‘Circle of Immortality’ Device
Circle of Immortality art piece
Circle of Immortality art piece
The ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation art piece was created by Susan Griffith-Jones in 2006, along with an artistic documentary film, also called ‘The Circle of Immortality’, whose layout is designed on the inherent shape of its structure.
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
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’
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 its layout to create the structure of her first Kaleidoscopic Film, also called by the same name, ‘The Circle of Immortality’.
Henceforth, within various other contexts, she is ever attempting to skilfully embed shapes and their vibratory meaning into artistic documentary films.
Summary of the meaning of ‘Circle of Immortality’ art piece
There are 2 aspects to the ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation art piece;
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- the physical structure; a spiral of 13 turns resting upon 2 equilateral triangles that sit upon a circular mirror,and
- an exact illusory, but inverted replica of the above-described structure reflected within the mirror.
The solid part of the structure sitting above the mirror resembles Consciousness occurring in all its different possible states, whereas its perfect reflection in the mirror beneath it symbolises Physical Appearance manifesting exactly according to the Consciousness mirroring it into the space.
Depending on the angle that Consciousness views the mirror-like screen of all appearance around it, like tuning into a Radio station, it thus simultaneously resonates the corresponding scenery, situations, objects, people, subtleties etc… of that frequency, to appear within the vastness of a 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 the human being 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
Also using the information that also symbolises this meaning and is embedded into her ‘Crystal of Time’ photo collage art picture,
as well as the knowledge of the inner workings of the Longitudinal pulsation wave occurring between the 2 apexes that is held inside the golden circle at the centre of ‘Crystal of Time’ (Picture 1 of Series II) and 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 the reflection of itself in the mirror.
‘The ’Circle of Immortality’ device
Susan realised that creating a device in this way, was going above and beyond the original intention of the ‘Circle of Immortality’ art piece that symbolically describes the relationship between Consciousness and Appearance, so that this understanding 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 sits 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 several 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 all dimensional states, as the vibrations instantly pulse themselves to infinity, causing all illusory appearances within the mirrors to either consciously or un-consciously, simultaneously experience that vibration.
Ultimately, we may imagine this structure inside of our own head, as a small space where these reflective qualities of the mirror of Consciousness enable us to immediately have access to the whole of existence.
Next steps
Firstly, it’s necessary to ascertain that a conversion of transverse into longitudinal waves is actually taking place here.
Then, through finding out at which precise point the ‘Circle of Immortality’ structure stops being physical and becomes subtle when the Transverse waves passing along the 60-degree angle of the physical ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation art piece, become Longitudinal at the centre of their 2 apexes, and thus determining the relationship between the physical spiral and the subtle image of itself at the surface of the mirror, is integral to understanding the rapport between inter-dimensional spaces and how to open doorways between them.
It is 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.
Due to the current model size of the ‘Circle of Immortality’, this will mean placing one’s head face up just inside the rim of the device and peering up and down into the mirrors.
But to more effectively express its potential, ‘The Circle of Immortality Device’ needs to be physically built in a large enough size with a lot of space for people to enter and walk about on the surface of the mirror itself to experience the feeling of being inside a vast system, reflecting to eternity.
The kind of space that could be suitable for it is a large city piazza or a park area, or inside a large room of an exhibition hall.
It is now necessary to understand what affect the two mirrors placed at each end of the two ‘Circle of Immortality’ installation art pieces, are having on consciousness while gazing 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 outside of that unit.
- Here you will be able to comprehend what it feels like to be INSIDE any 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.
To further refine this experiment, a pentagonal shape needs to be placed at the base of the existing structure, because it’s the angles of this shape that instantly opens a portal, and captures the Hertzian waves of the electro-magnetic spectrum into its vortex where they may implode into longitudinal compressional waves at its centre.