From little things, big things grow (Found in the Harmony of Love) -
Donald Chalmers, 1st July 2012.
Independence Day !

I've been thinking of how I might respond to a comment regarding a very popular header "Six word Stories, Dare to Write" in the linkedin "Writers & Bloggers: Passion Creative" Group regarding "Platitudes": "Good Lord, people. Stories. Stories! Dare to write! - do not mewl with platitudes !"

From my perspective, "from simpler propositions and (even) six-worded cliché's we form platitudes; from platitudes we form truism's; from truism's we gain maxim's; from maxim's we find axioms; from axioms we intuit aphorism's; from aphorism's we "know" what is moral, and what is not, what is good and what is bad, and what is right from what is wrong".

Forwards or backwards doesn't matter, so long as we progress, in a positive direction, so that we may Truly Live, and Love, with Goodness, and Productivity of Heart and Mind and Action as our only Goal !

This is how languages are built up, amplified and embroidered; this is how a child learns its first concepts, and words to express them. According to a recent documentary I watched on TV, most parents simplify their expression when their child is present, and thus build up the child's confidence "grain by grain", or "word by word" until suddenly the child can string thoughts, and then whole sentences together.

Current techniques are in hand so that as well as seeing things in the "macro" we can also now see these things in "micro". It is now seen that sometimes the macro and micro theories we've been able to come up with thus far, do not agree with each other. That's not necessary. But each seems true in its field. Even the nothingness of "space" is "three-dimensional", at the very least. Just a little thought confirms this for us.

"Time" itself can now be broken down to infinitesimal small fractions, so that "it" too can be "broken" (from what we had thought of as a continuous linear progression) down into separate "pieces" which can be "mirrored" and further separated by "brains" or "membranes".

It is my "belief" based on experience, that if something is true, or largely true, then we should be able to add these things together, in any order, and with only a few "joining" words, to make sense of them in a different way. The simpler the line, the easier it should get.

For example, from my title: "From little things, big things grow". This was a popular line and melody (with sweet and harmonious singing) which celebrated diversity here in Australia, just a few years ago.

Nothing split by Unity is "Phi", the "Constant of Creation" ("Φ"). "I" is the simplest "quote" possible, at least, in the English language, where it uses only one letter.

The meaning of "I" is very clear. "I" is all that "I Am", and "I Am" is God. Therefore, when we amplify "I" to "I Am", we see "Phi" ("Φ") which indicates that "I" exists within the everlasting, all-inclusive "whole", which we mostly represent as the "figure 1", meaning "one".

"Φ" is the symbol or "character" in the Greek language which represents the Greek three lettered word "Phi", a very special number which has very special properties relating to the circle, and the Greek symbol for "Pi" ("π").

Pi you might remember from secondary school, has a specific numerical value: 3.142... to an infinite number of decimal places (which roughly equates to 31/7), so that 2πr = the circumference of any circle of given radius "r". As angular measurements, Pi equals 180 "degrees", π/2 = 90˚ etc.

Numerically, Φ possesses exceptional mathematical properties: 1.618 ÷ 0.618 = 2.618; 1.618 × 1.618 = 2.618. That is, Phi "squared" - ie Φ "squared" = 2.618... to infinity, and Phi "cubed" = 3.618... etc.

In any increasing progression where Φ is the ratio between successive terms, each term is equal to the sum of the two preceding. This uniqueness affords the simple calculation of a series. From any two successive terms, all others may be defined by the use of compasses.

Phi has often also been called the "Constant of Beauty", in that it pervades the natural and numerical worlds, created by Nature itself, everywhere. Φ, which is a true, never ending, and never repeating series of numbers, which encapsulate the totality of the whole, is known as the "Golden Ratio", or "Golden Mean", or "Golden Proportion" or "Golden Section", or "Golden Number".

This additive sequence was apparently first rationalized in arithmetical terms by the 12th Century Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa. It is generally known as the "Fibonacci Series", with each successive figure being the sum of the previous two - ie: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89, etc.

This series is not only significant in practical terms, but has long been recognized as a fundamental principle in the structure of plant and animal organisms, and accounts for the spiraling nature of sea shells, and so on.

It is no "wonder" then: the "Constant of Creation" has Beauty and Proportion etc "inbuilt"....

