Like any of the old theories, it is written in the context of the information known at the time. I think a review of the concepts presented, with what we know today, may yield some interesting conclusions.
Fortune wrote:
I have long argued that in the RS, "unit motion" of 1/1 cannot exist, because in Unity, there is no dichotomy (no aspects of space nor time). So I am in agreement here.The Unmanifest is the only Unity. Manifestation begins when duality occurs. The prime duality is "Space" and "Movement".
The first manifestation was a current in space.
When reading the text, her use of the term "space" is not as one of the aspects of motion, but is a reference to the Unmanifest Unity, which Larson would call the "progression of the natural reference system," at unit speed. Therefore, a "current in space" would be some displacement from that Unity.
Fortune wrote:
Sounds a little crazy at first, but actually makes a lot of sense. Motion, in the context in which she uses it, is in the low-speed (1-x) range, and thus is a displacement in time, perhaps a speed of 1/2. If one has read any of the RS astronomical papers on the precession of the perhihelion of Mercury, then you will be familiar with the effects that motion in coordinate time has upon space... simply put, it "torques" it.These two factors are present in all motion, but the desire for movement, being the stronger, overcomes the desire for inertia, and the desire for intertia continues as a check upon the movement. Therefore the movement is pulled upon slightly. That is why there is no such thing as a straight line in the Cosmos. All movement therefore has a slight curve in its projection, therefore it returns to the spot whense it started, and forms a spinning ring.
Though I have never considered the idea before, she may be exactly right -- any temporal displacement will, because of its movement in coordinate time, "loop" what appears to be linear space into a giant circle -- polar space. This prime movement is referred to as the "Ring-Cosmos".
Fortune wrote:
In order to balance the inward, temporal motion of 1/2, a motion of 2/1 must therefore exist. I believe this is what she is describing, for 2/1 * 1/2 = 1, and net Unity is maintained. In terms of the RS, what she is describing is simply two motions:The spinning in one plane continues until the stresses which it generates evoke a new movement, and a second current in space is set up at right angles to the first, and the same process is repeated. These spinning planes of force may be conceived of as resembling the Rings of Saturn.
We have now two spinning planes which, at two points cut each other, and it is worthy of note that the second plane forms outside the first and is therefore larger in diameter.
...you may call it the Ring-Chaos the prime evil.
1) Ring-Cosmos, outward motion in time (good).
2) Ring-Chaos, outward motion in space (evil).
In Larson's terms:
1) Ring-Cosmos, the Material sector.
2) Ring-Chaos, the Cosmic sector.
And what happens when good and evil meet? Outward motion in time is equivalent to inward motion in space; outward motion in space is equivalent to inward motion in time. The net result is NO motion, relative to "space", unit speed. She derives this as the "Ring-Pass-Not", a spherical boundary that occurs "between" these two rings, that becomes an impenetrable boundary, separating the outside "chaos" from the inside "order."
What we have here with the Ring-Pass-Not is simple: the original "Unit Speed Boundary" separating the Material and Cosmic sectors; a giant "bubble" in the "solid" background of unit motion (interestingly enough referred to as "chaos"). There is an interesting similarity to Fortune's descriptions and the Blavatsky's "bubbles in koilon", where "koilon" is Fortunes' "space" and Larson's "progression of the natural reference system."
The Ring-Cosmos is basically motion in time, moving everything towards the center of this unit-speed, Ring-Pass-Not "bubble". Ring-Chaos does the opposite, moving everything towards its periphery. Thus, Fortune has correctly identified the two basic motions students of the RS are familiar with.
I have more comparisons and conclusions from this material, but it does require some familiarity with her work to understand. Of particular interest are the "tides" of inward and outward motion, where one has priority over the other. Some interesting stuff there. Let me know if I should continue discussing this. Thanks.