"There is no wisdom in fighting fire with fire.
You are being tempted to engage in the battle – to jump into the fray, shouting and yelling.
We have repeatedly emphasised the futility of this approach.
Fighting your opponent is not a strategy upon the wisdom path.
But out-manoeuvring and out-playing your opponent is.
Consider a game of chess. Your opposing pieces do not touch, do not scuffle, or engage in physical combat.
The wisdom is behind the hand that makes the moves.
The wisdom is in positioning yourself beyond the reach of your opponent.
In the regular game of chess, there are two sides facing each other.
Yet the Game has changed.
There are no two ‘opposing teams’ in this Game – there are multiple.
Each side has their own agenda – shows their own colours – and they await in all available corners.
The complexity of the game-board has risen considerably.
Time to outsmart by the wisdom of understanding the Game rather than going in ‘to attack’ through the old ways. “
Kaleb Seth Perl. “Welcome to the Machine”. A Revolution in Human Becoming
This excerpt from Welcome to the Machine perfectly encapsulates what happened with the advent of Quaternity.
And yet, as far as I know, the author has no knowledge of our game.
This is not surprising for two reasons.
First, because Quaternity, at its core, is a mental construct—one that seems to have originated from another dimension and fits seamlessly into the world as it stands today. We are in the midst of a radical transformation, where once-untouchable models are now rapidly becoming obsolete.
We—ordinary human beings—do not know what the future holds, whether near or distant. But I am convinced that the intelligence behind this game was looking far beyond the present moment.
Its full potential is yet to unfold. However, those of us who have been playing it daily for the past five or six years can confidently say that something magnificent has arrived—something here to stay. We feel a sustained thrill, one that exists in the presence of deep silence.
Secondly, this is not surprising because a few sensitive, intuitive minds have already foreseen what is unfolding on a higher level. They can articulate, for the rest of us with less vision, the key coordinates needed to prepare for what is coming. The Universe is provident.
The analogy of chess is fitting. Developing a peripheral view—cultivating new "organs of perception" rather than charging forward in a single direction—becomes an ever more urgent skill to acquire.
The old ways are clearly embodied in traditional chess. So much so that I suspect many experienced players feel a growing need for an additional dimension—one that moves beyond the limits of an otherwise highly intelligent yet increasingly predictable form of entertainment.
I wouldn’t be surprised if what unfolds on the Quaternity board is merely a reflection of a much greater event—a symbolic manifestation of planetary forces at work.
But we do not need to know everything. Perhaps simply understanding this game will prepare us to understand that Game—the Real one.
"In it, what is in it."As Rumi’s Fihi Ma Fihi reminds us.
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