Channel Number 5' (Oil painting on canvas by Alan Rayner, 2007).
This picture is based on understanding numbers (and all natural
flow-forms) as living relational channels, not discrete points on a dead line to infinity. The symbolism is largely based around the
words of 'Green Grow the Rushes, O', and shows how when 'One' is not 'All Alone (all one)', 'Two' (the lily white swans dressed in
greenery) is no longer 'binary' opposition and 'Three' is no longer a bone of contention for rivalry between One and Other. Instead,
One dynamically includes Other, and the 'Gold (Air), Silver (Water) and Bronze (Earth)' of 'Olympic Sovereignty' is no longer a
hierarchical 'order of merit' but a vital Communion of All including All. Moreover, darkness (the blackness of the Fifth and Infinite
dimension/channel) is an inclusion of light and no longer 'objectified' as 'Evil' (Evil being a product of excluding Shadow through the
attempt to purify Light in the Quest for definitive Knowledge of Right and Wrong; when Shadow is excluded, Love is excluded and 2 become
opposites in conflict, not the heart formed from their mirror imaging). This is why we need to love Other as Self, not make an Enemy of
It. Love (receptivity) turns One Way to Hate When Excluded, but flows Both ways when included.
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Channel Number Five
a poem by Alan Rayner
Come on you Two
Won’t you fuse with us Three
So that we no longer have to be
Rivals?
In an Olympic Golden Sovereignty
Of One on either side of offence
That makes you over
Into binary opposition
An oddly singular couple
Of thrust and counter-thrust
In action and reaction
That denies the even handedness
Of your giving and taking
To and from each
Receptive and responsive influence
A tidal flow that empties
As it fills and fills
As it empties
In a chord with circumstantial need
To keep a breast
In tune with Mother
Who can give
No more than she can provide
If she is to sustain her sustaining
Identity of one in All and all in One
A world with out end
In which none can begin
Without being taken in
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