The occult phenomenon of multiplication can be succinctly defined as an increment that is given by the iteration or, in other words, the repeated action of a gap (or, in other words, of even a very small distance), which is integrated and accumulated ad infinitum. From the occult point of view, the phenomenon of multiplication is a mysterious operation whereby something which is multiplied by something else is thus increased, sometimes very greatly. In this way, due to the multiplication effect, a great increase arises and results, which under certain conditions is astonishingly great. The occult phenomenon of multiplication is fully integrated and fully realized as such, only when we observe very carefully and lucidly what is happening. Awareness of the occult phenomenon of multiplication makes its discovery possible, and then facilitates the gradual deepening of this occult phenomenon. The following significant little story allows us to understand what actually happens when an occult multiplication effect occurs:
In an ancient Indian legend it is told that the Indian King Ciham intended to offer the inventor of chess, his vizier Sissa ben Dahir, a reward for his marvelous invention, and therefore told Sissa ben Dahir, with great arrogance, that he could offer him anything he wished. Observing the king’s smugness, and wishing to teach him a shattering lesson, Sissa replied, “Your Majesty, I am a modest man. I do not want worldly riches. Please give me one grain of wheat for the first square of the chessboard, two grains of wheat for the second, four grains of wheat for the third, eight grains of wheat for the fourth, and you will continue to do so until all sixty-four squares of the chessboard are covered with wheat grains.”
Because he was unable to intuit what happens when a multiplication process is triggered, the king was astonished and delighted that so little was asked of him. He clapped his hands and ordered a sack of wheat to be brought to fulfill the ingenious mathematician’s request. But then, to the king’s astonishment, the sack was quickly used up and the chessboard was not even a quarter covered. The same happened with the other bags that were brought in later. And behold, indeed, it was only then that the king realized that Sissa ben Dahir had asked him for a number that was astonishing, that was unimaginably large of grains of wheat. On the 21st square of the chessboard alone, the king would have needed to put a million billion wheat grains, and finally, on the 64th square of the chessboard, the king would have needed to put more than 9 trillion, that is, 9 followed by 18 zeros of wheat grains. Basically, all those wheat grains would have amounted to far more than the entire annual agricultural production of the whole of India.
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