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Platonic Lambda at High Peaks On the High Peaks Trail at the Pinnacles in a gap of trees, I spot a mountain ridge that resembles the Platonic Lambda. Eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet which looks like an upside down "V" that Plato called the Soul of the Universe— The even series— 1, 2, 4, 8, and the odd series— 1, 3, 9, 27 woven from the sacred source of Oneness. Around the bend, I get a closer glimpse of this moving image of eternity— how time and heaven were born together, God fashioning the four elements by form and number— fire, water, air, earth— perfected and harmonized in proportion. Pyramid assigned to fire, cube to earth. While my friends hike ahead, I stay behind at trail's bend to learn from Cubic Rock. "O teach me what you've learned all these years on the Soul's mysteries?" And after a long silence he says: "Absolutely Nothing!" "That's why they call me a blockhead" he laughs. And leaving him, I wonder if he's a fool or me wasting time learning from a rock. Later I come to Blue Sage who tells me: "Cubic Rock is Tarot's Fool whose wisdom of No-Mind is knowledge of the Absolute." This was my surprise at the Pinnacles— Meeting Platonic Lambda at High Peaks and Uncarved Block's lesson on Emptiness. — Peter Y. Chou Mountain View, 6-28-2009 |