tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2536245096438053362024-03-16T16:09:21.517-07:00Geometric Keys of Vedic WisdomBLOG: Discussing Supramental Yoga, Integral Yoga, Cosmology & the role of Sacred Geometry in recovering the true sense of Ancient Vedic Wisdom & World Mythology. [Website: www.360lotus.com]Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.comBlogger293125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-8676896162350102562024-01-20T06:00:00.000-08:002024-01-20T08:20:40.878-08:00The Spherical Gnosis of the Sage ~ Part 7 ~ The Apocalyptic Flood of the Divine Son and his Aquarian Kumbha<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeciiYCvV2biMIaSmkbocmO8oXGRDGGUwvXgBIh4Bb_T34Ykwj6gzCtsCuveWb4DJUyxpl7GwyvZzWoNSbM02BwdL2cP7f8CNYWEX0a-LXnXPhuQ6l8BhUI3PID_h16oO49ZPWAyzDjTzfTQKSt5EiVzejHzeKdfPHMPlfCMb40TJpDfao2wt6n8YNdhc/s899/Destruction_of_Leviathan.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Destruction of Leviathan Gustave Dore, 1865" border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="712" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeciiYCvV2biMIaSmkbocmO8oXGRDGGUwvXgBIh4Bb_T34Ykwj6gzCtsCuveWb4DJUyxpl7GwyvZzWoNSbM02BwdL2cP7f8CNYWEX0a-LXnXPhuQ6l8BhUI3PID_h16oO49ZPWAyzDjTzfTQKSt5EiVzejHzeKdfPHMPlfCMb40TJpDfao2wt6n8YNdhc/w506-h640/Destruction_of_Leviathan.png" title="The Destruction of Leviathan Gustave Dore, 1865" width="506" /></a><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Destruction of Leviathan Gustave Dore, 1865</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;">[Link to Part <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" target="_blank">1</a>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">4</a><span style="text-align: center;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">5</a> or <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" target="_blank">6</a><span style="text-align: center;">]</span></span></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“He who fixed fast and firm the earth that staggered, and set at rest the agitated mountains, who measured out the air's wide middle region and gave the heaven support, He, men, is Indra. [He] slew the Dragon, freed the Seven Rivers, and drove the kine forth from the cave of Vala.…By [Indra] this universe was made to tremble, who chased away the humbled brood of demons....” – Rig Veda 2.12.2-4 excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Send down for us the rain of heaven, ye [storm gods], and let the Stallion's flood descend in torrents. Come hither with this thunder while thou pourest the waters down, our heavenly Lord and Father. Thunder and roar: the germ of life deposit. Fly round us on thy chariot water-laden. Thine opened waterskin draw with thee downward, and let the hollows and the heights be level. Lift up the mighty vessel, pour down water, and let the liberated streams rush forward.” ‒ Rig Veda 5.83.6-8, tr. R.T.H. Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Led [by his rivers] and sent forth, the Strong Steed hath come nigh for spoil…. [Agni] coming as a Sage from heaven to prosper us, <b>flow like the Sun for us to see</b>.” ‒ Rig Veda 9.64.29-30 excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In Part Six I discussed the Vedic prophecy of the Apocalyptic birth or revelation of the Divine Son, Sage or Horse, Agni as <i>Soma Pavamana</i>, via his (and likewise Indra’s) seven rivers or floods as a <b>zodiacal</b> <b>prophecy</b> of an expected evolutionary shift or birth out of the dark womb of our linear-binary consciousness and into the spherical, supramental unity consciousness of the Divine Sage in the Age of Aquarius/Kumbha. I have written at length about the revelatory release of the zodiacal and geometric sense of the seven rivers-mothers of the Sage-Son-Horse or “Stallion’s Flood” (illustrated below) in conjunction with Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet’s (Thea’s) 2 October 2016 passing, approximately seven years before the writing this article (October-November of 2023) and will not expand upon that experience here.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjErHisyQjmAkkx9xWWDIWxX3IdFswlEwW1rxy5OgE8N4X6O2FPJ_FP-Lc_1zMeyPR2E4DgOIIMURktTCmIE6hhLpuT_NEq1BcgqyrUdTHYUOl4SPE1xIkA5uH0qsgCptS5jUhyYq5lRpivD2I6jdQNeDT0De5cg52hh8LoUv_6WwGCoaZ4ddoUJ-wOUtk/s3200/7-Rivers-1st-7th-Trine-Zodiac-Sage-Halo-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The zodiacal geometry of the Seven Rivers (seven vesica piscis) of the Vedas (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="600" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjErHisyQjmAkkx9xWWDIWxX3IdFswlEwW1rxy5OgE8N4X6O2FPJ_FP-Lc_1zMeyPR2E4DgOIIMURktTCmIE6hhLpuT_NEq1BcgqyrUdTHYUOl4SPE1xIkA5uH0qsgCptS5jUhyYq5lRpivD2I6jdQNeDT0De5cg52hh8LoUv_6WwGCoaZ4ddoUJ-wOUtk/w636-h283/7-Rivers-1st-7th-Trine-Zodiac-Sage-Halo-01.png" title="The zodiacal geometry of the Seven Rivers (seven vesica piscis) of the Vedas (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" width="636" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">It is worth reemphasizing here that I see the 2016 revelation of the sacred zodiacal geometry of the seven rivers (=mothers, cows, etc.) and the sacred zodiacal geometry of the Vedic Kumbha or Water Jar as a natural extension and fruit of Sri Aurobindo’s supramental consciousness-force and his avataric yoga of recovering the <i>Sanatana Dharma</i> or eternal law of the Vedic Seers. In my view, the 2016 revelation of this zodiacal geometry, 144 [=12 x 12] years after Sri Aurobindo’s birth in 1872 [=12 x 12 x 12 + (12 x 12)], is a sign, symbol, and marker of his avataric victory as the Vedic Sage, in Vishnu’s Age of Aquarius/Kumbha, where the lost spherical or zodiacal (360°) gnosis of the Vedic Rivers and their Kumbha or reservoir (<i>samudra</i>) is recovered and released. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I do not see this Sagittarian-driven “Flood”,—equivalent to the purifying heavenly waters poured out of the Aquarian Water Jar or Kumbha—, as solely a geometric and zodiacal symbol. It is inextricably and integrally a symbol of the purification and dissolution of our narrow-minded, binary-linear Ignorance and via the birth of our own indwelling unity consciousness. One natural outcome of this prophesized birth is the illumination and restoration of the spherical and zodiacal context of long misunderstood Vedic, as well as pre-Vedic and post-Vedic symbols and lore. This emergent seed of our spherical, supramental unity consciousness and its accompanying floods of illumination and integration, establish the wholistic foundation of the prophesied “Heaven on Earth”, which Sri Aurobindo wrote of as <a href="chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://sri-aurobindo.co.in/workings/sa/18-19/the_life_divine_18_e.pdf" target="_blank">“The Life Divine”</a>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In Part Six I also discussed St. John’s <i>Apocalypse</i> or <i>Revelation</i> as a reimagining of the poetic zodiacal prophecy of the Vedas. I wrote:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“So long as the Vedic sense and origin of St. John’s <i>Revelation</i> is ignored, there can be no real understanding of the word “Apocalypse” or of St. John’s Apocalypse….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“In St. John’s Revelation, this purifying release [of the Vedic rivers] is depicted as t<b>he release of the seven vials or bowls “of God’s Wrath”</b>. In Sri Aurobindo’s “Lotus of the Avatar” symbol [=Vishnu’s Lotus], these seven rivers or seven vials/bowls of the Vedic and Biblical Apocalypse are represented as seven waves.” </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5d6OZzTXkO_aywcMxiI6VIRXX_NMIQqRUPGmPJRWL7zOczgWYZLPPJWCwE2P2nocMPq6QZEua70yrVNJvHh5PHYL2GGB-cgt2HA9wpcYJLSliWbLEUstklPfoh_Cz2nYJV5VAtb9ODLiI097H2k7yl6E0LK9FCkURXbMAezUCABp7fCpQq2GK5urYB5M/s187/SAS-thin-sm-01.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="Sri Aurobindo's Symbol (with seven waves)" border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5d6OZzTXkO_aywcMxiI6VIRXX_NMIQqRUPGmPJRWL7zOczgWYZLPPJWCwE2P2nocMPq6QZEua70yrVNJvHh5PHYL2GGB-cgt2HA9wpcYJLSliWbLEUstklPfoh_Cz2nYJV5VAtb9ODLiI097H2k7yl6E0LK9FCkURXbMAezUCABp7fCpQq2GK5urYB5M/s16000/SAS-thin-sm-01.jpg" title="Sri Aurobindo's Symbol (with seven waves)" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Part Seven, which I am publishing in conjunction with <a href="https://cafeastrology.com/events/january-20-2024/" target="_blank">the Sun and Pluto’s 2024 simultaneous entrance into the sign of Aquarius/Kumbha</a>, I will present various excerpts from St. John’s Revelation and from the Rig Veda, inviting readers to see and understand these ancient prophecies and symbols from the vantage point of having the 360° spherical and zodiacal key or gnosis of the Vedic Sage-Son planted in the forefront of your consciousness. Note that Thea analyzed and discussed the zodiacal prophecy of St. John’s <i>Revelation</i> in great depth in <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/THM.html" target="_blank">The Hidden Manna</a></i> (1976). In her various writings she made it clear that she considered Sri Aurobindo’s 1963 rebirth in the 9th sign of Sagittarius,—the sign of the conquering Vedic Son-Sage-Horse-Hero-Archer-with-his-Bow—, as the Aquarian-Age fulfilment of the Vedic and Biblical prophecy of the birth of the Divine Son, which she saw as equivalent to the prophecies of the coming of Vishnu’s Kalki Avatar and Skanda (=Kartikeya) in Hindu tradition and Maitreya in Buddhist tradition.</div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The] Conqueror…must release [the entrapped Sun/Light] from the pit of dense matter. In this mystery lies the essence of the [8th sign of] Scorpio…. [Revelation 8:11 reads] ‘many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter'…. [These] are the waters that are enclosed and can become stagnant and hence poisoned ‒ bitter.… [N]ow that which was received and swallowed up or engulfed by the thick blanket of inertia must begin to work itself out and upward once more, transforming the darkness as it proceeds. This is the Redemption, <b>the work of the avatar now in its phase of the Conqueror [=Son]</b>.” – Thea, <i>The Hidden Manna</i>, p. 88 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Agni [of the Rig Veda] is the fourth of [Sri Aurobindo’s] supramental avataric descent; he is Skanda of the Puranic Tales: he is Kalki of the Ten Puranic Avatars; he is the Conqueror of St. John's Apocalypse; he is the Horse of the Veda, the symbol of Force (Tapas), the counterpart of the Cow, the symbol of the Light of Consciousness.... The Horse then is a major symbol in the Vedic hymns invoking Agni…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>When the Son takes birth in the sign Sagittarius, Agni is born on Earth, and the high Truth of the Veda can be revealed. The deciphering of these ancient texts is impossible unless one has the keys of higher knowledge</b>. No scholar or pundit can pierce the veils of the enigmatic hymns unless he has been initiated into the mysteries of the miraculous Birth. And for this he must know the structure of the zodiac thoroughly because only therein can he find the keys to a timeless Knowledge." – <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, pp. 379-380 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p><b>The Sacred Seven who give birth to the Divine Son/One</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">As I came to learn in October-November of 2016, the first seven vesica piscis flowing through the Zodiac,—beginning at 0° Aries/Mesha (the Ram) and reaching 0° Aquarius/Kumbha—, are given many symbolic and poetic names or identities in the Rig Veda. They are lauded and depicted as <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=02.005.02&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven rivers</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=03.001.04&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven floods</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=06.007.06&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven streams</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=10.005.06&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven pathways</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=08.085.01&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven mothers</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=01.164.03&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven sisters</a> (<a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv09066.htm#:~:text=Bringing%20imperishable%20fame.-,8%20Driving,-thee%20in%20Vivasv%C4%81n%27s" target="_blank">who are virgins</a>), <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=01.050.09&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven daughters</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=%3Cb%3E06.064.01%3C/b%3E&acc=no&q=6.64.1&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven dawns</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=01.164.03&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven cows</a> or <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=07.060.03&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">horses (mares)</a>, <a href="https://incarnateword.in/dict/sans/sapta-gavah#:~:text=Thoughtprinciple%2C%20sapta%20dh%C4%ABtaya%E1%B8%A5%3B-,the%20seven%20Rays,-or%20Cows%2C%20forms" target="_blank">seven rays</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.088.06&acc=no&q=beakers&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven beakers</a> (<i>kośam</i>=jars=vessels), <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=04.001.13&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven friends</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=01.164.36&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven germs</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=01.164.03&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven wheels</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.015.08&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven holy songs</a> (=hymns), <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.009.04&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven devotions</a> (=thoughts, inspirations) <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=01.164.24&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven meters</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=03.007.01&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven tones</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=08.103.03&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven voices</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=10.124.01&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven threads</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.114.03&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven regions</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=10.122.03&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">stations</a>, or <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=10.008.04&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">places</a>; <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=08.081.20&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven communitie</a>s, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.054.02&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven currents</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=01.174.02&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven forts</a> or <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=07.018.13&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">castles</a>; <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=02.005.02&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven reins</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=03.004.05&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven sacrificial offerings</a> or <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=10.061.01&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">hotras</a>; <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.102.02&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven lights</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=08.028.05&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven glories</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=05.001.05&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven treasures</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.111.01&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven mouths</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=01.020.07&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven libations</a> or draughts (of Soma-wine/Amrita), <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=03.006.02&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven flames</a>, etc. There is also a mention of <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=04.058.03&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">seven hands</a>, but I’m not sure at this point if that is a reference to the seven radii that draw out the seven vesicae piscium, or the seven vesicae piscium themselves. The occult Vedic geometry of the first seven vesicae piscium (i.e. “fish”) of the Zodiac could well be the forgotten origin of the “Feast of the Seven Fishes” — an Italian Christmas tradition associated with the birth of the Divine Son. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Other veiled symbols or names of the eternal form, law and measure of the vesica piscis throughout the Rig Veda, include Soma wine (aka the Amrita, divine manna or honeyed-wine, mead or food/drink of the gods), Soma drops, and Soma stones; the sacred Word, Syllable and Cow/Goddess (<i>Vāc</i>); the robe, armor, adornment or weapon of the Vedic Son and his companions; a chalice, cup, bowl, tub, beaker or ladle; the purifying filter or fleece; the Divine Son’s wife or wives; the roar or sound of thunder and of a bull; a rain-filled cloud, a mountain, cave, ridge, hill, a gem, and dragon/serpent. The list goes on. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The seven radii that inform, draw out or pour out these seven vesicae piscium that bear the purified or whitened Sage-Son-Horse (=the radius of 0° Sagittarius) to the entrance of his heavenly Kumbha or Jar (0° Aquarius) are also given many symbolic and poetic names and identities. They are seven rishis or Angirases (=poets, seers), sages, priests, ministers, or singers; seven tongues; seven male children or sons; seven spears, seven sticks, or weapons). On p. 323 of <i><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/p/book.html" target="_blank">Geometric Keys of Wisdom</a></i> (book) I mistakenly equated the seven rays of the Vedas as symbols of seven radii, even though I was aware of the equivalence between the seven cows, seven rays, and seven rivers as illuminated by Sri Aurobindo’s writings on the Vedas. I conflated the English word “ray” (translated in various Vedic hymns from various Sanskrit words) with the linear form of the radius. Now I see most, if not all, mentions of the “seven rays” in the Vedas as symbols of the vesicae piscium.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In Part Two, Chapter Four of <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i> (book), entitled “The Vedic Origin of St. John’s Revelation”, I discussed “the preponderance of the number seven” in both the Rig Veda and Revelation:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The preponderance of the number seven in St. John’s <i>Revelation</i> – the seven seals, seven angels, seven stars, seven churches, seven lampstands, seven thunderers, seven trumpets, seven vials or bowls and seven floods – mirrors its preponderance in the Rig Veda where we have the seven rivers, seven words, seven sages, seven singers, seven Angiras Rishis, seven horses, seven delights and the seven-headed thought of the hero. [Sri Aurobindo wrote:]</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">‘The number seven plays an exceedingly important part in the Vedic system, as in most very ancient schools of thought. We find it recurring constantly,—the seven delights, sapta ratnāni; the seven flames, tongues or rays of Agni, sapta acriṣḥ, sapta jvālāḥ; the seven forms of the Thought-principle, sapta dhītayaḥ; the seven Rays or Cows, forms of the Cow unslayable, Aditi, mother of the gods, <i>sapta gāvaḥ</i>; the seven rivers, the seven mothers or fostering cows, <i>sapta mātaraḥ</i>, <i>sapta dhenavaḥ</i>, a term applied indifferently to the Rays and to the Rivers.’ Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Volume 15</i>, p. 97 [Bold emphasis added] </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Each of the seven vesicae piscis leading up to the “pouring out” of the seventh bowl or seventh river from the heights of Aquarius, is the vessel of an accompanying radius. Thus, all these groupings of seven, both in the Rig Veda and in Revelation can been seen as either symbols of seven vesicae piscis or as symbols of seven radii. Most are symbols of the vesica piscis. The seven Rishis seers, sages, singers, horses, tongues of Agni, and the seven angels, stars, lampstands, thunderers of Revelation are all symbols of the indwelling radius or “Son” of the vesica piscis. In the following verse, the seven radii with their seven vesicae piscis are depicted as seven spear-carrying gods and their seven splendors and glories.” </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">‘The Seven [Gods] carry seven spears; seven are the splendours they possess, [and] seven the glories they assume.’ [Rig Veda 8.28.5, tr. R.T.H. Griffith]”</p></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In the first Chapter of <i>Revelation</i>, St. John presents Jesus as the Divine Son or conqueror who fulfills the ancient prophecy of the Vedas. He does not reveal the origin of his prophecy, but in my view, the similarities are simply too close to be a coincidence. Thus, in my view, St. John had knowledge of the Vedic prophecy of the birth of the Divine Son; and given his reference to the four fixed-sign (=preservation-sign) beasts of the Zodiac as encircling of the center-throne of Temple in Chapters 4 and 5, I imagine he understood, to some degree at least, the zodiacal nature of his prophecy. Was he aware of the long-lost, occult geometric sense of the ancient prophecy that he was retelling, casting Jesus as the Vedic Sage-Hero-Horse-Son? I doubt it, but I of course have no idea what St. John did or did not understand about the heavily veiled ancient Vedic symbols, lore, and prophecy that he was applying to the birth of Jesus. The <i>Book of Revelation</i> begins:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who testifies to everything he saw—that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near….” — Revelation 1:1-3 [NIV] </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In this same opening chapter, St. John employed dozens of Vedic symbols surrounding the birth of the Divine Sage-Son-Horse via his seven rivers (=mothers, beakers/jars, lights, etc.) and his victory over the Death and Ignorance of the divisive egoic mental consciousness that reigns in the 8th sign of Scorpio. A little further on St. John claims that, in his vision, Jesus reveals the true sense of the seven stars and seven lampstands as seven angels and their seven churches. This claim or statement, however, does not actually solve or reveal the occult truth of these borrowed ancient Vedic symbols.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“I [John] turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw <b>seven golden lampstands, and among the lampstands was someone "like a son of man," dressed in a robe</b> reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. His head and hair were white like wool, as <b>white as snow</b>, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and <b>his voice was like the sound of rushing waters</b>. In his right hand he held <b>seven stars</b>, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance. When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades. "Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later. <b>The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches</b>.” – Revelation 1:12-20 [NIV]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In the Rig Veda these seven angels are the seven Angiras Rishis (=Seer/Sages) or Angirases, the seventh being the purified (or whitened) Divine Son-Hero-Horse-Sage of Sagittarius who, upon his birth via his seventh river/mother (aka <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=07.036.06&acc=no&q=sarasvati&lang=eng" target="_blank">Saraswati, “Mother of Floods”</a>), travels to the Kumbha/Kosha (vessel) or Samudra (reservoir) of the rivers or floods, equivalent to the vessel or reservoir of the gods’ Amrita/Soma upon which they feast. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In Chapter Four of <i>Revelation</i>, St. John describes the “Throne in Heaven” encircled by 24 “elders” and the four fixed-sign “beasts” of the Zodiac. Via the <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/articles/the-miracle-of-oneness-9/#:~:text=system%20and%20the-,laws%20of%20equivalence,-where%20one%20day" target="_blank">“laws of equivalence”</a> of micro and macro cycles of time, as discussed by Thea, the 360° cycle of the Earth’s 24 (=12 x 2) hour day is a microcosm of its 12-month, 360° zodiacal year. Knowing this, it is not hard to see and understand the 24 “elders” encircling God’s throne as simultaneously figures of the 24-hour day and of the zodiacal year. Seven lamps or spirits of God are said to be “blazing” in front of this throne.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. <b>A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne. Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders [=hours]</b>. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. <b>In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God</b>. Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"In the center, around the throne, were <b>four living creatures</b>, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. The first living creature was like a lion [=Leo], the second was like an ox [=Taurus], the third had a face like a man [=Aquarius], the fourth was like a flying eagle [=Scorpio]. Each of the four living creatures had six wings [=six hours?] and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.” – Revelation 4:1-8, [NIV] [Text in brackets added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In Chapter 5, the veiled, sealed or occulted symbol of the seven Vedic rivers, mothers, cows, hymns, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.088.06&acc=no&q=beakers&lang=eng" target="_blank">vessels</a>, etc., is depicted as <b>seven seals</b> that only the “Lion [=Leo] of the tribe of Judah” and the seven-horned and seven-eyed Lamb (=the Son/Sage of Sagittarius) can open.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll [=book] with writing on both sides and sealed with <b>seven seals</b>. And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?” But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, t<b>he Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals</b>.”</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. <b>The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth</b>. He went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne. And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people. And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its [seven] seals because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.” – Revelation 5:1-9 [NIV]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Note that in <i>The Hidden Manna</i>, Thea pointed to Sri Aurobindo, born in the sign of Leo and bearing the “root [=star] of David”, as the Lion and evolutionary avatar who opens the previously unopenable, seven-sealed scroll (aka “the book of life” <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>[1]</b></span>), reborn as the Sagittarian Vedic Sage-Son-Conqueror [=Lamb] of Vishnu’s Aquarian Age. <b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[2]</span></b> She also wrote that Jesus of Nazareth was essentially misconstrued and miscast as the prophesized Vedic Conqueror Sage-Son. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[Jesus Christ] was only a promise of the work that would be accomplished during the subsequent 6,500 years [in the 9th/Sagittarius Manifestation]. [He] is not the one spoken of in the Revelation—that is quite obvious—for the Avatar had not come two thousand years ago, could not possibly have come. The Christ (in this case not necessarily Jesus of Nazareth) is the symbol of the Cosmic Truth and, as mentioned earlier, he is the symbolic Sun, with the apostles as the twelve signs of the zodiac. The Christ symbol, representing the evolution of the Spirit, was crucified at thirty-three years of age, tradition tells us, and in the time scale of true cosmic harmonies, this would have taken place just after the sign Scorpio, in Sagittarius; this latter will figure prominently in the life of the actual avatar [=Sri Aurobindo], or the true incarnation and realiser, as described in the Revelation further on.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“The crucifixion of Scorpio, with all the details given by the tradition, is a most exact description of the state of the evolving Earth-Consciousness in its process of civilisation, on its way to the final apotheosis that awaits it. <b>The painful condition of the Earth enveloped in darkness that is described in the Christ legend is what calls down the avatar, opens the path in a sense, and allows for the descent and subsequent work</b>….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“In the Indian tradition the Lamb is Agni…. The avatar, who is the Lamb because he is the soul of the Earth, embodies in his life the process of transformation or redemption.” – Thea, <i>The Hidden Manna</i>, pp. 38-39, 65 [Bold emphasis and text in brackets added added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In Chapter 6 of Revelation, the opening of one the seven seals is accompanied by a “thunderous” command by one of the fixed-sign beasts and the arrival of the bow-bearing Conqueror (Sage-Son-Avatar) on his white horse.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“I looked on when the Lamb opened one of the <b>seven seals</b>, and I heard <b>one of the four living creatures saying with a thunderous voice</b>, “Come!” So I looked, and here came <b>a white horse! The one who rode it had a bow</b>, and he was given a crown, and as a conqueror he rode out to conquer.” – Revelation 6:1-2 [NET]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In the Vedas, the release of the seven rivers from their obstruction or obstructor (the Dragon/Vritra) is often accompanied by the thunderbolt, thunder, or thundering voice of Indra the Bull or of the conquering Son. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Winning the light, hitherward roars [Indra’s] thunder like the terrific mighty voice of Heaven.” – Rig Veda 1.100.13, tr. RTH Griffith</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“With his great thunderbolt my Son hath slaughtered Vrtra, and set these rivers free to wander…. To him, mine infant, were the waters gracious. Indra, my Son, rose up in conquering vigour.” – Rig Veda 4.18.7-8, excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Forth from the middle of the flood the Waters-their chief the Sea-flow cleansing, never sleeping. Indra, the Bull, the Thunderer, dug their channels: here let those Waters [=Seven Rivers], Goddesses, protect me.” – Rig Veda 7.49.1, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Note that in Rig Veda 164.45-46, Indra and Agni are included in the Rishis’ celebration of the many names of “what is One;” and the Bull of Taurus is<span style="background-color: white;"> one of the fixed sign beasts of Revelation.</span> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">In Chapters 15 and 16 of <i>Revelation</i>, the veiled, pent up, occult or <b>sealed symbol</b> of the seven rivers (=cows, mares, etc.) of the twelve-month 360° Vedic Sacrifice (=Zodiac) and their corresponding seven Angiras rishis or singers are depicted as seven bowls of God’s wrath (=seven plagues) and their corresponding seven angels. The pouring out of these seven bowls is said to complete “God’s wrath”, which in my view marks the victory of the wholistic and spherical unity consciousness of the Divine Self, Soul or Son over the linear-binary consciousness of ignorance and division.</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them God’s wrath is completed…. After this I looked, and I saw in heaven the temple—that is, the tabernacle of the covenant law—and it was opened. Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes around their chests. Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and <b>no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed</b>….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, <b>“Go, pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath on the earth…. The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, “It is done!” Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake.</b> No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. <b>The great city split into three parts </b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>[3]</b></span>, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup [=the Vedic <i>kosha</i>, <i>kumbha</i>, <i>kalasha</i>] filled with the wine [Soma] of the fury of his wrath. – Revelation 15: 1, 5-8; 16:1, 17-19 [NIV]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In Chapter 19, St. John retells the prophesied Vedic victory of the Divine Son-Sage-Horse-Conqueror, who is given birth by and purified (whitened) by his seven mothers (=rivers, mares, vessels, etc.) and brings or presses the soma wine (=amrita=the nectar of immortality) to the Kumbha or Jar, also poetically depicted as the place where the gods feast.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Then I saw heaven opened and here came a <b>white horse</b>! The one riding it was called “Faithful” and “True,” and with justice he judges and goes to war. His eyes are like a fiery flame and there are many diadem crowns on his head. He has a name written that no one knows except himself. He is dressed in clothing dipped in blood, and he is called the Word of God. The armies that are in heaven, dressed in white, clean, fine linen, were following him on white horses. From his mouth extends a sharp sword, so that with it he can strike the nations. <b>He will rule them with an iron rod</b>, and he stomps <b>the winepress of the furious wrath of God</b>, the All-Powerful. He has a name written on his clothing and on his thigh: “King of kings and Lord of lords.” Then [as] I saw one angel standing in [at] the sun, and he shouted in a loud voice to all the birds flying high in the sky: “Come, gather around for <b>the great banquet of God</b>….” – “The Son of God Goes to War”, Revelation 19:11-17 [NET]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">The imagery of the gods’ banquet,—where the gods feast upon the soma wine upon the Divine Son’s victorious birth—, is pervasive throughout the Vedas.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“In sweetest and most gladdening stream flow pure, O [Agni=Soma Pavamana], on thy way, pressed out for Indra, for his drink.... Flow onward with thy juice [=soma wine=amrita] unto the banquet of the Mighty Gods….” – Rig Veda 9.1.1,4 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Pouring out streams at the Gods' feast with service, thou, [the Son] Soma, lookest down, a heavenly Eagle. Enter the Soma-holding beaker [=Kumbha]….” – Rig Veda 9.97.33 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In Chapter 21, St. John’s retelling of the Vedic Son’s victory continues. He incorporates some of the veiled zodiacal Vedic symbolism indicating Aquarius (aka Kumbha) as the Son’s goal and “dwelling place”, where he pours and releases the sacred and eternal waters of wisdom from their Jar, enclosure or reservoir. In <i>Revelation</i> this release of the Kumbha's waters is portrayed as the Son’s giving of the “water without cost from the spring of the water of life.”</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b>"A New Heaven and a New Earth & The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb"</b></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. <b>I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband</b>. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! <b>God’s dwelling place [=tabernacle] is now among <u>the people [=Man]</u>, and he will dwell with them</b>. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“He [=the Son] who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’ Then he said, ‘Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.’ He said to me: ‘It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty <b>I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life</b>. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.’</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“One of the seven angels who had <b>the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues</b> came and said to me, ‘Come, I will show you <b>the bride, the wife of the Lamb</b>.’” – Revelation 21:1-9 [NIV]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Thereafter, in Chapter 21, the Holy City of Jerusalem (=the wife of the Divine Son), is described as having twelve gates and walls which are measured with a rod of gold. In other words, this bride of the Lamb-Son which is said to be <b>the Holy City of Jerusalem IS the 360°, twelve-month Zodiacal Year</b>, measured out with the eternal rod or ray of the radius. Thus we can see and understand that the 360° or spherical gnosis of the Divine Son (=the radius of the circle) and his “Bride” (=the Zodiac), is the basis of what separates the uplifted or “victorious” people from those consigned to suffering via the long-standing falsehood and ignorance of the linear-binary mental consciousness, which reaches a crescendo of toxic stagnation and self-destruction in 8th sign of the Zodiac – the obstructive, <b><i>fixed water</i></b> sign of Scorpio. </p><p><b>The Unified Spherical Supramental Consciousness</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Upon reading <i>The Gnostic Circle </i>in 2000 and<i> The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i> in 2002, it was increasingly clear to me that Thea’s teachings,—including her teachings on the zodiacal basis of the Vedas and of St. John’s Revelation—, served as an initiation into and potent seed-catalyst of establishing a wholistic spherical and divine consciousness on Earth, quickening the necessary collapse or dissolution of the fragmented linear consciousness in our Aquarian Age. Over a decade later, in October-November of 2016, I became aware of the <b>“spherical” (or 360° geometric and zodiacal) sense of the Vedic rivers</b> (cows, mares, sisters, goddesses, drops of Soma, thoughts, devotions, songs, etc.) which flow to the Kumbha or Jar of Aquarius with their victorious Sage-Son-Horse. I just did not fully connect the dots between the release of the seven rivers from the dark cave or pen of the binary-linear mental consciousness, and <b>the establishment of the 360° spherical, solar, supramental consciousness, “thought”<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span></b><b>, </b><b>and halo, crown or sphere of the 9-rayed Son-Sage of Sagittarius</b> (aka <b>Dhanu</b> in Sanskrit, meaning <b>Bow</b>). As this became clear, it brought the Vedic and Biblical hymns lauding the Divine Son and his “Apocalypse”, and all related ancient myths and symbols, into dramatically better focus. It also helped me to better understand the “descent”, yoga, teachings, and lineage of Sri Aurobindo,—who Thea wrote of as the Supramental Avatar of the 9th/Sagittarius Manifestation of our current Maha Yuga Cycle and of our current Age of Aquarius/Kumbha.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The real Evolutionary [=Supramental] Avatar is…distinguished…by the Knowledge he brings into the Earth atmosphere from a higher plane, a plane that for our times is <b>the plane of truth-consciousness whose symbol is <u>the Sun</u></b>. Such Knowledge is the power, the only true power of transformation for it works steadily and surely in the consciousness of the human being and brings about a general uplifting; and it acts as a universal force that affects not just one being or small group, but rather through the Time-Spirit it is able to work upon the entire collective consciousness. Our age is particularly the Age of the universal transformation, for which purpose the line of supramental avatars alone reveals the most unique affinity with the universal harmonies. Through their very births the Cosmic Truth is unveiled, the cosmos becomes alive and vibrates with a deep, a high and wide Sense,—a meaning that is then brought down to Earth and shown to be the sense not only of the collective evolution but of the individual as well. This only the real Avatar can do. This alone is the real miracle, and this alone can bring salvation to the world. The incarnation who by his very birth accomplishes this, because of the veils that hide the truth, which are cast aside by his coming, is the World Redeemer.” – <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i>, p. 124 [All emphasis and text in brackets is added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvzhAEK1ym6rAg8S1A5K4cai0gwKfoBkLtPIAz90U4ILdnSkrDQ779gf-vv9PkiKfdI7RTKKvCxXThkkB8xIJYwsamkX-uwbLEWAadXG1MV8ZaT5_DgEM-2u0S3503_L7uLzy1PVTFxVPJMzkwDMcVH7sCPKGyhivCnnc0m0Gmj3iaSJBDTkQERw-FP9E/s595/Aeon.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 0em;"><img alt="Aeon (the Son) of the Year/Zodiac" border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="581" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvzhAEK1ym6rAg8S1A5K4cai0gwKfoBkLtPIAz90U4ILdnSkrDQ779gf-vv9PkiKfdI7RTKKvCxXThkkB8xIJYwsamkX-uwbLEWAadXG1MV8ZaT5_DgEM-2u0S3503_L7uLzy1PVTFxVPJMzkwDMcVH7sCPKGyhivCnnc0m0Gmj3iaSJBDTkQERw-FP9E/w206-h211/Aeon.jpg" title="Aeon (the Son) of the Year/Zodiac" width="206" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“From the Kore's [=the Daughter’s=the Earth’s] womb <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>[5]</b></span> Aeon [=the Vedic Son Agni] is born, <b><u>through her the Time-Spirit receives its body</u>, for the [360°] year is the subtle body of the Sun</b>. In her the Transcendent Father plants the seed of his Timeless Self and emerges as <b>the Son who reveals the harmony of Time that is the year</b>, the year that is Aeon. <b>Aeon is the victorious son-conqueror [=the Vedic Sage/Horse]</b>, the Sol Invictus in whose being <b>the Timeless has died to be reborn in Time</b>, and by this act he conquers Death. <b>From him arises the harmonious Time, the Supramental Time for the Earth—and with it the rise of a new Earth through which a destiny of supramental truth will unfold. Therefore he is born victorious. His very birth is the Victory</b>.” – Ibid., p. 212 [All emphasis and text in brackets is added]</div><p></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Skanda [=the victorious Son/Sage/Horse] is called <b>Samvatsar Agni, which means 'the time-cycle of a year', or twelve months</b>. Hence he is portrayed in Indian iconography as having twelve arms. Skanda's connection with Time and Agni are revealed in this title of the God, and Sri Aurobindo has further connected this aspect of Time with the Horse, or the sign of the Son's/ Agni's birth [=Sagittarius]. And again <b>the cycle of 12 is emphasised, which we have seen to be so prominent a feature in the life of Sri Aurobindo</b>; in particular in relation to his re-birth in the twelfth year and twelfth month after his withdrawal. By this in-depth observation of the flow of time with regard to his appearance and life on Earth, we can appreciate that <b><u>he is the incarnation of the Time-Spirit</u>, in particular as samvatsara, Time as experienced on Earth in this meaningful cycle of twelve</b>.” – Ibid., p. 381 [Bold emphasis and text in brackets is added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In the glossary of <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i>, Thea defined Vishnu’s Avatar Kalki as “the fullest incarnation of the Time-Spirit”. In this same book, she identified the defining qualities of the “Time-Spirit” and naturally of those who become its conscious vessels.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">“<b>[T]he Time-Spirit…sees and acts unitedly and spherically.</b>” (Ibid, p. 521)</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">The Divine Son-Sage’s birth and journey to the Jar/Kumbha or gods’ banquet, via his seven rivers (mothers, etc.) and his role in the release these rivers or Flood, is told and retold in various ways throughout the Rig Veda, <i><b>especially in the</b> <b>9th Mandala or Book</b></i>, wherein he is referred to as the self-purifying or whitened Soma Pavamana. Below are several excerpts from Mandala 9, most of which I believe I have referred to elsewhere in my writings. Keep in mind while reading these verses that, in addition to the various symbols of the vesica piscis I already mentioned above (the river, the jar, reservoir, lake, etc.), the vesica piscis was likewise known to the Vedic Rishis as the robe, mantle, vesture, and mail (armor) of the Sage-Horse. And in addition to the various names of the Sage (the 9th ray-radius of the Zodiac) already mentioned above, he is also addressed as the swift and youthful “One”, “the immortal Courser”, “the King of rivers and the Lord of heaven”, “King of all the worlds”, “Gandharva of the floods”, “Golden-hued”, “finder of all”, a “stalk”, a steer, “Dweller in floods”, “measurer of days”, “heaven’s support”, “the noblest Pillar (Skambha) of the heavens”, “Dadhyac Navagva” [the nine-rayed Horse], “Friend of Gods”, “Prince supporter of the tribes” and the “Courser Etaśa”. He is said to “[know how] the triply-twisted thread” of the Vedic Sacrifice is spun which I have discussed in terms of the three interwoven vesicae piscium that divide the circle into three even parts. The Rishi of 9.64 reports that once he arrives at his Jar/Kumbha, this victorious Sage-Son-Horse “leaves the foolish [i.e. the Ignorant trapped in the linear-binary Scorpionic consciousness] far away.” </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The Sage of Heaven whose heart is wise…sends us delightful powers of life. On, onward to a glorious home [=his Kumbha]; dear to the people void of guile, with excellent enjoyment, flow…. Urged by the seven devotions <b>[the bright Son] hath stirred the guileless rivers which have magnified the Single Eye</b>. These [seven rivers] helped to might the Youthful One, high over all, invincible…. The immortal Courser, good to draw, looks down upon the Seven: the fount [the Son] hath satisfied the Goddesses [=rivers]. Aid us in holy rites, O Man: O [Soma] Pavamana, drive away Dark shades that must be met in fight..…Win for us wisdom, win the light [of the Sun/of Swar].” – Rig Veda 9.9. 1-2, 4 & 6 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Pouring all glories hither [Agni – the “Swift Steed”] effused and <b>entering the jar</b>, stands like a hero mid the kine [=the rivers]…. O Soma, O thou Sage, these worlds stand ready to attest thy might: For thy behoof the rivers flow.” – Rig Veda 9.62.19 & 27 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[Agni-Soma Pavamana, unbar] for us the doors to wealth…. [The] potent Soma-drops, brilliant and swift, have been [poured out]…. They purified…flow onward to the fleecy cloth. These Soma juices shall pour forth all treasures for the worshipper…. The streams of [Soma] Pavamana…finder of all, have been [poured out] even as Sūrya's [the Sun’s] rays of light. Making the light that shines from heaven thou flowest on to every form Soma, thou swellest like a sea…. [Soma’s] God-delighting wave which hath flowed to purifying sieve, alighting <b>in the home of Law</b>. <b>Flow to our sieve</b>….</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Purified for <b>the feast of Gods</b>, go thou to <b>Indra's special place</b>, resplendent, guided by the strong. Accelerated by the hymn, the rapid drops of Soma juice have flowed, urged onward, <b>to the lake</b>. Easily have the living drops, made beautiful, approached <b>the lake…the place of sacrifice</b>…. Loud neighs the Courser Etaśa, with singers, harnessed for <b>the place</b>, Guided for travel <b>to the lake</b>. <b>What time the Swift One resteth in the golden place of sacrifice [=the Kumbha], he leaves the foolish far away</b>. </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Led by his drivers [=by his rivers], and sent forth, the Strong Steed hath come nigh for spoil… Specially, Soma, coming as a Sage from heaven to prosper us, <b><u>flow like the Sun for us to see</u></b>.”– Rig Veda 9.9.5-8, 11, 15-20 & 29-30 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[Agni=Soma Pavamana, like] a steed urged to battle, finder of the light; speed onward <b>to the cloud-born reservoir of heaven</b>…. Fleet as swift steeds, thy drops, divine, thought-swift, have been, O Pavamana, poured with milk <b>into the vat</b>…. Soma advances <b>to</b> <b>the special place of Gods</b>. He speeds with thousand currents <b>to the reservoir</b>…. [He, Sovran,] set in rivers with the waters' wave moves on…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Seven Milch-kine [=rivers] glorify the Tawny-coloured One while with his wave in wool he purifies himself. The living men, the mighty, have impelled the Sage <b>into the waters' lap, the place of sacrifice</b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“He hath assumed <b>the [seven] rays of Sūrya <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[6] </span>for his robe</b>, spinning, as he knows how, the triply-twisted thread. He, guiding to the newest rules of Holy Law, comes as the Women's Consort <b>to the special place</b>. On flows the King of rivers and the Lord of heaven: he follows with a shout the paths of Holy Law. The Golden-hued is poured forth, with his hundred streams, wealth-bringer, lifting up his voice while purified…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>The Sisters Seven, the Mothers, stand around the Babe</b>, the noble, new-born Infant, skilled in holy song, Gandharva of the floods, divine, beholding men, Soma, that he may reign as King of all the world…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“He glideth like a serpent from his ancient skin, and like a playful horse the Tawny Steer hath run. <b>Dweller in floods</b>, King, foremost, he displays his might, set among living things as measurer of days. Distilling oil he flows, fair, billowy, golden-hued, borne on a car of light, sharing one home with wealth. Loosed is [heaven’s] support [=Agni=Skambha], the uplifted cheering juice: the triply-mingled draught flows round into the worlds. The holy hymns caress the stalk [=Agni] that claims our praise, when singers have approached his beauteous robe with song.” – Rig Veda 9.86.1,3,7-8, 25, 32-33, 36, 44-46 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Dadhyac Navagva [the nine-rayed Horse] opens fastened doors, by whom the sages gained their wish, by whom they won the fame of lovely Amṛta in the felicity of Gods. Effused, he [=the Horse/Sage/Soma-Pavamana] floweth in a stream, best rapture-giver, in the long wool of the sheep, <b>sporting, as ’twere the waters' wave</b>. He who from out the rocky cavern took with might the red refulgent watery Cows, Thou masterest the stable full of kine and steeds: burst it, brave Lord, like one in mail. Press ye and pour him, like a steed, laud-worthy, speeding through the region and the flood, who swims in water, roan in wood; Increaser of the water…Who born in Law hath waxen mighty by the Law…. [Thou Soma] as the Friend of Gods: Unclose the [fountain] of middle air. Roll onward to the bowls, O Mighty One, effused, as Prince supporter of the tribes. Pour on us rain from heaven, send us the waters' flow: incite our thoughts to win the spoil.”– Rig Veda 9.108.5-10, excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Given what I have presented above and throughout my writings since October-November of 2016, readers should be able to better see through and understand not only the prophetic and poetic depictions of the birth, sacrifice (<i>yajña</i>) and victory of the Divine Son and his accompanying apocalypse,— i.e. the unveiling or un-eclipsing of our divine, solar, spherical consciousness, and its accompanying flood of higher gnosis—, as found in the Vedas, but also to better see through all related symbols, mythologies, and religions. All of modern humanity’s ideas of spiritual birth, awakening and enlightenment, and likewise all of ideas of the Apocalypse and World Savior, are connected to this zodiacal Vedic story, regardless of how distorted, misunderstood and far-flung from their origin and original sense over the ages.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This story of humanity’s evolution beyond its binary-linear consciousness or ignorance via Agni’s birth is told and retold throughout the Vedic hymns. Below is Sri Aurobindo’s translation of Rig Veda 8.72 wherein the Sage-Son-Horse-Warrior-Hero of Sagittarius/Dhanu – the third and last Fire sign of the Zodiac – is depicted as “climbing the woodland” with <b>his “high burnt” companion bow [<i>dhanu</i>]</b>. In my view, this “woodland”, elsewhere “wood”, “wooden vat” or “vats” is one of the many symbols of the seven vesicae piscium that travel to and measure out 0° Aquarius/Kumbha, and the Sagittarian hero’s bow is the arc or curved bow of seventh of these vesicae piscium or “vats”.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“…[Agni] the priest of the pilgrim-rite has come and he conquers again, for he knows the commandment of the Fire. Let him sit within close to the keen burning ray, the priest of the call in thinking man, accepting the comradeship of the Fire. Within <b>they wish [Agni] to be <u>in a man</u></b> <b>the “terrible one” [Rudra], <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[7]</span> <u>beyond the thinking mind</u></b>; by his tongue they seize the peace. <b>“High burnt the companion bow [dhanu], a founder of the growth he climbed the woodland</b>, <b>he smote the rock with his tongue. “He is the shining calf [=son] </b>who wanders and finds none to bind him here, to one who lauds him <b>he manifests the mother</b>. And now is the great and vast yoking as if of the Horse, the rope of the chariot is seen. <b>Seven [cows=rivers] milk the one [Son]</b>, two let loose the five at the ford of the River upon the cry of the waters. <b>By the ten [months] of the sun Indra made fall the covering sheath of heaven with his triple mallet</b>…. </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>The warrior [=son/Agni] milked out the seven-planed nourishing force and energy by the seven rays [=cows=rivers] of the sun</b>…. <b>And</b> <b>now let him stretch out with his tongue of flame around heaven that plane [place] </b>of him in his full delight which is to be laid as a foundation.” ‒ Rig Veda 8.72, 1-8, 16 &18, excerpts, tr. Sri Aurobindo, Ibid., pp. 369-72 [Text in brackets added]</p></blockquote><p>RTH Griffith translated the 8th verse above as </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Entreated by Vivasvān's ten, <b>Indra cast down the water-jar</b> [kośam=kumbha] with threefold hammer from the sky.”</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">The “commandment [=LAW] of the Fire” of the first verse of this hymn, on the geometric level, is the eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) of the radius which measures out not only the 360° circle, the 120° (=432,000") arc of the vesica piscis and the triadic or three-fold division of the circle, but also the full twelve months of the Vedic Year (Zodiac) which is the “pilgrim rite” (<i>adhvara yajña</i>), aka the Vedic Son’s or Ram/Lamb’s sacrifice, referred to in this verse and throughout the Vedas. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Likewise, Agni’s tongue by which Man/Humanity seizes the divine peace of Oneness or unity consciousness is a symbol of the radius which pours out the rivers and sacred Soma (Amrita) and establishes Agni’s home in the vessel of the Aquarian “Man” and simultaneously the vessel of the Aquarian Kumbha which is depicted in many ways throughout the Vedas, including the meeting and gathering place of the gods, the gathering place and reservoir of the sacred rivers, the vessel of Amrita (or of offerings to the gods), and Indra’s special place, the womb of sacrifice, etc. The “rope [=rein] of the chariot” that “is seen” in verse 6 is one of many symbols of the inner arc of the vesica piscis moving through the inner space of the 360° circle/cycle of the year, and larger macro-cycles of time such as the 12-Age Precessional cycle and <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/09/seeing-in-understanding-symbols-and.html#:~:text=Thea%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%9CMap%20of%20the%2012%20Manifestation%E2%80%9D" target="_blank">the 36-age Maha Yuga cycle</a>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The “ten of the sun” [“Vivasvān's ten”] are the ten months that give birth to the Divine Son-Sage-Warrior – aka the <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=05.078.08&acc=no&q=babe&lang=eng" target="_blank">“ten-month babe”</a> – along with his seven rivers/mothers, to 0° Aquarius/Kumbha. In my view, Indra’s triple mallet is equivalent to Agni’s three rivers-mothers (=vessels, bowls, goddesses, etc.), who like his seven rivers-mothers, bear him to 0° Aquarius/Kumbha, marking out the <i>completion</i> of ten full months (10 x 30° = 300° = 0° Aquarius) of the zodiacal year. In <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-geometric-key-of-three-hares.html#:~:text=Agni%27s%20mothers%2C%20whether-,THREE%20or%20SEVEN,-%2C%20who%20bear%20him" target="_blank">“The Geometric Key of the Three Hares”</a> (Dec. 2023) I discussed and illustrated this overlapping symbolism which makes no cohesive or integral sense if the cyclical or spherical zodiacal geometry is not known: </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The] circular, geometric sense of Agni's mothers, whether THREE or SEVEN…bear him to the same location (within the kshetra or field of the 360° year) referred to by the ancient Vedic seers in many ways, including the heavenly Jar or Pitcher.”</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Below left and right I have illustrated Agni’s three rivers-mothers (alternatively Indra’s triple mallet) and Agni’s seven rivers-mothers that bring us to the same point of his victorious “ten-month” birth.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPmio2zF9F4nK8HRnGQtHF7o8AWOHP33Z_OAZDnmjWUNEJvVnWm5v9gfXd8tagoIpEMGWWC5h6yg3ZyPqvT5TfXv-GiIW-AMaD02p_KPmUZEkJwxV0rG1FmAQru5Di3CQk_SGZQ1kRwgVYltCl0vFjnKjuoH8nQutSjRrNwIW6rheo0H6SC-EwfRkYN-A/s671/3-7-Rivers-Mothers-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="671" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPmio2zF9F4nK8HRnGQtHF7o8AWOHP33Z_OAZDnmjWUNEJvVnWm5v9gfXd8tagoIpEMGWWC5h6yg3ZyPqvT5TfXv-GiIW-AMaD02p_KPmUZEkJwxV0rG1FmAQru5Di3CQk_SGZQ1kRwgVYltCl0vFjnKjuoH8nQutSjRrNwIW6rheo0H6SC-EwfRkYN-A/w640-h318/3-7-Rivers-Mothers-01.jpg" title="The 3 and 7 Rivers/Mothers of the Vedas" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Note that, even though it is not illustrated above, it is the radius (=Sage-Son) of 0° Sagittarius that draws or pours out the vesica piscis in blue, standing equally as Agni’s third river-mother-cow (left) and as his seventh river-mother-cow (right).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Like the pouring out of the sacrificial Sage-Son’s three or seven rivers, Indra’s triple mallet is a symbol of the purifying force of the solar or spherical gnosis that dislodges aeons’ worth of ignorance regarding the sealed occult symbols of the Vedas and related religious mythologies in Vishnu’s Age of Aquarius/Kumbha.</p><p><b>Understanding the Apocalypse of our Times</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Properly understood, the Vedic and Biblical Apocalypse is the emergence, revelation, and birth of our indwelling or immanent spherical, divine, solar, supramental unity consciousness in the course of our evolutionary journey, which naturally occurs to the rigid binary-linear consciousness as a catastrophe, because it covets its own dominion over the Earth, however blind and ill-fated.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As quoted above, Thea recognized and wrote in her 1976 commentaries on St. John’s Revelation, “[t]he work of the avatar now in its phase of the [Conquering Son]”. Once we come to terms with the descent and establishment of the solar, spherical unity consciousness of this Sage-Son in our Aquarian Age, in our 9th Manifestation, via Sri Aurobindo and his lineage, we can better see and understand the Apocalyptic times we live in. In the same commentaries Thea wrote (repeated from above), <b>“When the Son takes birth in the sign Sagittarius, Agni is born on Earth, and the high Truth of the Veda can be revealed. The deciphering of these ancient texts is impossible unless one has the keys of higher knowledge.”</b> Thus Thea recognized that, via his birth and re-birth, Sri Aurobindo catalyzed the recovery of the solar, spherical, evolutionary, spiritual and zodiacal knowledge by which the long-lost and impenetrable symbols, secrets and book of the Veda are unveiled and understood, including the apocalyptic birth and flood of the Vedic Son. And it was via the revelations of this higher consciousness through Sri Aurobindo and his lineage that allowed me, the week of and the month after Thea’s passing, to clearly see and understand <i>why exactly</i> the Vedic Rishis depicted the Sage’s apocalyptic birth and victory over the forces of ignorance as being accompanied by the pouring out of this Seven Rivers (aka, the Stallion’s Flood) on his way to the Kumbha. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The last thing I want to add here in Part Seven is that once we recover in our consciousness the long-forgotten geometric, zodiacal, spiritual, and evolutionary context and sense of the prophesied Divine Son-Sage, conquering avatar or world savior (by whatever name), we can have some real and deep compassion for and understanding of humanity’s long-standing obsession with, and its long-standing misunderstandings and misappropriations of the Divine Son-Sage-Conqueror of the Vedas (and likely of pre-Vedic lore). As Thea discussed in various ways in her writings, humanity naturally harbors and gestates in the dark Scorpionic womb of its own binary-linear consciousness, the unborn Divine Self and the divine unity consciousness. Thus there has long been a deep resonance with and a longing for the realization of the ancient prophecy and mythology of the birth Divine Son and its cleansing and harmonizing effect on the world. However, in the womb of our limited consciousness we simply have not been in the position to foresee, recognize, or understand what gnosis the Vedic Sage-Son must seed, recover, and establish in the world. Naturally, our dimly-lit imagination ran a bit wild throughout the ages, and naturally the out-of-context imaginations became solidified in our narrow Mind Set in various fragmented and dogmatic ways. These solidified conclusions along with the Mind Set that bore them and defends them with fervor and violence, are now the Obstacle/the Ignorance that is being conquered and dismantled via the birth of the Son or Seed of the Divine Truth-Consciousness or Unity Consciousness in our Age of Aquarius.</p><p style="text-align: center;">***</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In Part Eight I will likely discuss Hamas’s 7 October (7.10) “Operation Al Aqsa <b>Flood</b>” attack on Israel in the 7-power year of 2023, the 8-power year of 2023, and the event of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 22 January inauguration of the rebuilt<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Mandir" target="_blank"> Ram Mandir</a> two days after <b>the Sun and Pluto enter 0° Aquarius/Kumbha (≈ 11hrs apart) on 20 January 2024</b>. See <i>India Today’s</i> YouTube video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt8KOy8p_wI" target="_blank">“Ram Mandir: Indians Unite For Ayodhya Temple…”</a> to get a sense of the importance of this event in India. Note that as part of the BJP-government-sponsored celebration of this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCoE4-wHsgI" target="_blank">controversial temple</a>,—considered to mark the birthplace of Vishnu’s 7th Avatar Rama—, <b>jars of “holy water” have been collected from the seven continents in accordance with the lore of Rama’s coronation</b>. Hopefully it is not hard for readers who are learning to see and understand the supramental consciousness-force at play in our world, to see the marvel and perfection of this inaugural celebration in India just after the <a href="https://youtu.be/he4CWZsgKG0?si=9zbdlmKTkijiQtr7&t=1174" target="_blank">Sun and Pluto (the 0 and 9 powers of our solar system) entered into the sign (i.e., into the exact degree) of Aquarius</a> where the seven rivers of the Vedas are said to be gathered and released upon the world. Note that Pluto takes about 248 years to traverse the Zodiac once, and the last time Pluto was at 0° Aquarius was in <b>1777</b>. The inauguration of Ram Mandir is PERFECTLY ON TIME, regardless of India’s ongoing collective sidereal mismeasure of the Vedic/Zodiacal Year which <a href="https://360lotus.com/the-vedic-year" target="_blank">Thea wrote about at length in her writings</a>. By this collectively-adhered-to mismeasure, India will not celebrate the Sun’s 2024 entrance into Aquarius/Kumbha until 13 February (some 24 days late), and will not celebrate Pluto’s entrance into Aquarius/Kumbha until 2039. </p>
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<p><b>Endnotes</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[1] “The 'book of life' is the same book [=the seven-sealed scroll] that is held in the right hand of the One who sits on the throne, described in Chapter 5. It is the zodiac, a word which derives from 'living thing'.” – Thea, <i>The Hidden Manna</i>, p. 310. Text in brackets is added.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[2] <i>The Hidden Manna</i>, pp. 64-65.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEpnqy1y8yIs9_n1QhuGzhoo41pfcO9f8oegTcvyLmFd4dOvFn-K5H1BBMGFI2cQynpq_w_5wNf8ZmlmzkL3g4dqkhOaoIZ3QCT9TZtJnf_fl9V7p2-Za7ieJmfdHFhDMkM8uHWjVENGCXioFX83uhCoEcfWEiqwKl9BU6CqE99k3sQTSVt3rVYorX3QA/s413/3-VP-Dragons-Fire-Trine-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="Three Vesica Piscis dividing the zodiacal circle into 3 parts (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="406" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEpnqy1y8yIs9_n1QhuGzhoo41pfcO9f8oegTcvyLmFd4dOvFn-K5H1BBMGFI2cQynpq_w_5wNf8ZmlmzkL3g4dqkhOaoIZ3QCT9TZtJnf_fl9V7p2-Za7ieJmfdHFhDMkM8uHWjVENGCXioFX83uhCoEcfWEiqwKl9BU6CqE99k3sQTSVt3rVYorX3QA/w109-h110/3-VP-Dragons-Fire-Trine-01.png" title="Three Vesica Piscis dividing the zodiacal circle into 3 parts (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" width="109" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">[3] When we know that St. John’s “bowls” or “vials” are a symbol of the eternal law and measure of the vesica piscis within the circle of the Zodiac, we can see and understand how its pouring out or release is said to “split into three parts [the great city]”, the great city being equivalent to the Zodiac.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[4] “I hold for you in the waters (i.e. the seven Rivers) the thought that wins possession of heaven (this is once more the seven-headed thought born from the Truth and found by Ayasya), by which the Navagwas passed <b>through the ten months</b>; by this thought may we have the gods for protectors, by this thought may we pass through beyond the evil.” – Rig Veda 5.45.11, tr. Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda</i>, p. 175 [Bold emphasis added]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[5] Thea was referring here to her own role as Kore [=the Daughter], bearing forth the Sri Aurobindo as the Son, equivalent to Aeon of Greek mythology.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[6] The rays of Surya are identified as seven in <a href="https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv08061.htm" target="_blank">RV. 8.61.16</a> [tr. RTH Griffith]. In verse 8 of the same hymn, the Sun’s 10 months [=Vivasvān's ten] are said to “cast down the water-jar [<i>kośam</i> = <i>kumbha</i>] with threefold hammer from the sky.” The full passage through 10 months of the Zodiac brings us to the entrance (0°) of Kumbha/Aquarius. Note that in Jamison and Brereton’s translation of the Rig Veda this hymn is numbered as 8.72.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[7] In <i>The Secret of the Veda</i>, Sri Aurobindo wrote: “Rudra supplies the force. He is named in the Veda the Mighty One of Heaven, but he begins his work upon the earth and gives effect to the sacrifice on the five planes of our ascent. He is the Violent One who leads the upward evolution of the conscious being; his force battles against all evil, smites the sinner and the enemy; intolerant of defect and stumbling he is the most terrible of the gods, the one of whom alone the Vedic Rishis have any real fear. <b>Agni, the Kumara, prototype of the Puranic Skanda, is on earth the child of this force of Rudra</b>.” [p. 346] I consider Rudra (the roarer) to be one of the many names of Agni or of his force as he rises upward to the Aquarian Kumbha, aka the meeting place or banquet of the gods. And in my view, St. John’s depiction of the release of the seven bowls or vials as an act of “God’s Wrath” and with plagues on humanity, is based upon this “Terrible One” (=Son) of the Vedas. The truth and essence of the pouring out of the seven Vedic rivers and seven bowls or vials of Revelation is the uplifting of humanity, via the immergence of the divine unity consciousness of the Divine Sage-Son, which is experience negatively or violently only if one is attached to the old consciousness and its falsehoods.</p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: lora, serif;">If you value the </b><span style="font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b>original research and content made freely </b></span><span style="font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b><br />available on this blog</b></span><b style="font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-61260354244198667762023-12-14T13:37:00.000-08:002024-01-18T09:35:32.419-08:00The Geometric Key of the Three Hares ~ An Addendum to "Demystifying the Ancient Symbol of Three Fish with One Head"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHMKbfZcEo28VjXUP3jaPAqwFS8497_u9PO5StIvJobm02KFlABhMLMZc6u2j7HBP75rVmgmnQBYJPGGOmkjV75ir-_emLot7juxmE8GzbSA9rdLAJpkPoqd47C1c83F9gHD3sxDQGZ5zMxzN_Mh44CoF5NedK9H6SkvTTWUfz4_sxx7EPdGVC5OmSYsg/s1201/3-Hares-Moago-Vave-407-Full-News-Office-Gansu-People's-Government-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1191" data-original-width="1201" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHMKbfZcEo28VjXUP3jaPAqwFS8497_u9PO5StIvJobm02KFlABhMLMZc6u2j7HBP75rVmgmnQBYJPGGOmkjV75ir-_emLot7juxmE8GzbSA9rdLAJpkPoqd47C1c83F9gHD3sxDQGZ5zMxzN_Mh44CoF5NedK9H6SkvTTWUfz4_sxx7EPdGVC5OmSYsg/w640-h634/3-Hares-Moago-Vave-407-Full-News-Office-Gansu-People's-Government-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>The Three Hares, Mogao Cave 407 Ceiling, Sui dynasty (581–618), China.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Overlay of Triquetra geometry by Lori Tompkins (9 November 2023).</span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/03/demystifying-ancient-symbol-of-three.html" target="_blank">"Demystifying the Ancient Symbol of Three Fish with One Head"</a> (March 2020) I mentioned the symbol of the Three Hares (aka "Tinners' Rabbits") as one of the many ancient symbols based upon the eternal law and geometry of the radius and its companion vesica piscis which together divide the circumference of the circle into three even 120° (=120° x 60' x 60" = 432,000") sections. I recently watched a video entitled <a href="https://youtu.be/g55OvdV5KxY?si=4KnX6skNxfZhQPS6&t=544" target="_blank">"Sacred Geometry - Exploring its Archetypal Language and Origins"</a> by Paul Monson (a professor at Utah Valley University and president of the Utah chapter of the Institute of Classical Art and Architecture) that features an undated and unsourced woodcut print of the Three Hares iconography together with an excerpt from Lao Tzu's <i>Tao te Ching</i>, verse 42.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhemsd7JX0079LPcZgOrHcWuus3p-pHO7-R9S4Yfc051HI3GrNzhK9KMAr2cEzhfvOHBg07Ps1G_J5sAk1mnu9_DJDVVYxhID8R1m7cgC5F0TFjs5w1I3xMG7ASIPxQE6LQVKSv17v9ZAtBxrPFRTXCHRE2POlgziOqrXzEEksLr7gPrF0P9QMB8Z5zxYk/s738/3-Hares-Linocut-Lao-Tzu.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three Hares iconography together with an excerpt from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, verse 42." border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="738" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhemsd7JX0079LPcZgOrHcWuus3p-pHO7-R9S4Yfc051HI3GrNzhK9KMAr2cEzhfvOHBg07Ps1G_J5sAk1mnu9_DJDVVYxhID8R1m7cgC5F0TFjs5w1I3xMG7ASIPxQE6LQVKSv17v9ZAtBxrPFRTXCHRE2POlgziOqrXzEEksLr7gPrF0P9QMB8Z5zxYk/w561-h312/3-Hares-Linocut-Lao-Tzu.png" title="Three Hares iconography together with an excerpt from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, verse 42." width="561" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The video presents the sacred geometry associated with the numbers 1-12, as found in nature, art, and architecture, beginning with the "Monad", "Dyad", and "Triad". The geometry of the Monad is illustrated as one circle with its center point, the Dyad as two circles overlapping upon their two center points forming the vesica piscis, and the Triad as three circles overlapping upon their three center points forming three vesicae piscium and an inner "Reuleaux" triangle. </div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjiCFAXQ9Dec24IsC_LcJ2C5T7jS3eaxnkqT13nk-KkBMTh_iLy32wKRzZt9L-OiDU-xITW489QRWVkkZYQDN8Pf2K0Fof9CWAkXE50Fuu8zI0uDF4sa1YJPKcXlcYM3gU1zb-HdDEtCwSOGpc1V34s3VY_cpNFuL8cVhaWozz4o8OGjpds2A2J4SG67I/s300/Triquetra_1000-Wolfram-Math-World.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Three circle, three vesicae piscium Triquetra, Wolfram Math World" border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjiCFAXQ9Dec24IsC_LcJ2C5T7jS3eaxnkqT13nk-KkBMTh_iLy32wKRzZt9L-OiDU-xITW489QRWVkkZYQDN8Pf2K0Fof9CWAkXE50Fuu8zI0uDF4sa1YJPKcXlcYM3gU1zb-HdDEtCwSOGpc1V34s3VY_cpNFuL8cVhaWozz4o8OGjpds2A2J4SG67I/w146-h146/Triquetra_1000-Wolfram-Math-World.jpg" title="Three circle, three vesicae piscium Triquetra, Wolfram Math World" width="146" /></a></div>Monson did not discuss the fact that the Triad of circles and vesicae piscium he illustrated is the geometric basis of the "Triquetra". </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>"The triquetra is a geometric figure consisting of three mutually intersecting vesica piscis lens shapes, as illustrated [right]. The central region common to all three lenses is a Reuleaux triangle." ‒ <a href="https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Triquetra.html" target="_blank">"Triquetra"</a>, Wolfram Math World</blockquote></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibDadJwi_rXGrFF5q_7rGQ5LN0xXheOkEolPDchW8NmnBE9htfsKXFVFWXGvSVEE4omuuLqbcwF09XAzqShEFzaXJ822Vr5LbjSkU2S86fQr38H9DvtCfl59lyL2-Lyf6uDayBP8PN1rN5SnF6vLFncJc4aSqe4gmDvHLQYYm3x_34hRcyNcZUEbALIlg/s1600/3-VP-Pigment-M.S.Schneider-p53.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibDadJwi_rXGrFF5q_7rGQ5LN0xXheOkEolPDchW8NmnBE9htfsKXFVFWXGvSVEE4omuuLqbcwF09XAzqShEFzaXJ822Vr5LbjSkU2S86fQr38H9DvtCfl59lyL2-Lyf6uDayBP8PN1rN5SnF6vLFncJc4aSqe4gmDvHLQYYm3x_34hRcyNcZUEbALIlg/s1600/3-VP-Pigment-M.S.Schneider-p53.jpg" width="144" /></a></div>I will apply the geometry of the triquetra to the Three Hares woodcut print above a little further on. The source material for Monson's video includes and follows the chapter framework of Michael S. Schneider's book, <i><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-Constructing-Universe-Mathematical/dp/0060926716" target="_blank">A Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe</a></b>, </i>which I read in early 2010 and still have on my bookshelf. In Schneider's Chapter Three, entitled "Triad: Three-Part Harmony", he illustrated the triad of three interwoven circles and vesicae piscium in relation to the "threefold weave of primary colors" (<span style="background-color: white;">p. 53) followed a few pages later (p. 58) by an image of the earliest known instance of the Three-Fish-with-One-Head symbol as found on an </span><span style="background-color: white;">Egyptian bowl dated to the </span><span style="background-color: white;">16th-11th centuries BCE (below)</span><span style="background-color: white;">, which I featured in "Demystifying the Ancient Symbol of Three Fish with One Head" (2020). [If any readers are aware of any earlier instances of this symbol, please notify me of such.] In this bowl, a t</span><span style="background-color: white;">riad of Lotus stalks and blossoms emerge out of the three angles of the fish's shared head.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzlvyV8QZHRfTMJuM4Q8MdvERBrx8TuwgdR0GvRpa2LpjZP4-p_1IggQ4cdFVaq3bWWFalUhepu4RLzkHtI-x59yQGdyolUZXpiXnZQO0cmKJvnoo41t6BvQqoXXyNW5ovkquIvUqpA17yl7ZyuLoJ5m-6OWvKgwegWD4fgYNDok3VBM179EBe9jkhMXE/s288/Three-Fish-Egyptian.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Egyptian Three Fish-Lotus bowl, 16-11 century, BCE,Image source: G. Maspero, L'archeologie egyptienne. Paris: Maison Quantin, 1887; p. 255, fig. 228." border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzlvyV8QZHRfTMJuM4Q8MdvERBrx8TuwgdR0GvRpa2LpjZP4-p_1IggQ4cdFVaq3bWWFalUhepu4RLzkHtI-x59yQGdyolUZXpiXnZQO0cmKJvnoo41t6BvQqoXXyNW5ovkquIvUqpA17yl7ZyuLoJ5m-6OWvKgwegWD4fgYNDok3VBM179EBe9jkhMXE/s16000/Three-Fish-Egyptian.jpg" title="Egyptian Three Fish-Lotus bowl, 16-11 century, BCE,Image source: G. Maspero, L'archeologie egyptienne. Paris: Maison Quantin, 1887; p. 255, fig. 228." /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image source: G. Maspero, L'archeologie egyptienne.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Paris: Maison Quantin, 1887; p. 255, fig. 228.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnHqPCT2ih37NSTwncgw_gvHmfhlTgdNAzTc3XzU6h4iJya-xbgVVLjUY6JzJF5l1lSP7F1ucMT93UpXIhBgBlLYSFuxof8_2trURlat6PUjN6eMlWT66krYHMHOUdKML5z603Dj2UUp3VxXXRxFttNNeTZvdCqru9-uy9WfsjIbA-hh6aMxZ-c9d2yeI/s470/VP-Trangle-Schneider-p38-01.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt=""Birth of the Triangle", Michael S. Schneider's book A Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe" border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="470" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnHqPCT2ih37NSTwncgw_gvHmfhlTgdNAzTc3XzU6h4iJya-xbgVVLjUY6JzJF5l1lSP7F1ucMT93UpXIhBgBlLYSFuxof8_2trURlat6PUjN6eMlWT66krYHMHOUdKML5z603Dj2UUp3VxXXRxFttNNeTZvdCqru9-uy9WfsjIbA-hh6aMxZ-c9d2yeI/w167-h113/VP-Trangle-Schneider-p38-01.jpg" title=""Birth of the Triangle", Michael S. Schneider's book A Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe" width="167" /></a></div></div>Oddly enough, despite all of his discussions and illustrations of the vesica piscis, including his illustrations of the "Birth of the Triangle" as shown to the right (p. 38), Schneider did not discuss or present illustrations of the three interwoven vesicae piscium and their indwelling and informing radii that divide the circumference of any circle into <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/03/demystifying-ancient-symbol-of-three.html#:~:text=series%20discussing%20the-,432%2C000%2Dmeasure,-of%20the%20circle" target="_blank">three even 120° (= 120° x 60' x 60" = <b>432,000"</b>) segments</a>. Via this geometry we see how the equilateral triangle is born within the singular circle. Once we see and understand this simple and eternal geometry and law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) of the circle, we can see the three FISH as three vesicae piscium and the three lotus stalks as the three radii that form these three "Fish".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVRMUXX4YW7mJ67yNlYLMQUCj2oVDaU7_krsMzViMtp8iX4ROmE_tvRcl5K36dhdbs2RaQ4XMMA9rnKezqgj6_gA0Ro_boq48YcxXVSLvFzIPCUtSXG5amQFWLss87v_PwaK-zlMqucKxouKM0yGdGZBazHjAkn4g9bL3yW_qLBJzPiT_qmKyhzFnUrGc/s641/3-VP-3-Fish-3-Radii-Triangle-wide-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Egyptian Three Fish with One Head (bowl) and corresponding Three Vesicae Piscium and their radii/stalks (drawn by Lori Tompkins, 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="641" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVRMUXX4YW7mJ67yNlYLMQUCj2oVDaU7_krsMzViMtp8iX4ROmE_tvRcl5K36dhdbs2RaQ4XMMA9rnKezqgj6_gA0Ro_boq48YcxXVSLvFzIPCUtSXG5amQFWLss87v_PwaK-zlMqucKxouKM0yGdGZBazHjAkn4g9bL3yW_qLBJzPiT_qmKyhzFnUrGc/w433-h213/3-VP-3-Fish-3-Radii-Triangle-wide-01.jpg" title="Egyptian Three Fish with One Head (bowl) and corresponding Three Vesicae Piscium and their radii/stalks (drawn by Lori Tompkins, 2023)" width="433" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7wCVK01EtkVaDGALRu8L0mun_ODSDe4gIzJbh2uw3M-Gqqw3WiQWem5ScNagTuYDXduyyBi2in5u2PsSM3mrJ4PXSQ9g4yLdLvuZ4ppJ5IRzTEP6pgCbodNSyex8bfKrVh3f6gO13VaoNurJHa-r2ae-Eor-68H-G1UjRuXAA5aflkujoBgfex2BWRKc/s315/3-Fish-3-Lotus-Triquetra-01.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Egyptian Three Fish with One Head (bowl) with Three-Vesicae-Piscium Triquetra overlay drawn by Lori Tompkins (December 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="315" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7wCVK01EtkVaDGALRu8L0mun_ODSDe4gIzJbh2uw3M-Gqqw3WiQWem5ScNagTuYDXduyyBi2in5u2PsSM3mrJ4PXSQ9g4yLdLvuZ4ppJ5IRzTEP6pgCbodNSyex8bfKrVh3f6gO13VaoNurJHa-r2ae-Eor-68H-G1UjRuXAA5aflkujoBgfex2BWRKc/w224-h224/3-Fish-3-Lotus-Triquetra-01.jpg" title="Egyptian Three Fish with One Head (bowl) with Three-Vesicae-Piscium Triquetra overlay drawn by Lori Tompkins (December 2023)" width="224" /></a></div>However, even though the three vesicae piscium of the above-right circle do move through <i>the same EYE or center point of the circle</i>, they do not form or share the<b> Reuleaux-triangle, aka "Fish Head"</b>, as found in this and in other Three-Fish-with-One-Head designs, and as found in the triquetra symbol. So the Egyptian Three-Fish and Three-Lotus bowl design appears to be something of a hybrid symbol of the geometry of the three vesicae piscium and their informing radii that divide the circle into three, and the three-vesicae-piscium triquetra formed by three equal-diameter circles with conjoined centers, nested within a larger circle. As we can see in the image above-right, the one head that the three fish share sits <i>within</i> and <i>replicates</i> the shape of the Reuleaux triangle formed by the three center-conjoined circles of the bowl.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After watching Monson's video, I realized that in my 2020 article wherein I discussed and illustrated the Three-Fish-with-One-Head symbol and briefly mentioned its connection with the triquetra, I had not discussed, illustrated or integrated in my consciousness, the full geometric basis of the triquetra. More specifically, I had not discussed, illustrated or integrated in my consciousness the <b><u>THREE circles within ONE larger circle</u></b> that form the three-vesicae-piscium triquetra anywhere in my work. Below are a few excerpts from <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/03/demystifying-ancient-symbol-of-three.html" target="_blank">"Demystifying the Ancient Symbol of Three Fish with One Head"</a> that convey some of what I did discuss and illustrate in 2020 about these symbols.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p>"Whereas I did not know about the triple-fish symbol or all of the places it has appeared throughout history until early March 2020, a version of it is found in the red triquetra I constructed for the spine of my book in late 2017 featuring three overlapping or knotted [not-geometrically-precise] vesicae <span style="text-align: left;">piscium</span> which share a common “head”, shown below left. It is also the favicon of this blog. The center point of this triquetra can be seen as the shared eye of Three Fish....<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg13mwcT4NarR1XRni8a_AE0DiG1u_Jx23_0soHsryspiXZ8rbhNk2R-bWQkexDsexn1Rdn5wVrfFiwEjkPXLXS5wxBBHCvOOCgZ05hmwBDd04pSKSUL9DFopQmcV0z9siPOp-GZ2xGarw0EFa28y4yI2ul2kHxcyzJM-Ni5mHnAZXXxphgURf1EWMRVTU/s819/Three-Fish-VP-Dot-Horizontal-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Triquetra Favicon, Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom (Lori Tompkins, 2018)" border="0" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="819" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg13mwcT4NarR1XRni8a_AE0DiG1u_Jx23_0soHsryspiXZ8rbhNk2R-bWQkexDsexn1Rdn5wVrfFiwEjkPXLXS5wxBBHCvOOCgZ05hmwBDd04pSKSUL9DFopQmcV0z9siPOp-GZ2xGarw0EFa28y4yI2ul2kHxcyzJM-Ni5mHnAZXXxphgURf1EWMRVTU/w320-h129/Three-Fish-VP-Dot-Horizontal-01.png" title="Triquetra Favicon, Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom (Lori Tompkins, 2018)" width="320" /></a></div>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"The triad of three vesicae piscium is portrayed in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/03/demystifying-ancient-symbol-of-three.html#:~:text=Although%20the%20Three%2DFish" target="_blank">dozens upon dozens of cryptic ways in the ancient Rig Veda</a>.... </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGBowLrXt3956LcIPXnuMUL6KKnGpi9NJnhR0xYgc7vm45xFrwYpdVBtrislSY7iUQIgGkvVX2m1vV99tbricgVhRvyS8enNiGTSYV9ap6O1DimmbmB7HS7HQmS3cs2Qg1lKgYAbGuEe-OfyCnvDyJGF55IgAC_dbIbiG_SLIe4FpU5YseWV0tZ3WtGgU/s544/Leo-432000-VP-120-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="The radius and vesica piscis dividing the circumference of the circle into three even 120 degree (=432,000") segments (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="544" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGBowLrXt3956LcIPXnuMUL6KKnGpi9NJnhR0xYgc7vm45xFrwYpdVBtrislSY7iUQIgGkvVX2m1vV99tbricgVhRvyS8enNiGTSYV9ap6O1DimmbmB7HS7HQmS3cs2Qg1lKgYAbGuEe-OfyCnvDyJGF55IgAC_dbIbiG_SLIe4FpU5YseWV0tZ3WtGgU/w235-h197/Leo-432000-VP-120-01.png" title="The radius and vesica piscis dividing the circumference of the circle into three even 120 degree (=432,000") segments (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" width="235" /></a>
<p>"T]he sacred geometry and Eternal Law of the radius of the circle...draws or pours out the three formative vesicae <span style="text-align: left;">piscium</span> (i.e. the THREE FISH) that establish the Divine Maya or sacred measure of the circle and Zodiac. Thus it can be seen that the Three Fish with One Head is a symbol of the Eternal Geometry or Eternal Law of the Vedic Rishis and of their twelve-month Yajna or Sacrificial Year (aka the Zodiac), which Vishnu’s Avatars (the first being the FISH) are periodically [<i>yuge-yuge</i>] tasked with recovering and preserving....</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p>"In Mayan mythology and iconography, the three vesicae piscis are portrayed as three fire stones (or hearth stones). Another version is found in the “three hares” iconography in which three rabbits, joined at the ears, form a triangle within a circle."</p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4yitQcjzjBi77rO_izcpiuu7tg8qUTNHKkmAg3Jnk7yqpZTC4q7PfEXBAhCCuXcaZQbvvTANGjDxHIfO2wDujuFNPiBRvRo1OrlHWdLasIMN0Pp0F5hDPzyTWi59Ty35lTncgu9KISXLjy6EFed0g8CzdNsUAPbgQV2nBEJ88g6tu5P1o71OXxjbNXVQ/s1139/3-Mayan-firestones-dragon-rabbits-horizontal.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three Fire Stones (Maya), Three-headed Dragon (Italy), and the Three Hares iconography (image from "Demystifying the Ancient Symbol of Three Fish with One Head (Lori Tompkins, 2020)" border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="1139" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4yitQcjzjBi77rO_izcpiuu7tg8qUTNHKkmAg3Jnk7yqpZTC4q7PfEXBAhCCuXcaZQbvvTANGjDxHIfO2wDujuFNPiBRvRo1OrlHWdLasIMN0Pp0F5hDPzyTWi59Ty35lTncgu9KISXLjy6EFed0g8CzdNsUAPbgQV2nBEJ88g6tu5P1o71OXxjbNXVQ/w476-h156/3-Mayan-firestones-dragon-rabbits-horizontal.jpg" title="Three Fire Stones (Maya), Three-headed Dragon (Italy), and the Three Hares iconography (image from "Demystifying the Ancient Symbol of Three Fish with One Head (Lori Tompkins, 2020)" width="476" /></a></div><p>After seeing Monson's video in October 2023, I proceeded to orient the three poles and equilateral triangle of the "Three Hares" woodcut print to 0°/360°, 120° and 240° degrees, and superimposed the Triad of circles (and their three vesicae piscium) within one circle upon the image.</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyc5izfcEU7PE_rp91W011KAq-5FqHMT0lE62E10HcyQnHGBeQZWDb7oFaOeZBMyQYnPb9YezAF2t9WOgVUWe2Ce7nuVYw7c31jDDhjkXvPOA-S-eazzxBGV5_zd1tYxII4J-rRS5k4S6kNkbcQ8IKBaAr_Hs64bKzhMvmITduD7GAnTS1woNmuSiBLh0/s3059/3-Hares-Tinners-Rabbits-Vesica-Piscis-Inner-Triangle-3-wide-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="3059" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyc5izfcEU7PE_rp91W011KAq-5FqHMT0lE62E10HcyQnHGBeQZWDb7oFaOeZBMyQYnPb9YezAF2t9WOgVUWe2Ce7nuVYw7c31jDDhjkXvPOA-S-eazzxBGV5_zd1tYxII4J-rRS5k4S6kNkbcQ8IKBaAr_Hs64bKzhMvmITduD7GAnTS1woNmuSiBLh0/w640-h200/3-Hares-Tinners-Rabbits-Vesica-Piscis-Inner-Triangle-3-wide-01.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Via this image, we can SEE that the correspondence between the architecture of this Three-Hares woodcut and the geometry of the three interwoven circles within one circle is undeniable. Each side of the equilateral triangle,—running the length of each of the three ears—, is the radius of one of the three conjoined circles. Once we know what we are looking for or looking at, the outline of the upper circle is clearly visible in the lines of the drawing itself, as highlighted in the center image above. The radius of the larger circle is found in the three partially occluded rays extending from the center of the circle through the paws of the rabbits. Below right I have illustrated and emphasized why this same triadic geometry is symbolically portrayed as Three Fish (=three vesicae piscium) with their three "tails" and their one shared head and eye.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrCeWKYTOsMmQPH8YiJIiBYlBR_HBX359SCVdZ2R0r4jpOyNK7QgJLjLoQTgvF4A4VungKAl5pa7zF51DEMWab0jdX9OeLteyj5XtCl7KlvF14Z7LMcolAaHBkdZyHLELhB9GKdBlg0XwPh33_4l-ac2pfcJctKw3hwK-8yHARbNrUVIfp0wUOnD2-VxA/s1600/3-Hares-Tinners-Rabbits-Vesica-Piscis-Inner-Triangle-4-wide-sm-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three Hares woodcut print (unknown source) with Triquetra/Sacred Geometry overlay and emphasis by Lori Tompkins (December 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="1521" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrCeWKYTOsMmQPH8YiJIiBYlBR_HBX359SCVdZ2R0r4jpOyNK7QgJLjLoQTgvF4A4VungKAl5pa7zF51DEMWab0jdX9OeLteyj5XtCl7KlvF14Z7LMcolAaHBkdZyHLELhB9GKdBlg0XwPh33_4l-ac2pfcJctKw3hwK-8yHARbNrUVIfp0wUOnD2-VxA/w640-h159/3-Hares-Tinners-Rabbits-Vesica-Piscis-Inner-Triangle-4-wide-sm-01.jpg" title="Three Hares woodcut print (unknown source) with Triquetra/Sacred Geometry overlay and emphasis by Lori Tompkins (December 2023)" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3B1bZnoHFTfWbzwiUyosNvxk6DmfghnEcQj9htJogYQrgFhzCFhbhHDoHiK5EGBCUy81swuUTHHM1SVsywhz576mCrexvqma1pYczludc7SpSg0a9Ufs-_vFhdMzWKZOxJcu0uysAkhuR5qxFG3VXqEpux6VBCinZGWekkygpDbjcM-bE5PdxjlGgx2M/s438/three-rabbits-dunhuang-cave-407.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407, Gansu, China,—dated to the Sui dynasty, 581–618 CE (chinesepuzzles.org)" border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="438" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3B1bZnoHFTfWbzwiUyosNvxk6DmfghnEcQj9htJogYQrgFhzCFhbhHDoHiK5EGBCUy81swuUTHHM1SVsywhz576mCrexvqma1pYczludc7SpSg0a9Ufs-_vFhdMzWKZOxJcu0uysAkhuR5qxFG3VXqEpux6VBCinZGWekkygpDbjcM-bE5PdxjlGgx2M/w202-h202/three-rabbits-dunhuang-cave-407.jpg" title="Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407, Gansu, China,—dated to the Sui dynasty, 581–618 CE (chinesepuzzles.org)" width="202" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not knowing the date or origin of the woodcut print above, I searched for the earliest known instances of the Three Hares iconography, wondering if the same geometry applied. I found a variety of images, including the image shown to the right as found on <a href="https://chinesepuzzles.org/three-hares/">www.chinesepuzzes.org</a>. This image was cropped from a larger picture of the Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407, Gansu, China, dated to the Sui dynasty, 581–618 CE. In <a href="https://chinesepuzzles.org/dev/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/dunhuang-mogao-cave-407-600x400.jpg" target="_blank">the full design</a>, the circle encompassing the Three-Hares is itself encompassed by two rings of lotus petals and a whirling sky or sea of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsara" target="_blank"><i>apsaras</i></a>. </div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">"The beautiful image from Cave 407 is the best known of all the three-hares designs at Dunhuang. The hares are surrounded by two bands of lotus petals against a background of celestial maidens (<i>feitian</i>) [=<i>apsaras</i>] flying in the same direction as the hares.... Interestingly, this is the only one of the seventeen cave images in which the three hares are clearly running in a counterclockwise direction." ‒ <a href="https://chinesepuzzles.org/three-hares/">www.chinesepuzzes.org</a> [Text in brackets added]<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>The same cropped photo featuring the inner circle of Three Hares was featured in </span><a href="http://www.vikkiyeatesillustration.co.uk/blog/a-brief-explanation-of-the-three-hares-symbol" target="_blank">"A Brief Explanation of the Three Hares Symbol"</a><span> (2018) by Vikki Yeats who noted the visual connection between the Three Hares and the triquetra.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: justify;">"As the symbol has striking similarities to the Triquetra, a symmetrical design of 3 interlaced arcs (literal translation '3 cornered'), we can make some symbolic connections; but even the Triquetra has diverse interpretations depending on belief systems and geography."</div></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Before seeing what the full Mogao Cave 407 ceiling looked like, I rotated the small cropped square 45° so that one of the three rabbit heads of the inner rabbit-ear triangle was pointed up, aligned with what I mistakenly thought at the time might be one of the four cardinal points of the image. Using this orientation, I superimposed the geometry of the three-circles-within-one-circle and its corresponding triquetra upon the conjoined Three Hares.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCi73OSnZ0bWuUg47nrHzx6Tkq5DRN4NgmkDoOdZb0PsLjEsQUoCAlJ6YmAiaCX1raC_moki8tq3__RiQGJsJ_eYhyphenhyphenHPjjBirTO-Chc18xqKAZDK3BSU3FKoqe-CHAdoS-794lIt1e8nR9Xg-kV0NQTRKH-8VSuht7hO4UbjlHQI_5jMOqMXAoA5pT0M/s839/Three-Hares-Rabbits-dunhuang-cave-3-VP-Triqueta-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three Hares, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407. Rotation of image and Triquetra overlay by Lori Tompkins (November 2023)." border="0" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="839" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCi73OSnZ0bWuUg47nrHzx6Tkq5DRN4NgmkDoOdZb0PsLjEsQUoCAlJ6YmAiaCX1raC_moki8tq3__RiQGJsJ_eYhyphenhyphenHPjjBirTO-Chc18xqKAZDK3BSU3FKoqe-CHAdoS-794lIt1e8nR9Xg-kV0NQTRKH-8VSuht7hO4UbjlHQI_5jMOqMXAoA5pT0M/w320-h320/Three-Hares-Rabbits-dunhuang-cave-3-VP-Triqueta-01.png" title="Three Hares, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407. Rotation of image and Triquetra overlay by Lori Tompkins (November 2023)." width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Via this overlay, we can see that the Three Hare heads correspond to the center of each of the three inner circles which collectively fit perfectly within the design's green inner circle; and the length of the Three Hare ears corresponds to the three radii of these three circles. Moreover, the length of the long-axis of each of the three vesicae piscium corresponds to the length of each of the Three Hares' bodies.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyxcyZe8j_OBDqDp7jQbDn7CkoRXvxr04FA6LMs4qWOafVYN_PIeMRfyvnOYU6gC7Fm3sV4uDkwT0J73SUdYWoHix3tgYkrggC3J8s9vDSaKhoxrXe8iNRzEZcgA-MRXebacQZ4O0WKlRuGlpxEYAm5ZkZkpvPiKs7LzX2yrdSDNb6TBLIzJKjvFOJB8/s1083/three-rabbits-dunhuang-cave-407-VP-axis-3-rabbit-length-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three Hares, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407. Rotation of image and Triquetra overlay by Lori Tompkins (November 2023)." border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="1083" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPyxcyZe8j_OBDqDp7jQbDn7CkoRXvxr04FA6LMs4qWOafVYN_PIeMRfyvnOYU6gC7Fm3sV4uDkwT0J73SUdYWoHix3tgYkrggC3J8s9vDSaKhoxrXe8iNRzEZcgA-MRXebacQZ4O0WKlRuGlpxEYAm5ZkZkpvPiKs7LzX2yrdSDNb6TBLIzJKjvFOJB8/w640-h306/three-rabbits-dunhuang-cave-407-VP-axis-3-rabbit-length-01.jpg" title="Three Hares, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407. Rotation of image and Triquetra overlay by Lori Tompkins (November 2023)." width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">After overlaying this geometry on the cropped excerpt of the Mogao Cave 407 Three Hares, I searched for and found the below fuller view of <b>the inner square</b> of the design, as presented on the People's Republic of China's State Council Information Office, and proceeded to overlayed the same geometry with no rotation of the original image. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaxlXjRh37G2AQo1O4F_zmQzyVse2JBGx6MzB3bN7VLuOW6e_cX5MI8OnJlp7z61tL_ICr0g4lhivNbb2sm8e-Xo0fKWRt4eAbQFtbacvc9uPJYvCA4ezlcvWkGxiTHF6LVG_82czoncKFRFqzpVbJ-EfezuDcz70QwMYvzKVupUatG7LICyr75MhWT_Y/s1201/3-Hares-Moago-Vave-407-Full-News-Office-Gansu-People's-Government-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three Hares, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407. Triquetra overlay by Lori Tompkins (November 2023)." border="0" data-original-height="1191" data-original-width="1201" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaxlXjRh37G2AQo1O4F_zmQzyVse2JBGx6MzB3bN7VLuOW6e_cX5MI8OnJlp7z61tL_ICr0g4lhivNbb2sm8e-Xo0fKWRt4eAbQFtbacvc9uPJYvCA4ezlcvWkGxiTHF6LVG_82czoncKFRFqzpVbJ-EfezuDcz70QwMYvzKVupUatG7LICyr75MhWT_Y/w400-h396/3-Hares-Moago-Vave-407-Full-News-Office-Gansu-People's-Government-01.jpg" title="Three Hares, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407. Triquetra overlay by Lori Tompkins (November 2023)." width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Via this orientation of the painting, the bodies of the Three Hares form a subtle <i>descending</i> triangle within their circle.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS-BHGESWARZS0x3b9X2tHLRZJaYu7PK08Zz9YyUfWcskzCQ__qu7te8klsA7559icz6RG0l_loBWn90oOHcs88BMBosxKUePh7HBU3_3fybKLW1tzmkbEgEqHseMLkHGF_dgOR_6cl6ahhOLNhUA8bgaZglL0X4pIGWtfcxCmPqPbPjE52sxRFLNviA4/s408/3-Hares-Moago-Vave-407-Full-News-Office-Gansu-People's-Government-Inner-Circle-Descending-Triangle-orange-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three Hares, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407 Triquetra and descending triangle overlay by Lori Tompkins (November 2023)." border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="408" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS-BHGESWARZS0x3b9X2tHLRZJaYu7PK08Zz9YyUfWcskzCQ__qu7te8klsA7559icz6RG0l_loBWn90oOHcs88BMBosxKUePh7HBU3_3fybKLW1tzmkbEgEqHseMLkHGF_dgOR_6cl6ahhOLNhUA8bgaZglL0X4pIGWtfcxCmPqPbPjE52sxRFLNviA4/w400-h400/3-Hares-Moago-Vave-407-Full-News-Office-Gansu-People's-Government-Inner-Circle-Descending-Triangle-orange-01.jpg" title="Three Hares, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407 Triquetra and descending triangle overlay by Lori Tompkins (November 2023)." width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">If we flip the orientation of the image 180°, then the bodies of the Three Hares form a subtle <i>ascending</i> triangle. This ascending triangle of hares is found in the much fuller (uncropped) view of the ceiling below which shows the SQUARE that frames the circular design of the apsaras, lotuses and hares.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6W0DcjDJuMsWGTRSEkVrV5xicZNLxxyEFRxRUAfoIpjJ0xCmCYvtlpfA9F9VPxLv7x6l8kvQ1k7nvLVVatVVhv5Ai4lzMK6xUM-KNGGsUpdDGASIz8ortZVV4TQokAnW1PN6L5kzncOixWRCEiSVUQYvlC_XWDZ-Lf9a4LfXge3FCbk-_P6sBGFWJFhk/s1570/Mogao-Cave-407-Full-Chinese-Puzzles.org-Ascending-Triangle-02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three Hares, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407 (Image source: www.chinesepuzzles.org) Circle and ascending triangle overlay, Lori Tompkins, 4 December 2023." border="0" data-original-height="1045" data-original-width="1570" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6W0DcjDJuMsWGTRSEkVrV5xicZNLxxyEFRxRUAfoIpjJ0xCmCYvtlpfA9F9VPxLv7x6l8kvQ1k7nvLVVatVVhv5Ai4lzMK6xUM-KNGGsUpdDGASIz8ortZVV4TQokAnW1PN6L5kzncOixWRCEiSVUQYvlC_XWDZ-Lf9a4LfXge3FCbk-_P6sBGFWJFhk/w640-h426/Mogao-Cave-407-Full-Chinese-Puzzles.org-Ascending-Triangle-02.jpg" title="Three Hares, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407 (Image source: www.chinesepuzzles.org) Circle and ascending triangle overlay, Lori Tompkins, 4 December 2023." width="640" /></a></div><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Image source: www.chinesepuzzles.org (Circle and Triangle overlay by Lori Tompkins, </b></span><b style="font-size: x-small;"> </b><b style="font-size: x-small;">4 December 2023)</b></div></span><p style="text-align: justify;">After illustrating the descending triangle of the Three Hares within their circle, I constructed a Satkona (aka "Star of David") with its ascending and descending equilateral triangles holding the Three Hares circle perfectly in its hexagonal core (below left). This construction revealed the subtle geometry determining the tip-to-tip measure of the white lotus petals, and the diameter of their encompassing circle.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-oFx8qNXScwFgrVzD9Dn4yzYuC5v6vAsQEPvFaUxoxJe1DSkdfmqvCJ4QmchMZDzPI3I0MH2QYvcCfLm4dhlGvS8gbb_-6ZCdhY0xHQc21kU-WTFyIY8coDBOXjP-VgfgOGdNiYvt4YEd5l1IYb7S6CHUvSbb3THRCjUvEHz5KaFUY___6cGmKW9b34/s408/3-Hares-Moago-Vave-407-Full-News-Office-Gansu-People's-Government-Satkona-Inner-Circle-Descending-Triangle-orange-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three Hares & Lotus Rings, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407 Satkona/Triangle overlay by Lori Tompkins, 4 December 2023." border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="408" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-oFx8qNXScwFgrVzD9Dn4yzYuC5v6vAsQEPvFaUxoxJe1DSkdfmqvCJ4QmchMZDzPI3I0MH2QYvcCfLm4dhlGvS8gbb_-6ZCdhY0xHQc21kU-WTFyIY8coDBOXjP-VgfgOGdNiYvt4YEd5l1IYb7S6CHUvSbb3THRCjUvEHz5KaFUY___6cGmKW9b34/w215-h215/3-Hares-Moago-Vave-407-Full-News-Office-Gansu-People's-Government-Satkona-Inner-Circle-Descending-Triangle-orange-01.jpg" title="Three Hares & Lotus Rings, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407 Satkona/Triangle overlay by Lori Tompkins, 4 December 2023." width="215" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGlvQ59UYyJsa-LactSRJqnJV9WdOFmXFZmMf-3QaZxK5DiqBrbE5HAkJEUFmKr6yPS5wquZTTPKH0k1mGyQTPdMaa8MUSRU2504Zp0KfSoFZvvEDuCUTExoJZEoMgD5xw3m3sMyBb2daf5A8_3qcD6pWYmmCaxd5KYLO-HtFQLcmnLBfkGfLhU65PFN0/s408/3-Hares-Moago-Vave-407-Full-News-Office-Gansu-People's-Government-Satkona-Inner-Circle-Descending-Triangle-orange-3VP-3-4circles-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three Hares & Lotus Rings, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407. Four-circle, three vesicae piscium overlay by Lori Tompkins, 4 December 2023." border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="407" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGlvQ59UYyJsa-LactSRJqnJV9WdOFmXFZmMf-3QaZxK5DiqBrbE5HAkJEUFmKr6yPS5wquZTTPKH0k1mGyQTPdMaa8MUSRU2504Zp0KfSoFZvvEDuCUTExoJZEoMgD5xw3m3sMyBb2daf5A8_3qcD6pWYmmCaxd5KYLO-HtFQLcmnLBfkGfLhU65PFN0/w214-h215/3-Hares-Moago-Vave-407-Full-News-Office-Gansu-People's-Government-Satkona-Inner-Circle-Descending-Triangle-orange-3VP-3-4circles-01.jpg" title="Three Hares & Lotus Rings, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407. Four-circle, three vesicae piscium overlay by Lori Tompkins, 4 December 2023." width="214" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Knowing that <b>each side of the Three-Hare's equilateral triangle corresponds to</b> <b>the long axis of a vesica piscis</b>, I constructed the image above-right, illustrating the three conjoined circles and their three vesicae piscium that together measure out the three angles of the descending triangle of the central circle. In case it needs noting, all four of these circles—one central and three peripheral circles flowing through the center point of the center circle—share the same-size radius and diameter. Via this image and several of the previous images, we can see that both the geometry of the three-vesicae-piscium triquetra and the three-vesicae-piscium division of the One circle can be found in the Mogao Cave 407 ceiling painting.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Vishnu's Lotus and the Measure of the Zodiacal Vedic Year</b></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrO9qmvABy3Vfim9GXVxxQY_uehQtV0Z87G9gbN1muC2JiYM-vZTkLuIeG8ls041AWapNMLY09cLLDWI5g4MtjeDKtNdVUr3-5DbBmMUCjUIq1CeA5YIi-kqt7VrKNMc9qyychjgzS_PtyDDn7s-HrvMlyZyd47GoHqgSnIEssq27nPdD_pAGkh_BofQU/s1600/SAS-thin-sm-01.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="Sri Aurobindo's Satkona and Lotus of the Avatar Symbol" border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrO9qmvABy3Vfim9GXVxxQY_uehQtV0Z87G9gbN1muC2JiYM-vZTkLuIeG8ls041AWapNMLY09cLLDWI5g4MtjeDKtNdVUr3-5DbBmMUCjUIq1CeA5YIi-kqt7VrKNMc9qyychjgzS_PtyDDn7s-HrvMlyZyd47GoHqgSnIEssq27nPdD_pAGkh_BofQU/s16000/SAS-thin-sm-01.jpg" title="Sri Aurobindo's Satkona and Lotus of the Avatar Symbol" /></a></div>The Vedic god Vishnu — "the Preserver" of the eternal law or s<i>anatana dharma</i> of the Vedas and likewise of the 360° twelve-month Vedic Year (=Yajna) — is commonly depicted in Hindu iconography as standing on or holding a Lotus. In my writings I have discussed the Lotus as a symbol of the zodiacal Vedic Year, and I have discussed Sri Aurobindo's "Lotus of the Avatar" symbol within its enveloping Satkona as a symbol of his role as an avatar of Vishnu. Note that Sri Aurobindo's given first name <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind#:~:text=Aravind%20(from%20Sanskrit%3A%20%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%20aravinda,Aurobindo%20(Bengali%3A%20%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6)." target="_blank">Aravind</a></i>, from which the name Aurobindo arose, means Lotus. The Lotus symbol and what it symbolizes is the basis of the name of my website <a href="http://www.360lotus.com">www.360lotus.com</a>. With Vishnu's Lotus and 360° sacred year in mind, I superimposed the geometry of "Vishnu's Flower" upon the eight-petal lotus rings of the Mogao Cave 407 ceiling painting in order to illustrate its overarching geometric and zodiacal architecture.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Vpf6k1GQRjrZpB4XZn2xF0YGPuiuSbCB0kRvzlVKCgDQn3aT13l02w6QENYItin5LhCfTNtp_aEo0yC9l7gWU3kKXERIVYSYh-PJc8ody4P22VpSIme3NzIsFZYZLzu4L0mJf5TTahCrPx55-3dQOf8taZLjClRz2Ji1oXCQz-B1-_96DEjpHO28p1g/s900/3-Hares-Moago-Vave-407-Full-News-Office-Gansu-People's-Government-core-Rabbits-Vishnu's-Flower-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Three Hares & Lotus Rings, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407. Five-circle, four vesicae piscium (zodiacal) overlay by Lori Tompkins, December 2023." border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Vpf6k1GQRjrZpB4XZn2xF0YGPuiuSbCB0kRvzlVKCgDQn3aT13l02w6QENYItin5LhCfTNtp_aEo0yC9l7gWU3kKXERIVYSYh-PJc8ody4P22VpSIme3NzIsFZYZLzu4L0mJf5TTahCrPx55-3dQOf8taZLjClRz2Ji1oXCQz-B1-_96DEjpHO28p1g/w640-h640/3-Hares-Moago-Vave-407-Full-News-Office-Gansu-People's-Government-core-Rabbits-Vishnu's-Flower-01.jpg" title="Three Hares & Lotus Rings, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407. Five-circle, four vesicae piscium (zodiacal) overlay by Lori Tompkins, December 2023." width="640" /></a></div>
<span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Vishnu's Flower,—which I first illustrated and named as such in 2009</span>—<span>, </span>is constructed via FIVE circles of equal diameter, including the central circle of the Zodiac and the four cardinal-point circles drawn out by the four cardinal-point radii that form the equal-armed cross of the central circle. These four cardinal-point circles and the four vesicae piscium they form <i>within</i> the central circle of the Zodiac, measure out the full span of each of Vishnu's four preservation signs—Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius—on the circumference of the zodiacal circle. Together with the four cardinal points, these four vesicae piscium give us the full 12-month measure of the Zodiac. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHt7r62MwcLPQC_U4Evzw2Z1FA4msoyd-Xp18NC02zd5R0Gg2AkCYNxqXlOZP6lGNIHiWkVdjMCQBy6wKWCKnm_v6MajkHsDUBUorvDAMYuFN5vEXnIKHD7eeWsnmIgYSDlp_m07ULAWR9menhLYGFEw9IzWmuUUfWdl18qL9apKxdiUxXlqYjbcVrszY/s16000/Vishnu's-Flower-4-Circles-Zodiac-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt=""Vishnu's Flower" - four cardinal point radii/circles and the 12 month division of the Zodiac (Lori Tompkins, 2009)" border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHt7r62MwcLPQC_U4Evzw2Z1FA4msoyd-Xp18NC02zd5R0Gg2AkCYNxqXlOZP6lGNIHiWkVdjMCQBy6wKWCKnm_v6MajkHsDUBUorvDAMYuFN5vEXnIKHD7eeWsnmIgYSDlp_m07ULAWR9menhLYGFEw9IzWmuUUfWdl18qL9apKxdiUxXlqYjbcVrszY/s16000/Vishnu's-Flower-4-Circles-Zodiac-01.jpg" title=""Vishnu's Flower" - four cardinal point radii/circles and the 12 month division of the Zodiac (Lori Tompkins, 2009)" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When the four flower petals of Vishnu's Flower are superimposed on the Mogao Cave 407 ceiling as presented on the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China <a href="http://english.scio.gov.cn/internationalexchanges/2023-01/22/content_85071447.htm" target="_blank">website</a>, they appear to measure out not only the width of the black lotus petals, but also the position of the tips of the white lotus petals. Whereas some of these tips do not have an <i>exact</i> correspondence when measuring out <i>the photo</i> of the ceiling (i.e. not the ceiling itself), in my mind they are close enough to suspect that the designer utilized the geometric construction of the 12-month year (=the Vedic Yajna or "Sacrifice") as the subtle basis of his or her design. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Given that the inner circles and <i>apsaras</i> of this image are framed by a SQUARE (or series of squares), we can identify <b>the four cardinal points</b> of the black-lotus-petal ring and of the subtle circle that connects the tips of the black petals. These cardinal points of the circle, marking out 0°/360°, 90°, 180° and 270° degrees, correspond zodiacally to 0° Aries, 0° Cancer, 0° Libra, and 0° Capricorn. <span style="background-color: white;">I have no idea what the actual North-South-East-West geographic orientation of cardinal points the Mogao</span><span> Cave 4</span><span style="background-color: white;">07 ceiling painting is; a</span>nd of course, I do not know if the designer of the image was aware of<span style="background-color: white;"> the Vedic and zodiacal sense of their geometry. Nonetheless the subtle zodiacal and Vedic geometry exists in the image. Given the square that frames the apsaras, lotuses and hares, the </span><span style="background-color: white;">orientation of the Three Hares Trine and of the zodiacal cardinal points and signs as illustrated above, may be off by 90</span>°<span style="background-color: white;">, 180</span>°<span style="background-color: white;"> or 270</span>°. Due to the subtle ascending or descending equilateral triangle formed by the Three Hares, I suspect that, if the zodiacal orientation of the design is off at all, it is off by 180°.<span style="background-color: white;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The four intercardinal points</b> and axes of the Earth's Solar, Tropical and Zodiacal Year,—15° Taurus, 15° Leo, 15° Scorpio and 15° Aquarius—, are found in the <b><span style="font-size: medium;">X</span></b> connecting the points of Vishnu's four flower petals. These <span style="background-color: white;">intercardinal</span> points closely correspond to the tips of the four intercardinal black lotus petals, and likewise to the four midpoints of the two-petal-per-quadrant design of the white lotus circle.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4c-UrV_JL-B4Gd54Ahi8vZypUC1l9mUDAQ-1s2ngcy-NDwLsKtTG3FlFc6e-tW8WlgXxzSvdIuOmsNI8WjPZRbWAMBULdhRSMdgtHcqaMRzqbEXMwhxrlDMZ9pibeaHvynUowEDPxzGG5ezCiBjQ9AtKV8_0XeCFw4zq3lc7X8EL0SKhEmYdfowLLZNI/s900/3-Hares-Moago-Vave-407-Full-News-Office-Gansu-People's-Government-core-Rabbits-Vishnu's-Flower-X-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Three Hares & Lotus Rings, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407. Five-circle, four vesicae piscium (zodiacal) and Intercardinal Cross overlay by Lori Tompkins, December 2023." border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4c-UrV_JL-B4Gd54Ahi8vZypUC1l9mUDAQ-1s2ngcy-NDwLsKtTG3FlFc6e-tW8WlgXxzSvdIuOmsNI8WjPZRbWAMBULdhRSMdgtHcqaMRzqbEXMwhxrlDMZ9pibeaHvynUowEDPxzGG5ezCiBjQ9AtKV8_0XeCFw4zq3lc7X8EL0SKhEmYdfowLLZNI/w640-h640/3-Hares-Moago-Vave-407-Full-News-Office-Gansu-People's-Government-core-Rabbits-Vishnu's-Flower-X-01.jpg" title="Three Hares & Lotus Rings, Mogao Cave Ceiling, Cave 407. Five-circle, four vesicae piscium (zodiacal) and Intercardinal Cross overlay by Lori Tompkins, December 2023." width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Lao Tzu's <i>Tao te Ching</i> Verse 42 and the Axiom of Maria</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: center;">"The Tao gives birth to the One,</div><div style="text-align: center;">the One gives birth to the Two,</div><div style="text-align: center;">the Two gives birth to the Three,</div><div style="text-align: center;">the Three gives birth to the Ten Thousand Things."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>- <span style="text-align: left;">Lao Tzu, <i>Tao te Ching</i>, Verse 42 </span>excerpt, translated by Tolbert McCarroll</b></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In Hu Xuezhi's translation of the same verse, that last phrase reads: "the Three gives birth to<b> </b>all universal things". Alternatively, K. O. Schmidt translated this line as "Out of Three the multiplicity of beings flowed which are appearance outside being inside both united by Spirit." [For more translations of this verse, see <a href="https://www.egreenway.com/taoism/ttclz42.htm">www.egreenway.com</a>.]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I do not know <i>who</i> paired Lao Tzu's verse (dated to circa 400 BCE) with the Three Hares circular woodcut, or <i>when</i> it was paired. Regardless, it is a perfect pairing given the triadic geometry that holds the key of <b><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2082809-the-three-hares-motif-is-an-ancient-mystery-for-our-times/" target="_blank">the Three Hares puzzle or mystery</a></b>. As I have illustrated, in order to produce the geometry of the Three Hares circle and symbol as illustrated above, <b>ONE circle bears a second circle, and those TWO circles bear a third circle, and these</b><b> THREE conjoined circles bear a FOURTH (or ONE) larger circle from their triadic center point. </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnj2AfcgTzgcAi63lPxHmWgQalkZnTCj1V-fS-jLBRPiP9XG-fvPDNPk0vtLnp4Qex6Vpfsd59uSBibxXI2BYhOFkhhQBusBV-3ZblK9EvwgPgpCeFHfkK1HywbFzW_wbhuUTI-No9ryf3Vir4l9KBaSD602qkqs5xt6iOFVkpDQvHm7zddbRCqLp-yfk/s1998/1234-Circles-VP-Triad-Axiom-Maria-Alchemy-no-quote-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Sacred Geometry of the Triquetra, the Axiom of Maria and Lao Tzu's Verse 42 -- One, Two, and Three circles give birth to a fourth. (Image by Lori Tompkins, December 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="1998" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnj2AfcgTzgcAi63lPxHmWgQalkZnTCj1V-fS-jLBRPiP9XG-fvPDNPk0vtLnp4Qex6Vpfsd59uSBibxXI2BYhOFkhhQBusBV-3ZblK9EvwgPgpCeFHfkK1HywbFzW_wbhuUTI-No9ryf3Vir4l9KBaSD602qkqs5xt6iOFVkpDQvHm7zddbRCqLp-yfk/w640-h170/1234-Circles-VP-Triad-Axiom-Maria-Alchemy-no-quote-01.jpg" title="The Sacred Geometry of the Triquetra, the Axiom of Maria and Lao Tzu's Verse 42 -- One, Two, and Three circles give birth to a fourth. (Image by Lori Tompkins, December 2023)" width="640" /></a></div><div><p style="text-align: justify;">Via this geometry of the Three Hares,—which is also the geometry of the Three Fish with One Head—, we can better understand not only Lao Tzu's axiom, but its later rendition or offshoot, the alchemical "Axiom of Maria", dated to the 3rd century CE:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><blockquote><b>"One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth."</b></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;">*</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">"[The] Axiom of Maria is a precept in alchemy: "One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth." It is attributed to 3rd century alchemist Maria Prophetissa, also called Mary the Jewess, sister of Moses, or the Copt. A more detailed quote was provided by the seventh-century alchemistic author called Christianos, who cited that what Maria uttered was "One becomes two, two becomes three, and <b>by means of the third and fourth achieves unity</b>; thus two are but one". Marie-Louise von Franz also gave an alternative version, which states: "Out of the One comes Two, out of Two comes Three, and from the Third comes the One as the Fourth." The axiom served as a recurring theme associated with alchemy for over seventeen centuries."</div></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If we consider their shared geometric basis, the difference between Lao Tzu's version and Maria Prophetissa's version appears to be two different ways of referring to t<b>he fourth larger circle—born or manifest from its inner point that forms only <i>after</i> the construction of the three smaller circles</b>. This fourth encompassing circle can be equally viewed as the One circle of the Divine Mother or Matrix who holds and harmonizes in herself the Many, i.e. "ten-thousand things" or "all universal things". The One/Fourth born of the triad of "Three" could also be seen and understood as this circles' inner point which is the compressed seed of the whole circle, as well as the compressed seed of its sacred Triad or Trinity. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMNT6o4v25S8LhF9f5pLP3P8m6lhOfIBbOVFDUQjGkb7CWDPn2x5k7WVZycQPoAyOizz22GH0ZWnp3PZqJkRm3t2B9o_dZZ-HOpbwhUyoqTORqdcjyTwCWg6uDn66UL-XLV-WSVslUmLHsbA7ZGD8os_QZF4uABJKrXUrG3T9i35rhkGlH4W64C_shsjo/s316/9-6-3-TNW12-p.138-LT-Variation-1963-Fire-sm-01.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="An amalgem of Thea's illustrations of the triadic division of the circle of 9 (9-6-3) and of the zodiac, in relation to the birth years of Sri Aurobindo (1872), the Mother (1878), Thea (1938) and the Son/One/Fourth (1963)." border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMNT6o4v25S8LhF9f5pLP3P8m6lhOfIBbOVFDUQjGkb7CWDPn2x5k7WVZycQPoAyOizz22GH0ZWnp3PZqJkRm3t2B9o_dZZ-HOpbwhUyoqTORqdcjyTwCWg6uDn66UL-XLV-WSVslUmLHsbA7ZGD8os_QZF4uABJKrXUrG3T9i35rhkGlH4W64C_shsjo/s16000/9-6-3-TNW12-p.138-LT-Variation-1963-Fire-sm-01.jpg" title="An amalgem of Thea's illustrations of the triadic division of the circle of 9 (9-6-3) and of the zodiac, in relation to the birth years of Sri Aurobindo (1872), the Mother (1878), Thea (1938) and the Son/One/Fourth (1963)." /></a></div>Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea) did see the One/Forth of the Axiom of Maria, in terms of the inner point of the triadic circle, wherein the central Triad was the ascending equilateral triangle or Fire Trine of the Zodiac, corresponding to the entrances into each of the three Fire signs and to the numbers <b>9</b>, <b>3</b>, and <b>6</b> in the circle of <b>9</b>:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">0° Aries = 360° = 3 + 6 + 0 = <b>9</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">0° Leo = 120° = 1 + 2 + 0 = <b>3</b><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">0° Sagittarius = 240° = 2 + 4 + 0 = <b>6</b><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><br /></div><div>She discussed this axiom, not only in relation to the sacred triadic geometry of the 360° Circle/Year, but also to the birth of the triadic Vedic Sage-Son Agni [aka Trita, the Threefold One] and Sri Aurobindo's triadic supramental descent and rebirth in <b>1963</b>.</div><div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />"[The supreme yogic achievement of manifesting Agni] is the yoga detailed in the Rigveda. … Sri Aurobindo had to rediscover that Vedic Yoga. His appearance as the 9 in the Solar Line was in the form of the Transcendent. His ‘sleep’ and awakening as the One is in the form of the Immanent Transcendent [Son], <b>or the Point, the One, the Centre, Agni</b>. To render the realisation possible and complete, the powers of 6 and 3 were conjoined to the 9. And out of that Third the One was born. </div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"This is the most profound mystery of creation. I have written earlier that it constituted the quest of the Alchemists of the West. This is clearly evidenced in the following Hermetic formula, taken from the dialogues between Maria [Prophetissa] and Aros (Isis and Horus?): ‘<b>One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the One as the fourth.’</b> Translated into the formula of the new cosmology, this is the 9, 6, 3, and out of the 3 comes the 1, who is the fourth in [Sri Aurobindo's Solar] Line. </div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">‒ Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/culture-and-cosmos-2-part-3-6/" target="_blank">"Culture and Cosmos – 2, Part 3.6"</a> <br /><i>The Vishaal Newsletter</i>, <i>Volume 7 Number 1</i>, April 1992</span></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Below are a few of the many ways the Triadic Oneness of the Circle was veiled by the ancient Vedic seers in cryptic verse:</div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><br /></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"The true, Red Treasure they have sent, one only Son born of the Three [Mothers/Immortal Ones]...." ‒ Rig Veda 8.90.6, excerpt, tr. RTH Griffith </div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: justify;">*</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"When the three-[humped or three-fold] one descends with onslaught he opens wide the doors that cause man trouble." ‒ Rig Veda 1.121.4, tr. RTH Griffith </div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: justify;">*</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Child of three Mothers, he is Lord in [assemblies]. Three are the holy Ladies of the Waters, thrice here from heaven supreme in our assembly. ‒ Rig Veda 3.56.5 excerpt, tr. RTH Griffith </div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">* </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">"[Agni born as Varuna] holds the nights in his embrace; by his [Maya=measure] he established the [Three Dawns=three rivers=three mothers, etc.]. He (holds) everything in his embrace—the one lovely to see…. [He] was the measurer of the primordial place…. Who is the upholder of the worlds, who knows the secret names of the [dawns=rivers=mothers=cows], their hidden names, he is a poet who fosters the many poetic arts…. In whom are fixed all poetic arts—(he is) like the nave in a wheel. Do honor to Trita [=the Triple One=Agni] with alacrity…. Who lies on these [waters like] a cloak, while enveloping all the created things…." ‒ Rig Veda 8.41.3-7, tr. Jamison & Brereton</blockquote><div><br /></div></div><div>In conjunction with Thea's passing, I came to see and understand Agni's Three Mother's (=three rivers, goddesses, dawns, cows, sisters, etc.) as a veiled poetic description of the three vesicae piscium that flow through and measure out the Zodiac into three even parts. I likewise came to see and understand their "Son/One" Agni ‒ as the radius, pillar or <i>skambha </i>of the circle, who dwells within and pours out the eternal form and law of both the circle and the vesica piscis. I have discussed this at length elsewhere and will not belabor the point here, it is just important to note for those not familiar with my book and blog, that what Thea did see and understand about the triadic geometry of the Zodiac and of Sri Aurobindo's avataric descent and yoga, opened the door for me to see and understand the circular geometric sense, divine maya (measure) and eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) of Agni's three (and more prevalently seven) mothers (=rivers, goddesses, dawns, cows, sisters, etc.), who bear him as the Sage-Son of Sagittarius (=the radius of 0° Sagittarius) to his sacred goal which I see as the zodiacal location of 0° Aquarius/Kumbha (0° <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHzG_tdQppz9Wvjt_B1OxinjpHNzeklfEQ59gyNUGRkJiCldRrpoNqlFqC6OSq-pKMFHF0NPXeq3Sd34KJdIrLuzKa15_sxhkTGKFWJka74UPZKJG7tjjGK6xXYYnenSVf3zALdbYVpMRzQbxow_RnyO5AhGvOZM_eVs65kWUm4v7b1H8t1J0bzjoV/s24/Aquarius-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="18" data-original-width="24" height="12" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHzG_tdQppz9Wvjt_B1OxinjpHNzeklfEQ59gyNUGRkJiCldRrpoNqlFqC6OSq-pKMFHF0NPXeq3Sd34KJdIrLuzKa15_sxhkTGKFWJka74UPZKJG7tjjGK6xXYYnenSVf3zALdbYVpMRzQbxow_RnyO5AhGvOZM_eVs65kWUm4v7b1H8t1J0bzjoV/w24-h18/Aquarius-sm.jpg" width="16" /></a>). </div><div><br /></div><div>Below I have illustrated the circular, geometric sense of Agni's mothers, <i>whether THREE or SEVEN</i>, who bear him to the same location (within the <i>kshetra</i> or field of the 360° year) referred to by the ancient Vedic seers in many ways, including the heavenly Jar or Pitcher (<span style="text-align: left;">=<i>kumbha</i>, <i>kosha</i>, <i>kalasha</i>, <i>pātra</i>, <i>drona</i>, etc.), the reservoir or ocean (<i>samudra</i>), the gathering place of the rivers, Indra's heart, Indra's special place, Agni's resting place, the place or womb of sacrifice (<i>yonim</i>), and the </span><span style="text-align: left;">“banquet” or “feast of the gods” (<i>devávītaye</i>) where the gods feast upon their immortal food, amrita or manna. This sacred feast shows up in St. John's <i>Revelation</i> as “the great supper of God”. This is t</span><span style="text-align: left;">he place and the sacred Vessel of the Vedic sacrifice wherein the rivers (cow, mares, etc.) of truth are released or poured out from the obstructive forces of collective ignorance for the benefit and sustenance of both gods and humankind.</span></div>
<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAtpWAeP4J6-djF59VGm4mZ73Oo2g58-0iZ3JPTeh0R5f5P3nrKBpcwF7LrzoBWMveqVoc2GYJNbutKjY6Z2lzSl8SdLmSgOb0guUXxGXUV1SsKXUMNKYgytaiXwYVqFG0TFbYUYdZJzzeO7v4YMcprsAyDm03C4g75K-HD7h8nus7aqcZWF1TRwwZk_U/s671/3-7-Rivers-Mothers-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The zodiacal and geometric senst of Agni's mothers, whether three or seven, who bear him to his Heavenly Jar or Pitcher (=Kumbha/Aquarius). Image by Lori Tompkins (Dec. 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="671" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAtpWAeP4J6-djF59VGm4mZ73Oo2g58-0iZ3JPTeh0R5f5P3nrKBpcwF7LrzoBWMveqVoc2GYJNbutKjY6Z2lzSl8SdLmSgOb0guUXxGXUV1SsKXUMNKYgytaiXwYVqFG0TFbYUYdZJzzeO7v4YMcprsAyDm03C4g75K-HD7h8nus7aqcZWF1TRwwZk_U/s16000/3-7-Rivers-Mothers-01.jpg" title="The zodiacal and geometric senst of Agni's mothers, whether three or seven, who bear him to his Heavenly Jar or Pitcher (=Kumbha/Aquarius). Image by Lori Tompkins (Dec. 2023)" /></a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>
<div>The reason I mentioned Thea's yoga and her understanding of the Vedic and geometric sense of the Axiom of Maria is to help readers understand the Vedic sense and origin of the ancient symbol and mystery of the Three Hares, as well as the symbol and mystery of the Three Fish with One Head. Once we understand the Vedic sense of these symbols — related to the imagery of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vamana#:~:text=%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AE-,%27three%20steps%27,-or%20%27three%20strides" target="_blank">Vishnu's Three Steps or <i>Trivikrama</i></a>) — then we can see them as symbols of not only the subtle triadic sacred geometry of the circle, but also as symbols containing in themselves the Vedic prophecy of the birth, revelation or apocalypse of the Divine Sage-Son in the Age of Aquarius/Kumbha.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: lora, serif;">If you value the </b><span style="font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b>original research and content made freely </b></span><span style="font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b><br />available on this blog</b></span><b style="font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></div></div></div>Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-56656175718834491962023-10-12T17:41:00.049-07:002023-10-18T13:35:58.042-07:00The Sacred Geometry & Vedic Origin of the Alchemical Rebis ⁓ Part 2<p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKrDd81j7PfQ6k0ZRJFbq9oh1lLFcIjcY96RQA3Fh28ek2zDouXk89s7cb5ua-PPKHvwqJZimip568nb9sjfiB1-L47p_odteej5GG8KFs_lohP65MhmKKDNXcybp4vwp1IS7eh01DFchYoso1c8WtXURx2YqGiqrSkjMmMEXo0eEy9PfPg-GPEZ86wA/s902/Rebis-432-4-3-CIRCLES-RADIUS-Stone-width-3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Alchemical Rebis - Vesica Piscis, Radius & 3 Circle overlay by Lori Tompkins (21.3.2023)" border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="902" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKrDd81j7PfQ6k0ZRJFbq9oh1lLFcIjcY96RQA3Fh28ek2zDouXk89s7cb5ua-PPKHvwqJZimip568nb9sjfiB1-L47p_odteej5GG8KFs_lohP65MhmKKDNXcybp4vwp1IS7eh01DFchYoso1c8WtXURx2YqGiqrSkjMmMEXo0eEy9PfPg-GPEZ86wA/w640-h428/Rebis-432-4-3-CIRCLES-RADIUS-Stone-width-3.png" title="The Alchemical Rebis - Vesica Piscis, Radius & 3 Circle overlay by Lori Tompkins (21.3.2023)" width="640" /></a></div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Alchemical Rebis as found in Heinrich Nollius's <i>Theoria Philosophiae Hermeticae</i> (1617) <br />Vesica Piscis, Radius & 3 Circle overlay by Lori Tompkins (21.3.2023)</span></b></p>
<b>The Measure of 3, 6, and 9</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">After overlaying two circles and their vesica piscis upon the Philosopher's Stone or Cosmic Egg of Nollius's Rebis<b> </b>as illustrated in <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-sacred-geometry-vedic-origin-of.html" target="_blank">Part One</a></b>, I assigned the value or measure of <b>3</b> to their common radius. The illustration above shows this measure via <b>3 circles </b>spanning the width of the vesica piscis which occultly informs the sacred measure of Nollius's Stone or Egg. Each of these three circles has a diameter of <b>1</b>. The corresponding diameter of the two circles is <b>6</b> (3 + 3), and the entire width of the two overlapped circles is <b>9 </b> (3 + 3 + 3). </p>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: center;">The Ratio of 3:4</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Four circles with the same diameter of 1, vertically aligned, match the height of the Rebis's Stone or Egg giving it a <b>3:4</b> width to height ratio, subtly echoing the numbers and angles featured on the flying Earth.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwUq4lImrF2ssZ-0MCbZIzTS1H-ivWIPSwZybJe6qhGvi2EEdj7-7KivbQ_5wQGSByliBw8c-uyKDZr5sxqCtN_TnmmQ_MSWEs7fmp-eAI77sllEuRR947vFPmXUbxjMroa0jqEbXrz1qKKSbdTCpHA3u7wU_V4nyFRv-lKr3-uatfPrsi-pMhpIAn-CM/s960/Rebis-432-4-3-CIRCLES-RADIUS-Stone-height-01-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Alchemical Rebis Vesica Piscis, Radius & 4 Circle overlay by Lori Tompkins (21.3.2023)" border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="960" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwUq4lImrF2ssZ-0MCbZIzTS1H-ivWIPSwZybJe6qhGvi2EEdj7-7KivbQ_5wQGSByliBw8c-uyKDZr5sxqCtN_TnmmQ_MSWEs7fmp-eAI77sllEuRR947vFPmXUbxjMroa0jqEbXrz1qKKSbdTCpHA3u7wU_V4nyFRv-lKr3-uatfPrsi-pMhpIAn-CM/w640-h440/Rebis-432-4-3-CIRCLES-RADIUS-Stone-height-01-01.png" title="The Alchemical Rebis Vesica Piscis, Radius & 4 Circle overlay by Lori Tompkins (21.3.2023)" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Via the image above, we can see that the measure, unit, and circle of<b> 1 </b>is found in<b> </b>the distance between the center of the flying Earth and the bottom of the Stone/Egg. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Earth is the <b><u>third</u></b> planet of our solar system and its <b>astronomical symbol</b> is a circle encompassing a <b><u>four-armed</u> </b>balanced cross: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yXGPLneAa3JatOeyskToEUoVK3XDabAKLBUJnLAYFCrGBrzCmU1OIgakUviA1Ei7KlAeyQlLfilxUgfD51zX17wuJ3bncFm2nPVTYrfyD8poazAOH_7a1RbPtM342Bl6mb4YUVmmp56it3RiYaiagyTKce18ea-mJzlkB4COUTC13og35wJ94XwT_9U/s38/Earth-Glyph-01.png" style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="38" data-original-width="38" height="14" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yXGPLneAa3JatOeyskToEUoVK3XDabAKLBUJnLAYFCrGBrzCmU1OIgakUviA1Ei7KlAeyQlLfilxUgfD51zX17wuJ3bncFm2nPVTYrfyD8poazAOH_7a1RbPtM342Bl6mb4YUVmmp56it3RiYaiagyTKce18ea-mJzlkB4COUTC13og35wJ94XwT_9U/w14-h14/Earth-Glyph-01.png" width="14" /></a>. The product of <b>3</b> and <b>4</b> is of course <b>12</b>, and Nollius's flying Earth—featuring a balanced cross and an ascending three-sided equilateral triangle—is an occult symbol of Earth's twelve-month zodiacal, tropical or solar year, equivalent to the sacred twelve-month, 360° year or "sacrifice" (<i>yajna</i>) of the Vedic Seers. The balanced cross of Earth's astronomical symbol and of Nollius's flying Earth symbolize Earth's four equinoctial and solstitial points, equivalent to the four cardinal points of the Zodiac: 0° Aries, 0° Cancer, 0° Libra, and 0° Capricorn. These cardinal, solstitial, and equinoctial points mark the entrances into Earth's <b>four</b> seasons, spanning <b>three</b> months each. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvmcI3PtGKAGe4_WylskSH9hHd9QDN_6PmSoJyYWo_95DM456s14FoLIJPVu2ct36FqplJqKCOiGWqyZszxIUrOIY0xhvXDSKp6JLlp0V1pYTNeT-xPtgTJpTO_jo7rV5XQegJqQsErRM6hzU9bwWt_92vaE1rXuDAEF6D2TLiRsGb4OzCB6eNju9D1Mk/s1800/Zodiac-VP-Measure-Animated-9-loop.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The 4 cardinal points, 4 radii, and 4 vesica piscis that measure out the Zodiac" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1800" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvmcI3PtGKAGe4_WylskSH9hHd9QDN_6PmSoJyYWo_95DM456s14FoLIJPVu2ct36FqplJqKCOiGWqyZszxIUrOIY0xhvXDSKp6JLlp0V1pYTNeT-xPtgTJpTO_jo7rV5XQegJqQsErRM6hzU9bwWt_92vaE1rXuDAEF6D2TLiRsGb4OzCB6eNju9D1Mk/w184-h184/Zodiac-VP-Measure-Animated-9-loop.gif" title="The 4 cardinal points, 4 radii, and 4 vesica piscis that measure out the Zodiac" width="184" /></a></div>As I have discussed and illustrated throughout my writings, the twelve months of the Zodiac are measured out by <b>the four cardinal point</b> <b>radii</b> and <b>their four vesicae piscium</b> drawn out across the body of the 360° circle. Thus we can appreciate that together with the cardinal or equinoctial points of Earth's Solar Year, the eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) and sacred <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-sacred-measure-of-432000-as-key-of.html" target="_blank">432,000" measure (=120° measure) of the radius and its vesica piscis</a></b> establish the twelve-month measure of the zodiacal Vedic Year. Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet endeavored via her various writings to expose and correct the widespread post-Vedic or non-Vedic Indian error of trying to find, collectively agree upon and measure the sacred year of the Zodiac via the Earth's sidereal year and the imaginative constellations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Divine Maya or sacred measure of the Zodiac contained in Nollius's Rebis scene is not only conveyed via the 3:4 ratio of the width and height of the Philosopher's Stone/Egg and via the numbers and geometric shapes found on the flying Earth, but also via the compass and ruler upheld by the two-headed Rebis who is flanked by the two astrological "luminaries"—the Sun and the Moon—and surrounded by the six planets of our solar system that were known in the 17th century: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.</div><div><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><b>7 (3 + 4) Circles</b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After seeing the 3 by 4 dimensions of the Rebis's Stone, the next thing that bore investigation was the diameter or measure of the flying Earth. It became apparent that the diameter of the flying Earth is <b>one-fourth</b> the height of the vesica piscis. In other words, four circles matching the Earth's circumference span the height of the vesica piscis—the original Philosopher's Stone, Egg, Seed, and Eternal Law of the Vedas—that is the occult sacred womb and geometric basis of Nollius's Rebis's Stone and its contents.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-TGNf1b0ivzeyMiPk9vTebWMlxx5AQqhTpaue69-dHDgJcqmwrN3uuxUaZ9uNnr57pNkG1sqtCHUs7Vqaa2bQd37_T4LhcxT4ySJrI1uLmbLbpf74iu6GFCN6MHiYcDjbRn2nEKk23W_BXVaALg87-VD9Mj6MMxted5P9_qaTjUMk4JmYPIoCa85PSsM/s930/Rebis-432-4-Circle's-Earth-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Alchemical Rebis Vesica Piscis, Radius & 4 Circle overlay by Lori Tompkins (21.3.2023)" border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="930" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-TGNf1b0ivzeyMiPk9vTebWMlxx5AQqhTpaue69-dHDgJcqmwrN3uuxUaZ9uNnr57pNkG1sqtCHUs7Vqaa2bQd37_T4LhcxT4ySJrI1uLmbLbpf74iu6GFCN6MHiYcDjbRn2nEKk23W_BXVaALg87-VD9Mj6MMxted5P9_qaTjUMk4JmYPIoCa85PSsM/w640-h434/Rebis-432-4-Circle's-Earth-01.png" title="The Alchemical Rebis Vesica Piscis, Radius & 4 Circle overlay by Lori Tompkins (21.3.2023)" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Given that the long axis of any vesica piscis has a √ 3:1 ratio with its radius, and given the 3 measure of the radius that I have attributed to the Rebis's Stone and its corresponding vesica piscis, the diameter of Nollius's Earth, if constructed with precision as 1/4th of the vesica piscis's height, would be (3√ 3)/4, or approximately 1.3. As is, the width of Nollius's Earth does appear to correspond to this measure, but the height appears to be a little larger, though not by much. In the image above we can see that the flying Earth sits in the <i>approximate </i>middle of the two lowest circles, occultly forming <b>two horizontally stacked vesicae piscium</b>. This geometry, flipped 90° is the ancient basis of the Pisces hieroglyph, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS0Kqj5AsFZ-9L2LNctwAeSCpf5PFYBOb5aSh8wy9GMI8Njv0XrfDfYNRHMGeVpI6u6yVVEpVgvAffXUp7uUSGU63mX7R1oDUWedP62povPtI1ZEbYsupJBMqEBqd5OOvKbkc_FFVXCnHNcC7duZb3_weRoSNakml25rKbu3CO-2fElosuCTvCFO0HpdY/s304/Pisces-01.png"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="254" height="14" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS0Kqj5AsFZ-9L2LNctwAeSCpf5PFYBOb5aSh8wy9GMI8Njv0XrfDfYNRHMGeVpI6u6yVVEpVgvAffXUp7uUSGU63mX7R1oDUWedP62povPtI1ZEbYsupJBMqEBqd5OOvKbkc_FFVXCnHNcC7duZb3_weRoSNakml25rKbu3CO-2fElosuCTvCFO0HpdY/w20-h24/Pisces-01.png" width="14" /></a>, and its two-fish iconography, which occultly conveys the connection between the symbol of the Fish, the geometric law and measure of the vesica piscis, and the measure of the 12-month Zodiac.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvdnAB81OL-67X3iilpG07-opFEYzgBez7eF8ugixrf45PlmopcFKAiG3hJUC3UDlqXbCpYNkTwrCoplV1r4F4jv7oHdu5EcVFxfsFLoNiuA_wkQXoOmwa0xDNfYQ-9XHj4V1lmul_0RQ0MsWPqk-2TEMjmiPahuE_8iu6hjpvjS3oxrDp1r05mmbQxf8/s1173/Pisces-Zodiac-Measure-Water-Earth-Signs-Fish-Triple-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The symbol of the Fish & the measure of the Zodiac & the Ratnagiri Petroglyph (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="1173" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvdnAB81OL-67X3iilpG07-opFEYzgBez7eF8ugixrf45PlmopcFKAiG3hJUC3UDlqXbCpYNkTwrCoplV1r4F4jv7oHdu5EcVFxfsFLoNiuA_wkQXoOmwa0xDNfYQ-9XHj4V1lmul_0RQ0MsWPqk-2TEMjmiPahuE_8iu6hjpvjS3oxrDp1r05mmbQxf8/w640-h206/Pisces-Zodiac-Measure-Water-Earth-Signs-Fish-Triple-01.jpg" title="The symbol of the Fish & the measure of the Zodiac & the Ratnagiri Petroglyph (Lori Tompkins)" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The lowest circle of the chain of seven forms the vesica piscis that measures out the base of the flying Earth's equilateral triangle emphasizing, in a occult way, the eternal law of the radius and vesica piscis that together divide circumference of the circle into three equal parts, establishing the geometric basis of the Divine Trinity of our world's religious lore and <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#1:~:text=triadic%20(3%20x%203)%20essence" target="_blank">the sacred 3-6-9 trinity of our 10-base number system wherein the 9 and the 0 hold the same place in the circle</a>.<span> The vesica piscis formed by the second circle intersects with the globe's approximate center and marks the position of the Dragon's elbow and knee joints. Below I have illustrated</span> the full chain of <b>SEVEN (3 + 4)</b> Earth-sized circles, overlapped upon their radii. These seven circles form, via their intersections, six small vesicae piscium.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7HsfAINav9RrFYB4YEjleKNvaRQDmw9Y3ImB3r8g24yZ9-0o4_dCIF2xov7vPELAsc_hP58jlDJtuSvDB2O0PKL3BfNLN49YfVP3_Wk5TKquejEYHeSCyF52hpNyVckIJNOogunTKOeGWmyN5A4GUfuuNlFQtkeKUNUw1gHSJW0Rb0xcXcSVJHFzA_E/s960/Rebis-432-7-Circle's-Earth-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Alchemical Rebis Vesica Piscis, Radius & 7 Circle overlay by Lori Tompkins (21.3.2023)" border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="960" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7HsfAINav9RrFYB4YEjleKNvaRQDmw9Y3ImB3r8g24yZ9-0o4_dCIF2xov7vPELAsc_hP58jlDJtuSvDB2O0PKL3BfNLN49YfVP3_Wk5TKquejEYHeSCyF52hpNyVckIJNOogunTKOeGWmyN5A4GUfuuNlFQtkeKUNUw1gHSJW0Rb0xcXcSVJHFzA_E/w640-h440/Rebis-432-7-Circle's-Earth-01.png" title="The Alchemical Rebis Vesica Piscis, Radius & 7 Circle overlay by Lori Tompkins (21.3.2023)" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The combined width of two of these Earth-sized circles closely corresponds to the width and position of the fire-breathing Dragon whose body is perfectly draped over the circumference of the Earth.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHN94HaDWASOOLk1R_T0jNukWiQFMRgQCYLPZINgvEWkYMWI6bIP06IFEAb7nZsvoddcKLts28fFTv6-eaQkuCyCBRARjezhWuQuzBnf_uCBRrhqUp1mS0RR-lDF6rnFbqf-tnMIZ48piFnau9k7-D5yPAh7K5cOfeQTbS9wTaU3qq7-Okh3kiZiJ-ySA/s572/Rebis-Dragon-Earth-CIrcles-crop.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The measure and sacred geometry of the Alchemical Rebis & Dragon by Lori Tompkins (21.3.2023)" border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHN94HaDWASOOLk1R_T0jNukWiQFMRgQCYLPZINgvEWkYMWI6bIP06IFEAb7nZsvoddcKLts28fFTv6-eaQkuCyCBRARjezhWuQuzBnf_uCBRrhqUp1mS0RR-lDF6rnFbqf-tnMIZ48piFnau9k7-D5yPAh7K5cOfeQTbS9wTaU3qq7-Okh3kiZiJ-ySA/s16000/Rebis-Dragon-Earth-CIrcles-crop.png" title="The measure and sacred geometry of the Alchemical Rebis & Dragon by Lori Tompkins (21.3.2023)" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">As shown above, the nadirs of these two circles measure out the winged Earth's East and West cardinal directions—equivalent to 0° Aries and 0° Libra in the Zodiac—where we find the Earth's wings attached. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegzscjI2ePfi_lhHS1aKW6u7lmHF6gy1WY3Vtq-oDBbjAVi6v9c_tTFdMeBFD3dWNaVT_2G_k6DhbaTxtdalu2yNVU-eQWofB9G5hh4II80Kfk_tuqDWiPDfUGPFwhYTHtJy2SydCxuI-0X3-H3_A1eyUTPET7zW-RuGDtX7Plaf7kpCnG5nyLc-ZcIE/s400/Capricorn-Sea-Goat-Constelation.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The Sea Goat constellation of Capricorn" border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="400" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegzscjI2ePfi_lhHS1aKW6u7lmHF6gy1WY3Vtq-oDBbjAVi6v9c_tTFdMeBFD3dWNaVT_2G_k6DhbaTxtdalu2yNVU-eQWofB9G5hh4II80Kfk_tuqDWiPDfUGPFwhYTHtJy2SydCxuI-0X3-H3_A1eyUTPET7zW-RuGDtX7Plaf7kpCnG5nyLc-ZcIE/w225-h157/Capricorn-Sea-Goat-Constelation.png" title="The Sea Goat constellation of Capricorn" width="225" /></a></div>As discussed in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-sacred-geometry-vedic-origin-of.html" target="_blank">Part One</a>, <b>the Earth's North cardinal direction, upon which Nollius's Dragon is centered, corresponds to 0° Capricorn</b>. In Western astrology Capricorn is portrayed as a Sea Goat or Mountain Goat. In India, the tenth month of Capricorn is known as Makar, so named after the sea monster or sea dragon <b><i>Makara</i></b>. After initially publishing Part One, I added the following to <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-sacred-geometry-vedic-origin-of.html#:~:text=and%20yoni.-,The%20Vedic%20Dragon,-One%20of%20the" target="_blank">"The Vedic Dragon"</a></b> section, which I am including here for any who missed it: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="text-align: justify;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">"[O]nce we know what we are looking for, it is not hard to see that the head and tail of the Rebis Dragon looks very much much like the Goat's head and curled tail associated with the constellation of Capricorn." </div></span></div></blockquote>
