Gate 192: מק — THE CIRCUIT

מק

Pillar 7: THE RETURN

[192:1] "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending,

[192:2] saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to

come."

[192:3] --- Revelation 1:8

[192:4] "From him and through him and to him are all

things."

[192:5] --- Romans 11:36

[192:6] "The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead."

[192:7] --- Ralph Ellison

[192:8] [192:1] The circuit is complete: from the One, through

the many, back to the One---enriched.

[192:9] [192:2] The Omni Function (Gate 4) describes a circuit:

E = L(C)---Experience arises from Love applied to Consciousness;

Experience accumulates into Consciousness; Consciousness receives Love;

new Experience arises. It is a loop, a cycle, a self-perpetuating

pattern. The universe is not a line but a circuit.

[192:10] [192:3] "I am Alpha and Omega." The first and last

letters of the Greek alphabet---beginning and end, source and

destination. But they are the same "I": what begins is what ends; what

ends has never left the beginning. The circuit does not travel from A to

Ω; it discovers that A is Ω.

[192:11] [192:4] "From him and through him and to him are all

things." Paul's formula maps the circuit: from (origin, outpouring,

emanation), through (process, experience, manifestation), to (return,

gathering, consummation). The three prepositions describe the three

movements of the one circuit.

[192:12] [FIGURE 192.1: The two toroids (material and divine)

shown as a continuous flow---what descends through one ascends through

the other, an endless circulation.] [192:5] Bentov's model (Gate 84)

is the circuit visualized: two toroids, material and divine,

interpenetrating. Energy descends through the material, reaches the

bottom, and ascends through the divine; reaches the top and descends

again. The circulation never stops; the circuit is eternal.

[192:13] [192:6] The Lightning Flash (Gate 39) descends; the

Snake (Gate 92) ascends. Together they form a circuit. Creation is not a

one-way street but a two-way current. The outbreath is always balanced

by the inbreath; the expansion by the contraction; the manifestation by

the return.

[192:14] [192:7] You are a circuit. Energy descends into you

(the Lightning, the in-breath, the gift of life); experience

accumulates; energy ascends from you (the Snake, the out-breath, the

offering of life). You are not a container but a conduit; not a

destination but a station; not an endpoint but a node in the network.

[192:15] [192:8] The circuit is not vain repetition. Each cycle

adds to the total; experience enriches the whole; consciousness

complexifies through iteration. The universe spirals rather than

circles---returning to the same point but at a higher level, recycling

but not merely repeating.

[192:16] [192:9] "The end is in the beginning and lies far

ahead." Ellison's paradox captures the circuit's nature. You have

already arrived; you have not yet begun. The destination is the origin

seen truly; the journey is the process of trueing the vision. Time is

what the circuit looks like from inside.

[192:17] [192:10] Rest in the circuit. You are not outside it,

trying to enter; you are not inside it, trying to escape. You are the

circuit circuiting---consciousness completing the pattern that

consciousness is. Stop fighting the flow; enter it fully; you will find

that entering fully is also resting completely.

[192:18] See Also: • Gate 4: אה (Ah) --- The Gate of the Omni

Function (the circuit's equation) • Gate 84: הו (Ho, "Alas!") --- The

Gate of the Two Toroids (the circuit's shape) • Gate 180: כת (Kat) ---

The Gate of Recursion (the circuit's logic) • Gate 182: לב (Lev,

"Heart") --- The Gate of Eternal Return (the circuit in time)