08-30-2010, 12:03 PM
Hi Q,
My short answer to your question is that I would normally have interpreted the nadir of a sine wave to be the lowest point. What I offered is my interpretation based upon the fact that Ra seemed to be using the term to indicate the "critical points" of interest.
Upon further re-reading the quote, I now feel that he was referring to the traditional nadir (which is opposite the zenith, and hence represents the lowest point), and was distinguishing it from the "critical points" when the values change from + to - and - to +.
This would also change my interpretation as indicating that, if both inner and outer work are indicated by different phases of the cycle (a fact which I am still not ready to concede), then likely, outer work is indicated by the negative phase of the cycle.
In reading it earlier, I thought that Ra was referring to the "critical points" when he later used the term nadir. This was strange to me, based upon the definition of nadir, but I went with it, and thus was forced to create the oxymoronic term "negative zenith", to represent the lowest point. On reading it again now, it makes much more sense that he's simply moving on to discuss how things work at the nadir (lowest energy), as distinct from the zenith and critical points.
Hope that makes sense,
3D Sunset
My short answer to your question is that I would normally have interpreted the nadir of a sine wave to be the lowest point. What I offered is my interpretation based upon the fact that Ra seemed to be using the term to indicate the "critical points" of interest.
Upon further re-reading the quote, I now feel that he was referring to the traditional nadir (which is opposite the zenith, and hence represents the lowest point), and was distinguishing it from the "critical points" when the values change from + to - and - to +.
This would also change my interpretation as indicating that, if both inner and outer work are indicated by different phases of the cycle (a fact which I am still not ready to concede), then likely, outer work is indicated by the negative phase of the cycle.
In reading it earlier, I thought that Ra was referring to the "critical points" when he later used the term nadir. This was strange to me, based upon the definition of nadir, but I went with it, and thus was forced to create the oxymoronic term "negative zenith", to represent the lowest point. On reading it again now, it makes much more sense that he's simply moving on to discuss how things work at the nadir (lowest energy), as distinct from the zenith and critical points.
Hope that makes sense,
3D Sunset