<div><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL6Lbus7-AqsjPjTobPZYBXKsuMhNFcGGN4IbnAxQPCwu6NENge4m6_YVgoRRMGMOFiUB_YEkuK4prxRIMY7zFYKClVr7miBbVQ-TK4w-qFfKKpvHSrXVwOuAAUydatTbvayEpzrttAbSuiqhC0OE2sDun_OJTtljcyM8ZFgi9ZcOt06soxUhQk8S3_rU/s311/Rebis-Earth-Zodiac-cardinal-pts-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Cardinal Points & Directions of Nollius's winged Earth inside the Rebis's/Philosopher's Stone by Lori Tompkins (1 Oct. 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL6Lbus7-AqsjPjTobPZYBXKsuMhNFcGGN4IbnAxQPCwu6NENge4m6_YVgoRRMGMOFiUB_YEkuK4prxRIMY7zFYKClVr7miBbVQ-TK4w-qFfKKpvHSrXVwOuAAUydatTbvayEpzrttAbSuiqhC0OE2sDun_OJTtljcyM8ZFgi9ZcOt06soxUhQk8S3_rU/s16000/Rebis-Earth-Zodiac-cardinal-pts-01.png" title="The Cardinal Points & Directions of Nollius's winged Earth inside the Rebis's/Philosopher's Stone by Lori Tompkins (1 Oct. 2023)" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Likewise, once the cardinal directions and their zodiacal equivalents are established, we can see that the third circle of the ascending chain of seven circles, measures out 0° Scorpio and 0° Piscis on Earth's circumference, corresponding respectively to the position of the Dragon's heal and wrist. As shown in the image below, given the northern apex of 0° Capricorn, 0° Cancer, 0° Scorpio, and 0° Pisces form an occult or subtle <b>descending equilateral triangle </b>on Nollius's Earth, marking the entrances of the three zodiacal Water signs. This triangle mirrors Nollini's ascending equilateral Earth Triangle or Earth Trine, the points of which correspond to the entrances of <span style="background-color: white;"><span>the three zodiacal Earth signs</span>: 0</span>° Taurus, 0° Virgo and 0° Capricorn.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhowFbsbRPXUTwKnyj6-QKCS4cPEWADP31oPXRBnopzQ4C1FYZ88l13FSAmIa5EvHZLAYqogXw9Y8aJfl-9laT7nVgssGmy4Xmu63qdoA7ULCndkS3kNMgKvhUuBk8K56LUFcvke01EzQlF46out44fkLQsXKGiGo9jxGVri5vHDpO9pd_d1kcfl_7n1Qg/s314/Rebis-Earth-Zodiac-Water-Trine-Earth-Trine-cardinal-pts-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Earth and Water sign trines of Nollius's winged Earth inside the Rebis's/Philosopher's Stone by Lori Tompkins (1 Oct. 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="314" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhowFbsbRPXUTwKnyj6-QKCS4cPEWADP31oPXRBnopzQ4C1FYZ88l13FSAmIa5EvHZLAYqogXw9Y8aJfl-9laT7nVgssGmy4Xmu63qdoA7ULCndkS3kNMgKvhUuBk8K56LUFcvke01EzQlF46out44fkLQsXKGiGo9jxGVri5vHDpO9pd_d1kcfl_7n1Qg/w390-h279/Rebis-Earth-Zodiac-Water-Trine-Earth-Trine-cardinal-pts-01.png" title="The Earth and Water sign trines of Nollius's winged Earth inside the Rebis's/Philosopher's Stone by Lori Tompkins (1 Oct. 2023)" width="390" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIfNzj2NX_SazYorWpPD6Cku5Yp_ZES_yLxoCCAT70K3qxgmMIQFIwB2Tj3YFca3hFg9SFOvxWfktgQrO4smGKM5KTkJoHWQaxK4_GjQBLZY7mOuFfMVSy5846ixjgv6d8hvWKS4_c4jseKx9s-opn7XbPwPGcTeKnYgawUam0XIrFbpS2CRUvXaTmphA/s2947/VP-Thea-TNW12-p236.ai-Core-Pedestal-Matsya-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="Vishnu's Fish Avatar (Matsya), the Vesica Piscis and the Zodiacal sign of Pisces from "The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Water Sign Scorpio ⁓ Part Eight ⁓ The Vesica Piscis as a Key of Sri Aurobindo’s Avataric Yoga"" border="0" data-original-height="2844" data-original-width="2947" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIfNzj2NX_SazYorWpPD6Cku5Yp_ZES_yLxoCCAT70K3qxgmMIQFIwB2Tj3YFca3hFg9SFOvxWfktgQrO4smGKM5KTkJoHWQaxK4_GjQBLZY7mOuFfMVSy5846ixjgv6d8hvWKS4_c4jseKx9s-opn7XbPwPGcTeKnYgawUam0XIrFbpS2CRUvXaTmphA/w279-h269/VP-Thea-TNW12-p236.ai-Core-Pedestal-Matsya-01.png" title="Vishnu's Fish Avatar (Matsya), the Vesica Piscis and the Zodiacal sign of Pisces, from The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Water Sign Scorpio ⁓ Part Eight ⁓ The Vesica Piscis as a Key of Sri Aurobindo’s Avataric Yoga" width="279" /></a></div>The zodiacal measure or span of Nollius's alchemical Dragon across two water signs is significant given that, in the Vedas, the Dragon blocks the flow of the rivers or waters as well as the birth of their Divine Son/Sage. [See <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html" target="_blank">"The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Water Sign Scorpio"</a></b>.] The name and <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">hieroglyph</a> of the mutable (or <b>DISSOLUTION</b>) water sign of Pisces, a.k.a. the sign of the Fish or Matysa, stands as the hidden-in-plain-sight geometric key, eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) and weapon by which the Vedic Son (=Sage=Philosopher) and his companion heroes release the obstructed rivers (=seven rivers, cows, mares, sisters, mothers, pressing stones, etc.) from the hold of the Dragon, snake or <b><u>water-monster</u></b> Vritra. Once we know this geometric key of the Zodiac, which is likewise a geometric key of the Rig Veda and of Vishnu's Ten Avatars, ages' worth of ignorance regarding these, and all related ancient mythologies and symbols is quickly <b>DISSOLVED, </b>relieving humanity of the dark veil or cover of ignorance that informs and perpetuates the fractious cacophony of humanity's religious dogmas and beliefs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The 12 Circles or Months of the Year</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Given the 3:4 measure of the Rebis's Stone or Egg and the twelve (3 x 4) month measure of the Zodiac, my next step in understanding the sacred measure or Divine Maya of Nollius's image, was to place twelve circles along the vertical axis of the large vesica piscis, each having a diameter of (3√ 3)/12 or approximately <b>.432</b> + <b>.001...</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBr_R-fcF3OfJWd3_39SluKmUuE89z8Rgd_5NSMCqGpyDJuyQwDZDF3ZnGMks4OwzIHzHRL_fevzoS_Uctt8JlGWD0Tdl-uO2QAfdTG-vKdu_NYfUTjy0cnaH_41hpqy0UKo0KkBs6FKvUD4wyYQb8Vh5JjXIuGe3ZiC43b3g2sE3hy7z5u1_RW2uN1f4/s930/Rebis-Satkona-12-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Alchemical Rebis Vesica Piscis, Radius & 12 Circle overlay by Lori Tompkins (21.3.2023)" border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="930" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBr_R-fcF3OfJWd3_39SluKmUuE89z8Rgd_5NSMCqGpyDJuyQwDZDF3ZnGMks4OwzIHzHRL_fevzoS_Uctt8JlGWD0Tdl-uO2QAfdTG-vKdu_NYfUTjy0cnaH_41hpqy0UKo0KkBs6FKvUD4wyYQb8Vh5JjXIuGe3ZiC43b3g2sE3hy7z5u1_RW2uN1f4/w640-h434/Rebis-Satkona-12-01.png" title="The Alchemical Rebis Vesica Piscis, Radius & 12 Circle overlay by Lori Tompkins (21.3.2023)" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>What became apparent at this point was that <b>the tenth circle</b> of the ascending column of twelve <b>encompasses the planetary symbol of Mercury and </b><b>its six-pointed star</b>. As illustrated in the image above, the apex of this tenth circle and star corresponds not only to the top of Mercury's star, but also to the top of the Rebis's Stone or Egg and it rectangular frame or field. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This detail of the image is perhaps the most striking to me because, when we see the column of twelve circles as equivalent to the twelve months of the zodiacal Vedic Year, the tenth month corresponds to Capricorn/Makar. Thus, the top of this tenth circle, the top of the Mercury star and the top of the Rebis's Stone/Egg all correspond to 0° Aquarius/Kumbha. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Mercury represents the mind and intellect, and <b>rules Gemini, (the sign of duality)</b>, and also Virgo. <b>It has its exaltation in Aquarius</b>. Mercury is an airy planet, associated with all forms of communication and the in-flow and out-flow of intelligence and communication." ‒ <a href="https://www.astrograph.com/learning-astrology/mercury.php#:~:text=Mercury%20represents%20the%20mind" target="_blank">Astrograph.com</a> [Bold emphasis and text in brackets added]</div></span></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mercury's astrological rulership of Gemini—the sign of the <b>Twins</b>—and its exaltation in Aquarius is in keeping with the symbolism and measure of the <b>two-headed</b> Rebis who, like the Divine Sage-Son of the Vedas, is victorious over the Dragon via <b>his weapons of sacred geometry</b>. Via his (the radius's) own eternal law, measure and movement within the 360° course of the year (=<i>yajna</i>=sacrifice), the Vedic Sage-Son defeats the Dragon and reaches his Kumbha, i.e. the Water Jar of Aquarius. Whereas the Air signs of Gemini and Libra both symbolize humanity's binary consciousness or lower Mind, the last Air sign Aquarius (=Kumbha) symbolizes or represents the stage of our evolutionary journey wherein the Unity Consciousness of the Higher Mind—or Supermind in Sri Aurobindo's terms—fills the vessel of Man. As I discussed in my series <a href="https://360lotus.com/articles#:~:text=THE%20SPHERICAL%20GNOSIS" target="_blank">"The Spherical Gnosis of the Sage and the Release of the Vedic Waters"</a>, the Vedic Dragon cannot be defeated, nor can the Vedic Rivers or purifying waters be poured out or released from their Aquarian Kumbha or Jar as long as the circular, geometric and zodiacal sense of these ancient symbols is not seen and understood.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAVacVHDyJRbXw_36WbHxtazbWBRZPP6nb-4AUL5iWxI_wf8n8Ws6kLMlR-jYQxmnWjIk3UUsSmvFlbIz3cmiz2Zyah549i9RuHNVLw9h15xesUSxQPJ5YJsrmQigDrWgeVj1kzlJNHUSzICiGGImtxbkEsV0FoMt4hl9ZVhArsXWeGVLz-V48b58ZFzY/s391/7-rivers-Sag-arrow-Man-Kumbha-sm-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The zodiacal geometry and sense of the Seven Rivers (=Vesica Piscis) and Kumbha of the Vedic Sage/Son/Horse (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="391" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAVacVHDyJRbXw_36WbHxtazbWBRZPP6nb-4AUL5iWxI_wf8n8Ws6kLMlR-jYQxmnWjIk3UUsSmvFlbIz3cmiz2Zyah549i9RuHNVLw9h15xesUSxQPJ5YJsrmQigDrWgeVj1kzlJNHUSzICiGGImtxbkEsV0FoMt4hl9ZVhArsXWeGVLz-V48b58ZFzY/w302-h300/7-rivers-Sag-arrow-Man-Kumbha-sm-01.png" title="The zodiacal geometry and sense of the Seven Rivers (=Vesica Piscis) and Kumbha of the Vedic Sage/Son/Horse (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" width="302" /></a></div>In various poetic ways throughout the Vedas, the Kumbha of Aquarius is portrayed as the goal of the Sage, Son, and galloping Horse [a.k.a. Agni as Soma Pavamana], who I came to see and understand in 2016 as the the radius of 0° Sagittarius. In Rig Veda 9.74 this goal of the Vedic Son, Sage and Horse is stated quite clearly. </div></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div><br />"Born like a youngling he...the Red, the Strong [Sage-Son-Horse Agni], would win the light of heaven. He comes with heavenly seed that makes the water swell: him for wide-spreading shelter we implore with prayer.... The Soma-stalk [=Agni] hath roared, following with the wave: he swells with sap for man the skin which Gods enjoy. Upon the lap of Aditi [=the Mother of Light = the 12-month Zodiac] he lays the germ.... [Agni as Soma Pavamana] assumes white colour [i.e. is purified] when he strives to gain [the treasures, the waters, the cows, mares, etc.): the bounteous [god] knows full many a precious boon. Down the steep slope, through song, he comes to sacrifice, and <b>he will burst the water-holding cask of heaven, yea, <u>to the shining milk-anointed beaker, as to his goal, hath stepped the conquering Courser</u></b>." ‒ Rig Veda 9.74.1, 5, 7-8 [Text in brackets and all emphasis added]</div></span></blockquote><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Note that in these verses, the vesica piscis [=the Vedic Sage's or Philosopher's Stone] is Agni's "heavenly seed that makes the waters swell", his "wave", his state of "[swelling] with sap", his "germ", "slope", and "song". In Rig Veda 5.78.7-8 Agni is specifically lauded as <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/find.pl?q=ten-month+babe&lang=eng&acc=no" target="_blank">"<b>the ten-month babe</b>"</a>. Elsewhere he is portrayed as <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.086.36&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">the son of seven rivers</a> (mothers, floods, etc.) who <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.102.03&acc=no&q=measure&lang=eng" target="_blank">"measures [out his own] courses"</a>, and helps to defeat the Dragon or <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=10.111.04&acc=no&q=swallow&lang=eng" target="_blank">"great watery monster"</a> (=Vritra) and to release his own rivers, mothers, treasures, etc. In Rig Veda 10.111 this "watery monster" (or <b>Makara</b>) is depicted as having <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=10.111.09&acc=no&q=swallow&lang=eng" target="_blank">swallowed up</a> Agni's seven rivers or mothers. This symbolism and the <b>10-month height</b> of the Rebis's Stone/Egg makes perfect sense when we understand that Agni's seven rivers or mothers span or measure out the first ten months of the zodiacal year (0° Aries through <b>30° Makar</b>/Capricorn=0° Aquarius), and are poured into and released from the edge or entrance of the Aquarian Kumbha (=Water Jar).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Satkona and the Division of the Circle by 6</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp3ce1Li_3TW1zDslZI0K0PYj0BUY6yykgScHvYomCUCuxpqMIIOqUrzRpx7nyWt5RH0yClBHBXqFQoZR9kjrG6kdRvMd76qSyMZus7JQisYOmpbSghQ7SfVOo3C6c0wE0vgu1B_8OUB09w-S9SUBRcM9jvAxwH3T3PadDRluSI4MjNBKBd7DXFlp3Hvs/s930/Rebis-Satkona-Planets-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The six stars and Satkona of Nollius's Rebis and Philosopher's Stone by Lori Tompkins (1 Oct. 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="930" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp3ce1Li_3TW1zDslZI0K0PYj0BUY6yykgScHvYomCUCuxpqMIIOqUrzRpx7nyWt5RH0yClBHBXqFQoZR9kjrG6kdRvMd76qSyMZus7JQisYOmpbSghQ7SfVOo3C6c0wE0vgu1B_8OUB09w-S9SUBRcM9jvAxwH3T3PadDRluSI4MjNBKBd7DXFlp3Hvs/w640-h434/Rebis-Satkona-Planets-01.png" title="The six stars and Satkona of Nollius's Rebis and Philosopher's Stone by Lori Tompkins (1 Oct. 2023)" width="640" /></a></div><br />Just as, for all of eternity, the radius and vesica piscis together divide the circumference of the circle into three equal parts and twelve equal parts, they also divide it into six equal parts, establishing the six-petal "Flower of Life" and its corresponding Hexagon and Satkona, or six-pointed Star of David, consisting of two interlaced equilateral triangles. Knowing this, we can connect the dots or see the hidden connection between the six-pointed stars that encompass the symbol-glyphs of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn and the compass and ruler of the Rebis, which together establish the occult sacred geometry or measure of the image. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Below left is an illustration of the Satkona geometry of the Mercury star that hovers just above the Rebis's two-heads. Note that, together, the six outward angles or points of the Mercury star and the six squiggly lines or "waves" that radiate from the star's inner angles symbolize the full 12-month measure of the Earth's sacred, solar and tropical Zodiacal Year. The central image below is an illustration of the six vesicae piscium that divide the circle into six even 60° parts and measure out the six angles of the Satkona. Note that the six radii that measure out each of these six vesicae piscum are not drawn or shown in this image, and that both the radius and vesicae piscium of the Vedas are often depicted as being somehow hidden. If we connect the six points of the Satkona with six lines (each equivalent to the length of the circle's radius), as shown below right, we can see the Hexagon that co-arises with the measure of the six-petal "Flower of Life" and the Satkona.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKmwmiLONfF2r4yzCAk2NmtN4O-HNQJQp2tw9i-mUynSrBzByL6a6yt9R88qXFnwXvjzHSKFfjol-XpzCa9yYi8E6vVFfVr0rin1o3_dvCizs3O1eC2fq2maWS44jbV4BzbPszqRto686EKb1zZZlILvkXFZWRcXLBcPrknsl6s2h9k8hDDyg6g3EIThY/s630/Rebis-Satkona-Flower-of-Life-hexagon-triple-01-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Mercury Star of Nollini's Rebis and Philosopher's Stone, with Satkona, Flower of Life and Hexagon (Lori Tompkins 1 Oct. 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKmwmiLONfF2r4yzCAk2NmtN4O-HNQJQp2tw9i-mUynSrBzByL6a6yt9R88qXFnwXvjzHSKFfjol-XpzCa9yYi8E6vVFfVr0rin1o3_dvCizs3O1eC2fq2maWS44jbV4BzbPszqRto686EKb1zZZlILvkXFZWRcXLBcPrknsl6s2h9k8hDDyg6g3EIThY/s16000/Rebis-Satkona-Flower-of-Life-hexagon-triple-01-01.png" title="The Mercury Star of Nollini's Rebis and Philosopher's Stone, with Satkona, Flower of Life and Hexagon (Lori Tompkins 1 Oct. 2023)" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The sixth planet featured in Nollius's image is the winged Eart<span style="background-color: white;">h, identified by its<span> astronomical symbol, </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yXGPLneAa3JatOeyskToEUoVK3XDabAKLBUJnLAYFCrGBrzCmU1OIgakUviA1Ei7KlAeyQlLfilxUgfD51zX17wuJ3bncFm2nPVTYrfyD8poazAOH_7a1RbPtM342Bl6mb4YUVmmp56it3RiYaiagyTKce18ea-mJzlkB4COUTC13og35wJ94XwT_9U/s38/Earth-Glyph-01.png" style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="38" data-original-width="38" height="14" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yXGPLneAa3JatOeyskToEUoVK3XDabAKLBUJnLAYFCrGBrzCmU1OIgakUviA1Ei7KlAeyQlLfilxUgfD51zX17wuJ3bncFm2nPVTYrfyD8poazAOH_7a1RbPtM342Bl6mb4YUVmmp56it3RiYaiagyTKce18ea-mJzlkB4COUTC13og35wJ94XwT_9U/w14-h14/Earth-Glyph-01.png" width="14" /></a>, <span style="background-color: white;"><span>symbolizing the Earth's four equinoctial and solstitial points and its four cardinal directions. </span></span><span style="text-align: left;">When we see the occult or subtle Satkona overlayed upon Nollius's winged Earth, as shown in the opening image of this section, we can better appreciate</span> the relationship between his six-pointed stars, the six planets known in the 17th century, and the underlying sacred geometry of his image.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After seeing the Satkona of the six planets, I was curious to see how the Satkona showed up in the occult or hidden vesica-piscis framework of Nollius's Philosopher's Stone or Egg, so I illustrated a circle with a diameter of 3 in the womb of the vesica piscis, matching its width, and added its internal Satkona.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEutE-t_lTmxNCmIfvcjCx0NM9uWnDkdup2fDUKcovr5hJJEZEnKAk7aFc9S4QP-fu-KYNIORBkV66kd7t13XrYmxE-KOFL9vvDC-IeWzcHqUs2nc-sPZiSf5clcOeavrMI1g8RWb1LIYGJee0oR0bns7z5bHdTX5Au29JWxM5Ce5OZkTvC4opRKrjnVM/s948/Rebis-Satkona-large-Dragon-VP-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Satkona (Star of David) and Sacred Geometry of Nollius's Rebis and Philosopher's Stone by Lori Tompkins (1 Oct. 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="948" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEutE-t_lTmxNCmIfvcjCx0NM9uWnDkdup2fDUKcovr5hJJEZEnKAk7aFc9S4QP-fu-KYNIORBkV66kd7t13XrYmxE-KOFL9vvDC-IeWzcHqUs2nc-sPZiSf5clcOeavrMI1g8RWb1LIYGJee0oR0bns7z5bHdTX5Au29JWxM5Ce5OZkTvC4opRKrjnVM/w640-h424/Rebis-Satkona-large-Dragon-VP-01.png" title="The Satkona (Star of David) and Sacred Geometry of Nollius's Rebis and Philosopher's Stone by Lori Tompkins (1 Oct. 2023)" width="640" /></a></div>From this image we can see that this circle frames the Rebis's heads as well as four of the planets, and follows the upward arc of the Earth's wings. We can also see that the base of the Satkona's ascending triangle closely corresponds to the Dragon's ear as well as the edge of its looped tail. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If we slide this circle and Satkona up a bit, as shown below, we can clearly see that this circle defines the shape of the upper half of the Rebis's Stone or Egg. In this position, <b>the Rebis stands on the base the ascending triangle</b> <b>or Trikona that extends through the body of the Dragon</b>, the top of this triangle overlaps with ascending triangle of Mercury's Satkona, and the point of the descending triangle intersects with the Earth's center. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ9MUd7fPSf1p5ph4CY9IMqaqS7bEmvQSDKbRgseMFQu00vuJG2KsVUEsqAl6u7TbfnaPXwfH5x_9l1E74EerWGEXOCTNvXMfLhNw5aUTbpktqPQQi4D3Pfj7dHnrtz_FHn5FO6DrQRCKWtjcT1aZUvHtStzYyiA_u4ckIieK7YIBXy5SBTEBv_D8kYJQ/s948/Rebis-Satkona-large-upper-circle-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Satkona (Star of David) and Sacred Geometry of Nollius's Rebis and Philosopher's Stone by Lori Tompkins (1 Oct. 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="948" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ9MUd7fPSf1p5ph4CY9IMqaqS7bEmvQSDKbRgseMFQu00vuJG2KsVUEsqAl6u7TbfnaPXwfH5x_9l1E74EerWGEXOCTNvXMfLhNw5aUTbpktqPQQi4D3Pfj7dHnrtz_FHn5FO6DrQRCKWtjcT1aZUvHtStzYyiA_u4ckIieK7YIBXy5SBTEBv_D8kYJQ/w640-h424/Rebis-Satkona-large-upper-circle-01.png" title="The Satkona (Star of David) and Sacred Geometry of Nollius's Rebis and Philosopher's Stone by Lori Tompkins (1 Oct. 2023)" width="640" /></a></div><div><p>In my view subtle or occult sacred geometries that I have illustrated or exposed above suggest that the artist was well-aware of the ancient connection between the vesica piscis and the Philosopher's Stone (or Cosmic Egg) and its role in measuring out the circle and the signs of the Zodiac. In multiple ways he communicated the sacred measure of the Earth's 12 (3 x 4) month zodiacal year, and the knowledge of the planets (the one's known in 1617) that travel along the Earth's ecliptic plane, appearing as <b>stars</b> in our night sky. The size, presence, and position of the Capricornian Dragon give some indication that the artist was aware of the connection between the Vedic Dragon, or the equivalent Dragon of St. John's <i>Revelation</i>, the tenth sign of Capricorn/Makar, and the measure of the vesica piscis. The position of the tenth circle in the subtle vertical column of twelve is either a wild coincidence, or the artist had at least some understanding of the Vedic Divine Son (="the ten-month babe"), his victory over the Dragon (or Makar) and his ascent to the Aquarian Kumbha.</p><p>I imagine there are other subtle geometries that I have yet to see in this image. 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Given what I learned in 2016 about the vesica piscis functioning as a key of much of our world's ancient occult symbols and mythologies, I proceeded to overlay the vesica piscis on top of the Philosopher's Stone, a.k.a. Philosopher's Egg, World Egg or Cosmic Egg, that encompasses Nollius's Rebis, which in turn led to seeing deeper into the geometry and proportions of the Rebis's Stone/Egg and its contents. In Part 2 I will present a detailed illustration and discussion of the occult sacred geometry and proportions of Nollius's Rebis scene; but first I would like to lay out some of what is commonly understood about this alchemical imagery and to reconnect it with its long-forgotten Vedic and zodiacal basis. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div></div>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSTR4gTXRTauMjnSAbEtV6Z8x0U8eatvV_U6Hin3eJdfJx97nyMmPUr8SI7BlhujBZK8YBqj__-R4sGYdwJBz4TDifRiNBXNINr2ib-J-RRpF5ar_US-F6EcO9rmYV03oETe68uqjHWV67PN1XcfLcoRexywz1CNHK5ZtPliL346VcG61Z66ic8ud7thg/s416/Rebis-plain-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="Rebis from Theoria Philosophiae Hermeticae (1617)" border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="364" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSTR4gTXRTauMjnSAbEtV6Z8x0U8eatvV_U6Hin3eJdfJx97nyMmPUr8SI7BlhujBZK8YBqj__-R4sGYdwJBz4TDifRiNBXNINr2ib-J-RRpF5ar_US-F6EcO9rmYV03oETe68uqjHWV67PN1XcfLcoRexywz1CNHK5ZtPliL346VcG61Z66ic8ud7thg/w285-h326/Rebis-plain-01.png" title="Rebis from Theoria Philosophiae Hermeticae (1617)" width="285" /></a></div>"The Rebis symbol comes from alchemists in the 15th century. The symbol is an oval representing the cosmic egg. Within this oval is a hermaphrodite, a figure with a male head and a female head. The woman is holding a square and she appears to be crowned by the moon. The male figure is holding a compass and had a sun over his head. The stars surrounding the figure represent the five planetary symbols. The figure is standing on a dragon. The dragon represents ascension and a combination of the material and spiritual worlds. Under the dragon is a circle with a square and triangle. The square is matter and the triangle is spiritual. The four sides of the square and three sides of the triangle add up to the number of completion, seven. Seven is the number of completion because the world was created in seven days. </div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"The Rebis represents the coming together of opposite things. It is a reconciliation of earthly and spiritual realms and sexual unity. The Rebis is a result of the alchemical great work. When one has gone through purging and purification they become united like the divine hermaphrodite. It is a result of the alchemical allegories of the Red King and White Queen. The Rebis symbolizes the union of opposites. It offers cosmic balance to the world." – <i>Ancient-Symbols.com</i> </div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In "Alchemy in Ontario", Wanda Campbell equates the Rebis with the Philosopher's Stone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"In alchemy, the philosopher's stone<b> </b>that has the power to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary is called the rebis (two-thing) or Hermaphrodite because it is complete in itself, a union of opposites in perfect harmony." </div></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">On Wikipedia, Rebis is defined as:<br /></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"The end product of the alchemical magnum opus, a reunion of opposing qualities such as spirit and matter or male and female, represented by an androgynous being."</p></blockquote><p>In her article <a href="https://www.learnreligions.com/rebis-from-theoria-philosophiae-hermeticae-95751" target="_blank">"Rebis: the Result of the Great Work in Alchemy"</a>, Catherine Beyer explains: </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"The Rebis holds two objects. On the left is a compass, which is used with circles. It is held by the male half, which represents spiritual qualities. The female holds a square, used to measure right angles in squares and rectangles, thus representing the material world, with which women are also associated....</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"The dragon in alchemy represents the prime matter, as well as the third alchemical element: sulfur. The winged dragon suggests ascension, a merging of material and spiritual. Fire is a common transformative symbol." -</p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">These modern-day discussions of the alchemical Rebis and its accompanying symbols are incomplete via a long-standing disconnection from its ancient Vedic origin and sense. As became apparent to me in 2016, the eternal form, law and measure of the vesica piscis and the radius that <i>informs </i>it were given myriad occult or secret names in the Rig Veda. Of the myriad names the Vedic Rishis gave to the vesica piscis, the ones that are most relevant to seeing and understanding the Vedic origin of the Philosopher's Stone or Egg surrounding the alchemical Rebis are <i><a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=01.135.02&acc=no&q=stone&lang=eng" target="_blank">adri</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=02.001.01&acc=no&q=stone&lang=eng" target="_blank">ashma</a></i>, and<i> <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=01.028.01&acc=no&q=stone&lang=eng" target="_blank">grava</a></i>, all translated as "stone"; and <i><a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=04.027.01a&acc=no&q=garbh&lang=ved" target="_blank">gharba</a></i> and <i><a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=10.162.01&acc=no&q=womb&lang=eng" target="_blank">yoni</a></i>, variously translated as "egg", "uterus", "vagina", "womb", or "germ". As discussed at length in <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i> (book and blog), other Vedic names or symbols of the eternal law, form or vessel of the vesica piscis that, together with the radius, creates the three-fold, six-fold, and twelve-fold measure of the 360° Vedic Year include the jar (<i>kumbha</i>), vessel, chalice, bowl, eye, drop, reservoir, filter, mare, cow, udder, mother, river, sister, daughter, robe, fleece. armor, weapon, hill, mountain, cave, hymn, song, thought, prayer, word, holy law, thunder, cloud, flame, water nymph, etc. </div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The occult or veiled names given to the radius include the immortal Divine Son Agni who is in turn given myriad names. He is the Divine Sage, hero, horse, bull, leader, priest, singer, hidden one, golden one, golden reed, pillar (<i>skambha</i>), lord of the sacrifice (=year), lord of song, lord of prayer, lord of speech, lord of Amrita (=food), lord of wealth/treasure, lord of holy law, lord of light, lord of cows/horses, lord of all created beings, the lord of the "sevenfold race of Men", the Son of the Waters (seven rivers), etc. Together with the Earth's Equinoxes and Solstices, this eternal or immortal figure establishes and maintains the eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma) </i>and divine measure (<i>Maya</i>) or meter of the twelve-month Vedic Year. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-sacred-geometry-vedic-origin-of.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a></b></span> </span>Without this Vedic gnosis, all interpretations of the Rebis's compass and ruler, his Stone/Egg, winged or flying Earth, and all related symbols are going to continue to fall quite far from their original ancient sense and context.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In the very first hymn of the Rig Veda, the radius is lauded as Agni, "minster of sacrifice" (<i>puróhitaṃ yajñásya</i>) and "ruler of sacrifices, guard of Law eternal, radiant One" (<i>rājantam adhvarāṇām gopām ṛtasya dīdivim</i>). In Rig Veda 3.55, he is "the Great Eternal" and "King Universal" and "Child of two Mothers". The Rishis lauded the 360° circle of the year as a Yajna or sacrifice, as Aditi (the Mother of Light), as a Cow, and as one of Agni's two mothers, the second being the vesica piscis. Note that the number of Agni's mothers does vary between two and seven, and sometimes three. In my view, his three mothers and seven mothers are both descriptions of the multiple vesicae piscis (=rivers, sisters, cows, mares, etc.) that measure out the ten months of Agni's gestation in the zodiacal year and deliver him to his heavenly Kumbha or Jar. [See "The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Water Sign Scorpio ⁓ Part Four", <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#16a" target="_blank">Endnote #16</a>]</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In Rig Veda 1.67, Agni (the radius), is depicted as crouched or hidden secretly in a cave (=the vesica piscis), holding up the Earth, fixing or propping up the sky or heaven, and moving from lair to lair, cave to cave, or hiding place to hiding place (<i>guhā guham</i>). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"He, bearing in his hand all manly might, crouched [hidden] in the cavern [of the waters], struck the Gods with fear.... He, like the Unborn, holds the broad earth up; and <b>with effective utterance [<i>mantra</i>] fixed the sky [props up heaven]</b>. O Agni, guard the spots which cattle [=rivers] love: thou, life of all, hast gone from lair to lair. <b>Whoso hath known him dwelling in his lair, and hath approached the stream of holy Law</b>,—They who release him, paying sacred rites,—truly to such doth he announce great wealth." – Rig Veda 1.67.2-4 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith [Text in brackets added, from other translations and symbolic equivalencies]</div></div></div></blockquote>
<p>The utterance, word or <i>mantra</i> that "fixes the sky" in Rig Veda 1.67 is once again a veiled symbol of the vesica piscis,—the song, word, sound, thunder, sacred syllable, thought, stone, womb, etc. of the radius/son—, that measures out and thus "fixes" the measure of the Earth's 12-month Zodiac, anchored by four cardinal points of the Earth's Equinoxes and Solstices. [See <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-sacred-measure-of-432000-part-4.html" target="_blank">"The Sacred Measure of 432,000 ⁓ Part 4: The Sacred Syllable of the Rig Veda"</a>]</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Rishi of Rig Veda 1.67 communicated, in veiled or occult terms, that whoever knows that "the hidden one" Agni is the radius dwelling in the womb or cave of the vesica piscis (=his lair or hiding place), will also know that the arc of the vesica piscis is the ancient and eternal stream of river of "holy Law" measuring out the Earth's sacred zodiacal year. We also are told by the Rishi that great wealth, i.e., knowledge, is revealed to those who release Agni from his hiding place or cave. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In my experience, the long-lost geometric sense of Agni's secret hiding place, lair, or cave, and his "stream of wisdom" was revealed to me on 2 October 2016 in conjunction with <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/BookIndex0.html" target="_blank">Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's</a> (Thea's)</span> 9 October 2016 passing, as an extension of Sri Aurobindo's yoga and consciousness-force towards the recovery of the lost <i>sanatana dharma</i> and sense of the Rig Veda in our Age of Aquarius/Kumbha. As I have discussed and demonstrated in my various writings, this revelation did bestow with it, the release of great treasures of long-forgotten and long-occulted ancient gnosis. With this knowledge, I came to understand zodiacal geometry and sense of the central theme of the Vedas which repeatedly tells, in myriad equivalent ways, of seven mothers (=seven vesicae piscis) which bear <b><u>the Vedic Sage (i.e., Philosopher)</u></b> to his goal or destination in the Zodiac which goes by myriad names as well, including but not limited to the heavenly pitcher, jar or vessel of Amrita/Soma (=<a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=07.033.13&acc=no&q=kumb&lang=ved" target="_blank">Kumbha</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.063.03&acc=no&q=soma&lang=eng" target="_blank">Kalasha</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.103.03a&acc=no&q=koza&lang=ved" target="_blank">Kosha</a>, etc.); <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=10.142.07&acc=no&q=reservoir&lang=eng" target="_blank">the reservoir</a> or <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=07.049.02&acc=no&q=the%20ocean&lang=eng" target="_blank">ocean</a> (<i>samudra</i>); <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.020.01&acc=no&q=banque&lang=eng" target="_blank">the gods' banquet</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.097.33&acc=no&q=feast&lang=eng" target="_blank">feast</a> (<i>deva-vītaye</i>) or <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.096.09&acc=no&q=assembly&lang=eng" target="_blank">assembly</a> (<i>samana</i>); and <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/253624509643805336/3103643907456738040#" target="_blank">the filter</a> (<i>pavitra</i>). In my view, this many-named singular destination of Agni and his seven rivers (=vesica piscis) is 0° Aquarius/Kumbha – marking out the completion of ten months of the zodiacal year, starting from 0° Aries and moving <i><u>all the way through</u></i> the tenth month of Capricorn/Makar.</div></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI_W9xnSPGGEjbuBFr-nitRLh5jWjtycbx4e_UvV5Tquz50SUBbRWjCKGkqYfIO09iMAuY0nK88v6-1Kg0H83DpQBPXi0CJGcmdztZZX3L1XBt1Rul7XLuv-CaDW3l6U55tWznczoBYvK5jglkwo6mERtvEqvhmJkwRRQix4zA-eQ8ISTf6qCCYUEhTws/s470/7-Rivers-Sag-Arrow-Aquarius-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The Seven Rivers of the Vedic Sacrifice and their Sage/Sagittarius Son (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="470" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI_W9xnSPGGEjbuBFr-nitRLh5jWjtycbx4e_UvV5Tquz50SUBbRWjCKGkqYfIO09iMAuY0nK88v6-1Kg0H83DpQBPXi0CJGcmdztZZX3L1XBt1Rul7XLuv-CaDW3l6U55tWznczoBYvK5jglkwo6mERtvEqvhmJkwRRQix4zA-eQ8ISTf6qCCYUEhTws/w287-h276/7-Rivers-Sag-Arrow-Aquarius-01.png" title="The Seven Rivers of the Vedic Sacrifice and their Sage/Sagittarius Son (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" width="287" /></a></div>As a result of these Vedic revelations and treasures of gnosis, I came to see the alchemical <b>Philosopher's Stone/Egg</b> as equivalent to the eternal law, form, measure of the vesica piscis. [<a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/p/book.html" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</a>, pp. 207, 228, 392] More specifically, I came to see the <b>Philosopher's Stone/Egg</b> as equivalent to <b>the</b> <b>"Stone" or "Womb" of the Vedic and Zodiacal Sage</b>, <b>Son or Horse—i.e., the vesica piscis of the radius or ray of 0° Sagittarius/</b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuF2u8wgacOxULY36PwU9OFADuHlgT-m4RSMKqOmgzSorKPhx4RVh-phWmC3xBWdL6lkShp6OH42CEep8yyFCf1hmDE2CZt8U5qacITlJq2S4Q6yeaAYqMP5y31RlTow2g5iORo-a04fwzlyrAyLbHxQMcZPOqr-6MAzZMZ1L1Kmaoo2juYWOYZ2TRcU4/s84/sagittarius%20glyph%20copy.bmp" style="margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="67" data-original-width="84" height="15" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuF2u8wgacOxULY36PwU9OFADuHlgT-m4RSMKqOmgzSorKPhx4RVh-phWmC3xBWdL6lkShp6OH42CEep8yyFCf1hmDE2CZt8U5qacITlJq2S4Q6yeaAYqMP5y31RlTow2g5iORo-a04fwzlyrAyLbHxQMcZPOqr-6MAzZMZ1L1Kmaoo2juYWOYZ2TRcU4/w25-h20/sagittarius%20glyph%20copy.bmp" width="17" /></a>—by which he bears, presses, pours out, and delivers himself and his Nectar of Immortality (=Amrita/Soma/Manna) to Indra, the gods, the Kumbha and the illuminated "Man" of Aquarius. It is by this "<b>the heavenly stone"</b>,<b> </b>elsewhere called a bolt of lightning or victorious weapon, that Indra and the Divine Son-Sage-Horse Agni (=<a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=05.078.07&acc=no&q=ten-month&lang=eng" target="_blank">"the ten-month babe"</a>) defeat the powers of darkness and ignorance in the world and set Agni and his seven rivers (mothers, cows, mares, treasures, etc.) free from their cave, enclosure or coverings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=07.036.06&acc=no&q=sarasvati&lang=eng" target="_blank">Rig Veda 7.36.6</a>, this Sage's (=Philosopher's) Stone, womb, egg, or vesica piscis is equivalent to Agni's seventh mother or river, Saraswati, commonly known as the <b>Goddess of Wisdom</b>. Saraswati's association with wisdom, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraswati#:~:text=Saraswati.%5B10%5D-,Symbolism%20and%20iconography,-Iconography%20of%20Saraswati" target="_blank">with the color white</a> makes more sense when we know her eternal law and form, and when we recognize that she completes the gestation and birth of Agni as<b> the WISE SAGE-God</b>-Son-Hero (=Soma Pavamana), who is lauded as a White Horse. His whiteness is due to his birth via seven mothers/rivers who purify or cleanse him. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=02.001.01&acc=no&q=stone&lang=eng" target="_blank">Rig Veda 2.1.1</a> Agni is said to be "brought to life" not only from the seven rivers or waters, but also, "<b>from the stone</b>." [tr. RTH Griffith] Thus, the stone can be seen as equivalent to the form of his rivers that give him birth. In St. John's <i>Revelation </i>or<i> </i>Apocalypse, this story of the victorious birth of Agni via his seven rivers, mothers, drops or stones is retold or reimagined as the pouring out of seven vials or bowls and the corresponding victory of the Divine Son, who appears in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2019%3A11-13&version=LEB" target="_blank">Revelation 19:11-13</a> as a warrior on a White Horse. I have discussed the Vedic, zodiacal and geometric sense of the mythology of the ancient Apocalypse in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" target="_blank">"The Spherical Gnosis of the Sage & the Release of the Vedic Waters ⁓ Part 6 ⁓ The Divine Son & the Ancient Apocalypse"</a> (15 July 2023) and will not further elaborate on this topic here, other than to emphasize the fact that the alchemical Philosopher's Stone and Egg has its origin in the Vedic prophecy and apocalypse (=revelation, release, uncovering, birth, etc.) of the Vedic Son/Sage. The crux of what I am trying to expose here is that, once we understand the zodiacal geometry and sense of the Rig Veda, we can see that<b> the Alchemist's Philosopher's Stone is equivalent to the Stone (=vesica piscis) of the Divine Sage-Son who, via this stone (=weapon, egg/womb, river, law, etc. of gnosis) conquers the world's ignorance and establishes the divine unity consciousness in the vessel or Kumbha of Man, in the Age of Kumbha (Aquarius).</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Those who have read the second volume of Thea's autobiography, <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 2.1</i> should recall that the vesica piscis was shown or presented to her, in veiled form, <b>by her son</b> circa<span style="background-color: white;"> 1969-70. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-sacred-geometry-vedic-origin-of.html#2a" id="2">[2]</a></b></span> </span>Some six years later, she recognized the vesica piscis as a central key of the Mother's Temple (<i>Matrimandir</i>), which in <a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/p/cosmic.html" target="_blank">its original, non-distorted design</a> is a temple of the Vedic Year which was known to the Vedic Rishis as Aditi, the Mother of Light. By this geometric key, Thea came to see her son, born in the ninth sign of Sagittarius, as Sri Aurobindo reincarnated as the victorious Vedic Son, Sage or Horse, equivalent in her mind to Vishnu's tenth avatar Kalki. [See: <a href="Seeing in Understanding ⁓ The Symbols & Sense of 2020 ⁓ Part Four" target="_blank">Seeing in Understanding ⁓ The Symbols & Sense of 2020 ⁓ Part Four</a>]</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"What was placed on my wall, a clear message given to me, was actually a Vesica Piscis, one circle above the other, just as the child had drawn. It was this simple design that held the secret of who he was and who he came to be in this life. It was the magical geometric figure that subtly enveloped the Core of the Mother's chamber, meticulously designed by her, containing therein all the details of 'the future realisation', and with it all the pertinent details of Sri Aurobindo's rebirth." – Thea, <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 2.1</i>, pp.<i> </i>341-42</div></div></div></blockquote>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On page 339 of the same book, Thea wrote that friends and family called her Sagittarian son, "<b>the Little Philosopher</b>" (≈ the Little Sage). Notably, throughout <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 2.1</i> Thea wrote of <b>the Mother's Temple</b>,—its original design, not <a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">what was constructed in her name in Auroville</a>—, as "<b>akin to a Philosopher's Stone" that the Mother had left her</b>. [pp. 147, 152, 182, 228] And, some 40 years later, I came to consider the vesica piscis itself to be the Philosopher's Stone that Thea left me as the key of seeing, understanding and uplifting the zodiacal geometry of the Vedic symbols and lore, the year and week of her passing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In case this needs further clarification, Thea did not see and understand the key of the vesica piscis given to her by her Sage-Son as a key of the hidden sense of the Vedic symbols and lore; and thus she did not make the connection between the vesica piscis, the Philosopher's Stone, and the myriad Vedic symbols I have discussed. Her Vedic revelations were centered upon recognizing and revealing the zodiacal sense of the Vedic hymns and symbols, along with reestablishing <b><a href="https://360lotus.com/the-vedic-year" target="_blank">the true Tropical/Solar measure of the Vedic Year</a></b>. These revelations were central to her avataric contributions towards the <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/events/movement-restoration-vedic-wisdom/" target="_blank">“Restoration of Vedic Wisdom”</a> in our Aquarian Age. Her advances in this arena and finally her passing in 2016 opened the door for me to recognize, remember and restore the zodiacal geometry of the Vedic symbols and lore, via the Philosopher's Stone (=the Vesica Piscis of the Vedic Sage/Son), 144 years after Sri Aurobindo’s birth year (1872).</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>The Sage's Stone (=Philosopher's Stone) in the Rig Veda</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Below are some verses from the Rig Veda which should, in conjunction with the images and information I have provided above, help readers see and understand the Vedic origin and the zodiacal geometry of the Philosopher's Stone which encompasses the alchemical Rebis. All of these verses are poetic depictions of Agni's birth and victory as the Divine Sage-Son-Horse in the measured course of the twelve-month, sacred zodiacal year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"<b>[Let the pressing-stone] win the valour that subdues the foe</b>, and the fleet courser's [=Agni's] might that speeds to ample wealth. Juice that <b><u>this Stone pours out removes defect of ours</u></b>, as in old time it brought prosperity to man.... Stirred be the glorious Stones: let it press out the juice, <b>the Stone with heavenly song that reaches up to heaven</b>, There where the men draw forth the meath for which they long, sending their voice around in rivalry of speed. The Stones press out the Soma [=the Sage's Nectar of Immortality], swift as car-borne men, and, eager for the spoil, drain forth the sap thereof <b>to fill the beaker [=Kumbha]</b>...." – Rig Veda 10.76.2-3, 6-7, tr. RTH Griffith [Bold emphasis and text in bracket's added]</div></div></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">* </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"By reason of his birth here Angiras [=Agni] first sang: <b>the pressing-stones </b>upraised beheld the sacrifice – <b>the stones </b><b>through which the Sage became exceeding vast</b>, and the sharp axe obtains in fight the beauteous place [=Kumbha]." – Rig Veda 10.92.15, tr. RTH Griffith<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p></div></div></div>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><span style="white-space: normal;">"Soma the God, expressed with stones, like Surya, floweth on his way </span>pouring the juice within the jar [=Kumbha]." – Rig Veda 9.63.13, tr. RTH Griffith<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: center;">* </p></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p>"Bring, by thy flowing, weal[th] to kine, weal[th] to the people.... Purify Soma when<b> [you, Agni, are poured out] with stones</b> which bands move rapidly, and pour the sweet milk in the meath." – Rig Veda 9.11.3, 5 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: center;">*</p></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p>"O Soma Pavamana, thou art flowing to be Indra's drink [=Soma/Amrita].... Victorious, to be hailed with joy, O Soma, flow, delighting men.... Thou [Agni] when, [poured out] by stones, thou runnest to the filter [=Kumbha].... Flow on, best Vṛtra-slayer...." – Rig Veda 9.24.3-6 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p>Elsewhere these "stones" (=vesicae piscis) are portrayed as "drops" of Soma wine (=Amrita) that are driven by Agni as the Wise Sage (a.k.a. Soma Pavamana) to his filter, a.k.a. kumbha, beaker, jar, feast, banquet, assembly, etc. </p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"[Well-loved <b>Master in the beaker]</b> <b>the Sage</b>, Celestial, liberal, raining bounties, pours as [Agni, Soma Pavamana] flows the Genuine for the Truthful…. Haste, like<b> a steed</b>, to victory for glory… Pouring out streams at the Gods’ feast with service, thou, Soma [Agni], lookest down, a heavenly Eagle. Enter <b>the Soma-holding beaker [=Kumbha]</b>…. [H]e speaks the thought of prayer, the law of Order…. Flow onward righteous slayer of the wicked, driving away our enemies and sickness…. Strong Soma, pressed, like an impetuous courser, hath flowed in stream as a flood speeding downward…. He, purified with ancient vital vigour, pervading all his Daughter's [=rivers', cows', sisters', etc.] forms and figures….[Agni] here, <b><u>the Wise</u></b>, the All-obtainer, flows on his way as King of all existence. Driving <b>the drops [=pressing stones, rivers, cows, etc.]</b> at our assemblies [Agni] completely traverses [to] the fleecy filter [=Kumbha]…. The wise men send him forth with <b>ten swift fingers</b>, and balm his form with essence of the waters [=rivers]." – Rig Veda 9.97, excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith</div></div></blockquote>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I see the "<b>ten swift fingers</b>" in Rig Veda 9.97 and elsewhere in the Vedas as a symbol of the <b>ten months</b> of the twelve-month "sacrifice", i.e., of the Tropical Vedic Year, that it takes to deliver him to 0° Aquarius/Kumbha. [See images in "The Vedic Dragon" section below.] In <i>The Secret of the Veda</i>, Sri Aurobindo wrote the following regarding Agni's "heavenly stone":<br /><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"The divine flame (Agni) kindled by the sacrifice supplies also to Indra the material of the lightning, the weapon,<b> <u>the heavenly stone, </u></b><i style="font-weight: bold;"><u>svarya aśmā</u></i><b><u>, by which he destroys the powers of darkness and wins the cows, the solar illuminations</u> </b><b>[=the rivers, mothers, mares, treasures, etc.]</b>." – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15</i>, p. 164 [Bold emphasis and text in bracket's added]</div></div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>The Vedic Egg, Womb or Lair</b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The hymns below should help readers see and understand the Vedic origin and sense of the "Philosopher's Egg" or "Cosmic/World Egg" surrounding the Alchemical Rebis, as well as its association with the Philosopher's Stone, and the geometric and zodiacal sense of both of these (and many more) interchangeable Vedic symbols. Throughout the Rig Veda, the Sage's/Philosopher's Egg or vesica piscis (=vessel of the fish), is depicted as some type of womb, cave, lair or enclosure.</div></div>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>"[Brihaspati=Agni=Lord of Speech] threw the prisons of the red cows [=rivers] open. [He] drave, himself, the bright kine [=cows=rivers] from the mountain, like a bird's young after <b><u>the egg's disclosure</u></b>. He looked around on <b>rock [=stone]</b>-imprisoned sweetness as one who eyes <b><u>a fish</u></b> in scanty water. Bṛhaspati [=Agni as the Lord of the sacred word or speech], cleaving through with varied clamour, brought it forth <u><b>like a bowl</b> </u>from out the timber. He found the light of heaven, and fire, and Morning: with lucid rays he forced apart the darkness. </span>– Rig Veda <span><span style="background-color: white;">10.68<span>.6-9</span> </span>excerpts,</span><span> tr. RTH Griffith</span> </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">* </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"What time the Swift One [=the Sage Agni] resteth in the golden place [<b><i>yonim hiraṇyayam </i>= golden womb=Kumbha</b>] of sacrifice, He leaves the foolish far away." – <span style="background-color: white;"><span>Rig Veda 9.64.20,</span> </span>tr. RTH Griffith<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></div></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"The waters [rivers] feed with praise the growing Babe [Agni], born nobly <b>in the womb, the seat of Law [</b><b><i>ṛtásya yónā gárbhe</i></b><b>]</b>. Like grateful food, like some wide dwelling place, like a fruit-bearing hill, a wholesome stream. Like a steed urged to run in swift career...who may check his course? Kin as a brother to his sister floods.... Like a swan sitting in the floods [=seven rivers].... A Sage [Agni] sprung from Law, he grew like some young creature, mighty, shining far." – Rig Veda 1.65 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"May Agni, yielding to our prayer, the [Demon]-slayer, drive away the malady of evil name that hath beset <b>thy labouring womb</b>. Agni, concurring in the prayer, drive off the eater of the flesh, the malady of evil name that hath attacked <b>thy babe and womb</b>. That which destroys<b> the sinking germ, the settled, moving embryo</b>, that which will kill the babe at birth, even this will we drive far away." – Rig Veda 10.162.1-3, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;">*</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"He, bearing in his hand all manly might, <b>crouched in the cavern</b>, struck the Gods with fear. He, like the Unborn, holds the broad earth up; and with effective utterance [<i>mantra</i>] fixed the sky. O Agni, guard the spots which cattle love: thou, life of all, hast gone from <b>lair to lair</b>. Whoso hath<b> </b>known him <b>dwelling in his lair</b>, and hath approached the stream of holy Law,—they who release him, paying sacred rites,—truly to such doth he announce great wealth." – Rig Veda 1.67.2-4, tr. RTH Griffith [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>The Sacred 432,000 Measure and Law of the Sage's/Philosopher's Stone or Egg</b></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It is worth emphasizing here is that the sacred measure, form and law of the Sage's/Philosopher's Stone or Egg is not only a crucial key of unsealing the sealed occult symbols and book of the Vedas and all related pre and post-Vedic symbols and lore, but it is also a crucial key of recovering the forgotten integral, interconnected, wholistic and spherical sense of the 432,000 measure of the Rig Veda, the 432,000 measure of the Hindu Yugas, as well as the 432,000 measure the Sun's radius in miles. For those new to my writing who may be asking, "WHY?", the answer is that <b>via his "Stone" or "Egg" (river, cow, etc.), the radius (=the Vedic Son/Sage/Philosopher) measures out</b> <b>a perfect third (120°)</b> of the zodiacal year, equivalent to <b>432,000 seconds of degrees of arc</b> (120° = 120° x 60' x 60" = 432,000"). And once we understand this 432,000" measure of the Sage's/Philosopher's Stone or Egg, we can reconnect the various instances of this sacred number showing up throughout our collective world history to the sacred geometry of the 360° circle, the 360° Vedic/Zodiacal Year and all related 360° cycles, including the Earth's 24-hour (2 x 43,200-second) Day, the 12-Age, 25,920 year, Great Year (a.k.a. Precession of the Equinoxes) and the <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2014/11/correcting-ongoing-misperceptions-of.html" target="_blank">77,760-year Maha Yuga (=3 Precessions = 9 Kali Yuga) cycle</a></b>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Once we know the true measure and zodiacal Vedic context of the Philosopher's Stone/Egg we have the precious key of rending the veil of much of our world's ancient occult mythologies and symbols. With this key or "stone" we can understand, integrate and illuminate that which has long been fragmented and buried under multiple aeons of mental misunderstanding, misdirection and distortion. The unveiling or integration of the hidden sense, truth and light of ancient symbols and mythologies that have been long-hidden from our collective consciousness is a powerful <b>alchemy or transformation of consciousness. </b>It is an important milestone and an essential catalyst in our Aquarian-Age evolutionary shift from the fragmented binary egoic mental consciousness to the all-integrating unity consciousness of our Higher Mind, or Supermind as Sri Aurobindo referred to our indwelling and emergent divine consciousness.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>The 7-Power (3 + 4) Measure of the Vesica Piscis</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggP6d1qJgcHbDfMNnGmQq_fP7QlEa_6_gDF4R_cZ9Uz8OqGsSvdNIFXGXwuXIQDYD4srwGMaqxDoqv5vt7VFt-GPKvTnIiAdovZcgiDyspzapwm7XPXPkchlH94d4_itFPBplZ0j2yNsiCrIoHiO9LPBbn8ODpRHqFKyDIU0bEyZhNZjZsXHn_8D5MXFw/s237/TGC-3+4=7-VP-Circle-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The 7-power of the Vesica Piscis (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="237" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggP6d1qJgcHbDfMNnGmQq_fP7QlEa_6_gDF4R_cZ9Uz8OqGsSvdNIFXGXwuXIQDYD4srwGMaqxDoqv5vt7VFt-GPKvTnIiAdovZcgiDyspzapwm7XPXPkchlH94d4_itFPBplZ0j2yNsiCrIoHiO9LPBbn8ODpRHqFKyDIU0bEyZhNZjZsXHn_8D5MXFw/w298-h258/TGC-3+4=7-VP-Circle-01.png" title="The 7-power of the Vesica Piscis (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" width="298" /></a></div>
As noted in one of the quotes above, the sum of 3 and 4 — the numbers found the Rebis's flying Earth in conjunction with the 3-sided equilateral triangle and 4-sided square is 7. As discussed by Thea in <i><a href="https://www.patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNW12.html" target="_blank">The New Way, Vols. 1&2</a> </i>(pp. 401-02), each 120° or 432,000" arc of the Zodiac, can be considered <b>7-powered</b> in the sense that it contains in itself <b>3 units </b>of the circle of 9, and <b>4 months </b>of the 12-month zodiacal year. Thea presented and discussed the 9 number power and the 12 months of the Vedic Year as <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/tgc.png" target="_blank">the Gnostic Circle</a>. She saw the Rishis' references to the <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/find.pl?q=thrice-seven&lang=eng&acc=no" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white;">"thrice-seven ecstasies" (=treasures, libations, sacrifices</span>, "titles", "ridges", "layers of fuel", "mystic things", rivers"</a>, etc.) of the Vedic sacrifice as the sum of these two "scales" of the 360° Year: <b>9</b> + <b>12</b> = <b>21</b> = <b>3</b> + <b>3</b> + <b>3</b> + <b>4</b> + <b>4</b> + <b>4</b> = <b>3</b> x <b>7</b>. <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-sacred-geometry-vedic-origin-of.html#3a" id="3"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[3]</span></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Wondrously first he rose aloft, defiant, in the Bull's [=Agni's] lair, the home [or <b>womb</b>] of holy Order [<i>ṛtásya <b>yónā</b></i>], longed-for, young, beautiful, and far-resplendent: and seven dear friends [=rivers] sprang up unto the Mighty [Kumbha, Assembly, Ocean, etc.]. Here did our human fathers take their places, fain to fulfil the sacred Law of worship. Forth drave they...Dawn's teeming Milch-kine [=seven rivers].... The Milch-cow's earliest name [the Human Fathers/ancestors] comprehended: they found the Mother's <b>thrice-seven noblest titles</b>." – Rig Veda 4.1.13, 16 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith [Bold emphasis and text in bracket's added based on alternate translations and equivalences]</div></div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If we take Thea's understanding a step further, we can see and understand that the radius and its companion vesica piscis (=stone, egg, womb, river, flood, etc.) are 7-powered in the sense that together they measure out each of the three 7-powered, 120° (=432,000") arcs of the 360° circle. For more information on the ancient sacred measure of 432,000 of the radius and vesica piscis, which was the 2016 seed and catalyst of recovering and writing <i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/253624509643805336/3103643907456738040#" target="_blank">The Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</a></i> (book), see <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/253624509643805336/3103643907456738040#" target="_blank">"The Sacred Measure of 432,000"</a> (series, 2019-2020).</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>The Union of the Masculine and Feminine</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGdkJpQsJsNMYkCfVp-_T-0VcoXbYXZkhBaYwh81RmEtiSKGyMgS1l5MpGVzwymcspugnwC51NfGc-R1ZE_abXzFbMHOCuVLPmxui-Z-CETApYo9Ssg7eb_N4UDTdXZKdYFCVWJ0ejzKajUo5kzGkQw3H_-wkXOzZy14Uq0ZzC_s2i9nfcCTerB28oAAs/s414/VP-radius-plain-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="The Vesica Piscis & Radius basis of the Rebis hemaphrodite (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="255" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGdkJpQsJsNMYkCfVp-_T-0VcoXbYXZkhBaYwh81RmEtiSKGyMgS1l5MpGVzwymcspugnwC51NfGc-R1ZE_abXzFbMHOCuVLPmxui-Z-CETApYo9Ssg7eb_N4UDTdXZKdYFCVWJ0ejzKajUo5kzGkQw3H_-wkXOzZy14Uq0ZzC_s2i9nfcCTerB28oAAs/w88-h143/VP-radius-plain-01.png" title="The Vesica Piscis & Radius basis of the Rebis hemaphrodite (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" width="88" /></a></div>As discussed and illustrated above, the alchemical Rebis is known and portrayed as a "hermaphrodite" representing the divine union of the masculine and feminine principles of creation. Hopefully it is not difficult for readers to see and understand that the form of the vesica piscis, with its indwelling radius, ray or pillar, is a fitting symbol of the union or conjunction of masculine and feminine sexual organs. The radius, in this union, is the masculine <i>lingam </i>or penis, and the vesica piscis is the feminine <i>yoni </i>or vagina. This eternally united geometric pair was lauded by the Vedic Rishis in many ways, including as husband and wife; brother and sister; son and daughter; son and mother; calf and cow; calf and udder; babe and womb; <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.085.12&acc=no&q=gandharv&lang=eng" target="_blank"><i>gandharv</i>a</a> and <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=10.123.05&acc=no&q=apsara&lang=eng" target="_blank"><i>apsara</i></a> (=water nymph); the sun/son and the Dawn, as well as <i>lingam</i> and <i>yoni</i>.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>The Vedic Dragon</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">One of the most striking symbols inside Nollini's Rebis Stone or Egg is the fire-breathing dragon sprawled across the upper hemisphere of the winged Earth. The Rebis figure standing upon the Dragon can be seen as its sage or wise conqueror, <b>bearing only the "weapons" of measure</b>. In one of the explanations above we are told, "The dragon represents ascension and a combination of the material and spiritual worlds." Elsewhere the Dragon is said to represent sulfur and transformation as related to fire and kundalini energy. These modern assessments of the alchemical Dragon have lost the connection to and the consciousness of the original Vedic and zodiacal sense of the Dragon. In the Rig Veda, the Dragon is the dominant force of Ignorance or Darkness that obstructs, occults, hides or covers the Light of Truth, or Light of our Divine Self/Soul in our world. His name is <a href="https://wijsheidsweb.nl/wijsheid/indra-and-vritra-the-dragon-in-the-rig-veda/#:~:text=Vritra%20is%20a%20Vedic%20serpent,is%20heroically%20slain%20by%20Indra." target="_blank">Vritra</a>, meaning to "obstruct", "cover" or "envelope". He is also known or depicted as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susna#:~:text=In%20the%20Rigveda%2C%20Susna" target="_blank">Susna</a> and <a href="https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/ahi#:~:text=1)%20Ahi%20(%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF)%3A%E2%80%94m.%20(%E2%88%9Aa%E1%B9%83h)%2C%20a%20snake%2C" target="_blank">Ahi</a>, the latter translated as "snake". </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This Dragon or snake blocks the flow of the rivers of truth and wisdom in the world and, via this obstruction, is the central antagonist of the Vedas. In <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=10.111.09&acc=no&q=swallowed&lang=eng" target="_blank">Rig Veda 10.111.9</a>, he is said to have swallowed the rivers, repeatedly numbered throughout the Vedas as seven. He is conquered, like all of the forces of ignorance and darkness in the Vedas, by the Divine Son/Sage in conjunction with the thunder-god Indra and their divine companions. From this Vedic victory of the Divine Son/Sage over the Dragon comes the lore and iconography of the god Vishnu reclined on a five, seven or ten-headed snake named <i>Shesha</i> or <i>Sheshnaag</i>, floating on the Ocean of Milk or Cosmic Ocean from which the Amrita (Nectar of Immortality=Soma Wine) of the Gods is recovered. The lotus seat of the four-headed creation god Brahma can itself be seen as a symbol of the Vedic Year with its four cardinal points marking out the entrance into each of the four "creation" (raja) signs: Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRJm7tz-R9lZEdr-MgogEPkwdVVW7RdEekPvW3DNB0-3Vou2VBnqhKKOeKkbSHfeQokEX4-JAf6Y1wvp66qf0_b74nJ39c4sF2Yx1oN_ZxOMzlnVZ2x7loL-Eo0fVhwAVZL0tEgpI3QwainLc8VTsWm0T2ISXB-WiVU_k7kzMOzNu1TvD8sHtWM3NXXQ/s724/Vishnu_reclining_on_Shesha,_as_Brahma_is_born_on_a_lotus_from_his_navel_(palace_of_Bir_Singh_Dev,_Orchha,_early_17th_c.).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Narayana reclining on Shesha, as Brahma blooms on a lotus from his navel (palace of Bir Singh Dev, early 17th c.)" border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="724" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRJm7tz-R9lZEdr-MgogEPkwdVVW7RdEekPvW3DNB0-3Vou2VBnqhKKOeKkbSHfeQokEX4-JAf6Y1wvp66qf0_b74nJ39c4sF2Yx1oN_ZxOMzlnVZ2x7loL-Eo0fVhwAVZL0tEgpI3QwainLc8VTsWm0T2ISXB-WiVU_k7kzMOzNu1TvD8sHtWM3NXXQ/w511-h331/Vishnu_reclining_on_Shesha,_as_Brahma_is_born_on_a_lotus_from_his_navel_(palace_of_Bir_Singh_Dev,_Orchha,_early_17th_c.).jpg" title="Narayana reclining on Shesha, as Brahma blooms on a lotus from his navel (palace of Bir Singh Dev, early 17th c.)" width="511" /></a><br /><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Narayana [Vishnu] reclining on Shesha, as Brahma blooms on a lotus from his navel (palace of Bir Singh Dev, early 17th c.)</span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In various hymns, the thunderbolt by which Indra dismantles the water-obstructing Dragon and its forts or caves of Ignorance is portrayed as <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=08.001.05&acc=no&q=stone&lang=eng" target="_blank">a Stone</a> or <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=07.104.19&acc=no&q=stone&lang=eng" target="_blank">"bolt of stone"</a>. In <a href="https://360lotus.com/articles#:~:text=The%20Obstruction%20of%20the%20Vedic%20Waters" target="_blank">"The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Water Sign Scorpio"</a> (2021-22) I discussed the water-obstructing Dragon as a symbol of the fixed water sign of Scorpio – the 8th sign of the Zodiac, preceding the 9th sign of the Sagittarian Sage, Son, or Horse. The birth of the nine-rayed Sagittarian Sage, Son, or Horse (<i><a href="https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv09108.htm#:~:text=4%20By%20whom-,Dadhyac%20Navagva,-opens%20fastened%20doors" target="_blank">Dadhyac Navagva</a></i>) is the catalyst for dismantling the obstruction of the seven rivers, and setting them free to purify the world. In <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/03/demystifying-ancient-symbol-of-three.html#:~:text=Europe.%E2%80%9D%20%5B4%5D-,In%20Vedic%20mythology,-both%20the%20hero" target="_blank">"Demystifying the Ancient Symbol of Three Fish with One Head"</a> (2020, revised 2023), I discussed the Dragon as a symbol of the vesica piscis or multiple vesicae piscis that gestate the Vedic Son and bear him to the goal of his zodiacal sacrifice or hero's journey (Yajna) – the Kumbha or reservoir where the gods meet and feast on the Amrita/Soma, and the rivers gather, and the treasures of the rivers, cows, horses, etc., are set free from the Ignorance that conceals their true form and context. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The vesica piscis's association with a covering darkness, ignorance and containment or obstruction can be fully understood when we understand that the vesica piscis is simultaneously the chief obstacle and the key of opening the sealed book and symbols of the Vedas. As long as this key is unknown, it obstructs or protects the Vedic treasures/symbols, keeping their sense in an encrypted or sealed state. Once known, the vesica piscis is the key, weapon, and sacred word, thought or song of the Vedic heroes by which they accomplish their victory and release the pent-up treasures of the occult Vedic symbols. Note that many of the veiled descriptions of the vesica piscis convey some element of covering. In many hymns, the vesica piscis is the robe or covering of the Vedic Son (=the radius of the Vedic Year/Zodiac). <span style="background-color: white;">[See <i><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/p/book.html" target="_blank">Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</a></i>, Part 2, Ch. 15, "The Passing of the Mantle"]</span> It is likewise his cave, hiding place or lair.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In Rig Veda 10.8.8 the Vedic Dragon is referred to as <i>tri-šīrṣāṇam sapta-rašmim</i>, translated as the "seven-rayed, three-headed" foe (tr. RTH Griffith) and "the three-headed, seven-reined (monster)" (tr. Jamison and Brereton). In St. John's <i>Revelation</i>—a retelling or re-envisioning of the much older Vedic prophecy—the Dragon-foe is said to have "seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads" and we are given the additional cryptic clue that its "tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky". </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Then another sign appeared in heaven: <b>an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter</b>.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne [=his Kumbha in the Vedas]. The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days. Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. <b>The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray</b>. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him." – <i>Revelation</i> 12.3-9 [<i>NIV</i>]<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></div></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS6HSRAafElhbcRqLJcpYJ_ZpIRIKWviW69ggj3qavwydH2eEmzK_uS1iM0I9RzjF9q0vf1UUfjbgdifIneOEIwyA38FXhjRlNB5WDwT2wi0Wp7HSO6RVgJDeQS3ZQKlpdLIBNVIOENhGLc7NqVf3W5LLW9uIr4xUhNO5X1pzvoUt7vkpsiCZBK2jktRo/s568/10-7-rivers-Aquarius-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The Seventh River and 10-months that birth the Vedic Sage/Son to his Kumbha/Jar (Lori Tompkins, 2020)" border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="568" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS6HSRAafElhbcRqLJcpYJ_ZpIRIKWviW69ggj3qavwydH2eEmzK_uS1iM0I9RzjF9q0vf1UUfjbgdifIneOEIwyA38FXhjRlNB5WDwT2wi0Wp7HSO6RVgJDeQS3ZQKlpdLIBNVIOENhGLc7NqVf3W5LLW9uIr4xUhNO5X1pzvoUt7vkpsiCZBK2jktRo/w246-h238/10-7-rivers-Aquarius-01.png" title="The Seventh River and 10-months that birth the Vedic Sage/Son to his Kumbha/Jar (Lori Tompkins, 2020)" width="246" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">In my view, the imagery of the Dragon's <span style="text-align: justify;">tail sweeping "a third of the stars out of the sky" is a clear reference to the vesica piscis and radius that together measure out one-third </span>of the zodiacal circle or cycle; and the seven-headed, seven-crowned, ten-horned dragon is a variation of the Vedic mythology wherein the Dragon is the obstacle of the victorious birth or REVELATION of the Vedic Son (=the "ten-month babe") via his seven rivers (mothers, floods, drops, vats, hymns, thoughts, etc.). Impelled, increased, or "made vast" by his seven mothers, this Son, Agni as <b>the 9-rayed Horse/Sage</b>, passes through <b>TEN months</b> of the Zodiac, arriving at his goal (=Kumbha/Jar, reservoir, the gods' banquet, assembly, etc.). In several hymns the Vedic Son/Sage is said to be beautified or purified by his seven rivers (=songs, drops, thoughts, floods, etc.) and by "ten fingers", equivalent to the ten months of his gestation.</div><p></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"Ten fingers groom you [Agni-the Sage-Son]; seven insightful thoughts propel you...." – Rig Veda 9.8.4, tr. Jamison & Brereton </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">* </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"Ten [fingers] on the fleecy height, themselves, self-prompted, and seven fresh rivers, brighten and adorn thee [Agni]." – Rig Veda 9.92.4, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">* </p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"[T]he fingers ten and the seven songs make [Agni] beautiful...." – Rig Veda 9.15.8, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">* </p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"I lay upon the [seven] Floods your hymn, lightwinning, wherewith Navagvas [the 9-rayed] <b>their ten months completed</b>. Through this our hymn may we have Gods to guard us: through this our hymn pass safe beyond affliction." – Rig Veda 5.45.11, tr. RTH Griffith [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p>Sri Aurobindo translated and discussed this verse at some length in <i>The Secret of the Veda</i>:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“I hold for you in the waters (i.e., the seven Rivers) the thought that wins possession of heaven (this is once more the <b>seven-headed</b> thought born from the Truth and found by Ayasya), by which the Navagwas [=nine-rayed] passed <b>through the ten months</b>; by this thought may we have the gods for protectors, by this thought may we pass through beyond the evil....</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">"The expression in the hymn,<i> daśa māso ataran</i>, indicates that <b>there was some difficulty in getting through the full period of ten months</b>. It is during this period apparently that the sons of darkness had the power to assail the sacrifice; for it is indicated that it is only by the confirming of the thought which conquers Swar, the solar world, that the Rishis are able to get <b>through the ten months</b>, but this thought once found they become assured of the protection of the gods and pass beyond the assault of the evil, the harms of the Panis and Vritras. This Swar-conquering thought is certainly the same as that seven-headed thought which was born from the Truth and discovered by Ayasya the companion of the Navagwas." – <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15</i>, pp. 175-76 [<span>Bold emphasis and text in brackets added]</span></p></blockquote>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7dSPmdLvn3pVhKUN77zYTMtsqa5CjekUIbsnbW1ch9QnNiPZbneF4d5MdXVWT18e3DMmNmvTjr9GeWoPHBxBzbf5RtFH_DWjSxGWkn_VpyJOe8tfRSmN2r-AHHxb8hwUjFhr36_RZHHQLe4AXvbwyIc5CtnVKJhMg9iWVfrgvgl1joguh7vwQioycoY/s568/10-7-rivers-Aquarius-Fire-Trine-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The Seventh River and 10-months that birth the Vedic Sage/Son to his Kumbha/Jar, with the Fire Trine (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="568" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7dSPmdLvn3pVhKUN77zYTMtsqa5CjekUIbsnbW1ch9QnNiPZbneF4d5MdXVWT18e3DMmNmvTjr9GeWoPHBxBzbf5RtFH_DWjSxGWkn_VpyJOe8tfRSmN2r-AHHxb8hwUjFhr36_RZHHQLe4AXvbwyIc5CtnVKJhMg9iWVfrgvgl1joguh7vwQioycoY/w262-h259/10-7-rivers-Aquarius-Fire-Trine-01.png" title="The Seventh River and 10-months that birth the Vedic Sage/Son to his Kumbha/Jar, with the Fire Trine (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" width="262" /></a></div>In <i><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/p/book.html" target="_blank">Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</a> </i>(book, pp. 306-09), I discussed the hero Ayasya as one of the many names of the Vedic Sage-Son (=the radius of 0° Sagittarius) who establishes and completes the flow of the seven rivers (=the seven-headed thought) from the third seat or angle of his Fire Trine or Triangle [0° Aries, 0° Leo, and 0° Sagittarius]. The name Ayasya etymologically suggests the movement of an iron weapon (<i>ayas</i>) which I take as the victorious movement of the radius/Son/Sage of the Zodiac to his goal (the Kumbha or Water Jar of Aquarius).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Another thing that bears mentioning about the symbolism of Nollius's <b>Earth-clutching alchemical Dragon</b> is that the Sanskrit name for <b>Capricorn</b> [<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh71VAaw7cUfrGhA8nziGYtWF3DOC4fe2L3ZjQfAk_JPWjPLht5iNAsD5CXDzqVW8yeAfhRN2htmxGAIGToLMQ2GGGjoSKuxkLhAi5KcLyoGqlIn9GPJUh9s8QMB3ny5xQsHmxccblHQxDrkqhrIIEI_JgPow-1zUplmfYWqpE7_yUz9YV_u5Fsy9g3gqM/s72/Cap-c.png"><img border="0" data-original-height="51" data-original-width="72" height="15" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh71VAaw7cUfrGhA8nziGYtWF3DOC4fe2L3ZjQfAk_JPWjPLht5iNAsD5CXDzqVW8yeAfhRN2htmxGAIGToLMQ2GGGjoSKuxkLhAi5KcLyoGqlIn9GPJUh9s8QMB3ny5xQsHmxccblHQxDrkqhrIIEI_JgPow-1zUplmfYWqpE7_yUz9YV_u5Fsy9g3gqM/w28-h20/Cap-c.png" width="21" /></a>],—the tenth month and last of the three zodiacal <b>Earth signs</b>,—is Makar. Makar, from <i>Makara</i>, is commonly translated in English as a sea monster or crocodile. In Sri Lanka, <i>Makara</i> specifically refers to a Dragon and it is not a stretch to consider an association between the Vedic Dragon and the tenth month of Makar (Capricorn), which the Vedic heroes and seven rivers (by whatever names) must pass through <i>with difficulty</i> before arriving at the Kumbha of Aquarius. <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-sacred-geometry-vedic-origin-of.html#4a" id="4">[4]</a></span> </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The radius's arc that forms the vesica piscis (=the Sage's/Philosopher's Stone) in light blue above-right is the seventh river of the Vedic Sacrifice, which completes the Sage-Son's ten-month gestation, purification and victory.</div><p></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"Indra demolished with might the works of <b>the great watery monster</b>.... [T]he waters that flowed forth when Indra sent them. Where is their spring, and where is their foundation? Where now, ye Waters, is your inmost centre? Thou didst free <b>[the seven] rivers swallowed by the Dragon</b>; and rapidly they [the rivers] set themselves in motion.... – Rig Veda 10.111.4,8-9 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p>Wikipedia's article on Makara begins:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"Makara appears as the vahana (vehicle) of the river goddess Ganga, Narmada, and of the god of the ocean, Varuna. <b>Makara are considered guardians of gateways</b> and thresholds, protecting throne rooms as well as entryways to temples; it is the most commonly recurring creature in Hindu and Buddhist temple iconography, and also frequently appears as a gargoyle or as a spout attached to a natural spring." [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The association of the Vedic dragon with the <b>Makar/Makara </b>or sea monster<b> </b>of the Zodiac<b> </b>is etymologically supported given that the Sanskrit root <i><b>ma</b></i> means "to measure, mete out, mark off", as well as "to measure across, traverse" (<i>Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon</i>).<b> <i>Kāra</i> </b>is translated as "hand", as well as <a href="https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/rig-veda-english-translation/d/doc836970.html#:~:text=once%20%5Bwhen%5D%3B%20if.%E2%80%9D-,karas%20%3C%20kara%E1%B8%A5%20%3C%20k%E1%B9%9B,-%5Bverb%5D%2C%20singular%2C%20Aorist" target="_blank">“make, perform, cause, produce, shape, construct, do, write, create, trace"</a> and "doer". As I have demonstrated, the vesica piscis is the measure, form, shape and even hand of the radius who is the "creator", "doer", "architect", "constructor", "priest", "maker", "tracer", etc. of the sacred form, geometry, eternal law, and divine <i>maya</i> or measure of the Vedic Year. In <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=04.058.03&acc=no&q=kara&lang=ved" target="_blank">Rig Veda 4.58.3</a> the Vedic Son is specifically depicted as having <b>seven hands</b>, which are equivalent to the <b>seven rivers (=seven vesicae piscis)</b> that increase and gestate him through ten months of the Earth's sacred year. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Note that the Dragon of Nollius's Rebis scene is perfectly centered upon not only the winged-Earth, but also upon the apex and measure of its internal equilateral Triangle as well as the NORTH point of its cardinal point Square. These two measures and forms combine to give us the 12-measure of the Earth's Zodiacal Year: 3 x 4 = 12. I emphasized the word "north" above, because 0° Capricorn/Makar is specifically associated with the Earth's North cardinal point or direction. Thus giving another symbolic clue that the ancient mythology of the Dragon is connected to the zodiacal sign of Capricorn/Makar. Perhaps the most striking clue of this connection is the actual appearance of Nollius's Dragon. In the Western conception of the Zodiac, Capricorn is symbolized as a mountain goat or sea goat; and, once we know what we are looking for, it is not hard to see that the head and tail of the Rebis Dragon looks very much much like the Goat's head and curled tail associated with the constellation of Capricorn. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTav7C3giX5aPFNcGoCyyv9pmYdD7J5o0zW8bx7jk8UMSIdEuCGWVFJEj0L8mOv1hxO8Y7jj8lyFVHrV-S5CiATDlF18kqG9s8klRh_fZZkRAko_yGm2C3Jv63UKAfEijmf04mFpGxSMXg-Z00uwtWmE-MtQr1CGjyIqZmmPXTBdS0Fzs7omTy9LZVs3s/s400/Capricorn-Sea-Goat-Constelation.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="400" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTav7C3giX5aPFNcGoCyyv9pmYdD7J5o0zW8bx7jk8UMSIdEuCGWVFJEj0L8mOv1hxO8Y7jj8lyFVHrV-S5CiATDlF18kqG9s8klRh_fZZkRAko_yGm2C3Jv63UKAfEijmf04mFpGxSMXg-Z00uwtWmE-MtQr1CGjyIqZmmPXTBdS0Fzs7omTy9LZVs3s/s320/Capricorn-Sea-Goat-Constelation.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is also worth pointing out here that the word "Dragon"—a mythological creature who is sometimes depicted with three heads—is phonetically similar to <b>Triagon </b>(as in Triagonal), and the Sanskrit <i style="font-weight: bold;">Trikona, </i>both indicating the three-angles of a <b>Triangle</b>.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Link to <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-sacred-geometry-vedic-origin-of.html" target="_blank">Part Two</a></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Endnotes:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-sacred-geometry-vedic-origin-of.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a></span> Note that Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's (Thea's) supramental yoga and mission included reestablishing the Tropical/Solar measure of the Vedic Year/Zodiac and exposing the erroneous sidereal measure of what is wrongly called "Vedic" astrology. She referred to the common sidereal measurement of the Zodiac, "post-Vedic".</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-sacred-geometry-vedic-origin-of.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a></span> Thea did not give an exact date for the presentation of the vesica piscis by her son. She wrote that it "transpired when this child was five or six years old" which could be anywhere from 26 November 1968 through 26 November 1970]. His own recollection is that it most likely took place at the age of 6 [26 November 1969-26 November 1970]. I do not think it is a random coincidence that this incident took place circa my birth year of 1969.</div></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-sacred-geometry-vedic-origin-of.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a></span> "The thrice seven, or twenty-one, ecstasies are the combined scales of 9 and 12 [9 + 12 = 21], based on the multiples three times three and three times four that the Ribhus, artisans of Immortality, personify. The Ribhus divide the sphere of twelve by their threefold energy movement repeated four times: 'They sustained and held in them, they divided by perfection in their works the sacrificial share of the enjoyment among the Gods.' (l.20-8) 'For such perfect division', writes Sri Aurobindo, 'is the whole condition of the effective sacrifice, the perfect work.'" – Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 402. Multiple mentions of the count of "thrice seven" ecstasies of the Vedic Year can be found in the following two links: <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/find.pl?q=thrice-seven&lang=eng&acc=no" target="_blank">1</a> & <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/find.pl?q=thrice+seven&lang=eng&acc=no" target="_blank">2</a>.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-sacred-geometry-vedic-origin-of.html#1" id="4a">[4]</a> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">As discussed by Thea throughout her writings, 0</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">°</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> Capricorn/Makar </span>– <span style="background-color: transparent;">marked, measured or established by the Earth's December Solstice </span>–<span style="background-color: transparent;"> is the entrance into the fourth and highest quadrant or realm of the Zodiac </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">‒ </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">the heavenly Swar realm of the Vedic Year or "sacrifice". Thea was born on 5 January (1938) in the midst of the sign of Capricorn/Makar. Unaware of the geometric sense of the Vedic Rivers, she considered the zodiacal location of the Vedic Victory to be 10° Capricorn (=</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">the 7 Point of the Vedic Circle of 9)</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> rather than at the </span><i style="background-color: transparent;">culmination</i><span style="background-color: transparent;"> of the tenth month (=30° Capricorn/Makar=0° Aquarius/Kumbha). Consequently it has been difficult, to say the least, for some of her long-time students to see beyond her own conclusion regarding the Makar/Capricorn location of the Vedic victory, and to "arrive" at or SEE the Vedic Kumbha as the goal and victory of the Vedic Son. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: lora, serif;">If you value the </b><span style="font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b>original research and content made freely </b></span><span style="font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b><br />available on this blog</b></span><b style="font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></span></div></span>Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-5592307647302590652023-07-15T16:32:00.119-07:002024-01-07T18:12:24.836-08:00The Spherical Gnosis of the Sage & the Release of the Vedic Waters ⁓ Part 6 ⁓ The Divine Son & the Ancient Apocalypse<p style="text-align: center;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"></p></blockquote><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdDZPYTEjANoj6G-kj85N92bop5OVV2MqXwMDvdEttpKdPkdwcpu-A9PjRKcgXtGlDfWN-gG-wgupjsBUdFTJB4iJnQ38mNoDcUHo8tDK5WuhVdVr9VXwSiB6xgCwsb-2DIJJ1s_STxzyQyzuWKs_kR4Ijbtwf_hO4SgcpM0HDV6vR8CGQaQIz028LOYU/s1198/Kalki-Avatar-Agni%20Puran%20Gita%20Press%20Gorakhpur-BW-alt-LT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Kalki Avatar - image from Agni Puran, Gita Press Gorakhpur, color alterations by Lori Tompkins (Photoshop)" border="0" data-original-height="823" data-original-width="1198" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdDZPYTEjANoj6G-kj85N92bop5OVV2MqXwMDvdEttpKdPkdwcpu-A9PjRKcgXtGlDfWN-gG-wgupjsBUdFTJB4iJnQ38mNoDcUHo8tDK5WuhVdVr9VXwSiB6xgCwsb-2DIJJ1s_STxzyQyzuWKs_kR4Ijbtwf_hO4SgcpM0HDV6vR8CGQaQIz028LOYU/w640-h440/Kalki-Avatar-Agni%20Puran%20Gita%20Press%20Gorakhpur-BW-alt-LT.jpg" title="Kalki Avatar - image from Agni Puran, Gita Press Gorakhpur, color alterations by Lori Tompkins (Photoshop)" width="640" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Kalki Avatar (=the Vedic Son) with his Solar Halo/Consciousness</b></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;">[Link to Part <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" target="_blank">1</a>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">4</a>, or <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" target="_blank">5</a>]</span></p><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"> “The Son of the sacrifice is a constant image in the Veda. Here it is the godhead himself, Agni who gives himself as a son to man, a Son who delivers his father. Agni is also the War-Horse and the steed of the journey, the White Horse, the mystic galloping Dadhikravan who carries us through the battle to the goal of our voyaging.” <span style="text-align: center;">– Sri Aurobindo, </span><i style="text-align: center;">The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15</i><span style="text-align: center;">, p. 461 </span></div></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The English word “Apocalypse” hails from the Greek noun <i>apokálypsis</i> [ᾰ̓ποκᾰ́λῠψῐς] meaning “uncovering.” Its corresponding verb, <i>apokalýptein,</i> means “to take the cover off.” </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The earliest recorded meaning of apocalypse (in Old English) was in reference to the name of the last book in the New Testament, also called Revelation. It recounts several prophetic visions of upheaval and destruction culminating in the Second Coming of Christ. In Middle English, apocalypse was extended to mean “any revelation or disclosure.” However, <b>the meaning “any disaster or cataclysm” was not recorded until the late 19th century</b>.” – <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/apocalypse">www.dictionary.com</a> [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Apokálypsis</i> is in fact the first word of the Greek text of St. John’s <i>Revelation</i> dated circa 96 CE. This infamous word has long been translated in English as “revelation”, from which the "Book of Revelation" of course gets its name. In other words, “apocalypse” and “revelation” mean the exact same thing, and both indicate <b>the removal of a veil, cover, obstacle, or eclipsing force</b>. </p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The <b>revelation</b> of Jesus Christ [=<b>Ἀποκάλυψις</b> Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ…], which God gave to him, to show to his servants what things must soon take place, and which he communicated when he sent it via his angel to his servant John, who has confirmed as the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, what all things he saw. Blessed are the one reading and those listening to the words of this prophecy, and keeping the things written herein, for the time is near.” – <i>Revelation</i> 1:1-3, tr. by David Robert Palmer </p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The 2022 Netflix documentary series <i>Ancient Apocalypse</i>, in which Graham Hancock discusses a proposed catastrophic comet-induced flood,—an instantaneous melting of the North American (Laurentide) Ice Sheet—, approximately 13,000 years ago, catalysing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas" target="_blank">the Younger Dryas period</a>, is a notable instance of the relatively modern distortion and misunderstanding of the word “apocalypse”. To really understand why a word that etymologically and originally conveys an unveiling, disclosure or uncovering of something hidden, is associated with disasters, cataclysms, the end of the world as we know it, and likewise with the birth and return of God’s Son, we must first understand the ancient Vedic origin and sense of the Biblical Apocalypse. So long as the Vedic sense and origin of St. John’s <i>Revelation</i> is ignored, there can be no real understanding of the word “Apocalypse” or of St. John’s <i>Apocalypse</i>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the Rig Veda, seven mothers—who are known as great rivers or floods (amongst many other names)—give birth to the Divine Son Agni. And via his mothers or FLOODS, he, aka “the Child of the Waters” or “the Floods’ Child” [<i>Apąm Napāt</i>], is born victorious over the forces of darkness, falsehood, evil, wickedness or ignorance in the world, by whatever name. The Vedic hymns portray this Divine Son, known as the Hidden One (<i>Guha</i>) before his birth, as being <b>hidden within, robed, or <u>COVERED</u></b> by his rivers/mothers who are, in turn, said to be hidden away, penned in, and obstructed from flowing by the forces of Darkness. In conjunction with his birth or emergence out of the cover of his hiding place or womb, the Divine Son, together with the thunder god Indra, defeats the villain-serpent or dragon Vritra, whose name means, in English, <b>“the Coverer”</b> or <b>“Obstructor”</b>, thereby setting his rivers (aka mothers, floods, cows, mares, sisters, daughters, treasures, etc.) free from their enclosure and obstruction. This world-purifying, flood-born and likewise jar-born (<i>kumbha</i>-born) Divine Hero-Son, is known by hundreds of names in the Vedas including Agni, the nine-rayed white war horse (<i>Dadhyac Navagwa</i>, aka <i>Dadhikravan</i>), the “Golden Reed” (<i>hiraṇyayaḥ vetasaḥ</i>), heavenly pillar (<i>divaḥ skambhaḥ</i>), the heavenly or Divine Sage (<i>divaḥ kaviḥ</i>), and Soma Pavamana – the purifier and deliverer of the Nectar of Immortality (=Amrita=Soma=the heavenly Manna) to the gods’ banquet. In Rig Veda 5.86.6, the seven rivers that give birth to the Divine Son are specifically referred to as <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=05.083.06" target="_blank">“<b>the Stallion’s Flood</b>”</a>. </p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Send down for us the rain of heaven, ye Maruts [=storm gods], and let the Stallion's flood descend in torrents. Come hither with this thunder while thou pourest the waters down, our heavenly Lord and Father.” – tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As I have discussed at length in <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom </i>(book and blog), in October of 2016, the week of Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet’s (Thea’s) passing, the geometric and zodiacal sense of the seven Vedic rivers, the seven vials or bowls of St. John’s <i>Apocalypse</i> and the Vedic Kumbha (=the Aquarian Water Jar) was dropped or poured into my consciousness. I was shown that these sacred rivers, vials, floods, etc., are <b>the first seven vesicae piscis that flow through and measure out the first ten signs of the Zodiac, culminating at the entrance into the sign of Aquarius/Kumbha (0° Aquarius)</b>. As an immediate result, I understood that the Vedic Kumbha/Jar and Vishnu's Kumbha of Amrita are not only references and symbols of the zodiacal sign of Aquarius, as Thea had discussed in her writings, but also a long-forgotten occult symbol/name of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesica_piscis" target="_blank"><b>the vesica piscis</b></a>. A month later, in November of 2016, I saw and understood the 9th ray or radius of the Zodiac (=the radius of 0° Sagittarius) as the Divine Son-Sage-Horse of the Vedas who draws out, pours out and is fully born via his seventh river-mother (=seventh vesica piscis). Note that some seven months earlier, circa the March Equinox of 2016, it was revealed or unveiled to me that the vesica piscis, aka “the vessel of the fish”, is the geometric basis, key, and <i>sanatana dharma</i> (eternal law) of Vishnu’s avatars, starting with <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2018/04/i-believe-veda-to-be-foundation-of.html" target="_blank">Matsya (the Fish)</a></b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Thus, from November 2016 onwards, the myriad baffling symbols and accounts of the Vedic Son and his Flood or Apocalypse begin to make perfect geometric and zodiacal sense, including the accounts of the Divine Son as a Sage or Horse (aka the <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=05.078.07&acc=no&q=ten-month&lang=eng" target="_blank">“<b>ten-month babe</b>”</a>) speeding to a Jar/Kumbha as the goal of his journeying. I could see that this Jar is the sacred container and drinking chalice (=the holy grail) or “drop” of the Soma Wine/Amrita, aka the gods’ Nectar of Immortality which Vishnu (as the goddess Mohini) recovers from the demon-asuras. And with this key I was able to identify many of the occult and varied names given to the location of 0° Kumbha/Aquarius in the Vedic hymns, including but not limited to the gods’ banquet, rendezvous and home; the reservoir, lake, or ocean (<i>samudra</i>) of the seven rivers; Agni’s (the Sage-Son-Horse’s) resting place or home; and the banquet of the heavenly peoples, i.e., of the illumined Aquarian Man/Human. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#1a" id="1" title="As I have explained throughout my writings since the Fall of 2016, this new understanding of the Vedic Rivers was different from what, Thea saw, understood, and wrote about the zodiacal sense and placement of these rivers, as presented in The New Way, Vols 1&2. In her view the Vedic rivers were released at the 7 Point of the Zodiac/Gnostic Circle, equivalent to 10° Capricorn. She did not see or discuss the Divine Son and his seven rivers/mothers as symbols of the sacred geometry of the radius and the first seven vesicae piscis of the zodiacal circle, arriving at the Vedic Kumbha (0° Aquarius).">[1]</a></b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1CQwwFl0IKZSH196ui7cME4JH3Rje7d6nCTecQiP5TYawKo9AdgFsUZIU4Qd0zyZvRj7GDLYlaDyTAQRseDw5R1AfNnbAWGGEz2BMyuQtvVZE96oCDF9nxiz8tQlJIrmbetKpB375iVvYLhxOo16h7YY2Q1y9z2UJPhNHtw6zEhZXXYDdA_LjelEyGJg/s600/7-Rivers-1st-7th-Trine-Zodiac-Sage-Halo-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The geometric and zodiacal sense of the Seven Rivers of the Rig Veda and their Son (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1CQwwFl0IKZSH196ui7cME4JH3Rje7d6nCTecQiP5TYawKo9AdgFsUZIU4Qd0zyZvRj7GDLYlaDyTAQRseDw5R1AfNnbAWGGEz2BMyuQtvVZE96oCDF9nxiz8tQlJIrmbetKpB375iVvYLhxOo16h7YY2Q1y9z2UJPhNHtw6zEhZXXYDdA_LjelEyGJg/s16000/7-Rivers-1st-7th-Trine-Zodiac-Sage-Halo-01.png" title="The geometric and zodiacal sense of the Seven Rivers of the Rig Veda and their Son (Lori Tompkins)" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“[As] ’twere to war hath Soma Pavamana [=the Divine Son=Agni] sped…within the vats [vessels]. That he may move, they yoke him to the three-backed triple-seated car by the Seven Ṛṣis’ holy songs [=the seven rivers]. Drive ye that Tawny Courser, O ye pressers, on his way to war, Swift Steed who carries off the spoil. Pouring all glories hither, he, effused and <b>entering the jar</b>, stands like a hero mid the kine [=rivers, mothers, vats, etc.].” – Rig Veda 9.62.16-19, tr. RTH Griffith [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;">*</div></span><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“Pour hitherward, O Soma [=Agni Soma Pavamana], wealth in thousands and heroic strength, and keep renown secure for us. Thou makest food and vigour swell for Indra, best of gladdeners! Within the cups [=vats, bowls, jars=rivers, cows, etc.] thou seatest thee. [[Pressed for Indra, for Viṣṇu]] <b>Soma hath flowed into the jar</b>…. These [drops of Soma] swift and brown of hue, in stream of solemn sacrifice, have flowed through twisted obstacles.” – Rig Veda 9.63.1-4, tr. RTH Griffith [[Bold emphasis added. The text in single brackets is mine. The text in double brackets is translated by Jamison & Brereton]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he ten sisters [=months] impel [Soma, the Horse] to the abode [of the gods]. The drop of Soma…becomes the banquet of the Heavenly People….” – Rig Veda 9.91.1-2 excerpt, tr. RL Kashyap & RTH Griffith [Text in brackets added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">With the simple geometric key, eternal law (<i>santana dharma</i>), maya (measure) and womb of the vesica piscis and its indwelling radius (=son), I could see through these verses and the occult symbols and lore of the Vedic and Biblical Apocalypse an entirely new way. I could see the myriad words the Vedic Rishis used were themselves the closed vessels or containers (<i>kumbhas</i>), pens, caves, coverings (<i>vritras</i>), etc., of the same hidden truth (<i>ritam</i>) and key of the Vedas. And the instant their ancient coverings or veils were removed these words/vessels began to pour out new layers of their hidden truth to me. I understood that these occult word-vessels or symbol-vessels, and all related ancient symbols and mythologies across the world, were designed and destined to be non-sensical and open to wide-misunderstanding and distortion by humanity’s fragmented linear consciousness for millennia until Vishnu the Preserver restored their zodiacal and geometric key, sacred measure, and eternal law, thereby uncovering, un-eclipsing, recovering, revealing, restoring, and pouring out their hidden truth in his Age of Aquarius/Kumbha. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">From 1973 till 2016, Thea wrote extensively about Sri Aurobindo’s role as Vishnu’s Aquarian Age Avatar. I became aware of and began to study her writings on this subject in 2000, and 16 years later, the week of her passing in 2016, I could see that together with the Mother and Thea, over a span and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/253624509643805336/559230764730259065#" target="_blank">cycle of 144 or 12 x 12 years (1872-2016)</a>, Sri Aurobindo had accomplished the Revelation or Apocalypse of the occult truth and eternal law of the Vedic Rivers and of their Son, thus unsealing or removing the occult veils of the Rig Veda and all related religious lore, mythology and symbols in our Age of Aquarius. In other words, I could see that the long-foretold and long-anticipated mythological Apocalypse had happened or played itself on Earth, just in a way that few would understand or recognize because, for millennia, the mind’s dimly-lit imagination has taken these profoundly misunderstood ancient symbols and ran with them, so to speak, in directions far flung from their original unified zodiacal sense, context and truth.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Via the above, readers should be better equipped to understand why “Apocalypse”,—a word that by its Greek roots, literally means an UNVEILING (=a Revelation) or UNCOVERING,—has come to mean “any disaster or cataclysm” whilst divorced from its original Vedic and Zodiacal context and sense. It especially makes sense that an ancient global cataclysm involving a massive flood (such as the proposed by the Younger Dryas Comet impact flood) would be characterized as an “Ancient Apocalypse” by those who are unaware of the Vedic and Zodiacal sense and origin of “the Apocalypse” that looms so heavily in our collective consciousness, and likewise by those who are unaware of its ancient connection to the birth of the Divine Son via the floods or rivers who are his mothers. But it must be recognized now, as Sri Aurobindo wrote and clarified in <i>The Secret of the Vedas</i>, that the Vedic Rishis were not referring to actual rivers or floods flowing on Earth.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">“What are these waters that flow to the goal of the gods’ movement [=the Kumbha, the gods’ banquet, Agni’s resting place, etc.], that establish for man the supreme good? Not the rivers of the Punjab; no wildest assumption of barbarous confusion or insane incoherence in the mentality of the Vedic Rishis can induce us to put such a construction upon such expressions. Obviously <b>these are the waters of the Truth and the Bliss that flow from</b> <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">the supreme ocean</span></b>. <b>These rivers flow not upon earth, but in heaven; they are prevented by Vritra the Besieger, the Coverer from flowing down upon the earth-consciousness in which we mortals live till Indra, the god-mind, smites the Coverer with his flashing lightnings and cuts out a passage on the summits of that earth-consciousness down which they can flow</b>. Such is the only rational, coherent and sensible explanation of the thought and language of the Vedic sages.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15</i>, pp. 112-13 [Bold emphasis and text in brackets added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The "supreme ocean" (<i>samudra</i>) that Sri Aurobindo is referring to here (emphasized above via blue-bold text) is entirely equivalent to the Kumbha of Aquarius. In the English translations of the Vedas, <i>samudra</i> is sometimes translated into as “ocean” and sometimes as “reservoir”. </p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;">"[The Sage/Son/Seer] hath brought down from heaven's most lofty summit <b>the ocean (<i>samudra</i>) of the rain, celestial waters</b>. <b>Gathered together in that highest ocean, the waters stood by deities obstructed</b>. They [ran] down set free [by the Sage/Son/Seer Agni].... O Agni, drive afar our foes, our troubles chase malady away and wicked demons. <b>From this air-ocean, from the lofty heavens, send down on us a mighty flood of waters</b>." – Rig Veda 10.98.5-6, & 12 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith [Bold emphasis added]</blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">"Apparent are [Agni's] lines as he approaches the course is single, but the cars are many, When, Agni, thou, making thine arms resplendent, advancest o' er the land spread out beneath thee. Now let thy strength, thy burning flames fly upward, thine energies, O Agni, as thou toilest. Gape widely, bend thee, waxing in thy vigour.... <b>This is the waters' reservoir (<i>samudra</i>), the great abode of gathered streams</b>." – Rig Veda 10.142.5-7 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">It is worth noting here that the word “apocalypse”, begins with the Sanskrit word <i>apo</i> – Sanskrit for "water" (from <i>ap</i>, <i>apah</i>, <i>apas</i>). The second half of “apocalypse”, is <i>calypse</i>, from the Greek <i>kálypsis</i> and <i>kalyptō</i>, meaning "to cover", "to conceal", or "to hide". <i>Kálypsis</i>/<i>kalyptō</i> is basis of the name of the Greek nymph Calypso, one of seven sisters, whose name is translated as “she that conceals or hides”. <i>Kálypsis</i>, <i>kalyptō</i>, and, by extension, <i>apokálypsis</i> can all be seen as descendants of the Sanskrit words <b><i>apo</i></b>, <i><b>kal</b></i> and <i><b>apsa</b></i>. <i>Kal</i>, the Sanskrit root of “calculate” and “calendar”, is associated with the measure of Time (<i><b>Kala</b></i>) and of the Hindu Yugas via the <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2014/11/correcting-ongoing-misperceptions-of.html" target="_blank">432,000 measure of the Kali Yuga and its multiples (the Dwapara, Treta, and Satya Yugas)</a></b>. <b><i>Kal</i> is also the root of Kalki</b>, Vishnu’s final avatar – who Thea recognized as equivalent to the Vedic Son, born victorious by his seven mothers/rivers.<i> <b>Apsa</b></i> means “giving water”, and in the Vedas, the <i><b>Apsarases</b></i> are water nymphs who, in my view, are entirely equivalent to the Vedic rivers (cows, sisters, virgins, floods, etc.). Agni, it must be realized, is not only the Son of the Rivers/Waters, but also the Son of the Zodiac itself. He is thus, as discussed by Thea, the Son of Time, portrayed as Aion/Aeon in Greek Mythology. In <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, Thea wrote of the “Conqueror Son” (Kalki in Vishnu’s Line of Ten Avatars/<i>Dasavatara</i>) as “the regenerated Father-Time” (p. 216). In other words, Father Time (Chronos) is born out in the course of Time as the Immortal Son, conqueror of Death, awakened soul, and leader of the evolutionary march of Time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I am not sure if the ancient Vedic truth or sense of <i>WHAT exactly</i> the nymph Calypso is hiding is conveyed somehow in Greek mythology. So far I don't see evidence of this. Regardless, in the Vedic mythology, it is clear that what the seven sisters/rivers (=water nymphs) hide in themselves is their immortal Divine Son/Soul and the expanded supramental solar light or divine spherical consciousness by which he conquerors the world's falsehood, death, and ignorance <i>upon his birth</i>. Their own solar or spherical truth—the truth or true zodiacal context of who or what these rivers, mothers or water nymphs are—is hidden as well.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As discussed in <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom </i><span style="text-align: left;"><i>(pp. 364-69)</i></span>, another version of the Vedic Flood or Apocalypse is found in the Ongiaras’ (Native American Indian) <a href="https://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/09/the_maid_of_the_mist.html" target="_blank">Maid of the Mist</a> mythology regarding Niagara Fall, which is why Niagara Falls—the location of my conception in 1968—is featured on <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom’s</i> home-page banner</a></b>. In the Ongiaras mythology, the thunder god Heno lived hidden in “his home <b>beneath the thundering veil of water</b>” (i.e. the water of Niagara Falls) with his son and his son’s wife, Lelawala, aka “the Maid of the Mists”. At some point in the tale a “great snake” began poisoning the waters of the river, killing Lelawala’s people. Thus, the thunder god Heno killed the snake. Once dead, the snake’s body obstructed the flow of the Niagara river, forming the “horseshoe” shape of the Falls and forcing Heno’s movement or migration (with his son and Lelawala) to a new home in the sky. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Those who have read my last series “The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Water Sign Scorpio” should be able to recognize the dead snake that obstructs the waters of Niagara Falls in this mythology as a symbol of the fixed water sign of Scorpio, wherein the waters of the Zodiac are naturally fixed or obstructed, creating a toxic mental consciousness and toxic environment in the course of our evolutionary journey on Earth. In the Vedic mythology, the thunder god Indra and the Son of the Waters (Agni) slays the water-obstructing demon-snake or dragon Vritra. In conjunction with this victory over this snake, the Vedic Son and his mothers travel to their goal or destination in the sky – the heavenly Kumbha, called by many names, including Indra’s special place and the gods’ meeting place. The name “<b>Niagara</b>” is a variation of “<b>Ongiaras</b>”; and “<b>Ongiaras</b>” is suspiciously similar to the Vedic <b>Angirases</b> – seven seers, sages, or rishis, who are powers of Agni. In Rig Veda 1.31.1 Agni is said to be the first Angiras Rishi. Together with Indra and Agni, the Angirases dismantle the dark forces and their entrapments or caves that obstruct, hide and block the cows (=rivers, waters, mothers, mares, etc.) who give birth to the hidden One, Son or Sun. Just as the Divine Son Agni is known as the Child of the Waters (<i>apąm napāt</i>), his is equally the <b>Child of the Mist</b> (<i>mihaḥ napātam</i>) or cloud, and all of these names and hundreds of others, are varied names of the same zodiacal geometry, wherein the rivers, waters, mists, clouds and such are all occult names of the multiple vesicae piscis that measure out the Zodiac as well as the Divine Son’s Jar-destination. With all of this in mind, it appears that the name and <b>Maid of the Mist</b> mythology of the Ongiaras Native Americans and of Niagara Falls, is connected to the Vedic and (post-Vedic) Biblical Apocalypse or Revelation.</p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“The Angirases are at once the divine seers who assist in the cosmic and human workings of the gods and their earthly representatives, the ancient fathers who first found the wisdom of which the Vedic hymns are a chant and memory and renewal in experience. The seven divine Angirases are sons or powers of Agni, powers of the Seer-Will, the flame of divine Force instinct with divine knowledge which is kindled for the victory.” – <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15</i>, p. 242 </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">* </p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“The seven sages, the Angirasas, are waiting still and always, ready to chant <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-sacred-measure-of-432000-part-4.html#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20sacred%20names" target="_blank">the word</a></b>, to rend the cavern, to find the lost herds [=rivers], to recover the hidden Sun [=Son/Solar consciousness].” – Ibid., p. 383 [Text in brackets added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In Part Five of this series I wrote: </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“In the Vedic victory,—which is the apocalypse or unveiling of the solar light and consciousness on Earth—, the Divine Son-Sage-Horse (=world guru or savior) uplifts “the minds of men” out of the fragmented binary consciousness, to the point that our “seeings converge in the sun”, or converge in the spherical vision of our divine oneness and wholeness. And <b>this is the true ancient origin and essence and sense of the Biblical Apocalypse or Revelation</b> which has been much misunderstood throughout the Age of Pisces.”</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrwNYWqbluP5ZMQ_ixT2yKoVUht2GVmXu6U2d0u2hjSELUYKDiNMsarOIVurS6WvDWOq2D3120qHxowz6BrwYoAb_ZJEawL4B_4HBv9TpOIOICQqNp5KzQ4-KnqP1JU-_deJtpmY8q7YiEfk0DVAsS1aw88t4aQNehfgvFfb5RI-zaymbDBMoquM879hQ/s523/Maha-Yuga-LT-2022-3rd-Quarter.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 2em;"><img alt="Vishnu's Avatars & Preservation Ages in the 3rd Quadrant of the Maha Yuga cycle as seen by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (image by Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="523" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrwNYWqbluP5ZMQ_ixT2yKoVUht2GVmXu6U2d0u2hjSELUYKDiNMsarOIVurS6WvDWOq2D3120qHxowz6BrwYoAb_ZJEawL4B_4HBv9TpOIOICQqNp5KzQ4-KnqP1JU-_deJtpmY8q7YiEfk0DVAsS1aw88t4aQNehfgvFfb5RI-zaymbDBMoquM879hQ/w329-h272/Maha-Yuga-LT-2022-3rd-Quarter.png" title="Vishnu's Avatars & Preservation Ages in the 3rd Quadrant of the Maha Yuga cycle as seen by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (image by Lori Tompkins)" width="329" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In her books <i>The Hidden Manna</i> and <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, Thea wrote of St. John’s <i>Revelation</i>,—written approximately three centuries into the Age of Pisces (234 BCE-1926 CE)—, as an ancient zodiacal prophecy foretelling Sri Aurobindo’s birth as Vishnu’s 9th Avatar and rebirth as the 10th (the Divine Son=Kalki Avatar) in Vishnu’s Age of Aquarius which she saw as the heart of the 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation of our current Maha Yuga Cycle. [Click <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2014/11/correcting-ongoing-misperceptions-of.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> for a fuller image of the 12-Manifestation Maha Yuga.]</div><p></p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“In St. John's <i>Revelation</i> (Apocalypse), which gives remarkable details of the entire Coming. Therein the birth of the Man-Child [Sri Aurobindo’s return as ‘the victorious Son’] is described, who is the War God.” ‒ Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, pp. 164-65 [Text in brackets is Thea’s, from pp.163-164]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">According to her seeing and understanding, this special Age of Aquarius or Age of Kumbha (the Water Jar) began in 1926, the year of Sri Aurobindo’s Siddhi Day whereupon <a href="https://incarnateword.in/compilations/24th-november#:~:text=of%201926%20was.-,It%20was%20this,-%3A%20Krishna%20consented%20to" target="_blank">Krishna – Vishnu’s 8th Avatar – “consented to descend into Sri Aurobindo’s body”</a>, as told by the Mother.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When we see that this prophetic knowledge of the birth of the world saving Son extends back to the Vedic Rishis and <i>further back to their ancient ancestors</i> (as told in the Vedas), we must wonder how long ago this evolutionary and, it must be emphasized, ZODIACAL event was first known to sages or told to Man and thereby preserved in the journey, lore and symbols of the Earth’s 360° twelve-month zodiacal solar year. Regardless of the exact antiquity of this zodiacal and divine gnosis, it is clear that this event,—which amounts to a Singularity of not only Spirit and Matter, but also of the inseparable Transcendent, Cosmic and Individual triad of our Divine Oneness—,was connected in the minds of the ancient sages (Vedic and pre-Vedic) with the pouring out of the sacred waters, rivers, and Amrita (=Soma, Nectar of Immortality, or Manna) of the gods, and likewise with the pouring out of the eternal law and divine measure of the rivers and their Divine Son, from the Water Jar or Kumbha of the Zodiac. From this ancient zodiacal gnosis and lore, we have inherited our present-day idea of the Age of Aquarius/Kumbha being an illumined age of some sort – a “universal brotherhood of Man” wherein humanity’s consciousness is upgraded into the harmonious state of unity consciousness. What was lost and forgotten in the Age of Pisces, and seemingly well before that, is that the uplifting of Man/Humanity into an Aquarian “Golden Age”, and the pouring out of the sacred waters/floods of the Aquarian Kumbha, is accompanied by the birth, apocalypse or uncovering of the Divine Son – the unifier, conqueror, world savior, etc. Likewise, it was forgotten that the revolutionary change associated with the sign of Aquarius in our modern understanding of astrology comes from the ancient gnosis and prophecy of the birth and revelation of the Vedic Son via his purifying rivers (floods, mothers, etc.). </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The flipside of this forgotten gnosis is that most of the Piscean-Age religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism divorced the coming of the Divine Son, or world savior, sage, messiah, by whatever name, from the sign of Aquarius/Kumbha and from the Age of Aquarius, and moreover, from the Earth's twelve-month Vedic/Zodiacal Solar Year and the twelve-age “Great Year”, which is the Earth’s 25,920-year, 360° cycle of the Precession of the Equinoxes. In other words, these religions arose and propagated their beliefs, laws, and rituals in a state profound ignorance – disastrously divorced from the original unifying context of the Vedic, zodiacal, and evolutionary prophecy. One of many examples of this same ignorance in Christianity is the separation of the Messiah (<i>Meshiha</i> in Aramaic) from <i>Mesha</i> – the Sanskrit name of the Ram of the Rig Veda and of the Zodiac. For any who are unaware, <i>Mesha</i> is the Sanskrit name for Aries, the first sign of the Zodiac, and Aries is Latin for "Ram" (Mars spelled backwards, sans the “s”). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The sign of Aries/Mesha is known to be ruled by the planet and war god Mars, who is Ares in Roman mythology. As discussed by Thea, this war god is equivalent to Agni, the Son of the Vedic sacrifice or year, known to the Vedic rishis by many names, including Mesha. Thea discussed Aries as the first of Agni’s three births, seats and fire signs, the second and third being, respectively, Leo & Sagittarius. When born as the steed or horse of Sagittarius, with Indra, the Divine Son finds the Divine Sun or light of truth-consciousness by which Vritra – the Scorpionic Coverer or Obstructor of the Vedic waters – is conquered and dismantled. In other words, the Horse of the dissolution or “destruction” sign of Sagittarius dissolves the obstructions or veils of the fixed water sign of Scorpio, allowing the rivers of Vedic gnosis to flow properly in the mind and vessel (<i>kumbha</i>) of Man in the sign of Aquarius.</p><blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The first sign Aries [Mesha] is, properly speaking, Agni (and one of Agni's vehicles is precisely the Ram). Its colour is red, its ruler is Mars, its element is Fire; it is the leader of the host of twelve signs, as Agni is 'leader of the hosts'. Agni in Aries, however, is not yet the Immortal among Mortals. He is not pulled down to Earth, as it were, because the First (Agni) must pass through the Father, the fifth sign Leo, before he can emerge in his fully formed incarnation as the Son of Force, the realiser of Immortality,—the Man-Horse of Sagittarius. Mars (of Aries) must also first pass through the Waters of the eighth sign Scorpio, a sign which it also rules. Then that Mars force is transmuted and in the ninth sign it is portrayed as the Horse and serves as the harmonised and integrated vahana of the Man, of Agni Vaishwanara, the Universal Man.” – Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 379 [Text in brackets added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">* </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“Agni [the most important of the Vedic Godheads] is <b>the fourth of [Sri Aurobindo’s] supramental avataric descent</b>; he is Skanda of the Puranic Tales: he is Kalki of the Ten Puranic Avatars; he is the Conqueror of St. John's Apocalypse; he is the Horse of the Veda, the symbol of Force (Tapas), the counterpart of the Cow, the symbol of the Light of Consciousness. Cow and Horse of Vedic symbology are Consciousness-Force, the major axis of existence, the axis portrayed in the symbology of the enigmatic Sphinx of Giza. The Horse then is a major symbol in the Vedic hymns invoking Agni.” – Ibid., p. 378 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In Rig Veda 1.52 the Divine Son Agni is called Mesha – the Ram (=the <i>Meshiha</i> or Messiah) who finds the Sun, and is also likened to a Horse who speeds to “the [divine or heavenly] prize”, elsewhere identified as the Jar/Kumbha or reservoir/ocean (<i>samudra</i>) of the rivers and the holy wine (=soma, amrita or heavenly manna).</p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>I shall exalt this ram [Mesha], who finds the sun</b>, whose hundred (superior powers) of good essence arise together. (Might I turn) his chariot, rushing to the summons, <b>like a steed (rushing to) the prize</b>; with my well-twisted (hymns) might I turn Indra here for help. Like a mountain, immovable on its foundations, Indra, with his thousand forms of help, grew strong amid his powers, when subduing the floods, highly excited by the soma stalk, <b>he smashed Vr̥tra, who obstructed the rivers</b>….</p></blockquote><blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“[Indra's helpers (or helping forms) sped <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=01.052.05&acc=no&q=slope&lang=eng" target="_blank">like swift streams down a slope</a>]…emboldened by the soma stalk, [Indra] split the barricades of the Vala cave, as Trita [=Agni born as his third fire sign] had…. [Vr̥tra], having obstructed the waters, was lying on the foundation of the dusky realm, when [Indra struck down] Vr̥tra, hard-to-grasp, in the (waters’) torrent. For like waves to a lake [=reservoir=kumbha], the sacred formulations that make you strong rush down to you, o Indra…. And when you [Indra with your horses <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#2a" id="2" title="These horses are elsewhere in the Vedas hymned as seven bay horses. In Rig Veda 1.50.8-9 they are identified as daughters, i.e., females or mares, who are equivalent to the seven rivers, mothers, sisters, cows, etc., elsewhere throughout the Vedas.">[2]</a></b></span>] smashed Vr̥tra, making a way for the waters [=the seven rivers] for Manu [=the primordial Man/Man of Aquarius], you held the metal mace in your arms. <b>You fixed the sun fast in heaven to be seen</b>.” – Rig Veda 1.52.1-2, 5-8, excerpts, tr. Jamison & Brereton [Bold emphasis and text in brackets added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">One Hindu expression of the forgotten zodiacal context of the Divine Son or World Savior/Teacher (<i>Vishwa Guru</i>) of the Vedas is the long-standing mass-amnesia of the zodiacal sense of the Vedic hymns and symbols. Another is the fact that the Hindu Yugas and Vishnu the Preserver’s task of restoring the <i>sanatana dharma</i> or eternal law/truth in the world <i>yuge yuge</i> (age to age) have been entirely divorced from the twelve-month, 360° Vedic Year/Zodiac and the twelve ages of the 360° Great Year (=the 25,920-year Precession of the Equinoxes). Thea restored Vishnu’s connection with the Preservation Ages of the Great Year as well as the Hindu Yugas’ connection with the Great Year in the 1970s. Yet this is still not widely acknowledged or known in India. As of yet, few in India or beyond acknowledge and celebrate Thea's work towards the reconnection of Vedic and post-Vedic symbols and lore with the 9-power Tropical (Solar) Zodiacal Year (360 = 3 + 6 + 0 = 9), <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#3a" id="3" title="See The Gnostic Circle (Thea, 1975).">[3]</a></span></b> and most go on perpetuating an inherited fragmented and disoriented consciousness regarding Hindu symbols and lore, and an inherited mismeasure of the Yugas and the Vedic Year.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Buddhist expression of this same mass-amnesia manifested as a rejection of the Vedic sacrifice and its laws which were already misunderstood and divorced from its truth and sense in the Buddha’s time. It has also manifested as a pervasive obliviousness to the fact that the Buddhist prophecy of the world savior Maitreya is Vedic, and thus ZODIACAL, in nature. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUb0JPfWEY3c5C6GjcnF4ZYxzo0ONS0vWjisjJ1-kqy3DPZsu6wjtyqaLkwIXUiX-_cYtXZgdYu5l4Y5PrP7SM_86fyJ3vWpZlAnaYp1NATnWvyKRZ1lcyATr_ademyyQcrwSNS2uxZY8EDA_C8LsMunT0tL30YPEnY26RMWnTMe_Joyeywlv0i0pcZxc/s450/Maitreya-Water-Pot.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="348" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUb0JPfWEY3c5C6GjcnF4ZYxzo0ONS0vWjisjJ1-kqy3DPZsu6wjtyqaLkwIXUiX-_cYtXZgdYu5l4Y5PrP7SM_86fyJ3vWpZlAnaYp1NATnWvyKRZ1lcyATr_ademyyQcrwSNS2uxZY8EDA_C8LsMunT0tL30YPEnY26RMWnTMe_Joyeywlv0i0pcZxc/s320/Maitreya-Water-Pot.jpeg" width="247" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thea discussed the zodiacal and Vedic sense of Maitreya in <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>. She recognized Maitreya as a variation of the Vedic god Mitra (a lord of rivers and rain), typically translated in English as “the Friend” which is one of the symbolic names associated with Aquarius. She recognized the lore of the Buddhist Maitreya as a prophecy of Vishnu’s Aquarian Age Avatar, equivalent to the Vedic prophecy of the Divine Son. The Buddhist’s Maitreya, often depicted carrying a Kumbha (=Water Jar), is just one of the many hidden-in-plain-sight or collectively unrecognized symbols of the ancient astrological and Vedic prophecy of the birth of the Divine Son, whose seven rivers/mothers deliver him to his Kumbha – the Water Jar of Aquarius, and simultaneously to the vessel of the human being, i.e., the Aquarian “Man”, capable of containing the Divine Soma of unity- consciousness.</div><p></p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“[On his way to war, the Swift Steed (=the Divine Son/Agni) carries off the spoils.] Pouring all glories hither, he, effused and entering the jar [=kumbha], stands like a hero mid the kine [=rivers].… O Soma, O thou Sage, these worlds stand ready to attest thy might: For thy behoof the [seven] rivers flow.” – Rig Veda 9.62.18-19 & 27, excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Given the divorce between the story of the Divine Son of the Vedas and its original zodiacal, geometric, and evolutionary context, throughout the Piscean Age it was entirely forgotten that the “Apocalypse”, birth, or coming of the Divine Son in our world, by whatever name (Maitreya, Vishnu, Kalki, Kartikeya, Messiah, etc.), and the <i>sanatana dharma</i> or eternal law and divine measure that he comes to UNCOVER, UNVEIL and RESTORE in the world, has anything whatsoever to do with zodiacal gnosis, zodiacal cycles, zodiacal ages and sacred geometry. Without this gnosis of the Zodiac, the ancient prophecies of the Apocalypse of the Divine Son, and all related mythologies across the world, were simply doomed to be widely and thoroughly distorted, fragmented, and misunderstood. Likewise, the time frame, Age or Yuga of the prophesied world-cleansing and uplifting revelation was doomed to be forgotten, dismissed, distorted, and miscalculated. </div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Through Thea’s yoga and writings, we can begin to see and understand that <b>the <i>sanatana dharma</i> the Divine Son, sage or savior was destined to restore in the world absolutely had to include restoring the original zodiacal, wholistic and spherical 360° context and sense of the apocalyptic prophecy</b>. She recognized the Age of Aquarius as the time of his coming and established what his coming—Sri Aurobindo’s birth and rebirth—actually represents and accomplishes in our evolutionary journey, thereby beginning the process of dismantling the mountain of collectively accumulated falsehoods, misunderstandings and fantasies that have accumulated and become stuck in the human mind, lodged as poisonous obstacles to, and tragic coverings of the divine truth of the ancient prophecies of the world-unifying Divine Son.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sri Aurobindo discussed the birth of the Divine Son, as hymned in the Vedas, as <b>the creation of the godhead in humanity, the descent of the Divine into matter, creating the “Life Divine” on Earth</b>. He also discussed this evolutionary event as the Supramental Descent and the Supramental Manifestation.</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“The complete redemption [of Man] comes by the descent of the divine Power into the human mind and body and the remoulding of their inner life into the divine image, — what the Vedic seers called the birth of the Son by the sacrifice. It is in fact by a continual sacrifice or offering, a sacrifice of adoration and aspiration, of works, of thought and knowledge, of the mounting flame of the Godward will that we build ourselves into the being of this Infinite.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Synthesis of Yoga, CWSA, Vol. 23-24</i>, p. 598</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“The creation of the godhead, the Son [the godhead created within the humanity], comes by the fertilising of the triple luminous consciousness by the triple luminous soul [Purusha] of the Truth-being so that that higher consciousness becomes active, creative and fruitful in man.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15,</i> p. 539 [Text in brackets is Sri Aurobindo’s from the same page]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“This descent, this sacrifice of the Purusha, the Divine Soul submitting itself to Force and Matter so that it may inform and illuminate them, is the seed of redemption of this world of Inconscience and Ignorance.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Synthesis of Yoga, CWSA, Vol. 23-24</i>, p. 106 </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>[T]he Supermind…comprehends all things in itself as itself the One in its manifold aspects</b> and it apprehends separately all things in itself as objects of its will and knowledge.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“While to its original self-awareness all things are one being, one consciousness, one will, one self-delight and the whole movement of things a movement one and indivisible, it proceeds in its action from the unity to the multiplicity and from multiplicity to unity, creating an ordered relation between them and an appearance but not a binding reality of division, a subtle unseparating division, or rather a demarcation and determination within the indivisible. The Supermind is the divine Gnosis which creates, governs and upholds the worlds: it is the secret Wisdom which upholds both our Knowledge and our Ignorance.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Life Divine, CWSA, Vol. 21-22</i>, p. 278 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>A manifestation of the Supermind and its truth-consciousness is then inevitable; it must happen in this world sooner or later</b>…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“The descent of the Supermind will bring to one who receives it and is fulfilled in the truth-consciousness all the possibilities of the divine life. It will take up not only the whole characteristic experience which we recognise already as constituting the spiritual life but also all which we now exclude from that category but which is capable of divinisation, not excluding whatever of the earth-nature and the earth-life can be transformed by the touch of the Supermind and taken up into the manifested life of the Spirit. For a divine life on earth need not be a thing apart and exclusive having nothing to do with the common earthly existence: it will take up human being and human life, transform what can be transformed, spiritualise whatever can be spiritualised, cast its influence on the rest and <b>effectuate either a radical or an uplifting change, bring about a deeper communion between the universal and the individual, invade the ideal with the spiritual truth of which it is a luminous shadow and help to uplift into or towards a greater and higher existence</b>. Mind it will uplift towards a diviner light of thought and will, life towards deeper and truer emotion and action, towards a larger power of itself, towards high aims and motives. Whatever cannot yet be raised into its own full truth of being, it will bring nearer to that fullness; whatever is not ready even for that change, will still see the possibility open to it whenever its still incomplete evolution has made it ready for self-fulfilment. Even the body, if it can bear the touch of Supermind, will become more aware of its own truth,—for there is a body-consciousness that has its own instinctive truth and power of right condition and action, even a kind of unexpressed occult knowledge in the constitution of its cells and tissues which may one day become conscious and contribute to the transformation of the physical being. An awakening must come in the earth-nature and in the earth-consciousness which will be, if not the actual beginning, at least the effective preparation and the first steps of its evolution towards a new and diviner world order. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“This would be the fulfilment of the divine life which the descent of Supermind and the working of the truth-consciousness taking hold of the whole nature of the living being would bring about in all who could open themselves to its power or influence. Even its first immediate effect would be on all who are capable the possibility of entering into the truth-consciousness and changing all the movements of the nature more and more into the movements of the supramental truth, truth of thought, truth of will, truth in the feelings, truth in the acts, true conditions of the whole being even to the body, eventually transformation, a divinising change. For those who could so open themselves and remain open, there would be no limitation to this development and even no fundamental difficulty; for all difficulties would be dissolved by the pressure of the supramental light and power from above pouring itself into the mind and the life-force and the body. But the result of the supramental descent need not be limited to those who could thus open themselves entirely and it need not be limited to the supramental change; there could also be a minor or secondary transformation of the mental being within a freed and perfected scope of the mental nature. In place of the human mind as it now is, a mind limited, imperfect, open at every moment to all kinds of deviation from the truth or missing of the truth, all kinds of error and openness even to the persuasions of a complete falsehood and perversion of the nature, a mind blinded and pulled down towards inconscience and ignorance, hardly arriving at knowledge, an intellect prone to interpret the higher knowledge in abstractions and indirect figures seizing and holding even the messages of the higher intuition with an uncertain and disputed grasp, there could emerge a true mind liberated and capable of the free and utmost perfection of itself and its instruments, a life governed by the free and illumined mind, a body responsive to the light and able to carry out all that the free mind and will could demand of it. This change might happen not only in the few, but extend and generalise itself in the race. This possibility, if fulfilled, would mean that the human dream of perfection, perfection of itself, of its purified and enlightened nature, of all its ways of action and living, would be no longer a dream but a truth that could be made real and humanity lifted out of the hold on it of inconscience and ignorance. The life of the mental being could be harmonised with the life of the Supermind which will then be the highest order above it and become even an extension and annexe of the truth-consciousness, a part and province of the divine life. <b>It is obvious that if the Supermind is there and an order of supramental being is established as the leading principle in earth-nature, as mind is now the leading principle, but with a sureness, a complete government of the earthly existence, a capacity of transformation of all upon their level and within their natural boundaries of which the mind in its imperfection was not capable, an immense change of human life, even if it did not extend to transformation would be inevitable</b>. – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, Vol.16, SABCL</i>, pp. 43, 47-48 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 2.1</i>, Thea discussed the birth the Divine Son-Sage,—i.e. the fulfillment Vedic/Biblical Apocalypse—, in our Aquarian Age within the 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation as “the golden Seed of Truth, Supermind deployed in the evolutionary process”. She wrote of the “tremendous importance” of this seed, writing, <b>“It is as if an actual child had been in gestation for nine months, but in this case it is nine manifestations, each of which comprises 6480 years.”</b> Note that 6,480 years is three astrological ages (3 x 2,160 years) of the Great Year. Nine “months” or “manifestations” of the twelve “month” or 36-age Maha Yuga cycle (=3 Great Years), as Thea saw it, is 27 astrological ages.</p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>[Sri Aurobindo] had chosen to be uncovered as [a] 12-year old youth ‒ so simple, humble, unassuming, no big fanfare, <u>just an utterly astounding body of Knowledge to announce and to confirm that Sri Aurobindo was the 9th Avatar in Vishnu's Line of Ten</u></b>. But the fourth integer [of Sri Aurobindo’s lineage] carried the meaning of avatarhood to heights never before reached, for all four [of the line – Father, Mother, Daughter, Son] had to appear together in order for the birth of the Son to be, as the Puranas proclaimed, <i>Shiva himself standing before you in the form of his son</i>. This was no cosmic aberration as a crucifixion would indicate. This feat was supported by the Mother's statement, '...not a crucified but a glorified body'. </p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“By his coming the Son as the fourth power described the passage of <i>transcendence to immanence</i>. When it is complete and fourfold in Earth time, this is its meaning and purpose. That is, there is a direct connection between the 9 (Sri Aurobindo ‒ the Transcendent) and the One (himself returned as the Immanent ‒ or 0 to 1). There is no severance in time. The unbroken line from one to the other, through passage 'on the other side' is the key. And it was all written in <a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/p/about.html" target="_blank">the [Matrimandir's] Inner Chamber</a>, the discovery of which was done in his 12th year similar to the scriptural tale of centuries ago ‒ but this time there was no destiny of crucifixion; rather, <b>this was indeed a glorified body because of <u>the golden truth-conscious Gnosis his coming had sealed</u></b>. The complete descent made it an indelible imprinting in the evolutionary matrix that could never be erased.</p></blockquote><blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“However, that coming would thereafter set its own agenda. The fourth was the golden hiranyaretas of the Veda. <b>Though but a tiny 'seed' the victory it held in its core was inevitable ‒ for everything thereafter would only serve to fulfil Time's purpose as contained in the Seed.</b> Nothing could stop the unfolding, just as I had written to the Mother in 1971 from Rome: <i>'There is nothing but that, this grand Harmony that moves always forward and that nothing can stop.'</i>…</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“This was the golden Seed of Truth, Supermind deployed in the evolutionary process through Earth time. From the heights it joined the depths, the 'bridge' had thus been forged, as never it had been done before….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Time does move forward on this side of the demarcation between subtle and dense physical; but only when <b>a new <i>seed of itself</i> </b>is set in place at the heart of the evolutionary matrix can we begin to speak of a real creation. <b>This is the tremendous importance of the 9th Manifestation. It is as if an actual child had been in gestation for nine months, but in this case it is nine <i>manifestations</i>, each of which comprises 6480 years</b>. Until this stage is reached we must view everything that has transpired earlier as if the passage of a dream. Indeed, the yogic and philosophical schools that arose at the very beginning of this 9th Manifestation (approximately 300 BCE) were focussed on conveying to a suffering humanity that it was all best ignored, it was illusory and devoid of reality ‒ or else, impermanent because whatever is changing and in movement is necessarily unstable and hence a mere corruptible fiction. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Thus it was that this 9th Manifestation's beginning stages brought forth a series of <i>shadows</i> which were forerunners or precursors of the real One. Not only did Gautam the Buddha lay emphasis on impermanence and therefore on the unreal nature of material creation with its web of time and space and everything contained therein, his teaching was taken up and carried to its maximum expression by various branches of Indian yogas and philosophical systems ‒ primarily Adwaita and Mayavada, which left their stamp on all subsequent spirituality, as well as on the various religions that arose in the last Age. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“All these metaphysical presentations emphasised the desirability of a final and eternal fulfilment in a heaven or a dimension of some sort <i>beyond</i> or <i>outside</i> of this material creation; and more specifically away from planet Earth where one takes birth only as a springboard to somewhere else. <b><u>This otherworldly stamp has been the cause of all our woes</u></b>. We have abandoned the Earth and subjected her to every degradation possible by this indifference. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The Age of Pisces prior to our own, the first of the three comprising the 9th Manifestation, was a period of self-undoing, <b>a time of shadow-playing, setting the stage for the 9th in Vishnu's line to dissolve those shadows and to cleanse material substances of whatever impurity might tarnish the luminosity of the truth-conscious Supramental Gnosis</b>, on the road to a new creation poised beneath the cosmic midday Sun which, by definition, casts no shadows. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#4a" id="4" title="Along similar lines, in The Gnostic Circle, Thea wrote: “[The dissolution/mutable] Age of Pisces served to 'undo' the structured teachings and accomplishments of the previous Manifestation, the 8th, and slowly as the Age of Pisces moved on, the seeds were planted for the actual Aquarian Age, the time of Preservation, when the Avatar once more appears to spread the seed of Truth” (p. 100)/“The Mutable, which in the case of this Manifestation was the Age of Pisces, must serve as the force that breaks down the achievements of the last Manifestation, so that the new can take shape. It is usually a period of 'death', in a sense, a time when Shiva's force is felt in his aspect of dissolution ‒ for the Mutable signs do indeed correspond to Shiva and the guna of Destruction.” (p. 303)">[4]</a></b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The problem posed by these approaches was not that they were false but simply <i>incomplete</i>. Indeed, the movement of consciousness in evolution was sought to be <i>arrested</i> or <i>frozen</i> at a particular stage along the way. Their error was the partial slice of reality which they promoted. And while India never rejects a true realisation, even when partial, it does, through Vishnu's Line of Ten Avatars, reveal the full journey and therefore that the problem plaguing human consciousness in evolution on Earth is this question of incompletion ‒ that is, halting the movement at one window and becoming mesmerised by the dazzling scene it frames. To realisers of these paths there is nothing beyond that scenario, nothing more to aspire for; <b>they believe they have reached the summit. Thus, the movement was indeed arrested and Inertia set in which has been responsible for many of the Earth's travails</b>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“But just as Time cannot be halted in its forward march, so too the Vishnu Line of Ten cannot fail to reach completion precisely by the aid of Time itself ‒ hence Vishnu's Avatars are alternately known as offspring of the Time-Spirit, because of which each one bears unmistakable cosmic credentials. We have records impeccably preserved of the last Evolutionary Avatars, Sri Ram and Sri Krishna, the 7th and 8th of the Line respectively. <b>The 9th [position] was usurped by the Buddha through the enthusiasm of his followers who could not wait for Vishnu's Age of Preservation (Aquarius) to arrive in 1926</b>. They pre-empted and thus cast a shadow before the true 9th would arrive: Sri Aurobindo. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#5a" id="5" title="Thea discussed the error of including Buddha as Vishnu’s 9th Avatar, given that he was not born in one of Vishnu’s “Preservation” ages and given his teachings led towards the negation of the Divine Mother and the towards the goal of transcendence, rather than the reestablishment of the divine consciousness on Earth. She saw Sri Aurobindo as Vishnu’s 9th Avatar, reincarnated as the 10th Avatar (=the Divine Son). She referred to both as Kalki, the Supramental Avatar of the 9th Manifestation and of the Aquarian Age."><b>[5]</b></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“And then there was a Tenth...</p></blockquote><blockquote>
