Course XXXI - Teaching 16: The Ired of Hes

The universal movement is called Ired.
It is the Unique Law –as a zero point in the immense space.
Any law depends on it and converges on it.
Here an example may be necessary: If you blow a ball up, and fill it with air, and later you blow it up again with more and more strength, the new air presses against the previous air, and this pressure changes the form of the air inside the balloon, by compressing and expanding it.
In the cosmos, air over air is the Spirit acting over Matter.
The air expelled by the divine lung circumscribes the limit of the Universe, and the Ired is this great and first movement limiting the Consciousness of the Cosmos.
Now, air, substance of the Universe, lives its own life and establishes its own laws.
The Ired moves in se.
The cosmic substance compresses the cosmic substance, and involution begins by this movement of cosmic consciousness.
Once this is made, who can stop the motive power of the Ired? It moves and moves quite fast in any direction, and forms the great laws of chance: divine mathematics.
Consciousness becomes infinite consciousnesses. A rapid movement looks for immobility or movement of lower quantity. Bigness surrenders quite fast to littleness.
A fixing dissolution.
It is like a great universal explosion.
The balloon of air explodes in infinite living particles by remaining in its own circle.
Now the great unique movement of Ired, made movements and consciousnesses, cannot be taken as such any more, but as wills toward a unique will.
How is this transformation produced?
Consciousness becomes consciousnesses, and the circle begins rotating round itself and forming infinite circles. This operation of moving and rotating makes the difference between circle and circle; in fact, this difference is the line that gives an ideal basis of quantitative transformation of the One.
These are the three fundamental movements of the Universe. It is the Ired more in se and more a se. Cosmogony says divine beings involve and evolve following three great steps.
Now this circle of consciousness is not such if you see it through the point related to individual consciousnesses.
If one of these consciousnesses could see before itself, it would not see circles in the space, but immense lines going straight ahead of it, ones after others, arranged in long rows, never touching each other. This is logical, but not true.
The individual souls are big lines that never come together and finally cannot see themselves, from far above.
Will is will, and progress, that is, evolution, would not exist without will and without the viewpoint of will –a line.
These immense lines are no more than a sustained and executive potentiality of that immense circle as a whole.
The movement Ired, which is straight in its persistent will and curve in this molding consciousness, travels through the Universe oscillating on itself in order to weaken impacts of its dual power.
The Law of Ired is one, but its deriving laws are entirely self-contradictory.
When its laws of inversion reach a zenith, they need entirely opposite laws to themselves in order to become reversible and vice versa.
Cosmogony says the same.
Involution, evolution and arrangement of the Universe have two great movements of adherence and resistance. And the latter have at a time other seven movements: progression and regression, attraction and repulsion –circular, spiral and fixing.