is to spin your wheels.
  9. Education is the process of reducing individual thought processes to societal norms.
  10. Meditation is the process of releasing individual thought processes from societal norms.
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  1. Both education and meditation are necessary for the balance of a person. Education creates the structure for interrelation with other people. Meditation removes the barriers to intrarelation with oneself.
  2. In Western (i.e. Industrial) civilization, people seem to have increasingly little contact with themselves. They/we seem not to know them/ourselves very well. When removed from the structure of society, they/we seem lost, with nothing to fall back on—no real knowledge of them/ourselves.
  3. Pre-industrial civilization is marked by less education than industrial civilization. Its citizens have less ability to interact with a broad spectrum of society, but generally far more peace with oneself.
  4. Peace is ever-elusive on a worldwide scale. It is rare enough on a national level. And, the larger the body, the more difficult achieving and maintaining peace becomes.
  5. A first step toward peace should be a moratorium on the transport of military equipment and hardware across national boundaries. Wherever those boundaries are in dispute, a neutral zone should be created that includes both suggested boundaries and no military hardware or personnel should be allowed in that zone.
  6. After military hardware has been frozen to its location and a reasonable time for training and adjustment is made, all military personnel should be withdrawn to their country of citizenship. This leaves the defense of all national borders to indigenous persons.
  7. As adequate stockpiles of armaments are accrued in each nation, the manufacture of military hardware would be phased out, beginning with all offensive weapons and proceeding to even defensive weaponry. That does not mean that research, tooling and testing could not proceed, but that manufacture would cease.
  8. Military hardware may be defined as anything for which the principal purpose could only be mass action against opposing forces.
  9. The diversion of energy from military purposes to domestic purposes should lead to an adequate discovery in the field of energy that the future could see a uniform dismantling of all nuclear facilities, both military and domestic.
  10. It would be hoped that the future would see a ban on the possession of any weapon which in use does not jeopardize the life of the assailant in equivalent measure to the victim.

Editor’s Note: Wesley shows his naïveté in dealing with peace from a strictly theoretic standpoint, probably from his years of isolation. However, his conclusion in 241 (to come) is compelling.

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  1. Voluntary participation in such a worldwide plan may be the only way to avoid forced participation in a world tyranny imposed by one or more superpowers.
  2. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity shows that a measuring rod in motion is shorter than when at rest.
  3. The density of an object, therefore, (201-206) increases when set in motion. Assuming a measuring rod to have a certain mass that remains constant, if it gets shorter when in motion and all other dimensions remain the same, then the mass is more compact or denser than when the rod is at rest.
  4. Pendular Geometry (212-223) is defined in terms of positive tensions. These are as follows: One tension defines motion. Two tensions (non-parallel) define a line. Three tensions (non-parallel) define a plane. Four tensions (non-parallel) define space.
  5. Thus, (220) Pendular Geometry is tri-axial when dealing with a plane (as opposed to Euclidean geometry’s two axes) and Pendular solid geometry is tetrahedronal (with four axes) instead of tri-axial as in Euclidean-based solid geometry.
  6. There is never a negative tension. (85)
  7. An increase in any tension (244) creates motion.
  8. Thus, Pendular Tetrahedronal geometry includes time as a “physical” representation defined solely in terms of motion. (4th Dimension) (102-111)
  9. There is a certain amount of power in vulnerability.
  10. Nearly everyone will accept responsibility (25) without thinking for the person who is constantly vulnerable.

Editor’s Note: 242-248 are the blue section of the Third Hundred and see Wesley retracing steps to see where he has been.

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  1. In all non-corrupt use of power, including that of vulnerability, there must also be a certain innocence. (180-181)
  2. Vulnerability cannot be used as a trap. It must be genuine or it is powerless. That means that any intentional vulnerability must involve a genuine risk.
  3. In short, vulnerability means that the person exercising vulnerable power is at risk for the outcome of such use. While you may willingly take responsibility for what happens to me, I cannot hold you responsible for the same.
  4. Time (248) is a measurement just as feet or meters. It is irrelevant when there is no motion. If all things were at rest, there would be no time. (102-112)
  5. All real numbers are positive. (46)
  6. All real numbers have a cube root.
  7. All numeric functions can be performed on any real number.
  8. The multiplication of any real number by 0 is 0. The division of any real number by 0 is infinity (∞).
  9. The opposite is also true. The multiplication of any real number by ∞ is ∞. The division of any real number by ∞ is 0.
  10. ∞ and 0 are absolute opposites.

Editor’s Note: 251-254 are the pencil section of the Third Hundred.