<p style="text-align: right;">– Thea, <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 2.1</i>, pp. 334-38 <br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">[Bold and underline emphasis and text in brackets added]</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thea’s mention of a “Tenth” here refers to Sri Aurobindo reborn as Vishnu’s tenth avatar, Kalki – the victorious Son, One, Sage, etc. Readers who wish to discover more about Thea’s writings on Sri Aurobindo’s avataric birth and rebirth can read <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 2.1</i>, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, <i>The Hidden Manna</i>, as well as <i>Secrets of the Earth – Questions and Answers on the Line of Ten Avatars of Vedic Tradition</i>. Some of Thea’s discussions of Sri Aurobindo’s reincarnation as the Divine Son in our Age of Aquarius/Kumbha can be found in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/07/seeing-in-understanding-symbols-sense.html" target="_blank">Part Four</a> of my “Seeing in Understanding” series (2020). </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What I am endeavoring to stress and bring into focus in this series, is that Sri Aurobindo’s avataric descent and rebirth in our 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation as the Divine Son (=Vishnu’s Kalki Avatar) has served as a seed, catalyst and also as a time-stamp of <b>humanity’s initial birth or shift out of the obstructed and obstructing binary-linear consciousness of the 8th sign of Scorpio, and into the wholistic, cyclical and spherical consciousness, vision, force and will (<i>kavikratu</i>) of the Vedic and Sagittarian Sage-Son-Horse</b>. And as the Vedic Rishis and Sri Aurobindo knew, the birth of this wholistic, spherical, solar or supramental Son-Sage consciousness is accompanied by the release of his seven rivers (aka mothers, cows, mares, etc.) from the aeonic hold and veils of the ignorant binary-linear human mental consciousness. In St. John’s <i>Revelation</i>, this purifying release is depicted as <b>the release of the seven vials or bowls “of God’s Wrath”</b>. In Sri Aurobindo’s “Lotus of the Avatar” symbol [=Vishnu’s Lotus], these seven rivers or seven vials/bowls of the Vedic and Biblical Apocalypse are represented as seven waves. </p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Thus Sri Aurobindo’s Lotus can be seen as a symbol of the Divine Son, uplifted by his seven rivers or mothers. Note that Sri Aurobindo’s given name Aravinda, means Lotus. Thus, for those with eyes to see, Sri Aurobindo’s Lotus-Satkona symbol is a symbol of his own avataric dharma to fulfill the ancient prophecy of <b>the birth of the Divine Vedic Son (Sun) out of the waters that hide him</b>. And likewise, for those with eyes to see, <b>Sri Aurobindo’s symbol is a symbol of our Aquarian Age Apocalypse and of Sri Aurobindo’s own key role in it, catalysing the release of the obstructed Vedic, zodiacal and heavenly waters (=seven rivers, cows, mares, etc.) from their Kumbha, reservoir, cave, or vessel. </b>Moreover, his symbol itself can also be seen as a vessel or <i>kumbha</i>—a symbol that is a vessel—containing in itself the seven rivers that he released or poured out via his avataric yoga and descent.</div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Circa 1910-1914 Sri Aurobindo wrote that “for some two thousand years at least no Indian has really understood the Vedas.” Was he implying that some non-Indians had “really understood” the Vedas and the Vedic symbols? Not at all. He was conveying the importance of India’s emergence from its long-standing ignorance of the Vedas and of the Vedic sacrifice. He recognized India’s capacity and destiny to be, as a nation, the light-bringer and darkness-dispeller of the world ‒ Vishwa Guru ‒ once it recovered the eternal truth of the Vedas from its own pervasive ignorance.</p><blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Religious movements and revolutions have come and gone or left their mark but after all and through all the Veda remains to us our Rock of the Ages, our eternal foundation.... The Upanishads, mighty as they are, only aspire to bring out, arrange philosophically in the language of later thinking and crown with the supreme name of Brahman the eternal knowledge enshrined in the Vedas. Yet for some two thousand years at least no Indian has really understood the Vedas.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i><a href="https://sri-aurobindo.co.in/workings/sa/00/indias_reberth_e.htm#:~:text=Religious%20movements%20and%20revolutions" target="_blank">India’s Rebirth</a></i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“The Veda was the beginning of our spiritual knowledge; the Veda will remain its end. These compositions of an unknown antiquity are as the many breasts of <b>the eternal Mother of knowledge from which our succeeding ages have all been fed....</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>“The recovery of the perfect truth of the Veda is therefore not merely a desideratum for our modern intellectual curiosity, but a practical necessity for the future of the human race. </b>For I believe firmly that the secret concealed in the Veda, when entirely discovered, will be found to formulate perfectly that knowledge and practice of a divine life to which the march of humanity, after long wanderings in the satisfaction of the intellect and senses, must inevitably return.” – <a href="https://sri-aurobindo.co.in/workings/sa/00/indias_reberth_e.htm#:~:text=The%20Veda%" target="_blank">Ibid.</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Via Thea’s illuminations regarding the zodiacal and cyclical (360°) foundation of the Vedic symbols and lore, we can now clearly understand WHY the Vedic birth or apocalypse of the Divine Son and all related derivative mythologies and symbols have been so widely misunderstood by the binary-linear consciousness for so long. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">When we recognize that their proper zodiacal and spherical context was completely lost upon humanity’s binary-linear and myopic mindset for thousands of years, we can also recognize and have some compassion for the fact that that there is absolutely zero chance that humanity could have formed an accurate understanding of the occulted ancient symbols of Vedic and post-Vedic mythologies and religions without the right keys and context. <b>The Vedic Rishis knew this and knew that their symbolic language would be an unsolvable occult mystery, sealed and impermeable to humanity for Ages, until the advent, birth or awakening of the divine, solar, and spherical supramental consciousness of the zodiacal Son/Sage/Horse and the corresponding establishment of this spherical light, key, halo, and seed of unity consciousness in the vessel or Kumbha of the Aquarian “Man” or Human the course of our collective evolutionary journey</b>. They composed their hymns as an enigmatic puzzle to be solved in, and via, the 360° course and force of Time; and they referred to the impenetrable nature of their own language and symbols throughout their hymns. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The following excerpts from Rig Veda 1.164 gives us a good sense of the impenetrable symbols employed by the Vedic Rishis, and a good sense of how they poeticized the eventual birth, awakening or APOCALYPSE of the divine, supramental Son or Soul out of its womb of Cosmic Ignorance and into the eternal divine cosmic truth of Aditi – the “Mother of Light”. This Vedic Mother, who with her seven daughters (=rivers, sisters, cows, mares, etc.) give birth to the Divine Son, is the 12-fellied, 360-spoked zodiacal year, circle and cycle, which as mentioned earlier, is a microcosm of the Earth’s macrocosmic evolutionary journey via its larger cycles of Time. This journey is the archetypal and ancient “Hero’s Journey” – the Hero being equivalent to the Divine Son or supramental, truth-conscious soul to be born out of the dark cave and obstructions of our divisive egoic mental consciousness in the course and womb of Time. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“The seven [sages] who on the seven-wheeled car are mounted have horses [mares], seven in tale, who draw them onward. Seven Sisters [=rivers, mares, cows, etc.] utter songs of praise together, in whom the names of the seven Cows are treasured. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Who hath beheld [the Son/Agni] as he sprang to being, seen how the boneless One supports the bony? Where is the blood of earth, the life, the spirit? Who may approach the man who knows, to ask it?….</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>[In] the dank rows of cloud [≈in the womb of the seven rivers-mothers] <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#6a" id="6" title="“[In] the dank rows of cloud” has also been translated as “within the (womb of the) clouds” (tr. H.H. Wilson) and “amid the penned cows.” (tr. Jamison and Brereton)">[6]</a></span> the Infant [Son] rested</b>. Then the Calf [Son] lowed, and looked upon the Mother, the Cow who wears all shapes in three directions<b> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#7a" id="7" title="The cow here is either a reference to the Zodiac as the Mother of Light, divided into three parts or directions by the radius (son) of the circle, or to the vesica piscis (drawn out by the radius/son), three of which divide the circle into three even 120° (432,000”) segments.">[7]</a></span></b>….</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>[T]he blind discerns not. The son who is a sage [Agni] hath comprehended…. Showing himself a sage [=the Sage of Sagittarius], may here declare it? Whence hath the Godlike spirit had its rising?</b>….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“With [the goddess] Gāyatrī <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#8a" id="8" title="Gāyatrī, is a Vedic goddess/sacred song, companion of the solar god Gayatra, often specifically associated with the Gayatri Mantra. It is also a prominent triadic 24-syllable (8+8+8) measure of Vedic verses. In my view Gayatri here is not referring to a particular Vedic mantra or stanza, but rather the goddess Gayatri who is, like other Vedic goddesses, associated with the number and measure of three, such as the three mothers, cows, rivers, etc. The Sanskrit root gaya is often translated as “wealth”, and tri, connotes three. Thus, the goddess/song of Gayatri can be understood as another reference to the eternal measure, form, law of the vesica piscis which divides the 360° circle of the Zodiac into three.">[8]</a></b></span> [Agni] measures out the praise-song, Sāma with praise-song, triplet with the Triṣṭup. The triplet with the two or four-foot measure, and with the syllable <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#9a" id="9" title="See: “The Sacred Measure of 432,000 ⁓ Part 4: The Sacred Syllable of the Rig Veda”.">[9]</a></span> </b>they form seven metres [=measures=voices=words=rivers].</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“With Jagati <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#10a" id="10" title="Jagati is typically considered be a quadratic 48-sylabble (12+12+12+12) measure of Vedic verses. But it is notable that elsewhere in the Vedas, jagati refers to a moving female animal or animals (jagatīṣu), such as the cows and mares associated with Agni’s birth. In RV 6.72.4, these moving creatures are entirely equivalent to the seven cows (=rivers, mothers, mares, etc.) that give birth to Agni as the purified (white) sage, son and horse – Soma Pavamana. Thus, jagati in Rig Veda 1.164 can be seen as yet another a symbol of the vesica piscis by which the Divine Son Agni establishes his seven-fold “flood in heaven”: “Ye slew the flood-obstructing serpent Vṛtra, Indra and Soma: Heaven approved your exploit. Ye urged to speed the currents of the rivers, and many seas have ye filled full with waters. Ye in the unripe udders of the milch-kine have set the ripe milk, Indra, thou, and Soma. Ye have held fast the unimpeded whiteness within these many-coloured moving creatures.” – Rig Veda 6.72.3-4, tr. RTH Griffith">[10]</a></b></span> <b>the flood in heaven [Agni] stablished</b>…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“What thing I truly am I know not clearly: mysterious, fettered in my mind I wander. When [Agni] the first-born [Son] of holy Law approached me, then of this speech I first obtain a portion.….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Upon what syllable of holy praise-song, as twere their highest heaven [<i>vyoman</i>=sky], the Gods repose them,— <b>Who knows not this, what will he do with praise-song [=with the Rig Veda]? But they who know it well sit here assembled</b>….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>Twelve are the fellies</b>, <b>and the wheel is single; three are the naves. <b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#11a" id="11">[11]</a></span></b> What man hath understood it?</b> <b>Therein are set together spokes three hundred and sixty</b>, which in nowise can be loosened.” – Rig Veda 1.164.3-4, 9, 16, 24-25, 37, 39 & 48, excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith [All emphasis and text in brackets added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">None of this makes any full or cohesive sense if we do not understand and SEE, that the Rishis saw and understood the Divine Son as the indwelling divine architect, radius, pillar (<i>skambha</i>), measurer, and law-establisher of the 360° Circle of Life – the twelve-month Vedic sacrifice (Yajna) that is now known as the Zodiac. In addition to establishing the form and circumference of the Circle itself, this “Son” measures out the vesica piscis,—which is his own sacred song, voice, syllable, garb, vehicle, river, path, womb, wife, etc., etc.—, and with that sacred and eternal form or Divine Maya, measures out the divine Trinity (Agni’s fire trine) and the twelve months of the Zodiac, as based upon the four cardinal points of the Earth’s Solar/Vedic Year. [See <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-sacred-geometry-of-vimy-crop-circle.html#:~:text=Wisdom%C2%A0(2018).-,This%20geometry,-is%20THE%20BASIS" target="_blank">animated gif</a>]</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">In a real sense, the Divine Son-Sage or Soul (Agni) is born out of the spherical womb and the 360° temporal cycles of his own creation (his own Mother/Matrix), via <b>his own sacred spherical law, measure (maya) and consciousness</b>. And via his own spherical law, measure and consciousness, the Divine Son-Sage or Horse of Sagittarius and his divine companions release all of the Vedic treasures and wealth (rivers, cows, horses, etc.) from the hold, cover or cave of Ignorance. With all of this in mind we can better appreciate <b>Sri Aurobindo’s avataric yoga, supramental descent, and yogic lineage which – <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyn4jWX7U1cy9NoGrtQ-pmRLVWH6EJoY/view?pli=1" target="_blank">144 years after his birth</a> and 90 years into the Age of Aquarius – resulted in the pouring out of the spherical and geometric sense of the Seven Rivers and, likewise of the Aquarian Kumbha and its waters.</b> And moreover, we can see and understand that the ancient prophecy of the Vedic and Biblical Apocalypse has actually played itself out in the very astrological age the ancient rishis knew it would, and that Sri Aurobindo and his line fulfilled the Divine Son’s (=Vishnu’s Kalki Avatar’s) necessary task of reinstating the <i>sanatana dharma </i>(eternal law), ancient solar light, and golden seed of wholistic, unity consciousness which conquers, dissolves humanity’s fragmented binary consciousness.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Link to Part </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">1</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">4</a><span style="font-size: small;">, or </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">5</a><span style="font-size: small;">]<br />[Part 7 is in progress.]<br /><br /></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Endnotes: </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> As I have explained throughout my writings since the Fall of 2016, this new understanding of the Vedic Rivers was different from what, Thea saw, understood, and wrote about the zodiacal sense and placement of these rivers, as presented in <i>The New Way, Vols 1&2</i>. In her view the Vedic rivers were released at the<b> 7 Point</b> of the Zodiac/Gnostic Circle, equivalent to <b>10° Capricorn</b>. She did not see or discuss the Divine Son and his seven rivers/mothers as symbols of the sacred geometry of the radius and the first seven vesicae piscis of the zodiacal circle, arriving at the Vedic Kumbha (<b>0° Aquarius</b>).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a> These horses are elsewhere in the Vedas hymned as seven bay horses. In Rig Veda 1.50.8-9 they are identified as daughters, i.e., females or mares, who are equivalent to the seven rivers, mothers, sisters, cows, etc., elsewhere throughout the Vedas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a> See <i>The Gnostic Circle</i> (Thea, 1975).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#4" id="4a">[4]</a> Along similar lines, in <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, Thea wrote: </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The dissolution/mutable] Age of Pisces served to 'undo' the structured teachings and accomplishments of the previous Manifestation, the 8th, and slowly as the Age of Pisces moved on, the seeds were planted for the actual Aquarian Age, the time of Preservation, when the Avatar once more appears to spread the seed of Truth” (p. 100)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The Mutable, which in the case of this Manifestation was the Age of Pisces, must serve as the force that breaks down the achievements of the last Manifestation, so that the new can take shape. It is usually a period of 'death', in a sense, a time when Shiva's force is felt in his aspect of dissolution ‒ for the Mutable signs do indeed correspond to Shiva and the guna of Destruction.” (p. 303)</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#5" id="5a">[5]</a> Thea discussed the error of including Buddha as Vishnu’s 9th Avatar, given that he was not born in one of Vishnu’s “Preservation” ages and given his teachings led towards the negation of the Divine Mother and the towards the goal of transcendence, rather than the reestablishment of the divine consciousness on Earth. She saw Sri Aurobindo as Vishnu’s 9th Avatar, reincarnated as the 10th Avatar (=the Divine Son). She referred to both as Kalki, the Supramental Avatar of the 9th Manifestation and of the Aquarian Age.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#6" id="6a">[6]</a> “[In] the dank rows of cloud” has also been translated as “within the (womb of the) clouds” (tr. H.H. Wilson) and “amid the penned cows.” (tr. Jamison and Brereton)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#7" id="7a">[7]</a> The cow here is either a reference to the Zodiac as the Mother of Light, divided into three parts or directions by the radius (son) of the circle, or to the vesica piscis (drawn out by the radius/son), three of which divide the circle into three even 120° (432,000”) segments. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#8" id="8a">[8]</a> Gāyatrī, is a Vedic goddess/sacred song, companion of the solar god Gayatra, often specifically associated with the Gayatri Mantra. It is also a prominent <b>triadic</b> 24-syllable (8+8+8) measure of Vedic verses. In my view Gayatri here is not referring to a particular Vedic mantra or stanza, but rather the goddess Gayatri who is, like other Vedic goddesses, associated with the number and measure of three, such as the three mothers, cows, rivers, etc. The Sanskrit root <i>gaya</i> is often translated as “wealth”, and tri, connotes three. Thus, the goddess/song of Gayatri can be understood as another reference to the eternal measure, form, law of the vesica piscis which divides the 360° circle of the Zodiac into three.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#9" id="9a">[9]</a> See: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#3" target="_blank">“The Sacred Measure of 432,000 ⁓ Part 4: The Sacred Syllable of the Rig Veda”</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#10" id="10a">[10]</a> <i>Jagati</i> is typically considered be a quadratic 48-sylabble (12+12+12+12) measure of Vedic verses. But it is notable that elsewhere in the Vedas, <i>jagati</i> refers to a moving female animal or animals (<i>jagatīṣu</i>), such as the cows and mares associated with Agni’s birth. <b>In RV 6.72.4, these moving creatures are entirely equivalent to the seven cows (=rivers, mothers, mares, etc.) that give birth to Agni as the purified (white) sage, son and horse – Soma Pavamana</b>. Thus, <i>jagati</i> in Rig Veda 1.164 can be seen as yet another a symbol of the vesica piscis by which the Divine Son Agni establishes his seven-fold “flood in heaven”.</p><blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Ye slew the flood-obstructing serpent Vṛtra, Indra and Soma: Heaven approved your exploit. Ye urged to speed the currents of the rivers, and many seas have ye filled full with waters. Ye in the unripe udders of the milch-kine have set the ripe milk, Indra, thou, and Soma. Ye have held fast the unimpeded whiteness <b>within these many-coloured moving creatures</b>.” – Rig Veda 6.72.3-4, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#11" id="11a">[11]</a> Most translate <i>trīṇi nabhyāni</i> as three naves, hubs or centers of the wheel. Thea considered these three naves to be a description of the hubs of three concentric circles, such as the three concentric circles of the Mother’s Symbol. I consider <i>trīṇi nabhyāni </i>in this hymn to be equivalent to the three vesicae piscis, i.e., the three mothers-rivers (=clouds) that divide the circumference of the Vedic Year/Zodiac into three even 120° (=432,000") arcs. According to the Cologne Sanskrit Digital Lexicon, the root <i>nabh</i> denotes “an opening, fissure, spring” RV. ix, 74, 6”, <i>nabha</i> denotes “bursting forth…or expanding”, <i>nabhas </i>denotes “mist, clouds, vapour”, and <i>nabhya</i> denotes “foggy , moist , cloudy”, and in the Atharva Veda, (written post-Rig Veda) “the centre part of a wheel, the nave”. In Rig Veda 9.73.1 <i>nābhayaḥ</i>, translated by RTH Griffith as “naves”, are entirely equivalent to the seven rivers, cows, mothers, drops of soma, or clouds/mists that speed, with the divine son, to the Kumbha of Aquarius, aka the womb of Truth and of the Vedic Year/Sacrifice (<i>ṛtasya yonā</i>).</p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The streams] from the spouting drop [[=the Kumbha/Jar of Aquarius]] have sounded at the rim: <b>naves speed together to the place of sacrifice</b>. That [God] hath formed, to seize, three lofty heights. The ships of truth have borne the pious man across.” <span style="text-align: left;">– Rig Veda 9.66.12, tr. RTH Griffith [Text in single brackets tr. by HH Wilson]</span></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Corresponding equivalent descriptions of the seven cows, rivers, drops, etc. (=vesicae piscis) speeding to the “place of sacrifice” (=the womb or yoni of Truth=the lake, reservoir, ocean=the Kumbha of Aquarius) can be found in various hymns, including the following.</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>Like milch-kine [=rivers] coming home, the drops of Soma juice have reached the lake [<i>samudra</i>=reservoir or ocean], have reached</b> <b>the place of sacrifice</b>. – Rig Veda 9.66.12, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">* </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>Seven Milch-kine [=rivers] </b>glorify the Tawny-coloured One [the Son-Sage of the Waters Agni] while with his wave in wool he purifies himself. The living men, the mighty, have <b>impelled the Sage into the waters' lap, the place of sacrifice</b>.” – Rig Veda 9.86.25, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">"<b>The streams of [Agni, Son of the Waters]</b>…Finder of all, have been effused,... Accelerated by the hymn, the rapid drops of Soma juice have flowed, urged onward, to the lake. Easily have the <b>living drops, made beautiful, approached the lake, yea, to the place of sacrifice</b>.... Loud neighs the [Horse] Etaśa, with singers, harnessed for the place, guided for travel to the lake. What time the Swift One [Agni] resteth in the golden place of sacrifice, he leaves the foolish far away…. Soma <b>[Agni], coming as a Sage from heaven to prosper us, <u>flow like the Sun for us to see</u></b>." – Rig Veda 9.64.7,17, 19-20, 30, excerpts tr. RTH Griffith [All emphasis and text in brackets added]</p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">If you value the </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b>original research and content made freely </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b><br />available on this blog</b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-55774215894916862352023-06-03T16:32:00.012-07:002023-12-27T11:36:41.158-08:00The Geometric Keys of the Rig Veda - Hidden in Plain Sight in the Sacred Geometry of India’s Old and New Parliament Buildings<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFmq2rcd-ULs2d3LW2UHTXV7mqzETsFgUe5nrWvWgeQcIq-OsSUZm73EOP_diNvqytZAuCwKBvxX6fNVLXpQQ1zmPKWp3_6T-pWsRvAdgPZeAhkyVL2QEg662mSB5ifP0nbSHDSm1ue4fWtB7RR85Brt5hu5XgP8bHEPP8YelIRV31QkRdg0pC0pcZ/s660/Indian-Parliament-New-Old-Layout-Triangles-1-01.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="The Sacred Geometry & Vesica Piscis of India's Old and New Parliament (Lori Tompkins 29 May 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="660" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFmq2rcd-ULs2d3LW2UHTXV7mqzETsFgUe5nrWvWgeQcIq-OsSUZm73EOP_diNvqytZAuCwKBvxX6fNVLXpQQ1zmPKWp3_6T-pWsRvAdgPZeAhkyVL2QEg662mSB5ifP0nbSHDSm1ue4fWtB7RR85Brt5hu5XgP8bHEPP8YelIRV31QkRdg0pC0pcZ/s16000/Indian-Parliament-New-Old-Layout-Triangles-1-01.png" title="The Sacred Geometry & Vesica Piscis of India's Old and New Parliament (Lori Tompkins 29 May 2023)" /></a></p><div style="text-align: justify;">On 28 May 2023 India's new parliament building, built adjacent to the old parliament building, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi, amidst protests by opposition parties who thought India's President Murmu should have presided over the event. What draws my attention is not the political or binary skirmishes surrounding the inauguration of the new parliament, but the sacred geometry of both buildings and the surrounding paths and grounds. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The new parliament's architect Bimal Patel, explained to the press, "The new Parliament building is designed in a triangular shape, since it sits on a triangular plot and has three main spaces ‒ Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and a Central Lounge. Also, triangles are sacred geometries in various religions and cultures of the country." He also said that "the architecture of the new building is in harmony with the present building so that both buildings complement each other". [<a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/new-parliament-triangular-shape-reflects-sacred-geometry-in-various-religions/articleshow/79662436.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst" target="_blank">"New Parliament: Triangular shape reflects sacred geometry in various religions"</a>, <i>Economic Times</i>, PTI, 10 December 2020.] </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86P-Gs2G8jYSqWTSu9YtP4UsNJs-2Vs06hKyVeaKIMbMSzc-rgvQhkR-yDHJxv_tcE3GUXjsxeA5QJaIIFNChks3a27NpV0l2K-cCmKS20bJrO5ZdANtzz6azQaMXBOE31Do-XPZYNuQVfSMJ-XoXOiGdge0sH7Ns1COgN23opYHLZkKijnhIFCi_/s670/Indian-Parliament-New-Old-Layout-Map.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Old and New Parliament Buildings - CentralVista.gov.in" border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="670" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86P-Gs2G8jYSqWTSu9YtP4UsNJs-2Vs06hKyVeaKIMbMSzc-rgvQhkR-yDHJxv_tcE3GUXjsxeA5QJaIIFNChks3a27NpV0l2K-cCmKS20bJrO5ZdANtzz6azQaMXBOE31Do-XPZYNuQVfSMJ-XoXOiGdge0sH7Ns1COgN23opYHLZkKijnhIFCi_/w640-h298/Indian-Parliament-New-Old-Layout-Map.png" title="The Old and New Parliament Buildings - CentralVista.gov.in" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When I first looked at the map of the old and new parliament grounds on <a href="http://www.centralvista.gov.in">www.centralvista.gov.in</a> shown above, I was curious to say the least, to see that the plots of land upon which the old and new parliament buildings sit were abutting equilateral triangles, together forming a diamond shape or rhombus whose acute and obtuse angles are respectively 60° and 120° (= 216,000 and 432,000 seconds of arc). I could see that a subtle vesica piscis holds the adjoining triangular parliament plots ‒ old and new ‒ in its sacred "womb", as shown in the opening image of this post. I consider this sacred geometry to be significant in relation to what I began to learn and write about in 2016 regarding the vesica piscis being a crucial and heretofore lost key by which Vishnu's Avatars preserve and restore the Eternal Law (Sanatana Dharma) of the Vedic Rishis, and likewise a crucial key of understanding the occult symbols and 432,000 measure of the Rig Veda and the 432,000 measure of the Kali Yuga.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As discussed in <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom </i>(book and blog), the Vedic Rishis referred to and disguised the eternal (432,000") arc and form of the vesica piscis within the circle of the zodiacal year in many ways, including but not limited to: a river, stream, fountain, flood, mother, sister, cow, mare, bowl, cup, flask, vessel (<i>kumbha</i>), reservoir, stone, drop, sacred food or drink (<i>soma</i>, <i>amrita, honey, ghee, etc.</i>), cave, well, hill, mountain, treasure, song, hymn, word, voice, syllable (<i>vak</i>), robe, armor, weapon, path, leaves or branches of a tree, etc., etc. This wide variation of characterization of the vesica piscis is entirely in keeping with the "many names" given to the Divine Son/One (=the radius) throughout the Vedic hymns. Once we possess and apply these geometric and zodiacal keys, the long-veiled symbols and lore of the Rig Veda (and all related pre-Vedic, post-Vedic symbols, sacred texts and mythologies) become increasingly transparent, including the lore of seven rivers giving birth to the conquering Divine Son/Sage/Horse Agni Soma Pavamana (aka "the Child of the Waters") by which he travels to the Heavenly Jar or Kumbha. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Y85bsr5bRUkyA6EeFRK9lmCHTJ_39USHSkcAufFp6fKMbkDQmEQm9xqc2DnCDzsgJX3Nfow2coTTJPnuSGET7FRKxuy1aVAdZIe9FAyswY8T-8Nq_XIoLptIatYnJvVcj7F7abHFYbBdEneBKEmsrwH-C1eAQQHXqDU8x94IUMS_a8--kN3kGy1S/s595/1st-River-7-Rivers-432,000-369-Zodiac-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The 432,000 measure of the Vesica Piscis, and the Seven Rivers of the Vedas (Lori Tompkins 2022)" border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="595" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Y85bsr5bRUkyA6EeFRK9lmCHTJ_39USHSkcAufFp6fKMbkDQmEQm9xqc2DnCDzsgJX3Nfow2coTTJPnuSGET7FRKxuy1aVAdZIe9FAyswY8T-8Nq_XIoLptIatYnJvVcj7F7abHFYbBdEneBKEmsrwH-C1eAQQHXqDU8x94IUMS_a8--kN3kGy1S/s16000/1st-River-7-Rivers-432,000-369-Zodiac-01.png" title="The 432,000 measure of the Vesica Piscis, and the Seven Rivers of the Vedas (Lori Tompkins 2022)" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Thus, I find it quite amazing to see that India's two parliament buildings, new and old, are nested within the eternal law and form of the vesica piscis. And to boot, the arrangement of the two triangular plots forms in their meeting the indwelling radius of the vesica piscis, thus manifesting in the design Agni <span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">‒ </span>the divine ray, son, and pillar (<i>skambha</i>) of the Vedic hymns. This geometric landscape and architecture begs the question: <i>When will the radius and its companion vesica piscis be widely SEEN, UNDERSTOOD, and APPLIED,—in India and beyond—, as a key of understanding the geometric and zodiacal basis of Vedic and Post-Vedic (i.e., Hindu) symbols and lore?</i> Regardless of when this happens, <b>this precious Vedic key and treasure is now HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT</b> <b>in <a href="https://centralvista.gov.in/" target="_blank">Central Vista</a> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">‒</span> the heart of the Indian government in New Delhi.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When I assigned the value of ONE to the radius or pillar of this vesica piscis, and thus to all the sides of the two equilateral triangles, I saw that the diameter of the old parliament building is approximately half of this radius. I then centered two r/2-diameter circles perfectly within the two equilateral-triangle plots on the map, to see if the buildings are well-centered within their respective triangles. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIkZUetvaPdCfTD_tQxuUVMqGuGlRAj-CTZpUC3aplH4VBTaVf9D52hib2yuD9TyXGyWv0CidvsaQzQDMvJ-xWdMX8aJu-Y_yTDooDgVivff_IrnzMIOAPlArGy-GbfGUVnId4YnJc4kUNKce9RG4vIVTtM4uGItACr4drkQITGxJaPJtpvXC7qJiC/s667/Indian-Parliament-New-Old-Layout-Triangles-Circles-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Sacred Geometry & Vesica Piscis of India's Old and New Parliament (Lori Tompkins 29 May 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="667" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIkZUetvaPdCfTD_tQxuUVMqGuGlRAj-CTZpUC3aplH4VBTaVf9D52hib2yuD9TyXGyWv0CidvsaQzQDMvJ-xWdMX8aJu-Y_yTDooDgVivff_IrnzMIOAPlArGy-GbfGUVnId4YnJc4kUNKce9RG4vIVTtM4uGItACr4drkQITGxJaPJtpvXC7qJiC/w640-h366/Indian-Parliament-New-Old-Layout-Triangles-Circles-01.png" title="The Sacred Geometry & Vesica Piscis of India's Old and New Parliament (Lori Tompkins 29 May 2023)" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii6H1RLvCWTukCFhg2wPLhxvJoNmz50I7QZ8fQDOS7O3NXlxcBOtgdaMFSSW4KZGT2Hbc68qEhbd2WDnsz20dgWVG7vTi6eXywAS4zaF5wFbDo-AjRjU1tN5ae1bjdJZKRmEgb_3FgIZ9UThoOHaEm8aP91uquxby5nO8EusEmvcyhwB28kibavF9g/s544/Leo-432000-VP-120-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The 432,000 measure of the Vesica Piscis and the Divine Trinity of the Circle (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="544" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii6H1RLvCWTukCFhg2wPLhxvJoNmz50I7QZ8fQDOS7O3NXlxcBOtgdaMFSSW4KZGT2Hbc68qEhbd2WDnsz20dgWVG7vTi6eXywAS4zaF5wFbDo-AjRjU1tN5ae1bjdJZKRmEgb_3FgIZ9UThoOHaEm8aP91uquxby5nO8EusEmvcyhwB28kibavF9g/w302-h253/Leo-432000-VP-120-01.png" title="The 432,000 measure of the Vesica Piscis and the Divine Trinity of the Circle (Lori Tompkins)" width="302" /></a></div>I do not know how accurate the <a href="https://centralvista.gov.in/parliament/images/NPB-LAST.png" target="_blank">centralvista.gov.in map</a> is, but it seems the old parliament building is a bit better centered or aligned within its triangle than the new building. Regardless, both are governed by the same geometric laws of the circle and its radius. For those that are not aware, together the radius and its companion vesica piscis divide the circumference of the circle into three even 120° (=120° x 60' x 60" = 432,000") segments and into six even 60° (=216,000") segments, as well into the nine even 40° (=144,000") units of our 0/9 number system and the twelve even 30° (=108,000") months of the Zodiacal/Vedic Year. And this sacred geometry and eternal law or <i>sanatana dharma</i> is the forgotten basis of the Divine Trinity as well as the 432,000 measure of the Kali Yuga, the 432,000-syllable measure of the Rig Veda, and the corresponding 432,000-mile measure of the Sun's radius. The sacred/eternal form and measure of the vesica piscis ("vessel of the <b>FISH</b>") is also the forgotten basis of Vishnu's line of ten avatars (<i>Dasavatara</i>), starting with Vishnu's first avatar <b>Matsya (FISH) </b>Avatar. [See: <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Geometric-Keys-Vedic-Wisdom-Tompkins/dp/0999614908/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3V3BOUO88OEGM&keywords=geometric+keys+of+vedic+wisdom&qid=1685922929&sprefix=geometric+keys+of+vedic+wisdom%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</a></i>, Part One, Ch. 7, 14, 15; and my <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/12/vishnus-turtle-avatar-tropical-zodiac.html#:~:text=of%20the%20world.-,As%20presented%20in,-Geometric%20Keys%20of" target="_blank">illustrations</a> which make this important association clear.]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimIbEnM7o8_exspmMTrwCiOqp9qFj97fOJ0ff5JcHyyZGCtqly7KYf9C_Et9ZQbV0TNmtvHRlsuNpUyHO25W1ECDKe5_x0xXMX18b0tmTfaJNJtSrsYyl_yxn2bWZ1RpNYEGXtV2iSv4YkLigw3enbhrG2T7CEMCiEAT7t1gx1Wjog2FqO1L0r_kkq/s613/VP-6-Flower-360Circle-Hexagon-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Radius-Vesica Piscis, Flower of Life, Hexagon and Satkona/Star of David (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="147" data-original-width="613" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimIbEnM7o8_exspmMTrwCiOqp9qFj97fOJ0ff5JcHyyZGCtqly7KYf9C_Et9ZQbV0TNmtvHRlsuNpUyHO25W1ECDKe5_x0xXMX18b0tmTfaJNJtSrsYyl_yxn2bWZ1RpNYEGXtV2iSv4YkLigw3enbhrG2T7CEMCiEAT7t1gx1Wjog2FqO1L0r_kkq/w640-h154/VP-6-Flower-360Circle-Hexagon-01.png" title="The Radius-Vesica Piscis, Flower of Life, Hexagon and Satkona/Star of David (Lori Tompkins)" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">In the images above we can see that </span><span style="text-align: left;">six conjoined vesicae piscium (aka the Flower of Life) divides the circle into six, and by this eternal law of the circle and its radius, we can easily draw or construct the Hexagon and</span><span style="text-align: left;"> the Satkona (aka the Star/Root of David)</span>. Above right, I added the glyphs of the zodiacal Satkona, formed by the zodiacal Fire Trine (0° Aries-Leo-Sagittarius) and Air Trine (0° Gemini-Libra-Aquarius). In the image below I have overlaid the six-petalled Flower of Life and its corresponding Satkona on top of the old and new parliament buildings, and added a circle around the new parliament building, to demonstrate the subtle sacred geometry informing the structures. Readers can visualize the subtle hexagons enveloping each of the subtle Satkonas. A third and fourth Satkona with Flower of Life could be placed in the circular center of the old building and in the hexagonal Central Lounge of the new building. [The original image can be found at <a href="https://centralvista.gov.in/new-parliament-building.php#gallery-10">www.centralvista.gov.in</a>.]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNJW9Lh639mVY2IqXvZykmF1eeF4hLOxWRtQNmYegpxOASPH9ZfY7LmifY1ZZVbQ7kzxTp2TOk3w5i_mEpJnO9ujbBmhq7-lB0fTr-mpdZOpJ5Se_HV_FqDNZmdryEe-jUCdeu5wHoA0FsLjh0H8aYUlJfVC-7evHbFPJJBRvHSiZAt_8wgS9-3Dza/s564/Indian-Parliament-New-Old-Layout-Map-No-Grounds-Large-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Sacred Geometry & Satkona of India's Old and New Parliament (Lori Tompkins 29 May 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="564" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNJW9Lh639mVY2IqXvZykmF1eeF4hLOxWRtQNmYegpxOASPH9ZfY7LmifY1ZZVbQ7kzxTp2TOk3w5i_mEpJnO9ujbBmhq7-lB0fTr-mpdZOpJ5Se_HV_FqDNZmdryEe-jUCdeu5wHoA0FsLjh0H8aYUlJfVC-7evHbFPJJBRvHSiZAt_8wgS9-3Dza/w640-h356/Indian-Parliament-New-Old-Layout-Map-No-Grounds-Large-01.png" title="The Sacred Geometry & Satkona of India's Old and New Parliament (Lori Tompkins 29 May 2023)" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Given what I have discussed and illustrated above, readers should easily be able to see and understand that the sacred and eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) and measure of the radius and its companion vesica piscis, measures out some key features of both buildings, including the entrances into the buildings and their surrounding landscape.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Both structures contain in themselves the division, geometry, and number power of <b>3</b> and <b>6</b> in various ways. The original parliament building also carries the number power of <b>9</b> in its architecture, via its <b>360</b>° circular shape (3 + 6 + 0 = 9) and its perimeter of <b>144</b> (1 + 4 + 4 = 9) columns. Other than in the subtle circle and the <b>180°</b> sum of the angles of the Triangle, I do not know as of yet if the new parliament building has any significant 9 power architecture or iconography. Its plot number, <b>118</b>, does reduce to <b>10</b> and further to the power of <b>1</b> via <b>1</b> + <b>9 </b>or <b>1</b> + <b>18</b> (= <b>1</b> + <b>1</b> + <b>8</b> ), which is significant in terms of Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's (Thea's) writings about Sri Aurobindo's birth in the 9-power year of 1872 as Vishnu's 9th Avatar and his rebirth as the 10th Avatar (=the Hidden One/Son of the Vedas) in the 1-power year of 1963 (<b>1</b> + <b>9</b> + <b>6</b> + <b>3</b> = <b>1 </b>+ <b>18</b> = <b>1</b> + <b>9 = 10 = 1 + 0 = 1</b>).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Sri Aurobindo was known to be the 9th Avatar and Kalki by his return as the 10th…. [T]he breakthrough is precisely a new experience of time whereby at death the flow is not severed, resulting in an unconscious rebirth. The second coming, if we dare use the phrase, implies an unbroken line in time ‒ in this case between the 9th appearance and the 10th. They are thus one and the same because the line is not broken. 'Death' is not unconscious, not a sojourn 'on the other side' disconnected from this plane. </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"This can be achieved when Supermind is fully manifested and established here, the mission of the 9th and his collaborators. Through his conscious 'death' the victory is cemented in the evolutionary matrix when [Vishnu's] 9th Avatar himself becomes the 10th in an unbroken line of time between the two. This is in a nutshell the definitive purpose of his coming." ‒ Thea, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Earth-Kalki-Avatar-Questions/dp/0945747101" target="_blank">Secrets of the Earth - Questions and Answers On the Line of Ten Avatars of Vedic Tradition</a> </i>(2008),<i> </i>pp. 85-86</div></blockquote><blockquote><p>"Nine is the number of the Occult Trinity: 3 x 3. It cannot be understood, nor can it serve as the master key to open the doors of higher knowledge, unless it is seen to hold in itself the numbers 6 and 3. <b>The sum of 9, 6, and 3 is</b> <b>18</b>. In consequence, we can speak of the fourth [of Sri Aurobindo's Solar Line] as either, <b>the One, or the Ten (following the 9), or the Nineteenth (following the 18), all of which do equal 1</b>. Hence we must stress once more in this present study, as we have done in previous ones: only 1 after 9 is unity.... Therefore the Line of the Sun starts from 9, which is the rhythm of the luminary's own pulse with respect to Earth, passes on to 6 and then down to 3; until finally through the 3, the last of the tri-power original cell, the 9 returns as the One, and this is Kalki or Shiva's son Kartikeya, who is 'Shiva himself'." – Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 123 [Bold emphasis added] </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote><p>"Sri Aurobindo was known to be the 9th Avatar and Kalki by his return as the 10th…. [T]he breakthrough is precisely a new experience of time whereby at death the flow is not severed, resulting in an unconscious rebirth. The second coming, if we dare use the phrase, implies an unbroken line in time – in this case between the 9th appearance and the 10th. They are thus one and the same because the line is not broken. 'Death' is not unconscious, not a sojourn 'on the other side' disconnected from this plane. </p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"This can be achieved when Supermind is fully manifested and established here, the mission of the 9th and his collaborators. Through his conscious 'death' the victory is cemented in the evolutionary matrix when the 9th Avatar himself becomes the 10th in an unbroken line of time between the two. This is in a nutshell the definitive purpose of his coming.... </p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"[T]he essence of the difference between conscious death and otherwise lies in the most important feature of Supermind: its capacity to control the play of circumstances – better known as the Becoming. This comes about when the Void is filled, the 'error' that Sri Aurobindo understood would be the task of Kalki, 10th Avatar, to correct. This he did by his own 'death' and rebirth, fulfilling brilliantly the Vedic injunction <b>the 9 becomes the 10</b>." – Thea, <i>Secrets of the Earth</i>, pp. 86-87 [Bold emphasis added] </p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div>Thea discussed the sacredness of the 9-power number <b>18 </b>in various contexts, including noting that the 18 days between the day and month of Sri Aurobindo's 5 December death and the Mother's 17 November passing contains the day of Sri Aurobindo's rebirth (26 November) in the middle. In <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i> she also wrote of 18 as the number power of the Earth:</div><blockquote><div>"[W]e
may safely call <b>18</b> the number-power of the Earth,—the sum of <b>9</b> and <b>6</b> and
<b>3</b>, the numbers of the planet's radius [3960 miles]." (p. 421) [Bold emphasis added]</div></blockquote></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Given the above, we can see the plot number of the new parliament building – 118 – as corresponding to "<b>the One, or the Ten (following the 9), or the Nineteenth (following the 18), all of which do equal 1</b>", and thus to the Fourth of Sri Aurobindo's Solar Line in Thea's supramental cosmology.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I have discussed the sacred number of <b>144</b> (= 432 ÷ 3) <span style="text-align: left;">in relation to the special 144-year cycle of the Kumbha Mela, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyn4jWX7U1cy9NoGrtQ-pmRLVWH6EJoY/view" target="_blank">the 144-year cycle from the year of Sri Aurobindo's 1872 birth to Thea's 2016 passing</a>, as well as the 144-age cycle (12 Precessional cycles) discussed and illustrated in Thea's book </span><i style="text-align: left;">The Gnostic Circle. </i><span style="text-align: left;">In <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNW12.html" target="_blank">The New Way, Vols 1&2</a></i> (p. 140) s</span><span style="text-align: left;">he wrote of 1926 (1 + 9 + 2 + 6 = </span><b style="text-align: left;">18</b><span style="text-align: left;"> = 1 + 8 = </span><b style="text-align: left;">9</b><span style="text-align: left;">) as the first year of the Age of Aquarius/Kumbha, thus, with this and the above in mind regarding the numbers 19, 10 and 1, we can better appreciate the inauguration of the original Indian parliament in the 1-power year of </span><b style="text-align: left;">1927 </b><span style="text-align: left;">(= </span><b style="text-align: left;">1926</b><span style="text-align: left;"> + </span><b style="text-align: left;">1 </b><span style="text-align: left;">or 1 + 9 + 2 + 7 =</span><b style="text-align: left;"> 19 </b><span style="text-align: left;">= </span><b style="text-align: left;">18 </b><span style="text-align: left;">+</span><b style="text-align: left;"> 1 </b><span style="text-align: left;">=</span><b style="text-align: left;"> 1 + 9 </b><span style="text-align: left;">=</span><b style="text-align: left;"> 10 </b><span style="text-align: left;">=</span><b style="text-align: left;"> 1 </b><span style="text-align: left;">+</span><b style="text-align: left;"> 0 </b><span style="text-align: left;">=</span><b style="text-align: left;"> 1</b><span style="text-align: left;">). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE35TIbhqQ5SAk2XYhrPHfyD0hUcuo4QfuebqBr7kuaPCvO5_VSIt586EhecaoS1FBG9OORFnJ_zYC5h0MhoaP9W7kpJUbuslBHswv9GIG9jNcPWzihFnn-Insrky_VXisnNC-k8pwtj1XA6Tjwm4br1aBqK0yVZIk3GZuyb6epLFwiloY485T3DQB/s236/144-Triangle-48-432-864-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The 3-6-9 angles of the 144-year cycle - 48 + 48 + 48 years (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE35TIbhqQ5SAk2XYhrPHfyD0hUcuo4QfuebqBr7kuaPCvO5_VSIt586EhecaoS1FBG9OORFnJ_zYC5h0MhoaP9W7kpJUbuslBHswv9GIG9jNcPWzihFnn-Insrky_VXisnNC-k8pwtj1XA6Tjwm4br1aBqK0yVZIk3GZuyb6epLFwiloY485T3DQB/s16000/144-Triangle-48-432-864-01.png" title="The 3-6-9 angles of the 144-year cycle - 48 + 48 + 48 years (Lori Tompkins)" /></a></div></span><span style="text-align: left;">18 January (<b>18.1</b>) 2023 marked the <b>96</b>-year anniversary of the inauguration of the original parliament building. I find this significant because, just as 2022 marked the completion of two-thirds of the 144-year cycle stretching from the beginning of the Age of Aquarius to 2070 CE, 18 January 2023 marked two-thirds (240</span>°<span style="text-align: left;"> = <b>864,000</b>") of a 144-year cycle of the first Indian parliament building inauguration. As I have been discussing since 2016, 0</span>°<span style="text-align: left;"> Sagittarius,<span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">—</span>two-thirds into the Zodiacal/Vedic year, and the third angle of <b>Agni's Fire Trine/Triangle</b></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">—</span><span style="text-align: left;">, corresponds to birth of the divine Son/Sage/Horse of the Vedas via his seven rivers/mothers, whereby he travels to his Kumbha (=his Goal) in the Vedic year. [See: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#:~:text=back%20door%2C%20pretty-,much%20every%20day,-." target="_blank">"The Spherical Gnosis of the Sage & the Release of the Vedic Waters - Part Five</a>]</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">I doubt that the people that planned and executed the building of the new parliament building had any knowledge of the Vedic significance of inaugurating it 96 years after the original, or of the Vedic significance of inaugurating the new building in the 7-power year of 2023, while Pluto is transiting 0</span>°<span style="text-align: left;"> Aquarius/Kumbha. Regardless, that is how this historic event has unfolded, displaying a certain supramental harmonization of the sacred geometries of Time and Space, sacred architecture, supramental cosmology, </span><span style="text-align: left;">and the critical keys of understanding the veiled symbols and lore of the Rig Veda.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Note that via <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-tropical-zodiac-vedic-journey.html" target="_blank">the post-Vedic error of measuring the Zodiacal (Vedic) Year via sidereal measurements adopted by India circa the 12th century CE</a> which lags behind the Solar/Tropical/Vedic measure of the Zodiac by some 23-24 degrees, most Indians believe that Pluto is currently transiting 6° Capricorn, not 0° Aquarius/Kumbha at the time of writing this article and at the time of the inauguration of the new parliament building. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">In a later post I will discuss the three themes of the new parliament's interior </span>–<span style="text-align: left;"> the lotus, the peacock, and the banyan tree in relation to Vishnu's Avatars, Sri Aurobindo's Yoga, the Vedic Year, and the Vedic/Yogic Victory. It might be a while before I get around to writing it because I want to get back to finishing my <a href="https://360lotus.com/articles#:~:text=THE%20SPHERICAL%20GNOSIS%20OF%20THE%20SAGE" target="_blank">"The Spherical Gnosis of the Sage & the Release of the Vedic Waters"</a> series, Part Six of which will address the Vedic origin of our world's concept of and fascination with the APOCALYPSE and the corresponding idea of a Divine Son/World Savior who rids the world of Falsehood, Ignorance, Crookedness, Evil, etc.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicb2hnXiQXBkabivyh4xX5RUaDURxQlu-2FJyeBHvTYLbxn1tHK6WPxoDHy_Tftx11tVAsZXc0mTCr0nUE3tyyP5gNq-MFl5TWMFzW0Pl-P7N6c41Eg1xRw5taOewFtTKaOd2rC-RylxjHDb6A-ezjRKChWmDFUp7WvUlxAgRS3iW7tb8wzFlq6eLo/s619/Maha-Yuga-9th-Manifestation-Vishnus-Ages.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The 9th Manifestation of the Maha Yuga cycle (image by Lori Tompkins, based on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's teachings)" border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="619" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicb2hnXiQXBkabivyh4xX5RUaDURxQlu-2FJyeBHvTYLbxn1tHK6WPxoDHy_Tftx11tVAsZXc0mTCr0nUE3tyyP5gNq-MFl5TWMFzW0Pl-P7N6c41Eg1xRw5taOewFtTKaOd2rC-RylxjHDb6A-ezjRKChWmDFUp7WvUlxAgRS3iW7tb8wzFlq6eLo/s16000/Maha-Yuga-9th-Manifestation-Vishnus-Ages.png" title="The 9th Manifestation of the Maha Yuga cycle (image by Lori Tompkins, based on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's teachings)" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;">[</span><span style="text-align: justify;">Link to Part <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" target="_blank">1</a>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">4</a>, or <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" target="_blank">6</a>]</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I wrote Parts <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" target="_blank">2</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html" target="_blank">3</a>, and <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" target="_blank">4</a> of this series to demonstrate how Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet’s (Thea’s) avataric yoga served to reestablish the cyclical and spherical gnosis of the Vedic Sage-Son (aka Horse) in our Age of Aquarius/Kumbha within the 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation of the Maha Yuga cycle. And it was this avataric yoga and gnosis that paved the way, loosened the ancient seals, and brought forth the revelation and release of the geometric sense of the seven Vedic rivers along with their <i>kumbha</i> or jar. More specifically, it was Thea’s restoration of the 360° zodiacal basis of the Vedic sacrifice or Yajna, as well as the 360° zodiacal basis of Vishnu’s <i>sanatana dharma</i>-preserving avatars, and the 360° zodiacal basis of the Kali Yuga,—equivalent to one-third (120° = 120° x 60' x 60" = 432,000") of the 360° 12-Age Precessional of the Equinoxes, and one-ninth (40° = 40° x 60' x 60" =144,000") of the 360° 3-Precession Maha Yuga cycle—, that made it possible for me to see and understand the zodiacal geometry of, and thus the 360° sense and context of the Vedic rivers, the Vedic <i>kumbha</i>, and hundreds of other Vedic symbols. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As told in <i>Geometric Keys of Wisdom</i> (book), this seeing or revelation and release of the Vedic rivers and <i>kumbha</i> took place on 2 October 2016, seven days before Thea’s 9 October 2016 passing when, while looking at a dry (i.e., waterless) creek, I simultaneously saw and understood the Vedic river as a veiled symbol of the arc of the vesica piscis flowing through and precisely measuring out <b>432,000" </b>(120° or one-third) of the 360° Vedic Year/Zodiac. I saw that the first seven “rivers” of the Zodiac flow specifically to, and likewise are poured out from, the entrance of the Aquarian Water Jar or Kumbha: 0° <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHzG_tdQppz9Wvjt_B1OxinjpHNzeklfEQ59gyNUGRkJiCldRrpoNqlFqC6OSq-pKMFHF0NPXeq3Sd34KJdIrLuzKa15_sxhkTGKFWJka74UPZKJG7tjjGK6xXYYnenSVf3zALdbYVpMRzQbxow_RnyO5AhGvOZM_eVs65kWUm4v7b1H8t1J0bzjoV/s24/Aquarius-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="18" data-original-width="24" height="12" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHzG_tdQppz9Wvjt_B1OxinjpHNzeklfEQ59gyNUGRkJiCldRrpoNqlFqC6OSq-pKMFHF0NPXeq3Sd34KJdIrLuzKa15_sxhkTGKFWJka74UPZKJG7tjjGK6xXYYnenSVf3zALdbYVpMRzQbxow_RnyO5AhGvOZM_eVs65kWUm4v7b1H8t1J0bzjoV/w24-h18/Aquarius-sm.jpg" width="16" /></a>; and it simultaneously became crystal clear that the Vedic <i>kumbha</i> or water-jar is, like the Vedic river, and like Vishnu’s first avatar Matsya (the Fish), a symbol of the vessel and form of the vesica piscis within the Zodiac.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Yq57DqBYwVTxRg59pxB_SYawo-SwhkeIrgJmor5bYXafyNmibB9wBcJujylIZcyFIaxAr31BOUOnzeNa-Vp8VuewrR9iiW6Y168nA5Ezr6rGsoo5-cu8E-OqsVBpLe8mCZeOQrpsM6YMMNVxfVPzjGji33iZ0eMEBp-WxaOCLbfJ2IDkW4zul5mD/s595/1st-River-7-Rivers-432,000-369-Zodiac-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The sacred number 432,000 and the Seven Rivers of the Vedas = the first seven vesicae piscis of the Zodiac (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="595" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Yq57DqBYwVTxRg59pxB_SYawo-SwhkeIrgJmor5bYXafyNmibB9wBcJujylIZcyFIaxAr31BOUOnzeNa-Vp8VuewrR9iiW6Y168nA5Ezr6rGsoo5-cu8E-OqsVBpLe8mCZeOQrpsM6YMMNVxfVPzjGji33iZ0eMEBp-WxaOCLbfJ2IDkW4zul5mD/s16000/1st-River-7-Rivers-432,000-369-Zodiac-01.png" title="The sacred number 432,000 and the Seven Rivers of the Vedas = the first seven vesicae piscis of the Zodiac (Lori Tompkins)" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">With this revelation, which took place 144 years and 48 days <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a></b></span> after Sri Aurobindo’s 15 August 1872 birth, ages’ worth of ignorance and obstruction regarding the truth and eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) of these seven rivers was shattered in an instant, opening up an entirely new view of the Rig Veda, as well as a new view of St. John’s Revelation or “Apocalypse” wherein the seven vials or bowls “of God’s wrath” are said to be poured out, purifying the world of its falsehood. This 2 October 2016 event occurred approximately 8-months into a 9-month download which began on the 9-power day of 7 February 2016, 5 days before my 47th birthday, in the month of Aquarius/Kumbha. On 7 February 2016, the vesica piscis and its indwelling radius appeared to me in a <b>4:32</b> a.m. dream-vision, emphasizing the correspondence between the <b>432,000-mile</b> measure of the Sun’s radius and the <b>432,000"</b> measure of the vesica piscis. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixOt7qOUT77ZFsWONkyeCUmrCIhAhKpcjuvC0EyNBaaQC-v4aZj5t3A8DI_Xvkg-IlSSglVxi3rWciAmwR7IymtP5gjf5ZdKhYjL526s4zoPUZTkZfoNFnv2NRfZsrCkvvkhP15Qk90lqSELmXat-8Wi5xN-kKZEUmmjbtPFv_Zn2fWCovTPdRk2Xp/s508/432,000-VP-Sun-Kali-Yuga-Veda-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Connection between the Vesica Piscis, the Yugas, the Sun and the Rig Veda, and the sacred number 432,000 (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixOt7qOUT77ZFsWONkyeCUmrCIhAhKpcjuvC0EyNBaaQC-v4aZj5t3A8DI_Xvkg-IlSSglVxi3rWciAmwR7IymtP5gjf5ZdKhYjL526s4zoPUZTkZfoNFnv2NRfZsrCkvvkhP15Qk90lqSELmXat-8Wi5xN-kKZEUmmjbtPFv_Zn2fWCovTPdRk2Xp/s16000/432,000-VP-Sun-Kali-Yuga-Veda-01.png" title="The Connection between the Vesica Piscis, the Yugas, the Sun and the Rig Veda, and the sacred number 432,000 (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This vision of the 432,000" measure of the vesica piscis and its indwelling 432,000-mile radius conveyed to me its importance in Sri Aurobindo’s, the Mother’s and Thea’s avataric yoga of restoring the <i>sanatana dharma</i> of the Vedic Rishis in Vishnu’s Age of Aquarius/Kumbha. Later that month, I emailed Thea a written account and illustration of this vision (a version of the image above) wherein I included the various equivalencies concerning the sacred number 432,000 which she had <i>already</i> discussed in her writings, in relation to the 360° measure of the circle and cycle of the Precession of the Equinoxes. She responded as follows:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<blockquote style="text-align: justify;">“Lori, please write a full piece on this for the website and relate it to the Core of the Chamber wherein the Vesica is central to its most profound revelations. You could quote [<i>The Tenth Day of Victory</i>] on this. Bring it all together. The Vesica is ancient and sacred. Show how with the descent of Supermind these ancient truths are 'all made new'.” – Thea (27 February 2016)</blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyIQ6x2lviJ9_ZdLNlu8jCeMPRVE0vDZ2OUSYosK1Wg8AbiaMnf1vC-oazu3UsWwzj9VwCY-_XKe4J4e7uP-6WwriOO8w03eZi6XH06ewkHBTVd2OwLQpzYs-MWCZoYMjU7Eq12Eo4caPpq_3jujcil-CWHcEA1fJGWKGRh-t_Lj5X8WBvdVkVhuuP/s791/Core-Pedestal-Lotus-VP.bmp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img alt="The Vesica Piscis and the Core of the Mother's Temple, Thea, The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2" border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="661" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyIQ6x2lviJ9_ZdLNlu8jCeMPRVE0vDZ2OUSYosK1Wg8AbiaMnf1vC-oazu3UsWwzj9VwCY-_XKe4J4e7uP-6WwriOO8w03eZi6XH06ewkHBTVd2OwLQpzYs-MWCZoYMjU7Eq12Eo4caPpq_3jujcil-CWHcEA1fJGWKGRh-t_Lj5X8WBvdVkVhuuP/w111-h133/Core-Pedestal-Lotus-VP.bmp" title="The Vesica Piscis and the Core of the Mother's Temple, Thea, The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2" width="111" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">For those who are unfamiliar with Thea’s writings, in <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i> and in <i>The Tenth Day of Victory</i>, she detailed how the sacred geometry of the vesica piscis played a central role in the sacred measure of the globe and pedestal at the centre or core of the Mother’s Temple (aka the Matrimandir), as well as a central role in her revelations regarding Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth as the Son of Sri Aurobindo’s and Vishnu’s avataric line. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In March of 2016, while working on what I thought was going to be a long article, I was shown the connection between Vishnu’s first and second avatars (Matsya–the Fish and Kurma–the Turtle), the measure of the vesica piscis (aka "the vessel of the Fish"), and the measure of the Zodiac and its preservation or fixed signs: Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. </p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoXH4I8DgqGkaaJvbwJ45KmxOt1Q_P18ziipnKSkVHwRsK4eE87hoEgXQYJv1SIK48ADtnQ98gc6UkYEMgAoMqZUu0HF-oIxUe4iBukg9PlRUPjI1C3zQD4drwN1PxjA0hCNgEbJQc8r3Rd0XRd5Ah_Dr2qote9-H3p2WSAJZx4j6sMTR6ZNQaap6X/s1531/Matsya-Kurma-VP-Vishnu-Flower-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Vesica Piscis - the geometric basis of Vishnu's Matsya and Kurma Avatars (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="1531" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoXH4I8DgqGkaaJvbwJ45KmxOt1Q_P18ziipnKSkVHwRsK4eE87hoEgXQYJv1SIK48ADtnQ98gc6UkYEMgAoMqZUu0HF-oIxUe4iBukg9PlRUPjI1C3zQD4drwN1PxjA0hCNgEbJQc8r3Rd0XRd5Ah_Dr2qote9-H3p2WSAJZx4j6sMTR6ZNQaap6X/w640-h238/Matsya-Kurma-VP-Vishnu-Flower-01.jpg" title="The Vesica Piscis - the geometric basis of Vishnu's Matsya and Kurma Avatars (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" width="640" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Seeing this led to understanding the geometric basis of the mythology and symbols of all ten of Vishnu’s avatars (<i>dasavatara</i>). <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#2a" id="2">[2]</a></b></span> Precisely nine months after the 7 February 2016 download began, the month after Thea’s passing, I saw and understood the zodiacal geometry of the nine-rayed Vedic Sage-Son (aka the “Son of the Waters”) who is given birth by his seven rivers/mothers. Likewise, I saw and understood why exactly the Vedic Rishis depicted this divine Sage-Son as a Horse traveling to a Jar or Kumbha.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxns7C4Gqjsumg1LheYvQiaZgkjooiFhiyNWZ_EHRz79RJ6x6TSZFCRuODMyJ5YKX5NvtdNxom58AyurIZaSXx77UG2KgahfHy73sVXv_2jWGTFfJdeSmIu8LLROHcSCZTYTTq15_TiRdr5aju2833OfqwH2bu7A-8bXTcZe_JfWevid6-hwu_6hs/s517/Air%20Trine-Sag-VP-01.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The geometry of the Vedic Sage-Horse-Son, and the Sagittarius hieroglyph and the Aquarian Kumbha (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="517" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxns7C4Gqjsumg1LheYvQiaZgkjooiFhiyNWZ_EHRz79RJ6x6TSZFCRuODMyJ5YKX5NvtdNxom58AyurIZaSXx77UG2KgahfHy73sVXv_2jWGTFfJdeSmIu8LLROHcSCZTYTTq15_TiRdr5aju2833OfqwH2bu7A-8bXTcZe_JfWevid6-hwu_6hs/w233-h200/Air%20Trine-Sag-VP-01.jpg" title="The geometry of the Vedic Sage-Horse-Son, and the Sagittarius hieroglyph and the Aquarian Kumbha (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" width="233" /></a></div>“[O]n November 7, precisely 9 months after my 4:32 a.m. vesica piscis vision…I saw that the seventh wave or river of the zodiac (from the 7th sign Libra to the 11th sign Aquarius) was created and propelled by the 9th ray or radius of the zodiac, extending to 0° Sagittarius ‒ the Hero-Horse of the zodiac and of the Vedas. This seeing occurred as both a surprise and a natural culmination of what had been gestating in me for 9 months. It illuminated the occult significance of the Sagittarius hieroglyph [<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcrZeGNtuhDa8FQBEUJROB3-_7DVi7yilgJMs29A0dG2Wlwqp3TJzSU2dXPEFbSeZn60lPULDP-fJAjh8gIZE_axdz03Qr2yUyHmQ_2nmK27f1Ugyr7z0SMfiyfm3ekKXeOFEhSlW7_wX9Ekypprlk351Qe1ADoM_KBlTqelTC6jJ39HA-fFMSFBTW/s84/sagittarius%20glyph%20copy.bmp" style="margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="67" data-original-width="84" height="14" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcrZeGNtuhDa8FQBEUJROB3-_7DVi7yilgJMs29A0dG2Wlwqp3TJzSU2dXPEFbSeZn60lPULDP-fJAjh8gIZE_axdz03Qr2yUyHmQ_2nmK27f1Ugyr7z0SMfiyfm3ekKXeOFEhSlW7_wX9Ekypprlk351Qe1ADoM_KBlTqelTC6jJ39HA-fFMSFBTW/w25-h20/sagittarius%20glyph%20copy.bmp" width="16" /></a>] as well as the Horse’s role (Kalki’s role) in the Vedic victory. It also brought with it an additional downpour of new seeing into the veiled symbolism of the Rishis.” – <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i>, p. 198)</blockquote><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In this manner, the ancient geometric and zodiacal (i.e., spherical) sense of the purifying Vedic Waters, their Jar, and their divine Sage/Son was reestablished on Earth in our Age of Aquarius/Kumbha, in conjunction with Thea’s passing. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">As far as I can tell, up until that week, for several thousands of years it simply never occurred to anyone trying to decipher or discuss the ancient occult symbols and language of the Vedic Rishis that the Vedic rivers have anything to do with the eternal measure, law, and arc of the vesica piscis and its indwelling radius (=son) within the 360° circle. There was simply no understanding that this sacred “river” of the Vedas measures out and establishes the equilateral triangle (<i>trikona</i>) of the circle, and the fire trine (and all trines) of the Zodiac, the six angles of the <i>satkona</i> (Star of David), and the 12 months of the Zodiac. Likewise, there was no understanding that the Vedic “river” is the geometric basis of the “triply-three” (3x3) 0-9 number system of Vedic and modern mathematics, and of the sacred trinity of numbers: <b>3</b>-<b>6</b>-<b>9</b>. If the long-occulted geometric sense of the Vedic rivers was or is currently known in the world’s various mystery schools, it has certainly been a very well-kept secret.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDKkV41aMnxskRpQ7HmcBslm7clTjHJJeaKSIewtrholsh9sRcvWezpkuAT31fhZGZjQGXdqOE_e21gG7kkn4mNVDWfUWFX9cUpCxLCztVS2al2bbgIHHKcCoD0n2dvkkOqDmTHI9S5v2jpacZX8U46fA6jDxeuP7S_Gcq9alEmSuzjXwtaVS3NzVK/s686/VP-Satkona-Zodiac-3-6-9-12-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Vesica Piscis and the 3, 6, 9 and 12 division of the Circle/Zodiac (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="686" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDKkV41aMnxskRpQ7HmcBslm7clTjHJJeaKSIewtrholsh9sRcvWezpkuAT31fhZGZjQGXdqOE_e21gG7kkn4mNVDWfUWFX9cUpCxLCztVS2al2bbgIHHKcCoD0n2dvkkOqDmTHI9S5v2jpacZX8U46fA6jDxeuP7S_Gcq9alEmSuzjXwtaVS3NzVK/w651-h159/VP-Satkona-Zodiac-3-6-9-12-01.png" title="The Vesica Piscis and the 3, 6, 9 and 12 division of the Circle/Zodiac (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" width="651" /></a></div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIgSnRlWMccG65vE1iv5dvDZ_dFqhL9gZi8sfCGpyAvv4FKSkR8l7gueTUWdZb6v_t6qAi--xKWmeGxSGExB6VGzXacHYZivbrbiIhVAwAKTXq-P_9D1CmqcDHHdiE93AWhfhTJtbhjcn4HwoC6Hm1kqIsk01hCmA3oFDI2LXHk50giMO2aBCbS6xU/s176/Three-VP-Air-Trine-Radii-Fire-Signs-Rays-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Agni's three mothers/rivers (Rig Veda 3.56.5), equivalent to three Vesica Piscis forming the Air Trine of the Zodiac (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="160" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIgSnRlWMccG65vE1iv5dvDZ_dFqhL9gZi8sfCGpyAvv4FKSkR8l7gueTUWdZb6v_t6qAi--xKWmeGxSGExB6VGzXacHYZivbrbiIhVAwAKTXq-P_9D1CmqcDHHdiE93AWhfhTJtbhjcn4HwoC6Hm1kqIsk01hCmA3oFDI2LXHk50giMO2aBCbS6xU/w154-h169/Three-VP-Air-Trine-Radii-Fire-Signs-Rays-01.png" title="Agni's three mothers/rivers (Rig Veda 3.56.5), equivalent to three Vesica Piscis forming the Air Trine of the Zodiac (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" width="154" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With this geometric key of the Vedic rivers, the ancient occult symbols and lore of the Vedas become exponentially more transparent. For example, we can see and understand why Agni (the Sagittarian) Sage-Son-Horse is sometimes said to have SEVEN rivers/mothers and elsewhere THREE. His three rivers/mothers (=three vesicae piscis) are shown in the image to the right. They are drawn or measured out by the three radii (rays) of Agni’s zodiacal fire trine: 0° Aries, 0° Leo, and 0° Sagittarius. We can also see that his third “river” or “mother”—drawn out by the radius of 0° Sagittarius, stretching from 0° Libra to 0° Aquarius—is entirely equivalent to the seventh river-mother lauded in other hymns. And it is this particular river/mother of the Zodiac which bears Agni to his Jar – 0° Aquarius/Kumbha, a location which the Rishis gave hundreds of honorific names and descriptions, including the divine assembly (<i>sámitir</i>) or gathering place of the gods.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote>“Streams! the wise Gods have thrice three [=3 x 3 = 9] habitations. <b>Child of three Mothers</b>, he is Lord in synods [=assemblies]. <b>Three are the holy Ladies of the Waters</b>, thrice here from heaven supreme in our assembly.” – Rig Veda 3.56.5, tr. R.T.H. Griffith [Text in brackets and emphasis added]</blockquote><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thea’s role as the “Third” in Sri Aurobindo’s avataric lineage and descent very much included furthering his avataric mission of restoring the Sanatana Dharma or Eternal Law of the Vedic Rishis in our world and in our Age of Aquarius/Kumbha. Most notably, she reestablished the zodiacal basis, sense, and <b><u>tropical/solar</u></b> measure (<b><u>not sidereal</u></b>) of the Vedic sacrifice or year, i.e., the Vedic Yajna. She likewise reestablished the connection between the Vedic Kumbha and the zodiacal sign of Kumbha (=Aquarius). <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#3a" id="3">[3]</a></span></b> As far as I know she was the first, in perhaps ages, to see and understand the symbol of Agni’s seven rivers in the spherical context of the 9-power 360° zodiacal circle which she wrote of and presented as <i><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#:~:text=edition%20(1994)%20of-,The%20Gnostic%20Circle,-%2C%20illustrating%20not%20only" target="_blank">The Gnostic Circle</a></i>. </p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCHLbTuHYCmG-b-TOu00ljib0IZc5_ewYHZbs2rmyUQ8m6TCLzaRu6W3EyKH4J_OCOemowZVFBqsUxDAizK7RxbEiGL3IJA7mmzcv8UmhaSyAEPUqNsIkUd5dtKe4v2JZWefdmAwcB1yXtzW7ReTPF6IFonKzTUz0K1AAbC0qVL2o8kWr0IPQJOkjz/s303/TNW12-p413-7-rivers-Brihaspati-Ayasya-sm.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The Seven Rivers of the Rig Veda, Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The New Way, Vols. 1&2, p. 413" border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCHLbTuHYCmG-b-TOu00ljib0IZc5_ewYHZbs2rmyUQ8m6TCLzaRu6W3EyKH4J_OCOemowZVFBqsUxDAizK7RxbEiGL3IJA7mmzcv8UmhaSyAEPUqNsIkUd5dtKe4v2JZWefdmAwcB1yXtzW7ReTPF6IFonKzTUz0K1AAbC0qVL2o8kWr0IPQJOkjz/s16000/TNW12-p413-7-rivers-Brihaspati-Ayasya-sm.png" title="The Seven Rivers of the Rig Veda, Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The New Way, Vols. 1&2, p. 413" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As I have discussed, Thea saw and understood the seven rivers of the Vedas as being poured out or released from the 7 Point of the zodiacal year or yajna – 10° into the 10th month of Capricorn, and she was not at all aware of what these Vedic rivers, or the Vedic Kumbha, represent in the geometric sense. Thus, despite knowing that “all symbols, no matter which, spring from the circle”, <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#4a" id="4">[4]</a></span></b> she simply did not see the Vedic river as an eternal geometric form, law and measure of the circle, created by the radius (=the Son of the Waters=the Divine Ray/Pillar=Skambha) of the circle. In my mind, the fact that she did not see the zodiacal geometry of the Vedic rivers does not indicate some deficit in her avataric and yogic capacities or mar her legacy in any way. It was simply not her job to do so; and it was certainly not a random coincidence that t<span style="text-align: left;">he week before her passing, the final veils regarding the spherical truth of the Vedic rivers were removed and the zodiacal geometry of these rivers was released and revealed to me – an Aquarian "vessel" born in the 7-power year of 1969. It thereupon became my job to see, understand, reveal, and release—to the world at large—the long-hidden zodiacal geometry, eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>), and divine <i>maya</i> (measure) of the Vedic rivers and their Kumbha, and myriad interrelated Vedic and post-Vedic symbols and mythologies as well. </span></div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Six years after that release or revelation, during last year’s (2022) Navaratri and Durga Puja festival (26 September-5 October), my understanding of the Vedic Sage-Son-Horse and his rivers shifted significantly. I came to see the circle drawn out by the radius of the Sage-Son-Horse (=the 9th ray/radius of the Zodiac) as a symbol and key of the spherical, solar and supramental consciousness that the Divine Sage-Son reestablishes in the Aquarian “Man” (i.e., in humanity), in the Age of Aquarius, and in the 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYSL2cgflXC3McVVEljUrGtmZxPvMv99IZsJIwh-KGLw2ZAuIBJsfpkmOpmVn4kiC6-k-vFByzDMX8gMOjE4zPpw094LxR6q5rN0txXGBoKuI6rxogJkqVzcq5Adyb9qu5VLvodPJhxF-Kby-wF6vbTpbr6xCDJXCTPE6PIT_6DZjhmiJzqi0WvRf5/s241/Four%20Quadrants-Zodiac-no-card-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img alt="The Four Quadrants of the Zodiac/Vedic Year, based on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's illustrations and teachings." border="0" data-original-height="232" data-original-width="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYSL2cgflXC3McVVEljUrGtmZxPvMv99IZsJIwh-KGLw2ZAuIBJsfpkmOpmVn4kiC6-k-vFByzDMX8gMOjE4zPpw094LxR6q5rN0txXGBoKuI6rxogJkqVzcq5Adyb9qu5VLvodPJhxF-Kby-wF6vbTpbr6xCDJXCTPE6PIT_6DZjhmiJzqi0WvRf5/s16000/Four%20Quadrants-Zodiac-no-card-01.png" title="The Four Quadrants of the Zodiac/Vedic Year, based on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's illustrations and teachings." /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">The gestation and birth of the Vedic Sage-Son-Horse represents the divine soul-spark of material creation born out of the dark womb, or unillumined stages of our evolutionary development <span style="text-align: left;">–</span> physical, vital and mental, and into the divine (Swar) realm. And by this birth, i.e., by our divine soul’s vast, solar-spherical unity consciousness, material life on Earth becomes progressively transformed into Heaven on Earth. The image to the right is based upon Thea’s discussions and illustrations of the evolutionary stages corresponding to each quadrant of the Zodiac. Upon his birth and entrance into the Supramental sign or realm of Aquarius,—the sign associated with higher Mind and astrological knowledge—, the awakened divine son or divine seed of the soul naturally begins to conquer and dissolve the linear-binary and egoic-mental ignorance and falsehood that has pushed our civilization to unsustainable levels of toxicity on many fronts. The awakened “son” likewise awakens the force of our indwelling supramental consciousness and reestablishes the spherical and solar gnosis of the 360° Zodiac, 360° cycles of time and the ancient symbols and lore based upon ancient gnosis of the 360° Zodiac. And this was the purpose of Sri Aurobindo’s (Vishnu’s) Supramental Descent in the Age of Aquarius within 9th Manifestation of the Maha Yuga cycle. </div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As discussed at length by Thea in her writings, this avataric mission was realized via Sri Aurobindo’s entire lineage, which she referred to as the “solar line”, including Sri Aurobindo (the Father, born in the 9-power year of 1872), the Mother (born in the 6-power year of 1878), Thea herself (the Daughter, born in the 3-power year of 1938), and Sri Aurobindo reborn in as the Son in the 1-power year of 1963. This work began with Sri Aurobindo’s birth at the tail end of the Age of Pisces (234 BCE-1926 CE) and came to fruition in the dawn of Vishnu’s Aquarian Age. Thea considered Sri Aurobindo to be Vishnu's final avatar Kalki, who she saw as <b>Vishnu's 9th avatar, reborn as the 10th</b> of the line. She likewise exposed the error of considering Buddha to be Vishnu’s <b>9th avatar</b>, discussing his un-Vedic teachings which exacerbated the false binary split between matter and spirit in humanity’s consciousness, and his birth in the 8th Manifestation, i.e., <i>not</i> in Vishnu’s fixed-sign (or preservation/sattva) Age of Aquarius within the <b>9th Manifestation</b> of the Maha Yuga cycle. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The lore of Vishnu’s Kalki avatar is one of many derivative names, depictions, and prophetic accounts of Agni’s victory when he is born as the conquering Son-Sage-Horse (aka Soma Pavamana) of the Vedas. Another depiction of this same Vedic and zodiacal figure is found in St. John’s Revelation, wherein the divine son (the Lamb of God) becomes manifest in the divine temple and thereafter purifies the world of its falsehood on his White Horse with his sword or weapon of truth. If we recognize the relationship between Kalki and the Son-Sage and White Horse of the Vedas and of St. John's Revelation, we must also recognize that Vishnu’s 9th and final avatar, like the 9-rayed Sage-Son-White-Horse of the Vedas, upon his birth catalyzes the world-cleansing unveiling and release of his seven rivers, mothers, bowls, vials, etc. With this in mind, the seven waves of Sri Aurobindo’s “Lotus of the Avatar” symbol make fuller sense.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOg0izAxz9CXGYmuHrodBA6KK-wV5DppJSVaCpAneHYzaINHFvc7Kmy1jCfBRk9nNydJ89kdBRiv-lfvC6nG02UwXEbbJRhioviCcM0_SprfvMRnUMspdQnzn1JlMeL-r_CBMMXctfSsz0o_oSaC7bLIbuMoro7OiqaX-SO7S46v4Rfrb8HLG4d-KL/s2640/SA-symbol-1964-Lotus-963-7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sri Aurobindo's Symbol with its 9-6-3 petals and 7 waves (based on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's writings)" border="0" data-original-height="873" data-original-width="2640" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOg0izAxz9CXGYmuHrodBA6KK-wV5DppJSVaCpAneHYzaINHFvc7Kmy1jCfBRk9nNydJ89kdBRiv-lfvC6nG02UwXEbbJRhioviCcM0_SprfvMRnUMspdQnzn1JlMeL-r_CBMMXctfSsz0o_oSaC7bLIbuMoro7OiqaX-SO7S46v4Rfrb8HLG4d-KL/w640-h212/SA-symbol-1964-Lotus-963-7.jpg" title="Sri Aurobindo's Symbol with its 9-6-3 petals and 7 waves (based on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's writings)" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnxMbPxRaeLDCePgt5VJrQWSTTD3U1xSSfr9udNvfV8rIwIC6VXJZNECZ7m6pKoaWrIpSmEpPDbA89IMj1xvw5rfBSiZCGhaVWzXK1Zuss6ZtciYNmz5Yj3oz9GKDeteljylqX2oWYhWZL4DloQirWSCwiVUzjzlqCSE9Jd4-TgHIfmhAgX3UQGGc/s2048/Kartikeya.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Kartikeya (=Murugan, Skanda, etc.) on his Peacock, Wikipedia" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1621" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnxMbPxRaeLDCePgt5VJrQWSTTD3U1xSSfr9udNvfV8rIwIC6VXJZNECZ7m6pKoaWrIpSmEpPDbA89IMj1xvw5rfBSiZCGhaVWzXK1Zuss6ZtciYNmz5Yj3oz9GKDeteljylqX2oWYhWZL4DloQirWSCwiVUzjzlqCSE9Jd4-TgHIfmhAgX3UQGGc/w253-h320/Kartikeya.jpg" title="Kartikeya (=Murugan, Skanda, etc.) on his Peacock, Wikipedia" width="253" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another name, depiction and account of this Vedic hero, son and conquering war god and sage is Kartikeya, alternatively known as Skanda, Murugan, Seyon, Mahasena, Subramanya, Kumara, Saravana, Arumugan, Devasenapati, Shanmukha, Kathirvelan, Guha, Swaminatha, Velayuda, and Vēl. <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#5a" id="5">[5]</a></span></b> His vehicle (<i>vahana</i>) is a peacock which, according to Sri Aurobindo, “signifies victory in yoga, the divine victory”. It is not difficult to see that the peacock, with its spectacular and nearly 360° plumage, is a symbol of the divine victory precisely because it is a symbol of the fully expanded consciousness of the divine son. Notably, a family of wild peacocks on my family’s property in California were instrumental in the 2016 download of gnosis regarding the eternal geometric law and foundation of Vishnu’s avatars; and wild peacocks are a rare oddity where we live. They were residents of our property long before we were. In late winter and early spring, which it is as I write this part of the series, two of these peacocks show off their full and expanded plumage in front of my room, front door or back door, pretty much every day.</div>
<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheqOrmuRBu87768mZRsZcUPRkgV80lRJ2TEDtMiRrtWeCqUFFV6VgrlIBusP4qTdxV3HDsKe8JEFNl-hXUsjO8Kb4ux6sAlVz8dhFib7aC3ubgoRocSnPVWEnctMjM9MnGFKRbj7qT9bnPhd3up2RZhK7c5_hl-01kBd9rGZy7o70uWJnrFnn8H2rQ/s406/Seven-Rivers-Zodiac-Sage-Halo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Circle, Sun, Halo, Crown, consciousness and zodiacal geometry of the Vedic Son/Sage/-Horse (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="406" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheqOrmuRBu87768mZRsZcUPRkgV80lRJ2TEDtMiRrtWeCqUFFV6VgrlIBusP4qTdxV3HDsKe8JEFNl-hXUsjO8Kb4ux6sAlVz8dhFib7aC3ubgoRocSnPVWEnctMjM9MnGFKRbj7qT9bnPhd3up2RZhK7c5_hl-01kBd9rGZy7o70uWJnrFnn8H2rQ/w354-h310/Seven-Rivers-Zodiac-Sage-Halo.png" title="The Circle, Sun, Halo, Crown, consciousness and zodiacal geometry of the Vedic Son/Sage/-Horse (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" width="354" /></a></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This image above with the golden Sun Symbol (aka circumpunct) centered upon <b>0° Sagittariu</b>s (<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcrZeGNtuhDa8FQBEUJROB3-_7DVi7yilgJMs29A0dG2Wlwqp3TJzSU2dXPEFbSeZn60lPULDP-fJAjh8gIZE_axdz03Qr2yUyHmQ_2nmK27f1Ugyr7z0SMfiyfm3ekKXeOFEhSlW7_wX9Ekypprlk351Qe1ADoM_KBlTqelTC6jJ39HA-fFMSFBTW/s84/sagittarius%20glyph%20copy.bmp" style="margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="67" data-original-width="84" height="14" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcrZeGNtuhDa8FQBEUJROB3-_7DVi7yilgJMs29A0dG2Wlwqp3TJzSU2dXPEFbSeZn60lPULDP-fJAjh8gIZE_axdz03Qr2yUyHmQ_2nmK27f1Ugyr7z0SMfiyfm3ekKXeOFEhSlW7_wX9Ekypprlk351Qe1ADoM_KBlTqelTC6jJ39HA-fFMSFBTW/w25-h20/sagittarius%20glyph%20copy.bmp" width="16" /></a>) emphasizes the full spherical or solar body and essence of Agni’s seventh river-mother as well as the location of where his expanded, purified or whitened spherical consciousness <b>rises to, <u>reaches its height</u> and enters its vessel – the vessel of the Aquarian Kumbha and the vessel of the Aquarian Man </b>– in the course of the Zodiac, i.e., in the course of Time. Once again, this location is <b>0° Aquarius/Kumbha</b> (<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHzG_tdQppz9Wvjt_B1OxinjpHNzeklfEQ59gyNUGRkJiCldRrpoNqlFqC6OSq-pKMFHF0NPXeq3Sd34KJdIrLuzKa15_sxhkTGKFWJka74UPZKJG7tjjGK6xXYYnenSVf3zALdbYVpMRzQbxow_RnyO5AhGvOZM_eVs65kWUm4v7b1H8t1J0bzjoV/s24/Aquarius-sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="18" data-original-width="24" height="12" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHzG_tdQppz9Wvjt_B1OxinjpHNzeklfEQ59gyNUGRkJiCldRrpoNqlFqC6OSq-pKMFHF0NPXeq3Sd34KJdIrLuzKa15_sxhkTGKFWJka74UPZKJG7tjjGK6xXYYnenSVf3zALdbYVpMRzQbxow_RnyO5AhGvOZM_eVs65kWUm4v7b1H8t1J0bzjoV/w24-h18/Aquarius-sm.jpg" width="16" /></a>), <b><u>the degree of the Zodiac that Pluto just moved into a few days after the 2023 March Equinox</u></b>. <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#6a" id="6">[6]</a></span></b> Via this image we can better understand the iconography and symbols of the Sagittarian Archer with his bow and arrow, as well as the destination of his arrow and of his movement within the Zodiac as portrayed by the Vedic Rishis. The Sanskrit name for Sagittarius is <i>Dhanu</i>, meaning Bow. This symbolic name for the 9th sign of the Zodiac does not make full sense until we understand that the Dhanu or Bow of the Vedic Sage-Son-Hero is the eternal arc and law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) of the vesica piscis, within the circle of the Zodiac. <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#7a" id="7">[7]</a></span></b> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Likewise, the mythology of the Vedic Sage-Son-Horse (=Agni=Soma Pavamana) born of seven rivers does not make full sense until we understand that he is a symbol of the radius/ray of 0° Sagittarius, that informs, measures, and draws out the arc or bow (<i>dhanu</i>) of the seventh vesica piscis (=river) of the Zodiac. This seventh river/mother, identified in Rig Veda 7.36.6 as Saraswati, completes the gestation and purification of the Divine Son or Hidden One (Guha) and brings him out of his hiding place, womb, covering, or obscuring veils of consciousness, and bears him to his Kumbha, also known as the home, resting place, banquet and meeting place of the gods. In 5.83.6, the seven rivers that give birth to, and are poured out by the Vedic Sage-Son-Horse are appropriately called <i>aśvasya dhārāḥ</i>, translated by R.T.H. Griffith as “the Stallion’s Flood”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span>The sense of Dhanu (the Bow) as the Sanskrit name for the 9th sign of the Zodiac comes into even better focus when we see and understand that the full circle or halo of 0° Sagittarius/Dhanu is geometrically, zodiacally, and symbolically connected to the establishment of </span>t</span>he spherical (aka solar, supramental, or divine) consciousness in Man/Humanity, in the Age of Man, in the 9th Manifestation of our Maha Yuga cycle. At 0° Sagittarius – the third seat or angle of Agni’s Fire Trine – the 9-rayed Son-Sage-Horse is born purified and cleansed, i.e., whitened, out of the dark womb of Ignorance, with his vast and spherical, divine nature and consciousness-force intact and thereby awakens the SEED of the divine unity consciousness in Man/Humanity and on Earth, joining Heaven and Earth. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is helpful to emphasize here what Thea learned in her early initiations into the Supramental Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: “The number of the circle [is] 9. The 9 [is] the Divine Mother.” <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#8a" id="8">[8]</a></span></b> Born as the 9-rayed Son-Sage-Horse, Agni awakens to the 9 number power of the circle and thus to the 9 number power of his Mother (Aditi) as well as his own 9 number power. <b>He, aka</b> <b>the One (1) carries and bears the number power of the 9</b>, and the circle of 9 because, on the geometric level, he is the golden ray, reed, measuring rod, radius, architect, pillar (<i>skambh</i>a), and son of the 360° circle of the Zodiac (aka Aditi). <b>He also carries in himself the 9-power sacred 432,000" measure of his <i>other</i> mother, the eternal law and form of the vesica piscis</b> (432,000 = 4 + 3 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 9). Rig Veda 8.6 gives us a beautiful account of this evolutionary, zodiacal, and Vedic birth and victory.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“When his [seven] steeds filling (the heavens) bear onwards the [Son] of the sacrifice, then the pious (magnify him) with the hymns of the rite [<i>vipra ṛtasya vāhasā</i> = the Sage's vehicle/vessel/invocation of Truth]." –<span style="text-align: left;"> </span>Rig Veda 8.6.2, tr. H.H. Wilson [Text/translation in brackets added]</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>I from my Father have received deep knowledge of the Holy Law [<i>ṛtásya</i>] <u>I was born like unto the Sun</u>.…. [T]here by the meeting of the [seven] streams the Sage [Son] was manifest with song [<i>dhiya</i>]</b>…. Then, verify, they see the light refulgent of primeval seed [=the Son/One], kindled [=born] on yonder side of heaven.… [L]ike waters speeding down a slope: the song is [pleased] to go to [Indra]. As rivers swell the ocean, so our hymns of praise make Indra strong, Eternal, of resistless wrath…. The heavens and earth come after thee <b><u>as the wheel follows Etaśa [=the Sage/Horse of the Sun]</u></b>: To thee [Indra] flow Soma-drops effused.… The Kaṇvas [equivalent here to Rishis] with their hymns of praise have magnified <b>this ancient thought that swells with streams of meath and oil</b>.” – Rig Veda 8.6.10, 28-43 excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith [All emphasis added, text in brackets added for clarification]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The “ancient thought that swells with streams of meath and oil” is elsewhere called the “Seven-Headed Thought”, hymn or song (<i>dhíyaṃ saptášīrṣṇīm</i>), by which the Navagwas (=9 rays/cows) “[pass] through the ten months” of the twelve-month Vedic sacrifice, and by which humanity “pass[es]…beyond the evil.” <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#9a" id="9">[9]</a></span></b> In my view, this victorious seven-headed thought of the Vedas is yet another reference to the zodiacal geometry of the seven rivers (=seven thoughts, songs, hymns, streams, soma drops, stones, cows, mares, bowls, beakers, etc.), by which the Vedic Son, aka <b>"the ten-month babe"</b>, <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#10a" id="10">[10]</a></span></b> is fully born at <b>the ten-month mark</b> of the twelve-month Zodiac (0° Aquarius) with his spherical consciousness-force active in the world.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[In Rig Veda 5.45.11] we have the assertion repeated; <i>Dhiyaṁ vo apsu dadhiṣe svarṣāṁ, yayātaran daśa māso navagvāḥ; ayā dhiyā syāma devagopā, ayā dhiyā tuturyāma ati aṁhaḥ</i>. “I hold for you in the waters (i.e. the seven Rivers) the thought that wins possession of heaven (this is once more <b>the seven-headed thought born from the Truth and found by Ayasya), by which the Navagwas passed through the ten months</b>; by this thought may we have the gods for protectors, by this thought may we pass through beyond the evil.”…</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The expression in the hymn, <i>daśa māso ataran</i>, indicates that <b>there was some difficulty in getting through the full period of ten months</b>. It is during this period apparently that the sons of darkness had the power to assail the sacrifice; for it is indicated that it is only by the confirming of the thought which conquers Swar, the solar world, that the Rishis are able to get through the ten months, but this thought once found they become assured of the protection of the gods and pass beyond the assault of the evil, the harms of the Panis and Vritras. This Swar-conquering thought is certainly the same as that seven-headed thought which was born from the Truth and discovered by Ayasya the companion of the Navagwas; for by it, we are told, Ayasya becoming universal, embracing the births in all the worlds, brought into being a fourth world or fourfold world [=Swar].…</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The winning of these seven rivers of our being withheld by Vritra and these seven rays withheld by Vala, the possession of our complete divine consciousness delivered from all falsehood by the free descent of the truth, gives us the secure possession of the world of Swar and the enjoyment of mental and physical being lifted into the godhead above darkness, falsehood and death by the in-streaming of our divine elements. <b>This victory is won in twelve periods of the upward journey, represented by the revolution of the twelve months of the sacrificial year, the periods corresponding to the successive dawns of a wider and wider truth, until the tenth (month) secures the victory. What may be the precise significance of the nine rays and the ten, is a more difficult question which we are not yet in a position to solve</b>; but the light we already have is sufficient to illuminate all the main imagery of the Rig Veda.”....<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">“[In Rig Veda 3.39] we are told what is this secret thing that was placed for us in the cave and is concealed in the waters of being, the waters in which the Thought of the Fathers has to be set, <i>apsu dhiyaṁ dadhiṣe</i> [=“the seven-headed thought in all the seven waters”, p. 200]. <b>It is the hidden Sun, the secret Light of our divine existence</b> which has to be found and taken out by knowledge from the darkness in which it is concealed.” </span><span style="text-align: right;">– Sri Aurobindo, </span><i style="text-align: right;">The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15, </i><span style="text-align: right;">pp. 175-176, 182, 194-95 [Written circa </span><b style="text-align: right;">August 1914 – July 1916]</b></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Earlier in Rig Veda 5.45, the place of victory (=the spring/fountain and “loftiest place of meeting” of the cows/rivers) is described as the place where Manu – the archetypal Man – gains “heaven’s water”; and we find that a STONE helps the Navagvas sing their “praises” through ten months of the sacrifice. As I have discussed, the stone is yet another occult symbol of the vesica piscis in the Rig Veda, as is the song, hymn, praise, voice, roar, word, etc. In my view, the stone of Rig Veda 5.45.7 is a clear symbolic reference to the seventh vesica piscis of the Zodiac that moves from 0° Libra to 0° Aquarius/Kumbha – the entrance into the sign of the Man and the Water Bearer who pours out the heavenly waters from his sacred water jar or <i>kumbha</i>.</p>
<p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;">“Come, let us carry out, O friends, the purpose wherewith the Mother threw the Cow's stall open, That wherewith Manu conquered [the demon] Visisipra, wherewith the wandering merchant [=Agni] gained heaven's water. Here, urged by hands, loudly hath rung <b>the press-stone</b> wherewith Navagvas through ten months sang praises. Sarama went aright and found the cattle. Angiras gave effect to all their labours. When at the dawning of this mighty Goddess, Angirases all sang forth with the cattle [=the rivers], their spring is in the loftiest place of meeting, Sarama found the kine by Order's pathway.” – Rig Veda 5.45.6-8, tr. R.T.H. Griffith [Bold emphasis added]</blockquote><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">In <i>The Secret of the Veda</i>, Sri Aurobindo translated Rig Veda 5.45.7 as: </span></p>
<p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">“Here <b>the stone</b> <b>was set in motion</b> whereby the Navagwas chanted the hymn for the ten months, Sarama going to the Truth found the cows, the Angiras made all things true. W</span>hen in the dawning of this vast One (Usha representing the infinite Aditi, <i>mātā devānām aditer anīkam</i>) all the Angirases came together with the cows (or rather, perhaps by the illuminations represented in the symbol of the cows or Rays); there was <b>the fountain of these (illuminations) in the supreme world</b>; by the path of the Truth Sarama found the cows.” – <i>CWSA, Vol. 15</i>, p. 175 [Bold emphasis added]</blockquote><p style="font-weight: bold;"></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In this hymn and elsewhere, the Vedic cows or cattle are equivalent to the Vedic rivers (mothers, sisters, etc.), which are in turn equivalent to hymns, praises, songs, and chants. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#11a" id="11">[11]</a></b></span> The cattle’s “<b>spring…in the loftiest place of meeting</b>” – translated by Sri Aurobindo as "<b>the fountain of these (illuminations) in the supreme world</b>" – is once again a reference to the zodiacal sign of Kumbha/Aquarius. And, as I discussed in <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i>, <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#12a" id="12">[12]</a></span></b> the dawn goddess (Usha, aka “the Daughter of Heaven”) is one of hundreds of the veiled symbols of the sacred geometry and key of the vesica piscis found throughout the Vedas.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc3avtrnY0Ajab0Up9MNSfkAw6mkd3BslVuU9A3VrbRfEQGUidWy7H0N6yVLLVzdcyL277fD-jP_ndwQ2qkm-2N1H-o3PXGbm1BMqPyT3fRde-a0-HX5OuHqI4evlH8VXxV3QW3QlkiJK6E5UDGQh0TbWKly85pbq3AYRYLCqg8rxRIiqkb-ntoHe9/s341/Fire-Trine-Sag-circle-red-blue--963-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Fire Trine, Circle, Sun, Halo, Crown, consciousness and zodiacal geometry of the Vedic Son/Sage/-Horse (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="341" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc3avtrnY0Ajab0Up9MNSfkAw6mkd3BslVuU9A3VrbRfEQGUidWy7H0N6yVLLVzdcyL277fD-jP_ndwQ2qkm-2N1H-o3PXGbm1BMqPyT3fRde-a0-HX5OuHqI4evlH8VXxV3QW3QlkiJK6E5UDGQh0TbWKly85pbq3AYRYLCqg8rxRIiqkb-ntoHe9/w320-h297/Fire-Trine-Sag-circle-red-blue--963-01.png" title="The Fire Trine, Circle, Sun, Halo, Crown, consciousness and zodiacal geometry of the Vedic Son/Sage/-Horse (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" width="320" /></a></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When we see the circle or halo of the 9-rayed or 9-powered Vedic and zodiacal Sage-Son-Horse as a feature and symbol of his birth and awakening into the all-encompassing spherical and divine consciousness or vision (i.e., the Eye of the Sun and Eye of the gods), we can immediately understand why the Vedic Rishis portrayed this Sage-Son-Horse as quickly traveling and purifying himself on his way to the Jar/Kumbha. We can see the "stone" of Rig Veda 5.45.7 “whereby the Navagwas chanted the hymn for the ten months” as a symbol of the vesica piscis drawn out by the Sage-Son-Horse (=the radius/ray of 0° Sagittarius), and we can likewise understand the zodiacal and Vedic origin of the alchemical symbol of the “Philosopher’s Stone”. This eternal “stone” of the Vedic Sage bears the nectar of immortality (=Amrita/Soma) to the Aquarian Kumbha, and likewise to the “banquet of the gods” and to Humanity. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Rishi of Rig Veda 9.10 gives us the key of the Sage-Son’s spherical or solar consciousness by which he strides to and reaches his long-hidden or long occulted heavenly abode in the Vedic (=zodiacal) year.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“They sit all together, the Hotars [=seven priests] with their seven siblings [=rivers/sisters], guiding the track of the lone one [Agni-Soma] safely across. He has bound his navel to our navel, as also his eye to the sun. [[The Sage’s Son hath appeared.]] <b>Over</b> <b>his own dear (tracks) and the tract of heaven, which was placed in hiding by the Adhvaryus, he looks with the eye of the sun</b>.” – Rig Veda 9.10.7-9, tr. Jamison & Brereton </p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The text in double brackets above is a variation of <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.010.08&acc=no&q=sage%27s%20of&lang=eng" target="_blank">R.T.H. Griffith’s translation of verse 8</a>. Griffith translated <i>kavér ápatyam</i> as the “Sage’s offspring”. Kavér (from <i>kavi</i>) means wise or sage, and <i>apatya</i> means child or son and is etymologically connected to the Sanskrit root <i>ap</i>, meaning water. Elsewhere Griffith translated <i>kavér</i> as simply the adjective “wise” (=sage) so it seems to me that <i>kavér ápatyam</i> could be validly translated as "wise son" or "sage son", given that is what Agni-Soma is. The “tract of heaven” that is hidden by the Adhvaryus or priests of the sacrifice, is from <i>divaḥ padam</i> which R.L. Kashyap translated as “<b>the seat of heaven</b>”. <i>Padam</i> can equally be translated as a place or a footstep or stride. <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#13a" id="13">[13]</a></span></b> In my view, if “the seat of heaven” is the correct translation, which I think it is, the Rishi was referring to 0° Aquarius, and if tract (or footstep) of heaven is correct, the Rishi was referring to Agni’s seventh river (=vesica piscis) by which he steps, strides, flies (as an Eagle) or gallops (as a horse) to his heavenly seat and goal – the Kumbha of Amrita/Soma and of the sacred waters which is the banquet and meeting place of the gods. In the following verse this step takes the conquering Horse Agni <b><u>to his goal</u></b> – <b>the <i>kalasha</i> (=<i>kumbha</i>)</b> of Aquarius, translated by Griffith as "<b>the beaker</b>”.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"Yea, to the shining milk-anointed beaker, as to his goal, hath stepped the conquering Courser." – Rig Veda 9.74.8, tr. R.T.H. Griffith</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Rig Veda 9.10.9 (above) gives us the central clue and key of the heavily veiled Vedic lore. We are told that with the “eye of the sun” the Sage-Son looks upon or SEES his long-hidden heavenly seat, tract, or step (<i>pada</i>). On the two-dimensional level, this spherical solar eye is, of course, the Circle and its Point or navel – the ancient symbol of the Sun: ☉.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As I have discussed elsewhere, Agni’s heavenly seat – the zodiacal sign of Aquarius/Kumbha – is called by many different names throughout the Rig Veda, including but not limited to the heavenly jar, pitcher, cask, tub, beaker, reservoir/ocean, lake, well, tub, vat, filter, sieve, the water’s lap, Indra’s heart, Agni’s resting place, Vishnu’s highest or loftiest seat or footstep, Indra’s heart, Indra’s special place, the womb of Holy Order (<i>ṛtasya yonim</i>), the seat of Holy Order (<i>ṛtásya padáṃ/̣rtásya sā́dane</i>), the "home of Law” <i>(ṛtasya duroṇe</i>), the golden place or womb of the sacrifice (<i>yoniṃ hiraṇyayam ṛtasya</i>), the convergence (meeting place) of the seven rivers, the gods’ meeting place, and the gods’ banquet. It is also called the “banquet of the heavenly people” i.e., the banquet of the illumined and universalized Man/Humanity of Aquarius. <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#14a" id="14">[14]</a></span></b> In other words this is the place where the gods and the “heavenly people” gain access to and enjoy the Soma-wine, aka the Amrita or nectar of Immortality, also known as the Manna of the gods, which gives them the strength and power (i.e., the knowledge), to defeat the Scorpionic (“Dead Egg”), binary consciousness of dimly-lit humanity. In the following hymn, the Rishi describes the higher mind or spherical-solar consciousness of the Aquarian Man or Human which is the basis for all lore regarding the Age of Aquarius/Kumbha being the Age of a “universal brotherhood of men”. Thea referred to the Age of Aquarius as the Age of Unity, the Age of Synthesis, the Age of Universal Transformation, and the Age of Supermind. This all-synthesizing Aquarian higher mind or spherical, supramental consciousness is ushered in by the Vedic Sage-Son-Horse Agni, when he is purified (whitened) and given birth by his seven rivers or mothers.</p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“<u><b>The minds of men</b></u> who seek the godhead converge towards the flame even as <u><b>their seeings converge in the sun</b></u>; when two dawns of different forms give birth to this Fire [=Agni] <b>the white Horse is born in front of the days</b>.” – Rig Veda 5.1.4, tr. Sri Aurobindo, <i>Hymns to the Mystic Fire, CWSA, Vol. 16</i>, p. 253 [All emphasis and text in brackets added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In my view, on the geometric level of the Vedas, the two dawns or mothers of different forms in this verse are the circle of the Zodiac and its "daughter", the vesica piscis, both of whom contain in themselves their indwelling radius or son. When born as the White Horse (=Sage) in front of the seven rivers, dawns or days, this divine son is specifically the ray/radius of 0° Sagittarius which “pours” out his seventh river and traces his track or step to the sign of Kumbha/Aquarius. Below are some verses which suggest, or in my mind establish, the equivalence between the dawns, rivers and the days that Agni is born or enkindled “in front of”. [All emphasis and text in parentheses below are added.]</p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“Good Son of Strength, <b>a King amid the waters, in forefront of the Dawns</b> [Agni] shines enkindled.” – Rig Veda 10.45.5, tr. R.T.H. Griffith</p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>In forefront of the rivers</b> [Agni] Pavamana speeds, in forefront of the hymn, foremost among the kine.” – Rig Veda 9.86.12, tr. R.T.H. Griffith</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>The radiant Dawns have risen up for glory, in their white splendour like the waves of waters [=rivers]</b>…. [T]hy splendours have flown up to heaven…. The foes she chaseth <b>like a valiant archer, like a swift warrior</b> she repelleth darkness. Thy ways are easy on the hills: thou passest Invincible! Self-luminous! through waters. So lofty Goddess with thine ample pathway, Daughter of Heaven, bring wealth to give us comfort. – Rig Veda 6.064.1-4, excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“[Agni], making light where no light was…wast <b>born together with the Dawns</b>.” – Rig Veda 1.6.3, tr. R.T.H. Griffith</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSXgxYOoRQKC8Q5LdHddJwcTFMVp-XhT7gMXy88bERF54KRAb2xmdwa3zE02f_dH2fSj4e_6kkRV3hQZajx9Bla7DTBSqd8WCdjo7VZyeJxamE948inIMn0THC5iYlpRDnCfVWpWPeEZt3lZmdjEL8CbOJiQoS_9VMdqmhpJZuvq_cRvakjhwa-9eZ/s379/VP-Flower-of-Life-6-expanses-RV-6.47.3-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Agni-the Vedic Son- measures out the "six expanses" of the 6 petal the Flower of Life (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="379" data-original-width="341" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSXgxYOoRQKC8Q5LdHddJwcTFMVp-XhT7gMXy88bERF54KRAb2xmdwa3zE02f_dH2fSj4e_6kkRV3hQZajx9Bla7DTBSqd8WCdjo7VZyeJxamE948inIMn0THC5iYlpRDnCfVWpWPeEZt3lZmdjEL8CbOJiQoS_9VMdqmhpJZuvq_cRvakjhwa-9eZ/w181-h201/VP-Flower-of-Life-6-expanses-RV-6.47.3-01.png" title="Agni-the Vedic Son- measures out the "six expanses" of the 6 petal the Flower of Life (Lori Tompkins, 2023)" width="181" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“<b>This Sage [Agni] hath measured out the six expanses</b> from which no single creature is excluded [Illustrated to the right]…. He formed the nectar in three headlong rivers [Illustrated above]. Soma supports the wide mid-air above us. He found the wavy sea [<i>arṇa</i> = river, flood, stream] of brilliant colours <b>in forefront of the Dawns</b> who dwell in brightness. This Mighty One, the Steer [Agni-Soma] begirt by Maruts, hath propped the heavens up with a mighty pillar [<i>skambha</i>]. Drink [Agni] Soma boldly from the beaker [=Kumbha]….” – tr. R.T.H. Rig Veda 6.47.3-6, excerpts. </div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Let [Agni-Soma] flow, sweetly-flavoured, through the filter, and let our pious one rest <b>in the pitcher</b>. …<b><u>The streams of days</u></b>, <b>were poured as ’twere from heaven</b>…. Now are [Agni’s] streams poured forth with all their sweetness, when, purified, thou goest through the filter.… Bright, bellowing along the path of Order, thou shinest as the form of life eternal. Pouring out streams at the Gods’ feast with service, thou, [Agni] Soma, lookest down, a heavenly Eagle. <b>Enter the Soma-holding beaker [=Kumbha]</b>….” – Rig Veda 9.97.4, 30-33, excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith [Emphasis and text in brackets added in both of these excerpts.]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Whereas there seems to be no direct mention of precisely <i>seven</i> days in the Rig Veda, the equivalence between Agni being born at the front of “the days” and at the front of the seven rivers (=dawns), suggests an ancient link between the seven rivers of the Vedas and the seven days/dawns of the week. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the Vedic victory—which is the apocalypse or unveiling of the solar light and consciousness on Earth—the Divine Son-Sage-Horse (=world guru or savior) uplifts “the minds of men” out of the fragmented binary consciousness, to the point that our “seeings converge in the sun”, or converge in the spherical vision of our divine oneness and wholeness. And this is the true ancient origin and essence and sense of the Biblical Apocalypse or Revelation which has been much misunderstood throughout the Age of Pisces. And via this uplifting, we can see through the heavily veiled and cryptic symbols of the Vedas, the Bible, and other ancient texts, mythologies and prophecies in an entirely new way. We see them through a 360°, zodiacal or solar lens, knowing that the eternal laws of “the Circle of Life” (=the Zodiac=the Vedic Yajna/Year) are the foundation of the story, structure, symbols, sense, purpose and victories of these ancient hymns and myths. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thea’s revelation and discussions of the 432,000" measure of the Kali Yuga as a measure of (one-third of) the 360° circle of the Zodiac, were a natural result of this Aquarian Age Apocalypse, as were the 2016 revelations of the 432,000" measure of the Vedic rivers (=cows, mares, sisters, wives, dawns, drops of Soma, hymns, stones, etc.), the Vedic <i>kumbha</i> or jar, and the Biblical vials or bowls. Now, anyone “with eyes to see”, can see that the sacred number of 432,000 and myriad ancient occult symbols are founded upon the eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) of the radius which draws, pours, traces, and measures out the 360° circle of the Zodiac (aka Aditi, the Mother of Light) as well as the circle's “daughter” – the 432,000" arc and form of the vesica piscis.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For aeons, humanity’s linear-binary consciousness has eclipsed and veiled the truth of these ancient symbols. And now, thanks to Sri Aurobindo’s avataric descent and yogic victory, these veils have been dismantled and dissolved; and we can begin to see through our own long-standing ignorance and recognize the original foundation and sense of all ancient symbols and lore that are connected to and derivative of the Vedic symbols and lore. Likewise, as transmitted via Thea’s teachings, when we see our lives and circumstances in a 360° evolutionary/zodiacal context, or through a 360° and spherical lens, we can begin to see through and dismantle the veils of our long-standing ignorance and misunderstandings regarding the circumstances and real symbols of our individual and collective adventure on Earth.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In Part Six, I will further elaborate on the symbols and zodiacal geometry of the Vedic and Biblical Apocalypse.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Link to Part </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">1</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">4</a><span style="font-size: small;">,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> or </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">6</a><span style="font-size: small;">]</span></p>
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<div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><b>Endnotes:</b></div><p style="text-align: justify;">
</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#1" id="1a"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[1]</span></a> In the Appendix of <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i> I published <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyn4jWX7U1cy9NoGrtQ-pmRLVWH6EJoY/view" target="_blank">an illustration of the 144-year (12x12-year) cycle</a> from Sri Aurobindo’s birth year (1872) to the year of Thea’s passing and the release of the Vedic rivers/kumbha (2016). In <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#1*" target="_blank">Endnote 1</a> of “The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters in the Fixed Sign of Scorpio – Part Two”, I discussed the significance of these 48 days beyond the 144-year cycle given that, via the Vedic/Zodiacal laws of equivalence, 48 days is equivalent to 48 years, and 48 years is precisely as one third (i.e., 432,000") of the 144 year cycle. I also mentioned therein, my age (47-48) when I wrote and published <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i>. In the illustration of this 144-year cycle, my birth—which fell 96.5 or 48 + 48 years and six months after Sri Aurobindo’s birth—is conjunct the 6 Point (0° Sagittarius).</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#2" id="2a"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[2]</span></a> </span>See Part One of <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i> (2016, book).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a></span> See <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/cosmology-in-rigveda-third-premise-by.html#:~:text=is%20a%20ship!-,An%20important%20clue%C2%A0,-More%20to%20the" target="_blank">“Cosmology in Rigveda – the third premise”</a> (Thea, 9 July 2002, <i>The Hindu</i>).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#4" id="4a"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[4]</span></a> </span>Thea, <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/SQU.html" target="_blank">Symbols and the Question of Unity</a></i> (1974), p. 20.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#5" id="5a"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[5]</span></a> </span>Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartikeya" target="_blank">“Kartikeya”</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#6" id="6a"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[6]</span></a> </span>Pluto will remain in 0° Aquarius until 11-12 June 2023, then retrograde into Capricorn and then reenter Aquarius/Kumbha with the Sun on 20-21 January 2023. Evolutionary Astrologer Maurice Fernandez explains some of what to expect with Pluto moving into Aquarius in his video <a href="https://youtu.be/he4CWZsgKG0" target="_blank">“Pluto in Aquarius (2023 - 2044) - Session #1”</a>. See also Pam Gregory’s <a href="https://youtu.be/UNC9fyuZHao" target="_blank">“Pluto in Aquarius 2023-2044”</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#7" id="7a">[7]</a></span> Note that the words Sage and Sagittarius can be traced back to the Sanskrit root <i>sa</i>, the base of <i>saj </i>and <i>sam</i>, carry the sense in the Vedas of together, united, same, etc. For instance, <i>sámitir </i>is a gathering/assembly, <i>sajóṣas</i> is defined or translated as: “associated together, united, being or acting in harmony with”, as well as “of one-mind”, or of “one accord”, “gathered”, etc.; <i>sajāta</i>, means “kinship”, <i>sajitva</i> means “together victorious”. In post-Vedic literature <i>sajya</i> connotes “having a bow-string, strung (as a bow), placed on the bow-string (as an arrow)” [Cologne Sanskrit Digital Lexicon], which connects to the Latin words “sagitta” meaning “arrow” or “bolt” and “Sagittarius” meaning “Archer”. Oddly enough, “sagitta” in English connotes, among other things, “the keystone of an arch”. From what I can gather, the word Sage (connoting wise person) is thought to come from the Latin word “sapere”, meaning "have a taste, have good taste, be wise (from PIE root *sap- "to taste")” [<a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/sage">www.etymonline.com</a>], related to the Spanish word “saber”, meaning “to know”. But this does not really explain the <i>ja</i> sound of Sag/Sage or the connection to the Sanskrit word <i>sajya</i>. Once we understand the unity consciousness introduced by the Vedic Sage-Son, the Sanskrit root of “sage” (<i>sa</i>) begins to make more sense as well as its etymological connection to the symbols (the bow/dhanu, arrow and archer) of the 9th sign of the Zodiac.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#8" id="8a"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[8]</span></a> Thea, <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TTDV.html" target="_blank">The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 1</a></i>, p. 206, featured in Part 3.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#9" id="9a"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[9]</span></a> This is a partial quote from Rig Veda 5.45.11, tr. Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15</i>, p. 175.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#10" id="10a"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[10]</span></a> Rig Veda <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=05.078.07&acc=no&q=babe&lang=eng" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;">5.78.7</a><a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=05.078.08&acc=no&q=babe&lang=eng">8</a>, tr. R.T.H. Griffith.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#11" id="11a"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[11]</span></a> One example of this equivalence between the Vedic rivers and “praises” (=chants/hymns/songs) is found in Rig Veda 6.36.3-4: “As rivers reach the sea, so, strong with praises, our holy songs reach him [Indra] the Comprehensive. Lauded by us, let flow the spring, O Indra.…” [tr. R.T.H. Griffith]</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#12" id="12a"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[12]</span></a> Pp. 208-09, 276, 349.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#13" id="13a"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[13]</span></a> From <a href="https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/rig-veda-english-translation/d/doc837391.html">www.wisdomlib.org</a>: “padam < pada [noun], accusative, singular, neuter -- word; location; foot; footprint; pada [word]; verse; footstep; metrical foot; situation; dwelling; state; step; mark; position; trace; construction; animal foot; way; moment; social station; topographic point; path; residence; site; topic.”</p>
