Group Meetings & Lectures with A. R. Orage,
New York – 1928 Part XII Notes by Carl Zigrosser
21 May 1928, Muriel Draper
Part II
Potential, Actual, Ideal. Potential indefinable—that which can be, given external or internal circumstances, capable of turning potential into actual.
Sum of tunes that have been played on our three octaves is repeating in the form of what we are. Visible recorded repertory.
Idealism is contradiction of the limitations of potentiality. We entertain 2 classes of wishes: wishes that are actualizable, and those that are not (they are parasitic).
Every ideal unactualizable that you entertain is at expense of something that is actualizable. It is mistletoe which, in Druid tradition, had to be cut and burned. Set down wishes into these 2 classes. Look at unactualizable wishes and call them mistletoe.
Real is that which is potential and therefore actualizable.
Four States of Consciousness. Strictly speaking only 3: sleep, self consciousness, cosmic consciousness.
When the Sleeper wakes—New Testament.
Self consciousness is conscious of self, that amount of original conceptual seed that has been actualized in the form of body.
Cosmic consciousness is conscious of cosmos, awareness of existence of other planets, suns, etc.—consciousness of body of God.
Chief Feature. Try first to discover chief feature of others by an offhand happy remark, not by elaborate process of balancing centers, etc.
Shaw—Brains go to his head.
Napoleon—Ambition. He will sacrifice everything for that. What made him suffer, his—
Chief feature is final determinative of value, something that, when driven, we will make sacrifice of everything else.
Imagine on stage, a number of figures pass, give them each a word swiftly then suddenly make yourself walk across the stage. If you are in right rate of vibration, you can throw it upon yourself—a word about yourself may flash up.
How to induce in yourself an emotional need to observe. Mantra—I wish to remember myself. A sum of recollected experiences artfully joined and so blended as to become a force.
Horse (Emotional), Driver (Intellectual), Carriage (Instinctive), Passenger (I). Parable of 3 centers in relation to I.
Normal procedure—Driver drives horses at request of passenger, horse draws carriage.
Passenger is not contemplation.
Abnormal man—Passenger asleep, driver drunk and dreams that he is driving, the horse is timid and takes fright at external stimuli with the result that cart is kicked to pieces. Driver is full of rationalization—wherever the cart goes, driver says he wanted to go there. Passenger must be wakened by high rate of vibration. If it is something to think about, the driver takes it, etc.—it must be something that only the passenger can do. Reins control of emotions. Driver becoming aware that he ought to drive somewhere. Second, emotion control, he must have reins.
(Behavior is stepping down of rates of vibration by octaves.)
23 May 1928
Chapter on Germany, Paris
Ahoon tells about food on earth.
Asiatic food best. Beer in Germany,
Germans collect rubbish.
Stumpsin du mein Vernugen,
Blodsinn du meine Lust.
Owing to turkey reasoning, Germans have wrong idea on most subjects.
Ahoon goes to Paris. Goes to Grand Café, Blvd des Capucines. Americans (whose turn it was to be rich) in great numbers there. Real French beings scarce in that part of the city. Goes to a licensed house in which there were no French women. Explores with guide this contemporary Tiklandia, café of homosexuals & lesbians, slopes of Montmartre.
In café reflects why Kundabuffa inflicted on human souls. Was there any difference between this and the inhabitants of Tiklandia, Babylon,
Samlios first capital of Atlantis,
Grabonia, covered by Sahara,
Tiklandia, covered by red sand,
Babylon exists only as a couple of stones.
All of these people suffered from Kundabuffa.
He & Persian joined by an American Director of modern dancing. American is asked why his school for fox trot is in Paris & not in America. Getting rich in America is not so easy. If a painter paints a good picture, he acquires fame and thereafter people pay, but in America people are after cash. 
— Notes transcribed by Peter Harris
Notes are transcribed with some missing punctuation added; transcribers annotations are italicized and in brackets.