Meta Formal Logic and The Wheel of Life

                          What do the Wheel of Life, the Riddle of the Sphinx and the "OM" have in common. All three are "Meta Formally Logical," "Ancient" and they are measures of time. Let's look at the mappings.

                           It's time we get to it. The sphinx asked Oedipus, "What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?" I'm not going to go into why guys want to marry their mom types, Oedipus. In the morning of life babies crawl. At our peak of life we stand to walk. In maturity we are forced to use crutches to lean on. Four legs, two legs, and at last three.

                           With this triangulation of life's full measure, we come next to the wheel of life, the three "Gunas." (Much has been written about this elastic concept that has many definitions. Hindu philosophy, in English, Crowley's, THE BOOK OF THOTH.") The three Gunas or electricities are descriptive analogies for the basic forces of life. Positive (Fire, creative, masculine); Transitive (Air, active, alternating); Negative (Water, receptive, feminine.) Regrettably, with the institutionalization of Vedic dogma came the Caste system with it's classism and it's misogyny. But the essential principles have survived in Arhvedic medicine.

                            The "OM" from the Upanishads, is the logical extension of this philosophical artifact of the "Wheel of Life." And later came the Buddhist, "Wheel of Law," (Karma.) But the Idea is basically the same. Up, then over, and then down; a beginning, the middle, and then the irreversible punishing end. How the law of Karma ever became a law of punishment I really don't understand but it would seem that any religion can be majorly flawed.

                             Ah, the "OM" is the most pristine and elegant of all the mantras. As a chanted utterance, it signifies the zoom of consciousness in life through the world. Say "A," "U," "M." With the silence at the end of each breath, each life, each moment; there is the moment of rest, of release, a moment in preparation of the next breath, the next life, the next eternity.

                             "A," The positive creative opening, starting aspirant. "U," The transitive active part of the expression. "M," The muting closing off of the sound rounding off the resonance in acceptance of the temporal. And then silence, the breath, life and awareness is refreshed, in preparation to start again. "A" childhood/ the morning /spring. "U" adulthood/the active mid day/ summer. "M" old age/ evening/ autumn. And silence/ death/ the winter. You will find these kind of meta formal metrics throughout all Bronze Age philosophical language. Thank you, There should always be a beginning, a middle and an end.