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  1. Absolute opposites are absolutely equal. This specifically applies to opposite ends of a scale. Just as 360° is equivalent to 0°, 0 is also equivalent to ∞.
  2. Wesley’s Theory of Relativity (17-21) Refined: At rest, all things are infinite.
  3. Theologians tend to limit God in the very language they use to describe his limitlessness. It is a fundamental principle of Xn theology that is the greatest “proof positive” that God does not exist. “God is infinite.” Infinity is exactly equivalent to “nothing” (0). (261)
  4. It is for this reason that I accept god as slightly less divine, trusting that in that insult he or she finds room to be.
  5. 0 x ∞ = 0. ∞ x 0 = ∞. ∞ = 0. (261)
  6. Religions that offer an absolute peace seem to link humanity to the infinite. That absolute peace is nothingness.
  7. Expanded corollary: The way back always lies ahead. (185, 261)
  8. Far from repeating ourselves (267), however, we are ever in a process of redefining and rewriting history.
  9. The past is always defined by and/or in terms of the future.
  10. Most philosophical and theological precepts can be discovered, defined, or enlightened mathematically.
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  1. It is helpful to remember that there are numerous mathematical systems.
  2. What we are willing to risk is frequently indicative of our values. (253)
  3. Usually, we risk what is of most value to ourselves for what is most attractive.
  4. Inevitably, the subject risked is of greater intrinsic value than the object of the risk.
  5. At the same time, gain comes only by means of risk. So, while it may be possible to maintain the status quo without risk, it is impossible to grow.
  6. Socially, people will risk their greatest assets for the slightest of goals if the most insignificant details of their daily routines can remain unchanged and unchallenged.
  7. It would appear, then, that the swiftest means of preventing a national risk or of ending one (i.e. war) is to maintain an internal threat to the mundane. (See Lysistrata, for example) (240)
  8. The possibility of being disobedient to “natural laws” (as in gravity, etc.) is enhanced by the possibility of shifting to a different mathematical system. (271, 195) The changing of 1+1=2 to 1+1=10 is as simple as changing from a decimal to a binary system. What may be possible by shifting from Euclidean to Tetrahedronal geometry?
  9. Mathematics is the first great division of philosophy, music the second, and theology the third.
  10. (274) x risked for y in which x > y but for which y is not possible without x. Gain (275) is found only in x + y.
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  1. Spiritually, we must occasionally risk what we believe in order to gain enlightenment on what we do not know.
  2. Thus knowledge itself is relative to the frame of reference of the known.
  3. It does not “take time” to travel from one place to another. (112, 254) Rather, the journey creates the time.
  4. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  5. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity also shows that a clock in motion runs more slowly than when at rest. (102-112, 242)
  6. Thus, journey one half hour at the speed of light away from the earth and return at the same speed and several decades will have passed on earth by the time you return, even though by your own clock, only one hour has passed.
  7. As soon as something has been thought of and made real in the mind, it becomes necessary for it to exist. (284)
  8. It is possible to repeat oneself any number of times and be original each time. Many paths not taken before may lead to the same destination.
  9. People of great intellect seldom tire of each other. People of little intellect seldom tire of each other. But people of moderate intellect seem to attract boredom in every kind of relationship.
  10. Emotion is similar to a pinwheel. As you move in the same direction as the flow of the pinwheel, the emotions are weaker and spread further apart. You have a feeling of stability, with only minor fluctuations in emotions.
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  1. Move against the flow and you are drawn toward the vortex where the emotions are more intense and much closer together. It becomes very easy to skip from emotional extreme to extreme. Extreme love can change to extreme hate or extreme anger or extreme apathy.
  2. The question is, do words have meaning and/or power of themselves, or is that strictly contained in the inflection, vocal tone, etc.? Words are frequently given meaning through ritual. Do they give meaning to ritual? (91ff)
  3. When it comes down to the wire, we always end in a barrage of words. Legal documents spend pages defining the words used in the documents.
  4. We can only experience what we have words to express. If there is no means of expressing the experience, we doubt—in fact, we invalidate the experience.
  5. Imagine: Our entire concept of God is limited to the same words that we use to make automobiles, wage war, make love, and entertain ourselves in novels, plays, and music.
  6. One of humanity’s sorest needs today is for inventors of words.
  7. If major world political units are reluctant to limit the growth of weaponry, it may fall to the smallest political units to respond to the need. Every state, town, and village has the power to ban the manufacture of military goods within its precinct.
  8. Certainly no family lacks the right to prescribe alternate forms of employment.
  9. The individual is the simplest and most significant political unit in the world.
  10. An original idea may have been thought of before and still be original by virtue of the path it takes into being (288). Thus, we may look at a person of the 20th century industrial era and say, “Ah, here is a genius, for see how this person has discovered a way to invent the wheel.”

Editor’s Note: It seems, once again, as if Wesley was trying to get a lot of thoughts out in the last few verses and was scattered in what he was talking about. We’ll see if he pulls any of this together in the Fourth C.

 
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