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Since it is <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/op/2002/07/09/stories/2002070900110200.htm" target="_blank">no longer viewable there</a>, I am posting it here so readers do not have to go through <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/538383583/Cosmology-in-Rigveda-the-third-premise-NORELLI-BACHELET#" target="_blank">SCRIBD</a> to view it.]<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">HISTORY IS INDEED recorded in the Rigveda, as well as in the Epics, but one has to use correct cosmic formulas to make this discovery, bearing in mind that the ancients were not at all concerned with keeping records for posterity as we do today.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The recent articles of David Frawley and Michael Witzel concerning a possible historic content in the Rigveda have opened up areas that need to be explored. It is an undeniable fact that the work of scholars such as Frawley has dealt a blow to the upholders of the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT), the colonial-inspired speculation on the origins of Indian civilisation. It was simply the product of a mindset that had to justify colonisation and wholesale destruction of ancient cultures. Finally it is being laid to rest and other voices are heard.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">However, in the effort to disprove the quasi-defunct theory of a civilisation imported from perhaps Central Asia, the defenders of the age and place of the Sarasvati Civilisation have also missed the point. David Frawley's conjectures regarding the numerous references to oceans and seas in the Rigveda are a case in point. While offering suggestive evidence that the composers of the hymns did not descend into the subcontinent from a landlocked region, Frawley's interpretation of the Rigveda as a purely historic document fails to take into consideration that the text is the product of the vision of rishis, `poets', according to Witzel. We cannot overlook this fact in seeking to unravel its mysteries.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is curious that apart from Sri Aurobindo (<i>The Secrets of the Veda</i>), few are willing to accept the Vedic symbols for what they are. Thus, the true character of the text is lost, and the true historic value that the Rigveda does indeed contain. But this historic content has to be discovered on the basis of the language the rishis employed. In this regard, I find Witzel has been more faithful to the original sense and purpose than Frawley.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sea imagery</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">For example, let us consider the sea imagery. Frawley and others have used it to reinforce their theories. However, lacking the proper preparation, scholars cannot appreciate the cosmological character of the Rigveda. In a cosmological context — and none will deny the cosmic moorings of Vedic culture — the sea is the cosmic ocean in which the galaxies and systems are immersed. In some cases it is the ecliptic of our particular solar system in which the planets (`ships', `golden boats') navigate. This does not displace the theories of a more mundane interpretation because, similar to dream experiences, the images chosen by the subject as `symbols' in the night time experience are usually taken from the physical world he or she knows in the waking state. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We find this cosmic intent corroborated by Witzel. His reading of the references to oceans and seas is closer to the mark than Frawley's. He quotes Rigvedic references to the `four oceans', or the `eastern and western oceans'; or else the Atharvaveda `northern, upper ocean'. All of these are clear and unmistakable pointers to the cosmological content of the Veda. They cannot be interpreted otherwise, as Frawley has sought to do. Specifically, they are references to the cardinal points on which the Earth is balanced as she voyages through the cosmic sea in orbit of the Sun. The Atharvaveda mention of the northern ocean is especially meaningful since that would refer to the Capricorn north cardinal point, precisely the `upper hemisphere' in cosmic harmonies, which still today holds pride of place in Hindu culture. Witness the annual celebration of the Makar Sankranti, the Sun's apparent entry into Capricorn (PNB, 1975, 1981, 2001, 2002). This month/sign, Capricorn, is further honoured in the Veda itself since it is in that month of the twelve that the Aryan warrior is victorious.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The ancient dictum of Hermes Trismegistos can be applied here: `As above, so below.' The `above' is the cosmic ocean that may well find its reflection in the physical ocean the rishi knows so well in his experience of life in ancient Bharat. The sea, the river, the ocean were and remain such vibrant parts of the culture that their incorporation in the hymns does suggest that the Vedic people did not descend upon the subcontinent from some land-locked location; which in any case finds no mention in the Rigveda, to my knowledge. But unless taken in its cosmic perspective, much of the true meaning is lost. Nor can the formulas involving cosmic energies (the Gods and Goddesses) of the Veda be applied today as they had been in the ancient past. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">For instance, Frawley refers to the births of Agastya and Vasishta as `born in a pot or kumbha', the Sanskrit word. He interprets this as `a vessel or a ship' to reinforce his theory of a seafaring civilisation. To begin, I must indeed agree with Witzel that for a civilisation at home with the oceans as Frawley sustains, one fails to understand why the rishi would need to make Agastya emerge from a pot if indeed he had been born at sea! A pot is a pot and a ship is a ship!</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>An important clue </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">More to the point, in making this deduction Frawley misses an important clue. Kumbha in the Rigveda is what it still is today, thousands of years after the hymns were recorded: the zodiacal sign Aquarius, the Water Carrier, who, from the jar he carries, dispenses upon the whole world the waters of a divine substance; it is known in Sanskrit as Kumbha. This is the same Kumbha that gives its name to the world-famous Mela we celebrate year after year during the very same zodiacal month of Kumbha (PNB, 1978, 1981, 2001, 2002).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">A point needs to be made here. Myths evolve from the cosmic script, and not the reverse. In the Indian context regarding the Kumbha Mela, mythology tells us that the precious amrit from the Moon was taken in a jar back to Earth. Where drops of this immortalising substance fell, the ground was sanctified. Thereafter, celebrations were held in those locations according to specific planetary progressions. We can recognise here elements of the same cosmic script in the pictograph of the Aquarius Water Carrier.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Indian scholars will contend that these zodiacal figures are equally `imports', similar to an `imported civilisation'. Therefore, those who seek to support their theories of an indigenous culture will argue that the zodiac as we know it today was brought to India by the Greeks, long after the Rigveda was penned; and that therefore its symbols cannot possibly be found in the Veda.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">These arguments are easily countered. A simple perusal of the praises to Vishnu (RV, I, 154) will prove that the so-called Western Zodiac was not only fully known in Vedic times but that it was a fundamental part of the culture (PNB, 1981). Vishnu's famous three strides (to measure the universe) cannot be more revealing. The first `step' is like a lion (Leo), according to the Veda; the second is a bull (Taurus); the third, and most revealing of all, is the Friend. This is the same Aquarius of Agastya's birth, which is also known as the sign of the Friend. More conclusively, they are given in their correct backward moving order, and are Vishnu's own zodiacal domains because of their quality of PRESERVATION (`Fixed' in zodiacal terminology, stable, balancing). This is just one among many explicit references in the Rigveda to the tropical zodiac with the same symbols still in use throughout the world, except in India. To further illustrate their universal reach, we find the very same images recorded in The Revelation of St John (Chapter 12, 7.), written on the Greek island, Patmos, around 70 AD (PNB, 1976). With respect to that same cosmic sea the visionary sees four `beasts' therein: the first is a Lion, the second is a Calf, the third is a Man, and the fourth an Eagle. If the Eagle, the fourth sign, was left out of Vishnu's measuring it is because this Eagle is Garuda, his own carrier. He begins his measuring from that point in the wheel, also known as Scorpio, and takes `three steps'. Scorpio, otherwise known as the zodiacal Eagle, would be the fourth in correct sequence, similar to John's text.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Vested interests</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The stumbling block in discovering the tropical zodiac in the Rigveda is another `lobby' we have to contend with: vested interests of the `Vedic Astrologers'. Witzel begins his rejoinder to Frawley by providing us with the latter's credentials as a prominent practitioner of this school, an `unacademic' pursuit.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I must take the matter a step further by reminding both Frawley and Witzel that the composers of the hymns did not have credentials that would satisfy contemporary academia. Their method of discovery was through Yoga, which opened up vistas as wide and as deep as the cosmic oceans of which they sang. To fathom the meaning of such texts it is clear that academic credentials are simply not enough; others are demanded. To begin, since the hymns reveal an indisputable cosmic content, surely this would be the best approach. But this is where the various `lobbies' come in with their vested interests.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Frawley will not be able to make use of the zodiacal clues such as the births of Agastya and Vasishta from a `kumbha' precisely because of his Vedic Astrology proficiency. Let it be clear that I make this point not to lend weight to Witzel's contention that this lessens Frawley's qualifications as a scholar, but rather that this involvement limits his perception.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Vedic Astrology is actually a misnomer. It has little to do with the Veda and should rather be called post-Vedic astrology (PNB, 2001, 2002). Though this would be a lengthy discussion and cannot be treated in this brief space, it has to be mentioned since it is responsible for the very clear cosmological/zodiacal content of the Veda to be missed. The propagators of so-called Vedic Astrology ignore references to the tropical zodiac simply because they refuse to believe that this zodiac, with the same hieroglyphs and pictographs we use today, can form a part of the Veda. This is another un-Vedic `import', it is believed, a foreign imposition of a much later date, and hence it cannot be found in the ancient Veda. What they fail to admit is that their so-called Vedic Astrology finds no place at all in that Veda!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Rigveda is replete with references to what is now considered a tropical zodiac import and in no way related to the sidereal zodiac in vogue for the past 1000 years in India. This is another case in point to support Frawley's closing statement, also quoted by Witzel but for different reasons. Frawley justifiably laments the fact that India, unlike any other nation on Earth, is so `negative' regarding the `ancient glories of its land'. Following Frawley's line, we must then question why India has such difficulty accepting the true origins of the zodiac used throughout the world today, clear traces of which are rooted in its own most ancient sacred text, thereby throwing an entirely new light on the subject of its origin as well as its age? This might well make India the originator of that cosmic script, and not Mesopotamia as currently believed. It would further clarify much of what is considered `history', such as the kumbha of Agastya's birth, mentioned above. Even more significantly, with this cosmological key, the Epics tell a very different story. Their `history' is revealed.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There can be no doubt that Witzel has dealt the knock-out punch, at least for this round. His reading of the text is closer to the original conception, though he has no cosmological foundation to interpret the images accurately. Nonetheless, by calling the Vedic ocean `mythical', and the description of the night time sky as that `ocean', he has pointed readers in the right direction. His reading of the text is certainly closer to the ancient spirit. I have given here only a few hints of the cosmological content of the Rigveda (for further discussion, see www.aeongroup.com). However, I must close by stating that history is indeed recorded in the Veda, as well as in the Epics, but one has to use correct cosmic formulas to make this discovery, bearing in mind that the ancients were not at all concerned with keeping records for posterity as we do today. Their concern was the vast movement of consciousness and the oneness of micro and macrocosm; and the eternal character of the cosmos is what adds a timeless value to the language they used to compose the hymns. If we learn that language we can easily understand what appear to be cryptic phrases. However, we must also bear in mind that the Rigveda is not a textbook or a manual. It is a collection of praises, hymns, in a free-flowing language whose multi-dimensions are largely ignored today. But in the Vedic Age, as the scripture reveals, this language was universal and required no elaboration. To make a connection with that ancient culture, we have to live the same inner experience, leaving aside the methods of scholarship for a while, as well as all our conditioned preferences and vested interests, if we want those symbols of another age to speak to us once again.</p><p style="text-align: right;">PATRIZIA NORELLI-BACHELET, Aeon Centre of Cosmology</p>Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-22345062498448094732023-03-10T20:00:00.038-08:002023-03-15T11:55:30.554-07:00 Turkey’s Twin Earthquakes– a Cosmological View<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe5dHR-SB6sKGZX_j4rutWN7k5UPpEO2g1539KedKc0Tj7xDeYgPxa9elbYlu2PdL6dPZDjPqa_v2zatptejfAlaD8tBZaedxsSuKP6vhDRGqcPcvt22GpRCPRT99pUQNzjfcDIyqpBO1ekPyojHl4XO4YCOqRtyC2Edoze8KjuFtp4eS-0i3dMahz/s1634/Geocosmology-Map-LT-Aquarius-Turkey-Syria-Earthquake-2023-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Geo-Cosmology of the Turkey earthquakes (6 Feb 2023), image by Lori Tompkins" border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1634" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe5dHR-SB6sKGZX_j4rutWN7k5UPpEO2g1539KedKc0Tj7xDeYgPxa9elbYlu2PdL6dPZDjPqa_v2zatptejfAlaD8tBZaedxsSuKP6vhDRGqcPcvt22GpRCPRT99pUQNzjfcDIyqpBO1ekPyojHl4XO4YCOqRtyC2Edoze8KjuFtp4eS-0i3dMahz/w640-h366/Geocosmology-Map-LT-Aquarius-Turkey-Syria-Earthquake-2023-01.png" title="Geo-Cosmology of the Turkey earthquakes (6 Feb 2023), image by Lori Tompkins" width="640" /></a></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">I have not given up on the task of finishing my current series <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" target="_blank">“The Spherical Gnosis of the Sage & the Release of the Vedic Waters”</a>. The final parts are mostly written but still need some significant work and editing. Before getting to that, I am going to briefly discuss some of the cosmology and symbols of Turkey’s twin earthquakes in the month of <b>Aquarius</b> in the<b> 7 Power </b>year of 2023 (2 + 0 + 2 + 3 = 7). The first of the two quakes ‒ a magnitude 7.8 on the Richter scale (USGS) <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/turkeys-twin-earthquakes-cosmological.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a></span></b> ‒ struck at <b>37°</b> Latitude and <b>37°</b> Longitude (<b>37</b>.166°N <b>37</b>.032°E), and the second ‒ a magnitude 7.5 on the Richter scale (USGS) ‒ was a bit northeast at 38.0235°N <b>37</b>.203°E. Interestingly enough the number 37 repeats itself in the date of the earthquakes, given that 6 February is the <b>37th</b> day (=<b>37°</b>) of the Gregorian calendar year, 1 January being the first day.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Together, these twin quakes (9 hours apart) caused the collapse of an estimated 6,400 of buildings, damaging tens of thousands more, making it painfully apparent that these buildings were not adequately constructed and fortified for the known seismic dangers of the region’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marash_Triple_Junction" target="_blank">triple junction of tectonic plates</a>. Approximately 53,000 people perished in these poorly constructed buildings. The images of the pancake collapse of multiple buildings and the aftermath in Turkey and Syria is reminiscent of the collapsing of the Twin Towers (and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_World_Trade_Center" target="_blank">WTC Building/Tower 7</a>) of 9-11. However, whereas the 9-11 collapses were contained or limited to a relatively small geographic area and a relatively small number of casualties in terms of the major impact that it had on the world, the twin quakes of 6 February effected wide-spread collapse across two countries and exponentially more mass-casualties. And, whereas 9-11 was a <i>fully</i> man-made disaster,—entirely born of humanity’s dimly-lit binary-mental consciousness and utilized as a catalyst by the United States to wage war in the Islamic countries of Afghanistan and Iraq—, the disaster of 6 February, which spread across the predominantly Islamic countries of Turkey and Syria, was <i>not entirely</i> man-made and had absolutely nothing to do with religious dogma, beliefs, extremism and terrorism or with geo-political machinations. The Earth’s own natural movements catalyzed the demolition of thousands of man-made structures that were built with little to no regard for the tectonic realities of that region of the Earth and no regard for the human life that would perish in the unfortified buildings. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Thus, the devastation of 6 February can be seen as a real symbol of the collapse of man-made structures that are grossly out of touch with the movements and realities of the Earth (=the Divine Feminine) as well as out of touch with the formidable pressures of Time/Chronos. The dramatic collapse of old and inadequate structures in Turkey and Syria can be seen as an appropriate symbol of the <b>Aquarian Age Apocalypse</b> wherein the unveiling or awakening of our Truth-Consciousness, by whatever name (divine, solar, spherical, supramental, etc.) unceremoniously dismantles the falsehoods and inadequacies of the old and short-sighted binary-mental-egoic consciousness.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Number Powers</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The repetition of the number <b>37</b> (= 36 + 1 = 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 1) in the dimensions of both Space and Time is an especially interesting feature of the 6 February quakes. Via Theosophical Addition (i.e., the process of “casting out nines”) <b>37</b> reduces to <b>10</b> and further to <b>1</b> (3 + 7 = 10 = 1 + 0 = 1). In Thea’s spherical, supramental cosmology and teachings, the number 10 speaks of the ONE/Divine Son born out the full 360° cycle/circle of 9, equivalent to Vishnu’s final Avatar, Kalki, who restores the Eternal Truth/Law (<i>Sanatana Dharma</i>) in our world.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In terms of individual number power, Thea saw the number 3—the number-power of her own birth year (1938), situated at 0° Leo in the Zodiac—as the number (or orbit) of the Earth and the Moon in our solar system, as well as the number corresponding to the Divine Individual – the Daughter-Child of the Divine Transcendent “Father” (9) and the Divine Cosmic “Mother” (6). In <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNW12.html" target="_blank">The New Way, Vols. 1&2</a></i> she wrote of the 3 Point/Power of the circle (of 9 and 12) as the “the new-born Soul of the Earth” that is the basis of the “gnostic society” arising on Earth in our Age of Aquarius. <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/turkeys-twin-earthquakes-cosmological.html#2a" id="2">[2]</a></span></b> In <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TGC.html" target="_blank">The Gnostic Circle</a> </i>(1975), she discussed the 3 Point/Power of the circle in terms of the activation of the soul’s inner guidance. “[T]he accomplishment of the 3 Point”, she wrote, is “the soul realisation”. She saw the number 7 (situated at 10° Capricorn in the Zodiac/Gnostic Circle) and 7 powered years, such as our current year, as corresponding to the revolutionary energies of the seventh planet of Uranus, which co-rules Aquarius (=Kumbha) with Saturn. </p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he number 7 which is 'the unexpected', 'the revolutionary', 'the transforming'. It is a power that indicates an intense 'shake up', a shaking of the foundations in order to eliminate the weak, the untruthful, the elements that refuse to change and that obstruct the descent and manifestation of the New. But the seven power and events arising out of its vibratory womb are only the initial happenings. The major feature of the number is 'the unexpected', thus it brings forward the very elements it seeks to overcome and to transform by allowing them an exultant rise, and in this way to cleanse the collective consciousness of the dead past and thereby open the doors to the new life.” – Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 159</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“Uranus is the planet of Transformation and consequently when its power is first felt it tends to act in a revolutionary manner, <b>stirring up all that has become erroneously settled in order</b> that new seeds be sown in the dimensions of consciousness. It is the ruler of the transitional phase; it is the ruler of Aquarius, the age the Earth has just entered.” – Ibid., p. 487 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Seven – the Number Power of the Apocalypse </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The astrological association of the seventh planet Uranus with the sudden shocks, breakthroughs, and transformation and the significance of the number 7 throughout our world’s ancient texts, myths, and religions are directly connected to the mythology of the Vedic Apocalypse, wherein <b>seven rivers</b> give birth to the Divine Sage-Son (Warrior, Hero, Savior, etc.). Upon his birth, together with Indra, this Sage-Son releases or pours out these rivers (=mothers, sisters, cows, mares, floods, drops of soma, etc.) from the hold or veils of Ignorance, and from their cave, container, or vessel (=the Aquarian Kumbha/Jar), thereby uplifting humanity (the “Man” of Aquarius) to the solar, spherical, and divine consciousness of the gods. This Vedic and zodiacal mythology is the forgotten basis of St. John’s Revelation/Apocalypse wherein <b>seven bowls or vials</b> are poured out upon the world in conjunction with the birth of the Divine Son (=the Lamb of God), as well as the forgotten basis of the astrological symbolism of the pouring out of the Aquarian Water Jar (Kumbha). </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipnf0tukE3gqzrlO7xIxXVva7SaNMwBLzEZVZ8QDR4tuO1O8O1LE_v6SRnfZW2Or8si-gPP8JTAGiTXVNQGe3vI2NLX5OLN-wGH-4QyYb8ClUdFp3chYq6ViVVqDPYIZsm8LfAXl3xvgAhcE02r_J1e9xwl_eN8jGRM3900TZt8kfFlxUWfPu7POlC/s514/Tower-Card-Tarot.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The Tower Card in the 1909 Rider–Waite tarot deck" border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipnf0tukE3gqzrlO7xIxXVva7SaNMwBLzEZVZ8QDR4tuO1O8O1LE_v6SRnfZW2Or8si-gPP8JTAGiTXVNQGe3vI2NLX5OLN-wGH-4QyYb8ClUdFp3chYq6ViVVqDPYIZsm8LfAXl3xvgAhcE02r_J1e9xwl_eN8jGRM3900TZt8kfFlxUWfPu7POlC/w187-h320/Tower-Card-Tarot.jpg" title="The Tower Card in the 1909 Rider–Waite tarot deck" width="187" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the pre-biblical Vedic Apocalypse—which is equivalent to the un-eclipsing of Mankind’s divine truth & light—the thunder god Indra hurls down a heavenly bolt of lightning, instantly shattering the structures, coverings and veils of Ignorance and Falsehood (=the accumulated obstructions of the fixed water sign of Scorpio), which had previously obstructed the free flow of the wisdom and purifying force of the seven rivers and their Divine Son. In the Tarot deck, this ancient Apocalypse, shows up as <b>the Tower Card </b>– bearing the number <b>16 (1 + 6 = 7)</b> – depicting a man-made tower destroyed by a lightning strike and fire, and two people falling out of the building headfirst towards the ground. This card, similar to the seventh planet Uranus, is said to signify “danger, crisis, sudden change, destruction, higher learning, and liberation”. <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/turkeys-twin-earthquakes-cosmological.html#3a" id="3">[3]</a></span></b> From an evolutionary standpoint, the lightning-strike demolition of the Tower can be seen as a fitting symbol of the quick and forceful dismantling not only of old, brittle and obsolete structures of our civilization, but also of the old, brittle and obsolete, linear-binary consciousness that created those structures. </div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is worth noting here that the <b>7-power</b> day of <b>7 February</b> 2023 (the day after the twin earthquakes in Turkey) marked the <b>7-year anniversary</b> of the initial 2016 download that led to the release (8 months later) of the geometric and zodiacal sense of these long veiled (=long-occulted) and long-misunderstood Vedic and Biblical symbols. And as I have discussed elsewhere, I consider my birth in the 7-power year of 1969 in the Uranian-ruled month of Aquarius to be integrally, cohesively, and supramentally connected to the 2016 download I received regarding the release of the seven rivers, vials or bowls of the Vedic and Biblical Apocalypse, equivalent in zodiacal lore to the release of the Aquarian Water Jar/Kumbha. It is also worth noting that the first day of our current 7-power year marked the 54-year anniversary of the Mother's pivotal experience, at the age of 90, of <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#:~:text=Excerpts%20from%20the%20Mother%27s%20Agenda" target="_blank">"the descent of the superman consciousness"</a> in the 7-power year of 1969.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Geo-Cosmology and Astrology</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Similar to the geo-cosmology of Russia’s initial 24 February 2022 invasion of Ukraine (see <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html" target="_blank">“The Convergence of Putin’s War & the Mother’s 144-Year Birth Anniversary ⁓ A Cosmological Perspective”</a>), the geo-cosmological placement of the Turkey/Syria earthquakes fell in the sign of Aquarius, both in latitude and longitude. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The coordinates of the first 7-plus earthquake of 6 February (37.166°N, 37.032°E) correspond approximately to <b>7°</b> <b>50' Aquarius</b> latitude and <b>22°</b> <b>58' Aquarius</b> longitude. The second 7-plus quake (38.0235°N, 37.203°E) correspond approximately to <b>8° 01' Aquarius</b> latitude and <b>22°</b> <b>48' Aquarius</b> longitude.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Wag1pMI2kTi_IvxyxIvEk0824JRo34sxf7sFYLJG0VCNcgGubZRjwPbtq6w-f960HvqCFFy2mEsOpja9OtbwR5FPh8M3sdZunIZ9UaivAzk53IYaXWip4MosTPtUTew7B3reATgphHkFAQckRuqHyOjvuD6dCngE1TRz4XlIKH4x1pMU8BWUl_o-/s1070/Turkey-Syria-Earthquake-2023-GeoCosmology-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Seismic impact map and Geo-Cosmology of Turkey earthquakes (6 Feb 2023)" border="0" data-original-height="965" data-original-width="1070" height="577" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Wag1pMI2kTi_IvxyxIvEk0824JRo34sxf7sFYLJG0VCNcgGubZRjwPbtq6w-f960HvqCFFy2mEsOpja9OtbwR5FPh8M3sdZunIZ9UaivAzk53IYaXWip4MosTPtUTew7B3reATgphHkFAQckRuqHyOjvuD6dCngE1TRz4XlIKH4x1pMU8BWUl_o-/w640-h577/Turkey-Syria-Earthquake-2023-GeoCosmology-01.png" title="Seismic impact map and Geo-Cosmology of Turkey earthquakes (6 Feb 2023)" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Whereas Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine began in the sun sign or zodiacal month of Pisces, the Turkey/Syria earthquake struck in the sun sign of Aquarius. Thus, this 2023 shock was fully Aquarian in the dimensions of both Space and Time. Also, if we convert the magnitude of the earthquakes into the dimensions and units of the circle of 9 and signs of the Zodiac, the 7.8 power of the initial earthquake corresponds to 12° Aquarius and the 7.5 magnitude of the second corresponds to 0° Aquarius. <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/turkeys-twin-earthquakes-cosmological.html#4a" id="4">[4]</a></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The geo-cosmological position of 7°-8° Aquarius latitude squared the 6 February position of the Lunar Nodes at <b>7° Taurus/Scorpio</b>; and <b>22°-23° Aquarius</b> longitude conjuncted the 6 February position of Saturn (26° Aquarius), within a 3° orb. The 22°-23° Aquarius longitude of the two earthquakes is intriguing in relation to what I have repeatedly <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#:~:text=Sri%20Aurobindo%20and%20his%20line" target="_blank">illustrated</a> and <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">discussed</a> regarding the Mother’s 22° Aquarius North Node, conjunct Mitra’s seat (<b>20° Aquarius</b>), conjunct my natal sun (24° Aquarius), and opposite Sri Aurobindo’s 22° Leo natal sun. In <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">“The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Water Sign Scorpio ⁓ Part 8.2 ⁓ The 8 Point of the Vedic Year”</a> I discussed and illustrated this zodiacal axis in relation to the 11 August 2022 Full Moon in Aquarius, wherein the Sun and Moon were positioned opposite each other respectively at <b>19° Leo/Aquarius</b>, square the Lunar Nodes, Uranus and Mars in the Taurus/Scorpio. Saturn’s position in this chart was positioned at <b>22° Aquarius</b>, conjunct the Full Moon in Aquarius.</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90__i_FX4410C9eWDFjI19qkJsf4592JFVDZM_pAy4an87TfqolTEFktz_FUqEWCaBCLrrNgIMfjKsU5SEvk6T1zD1f5oDVl4anWafaXgeSbvO1O7T7LarEUkYtG1qYbMhnJ5jzVfAjq2UJaJ63Ekz6bGKIdpYWdF4TAsZn7YoxZH8wbQmOKwbQrS/s326/Full-Moon-Grand-Cross-Aug-2022-sm-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Vishnu's Fixed Sign Cross - 11 August 2022 Full Moon in Aquarius (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90__i_FX4410C9eWDFjI19qkJsf4592JFVDZM_pAy4an87TfqolTEFktz_FUqEWCaBCLrrNgIMfjKsU5SEvk6T1zD1f5oDVl4anWafaXgeSbvO1O7T7LarEUkYtG1qYbMhnJ5jzVfAjq2UJaJ63Ekz6bGKIdpYWdF4TAsZn7YoxZH8wbQmOKwbQrS/s16000/Full-Moon-Grand-Cross-Aug-2022-sm-01.png" title="Vishnu's Fixed Sign Cross - 11 August 2022 Full Moon in Aquarius (Lori Tompkins)" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">“The month of Leo (2022) brought with it some potent astrological transits, including a rare Mars-Uranus-North Node conjunction at 18° Taurus, opposite the South Node at 18° Scorpio, both squaring <b>Saturn at 22° Aquarius</b>. On the Full Moon of 11 August, <b>the Sun and Moon (19° Leo/Aquarius)</b> axis lined up with Saturn and formed a Fixed Sign Grand Cross, squaring the Lunar Nodes, Uranus and Mars, highlighting all four of Vishnu’s fixed or preservation signs: Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius – the full original Sphinx of the Zodiac (Bull, Lion, Eagle and Man). I have highlighted this Grand Cross above, and marked the <b>8 Point (20° Aquarius)</b> of the Vedic/Zodiacal Year.</div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“In this installment of the series I will attempt to flush out the significance of the 8 Point– which Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea) saw as Mitra’s seat – in relation to current transits and events and in relation to the Supramental Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, whose natal Sun position or solar seat in the Zodiac is <b>22° Leo, i.e., opposite Mitra’s seat at 20° Aquarius</b>, via 2° orb.” – <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#:~:text=This%20series%20was%20inspired%20or%20seeded" target="_blank">"The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Water Sign Scorpio ⁓ Part 8.2 ⁓ The 8 Point of the Vedic Year"</a> (3 September 2022)</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">When the Moon returned to conjunct Saturn at 20° Aquarius that next month, Queen Elizabeth II passed.</p><blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The conjunction of Saturn and the Moon at 20° Aquarius circa the time of the Queen's passing is especially notable in relation to what I discussed in Part 8.2 regarding Mitra's seat at 20° Aquarius. If we compare the chart of the August 2022 Full Moon in Aquarius (see Part 8.2) and the chart of 8 September 2022, 2:30 p.m. above, we can see that the Moon returned to a conjunction with the 8 Point (Mitra's seat), conjunct Saturn and square Uranus, circa the time of the Queen’s passing.” – <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/addendum-2-queen-elizabeth-ii-fixed.html" target="_blank">"Addendum-2 ⁓ Queen Elizabeth II ⁓ the Fixed Sign Cross & Transits of Her Passing"</a> (22 September 2022)</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The first earthquake of 6 February took place half a year (or more precisely 179 days) after that Full Moon in Aquarius (11 August 2022), seven hours after the <b>Full Moon in Leo</b> wherein the Sun and Moon were positioned directly opposite each other at <b>16° Aquarius/Leo</b>, again conjunct and opposite Mitra’s seat (via a 4° orb). Notably, the February Full Moon in Leo closely conjuncted, opposed and squared the midpoints of Vishnu’s fixed sign cross<span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">—</span>i.e., the Intercardinal Points of 15° Taurus, 15° Leo, 15° Scorpio, 15° Aquarius<span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">—</span>that forms the central <b>X</b> of Earth’s Solar/Zodiacal Year. 16° Aquarius and 16° Leo can both be considered 7 powered (and thus Uranian in nature) by adding the 1 and 6 of 16. However, when we add the full count of the degrees within the 360° circle — 16° Leo = <b>136°</b> and 16° Aquarius = <b>316°</b> — both of these degrees reduce, like the number <b>37</b>, to 10 via the sum of 1, 3, and 6, which further reduces to 1 when we <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casting_out_nines" target="_blank">cast out the nine</a> (3 + 6 = 9).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Hjphv3iWlkvzvtXE6dmJHOoCnlYYSKdNuc5Mn7fi2fQ1M-MQry5zgJOyddalQKSSCBTzSYelCv0cgWy9UREg0IsyQDPjsxy3YWplKeHMkbqYdk_ZQMAwm-se4IUrEVlqsShZITr8-HsoSIKCa1w3gVNQ5iFHLT5lpKoCq44JAM8qfZybRGKjv669/s655/Turkey-Syria-Earthquake-Chart-2023-Full-Moon-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Vishnu's Fixed Sign Cross - Astrology Chart of the Turkey Earthquakes-6 February 2023, Full Moon in Leo (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="575" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Hjphv3iWlkvzvtXE6dmJHOoCnlYYSKdNuc5Mn7fi2fQ1M-MQry5zgJOyddalQKSSCBTzSYelCv0cgWy9UREg0IsyQDPjsxy3YWplKeHMkbqYdk_ZQMAwm-se4IUrEVlqsShZITr8-HsoSIKCa1w3gVNQ5iFHLT5lpKoCq44JAM8qfZybRGKjv669/s16000/Turkey-Syria-Earthquake-Chart-2023-Full-Moon-01.png" title="Vishnu's Fixed Sign Cross - Astrology Chart of the Turkey Earthquakes-6 February 2023, Full Moon in Leo (Lori Tompkins)" /></a></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The image above shows the Moon (<b>20° Leo</b>) having moved slightly beyond its direct opposition to the Sun (<b>16° Aquarius</b>) at the time of the 7.8 earthquake, and it shows the flipped oppositions of the Sun and the Moon. Note that any two Full Moons falling six months (half a year) apart will be flipped conjunct the same zodiacal axis. <b>The Moon’s position at 20° Leo</b> at the time of the first earthquake puts it in direct opposition to Mitra’s seat in the Zodiac (<b>20° Aquarius</b>), and opposite the <b>22° Aquarius</b> longitudinal position of the Turkey earthquakes.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[W]hen you see things with [the Supramental] Consciousness, the PERFECTION of the organization is so TREMENDOUS that you are … you’re almost terrified!… We are in the presence of hidden wonders that elude us completely because we’re idiots. There. But with this Consciousness, there is the why of everything...." – The Mother, 3 May 1969, <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 10</i></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">From the vantage point of the all-encompassing supramental consciousness, no detail of our individual or collective lives and circumstance – i.e. of our evolution – is random. Everything is a living and real symbol that can be read like the proverbial writing on the wall. With this in mind, the events of 6 February 2023 in the Aquarian quadrant of Earth can be seen as an intensified and concentrated view and symbol of what will no longer be allowed to stand in our world as we progress through the Age of Aquarius. This intensification and concentration has corresponded with Saturn’s movement through Aquarius (co-ruled by Saturn and Uranus) since the March Equinox of 2000. The collapse of the OLD will continue to intensify after Saturn moves out of Aquarius on 7/8 March 2023, thanks to Pluto’s movement into Aquarius just after the 2023 March Equinox, where it will remain (save a 9 months sojourn back into Capricorn) until 2044. <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/turkeys-twin-earthquakes-cosmological.html#5a" id="5">[5]</a></span></b> Pluto presents the energies of deep transformation based on core truths that can no longer be hidden or repressed, and structures, beliefs and ideas that can no longer be defended and sustained. Pluto transiting through Aquarius promises to be a time of global transformation fueled by Aquarian and Uranian rebellion against toxic structures, ignorance and ideas which obstruct the free-flow and experience of our Truth, Consciousness and Bliss (<i>Sat-Chit-Ananda</i>).</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The 2016-2025 Ennead </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The last thing I want to note regarding the Turkey earthquakes and disaster is that, in terms of our current 9-year cycle or ennead (2016-2025), 6 February 2023 fell in the <i>triṁśamśā</i> (=zodiacal degree) of <b>14° Capricorn</b>, one degree shy of <b>15° Capricorn</b> which Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet discussed at length in <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i>, as corresponding not only to her 5 January birthday, but also to the peak of Mt. Meru (Mt. Kailash) in the Himalayas, known as Shiva’s seat in Hindu mythology. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he five degrees on the Gnostic Circle between Varuna<b style="font-size: small;"> </b>(10° Capricorn [=the 7/Uranus Point of the Zodiac]) and the Eye of Shiva (15° Capricorn) are the 'degrees of the Room [=the inner chamber of the Mother’s Temple]'. Varuna thus opens the doors to this chamber of new knowledge that is eternal and indeed lets 'new truth be born'.” – Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 392 [Text in brackets added.]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Thea saw Varuna as equivalent to the 7th planet Uranus, seated at 10° Capricorn – the 7 Point – of the Zodiac/Gnostic Circle. <b style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/turkeys-twin-earthquakes-cosmological.html#6a" id="6">[6]</a></b> In terms of enneadic cycles, 15-24 February of any 7-power year (including 2023) corresponds to 15° Capricorn. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/turkeys-twin-earthquakes-cosmological.html#7a" id="7"><b>[7]</b></a></span> 1 July 2023 will mark our enneadic entrance into the sign of Aquarius. 9 months later, on 1 April 2024 we will enter into Pisces, the last sign of the ennead. 9 months after that we will complete the current ennead and begin a new 9-year cycle (ennead) on 1 January 2025.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOtllGPZc7glDMlonE9P52zYA-g_4ogjeypu3qI6AF1oJ9MRrIGszLc1kLDqZUGPkl2LLsdzX1PeFh39BAe2WsZvzmwGw8YxtMKwDA8P3S7X3ecsCJw9clzrYEA5gTx9K45hpf3ncPdfVu8ybQwrAtEGvh6J-BBjDaLQW3XAHIA2JPIZFzka2Od4uM/s771/2016-2025-Ennead-Capricorn-Aquarius-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="2016-2025 Ennead, highlighting the Cancer-Capricorn and Leo-Aquarius axes of the Zodiac (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="771" height="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOtllGPZc7glDMlonE9P52zYA-g_4ogjeypu3qI6AF1oJ9MRrIGszLc1kLDqZUGPkl2LLsdzX1PeFh39BAe2WsZvzmwGw8YxtMKwDA8P3S7X3ecsCJw9clzrYEA5gTx9K45hpf3ncPdfVu8ybQwrAtEGvh6J-BBjDaLQW3XAHIA2JPIZFzka2Od4uM/w640-h634/2016-2025-Ennead-Capricorn-Aquarius-01.png" title="2016-2025 Ennead, highlighting the Cancer-Capricorn and Leo-Aquarius axes of the Zodiac (Lori Tompkins)" width="640" /></a></div>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Endnotes:</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/turkeys-twin-earthquakes-cosmological.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> GEOSCOPE measured the magnitude of these two earthquakes, respectively as 8.0 and 7.7.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/turkeys-twin-earthquakes-cosmological.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a> Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2,</i> p. 332</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/turkeys-twin-earthquakes-cosmological.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a> Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_(tarot_card)#:~:text=%5Bedit%5D-,The%20Tower,-is%20sometimes%20interpreted" target="_blank">The Tower (tarot card), symbolism</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/turkeys-twin-earthquakes-cosmological.html#4" id="4a">[4]</a> (<b>7.8</b> ÷ 9) x 360° = 312° = 12° Aquarius<br /> (<b>7.5</b> ÷ 9) x 360° = 300° = 0° Aquarius</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/turkeys-twin-earthquakes-cosmological.html#5" id="5a">[5]</a> See: <a href="https://pandoraastrology.com/pluto-in-aquarius-2023-2024/" target="_blank">Pluto in Aquarius 2023-2044: A Transformation of Ideals</a> (Fran Xin Yi, January 5, 2023) for a timeline of Pluto’s movement (direct and retrograde) through Aquarius. From that article: “Pluto in Aquarius will unfold a new era of transforming toxicity in the realm of politics, humanitarianism, social justice, science, technology, social media, and the internet. Additionally, this transit will affect our notion of freedom and free speech. We will experience revolution surrounding our relationship to power and control.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/turkeys-twin-earthquakes-cosmological.html#6" id="6a">[6]</a> In 1934 Georges Dumézil identified the Vedic god Varuna as the 7th planet Uranus. Many however associate Varuna with the 8th planet Neptune. The confusion is due to Varuna being both a god of the sky (Ouranos) and of the waters (Neptune). In <i>The Secret of the Veda</i> Sri Aurobindo briefly referred to this split-view of Varuna. He wrote, <span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 3%;">"[I]t is obvious that Varuna is not merely a Vedic Uranus or Neptune, but a god with great and important moral functions." In Thea's view </span>Varuna, whose <i>vahana</i> (vehicle) is a crocodile/<i>makara</i>, is equivalent the 7th planet Uranus, seated at the 7 Point (10° Capricorn/Makar) of the Vedic Year (=the Zodiac and Gnostic Circle), and Mitra (=the Friend) is equivalent to the 8th planet Neptune (god of the sea), seated at the 8 Point (20° Aquarius) of the Zodiac.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/03/turkeys-twin-earthquakes-cosmological.html#7" id="7a">[7]</a> Likewise, 6-15 February of each 7-powered year is equivalent to the <i>triṁśamśā</i> of 14° Capricorn in the enneadic cycle. Thus, my 12 February birth in 1969 fell three days shy of the 15° Capricorn <i>triṁśamśā</i> in the ennead of 1962-1971, and the Mother's 91st birthday, 9 days later on 21 February 1969, fell in the 15° Capricorn <i>triṁśamśā</i>.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">If you value the </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b>original research and content made freely </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b><br />available on this blog</b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a></div></div>
Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-1731714427206004522022-12-21T12:00:00.026-08:002023-03-10T10:17:35.131-08:00Vishnu's Turtle Avatar & the Tropical Zodiac ⁓ Happy Winter Solstice/Makar Sankranti 2022 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49aNf_pNsxCieg4BHrF4ir1Ozp2Lupv1EY23GtgIPOejYfXbe02Grku8xH1hb5MJXty5083DXvBGvvN5jk272tWAANkOBRCxe6Vc7UtOVaA5hTf_R4q584yj9JF8_cOEhqKx4jUC-di8N_i6pG67nIVwI7FIXMU93emDQV5mzsIbmPvkM0g2XCCpW/s600/Kurma-World-Turtle-Vishnu-Flower-Zodiac-Sun-wide-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Vishnu the Preserver as Kurma Avatar (“The World Turtle”) & His Four Preservation Signs (Image by Lori Tompkins, December Solstice, 2022)" border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49aNf_pNsxCieg4BHrF4ir1Ozp2Lupv1EY23GtgIPOejYfXbe02Grku8xH1hb5MJXty5083DXvBGvvN5jk272tWAANkOBRCxe6Vc7UtOVaA5hTf_R4q584yj9JF8_cOEhqKx4jUC-di8N_i6pG67nIVwI7FIXMU93emDQV5mzsIbmPvkM0g2XCCpW/w640-h480/Kurma-World-Turtle-Vishnu-Flower-Zodiac-Sun-wide-01.png" title="Vishnu the Preserver as Kurma Avatar (“The World Turtle”) & His Four Preservation Signs (Image by Lori Tompkins, December Solstice, 2022)" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Vishnu the Preserver as Kurma Avatar (“The World Turtle”) & His Four Preservation Signs</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Image by Lori Tompkins, 2022 December Solstice</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Happy December Solstice to all. This holy day (holiday) marks the entrance into the zodiacal sign of Capricorn/Makar (Makar Sankranti), and with it the "Return of the Light" of the Sun in the Northern Hemisphere. On this sacred day, I am presenting the above image which visually demonstrates the original Vedic, zodiacal, and geometric context and key of the mythology and iconography of Vishnu's Sanatana-Dharma-saving Kurma Avatar, aka the World Turtle who shows up in many ancient cultures of the world. As presented in <i><a href="https://360lotus.com/book" target="_blank"><b>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</b></a></i> (2018, book), I began seeing, discussing and illustrating the geometric and zodiacal basis of Vishnu's Avatar's circa the March Equinox of 2016, the year of Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's (Thea's) passing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI-tFmcFEenMS8O9NPvJLCKSKbrrucK7aZKRA5crDU2vhdmosgswzYQswNZuC5PlDup8DXanT0tEhNOQWzQs_VFG3Ownd39S0IY7RyI2rI2xbz4QWo8OOkRfRnDViTKHMQGNbIKKkucQvkVwJI9I3Diltjq-l9HkkHQ0HM_J2a4VZ9m5iY6YfeUClJ/s2400/Matsya-VP-Turtle-Vishnu's-Flower.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="2400" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI-tFmcFEenMS8O9NPvJLCKSKbrrucK7aZKRA5crDU2vhdmosgswzYQswNZuC5PlDup8DXanT0tEhNOQWzQs_VFG3Ownd39S0IY7RyI2rI2xbz4QWo8OOkRfRnDViTKHMQGNbIKKkucQvkVwJI9I3Diltjq-l9HkkHQ0HM_J2a4VZ9m5iY6YfeUClJ/w515-h177/Matsya-VP-Turtle-Vishnu's-Flower.bmp" width="515" /></a><br /><b style="font-size: small;"><i>Image from Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i>, p. 123</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The new image of Kurma I am presenting today was inspired by the image I constructed earlier this year of Matsya Avatar (the Fish) positioned inside the figure and sacred measure of the Vesica Piscis, which powerfully conveys the geometric basis of Vishnu's Matsya Avatar and related world mythologies. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW_YqE2N_EGVn_LKyWQm0CeZXzqxTMEpx8W5RaSJakOxmNAlaT5um7LnN7FLMnRLtMN52Xd-oCkBedQc7-qkLNm70CyKuoHxCK9ot5n3pyn97qeFku1zcSQHb2OIy4ZSQkiqhydCB7UrdF_UQnV02lUQVN6C2DXNXAiQhnC0A8CXH86tzMEirNPLa3/s1840/VP-Matsya-Vishnu-color-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1276" data-original-width="1840" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW_YqE2N_EGVn_LKyWQm0CeZXzqxTMEpx8W5RaSJakOxmNAlaT5um7LnN7FLMnRLtMN52Xd-oCkBedQc7-qkLNm70CyKuoHxCK9ot5n3pyn97qeFku1zcSQHb2OIy4ZSQkiqhydCB7UrdF_UQnV02lUQVN6C2DXNXAiQhnC0A8CXH86tzMEirNPLa3/w384-h267/VP-Matsya-Vishnu-color-01.png" width="384" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">If I had included the zodiacal measure in the <i>orange</i> circle above, the entrance into and hieroglyph of Pisces (Matsya/Mina) would fall at the intersection of the two circles (= the top of the Vesica Piscis/Mandorla). See: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#:~:text=common%20Two%20Fish-,symbol%20of%20Pisces.%C2%A0,-Amazingly%20enough%2C%20in" target="_blank"><b>"The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Sign of Scorpio ⁓ Part Four ⁓ The Vedic Sense and Geometry of the Water Sign Hieroglyphs"</b></a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In the Fall of 2022, I set upon constructing the new illustration of Kurma to present on the 2022 Winter Solstice, in order to more powerfully and compactly convey the zodiacal and geometric basis of Vishnu's Turtle Avatar. This image includes several sacred symbols and numbers inside itself: the Sun Symbol (circle and point), Vishnu's Satkona (six-angled/pointed star, aka the Star of David), the four overlapped Vesicae Piscis<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> (</span></span>partially obscured by the inner circle containing the Satkona) that measure out the Zodiac from the four Cardinal Points of the Earth's Solar-Tropical Year (=the four Equinoctial and Solstitial Points of the Earth's Year), the twelve-division and twelve signs of the Zodiacal Year, and the 24-hour division of the Earth's Day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I am publishing this image as a visual catalyst towards the reestablishment of the divine/solar measure and Sanatana Dharma (Eternal Law/Truth) of the Tropical Zodiac in India, as well as the reestablishment of the geometric and zodiacal sense of the Rig Veda in India and throughout the world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea) began discussing Vishnu the Preserver and his ten avatars (including Sri Aurobindo) in relation to the four preservation signs and ages of the Zodiac in <i>The Gnostic Circle</i> (written in 1973, the year of the Mother's passing). She wrote dozens of series and articles on the necessity of India's reestablishment of the Solar/Tropical measure of the Vedic Year as the basis for its sacred holy days, festivals, and ceremonies. In her view, India's destiny of becoming World Guru (Vishwa Guru) is not possible without India's recognition and realignment with the true, solar measure of the Zodiac, as well as its recognition of the zodiacal basis of the Rig Veda and its 360° sacrifice/yajna. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">On the revamped <a href="http://www.360lotus.com"><b>www.360lotus.com</b></a> website, I added a <b><a href="https://360lotus.com/the-vedic-year" target="_blank">"VEDIC YEAR"</a></b> page consisting of links to Thea's many writings on India's mismeasure of the Vedic Year/Zodiac and the need to realign with the Solar/Tropical Year in the observance and celebration of sacred holidays, such as Makar Sankranti (the entrance into the sign of Capricorn). All of the annual Indian holy days and festivals that are calculated using the various sidereal mismeasures of the Zodiac Year are celebrated some 23-24 days late. In the case of <b><a href="https://360lotus.com/articles#:~:text=Kumbha%20Mela%20and%20the%20Reestablishment%20of%20India%27s%20Truth%20and%20Power%20in%20the%20World" target="_blank">the Kumbha Mela, this mismeasure amounts to years</a></b>. In the case of lunar-based zodiacally calculated festivals such as the Navaratri, this mismeasure amounts to a month. Any who are interested in learning about or in helping to correct this mismeasure of the Vedic Year/Zodiac in India, please read <a href="https://360lotus.com/the-vedic-year" target="_blank"><b>Thea's in-depth writings on the subject</b></a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I will get back to writing/finishing the <b><a href="https://360lotus.com/articles#:~:text=THE%20SPHERICAL%20GNOSIS%20OF%20THE%20SAGE%20%26%20THE%20RELEASE%20OF%20THE%20VEDIC%20WATERS%20(2022%2D23)" target="_blank">Spherical Gnosis of the Sage and the Release of the Vedic Waters</a></b> series in the New Year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;">May we all experience the Return of the Light </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">of the unifying Truth-Consciousness-Bliss of the Soul</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">in our lives and in our world.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a></div></div>Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-88104972876902526362022-12-07T13:20:00.006-08:002024-01-07T18:09:50.187-08:00The Spherical Gnosis of the Sage & the Release of the Vedic Waters ⁓ Part 4 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHp076IuzBHQchsGB-aTFZAFX2wqVmn8Tw43rPolzIs1DbXQ1DMhk6wI3aur7FBhpMjgNaqrHJvh1ZL-ZV0DMs-1PVy58spTr6V9serHgm4lkmHmjZhKITqeS242BwfQwB3vnj97_R4osYSSFBEtdJW-ZQRRrvqyIaZm9gWgT099S8t5flTqMOFEhP/s1280/sun-4545682_1280.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="1280" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHp076IuzBHQchsGB-aTFZAFX2wqVmn8Tw43rPolzIs1DbXQ1DMhk6wI3aur7FBhpMjgNaqrHJvh1ZL-ZV0DMs-1PVy58spTr6V9serHgm4lkmHmjZhKITqeS242BwfQwB3vnj97_R4osYSSFBEtdJW-ZQRRrvqyIaZm9gWgT099S8t5flTqMOFEhP/w640-h426/sun-4545682_1280.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">[Link to Part <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" target="_blank">1</a>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html" style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">5</a><span style="font-size: small;"> or </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">6</a><span style="font-size: small;">]</span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[One] stands at the heart of the cosmos, so to speak, like the Sun in our solar system. Only a person whose consciousness is thus poised can follow the movements of the Supramental Shakti which are entirely spherical and never linear.”</span> – Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, “<a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/vedic-symbol-of-the-universe-part-3-2/" target="_blank">Vedic Symbol of the Universe – Part 3.2"</a> (1994)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“All paradoxes resolve themselves in the spherical womb of the supramental Gnosis.”</span> – Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/the-way-of-the-alchemist/" target="_blank">“The Way of the Alchemist”</a> (1989)</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"></p><blockquote style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The old world of a mental linear perception is collapsing, while simultaneously the new creation of the truth-conscious Supermind is arising.” </span><span style="text-align: center;">– </span>Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/extracts-theas-journal/" target="_blank">“The Strategy, the Battle and the Nature of the Victory-1”</a> (1989)</blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">***</p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet on the Shift from the Linear-Binary Mental Consciousness to the Spherical-Solar Supramental Consciousness </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">[Link to Part <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" target="_blank">2</a> or <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html" target="_blank">3</a>]</div><p style="text-align: justify;">In <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html" target="_blank">Part 3</a> I presented and discussed Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet’s (Thea’s) supramental initiations and initial revelations regarding the spherical gnosis of the 9 base of our number system and of the 360° Circle of the Zodiac which is the foundation of her Supramental Yoga and Cosmology. The following excerpts from her writings, spanning from 1977 through 2015, highlight her understanding of our current evolutionary transformation—in the Aquarian Age of <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#9th-Manifestation" target="_blank"><b>the 9th Manifestation of the Maha Yuga Cycle</b></a>—as the shift from the <b>linear-binary</b> mental consciousness to the <b>circular-spherical-solar</b> supramental consciousness, as well as her own key role in this shift. Keep in mind that Thea’s understanding of this shift was born out of her own direct experience of the descent of the spherical consciousness and gnosis from 1970 onwards. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In one of these excerpts, Thea mentions the decline of Indian civilization and the loss of the Divine Maya (=Divine Measure) <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">[1]</span></b> as a displacement of “the Vedic spherical perceptive capacity”, by the linear consciousness. Once we understand this real predicament, it makes perfect sense that the reemergence of the “spherical perspective capacity” or consciousness of the Vedic Rishis in the Age of Aquarius/Kumbha, necessarily corresponds to the shattering of the “cave” of long-held linear-mental misunderstandings of the Rig Veda, and the release of the spherical context and basis of the symbols therein, including the release of the spherical basis and sense of the Seven Rivers-Mothers-Cows and their conquering Son (=the Sage-Horse Agni = Soma Pavamana). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In another excerpt below, we find the powerful statement: “<b>It is this spherical consciousness that India is destined to export beyond her borders</b>.” This high destiny is destined to come to pass once the people of India, in sufficient mass, cultivate the seed of the solar-spherical Vedic consciousness (and concomitantly <a href="https://360lotus.com/the-vedic-year" target="_blank"><b>recover the divine/solar measure of the 360° Vedic Year/Zodiac</b></a>) in their own consciousness and in their lives. It is this seed and divine measure which Sri Aurobindo descended as Vishnu’s supramental avatar, along with his female collaborators, to reestablish in India and in the world in Vishnu’s Age of Aquarius (=Age of Kumbha). This destiny of India—demanding HER realignment with the Divine Measure of the Vedic Year <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>[2]</b></span>—is imminently realizable as a direct result of Sri Aurobindo’s avataric descent and yoga, which boils down to the unveiling or eclipsing (=the apocalypse/revelation) and re-birth of the solar-spherical consciousness in our world. This victory of our spherical, solar consciousness naturally illuminates, breaks through, removes and purifies the obstructions, falsehoods and distortions of humanity’s fragmented and linear mental consciousness. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The first excerpts below are from Thea’s books, <i><b><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNW12.html" target="_blank">The New Way, Vols. 1&2</a></b></i> (written in 1977), <i><b><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNW3.html" target="_blank">The New Way, Vol. 3</a></b></i> (written in 1983), and <i><b><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TI.html" target="_blank">Time and Imperishability</a></b></i> (written in 1985-86), followed by excerpts from articles in <i><b><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/" target="_blank">The Vishaal Newsletter</a></b> </i>(1985-1995), and a couple from Thea’s 2015 articles. All bold emphasis in these excerpts is added.</p><p></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[The state of identification with the Supreme Will] implies <b>a consciousness that is spherical in perceptive capacity and not linear</b>; it is a consciousness that has perceived the fundamental principles of cosmic existence, that has experienced the harmonisation of Time and Space dimensions, and in this realisation has come to know that such an experience of Harmony in his consciousness is what renders the dimensions of Space infinite, and those of Time eternal. The realisation of cosmic harmony places the Supreme in creation and not beyond and grants the understanding that there is no tomorrow, no hereafter, no other place for the realisation of God,—but only here and now.” </span><span>– Thea, <i>The New Way, Volumes 1 & 2</i>, pp. 172-73 </span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The human being's conception of [Time] is entirely divided. <b>Past, present and future belong to separate compartments of his consciousness because of his linear perceptive capacity. In the chamber in heaven, where one sees Time, perception is spheric</b>, and by nature of its concentric wholeness the initiate is brought into the kingdom of Simultaneous Time. This is a realm illumined by the truth-consciousness, and the bridge to it is the Supermind…. [The consciousness of simultaneous time perception…simply means a consciousness that has evolved beyond mind to the experience of Oneness.” </span><span>– Ibid., p. 201</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“In the Gnostic Circle, the Head and Tail of the serpent is the 0/9 point where the two superimposed circles of 9 and 12 join. Opposite to this is the 4.5 Orbit, the domain of Pluto, Hades of the hidden sun. This is the Asteroid Belt, and its physical properties explain the process: therein a pulverisation of energy, of the hidden sun, occurs,—the means by which <b>the movement of Time in Space is made spherical, not linear, and hence eternal</b>.” </span><span>– Ibid., p. 262 </span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The new world is already here, in our very midst. Our task is simply to make an effort to see, to rend the veils clouding the eye of perception and to allow the higher realities of life to take their place in our world…. This is not a process projected into an indeterminate future. This is in no way a Utopia toward which we are advancing, because the utopian way is an illusion…, The utopian formula, as it is known today, is thoroughly linear.… <b>[T]he real process of evolution which is spheric, ever and always</b>. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Hence it is that the linear (utopian) process is divisive, tends invariably to a depletion of energies and a weakening of the power of effective action and can only produce a society hopelessly entangled in the web of separative and disharmonious being. <b>The linear way is the mental way; the spheric belongs to a perceptive capacity above Mind.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>“In the process delineated in The New Way this spherical method is established by means of a radically different vision of Time.</b> One is made to see the all-encompassing nature of Time and how essential it is to find the roots of the new society in the present, in the Eternal Now. By this vision alone can all the elements be incorporated simultaneously in the process at any given moment. Thus, nothing is excluded from the globular seeing…. Because of the demands of <b>the Time-Spirit, who sees and acts unitedly and spherically</b>, the so-called negative elements exist and have their just share in the work in order that this very work be accomplished.” </span><span>– Ibid., pp. 520-21</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">****</span></p><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[W]e can accomplish [the realization of Oneness] only when we first perceive that on the basis of Mind there is no possibility of unity. Mind breeds division when it is the regent light, as the story of the complete Bible ‒ Old and New Testaments ‒ reveals. Throughout the ages we have only known the brittle process of fragmentation. The mental consciousness of the human being, upon which our present society is built, is harsh and angular; its linear directive imposes attitudes that are foreign to elements in evolution, and in consequence violence is the result of its rule. <b>The spherical consciousness must replace the old one, and the feminine principles of Harmony and Oneness must become the foundations of the new way. Unification of the Many arises on this basis</b>….</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“With the dawn of the new age (1926) the clear signs appeared on the horizon of world history indicating that humankind now aspires for <b>the emergence of some sort of universal brotherhood, for indeed this is the meaning of Aquarius. Thus we learn by this that the aspiration is not isolated from the cosmic harmony</b>; on the contrary, the human collective urge reveals itself to be in complete attunement with the Time-Spirit of the cosmos. Indeed we move toward a new world order, accompanying our cosmic passage into a new age.” </span><span>– Thea, <i>The New Way, Vol. 3</i>, pp. 56-57</span></p></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>When the consciousness perceives spherically and leaves the linear method of perception the first result is a truer vision</b>. It is largely characterised by a consciousness and being that knows the creator and the created as one, that knows <i>all</i> aspects of creation to be within the Creator, that there is nothing outside, beyond or separate. There is the experience of Oneness. In this consciousness we can no longer place evil on one side and good on another, one outside God, the other within. These concepts, such as an extra-cosmic heaven, reveal themselves to be simply puerile attempts of the adolescent mind of evolving humanity to accommodate the Supreme Reality into its incomplete and insufficient scope of perception.” </span><span>– Ibid, p. 99</span></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>When Whole Time is the experience then we enter the spherical realm of awareness and the cage of mind is surpassed</b>. This, however, is the most interesting ‒ and dolorous ‒ part of the path for the supramental yogi. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The known paths, all of them, have dealt with this problem in almost identical ways and it is precisely the achievements of the great sages since the time of the Rig Veda which have served to <b>fortify the barrier, making it nearly Impossible to bring down</b>. Sri Aurobindo refers to this time and again in his writings. He states in a letter to a disciple, </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">‘This yoga aims at the conscious union with the Divine in the sµpermind and the transformation of the nature. The ordinary yogas go straight from Mind into some featureless condition of the cosmic silence and through it try to disappear upward into the Highest. The object of this yoga is to Transcend Mind and enter into the Divine Truth of Sachchidananda which is not only static but dynamic and raise the whole being into that truth.'” </span><span><b>[3]</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote><p style="text-align: right;"><span><span>– Ibid, p. 271</span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>[T]he element we are dealing with is whole time, a total and spheric experience of time</b> based on the fact that the consciousness is perfectly centred, perfectly poised in time and space, perfectly expressive of the harmonisation of contraction and expansion. If then whole time is the experience, it is understood that when the centering occurs the effect is not simply felt in one's future but rather <i>on the totality of one's time</i>. That is, one lives in simultaneous time; hence the action is on the three dimensions of time, past, present, and future. In the act of centering, a process is immediately set in motion which begins to bear pressure on the residue of the past… [T]he past is no longer the human being's prison. The lived experience in and of time is transmuted and its mass becomes transformed into the precious energy needed in order to exceed one's limits, or to break the chains of the old karma. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“For this reason Saturn [=Chronos/the Time Spirit] stands at the close of Scorpio in the Gnostic Circle and <b>at the entry of Sagittarius, wherein the experience of exceeding one's limits is lived, of crossing the boundary to the new and the real</b>.” </span><span>– Ibid., pp. 358-59</span></p></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">****</span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[G]iven <b>the present [human] instrument and its linear, mental poise, there is no capacity to integrate on the basis of a spheric vision the reality upon which we gaze from our individualised poise of consciousness</b>. And the lamentable fact is that we have no other instrument. That is, we are embodied, and these bodies must serve us as our vehicles in the discovery, in this journey towards the highest Truth. Thus, <b>in view of the linear and not spheric perceptive capacity, there is really no possibility of bringing into focus the countless elements we see</b>. The 'camera' we use at present is simply inadequate. The result is an unfocussed eye and hence an erroneous transcript of our world. This is the state of all humankind. It is due exclusively to the limitations of the instrument. But this same human species is not a static product. Rather, humankind is a vehicle precisely for the manifestation of a higher and wider consciousness to emerge and become established as the normal condition of the species. Not sporadic breakthroughs and intermittent victories of illumined seeings, but the establishment of a permanent product, <b>poised differently, with a Seeing-Eye that enjoys a new capacity for integration or focussing, as a result precisely of this different poise. The hub or centre of that poise is the true soul. This means that as a race a new pivot has to replace the old one which is the human ego</b>....” </span><span>– Thea, <i>Time & Imperishability</i>, pp. 77-79</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[T]here is a new astrology being born which by its very emergence at this time indicates that the human being stands at the threshold of acquiring <b>a new consciousness, spherical in perspective capacit</b>y and hence thoroughly grounded in a vision of unity and oneness.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>It is this spherical' consciousness that India is destined to export beyond her borders</b>. And this cannot be done by words, by repeating the old mantras, however sacred they may be, or by engaging in pointless disputes such as the ones under discussion. The new way India is destined to reveal comes by acts not words. She is to live the new astrology.” </span><span>– Ibid., pp. 120-21</span></p></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">****</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[T]he new poise is a centering, in the present so to speak. Yet it really means a centering IN WHAT IS. That is, – in the Real, the True. Then the lived experience is a contained concentration. And this generates real Power, the new Power. <b>This is the poise of the Sun – or the Truth-Consciousness. And then one is able to control the periphery, or the ‘extension’, because it is not a linear extension. It is spherical</b> – which is just how life itself is, the true nature of Reality. Poised linearly we cannot appreciate the spherical reality of creation, of living.… Freedom, in the truest sense of the word comes ONLY when one is centred in Simultaneous Time…. This is the true quality of the Gnostic Being: centred in Simultaneous Time…and therefore FREE.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/it-is-therefore-it-will-be/" target="_blank"><b>“It IS Therefore it Will Be”</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Vol. 2.3, August 1987</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><i></i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[T]he evolutionary mechanism has its own laws, and wisdom. Above all it is an integral process characterised by a spherical wholeness. And so, we have to proceed on the basis of a progressive integration and reach an ultimate synthesis. The time has now come to change the instrument and to raise the pivot and introduce a new axis.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/psychoanalysis-and-the-integral-yoga/" target="_blank"><b>“Psychoanalysis and the Integral Yoga ... two letters”</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Vol. 2.2, June 1987</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><i></i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“From ancient times sages had seen unity as One. Isn’t it beautiful: the One is a LINEAR figure. The Zero is circular. Again, ‘the symbol is the thing symbolised’, this time regarding number symbols, or figures. This fact, that unity was equated with the One, may seem irrelevant or of little importance; but it describes the collapse of our civilisation; <b>while the shift to the perception of unity as the Zero describes the new creation and its spherically perceiving consciousness. Put another way, what this means is that we have torn a veil. We have pushed perception back, beyond the manifest One</b>.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/letters-from-skambha-3/" target="_blank"><b>“Letters from Skambha”</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Vol. 4.2, June 1989</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><i></i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“People think oneness means one field and everything is governed by one law, one truth. That is, they do not understand the role of the multiple and how there can be an experience of the One and the Many in its true nature beyond this erroneous and limited perception. Oneness for them in its practical application means sameness, imposing ‘one truth’ on the apparent whole. Hence dogmas arise and battles ensue. It is a vertical assault: Who can impose ‘one truth’ which will oblige some ‘order’ to emerge? The answer, as usual, lies in <b>the key feature of the truth-conscious Supermind: the lived and simultaneous experience of the One and the Many. The spherical experience, which is the true nature of reality, accommodates the One and the Many and resolves the paradoxes which the linear mental formula is incapable of handling</b>. This describes the collapse of our times. But like the question of ‘failure’, we can take a partial view of what is happening in the world and then we cannot appreciate that only one thing is collapsing, while another lives and grows and establishes itself. <b>The old world of a mental linear perception is collapsing, while simultaneously the new creation of the truth-conscious Supermind is arising</b>. Both appear to be in the same ‘web’, entangled in the same destructive network. But this appearance is only the result of a partial vision. The collapse of the one, the rise of the other are governed by different laws and patterns…and the twain shall never meet.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/extracts-theas-journal/" target="_blank"><b>“The Strategy, the Battle and the Nature of the Victory – Part 1”</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;">Thea's Journal, 20.6.1989, <i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Vol. 4.3, August 1989</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><i></i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[T]he basis of Yoga…is to bring this sort of direct understanding via a ‘union’ (yoga) with the thing to be known. In India we know that Knowledge can only come in this way, never otherwise. Witness the yogas involving the Goddess of Knowledge, Saraswati, union with whom will bring that special perception and knowledge. Hence all my work has evolved from the yogic experience which brought direct contact and identification of the consciousness with the essence to be fathomed. Then one is carried into levels which can never be reached through the mental approach. In this New Way we go even further: <b>a method such as the one which is followed in this work introduces a SPHERICAL perception. Understanding is holistic in the widest and deepest sense</b>.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/feminisms-conundrum/" target="_blank"><b>“Feminism’s Conundrum, Letters From Skambha”</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Volume 5.3, August 1990</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><i></i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I have written extensively of Contraction and Expansion as simultaneously operating forces or directions. But this is effected only <b>when the centre is born that fills the void. Only then is a SPHERICAL ACTION truly possible (as the lived experience), for without such a centering the experience is always separative and linear</b>. This means that these directions, though concurrent, are not interacting or brought into harmony. In a binary system this means a movement along a pole (of tension). It is as if the being were sustained on a tensed elastic, with energies shifting from one end to the other, or moving along this shaft which holds the consciousness-being together. Harmony, true and proper, can never be known in such a state; there are time and space gaps to contend with. Above all, the binary poise is pathetically limited in the force or pressure it can receive from other planes. It is open or receptive only to the vital and mental regions, in attunement with the frequencies obtaining in those dimensions. If anything ‘higher’ is introduced, the being succumbs and one or the other centres becomes deranged. It is the same for the collective consciousness and the ‘body’ of civilisation, or a national ‘body’. The Shakti operating through Time regulates the intake by evolving instruments in tune with these conditions. Aberrations do occur – on the increase especially in times of transition like our own; but on the whole the process of evolution is a flawless operation. </span></p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The problem before us at the beginning of the Neptune ennead (1980) was the discovery through the lived experience of the means to set in place in the evolutionary matrix the new alignment, which in turn would permit the intake of energies of a much finer frequency or higher pitch. This demanded an abdication of the mental binary supremacy. This required, therefore, a grappling with the death experience of Scorpio. <b>In a word, it was necessary to transmute those energies expressed zodiacally as the shift from the Scorpion to the Eagle.… [I]t is then that Time truly becomes an ally and no longer a destroyer</b>, a devourer of energies in an unwinding, inward spiralling drive. It is then that EVERYTHING becomes Time’s instrument, negative or positive.”</span> </blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/a-new-world-is-born/" target="_blank"><b>“A New World Is Born”</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Volume 4.6, February 1990</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><i></i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[C]osmic harmonies offer a vision of wholeness and integrality. Mental formulas, which are human perceptions disconnected from a higher source, are characterised by an inability to harmonise and integrate, to situate the parts within the whole, insofar as there is no conscious awareness of that totality. Hence, these formulas do violence to a society.… </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[Increasing fragmentation, divisiveness, isolation, segregation, splintering, and fundamentalism] in contemporary society are representative of minds incapable of a perception of wholeness, or a unified multiplicity. <b>The most accurate description of the aberration is a linear in contrast to a spherical perception….</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>“In our study the circle represents that spherical capacity of perception – a consciousness capable of seeing the parts within the whole. At the same time, the circle is the celestial sphere comprised of the planetary harmony</b>....</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“How can it be held (and proven) that the planets ‘influence’ mankind or regulate or determine the lives of human beings? I have dealt with this objection elsewhere in my writings and need not reopen the debate. I intend to reveal the existence of this connection in the present analysis by exceeding the boundaries which cage in the contemporary scientist and relegate him or her to a status far inferior to that of the seers of old. <b>The limitation, I may point out, is the linear perception in lieu of the spherical</b>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“An ancient dictum holds that the macrocosmos is equal to the microcosmos, – i.e., the human being, to name just one component of that microcosm, was held by the ancients to mirror or TO BE that cosmic pattern in miniature. Consequently, <b>a penetration into the mysteries of the cosmos, based on the spherical capacity of perception and not the linear</b>, discloses that what holds ‘above’ holds ‘below’…. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>[[In India, corresponding to India’s decline]] the linear consciousness entirely displaced the Vedic spherical perceptive capacity</b>.… <b>With the spread of the linear consciousness the Divine Maya was very quickly lost</b>, the sacred Measure whereby Hindu civilisation maintained its contact with that Source, or the truth-consciousness of the cosmic harmonies. This true purpose and function can be properly conveyed only through the circle….” </span></p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/culture-and-cosmos-2-part-3/" target="_blank"><b>“Culture and Cosmos – 2, Part 3.1,</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/culture-and-cosmos-2-part-3/" target="_blank"><b>Cosmic Harmonies in Hindu Civilisation and Society”</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Volume 6.3, August 1991</i> </div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The essential difference between the Gnostic Circle and traditional astrology is thus the vision of wholeness it inspires. <b>In traditional astrology the signs are taken as separate stages and are usually viewed linearly, or disconnected from each other</b>. There is no real spiralling movement possible, for in a lifetime via the progression of the horoscope, a mere 70 to 90 degrees of the full 360 can be experienced, on the basis of the traditional formula: a day for a year.” </span></p></blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/vedic-symbol-of-the-universe-part-1/" target="_blank"><b>“Vedic Symbol of the Universe – Part 1, </b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/vedic-symbol-of-the-universe-part-1/" target="_blank"><b>The Horse as an example in the Gnostic Circle application”</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Vol. 7.5, December 1992</i> </div></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The essential point to note is that a new and superior gnostic species must per force combine in an especially harmonised manner all the gunas. Any severance or undue emphasis laid on any one of the three results in an imbalance and disharmony. In the cosmic display of the triadic harmony there is never an imbalance, a disconnection, a severance. The three flow out of and into each other. Indeed, a disconnection at any stage would mean the collapse of energy and ultimately of our material universe. Similarly, the human being must strive to harmonise the three gunas so that truly a species arises on this planet fashioned in God’s image. For this <b>the process of centering must be undertaken whereby the binary alignment is removed as the ‘balance’ of consciousness and a spheric wholeness comes into being</b>.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/culture-and-cosmos-3-part-2-3-continued-from-tvn-82/" target="_blank"><b>“Culture and Cosmos – 3, Part 3.1,</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/vedic-symbol-of-the-universe-part-1/" target="_blank"><b>The Titanic or Vedic Superman: India's Choice for the Millennium”</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Vol. 8.3, August 1993</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><i></i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>[The connected vision of a unified flow through the sign of the Zodiac] suffered irreparable damage by a linear perception which overtook the earlier seeing of wholeness</b>. Clearly there is a deficiency inherent in this paradigm. And it is reflected in the deficiency we observe in the human mental species….</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“What is at stake is not a new world order dominated by a superpower or even a concert of powers. It is a question of the Consciousness which must be stamped on the evolution of the human species and its resultant civilisational expressions. The struggle lies there, in that essential domain. But, important to note is that in this higher destiny of the Earth there is only one plan, as it were, one pattern, one ‘order’ – and not a choice among many possibilities. This order is represented thus:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAR8V1doqUJ8yShk2qHwIgA7fIWzxgm_jmj9A8Sw4oN0_sy88dH0mK8ZVUXyzFKowW1Xo_Yoyi7-5ZIDRC7pfTsniYd_-xRqudo_KFMwmHvXq67PIUOXnnbs0YL4iKM72dValshlDbzw7TDmVkv8Bpl5iFeZSfC9DCzWE1ZCaBi_YNHbCQzuDFgeda/s30/sun%20symbol%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="30" data-original-width="30" height="30" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAR8V1doqUJ8yShk2qHwIgA7fIWzxgm_jmj9A8Sw4oN0_sy88dH0mK8ZVUXyzFKowW1Xo_Yoyi7-5ZIDRC7pfTsniYd_-xRqudo_KFMwmHvXq67PIUOXnnbs0YL4iKM72dValshlDbzw7TDmVkv8Bpl5iFeZSfC9DCzWE1ZCaBi_YNHbCQzuDFgeda/s1600/sun%20symbol%20copy.jpg" width="30" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“A centre or point, and a periphery. Like a flower with its circumscribing petals, there are concentric circles evolving from the Point which in turn is identified as ‘the centre that holds’.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“In other words, <b>the new order is simply the manifestation of the Cosmic Truth which is spheric in design</b>. Its ‘forms’ are multiple, but unity is its base. Whereas, the new order sought to be imposed is linear insofar as the centre is a void and hence cannot give birth from that Point to a ‘holding power’. Consequently, that ‘new order’ imposing itself is a recipe for continued strife and more explosive expressions of unrest than the world has yet known. The reasons for this are mathematical. We shall discuss them in depth in the remaining portion of this study.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The true harmonious world order is a cosmic expression where each thing is in its place. Thus there can be no usurper, no frustration aroused, resentment or sense of diminishing. Equality is understood and implemented as an expression of that true place of each part of the collectivity. There is no higher or lower. There is equality of the instrument whose complete fulfilment lies in the discovery and occupation of its true place within the whole. If at times this condition has been experienced on Earth, it has been accidental and certainly never conscious. At least during our period of recorded history. The situation may have been different earlier, perhaps during the Vedic Age when the caste system based on the cosmic harmony prevailed in its uncontaminated, undiluted form. But the great divide resides precisely in a conscious or unconscious evolution.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Things cannot be put ‘in their proper place’ without conscious awareness, precisely because the deception, perversion and falsification are extreme and have proven so effective in securing the subjugation described above. To illustrate, there is not one of the surviving older disciples in Sri Aurobindo’s ashram in Pondicherry who has been capable of identifying the presiding consciousness in Auroville as the Usurper. All have fallen at the feet of this consciousness in possession of the project and installed as the ‘deity’ in the shadow-temple.” </span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/culture-and-cosmos-3-part-3-3-2/" target="_blank"><b>“Culture and Cosmos 3 – Part 3.3,</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/culture-and-cosmos-3-part-3-3-2/" target="_blank"><b>The Titanic or Vedic Superman: India’s Choice for the Millennium”</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Volume 8.6, February 1994</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><i></i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“What actually I did, – and it’s very mathematical, there is nothing, you know, fuzzy, or otherworldly. It’s something very, very mathematical. What it was, of course, was this realignment, <b>this new alignment, this centering where no longer it’s a binary structure</b>, which means tension and which means a central void, which is our normal condition. It means a centering and it means then a unitary system. And this is the big key. Once you have that, you have the possibility of a spheric action which means then you have the possibility of being a centre that holds, which means you are holding in harmony a series of circumstances which are all furthering that…. Now, you can imagine that each person who would do that would become a luminous cosmos in himself, you see; and ultimately that is the idea of a new race, of a new consciousness. (It) would be these luminous consciousnesses that are operating in this way. … So practically my work is that…having realised that [centre], having done that I am able to perceive these things which nobody else can because perception from the centre is very different than from the periphery. In a nutshell, that is really what I’ve done, that’s all I’ve done.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/study-circle-with-thea/" target="_blank"><b>“Study Circle with Thea in Rosendale, New York, 18 April 1994”</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Vol. 9.2, June 1994</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><i></i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[I]t is a movement into the depths of oneself, into one’s innermost recesses which permits the human being to reach the dimension of the origin of Being. What we find there…is <b>the seed of compressed Time – the three times, past, present and future, simultaneous, unextended, unevolved, spheric and not linear</b>….” </span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"> Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/culture-and-cosmos-4-part-1-2/" target="_blank"><b>“Culture and Cosmos – 4, Part 1.2, <br />Supermind and the language of Gnostic Symbols”</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Volume 9 Number 3</i>, August 1994 </div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“To borrow an aphorism of Sri Aurobindo, with certain modifications, we may state, ‘Mind was the helper, Mind is the bar.’ The time has come to put Mind in its rightful place in the structure of being. This implies two things. First is the manifestation of a principle higher than Mind but which plays something of a similar function; and second,<b> the binary response engendered by Mind due to its linear properties must as well be altered</b>. With the emergence of the higher principle, Mind can finally express its true function in the overall scheme. Until now ours has been a lop-sided expression. The foremost indication of this imbalance is the destructive quality of life on this planet. Mind has served not as an intermediary or a channelling device for the higher light, but rather it has succumbed to the waves thrown up from the vital and physical planes which have imposed the way of destruction on its functioning. The result has been Mind’s ingenuity utilised to bring into existence the means for massive and perhaps conclusive destruction of the planet and all its species.....</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“In the 1980s, the Yoga of the Chamber was carried out, when the centre was forged in the vital dimension of the yoga; regarding the ‘city’, this would be equivalent to the temple, its centre. The result of that process was the establishment of a physical centre at Skambha. But this was an entirely virgin field. It bore no contamination of any sort. It is the home of the supramental process whereby ‘the symbol is the thing symbolised’, the point where two cosmic directions meet, where ‘heaven’ joins ‘earth’. Thus, the results of the Yoga of the Chamber of the 1980s was the centering process, without which no supramental yoga is possible.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Once this centre is rooted in the earth, the bridge between the transformed vital plane and the Earth is forged. This is the essential work of the Third in the Solar Line. With this accomplished, <b>a spheric, circular and centred expansion began from 1989</b>, the start of the new and final ennead of the millennium. When the work of this final ennead is completed, the physical proper can be tacked in full....</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The totality of conditions in this SPHERIC process clearly demanded encumbrances to hold back things in the process of evolving until all comes into the harmony of gnostic time…”</span></p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/vedic-symbol-of-the-universe-part-3-1/" target="_blank"><b>“Vedic Symbol of the Universe – Part 3.1,</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/vedic-symbol-of-the-universe-part-3-1/" target="_blank">The Horse as an Example in the Gnostic Circle Application”</a></div><i><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Volume 9.4, October 1994</i></div></i></blockquote><i><div style="text-align: right;"><i></i></div></i><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>Sphericality replaces the Linear</b> (Thea’s section title)</p><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I have often referred to [the] two ‘directions’ [vertical and horizontal], in particular regarding the ‘formula’: 9/6/3/0-1. The descent of 9-6-3 is the vertical direction (it is also related to Time). The movement of compaction or compression is the descending 9, 6, 3. These ‘press into’ the Zero, compact there; and then ‘reversal’ assures that the 1 is ‘born’; at which point the direction shifts to horizontal…. The horizontal is integrated once the transition is made.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Something else occurs when this transition is completed, something that distinguishes the new creation from the old. <b>The linear progression becomes spherical</b>. The totality of conditions operating in a given process is acted upon spherically, so to speak. This would be on the order of a series of concentric circles held together by a central Point. The progression through time and space then integrates these circles, draws them into a closely knit organism or system. These peripheries are held together and converge on the Centre. A ‘movement’ in that Point sends ripples throughout the system which consists of these various circles.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>The human vision and perception is entirely linear. Our consciousness cannot function spherically</b>, and therefore we can only refer to certain inexplicable happenings as ‘miracles’ because they cannot be accommodated within the linear paradigm. Or else we describe them as ‘coincidences’ for the same reason. The connections between these ‘coincidental’ events appear to be lacking because of our linear functioning which does not include a spheric mode. The connections do exist but they are on the order of webs of time in space extending from a centre. If one’s consciousness is poised centrally, or centred, then the connections in this spheric network are perceivable. Being centred is the key, however. This indicates that one stands at the heart of the cosmos, so to speak, like the Sun in our solar system. <b>Only a person whose consciousness is thus poised can follow the movements of the Supramental Shakti which are entirely spherical and never linear</b>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“....The noteworthy aspect of the Mother’s experience [depicted in <a href="https://motherandsriaurobindo.in/The-Mother/books/mothers-agenda/mothers-agenda-1961/#april-25-1961:~:text=Just%20recently%2C%20though" target="_blank">her 25 April 1961 Agenda entry</a>] is that <b>she was opening the way to a supramental action on Earth</b>. The distinction with the old way lies in the poise of the experiencer. In the Mother’s case, she was experiencing and describing the first step toward centredness, as I have called it. That is, <b>the shift ultimately from linear to spherical</b>. A person thus centred becomes the Sun, sees as ‘the Supreme sees’. Then the connections are perceivable but in this circular sense. Then one can see what none have eyes yet to see. We could say that the Mother was planting the first ‘seed’ of the future realisation and opening the way for the action of the Supramental Shakti. Or rather, through yoga she was opening the channel for the connecting Bridge to become established and operative on Earth,—what Sri Aurobindo referred to as ‘Supermind organised for Earth use’.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Further on we shall analyse another recorded experience the Mother had [on <a href="https://motherandsriaurobindo.in/The-Mother/books/mothers-agenda/mothers-agenda-1969/#february-5-1969" target="_blank">5 February 1969</a>] in which she gives very accurate details of the ‘network’ consisting of two strands or lines, which I have called the Solar and Lunar Lines. She explains the place of number-power and the very specific operations of the Supramental Shakti. Between 1961 and 1969 many ‘shifts’ and ‘transitions’ had taken place. It was then possible to give specific details of the action of the Supermind on Earth via the instrumentation of the Supreme Shakti.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Thus, <b>over these three final decades of the millennium, certain yogic achievements have established a new modus operandi in the world. This entails sphericality as opposed to a linear progression</b>. It also entails a centred consciousness needed to perceive the action and thus collaborate consciously in the process, if a life divine is to be established on Earth, as Sri Aurobindo had foreseen it would.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>The Divine action has of course always been spherical</b>. When the Mother questions, <i>Is this the way the supreme sees?</i>, she is disclosing the primary difference between human and divine. But the importance of our Age is that on a collective basis and founded on an exacting ‘science’, or a body of higher Knowledge, we can now ‘see along with the Supreme’. <b>The Mother and others of the Solar Line must open the way to this new capacity so that the human being can now extend the boundaries of consciousness and allow that Knowledge to be the new foundation upon which a new world must be built</b>….</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Technology has carried us to the threshold of this attainment. But it cannot move us across that border and into the new creation simply because its creator is Mind and its methodology is therefore linear. It does not have the integrating capacity which binds the vertical and the horizontal. Above all, it does not have the creative power to arrange a set of circumstances spherically but from a central point of control. It cannot operate on the CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL, only the mental at best. But<b> it is through the medium of Consciousness, for lack of a better word, that the Supramental Action takes shape. It operates from centre to centre, from human to human through a channel above Mind, though this element is as yet unacknowledged in human consciousness, which integrates and harmonises</b>. This is the new medium that will be utilised in the [2nd] millennium, represented planetarily by Venus and its higher octave Neptune. Cosmic harmonies will be central to that unfolding.” </span></p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/vedic-symbol-of-the-universe-part-3-2/" target="_blank"><b>“Vedic Symbol of the Universe – Part 3.2,</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/vedic-symbol-of-the-universe-part-3-2/" target="_blank"><b>The Horse as an example in the Gnostic Circle application”</b></a></div><i><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Volume 9.5, December 1994 </i></div></i></blockquote><i><div style="text-align: right;"><i></i></div></i><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We are describing here the method placed at the disposal of seekers to affect a real and not illusory transformation of society, based on a principle which applies to the individual as well as to the collectivity as a whole. This method is devised to bring about <b>a shift from the actual binary status of the human race to a unitary structure which then alters entirely the conditions of collective living on Earth</b>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>The first major effect of such a shift is the factor of a spherical as opposed to a linear progression</b>. And the immediate change this brings into our affairs is that we can no longer speak of evolution to describe this progression. When the shift is made the growth process undergoes a notable change: it is then a flowering from a central ‘seed’ in all directions simultaneously. In the old creation the movement has been linear. This means that one sets out from one point to reach another, in a linear direction rather than spherical. In such a condition nothing can be ‘predicted’. We are in a relative world of probables, only because anywhere along the trajectory ‘possibilities’ which are ‘unpredictable’ can enter or penetrate the environment of the system, introducing an indeterminate equation.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“In a spherical growth process this is not possible since the movement is from the centre outward, – a movement of expansion from a central point. That is, what is contained in that seed is impelled from within by the power of time to develop its inherent potential or character into a predetermined element. Conditions encountered in the course of that manifestation can play upon that seed/centre, but not significantly enough to alter entirely its essential content, for reasons I will discuss anon….</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[I]n a spherical progression there is a notable difference with the linear evolution of the old creation. In the first place, the question of ‘improbables’ and ‘unpredictabilities’ ceases to pertain. Indeed, if we penetrate into that seed/space we will be able to foresee the precise lines of development because we know that out of the seed of a tree we cannot expect a rose to emerge. The question would then be, How to penetrate this recondite space from where the lines of destiny are drawn? But this too is only the first step. It involves the formation of a centre. Thereafter, a further stage presents the necessity to <i>organise the field</i> wherein this seed-essence is to take shape.” </span></p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <b>“<a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/vedic-symbol-of-the-universe-part-3-3/" target="_blank">Vedic Symbol of the Universe – Part 3.3,</a></b></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/vedic-symbol-of-the-universe-part-3-3/" target="_blank"><b>The Horse as an example in the Gnostic Circle application”</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Volume 9.6, February 1995</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The greatest aberration of spirituality was the designation of ‘illusion’ or maya to all that moves. The Supreme Consciousness, the Transcendent must KNOW Itself through the becoming which is the extension of Itself in its fullest vibratory essence of 9. The 0 can never be <i>shunya</i>, emptiness. That is the next aberration. The ‘concept’ can only have arisen in a civilisation which was founded on Fulness – i.e, the Vedic. A Buddhist civilisation could never produce the concept of 0 since the existence of the concept alone negates all nihilistic philosophies and spiritual experiences of the Void and Nothingness. The 0 cannot be equated with Nothingness since it IS. It can never be divided. We cannot know it by its ‘parts’. We can only know it by the extension of itself which is our universe, whole and entire. Each ‘part’ of itself beyond the event horizon is thus the whole 0. Never divided. Always the complete seed-essence of the Transcendent. <b>This is the meaning of centering and sphericality</b>….</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The fact that we call it centering is what means no possibilities – only the One, the Divine Purpose. It is because we think LINEARLY that we cannot understand a spheric process. Spheric means a centre exists like the core of the Sun. Then it means that there is only one POINT from which the involved manifests. A centre indeed precludes failure of the Purpose, failure to hold. When people refer to evolution, or even ‘working out’, it is always an unknown. Anything is possible because linear processes are susceptible to OUTSIDE forces. A centred process is susceptible only to its own compulsions. A truth of this nature MANIFESTS, not evolves….</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“In the Supramental Creation the One and the Many must be harmonised and integrated. The reason is that without that there is no possibility for the inner Truth to manifest. It would get deformed by the play in the periphery…. <b>[T]he movement is spherical, a circular convergence in time. This means that the control I am describing works on all things simultaneously, each point in the circumference of the emerging cosmos</b>. When this tilling of the soil reaches a maturing point, a critical threshold so to speak, the seed centre, as if with the greatest ease, pushes through the now loosened crust of earth and begins its upward march and to reveal itself in its nascent and naked truth of being….”</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/vedic-symbol-of-the-universe-part-3-4/" target="_blank"><b>“Vedic Symbol of the Universe – Part 3.4 ,</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/vedic-symbol-of-the-universe-part-3-4/" target="_blank"><b>The Horse as an example in the Gnostic Circle Application”</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter , Vol. 10.1, April 1995</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">****</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“1971, as recorded in my own birth certificate (its full reproduction has been carried in the first section of photographs in Volume One), simply marked the start of the special voyage eastward that I described in detail in The Magical Carousel a year earlier, though unknown at the time to be a mythic/zodiacal rendition of my life. The journey would take me to India and the 12th latitude (also recorded in my birth certificate), a land I would never leave until the work I was born to do was completed. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“What was that work? This is a long story and very complex; but by the end of this volume its broad lines will be more than clear. When, then, did it all begin? We would have to move back in time to a very distant past, to another age, another manifestation ‒ so far back that our probing might even carry us to the origin of Time itself! <b>The human consciousness is not equipped with the proper faculties to understand the workings of destiny because to really do so a spherical perceptive capacity, as I have termed it, is required. A linear movement ‒ the ordinary human method ‒ cannot draw in all the threads of the intricate web of destiny at the centre of which stands the individual</b>. Indeed, this does describe the ordinary human being who lives as if on a straight line, unlike <b>the true structure of destiny which is spherical</b> like a spider's exquisitely executed habitat. Given this limitation, we are mortal creatures who experience a severance at death with the lived experience we have known until that moment. Thereafter complete oblivion follows even for the most advanced among us. It appears then that each birth is distinct and unconnected to any prior experience. The web begins at birth and ends at death, perhaps to begin again, though of this too we have no certainty. </span><span>– Thea, <i><b><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TTDV2-1.html" target="_blank">The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 2.1</a></b></i>, pp. 7-8 (Preface, 2007)</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: center;">****</p>
<p><b>Thea’s Articles (on <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/messages/the-supramental-manifestation/" target="_blank">her original ACC website</a>), 2015</b></p><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The task of the Third in the [Solar] Line is to facilitate a vision of the Divine in action on Earth. The result is ‘seeing in understanding’ whereby all creation is her Being.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The capacity to observe the play of circumstances differently is one of the Third’s key additions. It requires an ability to perceive always the parts within the whole as a harmonious display, as order and no longer chaos. Succinctly this means a consciousness poised centrally, as if in the centre of the circle whose periphery would be that play. One thus becomes the Sun, or reproduces in perceptive awareness the astrological symbol of the luminary of our System <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM0CJV9J3kUxboDiyJKZwCY7EFo6mA5LTQ-OH4sRlNffdUYnDQ84aRvkZ1dO-xCq1De26zPMjUBekmOEVMzfOhZXBQdOesJQ-WNgprOpxs2wOliENJPUW7W59q4YrMY96xsr6gFLNm8o8veyx86GHqAUqFX8DpG7_GLllV10USKA49deO4QSlZA1dJ/s30/sun%20symbol%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="30" data-original-width="30" height="14" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM0CJV9J3kUxboDiyJKZwCY7EFo6mA5LTQ-OH4sRlNffdUYnDQ84aRvkZ1dO-xCq1De26zPMjUBekmOEVMzfOhZXBQdOesJQ-WNgprOpxs2wOliENJPUW7W59q4YrMY96xsr6gFLNm8o8veyx86GHqAUqFX8DpG7_GLllV10USKA49deO4QSlZA1dJ/w20-h20/sun%20symbol%20copy.jpg" width="14" /></a>. In this circular methodology the issue of convergence introduces quite a new operation, never before experienced on Earth; it is unique to the Supramental Shakti as the prime mover of the evolution of consciousness. <b>The principle characteristic of convergence, as opposed to linear processes, is that transformation is contingent on a simultaneous progress that as a harmonised action among the parts and the whole can then be integrated or drawn into the net, as it were, attached to the Centre of the new supramental cosmos</b>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“From this central position we observe the harmonious relation between the parts of the periphery. This integrated perception of harmonised parts within the whole is attracted to the Centre that HOLDS – that is, this centralised play is the key to order. The harmony we perceive and measure in our solar system is because of the Sun’s ‘holding power’, if it may be so called. In the language of contemporary science it would be the gravitational pull of the Sun that keeps the family of planets in defined orbits or specific boundaries. The nine planets must display this Order because they extend into the system the harmony that is the essence of our Sun. It cannot be otherwise. The ancient text on sacred architecture, the Mayamata, describes the same principle of perception, revealing in the process the role the Hindu Temple has played across the ages: If the measurement of the temple is in every way perfect, there will be perfection in the universe as well. (XXII.92)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The temple in this verse is equivalent to the eye of perception of the transformed human being. Based on that centering of consciousness, order is perceived throughout the universe.” </span></p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/messages/the-supramental-manifestation/" target="_blank"><b>“The Supramental Manifestation”</b></a> (April 2015)</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Supramental Shakti is characterised by the ability to operate in simultaneous time (ST), as it is known in the New Way. It can be visualised as <b>a circular perceptive capacity in contrast to the linear of the mentally-oriented human being</b>. Above all, mind has a small role to play in ST, but this is not the place to discuss this aspect of the work we are engaged in. ST is much like the three concentric circles of the Mother’s plan itself. The distinguishing feature of ST is that at all times the multiple, or the circumscribing play of circumstances, is integrated or pulled into the central Consciousness embodying this capacity (in this case the Mother) – i.e. the unity of the One and the Many. Obviously such a capacity is well beyond the linearity of Mind.” </span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/articles/the-mothers-chamber-conclusion/" target="_blank"><b>“The Mother’s Chamber, Conclusion – An Appeal to America</b></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/articles/the-mothers-chamber-conclusion/" target="_blank"><b>—in defence of the Sacred Feminine"</b></a> (11 August 2015) </div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*** </p><div><div>In Part 5 I will discuss the avataric seeding or reawakening of the spherical consciousness on Earth in relation to Sri Aurobindo's rebirth as the Sagittarian Sage/Son of the Vedas.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Link to Part </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">1</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="font-size: small;">,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">5</a><span style="font-size: small;"> or </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">6</a><span style="font-size: small;">]</span></div>
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<div><b>Endnotes:</b></div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">[1] When Thea wrote of the Divine Maya (=the Divine Measure) in her writings, she was referring to the sacred measure of the 12-month Vedic Year, i.e. the Earth’s Solar-Tropical Year, aka the Zodiac, versus the distorted the post-Vedic sidereal measure of the Year. She also wrote of the Mother's 12-pillar and 12-sided temple vision in 1970 as a manifestation of the Divine Maya of the Vedic Year in our world, a vision which was distorted by the builders of the Matrimandir in Auroville. In my writings I also discuss the divine eternal measure/maya (and eternal law) of the radius and vesica piscis, that together measure out the twelve-month Zodiacal Year, from the four cardinal points (the four equinoctial and solstitial points) of the Earth's Tropical/Vedic Year. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO5CpedYInyDYNXBv5p7FWBRTbxfuarooAmpoWi_Cg70q3XDpAQvm9OJulkasB9Tej-KwM0wAb-TtBD4GXtTHuys0KUOryGYUJ8HIGSWTeGUKgrzt6rX9Wcwid8OoVtsbHIWZNUgUWaVA/s1800/Zodiac-VP-Measure-Animated-loop.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="The Vesica Piscis, Cardinal Points & the Divine Maya/Measure of the Vedic Year/Zodiac (Lori Tompkins, 2020)" border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1800" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO5CpedYInyDYNXBv5p7FWBRTbxfuarooAmpoWi_Cg70q3XDpAQvm9OJulkasB9Tej-KwM0wAb-TtBD4GXtTHuys0KUOryGYUJ8HIGSWTeGUKgrzt6rX9Wcwid8OoVtsbHIWZNUgUWaVA/w500-h500/Zodiac-VP-Measure-Animated-loop.gif" title="The Vesica Piscis, Cardinal Points & the Divine Maya/Measure of the Vedic Year/Zodiac (Lori Tompkins, 2020)" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The Divine Maya/Measure of the Vedic Year (=Zodiac), originally <br />posted in</b> <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-sacred-geometry-of-vimy-crop-circle.html" target="_blank">"The Sacred Geometry of the Vimy Crop Circle (5 July 2020)"</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">[2] The following excerpt from Thea’s <a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/2012/02/part-iv-auroville-builders-trashed.html#Divine-Maya" target="_blank"><i>Chronicles of the Inner Chamber</i>, Part IV</a> discusses both the loss and recovery of the Divine Maya/Measure of the Vedic Year in relation to Sri Aurobindo’s yogic mission, and in in relation to India’s destiny.</div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal">"[T]he Mother’s [Temple] Vision provides humanity with the new Divine
Maya, or the Golden Rod of western tradition. It is the measure of time in
space. The 24m diameter holds the key. Without this accurate measurement the whole structure ‘falls apart’.…</p></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal">"<span style="text-align: left;">For India the loss of the Vision has done incalculable damage. This [is] explained in detail in future <a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/p/chronicles.html" target="_blank">Chronicles [of the Inner Chamber]</a>. It is sufficient to state for the moment that the emphasis by the Mother on time and measure was a calculated divine strategy insofar as <b>India lost the Divine Measure a number of centuries ago when the sidereal (Nirayana) zodiac was adopted in lieu of the Vedic tropical (Sayana) zodiac</b>. <b>It is only with the tropical zodiac that the Makar Sankranti, the shortest day of the year and entry into Capricorn</b>, has any relevance both within India and connected to the rest of the world. <b>This is the true VEDIC astrology, unlike what goes by that name today</b>.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-align: left;">"The reasons for this aberration are intimately connected to Sri Aurobindo’s mission and explain his statement that Kalki comes ‘to correct the error of the Buddha’. The Mother’s Vision, with its ‘new precision’ involving time and measure, was a crucial piece in the correction process. <b>Her Vision reinstates the tropical zodiac in all its details and provides India with the Divine Measure once again,</b></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>—</b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><b>and with it the keys to her destiny and place within the new Supramental dispensation. There is no way in which India can fulfil that high destiny without this Divine Measure</b>.</span>" <span style="font-size: large;">–</span> Thea, <i><a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/2012/02/part-iv-auroville-builders-trashed.html#Divine-Maya" target="_blank">Chronicles of the Inner Chamber, Part IV</a> </i>[Bold emphasis added]</p></div></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: justify;">[3] Sri Aurobindo, <i>Letters on Yoga, Vol. 2, CWSA, Vol. 29</i>, p. 522. </div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">If you value the </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b>original research and content made freely </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b><br />available on this blog</b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a></div></div>Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-8252442222020858462022-11-28T13:12:00.018-08:002024-01-07T18:09:13.962-08:00The Spherical Gnosis of the Sage & the Release of the Vedic Waters ⁓ Part Three<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbUKZszamGNyPGOiCaUqAhva5yDrlk7KeDyQsJ6mEMaIm9wuCQg-ZRvP0HsoSAxpw1b1M7PtCo0l6esPISWuA5m1fh66S1pN9XnUAa8V8JX4aDccrlHUiQqQKtZjcrdf1Y1wPZFiYmNLUwYkN3FAVEz1ztooTD5691dlSL6Tkuq9DCvey3KhUTRikk/s5400/Hayagriva%20restoring%20Vedas%20to%20Brahma-Landscape.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hayagriva restoring Vedas to Brahma, Illustration of Hindi Gita Press, MahabharataMahabharata by Ramanarayanadatta astri" border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="5400" height="485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbUKZszamGNyPGOiCaUqAhva5yDrlk7KeDyQsJ6mEMaIm9wuCQg-ZRvP0HsoSAxpw1b1M7PtCo0l6esPISWuA5m1fh66S1pN9XnUAa8V8JX4aDccrlHUiQqQKtZjcrdf1Y1wPZFiYmNLUwYkN3FAVEz1ztooTD5691dlSL6Tkuq9DCvey3KhUTRikk/w640-h485/Hayagriva%20restoring%20Vedas%20to%20Brahma-Landscape.jpg" title="Hayagriva restoring Vedas to Brahma, Illustration of Hindi Gita Press, MahabharataMahabharata by Ramanarayanadatta astri" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Horse-Man Avatar of Vishnu (<span style="text-align: left;">Hayagriva</span>) with his Solar Halo restoring the Vedas to Brahma. Equivalent to Dadhikravan of the Vedas & the 9-rayed Sage-Son-Horse of Sagittarius.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>⁓ Thea’s Initiation into the Spherical Gnosis of the 9 ⁓</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">[Link to Part <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" target="_blank">1</a>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">,</span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">4</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">5</a><span style="font-size: small;"> or </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">6</a><span style="font-size: small;">]</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Readers may want to revisit <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> to review the various images of the Circle divided by 9 and 12, along with the illustrations of what is meant by the 9th Manifestation in Thea's Supramental Cosmology. In <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/253624509643805336/825244222202085846#" target="_blank">Part 2</a> I included a visual of 1968 as the 6 Point (0° Sagittarius) of the 144-year cycle from Sri Aurobindo's birth in 1872 to Thea's passing in 2016, as well as the Mother's writings on the new consciousness – which she referred to as the "superman consciousness" – that descended on 1 January 1969.</span></p><div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this segment, I will present various excerpts from Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet’s (Thea’s) writings, which give us some picture of her 1970-72 initiation into the cyclical, spherical and supramental gnosis of the Circle of the Zodiac and the Circle of 9, which formed the basis of her yoga and her writings. The reason for sharing this history and the germane excerpts from Thea’s writings is to help readers understand that Thea’s “Third” stage of Supramental Descent involved an awakening or re-awakening of the spherical consciousness-force of the Supermind and likewise of the Vedic Sage, out of the dark slumber of the linear-binary mental consciousness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmuR-RxWNeI3NT0uJMLFtdCEwPmLyxBqdlPpRbddXJHVzeowPJCrFVGpPXUCfkLcXb09ikR7qiIJ2DqrNwphPk-rsGsy9umkHV2V6Rrdk99wgRxEjaHTfemO1WkS4Usn8iIIVQhwBtnnFhKucI7n-ESciref0J_vxpSCbejFwrQYeZ2nKslq4FTUcC/s300/TMC.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The Magica Carousel, Cover Image" border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmuR-RxWNeI3NT0uJMLFtdCEwPmLyxBqdlPpRbddXJHVzeowPJCrFVGpPXUCfkLcXb09ikR7qiIJ2DqrNwphPk-rsGsy9umkHV2V6Rrdk99wgRxEjaHTfemO1WkS4Usn8iIIVQhwBtnnFhKucI7n-ESciref0J_vxpSCbejFwrQYeZ2nKslq4FTUcC/s16000/TMC.jpg" title="The Magica Carousel, Cover Image" /></a></div>Thea was already a practitioner of astrology in 1970, but her supramental initiation into the gnosis of the Circle began in February of 1970 via a download of the twelve-chapter “zodiacal odyssey”—<i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TMC.html" target="_blank"><b>The Magical Carousel</b></a></i>—into her consciousness. In her autobiographical book, <i>The Tenth Day of Victory</i>, Vol. 1 (p. 312), she described <i>The Magical Carousel</i> as “the seed” of her work. To my knowledge this book is the FIRST straightforward (un-occulted) telling, in known history, of the twelve months of the Zodiac and its related symbols as <b>a cohesive and coherent multi-staged journey, traveling the cyclical course of Time</b>—the course of the Earth’s 360° Solar/Tropical Year. If there is another, I would love to know about it. The Vedas do not count, because the Vedic Rishis deliberately occulted the symbols and knowledge of the Zodiac in their hymns, and the cyclical-zodiacal context of the Vedas remains unseen and unrecognized by the linear-binary consciousness. Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem <i>Savitri</i> does not count either because, even though it IS a twelve-part evolutionary and Vedic journey, it does not anywhere overtly mention the Zodiac or its twelve signs. In <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TTDV.html" target="_blank"><b>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 1</b></a></i>, Thea wrote:</div><div><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsPR2X3UAkxLMAmwNyjWs1rnTDVPxON9-OpaZA2UCWSiKKrKCdZCXh7vn4oRhK6FTFay1hBefZKY50L7ThniX0Pokpau_cu6wO1B2AJfNBBO9c55sNxA3bL-nxxJNQ7dh_x3wGd_ziSzdjkfErcxFL4iX5yDP0ELo_-RonpfwfSk9KlB330g21A0Gv/s624/TM-Symbol.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The Mother's three-tier 12-Petal Symbol" border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="624" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsPR2X3UAkxLMAmwNyjWs1rnTDVPxON9-OpaZA2UCWSiKKrKCdZCXh7vn4oRhK6FTFay1hBefZKY50L7ThniX0Pokpau_cu6wO1B2AJfNBBO9c55sNxA3bL-nxxJNQ7dh_x3wGd_ziSzdjkfErcxFL4iX5yDP0ELo_-RonpfwfSk9KlB330g21A0Gv/w205-h205/TM-Symbol.jpg" title="The Mother's three-tier 12-Petal Symbol" width="205" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">“I knew that [THE MOTHER] was the creator of <i>The Magical Carousel</i>, as of all my other works. It was not a mediumistic process at all. She did not 'communicate' words to me, even though there was this capacity also. She planted seeds in my consciousness, precise ones, with a determined purpose and inherent form. <i>The Magical Carousel</i> was therefore one of those 'seeds'. The creative impulse and inspiration came from her, and all I did was to give the seed a fertile terrain in which to grow. I gave the subtle inspiration I received from the Mother a 'body', as it were.” – <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 1</i>, p. 247</span></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this same book, Thea tells of the number 9 as another pressing key of her initiation into the supramental yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. On 9 September 1972 (<b>9.9.1972</b>), <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a></b></span> —almost one year after moving to Pondicherry with her son—, Thea wrote a letter to the Mother, pointing to what she was learning and seeing regarding the 9 and the circle. </div><div></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">9.9.72 </span></i></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Mother, it is incredible! All has come, the nights are full of revelations. Truly incredible.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></i></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">I have understood the 9, finally! And with it I have understood the whole of it, all the symbols, living things, not abstractions. Ignorance is the abstraction. The joy is immense. All this work done so far was true, had its basis in Truth, but now there is a variation, with this understanding everything has come "into focus". Truly wonderful. The threads...I could not put them together: the 9, supermind, the square, your symbol, above all the circle. How could they all fit? They do, because all has its origin in That. And the name THEA, of course...It all fits.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></i></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">The first impulse was to tell the students...but really there can be no words...it is for them to discover. All one could do would be to draw the number 9, or the Circle and then remain silent.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></i></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">The vision I had of the square tail made of geometric forms, springing from the golden red Sun. It was incredible, an exact revelation of what has now been understood. So many things, everything makes sense.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Can there be any doubt as to what will happen. After all, is not the address of the Ashram 9, and Auroville a 9?... </span></i></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: right;">– Thea, <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 1</i>, p. 205 </div><div style="text-align: right;">[A photocopy of the original letter is found on p. 256] </div></blockquote><div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">The date of this letter contains multiple 9's in itself and reduces to the number power of 1.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> 9.9.1972 = 9 + 9 + 1 + 9 + 7 + 2 = <b>9 + 9 + 1 + 9 + 9</b> = 36 + 1 = 9 + 1 = 10 = 1. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div>During her 1970-1972 initiation the Mother gave Thea her spiritual name: THEA; <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#2a" id="2">[2]</a></b></span> and at some point during this initiation, I don’t know exactly when, Thea came to see and understand the Greek letters <b>Θ<span style="font-size: medium;">εα</span></b>, in terms of the Zodiacal circle.</div><div></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQr8cvp9bndaPMMNx-1BQoJ7r4KKnz-OXMJdi7kzd3141bZEOyJp5NNlfnQwS3WZFm3hQLm4DUj1yrcVvVY2noetsL6NwUrVHb_ZHUZv21Ij8JglmJ8d1LTa3txubrzZGUB3aQSGYsUI7B5WOZOyO5-JrMWwP-5JNs--hpdOIdfKNEE55sWwKL9WlT/s324/Fire-Trine-963-THEA-sm-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Gematria of the name Thea (Θεα), the Fire Trine of the Zodiac and the Trinity of 369" border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQr8cvp9bndaPMMNx-1BQoJ7r4KKnz-OXMJdi7kzd3141bZEOyJp5NNlfnQwS3WZFm3hQLm4DUj1yrcVvVY2noetsL6NwUrVHb_ZHUZv21Ij8JglmJ8d1LTa3txubrzZGUB3aQSGYsUI7B5WOZOyO5-JrMWwP-5JNs--hpdOIdfKNEE55sWwKL9WlT/s16000/Fire-Trine-963-THEA-sm-01.png" title="Gematria of the name Thea (Θεα), the Fire Trine of the Zodiac and the Trinity of 369" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">“Thea is the Greek word for goddess. But it has another more significant meaning which may be translated as 'the act of seeing'. It is in this context that the name was given to me as a sacred key of knowledge. Because of this significance, it was truly my name since the 'act of seeing' was revealed to be the essence of my destiny. When a name is given in an initiation of that order ‒ a real initiation, I might add ‒ then it must hold the key to the innermost truth of the person's being and destiny. In some way this must be so, otherwise it is not a true initiatic name. Today 'names' may be given freely by gurus, but this has nothing to do with the process I am describing. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“'Thea' is formed of three Greek letters whose number values are Θ = 9 (in the ancient Greek, not modern), ε = 5, α = 1. When the breakthrough in knowledge came it did not take long to apply it to cosmic harmonies. The intuitive opening immediately revealed the secret message in 'Thea' when it was applied to the circle ‒ but the circle divided into twelve parts which was the zodiac as well as the Mother's symbol.” – Thea, <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 1</i>, pp. 223-24</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">In the same book, Thea elaborated upon her 1972 “realisation of the 9 and the Circle” as follows: </span></div><div></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I wrote to the Mother, symbols were no longer simply abstract figures. They lived. There was no separation between what they ‘stood for’ and the actual figure. I had penetrated a realm in which these separations do not exist. </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"And I had entered a state of consciousness in which unity is the foundation. But more than that, <b>I had finally reached the Source of every symbol, of everything in creation in fact. And that Source was the Divine Mother. She was that Circle, that ‘symbol’, denoting the All in its essential unity: all symbols emerged from the Circle. It was only one more step and that All could be reduced to Number. The number of the circle was 9. The 9 was the Divine Mother</b>. </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“But there was the Zero, the Point. This followed the realisation of the 9 and the Circle. With the Zero the Knowledge was complete. out of That came the whole of creation. This Silence was a fullness and no void. The void was an illusion. Only fullness was Reality.’ (pp. 206-07) </span></div></blockquote><div></div><div style="text-align: center;">*</div><div></div>
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">“For over a year I had been baffled, perplexed, sometimes even tormented by the phenomenon of the 9. Before leaving for India </span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#3a" id="3">[3]</a></span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"> I wrote to the Mother and begged her to tell me what that number meant and why it was pursuing me in such a persistent manner. Her answer reached Rome after I had left, but it was forwarded to me at the Ashram. Her reply was that the 9 signified ‘creation in matter’.</span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote>
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“This made no sense to me at all. What other creation could there be if not material, even though this might be of a subtle material substance? Yet these new experiences forced me to understand the great wisdom in those three simple words: creation in matter.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote>
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“When the veil had been rent and I entered the realm where symbols have their ‘being’, I ‘saw’ the 9 as Matter, as the opposite pole to Spirit. I ‘saw’ the 0 as Spirit. But my seeing came in such a way as to allow me to realise the unity of the two. And this was what so revolutionised my consciousness, and later provided me with an entirely new basis on which to build a new cosmological synthesis. This foundation was captured in one simple geometric design: a circle with a central point. That design has always been the symbol of the Sun. And the Sun is the symbol of the Supermind or the Truth-Consciousness.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote>
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Indeed, as I had written to the Mother, all the threads had come together. I found myself plunged into a state of consciousness where all the symbols Sri Aurobindo had given for the Supermind became living things: the square, the sun, even the colours of the supermind, for they were the material substance of that truth-conscious Sun. Yet none of this was static. There was silence, true, but it was not static nonetheless. And the dynamism that I perceived as one with statics was provided by Number. And number was the measure of Time. Time was the dynamis, Time was the power of the Divine Mother, the kinetic expression of that Divine Consciousness.…<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote>
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“This seeing resolved all the paradoxes. I had then the formula, a workable structure that harmonised the unity and the multiplicity. This too was the essence of the Supermind: the simultaneous realisation of the One and the Many. The circle was that Many, and it contained, within itself, one with itself, the Point. This was no linear design. <b>The vision was of a spheric wholeness and an implicit simultaneity</b>; and this rendered the circle the symbol of a unified multiplicity, because its foundation, its inner truth was the 0, the point.” [pp. 208-209]</span></div></blockquote><div></div><div style="text-align: center;">*</div><div></div>
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“When I had the realisation of the essence of the 9 as ‘creation in matter’, I simultaneously understood the 0 and with it the entire scale from 0 to 9. This was indeed a further outcome of my September breakthrough: the scale of Number starts from the 0 and not the number 1, contrary to all esoteric teachings in which the 1 is the cipher of unity. Likewise, the scale ends with 9 and not 10. But this key too the Mother had held from her disciples, yet it formed the basis of the new synthesis, the truly esoteric significance of Number. <span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote>
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>By starting from 0 and ending in 9, I found the invaluable key to that spheric wholeness which could never manifest in a system (or a world) where the linear movement from 1-10 prevailed</b>. The difference was revolutionising for it drew the cosmic manifestation back to its source in the Feminine Principle and away from the Masculine where it had been disfigured entirely. But it was not even that. Rather, <i>each thing was put in its place for the first time</i>. This, perhaps more than anything else, would be my single most important contribution to the study of cosmic harmonies.’ (p. 226, a<span style="background-color: white;"><span>ll bold emphasis in the above quotes from <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 1 </i> is added) </span></span></span></div></blockquote>
<div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Mother passed in 1973 at the age of 95 (and 9 months), and from that time onward Thea began to write volumes of gnosis – all born out of her seeing and understanding of the 9 in relation to the 12 division of the 360° Zodiac and in relation to Sri Aurobindo’s supramental descent and yoga. Thea first wrote about the key of the Circle of 9 in conjunction with the zodiacal Circle of 12 in series of essays she wrote in 1973 and through January of 1974, published as <i><b><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/SQU.html" target="_blank">Symbols and the Question of Unity</a></b></i> in February of 1974. </div><div></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>The key to understanding the Zodiac and other symbols lies ultimately in an understanding of the sphere, and the key to understanding the sphere lies in the number 9, and the key to understanding the 9 lies in the Divine Mother.</b> But the Divine Mother is not a symbol, – she is to be experienced.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"<b>All symbols, no matter which, spring from the circle</b>; it is this that upholds their movement. That is, there can be no relation of lines which do not fall within the sphere, and this in turn can be ultimately translated into one numerical value, the 9. In India it has long been the number connected with the Divine Mother, as, for example, the Sri Chakra of the Tantra reveals, which is composed of 9 triangles. Also the whole system of predictions in Indian Astrology is based on the divisions of 9, of the Zodiac; the Figures attributed to each Yuga are all multiples of 9. One finds this reflected even in the simplest items such as the 108 beads used in the practice of certain rituals, and then revealed in the Gita, of the 18th book of the Mahabharata (of 18 volumes) which speaks of the 18th day of the war, itself containing 18 chapters, the Maha Puranas and the Upa Puranas of 18 books, and so on. In India the most popular feast of the Divine Mother is the Navaratri, where on the 9th day Durga slays the Asura.…<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Many, many instances could be brought forth, but the essential point is this: <i>all that which is manifest, be it even the remotest planes of consciousness, —far, far removed from the physical, if it can be captured in a symbol, speaks of the Mother, for all symbols represent the Manifest</i>. There is only one way to indicate the Unmanifest and that is the point, or dot. Thus we have the supreme symbol of the Sun <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIlAMxG0ByETW2jYTO_kPzn5xh5UpLmssfLDk7_Hs54mz-A1xGsAtA2uTJAs2EYS6TrasJghir6gbFOG-2SXQhuwshaQb6mvynBiTbfx7AhEZtWrqTssCXAejYWF0nzyMEnD3L7PDjfYBPQqrGtgF4N2iFdxCVDQihpG0t8R4DgBvvpHWCaG3gx3st/s30/sun%20symbol%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="30" data-original-width="30" height="15" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIlAMxG0ByETW2jYTO_kPzn5xh5UpLmssfLDk7_Hs54mz-A1xGsAtA2uTJAs2EYS6TrasJghir6gbFOG-2SXQhuwshaQb6mvynBiTbfx7AhEZtWrqTssCXAejYWF0nzyMEnD3L7PDjfYBPQqrGtgF4N2iFdxCVDQihpG0t8R4DgBvvpHWCaG3gx3st/w20-h20/sun%20symbol%20copy.jpg" width="15" /></a><span style="text-align: left;">, the magnificent representation of the Divine.” (pp. 20-21)</span></span></div></blockquote>
<div></div><div style="text-align: center;">*</div><div></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“9 and 0 are of the same importance in the play of numbers. 0 is the unmanifest and 9, the manifest, the zero brought to its farthest development, hence it confirms the Mother's definition of the number: <i>creation in matter</i>. Both these numbers are contained in the symbol of the Sun <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIlAMxG0ByETW2jYTO_kPzn5xh5UpLmssfLDk7_Hs54mz-A1xGsAtA2uTJAs2EYS6TrasJghir6gbFOG-2SXQhuwshaQb6mvynBiTbfx7AhEZtWrqTssCXAejYWF0nzyMEnD3L7PDjfYBPQqrGtgF4N2iFdxCVDQihpG0t8R4DgBvvpHWCaG3gx3st/s30/sun%20symbol%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="30" data-original-width="30" height="15" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIlAMxG0ByETW2jYTO_kPzn5xh5UpLmssfLDk7_Hs54mz-A1xGsAtA2uTJAs2EYS6TrasJghir6gbFOG-2SXQhuwshaQb6mvynBiTbfx7AhEZtWrqTssCXAejYWF0nzyMEnD3L7PDjfYBPQqrGtgF4N2iFdxCVDQihpG0t8R4DgBvvpHWCaG3gx3st/w20-h20/sun%20symbol%20copy.jpg" width="15" /></a>, or better said they make up the symbol of the Sun: the 0 is the inner dot and the 9 the outer circle, the sphere of 360° which can be reduced to 9. To the ancient Indians we must be grateful for the decimal system we use today, brought to Europe in the ninth century by the Arabs. It is interesting to note that the Indians used the dot to indicate the 0. Later it expanded to the figure we now know. Also, their word for zero means "empty". </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">“One point must be made clear: as the entire Zodiac is the "horoscope" of the Divine Mother, so all numbers can be regarded as representing the Mother. But </span><b style="font-size: large;">there is one [number] that absorbs and contains them all within itself and also there is only one that has the same properties as the 0, and this is the 9</b><span style="font-size: medium;">. The combinations formed with it and its multiples can be achieved with no other number, its harmony and perfection none other can equal, for any multiple of 9 will equal 9 in theosophical addition, such as 9x2=18=1+8=9, or 63x40=2520=2+5+2+0=9, and so on. Also the combinations with dates and time cycles involving this number are unique. As it refers to material creation and matter, it can help one to understand that the ultimate perfection which is the Supreme's secret Will is only to be fully manifested in the very densest level of creation. Only in matter, the so-called lowest in the scale of creation can the Divine be fully realised or, better said, can the most perfect Perfection be understood. In the tradition of the Kabala this number is ''the archetype of the primordial Female, hence life from which all forms gradually evolve"; </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#4a" id="4">[4]</a></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> in the same tradition it is considered representative of the cell. All of these traditions are contained in the Hindu concept of the Divine Mother, so it can be seen why the 9 is always associated with her manifestations.</span><b> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#5a" id="5">[5]</a></span></b></span></div></blockquote><blockquote>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">“</span><b style="font-size: large;">The 9 and the 0 meet; this is the serpent biting its own tail, and it is only the temporary limits of our perception that make us view these questions in terms of linear dimensions, </b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#6a" id="6">[6]</a></b></span><b style="font-size: large;"> in terms of lower and higher, matter being the lowest and spirit the highest. When one plunges into another dimension one learns to "see" in forms of circles</b><span style="font-size: medium;">, so to speak, and then one can understand that there is no question of lower and higher. There is unity; spirit and matter are always one and ever have been. “We go beyond the 3rd dimension and pass into a dimension that belongs to the sphere, widening our vision so as to perceive in "circles". Only in this way can the true Knowledge come. </span><b style="font-size: large;">The matter of understanding this number and revealing its meaning is at present important for the following reason: we are now in the 9th stage of development of the collective and individual evolution, what we shall call "the 9th Manifestation"</b><span style="font-size: medium;">. </span></span></div></blockquote>
