‘Circle of Immortality’ Device
Circle of Immortality Art Piece
The ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation art piece was created by Susan Griffith-Jones in 2006.
Circle of Immortality art piece
Its very simple construction of a circular mirror, 2 glass equilateral triangles and a brass covered copperplate spiral has a very detailed meaning, which is explained fully in Susan’s book, ‘The Pyramid Spiral, Dance of the Five Elements’
Susan’s book, ‘The Pyramid Spiral, Dance of the Five Elements’
Cross section view of the ‘Circle of Immortality’ art piece from below with its actual and mirrored reflection together creating an imaginary octahedron
View of the actual installation art piece from below
At the time Susan made the ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation art piece (2005-6), she didn’t know that this would lead on to her using structure as the layout of the timeline of her first Kaleidoscopic Film, skilfully embedding its inherent shape and their vibratory meaning in an artistic documentary also called by the same name, ‘The Circle of Immortality’.
Summary of the meaning of ‘Circle of Immortality’ art piece
We have seen in the above pictures that there are 2 versions of the ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation art piece;
- The physical structure; a spiral of 13 turns resting upon 2 equilateral triangles that sit upon a circular mirror
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- an exact illusory, but inverted replica of the above-described structure reflected within the mirror.
Contrary to what may initially pop into the mind as an explanation for these 2 aspects, the solid part of the structure sitting above the mirror actually resembles ‘Consciousness’ occurring in all its different possible states, whereas its perfect reflection in the mirror beneath it symbolises the ‘Physical Appearance’ manifesting around it, according to the quality of the Consciousness mirroring it into the space.
More specifically, depending on the angle from which Consciousness views the mirror-like screen of all appearance occurring around it, like tuning into a Radio station, it thus simultaneously resonates the corresponding scenery, situations, objects, people, subtleties etc… of that frequency, that subsequently appear within the vastness of Space that’s seemingly appearing outside of the physical body it is occupying.
Having developed other pieces of work, as well as met other thinkers and been influenced by their various devices, by 2019 Susan realised that the ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation art piece may not only be a symbol describing the relationship between Consciousness and Appearance, but may also be a functioning device that could have an extraordinary effect on the various physical, energetic and subtle bodies of biological creatures, including humans, if a simple addition were made to its current composition.
Process of making the ‘Circle of Immortality’ Device
While making ‘Crystal of Time’ in 2017-18, Susan came across the work of Dan Winter, who explains the process of transference of Hertzian Transverse waves into Longitudinal Compressional waves, a massive ‘leap of orbit’ that occurs when Transverse waves spiral along 2 opposite vortices of 60 degrees, whose apexes connect with each other at the centre.
In between them, longitudinal compressional waves emerge.
Dan Winter’s ‘pine cones kissing noses’, transverse waves becoming longitudinal
This process is exemplified by 2 x ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation art pieces joined at their apexes, whose slopes are already 60 degrees.
Two conjoined ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation art pieces, in effect creating infinity
Information that symbolises this meaning is also embedded into her ‘Crystal of Time’ photo collage art picture.
In addition, it also displays the knowledge of the inner workings of the Longitudinal pulsation wave occurring between the 2 apexes, shown here as the golden circle at the centre of ‘Crystal of Time’ (Picture 1 of Series II) that is magnified into detailed perspective in the photo collage art picture, ‘Diamond Lens, Doorway to Infinity’ (Picture 2 of Series II).
Susan’s photo collage art piece, ‘Diamond Lens, Doorway to Infinity’
Yet, instead of building a completely new, equal and opposite physical ‘Circle of Immortality’ art piece to fit together with the existing one, Susan decided to modify the existing structure by placing another circular mirror directly on top of its apex, facing downwards, so that the apex of the physical piece joins its reflected apex that’s actually inside the mirror.
‘The ’Circle of Immortality’ device
Susan realised that creating a device in this way goes above and beyond the original intention of the ‘Circle of Immortality’ art piece that is symbolically describing the relationship between Consciousness and Appearance, in that upon experiencing this firsthand, an understanding of the relation between our Consciousness and the Appearance occurring around us, may actually occur in the mind of the observer.
