The fabric of the universe is made by A Great Originator, Instigator and Omnipotent. A visible universe from dust specs to galaxies, but houses dimensions whose pages are woven in the domains of the unseen. The life of its atoms started when the Merciful ripped the water of the skies from the dust and fire of the earth, and made them in seven layered skies, then ascended on the Throne, managing the affair explaining the signs that we may be certain about the meeting of our Lord. Where He multiplies creation therein, nothing is like Him and He is the Hearer the Seer.
A universe whose threads are strings of Light, a decree that starts between the B and the e of ¨Be¨, to weave in seven heavens everything, transforming light into matter, matter condensing through seven layered heavens that have the colors of the rainbow. There the atoms and cells get woven, and also destinies, in a world where the decrees mix with the intentions and the deeds and God’s will with the wills of his creation. There the observable realities are preceded by the mind, starting with the atoms that make up material creation, with their continuous regeneration and degeneration, to the creation of inspirations and creativity and also evils and misfortunes.
Everything happens on the stage of the seven heavens of the universe, but the veils do not allow the human eyes to see except the outermost layer on the surface of this great universe, a universe whose depths of greatness can only be probed by insight. This immense stage houses universes in a universe, where lives in it side by side creatures of dust, fire and light, interacting together but to a certain degree. Here the living martyr, whom we do not feel his presence lives, and here lives the angels that fulfill God’s commands, and also live the devils that work on igniting hell. And here also lives the species between fire and light, seeking to evolve and advance while trying to escape the claws of the evil lying in ambush on the road. And here not far away live the graduates from the first heaven till the sevenths where the degrees of the highest honours, and reside also the passers by their lives seasons towards more trials.
Here you see the wisdom of an Initiator, who did not waste a thing in the book, who gave everything its creation then guided. A God Rich but economical, Who made universes in the universe. Imagine a house of seven rooms in one, where the bedroom turns into a living room when re-entered through its doors that are portals between dimensions. Here the resident might pass while in his living room to the world of light or to the world of darkness, he partakes through his thoughts and deeds in the creation process, creating his destiny, building his spirit and affecting the lives of others. Here the Spirit of God touches him, encompasses him with Light and facilitates for him the owning of lots in God’s eternal kingdom. And here also he might call on the devils, get surrounded by fire and sell his shares for an eternity in hell. Here the mind is more real than the body. And Here God’s wisdom manages the signs in life’s tough lessons.
And here the universe rotates outwards since it began evolving, with ¨Be¨ at the depths of the strings through the seven dimensions and into the surface of matter, and upwards from the beginning of the trumpet towards its end above, rotating through seven layered heavens, just like the rainbow. Where through the degrees of color of the seven dimensions, the fabric of the universe is woven, whose dust of the visible galaxies constitutes a branching network extending in columns of electromagnetism, that start at the base of the trumpet universe and extend upwards towards it highest and widest regions, oscillating through its seven dimensions weaving everything into existence.
In this universe the strings write the acts and the actors, and the stages record. Nothing ever vanishes; all is captured on eternal film. From the creature that passed in a hurry experiencing existence for mere seconds, to the rock that lay in its corner watching the passage of eons. The end of time will mark the beginning of eternity. Matter will bear witness, the earth shall speak and the sky will be scraped. Eternity will mark the end of schooling, it is either graduation or failing, not that of individual souls but also of their contributions to others in the universe. Here the human spirit evolves through the seven layered but interconnected heavens, where the seventh is only a carefully performed ablution, or a heartfelt prayer away.
Yet, can a final theory encompass the greatness of the universe? Can the human mind claim to apprehend the ingenuity of God? A Lord Who fashions embryos in the darkness, runs blood in veins,originates galaxies in the skies and inspires awe in minds. He encompasses everything with his knowledge and not the weight of an atom in the universe escapes his attention. He creates guides and sustains, and knows what the eyes betray and the chests conceal.
017.044The seven heavens praise His glory and the earth, and those who are in them; and there is not a single thing but glorifies with His praise, but you do not understand their glorification; surely He is Forbearing, Forgiving.
November 1st, 2008
Theories in the Matter and Shape of the Universe
E8
Mathematical Theory of the Universe
November 2007
E8
E 8 is a mathematical theory that was developed during ten years. It describes how gravity, the standard model bosons, and three generations of fermions can be unified as parts of an E8 super connection. This unified field theory says professor Garett Lisi, attempts to describe all fundamental interactions and stands as a possible theory of everything, unifying Albert Einstein's general relativity with the standard model of particle physics. Professor Lisi associated each E8 symmetry with an elementary particle field of physics, including all the standard model particles and gravity. Previous attempts at matching the standard model particles to gauge groups, including E8 were called Grand Unified Theories, but including gravity as well, made E8 technically a Theory of Everything.