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">“Therefore we are in the period of closest rapport or link with the universal force of manifested divinity. In a word, the force of the Divine Mother is pushing itself out into creation as it has only rarely done before, to our knowledge. We are at the summit or, better said, are approaching the summit, and we have a very practical example of the connection of the 9 to the sphere to the Divine Mother and to our present stage, if we observe the Matrimandir now under construction.” </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#7a" id="7">[7]</a></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> (pp. 27-29, all bold emphasis in the above excerpts from </span><i style="font-size: large;">Symbols and the Question of Unity</i><span style="font-size: medium;"> is added)</span></span></div></blockquote>
<div style="text-align: justify;">In 1975 Thea presented this circular key of the 9—the key of the Vedic Sage and of the Divine Mother—in our 9th Manifestation in <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TGC.html" target="_blank">The Gnostic Circle</a></i>, a book which she wrote in 1974 at the age of 36 (= <b>9 + 9 + 9 + 9</b>). The following image is the cover image of the third edition (1994) of <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, illustrating not only the 9 and 12 division of the Zodiac, but larger divisions as well (36, 108, 144 and 360).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqrb6IU799SAXJ3wINSoXCcS6tKYlXEtx2hBnfgf0IasOPEDvQxfvZ4eNZ5sxM33V29RmOAG-8adKPUg2F-S88Vj-YjSVV0byFhTxP5uGriS9sAfNQWDe3Vq-Lf97lJRXRihzl5iV_i_zOch91KFqeqRlypuWCotmIYMh4aFTTlT6q4D7PNX5jfa29/s1425/TGC1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The cover image of the third edition (1994) of The Gnostic Circle, by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet" border="0" data-original-height="1425" data-original-width="1407" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqrb6IU799SAXJ3wINSoXCcS6tKYlXEtx2hBnfgf0IasOPEDvQxfvZ4eNZ5sxM33V29RmOAG-8adKPUg2F-S88Vj-YjSVV0byFhTxP5uGriS9sAfNQWDe3Vq-Lf97lJRXRihzl5iV_i_zOch91KFqeqRlypuWCotmIYMh4aFTTlT6q4D7PNX5jfa29/w632-h640/TGC1.jpg" title="The cover image of the third edition (1994) of The Gnostic Circle, by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet" width="632" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">In this book, Thea illustrated and illuminated the cyclical essence of our "10-base" (0-9) number system in conjunction with the 12 division of the 0°-360° Zodiac and the planetary bodies, orbits and structure of our solar system, and in conjunction with the 12 ages of the Great Year, and the 12 Manifestations (36 Ages) of the Maha Yuga Cycle. Note that Thea was the first person in who knows how many thousands of years to recognize that the Maha Yuga cycle and its Yugas are connected to the 12 zodiacal ages of the 25,920-year Precession of the Equinoxes. Below are several pertinent excerpts from <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>. All bold emphasis is added.</div><div></div>
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[E]xpansion of consciousness is the imperative necessity of our times, and the circle as a symbol speaks to us of the many different aspects of the one all-pervading consciousness. Therefore we learn that <b>however we approach the subject of cosmic harmonies we begin and return always to one element: the realisation of the Circle, or the Sphere</b>. Hence all our studies will be centered on the various manners of dividing the circle.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote>
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">“</span><b style="font-size: large;">[W]hen there is the realisation of the Circle there is a simultaneous realisation of the number Nine-because this is its number</b><span style="font-size: medium;">. And when there is the understanding of the Dot or Point, one then can comprehend the Zero. Thus, in the symbol of the Sun the point is 0 and the circle is 9. These two therefore, 9 and 0, are the numerical essence of the symbol of the Sun. In fact, all the workings of the Cosmos which we can capture in symbol form can also be captured in numbers. This number is our link with the Cosmos, because it is by means of number that we relate the movement of the spheres to the time periods of Earth. </span><b style="font-size: large;">Number is the key to Time, and the study of astrology and cosmic harmonies is essentially connected with Time. If this element is abstracted we have no study, nor do we have a cosmos or a manifested divinity. And there are various levels of perception of Time. The denser and the more ignorant the material creation, the more divided is our perception of Time; closer to Truth and the spiritualisation of the denser realms, the perception of simultaneous time becomes possible, nay, inevitable, which does not exclude Time but only brings the experience of this element into the field of Unity. The past, present and future are not eliminated, but are perceived as three elements of one whole and are experienced simultaneously</b><span style="font-size: medium;">.” </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#8a" id="8">[8]</a></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> (pp. 11-12)</span></span></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">* </p>
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>[The Circle Divided into Nine] is perhaps the most meaningful division of the Circle for us on this planet, at this time</b>.... [If] we want to delve deeply into the meaning of our times we must understand and make use of this key. <b>First because we are in the 9th Manifestation, the 9th spiral of the Greater Circle</b>…. </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The second reason is that this number is the last digit of our numerical system; our numbers actually go from 0 to 9, as we have often stressed in this work, the 10 being merely the 1 again. In this way, the circle divided into 9 is what joins the heavens to the Earth's time cycles through the calendar, no matter what method is adopted of recording time and no matter what calendar is used. </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Third is the fact that 9 is a most meaningful cycle for any human being because the gestation process at present requires a period of 9 months; though there are some cases which break this pattern, for the majority a cycle of 9 months is required for the cells to evolve and for the foetus to fully develop into the infant. Thus, in the Circle divided into 9 we can see the cycle of a cell and its complete process of creation, preservation and destruction or dissolution, or its birth, generation and degeneration, the period of the cell's fullest experience. </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Finally the importance of this division of the Circle is to be understood with regard to our solar system, which consists of nine planets and the Sun, the zero. In this way it becomes evident that <b>the 9 Circle is for us at present the most perfect representation of the microcosmos and macrocosmos, and tells us the way in which we can link these together</b>. It tells us in its harmonics that in fact the vast and the small are one. </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“To begin the study, let us look at the details of the division and see how by simply observing the play of the numbers it embraces the fine patterns of its harmonies come forth. As well, we can observe in this phase of the study how the method of theosophical addition is the indispensable formula in order to approach and understand cosmic harmonies, that it is in no way an arbitrary measure and that the justification of its usage is to be found in the numerical system itself, through geometry and plain arithmetic, and thus in no abstract way we must understand that form and number are one. Essentially we can see that no matter how high we count, how extensive our figures, these can and must always be reduced to one digit if we are to learn the secret of any process in creation, and that no matter what the process, the phases of its development are always nine to work, so that’s a good sign.” (pp. 106-07) </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“In the Circle of 9 we are describing the most essential part is the 0 which unites itself with the 9, becoming the Serpent biting its Tail. Herein we see that Spirit and Matter are but different densifications or rates of vibration of the one all-pervading Energy, which to us is the Absolute, God, Brahman. And by means of this diagram we are going to see how this apparently abstract concept is related to us in the most intimate way and reveals this relationship in the experience of Time on our planet, using the mechanics of evolution.” (pp. 110-11)</span></div></blockquote><div></div><div style="text-align: center;">*</div><div><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>The purpose of the Gnostic Circle, particularly the phase of its 9 division, is to enable us to fully understand the occult laws which govern the structure of Matter</b>, of the subtle and dense physical, for it is only by knowing the laws pertaining to both these realms that the actual transformation can come about. The 9 Circle represents the cell as well as the macrocosm with relation to the Earth. We have seen therefore that the Law of Three is essential to comprehend, and then '3 x 3', which represents the full scale or the fullest possibility of transformation given to the human race at this time. Humanity so far has progressed through two of these triads successfully; it is now time for the last to manifest. This is the deeper significance of the three newest planets. They are the physical bodies which govern the last triad of the Sacred Triangle.” (p. 120)</span></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: center;">*</div><div></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[The Gnostic Circle is] the design that contains the means whereby it is possible to find one's place in the cosmic vastness. Its components, though they present us with an apparently complex design, are extremely simple to understand: the Gnostic Circle is nothing more than the combination of all that we have studied so far. <b>It is the synthesis based primarily on the union of two major divisions of the Circle,—that of 12 with all its sub-divisions, and that of 9 which contains the division of 3, or the Sacred Triangle. It is this combination that makes it possible for man to join the heavens to his Earth cycles through the calendar years</b>. It pertains to the individual, to nations, and the entire globe; it is the chart of the Avatars as well as the revelation of the path of development of each individual. <span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Gnostic Circle is merely the combination of the zodiac—the occult circle which contains the knowledge of evolution—and the structural pattern of the solar system. The Circle of 12 is the zodiac, and the Circle of 9 is our actual solar system, each orbit representing one year of Earth life. The joint harmony of these two, superimposed or synthesised in one circle, is what constitutes our key to the evolution and flowering of the seed of the Spirit. In fact we can say that the Gnostic Circle is mainly for this purpose: it shows mankind the ultimate and ideal perfection that can be attained during this particular phase of the evolution, during this great transition point from the animal-mental to the more divine mankind.” (p. 159)</span></div></blockquote><div></div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDghclNHdk6b1UwDXSTSLw33LKTnZV3LjQ0y8kbjYbDENL8Usvog8gpq1EpS43QeDMjaEaC4Qb1vqQvnO6eUSw4CGTvMl0f_oRJRilQAZg4c7LeGv3_r4BOsPZeMCIyPqj0xK5UefDXdFuHZHkg3CFqcKN3BSgEd2SucspNUNMgsbBSBXkyVKJ8OyG/s1293/TGC-p284.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1293" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDghclNHdk6b1UwDXSTSLw33LKTnZV3LjQ0y8kbjYbDENL8Usvog8gpq1EpS43QeDMjaEaC4Qb1vqQvnO6eUSw4CGTvMl0f_oRJRilQAZg4c7LeGv3_r4BOsPZeMCIyPqj0xK5UefDXdFuHZHkg3CFqcKN3BSgEd2SucspNUNMgsbBSBXkyVKJ8OyG/w640-h310/TGC-p284.png" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">Diagram from <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, p. 284</div><div></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It is possible to show how these two essential divisions of the Circle [shown above] are captured in the core of the [Mother’s] temple, for it is the superimposition of the two, one upon the other, or the simultaneous vision and understanding of the Circle divided into both 9 and 12 that tells us what we need to know about the evolution of our planet, and though this might make one feel insignificant in the light of the cosmic vastness and transcendent beyond, it must be remembered that this very vastness, this Cosmos reduced to the Circle of 9 and 12 is the very core of man. He is That in all ways, and the details of his Earthly life follow the very same patterns of the Cosmos in all its vastness. The macrocosmos and the microcosmos are indeed one. </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It is to be recalled that these amounts of degrees are the segments of the 9 and 12 circles, 40° and 30° respectively, and that they accurately correspond to the dimensions to which their respective circles correspond, the dimensions of Time and Space on the globe. Therefore the central globe of the Matrimandir, with a diameter of 70 centimetres (40+30), captures the entire territory of India which is the symbol of Capricorn, known to represent the soul of the Earth, ruled by Saturn, ‒ a planet which holds the key of Time. Thus in the temple where the gnostic key of Time is contained, the core is the very land of the Time-Spirit upon Earth.” (p. 284)</span></div></blockquote><div></div><div>Nine years after initially writing the “zodiacal odyssey” of <i>The Magical Carousel</i>, Thea wrote its companion <i>The Magical Carousel Commentaries </i>(1979). Therein she wrote:</div><div></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The nine-year cycle is a key element in my work, as anyone who is familiar with it knows....<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I have always stressed in my work that the nine year cycle adds a greater density to an event, a birth of an idea, etc. Here we have a clear example of just such an enneateric process. Nine years exactly after <a href="https://motherandsriaurobindo.in/The-Mother/books/mothers-agenda/mothers-agenda-1961/#april-25-1961:~:text=Just%20recently%2C%20though" target="_blank">the Mother's [<b>25 April 1961</b>] experience of absolutism</a>, and the consciousness of immobility bearing in it a supreme mobility, she brought this experience into a greater phase of density, or intensity, we might say. The experience became solidified in the [1970] vision of the chamber, and immediately thereafter in the Capricorn episode of <i>The Magical Carousel</i> [1970]. And now [1979] that a further nine-year cycle has passed, once more the densification occurs, for it is again exactly nine years after that vision and the writing of <i>The Magical Carousel</i>. Thus a total of eighteen years have passed since the original seed was sown [in 1961]....</span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“In 1971 Sri Aurobindo was 99 years old; he is the Spirit of a New Time in this episode. In 1977 the Mother's 99th birthday took place. The ladder has 99 steps. Indeed those six years between 1971 and 1977, his 99th to her 99th, brought the revelation of the perfect Measure, based on this number, or the cycle of nine upon ninety years. (pp. 113-14)<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Nine years ago, 1970, in this very month, <i>The Magical Carousel</i> was completed." (p. 150)</span></div></blockquote><div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Part 4 and possibly 5, I will present various excerpts from Thea’s writings from 1977 onwards which demonstrate and emphasize the role of these formative keys of the circle of 9 and the circle of the Zodiac have in the apocalyptic evolutionary shift from humanity’s fragmented linear-binary mental consciousness to the unifying solar, spherical and supramental consciousness of the Divine Sage-Son.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Link to Part </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">1</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">4</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">5</a><span style="font-size: small;"> or </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">6</a><span style="font-size: small;">]</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;">Endnotes:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> It is worth noting here that 27 (9 + 9 + 9) years after Thea wrote this <b>9.9.1972</b> letter, on <b>9.9.1999</b>, Sri Aurobindo appeared to me in a waking vision and informed me I was going to India, where together Sri Aurobindo and the Mother impressed upon me the knowledge of a Third level of the Supramental Yoga that the calcified Sri Aurobindo Ashram would not accept. This supramentally guided journey ended with me finding <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, which discussed and illustrated Thea's work as the Third of Sri Aurobindo’s line. A fuller account of this story is told in <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i>.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a> This initiation involved conversations and interactions with a consciousness-force that identified itself (in Thea’s mind) as the Mother of Pondicherry. See <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 1</i>, pp. 45-50.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a> Thea left Rome for India on 27 September 1971 (<b>9.9.9</b>).</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#4" id="4a">[4]</a> Thea’s original footnote: <i>La Bible Restituee</i>, Carlo Suares.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#5" id="5a">[5]</a> For example, the 9 manifestations of the Mother Goddess Durga celebrated during the Navaratri (9 Nights) of Durga Puja, featured in the Intro of this series.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#6" id="6a">[6]</a> In <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/articles/sri-aurobindo-contribution-to-the-evolution-of-consciousness/" target="_blank">“Reflections on Sri Aurobindo’s contribution to the evolution of consciousness on his 143rd birth anniversary, 15 August 2015”</a>, Thea wrote of “the unity of 0 and 9 of the number scale where mouth and tail meet”, as equivalent to “the circularity of the eternal rather than linearity”. <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#7" id="7a">[7]</a> Thea’s original footnote: ‘“The Temple of the Mother" now under construction in Auroville, 9 miles outside of Pondicherry, India.’ This text was written in 1973, before the distortion of the Mother’s Temple in Auroville.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html#8" id="8a">[8]</a> In Sanskrit, this wholistic Time-Vision is referred to as <i>trikala drishti—the view or vision of the three times (Past, Present and Future)—</i>attributed to the ancient Vedic Seers.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiifQOEsKst6E7DxeIG8FajDHWn650iQK45rEwZWnpDYGowvKAmPd122LD4KJ6l-Kl3-vJxbdk042G2WB5dPwZdfVgccfFO4TeBH6BEi8gfIMkmDAldiQB1e_grj1dpTf-C6_-kzoTJGlUvmuZnEj4BDFdrh4NMpCR92aIk_GUjsN0pJeMt9sMeDlZ7/s766/Vishnu-Halo-Stele-Met-Museum-crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Vishnu with his Lotus and Solar Halo (Nimbus) and War Discus (Sudarshana Chakra), 10th–11th century, India (Punjab), Metropolitan Museum, cropped" border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="766" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiifQOEsKst6E7DxeIG8FajDHWn650iQK45rEwZWnpDYGowvKAmPd122LD4KJ6l-Kl3-vJxbdk042G2WB5dPwZdfVgccfFO4TeBH6BEi8gfIMkmDAldiQB1e_grj1dpTf-C6_-kzoTJGlUvmuZnEj4BDFdrh4NMpCR92aIk_GUjsN0pJeMt9sMeDlZ7/w640-h456/Vishnu-Halo-Stele-Met-Museum-crop.jpg" title="Vishnu with his Lotus and Solar Halo (Nimbus) and War Discus (Sudarshana Chakra), 10th–11th century, India (Punjab), Metropolitan Museum, cropped" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><b>Vishnu with his Lotus & Solar Halo (Nimbus) and War Discus (</b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudarshana_Chakra" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Sudarshana Chakra</a><b>)</b><br /><span>The 8 lines of the Lotus mark the 4 Cardinal Points <br />& the 4 Fixed-Sign Inter-Solstitial Points <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#1a"></a><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a> of the Year.</span><br /><span>10th–11th century, India (Punjab), Metropolitan Museum <br />[Cropped, see the full image </span><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/38146" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<span>]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">[Link to Part <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" target="_blank">1</a>,</span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html" style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">4</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">5</a><span style="font-size: small;"> or </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">6</a><span style="font-size: small;">]</span></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>⁓ The Establishment of the Supramental Consciousness<br /></b><b> in the 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation </b><b>⁓</b></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><p></p>
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[Supermind] creates universal order out of infinity. <b>Its awakening into action brings down, says the Veda, the unrestricted downpour of the rain of heaven</b>, <b>— the full flowing of the seven rivers</b> from a superior sea of light and power and joy. It reveals Sachchidananda. It reveals the Truth behind the scattered and ill-combined suggestions of our mentality and makes each to fall into its place in the unity of the Truth behind; thus it can transform the half-light of our minds into a certain totality of light. It reveals the Will behind all the devious and imperfectly regulated strivings of our mental will and emotional wishes and vital effort and makes each to fall into its place in the unity of the luminous Will behind; thus it can transform the half-obscure struggle of our life and mind into a certain totality of ordered force.…</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Thus <b>it harmonises for us all the oppositions, divisions, contrarieties of existence and shows us in them the One and the Infinite</b>. Uplifted into this supramental light, pain and pleasure and indifference begin to be converted into joy of the one self-existent Delight; strength and weakness, success and failure turn into powers of the one self-effective Force and Will; truth and error, knowledge and ignorance change into light of the one infinite self-awareness and universal knowledge…. All our life as well as all our essential being is transformed into the possession of Sachchidananda.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Synthesis of Yoga, CWSA, Vols. 23-24</i>, pp. 423-24 [Bold emphasis added]</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[E]ach point of this [Supramental] Consciousness has the possibility of being conscious of itself AND conscious of the original Unity. And that's the work now being accomplished, that is to say, each infinitesimal element of this Consciousness, while retaining this state of consciousness, is now recapturing the total original state of consciousness—the result is the original Consciousness conscious of its Unity AND conscious of the whole play: all the innumerable elements of this Unity…. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The whole is brought with lightning speed towards the consciousness that will be this Consciousness of the point and of the whole at the same time…. <b>The figure 9 has something to do with all this</b>.... There are so many things we don't know!” – The Mother, <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 10</i>, 19 November 1969 [Bold emphasis added]</span></p></blockquote>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" target="_blank">Part One</a>, I discussed the evolutionary shift from the obstructive linear or binary mental consciousness of the 7th and 8th signs of the Zodiac to the expansive spherical supramental consciousness and gnosis of the Sage-Son that is established in the 9th sign of Sagittarius. When we understand the essence of this evolutionary shift,—which brings with itself the release of the Seven Rivers of the Veda (=the Seven Vials of St John’s Revelation)—, we can better understand Sri Aurobindo's avataric descent and mission in Vishnu’s Age of Aquarius (the Age of the Water Bearer) within <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#Manifestations" target="_blank"><b>the 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation of our current Maha Yuga Cycle</b></a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9KbB66cZ-vV7GL0te2xocmjHVdVBUglb4wqvV3otI3wuwbNqppYMrIGS1bqlgefj0F3U4Fg1H-Zah9-Quz6mf8yTEwxpcIuHOUZgUpvIgK9n5_snUe8vvwZYtCe1FijS03JNEBe-8r4V8WSENIq-uMr6W4si6hhcl6WdefNa5TyV7wHKnEeJjZJXz/s600/963-Triad-Trans-Cosmic-Individual-4.5-redux-LT-version-1963-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet-963-Solar-Line-Trinity-Tetrad" border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9KbB66cZ-vV7GL0te2xocmjHVdVBUglb4wqvV3otI3wuwbNqppYMrIGS1bqlgefj0F3U4Fg1H-Zah9-Quz6mf8yTEwxpcIuHOUZgUpvIgK9n5_snUe8vvwZYtCe1FijS03JNEBe-8r4V8WSENIq-uMr6W4si6hhcl6WdefNa5TyV7wHKnEeJjZJXz/s16000/963-Triad-Trans-Cosmic-Individual-4.5-redux-LT-version-1963-01.png" title="Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet-963-Solar-Line-Trinity-Tetrad" /></a></div>As Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea) discussed at length in <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNW12.html" target="_blank">The New Way, Vols. 1&2</a></i>, Vishnu’s <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#2a" target="_blank">true 9th avatar</a> did not come as a single incarnation, but as a Triad, respectively bearing the number-powers of 9, 6 and 3—the sacred trinity of the Circle of 9—which culminated in the rebirth of Sri Aurobindo the Sagittarian Sage-Son in the 1-power year of 1963, or in other words, a Triad that expanded into a Tetrad. Even though Thea knew “the Son” to be Sagittarian in the Circle of 12 (the Zodiac), she considered his point in the Circle of 9 to be the 4.5 Point which she referred to as “the resurrected 9”. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#2a" id="2"><b>[2]</b></a></span> The image to the right is based upon images found in <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TGC.html" target="_blank">The Gnostic Circle</a></i> and <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i>. The only thing I have added to Thea’s imagery and language regarding her <i>circular</i> view of the avataric Tetrad, is the lower circle and vesica piscis drawn out by the 4.5 Point radius. This vesica piscis and its indwelling radius (=son), measures out and establishes the 3 and 6 Points of the upper circle and of the Sacred Trinity of <b>3</b>-<b>6</b>-<b>9</b>.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Solar Line, or the line of supramental avatars, is known and recognised by the fact that the birth and lives of <b>these Incarnations bear a most unique relationship with Time</b>, as stated off and on throughout the text. Because of this, these beings are able to act as the force of unification on Earth….</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Thus, the true Evolutionary Avatars, and especially the last of the descent that we call the Supramental Avatars, or the Solar Line, can conquer the hold of Mind over the human race by simply being <b>the embodiments of a Truth that they reveal through the details of their own Coming</b>. </span><span style="font-size: large;">– </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Thea, </span><i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i><span>, pp. 122, 125 [Bold emphasis added]</span></span></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The descent of the Trinity [Father, Mother, Daughter] that is the OM incarnate and that brings forth the Fourth [the Son], is the beginning of the supramental creation. <b>From this source or this Immortal Cell, the new race emerges</b>….” – Ibid., p.140</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[W]hen the 9th [Avatar of Vishnu] comes, he comes with the full powers of the Triad [the 9, 6 and 3], and only then can the process of fecundation, gestation and birth be enacted upon Earth. But this is not sufficient. <b>There must be a fourth, —yet a Fourth [the Son] who is the Father himself, reborn after a conscious process of dissolution. It is only then that the Supermind is fully rooted in the Earth</b>.” – Ibid., p. 142</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>When the Son takes birth in the sign Sagittarius, Agni is born on Earth, and the high Truth of the Veda can be revealed</b>.” – Ibid., pp. 379-80 [Text in brackets and bold emphasis added.]</span></p> </blockquote>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Thea – the 9, 6 and 3 powers of the Solar Line – referred to this newly manifesting spherical consciousness, in a variety of ways, including the supramental consciousness, the supermind, superconscience, solar consciousness, divine consciousness, truth-consciousness, unity consciousness, universal consciousness, and cosmic consciousness. This evolutionary shift amounts to the birth or awakening of the wholistic and multidimensional consciousness of the Divine Soul, Self or Spirit in material creation, out of the dark womb of first three stages of evolution on Earth—the Physical, Vital (pre-Mental Life) and Mental. And just like the stages before it, the fourth stage—the Supramental—builds upon, encompasses, and <i>dramatically</i> exceeds the stages before it, uplifting and transforming life on Earth. It is via the birth or awakening of the supramental consciousness (by whatever name)—the consciousness of the conquering Vedic Sage-Son—that gives us the real foundation of the “universal brotherhood of mankind” or unity consciousness associated with <b>the Age of Aquarius</b>, which according to Thea, <b>we have been in since 1926</b>. It also gives us the real foundation and sense of ancient prophecies of the Apocalypse—i.e., the un-eclipsing or unblocking of the Truth of the Soul in our world—by which the prevailing consciousness of division and falsehood is dismantled.</div>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Mind has lost and imprisoned itself in a dungeon of its own building, [and] is bound with chains which it has itself forged.… [T]he immortal and infinite Spirit...has veiled itself in the dense robe of material substance and works there by the supreme creative power of Supermind, permitting the divisions of Mind and the reign of the lowest or material principle only as initial conditions for a certain evolutionary play of the One in the Many. If, in other words, it is not merely a mental being who is hidden in the forms of the universe, but the infinite Being, Knowledge, Will which emerges out of Matter first as Life, then as Mind, with the rest of it still unrevealed, then the emergence of consciousness out of the apparently Inconscient must have another and completer term; <b>the appearance of a supramental spiritual being who shall impose on his mental, vital, bodily workings a higher law than that of the dividing Mind is no longer impossible. On the contrary, it is the natural and inevitable conclusion of the nature of cosmic existence.</b> Such a supramental being would, as we have seen, liberate the mind from the knot of its divided existence and use the individualisation of mind as merely a useful subordinate action of the all-embracing Supermind; and he would liberate the life also from the knot of its divided existence and use the individualisation of life as merely a useful subordinate action of the one Conscious-Force fulfilling its being and joy in a diversified unity. – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Live Divine, CWSA, Vols. 21-22</i>, p. 264</span></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Our call must be to live on a new height in all our being.… [T]he new height is not a narrow intense pinnacle, <b>it brings with it a widening and establishes a larger field of life</b> in which the power of the new principle may have sufficient play and room for its emergence. This action of elevation and expansion is not confined to an utmost possible largeness in the essential play of the new principle itself; it includes a taking up of that which is lower into the higher values: the divine or spiritual life will not only assume into itself the mental, vital, physical life transformed and spiritualised, but it will give them a much wider and fuller play than was open to them so long as they were living on their own level. Our mental, physical, vital existence need not be destroyed by our self-exceeding, nor are they lessened and impaired by being spiritualised; they can and do become much richer, greater, more powerful and more perfect: in their divine change they break into possibilities which in their unspiritualised condition could not be practicable or imaginable. </span></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“This evolution, this process of heightening and widening and integralisation, is in its nature a growth and <b>an <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html" target="_blank">ascent out of the sevenfold ignorance</a> into the integral knowledge</b>. The crux of that ignorance is the constitutional; it resolves itself into a manifold ignorance of the true character of our becoming, <b>an unawareness of our total self</b>, of which the key is a limitation by the plane we inhabit....</span></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"[O]ur ignorance is not entire; it is a limitation of consciousness, — it is not the complete nescience which is the stamp of the same Ignorance in purely material existences, those which have not only matter for their plane but matter for their dominant principle. It is a partial, a limiting, a dividing and, very largely, a falsifying knowledge; <b>out of that limitation and falsification we have to grow into the truth of our spiritual being</b>. – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Live Divine, CWSA, Vols. 21-22</i>, Part Two, Chapter 19, “Out of the Sevenfold Ignorance towards the Sevenfold Knowledge” </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#3a" id="3">[3]</a>, </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">pp. 754-57 [Bold emphasis added]</span></p></blockquote>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Once the evolutionary and apocalyptic shift of our times is better seen and understood as the expansion of our consciousness from a linear, binary and separative mentality to a spherical, cosmic, unifying superconscience, Thea’s role as the “Third” of Sri Aurobindo’s avataric line will become increasingly clear. Many students of the integral and supramental yoga remain attached to the linear-binary structure of the yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and have rejected Thea’s experience and discussions of herself as “the Third” of Sri Aurobindo’s lineage, along with her presentations of the expanded, circular, cyclical, zodiacal, numerological and cosmological dimensions of the supramental yoga. Once the obstructions of humanity’s linear consciousness are sufficiently exposed and cleared, Thea’s work becomes not only an obviously necessary component of Sri Aurobindo’s supramental descent and avataric mission, but also an obviously necessary component of uplifting humanity’s consciousness out of the linear-binary consciousness and into the spherical consciousness. Likewise, it becomes apparent that the <b>9</b>-<b>6</b>-<b>3</b>-<b>0/1</b> circular pattern of the births of supramental avatars, as discussed by Thea, is a necessary component of the sphericalization of humanity’s linear consciousness in the 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation, as is <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#Yod" target="_blank">their connection with and their natal positions within the Vedic Year (=Zodiac)</a>. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This supramental arrangement catalyzed in Thea’s consciousness, the spherical, cyclical and wholistic gnosis of the circle of 9 and the circle of the Zodiac <b>needed to recover the original context and sense of the ancient mythology of the Vedas</b>, the mythology of Vishnu’s <i>sanatana-dharma</i>-preserving avatars and the mythology of the world-illuminating Divine Son, Light-Bringer (Guru) Savior, or Sage. Without this circular and zodiacal context, the linear human consciousness has been long left to its own disastrously fragmented projections and imaginations of the Divine Son and related mythologies of a world-illuminating savior. The supramental avatars have necessarily reestablished the ancient original context of the Vedas, the expanded spherical consciousness of the Vedic Sages, along with the <i>sanatana dharma</i> (eternal truth or law) and the divine maya (measure) of the Vedas. These accomplishments are the necessary hallmark of the long-awaited world-illuminating Son or Savior, by whatever name. Thus, they collectively embodied, manifested and seeded THAT illuminating Consciousness-Force in our world, in our Age of Aquarius.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div>
<span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Before discussing Thea’s 1970-1972 initiation into the spherical gnosis that became the basis or foundation of her teachings from then onward, in Part Two it feels important to draw attention to the Mother’s circular symbol, as well as to her 1963 and 1969 experiences regarding the descent or arrival of "the supramental Power” and the “superman consciousness”. Note that the Mother passed in 1973 three months before her 96th birthday. Via the following excerpts, readers should be able to appreciate the continuity of the Mother’s supramental gnosis and Thea’s yoga. Thea’s spherical supramental gnosis and cosmology did not, of course, arise out of nowhere. </div></span>
<span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI8ERhD-L5lL9k68fQjHMn3A51k8EadqQTmne4mPu9JWPC4sFlZE5MgJNJNJ6s1beY6dL8bHkWeuVnSKTA2CD-UheJS0_S42lYRp58MOiiVYKHuWhmr3EbdO-QaU6gqjwa-Iyb2L8uEtE0fNyp7fdinxsZVlp4lfZtgO5hIR5-DbUZyPA58qmWQ5HO/s624/TM-Symbol.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The Mother's Symbol - 3 tier: 12 petal, 4 petal, and inner circle" border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="624" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI8ERhD-L5lL9k68fQjHMn3A51k8EadqQTmne4mPu9JWPC4sFlZE5MgJNJNJ6s1beY6dL8bHkWeuVnSKTA2CD-UheJS0_S42lYRp58MOiiVYKHuWhmr3EbdO-QaU6gqjwa-Iyb2L8uEtE0fNyp7fdinxsZVlp4lfZtgO5hIR5-DbUZyPA58qmWQ5HO/w246-h246/TM-Symbol.jpg" title="The Mother's Symbol - 3 tier: 12 petal, 4 petal, and inner circle" width="246" /></a></div>The Mother’s Symbol consists of three concentric circles. The inner circle is undivided and the middle circle occultly marks out the four preservation-sign inter-solstitial points of the Earth’s Solar-Tropical Year (=the Vedic Year). In turn, the outer twelve-petals occultly mark out the twelve months of the Earth's Year. I use the word occultly because the Mother did not discuss her symbol in terms of the Earth’s year, but nonetheless, as recognized by Thea, her symbol IS a symbol of the Earth’s 360° year, and of Vishnu’s four preservation signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius). If seen multi-dimensionally (not just two-dimensionally), her symbol symbolizes the Earth’s 360° body, its year and its celestial sphere as well as the entire Matrix of Time-Space. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In June of 1963, the Mother had an experience of the manifestation of "the supramental Power”. Note that this experience occurred some five months before Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth as “the Son” of Sri Aurobindo’s (=Vishnu’s) Solar Line.</div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"></span>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“...It was a [stupendous] Force that came from beyond and acted upon all the forces of the earth: on big things, on small things, on small, precise points, on enormous things, and it was going on and on and on, on this point, that point, all points together and everywhere…. There were only the universal forces in action, with <b>something that came from above and impregnated them all, sent them all out. And with it, a point – it was like a point in that immensity</b> – a sparkling point, absolutely ecstatic, in such a peace!….</span> </p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I had a feeling that I was given the awareness of something that's taking place right now.…. [N]ow I've been made aware of this Force at work. Often experiences come (there have been a number of them lately), but it's the first time this one has come, because ... <b>It was certainly something happening FOR the earth</b>; but it didn't come from the center of forces that generally acts on the earth. It wasn't the usual working of forces on the earth. It was "something happening."… [T]he impression is that something stupendous is happening right now.…. [W]e could say…that it is something newly manifested. But my impression was...an impression of Eternity. <b>An Eternity BEYOND TIME … acting, becoming perceptible because it acts</b>. That was my impression. I could also say: something universal which becomes individual; not individual in the sense of a small person, but conscious of itself…. </span></p></blockquote></div></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"It was...a Force in motion…. [It's] the impression of "something" stupendous! …The best definition we could give is Power. It was Power in its most formidable aspect – crushing. With REAL All-Powerfulness; Power in its all-powerfulness, with that something unshakable, immutable, untouchable. Yes, really Power, that's right…. [T]he supreme Solicitude, took great care to reassure me: "All is well." Without that, obviously, the feeling was that everything, everything was going to be dissolved. So if we use our little wits, maybe we can say it's the supramental Power which has manifested…." – <i>The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 4</i>, 8 June 1963 [Bold emphasis added]</p></div></span></div></blockquote>
<div><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ujSX3pGlFWN3_L91fGU8PUQR_Qg7UmFIFSaf11-QVpb2OnmDBkriLHo0PDApA5klyGUyrgPNv7P00zU7RfNqk99FaYAjxOb4y8QfihcRannGfDrHS38GMp0cR5fbf89OjfcUaSBcBg9HPZC5SVlZwucj_2ZiwbcrgJnonf3pnuAhAGZkyOWRJPCN/s242/Fire-Trine-1968-144-369-01.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="144 year cycle from Sri Aurobindo's Birth to Thea's Passing (1872-2016) - the Fire Trine and 3, 6, 9 (Lori Tompkins 2022)" border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ujSX3pGlFWN3_L91fGU8PUQR_Qg7UmFIFSaf11-QVpb2OnmDBkriLHo0PDApA5klyGUyrgPNv7P00zU7RfNqk99FaYAjxOb4y8QfihcRannGfDrHS38GMp0cR5fbf89OjfcUaSBcBg9HPZC5SVlZwucj_2ZiwbcrgJnonf3pnuAhAGZkyOWRJPCN/s16000/Fire-Trine-1968-144-369-01.jpg" title="144 year cycle from Sri Aurobindo's Birth to Thea's Passing (1872-2016) - the Fire Trine and 3, 6, 9 (Lori Tompkins 2022)" /></a></div>As I have discussed in <i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/253624509643805336/1339658874889636712#" target="_blank">Geometric Keys of Wisdom</a></i> (book and blog), 1 January 1968 was <b>the 6 Point (0° Sagittarius)</b> of the 144-year cycle spanning from the year of Sri Aurobindo’s birth (1872) to the year of Thea’s passing (2016). [Link <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyn4jWX7U1cy9NoGrtQ-pmRLVWH6EJoY/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE</a> to see a more detailed portrayal of this 144-year cycle and its 6 and 12-year increments]. Thus, it can be seen and appreciated that in terms of that important cycle, 1968—the year of Sri Aurobindo’s 96th birth anniversary—corresponds to the seat and birth of the 9-rayed Vedic Son-Sage-Horse of Sagittarius, whose victory is entirely based upon his awakened and expanded spherical consciousness of his own Universal Mother/Matrix (=Aditi=the Mother of Light=the Zodiac). A year after this important turning point, on 1 January 1969, the Mother experienced the descent of what she named the “superman consciousness” which she discussed as <b>“the greatest change” in her “whole existence”</b>. She continued to discuss this new consciousness throughout her remaining years. She noted in 1970 that it gave her the sense of her head being expanded or larger, which is fascinating when we understand the ancient <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(religious_iconography)" target="_blank">HALO or NIMBUS</a> of illumined sages, gods and goddesses as a symbol of the expanded consciousness of the Vedic and Zodiacal Sage (of Sagittarius/Dhanu). On the last day of 1969 the Mother began to receive her original vision of the sacred dimensions of the twelve-sided, twelve-pillar Matrimandir which Thea recognized as manifestation of the Vedic Year, in temple form. One of the central features of this temple was to be a luminous translucent GLOBE that held a descending ray of light in itself, i.e., <b>a SPHERE OF LIGHT</b>. This core of the Mother’s Temple vision is not only a Vedic symbol of the recovery of the Sun-Son (Light) of the Vedic Sacrifice (=Year), it is likewise a symbol of the "Future Realisation" of the spherical supramental consciousness illuminating the darkness of the linear mental consciousness. As told by Thea in <i><a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Chronicles of the Inner Chamber</a></i>, the most sacred dimensions and sacred symbols of the Mother’s Temple (Matrimandir) were rejected by its architects and builders in Auroville. </div><p><b>Excerpts from the Mother's Agenda </b><span style="text-align: justify;">[All bold emphasis below is added]</span></p><blockquote><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">4 January 1969 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“On [January] 1st, something really strange took place…. It was something very material, I mean it was very external – very outward – and luminous, with a golden light. It was very strong, powerful. But its character was a smiling benevolence, a peaceful joy, and a sort of blossoming in the joy and the light. And it was like a “happy new year,” like a wish. I must say it took me by surprise. …It was the start of the year. As if someone on the scale of a god (someone, that is) had come to say “Happy new year,” with all the power to make it a happy year.… It was luminous, smiling, and so benevolent because of its POWER…It interested me because it was entirely new. And so concrete! Concrete like this (Mother touches the arms of her chair)….”</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">8 January 1969 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It is the descent of the superman consciousness. I had the assurance of it afterwards. It was on the 1st of January after midnight. I woke up at 2 in the morning, surrounded by a consciousness, but so concrete, and NEW, in the sense that I had never experienced that. It lasted, quite concrete and present, for two or three hours, and then it spread out and went to find all those who could receive it.”</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">5 Feb 1969</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Last night, I knew I was doing it every night, but during the night … There was (but then, in the body, yesterday in the waking state) a sort of aspiration to know what the functioning would be, the action in the superman consciousness…. So then, this experience [of the figures and numbers] was like an answer to make me learn a little the future way."...</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[Note: the excerpt above actually follows <i>behind</i> the Mother’s description of the experience (below) within the same 5 February 1969 Agenda entry.]</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[It] was the 'numbered' expression ‒ the numbered expression of the application to life in a coming realization: life to come, but not very far away; for example, in the next century, which is beginning now.... I can still see the arrangement of figures. I spent a long time – a long time-arranging the figures. A long time.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[It is] a truer application, more universal, and with spiritual knowledge; the principle of the position (place) and the utilization of individuals on Earth... [T]hese numbers were LIVING, it was not writing on paper...</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I was explaining to you [Satprem] how all these numbers were organised and that they determine future events... [It] was not the 'conception' of the work it was THE work itself.… It was the organization of those groups of figures that determined the events and the ORDER of events (especially the order of events) and their location on earth….”</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">15 February 1969 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Just one thing, this atmosphere, this [superman] Consciousness is very active, and active like a mentor, as I already told you. And it’s going on. One of these last few mornings, for a few hours early in the morning, it was … Never, never had the body been so happy! It was the complete Presence, absolute freedom, and a certitude: these cells, other cells (gesture here and there showing other bodies), it didn’t matter, it was life everywhere, consciousness everywhere. Absolutely wonderful.… And this something appears to be absolutely all-powerful…</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“But that state, which lasted for several hours … <b>never had this body, in the ninety-one years it’s been on earth, felt such happiness: freedom, absolute power, and no limits</b> (gesture here and there and everywhere), no limits, no impossibilities, nothing.... [A]ll other bodies were itself. There was no difference, it was only a play of the consciousness … (gesture like a great Rhythm) moving about.…</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“And this true Consciousness, this true Attitude is something so tre-mendous-ly strong, powerful, in such smiling PEACE! So smiling, incapable of getting angry – that’s absolutely impossible – so smiling, so smiling … and watching. <i>(silence) </i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The special character of this new consciousness is: no half measures, no approximations. That’s its character. … It’s really like a GRACE, you know, as if: don’t waste time – don’t waste time, you must do the work, or else … But this tremendous Power is especially this, a mercy, a clemency!”</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1 March 1969</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Presence is growing constant… I would have to speak for hours to explain all that takes place. But it’s going well… since this [superman] Consciousness has been here, the body has learned a lot of things, a whole lot of things. Really interesting. The body has learned things the mind didn’t know (!), so that’s very interesting – new things, ways of being, manners of being, internal organizations, all sorts of things. I would have to spend hours every day to narrate what has taken place if we really wanted to keep a historical record of the path.”</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">12 March 1969</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[T]his Consciousness which has manifested since the beginning of the year, it’s VERY active; it has spread about and is very active.… It’s very, very active; this Consciousness is very active. Yes, I get a sense of solidity. Yes, that’s right! Something very solid. That’s because <b>it has come to materialize</b> – it hasn’t come to… (gesture up in the clouds): it’s looking for instruments.”</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">15 March 1969</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“This Consciousness seems to have brought along a whole new field of possible experiences in the very material field, while doing away with … (what should I say?) a certain number of things that men have declared to be impossible; it seems to have done away with that impossibility, saying, ‘This and that and that CAN be done.’ So <b>the horizon has extraordinarily widened</b>. But that should be lived concretely.”</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">19 March 1969</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I wrote this (Mother shows a note). I thought it was an opportunity to tell them something: </span></p></blockquote></div></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Since the beginning of this year a new consciousness is at work upon earth to prepare men for a new creation, the superman. For this creation to be possible the substance that constitutes man’s body must undergo a big change…. It must become more receptive to the consciousness and more plastic under its working....”</span></p></blockquote></div></span></div></blockquote><div><span style="text-align: justify;"></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">2 April 1969</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It’s wonderful, this Consciousness, it has such a way of seeing things! Really … really unique. I could say that <b>my vision and my understanding of the world, of life, of everything, have completely changed, in a widening … Of course, I had worked constantly to get the widening, but this widening has shown itself to be full of something completely new, completely</b>. And there are two things mingled together: one is this sort of understanding and benevolent Smile, which is CONSTANT, whatever may be there, even the most stupid negations; and at the same time, underneath this benevolence (but “benevolence” is a weak word), there’s such a power! A tremendous power. Tremendous … As if it were swollen with power. <b>An almost concrete power</b>, I don’t know (Mother feels the air) … <b>it’s a light, but a light you could touch</b>,<b> as it were: if it goes through your fingers,</b> <b>it’s so concrete that you feel it go through. A deep golden light</b>….</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[T]he inner change is considerable – considerable. It’s considerable: from the point of view of consciousness, <b>it has been the greatest change in my whole existence; I’ve had many of them, I’ve worked a lot, but … nothing in comparison with what has taken place since the 1st of January. To such a point that the body feels like a different person</b>.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">16 April 1969 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[I]t’s very amusing! There is behind this a mental form that looks like the I-couldn’t-care-less of the perpetual Smile! It’s strange …. I mean, that which smiles at the whole life and all its forms…. It’s an open door. They must step through the door and go into the future (gesture of piercing above), towards … what has not yet manifested…</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It opens a lot of doors. All habits, <b>the whole past civilization is as if walled in by mental rules</b>; this [pop] music (gesture of breaking through) sends them flying! It strikes me as a band of children crying for something—and the open door. They must step through it, they must go farther—there are now possibilities that weren’t there before…. So a few in the front must be the first to go through and receive what’s on the other side….</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[I] asked this Consciousness what was needed to receive it without distorting it, and it answered me (Mother reads out a note): “One must be able to stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness without casting a shadow.” </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>19 April 1969</b> </span>Addendum by Satprem</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“ADDENDUM (Account of N.S.’s visit on April 17, 1969. [The] Mother’s words were noted down in English from memory, and are therefore approximate.)….</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Mother said that the new Consciousness that has descended on the 1st of January is very active, and that we have come to a very critical time in the history of the world, and it is most interesting to watch how things are happening. This new Consciousness is preparing for the Superman and so there are big changes happening all around. When the first man developed, the animal had no mind and could not appreciate the evolution. Man has mind and can appreciate the evolution. That is why this is the most interesting time in history. If one can stand in that consciousness and watch the happenings from above, one can see how small and futile they are and one can then act upon them with a great Power.”</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>30 April 1969</b> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“This Consciousness is truly extraordinary, and with such a sense of humor, you know!… </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[U]nless you are in this absolutely luminous and tranquil and all containing Consciousness … [you cannot understand]. “Containing” still gives the impression of a limit; it’s not “all-containing,” <b>it’s vaster than anything existing. This Consciousness is vaster than the manifested world; there’s almost a sort of sensation that there’s a vaster Consciousness</b>: the manifested world takes up a certain “place” in this Consciousness (how can I explain?), it’s not the WHOLE Consciousness …. (That’s probably the body’s difficulty in being completely receptive, yet it’s for IT to understand….) And that seems to be the attitude to be kept. Is it an attitude?… It’s a way of being. A way of being. First, there are no limits (but that’s an old experience the body has had for a long time), no limits: there’s a sort of capacity to identify with things; but that’s a consequence, as it were, of the impelling Will (this “central” Will, if I may say so, which impels to action). And the body is like that … (outspread gesture).…</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“But <b>the whole makeup of the world still seems to act as a brake</b>, <b>there still seems to be something … And that “something” is what this Consciousness is working on.</b> <b>For it to be established, a change in the earth consciousness must take place</b>.”</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">3 May 1969 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“This Consciousness is very interesting. It has (smiling) … it’s not scorn, it’s a sort of faraway indifference for all human ideas – all conventions, all principles, all moralities, it finds all of that … absolutely grotesque. Now and then, it comes into contact with human ideas (Mother takes a surprised tone of voice): 'Ooh! So that’s what they think …' It’s amusing!...</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The strange thing is that <b>when you see things with this Consciousness, the PERFECTION of the organization is so TREMENDOUS that you are … you’re almost terrified!</b>… We are in the presence of hidden wonders that elude us completely because we’re idiots. There. But with this Consciousness, there is the why of everything: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“…[I]f people had been from the beginning wholly satisfied with themselves, they would never have progressed. But <b>now, it’s time to see</b>—time to see. The vast majority of humanity is unconscious (what I call unconscious, that is, without contact with the Consciousness, not CONSCIOUSLY in contact with Consciousness), the vast majority; but for one who is capable of being above circumstances with a clear and precise vision of the why and the how … it’s wonderful. There. It’s what Sri Aurobindo wrote in Savitri: <b>God grows up on earth—God grows—but man…(laughing), the wise man talks and sleeps…and no one will notice it till the work is over. That’s how it is. And he knew it</b>. (silence)…</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[T]hat experience of January 1st, when I felt it come – I felt it, saw it come, it was wholly concrete, like … like someone coming into the room, you understand, that concrete. So that’s what made me take notice, otherwise I would have found it to be the normal course of the development. But that experience alerted me….. [I]t wasn’t that this Consciousness was more intimate with me than with you all: it’s the same thing, it was like someone coming in. But a someone … superlatively conscious.”</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">19 November 1969 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[This morning about 8] I had the experience which was the explanation. And for two hours, I lived in an absolutely clear perception (not a thought, a clear perception) of ... the why and the how of the creation. It was so luminous, so clear! It was irrefutable. it lasted for at least four or five hours, then it settled; little by little the intensity and clarity of the experience diminished.... And also, I have just seen lots of people, so... now it's hard to explain…</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It was a VISION.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I might put it this way (for the convenience of expression, I'll say 'the Supreme' and 'the creation'): In the Supreme it's a unity that contains all possibilities perfectly united, without differentiation. The creation is, so to speak, the projection of all that makes up that unity, by dividing all opposites, that is to say, by separating (that's what was caught by those who said that creation is separation), by separating: for instance day and night, white and black, evil and good, and so on (all that is our explanation). <b>All together, all of it together is a perfect unity, immutable and ... indissoluble. The creation is the separation of all that "makes up" this unity—we might call it the division of the consciousness—the division of the consciousness, which starts from unity conscious of its unity to arrive at unity conscious of its multiplicity IN UNITY</b>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“So then, this route is what, for us—for the fragments—is expressed as space and time.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“And for us as <b>we are, each point of this Consciousness has the possibility of being conscious of itself AND conscious of the original Unity. And that's the work now being accomplished, that is to say, each infinitesimal element of this Consciousness, while retaining this state of consciousness, is now recapturing the total original state of consciousness—the result is the original Consciousness conscious of its Unity AND conscious of the whole play</b>: all the innumerable elements of this Unity. So for us, it gets expressed as the sense of time: going from the Inconscient to this state of consciousness. And the Inconscient is the projection of the primeval Unity (if we may say so—all those words are completely stupid), of the essential unity unconscious of its own Unity—that's the Inconscient. And this Inconscient is growing increasingly conscious in beings who are conscious of their infinitesimal existence and AT THE SAME TIME—through what we call progress or evolution or transformation—who manage to be conscious of the original Unity.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“And that, as it was seen, explained everything.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Words are nothing.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Everything, everything, from the most material thing to the most ethereal, EVERYTHING was included in it, clear, clear, clear—a vision....</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I am not the one who chose the words, so they must have a special force (when I say "I," I mean the consciousness which is there [gesture above]). It's not this consciousness, it was something exerting a pressure and forcing me to write….</span></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Stability and change</i></span></p></blockquote></div><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Inertia and transformation</i></span></p></blockquote></div><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Eternity and progress</i></span></p></blockquote></div><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Unity = power and repose combined.</i></span></p></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“...<b>There are no OPPOSITES. No opposites—not even contradictions</b>,<b> I say, no opposites. It's that Unity, it's LIVING in that Unity.</b> And it's not expressed in thoughts and words. I tell you, it was ... a limitless immensity and a light ... a motionless light, and at the same time a well-being ... without even the appreciation of a well-being.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Now <b>I am convinced that's what the supramental consciousness is</b>. And necessarily, necessarily, it must little by little change appearances. <i>(long silence)</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“There are no words that can express the magnificence of the Grace: how everything is arranged for things to move as fast as possible. <b>Individuals are miserable insofar as they aren't conscious of "that,"</b> as they take a false position with regard to what happens to them.</span></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[Satprem:] <i>But what's difficult is the thought that every instant, it must be... it IS perfection.</i></span></p></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Yes, that's right.</span></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[Satprem:] <i>Every instant, it is perfection.</i></span></p></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Every instant there's nothing else! When it was there, there was nothing else....</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“How stupid people are! When the Grace comes to them, they drive it away, saying, "Oh, how horrible!..." I'd known that for a long time, but my experience is ... a bedazzlement.</span></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[Satprem:] <i>Yes, each thing is perfectly and marvelously what it must be every instant.</i></span></p></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Exactly. </span></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[Satprem:] <i>But it's our vision that isn't in tune.</i></span></p></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Yes, <b>it's our separate consciousness</b>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>The whole is brought with lightning speed towards the consciousness that will be this Consciousness of the point and of the whole at the same time</b>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“There, I'll write today's date….</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">19 November 1969: supramental consciousness.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The first descent of the supramental Force was on a 29th [29 February 1956]. And this is on a 19th. <b>The figure 9 has something to do with all this</b>.... There are so many things we don't know! <i>(silence)</i> </span></p></blockquote></div><div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I had already had, partially, the experience that when you are in that state of inner harmony and nothing, no part of your attention is turned to the body, the body functions perfectly well. It's this ... self-concentration that upsets everything. That I've observed many, many times.... You really MAKE YOURSELF sick. It's narrowness of consciousness, it's division. When you let things work on their own, there's ... there's EVERYWHERE a Consciousness and a Grace that do EVERYTHING so that EVERYTHING may go smoothly, and that imbecility is what constantly upsets everything—oddly enough! Self-centered imbecility, that's right: what Sri Aurobindo called "the old man." It's really interesting.”</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1 January 1970 [The Mother's New Year’s Message]</span></b></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The World is preparing for a big change. Will you help?"</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[The Mother’s commentary on her message:]</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“That big change is the emergence upon earth of <b>a new race which will be to man what man is to the animal</b>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>The consciousness of that new race is already at work on the earth to enlighten all those who are capable of receiving and listening to it.</b>”</span></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">31 Jan 1970</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“[T]he individual consciousness, even very vast, cannot realize, that is to say, cannot concretely understand the possibility of being conscious of everything at the same time. Because that's not the way it is. So it finds it difficult to understand that <b>THE Consciousness is conscious of EVERYTHING at the same time: in the whole, in the totality as well as in the smallest detail</b>. That ... Ah, that makes you very peaceful, very peaceful.... I clearly see, the body clearly realizes that it's only its own resistance—its resistance to the Truth—that makes it possible for it to suffer. Wherever there is complete adherence, suffering disappears instantly.”</span></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></div><blockquote><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">11 Feb 1970</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“My head has never been in such a state.... The consciousness is very clear, very clear.... Strange.... My head feels as if it's this big (gesture), as if it had become huge.”</span></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">7 Mar 1970 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The consciousness isn't an idea, it's a sort of ... yes, <b>a state of consciousness, an awareness of the Divine’s sole existence, of the sole Reality</b>, and when it's there, everything becomes wonderful (physically, materially). There are moments full of an intensity of harmony ... quite exceptional. But then, when things grate, mon petit, they grate horribly!”</span></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></div><blockquote><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">14 March 1970</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It's the fourteenth month since the Consciousness came—fourteenth month: twice seven….Is today the 14th? [Satprem: <i>Yes, the 14th</i>] So it's interesting. How [Sri Aurobindo] has worked since he left, oh! ... All the time, all the time....”</span></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></div><blockquote><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">18 April 1970</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The consciousness is VERY active—a consciousness wide awake to the SMALLEST thing—but the mental description ... (Mother shakes her head). Now and then, out of the old habit, I ask a question like that, a mental question, and I always receive the same answer: <b>you mustn't mentalize. It instantly brings back the old way</b>.”</span></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></div><blockquote><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">29 April 1970</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It's difficult ... difficult to say precisely. We think that this, this appearance (Mother points to her body) is ... to the ordinary consciousness it seems to be the most important thing—it's obviously the last thing that will change. And to the ordinary consciousness, it seems to be the last thing that will change because its the most important: that will be the surest sign. But it's not that at all! ... It's not that at all.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>The important thing is this change in the CONSCIOUSNESS—which has taken place. All the rest is a consequence</b>. And here, in this material world, it appears the most important to us because it's ... everything is upside down. I don't know how to explain.”</span></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">11 July 1970 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But there is this Consciousness ... all of a sudden, when you no longer ARE, when there's nothing but That, this Consciousness there (<i>gesture around the head</i>), a slightly golden Consciousness, you REALLY get the impression of omnipotence and ... And here you know NOTHING! Nothing, nothing at all, you can't explain anything. All that is ... what I call mental imaginings.</span></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">26 July 1970</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I must say that two days ago, I had an experience … an experience of the whole universe, like a general vision of an Immensity, and then, suddenly <b>the consciousness seemed to become a point taking up no room, and that point was the Eternal Consciousness</b>. But then, it was so strong! So strong ... how all this, this whole unfolded universe was the result of this Consciousness (Mother shows a point). You understand, the consciousness here became this Eternal Consciousness (for a few seconds perhaps, I don't think it lasted even a minute, but time had nothing to do with it), it was the Eternal, it was the Consciousness. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“And that experience already prepared something, because the two were simultaneous; one didn't abolish the other, the two were simultaneous: this Point that was taking up no room but was eternal, was everything, and at the same time, the unfolding [of the universe]. That was a very intense experience. Then there only remained this vagueness that is the "whole," but it didn't lose its impression of vagueness, that is to say, of something imprecise. Since that time, there has been something changed. And today, in this consciousness, when the answer came, it wasn't the knowledge of "that"—it wasn't the knowledge, it was the working. All of a sudden, I had BECOME the working.... It had such simplicity, you know, a marvelous, all-powerful simplicity!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Words are approximations. I had to use words because I had to write for him, but the experience came like that, the working: the experience of <b>this universal Immensity returning to the Divine Consciousness</b>, how it returns—and innumerably, of course, with all possible experiences, but with a marvelous sim-plic-i-ty….</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It gave me at the same time a sort of bodily experience of <b>the universal movement of the return of the consciousness towards the Divine</b>; and that ... a perception that wasn't mental at all, not at all, as if all the cells felt this movement, you understand, this movement of immense return towards the Consciousness.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It must be the movement of the universe towards the Supreme.”</span></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">7 October 1970</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"To persevere in turning towards the Light is what is most demanded. The Light is nearer to us than we think ... and at any time its hour may come."</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‒ Sri Aurobindo [On Himself, 26.216, 1943]</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<b>What he called</b> <b>"the Light" is the Consciousness that came in ... it came in 1969</b>.”</span></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">20 November 1971</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Those who want to progress have an exceptional chance; because the transformation begins by opening the consciousness to the working of the new forces; and thus individuals have a unique and marvelous opportunity to open to the divine influence."</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">30 Oct 1971</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I have a sort of impression of knowing the why of the creation. It was to realize the phenomenon of <b>a consciousness which would have at once an individual consciousness—the individual consciousness we have naturally—and a consciousness of the whole, a consciousness (how to put it?) ... it could be called global</b>. <b>But both consciousnesses merge into something... which we have yet to find. A consciousness at once individual and total. And all the work is to merge the two consciousnesses in a consciousness which is both at once. That is the next realization</b>. (silence)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“For us it takes time (what is translated for us as time), as if it were something "being done," or which is "to be done." But that is the illusion we're still in. Because we have not... we have not yet crossed over to the other side.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“But <b>the individual consciousness is not at all a falsehood, it has to be associated with the consciousness of the whole so as to make another kind of consciousness </b>which at the moment we still don't have. Not that it will cancel out the other, you understand? There has to be an adjustment, a different aspect, I don't know... so that the two can manifest simultaneously.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“For example, right now I am having a whole series of experiences concerning the latent power of creation of the individual consciousness, I mean the capacity we have of knowing things—knowing or wanting them, as we say—in the individual consciousness before they take place. We say "I want this," but that's merely an intermediary device, it's actually the consciousness on the way to something and having at once the vision of what is to be and the capacity to realize it.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“That's the next stage. Afterwards....</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“So, for us, meaning for the individual consciousness, that is translated by time, the time it takes to.... I don't know how to say it. This is the way I feel: no longer this, not yet that; and there's no need to leave one to be the other—<b>the two must combine and give birth to something new</b>. (long silence)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I have a very strong feeling I have caught the true thing, as if I held the tail of the true thing. And it explains everything—absolutely everything. And it cancels nothing....</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It's strange how everything suddenly became clear, clear, clear.... There's no longer any problem.”</span></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1 December 1971</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“And then, the way of perceiving time and space is becoming very different. It's completely changing. The notion of time and space, objectivity and subjectivity—whether things are concrete or not—all that seems to have been ... devices for preparing the consciousness for a new way of being. The functioning of the consciousness is beginning to be different. But I can't explain it.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>[For those who want to read the FULL entries from which the above are excerpts, </span><i>The Mother’s Agenda</i><span> </span><span>volumes and individual entries are available </span><a href="https://motherandsriaurobindo.in/The-Mother/books/mothers-agenda/" target="_blank">HERE</a><span>.</span><span>]</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">The Mother’s descriptions of the new supramental power and new superman consciousness above take on extra meaning when we take into consideration Thea’s experience and discussions of Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth in 1963 – ninety-one (= 90 + 1) years after his first birth in 1872 – fulfilling his avataric mission of establishing the Divine Consciousness in material creation. The Mother, in turn, turned 91 in 1969. And just as Sri Aurobindo’s birth in the 9-power year of 1872 was followed 6 years later by the Mother’s birth in the 6-power year of 1878, so was “the Son’s” birth in the 1-power year of 1963 followed by the arrival, “manifestation” (or birth) of the “superman consciousness” 6 years later, in the 7-power year of 1969. </div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1872 + 6 = 1878 </span></b></p></div><div><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1963 + 6 = 1969<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></b></p></div><div><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1872 + 91 = 1963</span></b></p></div><div><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1878 + 91 = 1969</span></b></p></div></blockquote><div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Note that when the <i>months</i> of the years are taken to account, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s births fall 5.5 years apart. Likewise, when the months of the year are taken to account, Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth and the manifestation of the “superman consciousness” on 1 January 1969 fall 5 years + 37 days apart. The pattern I have illustrated above applies to the number and number-power of <b>the year as a whole</b>. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On 1 January 1969, Thea was four days shy of turning 31, and I was six weeks shy of being born. In <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 1</i>, Thea discussed her spiritual crisis of 1969, at the age of 31, involving her inability to accept the widely accepted spiritual “premise that this material creation was nothing but an illusion.” (p. 121) Thea’s age in 1969 (31) is especially meaningful to me, given that 31 years later (i.e., at the age of 31) I was led by Sri Aurobindo, in supramental fashion, straight to the doorstep of Thea’s yoga, <i>fully prepared</i> to understand who she was and what she had been learning and teaching since the year of my birth. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Part Three I will present Thea’s accounts and teaching on how she came to SEE and KNOW,—via the number and circle of 9, and its zodiacal counterpart—, the all-unifying supramental conscious that is newly manifesting in our world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[Link to Part <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">3</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">4</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">5</a> or <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">6</a>] </span></div>
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Endnotes
</b><p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> The four Inter-Solstitial points of the Earth's Solar-Tropical Year (=the Vedic Year) are the midpoints (<b>15°</b>) of Vishnu the Preserver’s four preservation (fixed) signs: Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. Note that the <b><a href="https://cafeastrology.com/events/full-moon-lunar-eclipse-on-november-8-2022/#:~:text=Total%20Lunar%20Eclipse%20in%20Taurus%3A%20November%208%2C%202022,%E2%80%93%20a%20time%20of%20romance%2C%20fertilization%2C%20and%20relationships." target="_blank">8 November 2022 Lunar Eclipse</a></b> energized this Inter-Solstitial cross, via the fixed-sign T-square of the South Node, Mercury and Sun transiting 13°, 15° and 16° Scorpio opposite the North Node, Moon, and Uranus transiting 13°, 16° and 16° Taurus, squaring Saturn transiting 18° Aquarius.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a> <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 290.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a> Sri Aurobindo began this chapter with a verse (V.1.) from the Mahopanishad: </p><p style="text-align: center;">“Seven steps has the ground of the Ignorance, <br />seven steps has the ground of the Knowledge.” </p><p>This verse, and its seven steps are a symbol of the obstruction and the release of the seven rivers of the Rig Veda, in the age and sign of Aquarius. See: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html" target="_blank">"THE OBSTRUCTION OF THE VEDIC WATERS & THE FIXED WATER SIGN SCORPIO ⁓ PART 7.2 ⁓ The Resurrection of the Father & the Rise of the Sevenfold Man"</a> (26 February 2022).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div>
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The dates of this festival – celebrating Durga’s nine-night battle with a great asura (<i>Mahishasura</i>) to restore dharma in the world, ending with her Tenth Day of Victory (<i>Vijaya Dashami</i>) – change a bit every year because it is linked to the New Moon of Virgo. Please note that the dates of the Navaratri in India are calculated via the <i>sidereal</i> measure of the Zodiac, which Thea considered to be a post-Vedic, mismeasure and distortion of the Zodiac/Vedic Year. Regardless, she always considered the Navaratri (as measured in India) to have substantial relevance in the course of her own yoga. In 2016, Thea passed away on the 8th day of the Navaratri festival (9 October) and was cremated on the 10th Day of Victory (11 October). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Instead of beginning Part 9 with words, I constructed two images to help readers see and understand the sacred number 9 and the many sacred numbers that reduce to 9 in their proper circular and spherical context, which Thea began writing about in 1972, the year before the Mother’s passing. As I was constructing these images, so began the process of receiving and organizing all that wanted to be expressed through Part 9. I quickly realized that Part 9 was not just the end of the Scorpio series, but the beginning of <i>something else</i>. It felt like the beginning of another series or book, but not just that. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-RlW-S4WQof1qsjXjTjhLUgBEByfAVWHbMjKD1ecV8_2-tYqNHn-ud7PZZut0-L5R_Kv_kPb4pGVA_SaaCNhEJDpvvDyGvhpIE-6nLsZ6qeVv9GkT1bQkytlVo6-Npt-hSwMVA-LimvPZtEObwXPIU7s3B_joDdLl4eWUZ7trVFdWf0ISwTk-k2e/s450/Sagittarius2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="400" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-RlW-S4WQof1qsjXjTjhLUgBEByfAVWHbMjKD1ecV8_2-tYqNHn-ud7PZZut0-L5R_Kv_kPb4pGVA_SaaCNhEJDpvvDyGvhpIE-6nLsZ6qeVv9GkT1bQkytlVo6-Npt-hSwMVA-LimvPZtEObwXPIU7s3B_joDdLl4eWUZ7trVFdWf0ISwTk-k2e/w235-h265/Sagittarius2.jpg" width="235" /></a></div>I knew for over a year that Part 9 was going to focus on the number-power of 9 in relation to the Supramental Yoga and the release of the Vedic Waters, and I had already written a few sections of it in 2021. I did not know, however, until the 2022 Navaratri that Part 9 would focus on the shift from the obstructive linear consciousness of the 8th sign of Scorpio to the cyclical and spherical consciousness of the 9th sign of Sagittarius, the sign known in India as <i>Dhanu</i>, the Sanskrit word for "bow", as in the bow of the Archer. As I began to write about this shift in conjunction with the six-year anniversary of the release of the geometric and zodiacal sense of the Vedic Rivers and the six-year anniversary of Thea’s passing, I experienced a substantial shift in my consciousness and likewise in my understanding of the Supramental Yoga. From the moment the Vedic rivers revealed themselves to me as symbols of the arc or bow (<i>dhanu</i>) of the vesica piscis that measures out the circle of the Zodiac, on 2 October 2016, I knew of course that it was Thea’s 46 years of revelations and teachings regarding the circular keys of Vedic and Supramental Gnosis, and my deep connection with her yoga,—as well as with the yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother—, that had enabled me SEE the eternal law and divine measure of the Vedic rivers at the age of 47. </div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Regardless, before the Navaratri of 2022, I did not fully see and understand the shift from the obstructions posed in the 8th sign of Scorpio to the expansiveness of the 9th sign of Sagittarius in terms of the shift from the <i>linear</i> mental consciousness to the <i>spherical</i> supramental consciousness of the Vedic Sage-Son. As such, up until October of 2022, I did not fully understand Sri Aurobindo’s avataric yoga and descent in our 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation in relation to the Sage-Son of the Vedic Year/Zodiac. Certain pieces and parts of what I did understand had just not fallen into their proper place in my mind yet.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEni4UOKUqchewaJzJjQozVqfM7mJ-RfZ7GGA3M_UpFMNIYad4j9k28R2-7eCZRPu5OSMiNV0IySLMwch4k_kqhX0357Za1oYKWiCy3PisedmHsUs8IOtKW_u2xTsbtFGg9A3IeTqDA-xnr80UuxwRF2mkQ8oTJy0fKQN5FfOb8P5FmR9NA1Y6hByW/s341/Kalki-halo.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="Vishnu’s Kalki Avatar (Horse not shown) Source: Panjabi Manuscript [Wiki}" border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="191" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEni4UOKUqchewaJzJjQozVqfM7mJ-RfZ7GGA3M_UpFMNIYad4j9k28R2-7eCZRPu5OSMiNV0IySLMwch4k_kqhX0357Za1oYKWiCy3PisedmHsUs8IOtKW_u2xTsbtFGg9A3IeTqDA-xnr80UuxwRF2mkQ8oTJy0fKQN5FfOb8P5FmR9NA1Y6hByW/w197-h352/Kalki-halo.jpg" title="Vishnu’s Kalki Avatar (Horse not shown) Source: Panjabi Manuscript [Wiki}" width="197" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">During the 2022 Navaratri it all became crystal clear and wonderfully cohesive. I understood what the ancient iconography of the divine HALO <i>actually</i> represents, and I understood the birth of the Vedic Son-Sage in the ancient Vedas, and likewise Sri Aurobindo’s birth and rebirth in our 9th Manifestation, as the seeding and awakening of the spherical (Sage) consciousness in Humanity (the Man of Aquarius). Without this birth, and its accompanying body of spherical (supramental) gnosis as presented by Thea, the release of the geometric and zodiacal sense of the Divine Son-Sage’s seven mothers-rivers in our world,—along with ALL of the Vedic and post-Vedic ancient symbols and mythologies that this gnosis has illuminated—, simply would not have been possible. What the linear consciousness had long obstructed and imprisoned, the spherical consciousness quickly released in the Aquarian Age of the 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation of the Maha Yuga cycle. And thus, the entire Vedic and Biblical story of the coming of the conquering and unifying Divine Son and the purifying apocalyptic release of his seven rivers/vials (equivalent to the release of the waters of the Aquarian Kumbha) can be seen as an evolutionary symbol-prophecy of the inevitable birth, expansion and rise of the spherical supramental consciousness,—the consciousness of the 9-rayed Vedic and zodiacal Sage/Horse—, which naturally serves to purify and dismantle the dimly lit linear mental consciousness that forms the unsound foundation of our current civilization and its many woes. </div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7OmU6VP0ytpFmp1umyoCdj9Gs_mMT3Ws19UsOPu1TpT2vBU3oB8yY_rs7eD7z1o7NoaYCFayYeQmPPE0NnPcQ-_ncbpYCBs1cBK1obTfzFfJyaSwIz3ITOjZJWdOFOH6i9CbRWZPj0Eh3LgJaalP8fT2X7M6_UX9WrZT8gj90e12NMfaM_knemso9/s1600/480px-Gombak_Selangor_Batu-Caves-01.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="Lord Murugan at Batu Caves Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas" border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="480" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7OmU6VP0ytpFmp1umyoCdj9Gs_mMT3Ws19UsOPu1TpT2vBU3oB8yY_rs7eD7z1o7NoaYCFayYeQmPPE0NnPcQ-_ncbpYCBs1cBK1obTfzFfJyaSwIz3ITOjZJWdOFOH6i9CbRWZPj0Eh3LgJaalP8fT2X7M6_UX9WrZT8gj90e12NMfaM_knemso9/w266-h399/480px-Gombak_Selangor_Batu-Caves-01.jpg" title="Lord Murugan at Batu Caves Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas" width="266" /></a> <div style="text-align: justify;">When this shift or deepening of my understanding occurred, I could hear Thea laughing and saying, “It’s about Time”, which in turn made me laugh for many reasons, including that I KNOW such events happen <i>exactly when they need to</i>. In this case it took precisely six years for me to fully connect the dots of what was revealed in 2016 about the Vedic Sage-Son-Horse with the spherical consciousness of <b>Vishnu’s 9th Avatar </b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#2a" id="2"><b>[2]</b></a></span><b> – the Divine Sage of our 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation</b>. As I have discussed at length since 2016, the Divine Sage of the Vedas is Agni, born forward by his seven rivers (=mothers, cows, mares, etc.) as the self-purifying Soma-Pavamana who goes by many names and descriptors, including the triply-seated or triply-born Agni, the Sage, Horse, Son (Child of the Waters), Trita, the Hidden One (Guha), the Archer, Bull and Eagle who flows with and pours out his seven rivers on his way to the Heavenly Jar (=Kumbha). The Sage's jar-destination is also known as the reservoir of Soma <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#3a" id="3"><b>[3]</b></a></span> (=Amrita), the gods' banquet and meeting place, Agni's resting place, Indra's heart, and <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#rendezvous" target="_blank">by many other names as well</a>. Thea equated this conquering Son-Sage-Horse of the Vedas with Kalki, Kartikeya, Skanda, Murugan, Subramanya of India mythology, Aeon of Greek mythology, the “threefold warrior” Triptolemus of the Eleusinian Mysteries, and Ares/Mars (the God of War) of Roman and Greek mythology. The fifth day of the Navaratri festival celebrates Durga as <i>Skandamata</i> – the mother of Skanda. In truth, Durga’s Tenth Day of Victory is inseparable from her act of giving birth to her Divine Son-Sage-Conqueror, and fittingly the celebration of her victory includes a procession of statues of Durga, Kartikeya and her other children to (and into) a river or ocean, i.e., to a reservoir of water, symbolically equivalent to the Son-Sage’s victorious <b>ten-month</b> journey with his seven mothers-rivers to the Kumbha – the gathering place the gods and goddesses and the waters of the Vedas.</div>
<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Finally understanding the birth of this Vedic and Zodiacal Sage-Son as the awakening of the spherical consciousness in humanity elicited much joy circa the anniversary of Thea’s 9 October 2016 passing because it made me feel <i>even closer</i> to her and to her work, as well as more centered and aligned in my own yoga, more wonder-struck by the yogic journey and its progressive revelations, and more compassionate with regards to humanity’s self-destructive ignorance. It has helped me to better see and understand the entire Supramental Descent and all that is transpiring in our world not only via a more expansive and spherical perspective, but also via a more focused lens. Finally coming to terms with what <i>exactly</i> the SAGE-SON represents, or rather IS, in terms of our evolutionary journey, occurs to me as a fitting culmination of my 45-54 ennead (12 Feb 2014 ‒ 12 February 2023), which began in Pondicherry, India, at Thea’s <i><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/events/the-future-realisation-pondicherry-2014/" target="_blank">The Future Realisation exhibition</a></i>. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#4a" id="4"><b>[4]</b></a></span> Moreover, it feels like a fitting culmination of the first 54 (= 9 x 6) years of my entire life, completing a certain level of work and establishing the foundation of whatever is to come next. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, with all of that said, I welcome readers to the beginning of this new series focusing on the birth of the spherical, supramental and solar truth-consciousness of the Sage of Sagittarius in Vishnu’s 9th Manifestation. I do consider "The Spherical Gnosis of the Sage & the Release of the Vedic Waters" to be the culmination (Part 9) of the Scorpio Series, but at the same time it is something new that will stand on its own. <a id="9th-Manifestation">Before proceeding</a> it is essential to make sure readers understand what is meant by Vishnu’s 9th Manifestation, and the best way to explain this is via <a id="Manifestations">Thea’s Map of the 12 Manifestations</a>, which spans three Great Years (three Precessions of the Equinoxes = 3 x 25,920 years = 36 astrological ages). The progression of these 12 Manifestations corresponds to the progression of the 12 months of the Zodiac, and each Manifestation contains, in itself, three astrological ages (3 x 2160 years = 6,480 years).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXRsnGGpoJCeq_qJE0E1cqRiR-S1Mbh2N02E2BZLyQnXD5_OGo6yF4BAumpX8v1xEq_IQCIorg0kpFttgCnMel7hHHCqlDo4S7yz57TeuImHaFrKRFxSlLpYN5U58JDSQBI_e1SiQcDulSwk3Pl8Xsbe9R-8PpjNpJTpN2TBqNxTv9pNqbNE8PeOLL/s2833/Map-of-the-Manifestations-lg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's Map of the 12 Manifestations, as found in 'Symbols and the Question of Unity' and 'The Gnostic Circle'" border="0" data-original-height="2833" data-original-width="2213" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXRsnGGpoJCeq_qJE0E1cqRiR-S1Mbh2N02E2BZLyQnXD5_OGo6yF4BAumpX8v1xEq_IQCIorg0kpFttgCnMel7hHHCqlDo4S7yz57TeuImHaFrKRFxSlLpYN5U58JDSQBI_e1SiQcDulSwk3Pl8Xsbe9R-8PpjNpJTpN2TBqNxTv9pNqbNE8PeOLL/w500-h640/Map-of-the-Manifestations-lg.jpg" title="Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's Map of the 12 Manifestations, as found in 'Symbols and the Question of Unity' and 'The Gnostic Circle'" width="500" /></a><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image source: <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/SQU.html" target="_blank">Symbols and the Question of Unity</a> </i>(Thea, 1974)</span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">& <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TGC.html" target="_blank">The Gnostic Circle</a></i> (Thea, 1975)</span></b></div></b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">As discussed by Thea in <i>The Gnostic Circle</i> (pp. 18-31), the heart of each of these 12 Manifestations is one of Vishnu’s four Preservation Ages – the Ages of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius; and these are the Ages when Vishnu the Preserver manifests in order to periodically restore the eternal law (<i>Sanatana Dharma</i>) in our world.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8nh_0zKrqmw-a_Wf-6q-u4oOjathfkez7OPxOnVTix8ZU84AohxHVIYKXpM6yc0nFqrAvWKBOucs_IxQeZLaZwJriNuAz5mAUzkkQfr0dAbBaKeClmlF7ofnQSozdbqAGZM255OmFsrDhPZa8gpqq8IbpqEVn6J0CJ0r98OIgnGbYK3EsB-Bjcd1K/s1800/MahaYuga-Sagittarius-1926-no-text.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Map of the Maha Yuga Cycle and Astrological Ages (Lori Tompkins) based on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's Map of the 12 Manifestations" border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="1735" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8nh_0zKrqmw-a_Wf-6q-u4oOjathfkez7OPxOnVTix8ZU84AohxHVIYKXpM6yc0nFqrAvWKBOucs_IxQeZLaZwJriNuAz5mAUzkkQfr0dAbBaKeClmlF7ofnQSozdbqAGZM255OmFsrDhPZa8gpqq8IbpqEVn6J0CJ0r98OIgnGbYK3EsB-Bjcd1K/w682-h256/MahaYuga-Sagittarius-1926-no-text.jpg" title="Map of the Maha Yuga Cycle and Astrological Ages (Lori Tompkins) based on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's Map of the 12 Manifestations" width="682" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The image above-left, which I constructed some years back, illustrates how the 12 Manifestations, along with <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2014/11/correcting-ongoing-misperceptions-of.html" target="_blank">9 Kali Yuga (Dwarpara Yuga = 2 Kali Yuga, Treta = 3 Kali Yuga, and Satya Yuga = 4 Kali Yuga), function as one 360° circle or cycle</a></b>. Vishnu’s first 9 fixed-sign (preservation) ages are highlighted in red. Above-right is a close-up of the third [mental] quadrant of this cycle, spanning the 7th (Libra), 8th (Scorpio), and 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestations. As Thea discussed and as readers can see in this image, <b>the center of the 9th Manifestation is our own Age of Aquarius</b>, which Thea saw as beginning in the 9-power year of 1926, the year of Sri Aurobindo’s Siddhi Day and Immortality Day (24 & 26 November). 1926 was also the year when Sri Aurobindo, at the age of 54 (9 x 6), retired from contact with the public in order to focus on his spiritual work, placing the Mother in charge of the establishment, organization and activities of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>⁓ PART ONE ⁓</b></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I had entered a state of consciousness in which unity is the foundation. But more than that, I had finally reached the Source of every symbol, of everything in creation in fact. And that Source was the Divine Mother. She was that Circle, that ‘symbol’, denoting the All in its essential unity: all symbols emerged from the Circle. It was only one more step and that All could be reduced to Number. The number of the circle was 9. The 9 was the Divine Mother…. With the Zero the Knowledge was complete….</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“By starting from 0 and ending in 9, I found the invaluable key to that spheric wholeness which could never manifest in a system (or a world) where the linear movement from 1-10 prevailed.… This, perhaps more than anything else, would be my single most important contribution to the study of cosmic harmonies.” </span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: right;">Thea, <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TTDV.html" target="_blank">The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 1</a></i> (pp. 206-07, 226)</div><div style="text-align: right;">[Commentary on her September 1972 revelations about the Circle of 9]</div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We are describing here the method placed at the disposal of seekers to affect a real and not illusory transformation of society, based on a principle which applies to the individual as well as to the collectivity as a whole. This method is devised to bring about a shift from the actual binary status of the human race to a unitary structure which then alters entirely the conditions of collective living on Earth. The first major effect of such a shift is the factor of a spherical as opposed to a linear progression….”</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: right;">Thea – “Vedic Symbol of the Universe – Part 3.3</div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/vedic-symbol-of-the-universe-part-3-3/" target="_blank">The Horse as an example in the Gnostic Circle application”</a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>The Vishaal Newsletter</i>, Volume 9.6, February 1995</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The most formidable obstruction of the Vedic Waters in the Fixed Water Sign of Scorpio has been humanity’s linear mental consciousness which is oblivious of the integral wholeness and basis of our existence and evolutionary journey in Time and Space. This linear mental consciousness, proper to both the 7th and 8th signs or stages of the twelve-stage evolutionary journey of the Zodiac, can equally be referred to as the binary mental consciousness. It expresses itself in every facet of our present human civilization, including our collective ignorance regarding the circular, cyclical, and spherical essence of our ancient 10-base number system, named as such because it uses 10 digits – <b>0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9</b> – to construct any number. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Via this ignorance, many who revere the number 9 are not fully aware of its connection to the circle and to the circular, cyclical and spherical patterns and structures of our cosmos, our world, and our individual lives. Likewise, the basis of many of our world’s mythologies and symbols and sacred 9-powered numbers – including the sacred number of 432 and the 432,000 measure of the Kali Yuga – have long been disconnected and disassociated from their real circular and cyclical context and measure, void of their true meaning and power in the world.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As Thea made clear throughout her writings spanning from 1970 to 2016 (46 years), the central key of the Mother-Goddesses’ (Durga’s) victory of dismantling the limitations and purifying the accumulated toxicity of humanity’s fragmented linear consciousness, and thereby enabling humanity to progress into <b>the expanded consciousness of the divine Vedic Sage-Son</b> in our present 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation of the Maha Yuga cycle, is precisely the gnosis of the cyclical, circular and triadic (3 x 3) essence of our 0-9 number system. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPrivHoFt0FAeWQi2D6nNW19Zrg_mqrxo5V6HcmgtYdxOSKeQ5bpjOtpqV1Zu_1_vCNuwLd2edLEOxjSIjEJWwZCE9odtDy6w8x0EDagF1_6KuyhyJUyuqbjRYm0UMGxu1AwfoVKCCihebtNQVJrdx8b4cl9Jl4XKaooPue96vtNOJp04HBCLyHAtB/s1600/TimeLine9%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="0-9 numbers - the linear view (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="83" data-original-width="400" height="66" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPrivHoFt0FAeWQi2D6nNW19Zrg_mqrxo5V6HcmgtYdxOSKeQ5bpjOtpqV1Zu_1_vCNuwLd2edLEOxjSIjEJWwZCE9odtDy6w8x0EDagF1_6KuyhyJUyuqbjRYm0UMGxu1AwfoVKCCihebtNQVJrdx8b4cl9Jl4XKaooPue96vtNOJp04HBCLyHAtB/w320-h66/TimeLine9%20copy.jpg" title="0-9 numbers - the linear view (Lori Tompkins)" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The 0-9 number system, as noted by Thea, functions not as a linear progression (shown above), forever moving <i>away from</i> its origin and seed point of 0, but as the circle of an ouroboros, whose head and tail (9 and 0), and <i>every part of its body, remain eternally connected, and eternally ONE</i>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2tvAUKWkkGqzLqSaTUwXCF_jPTdgD7URqanvjZgaB_JTID9y9DY_qixv9natQVBLk6mWDV-QCbDQOv8ZgRueysrEluz2skUAJ7lfZE_qMouDct8aPS3X6KqnElW7X3rmWQ5TYdi5Z-pFzCybVDb3U4Ekulp5en6t51SChbNwa-Z6L53ydHfGUTAZ_/s1600/9-Circle-3-Triangle-369.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="0-9 numbers - the spherical, circular view, based upon Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's teachings, as found in The Gnostic Circle (1974)" border="0" data-original-height="1117" data-original-width="1102" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2tvAUKWkkGqzLqSaTUwXCF_jPTdgD7URqanvjZgaB_JTID9y9DY_qixv9natQVBLk6mWDV-QCbDQOv8ZgRueysrEluz2skUAJ7lfZE_qMouDct8aPS3X6KqnElW7X3rmWQ5TYdi5Z-pFzCybVDb3U4Ekulp5en6t51SChbNwa-Z6L53ydHfGUTAZ_/w285-h289/9-Circle-3-Triangle-369.png" title="0-9 numbers - the spherical, circular view, based upon Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's teachings, as found in The Gnostic Circle (1974)" width="285" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;">When we see and understand the circular base of our number system, we can also see and understand the true sense of the tradition of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casting_out_nines" target="_blank">casting out nines</a> (aka <a href="https://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/term/Theosophical+Reduction" target="_blank">Theosophical addition or reduction</a>), whereby any finite number, no matter how large or small, reduces to one of the 9 digits of our “10-base” number system. We can also see that the circle of 0-9 contains all numbers in itself. Without this knowledge, sacred numbers, numerology, and math at large are all cut adrift from their true source, context, and power. The direction of the flow of the 9 numbers in Thea’s illustrations of the Circle of 9, and of <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/tgc.png" target="_blank">the Gnostic Circle</a> corresponds to the direction, flow and developmental stages of the Zodiac. It is worth noting here that Thea saw the modern teachings of the Enneagram with its 9 personality types,—wherein the flow of the 9 digits is clockwise and excludes the 0—, as incomplete in terms of its disconnection from the body and flow of cyclical Time (i.e. from the body and flow of the Zodiacal Year). </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtubYfFmgAX1hfwZ-_GK4azsnzwLVc0QlfQKzIyfRsg7rX4IPTp-2WYIkjD2u4lxVVrmOhbDkSvEMgEXrzQ6-tXkEddVakw3PqqPuA-rk4SF6UplHjWEs_MU0b4MHqZaMWha7MvUgzxHgVbsu_7BZ3-3xQQ8tM281pLr7Pn_RrxrYL3t2h9RsL91qp/s1600/9-108-Concentric-Color-lg.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="The Sacred Number 108: 12 concentric cycles of 9 (Lori Tompkins, October 2022)" border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="1320" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtubYfFmgAX1hfwZ-_GK4azsnzwLVc0QlfQKzIyfRsg7rX4IPTp-2WYIkjD2u4lxVVrmOhbDkSvEMgEXrzQ6-tXkEddVakw3PqqPuA-rk4SF6UplHjWEs_MU0b4MHqZaMWha7MvUgzxHgVbsu_7BZ3-3xQQ8tM281pLr7Pn_RrxrYL3t2h9RsL91qp/w640-h640/9-108-Concentric-Color-lg.png" title="The Sacred Number 108: 12 concentric cycles of 9 (Lori Tompkins, October 2022)" width="640" /></a><br />We could, of course, continue adding more rings to this Circle of 9, unto infinity. I stopped at 12 cycles of 9 culminating with the sacred number of 108. I did construct a 0-144 version (16 cycles of 9) which I will publish at another time. Anyone under the age of 109 can find the number-power of their own age in the above circle. For instance, I am currently 53, and the number and age of 53 (5 + 3 = 8) is found in the “ray” containing all other 8-power numbers. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Circle of 9 is, of course, the basis of the 360° (9 x 40°) division of the circle and sphere, and likewise the basis of the 360° measure of the Earth’s 12-month Solar or Tropical Year (aka the Zodiac), which also functions as an Ouroboros, with 0° and 360° seated at the exact same point in the circle. In the case of the zodiacal year, this point is the March Equinox. Thea recognized the Solar-Tropical measure of the Zodiac to be the true measure of the Vedic year or Yajna. She considered the various sidereal measurements of the Zodiac adhered to in India as “post-Vedic”, and as a distortion of the Vedic year and of the Zodiac itself. The Vedic Yajna, often translated a “sacrifice”, is the largely forgotten origin and basis of Yoga. As illuminated by Sri Aurobindo and Thea, the Vedic Yajna or Year represents the upward and progressive evolutionary journey of life and consciousness on Earth whereby we complete the task of manifesting our indwelling divinity or Divine Self in Manifestation, in Time and Space, and thereby come to experience Time and Space, together with all that which manifests in it, as the multidimensional body, field, force and expression of the Divine, not something separate from the Divine or from ourselves. In the following illustration of the Gnostic Circle, I have nested various key measures of the 360° Year and Great Year.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8S8lAREPxEQ4DFtDtJRgLGBPWq3zk5i_elE81MrV0JNoeG1WMMpd4XdndnixQXuF4qQ6PFp3jGef8ePFmW9G03AwYyiypmcOMzXWOwxFSEFi9oBcoOp0q3PeeAvyUX3a8fJB2VNOeekIyRdEsQpQL-F8e1NIhB7eLCd_bdRvyFfa1tx-7xF-7Ovc_/s780/Zodiac-Sacred-Numbers-Measure-sm-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The 9 and 12 Divisions of the Zodiac, and the 25,920-yearGreat Year with degrees and seconds of degrees (Lori Tompkins, October 2022)" border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="780" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8S8lAREPxEQ4DFtDtJRgLGBPWq3zk5i_elE81MrV0JNoeG1WMMpd4XdndnixQXuF4qQ6PFp3jGef8ePFmW9G03AwYyiypmcOMzXWOwxFSEFi9oBcoOp0q3PeeAvyUX3a8fJB2VNOeekIyRdEsQpQL-F8e1NIhB7eLCd_bdRvyFfa1tx-7xF-7Ovc_/w640-h640/Zodiac-Sacred-Numbers-Measure-sm-01.png" title="The 9 and 12 Divisions of the Zodiac, and the 25,920-yearGreat Year with degrees and seconds of degrees (Lori Tompkins, October 2022)" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">All measures shown above are <i>cumulative</i>. In other words, just as the integer 2 is an accumulation of two units or two 1’s, each measure shown is an accumulation of that one segment and all of the segments before it. Thus, in the circle of the Zodiac, the measure of 0° Taurus marks out 30° = 108,000", 0° Gemini marks out 60° = 216,000", 0° Cancer marks out 90° = 324,000", etc.; and in the circle of 9, the 1 Point is precisely 144,000" (=40°), the measure of the 2 Point is 288,000" (=80°), the measure of the 3 Point is 432,000" (=120°), etc. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The first (inner) ring shows the 12 division of the 360° circle: 12 x 30° = 360°. The second ring shows the 12 ages of the Great Year (= the Precession of the Equinoxes). The third ring shows the number of years contained in the Great Year: 12 x 2160 years = 25,920 years. The fourth ring shows the seconds of degrees contained in the 360° Circle: 12 x 108,000" = 1,296,000". The fifth ring, to be seen in conjunction with the rings before and after it, puts the measure of the Kali, Dwapara and Treta Yugas in their proper context. Together these three yuga measures mark out the 3, 6 and 9 points of the Circle. The measure of Satya Yuga, not shown in this circle is four Kali Yuga (=16 ages = 4 x 432,000" of the Precessional Cycle). The sixth ring contains the hieroglyphs of the 12 signs of the Zodiac. The seventh ring and the outer numbers (0-9) together show the 9 division of the circle wherein each unit (each ONE) is 144,000 seconds of degrees (= 40° x 60" x 60") of the circle: 9 x 144,000" = 1,296,000". </p><p style="text-align: justify;">All of the numbers of the 3rd, 4th and 7th circles reduce to the number power of 9. Many may recognize various sacred numbers and measurements shown above, including the measurements of the radii and diameters of the Sun and the Moon (in miles). I constructed this image to help readers see and understand that our world’s sacred measurements – especially the measurement of the Yugas – must be seen and understood via the language and math of the 360° circle of 9, together with the language and math of the 360° circle of the Zodiac. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#5a" id="5"><b>[5]</b></a></span> Disconnected from this One circle, sacred numbers loose the entire context of their sacredness.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I constructed a version of this last circle with <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QLunCH8y_xXLPFb1fqOPUbuf1EVh1hgf/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">another ring showing the 2,880 years that correspond to each 40° of the Great Year</a> – 1 Point: 2,880 years; 2 Point: 5,760 years; 3 Point: 8,640 years, 4 Point: 11,520 years, 5 Point: 14,400 years, 6 Point: 17,280 years, 7 Point: 20,160 years, 8 Point: 23,040 years; 9 Point: 25,920 years. Another version could include the 24 hours of the 360° measure of the day and its minutes, seconds. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" target="_blank">Part Two of this series —"The Establishment of the Supramental Consciousness in the 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation"</a></b>—I present various excerpts from Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Thea's works concerning the establishment of the spherical supramental consciousness on Earth. In <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html" target="_blank">Part Three</a></b> I will give readers an historical overview of Thea’s early revelations regarding the Circle of 9 and the Circle of the Zodiac. In <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" target="_blank"><b>Part Four</b></a> I will share many of her discussions regarding the evolutionary shift from the linear (binary) mental consciousness to the spherical supramental consciousness. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Link to Part </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of_28.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank">4</a><span style="font-size: small; text-align: center;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small; text-align: center;" target="_blank">5</a><span style="font-size: small; text-align: center;"> or </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-release-of.html" style="font-size: small; text-align: center;" target="_blank">6</a><span style="font-size: small; text-align: center;">]</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">
