Partie 2 · Observation intérieure 10

Chapter TenExplains the topic of coupling by striking, which consists of two forces: a pulling force and a repelling force. They operate simultaneously, one in the coarseness, and the other in the hardness of the screen.A detailed explanation about the meaning of the words “coupling by striking”128. The topic of coupling by striking requires an elaborate explanation. There is an apparent positive and negative together here, for coupling and striking mean rejection and separation, and great hatred. Thus, how can you say “a coupling of striking,” which implies love of hatred, or adhesion of separation, or extension of rejection? This is indeed perplexing.

129. Indeed, they are two opposites under one governance. However, this governance consists of two unique carriers, meaning two forces: a pulling force and a repelling force. The pulling force is in the coarseness of the vessel, and the repelling force is in the screen in the vessel. They have been assembled together and both govern simultaneously, at one time in two places.

130. I will elaborate in order to examine it thoroughly and make it acceptable to the mind without arousing any confusion or bafflement. I will give you an allegory from the imagined corporeal reality that is depicted and appears to our eyes: When you see a rock or a person falling from a high place to the ground, you see that that person is being pulled from above downward with great force and speed. Still, when he reaches the ground and touches it, the ground strikes him and pushes him a bit upward.

131. There are two conjectures here: One conjecture is that the earth has a great force that pulls everything that is placed in the air, if there is nothing solid to protect it. Thus, when a person disconnects from the roof of the house into the air, that pulling force of the earth immediately controls him. This explains the matter of the speedy fall to the ground. However, there is a question here, for according to this, the earth should have embraced him lovingly, without letting him move from it even a bit. Still, we see the opposite: The minute he touches it, it quickly pushes him back and he returns slightly upwards.

132. Conversely, there is another conjecture, that there is another force, which repels from above, from the air, a repelling force that operates on anything airborne and pushes it to the ground. At the same time, our earth has only the repelling force, and none of the pulling force. Thus, when the person disconnects from the roof of the house and becomes airborne, the repelling force instantly operates on him from above and brings him down to the ground. Hence, when he touches the ground, it pushes him back, upwards.

133. If we deduce from the branch about its root in the upper worlds, for matters are usually close to one another, we will find that both conjectures are incorrect. We might also say that each and every planet has a pulling force and a repelling force that are combined in one another. In other words, there is a force of coarseness, which is the pulling force to draw inwards everything that is outside of it, and opposite it, it has a force of hardness, which repels any external body from entering it. Thus, any extension must certainly come from the central point in its internality, for that is where its pulling force lies. It is so because the central point is coarser than the entire planet, and therefore pulls into it anything within that peripheral space under its force of operation and control.

134. However, it does not pull it to the point of swallowing it, as it should have been had there only been the pulling force. Instead, at the very moment when the pulled object touches its outer crust, the repelling force in the crust, which is the hardness, promptly awakens and repels it back up.

135. It turns out that what it pulled to it was received not by pulling, but in another way, since it was stopped midway by the force of hardness that repels it and detained it in its way. Thus, both coupling and striking operate here together, where the coupling pulls and the hardness repels. As a result, it receives it on it, and does not swallow it alive into its abdomen. We can therefore say that the vessel for reception is primarily the repelling force in it, which receives it and sustains it as it should be, for without the repelling force, it would be swallowed alive within it.

136. You can also see that the pulling and the repelling are as equal as two drops of water in the measure of their strength. Had the pulling force been a little stronger than the repelling force, it would have been impossible to move on it, for anything moving would be glued to it like iron to a magnet. Alternately, had the repelling force been somewhat stronger, the whole world would be dancing on it and would not be able to touch it. Thus, they are equal.

137. In the same manner, you can thoroughly understand the matter of coupling by striking conducted in the upper ones. Even though the coupling and the striking are two opposites, they still participate in one governance, simultaneously, at one time, but in two places, which are the coarseness and the hardness, and remember this for the rest of this wisdom