“Seeing the position of an event within the pattern of a harmonious time vision is an aid to the perception of the Cosmic Truth and in fact, it is this perception that is the fundamental factor in the transformation process from Cosmic Ignorance to Cosmic Truth,”
The New Way
~Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet p. 295
When I was just 14-years old, fire had already been in use for about a million years or more, harnessed for keeping warm, cooking and eventually making ceramics (26,000 years-ago). Smelting metal came along next (5000 BCE), and then, breakthroughs in pottery led to the invention of the wheel (3500 BCE).
Fast forward more than five-thousand years to the Gutenberg printing press (1440s), and we discover one of the overwhelming all-time favorite inventions to top any list of greatest inventions in history. Close behind the printing press is the remarkable progress in our understanding of electricity, with contributions from Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Michael Faraday, and others.
Alexander Fleming is in the running perhaps, with his discovery of penicillin (1928), forty-seven years before my 14th birthday. Or before that, consider the steam engine, which a Scotsman by the name of James Watt invented (1763-1775). But even Watson and Crick’s foundational work on DNA structure (1953) was before my time.
When the early internet was first launched, as ARPANET by the U.S. defense department, it connected researchers and eventually morphed into the World Wide Web, connecting and archiving communications for every user around the word. I was 8-years old (1969), but fundamentally we could argue that “the web” was simply an extension of the printing press, doing essentially the same thing only faster, and in a way the was more distributive.
The mobile phone (1973), smart phone (2007), and quantum computing (2011) all rank as great inventions in my lifetime, as do nanotechnology (1974), YouTube (2005), and ChatGPT (2022), but these are all simply “inventions” of “things” outside ourselves, like fire and the wheel.
When I was 14, in 1975, Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet published her groundbreaking book The Gnostic Circle, which revolutionized our vision of Time Spirit the way Benjamin Franklin’s observations revolutionized our understanding of electricity. Patrizia wrote in The New Way “Seeing the position of an event within the pattern of a harmonious time vision allows one to perceive its true meaning and purpose within the whole.”
For me, the greatest “invention” is not merely about how we manipulate the external world, but how we perceive time itself within creation—as nonlinear and imbued with a simultaneity that reflects a higher state of consciousness: The Gnostic Being.
HVA
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Citations for this essay:
Books:
Norelli-Bachelet, Patrizia. The New Way: A Study in the Rise and Establishment of a Gnostic Society. Aeon Books, 1981.
Norelli-Bachelet, Patrizia. The Gnostic Circle: A Synthesis in the Harmonies of the Cosmos. Aeon Books, 1975.
Websites:
“Aeon Centre of Cosmology.” Aeon Centre of Cosmology, aeoncentre.com. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
“Time Perception.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
“Aeon (Company).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon_(company). Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
Academic Articles:
“Time Consciousness: The Missing Link in Theories of Consciousness.” Oxford Academic, academic.oup.com. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
“Time and Time Again: A Multi-Scale Hierarchical Framework for Time.” Oxford Academic, academic.oup.com. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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Sources
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