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<b>Endnotes: </b><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#1"></a><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> Links to "The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters and the Fixed Water Sign of Scorpio" <span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;">series: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">Part 1</span></a><span style="background: white;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">2</span></a><span style="background: white;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">3</span></a><span style="background: white;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">4</span></a><span style="background: white;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">5</span></a><span style="background: white;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">6</span></a><span style="background: white;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">7.1</span></a><span style="background: white;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">7.2</span></a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">8.1</a>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#2" id="2a" target="">[2]</a> As I discussed in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-sacred-measure-of-432000-part-5.html" target="_blank">“The Sacred Measure of 432,000 ⁓ Part 5: Vishnu and the Triadic Division of the Circle”</a>, Thea considered Sri Aurobindo (not Gautama the Buddha) to be the rightful 9th Avatar of Vishnu, who promptly reincarnated, 13 years after his passing, as the 10th in the Line [as the Son]. In <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/SOE.html" target="_blank">Secrets of the Earth: Questions and Answers on the Line of Ten Avatars of Vedic Tradition</a></i>, she wrote:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Imagine [the descent of the 9th Avatar] as an organic process. See the 9th Avatar's coming as 'seed'. From that Seed [Sri Aurobindo] planted in 1872, the ineluctable unfolding or evolving of its contents was 'decreed'. The work was done, we could say, because when Time is the executive force in the operation, as ally, as Creator not Destroyer, its irreversible forward march can only make manifest what the Seed contains…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The coming of the 9th Avatar] provides us with the truth-conscious structure it is his duty to introduce in this 9th Manifestation, i.e., the Cosmic Truth.” (pp. 50, 65) </p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a> ”Flow on for the God's banquet, [Agni, Soma-Pavamana], as a Steer, and enter Indra's heart, the Soma's reservoir [<i>somadhā́nam</i>]. Bear us beyond misfortune ere we be oppressed, the man who knows the land directs the man who asks.” – <a href="https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv09070.htm" target="_blank">Rig Veda 9.70.9</a>, tr. RTH Griffith</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#4" id="4a">[4]</a> I was a docent for Thea’s February 2014 <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/events/the-future-realisation-pondicherry-2014/" target="_blank">“The Future Realisation” exhibition</a> which she described as “An Exhibition connecting the Supramental Gnosis of the Mother to the Vedic Age”. This exhibition featured the Vedic significance of the Mother’s original measurements for the inner chamber of her spherical temple, the Matrimandir, which <a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">were distorted and thus not manifested in the temple that goes by her name in Auroville</a>. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-spherical-gnosis-of-sage-and.html#5" id="5a">[5]</a> See: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2014/11/correcting-ongoing-misperceptions-of.html" target="_blank">“Correcting the Ongoing Misperceptions of the Kali Yuga”</a>.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWJZjLxm13V3qFDpTPkWtsXNycm1Jkg17RS_DvUT4z5rxZo6r9rSq1KRmus54uBAsiCZzdKDZx8843qO7u5CvtJsQ7v7eIT6rnkDNHT035lQmYfo9MEspiaC84GT3BahsAL6BqEJZN--AF6pI308-Vfgy8R_fZFL6jbsm59m_3YKt3s19R7DrevxLP/s600/Queen-Elizabeth-II-Fixed-Sign-Cross-01-Transits-Passing.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Astrology Chart-Queen Elizabeth II's birth and passing-Fixed Sign Cross" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="535" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWJZjLxm13V3qFDpTPkWtsXNycm1Jkg17RS_DvUT4z5rxZo6r9rSq1KRmus54uBAsiCZzdKDZx8843qO7u5CvtJsQ7v7eIT6rnkDNHT035lQmYfo9MEspiaC84GT3BahsAL6BqEJZN--AF6pI308-Vfgy8R_fZFL6jbsm59m_3YKt3s19R7DrevxLP/w570-h640/Queen-Elizabeth-II-Fixed-Sign-Cross-01-Transits-Passing.png" title="Astrology Chart-Queen Elizabeth II's birth and passing-Fixed Sign Cross" width="570" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">[Links to Parts <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">2</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">3</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">4</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">5</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">6</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">7</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html">7.2</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">8</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html">8.2</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/sri-aurobindo-on-consciousness-force.html" target="_blank">8.2 Addendum 1</a>]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">Part 8.2</a> of this series I discussed the fixed-sign axis and grand cross of the August Full Moon (Sun and Moon respectively at 19° Leo-Aquarius, and Mars-Uranus-North Node in Taurus opposite the South Node in Scorpio) in relation to the Leo-Aquarius axis of Sri Aurobindo's natal sun position (<b>22° Leo</b>) and <b>Mitra's seat at the 8 Point of the Vedic Year </b>(<b>20° Aquarius</b>). I also discussed the challenging and dismantling energies that the ongoing fixed-sign Saturn-Uranus square impose on our world, especially for those whose natal charts are directly impacted by the fixed-sign transits.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/addendum-2-queen-elizabeth-ii-fixed.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a> <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/addendum-2-queen-elizabeth-ii-fixed.html#2a" id="2">[2]</a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I am not going to go into a full analysis of <a href="https://astro-charts.com/chart/2a94909b5/" target="_blank">Queen Elizabeth II’s chart</a> or transits, I just want to illustrate that for her, the challenging and dismantling energies of the fixed sign transits on her natal fixed-sign T-square (Neptune at 22° Leo opposite Jupiter-Mars at 20°/22° Aquarius, both square Saturn at 24° Scorpio, as shown in the inner circle above) amounted to her passing. Her natal Sun and Moon also fall in the fixed signs of Taurus and Leo, but not within a 10° of orb of her T-square. Note that the exact time of the Queen's mid-afternoon passing, on 8 September 2022 has not been announced. The above transits were calculated using an approximate <a href="https://astro-charts.com/chart/b1abce254/" target="_blank">2:30 p.m. time of death</a>. Though mourned by many, the Queen’s passing is a symbol of the dying institution of Monarchy which thrived in the Age of Pisces but is out of place and dissolving in the Age of Aquarius. She passed at the age of 96, in a 6 Power year, which is fitting in terms of Thea's (Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's) cosmology, wherein the 6/Saturn Point of the evolutionary cycle imposes either the contractions of death or a rebirth and expansion into higher realms of consciousness and manifestation. Given that Queen Elizabeth was born in the 9 Power year of 1926, not only did she pass at the age of 96, she passed 96 years, or more specifically 96.69 years into the Age of Aquarius, according to Thea's measure and seeing of the Ages.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The conjunction of <b>Saturn and the Moon at 20° Aquarius</b> circa the time of the Queen's passing is especially notable in relation to what I discussed in Part 8.2 regarding Mitra's seat at 20° Aquarius. If we compare the chart of the August 2022 Full Moon in Aquarius (see <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">Part 8.2</a>) and <a href="https://astro-charts.com/chart/b1abce254/" target="_blank">the chart of 8 September 2022, 2:30 p.m.</a> above, we can see that the Moon returned to a conjunction with the 8 Point (Mitra's seat), conjunct Saturn and square Uranus, circa the time of the Queen’s passing. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">As discussed by Thea, the Moon and Saturn have a special temporal relationship and cosmological harmony. Whereas it takes the Moon 29.5 days to move through all twelve of the zodiacal signs, it takes Saturn 29.5 years to do the same. In the following excerpt, Thea rounded 29.5 days and years down to 29.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"Saturn is equal to the Moon because Saturn takes 29 years to complete a round of the zodiac, or to make one revolution of the Sun, and the Moon takes 29 days to make one synodic revolution; <span style="background-color: #cccccc;">in the system of Secondary Progressions of the analysis of a natal horoscope, the Moon requires 29 years, like Saturn's period of revolution, to make one complete round, meeting in this way the transit of Saturn. [*] </span>The two bodies are intimately linked in time, therefore carrying this link into the lives of the inhabitants of Earth, because the Moon is our satellite. It is for this reason that Saturn is such a vitally important planet in our destinies, both individual and collective. ‒ <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, p. 137</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">The Moon will return to a conjunction with Saturn and Mitra's seat again on 5 October 2022, the same week that Saturn and Uranus come into their closest square of 2022. From 1-12 October both planets will be transiting the same degree of their respective fixed signs ‒ <b>18° Aquarius/Taurus </b>‒ 90° apart, and the energies of the Saturn-Uranus square will be at their peak during that time. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFyOuBb827JD8Ig5gK2WMnBAcO01xKoDCohlPMhjexvbQQ4p_tXMzcVW-jHLHAFWJAEngRGHY0qOzuPH3RFokUSk34G2cP8G3YRUuACx-5PdW_nWuI0IffnKHh4PHQEVYAMnfcmFuiWafNXVJY7uPYvKMN_Aj3hgoAAMva8Gre47H_B4sKOKtR_YLn/s1600/2016-2025-Ennead-Sag-Gemini-smaller-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="2016-2025 Ennead, 1 October 2022 marking entrance into Capricorn" border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFyOuBb827JD8Ig5gK2WMnBAcO01xKoDCohlPMhjexvbQQ4p_tXMzcVW-jHLHAFWJAEngRGHY0qOzuPH3RFokUSk34G2cP8G3YRUuACx-5PdW_nWuI0IffnKHh4PHQEVYAMnfcmFuiWafNXVJY7uPYvKMN_Aj3hgoAAMva8Gre47H_B4sKOKtR_YLn/s16000/2016-2025-Ennead-Sag-Gemini-smaller-01.png" title="2016-2025 Ennead, 1 October 2022 marking entrance into Capricorn" /></a></div>These first 12 days of October 2022 are also cosmologically potent given that, in terms of our current ennead (2016-2025), October 1<sup>st</sup> marks the completion of our 9-month sojourn through Sagittarius (1 January – 1 October 2022), and likewise our entrance into Capricorn, ushering us into the last three signs and highest quadrant of the enneadic and zodiacal cycle (1 October 2022 - 1 January 2025). 2 October 2022, in turn, marks the 6-year anniversary of the release of the geometric and zodiacal sense of the Vedic rivers and of the Vedic Kumbha, 9 months and 1 day into the 9-power year of 2016 and into the ennead of 2016-2025. 9 October 2022 marks the 6-year anniversary of Thea's passing followed by her cremation two days later on the 2016 Vijaya Dashami celebration in India (the 10th day of Durga's Victory). [A larger and clearer version of the image to the right is found in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#4" target="_blank">Part 6</a>.]</span></div><span style="text-align: left;"></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The last thing I want to add to this addendum, is that in my view the fixed sign transits I have been discussing in Part 8 are encouraging, however difficult, because the Time-Spirit of Saturn <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/addendum-2-queen-elizabeth-ii-fixed.html#3a" id="3">[3]</a></span> has been prominently occupying and energizing Mitra’s seat, Mitra being a Lord and a principle guardian of <i>Ritam</i> [=the Law of Truth & Order], as well as a Lord of Harmony, Love and Light who conquers ignorance and "leads men toward the Truth”. His and Varuna's invincible weapon is the Divine Maya (=measure) which Sri Aurobindo equated with “the divine truth-knowledge”.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"[When the Divine Flame, Agni] is entirely delivered and fulfilled out of the envelope of the world’s crookednesses, this deity of flame and force is revealed as the solar godhead of love and harmony and light, Mitra, who leads men towards the Truth." ‒ Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15</i>, p. 387 </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“It is by the Maya, the divine truth-knowledge of the Lord, that [Mitra and Varuna] rain down heaven; that divine knowledge is the Sun, the Light, the weapon of Mitra and Varuna ranging abroad to destroy the ignorance.” – Ibid., p. 522</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We have many examples of crooked leaders and public figures in our world who feed on falsehood, chaos, fear, deceit and ill-will towards large swaths of humanity, and who abuse the law to further their own interests. In our digital age, such figures simply cannot avoid amplifying and exposing their own toxic-consciousness, hastening their own demise. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In Thea’s cosmology such self-sabotage or self-dismantling (which effects all of humanity in its current condition) is the result of what amounts to a miscarriage of the Soul's Light in the course of our development. The accumulation, crystallization and stagnation of our Self-Ignorance (and Cosmic-Ignorance) creates an increasingly toxic womb in the 8th stage of the zodiacal journey (the fixed water sign of Scorpio). Subsequently, the 9th stage (the mutable fire sign of Sagittarius) demands either the destruction of the obstacles that prevent the birth and emergence of our truth-conscious Soul, or the destruction of that which is unable to be born out of the dark womb (Diti) of our egoic-mental consciousness. The contractions and formidable pressures of the 6 Point of 0° Sagittarius – Saturn's/Chronos's seat in the Gnostic Circle/Vedic Year) – serve to either quicken and solidify the birth of our Soul's truth-consciousness-force, bliss and divine light in the material world or the dissolution of that which is no longer viable in a developmental and evolutionary sense. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This “birth” is necessarily a purification and dissolution of our former ignorance, which is the task we now face in our Age of Aquarius [= the Age of Mitra] within <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/09/seeing-in-understanding-symbols-and.html#Manifestations" target="_blank">the 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation of the Maha Yuga cycle</a>, which Thea wrote of as the Age of Supermind. In this evolutionary stage and age, our supramental truth-consciousness is being born forward from the unillumined womb of our Physical, Vital and Mental Being. The more attached to the "old womb" of our our individual and collective ignorance we are, the more difficult the birth.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In my view, Saturn's transits conjunct Mitra's seat in Aquarius and square Uranus (=Varuna in Thea's writings) throughout 2022, have been functioning as an accelerant in our collective birth and dissolution process, putting extreme pressures on our toxic ideas, structures, institutions, and facades that are anchored in our mental-egoic Ignorance and are thus bound to be dismantled (purified) by our higher Truth, Law, Order, Love, etc., as it emerges in our consciousness and in our world.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Endnotes:</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>*</b> <b>10 Dec 2022 note</b>: a reader pointed out to me that this statement in grey highlight (from <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>) is a little off, given that the Moon returns to its natal position via secondary progression in approximately 27-28 years, not 29 years. Also, to be a little more specific, the Moon's synodic month is<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #232629; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong>29.5 days (New Moon to New Moon), corresponding to the 29.5 Year of Saturn (its orbit around the Sun).</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/addendum-2-queen-elizabeth-ii-fixed.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> See <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#3" target="_blank">Part 8.2</a>. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/addendum-2-queen-elizabeth-ii-fixed.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">Astrologer Brandon Russ has some good incites on the Saturn-Uranus Square in relation to world affairs.</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/DKwLfaf3UhQ?t=11" target="_blank">Saturn Square Uranus Update 9.18.22 </a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/Zi6j3sEGXnw?t=11" target="_blank">Saturn Uranus Square -DeSantis, Garland, and more </a>[Sep 17, 2022]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/ER9-utJdzLE?t=861" target="_blank">Putin/Zelensky to "Square off" with Saturn and Uranus! Judgement day!</a> </p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/addendum-2-queen-elizabeth-ii-fixed.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a> Below are some of Thea’s writings on Saturn in relation to the Mother, the Mother’s Temple and Time. As I illustrated in Part 8.2, the Mother's North Node (<b>22° Aquarius</b>) is conjunct Mitra's seat at the 8 Point of the Vedic Year/Gnostic Circle.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he Mother's position on the Sacred Triangle is the 6 point, Saturn's point.” – <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 245</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“In the pattern of the [Supramental] Descent it must be remembered that the Mother occupies the position of 6; thus by destiny she was obliged to concretise the essence of Saturn in the Earth's evolutionary scheme; she was obliged by her inherent dharma to crystallise the cosmic womb which was to contain the new consciousness.” – Ibid., pp. 271-72</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The Inner Chamber of the Mother’s Temple] is the abode of Saturn, the planet in the celestial harmony that epitomises the passage of Time…. The Chamber is the magical dwelling place of the Time-Spirit; the Time-Spirit in the planetary harmony is Saturn; Saturn in the creative OM is the cosmic manifestation." – Ibid., p. 197</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: center;">*</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he Time-Spirit Saturn [is] the essence of the Mother's chamber.” – Ibid., p. 329</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“We must emphasise again that Saturn is the planetary/harmonic essence of the Mother’s temple. The entire structure, inner and outer, is a hymn to the 6th planet. And since the Mother herself occupies the 6th position on the descending number-planetary scale of 9/6/3/0-1 of the Solar Line, Supermind arranged the revelation of this model of Saturn – her own ‘pulse’ or cosmic note – through the Mother herself.” – <i>Chronicles of the Inner Chamber</i>, <a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/2013/08/supermind-organises-conditions-for-its.html" target="_blank">"Update 8: Supermind organises the conditions for its manifestation"</a></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">[Link to </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #bf8b38; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Part 1</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #bf8b38; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #bf8b38; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #bf8b38; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">4</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #bf8b38; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">5</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #bf8b38; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">6</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #bf8b38; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">7.1</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html" target="_blank">7.2</a>, or <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">8.1</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">]</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">The month of Leo (2022) brought with it some potent astrological transits, including <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P_rtVunP2M&t" target="_blank">a rare Mars-Uranus-North Node conjunction at 18° Taurus</a>, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a></span> opposite the South Node at 18° Scorpio, both squaring <b>Saturn at 22° Aquarius</b>. On the Full Moon of 11 August, the Sun and Moon (19° Leo/Aquarius) axis lined up with Saturn and formed a Fixed Sign Grand Cross, squaring the Lunar Nodes, Uranus and Mars, highlighting all four of Vishnu’s fixed or preservation signs: Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius – the full original Sphinx of the Zodiac (Bull, Lion, Eagle and Man). <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#2a" id="2">[2]</a></span> I have highlighted this Grand Cross above, and marked <b>the 8 Point (20° Aquarius)</b> of the Vedic/Zodiacal Year.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In this installment of the series I will attempt to flush out the significance of the 8 Point– which Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea) saw as Mitra’s seat – in relation to current transits and events and in relation to the Supramental Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, whose natal Sun position or solar seat in the Zodiac is <b>22° Leo, i.e., opposite Mitra’s seat</b> <b>at</b> <b>20° Aquarius</b>, via 2° orb. First I want to give a brief overview of what I have already discussed in this lengthy series which brings us to this point in the discussion. Readers who want to skip the overview can go to the next section, but I think the review will be useful in terms of integrating and following the information presented.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This series was inspired or seeded by an actual blockage of one of the world’s most important waterways, the Suez Canal, the week before moving into the fixed-water sign of Scorpio within our current ennead (2016-2025). In Part Two I discussed the importance of the proximity of this blockage in relation to the Giza Sphinx which is a symbol of the Leo-Aquarius (Lion-Man) axis of the Zodiac. In “The Convergence of Putin’s War & the Mother’s 144-Year Birth Anniversary” (<a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html" target="_blank">Parts 1</a> & <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html" target="_blank">2</a>) I discussed this axis and the 8 Point of the circle in relation to the geo-cosmology of Ukraine, the birth charts of Putin and Zelensky, the birth charts of Sri Aurobindo and his line, as well as in relation to aspects of my own chart, wherein my natal Sun (<b>24° Aquarius</b>) is conjunct Mitra’s seat (4° orb). </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNn-R2bVA3Di4Yh13RYAOQJiZgSAVl52JI_OISRifpDoEgyzV2x8uByE2RPaPnAM_R7qTvTGKbTY16_ESnKOUMKIEvvC7sGvLp6RCJfKugDOgzH7veWSBKWbCSzV2sHHUKZHcCetNnzuqVafUiPGuxcMzmS9joprxLHJUgfddBHTx1AGbpK9aG8tq8/s1600/Leo-Aquarius-axis-SA-TM-PNB-4-LT-Mitra-8-SM-01.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Leo-Aquarius Axis/Fixed Sign Cross - Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, Patrizia & the Fourth (image Lori Tompkins 2021)" border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="685" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNn-R2bVA3Di4Yh13RYAOQJiZgSAVl52JI_OISRifpDoEgyzV2x8uByE2RPaPnAM_R7qTvTGKbTY16_ESnKOUMKIEvvC7sGvLp6RCJfKugDOgzH7veWSBKWbCSzV2sHHUKZHcCetNnzuqVafUiPGuxcMzmS9joprxLHJUgfddBHTx1AGbpK9aG8tq8/s16000/Leo-Aquarius-axis-SA-TM-PNB-4-LT-Mitra-8-SM-01.png" title="Leo-Aquarius Axis/Fixed Sign Cross - Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, Patrizia & the Fourth (image Lori Tompkins 2021)" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[Note: I corrected the image above on 4 September 2022. The <b>North Node of the 21° Taurus-Scorpio axis is 21° Taurus</b>. The incorrect version posted on 3 September showed two South Nodes along this axis. A better/larger version of the same is available <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1juQpV4qylPusHTrVJzITEaJ99kvPjvI6/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE</a>.]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I recommend that readers at least re-read <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#leo-aquarius" target="_blank">the relevant paragraphs of Part Two of this series</a> wherein I discussed Kyiv’s and Kharkiv’s geo-cosmological latitude of 20° Aquarius, and Putin’s 20° Aquarius/Leo Nodal Axis, as well as his natal Pluto position of 22° Leo, <a href="https://www.astro.com/cgi/chart.cgi?wgid=wgeJxljjELgzAUhH9Ntxvei9aqIYNTh0I3cX6SoEGMRWOL_fWNc5fjuA_u7uMnb5QeZiOsgzVPiX4J9UVRO63igwMcVI4SXFUMLmsijJnDIBaEh3dvtA0ychmrAlcKSXcw3RQKrkBabB9kdv_NJ7ESnVF5Cpt92LeYzLmj-3i80q05jkbCV4_bYTq9boa7-w85GzVj" target="_blank">Ukraine’s 22° Aquarius Moon</a>, as well as <b>Saturn’s 2022 transits conjunct the 8 Point (20° Aquarius), which will last through most of January 2023</b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I discussed the beginning of Saturn’s (≈ three year) transit through Aquarius <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#3a" id="3">[3]</a></span> in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/01/seeing-in-understanding-symbols-sense_22.html" target="_blank">Part Ten of the “Seeing in Understanding”</a>. Throughout 2021 and 2022 <a href="https://www.moonomens.com/saturn-square-uranus-december-2021/" target="_blank">Saturn has been squaring off with Uranus in Taurus</a>, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#4a" id="4">[4]</a></span> which has corresponded with notable and dramatic worldwide disruptions and changes. Saturn and Uranus are known to be co-rulers of Aquarius, the sign of the Zodiac associated with revolution and large-scale change. Note that, whereas Saturn will be out of Aquarius in March of 2023, due to its slower orbit, <b>Uranus will remain in Taurus, squaring the 20°-25° Leo/Aquarius axis via 5° orb, through April of 2026</b>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">These fixed-sign transits have been prominently aspecting (conjunct, square and opposite) my natal Sun at 24° Aquarius and (square and opposite) my natal Mars at 24° Scorpio. This, together with passing through <b>the 8 Point of my current ennead</b> on 12 February 2022 and into the mutable water sign of Pisces in May, has corresponded to various personal shocks and difficulties demanding, in essence, surrender.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">After watching Alex Jones get publicly dismantled and held accountable for his gross commercialization of falsehood in the Sandy Hook defamation case, I looked up his chart to see where the fixed-sign square between Saturn and Uranus-Mars-and-the-Lunar-Nodes fell in <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/253624509643805336/5841758713122380816" target="_blank">his chart</a> because it was clearly wreaking some havoc on him. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#5a" id="5">[5]</a></span> As it turns out, his natal Jupiter and Sun are conjunct at <b>22°/24° Aquarius</b>, square his natal Mars at <b>21° Taurus</b>. For him, the fixed-sign transits aspecting his Sun-Jupiter square Mars, amounted to a public dismantling of his falsehoods, along with massive punitive damages. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These same transits also correspond to the dramatic expansion of Trump’s various legal predicaments and exposure, including the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago to recover classified documents that he has been illegally hoarding and lying about. As a result he is likely facing "Obstruction of Justice" charges which is symbolic of the role played by the Scorpionic forces in the Vedas. Trump’s natal Mars at <b>25° Leo</b> and Midheaven at <b>24° Taurus</b>, as well as his natal Sun-North-Node-Uranus conjunction at <b>20° Gemini (<u>the 2 Point</u> of the Year) </b>are directly affected by the energies of the fixed-sign transits <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#6a" id="6">[6]</a></span> I illustrated the trine between Trump's natal Sun-North-Node-Uranus conjunction in Taurus and the 8 Point in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/01/seeing-in-understanding-symbols-sense.html#Trump-Gemini" target="_blank">"Seeing in Understanding ⁓ the Sense and Symbols of 2020 ⁓ Part 9"</a>. [Click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a-qRAbplsPy-lAcs61Fwahz1WlD2oYXS/view" target="_blank">here</a> for a more detailed illustration].</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Before moving on to discuss the importance of the 8 Point in the Vedic Year, I want to remind readers that in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#leo-aquarius-1" target="_blank">Part Six</a> of this series I discussed and illustrated Vishnu’s fixed-sign cross and Sri Aurobindo’s natal Sun position in relation to the November and December eclipses of 2021. Note that <a href="https://cafeastrology.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/new-moon-solar-eclipse-october-2022-1.png" target="_blank">the New Moon Solar Eclipse</a> and <a href="https://cafeastrology.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/full-moon-lunar-eclipse-november-2022.png" target="_blank">Full Moon Lunar Eclipse</a> in the fixed-water sign of Scorpio on 26 October and 8 November 2022 also feature fixed-sign squares and oppositions, with Saturn and Uranus square, respectively at 18° Aquarius and 16°-17° Taurus. As I wrote in part two, Saturn transited directly conjunct Putin’s 18° Aquarius (Mean) North Node at the nadir (IC) of his chart, the first week of his invasion of Ukraine. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Mitra and the 8 Point of the Vedic Year</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Whereas <b>the 8th Sign</b> of the Zodiac represents the (fixed) <i>blockage</i> of the Vedic waters (the streams of Truth and Holy Order), <b>the 8 Point [Mitra] </b>of the Vedic Year falls in the sign of Aquarius where the Jar and its sacred waters of Truth are <i>released</i> upon humanity. Thea saw, understood, and illustrated the correspondence of this 8 Point with <b>the</b> <b>8th planet of our solar system, Neptune</b>, and she equated Neptune to the Vedic god Mitra, meaning “Friend”. Aquarius – Vishnu’s fourth and final fixed (preservation) sign in the Zodiac – is known as the Man (Human), Water Bearer, Kumbha (Jar) and also as the Friend. Thus Thea saw Mitra as simultaneously equivalent to the entire sign of Aquarius and to the 8th planet of our solar system seated at 20° Aquarius – the 8 Point of the Vedic Year.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[As] indicated in the Gnostic Circle, [Varuna and Mitra] are not only the signs Capricorn and Aquarius but the planets Uranus and Neptune as well.” <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#7a" id="7">[7]</a></span> – Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i>, p. 388</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As recognized by Thea, the long-anticipated world teacher or savior of Buddhist tradition, Maitreya, is derivative of the Vedic Mitra. In the glossary of <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i> Thea wrote:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The word [Maitreya] means Friend and the time given for the appearance would be the beginning of the Age of Aquarius, or precisely the sign of the Friend….” (p. 583)</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEa_DUZgQF9TWdbdnDB9pm2kaqSO972jDLSRv8kecwX0-w1oDWYyiKKOqlp5noXFDJDTma_-vhd9kTJ4O36wCtz4t7PdcaNMM7WVybFIfrOOwxSEgDarOjWS6ei0t_fidjksLXHmrpnAD0VhKE8yIWiO8tpqBXmu8jKVDUDr-aiqQHG_tWjbyvJJMW/s1600/Maitreya-Water-Pot.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The Bodhisattva Maitreya, 100–300. Pakistan; ancient region of Gandhara. The Asian Art Museum, The Avery Brundage Collection" border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="348" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEa_DUZgQF9TWdbdnDB9pm2kaqSO972jDLSRv8kecwX0-w1oDWYyiKKOqlp5noXFDJDTma_-vhd9kTJ4O36wCtz4t7PdcaNMM7WVybFIfrOOwxSEgDarOjWS6ei0t_fidjksLXHmrpnAD0VhKE8yIWiO8tpqBXmu8jKVDUDr-aiqQHG_tWjbyvJJMW/w247-h320/Maitreya-Water-Pot.jpeg" title="The Bodhisattva Maitreya, 100–300. Pakistan; ancient region of Gandhara. The Asian Art Museum, The Avery Brundage Collection" width="247" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Thea understood Maitreya as equivalent to Vishnu’s Aquarian Age Avatar (Kalki) – Sri Aurobindo – who she discussed as “the fulfiller, the conqueror, the victorious Avatar of the Supermind, he who dispels the darkness, he who slays Vritra” – i.e., he who slays the coverer or obstructor of the Vedic waters and thereby releases the Vedic waters. The ancient connection between Mitra, Maitreya, Aquarius (Kumbha) and Vishnu is apparent to any “with eyes to see” in the nearly 2,000-year-old statue of Maitreya (the Friend) holding his water pot or kumbha of Amrita (aka Soma) – the nectar of immortality – as shown in the image to the right. In Hindu lore, Vishnu’s kumbha of Amrita is recovered from the forces of Ignorance by his only female avatar, Mohini. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#8a" id="8">[8]</a></span><span> </span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Another offshoot of the Vedic Mitra was the Roman god Mithras. Mithraism featured a seven-stage initiation, paralleling the Vedic mythology of the seven rivers giving birth to Agni (aka Mitra). “Mithraea are commonly located close to springs or streams [or rivers]; fresh water appears to have been required for some Mithraic rituals, and a basin is often incorporated into the structure.” <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#9a" id="9"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[9]</span></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In <i>The Secret of the Veda</i>, Sri Aurobindo discussed <b>the Jar (Kumbha) of the Vedas as equivalent to the vessel of Man</b>. Thea, in turn, discussed the Jar/Kumbha of the Vedas as equivalent to Aquarius <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;">– </span><b>the highest expression of the mental principle or <u>Mind</u></b> (Air element) in the Zodiac. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#10a" id="10">[10]</a></span> If Sri Aurobindo understood the connection between the Vedic Jar and the zodiacal sign of Kumbha/Man, as Thea did, he never discussed it in his published writings, as far as I know. He understood that the Vedic Sacrifice (Yajna) was equivalent to the twelve-month journey of the Year and he was familiar with astrology. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#11a" id="11">[11]</a></span> Combine this with the fact that Aquarius has long been known as Kumbha (the Water Jar) in India, and it is not hard to imagine that Sri Aurobindo was aware of the connection between the Jar of the Vedas and the <b>Jar/Man</b> of the Zodiac on at least some level of his being. In <i>The Secret of the Veda</i>, he wrote: </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Soma has to be purified through a strainer (<i>pavitra</i>) and through the strainer he streams in his purity into <b>the wine bowl (<i>camū</i>)</b> in which he is brought to the sacrifice, or he is kept in jars (<i>kalaśa</i>) for Indra’s drinking. Or, <b>sometimes, the symbol of the bowl or the jar is neglected and Soma is simply described as flowing in a river of delight to the seat of the Gods, to the home of Immortality.</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#12a" id="12">[12]</a></span> That these things are symbols is very clear in most of the hymns of the ninth Mandala which are all devoted to the God Soma. Here, for instance, <b>the physical system of the human being is imaged as the jar of the Soma-wine </b>and the strainer through which it is purified is said to be spread out in the seat of Heaven, <i>divas pade</i>. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#13a" id="13">[13]</a></span> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“[Rig Veda 9.83] begins with an imagery which closely follows the physical facts of the purifying of the wine and its pouring into the jar. The strainer or purifying instrument spread out in the seat of Heaven seems to be <b><u>the mind enlightened by knowledge</u></b> (<i>cetas</i>); <b>the human system is the jar</b>.…</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“So received, sifted, strained, the Soma-wine of life turned into <b>Ananda comes pouring into all the members of the human system as into a wine-jar</b> and flows through all of them completely in their every part. As the body of a man becomes full of the touch and exultation of strong wine, so all the physical system becomes full of the touch and exultation of this divine Ananda.… Soma comes out like the wine dropping from the strainer and then pervading the jar; it emerges into the consciousness concentrated at some particular point, <i>prabhu</i>, or as some particular experience and then pervades the whole being as Ananda, <i>vibhu</i>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“But it is not every human system that can hold, sustain and enjoy the potent and often violent ecstasy of that divine delight. <i>Ataptatanūr na tad āmo a śnute</i>, he who is raw and his body not heated does not taste or enjoy that; <i>śṛtāsa id vahantas tat samāśata</i>, only those who have been baked in the fire bear and entirely enjoy that. The wine of the divine Life poured into the system is a strong, overflooding and violent ecstasy; it cannot be held in the system unprepared for it by strong endurance of the utmost fires of life and suffering and experience. The raw earthen vessel not baked to consistency in the fire of the kiln cannot hold the Soma-wine; it breaks and spills the precious liquid. So the physical system of the man who drinks this strong wine of Ananda must by suffering and conquering all the torturing heats of life have been prepared for the secret and fiery heats of the Soma; otherwise his conscious being will not be able to hold it; it will spill and lose it as soon as or even before it is tasted or it will break down mentally and physically under the touch.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15</i>, pp. 354-56 [Bold emphasis added]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“This wine of Soma represents, as we have abundant proof in the Veda and especially in the ninth book, a collection of more than a hundred hymns addressed to the deity Soma, the intoxication of the Ananda, the divine delight of being, inflowing upon the mind from the supramental consciousness through the Ritam or Truth.” – Ibid., p. 74</p></blockquote>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq6eAmMPL38_AftFtZ3GX9rzRj8hE0YYC9qaa45JOo6hpKT9o5pd4cejv8dh8NqLDWzako6dHS2-8uFbOAv0FPFTThlpHWhiLx9V2oVxXNCWhjKVpf2GqerK7tpX1bMyvLvV7ZGWY2QCKh_XXyeP3aAhePsBEsGbccw3BmLh4UATETEXc0b5bwal2B/s1600/7-rivers-Sag-arrow-Man-Kumbha-sm-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Seven Rivers of the Vedas and the Aquarian Kumbha/Man (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq6eAmMPL38_AftFtZ3GX9rzRj8hE0YYC9qaa45JOo6hpKT9o5pd4cejv8dh8NqLDWzako6dHS2-8uFbOAv0FPFTThlpHWhiLx9V2oVxXNCWhjKVpf2GqerK7tpX1bMyvLvV7ZGWY2QCKh_XXyeP3aAhePsBEsGbccw3BmLh4UATETEXc0b5bwal2B/s16000/7-rivers-Sag-arrow-Man-Kumbha-sm-01.png" title="Seven Rivers of the Vedas and the Aquarian Kumbha/Man (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even if Sri Aurobindo was not aware of the connection between the Kumbha (Jar/Bowl) of the Vedas and the Man/Kumbha/Higher Mind of Aquarius, his seeing of the Vedic Kumbha as a symbol of the Vessel of Man, full of the divine Soma (=Amrita), makes perfect zodiacal and geometric sense in relation to what I have been presenting and illustrating since 2016 regarding the seven rivers (=the first seven vesicae piscis) of the Zodiac measuring out and flowing to 0° Aquarius/Kumbha (<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLG39Hf5qiYMy1N5_nd0mezF9jZAYksVV_NyfEquWGJwtjMZ3vfBnQ2bTbfngUKdOJLJWSovH8yB_u-M7we38y_HS_ZegqArR_0na2uuKz5UPdipYqaa_ArZGNdVBB1uKCejKBuWTrsCfBS9T5Ch6XzF-V0ivbdrJ4yAZqpwc6xopze6VO_FVx54jk/s24/Aquarius-sm.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="18" data-original-width="24" height="10" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLG39Hf5qiYMy1N5_nd0mezF9jZAYksVV_NyfEquWGJwtjMZ3vfBnQ2bTbfngUKdOJLJWSovH8yB_u-M7we38y_HS_ZegqArR_0na2uuKz5UPdipYqaa_ArZGNdVBB1uKCejKBuWTrsCfBS9T5Ch6XzF-V0ivbdrJ4yAZqpwc6xopze6VO_FVx54jk/w24-h18/Aquarius-sm.jpg" width="15" /></a>). This zodiacal geometry is pervasive throughout the Vedas, but especially so in the 9th Mandala of the Vedas which features Agni as the victorious self-purifying Sage/Horse/Son of Sagittarius (<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFUmdQsbvc72Dn4vDc7rcKAIkA0-47qNDZq04_wShosHAPFJOmTIB9XOzer4eBNuFw5vBdhgBgB4KxDr2zI6A3ozJGYHwCHNvq07LDsK-kkrTA0yQlzbxQXOWtO-EqtrK494-5cY073FMxLFQsKTIK7LEQACAli3dl1IDQ56_UZh4QMH3gc_Ad0AE4/s84/sagittarius%20glyph%20copy.bmp"><img border="0" data-original-height="67" data-original-width="84" height="16" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFUmdQsbvc72Dn4vDc7rcKAIkA0-47qNDZq04_wShosHAPFJOmTIB9XOzer4eBNuFw5vBdhgBgB4KxDr2zI6A3ozJGYHwCHNvq07LDsK-kkrTA0yQlzbxQXOWtO-EqtrK494-5cY073FMxLFQsKTIK7LEQACAli3dl1IDQ56_UZh4QMH3gc_Ad0AE4/w19-h16/sagittarius%20glyph%20copy.bmp" width="19" /></a>) flowing and speeding with his rivers (=soma drops) to the Kumbha (=reservoir, vat, jar, beaker, tub, filter, bowl, etc.) In the hymn below, the references to the sign of Kumbha (=Aquarius/Mitra/Man) are emphasized in bold.</div><p></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The drops of Soma juice [Amrita], those eagles of the heavens, most cheering, rich in meath, rest in <b>the reservoir</b>…. [Agni/Soma Pavamana] Like a steed urged to battle, finder of the light; speed onward to <b>the cloud-born reservoir of heaven</b>…Fleet as swift steeds, [Soma’s] drops, divine, thought-swift, have been…poured with milk into <b>the vat</b>…. When on the sieve the Golden-hued is cleansed, he rests within the vats as one who seats him in <b>his place</b>.… [Agni] Soma advances to <b>the special place of Gods</b>. He speeds with thousand currents to <b>the reservoir</b>…. [The Sovran, Agni-Soma ] set in rivers with the waters' wave moves on….. [Agni-]Soma flows on obtaining Indra's friendly love, and, as [the seven rivers] purify him, settles in the jars…. The vigorous and far-seeing one, the Lord of heaven, flows, shouting to <b>the beaker</b>, with his thousand streams. Coloured like gold he rests in <b>seats where Mitra dwells</b>…. Far-sighted [Agni-]Soma, now thou <b>lookest on mankind</b>: thou didst unbar the cowstall for the Aṅgirases…. Seven Milch-kine <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#14a" id="14">[14]</a></span> glorify the Tawny-coloured One [Agni-Soma] while with his wave in wool he purifies himself. The living men, the mighty, have impelled the Sage into <b>the waters' lap [<i>apā́m upásthe</i>], the place of sacrifice [<i>ṛtasya yonā</i>=the womb of truth/order]</b>…. The Sisters Seven, the Mothers stand around the Babe [Agni], the noble, new-born Infant, skilled in holy song, Gandharva of the floods, divine, <b>beholding men</b>, [Agni-]Soma, that he may reign as King of all the world…. [Soma] displays his might, set among living things as <u>measurer of days</u>. <span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#15a" id="15"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[15]</span></a> </span>Distilling oil he flows, fair, billowy, golden-hued, borne on a [vehicle] of light…. Loosed is [Agni-Soma, heaven’s support/pillar], the uplifted cheering juice: the triply-mingled draught [=Soma/Amrita] <span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#15a" id="16"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[16]</span></a> </span>flows round into the worlds.” – Rig Veda 9.86 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith [all emphasis and text in parenthesis added for clarification]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">For readers who are unfamiliar with what I have previously presented, the obstructed waters (=seven rivers) of the Vedas, along with the Vedic kumbha (pot, bowl, jar, reservoir, pail, filter, tub, well, etc.) and its sacred contents (water, wine, milk, ghee, honey, mead, soma, amrita, etc.) are, on the geometric level, all interwoven symbols of the eternal form, law and vessel of the vesica piscis. The vesica piscis is the Daughter of the 360° Vedic Sacrifice and the companion and robe or mantle of the radius which is portrayed as the Son and pillar (<i>skambha</i>) of the Vedic Sacrifice and its Seven Rivers. <b>The “river” of the vesica piscis flows through and measures out the Zodiac</b> from the four cardinal points (two equinoxes and two solstices) of the Earth’s Solar year. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#17a" id="17">[17]</a></span> From the zero point of 0° Aries, seven vesicae piscis (=rivers) measure out the entrance into the Aquarian Kumbha (Jar).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As I have discussed throughout this series, the flowing and pouring of the Soma-wine, Amrita and the heavenly waters into and out of the Kumbha – Vishnu’s last sign and his highest seat – represents the release of the obstructed (fixed) waters of the 8th sign of Scorpio from the forces and hold of Ignorance and from <b>the Enemies of Truth</b>. Aquarius/Mitra, on the other hand is <b>the Friend of Truth</b> and the Water Bearer who releases these waters from the hold of Ignorance. Mitra is known, like Vishnu’s avatars, as the guardian and preserver of <i>dharma</i> (law) and <i>ritam</i> (truth/order). He is also <b>“the supporter of the race of Man”</b>. <span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#18a" id="18"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[18]</span></a> </span>The ideal Man of Aquarius is not the unconscious and developmentally immature Man/Human of our modern world; he is the Man/Human who has matured and evolved into a vessel of Truth, Consciousness-Force and Bliss (Sat, Chit/Tapas and Ananda). The universal Aquarian Man/Human is united with Mitra’s (and Varuna’s) universal and eternal laws, divine maya, truth, love, harmony and order. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sri Aurobindo made the etymological connection between Mitra and Maya, both derivative of the Sanskrit root <i>ma</i> – “to measure, form, build”. <i>Ma</i> is the basis of myriad Sanskrit words, including <i>matra</i> (mother), <i>Manu</i> (the first or archetypal Man), <i>mantra</i> (sacred speech/song), <i>mandala</i> (circular form, orbit, path), and also <i>matsya</i> (the fish) which is the last sign of the Zodiac (Pisces) and the first form Vishnu takes as avatar in his mission to secure the Vedas and the <i>sanatana dharma</i> from being forever lost to Ignorance. From the Sanskrit root <i>ma </i>comes many English words, including “meter”, “measure”, “matrix”, “make”, “matriarch”, “mother”, “matter”, “manifest”, “manna”, “mantle” and “man”.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Mitra’s is the principle of harmony by which the manifold workings of the Truth agree together in a perfectly wedded union. The root of [Mitra] means both to embrace and to contain and hold and, again, to build or form in the sense of linking together the parts or materials of a whole…</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The well-accorded happiness of the Truth is <b>Mitra’s law of working; for it is upon Truth and divine Knowledge that this harmony and perfect temperament are founded; they are formed, secured and guarded by the Maya of Mitra and Varuna. <u>That well-known word comes from the same root as Mitra. Maya is the comprehending, measuring, forming Knowledge</u></b> which whether divine or undivine, secure in the undivided being of Aditi or labouring in the divided being of Diti, builds up the whole scene, environment, confines, and defines the whole condition, law and working of our existence. Maya is the active, originative, determinative view which creates for each being according to his own consciousness his own world. But Mitra is a Lord of the Light, a Son of Infinity and a Guardian of the Truth and <b>his Maya part of an infinite, supreme and faultless creative wisdom</b>. He builds, he joins together in an illuminated harmony all the numerous planes, all the successive steps, all the graded seats of our being. <b>Whatsoever Aryaman [the Aspirer] aspires to on his path, has to be effected by the ‘holdings’ or laws of Mitra</b> or by his foundations, statuses, placings, <i>mitrasya dharmabhiḥ</i>, <i>mitrasya dhāmabhiḥ</i>. For dharma, the law is that which holds things together and to which we hold; <i>dhāma</i>, the status is the placing of the law in a founded harmony which creates for us our plane of living and the character of our consciousness, action and thought.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Mitra, like the other sons of Aditi, is a master of Knowledge. He possesses a light which is full of a varied inspiration, or, to keep closer to the Vedic term, a richly diversified hearing of the knowledge.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 1</i>5, pp. 511-12 [Bold and underline emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“O Flame, thou supreme and wonderful thing, it is thou who by force of will becomest in us the greatness of discerning power; <b>in thee [Agni] the all-harmonising Friend <span style="font-size: x-small;">[*]</span> in the sacrifice accomplishes the work and climbs to divine mastery</b>…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“<span style="font-size: x-small;">[*]</span> Mitra, the Lord of Love, who introduces the principle of harmony into the workings of the divine effort in us and thus combines all the lines of our advance, all the strands of our sacrifice until the work is accomplished in the supreme unity of Knowledge, Power and Delight.” – Ibid., p. 427</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In <a href="https://auromaa.org/sri-aurobindo-ru/workings/sa/37_15/0070_e.htm" target="_blank">his commentary and translation of Rig Veda 5.63</a>, which Sri Aurobindo referred to as “The Second Hymn to Mitra-Varuna: THE GIVERS OF THE RAIN”, he translated Maya consistently as “knowledge”, where others have translated it as “cunning” (Jamison & Brereton), “magic-power” (RTH Griffith), “power” (HH Wilson/Sāyaṇa), “device” (HH Wilson).</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Guardians of the Truth, you ascend your car and the law of the Truth is yours in the supreme ether.… O Mitra and Varuna, universal in your workings, you approach their cry with your clouds of varied light and <b>you rain down Heaven by the power of the knowledge</b> [*] of the Mighty One [God/Asura]…. <b>This is your knowledge [Maya], O Mitra and Varuna, that is lodged in heaven….You hide it in heaven with the cloud</b> <span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#19a" id="19"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[19]</span></a> </span><b>and with the raining</b>. O Rain, full of the honey start forth thy streamings.… <b>[Mitra and Varuna] pour out on us, rulers imperial, the water of Heaven.</b> O Mitra and Varuna…. Utterly by the knowledge you rain down Heaven ruddy-shining and sinless. <b>O Mitra and Varuna illumined in consciousness, by the Law, by the knowledge [Maya] of the Mighty One</b> you guard the workings; by the Truth you govern widely all the world of our becoming; you set the Sun in heaven, a chariot of various splendour…. [*]Maya, the creative knowledge-will of the Deva.” <span style="text-align: right;">‒ Sri Aurobindo, </span><i style="text-align: right;">The Secret of the Veda, Vol. 15</i><span style="text-align: right;">, pp. 522-25</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: right;">[Bold emphasis added, *Sri Aurobindo's footnote]</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">The reason Matsya [the Fish/Pisces] is related to the same root as Mitra, connoting the act of measuring, forming or building becomes clear when we see and understand that the eternal measure and law (the divine maya and <i>sanatana dharma</i>) of <b>the vesica piscis is simultaneously Mitra’s [and Varuna’s] harmonizing law and his Maya/Knowledge, as well as a long-hidden, secret key of Vedic symbolism, and the basis of the lore and symbols of Vishnu’s avataric incarnations – starting with Matsya the Fish</b>. The following image (constructed on 1 September 2022) shows Matsya Avatar within his key of recovering Vishnu's <i>sanatana dharma</i> and his kumbha of Amrita, which is equally the Maya, Measure or Knowledge that is poured down from heaven by Mitra, Varuna, Indra, Agni (Soma Pavamana) and accompanying Vedic heroes.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSwJm_0PSN1VtFjW7W30m_t_NXP3woVGmt64hAwCB3kLtCiP3F9a0u9Ho_VCY6XvG9Y7Z9ieuL-Ba7MFsj5Z_Qemv4VPfkxkSibgPu33vuTVAHtYKxCvuWdjRE8_opZt4JNbNmp_8rj1sJYux9pttO2Xxql7MoshrSHbnZABvtZxEUDHu2hi-iAVnJ/s1840/VP-Matsya-Vishnu-color-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Matsya Avatar/Vishnu in the Vesica Piscis (Lori Tompkins, 1 Sept 2022)" border="0" data-original-height="1276" data-original-width="1840" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSwJm_0PSN1VtFjW7W30m_t_NXP3woVGmt64hAwCB3kLtCiP3F9a0u9Ho_VCY6XvG9Y7Z9ieuL-Ba7MFsj5Z_Qemv4VPfkxkSibgPu33vuTVAHtYKxCvuWdjRE8_opZt4JNbNmp_8rj1sJYux9pttO2Xxql7MoshrSHbnZABvtZxEUDHu2hi-iAVnJ/w435-h302/VP-Matsya-Vishnu-color-01.png" title="Matsya Avatar/Vishnu in the Vesica Piscis (Lori Tompkins, 1 Sept 2022)" width="435" /></a></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the next-to-last chapter of <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i>, entitled “Up-Up-Up with the Fish”, I wrote:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<p style="text-align: justify;"> “The fact that the sign of Pisces or Matsya/Mina the Fish is the last sign of the Rishis’ sacred year or journey is a case of the key of the vesica piscis being hidden in plain sight, lying in wait across multiple ages to be recovered in the course of Time from the symbolic waters in which it was hidden. This form or “vessel of the fish” is the Divine Maya, divine form or vessel of the indwelling Soul (the Hidden One, Sun or Son). Its eternal form (together with the radius) is the basis of the Rishis’ <i>sanatana dharma</i>, measuring out the twelve-month yajna from the Earth’s four cardinal points. Its victorious recovery, along with the recovery of the divine Sun or Son hidden in the waters [=rivers] is the central theme of the entire Rig Veda. And although this victory has been accomplished via the collective yoga of Sri Aurobindo and his collaborators, now remains the world-yoga of utilizing this key to not only deconstruct our distorted ideas about the Divine Play and about spirituality that have naturally sprung from the heavily veiled truth of the Vedic Sacrifice, but also to increase our own direct experience of the Divine Soul manifesting in our lives and in our world.” – <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i>, pp. 398-399</p></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBayTjEiHiJ7YoeCkqQqHT_GNDpxq3wJR3IRwxKr3VZRXpDN0EYZrbV-wtpIS9M4FlnKqte6aUTAeL-wH3IirnwmzEz1QbXctwbmLfzEUuI0TxiygOIR72yYmU3NUNpeqvK68BTHrLFZMQ7_yM3IdCW0KGl54A0TgtMjFN-O7qWDSZpEJZuWRASITh/s1600/VP-120-triple-three-petals-outer-measure-sm-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The 120° measure of the Vesica Piscis and the triadic measure of Circle (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBayTjEiHiJ7YoeCkqQqHT_GNDpxq3wJR3IRwxKr3VZRXpDN0EYZrbV-wtpIS9M4FlnKqte6aUTAeL-wH3IirnwmzEz1QbXctwbmLfzEUuI0TxiygOIR72yYmU3NUNpeqvK68BTHrLFZMQ7_yM3IdCW0KGl54A0TgtMjFN-O7qWDSZpEJZuWRASITh/s16000/VP-120-triple-three-petals-outer-measure-sm-01.png" title="The 120° measure of the Vesica Piscis and the triadic measure of Circle (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" /></a></div>It must be noted here that the Sanskrit words <i>tra</i>, <i>tri</i>, <i>traya</i> and <i>trai</i> mean “three” or “three-fold”. Thus we can see and understand that the name Mi<b>tra</b>/Mai<b>treya</b> etymologically contains in itself the three-fold measure of the 360° Vedic Sacrifice or Year, as established by the sacred and eternal law of the radius and vesica piscis. Our modern world has entirely lost the understanding that Mitra’s (and equally Vishnu’s) divine law and harmony and his capacity as a uniter, uplifter, light-bringer or savior of Mankind have anything to do with the 360° (3 x 120° = 3 x <b>432,000</b>ʺ <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#20a" id="20">[20]</a></span>) measure and geometry of the Year, or with measure at all for that matter.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sat, Chit-Tapas, Ananda and Swar of the Vedas</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2 </i>Thea identified, discussed, and illustrated the equivalence between the last quadrant of the Zodiac and the heavenly Swar realm of the Vedas which is the home of Mitra and Varuna (Neptune and Uranus).</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzlTcGD7V82Y3yo56F41X06EAUUSBxJeR5KW4tXsCXY9h0yjqsRMoQWfD7iNSRfE-cOHZCTmWheDehRAkBpjNn0CmP1_Dsxk-7UFtpEzUVe4uUzLbwF8hj5sGm5QDJDG0ZuiJxCLsihOd1O-26Ec41dIgEI-AoMwee6U5j6bppUXYAvIZW69VKyGOo/s1600/TNW12-387.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2, pp. 387" border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="536" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzlTcGD7V82Y3yo56F41X06EAUUSBxJeR5KW4tXsCXY9h0yjqsRMoQWfD7iNSRfE-cOHZCTmWheDehRAkBpjNn0CmP1_Dsxk-7UFtpEzUVe4uUzLbwF8hj5sGm5QDJDG0ZuiJxCLsihOd1O-26Ec41dIgEI-AoMwee6U5j6bppUXYAvIZW69VKyGOo/w226-h266/TNW12-387.png" title="Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2, pp. 387" width="226" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The quarter [of the Zodiac] we are concerned with, which deals with these Vedic godheads, is the last consisting of the signs Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.… [t]hese signs correspond to Sat, Chit and Ananda of Indian spiritual terminology. Added to this trinity is <b>Tapas, Force, and in the Gnostic Circle this is the sign Leo, which stands opposite to Aquarius, or Chit</b>. The following diagram shows the quarter of the Circle containing these signs and their corresponding Hindu designations.... [W]hen <a href="https://aeongroup.com/gc.htm" target="_blank">the circle of nine planets is superimposed on the twelve [signs]</a>, Uranus and Neptune fall in the signs Capricorn and Aquarius….</div><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Our diagram is indeed accurate. Varuna is Uranus whose position is in Capricorn or Sat; Mitra is Neptune who is found in Aquarius or Chit…. Aryaman is Tapas of Leo with the Earth/Moon pair at its portals; and Bhaga is Pisces or Ananda (no planet located therein).” – Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i>, pp. 386-87 [Image to the right, p. 387; bold emphasis added] </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Mitra as Neptune is found in Aquarius, the sign of Chit, or consciousness. Sri Aurobindo too sees this God of Bliss 'in the all-uniting light of Chit'….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“To understand Mitra or Neptune better, in terms of our effort to make the Veda come alive for us today by means of tracing these godheads from their origin to <a href="https://aeongroup.com/gc.htm" target="_blank">the Gnostic Circle</a>, it is necessary to give a wider background of Neptune, the planet under discussion. This planet is the planet of divine Love, as stated. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“But while [Neptune] is positioned in Aquarius in the Circle because of its actual location in the sky as the eighth planet from the Sun, it is known 'to rule' Pisces, the sign that follows Aquarius. As we can see from the diagram on page 387 [above right], Pisces is the sign of Ananda, Bliss, the last of the Hindu triad Sat-Chit-Ananda.” – Ibid. pp. 393-94</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Neptune (Mitra) and Jupiter co-rule Pisces (Matsya). As such, it is worth noting here that Neptune has been transiting through Pisces since 2011 and that Jupiter and Neptune transited conjunct each other at 20° Pisces in April of 2022. As many astrologers have noted, this conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune in the sign they co-rule only happens once every 165 years. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#21a" id="21">[21]</a></span> The only thing I have to say about this transit at the moment, in relation to the current subject, is that the energies of Neptune/Mitra are amplified or enhanced in the sign of Pisces (Ananda/Bliss of <b>Satchitananda</b>), and further amplified via Jupiter, which expands the energies of that which it comes into aspect. Below are a couple of Sri Aurobindo’s discussions on the Sat, Chit-Tapas, and Ananda of the Swar realm in <i>The Secret of the Ved</i>a.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[It] is in the image of Swar, the world of the divine Truth that the goal [of the Vedic Sacrifice/Year] is concretely figured. “Let us reach” is the aspiration “the Light that is of Swar, the Light which none can tear asunder.” Swar is the great, inviolable birth of Mitra, Varuna, Aryaman which is contained in the luminous heavens of the soul. The all-ruling Kings, because they grow perfectly and there is no crookedness in them, hold our habitation in heaven. That is the triple world in which the uplifted consciousness of man reflects <b>the three divine principles of being, its infinite existence [Sat], its infinite conscious-force [Chit-Tapas], its infinite bliss [Ananda]</b>. “…Three heavenly worlds of light [Aryaman, Mitra, and Varuna] hold, the gods golden-shining who are pure and purified in the streams; sleepless, unconquerable they close not their lids, they express the wideness to the mortal who is straight.” <b>These all-purifying streams are those of the rain, the abundance, the rivers of the heaven of Truth</b>. “Charioted in light are they, aggressive in knowledge, sinless and they clothe themselves in the rain <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#22a" id="22">[22]</a></span> and abundance of heaven for the felicity.” By the pouring out of that abundance they prepare our souls to ascend to its source, the higher ocean from which the luminous waters descend.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda</i>, pp. 495-96 [Bold emphasis and text in brackets added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[In hymn II.24] Brihaspati is described driving up the cows, breaking Vala by the divine word, brahmaṇā, concealing the darkness and making Swar visible. The first result is the breaking open by force of the well which has the rock for its face and whose streams are of the honey, <i>madhu</i>, the Soma sweetness, <i>aśmāsyam avataṁ madhudhāram</i>. This <b>well of honey</b> covered by the rock <span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#23a" id="23"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[23]</span></a> </span>must be the Ananda or divine beatitude of the supreme threefold world of bliss, the Satya, Tapas and Jana worlds of the Puranic system based upon <b>the three supreme principles, Sat, Chit-Tapas and Ananda; their base is Swar of the Veda</b>, Mahar of the Upanishads and Puranas, the world of Truth. – Ibid., p. 178 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a id="Yod">The following image</a> depicting Sat, Chit-Tapas, and Ananda, in relation to Capricorn, Aquarius-Leo, and Pisces, and their respective planetary rulers is a combination of Thea’s image above right (<i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2, </i>p. 387), and an image from <i>The Gnostic Circle</i> (p. 150) <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#24a" id="24">[24]</a></span> </p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ohaLzEw0tEQepzbLbclCWv5avedcc8vdG3i00riOuIWf4w0EpNw77Lhxq-JnRy79AhgQ_YJwQ8x3N8e3udZ6RGiY9WwqFVMURvozg2yUSt-XRyTUlKJBF3x3ME79N9gKr08hLWbTgzkE82wcmhpSUoK55nHidSTmB8L36QoNapi6II3bCij-_s_y/s1600/TGC-p150-TNW-287-AI-Satchitananda-Tapas-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sat-Chit-Tapas-Ananda & the Zodiac-a combination of Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's images from The Gnostic Circle (p. 150), [24] and The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2 (p. 387 )" border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ohaLzEw0tEQepzbLbclCWv5avedcc8vdG3i00riOuIWf4w0EpNw77Lhxq-JnRy79AhgQ_YJwQ8x3N8e3udZ6RGiY9WwqFVMURvozg2yUSt-XRyTUlKJBF3x3ME79N9gKr08hLWbTgzkE82wcmhpSUoK55nHidSTmB8L36QoNapi6II3bCij-_s_y/s16000/TGC-p150-TNW-287-AI-Satchitananda-Tapas-01.png" title="Sat-Chit-Tapas-Ananda & the Zodiac-a combination of Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's images from The Gnostic Circle (p. 150), and The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2 (p. 387 )" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;">On page 56 of <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, <a href="https://www.astro.com/astrowiki/en/Yod" target="_blank">this yod or “Finger of God” design</a>, plus its axis, includes the energy flows: <b>Tamas</b> (Pisces), <b>Sattva</b> (Aquarius-Leo), and <b>Rajas</b> (Capricorn), not shown above. Thea also presented the following variation of this yod, illustrating the positions of Mitra, Varuna, Bhaga and Aryaman (<i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i>, p. 397), discussed as “Four great deities” by Sri Aurobindo. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCZUP1j9LMOPwPwQJifynObzPK8XVmExX4TmCPDFzgPocQnXK1gJv7UadxvwrKdaIuoL77oJozJzBBtFNsi-79lYAc1nOf707zaaVdcEuLM1Ebjrtve9o-z3Hc7ZMgCdqI_k94QbSNmswczt-OYn6Rj54oNVUJ56ZvplUfIy9dizIgfMjbb_Bxajrd/s1600/TNW1-397-sm.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Bhaga-Mitra-Varuna-Aryaman & the Zodiac (Piscis-Aquarius-Capricorn-Leo), Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2, p. 397" border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="369" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCZUP1j9LMOPwPwQJifynObzPK8XVmExX4TmCPDFzgPocQnXK1gJv7UadxvwrKdaIuoL77oJozJzBBtFNsi-79lYAc1nOf707zaaVdcEuLM1Ebjrtve9o-z3Hc7ZMgCdqI_k94QbSNmswczt-OYn6Rj54oNVUJ56ZvplUfIy9dizIgfMjbb_Bxajrd/w315-h320/TNW1-397-sm.png" title="Bhaga-Mitra-Varuna-Aryaman & the Zodiac (Piscis-Aquarius-Capricorn-Leo), Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2, p. 397" width="315" /></a></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Four great deities constantly appear in the Veda as closely allied in their nature and in their action, Varuna, Mitra, Bhaga, Aryaman.… These four deities are, according to Sayana, <b>solar powers</b>, Varuna negatively as lord of the night, Mitra positively as lord of the day, Bhaga and Aryaman as names of the Sun. We need not attach much importance to these particular identifications, but <b>it is certain that a solar character attaches to all the four</b>.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15</i>, pp. 300-301 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSpBGNYscyoME8POUWWU8CnyiPcQQjC_uArK3lZ0OWZYMaQYxi1js19NIbW90GgB7xBNcc1bDkWQJSmiwriPCJF4FqMTHC4EvrwVxxis79NWIEPBY_xPtrxQ-mBOUWWDqNpUxxx080At_0ALh7WfJWiHO_Ewrc3qXen8XuuD1lBzTHcFwHwaIjnnV5/s1600/TGC-p143b.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Leo-Aquarius-Axis-Sun-Uranus by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The Gnostic Circle, p. 143" border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="330" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSpBGNYscyoME8POUWWU8CnyiPcQQjC_uArK3lZ0OWZYMaQYxi1js19NIbW90GgB7xBNcc1bDkWQJSmiwriPCJF4FqMTHC4EvrwVxxis79NWIEPBY_xPtrxQ-mBOUWWDqNpUxxx080At_0ALh7WfJWiHO_Ewrc3qXen8XuuD1lBzTHcFwHwaIjnnV5/w122-h276/TGC-p143b.png" title="Leo-Aquarius-Axis-Sun-Uranus by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The Gnostic Circle, p. 143" width="122" /></a></div>In conjunction with an image of the yod’s Aquarius-Leo (Chit-Tapas), Thea wrote:<p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[We] consider Uranus to be a planet having rapport with all that is universal and all-embracing, and we consider the sign Aquarius in the same light. <b>[Uranus] is also known to be the planet signifying freedom, which we understand to be the freeing of man from the prison of his mind. It is to break the structures and formations he has created therein and to unravel the ties of conditioning that have become his shackles.</b> <b>This is the action of the descending power as epitomised by Uranus, – the 'electric shocks' that allow man to wake up and see, which ultimately will grant him the vision of unity that Uranus promises</b>…. With the entry of Uranus the element Air is modified through its affinity with that element, and thus the upholding seed of the Manifestation, Leo, is first cast by the descending power onto the terrain of Mind. The Sun of Leo is the generating force, Tapas…. </p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Along with its action of 'shattering', <b>[Uranus] carries the first Leo solar seeds, the initial new light into the field of human mind</b>, which is first experienced as a form of cosmic consciousness. The instrument is widened and rendered more capable of perceiving the vast body of the Divine and man as One…. <b>Uranus, through the sign Aquarius, is the direct transmitter of the solar seed</b>. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#25a" id="25">[25]</a></span> <b>It can be said that it is through this channel that the Sun-God fecundates the Earth</b>.” – Thea, <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, pp. 142-43, image p. 143 [Bold emphasis added]</p></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: justify;">In <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, Thea first discussed this special yod and its Leo-Aquarius axis in relation to the 9th Manifestation of the Maha Yuga cycle, spanning three ages: the Ages of Pisces, Aquarius, and Capricorn. With regards to Sri Aurobindo’s role as the Avatar of the Age of Aquarius within the 9th Manifestation, Thea wrote:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"> “The Avatar of the 9th [Sagittarian] Manifestation does not lay the foundations for a new religion, which would defeat the purpose of his advent. It is only the revelation of the next phase of spiritual experience and expression, and the discipline and yogic sadhana that accompanies it, that is his purpose, because each coming must lay before mankind a fuller experience of God. Each Manifestation signifies for humanity a greater possible expression and realisation of the Divine, and it is this that he comes to reveal. The Avatar cannot follow the traditional way, except insofar as he shows how that way prepares for the next step, the next piece in the divine Mosaic. He must explore the past, digest it and assimilate it into his own experience, and then he begins to reveal the actual thrust of the Age. <b>He is the seed of the movement, as we have shown in our diagram of the Manifestations based on the quincunx (inconjunct)</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#26a" id="26">[26]</a></span> <b>aspect</b>.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"<b>Sri Aurobindo is this seed. He was born with the Sun in Leo, the upholder of the three signs of the 9th Manifestation.</b> However, he does not come alone in this work, because the work of Kalki is to embrace the several aspects of the Divine and render the whole of creation the image of the Lord. In the scriptures, though we cannot rely on them fully because many irrelevant pieces have been added along the way, it is said that Kalki comes with two other persons. <b>Sri Aurobindo's advent is intimately bound with the Mother's birth, and in the diagram she fills the position of Pisces, being born, in fact, with the Sun in that sign. The third position falls in Capricorn, and <u>the Age of Aquarius, cupped in between the two, is the entire humanity, the collectivity as a whole</u>, standing directly in opposition to Leo, the seed, the <i>puruśa</i>.</b> <b>In fact, the meaning of Leo in the zodiac is the Purusha, and the spiritual quarter of the Circle, unlike any of the other quarters, is upheld by the Sun</b>, which is also the Purusha of the entire system. Here, in the Spiritual Quarter, the Sun is a direct influence. What it signifies for the structure of the whole solar system―the central and sustaining Light―shows itself to be true also for the spiritual quarter of the evolution of the divine body. <b>It is the Sun, the light of Truth, that feeds the trinity of the body of the Spirit in manifestation</b>. – Thea, <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, pp. 50-51; image, p. 42 [Bold and underline emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Thea, born with her natal Sun at 15° Capricorn, of course knew when she wrote <i>The Gnostic Circle</i> that whereas Sri Aurobindo and the Mother fill the Leo and Pisces roles in this yod, she fills the “third position in Capricorn”. And, as per the above, she saw the position of the Aquarian “Man” as being filled by the entirety of humanity. Regarding the connection between Leo, Aryaman and the Sagittarian Son or "Fourth" of the Solar Line, she wrote:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“We have clearly understood the character of Aryaman and his position in the trinity of Sat-Chit-Ananda, by his aspect of realising Energy which manifests through the Aryans, or the forgers and leaders on the Path. And we see also that [Leo] is the sign and principle of the Father, and indeed the Father was incarnate under this sign.... Leo is the Father who initiates; Sagittarius is the Son who consummates.” – Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 397 </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Vishnu’s Consciousness-Force and the Age of Aquarius</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Thea discussed the significance of Vishnu’s Aquarius-Leo (Man-Lion = Narasimha) <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#27a" id="27">[27]</a></span> axis in relation to the Supramental Avatars and in relation to the Giza Sphinx at length in her writings. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he four Fixed signs of the zodiac, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius―the Bull, the Lion, the Eagle and the Man (Woman)…are mentioned continually in the Book of Revelation and other older occult and esoteric documents and spiritual texts. Of these four signs, the Man and the Lion are the Sphinx of Giza, 'guardian' of the Great Pyramid. …<b>[T]he Sphinx of Giza represents the same axis of Leo and Aquarius, or August and February, the birth months of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother</b>, which is the important axis of the Matrimandir. August is naturally the Lion and February the Man, but in fact in ancient times the Sphinx was most often portrayed in its human part as a Woman, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#28a" id="28">[28]</a></span> particularly in Babylonia and then in Greece.” – Thea, <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, p. 278 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The avatar comes upon Earth during the periods of Vishnu, the Preserver. These are the periods of the four Fixed signs of the zodiac,―Leo, Taurus, Aquarius, and Scorpio. <b>We are in Vishnu's period [Age] of Mitra, the Friend,―Aquarius.</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#29a" id="29">[29]</a></span> – Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 445 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>Aquarius is one of the signs of the Sphinx and the periods of Vishnu, which are the only times when the Avatars can incarnate in their full form</b>. For this period the symbol of that avataric descent is [Sri Aurobindo’s Lotus of the Avatar]…. Its 9 and 6 and 3 form rests at the heart of the [Mother’s Temple] and hence at the core of the new creation.” – Ibid., p. 494 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">[Click <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#18a" target="_blank">HERE</a> to see the larger collection of quotes from The Gnostic Circle on the Leo-Aquarius axis, which I included in “The Convergence of Putin’s War & the Mother’s 144-Year Birth Anniversary ⁓ A Cosmological Perspective ⁓ Part One”.] </p></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZrHGPCXbry7QrT2y3cBxThEGzko3o-J2yfqhQ_7gQmFCuXGlXvpCeJBryNA6w_4m4lZsm2Y8Za5SIEiDBOB-KFRkslGRpwfVLIHF4XSwZuvCQm6oV4O-cthLtfyMfJjzHGKfxRLvii5Bfbgoq8ZqAjHqxs3JAsVKCsQRi2d2_bWXpIFMspVSegAgs/s2640/SA-symbol-1964-Lotus-963-7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sri Aurobindo's Symbol, the Lotus of the Avatar - 963 - 7 Waves (=7 Vedic Rivers)" border="0" data-original-height="873" data-original-width="2640" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZrHGPCXbry7QrT2y3cBxThEGzko3o-J2yfqhQ_7gQmFCuXGlXvpCeJBryNA6w_4m4lZsm2Y8Za5SIEiDBOB-KFRkslGRpwfVLIHF4XSwZuvCQm6oV4O-cthLtfyMfJjzHGKfxRLvii5Bfbgoq8ZqAjHqxs3JAsVKCsQRi2d2_bWXpIFMspVSegAgs/w613-h203/SA-symbol-1964-Lotus-963-7.jpg" title="Sri Aurobindo's Symbol, the Lotus of the Avatar - 963 - 7 Waves (=7 Vedic Rivers)" width="613" /></a></div>Sri Aurobindo’s Lotus of the Avatar rests on seven waves which are symbolic of the seven rivers released from their obstructions by the Vedic Sage-Son-Horse (aka the Son of the Waters) and accompanying heroes. Thus the Lotus of the Avatar includes in itself, in symbol form, the seven rivers (=the seven vials of St. John’s Revelation) that are necessarily released by the Supramental Avatar of the Aquarian Age – the Age of the Water Bearer/Mitra who pours out the purifying waters of the Vedic Kumbha. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is clear from <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i> that Thea saw the Aquarius-Leo axis as representative of the Vedic principle of Chit-Tapas (Consciousness-Force) – Aquarius holding the position of Chit (Consciousness), and Leo holding the position of Tapas (Force).</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The symbol of] Cow and Horse of Vedic symbology are <b>Consciousness-Force, the major axis of existence, the axis portrayed in the symbology of the enigmatic Sphinx of Giza</b>. – <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 378 [Emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>Tapas, Force…is the sign Leo, which stands opposite to Aquarius, or Chit</b>.” – Ibid. p. 386</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This principle of Chit-Tapas is found abundantly throughout Sri Aurobindo’s writings. He most often referred to it (as Thea did) as “Consciousness-Force”, but also as “Consciousness and Power”, Consciousness and Puissance” and “conscious power”. From his teachings on Chit-Tapas, along with his teachings on Truth-Consciousness (Sat-Chit) and the entire trinity or quaternity of Sat, Chit-Tapas, and Ananda, we can better understand THAT which the Aquarian “Man” or universal Human is to contain and realize in the Kumbha or vessel of his or her body at the summit of our evolutionary journey.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The Divine descends from pure existence through the play of Consciousness-Force and Bliss and the creative medium of Supermind into cosmic being; we ascend from Matter through a developing life, soul and mind and the illuminating medium of supermind towards the divine being. The knot of the two, the higher and the lower hemisphere, is where mind and supermind meet with a veil between them. <b>The rending of the veil is the condition of the divine life in humanity</b>; for by that rending, by the illumining descent of the higher into the nature of the lower being and the forceful ascent of the lower being into the nature of the higher, mind can recover its divine light in the all-comprehending supermind, the soul realise its divine self in the all-possessing all-blissful Ananda, life repossess its divine power in the play of omnipotent Conscious-Force and Matter open to its divine liberty as a form of the divine Existence. And <b>if there be any goal to the evolution which finds here its present crown and head in the human being</b>, other than an aimless circling and an individual escape from the circling, if <b>the infinite potentiality of this creature</b>, who alone here stands between Spirit and Matter with the power to mediate between them, has any meaning other than an ultimate awakening from the delusion of life by despair and disgust of the cosmic effort and its complete rejection, then even such<b> a luminous and puissant transfiguration and emergence of <u>the Divine in the creature</u> must be that high-uplifted goal and that supreme significance</b>.” – Ibid., 278-79 [All emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>A supramental change of the whole substance of the being and therefore necessarily of all its characters, powers, movements takes place when the involved supermind in Nature emerges to meet and join with the supramental light and power [=Tapas] descending from Supernature. The individual must be the instrument and first field of the transformation; but an isolated individual transformation is not enough and may not be wholly feasible. Even when achieved, the individual change will have a permanent and cosmic significance only if the individual becomes a centre and a sign for the establishment of the supramental Consciousness-Force as an overtly operative power in the terrestrial workings of Nature, — in the same way in which thinking Mind has been established through the human evolution as an overtly operative power in Life and Matter. This would mean the appearance in the evolution of a gnostic being or Purusha and a gnostic Prakriti, a gnostic Nature. There must be an emergent supramental Consciousness-Force liberated and active within the terrestrial whole and an organised supramental instrumentation of the Spirit in the life and the body, — for the body consciousness also must become sufficiently awake to be a fit instrument of the workings of the new supramental Force and its new order.</b> Till then any intermediate change could be only partial or insecure….” – Ibid, pp. 997-98 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">[These and more excerpts from Sri Aurobindo’s writings on Consciousness-Force are found in the <b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/sri-aurobindo-on-consciousness-force.html" target="_blank">Addendum to 8.2</a></b>]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Supramental Consciousness-Force Organizing Terrestrial Circumstances</b> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span>I began writing this article on the 11 August Full Moon, wherein the Sun and Moon came into opposition upon the zodiacal axis of 19° Leo-Aquarius. <b>The Full Moon’s position placed it conjunct (within 1°) M</b></span><b>itra’s</b></span><b> seat at 20° Aquarius, the 8 Point of the Year</b>. Sometime that evening, while I was still writing, a friend I had not seen in over a year called and invited me on a Full Moon Sail in the San Francisco Bay the next evening with some of his friends, and I said yes because it seemed like a fitting way to celebrate the special Full Moon, even if a day late. My friend did not announce that his birthday was 13 August and I had forgotten. Regardless, the evening sail (Sun at 20° Leo opposite Saturn at 22° Aquarius and Mitra at 20° Aquarius, and square Uranus at 18° Taurus) included a surprise birthday cake, candles and a song from his friends thanks to the captain who did remember. Thus I came to appreciate that the person who invited me on the <b>12 August</b> (20° Leo) “Full Moon” sail was born opposite me (<b>12 February</b>) in the 365-day year. I will forever marvel at the way this watery adventure marked, in a few different ways (via the Full Moon of 11 August, via the date of the sail and via the birthdates of myself and the friend who invited me), the Leo-Aquarius axis (circa <b>22° Leo-Aquarius</b>) which I keep pointing to (and illustrating) in conjunction with Sri Aurobindo’s avataric task and victory of releasing the Vedic Waters and Amrita from the Vishnu’s Kumbha in the Age of Aquarius. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">I share the story of the Leo-Aquarius (1-day-past) Full Moon Sail because it is a powerful example of how the soul’s Supramental Consciousness-Force works and arranges its field of circumstances. Everything about that evening was coordinated, organized and harmonized to perfection, including the fact that the number of our boat’s triangular sail was <b>3659</b>, featuring the number of days in a year (<b>365</b>) and the number of years in an ennead (<b>9</b>). The captain sailed us – seven including himself – close to Alcatraz, perhaps the world’s most famous<b> prison (aka “The Rock”) which sits in the middle of the waters</b> of the San Francisco Bay. </div><p></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">On our way towards this iconic and central Bay Area monument, a lone porpoise arced above the surface of the water, showing himself or herself for a second, and then disappeared back under the water’s dark cover. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The water-bound prison-rock of Alcatraz “released” (relocated) its prisoners and was closed on <b>the March Equinox of 1963</b>, the year of Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth as “the Son” according to Thea’s teachings. It was subsequently opened to the public as a tourist destination in <b>1973</b>, the year of the Mother’s passing. Alcatraz – established in the 8-power year of 1934 – is a fitting symbol of the fixed-water sign Scorpio, but with the added twist that the prison no longer holds prisoners in itself and functions as a national park and monument, symbolizing a purification and release of its former darkness. In the Vedas, the waters of the seven rivers (=seven cows, floods, mothers, mares, sisters, soma drops, ecstasies, voices, etc.) are released from their obstruction or prison (aka “the rock” or “the water’s rock”) by the Vedic Son, Sage and Horse (Agni as Soma-Pavamana), also known as “the Waters’ Son”, and his companion heroes, <b><u><i>upon his birth</i></u></b>. Agni and his seven mothers-rivers flow to and are collected in the Kumbha of Aquarius, also known as Agni’s womb of Truth (<i><a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.064.17c&acc=no&q=yoni&lang=pad" target="_blank">ṛtásya yónim</a></i>). As such, it is symbolically fitting that the infamous water-bound rock-prison of the San Francisco Bay became defunct specifically in 1963, on the true zero point of the Vedic Year no less. Fifty-three years later (53 = 5 + 3 = 8), the Vedic Rock (=stone, cave, mountain, prison) released the geometric and zodiacal sense of its imprisoned waters (=cows, mares, treasures, etc.) not far from the Rock of Alcatraz.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“When Agni becomes the offspring of the Daughter [=the River of Heaven], he begins ruling... The conquering [Dawns/Rivers] cling to him in his struggle. By knowledge they deliver a great light out of the darkness….” (tr. RL Kashyap)</p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The [Seven] Sages freed them [=the seven rivers/cows/mares] from their firm-built prison: the seven priests drove them forward with their spirit. All holy Order's pathway they discovered he, full of knowledge, shared these deeds through worship.” (tr. RTH Griffith) – Rig Veda 3.31.1-5 excerpts</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Pouring all glories hither, he [the warrior steed=Agni=Soma-Pavamana], effused and entering the jar [=Kumbha], stands like a hero mid the kine [=the seven cows, mothers, rivers, etc.].” – Rig Veda 9.62.20, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As discussed and illustrated in <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom </i>(book), I first became aware that Sri Aurobindo and I sat opposite each other in the cycle of the year in 1994. This was six years before I knew of Thea’s existence or of her teachings regarding the Leo-Aquarius axis of the Zodiac in relation to Vedic gnosis.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“In 1994 [the year I began to develop an interest in astrology and in the geometry of Time] I saw that I was born at the specific degree of 24° Aquarius and that my mother’s North and South Lunar Nodes fell at 24° Leo and 24° Aquarius. Seeing this Leo-Aquarius axis in my mother’s natal chart, along which two of her children [myself and my brother] and her father were born…gave me the sense for the first time that astrology was worth studying. That same year I found out that Sri Aurobindo was born on August 15 (22° Leo), along or conjunct this same axis, opposite my birthday. </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3E4jnEGZW4LUyoTeZuYyQxl8lvNfU0ZseWhYUaHneviWJapu0OzNhXMfqk1xGHiX1oONnDEyNYvWZ3HucMq92yWj9F44kswrKxDzzvB3n61Rt2eza-owD4GKmsdxsxtNpWB5wzHXxSGPbDw-2huJae-1eWZtu3PKRoxcbZVhl4XBWHA8fUwQusaCN/s1600/SA-22-Fire-Trine-Leo-Aquarius-axis-sm-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 0em;"><img alt="22° Leo-Aquarius axis - Sri Aurobindo" border="0" data-original-height="221" data-original-width="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3E4jnEGZW4LUyoTeZuYyQxl8lvNfU0ZseWhYUaHneviWJapu0OzNhXMfqk1xGHiX1oONnDEyNYvWZ3HucMq92yWj9F44kswrKxDzzvB3n61Rt2eza-owD4GKmsdxsxtNpWB5wzHXxSGPbDw-2huJae-1eWZtu3PKRoxcbZVhl4XBWHA8fUwQusaCN/s16000/SA-22-Fire-Trine-Leo-Aquarius-axis-sm-01.png" title="22° Leo-Aquarius axis - Sri Aurobindo" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The fact that Sri Aurobindo’s birthday fell opposite mine in the year felt important to me, though I did not fully know why at the time. It simply seemed to reflect the deep connection I felt with his yoga. Later, perhaps in 2002, I came to find [via Thea’s writings] that the Mother’s North and South Lunar Nodes fell at 22° Aquarius and 22° Leo [via True position not Mean calculation]. In other words, her natal North Node ‒ an indicator of one’s karmic destiny ‒ conjuncts my birthday; and her South Node conjuncts Sri Aurobindo’s birthday. While writing this book I came to find that the year Sri Aurobindo was born (1872) the Sun’s position was 22° Aquarius on February 12, my future birthday….” (pp. 48-49, image p. 49)</div><p></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">I have been emphasizing the fact that Mitra (the Friend) seat in the Zodiac is 20° Aquarius ‒ the 8 Point of the Vedic Year – opposite Sri Aurobindo’s birth at 22° Leo and conjunct the Mother’s North Node at 22° Aquarius, conjunct my birth at 24° Aquarius, and conjunct Saturn’s (the Time Spirit’s) transiting position throughout most of 2022 ‒ because Mitra’s harmonizing and unifying divine law and divine maya (measure) is equivalent to the divine law and divine maya (measure) of the Vedic Waters and their Son, the radius. It is not a random coincidence that the person the eternal divine law and divine maya (i.e. the sacred and zodiacal geometry) of these waters was released to and entrusted with the week of Thea’s passing, was born conjunct Mitra’s seat opposite Sri Aurobindo’s seat in the Vedic Year. It is part of the seamless perfection by which the Supramental Consciousness-Force organized and coordinated the victory of Vishnu’s recovery and pouring out of his Kumbha in the world, in the Age of Kumbha, in the Age of Mitra, wherein Mitra’s (=Agni’s=the soul’s) eternal and universal laws (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) and divine maya (measure) are revealed to and reestablished within the consciousness of Man/Humanity, no longer obstructed by the barrier, veil, rock or prison of our own Ignorance. With this in mind, it is worth repeating what I wrote at the beginning of “Mitra and the 8 Point of the Vedic Year”, which in many ways is the crux of this entire series.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Whereas <b>the 8th Sign</b> of the Zodiac represents the (fixed) <i>blockage</i> of the Vedic waters (the streams of Truth and Holy Order), <b>the 8 Point [Mitra] </b>of the Vedic Year falls in the sign of Aquarius where the Jar and its sacred waters of Truth are <i>released</i> upon humanity.”</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha1plaka84-ymMa26U79K-mtoMgAZ7YqiiT20fv1un6gVwBel8rMnOGOIwNqZ-Vc0ZnVf6W0VZ1ZMmymYl2b3oLQWBCN7jxyqDvjpm-9ZvMApSV0oF2YYpebNoqWBr0IhJw40_EthP1zIbNNWrpnDXsCuJygvUruIBRGWbbAXquz9vdl2Yh1LP_4Lk/1600/8-VP.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 0em;"><img alt="Vesica Piscis & the number 8 - animated (Lori Tompkins, 2022)" border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="297" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha1plaka84-ymMa26U79K-mtoMgAZ7YqiiT20fv1un6gVwBel8rMnOGOIwNqZ-Vc0ZnVf6W0VZ1ZMmymYl2b3oLQWBCN7jxyqDvjpm-9ZvMApSV0oF2YYpebNoqWBr0IhJw40_EthP1zIbNNWrpnDXsCuJygvUruIBRGWbbAXquz9vdl2Yh1LP_4Lk/w169-h256/8-VP.gif" title="Vesica Piscis & the number 8 - animated (Lori Tompkins, 2022)" width="169" /></a>The energy or power that becomes pent up, fixed, stagnant and poisonous in the 8th sign of the Zodiac (Scorpio), is subsequently purified by the movement of the Sagittarian Sage-Horse to his heavenly Jar or Kumbha, wherein the 8 Power of Mitra/Neptune resides. So we can appreciate that this purification takes us from the lower-poise of the 8th sign of the Zodiac to the higher poise and power of the 8 seated in Aquarius (Kumbha), in the Swar realm of the Vedic Yajna. From the higher poise, the form of the 8, releases that which it hoarded and hid from us in the lower poise of Scorpio. [See <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#8" target="_blank">8.1</a>]</div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I will draw Part 8 of this series to a close with Vedic hymn 3.5, as translated by Sri Aurobindo. This hymn describes Agni’s birth, awakening and entrance into the Kumbha – his “luminous native abode” – via his seven mother-rivers (=<b>dawns</b>, waters, cows, voices, lauds, etc.). When the seven rivers (=seven vesicae piscis) give him birth, he becomes Mitra, the Friend.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">1. The Fire is awake fronting <b>the dawns</b>; one illumined, he becomes aware of the paths of the seers: kindled into a wide might by the seekers of godhead, the upbearing flame opens the gates of the Darkness.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">2. Ever the Fire increases by the lauds, the words of those who hymn him by their utterances, one to be adored with prostrations; the Messenger who desires the many seeings of the Truth <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#30a" id="30">[30]</a></span> has shone out in the wide flaming of the Dawn.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> 3. <b>The Fire has been set in the human peoples, </b><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#31a" id="31"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[31]</span></a><b> child of the Waters, the Friend who achieves by the Truth</b>; luminous, a power for sacrifice, he has risen to the summits; he has become the illumined seer who must be called by our thoughts.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">4. <b>The Fire when he has been kindled high becomes Mitra, the Friend</b> — Mitra the priest of the call, Varuna, the knower of the births, Mitra, the friend, the priest of the pilgrim sacrifice, one rapid in his impulsions, the dweller in the house, the friend of the Rivers, the friend of the Mountains.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">5. He guards from hurt <b>the beloved summit-seat of the being</b>, mighty, he guards the course of the Sun; <b>Fire guards in the navel-centre <u>the seven-headed thought</u>, sublime, he guards <u>the ecstasy [=Soma/Amrita]</u> of the gods</b>. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#32a" id="32">[32]</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">6. <b>A skilful craftsman, a god knowing all the manifestations of knowledge, he forms the beautiful and desirable Name, the luminous seat of the being</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#33a" id="33">[33]</a></span> in the movement of the peace; that the Fire guards, not deviating from his work.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">7. Desiring it as it desired him, <b>the Fire entered into that</b> <b>luminous native abode</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#34a" id="34">[34]</a></span> wide in its approach; shining forth, pure, purifying, sublime, again and again he makes new the father and the mother.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">8. <b>Suddenly born he is carried by the growths of the earth when the mothers [=seven rivers] who bore him make him grow by the light</b>. The Fire in the lap of the father and the mother is as one who defends the waters gliding happily down a slope.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">9. Lauded by us mighty he shone with his high flaming in the largeness of heaven, in the navel-centre of earth. <b>The Fire is Mitra the friend</b>, the desirable one, he is life growing in the mother; may he as our messenger bring the gods for the sacrifice. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#35a" id="35">[35]</a></span> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">10. The Fire with his high flaming up-pillared, sublime, the firmament and became the highest of the luminous kingdoms, when for the flame-seers life, that grows in the mother, kindled all around <b>[Agni] the carrier of the offerings</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#36a" id="36">[36]</a></span> <b>who was hidden in the Secrecy</b>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">11. O Fire, achieve at my call the Revealing Speech, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#37a" id="37">[37]</a></span> the many-actioned, the lasting conquest of the Light. May there be for us a Son of our begetting pervading in his birth; O Fire, may there be created in us that true thinking of thine.</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: right;">‒ Sri Aurobindo, <i>Hymns to the Mystic Fire, CWSA, Vol. 16</i>, pp. 170-77<br /> [All emphasis, <span style="text-align: justify;">text in brackets, </span>and endnotes added]</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">[Link to </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">Part 1</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">4</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">5</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">6</a><span style="font-size: large;">,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">7.1</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">7.2</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;">8.1</a><span style="font-size: large;">, or </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;">8.2</a><span style="font-size: large;">]</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">
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<b>Endnotes</b> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> “On July 31 [2022], Uranus makes a conjunction with the Moon’s North Node at 18º41′ Taurus (1:05 pm PDT), joined the next day by Mars (Aug. 1, 4:53 pm PDT). The last time Mars, Uranus, and the North Node came together this closely in this particular area of Taurus was in 324 BC. Mundane astrologers have drawn parallels between the reign of Alexander the Great during that era, which brought about a new political era for Europe and Asia, and markers that we’re entering a new phase in empire and capitalism.” – April Elliott Kent, <a href="https://bigskyastrology.com/astrology-for-july-25-31-2022-mapping-the-territory/#:~:text=A%20Newly%20Formed%20Continent&text=n%20July%2031%2C%20Uranus%20makes,4%3A53%20pm%20PDT" target="_blank">bigskyastrology.com</a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“When Uranus and Mars get together, they tend to trigger shocks and disruption. Uranus is unpredictable and electrifying, while Mars brings heat and anger. Add the north node into the mix and everything becomes intensified. Previous alignments of Uranus and the nodes have coincided with storms and extreme weather, as well as crashes and industrial accidents – there’s <a href="https://tolstunka.com/2022/02/21/uranus-north-node-conjunction-in-taurus-major-astrological-event-of-2022/" target="_blank">a list here</a>, and an interesting post by Marjorie Orr <a href="https://star4cast.com/uranus-north-node-momentous-moments-in-history/" target="_blank">here</a>.” See also: <a href="https://jessicadavidson.co.uk/2022/06/20/uranus-and-mars-conjunct-north-node/" target="_blank">“Uranus and Mars conjunct North Node”</a>, by Jessica Davidson.</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a> An Astro-charts.com chart of the 11 August Full Moon is available <a href="https://astro-charts.com/chart/901bdc989/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a> Via <a href="https://cafeastrology.com/saturn-in-aquarius-transits.html#:~:text=Saturn%20enters%20the%20sign%20of,%2C%20to%20March%207%2C%202023." target="_blank">CafeAstrology</a>:</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>Mar 21, 2020 11:58 PM EDT Saturn enters Aquarius</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>Jul 1, 2020 7:37 PM EDT Saturn Rx enters Capricorn</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>Dec 17, 2020 12:04 AM EST Saturn enters Aquarius</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>Mar 7, 2023 8:34 AM EST Saturn enters Pisces</p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#4" id="4a">[4]</a> “The astrology of 2022 is underscored by the Saturn Uranus square which had its final exact alignment on 24 December 2021. They remain in orb throughout 2022, moving apart into the spring and closer again into the autumn. Saturn has had the upper hand since 2021, keeping us locked in a holding pattern. But now Uranus is joined by the north node in Taurus and the energy changes, becoming even more disruptive and unpredictable.... This is the final square in the cycle that began in 1988 and it runs from 2020 to 2023. The exact alignments were in 2021 and this year the planets are close but not exact to the minute. The square forms by degree at 18° Taurus/Aquarius on 2 – 12 October [2022]. Alignments between Saturn and Uranus represent periods of radical change and disruption to the status quo. It’s a good time to break out of old habits that have become too restrictive and make creative changes to the structures of your life. These periods coincide with a crisis in consciousness that can lead to awakenings, breakthroughs and/or breakdowns.” – Jessica Davidson, <a href="https://jessicadavidson.co.uk/2021/12/27/the-astrology-of-2022/" target="_blank">“The Astrology of 2022”</a> </p><p>See also: <a href="https://www.moonomens.com/saturn-square-uranus-december-2021/" target="_blank">“Saturn square Uranus: Revolutionary Times”</a>, moonomens.com.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#5" id="5a">[5]</a> See: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ2qDqAGOIk&t=2094s" target="_blank">"Alex Jones Day of Reckoning the Astrology of the undoing 8 3 22"</a>, Brandon Russ. </p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#6" id="6a">[6]</a> See: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ2qDqAGOIk&t=0" target="_blank">"Aquarius Full Moon & Donald Trump’s Therapy"</a>, Penny Dix AstroCoach & Brandon Russ Whiskey & Bagel. Astro (Aug 11, 2022). </p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#7" id="7a">[7]</a> Below is a small selection of Sri Aurobindo’s discussion of Varuna and Mitra which Thea saw as commensurate with the zodiacal essence of Uranus and Neptune. Note especially – considering Uranus’s current transits and associated world events – Varuna’s function as a destroyer of enemies (of the Truth) which coincides with Uranus’s reputation for the sudden and revolutionary and often violent dismantling of old structures, patterns and beliefs.</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“Varuna and Mitra, Powers of the Truth, are invoked “accomplishing a richly luminous thought,” <u><i>dhiyam ghṛtācīṁ sadhanta</i></u>…. <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15</i>, p. 75 </p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: center;">*</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“…Varuna and Mitra who accomplish or perfect this state of the intellect, are distinguished by two several epithets. Mitra is <i>pūtadakṣa</i>, possessed of a purified judgment; Varuna is <i>riśādas</i>, he destroys all hurters or enemies….</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“In the Veda there are no merely ornamental epithets. Every word is meant to tell, to add something to the sense and bear a strict relation to the thought of the sentence in which it occurs. There are two obstacles which prevent the intellect from being a perfect and luminous mirror of the truth-consciousness; first, impurity of the discernment or faculty which leads to confusion of the Truth, secondly the many causes or influences which interfere with [i.e. OBSTRUCT] the growth of the Truth by limiting its full application or by breaking up the connections and harmony of the thoughts that express it and which thus bring about poverty and falsification of its contents. <b>Just as the Gods in the Veda represent universal powers descended from the Truth-consciousness which build up the harmony of the worlds and <u>in man</u> his progressive perfection, so the influences that work against these objects are represented by hostile agencies, Dasyus and Vritras, who seek to break up, to limit, to withhold and deny.</b> Varuna in the Veda is always characterised as a power of wideness and purity; when, therefore, he is present in man as a conscious force of the Truth, all that limits and hurts the nature by introducing into it fault, sin and evil is destroyed by contact with him. He is <i>riśādas</i>, destroyer of the enemy, of all that seek to injure the growth. Mitra, a power like Varuna of Light and Truth, especially represents Love, Joy and Harmony, the foundations of Mayas, the Vedic beatitude. Working with the purity of Varuna and imparting that purity to the discernment, he enables it to get rid of all discords and confusions and establish the right working of the strong and luminous intellect.</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“<b>This progress <u>enables the Truth-consciousness, the Ritam, to work in the human mentality</u>. With the Ritam as the agency, <i>ṛtena</i>, increasing the action of the Truth in man, <i>ṛtāvṛdhā</i>, touching or reaching the Truth, enabling, that is to say, the mental consciousness to come into successful contact with and possession of the Truth-consciousness, <i>ṛtaspṛśā</i></b>, Mitra and Varuna are able to enjoy the use of a vast effective will-power, <i>kratuṁ bṛhantam āśāthe</i>. For it is the Will that is the chief effective agent of the inner sacrifice, but <b>a will that is in harmony with the Truth</b>, <b>guided therefore by a purified discernment. The Will as it enters more and more into the wideness of the Truth-consciousness becomes itself wide and vast, free from limitation in its view and of hampering impediments in its effectivity. It works <i>urāv anibādhe</i>, in the wideness where there is no obstacle or wall of limitation.</b></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“Thus the two requisites on which the Vedic Rishis always insist are secured, Light and Power, the Light of the Truth working in the knowledge, <i>dhiyam ghṛtācīm</i>, the Power of the Truth working in the effective and enlightened Will, <i>kratum bṛhantam</i>.” – Ibid., pp. 75-77 [All bold and underline emphasis, and the text in parenthetical brackets are added]</p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#8" id="8a">[8]</a> See: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2018/10/recovering-ancient-light-and-amrita-of.html" target="_blank">“Recovering the Ancient Light and Amrita of the Vedas – Part 1</a> & <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2018/11/recovering-ancient-light-and-amrita-of.html" target="_blank">2</a>" and <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2019/03/kumbha-mela-and-reestablishment-of.html" target="_blank">“Kumbha Mela and the Reestablishment of India's Truth and Power in the World ⁓ Part 3”</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#9" id="9a">[9]</a> The original endnote for this quote is as follows: ‘Manfred Clauss, <i>The Roman cult of Mithras</i>, p.73: "...the importance of water for all manner of ritual purposes is revealed by the water-basins and cisterns, by the representations of Oceanus, and also by the evident desire to locate temples in the vicinity of a river or a spring. Water-basins were clearly part of the basic equipment of all mithraea."’ – <a href="https://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/mithras/display.php?page=main#FN19" target="_blank">www.tertullian.org</a> </p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#10" id="10a">[10]</a> The following excerpt is from Thea’s article <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/articles/cosmology-in-the-rigveda-the-third-premise/" target="_blank">“Cosmology in the Rigveda, The Third Premise”</a> (originally published in <i>The Hindu</i> on 9 July 2002):</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“[David] Frawley refers to the births of Agastya and Vashishta as ‘born in a pot or kumbha’, the Sanskrit word. He interprets this as ‘a vessel or a ship’ to reinforce his theory of a seafaring civilisation. To begin, I must indeed agree with Witzel that for a civilisation at home with the oceans as Frawley sustains, one fails to understand why the Rishi would need to make Agastya emerge from a pot if indeed he had been born at sea! A pot is a pot and a ship is a ship!</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“More to the point, in making this deduction Frawley misses an important clue. <b>Kumbha in the Rig Veda is what it still is today, thousands of years after the hymns were recorded: the zodiacal sign Aquarius, the Water Carrier, who, from the jar he carries, dispenses upon the whole world the waters of a divine substance; it is known in Sanskrit as Kumbha</b>. This is the same Kumbha that gives its name to the world-famous Mela we celebrate year after year during the very same zodiacal month of Kumbha (PNB, 1978, 1981, 2001, 2002).” [Bold emphasis added]</p></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;">*</div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p></p></div></blockquote></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“By the central Fixed sign Aquarius, an Air sign...the Mental Principle has given birth to the higher principle inherent in itself, the supermind, which signifies the spiritualisation of the species." ‒ Thea, <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, p. 229 </p></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#11" id="11a">[11]</a> Circa 1917-1918 Sri Aurobindo wrote a review of an astrological treatise <i>Kalaprakasika</i>, which discussed the twelve signs of the Zodiac, and included mention of Aquarius as the Western name of Kumbha. In a memoir, Dinendra Kumar Roy wrote, "Aurobindo was a firm believer in astrology. He believed that the planets had an influence on human life. He hadn’t the slightest doubt that one could tell good or ill in the life of a new-born by studying the horoscope…. At Aurobindo’s request I got a horoscope made by Mr. Bhattacharya. I never asked Aurobindo whether the events in his past life agreed with his chart." (<i><a href="https://auromaa.org/with-sri-aurobindo-in-baroda-4-by-dinendra-kumar-roy/" target="_blank">With Sri Aurobindo in Baroda</a></i> (Dinendra Kumar Roy lived with Sri Aurobindo in Baroda from 1898 to 1900 or 1901. This text first appeared in the journal Sahitya in Bengali in 1911-1912). </p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#12" id="12a">[12]</a> Sri Aurobindo is pointing out here <b>the equivalence between "the seat of the Gods" and "<u>the home of Immortality</u>" and the Vedic Jar/Kumbha (=reservoir, bowl, etc.) of Soma, </b>which as I have discussed, is equivalent to Vishnu's Kumbha of Amrita, Amrita being the Gods’ <b><u>Nectar of Immortality</u></b>.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#13" id="13a">[13]</a> <i>Divas pade</i>, “the seat of Heaven” of 9.83.2, is equivalent elsewhere to <i>pada ilas</i>, translated by Sri Aurobindo as “the seat of revelation”, which I discussed as one of the many names of Kumbha/Aquarius in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#pada-ilas" target="_blank">Part 7.2</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#14" id="14a">[14]</a> This Vedic imagery of setting the cows (kine) free from their pen is equivalent to the Vedic imagery of releasing the seven rivers from the obstructions of Vritra (the Coverer). The seven rivers and the seven cows, mothers, sisters, mares, etc., of the Vedas are all equivalent to each other, and, in my view, are all symbols of the first seven vesica piscis of the Zodiac.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#15" id="15a">[15]</a> Agni-Soma-Pavamana (= the Son and the Radius of the Circle) is simultaneously the measurer and "ruler" of the 360° day and of the 360° year, and of larger, macro cycles of time as well.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#16" id="16a">[16]</a> The vesica piscis (= the drop and kumbha of Amrita/Soma) and its indwelling radius measures out one-third of the circle, encompassing three units of the circle of 9. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxJYxOg2Yu8KdAi7lzDOB6k_MlIpCFXeZev7N5TZLKRkmqDVdFnzxSj0G0VWngwf2Jl3lKLUv9twKPK0vkgY4EzK4LW_1uRvoKIziX5iUIOv0rywhne1qXM0Oire_FzPGzAir3sck2h-KpJeQfJWbzsqIzzP2LacSqwDvrCy3d80rehVSpyJvbD6td/s1600/963-VP-3petal-Trinity-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="3 Vesica Piscis measuring out the 963 Trinity of the Circle of 9- animated (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="403" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxJYxOg2Yu8KdAi7lzDOB6k_MlIpCFXeZev7N5TZLKRkmqDVdFnzxSj0G0VWngwf2Jl3lKLUv9twKPK0vkgY4EzK4LW_1uRvoKIziX5iUIOv0rywhne1qXM0Oire_FzPGzAir3sck2h-KpJeQfJWbzsqIzzP2LacSqwDvrCy3d80rehVSpyJvbD6td/w194-h205/963-VP-3petal-Trinity-01.png" title="3 Vesica Piscis measuring out the 963 Trinity of the Circle of 9- animated (Lori Tompkins, 2016)" width="194" /></a></div><p></p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#17" id="17a">[17]</a> Illustrations of the vesica piscis’s role in measuring out the 12 months of the Zodiac are found in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-sacred-geometry-of-vimy-crop-circle.html" target="_blank">“The Sacred Geometry of the Vimy Crop Circle (5 July 2020)”</a> as well in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2019/03/kumbha-mela-and-reestablishment-of.html#Zodiac-Geometry-3" target="_blank">“Kumbha Mela and the Reestablishment of India's Truth and Power in the World ⁓ Part 3”</a>. </p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#18" id="18a">[18]</a> Rig Veda 3.59.6., tr. RTH Griffith.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#19" id="19a">[19]</a> As discussed throughout <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i> (book, Part Two), the cloud (<i>abhra</i>) containing rain is one of the myriad symbols of the vesica piscis (= the vessel/kumbha containing its waters) in the Rig Veda.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#20" id="20a">[20]</a> See: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-sacred-measure-of-432000-as-key-of.html" target="_blank">“The Sacred Measure of 432,000”</a> (2019).</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#21" id="21a">[21]</a> Neptune’s transit of Pisces extends through 2026. Jupiter’s approximate one-year transit of Pisces lasts through 20 December 2022. Here are some links discussing the astrological energetic significance of the Neptune-Jupiter transit:</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>• <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S54VWItZmac" target="_blank">"Jupiter Neptune Conjunction in Pisces 12th April 2022"</a> Pam Gregory, Jan 3, 2022 </p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>• <a href="https://www.nylon.com/life/jupiter-neptune-conjunction-pisces-2022" target="_blank">"THE JUPITER-NEPTUNE CONJUNCTION IN PISCES [12 April] 2022 IS A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME TRANSIT"</a>, David Odyssey, Nylon, April 8, 2022</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>• <a href="https://www.bustle.com/life/jupiter-neptune-conjunction-pisces-2022" target="_blank">"Everything To Know About The Rare Jupiter-Neptune Conjunction Happening In April"</a>, by Nina Kahn, March 9, 2022</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>• <a href="https://www.forrestastrology.com/blogs/astrology/neptune-in-pisces-timeline" target="_blank">"Neptune in Pisces Timeline"</a>, Forrest Astrology, October 17, 2014 </p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#22" id="22a">[22]</a> The Vedic gods are consistently said to be robed in waters, rivers, milk, ghee (oil), and such. As I have discussed at length, this is a veiled depiction of the geometry of the radius and vesica piscis. The vesica piscis is, among other things, the robe, mantle, clothing, adornment, veil, cloud, etc. of the radius.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#23" id="23a">[23]</a> On the geometric and zodiacal level, “the well with mouth of stone that poured a flood of meath” (tr. RTH Griffith) of Rig Veda 2.24.4 is equivalent to the kumbha, jar or vessel of the vesica piscis, and the Kumbha of Aquarius.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#24" id="24a">[24]</a> See <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, pp. 42, 56, 143, 146, 150. Note: All references to specific page numbers of <i>The Gnostic Circle</i> in all of my writings are from the 1994 edition.</p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#25" id="25a"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#25" id="25a"></a></div>
<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5e_P7RumQQbKjsfKfjoJmGR0MIS2A5F4xsOXi7awBpEbUajn817z1gBHXh1RAMwqdnppqkud4jhqElbJQmP3zLcKQ-hTdEb2NUPxEQuETnjk4MPTXbp69tLEtjBeGQmO3vzuGzoQLwxLcM-Rpfd_JdrI3q3l7Z61-9yt9SCMCHYL2JCB9PD8qByll/s1600/Leo-432000-VP-120-Aquarius-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="229" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5e_P7RumQQbKjsfKfjoJmGR0MIS2A5F4xsOXi7awBpEbUajn817z1gBHXh1RAMwqdnppqkud4jhqElbJQmP3zLcKQ-hTdEb2NUPxEQuETnjk4MPTXbp69tLEtjBeGQmO3vzuGzoQLwxLcM-Rpfd_JdrI3q3l7Z61-9yt9SCMCHYL2JCB9PD8qByll/s1600/Leo-432000-VP-120-Aquarius-01.png" width="229" /></a>[25] The Lion, like Vishnu, is known as a protector and establisher of Dharma (Truth/Law). It is worth noting here that 0° Leo, the 3 Point of the circle (opposite 0° Aquarius) falls precisely 432,000ʺ into the circle, linking it, in a special way to the 432,000-measure of the Sun’s radius, the Rig Veda and the Kali Yuga, which Thea referred to as the "measure of Unity". In other words, the solar seat of 0° Leo is measured or marked out by the eternal law, dharma, and divine maya of the first vesica piscis of the Zodiac. </p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#26" id="26a">[26]</a> Quincunx (inconjunct) is an astrological aspect of 150°, equivalent to five zodiacal signs. The yod (Finger of God) formation is formed by two quincunx (inconjunct) aspects (150° angles), and one sextile (60°, equivalent to two signs).</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#27" id="27a">[27]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narasimha" target="_blank">Narasimha</a> (the Man-Lion) is the name of Vishnu’s third avatar.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#28" id="28a">[28]</a> Thea knew of course that the Mother, born in the sign of Pisces, “fills the position of Pisces” (<i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, p. 50) and not the position of Aquarius.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#29" id="29a">[29]</a> Thea also discussed the Age of Aquarius as the Age of Vishnu’s Supramental/9th Avatar, and as the Age of Supermind.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#30" id="30a">[30]</a> The “many seeings of Truth” (<i>pūrvīr ṛtasya saṃdṛśaś</i>) along with the “lauds” or hymn are equivalent to the seven rivers (the streams of Truth or Holy Order = <i>ṛtásya dhā́rāḥ</i>) that increase and birth Agni forward to his Seat of Truth or Holy Order = Kumbha) in the Vedic Sacrifice. In Rig Veda 3.7.1 these seven rivers (=sisters/mothers/cows/mares) are referred to as <i>saptá vā́ṇīḥ</i> – “seven voices” (Sri Aurobindo) or “seven tones” (RTH Griffith). In Rig Veda 4.1.12 they are <i>sapta priyāsaḥ</i> – the “seven beloved” or “seven friends (RTH Griffith).</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“Driving [Agni/Soma-Pavamana] in Vivasvan's course, <b>the Seven Sisters</b> with their hymns Made melody round thee the Sage.” – Rig Veda 9.66.8, tr. RTH Griffith</p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: center;">*</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“<b>Mark the Law, thou who knowest, yea, observe it: send forth the full streams of eternal Order</b>.” – Rig Veda 5.12.2, tr. RTH Griffith</p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: center;">*</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>"They [=the seven] who have climbed from the dark-backed foundation have entered the Father and Mother, have entered into the seven voices [=seven rivers]. … <b>[Agni] reached the milch-cows [=rivers] that dwell in heaven, the Mares of the male, the divine rivers that carry in their flow the sweetness</b>. The one Light moves on the way around thee when thou seekest thy dwelling in the house of the Truth.…They <b>[the seven rivers]…rejoice in the rule of the Great One</b>; they [the rivers] are the lights of heaven luminously blazing and <b>the Word of Revelation is their mighty common speech</b>…. Seven illumined seers guard…<b>the beloved seat of the being that is set within [=<u>the beloved Fixed seat</u>]</b>.… the gods move according to the law of the workings of the gods.… <b>The seven pleasures [=seven priests or rivers] take their rapture by the self-law of their nature; the Truth they express, the Truth only they speak, guardians of the law of its action according to that law they shine.… The swift-running dawns [=rivers] have shone opulently bringing us our satisfactions, with their true speech, their rays of intuition</b>.… ‒ Rig Veda 3.7 excerpts, tr. Sri Aurobindo, <i>Hymns to the Mystic Fire, CWSA, Vol. 16</i>, pp. 173-76</p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>RTH Griffith's translation of some of 3.7 above, text in brackets added: </p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“The seven tones [hath] risen.... [Agni] The Male who dwells in heaven hath Mares and Milchkine: he came to Goddesses [=rivers] who bring sweet treasure. To thee safe resting in <b>the seat of Order </b>the Cow alone upon her way proceedeth.... Strength-giving streams bear hither [Agni] him eternal…. <b>Seven holy singers guard…the Bird's [Agni’s] beloved firmly-settled station [=the Kumbha]</b>.... These speak of truth, praising the Truth Eternal, thinking on Order as the guards of Order.”</p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>What Sri Aurobindo translated as “House of Truth” in 3.7.2 (above), RTH Griffith translated as <b>“the seat of Order”</b>, and HH Wilson translated as <b>“the abode of the water”</b>.</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“The sky-traversing steeds of the showerer (of benefits) are the kine (of Agni); as he attains the divine (rivers), bearers of sweet (water). One sacred [sound] glorifies you (Agni), who are desirous of repose, pacifying your flames) in the abode of the water (the firmament).” – Rig Veda 3.7.2, tr. HH Wilson</p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: center;">*</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“Wondrously first [Agni] rose aloft, defiant, in the Bull's lair, the home of holy Order, Longed-for, young, beautiful, and far-resplendent: and <b>seven dear friends</b> sprang up unto the Mighty.” – RTHG 4.1.12 [“the seven Beloved brought him to birth for the Bull”, tr. SA]</p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>In my view, the Bull’s lair is equally Agni's, Indra's and Vishnu’s lair, aka resting place, all being depicted as the Bull in the Vedas. Taurus the Bull is Vishnu’s first sign/house in the Zodiac, and Aquarius is his final abode in the Zodiac. </p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#31" id="31a">[31]</a> In my view this mention of Agni being set or fixed in “human peoples” refers not only to humanity but also to the fixed sign of the Aquarian “Man”, which Agni enters into, just as he enters, via his dawns (=rivers, mothers, etc.) into his Kumbha.</p><p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#32" id="32a">[32]</a> This “seven-headed thought” that Agni-Mitra guards can be seen as equivalent to the law, <i>maya </i>(measure) and <i>mayas </i>(bliss) of vesica piscis itself which, as I discussed in <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i> (book), contains in itself four months and spans three units of the circle, thus being seven-fold in a sense. It can also be seen as equivalent to the seven rivers (vesicae piscis) that birth Agni unto his Kumbha of Soma (=amrita, ecstasy, bliss, immortality, etc.). Likewise, the “ecstasy of the gods” that Agni/Mitra guards is equivalent to the law, <i>maya</i> (measure) and <i>mayas</i> (bliss) of the Kumbha/Vessel. It is important to recall here Sri Aurobindo's discussion of <i><b>mayas</b></i> as "the archaic Vedic word for <b>bliss</b>" and as etymologically related to Maya (measure) and Mitra. </p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#33" id="33a">[33]</a> Sri Aurobindo translated <i>carma ghṛtavat padaṃ vés</i> as <b>“the luminous seat of the being"</b>. RTH Griffith translated it as <b>“the Soma [wine’s] skin, the Bird's [the God Soma’s] place rich in fatness”</b>. The leather skin (<i>carma</i>) of ghee/oil (<i>ghṛtavat</i>) which is a place/step or station (<i>pada</i>) of the bird (<i>vés</i>) is similarly described in 5.83.7 as a <b>“downward-turned water bag”</b>. These are equally depictions of the Kumbha (Jar) to which Soma flies, gallops or rushes as a Bird (Eagle), Horse or Bull.</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“<b>Send down for us the rain of heaven, ye [Storm gods], and let the Stallion's [Agni-Soma-Pavamana’s] flood [=the seven rivers] descend in torrents</b>. Come hither with this thunder while thou pourest the waters down, our heavenly Lord and Father. Thunder and roar: the germ of life deposit. Fly round us on thy chariot [vessel] waterladen. Thine opened water-skin draw with thee downward, [<i>dṛtiṃ su karṣa viṣitaṃ nyañcaṃ</i> = “downward-turned water bag” (HH Wilson)] and let the hollows and the heights be level. <b>Lift up the mighty vessel [<i>mahā́ntaṃ kóšam</i>=Kumbha], pour down water, and let the liberated streams rush forward</b>." – Rig Veda 5.83.6-8, RTH Griffith [All emphasis and text in brackets added]</p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>As discussed in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#pada-ilas" target="_blank">Part 7.2</a>, this <i>pada</i> (place, step or station) is called <i>pada ilas</i>, which Sri Aurobindo translated as “the seat of revelation”.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#34" id="34a">[34]</a> Sri Aurobindo translated “luminous native abode” from <i>yonim ghṛtavantam</i>, which is more literally the “ghee-covered womb”, equivalent to <i>carma ghṛtavat padaṃ vés</i> (“the luminous seat of the being”, tr. SA) of the previous verse, discussed in the previous endnote.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#35" id="35a">[35]</a> In <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#rendezvous" target="_blank">Part 7.2</a> I discussed Kumbha/Aquarius as the “meeting place”, “rendezvous” (<i>niṣkṛtam</i>) and banquet of the gods, within the twelve-month Sacred Year or Sacrifice (<i>Yajna</i>).</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#36" id="36a">[36]</a> These offerings are equivalent to the seven rivers, aka seven soma drops (=the seven vesicae piscis), that Agni/Soma Pavamana – the Sage, Son, Horse, Divine Ray, i.e. the radius – dwells within, propels forward and delivers to his Kumbha (=to the Gods’ banquet) in the course of the Vedic Sacrifice.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#37" id="37a">[37]</a> Ila is equally sacred speech, a goddess, a river, a stream and a cow [=Vac]. Sri Aurobindo translated Ila as “the word of Revelation” in Rig Veda 3.7.5, equivalent to <i>brahmaṇā</i> of Rig Veda 2.24.3, which Sri Aurobindo translated as “the divine word”. The Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon defines Ila as: “[A] stream or flow of praise and worship (personified as the goddess of sacred speech and action…a cow ; the goddess…daughter of Manu or of man thinking on and worshipping the gods; she is the wife of Budha and mother of Pururavas; in another aspect she is called Maitra-varuni as daughter of Mitra-Varuna.” In <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-sacred-measure-of-432000-part-4.html" target="_blank">“The Sacred Measure of 432,000 ⁓ Part 4: The Sacred Syllable of the Rig Veda”</a>, I discussed the equivalence between Vak (Speech) and the 432,000° measure of the vesica pisces, the Rig Veda, the Kali Yuga, and the radius of the Sun. </p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p>“[Rig Veda.1.128.1] states Agni is born by the law of Manu and dwells in Ila’s abode [<i>iḻas pade</i>]…. [We] note that, like Yamuna, Ila is also a River.…[T]he three Vedic Rivers are Bharati, Ila and Mahi… These three are also Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati respectively.” – <a href="http://astroveda.wikidot.com/vedic-agni-illa" target="_blank">“Vedic Agni Illa”</a></p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">If you value the </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b>original research and content made freely </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b><br />available on this blog</b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a></div></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><div id="edn35" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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</div><p></p><p></p><p></p></div></div></div>Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-69971817391594695522022-09-03T21:30:00.001-07:002022-09-03T22:06:12.274-07:00Sri Aurobindo on Consciousness-Force (Chit-Tapas) & Satchitananda ⁓ Addendum to Part 8.2 of the Scorpio Series<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Life Divine </i></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">CWSA, Vols. 21-22 </i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[All emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">"The divine soul living in the Truth of things would...always have the conscious sense of itself as a manifestation of the Absolute. Its immutable existence it would be aware of as the original “self-form” of that Transcendent, — Sachchidananda; its play of conscious being it would be aware of as manifestation of That in forms of Sachchidananda. In its every state or act of knowledge it would be aware of the Unknowable cognising itself by a form of variable self-knowledge; <b>in its every state or act of power, will or force aware of the Transcendence possessing itself by a form of conscious power of being and knowledge</b>; in its every state or act of delight, joy or love aware of the Transcendence embracing itself by a form of conscious self-enjoyment." (p. 163)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“Present in every atom of Matter all this is necessarily present in every thing which is formed by the aggregation of those atoms; and they are present in the atom because they are present in the Force which builds up and constitutes the atom. That Force is fundamentally the <b>Chit-Tapas</b> or Chit-Shakti of the Vedanta, <b>consciousness-force</b>, inherent conscious force of conscious-being, which manifests itself as nervous energy full of submental sensation in the plant, as desire-sense and desire-will in the primary animal forms, as self-conscious sense and force in the developing animal, as mental will and knowledge topping all the rest in man. (p. 196) [Bold emphasis added]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">"Mind is an inferior power of the original conscious Knowledge or Supermind, a power to which Life acts as an instrumental energy; for, descending through Supermind, <b>Consciousness or Chit represents itself as Mind, Force of consciousness or Tapas represents itself as Life</b>." (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">p. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">250) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“The Divine descends from pure existence through the play of Consciousness-Force and Bliss and the creative medium of Supermind into cosmic being; we ascend from Matter through a developing life, soul and mind and the illuminating medium of supermind towards the divine being. The knot of the two, the higher and the lower hemisphere, is where mind and supermind meet with a veil between them. The rending of the veil is the condition of the divine life in humanity; for by that rending, by <b>the illumining descent of the higher into the nature of the lower being and the forceful ascent of the lower being into the nature of the higher, mind can recover its divine light in the all-comprehending supermind, the soul realise its divine self in the all-possessing all-blissful Ananda, life repossess its divine power in the play of omnipotent Conscious-Force and Matter open to its divine liberty as a form of the divine Existence</b>. And if there be any goal to the evolution which finds here its present crown and head in the human being, other than an aimless circling and an individual escape from the circling, if the infinite potentiality of this creature, who alone here stands between Spirit and Matter with the power to mediate between them, has any meaning other than an ultimate awakening from the delusion of life by despair and disgust of the cosmic effort and its complete rejection, then even such a luminous and puissant transfiguration and emergence of the Divine in the creature must be that high-uplifted goal and that supreme significance.” – (pp. 278-79)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">*</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he <b>Consciousness-Force</b> of the eternal Existence is the universal
creatrix…”. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">(</span>p. 295)</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">"<b>A Consciousness-Force, everywhere inherent in Existence, acting even when concealed, is the creator of the worlds, the occult secret of Nature</b>. But in our material world and in our own being consciousness has a double aspect; there is a force of Knowledge, there is a force of Ignorance. In the infinite consciousness of a self-aware infinite Existence knowledge must be everywhere implicit or operative in the very grain of its action; but we see here at the beginning of things, apparent as the base or the nature of the creative world-energy, an Inconscience, a total Nescience." (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">309-10)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">"[It is Ishwara’s] supreme Nature or <b>Consciousness-Force</b> that has become the living being in a world of living beings." </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">(p. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">339)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">[T]he Conscious-Power, the Shakti that acts and creates, is not other than the Maya or all-knowledge of Brahman; <b>it is the Power of the Self</b>; Prakriti is the working of the Purusha, Conscious Being active by its own Nature: the duality then of Soul and World Energy, silent Self and the creative Power of the Spirit, is not really something dual and separate, it is biune. As we cannot separate Fire and the power of Fire, it has been said, so <b>we cannot separate the Divine Reality and its Consciousness-Force, Chit-Shakti</b>. This first realisation of Self as something intensely silent and purely static is not the whole truth of it, there can also be a realisation of Self in its power, Self as the condition of world-activity and world-existence. (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">pp. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">361-62) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“In its supreme status the Spirit is the supreme Conscious Being, Purushottama, and the <b>Consciousness-Force is his supreme Nature</b>, Para-Prakriti.” (p. 365)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“<b>[T]he true individual [is] a conscious power of being of the Eternal</b>, always existing by unity, always capable of mutuality. It is that being which by self-knowledge enjoys liberation and immortality.” (p. 388)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">A supramental change of the whole substance of the being and therefore necessarily of all its characters, powers, movements takes place when the involved supermind in Nature emerges to meet and join with the supramental light and power [=Tapas] descending from Supernature. The individual must be the instrument and first field of the transformation; but an isolated individual transformation is not enough and may not be wholly feasible. Even when achieved, the individual change will have a permanent and cosmic significance only if <b>the individual becomes a centre and a sign for the establishment of the supramental Consciousness-Force</b> as an overtly operative power in the terrestrial workings of Nature, — in the same way in which thinking Mind has been established through the human evolution as an overtly operative power in Life and Matter. This would mean the appearance in the evolution of a gnostic being or Purusha and a gnostic Prakriti, a gnostic Nature. <b>There must be an emergent supramental Consciousness-Force liberated and active within the terrestrial whole and an organised supramental instrumentation of the Spirit in the life and the body, — for the body consciousness also must become sufficiently awake to be a fit instrument of the workings of the new supramental Force and its new order</b>. Till then any intermediate change could be only partial or insecure…. (pp. 997-98)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“Mental nature and mental thought are based on a consciousness of the finite; <b>supramental nature is in its very grain a consciousness and power of the Infinite</b>. Supramental Nature sees everything from the standpoint of oneness and regards all things, even the greatest multiplicity and diversity, even what are to the mind the strongest contradictions, in the light of that oneness; its will, ideas, feelings, sense are made of the stuff of oneness, its actions proceed upon that basis. (p. 1000)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, SABCL, Vol. 16</i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i> </i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">“The descent of the Supermind will bring to one who receives it and is fulfilled in the truth-consciousness all the possibilities of the divine life. It will take up not only the whole characteristic experience which we recognise already as constituting the spiritual life but also all which we now exclude from that category but which is capable of divinisation, not excluding whatever of the earth-nature and the earth-life can be transformed by the touch of the Supermind and taken up into the manifested life of the Spirit. For a divine life on earth need not be a thing apart and exclusive having nothing to do with the common earthly existence: it will take up human being and human life, transform what can be transformed, spiritualise whatever can be spiritualised, cast its influence on the rest and effectuate either a radical or an uplifting change, bring about a deeper communion between the universal and the individual, invade the ideal with the spiritual truth of which it is a luminous shadow and help to uplift into or towards a greater and higher existence. Mind it will uplift towards a diviner light of thought and will, life towards deeper and truer emotion and action, towards a larger power of itself, towards high aims and motives. Whatever cannot yet be raised into its own full truth of being, it will bring nearer to that fullness; whatever is not ready even for that change, will still see the possibility open to it whenever its still incomplete evolution has made it ready for self-fulfilment. Even the body, if it can bear the touch of Supermind, will become more aware of its own truth,—for there is a body-consciousness that has its own instinctive truth and power of right condition and action, even a kind of unexpressed occult knowledge in the constitution of its cells and tissues which may one day become conscious and contribute to the transformation of the physical being. An awakening must come in the earth-nature and in the earth-consciousness which will be, if not the actual beginning, at least the effective preparation and the first steps of its evolution towards a new and diviner world order.” (p. 47)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Synthesis of Yoga, CWSA, Vol. 23-24</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">"<b>This Purusha or supporting Consciousness is therefore the cause, recipient and support of all Nature’s works</b>, but he is not himself the doer. Prakriti, Nature-Force, in front and Shakti, Conscious-Force, Soul-Force behind her, — for these two are the inner and outer faces of the universal Mother, — account for all that is done in the universe. The universal Mother, Prakriti-Shakti, is the one and only worker. <b>Purusha-Prakriti, Consciousness-Force, Soul supporting Nature, — for the two even in their separation are one and inseparable, — are at once a universal and a transcendent Power</b>." (p. 215)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">"But the sadhaka of the integral Yoga has to harmonise all so that they may become a plenary and equal unity of the full realisation of Sachchidananda. Here the last difficulty of mind meets him, its inability to hold at once the unity and the multiplicity. It is not altogether difficult to arrive at and dwell in a pure infinite or even, at the same time, a perfect global experience of the Existence which is Consciousness which is Delight. The mind may even extend its experience of this Unity to the multiplicity so as to perceive it immanent in the universe and in each object, force, movement in the universe or at the same time to be aware of this Existence-Consciousness-Bliss containing the universe and enveloping all its objects and originating all its movements. <b>It is difficult indeed for it to unite and harmonise rightly all these experiences; but still it can possess Sachchidananda at once in himself and immanent in all and the continent of all. But with this to unite the final experience of all this as Sachchidananda and possess objects, movements, forces, forms as no other than He, is the great difficulty for mind.</b> Separately any of these things may be done; the mind may go from one to the other, rejecting one as it arrives at another and calling this the lower or that the higher existence. But to unify without losing, to integralise without rejecting is its supreme difficulty." (p. 399)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">"<b>Gnosis is the divine Knowledge-Will of the divine Consciousness-Force; it is harmonic consciousness and action of Prakriti-Purusha full of the delight of the divine existence</b>. In the Ananda the knowledge goes back from these willed harmonies into pure self-consciousness, the will dissolves into pure tran scendent force and both are taken up into the pure delight of the Infinite. The basis of the gnostic existence is the self-stuff and self-form of the Ananda." (p. 505)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">*</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">[The seeker] has to take account of the world and its activities, learn what divine truth there may be behind them and reconcile that apparent opposition between the Divine Truth and the manifest creation which is the starting-point of most spiritual experience. Here, on each line of approach that he can take, he is confronted with a constant Duality, a separation between two terms of existence that seem to be opposites and their opposition to be the very root of the riddle of the universe. Later, he may and does discover that <b>these are the two poles of One Being, connected by two simultaneous currents of energy negative and positive in relation to each other, their interaction the very condition for the manifestation of what is within the Being, their reunion the appointed means for the reconciliation of life’s discords and for the discovery of the integral truth of which he is the seeker</b>....</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">"He is sure of an inexpressible Self-Existence which is the essence of himself and all things; he is intimately aware of an essential Consciousness of which thinking mind and life-sense and body sense are only partial and diminished figures, <b>a Consciousness with an illimitable Force in it of which all energies are the outcome</b>, but which is yet not explained or accounted for by the sum or power or nature of all these energies together; he feels, he lives in an inalienable self-existent Bliss which is not this lesser transient joy or happiness or pleasure. A changeless imperishable infinity, a timeless eternity, a self-awareness which is not this receptive and reactive or tentacular mental consciousness, but is behind and above it and present too below it, even in what we call Inconscience, a oneness in which there is no possibility of any other existence, are the fourfold character of this settled experience. Yet <b>this eternal Self-Existence is seen by him also as a conscious Time-Spirit bearing the stream of happenings, a self-extended spiritual Space containing all things and beings, a Spirit-Substance which is the very form and material of all that seems non-spiritual, temporary and finite. For all that is transitory, temporal, spatial, bounded, is yet felt by him to be in its substance and energy and power no other than the One, the Eternal, the Infinite. And yet there is not only in him or before him this eternal self-aware Existence, this spiritual Consciousness, this infinity of self-illumined Force, this timeless and endless Beatitude.</b> There is too, constant also to his experience, this universe in measurable Space and Time, some kind perhaps of boundless finite, and in it all is transient, limited, fragmentary, plural, ignorant, exposed to disharmony and suffering, seeking vaguely for some unrealized yet inherent harmony of oneness, unconscious or half-conscious or, even when most conscious, still tied to the original Ignorance and Inconscience....</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">"This is the beginning of a growing spiritual experience which reveals to him more and more that what seemed to him <b>dark incomprehensible Maya was all the time no other than the Consciousness-Puissance of the Eternal</b>, timeless and illimitable beyond the universe, but spread out here under a mask of bright and dark opposites for the miracle of the slow manifestation of the Divine in Mind and Life and Matter. All the Timeless presses towards the play in Time; all in Time turns upon and around the timeless Spirit. If the separate experience was liberative, this unitive experience is dynamic and effective. For he now not only feels himself to be in his soul-substance part of the Eternal, in his essential self and spirit entirely one with the Eternal, but in his active nature an instrumentation of its omniscient and omnipotent Consciousness-Puissance. However bounded and relative its present play in him, he can open to a greater and greater consciousness and power of it and to that expansion there seems to be no assignable limit. <b>A level spiritual and supramental of that Consciousness-Puissance seems even to reveal itself above him and lean to enter into contact, where there are not these trammels and limits, and its powers too are pressing upon the play in Time with the promise of a greater descent and a less disguised or no longer disguised manifestation of the Eternal. </b>The once conflicting but now biune duality of Brahman-Maya stands revealed to him as the first great dynamic aspect of the Self of all selves, the Master of existence, the Lord of the world-sacrifice and of his sacrifice." (pp. 119-21)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">*</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">"[A]ll must be done as a sacrifice, all activities must have the One Divine for their object and the heart of their meaning. <b>The Yogin’s aim in the sciences that make for knowledge should be to discover and understand the workings of the Divine Consciousness-Puissance in man and creatures and things and forces, her creative significances, her execution of the mysteries, the symbols in which she arranges the manifestation.</b>" (p. 142)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>*</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Satprem, <i>The Adventure of Consciousness</i>:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">"<b>The Supramental is the supreme Consciousness-Force in the
very heart of Matter</b>, without any intermediary. It is the "sun in the
darkness" of the Veda, the meeting place of the highest Heights and the
deepest Depths. Therefore it can change everything. As the Mother has said,
"The true change of consciousness is one that will change the physical
conditions in the world and make it into a entirely new creation." (p. 233)<o:p></o:p></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"></span><p></p>Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-18002767271590358182022-07-28T21:36:00.005-07:002022-11-16T12:29:38.138-08:00The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Water Sign Scorpio ⁓ Part Eight ⁓ The Vesica Piscis as a Key of Sri Aurobindo’s Avataric Yoga<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBPy22gE-WXHXRRfh5odehfxYCfhzDIFolU5PCXmi9Lu-XvzAUVpvZH0t7XaHOQ0QJMvPLhFbVsxSXQZaU_461wS6FkLSLTAsLJ6EDHHxGm2pCGkaltCAlure6qo14NFhr7V9kwi2gL6j-b3bETO7jhwQoP5YqyDZM23x6yIGJI4tgW_VGE2h7b6Ay/s2947/VP-Thea-TNW12-p236.ai-Core-Pedestal-Matsya-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Matsya Avatar (Vishnu) and the Vesica Piscis and the sign of Pisces (the Fish)" border="0" data-original-height="2844" data-original-width="2947" height="618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBPy22gE-WXHXRRfh5odehfxYCfhzDIFolU5PCXmi9Lu-XvzAUVpvZH0t7XaHOQ0QJMvPLhFbVsxSXQZaU_461wS6FkLSLTAsLJ6EDHHxGm2pCGkaltCAlure6qo14NFhr7V9kwi2gL6j-b3bETO7jhwQoP5YqyDZM23x6yIGJI4tgW_VGE2h7b6Ay/w640-h618/VP-Thea-TNW12-p236.ai-Core-Pedestal-Matsya-01.png" title="Matsya Avatar (Vishnu) and the Vesica Piscis and the sign of Pisces (the Fish)" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Right:</span><span style="text-align: left;"> Vishnu’s first avatar Matsya (the Fish), with his Satkona (six-angle) symbol symbolizing the eternal geometric law of the radius which divides the circle into six, and four infants symbolizing the Vedas (Raja Ravi Varma Press).</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><b>Left: </b>The Pisces (=Matsya) hieroglyph in relation to the Vesica Piscis and the Globe and Pedestal of the Matrimandir (the Mother’s Temple), replicated from images found in <i><a href="https://www.patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNW12.html" target="_blank">The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</a> </i>by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (pp. 236-41)<span style="text-align: left;">. </span></span></div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">[Link to <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Part 1</a><span style="text-align: center;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="text-align: center;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="text-align: center;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">4</a><span style="text-align: center;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">5</a><span style="text-align: center;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">6</a>,<span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">7.1</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html" target="_blank">7.2</a>, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html">8.1</a>, or <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html">8.2</a><span style="text-align: center;">]</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED IN "The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Water Sign Scorpio" series, Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea) recognized and saw Sri Aurobindo as Vishnu’s Aquarian Age Avatar (Kalki) within <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/09/seeing-in-understanding-symbols-and.html" target="_blank">the 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation of our current Maha Yuga cycle</a>. She saw him as “the fulfiller, the conqueror, the victorious Avatar of the Supermind, he who dispels the darkness, <b>he who slays Vritra” – i.e., he who slays the coverer or obstructor of the Vedic waters and thereby <i>releases</i> the Vedic waters</b>. The first thing I want to emphasize in Part 8 of “The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Sign of Scorpio” series is how the vesica piscis – which revealed itself as a key of understanding the Vedic waters and the Rig Veda itself the week of Thea’s passing in 2016 – first began to emerge, circa 1968-1970, as the core and key of the sacred geometry of the Mother’s Vedic Temple, as a key of Sri Aurobindo’s (i.e. Vishnu’s) avataric descent, rebirth and mission in our Age of Aquarius, and as a crucial key of Thea’s yoga. Thea wrote of the supramental manner via which this geometric key presented itself to her in <i><a href="https://www.patrizianorellibachelet.com/TTDV2-1.html" target="_blank">The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 2.1</a></i> and discussed its presence at the core of the Mother’s Temple in <i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/253624509643805336/1800276727159035818#" target="_blank">The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</a>. </i></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[O]ne experience…to this day remains unforgettable in all its details. Those details are well known to me because I played a central role in what transpired when this child was five or six years old [a two-year span covering 26 November 1968 through 26 November 1970]. Though I did not keep a regular journal then and therefore cannot establish the exact date of this remarkable dream-experience, I know its approximate time because of the contents of the dream itself: it had to have taken place after he began learning to write numbers.…</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Very early one morning [my son] burst into my room (not in dream but having awoken from the dream) exclaiming that a being had come into his room from the Sun. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“The being then led him into my attached room where I was sleeping. Together he and the being drew a figure on the wall beside my bed. It was a number 8… </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“It took almost a decade but when understanding came it was in the usual unmistakable manner that I had become accustomed to when dealing with the supramental Gnosis: precision, accuracy, elegance, irrefutability. The discovery of 21st March 1976 revealed beyond any doubt that it was not an 8 as I had assumed when my son and the solar being drew the figure. It was something far more meaningful. As I recall, the child did not tell me it was an 8, in so many words. What he drew according to his ability at the time was simply two circles, one above the other, which I must have concluded was an 8 because that was the way he wrote the number then, or perhaps it was what he himself assumed. Because of its clear metaphysical quality, another thought was that perhaps it was the symbol of infinity; however, the latter is usually drawn horizontally. This was clearly done vertically. What was placed on my wall, a clear message given to me, was actually a Vesica Piscis, one circle above the other, just as the child had drawn. It was this simple design that held the secret of who he was and who he came to be in this life. <b>It was the magical geometric figure that subtly enveloped the Core of the Mother's chamber, meticulously designed by her, containing therein all the details of 'the future realisation', and with it all the pertinent details of Sri Aurobindo's rebirth</b>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“On 12 March 1978, when I intuited its role in the chamber, <b>the vesica piscis cast a light on her revelation that carried it unmistakably into the solar world, the kingdom of the Sun, the realm of the truth-conscious Supermind</b>. All else done in the sacred sciences up to that point paled into insignificance. For the first time this was a concrete, non-speculative example of the new Power in action – the Power I had sensed was lacking and had so ardently prayed for; and it had all been foreseen and foretold in the dream-experience given to the very one whose 'secret' it contained. The world has never known a similar miracle of revelation. Such is the glory we may anticipate for the new world, the new creation of this Supramental Manifestation.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>The child had revealed who he was to me, giving me the formidable clue [the vesica piscis] that would unlock the door to Gnosis never before recorded on Earth</b>….
