100 fi The Secret Liji fe NatureThe concept of an Absolute that is simultaneously boundless infi-
nite space and an ideal dimensionless point is made more manageable
by a mathematical analogy: if a sphere is repeatedly contracted it must
ultimately be reduced to a point, a dimensionless ideal entity without
magnitude either of length, breadth, or thickness.To the rational mind
such an ideal point is self-evidently the limit in the direction of the in-
finitesimally small, whereas boundless space constitutes the limit in the
direction of the infinitely large. Ultimate Reality, say the Hindu sages,
exists in both point and space but in neither exclusively, its "conscious-
ness" alternately expanding and contracting between one and the
other, sweeping through all the intermediate states to emerge as a wave
of expansion and contraction into a negative world.The ultimate space
must therefore be the opposing eternal vestures of Ultimate Reality,
for, as both scientist and occultist agree, nothing exists without its bal-
ancing negative state, including negative space, negative time, and neg-
ative matter.
An ideal point is basic to the Hindu concept of cycles of manifes-
tation, for it is required as a device through which to fluctuate and
through which each newly manifested universe can be projected, a sort
of door between the void of the Absolute and all the states of both the
unmanifest and the manifest. The extraordinary properties of a point
are best grasped by venturing into the subtler world of more dimen-
sions than the standard three of the physical world. To the occultist an
ideal point serves for the meeting of any number of different planes,
and as any number of points can coexist within one another, a point
can contain within itself an infinite number of other points, hence un-
limited planes and dimensions.
To use another mathematical analogy: if zero represents the bound-
less, infinite, empty space known to Hindu sages as Mahakasha, then
one represents the eternal dimensionless point, or Mahabindu-Akasha
being space, Bindu a point, and Maha the great. And with this concept
comes an explanation for the basic source of energy, ranging all the way
&om that of the far-flung galaxies to the heart of every atom.
The eternal point, Mahabindu, or one, by drawing apart from its sta-
tic center-in some miraculous but patently energetic way-two poles,