Rotation
16.1
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Axis and wall - arranging and casting out
Earth is a rotating body. To be exact, Earth rotates on its axis. As we have seen (14.1), this rotation generates a specific arrangement or ordering of fractions within the surrounding field. Taking the centrifuge as an example, we see that this ordering action is partly due to the existence of the wall. The wall actually plays an essential role. For without the wall, the contents of the centrifuge would simply be flung away, thrown outside the action radius of the rotating axis. So the ordered arrangement is generated by the rotating axis together with the wall.
Sun and Saturn
Readers who are familiar with astrology will have no difficulty in relating this concept to the cooperation between Sun and Saturn. The Solar principle corresponds to the central, rotating axis casting out a field around itself, and the Saturnian principle to the boundary of the wall. By means of these two principles, any system is able to order its content and throw out any foreign elements. By analogy, depending on the degree of cooperation between these two principles, a similar ordering occurs within every human being.
The Polar axis
On the Poles, we encounter an unusual situation regarding these movements of flinging away and collecting. On the Poles, axis and circumference converge into one single point (5.3). In theory, the rotation is still casting out a field of its own, but the radius of this field has decreased to zero. Therefore, Earth’s axis cannot project itself onto a circumference here; the rotating axis keeps to itself (13.8). No manifestation arising from the rotating axis is taking place on the circumference any longer. Nothing is being arranged or sorted here either. As we have seen, this situation offers new possibilities (15.4).
Spinning and standing
Yet, an ordered arrangement is not the only effect produced by rotation. Rotation also brings about a second effect:
Any object turning on its axis with sufficient speed will ‘stand’. It will stand upright, just like that, on its own. It does not fall over. We can see this in the spinning ball on the finger of a circus performer, or in the peg tops of children playing in the street. As long as they keep spinning, they remain upright. The spinning object acquires an invisible vertical axis, as it were (7.1), and also seems to acquire an upward force, opposing gravity. The stronger this uprising movement, the better the chances that our own re-ordering, which can be regarded as essential (3.1) for our human existence, can be realized (15.4). This maximal inner upthrust is sometimes referred to as the tensile strength of the Self.
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