THE LAWS OF NATURE
Seneca the Elder once
wrote: "Quaedam iura non scripta sed omnibus scriptis certiora
sunt" (Some laws are not written but they are better established
than all written ones). What was he talking about? Which laws was he
referring to?
Um teaches that nine natural laws govern our
planet, each one of the nine planets of the solar system, the solar
system itself, every planet of the cosmos, whether life is there or
not, and the cosmos itself. These nine laws are the metaphysical
tools which make up HINEA. In the Bassa cosmology, the nine laws
which rule the universe are: 1) LIJO
(complementary contradictions),
2) NYINGHA (motion), 3) NJOM (causality), 4) MAHOL (evolution), 5)
PUN, or MAPUN, or MAPUNA (compensations), 6) OT (natural
attractions), 7) NON, MANON, or TOLAMANON (cycles), 8) NYONGEN
(hierarchy) and 9) NGWEY
(symbolic correspondences).
In the
five examples given above, what is at play is simply the heroes
manipulating these nine metaphysical laws. If you master
cosmosemantics, you can do the same thing. The interactions of
alchemical laws and the manipulations of the cosmic forces and their
reactions in the body cells are one essential part of
cosmosemantics.
EXPLANATION OF THE METAPHYSICAL LAWS
1)
COMPLEMENTARY CONTRADICTIONS: Contradiction is the capacity to state
the contrary of what is, here and now; and a complement is a quantity
needed to make a thing complete. Complementary contradictions will
therefore be those contradictions (like light and darkness, hot and
cold, man and woman) which, when they come together, are able to
create or/and sustain life. Remember that for a fight to take place,
both parties must be willing to fight. Each time you indulge yourself
in a fight, you enact the law of complementary contradictions.
2)
MOTION: Anything that changes a place is set in motion. Leaves moved
by the wind, a dog running... yourself walking apply the law of
motion.
There are nine known motions: 1) Vertical motion with
acceleration equals gravity equals 9.8 meter per square second
downward, 2) Horizontal motion with acceleration equals zero when
velocity is constant, 3) Rotational motion, 4) Parabolic motion, 5)
Oscillatory
motion, 6) Vibratory motion, 7) Torsion motion, 8)
Sinusoidal motion, and 9) Wave motion.
3) CAUSALITY or
CAUSATION: Relationship between the agent of bringing something about
and the effects caused by this agent. For example, if the land is
wet, it is because it has rained.
4) EVOLUTION: Series of
movements (process of change) in a particular direction. When you
hear that man evolved from ONE monkey, a process of change had
occurred.
5) COMPENSATIONS: Reparative equivalence between
effects and causes. For instance, the tremendous strength of a
crippled person's arms compensate for the loss of his legs.
6)
NATURAL ATTRACTIONS: The natural power to draw toward oneself by
emotional and/or aesthetic appeal. It's no secret that women attract
men, which says that women have a natural power to draw men toward
them by aesthetic appeal.
7) CYCLES: Period of time occupied
by a series of events that repeat themselves regularly and in the
same order, a recurring round of events, the seasons for example.
8)
HIERARCHY: Things arranged in ranks, or graded series. Teachers like
to apply this law in classrooms when they give grades and rank their
students.
Hierarchy is the central law because it's the
chemistry law. The periodic chart of the elements is a ranked
series.
9) SYMBOLIC CORRESPONDANCES: Agreement between these
first eight metaphysical laws at particular moments. When someone
beats gravity and say, walks on water, he is applying the law of
symbolic correspondences.
These laws work individually
(diachrone) and, at the same time, interact with one another
(synchrone). Picture the cosmos as a gigantic computer which collects
information from each law and as a result of these interactions,
re-injects all the information processed back into the system and the
cycle begins anew. The unity of the cosmos is a functional unity from
which every planet benefits. The cosmos benefits from the birth or
death of each star. The cosmos benefits from the birth or death of
every human being. The cosmos benefits from the birth and death of
every creature.