Anode and Cathode
The illustration above shows a battery with the anode and cathode connected to “plates” immersed in a medium (salt water for example). The medium provides some (even if very little) resistance to the electrical flow. The tendency will be for negative charge to move from the anode to the cathode and positive charge to move in the opposite direction.
Surprisingly perhaps, this can be viewed as a very simple model of the Universe – from the perspective of Objective Science.
The Electric Universe Perspective
The Electronic Universe theory observes that galaxies, suns and planets are connected to each other by Birkeland Currents that move positive charge (positive ions of Hydrogen, Carbon, Nigtrogen, Oxygen and other substances) from high voltage points to lower voltage points. It observes that these electrical connections go from galaxy to galaxy and from sun to sun within galaxies and from sun to planets and planets to moons within solar systems.
We can think of this as a cascade of positive electrical charge that permeates the Universe at the macro level. But if there is such an electrical cascade then there must be one (or possibly more) points of maximum charge. And also there must be something at the center of suns, planets and moons, which maintains a perpetual voltage difference between the sources which send it positive charge.
If there were noting that maintained this voltage difference then, in time, logically the moons, planets and suns would gradually equalize their voltages with their sources of charge and the electrical flow would cease.
Enter the Absolute
From the perspective of The Work, as described in Beelzebub’s Tales, the suns, planets or moons are points of stability. As Gurdjieff writes when describing the Law of Falling, as follows:
“This cosmic law which he then discovered, St. Venoma himself formulated thus:
“ ‘Everything existing in the World falls to the bottom. And the bottom for any part of the Universe is its nearest “stability,” and this said “stability” is the place or the point upon which all the lines of force arriving from all directions converge.
“ ‘The centers of all the suns and of all the planets of our Universe are just such points of “stability.” They are the lowest points of those regions of space upon which forces from all directions of the given part of the Universe definitely tend and where they are concentrated. In these points there is also concentrated the equilibrium which enables suns and planets to maintain their position.’
“In this formulation of his, Saint Venoma said further that everything when dropped into space, wherever it may be, tends to fall on one or another sun or on one or another planet, according to which sun or planet the given part of space belongs to, where the object is dropped, each sun or planet being for the given sphere the ‘stability’ or bottom.
We can thus envisage the center of suns, planets and moons as Anodes of a kind that naturally attract positive ions to themselves. And we can envisage the original source of this positive charge as the Absolute. The Creation of the Universe can thus be envisaged as The Absolute separating himself (as the ultimate cathode) from himself (as a multiplicity of anodes).
If this is how it is, then it is difficult not to conclude that the Absolute maintains the Universe using suffering as the third force – the Holy Ghost, so to speak.