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Preface

This book, among other things, is a revealing of a primordial mystical science that has been lost from humanity for ages. Among the other things, it is the story of the cosmic law of the universe that rules the inner soul of man - the microcosm, and the outer soul of the cosmos - the macrocosm. I will tell this story using the metaphor of a perfect circle for the condition of the human soul when it was in a state of perfection, and master of the primordial mystical science. Antithetically, I will use the term ellipse, which means imperfect circle, as the metaphor for the soul as it evolved over time after its fall from grace - and losing the knowledge of the mystical science - as the allegory about Adam and Eve, recorded in the Torah and Quran, informs us.

The author will utilize this metaphorical dichotomy to elucidate this spiritual cosmology in order to facilitate understanding. Metaphors are used because they cover the full spectrum of levels of understanding that humans exhibit. They can be read on a basic level, such as reading the story of the Garden of Eden as a simple moral tale of obedience. But they can also be interpreted on a high level, as here, in a way that tells us about the structures of the soul, that the allegory is informing us about.

I could have used the term paradise, instead of circle, but this brings too much emotionality into the story, I feel; therefore the more objective term “circle” is being used in order to create a unity of understanding, devoid of the emotion attached to a word generally used in a religious context.

The ellipse is the structure that the soul of humans has evolved to - what I call imbalanced balance! Opposed to this is its opposite, the perfect circle, the universal symbol of perfection - the inner and outer world of felicity we abided in before the fall, as told in the allegorical scriptural tale of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Humans lived in harmony, peace, and happiness in this period. Then something terrible happened, something that literally altered the nature of humans, and consequently produced the imbalanced yet grotesquely “functional” world of the ellipse, the imperfect, perverted world we have lived in since this ancient trauma.

The basic premise of the ellipse theory of history is that the fundamental reality of existence revolves around the world we occupy. The world in itself and the beings who occupy this world, it turns out, are only microcosms of that larger world that can be called the macrocosm, or the world in totality, as opposed to the microcosm - each individual occupying that world. This wisdom is from the tradition handed down to us from the great teacher Hermes known by many different names to different cultures. In a similar vein to the tenets of Taoist philosophy, he taught us that man is but a microcosm of this greater world.

This is absolute cosmic law, not any arbitrary “creation” of humans and the world by a “God”. This creation may be the mechanism in which the transcendent cosmic law is the main determiner of, nevertheless if so, then the law is as important, or more so, to the divine epiphany as the creative agency.

This fundamental concept is the most vital tenet in understanding genuine metaphysics and spiritual cosmology. Indeed, whatever worlds exist anywhere, this law is an existential reality that will always operate on the same principle as it operates in our world. Therefore it is the first thing we must come to grips with in understanding the inner and outer universe and how it works, and how we are to gain control of it for the benefit of all humankind.

The ellipse, the metaphor for our fallen world, designating the intrinsic corruption that we have evolved to since the fall, is the world that shapes all of us, and determines how we feel, how we live, and is the source of the experience of all in the world. The ellipse has a source, and that source is the perfect circle - its dichotomy - indeed, we learn through this that the source of hell is paradise.

The concept of the macrocosm shaping the microcosm transcends the ellipse concept. In other words, if we did not fall in the abyss, the cosmic reality that microcosms are always shaped by macrocosms (and the other way around in some instances) is intact. If we were still perfect circles, as in primordial times, then the outer world-macrocosm would be perfect. Unfortunately for man, we have evolved into a corrupt imperfect circle inwardly, and the macrocosm, in this case, has followed suit.

Our world shapes us, creates us, and determines our experience. This is unavoidable - no one can escape this fact. Certainly, there is a great degree of variable difference in our experience, for example between the rich and the poor. This variation though does not go too far: the rich may face the same sickness and mental suffering in life as everyone else, and the inevitable pangs of death like any poor man. Certainly the parameters of this challenging existence is pretty much understood by us now, and therefore any extraordinary major change or difference has never been widely seen - if it exists - and will certainly be easily identified if it reveals itself. We know that some are rich and live pretty well relatively; some are secure materially, albeit not rich; but we also know that there are poor people whose suffering is acute. Despite the relative comfort of the few, in the entire world none will escape the inevitable periods of psychological and physical suffering that all humans face. So, we see the parameters of the degree of suffering is not that far apart.

The ellipse is not a mental illness in the clinical sense; of course it includes mental illness, nevertheless the ellipse just as much enslaves a person who is not mentally ill, as one who is. It is the basic flaw in our inner self that allows all the imbalances that cause inevitable disharmony, suffering, evil, ignorance, and wayward desires that have plagued us since the fall.

Moreover, the ellipse is also the cause of ordinary spiritual blindness, the opposite of the spiritual phenomenon known as awakening. This blindness is rooted in the conditioned self, another symptom of the ellipse.

This is because the world that makes up our reality has become an ellipse. (In this instance of the polarity - microcosm and macrocosm - there is a reversal of the usual phenomenon, in that in this case, the microcosm created the elliptical macrocosm.) This is the sole etiology of human suffering, going beyond the ideas of Buddha to the exact root of this problem, beyond his assertion that excess or wayward desire is the cause of our plight in the world. Desire is not the real root of our problems because wayward desire, like any psychological trait, has a spiritual root sourced in the higher structure of the soul. Beyond this concept, we understand that such psychological traits in humans exist based on a fundamental milieu such as the chemical environment in the brain. Hidden above or beyond this chemistry is a hidden world of celestial realities that rule this lower world of chemistry and the like, where “desire” takes root. What actually happens is that the condition of the higher realm determines what exactly will occur, by reflection in the lower psychic realm, all the way down to the physical chemistry.