Anything which is of enduring worth is slowly and gradually built in this way - sounds, words, language, vision, intuition, and understanding etc notwithstanding. It is on this solid ground that "all else" rests.

And thus, it should be no surprise to us that many mathematicians have written with great enthusiasm about this extraordinary concept, used by architects and builders worldwide for millennia to create structures of great beauty, as they try to emulate the perfection of Creation found in Nature, which is the work of something outside of our realm - "God", or "GΦd" - no less. Consider the following concepts:

i = phi φ (less than one's self); I = One Whole self (1); Phi = Ф (More than One's own: Self !).
0. 1. I. I am. I am Phi ! I am Phi I am ! I am that I am - two; you too !
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc....

As a non-linear progression, the Fibonacci Series is represented pictorially by the following "sea-shell-like spiral" (as shown at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number etc), and "in space" at http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/04...-think-lateral via the Hubble Telescope, the internet, etc.

According to ZaKaiRan (see http://www.zakairan.com/ZaKaiRansArt...m#.T_BrMhce7IY), "The real reason we are attracted to Sacred Geometry is because it represents creation; something we are all reawakening within our divine creative nature. We are attracted to Sacred Geometry because it is masculine and feminine; something we are all balancing within. Sacred Geometry represents or is an image to help us remember creation and how to create. Sacred Geometry is the essence of creation.

Sacred Geometry is a universal language that allows us to access ancient knowledge contained in our cellular memory. It is the key to understanding the nature and value of color, sound, light, love, creation... Sacred Geometry provides complete understanding and experience to consciously co-Create a new world of Divine Expression and accelerate the Ascension process. Sacred Geometry rekindles our cellular memory of knowledge lost during the old civilization's prime directive of "mastery of limitation."

Who are "we" to say "no" to this distilled vision, this "essence" ?

But to get back to simpler concepts: There are two single lettered words in the English language - "a" and "i". Both consist of two parts, as commonly written in "lower case". Most people, except perhaps linguists accept this. There are but a few two lettered words: am, me, no, oh, we - and - an, in, on, of, or, to, etc (?).

There are not many three lettered words which "make sense" in and of themselves: "all", arm, axe, bad, bag, cut, dip, dot, dry, hip, hot, hut, fan, fat, fog, gun, gum, ice, off, oil, one, old, pal, red, sky, sue, two, wet etc (?). There are perhaps a few more which must be combined with others to make sense - eg "act", add, and, bid, bin, baa, fob, law, our, put, sue, the, too, two (etc ?) !

Then there are many four lettered words, and many many more others - longer still (but mainly made up from simpler "others"), which we combine with other words both long and short as a "mix", to make up "one sentence", which can be as short as "I", "I am" or long.

Some sentences can even be constructed to contain all of the twenty-six letters of the Latin Alphabet without repetition - eg "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

The English language is indeed a puzzle. There are many "pointers" along the "way" to the "meaning" we intend to "convey". Sometimes we "restate" the sentence "in other words" to make our point "crystal clear". And as in all languages and relationships, "context" is everything, but choosing just the right word, or words is important. Luckily for "us", we now have electronic aides of all sorts to help us select them.

Some words such as "live" can be "reversed" to give a completely opposite meaning (evil). That "God" is "good" can perhaps be inferred in that only one extra letter (the central letter !) needs to be added (repeated) to gain one aspect of the fundamental "character" we attribute to "God", the "Creator of All Things - both animate and inanimate, time and space, male and female, food and drink, etc ad infinitum".

Indeed, as the modern-day keypads of mobile phones are "configured", it is amazing that the eight keys used to configure the twenty six letters of the alphabet, when used in "predictive mode", reveal amazing similarities in words containing the same number of letters.

For instance, the keys we press to spell out "good" can simultaneously mean "home", "respect" can also spell out the first letters of its opposite - "persecu(te)", "love" is "loud", and "clear" is "clear" etc. The list of surprises goes on and on. "Push" equals "surge", also, for example.

Take a look at your mobile phone to confirm these "facts". These are facts, and only facts !

But my understanding of language springs from my naïve and native verbal use of English, and from my reading etc. The rules of grammar and the pedagogy of linguists are wasted on me, for I am but a common person.

