I won’t teach it to you to use as the mathematician's language rather you will learn it as it is one of the keys to the universe. The bridge between the spirit and logic.” Gabriel watched the elder monk embrace his role as a teacher so much that he began to pace the front of the classroom like a preacher dishing out enlightenment. “You will learn the shapes and the logic behind those shapes and their meaning in the spirit. You will commit all to memory and when the time comes, you will expand on this knowledge, turning it into truths that allign with your perfect self.”
“Now, as a rule of thumb or a hack; circles represents the core concepts: creation, destruction, evil, good, those aspects of life that are true, irrefutable and wholly on their own. Squares and triangles represent everything else, the physical concepts: fire, earth, air, water, wood. The derived concepts: harmony, disharmony, love, hate and all others. Wherever the circle and the triangle or and the square is used it entails a change or better yet a manipulation of the ‘manifestations’ of the concepts of this world, the chemistry between individuals atoms and everything in between.” Elder monk Chen paused his steps, tapping his chalk on the podium “and that is the basis of this course. Ah! I forget, an introduction is due. I will let him introduce himself. Stand tell us your name and where you come from.”
Gabriel stood, clearly aware he was being addressed. “My name is Gabriel Zhao and I hail from Aniu-lang province. Son of Nobunaga Zhao the vice chancellor of The university of Aniu-lang.”
“Good, now Gabriel here is my new assistant, you will find that I will be sending my massages to you through him. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to go to him after the class, he will complie them and relay them to me and I will do justice to them. But that is a side note, now back to the topic. Just as a recap, ‘Aether’.”Elder monk Chen went to the board and spelt it out.
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“The same one in your chemistry and biology textbooks. All through your initiate years, you have heard of and studied aether at least the basics of it, can anyone tell me what they understand by the word ‘aether’.” monk Chen waited.
A girl, the only girl in the class, raised her hand. She wore the robe of a disciple and had heterochromia, one of her iris was sky blue while the other was a light shade of brown almost yellow.
“Yes, first introduce yourself and then answer the question.” The girl stood up, a little rigid in her movement “my name is Da-hye, initiate Da-hye. ‘Believing that the movements of the heavenly bodies are continuous, natural and circular, and that the natural movements of the four terrestrial elements are rectilinear and discontinuous, it concludes that the heavenly bodies must be composed of a fifth element, aether, for stability’. Sir Lloyd, G.A.”
“A good definition of aether, Sir Gregory’s, If I am not mistaken. It is a good definition, disciple, shows that you are reading, anyone else wants try?” Monk Chen looked at the boys, “you can use your own words” Sparing a look at Gabriel “nobody?” monk Chen shook his head “Only one brave student? Well let’s continue. ‘Ather is’ like initiate Da-hye said ‘the material in which all other materials and, or matter in the universe exist, all matter, material or immaterial flow within it, like writing on a paper. It is popularly theorized that aether is derived from the source and from that aether, all other forms of matter or non-matter is derived.”
“Please remember, to move from an Initiate to a Disciple or from a novice to a Scholar as it is termed by the academies, it is expected, a given in fact, that you understand aether and what you want to gain from it. ‘Want’ is going to be a major driving force in your advancement from now on. ‘you want to and you advance, you don’t want to and you don’t advance’ it is simple and at the same time not. But to know what to want, you must understand the options available to you. I will teach you those options in due time and the differences and consequences of each choice."