String theory was the only promising hope for the unification of the laws of the universe, including gravity, the force that defied for decades all attempts of unification. Lisi has never been a fan of string theory and said that because he was never a follower, he decided to leave after his PhD to search for his own theory. He had been working with equations for years without getting anywhere, until he stumbled on a paper analyzing E 8. When he noticed that the equations describing it’s structure were similar to his equations. Lisi's work is considered one of the most compelling unification models as E 8 is the most beautiful mathematical structure. Lizi thinks that the universe is pure geometry, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time. Lisi's idea could be complementary to string theory, string theorists had used E8 to describe a pattern of extra-dimensional space called the Calabi-Yau manifold, which they propose exists alongside the three dimensions that we see. Lisi’s theory could explain all the list of fundamental particles as resulting from different facets of the strange symmetries of E8, all the elementary particles and their families arise naturally from the geometry of E8, all the interactions predicted by the complex geometrical relationships inside E8 match the observations in the real world.
Professor Garett Lisi is another great mind refusing to follow the rest of the tribe, where the usual mainstream leads to politics instead of physics. It takes pride, certainty and faith to follow one’s calling and leave the flock, and leads to a real migration to the Truth.
E8 looks like a piece of the highest quality embroidery that my grandmother used to make with thin threads and perfect weaving, could the whole universe be knitted up and down with fermions and bosons? Mighty magic of a cosmic sound!
“If anyone amongst you performs the ablution, and completes the ablution well and then says: I testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger, the eight gates of Paradise would be opened for him and he may enter by whichever of them he wishes”. Muslim No. 234. 069.017And the angels will be on its expance, and eight shall bear that day the Throne of your Lord above them.
The Middle Ages Universal Map
The map of the universe in the Middle Ages was divided into sections, “heavens” where certain aspects of the universe resided. The Heavens were all thought to rotate inside the Empyreal Heaven in a uniform, clockwise or anti-clockwise direction, at an unchanging pace.
The Tenth Heaven, the habitations of God and of all the Elect, the Prime Mover that controlled all motions of the other heavens. The Ninth Heaven is referred to as “Crystalline Sphere”, the Eighth as the “Firmament”. The seven minor heavens, all rotated in an anti-clockwise direction.
The Earth was considered the center of the Universe, being made of the four elements; Earth, Water, Air and Fire. The Heavens had one element; aether or quintessence (the fifth element). The Hell realm was at the center of the Earth.
Medieval Map
To Aristotle the universe was a collection of 55 concentric crystalline spheres, the outermostis heaven.
Plato accepted that there were planes and dimensions of reality other than the physical world and believed that the physical realm could be understood only by reference to these other “higher” planes of reality. Plato defines death as the separation of the incorporeal part of a living person, the soul, from the physical part, the body.
The soul is subject to many fewer limitations than the body. Hence, time is not an element of the realms beyond the physical, sensible world. The other realms are eternal, and in Plato’s striking phrase, what we call time is but the “moving, unreal reflection of eternity”. The body is the prison of the soul, and correspondingly “death is a rebirth”.
Plato describes in a play, some souls passing through “openings” or “passageways” leading from the earth into the realms of the afterlife. But one was told that he must go back to inform men in the physical world concerning what the other world was like. Plato does not doubt the survival of bodily death, but he warns that his descriptions are probabilities, at best, our souls cannot see reality in itself until they are liberated from the distractions and inaccuracies of the physical senses, and that human language is inadequate to express the ultimate realities directly.
Tantric philosophy
The world is seen as the outward manifestation (the shining forth) of what exists as pure potential in the Godhead. The emanation and embodiment of this potential takes place through a process of condensation from subtle to gross, (or devolution or unraveling of subtle into gross), through a series of stages, or cosmic categories, usually numbering thirty six.
In the Bhagavad Gita, chapter 11, “the vision of the cosmic form”. Arjuna experiences a kind of psychedelic light show, in which all the boundaries of the self are melted down, Arjuna sees the Gods, the great seers and the perfect ones, Buddha, Krishna, all the enlightened beings. All forms dissolve, and both life and death vanish into the light of the eternal. He sees the seven great cosmic planes, and he knows that all realms – earth and the heavenly realms and the hell realms below – are all holly and that all beings in both the manifest and the un manifest worlds shine with the same light of the one transcendent self.
The Vedas, life was understood to be a battle between the forces of chaos and the forces of order, between the forces of the Gods who propped up and maintained the universe of space and time, and the anti God forces who were seeking a different form of order. In the Vedas, nearly every cosmological hymn talks of creating order and harmony in a system that is always on the verge of falling apart.
The Vedanta include views about the continual rebirth of time and space, the existence of un manifest realms of reality, the existence of countless beings in realms above and below the human realm, the rebirth and transmigration of souls, the belief in the hidden reality of the subtle sheaths of the body, the gross physical body that we can see and touch is only the most outward and visible form of a whole layering of energy realities that exist at increasingly refined and less tangible levels. Life was believed to be a great pilgrimage toward reunion with the true self.
The charkas, the seven energy centers of the body, are sometimes described with particular sounds, colors that supposedly accompany each charka. These energy centers and pathways discovered in the yogic tradition , correspond remarkably with similar energy pathways . described in other cultures, as the Chinese in their acupuncture system, the Hopi Indians in north America, as well as current energy research by western scientists.
Patanjali, the real nature of each soul, is pure spirit, (eternally unchanging), the individual spirit, becomes deeply ensnared in the material world through ignorance of it’s true nature. Freedom can be had only by completely disentangling spirit from matter. Self realization, in this tradition (Patanjali’s) is about awakening to the true self by purification of the mind and body, nonattachment and spiritual surrender.