Language specialists are trained in the art of writing, and of diction; they may rework their own thoughts to fit the rules they have learned regarding "present" and "past" tense, adjectives and verbs etc - and sometimes so much so, that their work becomes almost "unreadable" and "unintelligible" to non specialists - like "me" - and the rest of "us".

In the simplified way I can understand it, some languages use miniature "characters" or "pictograms" or "hieroglyphs" rather than combinations of letters to denote concepts, or words. These are however "built up" from simpler "meanings" (plural), often layer upon layer.

These layers may resemble the outline of the "figure" (person, or house, or object etc), or the "action" (type of work, or even status) meant to be conveyed, like currently used internationally recognizable "symbols" which serve as simplified pictorial representational "signs" (eg, for Male, or Female etc).

The "brush strokes" of the writer must be clear, or confusion reigns - and the meaning must be teased out from the context with other signs, just as we do with words in English.

Some concepts require more than one word ("character") to describe them. Thus, "pairs of characters", may be written vertically downwards, from left to right, or vice versa. Or they may be written horizontally from right to left, rather than from left to right. When this latter occurs, then each book seems to English readers, to require opening and reading from "the back", and the spine of the book is held to "the right", rather than to "the left", as "we" are used to.

To complicate matters further, the pairs of characters used to describe many concepts are not usually "boxed" as a pair, and can be mixed in with the single characters of less complex concepts, so that the reader has to pair up appropriate characters as he/she proceeds from the beginning to the end.

Thus it would appear that this "building up of relationships" is a "constant" throughout language groups; otherwise all systems fail, and "darkness falls" (ignorance reigns), until the groundwork is re-established, illuminated, and "built up" once more.

When we wrestle with the concept of "Divinely Inspired" but man-made "religion" - which is surely the study of "all that is good" (God) - and what is "not", we must recognize that "There is no hate in Love". Love is the immutable foundation on which to build anything which is of enduring worth (Swami Amarananda) and that apart from these things, There should be no compulsion in religion (Koran):

For it's only space which separates us (Nothing separates us). We should Hurt no one - so that we may not be hurt (Muhammad). We should Be kind, even to our animals (Solomon). Love your neighbour as you love yourself: Do this and you will live (Jesus): If I have no love, I am nothing (Saul, who became Paul).

The worth of a life is measured by how much love it has. Everything else is nothing. Nothing at all (Dietrich Bonhoeffer). If we do not see God in ALL, then we do not see God - at all ! (Concluding song, 5th Parliament of the World's Religions, Melbourne, Australia, December 2009)".

As I've already mentioned, it seems to me that "From simple propositions and (even) six-worded cliché's we form platitudes; from platitudes we form truism's; from truism's we gain maxim's; from maxim's we find axioms; from axioms we intuit aphorism's; from aphorism's we "know" what is moral, and what is not, what is good and what is bad, and what is right from what is wrong". Forwards or backwards doesn't matter, so long as we progress towards the flowering of our "understanding", and "kindly action" ! :


From little things, big things grow.
Feed the earth; feed the world.
Be generous and kind. Be strong.

Get busy living: get busy loving.
Gold and Silver have I none:
Excepting for me and thee - All !

"Gold" - always has a positive balance.
"Sterling" still has a good name;
They don't only refer to money.

"That" only IS, which is Eternal.
Thou Alone, the Eternal remaineth, and
Thou art Enough. Remain in "US".

Wish you were here, with me....
Lost in the Harmony of Love....
Worshipping God in Spirit, and Truth !

Now consider the "reverse" of the above six-word aphorisms, which (perhaps) reveals another aspect of living "well":

Worshipping God in Spirit, and Truth !
Lost in the Harmony of Love....
Wish you were here, with me....

Thou art Enough. Remain in "US".
"That" only IS, which is Eternal.
Thou Alone, the Eternal remaineth, and

"Gold" - always has a positive balance.
"Sterling" still has a good name;
"They" don't only refer to money.

Gold and Silver have I none:
Excepting for me and thee - All !
Get busy living: get busy loving.

Be generous and kind. Be strong.
Feed the earth; feed the world.
From little things, big things grow.

In conclusion: I trust, hope and pray that these few words, the amalgam of many, will not be lost with you.

May all of life's benefits and blessings be yours, also ! Amen, and Amen ! Salaam ! Shalom ! Pax ! Peace !

Donald Chalmers, "a piper too", 1st July 2012