With the Hertzian waves of the electro-magnetic spectrum being continuously transformed into longitudinal non-Hertzian waves in this way, the ‘Circle of Immortality’ device becomes a functioning machine, patterning the space it dwells within with a centred vibration, creating movement in the energy around it to such a rhythm that it ultimately has the capacity to change the energetic state of the gross and subtle environment in its midst and bring wellbeing to all the gross and subtle layers of biological life that may come into its presence.
A Portal to Other Dimensions…
Due to its capacity to reflect whatever it encompasses, to infinity, this closed circuit of energy theoretically creates a portal to higher dimensions through which you, with your ordinary transverse brain waves transformed into longitudinal compressional wave forms, may immediately access multiple layers of your Mind and ultimately, the stillness of its dissolution.
And, using the skilful reflective quality of the mirrors facing each other while it is stationed in one position of Space and Time is potentially how Longitudinal waves may transfer themselves everywhere, immediately, through a vast, infinite network of octaves of harmonic resonance, whose keynotes are like nodes in an array that string together like beads on a perfectly arranged geometrical lattice that spreads through all dimensional states.
In this way, as the vibrations instantly pulse themselves to infinity, all illusory appearances within the mirrors may either consciously or un-consciously, simultaneously experience the vibrations.
Ultimately, we may imagine this structure inside of our own head, as even a tiny space where these reflective qualities of the mirror of Consciousness enable us to have immediate access to the whole of existence.
Next steps
Firstly, through just using a model prototype of the ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation piece as described above with its 2 mirrors; one at its base and one at its apex, it’s necessary to both find out at which precise point the ‘Circle of Immortality’ structure stops being physical and becomes subtle, in order to ascertain that a conversion of transverse into longitudinal waves is actually taking place where the 2 apexes meet.
Having established that when the Transverse waves pass along the 60-degree angle of the physical ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation art piece from both directions, a Longitudinal wave does actually emerge at the centre of their 2 apexes.
In this way, it should now be possible to determine the relationship between the physical spiral and its illusory image of itself that meet at the surface of the mirror, something that is integral to understanding the rapport between inter-dimensional spaces and how to open doorways between them.
Now, it is necessary to understand what effect the two mirrors placed at each end of the two ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation art pieces, are having on one’s consciousness while it gazes at its own manifesting pattern (you!) in a multi-layered reflection.
- If you are standing upon the central part of the mirror inside the structure with the spiral twisting around and above you to its apex, with its reflection staring up at you from within the mirror below your feet, from that point of view you will only be able to see one enclosed unit and you will not be aware of any other appearance, ie. the reflection of the spiral to infinity that may only be seen from outside of that unit.
- Here you will be able to comprehend what it feels like to be INSIDE any enclosed space or object of matter and see its inner mechanism, rather than only the outside of it.
- If you move a little to one or the other side, depending where you are standing you will start to see a few cracks in its so-called covering and therefore understand that there is something existing ‘outside of’ that unit.
- But it’s only from the outside of this inner space that when you peer through the cracks of its slices of turns, you can
- get a glimpse of its vast inner mechanism
- see an infinite chain of ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation art pieces in subtle appearance, reflected to eternity within the mirrors,
- see that there is a lot of space to both enter and exit to and from that seemingly enclosed place.
It is thus proposed that when a person enters inside this space and experiences a self-sustaining reflection of infinity and all layers of manifest reality in between, he or she will be prompted to, on some level, consciously understand the Nature of Existence.
The Magician’s Jewel
Computer image of ‘The Magician’s Jewel’With the current size of the model of the ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation piece, just to experience the effect of the reflection mentioned above would mean placing one’s head face up just inside the rim of the device and peering up and down into the mirrors, something that would give you the idea of what is being expressed here, but not to actualise the understanding in your system.
Therefore, in order to more effectively describe its potential, the open pyramid, the spiral and the mirrors of ‘The Circle of Immortality’ have been incorporated into Susan’s installation piece, ‘The Magician’s Jewel’ that will be physically built in a large enough size with a lot of space for people to enter and walk about on, in order to experience the feeling of being inside a vast system, reflecting to eternity.
The kind of space that could be suitable for an installation as large as this is a large city piazza, area in a park, or inside a very large room of an exhibition hall.