CX

CC

Being an Inconcise Compendium

of Irrational Thought

in the Fields of Science, Language,

Philosophy, Music, and Theology

Which

Borders on Truth—

Most of the Time.

By J. Wesley Allen

MCMLXXXI

 

Introduction to The Second Hundred

The full works which constitute The Book of Wesley have been dubbed “The M” or “The Thousand,” although it is not clear that he had a thousand coherent thoughts, much less that he wrote them down. Even though he considered the work “irrational,” a more appropriate term might be “non-rationalized.” He simply wrote his own observations and feelings and did not make an attempt to sort and categorize, but simply to express.

Each “C” or Book of One Hundred, explores at successively deeper levels the understanding that this one person came to have of life while living in a suspended state of consciousness. There has been no attempt by this editor to isolate and categorize the topics covered in anything more than the order in which he wrote them. Thus, cross-references are made only to preceding statements, and never anticipate or look ahead to future thoughts. 

Wesley used Roman numerals to identify each Hundred verses (C, CC, CCC, CD, D, etc.) and we have continued that convention by tens for releasing the book in this forum. The editor has chosen to continue consecutive numbering in Arabic numerals rather than beginning each hundred at one. Cross-references to statements will be shown only by the Arabic numeral and will not make reference to which Hundred.

Nathan Everett, editor

August 2, 1981

CX

101.      The soul mate (41) cannot be chosen in time/space relationships. They are chosen in the super-conscious which is not bound to the physical world and the measurements it imposes. The soul mate may work through different physical manifestations at different times.

102.      Time is not an absolute, nor a constant. The measurement of time is proportionate to the universal motion. Time, therefore, is a “physical” thing. (23)

103.      If the universal motion were inconstant, in other words, speeding up or slowing down periodically, time would also speed up and slow down in relation to it. Since all material things are dependent upon their relation to the universal motion, the mechanics of our clocks and measuring devices would slow or speed at the same rate as the universal motion. We would, therefore, not be able to ascertain the change in universal motion, all relative things—even the deterioration of atomic particles—maintaining their relative speed.

104.      If change in the universal motion cannot be ascertained, can such change be said to exist?

105.      Trying to explain time, I asked what a year was. 365 days. What is a day? 24 hours. What is an hour? 60 minutes. A minute? 60 seconds.

106.      So what is a second? Logically, in my elementary school mind, I believed a second was the basic element of time. That is what the skinny hand on the wall clock swept past that built all the quantities of time that followed it.

107.      But reversing the order of definition brought a clearer definition of time. A second is 1/60th of a minute which is 1/60th of an hour which is 1/24th of a day. The basic units of measurement—our clocks, if you will—are defined as proportionate to the day. These also have astronomical implications which are more easily seen in the larger units.

108.      A day is the period of time from sunset to sunset. It is, therefore, measured by the earth’s rotation (motion), not by a pre-determined time unit. A year, is marked by the earths revolution around its sun (motion). Thus, our basic units of time are derived from the relative movement of the cosmic bodies.

109.      Imagine if you would, what would happen if it took “more than” 24 hours for the earth to rotate on its axis. Rotation and revolution are bound together like the gears in a clock. The distance around a center gear is measured by the number of times a small revolving gear will rotate on its axis during one revolution. That number is always the same, no matter how fast the rotation.

110.  The mechanical measuring devices that we create to mark off our progress in this revolution and rotation are equally as dependent on that motion as the rotation of the earth is. Our very body chemistry—even entropy—is linked to the same cosmic clock.