This metaphysical phenomenon is based on the concept of the four worlds:

SOUL

SPIRIT

MIND

BODY

Humans since the fall have lacked cognition of the two higher worlds, therefore do not have any information about the ellipse that exists there. Most often, through the practice of metaphysics, does one regain consciousness of the higher realms and the possibility of resolving the ellipse.

It must be said that the information revealed in this book will not guarantee anyone anything unless they do something for themselves, through action. This is not a how-to book, nor a magic bullet. However, this exciting, dynamic, and new cosmology will offer a genuine roadmap to the theoretical liberation of the human being. Additionally, and more importantly, I will emphasis that no one is special in the eyes of God because of the circumstances of their condition or birth. This is vital to understand because it is intended to explain in this document that there is an elite group of beings operating in the world. And lest anyone take this to mean that they are somehow a part of this group - as many religions espouse - because of what they believe or think they know, they will be advised to relinquish this notion. Ironically, those who concentrate on this “superiority” complex are in fact demonstrating that they are not a part of any elite.

The revelation of this cosmic science is the final paradigm that explains the reasons for all of the circumstances that relate to suffering, evil, and the destiny of our race.

As the theory unfolds in these pages, some may become offended that their “God” seems excluded from this formula. Let it be known that whether or not there is some kind of creative agency that produces humans, they nevertheless are bound as we are by this cosmic science, and can do nothing without being within the dictates of its law. In addition, any divine agency must obey the dictates of reason, and the basis of real science: the law of cause and effect. Not to mention that ALL religion is basically the same in theory, just differing in nomenclature.

“God” does have a reality, but in the tradition of the Sufi and Buddhist cosmologies, even God is somewhat irrelevant in this cosmic drama on one level, in that he is bound by his own laws. Even he cannot do anything outside of these laws, though on another level, he is all and everything, he is the law, in that sense. Whatever the ultimate reality of God is in relationship to us, one thing is for sure, any assistance he renders man is only in the context of him being obligated to a higher law that binds himself to himself to do things by the law and within it, not the other way around, as traditional exoteric religion has suggested. He, God, then is the law by this logic. His specialty is what is termed “Evolutionary Intelligence,” epochal knowledge of the minutiae intelligence man evolves to over time that necessitates new guidance for the new era.

The God principle will be dealt with by explaining to the reader that for millennia, humans have been misled about the concept of God. They have, through exoteric religion, been programmed to view God as a Santa Claus, Wizard of Oz figure having nothing to do with cosmic law or science. Therefore, it is a section “The Divine Epiphany” on how to view the divinity in the correct prospective. I will not dwell too much on this because the subject of the book is too important to go on in that vein that only elicits controversy; the goal here is to instruct and enlighten.

As I come to explain this essential reality that rules all of our experience of this world’s life, and understanding is planted in the reader, we will consequently see the source of our extrication from the suffering that holds us in its grip. It is in our hands at one end of the spectrum of reality, and in the hands of time, at the other end.

This spiritual cosmology will elucidate clearly from the perspective of the highest world - inwardly, and outwardly - the science and mechanisms of the human soul. Or in non-mystical language, ordinary human psychology, feeling, and its source. This will go beyond the conceptual, to the literal physicality of the soul, and the theoretical delineation of its content.

Additionally, generally and specifically, it will describe humans’ psychic past and future on this plane of existence, and why and how evil and suffering came into being, and how it will end in time. It will be demonstrated that the ellipse is the ultimate source of all evil, and without the ellipse, evil and suffering could not exist.

On one level this story will appear to be negative to the positive thinkers who want to “wishful think” humanity out of its doldrums; as if such antics will work, and scientific realities do not matter. For them, they can be rest assured that this cosmic drama will end with a positive outlook, based upon the cosmic scientific reality that I reveal and explain, not any wishful or positive thinking.

Based on the experience of gnosis and study of this topic for three decades, I began work in this field by studying intensely certain religious, spiritual and occult themes that led to the synchronistic meeting with a timeless spiritual Adept who I believed at the time was St George {Khidr}. This was the beginning of my search for the knowledge that rules the cosmos. St George Khidr is the adept who rules an aspect of the world that deals with religion, politics, mysticism on an exoteric basis, among other things.

Primarily understood and explained through the myths of Western and some Eastern religious mythology, which includes mainly the Judeo-Christian-Islamic Western tradition in addition to Hermetic lore and science. The particular themes in the Quran and Torah that provide the mythical allegory of the fall of man are the basis of the ellipse theory. The allegory of Adam and Eve will be fleshed out of its mythological content and interpreted literally on a scientific, structural plane where we can clearly see and understand where we are in the cosmic mystery of the self, and why and how the ellipse has evolved to be the source of our suffering.

The ellipse theory answers many of the age-old questions that have challenged the understanding of believers in God, philosophers, and mystics, by intimately exploring these topics:

The essence of man

The origin of evil and suffering

The end of evil and suffering,

A definition of God

The reality of creation

The nature of the soul

The burden of the apocalypse

A new understanding of the Jesus mystery

Finally, and most importantly, a clear and precise delineation of the inevitable good destiny of all of humankind based on the science of what is revealed in the book. This science is universal, unalterable cosmic law that in the end will give all humanity: A Good Old Destiny!

Zakariyya Ishaq, May 2008