THE THEORY OF CELESTIAL HARMONY

THE THEORY OF CELESTIAL HARMONY is the title of a book by RODNEY COLLIN, who was perhaps the very last student of P.D. OUSPENSKY and also the last person to see Ouspensky alive....as well as being a controversial writer.....I have read this book on and off for the several years I have had it and always find something new to excite and interest me, though I am fully aware that other students of Ouspensky, THE WORK, THE SYSTEM, THE IDEAS,etc.( all derived in most part from the TEACHINGS brought ot the West and formulated and practiced and taught by G.I. GURDJIEFF, the original teacher of Ouspensky about such things, although Ouspensky had done a lot of traveling and research,obviously, but his life was disrupted by THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, an event that had world-wide consequences and from which Ouspensky never recovered)....I am aware that those students do not accept or approve or agree with the writings and claims and discussions/conclusions of Collin for a wide variety of reasons..... but I choose to ignore them at this time and merely discuss those sections of his thought that have apparent validity and emphasis...... The introduction to the work is important to read as it gives a view and glimpse of what one can expect as will the table of contents.....though many may consider the work ponderous,presumptive, and profound...if not boring in sections..... Nevertheless,this book will give a fair assessment and evaluation of the ideas found in the major writings of Ouspensky that can be checked against them in a comparison and contrast of all of them...if time permits and sufficient interest is generated...Certainly reading this book is not for the lazy or the frivolous to undertake....and there are other equally ponderous and profound works that tend to confirm these things, though with their own peculiar and particular flavor but I shall not mention them here. The book's charts and diagrams,etc. might well be updated along with the tables that end with World War II basically and might include the many years afterwards to demonstrate the things that Collin points out...but this would be a great task to update such, one that many might be extremely reluctant to undertake. Be that as it may, the book by Rodney Collin is not just a book on time,space, the stars, the universe, and a lot of physics and mathematical information,etc. but an outline that can help in the development of the intellectual, emotional, and possible physical aspects of the human being.....that many neglect for other things and also help in becoming aware, possibly conscious,...awake and not asleep, though reading it may well bring on drowsiness.......I can't read the book for you....that is your task and your work....I can only discuss it in terms of what it means to me and what I perceive as its important points and ideas,etc. `