andcombinationsof elementaryparticles.A living beingwas merely acombinationof different quantitiesofatoms, of infinitely smallbricks, of carbon, oxygen,hydrogen,sulphur,nitrogenandphosphorus-certainlyin vast and inconceivablequantities,but still 'nothingbut'atoms.Evenapersonwhomonelovedwas'nothingbut'aprodigiousquantityofatoms.Explanationsseemedtobefascinatinglyeasyon thisbasisof quantities.Isnotthistheobsessingfascinationof explainingthegreaterbythe less-the root of all obsession?It seemedasif thesecretof the universehadbeen handed over to me,particularlybecauseatthattimepeopleingeneralseemedto be quite ignorantof chemistry.It was only whenIbeganto ponderoverthemeaningof theperiodiclaw ofthe elements- thelaw of the octaveas the Englishchemist,Newlands,calledit -wherebythesamesortofelementsrepeatthemselvesatregularintervals,that Irealisedthatsomethingstoodbehindalltheseatomsandbehindall chemistry.Thereis law,thereis'order',whichdeterminetheir action,their properties,theirposition,their affinitiesand relations.Behindtheseelementaryparticlesstoodanother'world'- theworld oflaw,order,form and principle, that connectedalltheseparticlestogetherandmadeallchemicalchangesandrelationshipspossible.But it is understandablehowanyone,who hasnot yet begunto think, canbecomeintoxicatedbythepowersthatscienceseemsto put into hishands.It seemspossibletoexplaineverything,to knoweverything,tounderstandexactlywhyeverythingis whatit is;andthisfirst contactwith scienceproducesinsomepeopleanextraordinarycontemptfor and intoleranceof anythinglike'idealism'- that is, of a world behind this visibleworld thatexplainsthis visibleworld. Theycannotseethatwecannotreallyknoworunderstandorevenexplain
The five sessions explore not just quantity of time but also the quality of time. The first two sessions are about the Christian, Greek and Gnostic concepts of time, those most familiar to us, as well as the I Ching. The last three sessions present ideas from such authors as Maurice Nicoll, Alan McGlashan and Amy Allenby, about time orders, living in the now, the place of time in the mystery of life, the moment that qualifies and transforms time, and how we stand at every moment on the frontier of time.
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