The Will’s Harmonic Motion

Summary At the end of the book, I added this section to summarize the main concepts mentioned throughout, and to give over all view in few points. The book itself is brief and concise and its main purpose is to explain the theory of “The Will’s Harmonic Motion”. • The will is everything we see, know, and feel. It is the inner essence of everything, whole and undivided. Everything is its objectification. • The will at rest is the thing-in-itself, the void. In the void, the will is one. There is no willing in the void, and the will doesn’t exist actually but only potentially. • The will in motion is the immediate objectification of the thing-in-itself outside the void, where it starts to exist actually as the world and the universe. Outside the void, the will loses its oneness and becomes multiple wills to be able to perform its divine comedy. • The movement of the will is a moral one and could be realized only through the conduct of human beings, which issued from their intelligible character. • The empirical character shows itself in every immoral/moral action or conduct in daily life. The empirical character is the physical side, the shadow, and the objectification of the metaphysical intelligible character. We deduce the qualities of the intelligible character by abstracting from the empirical character that is why it is called intelligible. • The will had the absolute freedom to leave the void and do what it wants, and it has the absolute responsibility for its actions. • The physical universe is moving in a harmonic motion. The will as a moral entity is also moving in a harmonic motion. • The will must go back to the void to be in oneness. That was its goal ever since it left. • In its way back to salvation, the will must move in a harmonic motion, which is moving in a circle or in a wavelike curve similar to the sine curve in geometry. The universe and the world are moving in a simple harmonic motion because it is everlasting. The will moves in a damped harmonic motion because it must stop and end. • The theory of the will’s harmonic motion is: “The will is in constant movement by changing its moral characters. The will moves in a harmonic motion.” • The intelligible character is the metaphysical moral quality of the will. It is inborn, individual, and unalterable for the duration of the individual’s life. • There are four intelligible characters possible for the human being: the aggressive, the egoistical, the moral, and the resigned. • The will changes its characters in a specific consecutive and predictable way, which makes it a harmonic motion. Therefore, a circle or a sine curve could represent this movement. • The will changes four characters in every cycle. Each cycle is four lifetimes. The characters are type I (the aggressive), type II (the egoistical), type III (the moral), and type IV (the resigned). Once the cycle started with type I, it must continue to type IV. • In its quest for salvation, the will could go through tens of cycles to expiate all immoral deeds that have been committed since it left the void. The only place the will could exit the cycle is at the end of it, type IV. • Salvation is the expiation of all immoral deeds and the end of all willing, and desiring. If the will becomes quiet and at rest, it could go to the void. This is salvation. • Any movement of the will causes the will to objectify itself automatically as a human being with the proper character and intellect. • The act of assigning the intelligible character to a person before birth was considered to be a mystery and out of our reach because it is a metaphysical thing. According to the theory of the harmonic motion, it is predictable. If we can predict the coming season, we can predict the next character for a person, providing we know his present one accurately. • The only freedom in the universe is still for the will because it alone decides when to move and when to exit the vicious circle. The will is free and predictable in the same time. • Only two things are eternal in the universe, the will and matter. Both are indestructible and without a cause. Matter is the visibility or the objectification of the will. • The universe, including humans as the final product of nature, exists only to perform the divine comedy. The physical and material reality of the world is just a mask for the will to hide behind to perform its act, and it has no real essence by itself. • As soon as the will is charged with immoral deeds, it will be objectified as a new individual. The act of creation is very easy for the will. It needs no knowledge, preparation, permission of higher authority or effort, like a child blowing soap bubbles. The chicken laid the egg, but the little chick created itself in the egg. • The creative power of the will is its ability to objectify itself immediately if the will starts to stir and move. The movement of the will is immoral deeds anxious to be realized. They need a body and intellect to be able to objectify. The healing power is the ability to maintain this objectification as long as possible. The main concern for the will is the species, not individuals. • Forms are empty. What is inside forms? The will. • Deeds keep the will going in cycles, endless rebirth, objectifications, reincarnations, getting in and out of the world. Through all this, it must feed on itself because it is the only existing thing. Exiting this vicious cycle is salvation. • Salvation is to stop the movement of the will by stopping willing and desiring. It means that the will must abolish itself. • There are two ways to attain salvation: • First, expiate the existing immoral deeds. Through suffering, we erase the consequences of our previous deeds. We must pay our karmic debts. • Second, don’t initiate new immoral deeds by refraining from revenge. • Enlightenment is to know and feel through a real experience that we are one with nature or the universe. Meditation is the tool to realize oneness and emptiness and to see things as they really are. Enlightenment doesn’t lead to salvation. Only suffering leads to salvation because immoral actions, not words, must expiate immoral action. • Meditation calms the mind and leads to enlightenment. Suffering calms the will and leads to salvation. • Time is a form of our intellect, like space and causality. The intellect has the ability to perceive the outer world by making representation or mental pictures of objects and its movement. In the process, time is generated as a by-product. There is no time outside our heads. Our racing thoughts are the way of our intellect to keep time. • Mindfulness is to reduce willing by slowing down the thoughts and let us live in the present moment. • The road to salvation is very unique for each particular will and intellect, every will for itself. No entity could help erasing the karmic debt, thus expediting salvation. There is no group action, no relations like family, religion, country, or any other affiliation could be of any help. It is just our deeds and us. • We are not one, but we are similar separate individuals. We have different body, intellect, moral character, and deeds; therefore, while we are in the world, we are totally different individuals. When we achieve salvation and abolish our will, we are in the void, and we are “One.” • The moral curves for animals are just straight lines. They don’t change characters. They don’t have an ego, enhanced intellect or moralities. They are not required to seek salvation, but they are in a constant state of meditation and see things as they really are. • Metaphysical actions are immoral in nature, initiated, and will be expiated according to metaphysical plans beyond the reach of our intellect. After the issuance of the metaphysical action, it comes under the jurisdiction of eternal justice. Eternal justice is the metaphysical side of the physical laws of cause and effect.