I had already understood.
We had an agreement in our group that whoever went to Moscow and heard any new explanations or lectures must, on his arrival in St. Petersburg, communicate it all to the others. But on the way to St. Petersburg while going carefully in my head through the Moscow talks, I felt that I would not be able to communicate the principal thing because I did not understand it myself. This irritated me and I did not know what I was to do. In this state I arrived at St. Petersburg and on the following day I went to our meeting.
Trying to draw out as much as possible the beginning of the 'diagrams,' as we called a part of G.'s system, dealing with general questions and laws, I began to convey the general impressions of my journey. And all the time I was saying one thing, in my head another thing was running: How shall I begin—what does the transition 1, 2, 3 into 1, 3, 2 mean? Can an example of such a transition be found in the phenomena we know?
I felt that I must find something now, immediately, because unless I found something myself first I could say nothing to the others.
| H6 | HI | ||||||||||
| H12 | H6 | HI | |||||||||
| H24 | H12 | H6 | HI | ||||||||
| N48 | H24 | H12 | H6 | HI | |||||||
| H96 | H48 | H24 | H12 | H6 | HI | ||||||
| H192 | H96 | H48 | H24 | H12 | H6 | HI | |||||
| H384 |
