"Now it is a day without number. In that day, they shall be numberless.... An event has produced a number of events which shall produce the Event... He is the Knower. The Knower functions as the Self. Picture him as Self." The Knower is a man standing in two shallow circles, water on the left (his right) and fire on the right. These pools are connected by a narrow channel and steam rises to his vitals. His right hand holds an egg upright over the center of his chest, and this egg sends forth a root and two green leaves which reach to his chin. His left arm is extended forward, raised in benediction. Above him a golden sun sends shafts upward and downward to his head and has golden wings attached on either side. An event (the big bang of cosmology) produced a number of events (the evolution of the cosmos) which shall produce the Event, when the galaxies come imploding back to another big bang, a singularity in time and space (a day without number) in which the elements shall be blended. But the hopeful part is that the Knower shall re-express this in a new universe. Here the long and mysterious work of the Reverser is completed and we have truly and fully become God... the Self. The egg is symbolic of the new universe, while the fire and water finally are blended and rise as regenerative steam. The winged Sun-cross is a phoenix symbol, not unlike that introduced by Zoroaster for Ahura-Mazda (divinity). The two pools form the shape of the Eternal Life (doubling of the way) sign. The Way and the Life go on forever... Eternal Life for the Knower and Death for every specific thing, including the universe itself. Thus ends the revelation of the Nameless One. |