THE TRIAD -- Part IV

Blue-green bacteria, as a photosynthetic life-form, was immobile. It didn’t seek out the light; it floated passively, waiting for the light to strike its body. It drew life directly from the sunlight. This new form of life did not have things so easy.

One aspect we have not examined much up to now is the manner in which the involving motion of the triad is consuming in nature, pulling bits of matter down into the gullet. Indeed, this is the motion of the digestive tract, the peristaltic wave.



However the triadic field of movement is two-fold. It is not only movement within, along the digestive tract, but there is also external movement through space. This movement was of three sorts, walking along the ocean floor, burrowing through mud, and swimming.

Another aspect of this creature's existence is that it not only consumed the photosynthetic bacteria, but it also consumed, and was consumed by, other creatures of its own sort. These creatures, fueled by the growing amounts of oxygen in the biosphere, crawled and burrowed and swam, eating as they went.

And they bred as well. They reproduced not through division, but through sex and the laying of eggs.

In astrology, the Moon rules the sign Cancer, the crab.

The first form of animal life to appear in the fossil record (and I mean animal in the obvious sense, not including the sponge), the trilobite is an ancestor of sorts of the crab, in that they are both from the arthropod phylum.

The earliest form of animal life (in the sense dictated above) was likely a bottom-dwelling leggy segmented soft-bodied worm that failed to leave much fossil evidence. The triad’s mechanism models all of these life forms.