</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>Sri Aurobindo's return as the Fourth…was revealed through the vesica piscis on that memorable day [21 March 1976] in 1976</b>....</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Another piece of the mosaic, verified by the Mother's inner chamber plan, was the solar origin of the Being who appeared to the child. That he was described as 'solar' brought aspects to the fore regarding <b>the Knowledge contained in the vesica piscis that encased the Core of the chamber, and which held the key to the destinies of the third and the fourth members of Sri Aurobindo's line</b>. Indeed, what the vision confirmed is what I called the Solar Line thereafter. This consisted of four members who fit the Formula of Sri Aurobindo's symbol. In each case it was by calculating <b>the digits of the years of their births [9, 6, 3 and 1]</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a></span> alone which provided the key to the supramental Gnosis….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Sri Aurobindo's rebirth was the key element in the consolidation process; without the fourth power the Knowledge was flawed, there would be unhealthy gaps left, openings where forces of the Ignorance could find entry.” – Thea, <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 2.1</i>, pp. 340-43, 345, and 355-56 [Bold emphasis and text in brackets added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The year of his return [1963] was inscribed in the measurements of the Pedestal: he had indeed returned as the fourth and final integer of the equation 9/6/3/0. To be complete, the Zero had to give forth the One; otherwise the entire process would be beyond our measurable world. Similar to the other members of the Formula, as the number-power 1, his own 'cosmic credentials' would therefore have to prove its accuracy, just as the 9/6/3 had done…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“1963 equals 1 by the mathematics of unity. Clearly as the fourth power after the 0, the number 1 would have to be prominent. This special date was not only a 1 power year, it was also formed of all the numbers of the Formula, 9, 6, 3 – plus his own 1.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“What remained to be verified was the actual day of 1963 chosen for the reappearance. Since both the Globe and the Pedestal stood upright and attached, the third and fourth would be present together as clearly indicated by the Mother in her magnificent display of the symbol being the thing symbolised. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“In 1926 the Mother had named 26 November as Immortality Day, according to Ashram sources. It was also the date of the Indian Constitution in 1949. All the details of this unique cosmic design were fitting into place, and they had been revealed by the Mother herself in the plan she bequeathed to us all, but certainly of more relevance is that 26 November, apart from being Immortality Day, is also the exact midpoint between the Mother's passing (17 November) and Sri Aurobindo's (5 December). The Third and the Fourth were indeed present together and every detail of the return was known to me. It was the birth date of my own son.” – Ibid., pp. 330-31 </p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[From 12 March 1976 forward] Knowledge began to descend in torrents; I could hardly keep pace with the flow.... Everything I had prayed for, aspired for was being fulfilled and in a way that only I could understand because of the preparation I had been given in Rome before joining the Mother, along with the keys of knowledge she left me before departing [in 1973]. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“[9 days later, on 21 March] the most astonishing 'secret' her vision and plan contained was revealed. It proved to be the culmination ‒ or rather, the key to the future not only of Sri Aurobindo's mission but the future of planet Earth herself. It made sense of the prophecies found scattered throughout the world, cross-cultural, cosmic and terrestrial: the birth of the Male Child. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“This was Sri Aurobindo himself in the form of the Son. This was the fourth missing or hidden power I had intuited was lacking. This was the secret laid bare of the transmutation of Transcendence to Immanence. Or, as he has described this power in <i>Savitri</i>, the 'masked Transcendent mounting his throne'. Such was the immensity of the unveiled 'secret'. It was Sri Aurobindo's own rebirth. – Ibid., pp. 318-20 </p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thea documented and illustrated her 1976 discoveries about the Matrimandir and its veiled sacred core and “Hidden Son” in <i>The New Way, Volumes 1 & 2</i> (1977). <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#2a" id="2">[2]</a></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI-ow2XRXWlW3B_uJWDRPG3Ty_nbWFzZhvqAo3VaRghkmMEVmLdxCprx8kIURzE9DW8KASdroaW7wLN5sgO_WY3Z4RDEtOUmEunzy_DR-SYOenpJVyGi2iz6lyiThyFofrgk-KAP98ZvhgVPp7x49Zt4Z-Usez-Fwfm-HI6_LJGyEEMZ_QU3FhN5xc/s930/VP-Thea-TNW12-p236-37-Core-Pedestal-AI-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The Vesica Pisces, the Pisces hieroglyph, and the globe and pedestal of the Mother's Temple. (Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2." border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="261" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI-ow2XRXWlW3B_uJWDRPG3Ty_nbWFzZhvqAo3VaRghkmMEVmLdxCprx8kIURzE9DW8KASdroaW7wLN5sgO_WY3Z4RDEtOUmEunzy_DR-SYOenpJVyGi2iz6lyiThyFofrgk-KAP98ZvhgVPp7x49Zt4Z-Usez-Fwfm-HI6_LJGyEEMZ_QU3FhN5xc/w90-h320/VP-Thea-TNW12-p236-37-Core-Pedestal-AI-01.png" title="The Vesica Pisces, the Pisces hieroglyph, and the globe and pedestal of the Mother's Temple. (Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2." width="90" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“In actual fact, the mystery of the Rebirth is revealed through knowledge of the exact measurement of the globe; with that and Sri Aurobindo's symbol it is possible to arrive at the correct proportions of the pedestal, and only with the proper pedestal measurements can one discover what transpired in his life between 1950 and 1963, the year of his withdrawal and the year of his return to Earth.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">“From ancient times a particular geometric design has been known to contain magical properties. It is a form that has been especially used for the construction of sacred edifices in the past, such as the great Pyramid of Giza. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#3a" id="3">[3]</a> </span>This design is called the vesica piscis, or the 'vessel of the fishes'. As the name implies it bears a relation to <b>Pisces, the last sign of the zodiac, – the birth sign of the Mother…. [T]he Mother used the knowledge it contains for the core of her Room</b>….” </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>[The vesica piscis and the real Pisces hieroglyph – 2nd from the top to the right] is the key to the core of the Mother's chamber-based in fact on the occult knowledge of her own birth sign</b>. – Thea, <i>The New Way, Vol. 2</i>, Ch. 3, “The Vesica Piscis”, pp. 231-237, (images pp. 236-37) [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5lQURzbxLUK2PG5GVI6baJrlaVRwNpZWZI6XKz1nqLfWw5d-wZEk8SRq6a4q09awxK9cE_FVONvmggYIi-CDZWrgvS14pWp_ngVANvD5uQ8kpqqX48apCp6lfRHS_J7PoT3O1jfI3NRrMqVd-uf6dGbql0uMA6unfTN3y8zc39-ep7XEXwrPeUQcD/s280/Matrimandir-Transcendent-AI-partial-gold-core-sm-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="Top-down view of the Matrimandir (based on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's "Transcendent" view)." border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5lQURzbxLUK2PG5GVI6baJrlaVRwNpZWZI6XKz1nqLfWw5d-wZEk8SRq6a4q09awxK9cE_FVONvmggYIi-CDZWrgvS14pWp_ngVANvD5uQ8kpqqX48apCp6lfRHS_J7PoT3O1jfI3NRrMqVd-uf6dGbql0uMA6unfTN3y8zc39-ep7XEXwrPeUQcD/s16000/Matrimandir-Transcendent-AI-partial-gold-core-sm-01.png" title="Top-down view of the Matrimandir (based on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's "Transcendent" view)." /></a><span style="text-align: justify;">In the top-down view of the Mother’s Temple – according to how the Mother originally saw, discussed and measured it in the 18-day span of 31 December </span><b style="text-align: justify;">1969</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> - 17 January </span><b style="text-align: justify;">1970</b><span style="text-align: justify;">) – the Globe and Pedestal sits in the center and core of Mother’s twelve-sided and twelve-pillared inner chamber and in the center and core of her twelve-petalled symbol. This position of the globe and pedestal is highlighted in orange to the right. Note, this image based upon what Thea called </span><a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/p/transcendant.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">the “Transcendent” view of the Matrimandir</a><span style="text-align: justify;">. In the Mother’s 1969-70 vision of the temple, a vertical ray of light descends from the apex of the Inner Chamber and illuminates the translucent Globe seated on a white marble pedestal whose four sides are engraved with Sri Aurobindo’s satkona symbol. Notably the core of Sri Aurobindo’s symbols is the “Lotus of the Avatar” whose petals and leaves – numbering 9, 6 and 3 – rest on </span><b style="text-align: justify;">seven waves, symbolizing the seven rivers of the Vedas</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> which are released by the Vedic Hero-Son. In this arrangement, the yogic sadhak ascends into the room via stairs from below and come upon the Light born in the midst of the darkness of the windowless and doorless chamber. </span></div>
<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a id="VP-TNW236">In <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i></a>, Thea discussed and presented how the Matrimandir’s central Light-Core would look as one stood directly in front of any one of its four sides (to the left below) and how the subtle vesica piscis informed its measurements.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyANb0jB7omTtqQbRGXTg91PH669IxwOjvrcYhb03ab_MFCAcEEgJNVS3B6sSFadHmceC5jMPFnc4M1RAs7zgxXc2zNeFYBkWqJWIXFxVaNGAJgOo43AvAR749XlUpIV-ZUOBgvZ6tqZLXPjEt-xwjKWdcf7ZiErRVnZGmESiL8Us3vEs2qCBHtx-/s1189/VP-Thea-TNW12-p236-AI-Core-Pedestal-sm-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Vesica Piscis basis of the globe and pedestal of the Matrimandir (Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2)." border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="1189" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyANb0jB7omTtqQbRGXTg91PH669IxwOjvrcYhb03ab_MFCAcEEgJNVS3B6sSFadHmceC5jMPFnc4M1RAs7zgxXc2zNeFYBkWqJWIXFxVaNGAJgOo43AvAR749XlUpIV-ZUOBgvZ6tqZLXPjEt-xwjKWdcf7ZiErRVnZGmESiL8Us3vEs2qCBHtx-/w640-h214/VP-Thea-TNW12-p236-AI-Core-Pedestal-sm-01.png" title="The Vesica Piscis basis of the globe and pedestal of the Matrimandir (Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2)." width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;"><b>These illustrations are reproductions (made in Adobe Illustrator) of Thea’s original illustrations in <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i>, pp. 236-38 & 241</b></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG0BZ2KKvjN6XDVvlf_6Xw34wvqvwlze_ZR5q_EuTsyPxjSFHHTmBhI7WhGtJhHo37n6l4hhY5DTi_aSYQOfpJ-DcrbJ1TcnN2FbULhQovOAp38HW39-byaid37OMFawXmv9H0njY9VWeC9nv2Si5tYTr2rJEIttERrbUSB5IT8mxtQWX5xlg73phj/s672/Agni-Core.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="A model of the Globe and Pedestal, as constructed by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet and as featured on the cover of The New Way, Vols. 1&2." border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="672" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG0BZ2KKvjN6XDVvlf_6Xw34wvqvwlze_ZR5q_EuTsyPxjSFHHTmBhI7WhGtJhHo37n6l4hhY5DTi_aSYQOfpJ-DcrbJ1TcnN2FbULhQovOAp38HW39-byaid37OMFawXmv9H0njY9VWeC9nv2Si5tYTr2rJEIttERrbUSB5IT8mxtQWX5xlg73phj/w265-h240/Agni-Core.jpg" title="A model of the Globe and Pedestal, as constructed by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet and as featured on the cover of The New Way, Vols. 1&2." width="265" /></a></div>Thea recognized that Mother’s twelve-pillared temple,—as the Mother originally saw and measured it, not as built in Auroville—, was in its essence and substance a divine and supramental manifestation of the twelve-month Vedic sacrifice or Solar (aka Tropical) Year, which is the path and field which the Vedic heroes travel and by which they accomplish the task of recovering and releasing the Vedic rivers and the lost Sun or Light of Vedic Gnosis which is – in the spiritual sense – the Supramental Truth-Consciousness underlying and informing all aspects of our soul’s evolutionary journey. With the recovery of this Truth-Consciousness descends floods of clarifying knowledge that illuminate, integrate, harmonize and purify our entire field of Being and Becoming – Past Present and Future. The image above right is a model of the Globe and Pedestal, as constructed by Thea and as featured on the cover of <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>.</div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The Bhrigus [=powers of the Sun] have found this Flame secret in the growths of the earthly existence, but the Angirases kindle it on the altar of sacrifice and maintain the sacrifice through the periods of the sacrificial year [=the Vedic Year/Yajna] symbolising the periods of the divine labour by which the Sun of Truth is recovered out of the darkness.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15</i>, p. 242 [Text in brackets added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Given the unillumined consciousness of the Mother’s students and helpers, her original temple measurements were not adhered to and its Vedic and supramental design, light, gnosis, and sacred geometry were (and still are) ignored and obstructed in Auroville (See: <i><a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Chronicles of the Inner Chamber</a></i>). Knowing this, one can better understand Auroville’s ongoing trials, tribulations and tragedies. The purity of the Mother’s vision was resisted by its architects from the first days of its inception. Thea’s many efforts to help Auroville, Pondicherry and the world at large to see the perfection and sacred significance of the Mother’s original design still largely fall on deaf ears.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the next two sections, I will expand upon the significance of Thea’s writings about the vesica piscis in relation to the obstruction of the Vedic Waters in the 8th sign of the Zodiac and in relation to the 2016 emergence of the vesica piscis as a key of the Vedic rivers and as a key of the Vedas themselves. The first section expands upon the significance of the figure 8 (i.e. the veiled vesica piscis) drawn on Thea’s wall by “the Fourth”; and the second expands upon the significance of the fact that the eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) and divine measure of the vesica piscis lies at the heart of the Mother’s Temple, as she originally measured it, not as built in Auroville.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Obstructive Veils of the Figure 8 and of the 8th Sign of the Zodiac</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thea’s original seeing of her son’s drawing of the “two circles, one above the other” as the number 8 can now be seen as an absolute perfection given that the waters (=the seven rivers/waves) of the Vedas and their Divine Son/Child – which I have discussed as symbols of the divine measure and eternal law of the Vedas and Vedic Year – are <i>hidden, hoarded or veiled</i> not only in the 8th sign of the Zodiac, but also in the figure of the number 8 itself. <b><u>The divine measure and eternal law of the vesica piscis is withheld and unseen and, at the same time, subtly present in the two conjoined circles of the figure 8</u></b>. It is entirely fitting that the real significance and symbol of her son’s drawing was veiled from Thea until she saw and understood the vesica piscis as a key of the sacred measure Mother’s Temple in 1976, unlocking the secret of Sri Aurobindo’s reincarnation. It naturally took the power and passage of TIME, some six or seven years after her son’s dream-vision circa 1968-70, for the two circles drawn on her wall to reveal that which they veiled.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4I3naiBCDA7W4ip29wUfY2wKnUdQEcEf9WKcy6-OWf8FdrjFYanO2iQTjt6x5Vjk_t0gMvWJL6kSW5hT-as90fgiwvZIcLOrx4vS7nL4u0qEtJBXxwL_nM_LX1Cpw5enqXQTG0Ls_cml4HnRatVdzXJluOMs_263bpj974ISicRipfAgatew3VWAI/s451/8-VP.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The Figure 8 and the Vesica Piscis (animated gif), Lori Tompkins." border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="297" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4I3naiBCDA7W4ip29wUfY2wKnUdQEcEf9WKcy6-OWf8FdrjFYanO2iQTjt6x5Vjk_t0gMvWJL6kSW5hT-as90fgiwvZIcLOrx4vS7nL4u0qEtJBXxwL_nM_LX1Cpw5enqXQTG0Ls_cml4HnRatVdzXJluOMs_263bpj974ISicRipfAgatew3VWAI/w211-h320/8-VP.gif" title="The Figure 8 and the Vesica Piscis (animated gif) Lori Tompkins.." width="211" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a id="8">The underlying geometric basis of the figure 8</a> is two vertically aligned circles, one directly above and touching the other. These two circles give us the binary arrangement of two circles which share equal radii, but do not form the vesica piscis which holds in itself (in its womb/vessel) the shared radius of both circles. Thus, the divine measure and eternal law of the vesica piscis and its hidden radius,—which are respectively characterized as the divine daughter, mother, sister, cow, and river of the Rig Veda and Vedic Year) and her indwelling hero-son, ray, pillar (<i>skambha</i>) and hidden one (<i>guha</i>)—, remain entirely hidden in the figure 8. In other words, <b>the figure 8 subtly contains in itself, but at the same time veils, hides or hoards the divine measure and eternal law of the Vedic waters (=rivers/floods), their reservoir or Kumbha, and their Divine Son from the viewer</b>. This veil or obstruction of the figure 8 was loosened in 1976 with Thea’s seeing and understanding of her son’s 1968-1970 drawing, and further loosened in October of 2016 when I came to see and understand the eternal geometric law, measure and key of the Vedic rivers. I did not fully see and appreciate the connection between the Vedic mythology of the obstruction of the waters and the fixed water sign of Scorpio until I began writing this series in 2021 when it became apparent that the fixed waters of Scorpio – like the pent-up Vedic rivers – symbolize the long-standing ignorance of the eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) and divine measure of the Vedic Year, which as Thea recognized, is the Earth’s Solar/Tropical Year. This law/measure is established and eventually recovered by the divine Hero-Son Agni (the ray/radius of the circle) as the Sage and Horse (Soma Pavamana) in the 9th month or stage of his journey. Once that became fully apparent, so did the veiled significance of the figure 8. </div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Once we see and understand the sacred form, eternal law and measure of the vesica piscis (=the water vessel/kumbha) that the fixed structure and knot of the 8 <i>withholds from the viewer</i>, we can better understand the significance of the 8th month of the Zodiac – the fixed water sign Scorpio – wherein the waters/rivers of the Vedas are obstructed, unknown and yet to be released or realized in our consciousness. And likewise, with this understanding, the act of the Son/the Fourth of the Solar Line drawing the mysterious figure 8 or veiled vesica piscis on Thea’s wall over half a century ago unveils even more of its profound significance, on top of what Thea already illuminated in her writings. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This act and incident makes even more sense knowing that Sri Aurobindo was charged with the yogic and avataric mission or command (<i>adesh</i>) of recovering the eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) of the Vedas in 190<b>8</b> at the age of 36 (a fractal of the 360° Vedic Year), while being IMPRISONED – literally put in a holding PEN – by the British Raj. Those who appreciate sacred numbers and their relation to the supramental yoga (or “descent”) should be able to appreciate the fact Sri Aurobindo – via his Solar Line – completed this avataric mission <b>108</b> (<b>3 x 36 or 9 x 12</b>) years later, in 2016, the year of Thea’s passing, fully recovering and releasing of the <i>sanatana dharma</i> and divine measure (<i>maya</i>) of the Vedic rivers (=cows=mothers), and of Vishnu’s Kumbha of Amrita, from their Vedic <b>holding pen </b>(<i>goṣṭhá</i>). I will further discuss and illustrate this mathematical precision and its significance in Part 9. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Sanatana Dharma and Divine Maya of the Vesica Piscis and of Vishnu's Avatars at the Heart of the Mother’s Temple</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In this section I want to unpack and emphasize the significance of the fact that the vesica piscis,―the <i>sanatana dharma</i>, divine measure and geometric key of Matsya (Vishnu’s first avatar), the geometric key of deciphering the veiled symbol of the Vedic rivers, and simultaneously a crucial key of deciphering the entire Rig Veda―, is hidden and seated in the core and heart of the Mother’s Vedic Temple, which contains in itself the victory of Vishnu's last avatar Kalki. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As I have written at length in <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i> (book and blog), on 7 February 2016 – the form of the vesica piscis announced itself to me in a <b>4:32</b> a.m. dream-vision as a forgotten key of understanding not only of the sacred number <b>432,000</b> and the various ancient sacred measures connected to it, but also as a forgotten key of the sanatana dharma or eternal law of the ancient Seers or Rishis. The announcement came in the form of the following image, which emphasized the connection between the measure of the solar radius or ray (in miles) and the measure of the vesica piscis.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9DV9bVQWrAWF0-3GEdfqUH_WLp_poEIDW4RwoOP7RDyaL22tIGsBoOvyUYn0vqlqJ2KlyWPxRRUzP-U3Dth0gFCGo89Hz6USBEhO6ZFTmSS6RVAyegVrs4Ub6bHa0ehPnuJgFDGuaTshLoTcuLtYkjCJM7r1c4h21obwybRV_Qss8QBIoTccFOckP/s584/432000-VP-Sun-radius-orange.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The sacred 432,000 measure of the Sun's radius and the Vesica Piscis, Lori Tompkins." border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="584" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9DV9bVQWrAWF0-3GEdfqUH_WLp_poEIDW4RwoOP7RDyaL22tIGsBoOvyUYn0vqlqJ2KlyWPxRRUzP-U3Dth0gFCGo89Hz6USBEhO6ZFTmSS6RVAyegVrs4Ub6bHa0ehPnuJgFDGuaTshLoTcuLtYkjCJM7r1c4h21obwybRV_Qss8QBIoTccFOckP/w354-h243/432000-VP-Sun-radius-orange.jpg" title="The sacred 432,000 measure of the Sun's radius and the Vesica Piscis, Lori Tompkins." width="354" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">At that time I was already well aware the vesica piscis (and its radius) measure out the <b>twelve-month</b> Vedic sacrifice (aka the Zodiac) from the four Cardinal Points of the Earth’s year. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#4a" id="4">[4]</a></span> But until that dream-vision, it simply did not occur to me that the vesica piscis had any role to play in the recovery of Vedic wisdom or in the supramental yoga beyond what it had already revealed to Thea. Circa the Spring Equinox of 2016, I was shown (via a family of wild peacocks) that <b>Vishnu’s first and second avatars Matsya (the Fish) and Kurma (the Turtle) are symbols of the eternal law and measure of the vesica piscis and of the Vedas/Vedic Year that Vishnu’s avataric lineage is tasked with recovering in the world.</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#5a" id="5">[5]</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc6vxYVaBPa2r26OE7MJ-r_1SJDh21TgY2YuxiiHFeEjHIFPxOuDl1Mn7eb-_95oAb5J16L309xhV8T3G0KyABBUXa_AhQOp7lIP1lKTfyiduc_O6mTqxwD-thwBrYGCJ9p82PvdhDRuUlYwsgnSZRe2V780eMMukD4y7MY6vvsIIfnYzbxcjxNBw7/s1531/Matsya-Kurma-VP-Vishnu-Flower-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Vesica Piscis as a key of Vishnu's Matsya and Kurma Avatars, Lori Tompkins." border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="1531" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc6vxYVaBPa2r26OE7MJ-r_1SJDh21TgY2YuxiiHFeEjHIFPxOuDl1Mn7eb-_95oAb5J16L309xhV8T3G0KyABBUXa_AhQOp7lIP1lKTfyiduc_O6mTqxwD-thwBrYGCJ9p82PvdhDRuUlYwsgnSZRe2V780eMMukD4y7MY6vvsIIfnYzbxcjxNBw7/w640-h238/Matsya-Kurma-VP-Vishnu-Flower-01.jpg" title="The Vesica Piscis as a key of Vishnu's Matsya and Kurma Avatars, Lori Tompkins." width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Two-thirds of the year later, seven days before Thea’s passing, the eternal law and Vedic key of the vesica piscis slipped out of the grasp of Vritra (the Coverer/Obstructor of the Vedas) and released the long-lost zodiacal and geometric sense of the Vedic waters, aka the seven rivers (=cows, mothers, sisters, floods, etc.), along with the seven vials or bowls of St. John’s Revelation. Via this revelation, and the veritable flood of previously obstructed gnosis that flowed forth from it, the book of the Rig Veda, and all of the ancient mythologies and symbols that were spun off from or related to the Vedas, were opened and could be seen, read and understood in an entirely new way, based upon the eternal laws (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) of sacred geometry and of the Vedic (zodiacal) Year. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In both <i>The New Way</i> and <i><a href="https://www.patrizianorellibachelet.com/TGC.html" target="_blank">The Gnostic Circle</a></i>, Thea had already discussed and recovered the lost zodiacal (and thus circular/cyclical) context of the sacred 432,000 measurements of the Rig Veda, the Kali Yuga, and the Sun’s radius. She recognized that the 432,000-measure of the Kali Yuga must be understood in terms of seconds of degrees of arc of the 360º circle, amounting to one-third of the 25,920-year Precession of the Equinoxes, also known as the Great Year consisting of 12 astrological ages.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">120º = 120º x 60′ x 60″ = 432,000" </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">120º or 432,000" of the Great Year is equivalent to precisely four astrological ages or 8640 (4 x 2160) years.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“It can be understood how <b>[the 432,000 measure of the Kali Yuga] would be the key to the measure of Time since it is also the radius of the Sun</b>. The Sun’s [432,000 mile] radius is the key of Truth in that it unites the outer circle of the disk (the Multiple) with the inner central core (the One). We could call this: ‘<b>The Measure of Unity</b>.’ It is precisely the Sun’s symbol, the point within the circle, that contains the Knowledge…<b>showing the harmony between space and time and the evolutionary cycles of man on Earth</b> which are determined by the unfolding and perfectioning of consciousness. <b>The Rig-veda also appears to contain the same key to the measurement of Time based on the Sun of Truth because it is said to have 432,000 syllables</b>." <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#6a" id="6">[6]</a></span> ‒ Thea, <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, pp. 61-62 [Bold emphasis and text in brackets added] </p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the glossary of <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2,</i> Thea defined the Kali Yuga as “the basic measure of Time (432,000), derived from the radius of the Sun, from which all the 12 Manifestations (consisting of three ages) are measured.” <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#7a" id="7">[7]</a></span> Even though this definition connects the measure of the Sun’s radius to the 432,000 measure of the Kali Yuga (=“the basic measure of Time”), Thea never discussed the fact that together, as an eternal pair, the radius and vesica piscis measure out this “basic [432,000] measure of Time”. It is worth stating here that when I point out things that Thea did not see or discuss, the intention is not to diminish her seeing or her yoga. It is simply to give readers a clear picture of the progressive manner by which the vesica piscis came forward and released the Vedic waters and revealed itself as a long-hidden and crucial key of the long-misunderstood symbols and lore of the Rig Veda, thanks to the combined yoga of the Solar Line. The gnosis and keys that Thea received and brought forward from 1968-2016 entirely laid the foundation for what I have been able to see and what I have been charged with bringing forward from 2016 onward.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thea discussed the sacred geometry of the vesica piscis and the sacred measurements of the Mother’s Temple at great length in <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>. Elsewhere in the same book she discussed the sacred 432,000 measure of the Sun, Kali Yuga and Rig Veda; but given that she did not see the connection between the sacred measure of 432,000 and the sacred form of the vesica piscis, she did not connect these two dots or two sacred threads in The New Way, or elsewhere in her writings. She did not see or discuss the subtle but real presence of the solar measure of 432,000 – which she wrote of as “the Measure of Unity”, “the basic measure of Time”, “the key to the measure of Time”, and as the key to seeing and knowing <b>“the harmony between space and time and the evolutionary cycles of man on Earth” – as being firmly seated in the heart and core of the Mother’s Temple</b>. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#8a" id="8">[8]</a></span> The seed realization of the 7 February 2016 vesica piscis dream-vision, which birthed <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i>, was simply the fact that the 432,000 “Measure of Unity” of the solar radius is inseparable from the eternal law, measure and form of the vesica piscis, and that this fact is a key of recovering the sanatana dharma of the Vedic Seers. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Knowing the above, we can see and appreciate the fact that the vesica piscis and its sacred 432,000 measure/law is found not only in the subtle geometry of the central core (globe and pedestal) of the Mother’s Temple, it is also found – <b>twelve-fold</b> – in the subtle geometry of its <b>twelve-sided</b> (dodecagonal) Inner Chamber whose radius, according to the Mother’s original design, is <b>12 meters</b> (=24 meters in diameter). </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirFGayHAAsc3q4cFnUEuhNNpacS1KT7xYD7Cq0q-J_gXDxVlXQy0SNty6n-7H-k1xIzQ7cqbJyDdEJthJD7pXmD-SNTWewPsmrXgX8AusSDW-1HizKeVf2wWGowMztepsRYhNgBbUpaoTd4Rg2M1bdYG8hyxjt944jZRdWcGxCEilzxzkc-jWA0jqk/s470/Matrimandir-Transcendent-AI-partial-12-Petals-VP-white-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The twelve subtle vesicae piscis of the Mother’s twelve-sided Vedic Temple, based upon Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's Transcendent view of the Matrimandir (Lori Tompkins), 2022)" border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirFGayHAAsc3q4cFnUEuhNNpacS1KT7xYD7Cq0q-J_gXDxVlXQy0SNty6n-7H-k1xIzQ7cqbJyDdEJthJD7pXmD-SNTWewPsmrXgX8AusSDW-1HizKeVf2wWGowMztepsRYhNgBbUpaoTd4Rg2M1bdYG8hyxjt944jZRdWcGxCEilzxzkc-jWA0jqk/s16000/Matrimandir-Transcendent-AI-partial-12-Petals-VP-white-01.jpg" title="The twelve subtle vesicae piscis of the Mother’s twelve-sided Vedic Temple, based upon Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's Transcendent view of the Matrimandir (Lori Tompkins), 2022)" /></a>
<br /><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The twelve subtle vesicae piscis of the Mother’s twelve-sided Vedic Temple.</b></span></span></div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The most fundamental error of the Auroville Matrimandir, built in the Mother’s name but not according to her divine vision, gnosis and measure, was the misconstruction of its 24-meter diameter <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#9a" id="9">[9]</a></span> and thus of its 12-meter radius. Those who constructed the temple were not in a position, or rather, not in the necessary consciousness to understand how the sacred geometry of the Mother’s (real) Temple harmonizes the measures of Time and Space, from the inside out, and they simply felt no compulsion or responsibility to build the temple precisely as the Mother saw and measured it at the age of 91 (approaching 92). </p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The Matrimandir is] ready to come! As for me, I’ve known it for a long time. It’s there (gesture above), waiting.... [W]hat I always SEE [is a] hall with a ceiling high enough to allow sunlight to come in as a RAY, depending on the time of the day, and fall on that center which will be there.” – The Mother, 31 Dec 1969, <i>The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 10</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">“For a long time I had been feeling something, then we spoke about it the other day, and I SAW … I told R. [Auroville’s architect] about it, I asked him to see Paolo, and I also told him that I had seen what should be done. Naturally, he didn’t say no, he said yes to everything, but I felt he wasn’t too keen.... <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#10a" id="10">[10]</a></span> But here is what happened. <b>I clearly saw – very, very distinctly saw, which means it was like that, and it still IS like that, it’s there (gesture showing an eternal plane) – the inside of that place [the Matrimandir]</b>.” – The Mother, 3 Jan 1970, <i>The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 11</i> [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">After the Mother passed in 1973, Thea came to see and understand that the 15.20-meter and 24-meter diameter of the Mother’s temple design contained in itself the measure of not only the 24-hour day, but also the measure of the 365-day year (365 ÷ 24 = 15.20…). Naturally upon seeing this marvel of sacred architecture, connecting the measures of Time to the measures of Space, Thea shared the knowledge in hopes of convincing the builders of the Matrimandir to adhere to the Mother’s precise measurements and gnosis, to no avail. And sadly, to this day the Auroville Matrimandir is celebrated and revered as a jewel, as the soul of Auroville and as a great symbol and gift of the Mother, rather than being recognized and understood for what it is, which is a rejection and distortion of the Mother’s supramental vision and gnosis by the prevailing mental-egoic consciousness of the world. In 2003, in the opening preface of her Chronicles of the Inner Chamber series Thea wrote:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[R]eaders of Matrimandir Action Committee communications who live in India or who have had contact with Indian culture are very much aware of the fact that, to quote the Mahamaya, ‘…If the measurement of the temple is in every way perfect, there is perfection in the universe as well.’ (XXII, 92.) It is unthinkable in India to establish a noble endeavour around a Symbol that is imperfect, flawed; or else distorted purposely or out of ignorance by impositions of the human ego. For these reasons all sacred art, sculpture and architecture were anonymously executed to lessen the prominence of the ego. In the place of honour there is, traditionally, the highest symbol of perfection, fashioned with meticulous care particularly in what concerns proportions and measurements. To stray from those ancient injunctions is unthinkable.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Simply put, this perfect form then generates an atmosphere that UPLIFTS, or allows for an uplifting of the surrounding environment. The perfect form central to a town or any cherished endeavour in India is the MODEL TO EMULATE, to GROW INTO.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“In the Auroville Matrimandir we have just the contrary.” – <a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/2012/01/preface-flawed-auroville-matrimandir.html" target="_blank"><i>Chronicles of the Inner Chamber</i>, Preface/Part I</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Anyone who is interested in educating themselves about the fateful mismeasuring of the Auroville Matrimandir as well as the brilliance of the Mother’s original temple vision and measurements can do so via reading the full <i>Chronicles of the Inner Chamber</i> and <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i>. What I want to bring special attention to here is the distortion of the Matrimandir’s 12-meter radius. As I have discussed at length elsewhere in my writings, the radius of the twelve-month Vedic Year/Zodiac is known in the Rig Veda as Agni (aka Soma Pavamana). He is the divine ray, measurer, son and hero of the Vedic Sacrifice, also said to be the “[r]uler of sacrifices, guard of Law eternal, radiant One”. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#11a" id="11">[11]</a></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Him with fair wings though only One in nature, wise singers shape, with songs, in many figures. While they at sacrifices fix the metres, they measure out twelve chalices of Soma [=Agni].” – Rig Veda 10.114.5, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">These twelve chalices, shown above in the “Transcendent” view of the Matrimandir, are the inner arcs or bowls of the twelve vesica piscis that are measured out by the radius – i.e. the radiant One of the Vedas who creates and establishes the eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) and harmonies of the twelve-month Vedic Year which is a microcosm of the whole body or field (<i>kshetra</i>) of Time and Space. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#12a" id="12">[12]</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The <b>12</b>-meter radius of the Matrimandir is its own “Measure of Unity”, equivalent to the “Hidden One” and Divine Son (guha) of the Vedas. It is also equivalent to the 432,000-mile solar radius which connects the inner point or core of the circle to the circumference and lays out the <b>12</b>0º (=432,000ʺ) measure of the vesica piscis within the 360º circle, establishing the ancient basis and eternal law (sanatana dharma) of the 3-6-9 Trinity of our triadic 0-9 (3x3) number system and simultaneously establishing the Fire Trine of the Zodiac which is the eternal basis (however unrecognized) of the Divine Trinity found throughout our world’s religions and mythologies.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-RSwgRCZIo3Bx_lbpHinKd5Bd-nTOB2kOHOcZYX-OgVj6QDyhzQaSvsYmpOatLkZ7OtflSoq5G3_V98QduTdaX_Bw6Jw7z-O8FeY3A4H9x34tUhfyJCfZ1PBdPYfm8RYac_d2056xt8HoHjgoV6RRpMajfghdguKTf4NX2PLIVu9nquvRQDx0g5pT/s988/Vesica-Pisces-432,000-12-120-360-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Vesica Piscis and the 12-meter "Measure of Unity" of the Mother's Temple (Lori Tompkins, 2022)." border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="988" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-RSwgRCZIo3Bx_lbpHinKd5Bd-nTOB2kOHOcZYX-OgVj6QDyhzQaSvsYmpOatLkZ7OtflSoq5G3_V98QduTdaX_Bw6Jw7z-O8FeY3A4H9x34tUhfyJCfZ1PBdPYfm8RYac_d2056xt8HoHjgoV6RRpMajfghdguKTf4NX2PLIVu9nquvRQDx0g5pT/w335-h226/Vesica-Pisces-432,000-12-120-360-01.png" title="The Vesica Piscis and the 12-meter "Measure of Unity" of the Mother's Temple (Lori Tompkins, 2022)." width="335" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1UUCaIm_-YvmlcaZTAUpikLZOUWLlmyVl111IJ37yEDLzH7daM8OeigZiEnQxltn87NsIu9y6t-tebXnoveACN160TIhQA32IuilVmfBBUIoHFXfRTSOedQN9Yjttf-B4C7t88_zT-xuEtvKCZRAnAthihnxtJIz3wjRJ4mQo6yCGRFjNZhPXGIwn/s2126/VP-963-Fire-Trine-PNB-VP-TNW12-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Vesica Piscis and the Divine Trinity of 369 (963), Lori Tompkins 2022." border="0" data-original-height="1319" data-original-width="2126" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1UUCaIm_-YvmlcaZTAUpikLZOUWLlmyVl111IJ37yEDLzH7daM8OeigZiEnQxltn87NsIu9y6t-tebXnoveACN160TIhQA32IuilVmfBBUIoHFXfRTSOedQN9Yjttf-B4C7t88_zT-xuEtvKCZRAnAthihnxtJIz3wjRJ4mQo6yCGRFjNZhPXGIwn/w481-h299/VP-963-Fire-Trine-PNB-VP-TNW12-01.png" title="The Vesica Piscis and the Divine Trinity of 369 (963), Lori Tompkins 2022." width="481" /></a></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRCtJUTwyJk8DY8TlO23d23m-eFIuv7z3Cm4hFGVc7UOe1TEasNYKwYKENdBmf6qlMl_GWgWPXeZprAW07cSHkeeZpCfD_Lb9SXBDwRod1qWl-b2zVbJOdBFNcoTyP-a5PO9EAe7IsK3dXB53viI2ySSBRGk6aOt8wAwGGJAxNqoQy7xA-l198W-V3/s518/9-Enneagram-1Circle-9-VP-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The Vedic Circle of 9, with lines of the Enneagram." border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="517" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRCtJUTwyJk8DY8TlO23d23m-eFIuv7z3Cm4hFGVc7UOe1TEasNYKwYKENdBmf6qlMl_GWgWPXeZprAW07cSHkeeZpCfD_Lb9SXBDwRod1qWl-b2zVbJOdBFNcoTyP-a5PO9EAe7IsK3dXB53viI2ySSBRGk6aOt8wAwGGJAxNqoQy7xA-l198W-V3/w259-h262/9-Enneagram-1Circle-9-VP-01.png" title="The Vedic Circle of 9, with lines of the Enneagram." width="259" /></a></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">The radius (<span style="font-family: arial;">l</span>) – the pillar and Hidden One/Son of the circle (○) – is represented in our number system as the figure 1 that emerges out of the 0. Both the <i>bindi </i>(binding) point (•) of the circle (○) and the 0 point of the Vedic circle/cycle of 9 contain in themselves the seed the circle and all of its eternal geometries and mathematics. Sri Aurobindo wrote of the Zero as “an incalculable infinite” and Thea discussed it in terms of <i>fullness</i> rather than the <i>emptiness</i> that people usually associate with it. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#13a" id="13">[13]</a></span> When we understand this together with the roll that sacred geometry and the geometry of Time itself has played in recovering the <i>sanatana dharma</i> of the Rig Veda, Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth in 1963 reveals itself as an absolute and mind-boggling perfection. We can see that 1963 simultaneously contains in itself the 1 – the Vedic pillar (skambha), divine ray and the Hidden One/Son of the Circle, and the 9-6-3 Trinity that this Hidden One, and its companion vesica piscis, measure out in the Vedic Circle of 9. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiMA-Bv2nYpFCMFTXxklRX6vJS68uRMbCybXqSZKs-G_nCdY_hmwk0oEgBUPOvm-P6YpRK9N7s2XZYzGCXK27mcuI9q6CHgxtV44IOQ_X0GBWQY8uZXmrZj2u7JWrYaJL_aTFHEjJgUBE0N2zAd6oihFHUyi-QoFDV5IF7JBrnDLQXuPQJpMP4NXpG/s692/963-VP-3petal-Trinity-thin-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="3 Vesica Piscis measuring out the 369 (963) Trinity, and Triangle of the Vedic Circle of 9. (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="643" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiMA-Bv2nYpFCMFTXxklRX6vJS68uRMbCybXqSZKs-G_nCdY_hmwk0oEgBUPOvm-P6YpRK9N7s2XZYzGCXK27mcuI9q6CHgxtV44IOQ_X0GBWQY8uZXmrZj2u7JWrYaJL_aTFHEjJgUBE0N2zAd6oihFHUyi-QoFDV5IF7JBrnDLQXuPQJpMP4NXpG/w226-h244/963-VP-3petal-Trinity-thin-01.png" title="3 Vesica Piscis measuring out the 369 (963) Trinity, and Triangle of the Vedic Circle of 9. (Lori Tompkins)" width="226" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="text-align: justify;">The three vesicae piscis (<a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/03/demystifying-ancient-symbol-of-three.html" target="_blank">Three “Fish”</a>) measuring out the 369 Trinity </span><span style="text-align: justify;">of the Circle of 9. The radius that forms them is not shown (i.e. is hidden).</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRLqgXmcQLsTCwImiiia01TTT0hhEE5nkgjfKifF6dJwIIWFoejSYjMjzQwRgFKzwnyBME5c_Ob19q0IzT_0Svz9Wxy-n9YylJfe1Vt-SVe9RX4HI89YRi0cfyp2ob3SsGyzEfb0cPd6wT2ifMj5PEbz5n-cJLQBYoeSOm_V88mhHa56HhDGQODwn3/s518/9-Enneagram-1Circle-9-VP-VP-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="9 Vesicae Piscis measuring out the Circle of 9 (Lori Tompkins, 2022)." border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="517" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRLqgXmcQLsTCwImiiia01TTT0hhEE5nkgjfKifF6dJwIIWFoejSYjMjzQwRgFKzwnyBME5c_Ob19q0IzT_0Svz9Wxy-n9YylJfe1Vt-SVe9RX4HI89YRi0cfyp2ob3SsGyzEfb0cPd6wT2ifMj5PEbz5n-cJLQBYoeSOm_V88mhHa56HhDGQODwn3/w224-h225/9-Enneagram-1Circle-9-VP-VP-01.png" title="9 Vesicae Piscis measuring out the Circle of 9 (Lori Tompkins, 2022)." width="224" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>9 Vesicae Piscis measuring out the Circle of 9.</b></span></span></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Such <i>integral perfection-in-detail</i> is the mark and modus operandi of the Supramental Manifestation. It is entirely foreign and threatening to the mental-egoic consciousness which defends its limited grasp, hold, and incomplete understanding of reality. As such, the vast majority of Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s own followers continue to reject Thea’s voluminous presentations of the <i>integral perfection-in-detail</i> of the Supramental Descent from 1974 onward. These followers have clung to the binary story of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s joint yoga, and have entirely rejected Thea’s revelations of the Triadic (9-6-3) supramental descent of Sri Aurobindo along with all of the gnosis that has been born and poured forth from this Triadic womb and its “Hidden One/Son”. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Regarding the 12-meter radius of the Matrimandir, it must be recognized as a profound and integral “Measure of Unity” in its own right. It simultaneously <i>establishes and harmonizes</i> the key features of the temple – its twelve walls, its twelve pillars and the Mother’s 12-petal symbol, just as it <i>establishes and harmonizes</i> the key measures of our 360º cycles of Time, including the 12-month year, the 12-Age Great Year, the 120º (432,000ʺ) Kali Yuga and the 24-hour day, which in ancient times was recognized as a microcosm of the 12-month, 360º Year. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In 2021 I was informed by a correspondent who has been studying the sacred geometry of the Mother’s Temple in great depth, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#14a" id="14">[14]</a></span> that the floor area (the dodecagon) of the Mother’s twelve-sided Inner Chamber, with the original radius of 12 meters, is precisely <b>432</b>m<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></sup> or <b>432,000</b>,000mm<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></sup>. Thus, the Mother’s Vedic Temple, as she measured it, contains in its own floor plan, as well as in its seed-core, the 432,000 “measure of Unity” (the measure of the radius/vesica piscis, the measure of the Vedas, the measure of the Vedic rivers, the measure of Vishnu's Kumbha, the measure of Matsya (Vishnu's Fish avatar), the measure of the Kali Yuga, the measure of the Sun, and likewise the measure of the bowls/vials of St. John’s Revelation). Given that the builders of the Matrimandir did not adhere to the Mother’s 24-meter diameter (=12-meter radius) in its construction, the Auroville Matrimandir is void of this ancient “Measure of Unity” and is likewise void of its capacity to <i>illuminate, integrate, harmonize and purify</i> the fragmentation, disharmony, and ignorance of our world.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ9JCfWUJ34LhEjhnyUEE_1FZc4Z2xRjU4lFHm6kbjxNCT77f--bWmIrH_IZH8D68hI_gu44U5L_iJPAdQxAyvqfdfjKUwX7-1wjAwJO5er9noJj_Gjv5rYfgjvACpj08eojApuQUwx_AkzmuCZyS0dYl3cqhJeslkLlzRYErmTPEQB2-riUNtofVy/s495/432-Matrimandir-12-radius-dodecagon-36-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The 432m^2 floor area of the Mother's Temple, given a precise 12 meter radius. (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="473" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ9JCfWUJ34LhEjhnyUEE_1FZc4Z2xRjU4lFHm6kbjxNCT77f--bWmIrH_IZH8D68hI_gu44U5L_iJPAdQxAyvqfdfjKUwX7-1wjAwJO5er9noJj_Gjv5rYfgjvACpj08eojApuQUwx_AkzmuCZyS0dYl3cqhJeslkLlzRYErmTPEQB2-riUNtofVy/s16000/432-Matrimandir-12-radius-dodecagon-36-01.png" title="The 432m^2 floor area of the Mother's Temple, given a precise 12 meter radius. (Lori Tompkins)" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">From this image, we can see that each wedge of the 12-wedge dodecagon has an area of 36m<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></sup>. If we multiply 36m<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></sup> x 12, the result is the total floor area of 432m<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></sup>. One third of the area of this dodecagon is likewise 144m<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></sup>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i> Thea discussed the measure of the descending solar ray of the Matrimandir in relation to the measure of the year, and thus in relation to the measure of Time. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOKwom82pl_ljGhlMUIaTrm7aKIPKQAHJygGwCXu9yi1hELeCquAx7m7eNMfZ4H2mO8Be9Jhi4UI8shjJSGiVv-gU_u96Dpoen_iMXvH0hwI_C5P1pdQKGR6cayuKnsBstdWZAYc7FXAiHyr9_KLHwmS13qK0NfgluWCbVyb5tE3agAGgQ0Ja5PvSW/s380/Core-Pedestal-Ray-1950-1963-49-62-sm-01.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The measure of the descending solar ray of the Matrimandir in relation to the measure of Time, based on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's discussions and images from The New Way, Vols. 1&2, (Lori Tompkins, 2022)." border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOKwom82pl_ljGhlMUIaTrm7aKIPKQAHJygGwCXu9yi1hELeCquAx7m7eNMfZ4H2mO8Be9Jhi4UI8shjJSGiVv-gU_u96Dpoen_iMXvH0hwI_C5P1pdQKGR6cayuKnsBstdWZAYc7FXAiHyr9_KLHwmS13qK0NfgluWCbVyb5tE3agAGgQ0Ja5PvSW/s16000/Core-Pedestal-Ray-1950-1963-49-62-sm-01.png" title="The measure of the descending solar ray of the Matrimandir in relation to the measure of Time, based on Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's discussions and images from The New Way, Vols. 1&2, (Lori Tompkins, 2022)." /></a><p>“The magical ray of the Supramental Sun not only records a year of 365 days but also a span of 365 years, on the basis of the equation one day for one year. With 1949/50 at the top of the pedestal, we follow the Ray upward in space and backward in time till we have moved 365 years through the geometry of the Ray's time and have arrived at the ceiling where the Shaft of Light enters the chamber. This then is the year 1584….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“1582 equals 7 in the Mathematics of Unity; but a zero starting-point can rightfully only be a year totalling 9. Hence at the next 9 power year after [Pope Gregory modified the Julian calendar and adopted the one now in universal use in 1582], the measuring of the Ray in years begins: 1584….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“The visible Ray of Light ends at the pedestal with 365 days/years, hence in the pedestal 13 days/years are contained. The top is 1949/50; when we add 7 to this year the result is 1956/57; then 6 more are added and we reach 1962/63. The first date is the withdrawal, the next is the Supramental Manifestation year; the last is the year of [Sri Aurobindo’s] Return.” – Thea, <i>The New Way, Vol. 2, Ch. 3</i>, “The Vesica Piscis”, pp. 242 & 266</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the same chapter, Thea noted that the 365 + 13 years (=378 years) contained in the ray and pedestal corresponds to the synodic year of Saturn (378 years). She also discussed the significance of the 432-year (minus 5 months) span between Leonardo DiVinci’s (May 1519) passing and Sri Aurobindo’s passing (Dec 1950).</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“1584 [falls] 65 years after Leonardo's passing (2 May, 1519). These 65 added to 365/66 (or 1584 to 1949/50) make a total of 431 years and 7 months; 5 months short of 432 which, it will be remembered, are the numbers of the radius of the Sun. The total of Leonardo's passing date equals 5; it occurred in the 5th month of the year. Sri Aurobindo was born in the 5th sign Leo, on a date that totals 5. It would appear that where one left off the work, the other took it up.” (p. 242)</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">What is now necessary to add to this discussion is that <b><u>if we add </u></b><u><b>432 to 1584</b> <b>(the top of the solar ray) – yet another multiple of 144 – we arrive at 2016</b></u>. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#15a" id="15">[15]</a></span> In one image from <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i>, Thea illustrated the year of 2016 positioned at the bottom of the globe and pedestal while discussing a 27-year cycle (1989-2016). In conjunction with that illustration she wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[Finally we reach] the bottom of the pedestal in 2016; —at which time the Third is likely to withdraw from the Work.” – Ibid., p. 254</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">So, amazingly enough, by adding the 432 (144 x 3) base of the 432,000 solar-radius (aka the “Measure of Unity”) to 1584, we arrive at 2016 – the year of Thea’s (the Third’s) passing and withdrawal from the work, and the year the 432,000 measure and form of the vesica piscis released the sacred waters (rivers) of the Vedas and opened the sealed symbols and book of the Rig Veda in an entirely new way.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5N2DXfE5LCAwB-Vbgib0JRnK6AZMWgWciGSsjmdFqGSyfNWsePNkNyv_5qSHhs3QnyBz4byHgGZYE9wzkllPgdReXkCwd2h_ea7foNoSbJwUMVHQ_PmIrdHqiDU-YKn-wtf0udM5ntC6sYyVyEnJJW34Ty9Zf-sjDXhPL-9QMQY-S8IivnoZI7gAD/s394/Core-Pedestal-Ray-432-1584-sm-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The sacred number of 432 and the measure of Time in the Matrimandir (Lori Tompkins, 2022)." border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5N2DXfE5LCAwB-Vbgib0JRnK6AZMWgWciGSsjmdFqGSyfNWsePNkNyv_5qSHhs3QnyBz4byHgGZYE9wzkllPgdReXkCwd2h_ea7foNoSbJwUMVHQ_PmIrdHqiDU-YKn-wtf0udM5ntC6sYyVyEnJJW34Ty9Zf-sjDXhPL-9QMQY-S8IivnoZI7gAD/s16000/Core-Pedestal-Ray-432-1584-sm-01.png" title="The sacred number of 432 and the measure of Time in the Matrimandir (Lori Tompkins, 2022)." /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">In this illustration of the 432-year measure of the height of the solar ray plus the pedestal of the Mother’s Temple, which is not found in Thea’s discussion or illustrations of the temple’s “Geometry of Time”, I included the 60 cm width of the Mother’s Solar Ray, because it is yet another important component of the temple’s integration and harmonization of the measures of Time and Space. Sixty is of course the number of seconds in a minute and the number of minutes in each hour of the day. Likewise, it is the basis of the ancient sexagesimal measure of the 360° year. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#16a" id="16">[16]</a></span> <b>If we multiply the solar numbers of 432 by 60, we arrive at the 25,920-year measure of the twelve-age Great Year</b>. There is also an interesting mathematical harmony between the <b>366</b>-day leap year of 1584 and the sacred number of 432 given that 1584 ÷ 432 = <b>3.66</b> (repeating).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Without the proper radius and the proper vesica-piscis-based measure of the Globe and Pedestal, the exquisite harmonies of the Mother’s Vedic Temple simply vanish into thin air. The divine ray (radius), law and measure of the Mother’s Temple and its capacity to uplift, unify and harmonize humanity and its experience in Time and Space, is nonexistent in the Auroville Matrimandir. At some point India and the world at large must recognize the prevailing Ignorance that is enshrined in the Auroville temple, and celebrate the perfection and power of the Mother’s original temple measurements. Likewise, Auroville must come to terms with the fact that there is no hope of realizing its lofty mission and potential if the center/soul of the city continues to essentially be an unacknowledged degradation, shadow, and obstruction of the Mother’s cosmic and supramental vision. There should be no sentimentality amongst sincere yogis or seekers of Truth when it comes to exposing and acknowledging the ways the Auroville Matrimandir does not house and express the Supramental and Vedic Gnosis of the Mother, the eternal law of Vishnu’s avatars, and the cosmic harmonies of our existence in Time and Space. Equally, there should be no difficulty in celebrating the gnosis and the harmonies the Mother did transmit via her temple vision, as seen, understood and brought into view by Thea, the third member of Sri Aurobindo’s Solar Line. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In her own way, through her well-documented yogic revelations, Thea conquered the obstructive Scorpionic forces in Auroville and Pondicherry. She fully exposed the divine measure, truth and light of the Mother’s Temple that these forces essentially rejected. Furthermore, her particular role and place in Sri Aurobindo’s avataric yoga and lineage did serve to release the long-obstructed Vedic waters (the fixed-waters of Scorpio) the year and week of her passing in 2016. In a 1989 article for <i>The Vishaal Newsletter</i>, Thea wrote:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The transmutation of Scorpio from Scorpion to Eagle] had its counterpart in the Temple episode: the poisoning energy which had to be released and transmuted is the very energy that lodged itself at the heart of the Mother’s township, preventing a successful fulfillment of its destiny. Thus this ‘Scorpion’ had to have its ‘stinger cut’. In another interesting parallel, <b>the two persons largely responsible for the obstruction and blockage in the right construction of the Mother’s Chamber were born under Aries and Scorpio</b>.” – <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/scorpio-transmuted/" target="_blank">“Scorpio, Transmuted?”</a>, Thea, <i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Vol. 4.1, April 1989 </i></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the <a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-matrimandir-as-foundation-stone-of.html" target="_blank">6th and 9th updates of <i>Chronicles of the Inner Chamber</i></a> Thea wrote of the 26 December 2004 Sumatra Earthquake as a symbol of her (and thus the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s) victory over the Scorpionic force of Inertia that lodged itself in the Auroville Matrimandir. Notably this earthquake caused the bulk of its destruction via its corresponding Tsunami floods, i.e. via <i>a massive release or movement of waters</i>.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“And so it has come to pass. The power of Inertia that was able to usurp the physical space only because the measurements [of the Matrimandir] had been changed received a fatal blow. It could almost be seen plunging in a rage into the nearby ocean depths because of this failure to impose its stamp of Death on the Mother’s work, its failure to hold the Earth in its coil of mortality forever after. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“By the spring of 2004 the ‘stinger’ was cut, the power-source of Inertia was eliminated; it was rendered out of bounds to the Usurpers. Thus the ‘purpose’ of the former city and temple has been completed victoriously, dark though it was. But can we really call it a dark purpose? Surely we cannot, in the light of a total vision of the work we are engaged in.”</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>A Compressed Overview of the Emergence of the Vesica Piscis as a Key of Sri Aurobindo's Avataric Yoga </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">With the above in mind, we better can see and appreciate how, circa 1968-1970, the vesica piscis began to emerge from the cave or the dark waters of our collective Scorpionic Ignorance as a key of Sri Aurobindo’s/Vishnu’s supramental and avataric task of pouring the eternal law, truth, and <b>432,000″</b> measure of the Vedic rivers from their Aquarian Kumbha in our Aquarian Age within <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/09/seeing-in-understanding-symbols-and.html#Manifestations" target="_blank">the 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation of the Maha Yuga</a>, thereby restoring the <i>sanatana dharma</i> and divine maya (measure) of the Rig Veda and of the Vedic Year in the world. As I demonstrated in <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyn4jWX7U1cy9NoGrtQ-pmRLVWH6EJoY/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">the Appendix of <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i></a>, <b>1968</b> marked the 6 Point (0° Sagittarius) and the entrance into the last third (<b>the last 432,000″</b>) of the 144-year cycle beginning and ending with the year of Sri Aurobindo’s birth (1878) and the year of Thea’s passing (2016). </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The importance of the passage across the 6 Point (0° Sagittarius) of this 144-year avataric cycle in 1968 in conjunction with the Sagittarian Son’s (i.e. Sri Aurobindo’s) act of presenting the veiled key of the vesica piscis to his mother circa 1968-70 needs to be further unpacked and re-emphasized here. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The 6 Point of the Vedic/Solar Year completes the passage through the fixed water sign of Scorpio and marks the entrance into the 9th sign of Sagittarius – the seat of Agni as the Sage-Hero-Horse-Son of the Vedas (and Son of the Waters) who assists Indra in the release of the obstructed waters</b>. One of the names given to describe the waters (=rivers) that are released by this Sage-Hero-Horse-Son (=Child Conqueror) of the Vedas is “the Stallion's flood” (<i>ášvasya dhā́rāḥ</i>).</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Send down for us the rain of heaven, ye Maruts [=storm gods], and let <b>the Stallion's flood</b> descend in torrents. Come hither with this thunder while thou pourest the waters down, our heavenly Lord and Father.” – RV 5.58.6, tr. RTH Griffith [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Not long after the 1968 passage into Sagittarius and in conjunction with the Sagittarian Son’s act of presenting the veiled key of the vesica piscis to Thea, the Mother embedded the eternal key and law of the vesica piscis in the core of her Vedic Temple in the first weeks of 1970. In 1976, Thea recognized that the veiled geometric key her son had given her was the central heart or light-core of the Mother’s Temple which in turn catalyzed her seeing of Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth as “the Son” in 1963. Thus, it can be appreciated that in 1976 the vesica piscis functioned as a key that unlocked the full significance of the Mother’s Vedic Temple for Thea, dramatically widening the doors of her yogic and avataric perceptions and responsibilities. And forty years later, in 2016, the year and week of Thea’s passing, the vesica piscis revealed itself to me – an Aquarian "Water Bearer" conceived in 1968 and born in 1969 – in order to complete the Vedic victory of recovering and releasing the Vedic rivers (“the Stallion’s Flood”) and thereby pouring out Vishnu’s Kumbha or Water Jar upon the world, restoring the long-forgotten geometric sense of the Rig Veda. This revelation was, as I have discussed in <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i>, entirely built upon what Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Thea had already collectively and progressively recovered and revealed about the cryptic and long misunderstood symbols of the Vedas, including Thea’s revelations about the zodiacal sense of the twelve-month Vedic Yajna (aka sacrifice) and of the Vedas. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The revelation of the vesica piscis’s role in recovering the <i>sanatana dharma</i> and releasing the seven rivers of the Vedas gestated in my being, entirely unbeknownst to me, for 48 years (one-third or 432,000ʺ of the 144-year cycle from 1872-2016) <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#17a" id="17">[17]</a></span> before it came forward the week and year of Thea’s passing. This revelation occurred to me as a birth out of a womb of Ignorance, dramatically widening the doors of my own yogic perceptions and responsibilities and, more importantly, conquering the long-standing obstruction of the Vedic waters proper to the fixed water sign of Scorpio. A brief account of how I was prepared to receive the Vedic key and <i>sanatana dharma</i> of the vesica piscis is found in Part One, Chapter 6 (“Remembering the Plot”) of <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i>. </p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">⁓ Link to <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">Part 8.2</a></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">⁓</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Full Series Links: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">1</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">2</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">3</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">4</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">5</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">6</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">7.1</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">7.2</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">8.1</a><span>, or </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">8.2</a></span></div><div><br /></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Endnotes</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> The birth years of Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Thea, and the Fourth/Son of the Solar Line are respectively 1872 = 9, 1878 = 6, 1938 = 3, and 1963 = 1, calculated via the process of “Theosophical addition, aka <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casting_out_nines" target="_blank">“Casting out nines”</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a> <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i> was written in 1977, but its publication was delayed by obstructive forces until 1981. See also: <i><a href="https://www.patrizianorellibachelet.com/THM.html" target="_blank">The Hidden Manna</a></i> (1976), regarding Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth in relation to St. John’s Revelation which Thea understood as a prophecy of the Age of Aquarius and its supramental avatar (aka Vishnu’s Kalki avatar).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a> To my knowledge, Thea did not elaborate on or illustrate this statement anywhere in her writings. Although she gave no reference for it, her knowledge of the connection between the sacred geometry of the vesica piscis and the Great Pyramid can likely be traced back to John Michell’s 1969 book, <i>The View Over Atlantis</i>, which discussed and illustrated this geometry. Thea mentioned this book on p. 466 of <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, in relation to the pyramidion on top of the Great Pyramid. Whether or not the connection between the sacred geometry of the vesica piscis and the Great Pyramid was Michell’s own geometric discovery, I do not know. Michell’s <b><u>1969</u></b> drawing is shown below, followed by an expanded variation of the same geometry that I constructed in Adobe Illustrator, and an image of Sri Aurobindo’s Symbol within the Vesica Piscis. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Note: The angle of the Vesica Piscis construction of the Pyramid triangle (as in Michell’s book) is 51.61°. The base angle of the triangles of Sri Aurobindo’s Symbol, varies a bit between Thea’s constructions of it in <i>The New Way</i>, one which is framed by the Matrimandir's subtle Shalagrama (51.5°) and another by its marble Pedestal (51.6°). The Sri Aurobindo Ashram's official drawing of Sri Aurobindo's symbol which Thea sent to me upon request many years ago, shows a 51° base angle (possibly rounded down), but whose 7:8 dimensions yield a 51.6° base angle of each triangle. The Giza Pyramid has a base angle of 51.84°.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFEUWGKqCO0guCx0bTwJMAjyELNtXC4eSG1S4nQbPKYFA2ul9A7_yYWPApGLyh7vn5uTJSnOOu-EC-7vzh1iy4mTVZSm3DC8T6INEUmcSGLS25n-Z58CWH62EcOTjv6gLb8jlhq_TEdiezA6C_rP0flb2Wspir39fSbdKwNHooJJAQqKjLmNZHAmBN/s724/VP-Pyramid-Diagram.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Vesica Piscis with the outline of the Great Pyramid (John Michell, 1969, 'The New View Over Atlantis')." border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="500" height="447" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFEUWGKqCO0guCx0bTwJMAjyELNtXC4eSG1S4nQbPKYFA2ul9A7_yYWPApGLyh7vn5uTJSnOOu-EC-7vzh1iy4mTVZSm3DC8T6INEUmcSGLS25n-Z58CWH62EcOTjv6gLb8jlhq_TEdiezA6C_rP0flb2Wspir39fSbdKwNHooJJAQqKjLmNZHAmBN/w309-h447/VP-Pyramid-Diagram.jpg" title="The Vesica Piscis with the outline of the Great Pyramid (John Michell, 1969, 'The New View Over Atlantis')." width="309" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#4" id="4a">[4]</a> Illustrations of the vesica piscis’s role in measuring out the 12 months of the Zodiac are found in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-sacred-geometry-of-vimy-crop-circle.html" target="_blank">“The Sacred Geometry of the Vimy Crop Circle (5 July 2020)”</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#5" id="5a">[5]</a> See: <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Geometric-Keys-Vedic-Wisdom-Tompkins/dp/0999614908" target="_blank">Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</a></i>, Chapters 7 and 14. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#6" id="6a">[6]</a> See: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-sacred-measure-of-432000-part-4.html" target="_blank">“The Sacred Measure of 432,000 ⁓ Part 4: The Sacred Syllable of the Rig Veda”</a>. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#7" id="7a">[7]</a> According to Thea’s teachings, 12 Manifestations = 3 (25,920-year) Precessional Cycles = 1 Maha Yuga cycle = 9 Kali Yuga = 77,760 years. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#8" id="8a">[8]</a> This sacred geometry is found in the Mother’s Temple as she originally saw and measured it in 1969-1970, not in the temple built in Auroville.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#9" id="9a">[9]</a> See Thea’s <a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/2012/03/10-core-and-world-1.html" target="_blank"><i>Chronicles of the Inner Chamber</i>, Part X - The Core and the World - 1</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#10" id="10a">[10]</a> On 31 December 1969, while discussing the necessity of building the Matrimandir as the centre of Auroville before building the city itself, Satprem said, “You alone have authority over [Roger].” and the Mother responded, “Yes … no, <b>if I tell him, “Do it,” he won’t say no, but he won’t do it</b>! … He has to be convinced ….” [Bold emphasis added]</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#11" id="11a">[11]</a> RV 1.1.8, tr. RTH Griffith.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#12" id="12a">[12]</a> The divine ray/son/soul-flame (radius) Agni is the ruler and “knower of the field” of Time and Space – <i>kshetrajña</i> – a term which Vishnu’s avatar Krishna uses to describe himself in the Bhagavad Gita. Via the course of the Vedic Year (=via the path of Yajna/Yoga), the Yogi or traveler of the Yajna progressively becomes kshetrajña.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Supreme Divine Lord said: O Arjun, this body is termed as kṣhetra (the field of activities), and the one who knows this body is called kṣhetrajña (the knower of the field) by the sages who discern the truth about both.</i> – Bhagavad Gita, <a href="https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/13/verse/2" target="_blank">13.2, tr. Swami Mukundananda</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#13" id="13a">[13]</a> “Nothing can arise from Nothing. Asat, nothingness, is a creation of our mind; where it cannot see or conceive, where its object is something beyond its grasp, too much beyond to give even the sense of a vague intangible, then it cries out “Here there is nothing.” Out of its own incapacity it has created the conception of a Zero. But what in truth is this zero? It is an incalculable Infinite. Our sense by its incapacity has invented darkness. In truth there is nothing but Light, only it is a power of light either above or below our poor human vision's limited range. For do not imagine that light is created by the Suns. The Suns are only physical concentrations of Light, but the splendour they concentrate for us is self-born and everywhere. God is everywhere and wherever God is, there is Light. <i>Jnanam chaitanyam jyotir Brahma</i>.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>CWSA, Vol. 12, Essays Divine and Human</i>, p. 188</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#14" id="14a">[14]</a> See: <a href="https://medium.com/@rrbniebekr/an-open-geometrical-look-at-the-matrimandir-design-featured-in-patrizia-norelli-bachelets-the-new-bef611c785ed" target="_blank">“An Open Geometrical Look At The Matrimandir Design Featured In Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet’s “The New Way, Volume I and II”</a>. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#15" id="15a">[15]</a> As I have written elsewhere Sri Aurobindo’s birth year (1872) and the year of Thea’s passing (2016) are both multiples of 144. 144 x 11 = 1584; 144 x 12 = 1738; 144 x 13 = 1878; 144 x 14 = 2016; and the next (=15th) multiple of 144 amazingly enough brings us to the sacred number and year of 2160. I will discuss this math and its significance in Part 9.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#16" id="16a">[16]</a> See: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-sacred-measure-of-432000-part-3.html" target="_blank">“The Sacred Measure of 432,000 ⁓ PART 3: The Sexagesimal Measure of the 360° Circle”</a>. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#17" id="17a">[17]</a> The 48-year span of 1968-2016 is also <b>the last ninth (=144,000ʺ)</b> of the 432-year span or cycle from 1584-2016.</p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">If you value the </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b>original research and content made freely </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b><br />available on this blog</b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a></div></div></div></blockquote>Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-77187875660772504592022-05-12T13:04:00.006-07:002022-05-13T11:22:22.741-07:00The Convergence of Putin’s War & the Mother’s 144-Year Birth Anniversary ⁓ A Cosmological Perspective ⁓ Part Two ⁓ Addendum 2<p style="text-align: justify;">[Link to Parts <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html" target="_blank">One</a> or <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html" target="_blank">Two</a> or <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html" target="_blank">Addendum 1</a>. The quotes of these two Addendums give a sense of how Sri Aurobindo and the Mother – who Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet discussed as ‘evolutionary avatars” – saw and discussed international and political affairs in relation to the evolution of consciousness on Earth. All bold emphasis added. Note: On 12 May 2022 I added excerpts from two entries from <i>The Mother’s Agenda</i> to Addendum 1: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#30Oct" target="_blank">30 October 1962</a> and <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#17Nov" target="_blank">17 November 1962</a>.]</p><p><b></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><b><b>The Mother, 1 January 1967</b> (<i>CWM, Vol. 15</i>, p. 175)<p></p></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Men, countries, continents! <br />The choice is imperative: <br />Truth or the abyss. </p><p><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZuX65maPgvN4LDAkQrnGMq9l_y5u7cVLh2Ex_v7ll93f0qBvPnRXw41Hln2RpaVLLE-sDV7iEMctiATnFLqGt0a2krXbiJbY1fvYxzr7wxbPrDiBla39VKH4GmBYwPjURY7ag-71xTPkmONq8pukrwlAHXuGmwIJmSybhCWvJpKZym9mELxBh_VQ/s425/TheMother.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="425" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZuX65maPgvN4LDAkQrnGMq9l_y5u7cVLh2Ex_v7ll93f0qBvPnRXw41Hln2RpaVLLE-sDV7iEMctiATnFLqGt0a2krXbiJbY1fvYxzr7wxbPrDiBla39VKH4GmBYwPjURY7ag-71xTPkmONq8pukrwlAHXuGmwIJmSybhCWvJpKZym9mELxBh_VQ/s320/TheMother.jpg" width="320" /></a></b><b>The Mother, 26 May 1967</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">(Agenda note: A disciple asks Mother, "What is the meaning of 'abyss' in your New Year Message?" Mother's reply, in English:) </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Right now there is a great tension. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War" target="_blank">They have all taken positions as if to start war</a>. It is the blind passion that men put into their international relations. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">At the base of it all there is fear, general distrust, and what they believe to be their "interests" (money, business) – a combination of these three things. When these three lowest passions of humanity are brought into play, that is what I call "the abyss." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">When someone has decided to consecrate his life to the seeking for the Divine, if he is sincere, that is to say, if the resolution is sincere and carried out sincerely, there is absolutely nothing to fear, because all that happens or will happen to him will lead him by the shortest way to this realisation. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">That is the response of the Grace. People believe that the Grace means making everything smooth for all your life. It is not true. The Grace works for the realisation of your aspiration and everything is arranged to gain the most prompt, the quickest realisation – so there is nothing to fear. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Fear comes with insincerity. If you want a comfortable life, agreeable circumstances, etc., you are putting conditions and restrictions, and then you can fear. But it has no business in the sadhana! – <i>The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 8</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 7 June 1967 </b>[Regarding <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/253624509643805336/7718787566077250459#">the Six Day/Arab–Israeli War <span style="color: black; text-align: justify;">–</span> 5–10 June 1967</a>]</p><p>Mon petit, ships can no longer sail past Port Said: the Suez Canal is closed. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers_12.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><i>What's going to happen? </i></p></blockquote><p>...We are just like this (gesture hanging in balance between two chasms).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday, I would have answered very strongly.... Let me tell you what happened. We had here an American, a very nice boy who, before he came here, was a paratroop instructor in Israel's army. I don't think he is an Israeli, I think he's American; I am sure his nationality is American, I saw his passport. But he was a paratroop instructor in Israel's army. When those two started quarreling, he wrote me a letter in which he explained that, and also paid great compliments to the Israeli nation, saying they had achieved a really remarkable sense of brotherhood and cooperation. That was his impression of the country. And he said that if war broke out, he would like to go back there to help them as much as he could. So as soon as they started bombing each other, he decided to go. He left yesterday evening. And I saw him in the afternoon, before he left. He is a sincere man. While he was here, Sri Aurobindo ... (how can I explain?), the impression is that Sri Aurobindo "concretizes" (he is always here, but at certain times he seems to concretize, as though ... [Mother makes a gesture of gathering or condensing]. That's really the impression: he concretizes and starts speaking). So then, first Sri Aurobindo said to him (but there was a whole WORLD in it), "My blessings are with you." The man was very touched (I didn't tell him it was Sri Aurobindo; I spoke, you understand, it was my mouth that spoke then, but it was Sri Aurobindo who spoke). Then I concentrated, and Sri Aurobindo said with great force: </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"All the countries live in falsehood. If only one country stood courageously for truth, the world might be saved." </span></b></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">(silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Towards the end of the day, when I was alone, I began asking Sri Aurobindo precisely what he meant.... Naturally, <b>his hope is that the country that stood for Truth would be India – for the moment, she is very far from it</b>. But ... And since the subject was before me, I asked him how he saw the terrestrial possibility in a harmonious future. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then he said to me – it was very simple, very clear: "<b>A federation of all nations and countries without exception, all continents. A single federation: the federation of all human nations of the earth</b>." And a group – a governing group – consisting of one representative from each country, the most able man from the standpoint of political and economic organization. And nothing of the proportional question that would give large countries many representatives and small ones only one – one representative for every country. Because every country represents one aspect of the problem. And they would sit in rotation. It was a vast vision, not so much with words as with a vision. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">That's where things stand. Today ... Have you heard today's news? </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>[The Egyptians] have blocked Suez and broken off with the U.S.</i> </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">All the Muslim countries, including Algeria and so on, have been ordered to break off with America and Britain. [Agenda note: Also to stop selling them oil]. I don't know if all this news is true, but there is also a general pressure from all countries, from America and Britain, for instance, and at the same time from Russia, for a cease-fire, to stop the conflict. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">If this news is true (because the amount of lies that are passed around is unbelievable), if this news is true, it means the Pressure is beginning – the pressure of the Consciousness. It has already started acting. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">You see, <b>every national entity has a right to free and independent existence, provided it doesn't interfere in the free and independent existence of all other entities. Ambitions, territorial expansions – of course, all colonies and all of that – must be swept out of the picture</b>. To defend themselves, the Egyptians say that the Israelis had publicly declared that Israel's border should be the Nile – I don't know if that's true. I don't know if it's true because everybody tells lies. On their part, the Egyptians publicly declared three years ago (it was a public declaration), they publicly declared that the Israeli nation had no right to exist and had to disappear. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Three days ago, Nasser declared that he wanted "the destruction of Israel: wiped off the map." </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Yes, that's it. But three years ago, <b>they declared that Israel shouldn't exist. So that clearly puts them in the wrong</b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I don't know how the others replied.... The whole world lives in falsehood, without a doubt, but one thing must be established in an absolute way: <b>the right of each nation or country to individual existence, provided it doesn't interfere in another nation's right. That should be the base</b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Of course, they will start arguing: "BUT at that time, things were like that; at that time they were like this; and in the past this was ours; in the past..." Endless arguments. So there should be a higher vision, which means a balanced and just and deep vision of things, capable of saying, "This is how it is." Otherwise there would be an indefinite source of arguments. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">For the moment, at any rate, all diplomatic relations are based on falsehood – and the crudest falsehood at that: it's recognized as a necessity and the only way out. That's how they consider it. So that's what must be abolished to begin with. – <i>The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 8</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 28 February 1968</b> <br />[<a href="https://auroville.org/contents/537" target="_blank">The Inauguration of Auroville took place on 29 February 1968</a>]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I told you that the Soviet consul is enthusiastic! He saw the Charter [of Auroville] – in English first (in English, there is Divine’s Consciousness, with the apostrophe). He said, "It’s a pity, it evokes the idea of God." <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers_12.html#2a" id="2">[2]</a></span> And S., who had been there, said, "It’s not that at all! There’s nothing religious in all this affair. We’ll show you the French." Then he read conscience divine [divine consciousness], and he was satisfied. He said, "This is just what we want to realize, and without these words it would be officially recognized and supported by the Soviet government..... I allowed him to use the words that would be acceptable to his government. The Soviet consul said yes, he was very glad. He said, "When the Soviet government officially supports something, it’s serious." – It’s true, I know it, they are very generous. So I hope it will have a favorable result. And you see, it’s just what I wanted: in America, for a long time they have been enthusiastic – which is good, but perhaps they don’t understand so well; <b>the Russians, in their nature, are mystic, and as that has been oppressed, suppressed, naturally it has gained a lot of force</b>. And now it tends to want to burst. – <i>The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 9</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 18 May 1968</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday, I saw someone whom I don’t want to name and I started talking to her. I didn’t know, there wasn’t any thought or anything before. I started speaking, and I said, "There we are, we are at the time when we are going to see things....[Agenda note: This is the time of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68" target="_blank">the students’ revolt in Paris</a>, May 1968.] <b>There are long, long, very long periods during which things are prepared; there is, afterwards, a very long, very long period during which things develop, organize, settle and bear consequences; but between this and that, there is a moment when things are done, when they happen. It’s not always very long (sometimes it is, at other times it’s very brief), but that’s when something happens. And that "something" is what will give the world a new development. Well, we are just – as it happens, we are just at such a moment. Which means that if we are (people, most of the time, are blind), if we aren’t blind, if our eyes are open, we WILL SEE, we will see things</b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The occasion for all that (to place the thing) was that I said, "The U.S. president will go to Russia to sign a peace treaty with Vietnam...." [Agenda note: It is in January 1973 that a cease-fire will come into effect in Vietnam.] There are two similar circumstances at the same time, so that three peace treaties are going to be signed at the same time. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">When events start following such a trend, it shows we are going to see things. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Some people are in the night, in the past, in falsehood up to here (gesture to the eyebrows), they see nothing, nothing, nothing – they will go right to the end without seeing anything. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But those whose eyes are open will see. <span style="text-align: right;">– </span><i style="text-align: right;">The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 9</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 3 April 1968 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I saw [P.L. – the member of the Roman Curia] yesterday. He spoke to me, but I didn’t hear. I don’t know what he told me. But I VERY STRONGLY had – very strongly, and it lasted a long time – <b>the sense of the beginning, the commencement ... the start of something like an action or a series of events that would have great importance for the development of the earth</b>. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers_12.html#3a" id="3">[3]</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Very strong: it lasted for hours, that impression. And for me it’s quite unaccustomed, because generally, outward things ... (Mother shakes her head) it’s all so relative, all events are so relative that they don’t leave any impression. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Quite unusual. And unexpected. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>It’s like a door opening onto something that will have a rather considerable importance in the development of the earth</b>. I didn’t feel he himself was conscious.... It somewhat exceeded human consciousnesses. But I clearly saw, very clearly saw the Pope. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>…[As soon as P.L. gets to Rome], he’ll ask for an audience. </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">It’s quite (it remained for hours), quite unaccustomed: something far exceeding human individualities, and it was <b>the beginning of something very important in the history of the earth’s evolution</b>.…</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It’s strange, a strange sensation.... You know, like turning a page. Yesterday and right up to now, it’s been so strong: the sense of something going like this (gesture of turning a page), and that was the beginning. And you know, nothing in the head, not a thought or anything: only a sort of perception of something going like this (same gesture) and... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We should note the date – maybe in ten or twenty years we’ll understand! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday was April 2, yes, the 2nd. It was a curious date: 2-4-6-8 [April 2, 1968]. Two, four, six, eight. And the impression was of something going like this, like a page that’s been turned, and then ... the beginning. Or if you like (it’s not a geometrical sensation, but ...), the sense of a curve that has come to its end, and another one starting. But that’s not as good as the image of an immense page falling back, and something beginning. It’s blank, it’s ... just the beginning. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">And no perception of a personal thing: individualities [e.g., P.L.] are just like pawns that have been used for starting, that’s all. The movement, the origin of the movement is infinitely higher and vaster than any physical personality. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Truly the perception that everyone and everything are nothing but pawns, like that (gesture as on a chessboard), which are set in motion, but ... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We’ll see. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We should note that. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Still, does it have something to do with the Pope? </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Yes. With Christendom. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(Mother again goes into a long contemplation) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Since yesterday (it didn’t seem related to the first experience), but the whole day, my way of reacting (inwardly, not outwardly), my way of reacting to things, my way of MATERIALLY looking at all things – it was completely changed. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There was, as it were, a new person ... even expressing surprise at the old reactions, wondering, "What! Did I use to react like that?" ("I," meaning the body, of course.) "Now it’s not that any longer." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">And it’s still very strong now, as though ... <b>not a new personality, but a new way of being, were there. And not a personal way of being: it’s like a great stream</b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It’s very, very strange. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I had three very difficult days, really very difficult, even dangerous; then by a stiffening of the will, and with a sort of very active work of surrender of all the cells, yesterday that was the outcome. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Very odd, very odd. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We’ll see! (Mother laughs) <span style="text-align: right;">– </span><i style="text-align: right;">The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 9</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 22 May 1968</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">That’s what I had been told. I had been told it was the first movement – the first indication, the first movement of Christendom’s conversion to the Truth. It was clearly indicated that it had been DECREED. That’s what I had seen. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I had never seen a thing like that! I told you, when I was in the room [where Mother receives visitors] and P.L. came in, there came something so...serious (what’s the right word?), <b>something that had the importance and stability of great terrestrial movements, of great ages – the beginning of a great age</b>. [Agenda note: See conversation of 3 April 1968.] I had never felt that. That was before he left [for the Vatican]. Then I looked and saw it was decreed from on high: the beginning of Christendom’s conversion to the Truth – Christendom as a whole. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">They have felt something there: I told you there was such a violent attack.... It’s mostly P.L. who has been the victim, and me in part: it touched this body. But you know, even from the most ordinary, outward point of view, the healing was miraculous. Those things [the swelling] generally last for eight to ten days – it was over in two days. That was ... Even my body, though it’s used to being in contact with the forces, was wonderstruck. It was miraculous. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The concrete action of this Force, which Sri Aurobindo called the "supramental force," its first contact and first aspect is an aspect of Truth. As Sri Aurobindo said, Truth had to manifest first, before the Power of Love. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In comparison with the course life used to follow, it’s really something of a miracle – miracle in the sense that the speed of the transformation and action is at the very least unusual….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">De Gaulle is open to something more than the purely material force. Is he capable? I don’t know. At any rate, he is among the best instruments. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>It’s clearly (not in the detail of it, but in the direction of the movement), clearly a will to have done with the past and to open the door to the future</b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>It’s like a sort of revulsion with stagnation. That’s it. A thirst for something which is ahead and appears more luminous, better</b>. And indeed there IS something – it’s not just imagination: there IS something. That’s the beauty of it, it’s that there is something. There IS a Response. There IS a Force that wants ... to express itself. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">France is in a privileged situation: India first and France afterwards, for reasons of ... simply of receptivity. France has always tried to be ahead – which in fact is why this body was born there. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">The newspapers speak of a strike by several million people there (that’s what those children wrote). It doesn’t look like a strike at all, it looks like a revolution. I know that. I don’t know if I have ever told you, but there has been – <b>there has always been – an identification of this body’s consciousness with all revolutionary movements. I have always known and guided them even before news of them came out: in Russia, in Italy, in Spain and elsewhere – always, everywhere. And essentially, it was always the same Force seeking to hasten the coming of the future – always – but constrained to adapt its means of action to the state of the mass</b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">And now, the state of the earth would seem to be precisely such that what is at the very least being prepared (if it’s not yet actually like that) is the manifestation of the mass in a kind of silent and immobile will.... And that’s <b>an intermediate period to reach the condition in which this mass will be held under the control and directly driven by the Power from above. That’s where we are heading</b>.<span style="text-align: right;"> – </span><i style="text-align: right;">The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 9</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 28 August 1968</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[The Mother was halfway through her 90th year. Agenda note: On August 20, Russia invaded Czechoslovakia. Blog note: This invasion ended Czechoslovakia’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring" target="_blank">Prague Spring</a>]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Many things are stirring over there.... You know the events in Czechoslovakia. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers_12.html#4a" id="4">[4]</a></span> Things are stirring…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>I am sure the movement has begun. How long will it take to reach a concrete, visible and organized realization? I don’t know. Something has started.... It would seem to be the onrush of the new species, the new creation, or at any rate a new creation. A terrestrial reorganization and a new creation</b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">For me, things have become very acute.... It was impossible to utter one word, one single word: as soon as I spoke, I would start coughing and coughing. Then I saw it was decided that I shouldn’t speak. I remained like that and let the curve unfold. Afterwards, I understood. We haven’t reached the end, but ... (how should I put it?) we are on the other side. At one point things were so acute ... Usually I don’t lose patience, but it had reached the point where everything, just everything in the being was as if annulled. Not only could I not speak, but my head was in a state it had never been in my whole existence – painful, you know. I couldn’t see anything anymore, couldn’t hear anything anymore. Then, one day (I’ll tell you the experiences afterwards), one day when things were really ... it was difficult, painful all over, the body said, it said really very spontaneously and very strongly, "I don’t care in the least about being dissolved, I am quite ready to live, but this condition is impossible, it cannot go on – either live or die, but not this." And from that moment on, things started improving slightly. Little by little, they took their place and were sorted out... – <i>The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 9</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 19 April 1969</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Everything is in a sort of hubbub. The whole country. You know there’s now a Communist government in Bengal …. It would be better not to record this (Mother touches the microphone).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[N.S.] had been sent by Indira to ask me questions about what should be done [about the bloodshed in Bengal]…. The previous days I had seen all kinds of catastrophic things. (I didn’t know what the situation was.) When I was told, I instantly knew: I saw the Chinese HERE. Yes. It stirred me a lot, a lot. And with HORRIBLE things, horrible. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">So I had to send someone immediately to tell [Indira], “For heaven’s sake, support the army.” It’s India’s only hope. The army is good, but it’s not supported. But that shouldn’t be told, because I am not supposed to concern myself with politics, so … </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But it seems that in three States the Communists WANT the Chinese to come. That’s dreadful. The Chinese, mon petit, you can’t imagine what it is …. Horrible! They’re horrible. With a cold, terrible cruelty. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">So it’s been very, very difficult these last few days. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It’s almost a miracle: Indira all of a sudden realized (N.S. told me so) that she doesn’t have the required knowledge or the required power to face circumstances, so she told N.S. to come and see me and ask me to help her. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then I understood why I had seen all those circumstances – for several days it was all about India, and I saw it was serious, very serious.…</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[I saw a man whose] own opinion is that it’s only Sri Aurobindo’s thought that can save China. China is extremely intellectual; if the Chinese intelligence were captured by Sri Aurobindo’s thought, it would be … That seems to be the sole, the only hope. But Formosa [Taiwan], which is nothing, is wholly with us. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Yes, but that’s not much. </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">It’s nothing. The Soviets were a very great danger, but now they seem … they seem to begin to understand. They’re divided among themselves. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>But here, it’s really a growing monster. </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Oh, it’s formidable….</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence)</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">America is extremely interested in Auroville. Russia is extremely interested in Auroville. The Chinese … nothing, absolutely nothing, no response. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">They are … I don’t know how to … The impression is of something stonelike. It doesn’t respond. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(long silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">For …<b> for years, even from the time Sri Aurobindo was here, there had been the vision – an inner vision – that India is the place where the fate of the earth will be decided</b>. So the two opposite possibilities are there. As if it were said that if there were war, it would be over India; that the world conflict … (how can I put it?), the ISSUE would be played out over India. But will the Force of Peace be sufficient to prevent war? There’s the whole question. But the whirl of forces is here, over India. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">And since this Consciousness came, things have been accelerating. It has given a great rapidity of movement to circumstances. But then, it’s becoming urgent. And … oh, falsehood, duplicity … oh, everything seems to be rising to the surface – it’s hideous. Will the … the Force of Harmony and Peace be strong enough to … to digest all that? I don’t know. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I thought (there were all kinds of things going on, like pictures of possibilities), I thought it was in the body’s makeup, that it was coming out in order to be purified. Now I realize it may have been partly that, but that all those pictures correspond to things taking place at present [in the world]. And if they are true … the things to come are rather catastrophic. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There is always this inner will to … (gesture of pressure to establish peace). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">As if it were, I can’t say a last conflict, but it’s becoming … it’s becoming immediate. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>It’s like a conflict between the forces that want to destroy the earth and the terrestrial transformation. If those forces can be checked, can be mastered or rendered powerless, then the earth’s progress and transformation will go on soaring up – magnificent! But now … monsters seem to be coming up from every side to prevent that</b>. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">It’s exactly as if we were sitting on top of a volcano: either the volcano must fall extinct, or everything is going to blow up. That’s how it is. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">AGENDA ADDENDUM </p><p style="text-align: justify;">(Account of N.S.’s visit on April 17, 1969. Mother’s words were noted down in English from memory, and are therefore approximate.) </p><p style="text-align: justify;">1. When N.S. spoke of what Indira said about the troubles she is having and the difficulties she is facing and that she wanted the Mother’s help, strength and guidance, the Mother said She knew very well about all this, and that she was constantly giving Her help and blessings to Indira. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">2. Regarding the danger of Communism, the Mother said that Communism is a truth that has been distorted and that when the truth comes out, the distortion will fall off. The truth is that all one’s efforts and all one’s work should be turned not to the State, but to the Divine. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">3. There is only one country in the world that knows that there is only one Truth to which everything should be turned, and that is India. Other countries have forgotten this, but in India it is ingrained in the people, and one day it will come out. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">4. We must all recognize this and work for this.<b> India is the cradle of the Truth and will lead the world to Truth. India will find its real place in the world when it realizes this</b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">5. The Mother asked N.S. to say to Indira that she should decide to become an obedient, faithful and devoted servant of the Truth and the Truth alone, and then nothing could obstruct her. All outward difficulties and even persons trying to upset her position will not be able to affect her, and if they seem to succeed, if she is firm in her faith and in her devotion to serve the Truth, nothing can prevail against her. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">6. To be a true servitor of the Truth one must forget all one’s personal desires and preferences and have only the thought to serve the Truth. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">7. The Mother then said to N.S. personally and hoped that the men present would not be offended, that it is only women who know how to use this Power that comes from serving the Truth. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">8. The Mother also said to convey to Indira that she must know that <b>the laws of man cannot stand before the laws of the Divine and ultimately it is the laws of the Divine that will prevail</b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">9. The Mother said that <b>the new Consciousness that has descended on the 1st of January [1969] is very active, and that we have come to a very critical time in the history of the world, and it is most interesting to watch how things are happening. This new Consciousness is preparing for the Superman and so there are big changes happening all around</b>. When the first man developed, the animal had no mind and could not appreciate the evolution. Man has mind and can appreciate the evolution. That is why this is the most interesting time in history. If one can stand in that consciousness and watch the happenings from above, one can see how small and futile they are and one can then act upon them with a great Power. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">10. The Mother said to N.S. that She wants Indira to continue in her present position because the Mother is able to work through her as she is sincerely trying to serve the country. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">11. The Mother said: “I know the conditions of the country. <b>Even if one person could put himself faithfully at the disposal of the Truth, he could change the country and the world</b>.” </p><p style="text-align: justify;">12. The Mother said that Auroville is the only hope for preventing a new world war. Tensions are growing and the situation is becoming very critical. But only the Idea of Auroville, if it can become more widespread, can prevent world war. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers_12.html#5a" id="5">[5]</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">13. The children who are born at this time are fortunate. <span style="text-align: right;">– </span><i style="text-align: right;">The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 10</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 31 January 1970</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">It is when all appears to be lost that all can be saved. <br />When one has lost trust in one's personal power, <br />one must have faith in the Divine Grace. <br />28 January 1970 </p><p style="text-align: justify;">[T]he old system of personal property is collapsing in the world. Only, as usual, it collapses in a disgusting manner.... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But in India’s constitution there was an article stating that personal property could in no way be taken away, in other words affirming the right to personal property. Now they’ll remove it, they will say that “in certain cases” it can be taken away. So you understand … </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It’s obvious, I know it: it’s past, it will go – personal property is the past. Only … You see, <b>the Russians said it was the State that replaced the person, and then (laughing) what happened with the State? – It’s the State that has grown rich at the expense of everybody else</b>. Now they are back-pedaling. But the other countries, without having the common sense of benefiting from the experience, want to follow the same blunder.... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But no one has yet dared to say: money is a force and belongs to nobody, but it must be used by the most disinterested and clearsighted person (or persons) in the country. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>We haven’t come to that point yet. </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Far from it! It will take a few hundred years – maybe not so much.... <span style="text-align: right;">– </span><i style="text-align: right;">The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 11</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 7 February 1970 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yes, what’s going on on the earth is really ugly.… A few days ago, I had the visit of a woman from Vietnam (I think she is from Vietnam), whom I had already seen many years ago. So she came back and saw me. She sat down in front of me (a small woman, short and plump, very sweet), and she said, “I have come because we have been at war for twenty-five years....” And there was such sorrow in her atmosphere, it was … oh, so pitiful! “For TWENTY-FIVE YEARS we have been at war,” she told me, “so I have come: can we hope for peace?...” And I felt … (Mother closes her eyes).</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">That’s it: they are so proud because they go to the moon, and they’re slaughtering each other on the earth….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">People themselves are so unconscious. Did I tell you the story of those poor little seals?…[See the Mother’s <a href="https://sri-aurobindo.in/workings/ma/agenda_10/1969-10-11-01_e.htm" target="_blank">11 Oct 1969 Agenda entry</a> regarding the slaughter of baby seals.] Such unconsciousness! If they could only feel a little the suffering they inflict on others, it might make them stop (?) ….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And then, I get letters (from children) asking me, “Why? Why has the Supreme Lord allowed things to be like this?...” That’s what I receive most often. But as soon as there is a TRUE CONTACT … it’s over. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then there are those who said (I forget who, in what religion), “But God does not suffer!...” (Mother laughs) So that made people still more furious: “Yes, HE doesn’t suffer; he makes us all suffer while HE doesn’t!” (Mother laughs) Maybe he finds it amusing! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I remember that poor Bharatidi (she was a rebel), once, long ago, we prepared together a play to be staged, and one day she told me (we were with all those who were going to play), “To think that God sees all this and tolerates it!” (Mother laughs) I told her, “Maybe he doesn’t see it as we do!” </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I found it amusing because she was a very intelligent woman.… <span style="text-align: right;">– </span><i style="text-align: right;">The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 11</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 7 April 1971</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I received some news from Indira, who told me that they’re sending all the help they can up there [to Bangladesh]. They are taking a very positive position. But she says that the outcome will probably be war with Pakistan, and maybe even with China – they’re expecting it.…You know that they had asked my advice? And I told them that they had to help urgently (that letter was hand-delivered to her). And her answer was brought back to me. She said she agreed, that they were already doing it: even medical assistance and everything. They’re sending everything. But West Pakistan wrote to Russia ... (Mother tries to recall). [The Russians are] angry, because they had advised them not to start a war, and the advice was not followed. So now they [the Pakistanis] say: India had better not help because ... that would mean war. And Russia sent this information to India. And China has clearly taken a position for Pakistan. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">So it may get very nasty….Both England and America are still like this (vacillating gesture)…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">…<b>It’s obvious that India is the symbol of the New World in formation, so India must be “one,” symbolically, in order for the New World to see the light of day</b>.... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">…<b>You see, the Force is so active.... Lies that have gone on for years are becoming visible here too – the mixture is everywhere. Such a ... such a force of truth would be needed, you know, a force that would be great enough to overcome all that</b>. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">For me, Victory is certain, but I don’t know if it’s tomorrow or ... (gesture into the distance). I don’t know what road we will take to get there. Victory is certain, that’s obvious, but what road are we going to take to get there? And it very much depends on our individual position; that’s what they don’t understand. We must cling, cling so tightly to the Truth that nothing can touch us. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">It always comes back to the same thing: “What You will, Lord, what You will.” But that has become formidable.<span style="text-align: right;"> – </span><i style="text-align: right;">The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 12</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 8 May 1971</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[Y]esterday, from a quite reliable source, I was told that every country – almost every foreign country – has recognized Bangladesh and only India has not (and another one I don’t remember). Today I am told that Indira said that no country has granted recognition. Well.... So you see, the lying is official. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Yes, it’s official. But did you see...? I’ve just now seen Indira’s statement in the newspapers:</i></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi today set to rest all speculations about an early recognition of Bangladesh by indicating quite clearly that the government of India did not propose to do so in the near future.” (<i>The Hindu</i>, May 8, 1971) </p></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Also I was told that <b>Russia was the one opposed to recognition because she wanted to bring about a compromise with Pakistan</b>. That’s what I was told. But since everything is lies, one just doesn’t know. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Yes. In any event, no country, not one has officially recognized Bangladesh – not a single one. </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">So what she said was true then! </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Yes, and here [in “The Hindu”] they say: </i></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The Soviet Prime Minister, Mr. Kosygin, is reliably reported to have sent two letters to President Yahya Khan of Pakistan urging a negotiated settlement on East Bengal crisis, and to have asked Mrs. Indira Gandhi not to escalate the crisis so that the peaceful solution which both Russia and India want may be achieved.” </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>In other words, they’re seeking a compromise, like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkent_Declaration" target="_blank">the last time at Tashkent</a>. </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">(Mother raises her arms) ... Everything has to be started all over again. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>But is it true, there was a rumor going around the Ashram yesterday or the day before that you had sent a new message to Indira Gandhi saying that if she did not recognize Bangladesh, there was no point in her asking your advice.... </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">No, I didn’t send the message. …I said it to U. just like that. …So he may have got it into his head to tell her, I don’t know. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>And I heard also that you said that if she didn’t recognize Bangladesh, there would be even more serious consequences in the future. </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Yes, I think so. …It becomes more difficult each time. Each time they put the thing off.... Oh, if only they had done it immediately, it would have been very good. Now, it’s five weeks already.... It’s already more difficult. If they put it off again, it will be even more difficult. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But anyway, I didn’t send any message.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Naturally, she thinks I don’t have all the facts – but of course! </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>She knows better than you obviously! But really if she had the slightest inner discernment, she would understand that you have a wider vision of things. </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Yes, but that.... You see, there are different ... (what shall I say?) they’re like “layers of conditioning” (gesture of levels), and I always try to lead people to the highest layer so that things happen without too much difficulty; but they always insist on being on the lowest layer, the nearest one. So that causes.... That’s how things get complicated. If those who are capable of pulling down from above at one stroke were there [in the government], things would go swiftly and smoothly, but it’s those who have the nearest conditioning and naturally understand the nearest who are there – those people are there [in the government]. And so things have to follow a certain (meandering gesture) path, and it’s endless. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Well, that means the world is not ready! </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">It will take another few hundred years. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">People don’t understand. Things have to follow a comfortable little path. (Mother draws meandering paths in the air) That way, they understand…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">You see, the faith of people is a superstition – it’s not faith, it’s superstition. Now there are more and more people who think they have faith, and they ask me ridiculous things! They have superstitions like.... Someone brings me a child born with a deformed arm, and the superstition is that if I put my hand on the arm of the child, he’ll be healed.... Things like that. It’s completely stupid. That’s not Power! They need a little miracle, you know, at their level. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Humanity is still very small, very small, very small. … They have chosen, they have chosen the path of the turtle. So that’s how it will be. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There are moments – what Sri Aurobindo called <i>The Hour of God</i> – there are moments when the true, the true miracle is possible; if that moment is missed, then the world will go ... at its turtle pace. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">And it’s hard – a lot of suffering, a lot of complications.... But faith, who has faith? True faith. (silence) But you see, even those who are here attribute purely human feelings and reactions to me.... So.... <span style="text-align: right;">– </span><i style="text-align: right;">The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 12</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 12 May 1971 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>I disapprove totally of violence. Each act of violence is a step back on the path leading to the goal to which we aspire. </b>The Divine is everywhere and always supremely conscious. Nothing must ever be done that cannot be done before the Divine. – <i>The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 12</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 15 May 1971 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">What do you bring? </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>The idea came to me to write an article on “Sri Aurobindo and Bangladesh....” But I don’t know whether it would be helpful, or whether anything should be said at all. </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">But where could it be published? </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>I think in one of the newspapers in India, that’s easy. </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">What did you write? I am curious. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(Satprem reads the article. At one point in the text, he briefly mentions what he thinks each country represents: France = clarity of intellect; Germany = ingenuity; <b>Russia = the brotherhood of man</b>.... Mother interrupts:) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">You said nothing for the United States. What is it? </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Practical organization. </i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">(Satprem finishes his reading) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Oh, it’s good!... It should be put into proper English….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It’s full of power, that power has to be kept.… And I wouldn’t sign your name. I would put “A lover of India,” something like that…. <span style="text-align: right;">– </span><i style="text-align: right;">The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 12</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[Satprem’s article “Sri Aurobindo and Bangladesh” was also published in <i>The Mother’s Agenda</i>, see: <a href="https://sri-aurobindo.in/workings/ma/agenda_12/1971-05-15-01_e.htm" target="_blank">“Addendum” of 15 May 1971</a>.]</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 17 July 1971</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[O]ne has the impression that America is doing the politics of the adverse forces. You’d say they’re working for the adverse forces.... </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Do you know that the President of the United States [Nixon] is going to China? </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Yes, can you beat that! And they’re not trying to make a rapprochement with the Russians, far from it. </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">No, of course not! </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>In other words, they’re doing everything just the reverse. </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Yes. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence, then Mother raises her arms in a gesture of helplessness) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Did you bring something? </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Yes, there’s your April message, which has to be translated into French for the Bulletin: </i></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>We are at one of these “Hours of God,” when the old bases get shaken...and there is a great confusion; but it is a wonderful opportunity for those who want to leap forward, the possibility of progress is exceptional. Will you not be of those who take advantage of it?</b> [The Mother, 1 April 1971] </span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: right;">– <i>The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 12</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b>The Mother, 11 August 1971 </b></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">(The Mother gives Satprem a note she has just written.) </p></blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">“When men become disgusted with the falsehood they live in,</div><div style="text-align: center;">then the world will be ready for the reign of Truth.”</div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">* <br />* *</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">“Truth is within men's reach, but they care nothing about Truth.”</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><i>… How do you see <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Soviet_Treaty_of_Friendship_and_Cooperation" target="_blank">[the Indo-Russia] pact</a></b>?</i></p></blockquote><p>It’s as if you asked me, “<b>What will it take for humanity to become disgusted with its falsehood?</b>” </p><p>It’s terrible! </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">(long silence) </p></blockquote><p>There is only ONE remedy – there is only ONE remedy – to rely only on the Divine Grace… The only remedy: to put oneself entirely in the hands of the Divine Grace. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Endnotes:</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers_12.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> “On 26 July <b>1956</b>, Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal Company, which prior to that was owned primarily by British and French shareholders. On 29 October, Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai. Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to cease fire, which was ignored. On 5 November, Britain and France landed paratroopers along the Suez Canal. Before the Egyptian forces were defeated, they had blocked the canal to all shipping by sinking 40 ships in the canal. It later became clear that Israel, France and Britain had conspired to plan out the invasion. The three allies had attained a number of their military objectives, but the canal was useless. Heavy political pressure from the United States and the USSR led to a withdrawal…. The fight over the canal also laid the groundwork for the Six-Day War in <b>1967</b> due to the lack of a peace settlement following the 1956 war and rising of tensions between Egypt and Israel.” – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis" target="_blank">Suez Crisis </a>(29 October 1956 – 7 November 1956), Wikipedia</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers_12.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a> <b>The Mother, </b><span style="text-align: right;"><b>23 April, 1968 </b>(</span><span style="text-align: right;"><i>The Mother’s Agenda Vol. 9)</i></span><b>:</b></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">What happened was that people in Russia, Yugoslavia who translated it ... (it was translated into a certain number of languages, now I don’t remember), they asked me for an alternative to the word "Divine," because ... In Russia, they go one better, the word is banned! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Using the word "divine" is forbidden! So I said all right. I said, "FOR RUSSIA, you may, if you wish, put ‘Perfect Consciousness’ instead of ‘Divine Consciousness.’" I pointed out to them (laughing), "It’s somewhat diminished, it’s brought down a little, but never mind!"</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here, in the French brochure, it’s "Divine." I said if they wanted another word in Russian or German (in German T. translated it into "the highest" [Consciousness]; I told her, "It’s rather poor, but anyway"), well, I said I wouldn’t protest. In Chinese it’s "Divine." I think it’s "Divine" in Japanese too. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In German, they asserted, "Oh, if we put ‘Divine,’ people will immediately think of God...." I replied (laughing), "Not necessarily, if they’re not idiots!"</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers_12.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a> As I have written, 1968 falls 96 years after Sri Aurobindo’s birth (1872) and in the 144-year cycle from 1872-2016 – beginning with the year of his birth and ends with the passing of Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet – 1968 falls at the 6 Point (0° Sagittarius), marking the completion of two thirds of the evolutionary cycle/circle and the beginning of the last third, which in the Zodiac, spans the final four signs (and final 432,000ʺ) of the Zodiac, reaching into the heavenly Swar realm or quadrant of the Vedic year and journey. I was conceived circa 1 June 1968. During this year, Patrizia (Thea) wrote her first book on astrology which was an important gateway or opening into the knowledge which would pour into and out of her being throughout that last third of the 144-year cycle, which led to the release of the geometric and zodiacal sense of the seven rivers of the Vedas (and the vials of St. John’s Revelation), seven days before her passing on 9 October 2016 [See <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Geometric-Keys-Vedic-Wisdom-Tompkins/dp/0999614908" target="_blank">Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</a></i>, Part Two (2016). Thea wrote about 1968 as the “crystalisation of a new body of Light”, in relation to the Mother’s Temple and its sacred geometry and all of the Vedic gnosis and the gnosis of Sri Aurobindo’s avataric descent contained therein, which the builders and residents of Auroville (“the city”) proceeded to reject and distort. [See Thea’s <i><a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Chronicles of the Inner Chamber</a></i>.]</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>[The Mother] was 90 in 1968. It was then that she founded the 'city' [Auroville]. Seven days after her birthday of that year she began the gestation of her new Body which would house the soul of a new creation. First she undertook the formation of the outer body of the 'fetus', or the vessel that would hold the spark of the new gnostic light. Then, three years later, exactly in tune with the gnostic flow of Time, she breathed that Soul/Spark into the City/Body. In 1971 she set the chamber [of the Mother’s Temple/Matrimandir] its way, which was to house the soul of the new age</b>.… </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>[T]he nine years between 90 and 99 [1968-1977] is the sacred period of crystallisation of a new body of Light</b>. In the Mother's case it took the form of a chamber/revelation, housed in a City/Consciousness.” – Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 190 [Bold emphasis added]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>1968 was the beginning of the city/consciousness―of the body of the soul/chamber</b>. The work indeed was becoming precise, for several points of culmination were to be reached during those nine years,―Sri Aurobindo's enhancement time, the completion of his own cycle of 99 years, which coincided with the enhancement, his 'return', the Mother's nine-month yoga of concretisation from February 21 to November 20, 1973; and finally the Third's enhancement year, 1977, which coincided with the final year of the Mother's 99-year cycle and the completion of her work of concretisation of a new consciousness. These culminations are woven into the fabric of the chamber's destiny. The vision of the interrelation between all these is finally the only way to decipher the measurements of the chamber, and in so doing to discover the secret formula of a new Destiny.” – Ibid., pp. 320-21</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers_12.html#4" id="4a">[4]</a> Wikipedia: “A period of political liberalization in 1968, known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring" target="_blank">Prague Spring</a>, was violently ended when the Soviet Union, assisted by some other Warsaw Pact countries, invaded Czechoslovakia. In 1989, as Marxist–Leninist governments and communism were ending all over Eastern Europe, Czechoslovaks peacefully deposed their socialist government in 17th November 1989 in the Velvet Revolution, state price controls were removed after a period of preparation. In 1993, Czechoslovakia split into the two sovereign states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers_12.html#5" id="5a">[5]</a> “Auroville will become what it must be: only if and when the people living there will stop lying.” ‒ The Mother,<i> The Mother’s Agenda</i>, 1973. See Robert Wilkinson’s article “Have Auroville’s Failures Made It a Danger to the World?” (2011).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (17 June 2003): “In the Auroville Matrimandir the only consistency we find is the consistent lack of any higher content; added to this is the unfortunate fact that the building now standing at the heart of a township purported to be a creation of the Mother’s and the cradle of the Superman, bearing Sri Aurobindo’s name, consistently denies all that the Mother sought to capture in the temple. The Auroville Matrimandir is exactly what the community, the builders, the architects and the governing bodies desired it to be: no knowledge, no higher function and purpose, no truth-conscious unity. In fact, in the language of gnostic symbols, the Auroville Matrimandir is, as reported in CIC 8, a hymn to the Dark Lord.” – “The Chronicles of the Inner Chamber - Part IX - The Bridge of Gnosis [Bold emphasis added]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><hr style="text-align: justify;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">If you value the </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b>original research and content made freely </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b><br />available on this blog</b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a></div>Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-61532281337447724232022-05-09T14:46:00.023-07:002022-05-12T13:10:25.114-07:00The Convergence of Putin’s War & the Mother’s 144-Year Birth Anniversary ⁓ A Cosmological Perspective ⁓ Part Two ⁓ Addendum 1<p style="text-align: justify;">[Link to Parts <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html" target="_blank">One</a> or <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html" target="_blank">Two</a> or <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers_12.html" target="_blank">Addendum 2</a>. The quotes of these two Addendums give a sense of how Sri Aurobindo and the Mother – who Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet discussed as ‘evolutionary avatars” – saw and discussed international and political affairs in relation to the evolution of consciousness on Earth. All bold emphasis added. Note: On 12 May 2022 I added excerpts from two entries from the Mother’s Agenda to Addendum 1: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#30Oct">30 October 1962</a> and <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#17Nov">17 November 1962</a>.]</p><p><b><br />Sri Aurobindo, circa 1915-1918, Undated </b> </p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_6ZG7xUSnBcTC0OA2RAARSNW2liFgvOpANyWV72M6DBDReKx5Ky_lSv8Snx92EtX48H0KB7rXMWjDObiQp-mQrS1WeglUQSiGJWcEVcZiU9CvBmroLLjEWjmUg4554qKeGgVO8WxoxCcMYJ2Yn3fSrN34TBe6iXEGl4DdKx6Je40nuR62uZ-N4NYV/s248/Sri_aurobindo.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="Sri Aurobindo" border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="175" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_6ZG7xUSnBcTC0OA2RAARSNW2liFgvOpANyWV72M6DBDReKx5Ky_lSv8Snx92EtX48H0KB7rXMWjDObiQp-mQrS1WeglUQSiGJWcEVcZiU9CvBmroLLjEWjmUg4554qKeGgVO8WxoxCcMYJ2Yn3fSrN34TBe6iXEGl4DdKx6Je40nuR62uZ-N4NYV/w192-h272/Sri_aurobindo.jpg" title="Sri Aurobindo" width="192" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">In Fascist countries the swing away from Rationalism is marked and open; a surface vital subjectivism has taken its place and it is in the name of the national soul and its self-expression and manifestation that the leaders and prophets teach and violently enforce their totalitarian mystique. The essential features are the same in Russia and in Fascist countries, so that to the eye of the outsider their deadly quarrel seems to be a blood-feud of kinsmen fighting for the inheritance of their slaughtered parents — Democracy and the Age of Reason. There is the seizure of the life of the community by a dominant individual leader, Fuhrer, Dux, dictator, head of a small active minority, the Nazi, Fascist or Communist party, and supported by a militarised partisan force; there is a rapid crystallisation of the social, economic, political life of the people into a new rigid organisation effectively controlled at every point; there is the compulsory casting of thought, education, expression, action, into a set iron mould, a fixed system of ideas and life-motives, with a fierce and ruthless, often a sanguinary repression of all that denies and differs; there is a total unprecedented compression of the whole communal existence so as to compel a maximum efficiency and a complete unanimity of mind, speech, feeling, life.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">If this trend becomes universal, it is the end of the Age of Reason, the suicide or the execution — by decapitation or lethal pressure, <i>peine forte et dure</i>, — of the rational and intellectual expansion of the human mental being. Reason cannot do its work, act or rule if the mind of man is denied freedom to think or freedom to realise its thought by action in life. But neither can a subjective age be the outcome; for the growth of subjectivism also cannot proceed without plasticity, without movement of self-search, without room to move, expand, develop, change.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The result is likely to be rather the creation of a tenebrous No Man’s Land where obscure mysticisms, materialistic, vitalistic or mixed, clash and battle for the mastery of human life. But this consummation is not certain; chaos and confusion still reign and all hangs in the balance. Totalitarian mysticism may not be able to carry out its menace of occupying the globe, may not even endure. Spaces of the earth may be left where a rational idealism can still survive. The terrible compression now exercised on the national mind and life may lead to an explosion from within or, on the other hand, having fulfilled its immediate aim may relax and give way in calmer times to a greater plasticity which will restore to the human mind or soul a more natural line of progress, a freer field for their self-expanding impulse.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In that case the curve of the Age of Reason, now threatened with an abrupt cessation, may prolong and complete itself; the subjective turn of the human mind and life, avoiding a premature plunge into any general external action before it has found itself, may have time and freedom to evolve, to seek out its own truth, its own lines and so become ready to take up the spiral of the human social evolution where the curve of the Age of Reason naturally ends by its own normal evolution and make ready the ways of a deeper spirit. – <i>The Human Cycle, </i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a></span> <i>CWSA, Vol. 25</i>, pp. 205-07</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So long as war does not become psychologically impossible, it will remain or, if banished for a while, return. War itself, it is hoped, will end war; the expense, the horror, the butchery, the disturbance of tranquil life, the whole confused sanguinary madness of the thing has reached or will reach such colossal proportions that the human race will fling the monstrosity behind it in weariness and disgust. But weariness and disgust, horror and pity, even the opening of the eyes to reason by the practical fact of the waste of human life and energy and the harm and extravagance are not permanent factors; they last only while the lesson is fresh. Afterwards, there is forgetfulness; human nature recuperates itself and recovers the instincts that were temporarily dominated. A long peace, even a certain organisation of peace may conceivably result, but so long as the heart of man remains what it is, the peace will come to an end, the organisation will break down under the stress of human passions. War is no longer, perhaps, a biological necessity, but it is still a psychological necessity; what is within us, must manifest itself outside. Meanwhile it is well that every false hope and confident prediction should be answered as soon as may well be by the irony of the gods; for only so can we be driven to the perception of the real remedy. Only when man has developed not merely a fellow-feeling with all men, but a dominant sense of unity and commonalty, only when he is aware of them not merely as brothers,—that is a fragile bond,—but as parts of himself, only when he has learned to live not in his separate personal and communal ego-sense, but in a larger universal consciousness can the phenomenon of war, with whatever weapons, pass out of his life without the possibility of return. Meanwhile that he should struggle even by illusions towards that end, is an excellent sign; for it shows that the truth behind the illusion is pressing towards the hour when it may become manifest as reality. – <i>War and Self-Determination, </i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#2a" id="2">[2]</a></span> <i>CWSA, Vol. 25</i>, pp. 610-11 </p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Experience has so far shown us that the human attempt to arrive at a mechanical freedom has only resulted in a very relative liberty and even that has been enjoyed for the most part by some at the expense of others. It has amounted usually to the rule of the majority by a minority, and many strange things have been done in its name. Ancient liberty and democracy meant in Greece the self-rule — variegated by periodical orgies of mutual throat-cutting — of a smaller number of freemen of all ranks who lived by the labour of a great mass of slaves. In recent times liberty and democracy have been, and still are, [an] assertion which veils under a skilfully moderated plutocratic system the rule of an organised successful bourgeoisie over a proletariate at first submissive, afterwards increasingly dissatisfied and combined for recalcitrant self-assertion. The earliest use of liberty and democracy by the emancipated proletariat has been the crude forceful tyranny of an ill-organised labour oligarchy over a quite disorganised peasantry and an impotently recalcitrant bourgeoisie. And just as the glorious possession of liberty by the community has been held to be consistent with the oppression of four-fifths or three-fifths of the population by the remaining fraction, so it has till lately been held to be quite consistent with the complete subjection of one half of mankind, the woman half, to the physically stronger male. The series continues through a whole volume of anomalies, including of course the gloriously beneficent and profitable exploitation of subject peoples by emancipated nations who, it seems, are entitled to that domination by their priesthood of the sacred cult of freedom. They mean no doubt to extend it to the exploited at some distant date, but take care meanwhile to pay themselves the full price of their holy office before they deliver the article. Even the best machinery of this mechanical freedom yet discovered amounts to the unmodified will of a bare majority, or rather to its selection of a body of rulers who coerce in its name all minorities and lead it to issues of which it has itself no clear perception.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">These anomalies, — anomalies of many kinds are inseparable from the mechanical method [=the human attempt to arrive at a mechanical freedom], — are a sign that the real meaning of liberty has not yet been understood. Nevertheless the aspiration and the effort itself towards the realisation of a great idea cannot fail to bear some fruit, and modern liberty and democracy, however imperfect and relative, have had this result that for the communities which have followed them, they have removed the pressure of the more obvious, outward and aggressive forms of oppression and domination which were inherent in the systems of the past. They have made life a little more tolerable for the mass, and if they have not yet made life free, they have at least given more liberty to thought and to the effort to embody a freer thought in a more adequate form of life. This larger space for the thought in man and its workings was the necessary condition for a growing clarity which must enlighten in the end the crude conceptions with which the race has started and refine the crude methods and forms in which it has embodied them. The attempt to govern life by an increasing light of thought rather than allow the rough and imperfect actualities of life to govern and to limit the mind is a distinct sign of advance in human progress. But the true turning-point will come with the farther step which initiates the attempt to govern life by that of which thought itself is only a sign and an instrument, the soul, the inner being, and to make our ways of living a freer opportunity for the growing height and breadth of its need of self-fulfilment. That is the real, the profounder sense which we shall have to learn to attach to the idea of self-determination as the effective principle of liberty.” – Ibid., pp. 624-26</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[If] we have not the unity within, it is in vain that we shall try to enforce it from without by law and compulsion or by any assertion in outward forms. Intellectual assertion too, like the mechanical, is insufficient; only the spiritual can give it, because it alone has the secure power of realisation. <b>The ancient truth of the self is the eternal truth;</b> we have to go back upon it in order to carry it out in newer and fuller ways for which a past humanity was not ready. The recognition and fulfilment of the divine being in oneself and in man, the kingdom of God within and in the race is the basis on which man must come in the end to the possession of himself as a free self-determining being and of mankind too in a mutually possessing self-expansion as a harmoniously self-determining united existence.” – Ibid., pp. 632-33</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Sri Aurobindo, 25 January 1935</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I know it is the Russian explanation of the recent trend to spirituality and mysticism that it is a phenomenon of capitalist society in its decadence. But to read an economic cause, conscious or unconscious, into all phenomena of man's history is part of the Bolshevik gospel born of the fallacy of Karl Marx. Man's nature is not so simple and one-chorded as all that – it has many lines and each line produces a need of his life. The spiritual or mystic line is one of them and man tries to satisfy it in various ways, by superstitions of all kinds, by ignorant religionism, by spiritism, demonism and what not, in his more enlightened parts by spiritual philosophy, the higher occultism and the rest, at his highest by the union with the All, the Eternal or the Divine. The tendency towards the search of spirituality began in Europe with a recoil from the nineteenth century's scientific materialism, a dissatisfaction with the pretended all-sufficiency of the reason and the intellect and a feeling out for something deeper. That was a pre-war phenomenon, and began when there was no menace of Communism and the capitalistic world was at its height of insolent success and triumph, and it came rather as a revolt against the materialistic bourgeois life and its ideals, not as an attempt to serve or sanctify it. It has been at once served and opposed by the postwar disillusionment – opposed because the post-war world has fallen back either on cynicism and the life of the senses or on movements like Fascism and Communism; served because with the deeper minds the dissatisfaction with the ideals of the past or the present, with all mental or vital or material solutions of the problem of life has increased and only the spiritual path is left. It is true that the European mind having little light on these things dallies with vital will-o-the-wisps like spiritism or theosophy or falls back upon the old religionism; but the deeper minds of which I speak either pass by them or pass through them in search of a greater Light. I have had contact with many and the above tendencies are very clear. They come from all countries and it was only a minority who hailed from England or America. Russia is different – unlike the others it has lingered in mediaeval religionism and not passed through any period of revolt – so when the revolt came it was naturally anti-religious and atheistic. It is only when this phase is exhausted that Russian mysticism can revive and take not a narrow religious but the spiritual direction. It is true that mysticism…turned upside down, has made Bolshevism and its endeavour a creed rather than a political theme and a search for the paradisal secret millennium on earth rather than the building of a purely social structure. But for the most part Russia is trying to do on the communistic basis all that nineteenth-century idealism hoped to get at – and failed – in the midst of or against an industrial competitive environment. Whether it will really succeed any better is for the future to decide – for <b>at present it only keeps what it has got by a tension and violent control which is not over</b>. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#3a" id="3">[3]</a></span> – <i>Letters on Yoga I, CWSA, Vol. 28</i>, pp. 328-29</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3zvvDF1nZMUHOh-LxyPD2eg7Qi6zhb1YrlXsa32RDH7W_GcpLmDuYgxiizRqivtgtV5xUjiEHd2BA2Y13pBGxIVCmZj4crexbTJ0C7edeROECvODDuHvd7b4q1XvW6Tymam62isHSzK2tUwUQp06RCQVEElavkItKWgHHLNNnOHZCkEkLq2q23yXF/s425/TheMother.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="425" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3zvvDF1nZMUHOh-LxyPD2eg7Qi6zhb1YrlXsa32RDH7W_GcpLmDuYgxiizRqivtgtV5xUjiEHd2BA2Y13pBGxIVCmZj4crexbTJ0C7edeROECvODDuHvd7b4q1XvW6Tymam62isHSzK2tUwUQp06RCQVEElavkItKWgHHLNNnOHZCkEkLq2q23yXF/w256-h172/TheMother.jpg" width="256" /></a></b></div><b><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The Mother, 22 October 1938 </b> </div></b><p></p>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Speaking of recent events, you ask me “whether it was a dangerous bluff” or whether we “narrowly escaped disaster”. To assume both at the same time would be nearer to the truth.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Hitler was certainly bluffing, if that is what you call shouting and making threats with the intention of intimidating those to whom one is talking and obtaining as much as one can. Tactics and diplomacy were used, but on the other hand, behind every human will there are forces at work whose origin is not human and which move consciously towards certain ends. The play of these forces is very complex and generally eludes the human consciousness; but for ease of explanation and understanding, they may be divided into two main opposing tendencies: those that work for the fulfilment of the Divine work upon earth, and those that are opposed to this fulfilment. The former have few conscious instruments at their disposal. It is true that in this matter quality compensates by far for quantity. As for the anti-divine forces they have only too many to choose from, and always they find wills which they enslave and individuals whom they turn into docile but nearly always unconscious puppets.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Hitler is a choice instrument for these anti-divine forces which want violence, upheaval and war, for they know that these things retard and hamper the action of the divine forces. That is why disaster was very close even though no human government consciously wanted it. But at any cost there was to be no war and that is why war has been avoided — for the time being. – <i>Collected Works of the Mother [CWM], Vol. 16, Some Answers from the Mother</i>, pp. 9-10</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>The Iron Dictators</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">I looked for Thee alone, but met my glance<br />The iron dreadful Four who rule our breath,<br />Masters of falsehood, Kings of ignorance,<br />High sovereign Lords of suffering and death.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Whence came these formidable autarchies,<br />From what inconscient blind Infinity,—<br />Cold propagandists of a million lies,<br />Dictators of a world of agony?</p><p style="text-align: center;">Or was it Thou who bor’st the fourfold mask?<br />Enveloping Thy timeless heart in Time,<br />Thou hast bound the spirit to its cosmic task,<br />To find Thee veiled in this tremendous mime.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Thou, only Thou, canst raise the invincible siege,<br />O Light, O deathless Joy, O rapturous Peace!</p><p style="text-align: right;">– Sri Aurobindo, 14-11-1938, <br /><i>Collected Poems, CWSA, Vol. 2</i>, p. 64</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Mother, 27 May 1940 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Don’t worry about Hitler. No asuric force can stand eternally against the divine force and the hour of his defeat is bound to come. – <i>CWM, Volume 15, Words of the Mother - III</i>, p. 43 </p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>The Mother, 6 May 1941 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">It has become necessary to state emphatically and clearly that all who by their thoughts and wishes are supporting and calling for the victory of the Nazis are by that very fact collaborating with the Asura against the Divine and helping to bring about the victory of the Asura. The Asuric power that is acting with Hitler as instrument and seeking through him domination of the world is the same power that has been opposing Sri Aurobindo’s work and trying to destroy it and to frustrate the Divine fulfilment.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Those therefore who wish for the victory of the Nazis should now understand that it is a wish for the destruction of our work and an act of treachery against Sri Aurobindo. – <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 3</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>The Mother, 25 May 1941</b> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The world situation is critical today. India’s fate too is hanging in the balance. There was a time when India was absolutely secure, there was no danger whatever of her being victim to Asuric aggression. But things have changed. <b>People and forces in India have acted in such a way as to invite Asuric influences upon her: these have worked insidiously and undermined the security that was there</b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">If India is in danger, Pondicherry cannot be expected to remain outside the danger zone. It will share the fate of the rest of the country. The protection I can give is not unconditional. It is idle to hope that in spite of anything and everything, the protection will be there over all. <b>My protection is there if conditions are fulfilled. It goes without saying that any sympathy or support for the Nazis (or for any ally of theirs) automatically cuts across the circle of protection</b>. Apart from this obvious and external factor, there are more fundamental psychological conditions which demand fulfillment. The Divine can give protection only to those who are whole-heartedly faithful to the Divine, who live truly in the spirit of sadhana and keep their consciousness and preoccupation fixed upon the Divine and the service of the Divine. Desire, for example, insistence on one’s likes and conveniences, all movements of hypocrisy and insincerity and falsehood, are great obstacles standing in the way of the Divine’s protection. If you seek to impose your will upon the Divine, it is as if you were calling for a bomb to fall upon you. I do not say that things are bound to happen in this way; but they are very likely to happen, if people do not become conscious and strictly vigilant and act in the true spirit of a spiritual seeker. <b>If the psychological atmosphere remains the same as that of the outside world, there can be no wall of security against the dark Forces that are working out in it the ordeal of danger, suffering and destruction entering here</b>.” – CWM, Vol. 13, Words of the Mother-1, pp. 120-21</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[After reading her 25 May 1941 letter, on 4 December 1971 the Mother commented: “Yes, everything is part of the divine plan. It’s only due to our need to struggle that we say, “This is bad, it is wrong ...” – <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 12</i>]</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Sri Aurobindo, 29 July 1942 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">You have said that you have begun to doubt whether [World War II] was the Mother’s war and ask me to make you feel again that it is. I affirm again to you most strongly that this is the Mother’s war. <b>You should not think of it as a fight for certain nations against others or even for India; it is a struggle for an ideal that has to establish itself on earth in the life of humanity, for a Truth that has yet to realise itself fully and against a darkness and falsehood that are trying to overwhelm the earth and mankind in the immediate future. It is the forces behind the battle that have to be seen and not this or that superficial circumstance. It is no use concentrating on the defects or mistakes of nations; all have defects and commit serious mistakes; but what matters is on what side they have ranged themselves in the struggle. It is a struggle for the liberty of mankind to develop, for conditions in which men have freedom and room to think and act according to the light in them and grow in the Truth, grow in the Spirit. </b>There cannot be the slightest doubt that if one side wins, there will be an end of all such freedom and hope of light and truth and the work that has to be done will be subjected to conditions which would make it humanly impossible; there will be a reign of falsehood and darkness, a cruel oppression and degradation for most of the human race such as people in this country do not dream of and cannot yet at all realise. If the other side that has declared itself for the free future of humanity triumphs, this terrible danger will have been averted and conditions will have been created in which there will be a chance for the Ideal to grow, for the Divine Work to be done, for the spiritual Truth for which we stand to establish itself on the earth. Those who fight for this cause are fighting for the Divine and against the threatened reign of the Asura. – <i>Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest, CWSA, Vol. 36</i>, pp. 463-64</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Sri Aurobindo, 28 June 1950</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I do not know why you want a line of thought to be indicated to you for your guidance in the affair of Korea. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#4a" id="4">[4]</a> </span>There is nothing to hesitate about there, the whole affair is as plain as a pike-staff. It is the first move in the Communist plan of campaign to dominate and take possession first of these northern parts and then of South East Asia as a preliminary to their manoeuvres with regard to the rest of the continent – in passing, Tibet as a gate opening to India. If they succeed, there is no reason why domination of the whole world should not follow by steps until they are ready to deal with America. That is, provided the war can be staved off with America until Stalin can choose his time. <b>Truman seems to have understood the situation if we can judge from his moves in Korea, but it is to be seen whether he is strong enough and determined enough to carry the matter through.</b> The measures he has taken are likely to be incomplete and unsuccessful, since they do not include any actual military intervention except on sea and in the air. That seems to be the situation; we have to see how it develops. One thing is certain that if there is too much shillyshallying and if America gives up now her defence of Korea, she may be driven to yield position after position until it is too late: at one point or another she will have to stand and face the necessity of drastic action even if it leads to war. Stalin also seems not to be ready to face at once the risk of a world war and, if so, Truman can turn the tables on him by constantly facing him with the onus of either taking that risk or yielding position after position to America. I think that is all that I can see at present; for the moment the situation is as grave as it can be.” – Ibid., pp. 507-08</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[The invasion and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" target="_blank">annexation of Tibet by China</a> began four months later, October 1950 – May 1951] </p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>The Mother, 8 March 1951 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[Hitler] was in contact with a being whom he considered to be the Supreme: this being came and gave him advice, told him all that he had to do. Hitler used to retire into solitude and remain there as long as it was necessary to come into contact with his “guide” and receive from him inspirations which he carried out later very faithfully. This being which Hitler took for the Supreme was quite plainly an Asura, one who is called the “Lord of Falsehood” in occultism, but who proclaimed himself the “Lord of the Nations”. He had a shining appearance, he could mislead anybody except one who really had occult knowledge and could see what was there behind the appearance. He would have deceived anybody, he was truly splendid. Generally he used to appear to Hitler wearing a silver cuirass and helmet; a kind of flame came out of his head and there was an atmosphere of dazzling light around him, so dazzling that Hitler could hardly look at him. He used to tell Hitler everything that had to be done — he played with him as with a monkey or a mouse. He had decided clearly to make Hitler commit all possible extravagances till the day he would break his neck, which did happen. But cases like this are frequent, though on a smaller scale, of course. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Hitler was a very good medium, he had great mediumistic capacities, but he lacked intelligence and discrimination. This being could tell him anything whatever and he swallowed it all. It was he who pushed Hitler little by little. And he was doing this as a distraction, he did not take life seriously. For these beings men are very tiny things with whom they play, as a cat plays with a mouse, till finally they eat them up….</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Q: When Hitler died, did the Lord of Falsehood pass into Stalin? </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">It is not altogether like that that things happen, but it is something similar. This being did not wait for Hitler’s death, it is there you make a mistake. These beings are not at all tied to a single physical presence. The being in question could very well possess Hitler and at the same time influence many others. Hitler was got rid of because he had behind him a whole nation and a physical power, and if he had succeeded it would have been a disaster for humanity, but there was no deluding oneself about it; it was not sufficient to get rid of him in order to get rid of the force that was behind him — that is not so easy. I must tell you that the origin of these beings is prior to that of the gods; they are the first emanations, the first individual beings of the universe; so they cannot be got rid of so easily, by winning one war. As long as they are necessary for the universal evolution they will exist. The day they lose their utility, they will be converted or will disappear. Besides, they know that they are nearing their last hour and that is why they are doing as much damage as they can. There were four of them. The first one has been converted, another is dissolved into its origin. Two are still living and these two are more ferocious than the others. One is known in occultism as the “Lord of Falsehood”(I have told you this) the other is the “Lord of Death”. And as long as these two beings exist, there will be difficulties. – <i>CWM, Vol. 4, Questions and Answers 1950-1951</i>, pp. 185-86</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Mother, 25 November 1953</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[The “invisible enemies of the Divine”] are precisely those four persons who have naturally put forth innumerable emanations, which have again put forth others, which have made formations. And so there are millions and millions and millions of them, and it is these who have formed between themselves a certain habit and have the logic to preserve it and persist in not wanting any other rule than theirs to govern. These are what are called in India the Asuras, the beings of darkness. It is through a sort of logic that they are like that. They began by going wrong, they continue. Now, I must say, there are some among them who change their mind. But this is mentioned in the Gita also; I believe they speak of those who will be converted, and then of those who absolutely refuse any conversion, who prefer to disappear, to be destroyed rather than be converted. And that’s how it is. Some are of one kind, others of another….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have just said a minute ago that when it became inconscience or darkness, it produced innumerable formations — emanations, formations, creations. And its conversion does not mean that all the rest follow. They obey that same law of freedom, freedom of choice. They may be converted or not. There are those who are converted, there are those who refuse. And I believe that in fact there are many more who refuse.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But <b>the one who does the greatest harm is the “Lord of Falsehood”. He it is indeed who is the biggest obstacle in the universe, this constant negation of the truth. And he has a very strong hold on the terrestrial world, on the material world</b>. Besides, here (on the earth), those who see him, see him as an absolutely marvellous, splendid being. He entitles himself the “Lord of the Nations”, and he appears formidable, luminous, powerful, very impressive.... Historically, he was the inspirer of certain heads of State, and he proclaims himself the Lord of the Nations because it is he who governs the peoples. He is evidently, at the source, the supreme organiser of these last two wars. It was on that occasion that he manifested himself as the Lord of the Nations. And he declared, besides, that he would never be converted. And he knows that his end will come — naturally, he will try to make it as late as possible. And he declared that he would destroy all he could before being destroyed.... We may expect all possible catastrophes.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>In February you gave a message saying “a new light shall break upon the earth”</i>, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#5a" id="5">[5]</a></span><i> and just after that [on 5 March 1953], Stalin died. Does this signify anything?</i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">That would truly be a small result. The death of Stalin (unfortunately not any more than the death of Hitler) has not changed the present state of the world. Something more than that would be necessary. For this is like the assassin who is guillotined: when his head is cut off, his spirit remains behind and is projected outside him. It is a vital formation and it goes and takes shelter in one of the benevolent spectators, who suddenly feels a criminal instinct in himself. There are many men like that, specially very young criminals who when questioned have acknowledged this. They have been asked: “When did this desire to kill come to you?” and the frequent reply is: “It got hold of me when I saw so-and-so executed.”</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, this is of no use, the death of this one or that other. That does not help very much — the thing goes elsewhere. It is only one form. It is as though you did something very wicked with a particular shirt on and then threw away your shirt and said: “Now, I shall no longer do harm.” You continue with another shirt on!</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>If life has been converted into death, why doesn’t it itself die?</i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Because it protects itself well. What you say is quite true, but it takes good care not to incarnate on earth. And in the vital world there is no death, it does not exist there. It is in the material world that this exists, and it takes very good care not to incarnate.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Was Stalin predestined to be what he was?</i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Stalin? I am not quite sure that he was a human being... in the sense that I don’t think he had a psychic being. Or perhaps he did have one — in all matter, in every atom there is a divine centre — but I mean a conscious psychic being, formed, individualised. I don’t think so. I believe it was a direct incarnation of a being of the vital world. And that was the great difference between him and Hitler. Hitler was simply a man, and as a man he was very weak-minded, very sentimental — he had the conscience of a petty workman (some said of a petty shoemaker), in any case of a little workman or a little school-master, something like that, a very small conscience, and extremely sentimental, what is called in French “fleur bleue”, very weak.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But he was possessed. He was rather mediocre by nature, very mediocre. He was a medium, a very good medium — the thing took hold of him, besides, during spiritism seances. It was at that moment that he was seized by those fits which were described as epileptic. They were not epileptic: they were attacks of possession. It was thus that he had a kind of power, which however was not very great. But when he wanted to know something from that power, he went away to his castle, and there, in “meditation”, there truly he invoked very intensely what he called his “god”, his supreme god, who was the Lord of the Nations. And everything seemed to him magnificent. It was a being... it was small — it appeared to him all in silver armour, with a silver helmet and golden plume! It was magnificent! And a light so dazzling that hardly could the eyes see and bear that blaze. Naturally it did not appear physically — Hitler was a medium, he saw. He had a sort of clairvoyance. And it was at such times that he had his fits: he rolled on the ground, he drivelled, bit the carpet, it was frightful, the state he was in. The people around him knew it. Well, that being is the “Lord of the Nations”. And it is not even the Lord of the Nations in its origin, it is an emanation of the Lord of the Nations, and a very powerful emanation.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>If it chooses to disappear, would that be a loss of power for the Divine?</i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">What? What are you saying! Disappear where? What do you call disappearing? — Disappear where? You know the story of the Ramayana. What did Ravana <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#6a" id="6">[6]</a> </span>choose? You know that? Very well, this is what is called choosing to disappear: that is to say, he has no longer any individuality.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>What happened to Ravana after his death we are not told.</i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">We are not told? To me it has been told. It is said that Ravana chose to disappear into the Supreme, and that he was completely dissolved in Him, that is, he lost his individuality, he was no longer a separate being, he returned to the Origin, he was dissolved in the Supreme. And even before doing it, he had chosen to play that part, his part as a hostile being, because the road is much shorter than for those who are devotees and obey. One goes much more rapidly, for, one day, the Divine decides that it is enough, and he just destroys them. He cannot go out of the Divine, for all is divine! He may lose his individuality, that is, may be fused, dissolved into the Supreme.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Besides, nothing disappears, it is the form which disappears but the constituent elements continue. Everything is eternal, for everything is the Divine, and nothing can go out of the Divine, for everything is divine. But the forms disappear. And it is through this identification with the form that the impression of death comes; but the constituent elements are eternal, for all is eternal. It is the form which disappears.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, some of those beings prefer to be just completely dissolved and to disappear totally like that, into the infinite, the oneness (that is, they lose their personal consciousness, they have no longer any personal consciousness, they exist no longer as a personal consciousness), they prefer that, rather than having a personal consciousness which gives itself to the Divine and becomes by this very fact consciously and personally immortal. They like dissolution and personal disappearance better than conversion, that is, self-giving.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Why?</i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Through pride, I suppose. It is always pride. Fundamentally, from the very beginning it is pride — but almost all the religions have said it. It is pride, that is, a sort of consciousness of one’s power and one’s importance.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>You said that these four emanations were parts of the Supreme. Then how can they have another consciousness than His?</i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Another consciousness? But there is no other consciousness! The very principle of emanation is an objectivisation of a part of himself, which potentially keeps the qualities of the emanator. But if this emanation is made (as they were made) with a will to give freedom of choice, as I said, these emanations can either follow that freedom and independence or continue to keep the connection with the emanator, for there is a freedom of choice. That strength and force which they hold in themselves is quite sufficient to give them the impression of their importance and power. If they themselves, of their own will, choose not to remain in contact, in a relation of surrender to the Supreme, if they choose to use the amount of power and consciousness and force they contain in themselves to do what they must do independently, by that very fact they cut themselves off from their source — but in spite of that the constituent elements of their being are those which belonged to the Source. And it is because of this that, even if they cut themselves off voluntarily, there is in the very depth of the consciousness a link which is indestructible. It is the link of identity. But in the outer manifestation, as they were emanated with this essential quality of freedom of choice, well, they are free to choose to do this or that. That is why, even in the worst criminal, there is somewhere in the depths, somewhere, the divine light. I believe you have read that passage of Vivekananda where he says (I don’t know the exact words), that the criminal must be told: “Awake, awake, being of light, and shine forth!” </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Just a while ago, when I told you I shall narrate the story to you as one does to children, that is precisely because I narrated it as if it were a material story. And narrated thus, it becomes a child’s story. But these things must be seen in their own domain, which is a spiritual domain and not a material one. Things do not happen as they would here.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But still, yes! What happens here is symbolically the same thing, in the sense that the child who is born is nothing else but a little piece of his mother, even materially, altogether materially, for during almost... completely during a few hours, about two days, and to a lesser extent though still very perceptibly during at least two months, this link of substance is so great that it feels really like a physical material prolongation of herself, but outside herself. That is just the element of emanation. Well, this does not prevent children, when they grow up, from becoming quite independent of their parents and at times completely different, but at the source, at the beginning, it is the same thing. It is simply the same matter, absolutely the same, simply exteriorised, that’s all.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And for the emanations, it is the same phenomenon, but instead of being on a material plane it is on the highest spiritual plane. And what happens here is a symbol of what happens up above.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Well, doesn’t it ever occur to you to say: “How is it that this child whose father and mother are so good, so honest, so generous, so truthful, how is it that he is such a rascal?” You may wonder at it, but it does not seem anything impossible.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, this is the same thing. Fundamentally, all depends on the inner constitution of the being. There are no two beings who are exactly alike; there are no two constitutions which are the same. And all depends on the inner organisation, the integral organisation of the being, on the order in which the elements are organised and what their inner relation is — even as the external form differs because the cells are not organised in the same way. But as this is a phenomenon you constantly see, in the midst of which you are born, which you see every day, it seems quite natural to you. But it is the same thing. It seems quite natural to you that a child is different from its mother and father — and yet this is the same thing. And in an emanation of the Supreme, to begin with, one part is necessarily different from the whole, though it may potentially contain the whole, but the whole is not expressed. And as the whole is not expressed, it is perforce different from the whole, for the inner organisation is different. There then, I think that is enough. – <i>CWM, Vol. 5, Questions And Answers 1950-1951</i>, pp. 374-81</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>The Mother, 13 May 1962</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">During the war there was a whole clique (I know their names and all the details) who said I had influenced Sri Aurobindo, made him deviate from his nationalist path and turn towards the Allies; they considered me to have ruined his life, his consciousness, his work – everything, you understand. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#7a" id="7">[7]</a></span> – <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 3</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Agenda footnote: “There was, in fact, a whole group of Ashram people (they might be called the Ashram "intelligentsia") who, influenced by Subhas Bose, were strongly in favor of the Nazis and the Japanese against the British. (It should be recalled that the British were the invaders of India, and thus many people considered Britain's enemies to be automatically India's friends.) It reached the point where Sri Aurobindo had to intervene forcefully and write [the letters of 29 July 1942 and 3 September 1943].” </p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Mother, <a id="30Oct">30 October 1962</a></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have come to understand that the Chinese are a lunar race – their origin is the moon. They came to earth when the moon got too cold and they could no longer exist there. This is something I saw at the beginning of the century and my impression was further intensified when I went to China. They are a lunar race. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">And they gave me the feeling of people who lack a psychic being: they are cold, ice-cold. But wonderfully intellectual! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I met another Chinese a few years ago, a man with a spiritual life. He came to meet me and talked for an hour about China. It made me understand China externally as if I had been born and lived my whole life there. I saw they were people who have attained the summit of the intellect, and who have a creative power – inventors. He told me, "No people in the world could understand Sri Aurobindo intellectually as well as the Chinese." And it was luminously true. The highest intellectual comprehension, really at its peak. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It's another story when it comes to doing yoga.... Although that must depend entirely on the individual. The Chinese don't have the same spiritual intensity you find rooted in the Indian character – it's something completely different. Here, spiritual life is real, concrete, tangible – totally real. For the Chinese it all happens at the top of the head. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">They're not going to come here, are they? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I hope not! They are people with no feelings. I don't know if they've picked up a psychic being since they've been on earth (there are all kinds of mixtures, you see; there's no such thing as a pure race any more), but they are still ice-cold. Difficult. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">They could come into contact with Sri Aurobindo's thought – but not their troops! I don't know whether the new Chinese are much interested in philosophy.... It's better they don't come! – <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 3</i></p><p>*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Mother, <a id="17Nov">17 November 1962</a></b></p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Have you read Sri Aurobindo's last letters on China? [See Sri Aurobindo’s 28 June 1950 letter above.]</i></p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: justify;">Oh, yes – he read them to me himself! (Mother laughs.) But everything Sri Aurobindo said has always come true. You know he also said (but it was in jest, he didn't write it) ... concerning reuniting with Pakistan he told me: "Ten years. It will take ten years." The ten years passed and nothing happened – OFFICIALLY nothing happened. But the truth is (I learned it through certain government officials), Pakistan did make some overtures in that direction, asking for a union to be reestablished (they would have kept some sort of autonomy, but the two countries would have UNITED, it would have been a UNION), and Nehru refused.</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>How foolish! </i></p></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: justify;">So Sri Aurobindo had seen it. He had seen it happen. After ten years, when that man who headed Pakistan died, they found themselves in grave difficulty and were unable to get organized; so they sent somebody (unofficially, of course) to ask India to reestablish union on certain bases – but they refused, the Indians refused. It was a repetition of the same stupidity as when Cripps came to make his proposal, when Sri Aurobindo sent a message saying, "Accept, whatever the conditions, otherwise it will be worse later on." That's what Sri Aurobindo told them. Gandhi was there and he retorted, "Why is that man meddling? He should be concerned only with spiritual life." – <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 3</i></p><div>*</div><p style="text-align: left;"><b>The Mother, 20 November 1962 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War" target="_blank">The Sino-Indian War between China and India</a> occurred in October–November 1962. A disputed Himalayan border was the main cause of the war.] </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The situation is bad, very bad. They're on the verge of taking Assam – things are very bad.…It seems they're circulating maps in China showing Nepal, Bhutan, Assam and the rest as all part of China. So that's their intention – to settle there.…National ambition. To put a constant pressure on India and force it to go communist. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">To impose their rule, you see – they're at the door and can enter whenever they want. Why did they take Tibet? And then <b>they've declared that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaurishankar" target="_blank">Gaurishankar</a> is Chinese – the summit of the earth is China, not India at all</b>.... Ambition. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">And this side of Bengal and Assam is full of Chinese who settled there years and years ago; there are thousands and thousands of them, doing business. And all the communists support them, and it seems they keep a very accurate and meticulous list of those for and those against communism. (What do they base it on? I don't know – on what people say or do.) And the idea is that it's all going to be taken like this (gesture of encircling India). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It's nasty. Things seem to be taking a nasty turn.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But what I find perhaps even more incredible than the leaders' incompetence – Nehru, Menon, and so forth – is that for twenty years there hasn't been a single Indian to see things clearly and speak out – there's been no one in India, no one. For twenty years there have been two idols, Nehru and Gandhi, and then some 400 million stupefied people, with no one to see things clearly. How is it possible?... No one! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But Nehru had a very good foreign press. They considered him almost a god in Europe and America. And Gandhi! ... Oh, they were.... The whole world is like that, mon petit – they don't understand. They don't understand. Nobody understands. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">We will see. I believe we WILL see – it's going to be now: we're going to see. Maybe we'll see from another world. (Laughing) It's possible. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">They have bombs in America and Russia (China hasn't boasted about it, but they may have some too) that can destroy a whole city – one is more than enough, you don't need two. The Russians in particular: a single bomb and a whole city, even the size of London: vroom! Nothing left. (That's the theory, but still, there's always something true in it.) We saw what happened to Hiroshima, it was pretty bad. Well, if that was ten, then what they have now is a thousand – that's the proportion. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In other words, <b>they've turned all their intelligence towards destruction</b>. Some say, "It will deter them from fighting." But that's childish! </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(long silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">China has already recalled its ambassador from Delhi. The Indians haven't recalled theirs from Peking, but they'll be forced to. This kind of thing can't be one-sided, one side recalling its ambassador and the other side leaving theirs; and the minute they recall their ambassador, the bombing starts….</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>[The] Supreme alone can decide. Just as He decides "This is to be done," so He also decides ... ["This won't be"]. That's all. He is the only recourse. </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>There's no longer any hope that a human being can give protection by his own power – it doesn't work any more. If the Lord is protecting you, fine, nothing will happen to you. But as far as knowing what He's going to decide.... For if He decides upon such a destruction, it means the earth truly needs it – otherwise He wouldn't decide it. </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, it's best not to think about it – we'll see soon enough. We'll see from this world here or from a more subtle one (laughing), that's all…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>I don't forget what Sri Aurobindo said – declared (in writing): that in 1967 the supramental Power will be behind all the earth's governments. Whether it's these people or those or whoever, they will be directly, maybe not consciously, but directly under the influence of the supramental forces, which will make them do what has to be done</b>. And so, of course, the first result will be a kind of worldwide collaboration – he explicitly told me that, and he wrote it down. That's what he had seen. But he didn't say we would get there without ... without catastrophe. He never said that.” – <i>The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 3</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[Agenda footnote: On this same day, November 20, China announced a cease-fire and withdrawal of its troops.]</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Mother, 29 June 1963 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[If] you look at things from a certain height (where everything is DECIDED, you understand), people and things are COMPELLED to act in a certain way, but the conscious human motives that determine their actions are irrelevant – "irrelevant" in the sense that they're not always ... to put it more clearly: you VERY rarely do things from the TRUE motive. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">At any rate, Sri Aurobindo is interested in world events. – <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 4</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Mother, 19 October 1963 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I am coming to the conclusion that <b>there must be a great power (a transforming power, probably) in the extreme tension of circumstances</b>. Let me explain myself: </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Help is ever present, in the sense that you unquestionably feel that the Force acts (the "Force," that is, the supreme Consciousness and supreme Knowledge), <b>the Force acts with a sort of pressure on all people and all circumstances, in a favorable direction so that what happens may truly be the best – and the best hierarchically; in other words, the highest and purest (you know my definition of "pure") is a sort of center in relation to which things get organized; they get organized hierarchically, each with its "right to progress," but as if to favor what's closest to and most expressive of the Divine – that is going on constantly</b>, I see hundreds of examples of it all the time. Yet, from the point of view of outer circumstances, there is such a tension that you feel you are close to catastrophe. …</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[B]ecause of my inner work, I become increasingly aware of things, increasingly aware of the Care, the Solicitude and the hierarchical Organization of circumstances so that the most precious and useful thing for the divine work is favored – of course not conspicuously so, but inwardly. And yet, in the three domains – government, money and health – things always reach a POINT, a point of such tension and complication that if you didn't have the inner certitude, they would always seem to point simply to the catastrophe, the fall. And it's ALWAYS at that point that ... (gesture of abrupt reversal) everything turns around – not before, not one minute before. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It's not to give me faith – I have it; it's not to give me consciousness – I have it; it's for an outward reason. I cannot yet grasp why. Because inwardly, even if I were told that everything would be demolished in the most tragic manner, I would say, "Very well." And in all sincerity, you know, nothing anywhere in me starts protesting or vibrating, nothing at all. I say, "All right." But I see – I do see that in that tension, a certain power is released, like a power intense enough to cure a tamas, to change a tamas….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[S]omething COMPELLED me to add: ‘If I am here, it is not because of any necessity or obligation; it is not a necessity from the past, not a karma, not any obligation, any attraction, any attachment, but only, solely and absolutely because of the Lord's Grace. I am here because He keeps me here, and when He no longer keeps me here, when He considers I am not to stay any longer, I won't stay.’ And I added (I was speaking in English), ‘As for me ..." ("as for me" [gesture upward] that is, not this [gesture to the body]), ‘as for Me, I consider that the world isn't ready: its way of responding inwardly and outwardly, even visibly in those around me, proves that the world isn't ready – something must happen for it to be ready. Or else it will take QUITE SOME TIME for it to be prepared.... It's all the same to me: whether it is ready or not makes no difference. And everything could collapse, I – couldn't – care – less.’ And with what force I said that! My arm rose, my fist banged on the table – mon petit, I thought I was going to break everything! ...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Something is being attempted now: there are some people who are in contact with us and are conscious; they have a possibility of action and they are trying. They have caught an idea: to bring Russia and America together so that the two powers united will be the agents of peace on earth. It's an EXCELLENT idea. We'll see what's going to happen. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Because obviously ... Oh, to tell the truth, I don't know. I say "obviously," but it's absolutely all the same to me if everything is demolished and starts again – it's another way of playing, that's all. But maybe without demolishing ... To demolish and start all over again [laughing) has already been done a few times! Maybe that's enough – if, without demolishing, men could progress ... But is it possible? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We must come VERY CLOSE to the goal for that to be possible. – <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 4</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Mother, 18 January 1964 </b> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I saw S.G. this morning, the person who went to America, who knew <b>Kennedy and even spoke to him about the possibility of openly joining with Russia so as to exert pressure on the world and prevent armed disputes (he said, "to settle all border and territorial disputes in a peaceful way," beginning, of course, with China and India). Kennedy had been enthusiastic. The Russian ambassador had been summoned at once, and he had telephoned Khrushchev: enthusiastic over the idea (but this Khrushchev seems to be rather a good man)</b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">They were supposed to sort it out during a meeting at the U.N. At this point, Kennedy makes off [i.e. was assassinated, 22 November 1963]…</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But the idea has been taken up again through Khrushchev and he continues to be quite enthusiastic. It seems (I don't know if it's quite true, because it's Z [a Russian disciple] who says so) ... but Z sent him my article "A Dream," on the possibility of creating a small "international center" (I don't like the word "international," but never mind), and <b>Khrushchev answered, "This idea is excellent, the entire world should make it a reality</b>." Well, I don't know whether it's correct, but anyway the gentleman seems to be well-disposed..... Now, it seems that the new president [Johnson] is, for the time being, continuing what the other did: he won't upset the apple cart.... We'll see. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">If it succeeds, it will give some concrete expression to the effort of transformation without violence. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">[Agenda footnote: “<b><a href="https://dailyhistory.org/Why_was_Nikita_Khrushchev_deposed_as_the_leader_of_the_USSR" target="_blank">Khrushchev will be dismissed</a> nine months later, on October 15</b>.”] – <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 5</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Blog Note: “After the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, there was a shift in posture towards the other republics. In an attempt to reconcile the relationship with the Ukrainian SSR, <b>Nikita Khrushchev, along with the other leadership of the Soviet Union, transferred the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR</b>.” [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_transfer_of_Crimea#:~:text=After%20the%20death%20of%20Joseph,SFSR%20to%20the%20Ukrainian%20SSR." target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>]</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>The Mother, 7 March 1964 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">What I wanted was to set a date, to get ["Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness"] published …. Because I have a feeling that after some time (now I understand better), when the atmosphere is quite ready, it will do a very useful work [in Europe]…. <b>There is a possibility in Russia, too, but of a different nature – mystic, a great mystic possibility there. When the mystic spirit awakens there ... It has been repressed, so ... (gesture of explosion)</b>. –<i> The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 5</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Mother, 17 October 1964 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">And in the world, things are chaotic, it seems. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Yes, what is this "resignation" of Khrushchev going to do?</i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">[Note: The Chinese exploded their first atomic bomb on 16 October 1964.]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It looks serious. It would seem to be a revolt, because his son, too, has been kicked out.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Does it mean a setback? </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Oh, a VIOLENT setback. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>It's serious. </i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Things were on the mend between America and Russia (at China's expense! It was very funny). This is going to demolish everything. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">You get an impression (it's precisely the impression I bring back from those activities of the night), the impression of a building cracking – all over. Exactly like just before the collapse: it cracks all over. Besides, if you are completely outside your usual consciousness, your usual reactions, your immediate circle and your daily activity, if you get completely out of all that, and take a look and wonder, "What's going to happen?" – a black hole, you can't see anything. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">And when I say, "What's going to happen?" I don't mean what's going to happen on earth, but through what combination of circumstances or sequence of events is the new creation going to take place? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There is an entire part of the earth's past history that, ultimately, is totally unknown to us. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">…[H]ow many cataclysms have there been? </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, for great upheavals men want to do without Nature's help. It seems that five nations have atomic bombs, and the bombs of just one of those nations are enough to ... vrrf! destroy the earth. So if all this (because it's new, after all) suddenly gets out of control ... They don't know how long these things can remain in waiting: if all at once they start exploding – can you see that! (laughing) In all the countries, all the bombs going off at the same time! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Poor earth. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It's worse than a Deluge. All in all, the ways of the Earth were more gentle, Nature was more reasonable. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence) </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Ultimately, there is only one comfort, it's that nothing will ever happen except what has to happen, so ... This is the consciousness in which I live – I don't worry at all, not in the least. But I mean that in actual fact, in an objective manner, we know nothing. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">…</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The historical period is very short. Already, as it is, it's very uncertain, but very short. Perhaps the conscious effort of the Vedas came after thousands and thousands of years of research, studies, civilizations that didn't leave any trace? Because they have more or less calculated the time of the coming of man on the earth – a few million years, no? ….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Out of that [few] million, we know 5,000 years, you see that! Poor little ball! How vain we are! We think we know everything….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ultimately, if we look at things with the slightest care, even OUTWARDLY, we know nothing. – <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 5 </i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Mother, 28 October 1964 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[Regarding] the earth’s political atmosphere? Russia? Do you see something? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">No, nothing in particular ... I rather had a very strong indication that it was a reaction in the wrong direction. … <b>I have a strong feeling that it is – yes – a diabolic reaction. It seems they want to put Khrushchev on trial?</b>... – <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 5</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Mother, 12 January 1965 </b> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">[Regarding the Mother’s 8 March 1951 commentary (above):] </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I knew that being very well (for other reasons ... the story would be too long to tell), and once, I knew he was going to visit Hitler – I went before he did: I took his appearance, it was very easy. Then <b>I said to Hitler, "Go and attack Russia." I don't exactly remember the words or the details, but the fact was that I told him, "Go ... In order to have the supreme victory, go and attack Russia." That was the end of Hitler. He believed it and did it</b> – two days later, we got the news of the attack [=<a href="https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa" target="_blank">Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union</a>].</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And then, the next day, that is, when I came back from Hitler, I met that being and told him, "I've done your job!" Naturally enough, he was furious! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But all the same, in that consciousness, there is with that being (the Lord of Falsehood, one of the first four Emanations), there is despite everything a very deep relationship, of course. He said to me, "<b>I know, I know I will be defeated eventually, but before my end comes I will wreak as much destruction on earth as I can</b>." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then, as I told you, the next day, the news of the attack came, and that was really the end of Hitler. As for Sri Aurobindo ... (you know that there is a place in Russia where they were defeated [at Stalingrad, on 2 February 1943]), Sri Aurobindo had foreseen the defeat and had worked the night before, and that's how it happened – we knew ALL THE DETAILS. We never told this, of course, but it was perfectly precise. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But I knew that being, I had already seen him in Japan – he called himself "the Lord of Nations." And he really was a form of the Asura of Falsehood, that is, of Truth which became Falsehood: the first Emanation of Truth, who became Falsehood. And <b>he hasn't been destroyed yet</b>. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#8a" id="8">[8]</a></span> – <i>The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 6</i> [Text in parentheses added] </p><p>*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Mother, 18 June 1965</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[If] a new domination [of India] is indispensable, it would be INFINITELY better for it to be by the Americans than by the Russians because what would be learned from the Russians is an UNNECESSARY lesson: it's community, the truth of community – the Indians knew it before the Russians (the Sannyasins were the ideal community); they knew it before the Russians, so they have nothing to learn there, it would be perfectly unnecessary. And to tell the truth, I am completely indifferent as to whether or not the Russians become spiritualists, because the Russians, in their soul, are mystics – they are AT LEAST as mystical as the Indians. So all their community and Communism is pretentiousness. It would be no use – no use at all.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">An American occupation is a drastic method, but... Oh, when I see here the extent to which they can be imbued with the English spirit, oh, it's hideous – I don't like the English. And the English... the English have learned the maximum from the Indians, but for them the maximum is nothing much. The Americans want to learn. They are young and they want to learn; the English are old, stale, hardened and... oh, so conceited – they know everything better than everyone else. So they learned very little. They benefited the maximum, but that's very little; their maximum is very little. The English... (gesture of sinking) they are destined to sink underwater. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#9a" id="9">[9]</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Oh, I hope you're not recording this!</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>It seems more likely that the Chinese would be the ones to come here, not the others.</i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Oh, but the Chinese... The Chinese come from the moon, what are they doing on earth! The origin of the Chinese isn't earthly: it is lunar…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">No, the Americans can come here to “save” India from China.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">(silence)</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">To be under Chinese domination... it's better to die first. They are... from the point of view of sensitivity, they are monsters. They are monsters. They are lunar – lunar, that is, cold, icy.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">No, there's no wavering between the two. The Chinese, the Chinese domination over the earth is... it means the earth hardening, the earth growing cold like the moon. Oh, that would be dreadful….” – <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 6</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Mother, 25 September 1965 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">(Following the Security Council's ultimatum [with regards to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1965" target="_blank">the Indo-Pakistani War</a>, aka the Second Kashmir War], India accepted the cease-fire as of September 22.) </p><p style="text-align: justify;">…[At] the U.N., they are chortling with glee, they're very proud of themselves [for the cease-fire]. But here, they aren't glad. They are especially furious at Britain….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Russians have called on Shastri and the Pakistan man [Ayub Khan] to meet in Russia [in Tashkent], and it seems they have agreed with the Americans (the Russians with the Americans) on permanently separating Britain from Pakistan and China from India. They want to take steps to permanently prevent China and Britain from intervening in affairs here. They have means of coercing them, it appears. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Naturally, if Russia and America join together ... So they have called Shastri and Ayub, and they are going – they are going there. So perhaps we are going to see something interesting. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The rapprochement between Russia and America is something I have been working on for years. I thought I had succeeded, when Kennedy was assassinated; and at the time, Khrushchev was well- disposed – both gone! One is assassinated, the other dismissed</b>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now we'll see. If nothing comes in the way, there may be something interesting. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">…The Indians have missed the opportunity. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yes. Ah, yes, this was the opportunity. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">…[If India and Pakistan] they feel protected, helped and supported, in fact by Russia and America, they won't push for reunion. With masses, you know, it's only a question of a current of thought: it's not reflection, not reasoning, just a current of thought. I don't know, we shall see. – <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 6</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Mother, 20 November 1965 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">(On Mother's table lies an issue of "The Illustrated Weekly" showing a large photo of President Kennedy with folded hands. This is the second anniversary of his death, November 22, 1963.) </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Was he a religious man? …. Oh, Catholic!... Ah, that's why he died.... You know he was truly in favor of freedom, and not only freedom but union. And he was receptive. You know how he worked for the Blacks there (moreover, that's the external cause of his death). But <b>he was the one I counted on, not without reason, as he had shown signs of assent to a union with Russia to establish peace on earth. Talks had already started and they had seized the opportunity of China's aggression against India. Naturally, that wasn't quite to the extremists' liking, and in the atmosphere, the force which for centuries has acted behind the Catholic religion wasn't at all in favor of that plan; so things "worked out" well and they killed him. The other one in Russia who had responded, Khrushchev, didn't die because he left [office] in time!</b>... I thought Kennedy was Protestant.” – <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 6</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Mother, 23 April 1966 </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">And the interesting point is that an architect friend of [Roger Anger] came and worked with him and participated in the creation [of Auroville]; he is now quite enthusiastic, and he is a man who has very extensive contacts with all Communist Europe, including Russia. And he is thrilled to pieces. So, on that side, it’s working well. And in America, too, it seems to be working. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">And that’s precisely what I want – that these two countries clashing with each other should come here, and each of them have a pavilion of their culture and ideal, and that they should be here, face to face, and shake hands. – <i>The Mother's Agenda, Vol. 7</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p>More excerpts from <i>The Mother’s Agenda</i>, will follow in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers_12.html" target="_blank">Addendum 2</a>.</p>
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<div><b>Endnotes:</b></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> <i>CWSA</i> Publisher’s Note: <i>The Human Cycle</i> was first published in monthly instalments in the review Arya between August 1916 and July 1918 under the title The Psychology of Social Development. Each chapter was written immediately before its publication. The text was revised during the late 1930s and again, more lightly, in 1949. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a> <i>CWSA</i> Publisher’s Note: <i>The Ideal of Human Unity</i> was written and published in monthly instalments in the Arya between September 1915 and July 1918. In 1919 it was brought out as a book. Sri Aurobindo wrote a Preface to that edition which is reproduced in the present volume. He revised the book during the late 1930s, before the outbreak of World War II. References to political developments of the period between the world wars were introduced at this time, often in footnotes. In 1949 Sri Aurobindo undertook a final revision of The Ideal of Human Unity. He commented on the changed international situation in footnotes and made alterations here and there throughout the book, but brought it up to date mainly by the addition of a Postscript Chapter. In 1950 the revised text was published in an Indian and an American edition.”</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a> The Mother commented on Sri Aurobindo’s 25 January 1935 letter in 1967: </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">“What marvelous clarity of vision! And so total, isn't it, forgetting nothing. Every word is full of meaning. Things are moving fast at present. He saw clearly: things are moving on as he said, now they are going at a gallop. <span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">“And the Americans! ... They claim they want to launch a "disarmament campaign," but they themselves don't feel the possibility of it: they are full of fear and distrust; so their "solution" is to sell arms to everyone! (Mother laughs) With the idea, first, of making money, and then of making countries "equal"!” – <i>The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 8</i>, 24 May 1967</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#4" id="4a">[4]</a> On 25 June 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea, instigating the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War" target="_blank">Korean War</a> (1950-53).</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#5" id="5a">[5]</a> Footnote as in original: ‘The reference is to a message given to the Bengali journal Srinvantu: “Let the Light of the Truth be born upon earth from today and for ever.”’ (21 February 1953)</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#6" id="6a">[6]</a> Ravana is “the chief antagonist in the Hindu epic Ramayana and its adaptations.” [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravana" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>]</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#7" id="7a">[7]</a> It is worth mentioning in this same vein of accusations of ruining “everything”, on 25 March 2022, after posting Part One of this series on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I received an email from a student of Thea’s [Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's] yoga and writings, claiming to be channeling Thea, who wrote essentially that I am single handedly “[taking down] the entire human race with [my] deceptions”. She did not clarify what these deceptions were but the letter came after declined to fulfill her request that I write comparison of a <a href="https://davidicke.com/2022/03/11/what-the-climate-hoax-has-really-been-about-david-icke-dot-connector-videocast/" target="_blank">David Icke video</a> she sent me and what I had written about Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#8" id="8a">[8]</a> I will discuss Thea’s commentary on the “Lord of Falsehood” in a future post. She believed this being, emanation or Asura was entrapped and contained in the misconstruction of the Mother’s Temple in Auroville, and conquered via her work towards exposing the falsehood of this "Shadow Temple", and simultaneously via her work towards uplifting the Light/Gnosis of the Mother’s original temple vision and measurements. See: <i><a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-matrimandir-as-foundation-stone-of.html" target="_blank">Chronicles of the Inner Chamber, Update 9</a></i>.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#9" id="9a">[9]</a> Agenda footnote: “Mother had already told Satprem many years earlier that the island of Great [Britain] was destined to disappear."</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">If you value the </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b>original research and content made freely </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b><br />available on this blog</b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a></div></div></div>Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-73569467908799543492022-04-29T14:17:00.031-07:002022-08-18T12:41:47.635-07:00The Convergence of Putin’s War & the Mother’s 144-Year Birth Anniversary ⁓ A Cosmological Perspective ⁓ Part Two<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQuuUNFFcwON-0F40iyiE6BB09TCxEU0C_TauItqPbVQeEotDFhY68OGyJLNHiUekgBjKNTLAQ2KBr7wU8NvpW7S7xl0iZMgjxVYFL1cYSxxPAbcT4g4odbyWcYVXDlNfEYTYXRatcN-uL_jkhYRBFWJtYATrM5SUnsFBGVk5K-_K8c0gi8-JLeiu/s600/Russian_military_weapons_destroyed_and_seized_by_the_Armed_Forces_of_Ukraine-wiki.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="“Russian military weapons destroyed and seized by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, near Bucha on March 1, 2022”, Wikipedia" border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="600" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQuuUNFFcwON-0F40iyiE6BB09TCxEU0C_TauItqPbVQeEotDFhY68OGyJLNHiUekgBjKNTLAQ2KBr7wU8NvpW7S7xl0iZMgjxVYFL1cYSxxPAbcT4g4odbyWcYVXDlNfEYTYXRatcN-uL_jkhYRBFWJtYATrM5SUnsFBGVk5K-_K8c0gi8-JLeiu/w640-h408/Russian_military_weapons_destroyed_and_seized_by_the_Armed_Forces_of_Ukraine-wiki.jpg" title="“Russian military weapons destroyed and seized by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, near Bucha on March 1, 2022”, Wikipedia" width="640" /></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">“Russian military weapons destroyed and seized by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, near Bucha on March 1, 2022”, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russian_military_weapons_destroyed_and_seized_by_the_Armed_Forces_of_Ukraine.jpg#filelinks" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></span>
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<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The world is in turmoil, as seen by indications from various quarters of breakdowns and ultimately collapse of systems across the board. This moment of extreme polarisation ought to have been easily foreseen already in 1989 with the break-up of the Soviet Union and the implied failure of socialism as the answer to solve the many unresolved problems at the time, and which certainly seem to have increased over the intervening 30 years. These unresolved problems can all be drawn back to the ideology that feeds them – economic, socio-political, or religious. It becomes then a contest between Socialism or Capitalism, Right or Left, Christianity or Islam, and so on. At this point, the result is a world that is tearing itself to pieces as each seeks to impose its particular ideology or belief on the whole of society and on this 21st century. The outcome has been intensification across the globe of a systemic polarisation that seems to have reached a defining moment. Democracy and its processes bring the situation to light better than the more or less totalitarian or traditional regimes wherein the true condition is more often than not suppressed in the effort to postpone the inevitable.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Living in an electronics-based global society as we do the true situation cannot be hidden for long. The question to ask is how do we bring about change to a new world order in the midst of the old with its apparently unlimited powers of suppression and destruction? The true condition is mirrored dramatically in one particular area: the destructive power freely available on micro and macro scales: we can destroy ourselves and the planet as the home of an evolving species, if polarisation continues its tension-increasing course. Our evolutionary clock can be turned back to zero in the not-to-distant future given the catastrophic stockpile of nuclear weapons ready for use in the war of ideologies.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“What is the solution? I call this work the New Way because it is truly new. The answer cannot come through an imposition of one ideology over another, or even a compromise. It has to be something else that can harmonise the energies seeking expression and supremacy by a process of ‘putting each thing in its place’. The problem this poses is the bane of our times: relativism. Most of the answers we seek within the context of the Old are born of relativism which can never lead to solutions based on unity – that can be defined as seeing the connection between things as a living reality; that is what is lacking. Once that consciousness has become the active force leading the evolution, the old formulas such as non-violence, all-inclusiveness, and compromises of many hues, will be seen to be just slogans and inadequate to reach the next level humanity is striving to attain.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“The inability to grasp the interconnectedness between all things and to see them within an overarching fabric of Unity is indeed the bane of our times. It can be described in another way: the separatist consciousness….” – Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea), <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/front-page/why-is-makar-sankranti-important-for-india-3/" target="_blank">“Why is Makar Sankranti Important for India ~ 3”</a>, 15 June 2016 (See also Parts <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/front-page/2016-in-focus/" target="_blank">One</a> and <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/front-page/why-is-makar-sankranti-important-for-india-2/" target="_blank">Two</a> of that series)</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Part Two of this series is essentially a long response to the following constructive criticism offered by a reader in March, regarding <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html" target="_blank">Part One</a>.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“…I just want to [raise] the question if this whole perspective you are describing is not excluding easily the role and responsibility of the other part of the conflict, NATO and specially USA. [Somehow] its difficult to me seeing the Ukraine leader as a hero as you mention it, in a conflict full of geopolitical interests. We have seen how western society has been silent in the midst of several conflicts and wars around the world, and now suddenly everyone is so indignant with this war. I feel in all this a [double] standard in favor of western interests... and I don´t feel Integration in this way of thinking. And, those that mean that NATO and the US are some kind of Aquarian manifestation? I believe that it takes two to fight, the two with some or less responsibility in the conflict. Well your post let me to this questions and doubts. Thank you very much, I would like very much to read your thoughts in all this.”</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I consider the task of gaining a truly integral, supramental and illuminated perspective and unity consciousness beyond the binary mental egoic consciousness to be an ongoing yogic practice and process. That said, I do not believe that gaining an integral and supramental perspective and consciousness amounts to being (or striving to be) neutral or oblivious when it comes to recognizing which side of various binary conflicts represents regressive or anti-evolutionary forces and which side stands "on the side of the evolutionary forces”. In a 1943 letter, Sri Aurobindo explained why he and the Mother supported the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" target="_blank">Allied forces of World War II</a> and not the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers" target="_blank">Axis powers</a> he wrote: </p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>What we say is not that the Allies have not done wrong things, but that they stand on the side of the evolutionary forces. I have not said that at random, but on what to me are clear grounds of fact</b>. What you speak of is the dark side. All nations and governments have been that in their dealings with each other,—at least all who had the strength and got the chance. I hope you are not expecting me to believe that there are or have been virtuous governments and unselfish and sinless peoples? But there is the other side also. You are condemning the Allies on grounds that people in the past would have stared at, on the basis of modern ideals of international conduct; looked at like that all have black records. But who created these ideals or did most to create them (liberty, democracy, equality, international justice and the rest)? Well, America, France, England—the present Allied nations. They have all been imperialistic and still bear the burden of their past, but they have also deliberately spread these ideals and spread too the institutions which try to embody them. <b>Whatever the relative worth of these things—they have been a stage, even if a still imperfect stage of the forward evolution.</b> (What about the others? Hitler, for example, says it is a crime to educate the coloured peoples, they must be kept as serfs and labourers.) England has helped certain nations to be free without seeking any personal gain; she has also conceded independence to Egypt and Eire after a struggle, to Iraq without a struggle. She has been moving away steadily, if slowly, from imperialism towards co-operation; the British Commonwealth of England and the Dominions is something unique and unprecedented, a beginning of new things in that direction: she is moving in idea towards a world-union of some kind in which aggression is to be made impossible; her new generation has no longer the old firm belief in mission and empire; she has offered India Dominion independence—or even sheer isolated independence, if she wants that,—after the war, with an agreed free constitution to be chosen by Indians themselves…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“All that is what I call <b>evolution in the right direction—however slow and imperfect and hesitating it may still be</b>. As for America she has forsworn her past imperialistic policies in regard to Central and South America, she has conceded independence to Cuba and the Philippines…. Is there a similar trend on the side of the Axis? One has to look at things on all sides, to see them steadily and whole. Once again, it is the forces working behind that I have to look at, I don’t want to go blind among surface details. The future has to be safeguarded; only then can present troubles and contradictions have a chance to be solved and eliminated….</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“For us the question does not arise. We made it plain in a letter which has been made public that we did not consider the war as a fight between nations and governments (still less between good people and bad people) but between two forces, the Divine and the Asuric. What we have to see is on which side men and nations put themselves; if they put themselves on the right side, they at once make themselves instruments of the Divine purpose in spite of all defects, errors, wrong movements and actions which are common to human nature and all human collectivities. The victory of one side (the Allies) would keep the path open for the evolutionary forces: the victory of the other side would drag back humanity, degrade it horribly and might lead even, at the worst, to its eventual failure as a race, as others in the past evolution failed and perished. That is the whole question and all other considerations are either irrelevant or of a minor importance. The Allies at least have stood for human values, though they may often act against their own best ideals (human beings always do that); Hitler stands for diabolical values or for human values exaggerated in the wrong way until they become diabolical (e.g. the virtues of the Herrenvolk, the master race). That does not make the English or Americans nations of spotless angels nor the Germans a wicked and sinful race, but as an indicator it has a primary importance…. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“The Kurukshetra example is not to be taken as an exact parallel but rather as a traditional instance of the war between two world-forces in which the side favoured by the Divine triumphed, because the leaders made themselves His instruments. It is not to be envisaged as a battle between virtue and wickedness, the good and the evil men. After all, were even the Pandavas virtuous without defect, quite unselfish and without passions? …</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Were not the Pandavas fighting to establish their own claims and interests—just and right, no doubt, but still personal claims and self-interest? Theirs was a righteous battle, dharmya-yuddha, but it was for right and justice in their own case. And if imperialism, empire-building by armed force, is under all circumstances a wickedness, then the Pandavas are tainted with that brush, for they used their victory to establish their empire, continued after them by Parikshit and Janamejaya. Could not modern humanism and pacifism make it a reproach against the Pandavas that these virtuous men (including Krishna) brought about a huge slaughter that they might become supreme rulers over all the numerous free and independent peoples of India? That would be the result of weighing old happenings in the scales of modern ideals. As a matter of fact such an empire was a step in the right direction then, just as a world-union of free peoples would be a step in the right direction now,—in both cases the right consequences of a terrific slaughter….</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“We should remember that conquest and rule over subject peoples were not regarded as wrong either in ancient or mediaeval or quite recent times, but as something great and glorious; men did not see any special wickedness in conquerors or conquering nations. Just government of subject peoples was envisaged but nothing more—exploitation was not excluded. The modern ideas on the subject, the right of all to liberty, both individuals and nations, the immorality of conquest and empire, or such compromises as the British idea of training subject races for democratic freedom, are new values, an evolutionary movement; this is a new Dharma which has only begun slowly and initially to influence practice,—an infant Dharma which would have been throttled for good if Hitler succeeded in his “Avataric” mission and established his new “religion” over all the earth. Subject nations naturally accept the new Dharma and severely criticise the old imperialisms; it is to be hoped that they will practise what they now preach when they themselves become strong and rich and powerful. But the best will be if a new world-order evolves, even if at first stumblingly or incompletely, which will make the old things impossible—a difficult task, but not absolutely impossible.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The Divine takes men as they are and uses men as His instruments even if they are not flawless in virtue, angelic, holy and pure. If they are of good will, if, to use the Biblical phrase, they are on the Lord’s side, that is enough for the work to be done. Even if I knew that the Allies would misuse their victory or bungle the peace or partially at least spoil the opportunities opened to the human world by that victory, I would still put my force behind them. At any rate things could not be one-hundredth part as bad as they would be under Hitler. The ways of the Lord would still be open—to keep them open is what matters. Let us stick to the real, the central fact, the need to remove the peril of black servitude and revived barbarism threatening India and the world, and leave for a later time all side-issues and minor issues or hypothetical problems that would cloud the one all-important tragic issue before us.” – Sri Aurobindo, 2 September 1943, <i>Letters on Himself and the Ashram</i>, “Remarks on the World Situation, 1933 – 1949”, <i>CWSA, Vol. 35,</i> pp. 213-19 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In my view, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine stands as a clear example of <i>evolution in the wrong direction</i> rather than in the <i>right direction</i> on planet Earth, and Ukraine’s fight to defend the independence, freedom, and democracy it gained in conjunction with the collapse of the Soviet Union, is a clear symbol of the soul’s evolutionary struggle to progress beyond limiting structures and beliefs of the Past in our Age of Aquarius, “however slow and imperfect and hesitating it may still be”. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In Part One I mentioned <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#Aquarian-War" target="_blank">some of the main elements of Putin’s and Zelensky’s natal charts</a>, as well as <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#Ukraine-Geo-Cosmology" target="_blank">the geo-cosmology of Ukraine</a>, because for those who are initiated into Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet’s (Thea’s) supramental yoga and cosmology, wherein “the symbol is the thing symbolized,” such details are significant. In my view, the fact that Kyiv – the capital and heart of Ukraine – falls at 29° Aquarius in longitude, <b><i>due north of the Sphinx (Lion-Man) of Giza</i></b>, and 20° Aquarius in latitude (the 8 Point of the Gnostic Circle), presents a significant clue in the task of seeing and understanding the evolutionary forces at play in Ukraine’s battle for its sovereignty and existence in our Aquarian Age – the first 720 years of which falls in the Libra decanate of Aquarius (30°-20° Aquarius) in the backward movement of the Precession of the Equinoxes. The planet of Saturn – which Thea associated with the “Time Spirit”, aka Chronos, as well as the Cosmic Mother and the Mother’s level of the Supramental descent – has been transiting this Libra decanate of Aquarius since 12 March 2022 and will be (via direct and retrograde motion) through 6 March 2023. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYF9AU1x1iXbXVBC6WVcXRp8lwyRaoYmA5GuY9BLz_3Pn9g7cyvgQbBivrx06JbZfyzGcRn_sgtcntbbcU5uPv6-YPF7DwRAC0ujr-3qko7VLxuupnmhUtGowbIgkYzrRXfcOaPPhxWFV5pJnI-cVWf4VTAjzCaSJxXDVvP8AVEhra_XE57SxPXJv/s1169/Aquarian-Age-Decanates-TGC-mirror-p75-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The three decanates of the Age of Aquarius – a modification of Thea’s illustration for the Age of Pisces, The Gnostic Circle, p. 75" border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="1169" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYF9AU1x1iXbXVBC6WVcXRp8lwyRaoYmA5GuY9BLz_3Pn9g7cyvgQbBivrx06JbZfyzGcRn_sgtcntbbcU5uPv6-YPF7DwRAC0ujr-3qko7VLxuupnmhUtGowbIgkYzrRXfcOaPPhxWFV5pJnI-cVWf4VTAjzCaSJxXDVvP8AVEhra_XE57SxPXJv/w320-h171/Aquarian-Age-Decanates-TGC-mirror-p75-01.png" title="The three decanates of the Age of Aquarius – a modification of Thea’s illustration for the Age of Pisces, The Gnostic Circle, p. 75" width="320" /></a><br /><b style="font-size: x-small;">The three decanates of the Age of Aquarius – a modification of Thea’s<br /></b><b style="font-size: x-small;">illustration for the Age of Pisces, <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TGC.html" target="_blank">The Gnostic Circle</a>,</i> p. 75</b></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a id="leo-aquarius">In Part One</a> I wrote that Vishnu’s – the evolutionary avatar’s – fixed-sign axis of Leo and Aquarius is central in Zelensky’s natal chart (Sun in Aquarius, Moon and Mars in Leo), which presents a significant clue as to how he is being used by the “evolutionary forces” in our current crisis which falls <b>96</b> years <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a></span> into our Aquarian Age. What I did not mention, and was saving for a later post, is that this same axis, also shows up significantly in Putin’s natal chart as well, via his True North and South Lunar Nodes positioned at 20° Aquarius/Leo (18° Aquarius/Leo via the “Mean” calculation), which are situated respectively at the Nadir (IC) and Midheaven (MC) of his chart (21° Aquarius/Leo). Additionally, Putin’s natal Pluto (22° Leo) is conjunct his South Node and his Midheaven and conjunct Sri Aurobindo’s natal Sun (22° Leo), and conjunct the 4th’s natal Saturn (17° Aquarius). Thus it can be appreciated that he too is being used by the “evolutionary forces” of our Age, even if as the antagonist of the current play of events. I mentioned in Part One that Kyiv sits at 20° Aquarius Latitude. It needs to be added here that the city of Luhansk is positioned at 18° Aquarius Latitude and 20° Aquarius Longitude, and both Mariupol and Donetsk sit at 22° Aquarius Longitude and respectively 17° and 18° Latitude. Click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1juQpV4qylPusHTrVJzITEaJ99kvPjvI6/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE</a> for an illustration of the 22° Leo-Aquarius Axis in the natal charts and progressions of the Solar Line together with my own natal Sun position (24° Aquarius) and related aspects. I have wondered for over a decade how Saturn’s transit across these degrees of Aquarius would manifest in the world, and now the Time has come, bringing with it a new iteration of the Cold War between America and Russia and their respective allies, demonstrating an impressive supramental coordination involving the geo-cosmology of the battlefield, the prevailing astrological transits and the cosmological credentials of the “evolutionary avatars” as well as the cosmological credentials of the leaders or chief instruments of both sides of the war.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a id="17-Aquarius">This coordination</a> includes the fact that <b>the planet of Saturn</b> – which Thea discussed as one of the planetary rulers of Aquarius, “the planet epitomising the cosmic manifestation as well as the Time-Spirit”, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#2a" id="2">[2]</a></span> and the planet most connected to Mother’s “Cosmic” role in the Supramental Descent <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#3a" id="3">[3]</a></span> – <b>transited 17° Aquarius, conjunct the 4th’s natal Saturn </b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#4a" id="4">[4]</a></span><b> (his second Saturn return), the week before and <u>the day of the Mother’s 144th birth anniversary</u>, 21 February 2022</b>, when Putin announced “that the Russian government would recognise the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics [and] directed that Russian troops be deployed into Donbas, in what Russia referred to as a ‘peacekeeping mission’” [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine#Escalation_(21%E2%80%9323_February_2022)" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>]. Subsequently <b>Saturn transited Putin’s 18° Aquarius (Mean) North Node at the nadir (IC) of his chart, the first week of his war on Ukraine</b>; and on 21 April, Saturn transited directly opposite Putin’s natal Pluto. Notably, Saturn has also been transiting conjunct Ukraine’s Independence Day (24 August 1991) Moon position – 22° Aquarius. Various astrologers have commented on how aspects of Putin’s chart (and others) have contributed to his 2022 war on Ukraine, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#5a" id="5">[5]</a></span> one of which pointed to the important fact that the last time Saturn transited the sign of Aquarius was 7 February 1991 through 28 January 1994, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#6a" id="6">[6]</a></span> spanning the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine’s establishment as an independent nation, and the formation of the Russian Federation. And the previous time Saturn transited through Aquarius was 1962-64, spanning the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy’s assassination, and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident which “effectively launched America's full-scale involvement in the Vietnam War [to prevent further aggression by the communist government of North Vietnam].” <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#7a" id="7">[7]</a></span> So Saturn in Aquarius has a notable track record when it comes to exacerbating and dissolving and now exacerbating again the binary tensions of the Cold War. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have been discussing the geometric and Vedic basis of Saturn’s ancient rulership of Aquarius (aka Kumbha), in relation to the world-purifying recovery and release of the eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) of the Vedic Kumbha and its sacred waters (=the seven rivers=the seven vials of St. John’s Revelation) at length since 2016. For an illustration of this geometric and Vedic connection between Saturn and Aquarius, see <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/01/seeing-in-understanding-symbols-sense_22.html#Saturn-Aquarius" target="_blank">“Seeing in Understanding ⁓ Part Ten”</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDM-IIjuMLrjakZPbc0jmjMdDceRSMu97gYFwvmJvxLDbsxoN21pkSoVIoxrh0boJ2QLn4e8_X7Uqo1ipOuBlBWaxV_g-kHSiLaZAekjRdLI4XnJnCotVcY-xBCZS5KoE30aSZU_r6L1eYT-KyH8gG9f2HLkGvEhrI06jk5R4rCAfU65bU5yzCPPUq/s535/TGC-p276-29-Leo-Aquarius-axis.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Image by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The Gnostic Circle (p. 276), depicting the position of the Precession Axis at 29° Aquarius-Leo, between the years of 1926 and 1998" border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="486" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDM-IIjuMLrjakZPbc0jmjMdDceRSMu97gYFwvmJvxLDbsxoN21pkSoVIoxrh0boJ2QLn4e8_X7Uqo1ipOuBlBWaxV_g-kHSiLaZAekjRdLI4XnJnCotVcY-xBCZS5KoE30aSZU_r6L1eYT-KyH8gG9f2HLkGvEhrI06jk5R4rCAfU65bU5yzCPPUq/w214-h236/TGC-p276-29-Leo-Aquarius-axis.JPG" title="Image by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The Gnostic Circle (p. 276), depicting the position of the Precession Axis at 29° Aquarius-Leo, between the years of 1926 and 1998" width="214" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thea discussed Vishnu’s Leo-Aquarius axis in many of her books and writings, including <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TGC.html" target="_blank">The Gnostic Circle</a></i> and <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/SOE.html" target="_blank">Secrets of the Earth</a></i> wherein she presented Vishnu’s evolutionary avatars in the context of her Map of the 12 Manifestations spanning <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2014/11/correcting-ongoing-misperceptions-of.html" target="_blank">the Maha Yuga cycle</a> (9 Kali Yuga, 12 Astrological Ages = 3 Precessional Cycles = 77,760 years). The image to the right, from <i>The Gnostic Circle</i> (p. 276), depicts the position of the Precessional Axis at 29° Aquarius-Leo, between the years of 1926 and 1998, influenced by Cancer in terms of the <i>triṁśāṁsa</i> division <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#8a" id="8">[8]</a></span> of the Gnostic Circle. Given the backward movement of the Precession of the Equinoxes, we have entered 28° Aquarius (1998-2070) – influenced by Gemini in the <i>triṁśāṁsa</i> division of the Gnostic Circle. The image to the left below shows our position in the Aquarian Age of the 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation according to Thea’s seeing. The image below right emphasizes the first two degrees of the Age of Aquarius.</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4vNwB7mB8000jly15Onuq8ZzFmGDPQpOqVcoN1smkNyKEZsoB1ZW9ogpOFvX204nyunGNZcwIXw0D5POTHIrw9v-HqsKRlsujecwZNlijvGZqrR4Z0-OM2bSNp1TiDGruNzvVo5-V27Q/s1600/Precession-29-Aquarius-3-Ages-1926-1998-01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="An extrapolation of Thea's Map of the 12 Manifestations, emphasizing Vishnu's Ages and the Age of Aquarius (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="613" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxqX8Pxe08x4a8W6CIBCoLpVxWVjMp9dYMKDMfv8bKJGaNk5GtfpSDkZJ0fKi84B6C22L0ot1kywEMPRQQeUBOtcUb98fXONbUG3WcPrAizjM0uWyTD_FnONS8yBN5L1jF8Y-5E_oFLme3gqBDUbvaFRJC_xN9teZDqNn-lHO22MoeNdFAO4P61VxF/w649-h289/Precession-29-Aquarius-3-Ages-1926-1998-sm-01.png" title="An extrapolation of Thea's Map of the 12 Manifestations, emphasizing Vishnu's Ages and the Age of Aquarius (Lori Tompkins)" width="649" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[1926 was] the year that the Giza Sphinx was finally uncovered in the Egyptian desert. The 'message' of the Sphinx on the backdrop of the Map is not at all enigmatic: her symbol-form indicates the Ages of Leo and Aquarius. Naturally her 'secret' was destined to remain covered, only to be unveiled right when that cosmic Hand pointed to the start of the Aquarian Age.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“And so we find ourselves in the Age of Aquarius the Friend, or Mitra of the Veda, the last and highest 'step' of Vishnu....</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The Rishi pours forth praises of this highest and last step of Vishnu, for indeed it is in this 9th that the victory is attained. As Sri Aurobindo has explained, '... he [Kalki as following Krishna, not the Buddha] fulfils in power the great struggle which the previous Avatars prepared in all its potentialities.' This is a fully Vedic understanding of the Steps of Vishnu, on the way to the highest, the last in this 9th Manifestation ‒ the fulfiller, the conqueror, the victorious Avatar of the Supermind [[Sri Aurobindo]], he who dispels the darkness, he who slays Vritra. – Thea, <i>Secrets of the Earth</i>, p. 55 [Text in single brackets is Thea’s]</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6lArIB5_4cBP2yrljX-_FXGhQONAplxgiOeaRkoEc6z5bOOtMJfiy-7imx0hGfhSfFex4afuPswscCFd0JxM8ildv_d-lej3Qk_tdG9otfhDbq9VNPZttTJxMcCvm1cUp3fTeEDwHTK0Gk6OY_ZIR6abYDmJPageI3WMzDLazXXCrJ0NVQx32VSh7/s717/9th%20Manifestation-Leo-Seed-Pisc-Aquar-Cap.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="9th Manifestation Yod, Leo, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces: Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The Gnostic Circle, p. 42" border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="553" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6lArIB5_4cBP2yrljX-_FXGhQONAplxgiOeaRkoEc6z5bOOtMJfiy-7imx0hGfhSfFex4afuPswscCFd0JxM8ildv_d-lej3Qk_tdG9otfhDbq9VNPZttTJxMcCvm1cUp3fTeEDwHTK0Gk6OY_ZIR6abYDmJPageI3WMzDLazXXCrJ0NVQx32VSh7/w194-h251/9th%20Manifestation-Leo-Seed-Pisc-Aquar-Cap.jpg" title="9th Manifestation Yod, Leo, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces: Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, The Gnostic Circle, p. 42" width="194" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Sri Aurobindo's birth in Leo stands as upholder of the entire 9th Manifestation consisting of three zodiacal signs, Pisces, Aquarius and Capricorn, as the diagram indicates. This design is known as the Yod aspect or the Finger of God in certain esoteric traditions of astrology, most probably from Kabala: sources.” – Ibid., pp. 66-67 [The Yod diagram to the right is from, <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, p. 42'</div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The Sun, ruler of Leo,] is the seed of the 9th Manifestation, Jupiter is the planet ruler of the 9th Manifestation [Sagittarius], and Uranus is the co-ruler of Aquarius, the Age of Preservation, the Age of the appearance of the Avatars of the 9th Manifestation.” – Thea, <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, p. 42</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In Part One, I wrote that Putin’s Sun and Rising signs – Libra and Scorpio – stand as significant clues of his role in the evolutionary play. I was not aware at the time that there are conflicting accounts of his birthtime and thus of his Rising sign. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#9a" id="9">[9]</a></span> Astrologer Lynn Hayes wrote the following about Putin’s Rising sign:</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“I should point out that there is no verified birth time for Putin as birth times aren’t recorded on birth certificates in Russia, but the birth time of 9:30 am was provided to an astrological researcher back in 2000 and this is the chart that is widely used today. If this isn’t Putin’s actual chart it’s the chart he would want to have, with the power sign Scorpio rising and Pluto conjunct the Midheaven along with the South Node. These are powerful placements, especially with the ascendant ruler Mars in a trine to Pluto, Scorpio’s modern ruler which tends to facilitate the rise of power, and a square from Jupiter to Pluto which tends to bestow a sense of self-righteousness.” – <a href="https://www.astrodynamics.net/the-astrology-of-vladmir-putin-and-the-war-on-ukraine/" target="_blank">“The astrology of Vladmir Putin and the war on Ukraine”</a></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">So the Scorpio placement of his Rising sign is either accurate or it is simply a proverbial shoe that many astrologers believe accurately fits his life and persona. It certainly fits if one sees Putin as an instrument of the regressive, obstructive, violent, and poisonous energies of the “fixed” water sign Scorpio that are defeated by Saturn (aka, the Time-Spirit, Agni, the son of the Sun) at his 6 Point in the Vedic Year (0° Sagittarius), so that the Vedic waters – aka the seven rivers – of divine truth and clarity can be poured out of the Kumbha or Water Jar of Aquarius. As discussed in last year’s series “The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Water Sign of Scorpio”, the victorious pouring out of Vishnu’s Kumbha in our Age of Aquarius (aka the Age of Kumbha) very much demands the dismantling of the Scorpionic forts and forces, that blocks the flow of its waters and the flow of the evolutionary journey (Vedic Yajna/Zodiac); and 2016 – the year of Thea’s passing and the first year of our current ennead – marked significant progress in that regard.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Libra and Scorpio, Putin’s Sun and Rising signs, are the first two signs of the 3rd (Mental) quadrant, arising out of 0° Libra – the 4.5 Point/Void of the evolutionary journey of the Vedic Year (=Yajna= Zodiac) which is equivalent to <i>Sunset</i> (the setting of the Sun) in the 24-hour cycle of the Earth’s Day. In Thea’s “Map of the 12 Manifestations”, wherein each of the 6,480-year and three-age Manifestations spans one of the twelve signs of the Zodiac, the 7th (Libra) and the 8th (Scorpio) Manifestations precede our current 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation and bring us to the 6/Saturn Point (0° Sagittarius) of this cycle, 234 BCE according to Thea (see the illustration of the 12 Manifestations above and below).</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPmmfNUAZYT8FIc-1JUt9vDYjtMCk2KMx14FgLRGI8cHBmSp0W08D0XFOP3XRGFsxWV2ChjaKG-Mx9q7Q3TIQ07wgKg8n8GhO13RIbT3MD6s0BzDgf36KH7nF1ztf3CyBr6uzmNmQrZpi4e8U-wLZYubF0fKuscctoxgUsx361Ec8Bau6qG_1TqUz0/s523/Maha-Yuga-LT-2022-3rd-Quarter.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="3rd Quadrant of Maha Yuga cycle: 7th, 8th & 9th Manifestations (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="523" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPmmfNUAZYT8FIc-1JUt9vDYjtMCk2KMx14FgLRGI8cHBmSp0W08D0XFOP3XRGFsxWV2ChjaKG-Mx9q7Q3TIQ07wgKg8n8GhO13RIbT3MD6s0BzDgf36KH7nF1ztf3CyBr6uzmNmQrZpi4e8U-wLZYubF0fKuscctoxgUsx361Ec8Bau6qG_1TqUz0/w320-h264/Maha-Yuga-LT-2022-3rd-Quarter.png" title="3rd Quadrant of Maha Yuga cycle: 7th, 8th & 9th Manifestations (Lori Tompkins)" width="320" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the Mother’s 144-year cycle, ending with the beginning of Putin’s War on Ukraine, as shown in Part One, this 6/Saturn Point (<b>96/</b>144 years = 2/3 = 240°/360° = 0° Sagittarius) falls approximately three months (<b>96</b> days) after the Mother’s passing at the age of 95 and 9 months (269 days).</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The 7th Manifestation] began on the 'pillar' known as Cosmic Sunset [0° Libra)] … solar, but also twilight in essence. The Sun is still above the horizon in the 7th, but <b>in setting it heralds the approaching night</b>.” – Thea, <i>Secrets of the Earth</i>, p. 38 [Bold emphasis added]</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“It must be remembered that both 7th and 8th Manifestations have their pivot or find their axial balance in the Cancer Cardinal Pillar, Cosmic Midnight; that is, the axis of the lower hemisphere. Therefore we understand that <b>they deal with earlier expressions, more basic in the species, unlike what is to follow</b> [in the 9th Manifestation onward].” – Ibid., p. 41 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In the same book Thea spelled out the goal of Vishnu’s evolutionary avatars in the Age of Aquarius, within the 9th Manifestation.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“We seek to unveil the soul of [Vedic] knowledge again. To do so we must find the eternal foundation which the cosmos provides. This does not mean that all previous experiences of the Veda are somehow invalid or inconsequential. But the new cosmology will render the experience relevant to our times. It will enhance whatever has been one's previous understanding. More importantly, the new cosmology will make the Veda applicable. To accomplish this we need to restore the cosmic connection which is best accomplished when we fill in the details of the 9th Avatar's appearance, since his coming provides us with the truth-conscious structure it is his duty to introduce in this 9th Manifestation, i.e., the Cosmic Truth.” – Thea, <i>Secrets of the Earth</i>, p. 65</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">The 8th sign of Scorpio, ruled by Mars is the sign of War and Death which is simultaneously the zenith of and end of the road for the binary and egoic mental consciousness which has lost its “eternal foundation”, “cosmic connection” and “Cosmic Truth”. This limited consciousness, oblivious to the eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) of the ancients, is meant to self-destruct, dissolve, and give way to the higher potentials of our being and becoming upon the immergence of the supramental consciousness in the 9th sign or stage of our evolutionary journey. Our Aquarian Age within the 9th (Sagittarius) Manifestation, appears to be the point in our journey wherein the efforts of this OLD consciousness to assert and expand its dominance in the world, only serve to <i>quicken</i> its own demise and dissolution. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Given their roles as the leaders of the two sides of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it is worth mentioning that Gemini – the polarizing influence of our current degree in the 360° Precessional Cycle – figures prominently in both Putin’s and Zelensky’s natal charts. Putin’s Moon is in Gemini, as is Zelensky’s Ascendent. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Gemini is the sign of MIND and whereas there is some sort of integration albeit split in two.... Gemini presents a diminished energy base by this vertical division or polarisation, so typical of the mental function; indeed, so typical of the brain itself. But being the sign of Mind, which in turn is characterised by duality, there is a certain harmony in Gemini’s duality....</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“The Twin Towers, as reproductions of the symbol for Gemini (Mind), indicate the limitations of its duality as the guiding faculty of the species. We must go beyond Mind now.” – <a href="https://www.aeongroup.com/septrilo.htm " target="_blank">“September Trilogy – Plus One”</a> </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">It is also worth mentioning Will Smith’s physical assault on Chris Rock at the 94th (4-power) Academy Awards in light of a couple significant astrological parallels between Putin's and Will Smith's natal charts, as well as Zelensky's and Chris Rock's natal charts. This incident occurred in the fire sign of Aries – ruled by the God of War, Mars – and temporarily stole the news spotlight from Putin’s ongoing physical assault on Ukraine. The 9-power date of this occurrence, 27 March 2022, contains the Divine Trinity of <b>9</b>.<b>3</b>.<b>6</b> when day, month, and year are reduced to their number powers. Whereas the three pillars of Putin’s natal chart are Sun in Libra, Moon in Gemini, and ASC in Scorpio, the three pillars of Will Smith’s natal chart are Sun in Libra, Moon in Scorpio and ASC in Gemini. On the other hand, Chris Rock, like Zelensky is an Aquarian with a fire-sign Moon. Zelensky and Chris Rock’s natal Mars positions – 0° Leo/27° Virgo – are conjunct the 3 Point (0° Leo) of the Gnostic Circle which Thea discussed as the point of “soul realisation”. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#10a" id="10">[10]</a></span> Will Smith’s slap, dubbed “the slap heard round the world,” was a concise symbol of the self-destructiveness of Scorpionic violence (Mars energy turned toxic) for all of the world to see. After initially laughing at Rock’s joke, Smith saw red and felt completed to protect his wife, who certainly did not ask for or benefit from his misguided act of “protection”. Such incidents of self-destructive violence happen all the time of course, but this display takes on a special symbolic significance given its high visibility, its timing, and the astrological parallels with Putin and Zelensky. In my view, this bizarre event parallels and highlights the self-destructive quality of Putin’s attack on Ukraine, wherein his violence and his efforts to protect “Mother Russia” has been backfiring against him on a global scale. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Does what I have written above or in Part One mean that I think Zelensky and his American and NATO supporters represent a full or even a somewhat-complete manifestation of the Aquarian consciousness or ideal? Not at all. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In her 1991 article, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/energy-crisis-in-the-middle-east-or-war-in-the-new-way/" target="_blank">“ENERGY! Crisis in the Middle East, or War in the New Way”</a> [<i>Vishaal Newsletter</i>, <i>Vol. 5, No. 6, Supplement</i>], Thea wrote: “In this new cosmology ‘the symbol is the thing symbolised’.... <b>the energy-symbol of the old and dying world is black gold</b>,” i.e. oil. And this Scorpionic symbol, along with methane gas – another environmentally damaging FOSSIL fuel, is literally what is fueling or funding Putin’s war on Ukraine. This is another important symbol and clue of what exactly it is that Putin represents in our evolutionary journey, what his power base is, what he is attached to, and what he is in service of, which is “the old and dying world”.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Certainly, fossil fuels are not the direct cause of a war clearly driven by the singular will of President Vladimir Putin.… Whatever is driving Putin, his war machine is fueled by oil and gas.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Putin is able to use the oil money to get rid of any domestic political constraints and to build a military and a war chest to allow these kinds of foreign policy adventures,” said Jeff Colgan, director of the Climate Solutions Lab at Brown University. “In that way, Putin’s Russia falls into a category of states that would include Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and Muammar Qaddafi’s Libya.” –Marianne Lavelle, <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06032022/putin-russia-ukraine-oil-gas-petrostate/" target="_blank">“Whatever His Motives, Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Fueled by Oil and Gas”</a>, 6 March 2022 </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Putin’s style of governance has been characterized by critics, both inside and outside Russia, as being autocratic, oppressive, authoritarian, dictatorial, tyrannical, fascist, totalitarian, and Stalinist. It is worth readers’ time to research some of these varying characterizations of Putin and their rationales. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#11a" id="11">[11]</a></span> Can all of these negative characterizations solely be considered the baseless propaganda of the West? Can all of the criticisms and analysis of people who have been subject to Putin’s oppressive governance and of people who have studied world history in some depth simply be cast aside or discounted as biased without considering their substance, their historical origin and the red flags they present? I don’t think so. It appears to me that these negative characterizations have a real relation to Putin’s own history, philosophy, and behavior, as well as a real relation to Russia’s own long history of autocratic rule. At a minimum I think these critical characterizations represent the recognition by many, on some level, that Putin’s oppression of and aggression against (and active dismissal of) the ideals of democratic representation and liberty and justice for all – regardless of how imperfectly manifested in the West or elsewhere – is “backwards” in a real sense, i.e. the <i>wrong direction</i>, in terms of the evolution of human consciousness. Below is an article or opinion piece published in <i>Time</i> magazine on 2 September 1991 following the August 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“An abyss opened for a moment, and black bats flew out. They filled the air with old nightmares, throwbacks to a style of history that the world had been forgetting. The Soviet Union was seized by a sinister anachronism: its dying self. Men with faces the color of a sidewalk talked about a "state of emergency." They rolled in tanks and told stolid lies. The world imagined another totalitarian dusk, cold war again, and probably Soviet civil war as well. If Gorbachev was under arrest, who had possession of the nuclear codes?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Three days: then the bats of history abruptly turned, flew back and vanished into the past. By act of will and absence of fear, the Russian people accomplished a kind of miracle, the <b>reversal</b> of a thousand years of autocracy.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Nadezhda Mandelstam, the brilliant, bitter memoirist of the Stalin era, wrote in the early '70s: "Evil has great momentum, but the forces of good are inert. The masses . . . have no fight in them, and will acquiesce in whatever happens." Until last week the Russian character was judged to be politically passive, even receptive to brutal rule. At first the coup seemed to confirm the norm. The news administered a dark shock, followed immediately by a depressed sense of resignation: of course, of course, the Russians must revert to their essential selves, to their own history. Gorbachev and glasnost were the aberration; now we are back to fatal normality. "Every country has the government it deserves," Joseph de Maistre wrote in 1811.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Now, after 74 years of communist dictatorship and, centuries before that, of czarist autocracy, the Russians may get a government they have earned -- a democracy. For the first time, they did not subside into an acceptance of overlords. Instead they turned last week's reactionary coup into a transforming rite of passage, an epochal event that forced even Gorbachev to re-examine his most basic beliefs and resign his post as head of the Communist Party.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Citizens poured into the streets, determined, methodical and -- the biggest change in a Russian experience suffused with a genius for official terror -- astonishingly unafraid. They defied the junta's curfew, built barricades around the Russian Parliament Building, where Boris Yeltsin had organized his resistance. They had absorbed something about people power from Prague, Berlin, even Vilnius. A crowd of Muscovites brought a column of armored personnel carriers (APCs) to a halt, stuffing rosebuds and wildflowers into gun barrels. A line of women stood ready to face down troops with a single banner: SOLDIERS: DON'T SHOOT MOTHERS AND SISTERS. Clearly the soldiers had orders not to use force. One of a dozen soldiers who marched to the central telegraph office on Tverskaya Street, when confronted by outraged Muscovites, showed them that the clip of his automatic weapon was empty. When the tanks did move, people were ready with gasoline-filled bottles (named, of course, after the old Stalinist V.M. Molotov). Tank drivers, even paratroop commanders, defected to the resistance. Miners went on strike.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“With all of that, the people of Russia last week purchased their freedom and citizenship. They abolished serfdom in Soviet political life. The event is one of the turning points of world history, proclaiming the end of a totalitarianism that has destroyed so much of the 20th century.” – Lance Morrow, <a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,973738,00.html" target="_blank">“The Russian Revolution, 2 September 1991”</a> [Bold emphasis added] </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Regardless of whether one agrees with this western perspective that the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 represented progress on a humanitarian and epochal scale, what is for certain is that Putin does not. He experienced it as a great tragedy. In a <a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/22931" target="_blank">2005 Annual Address</a> to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation he stated:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and compatriots found themselves outside Russian territory. Moreover, the epidemic of disintegration infected Russia itself.”</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Thea, on the other hand, wrote of the collapse of the Soviet Union as a positive outcome connected to her own (and thus Sri Aurobindo’s and the Solar Line’s) yogic victories and as important step in the right direction for the world. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">“I was describing [the] binary system and did a whole yoga in the 80s. And right on time Gorbachov came in, right on time, I mean, extraordinary. Everything was going like clockwork, the whole collapse of the Soviet Union, right on time, everything. Perfect. By ‘89 the work was done and we started a new ennead and everything was done, exactly in accordance with this. Exactly. Fantastic.” </span>–<span style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/study-circle-with-thea/" target="_blank">"Study Circle with Thea”</a>, Rosendale, New York, 18 April, 1994, <i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Vol. 9, Issue 2</i>, June 1994 </span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he 4.5 Orbit crossing in 1984 [in the midst of the 1980-89 ennead]…brought <b>the most significant reversals on the world stage to date</b>; for example, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the unification of Berlin, to name just a few.” – Thea, <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNW3.html" target="_blank">The New Way, Vol. 3</a></i>, p. 178 [Bold emphasis added] </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“When we dissect the 1990s as we have done with the 1970s and 1980s, it becomes evident that the underlying theme of this special and concluding ennead is the emergence of a political dispensation that would permit the true soul of [India] to emerge from behind the veils. Prior to the turning point of the 80s, the condition was not as if obscured by veils; it was rather a veritable iron curtain.…</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“But with the work of the 1970s and 1980s, this 'iron curtain' began to be as <b>unsustainable as the Berlin Wall in defence of the Iron Curtain separating a largely capitalist West from a socialist/communist East. Indeed, both these 'curtains' began to crumble at the same time</b>: the mid 1980s. And both hinged on a certain yogic victory which occurred at that time in the Solar Line and was then transported beyond. For it was in 1983, a year of 3 number-power, that for India and for the world, the true centre came into being. This means that the yogic equivalent of a 'singularity' came into being which would serve the nation [of India], and through the nation the world, as an anchor, as a stabilising factor ever after. Externally there were tremendous forces seeking to tear the ancient civilisation [of India] apart. These were at once political, cultural and social. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“On the international scene that 'singularity' would be detected in the fact that a collapse of what is called in this new cosmology, the Binary System, came to pass. It was replaced by the Unitary System. To be more precise, a linear or polar tension collapsed, and with it the collapse of one end of the pole, the USSR. However, this left a very precarious situation in the global arena. The old system had collapsed, but the unitary, spherical system, though having emerged then, housed as yet a void at its centre. In other words, there was a spherical circular system in place, but without an operating centre on the world stage. This central Point was as yet impotent to exert its power. Meanwhile, the only remaining 'super power', the USA, by default had to step in to fill that void, but not by destiny or cosmological constitution. <i>This true centre is India, by destiny</i>. The USA has a different role to play in conjunction with India, the lines of which are only now becoming apparent, though in this new cosmology the geo-cosmological connection between India and the USA was revealed as far back as 1974.” – <i>The Nine Nights of Durga – The Destiny of India across the Century - in a New Cosmological Paradigm</i>, 1999, unpublished [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">As Thea discussed throughout her writings, India’s fulfillment of its destiny as a world center and unifying power involves reestablishing the “eternal foundation” and “cosmic connection” mentioned earlier, which depends on the reestablishment of the Divine Maya (=measure) of the twelve month Vedic Year and of the Mother’s twelve pillar Vedic Temple. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[I] have described the manner in which India can bring her dharmic essence to the forefront because the realisation of her destiny lies in bringing about the consciously lived experience of interconnectedness, of oneness. However, we must carry the analysis a step further to discover that this is not merely a connection between countries and some sort of all-embracing openness or spirit of compromise for India, and certainly not resolved by appeasements based on irrelevant concerns about secularism; rather, it is <b>the cosmic connection as discussed in this series – that is, bringing the Earth into harmony with the entire cosmic manifestation in a conscious way hitherto known only to the Vedic Rishis</b>. Since then, to impede the realisation that would benefit the entire Earth, the strategy has been to attack that very connection – successfully, I might add. It stands broken today but can be easily repaired. <b>All that is needed is to bring back into harmony the two Zero Points via the Equinoxes and Solstices</b>, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#12a" id="12">[12]</a></span> the correct measure of which would vindicate Ganga’s own dharmic essence.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“I have dwelt on India to formulate the New Way because of her centreship. She is as if a pebble cast into a pond from which point ripples expand. The nature of the Centre is what determines the ripples that fan out from that point. If it is harmonious and based on Gnosis, those ripples will express the highest harmonics, the music of the spheres. Her ability to play this role for the Earth largely resides in the fact that all the problems of the world at this moment of intense polarisation are found compacted in India – ideologies of every hue. Some will survive the Tornado, others will stand exposed and their energies will be swept away and re-cycled.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“In all things a centre is required….” <i>– </i><span style="text-align: right;">Thea, </span><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/front-page/why-is-makar-sankranti-important-for-india-3/" style="text-align: right;" target="_blank">“Why is Makar Sankranti Important for India ~ 3"</a><span style="text-align: right;">, 15 June 2016</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“When Time and its indispensable precision are rubbished and the Divine Measure that utilises the new precision is trashed, what transformation of matter are we talking about? Time is the building mortar, the true cementing factor. Hence its secrets are coveted by all seekers in the quest for immortality. Without the allegiance of Time, all such quests are illusions. To deny measure is to deny time is to deny form. How then are we to transform matter? Have we any right to claim that we are doing so when we do not accept the terms matter imposes?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Mayavada has permeated the yogic consciousness of India for far too long. Everything to do with material, cosmic manifestation is considered an illusion. This is what the spiritual authorities tell us. Indeed, this lies behind the rejection of measure and the precision the Mother demanded. The ‘new precision’ involves Time in the transformation as an ally and not a destroyer. Without this allegiance there can be no ‘yoga of the cells and matter’. The Mother’s original plan gave us this precious knowledge. It exists for those who SEE. It does not exist in the Auroville Matrimandir, in spite of the mental acrobatics of the non-believers (‘…One is not going to say it. To begin with, they would not believe me…’).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“For India the loss of the Vision has done incalculable damage. This will be explained in detail in future Chronicles. It is sufficient to state for the moment that the emphasis by the Mother on time and measure was a calculated divine strategy insofar as India lost the Divine Measure a number of centuries ago when the sidereal (Nirayana) zodiac was adopted in lieu of the Vedic tropical (Sayana) zodiac. It is only with the tropical zodiac that the Makar Sankranti, the shortest day of the year and entry into Capricorn, has any relevance both within India and connected to the rest of the world. This is the true VEDIC astrology, unlike what goes by that name today.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“The reasons for this aberration are intimately connected to Sri Aurobindo’s mission and explain his statement that Kalki comes ‘to correct the error of the Buddha’. The Mother’s Vision, with its ‘new precision’ involving time and measure, was a crucial piece in the correction process. Her Vision reinstates the tropical zodiac in all its details and provides India with the Divine Measure once again, – and with it the keys to her destiny and place within the new Supramental dispensation. There is no way in which India can fulfil that high destiny without this Divine Measure. Through these Chronicles, we shall prove the point.” – <a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/2012/03/part-vi-transcendent-sri-aurobindo-in.html" target="_blank"><i>Chronicles of the Inner Chamber</i>, Part Four</a></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">From several of the quotes above, we can see that Thea saw the collapse of the Soviet Union as a necessary and positive evolutionary shift from the old binary system to the new unitary system, which America, for geo-cosmological as well as geopolitical reasons has essentially held-centre (or temporarily filled the Void) by default because India has yet to assume her rightful place at the centre of the new spherical world order in our new age.
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#13a" id="13">[13]</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I agree with Thea’s point of view regarding progress made in 1991 (while Saturn was transiting through the early degrees of Aquarius) and my sense is that through Putin’s violent and self-destructive attempts to essentially reverse that progress, further progress towards the unitary consciousness and system on Earth is being made, even if India has yet to live up to her destiny of reestablishing the eternal law, foundation and divine maya or measure of the spherical gnosis of the Vedic Rishis (and of the Vedic Year/Yajna) in the world<span style="text-align: left;">. It is worth noting that Thea, who together with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother recovered the essential elements and context of Vedic wisdom that India must now reestablish in the world on a global scale, was American-born. And, in conjunction with Thea’s passing in 2016, the truth of the divine maya and eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) of the Vedic Rivers and thus of the Vedas themselves was recovered in America, by an American. When will India embrace the eternal foundation and keys of its own power Age of Aquarius, and simultaneously embrace its cosmological connection with America as discussed by Thea? This remains to be seen.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">With regard to global affairs, whether historical or present, I am all for the exposure and dismantling of all manner of falsehood, oppression and abuses of power and of people in the world, regardless of who the perpetrators are or where they live in the world, or what their geopolitical agenda is. I also trust that this process of exposure is supramentally controlled and coordinated, and that what needs to be exposed and known will be exposed and known when the Time is right, and no sooner. I do see Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, on the vital and mental level of events, as mutually created or born forth via the conflicting geopolitical and vital interests of America (and its Western/NATO allies), and the Russian Federation (and its Eastern allies); and I very much value any and all intelligent analyses that help to flush out the larger historical context, co-creation and buildup to the war. This includes the analyses of those who point out war crimes and hypocrisies committed by American leaders which are largely ignored by mainstream media and enable people to have a wider perspective and more discrimination when it comes to mainstream media. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#14a" id="14">[14]</a></span> Of course such analyses do not take into account the cosmological, evolutionary and spiritual dimensions of what is being worked out on the world stage, but regardless, they are helpful in cultivating a wider and more multidimensional view.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Thea’s commentary (featured above) on the “extreme polarization” of 2016, which “ought to have been easily foreseen already in 1989 with the break-up of the Soviet Union,” is so applicable to Putin’s 2022 war on Ukraine and its immediate exacerbation of the binary tensions of East-West that it feels like a foreshadowing of present events. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine now occurs as an inevitable backlash and flareup of the unresolved binary tensions of the Cold War (1947-1991), tensions which remain a real reflection and symbol of humanity’s binary consciousness and its cataclysmic dangers. Since 2016, the year of Thea’s passing, there has been a tangible acceleration of these binary tensions throughout the world, accelerated in large part due to modern technologies and social media platforms that enable the rapid publication and sharing of information, whether true or false. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Via this acceleration of tensions, it seems clear that our binary mental consciousness – represented by the Air signs of Gemini and Libra in the Zodiac – has reached its breaking point or its functional and operational limits. In terms of the evolutionary stages of the Zodiac, this limit is reached at the end of the 8th sign of Scorpio, the sign of War and Death, and the false divisions (the falsehood) must be dissolved or dismantled in the 9th sign of Sagittarius by the higher light and truth of the soul, in order to avoid an evolutionary miscarriage based upon mutually-enacted self-destruction. According to Thea, and Sri Aurobindo and the Mother before her, this process of dissolution is controlled in a supramental manner and both the positive and negative sides of the positive-negative duality contribute to the soul’s victory in the course of the evolutionary journey. With all of this in mind, I view this binary conflict as catalyst and mechanism for evolutionary progress. I take some solace in the symbol of the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9-11 (2001) which Thea discussed in terms of the <i>controlled dissolution</i> of the binary mental consciousness by the power or force of the indwelling One (the Soul-Spark of the Divine/Agni). I trust that the Russia-Ukraine war also represents a<i> controlled dissolution</i>, albeit on a larger scale, of that which must be dissolved at this particular point in our journey.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Though the peril we face is real and imminent, such a dismal course [a destruction so complete as to disallow a renewed evolution of the species] is unlikely. The reason I can make this statement is precisely because of the latest USA tragedy. The ‘hand’ of the Controller has been so evident in the unfolding of events and in the logic of the process that it is unlikely unforeseen developments out of the sphere of its control will occur. Indeed, nothing lies beyond its reach. When the centre and new axial alignment come into being, it means that out of the chaos of the former old way a cosmos has emerged. There is then only one centre, similar to the Sun of our solar system. No other possibility is possible since both positive and negative must ‘serve the purposes of the One.” – Thea, <a href="http://www.aeongroup.com/septrilo.htm" target="_blank">“September Trilogy – Plus One”</a> [a cosmological analysis of 9-11, 2001]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Regarding the commentary, “We have seen how western society has been silent in the midst of several conflicts and wars around the world, and now suddenly everyone is so indignant with this war,” I consider the wide and digitally-amplified condemnation of Putin’s invasion on Ukraine to be simply a reflection of what is necessary and demanded at this stage of our collective evolutionary journey. Think of all of the abuses and injustices that were legal and acceptable or unable to be exposed in previous decades or centuries or millenniums that are no longer legal or acceptable or able to be kept under wraps in the 21st century. At certain points in our development, when the Time is right or when the Time Spirit demands, catalysts arise that bring certain things to light order to effect an upward shift in our individual and collective journey or yoga of fulfilling our soul’s potential and embodying our soul’s Satchitananda (Truth, Consciousness and Bliss) in the world. And these catalysts are consistently polarizing because naturally many people are attached to or are conservators of the old behaviors, patterns, or structures that are targeted for dissolution, and naturally many people are prepared to move forward and to support and lend their energies towards the dissolution of the old ways in whatever capacity.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Since the beginning of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine I have been searching out a wide variety of articles, videos, podcasts, interviews, and such towards gaining broader understanding of the history and thus of the forces at play. This has included videos discussing the Russian Revolution (1917), the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror" target="_blank">Red Terror</a> of Lenin and the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia, Stalin’s many crimes against humanity, the Korean War between communist-China-and-Russia-backed North Korea and democratic-American-backed South Korea, the Cold War between the USA and Russia, the fall of the Soviet Union, Mao Tse Tung’s mass murders via the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward" target="_blank">“Great Leap Forward”</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution" target="_blank">Cultural Revolution</a>, America’s <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/firebombing-of-tokyo" target="_blank">firebombing of Tokyo</a> and nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing hundreds of thousands of civilians that brought an end to WW2 in 1945, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#15a" id="15">[15]</a></span> the formation of the United Nations (1945) and NATO (1949), the “Prague Spring” of 1968 towards the democratization of Czechoslovakia that was crushed by the Soviet Union, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis" target="_blank">Russia’s Constitutional Crisis of 1993</a>, and the 12 December 1993 establishment of the Russian Federation and its democratic constitution <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#16a" id="16">[16]</a></span> which also established the enhanced powers of the President that paved <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/russias-road-to-autocracy/" target="_blank">“Russia’s Road to Autocracy”</a>, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#17a" id="17">[17]</a></span> the <a href="https://legacyofgena.medium.com/the-real-story-of-the-iran-contra-affair-81c36b34b50f" target="_blank">Iran-Contra Affair</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#18a" id="18" target="">[18]</a></span> and the CIA’s larger history of drug trafficking to support various war efforts, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#19a" id="19">[19]</a></span> the American War on Iraq committed under false pretenses by those at the helm of the American government in fairly recent history, and the rise of what has been discussed as the “Second Cold-War” – i.e. a Cold War between China and America<a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#20a" id="20"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">[20]</span></a> – in the pivotal year of 2016. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is truly fascinating to view Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in conjunction with all of this relatively recent world history, and in view of <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pUQPDgKs2-gNfke4eSKpc7r8FAm5oJU0/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">the 144-year timescape</a> or cycle laid out in Part One which begins with the Mother’s 21 February 1878 birth and ends with Putin’s recognition of Ukraine’s two “breakaway regions”, Luhansk and Donetsk, as independent states, which preceded his full-scale invasion of Ukraine three days later. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I have added t</span>he April 1949 formation of NATO by Western allies in the early years of the Cold War to the nadir (4.5 Point) of that 144-year cycle, as well as the 22 December (Makar Sankranti) 1949 placement of an idol of Vishnu’s 7th incarnation Ram (as an infant = Ram Lalla) at the Babri Mosque – “a site believed by many Hindus to be the birthplace of Hindu deity Rama [which has] been a focus of dispute between the Hindu and Muslim communities since the 18th century” [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babri_Masjid" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>]. In 1992, the year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this mosque was <a href="https://thewire.in/communalism/babri-masjid-the-timeline-of-a-demolition#:~:text=The%20mosque%20in%20Ayodhya%20was,the%20building%20of%20a%20temple." target="_blank">demolished by Hindu activists</a> triggering murders and riots across India. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#21a" id="21">[21]</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now it is apparent that this 144-year womb of Time has birthed forward a formidable consolidation, configuration, amplification, and manifestation of the binary tensions of the World Wars and the Cold War(s). All of the tensions that have been smoldering either under the surface or erupting in regional ways, since the end of the original Cold War have erupted in a new way, exposing and clarifying all countries’ core beliefs, vulnerabilities, dependencies and alliances and demanding a new level of global considerations and responses, orchestrating an opportunity for our collective human soul to make some further progress (however small) towards the manifestation of unity consciousness in our Aquarian Age.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In addition to the historical research listed above and to other research related to Putin’s war on Ukraine, I have also been researching Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s political views and occult actions with regard to World War II and other world tensions, most of which I was already familiar, because I read the thirteen volumes of <i>The Mother’s Agenda</i> in full circa 2003-2004 (and have reread much of it since then) which presents many of these views and actions. I think any student of the Supramental Yoga, and perhaps anyone who is trying to see and understand (i.e. to be conscious of) what is transpiring between Russia and Ukraine, and by extension between the forces allied with Russia and those allied with the United States and Europe, will benefit from reading some of this commentary, in addition to the commentary by Sri Aurobindo that I have already included above. In my next two posts (addendums to Part Two), I will share some of Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s commentary on world affairs, in chronological order. [Link to <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html" target="_blank">Addendum 1</a>]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I will end this post with a fuller version of Thea’s comments on black gold (oil) as the “energy-symbol of the old and dying world”. In this fuller version, she points to the “supramental Gnosis” as the energy and power base of India and of the New World, though this energy has been yet to be cultivated and utilized on a collective scale to fuel progress in India or elsewhere.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“In this new cosmology ‘the symbol is the thing symbolised’.... the energy-symbol of the old and dying world is black gold. On the other hand, <b>the ‘symbol’ of the energy released by the new Time is pure Gold, or the supramental Gnosis</b>. India is where the latter is found. – Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/energy-crisis-in-the-middle-east-or-war-in-the-new-way/" target="_blank">“ENERGY! Crisis in the Middle East, or War in the New Way”</a> [<i>Vishaal Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 6, Supplement</i>]</p></blockquote>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;">Endnotes: </b></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> Whereas 2022 is a 6-power year in terms of our present ennead (2016-2025), if 1926 – the beginning of the Aquarian Age – is seen as the beginning of a 144-year cycle comprising two degrees of the Precessional cycle (1926-2070), 96 years falls at the 6 Point. As mentioned in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#6-point" target="_blank">Part One</a>, Thea discussed the first age of our current 9th Manifestation – the Age of Pisces, preceding our present Aquarian Age – as the 96th age of the 144-age Greater Circle, consisting of 12 Precessional Years (12 x 25,920 = 311,040 years).</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a> <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNW12.html" target="_blank">The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</a></i>, p. 201.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a> Below are some of Thea’s writings on Saturn and the Mother, and Saturn’s relationship to the Mother’s Vedic Temple – the Matrimandir – which stands misconstructed and distorted in Auroville, India: </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he Mother's position on the Sacred Triangle is the 6 point, Saturn's point.” – <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 245</p> <p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“In the pattern of the [Supramental] Descent it must be remembered that the Mother occupies the position of 6; thus by destiny she was obliged to concretise the essence of Saturn in the Earth's evolutionary scheme; she was obliged by her inherent dharma to crystallise the cosmic womb which was to contain the new consciousness.” – Ibid., pp. 271-72</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The Inner Chamber of the Mother’s Temple] is the abode of Saturn, the planet in the celestial harmony that epitomises the passage of Time…. The Chamber is the magical dwelling place of the Time-Spirit; the Time-Spirit in the planetary harmony is Saturn; Saturn in the creative OM is the cosmic manifestation." – Ibid., p. 197</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: center;">*</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="text-align: justify;">“</span>[T]he Time-Spirit Saturn [is] the essence of the Mother's chamber.” – Ibid., p. 329</p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“We must emphasise again that Saturn is the planetary/harmonic essence of the Mother’s temple. The entire structure, inner and outer, is a hymn to the 6th planet. And since the Mother herself occupies the 6th position on the descending number-planetary scale of 9/6/3/0-1 of the Solar Line, Supermind arranged the revelation of this model of Saturn – her own ‘pulse’ or cosmic note – through the Mother herself.” – <i>Chronicles of the Inner Chamber</i>, Update 8, “Saturn Above, Saturn Below”</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#4" id="4a">[4] </a><i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i>, p. 267.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#5" id="5a">[5]</a> A few of the discussions of Putin’s chart:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><a href="https://mylittlemagicshop.com/blogs/blog/the-astrology-of-russia-and-putin" target="_blank">“The Astrology of Russia and Putin”</a>, Sorana Cancel, 4 March 2022</li><li><a href="https://www.astrotheme.com/Focus-Astro-celebrity-Vladimir-Putin.php" target="_blank">“Analysis of Vladimir Putin's astrological chart”</a>, Astrotheme.com. </li><li><a href="https://astrologyking.com/vladimir-putin-horoscope/" target="_blank">“Vladimir Putin Horoscope – Ruthless Power”</a>, Astrologyking.com</li><li><a href="http://thezodiacus.com/2019/05/29/the-astrology-of-an-ex-kgb-agent-russian-president-vladimir-putin/" target="_blank">“The Astrology of an ex-KGB agent & Russian President: Vladimir Putin”</a>, Jenny Dusky, 29 May 2019 </li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#6" id="6a">[6]</a> <a href="https://www.astromomma.com/blogs/news/the-astrological-transits-of-vladimir-putin-a-30-year-aspect-returns-again-control-power-of-the-motherland-by-any-means-the-more-radical-the-better#:~:text=Transit%20Saturn%20in%20Aquarius%20is,of%20our%20home%20and%20roots." target="_blank">“The Astrological Transits of Vladimir Putin – A 30 Year Aspect Returns Again, Control + Power of the Motherland, by Any Means. The More Radical the Better”</a>, Sara Hayes, 23 February 2022. </p><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#7" id="7a">[7]</a> <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/gulf-of-tonkin-resolution-1#:~:text=It%20was%20passed%20on%20August,involvement%20in%20the%20Vietnam%20War" target="_blank">“Gulf of Tonkin Resolution”</a>, History.com, 2019.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#8" id="8a">[8]</a> Each <i>triṁśāṁsa</i> is an individual degree of the 360° Zodiac, each of which Thea designated with a zodiacal sign. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#9" id="9a">[9]</a> “The Astrodatabank notes there are no birth certificates issued in Russia, and the source of data is the government archives. In 2002, Putin's webmaster replied to an e-mail, stating his birth time was 9:30 am. Another individual reported a conversation in which Putin quoted 1:00 pm. A number of rectifications have been attempted by Western astrologers, with various birth times.” – <a href="https://keplercollege.org/index.php/articles-opinions/using-astrology/966-rectification-putin#Vladimir%20Putin's%20Birth%20Data" target="_blank">“Rectification against all odds: A Vedic Astrologer looks at Vladimir Putin's Chart”</a>, KeplerCollege.org</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#10" id="10a">[10]</a> “[The soul realisation] is the accomplishment of the 3 Point.” – Thea, <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, p. 234.</p>
<p><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#11" id="11a">[11]</a> Here are a few articles presenting these critical characterizations: </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li>Amanpour and Company recently published an interview of Yale Philosophy professor Jason Stanley (author of <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/putins-fascism" target="_blank">“Putin’s Fascism</a>”, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Fascism-Works-Politics-Them/dp/0525511830" target="_blank">“How Fascism Works</a>”) by Hari Sreenivasan “about modern iterations of fascism and how they target the West’s vulnerabilities.” (YouTube, 7 April 2022), entitled <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9aKODtay6c" target="_blank">“Jason Stanley: U.S. Failure to Uphold Democratic Values Empowered Putin”</a>.</li><li><a href="https://theconversation.com/putins-not-a-fascist-totalitarian-or-revolutionary-hes-a-reactionary-tyrant-179256" target="_blank">“Putin’s not a fascist, totalitarian or revolutionary – he’s a reactionary tyrant”</a>, Richard Shorten, March 17, 2022 </li><li><a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/russias-road-to-autocracy/" target="_blank">“Russia’s Road to Autocracy”</a>, Michael McFaul, <i>Journal of Democracy</i>, Vol. 32, Issue 4, pp. 11-26, October 2021.</li><li><a href="E:\0 Lori\0-2022\Articles\Ukraine\• https:\slate.com\news-and-politics\2022\03\putin-russia-totalitarianism-soviet-style-oppression.html" target="_blank">“How Putin Plunged Russia Toward Totalitarianism: While invading Ukraine, the dictator has imposed a new era of Soviet-style oppression at home. He’s been building to this moment for a decade”</a>, Ben Judah, Slate, 10 March 2022.</li><li><a href="https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/11/13/vladimir-putin-has-shifted-from-autocracy-to-dictatorship" target="_blank">“Vladimir Putin has shifted from autocracy to dictatorship”</a>, <i>The Economist</i>, 13 November 2021.</li><li><a href="E:\0 Lori\0-2022\Articles\Ukraine\• https:\www.theguardian.com\environment\2022\apr\11\putin-autocracies-fossil-fuels-climate-action" target="_blank">“Putin’s war shows autocracies and fossil fuels go hand in hand. Here’s how to tackle both”</a>, Bill McKibben, 11 Apr 2022 </li><li><a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/vladimir-putin-recites-stalin-playbook-lenin/" target="_blank">“Putin’s Stalinist playbook: The Russian leader has eschewed Lenin in favor of a more familiar figure”</a>, Slavoj Zizek, <i>Spectator Worl</i>d, March 3, 2022 </li><li><a href="E:\0 Lori\0-2022\Articles\Ukraine\• https:\www.amnestyusa.org\6-of-president-vladimir-putins-most-oppressive-laws\" target="_blank">“6 of President Vladimir Putin's Most Oppressive Laws”</a>, Amnesty International, 5 September 2013 </li><li><a href="https:\www.atlanticcouncil.org\blogs\new-atlanticist\more-and-more-russians-are-fleeing-oppression-in-russia\" target="_blank">“More and more Russians are fleeing oppression in Russia”</a>, David A. Wemer, Atlantic Council, 21 February 2019.</li></ul><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#12" id="12a">[12]</a> Makar Sankranti is the entrance into the sign of Capricorn (0° Capricorn/Makar), which has been chronically severed from the Winter Solstice and thus mismeasured in India by post-Vedic astrologers for many centuries. The two zero points Thea mentions in this article refer to the zero points of the Zodiacal Year and the “Time” Year. In <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/front-page/2016-in-focus/" target="_blank">Part One</a> of the same series Thea wrote: “<b>[T]here is only one zodiac – and that is the sacred zodiac handed down to us by Rishis of a long-lost era</b>. The usurpation by astronomers of the tropical zodiacal signs and symbols was part of the strategy to rid the world of meaning and purpose in the evolution we are part of on planet Earth – that is, to render our lives purposeless and our sojourn on Earth entirely meaningless. This is the collective void we harbour, nowhere more evident than in India today for 80% of her population saddled with this falsehood.” [Bold emphasis in original] This was written on 1 January 2016 – the first day of 2016 and thus the first day our current ennead and 9 months and 9 days before Thea’s passing. See also: <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/articles/the-origins-and-nature-of-hindu-decline/" target="_blank">“The Origins and Nature of Hindu Decline”</a> [Thea, 2006]</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#13" id="13a">[13]</a> More pertinent commentary by Thea on our evolving new world order: </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The unipolar world is…a fallacy in terms of any one of the superpowers occupying that dominant position. For it is neither America, nor of course Russia, nor any other nation which has taken over centre-stage. <b><u>It is a consciousness working through certain channels which have been prepared for the role they are presently playing some centuries ago. Nor can we say that that consciousness has wholly occupied this positio</u>n.</b> What we are witnessing is the final struggle of certain forces to secure the dominant position. Indeed, the position is still vacant, but it is rapidly on the way to being filled by the force which functioned so effectively to subjugate half the world during the colonial age.” –Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/culture-and-cosmos-3-part-3-3/" target="_blank">“Culture and Cosmos – 3, Part 3.3”</a>, <i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Vol. 8, No. 6, February 1994 [All emphasis added]</i></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“There is a striking polarity in the USA, and in a certain sense it is as if the nation were indeed orbiting a void, inasmuch as the most important contributions to its history have arisen in these two extremities, or have finally settled into these dual orbits, ‒so clearly indicated in the Cancer symbol. This dichotomy is apparent even in the distinctive life styles. adopted by the inhabitants of the East and West coastal areas. The fact that this hieroglyph indicates a central void is the reason why this nation cannot successfully stand as a lone guide and inspiring light in the symphony of nations. <b>She lacks that central, immortal core of an eternal Truth. And this is provided by India</b>. Together, in unison, a formidable power could arise to usher in an age of greater understanding and luminous vision of the true destiny of the planet. Matter and spirit must ultimately reveal their oneness and work in harmony.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Here is the Cancer hieroglyph superimposed upon the landmass of the United States of America. The two circles in the glyph are the dual foci of energy:</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwnTmmyUTwfEwkIgUiIX6YwUNwjyk3_FoXuMUS-yww95W79WxH_Y-IMZkloUZreXdWJEwMPAelZTDz-egvspOcn0-2sveMUlpZKcwwpXpEw3bpSxyQgCDFbN8ZNX8QwEOuFvJiEG5-rBGlTxa4F-8S54OcM5O5dDDOL9wUFlKY_7nPlrUYu1qnIVsK/s245/Cancer-America.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, Cancer hieroglyph superimposed on America, Time and Imperishability, p. 90" border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwnTmmyUTwfEwkIgUiIX6YwUNwjyk3_FoXuMUS-yww95W79WxH_Y-IMZkloUZreXdWJEwMPAelZTDz-egvspOcn0-2sveMUlpZKcwwpXpEw3bpSxyQgCDFbN8ZNX8QwEOuFvJiEG5-rBGlTxa4F-8S54OcM5O5dDDOL9wUFlKY_7nPlrUYu1qnIVsK/s16000/Cancer-America.jpg" title="Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, Cancer hieroglyph superimposed on America, Time and Imperishability, p. 90" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Concerning the Spirit/Matter axis relating to these two nations, any clear-seeing person will have no difficulty in recognising that India and America tend to express themselves best in areas pertinent to their positions on the pole. However, it is important to reveal this relationship in the context of the present global stress, because it is when these two pole/nations and all that they signify are brought into harmony that the transition is safely passed and the Golden Age is born.” – Thea, <i>Time and Imperishability</i>, (1997), pp. 89-90 [Bold emphasis added] </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“In the wake of the absoluteness of the American victory in the Gulf War, panic seems to be setting in across the globe, in particular in Third World countries, especially evident in India. The general fear is that we have become trapped in a ‘unipolar’ world, lorded over by the USA and with no nation on Earth able to provide a balancing, attenuating force. There are laments that the United Nations has been hijacked by America and calls for its restructuring whereby this situation might never arise again. </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“I will not enter into a discussion of the above in any great detail since these fears are an important consideration in the New Way only insofar as they reflect the difficulty the old world has in coming to terms with the new; and above all, with power. At the outset I must state that America, perhaps better than any other nation, is in the process of fulfilling the purpose for which it came into being as an independent nation. It is difficult to locate a similar impeccable display of faithfulness to an inner truth or Dharma….</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he feared ‘unipolar’ world is not an accurate assessment of the current situation but merely points to one all-important fact: America is at present living up to her destiny as the centre of the pole of Matter, alone and all-powerful in the midst of the nations of the West which represent that pole in the higher Harmony, while India, an equal if not more important element in the design, has so far failed to live up to her role in the higher scheme of things. Indeed, at the national level there is a ‘void’ in evidence; but this circumstance corresponds to a certain work India must now undertake – a filling of the Void, to be very precise.” – Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/the-third-world-war-the-new-seeing-the-new-power/" target="_blank">“The Third World War – The New Seeing, the New Power”, “The American Eagle, symbol of Power”</a>, <i>The Vishaal Newsletter</i>, Vol. 6 No. 1, April 1991</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#14" id="14a">[14] </a>Some such analyses include:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppD_bhWODDc&t" target="_blank">"Putin's Invasion of Ukraine"</a>, <i>Salon</i>, Ray McGovern, John Mearsheimer, Mar 3, 2022</li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/rd0rUH_5zSw?t=49" target="_blank">"Let's talk About The USA, Self Reflection & Double Standards"</a>, Lee Barrett, Feb 27, 2022 </li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4" target="_blank">"Why is Ukraine the West's Fault?"</a>, John Mearsheimer, Sep 25, 2015</li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/UB0vn_bD2IE?t=306" target="_blank">"Understanding the Invasion of Ukraine: What is at Stake, What we need to Know"</a> [with Ray McGovern, a former CIA analysist], Humanity Rising, 28 Mar, 2022</li></ul><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#15" id="15a">[15]</a> After the atomic bombings on 6 and 9 August, “The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close.” (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>) The initial surrender of Imperial Japan fell on the 73rd anniversary of Sri Aurobindo’s birth.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#16" id="16a">[16]</a> “The 1993 [Russian Federation] constitution declares Russia a democratic, federative, law-based state with a republican form of government. State power is divided among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.” – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Russia#:~:text=The%201993%20constitution%20declares%20Russia,ideology%20may%20not%20be%20adopted." target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#17" id="17a">[17]</a> “On September 21, 1993, Yeltsin dissolved both legislative bodies, overstepping his authority. The Supreme Soviet and the Congress of People's Deputies reacted by voting to remove him from office. The tension over this de facto dual power structure escalated on October 3, when armed opponents of the president stormed the Moscow mayor's office and the television station Ostankino.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Yeltsin deployed the army, attacking the White House on October 4. Tanks fired short-range shots in broad daylight, setting the building ablaze. Images of the charred facade spread around the world. In total, more than 100 people died. Yeltsin prevailed and, in December 1993, held a referendum on a new constitution that consolidated and strengthened his authority. This new power structure centered around the president is enjoyed to this day by Yeltsin's successor at the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin. – Roman Goncharenko, <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/russias-1993-crisis-still-shaping-kremlin-politics-25-years-on/a-45733546" target="_blank">"Russia's 1993 crisis still shaping Kremlin politics, 25 years on"</a>, 3.10.2018. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“[Yeltsin] strengthened the powers of the presidency so significantly that some labeled the new system ‘superpresidential’” – Michael McFaul, <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/russias-road-to-autocracy/" target="_blank">“Russia’s Road to Autocracy”</a>, <i>Journal of Democracy</i>, Vol. 32, Issue 4, pp. 11–26</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#18" id="18a">[18]</a> A fascinating account of the Iran-Contra affair is presented by lawyer Daniel Sheehan in the video: <a href="E:\0 Lori\0-2022\Articles\Ukraine\Humanity Rising Day 438" target="_blank">"The Iran Contra Case"</a>, <i>Humanity Rising</i>, Mar 22, 2022. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#19" id="19a">[19]</a> See: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cocaine-Politics-Central-America-Updated/dp/0520214498" target="_blank">"Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America"</a>, (1992, updated 1998) by Peter Dale Scott.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#20" id="20a">[20]</a> “Talk of a "new Cold War" between a United States-led bloc of countries on the one hand and the putative Beijing-Moscow bloc, including explicit references to it in the official PRC's media, intensified in the summer of 2016 as a result of the territorial dispute in the South China Sea, when China defied the Permanent Court of Arbitration′s ruling against China on the South China Sea dispute, and the US announcing in July 2016 it would deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) in South Korea, a move resented by China as well as Russia and North Korea.” – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Cold_War#Sino-American_tensions" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#21" id="21a">[21]</a> The fight over this sacred site continued in Indian courts for decades, only recently resolved in the legal sense. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“November 9, 2019: The Supreme Court pronounced its “unanimous” verdict in the Ayodhya title dispute case, saying that the Hindu parties will be given the disputed land where the Babri Masjid once stood. The Sunni Waqf Board, the biggest Muslim litigant in the case, will be given five acres at a separate “prominent” location in Ayodhya.” [<i><a href="https://thewire.in/communalism/babri-masjid-the-timeline-of-a-demolition#:~:text=The%20mosque%20in%20Ayodhya%20was,the%20building%20of%20a%20temple." target="_blank">The Wire</a></i>]</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“In its unanimous verdict that brought down the curtains on the decades-old Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute case, <b>a five-judge Supreme Court bench declared Ram Lalla as a juristic person. A juristic person is a non-human legal entity recognised by the law and entitled to rights and duties in the same way as a human being</b>. Though the Muslim side did not contest Ram Lalla being a juristic person, yet the court gave a conclusive finding on the issue because the deity was the main petitioner in a suit filed claiming ownership of the disputed land.” [<i><a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/ram-lalla-is-juristic-person-judges/story-KQwmtp5FwMdyhaf7a1qpnL.html" target="_blank">Hindustan Times</a></i>, bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“September 30, 2020: The special CBI court acquits all 32 accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case, including former deputy prime minister L.K. Advani, former Union ministers Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh.” [<i><a href="https://thewire.in/communalism/babri-masjid-the-timeline-of-a-demolition#:~:text=The%20mosque%20in%20Ayodhya%20was,the%20building%20of%20a%20temple." target="_blank">The Wire</a></i>]<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div>
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The grey path between Kyiv & Odessa is the major highway MO5, and the blue path is the Dnieper River which flows to the Black Sea. The lines overlaid on this modified <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Possible_routes_of_alleged_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine_(January_2022).png" target="_blank">Wikimedia map</a> are approximate.</span></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"> <b>⁓⁓⁓⁓⁓⁓⁓⁓⁓</b></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“For Sri Aurobindo “coincidences” do not exist. All that happens is the result of the action of the Divine Consciousness. The Force which is at work at this moment is a Force of harmony that makes for unity − the unification of all the symbols that express the Divine Truth.” <span style="text-align: right;">– </span><span style="text-align: right;">The Mother, 5 May 1967, </span><i style="text-align: right;">Collected Works of the Mother, Vol, 15</i><span style="text-align: right;">, p. 104</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[A] new world is born, born, born. It is not the old one transforming itself; it is a new world, which is born. And we are right in the midst of this period of transition where the two are entangled ‒ where the outer still persists all-powerful and entirely dominating the ordinary consciousness, but where the new one is quietly slipping in, still very modest, unnoticed ‒ unnoticed to the extent that outwardly it does not disturb anything very much, for the time being, and that in the consciousness of most people it is even altogether imperceptible. And yet it is working, growing ‒ until it is strong enough to assert itself visibly.” <span style="text-align: right;">– </span><span style="text-align: right;">The Mother, 1957 <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“We are on the way to a new world, but we have a hard terrain to cross yet. The object of this applied cosmology is precisely to present a new Knowledge which will assist those who aspire to the Truth in this difficult period of transition when the old is often called the new, or the new is missed sight of entirely.” <span style="text-align: right;">– </span><span style="text-align: right;">Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea), <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/the-third-world-war-the-new-seeing-the-new-power/" target="_blank">“The Third World War </a></span><span style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/the-third-world-war-the-new-seeing-the-new-power/" target="_blank">– The New Seeing, </a></span><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/the-third-world-war-the-new-seeing-the-new-power/" target="_blank">the New Power”</a>, <i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Vol. 6.1</i>, April 1991</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">“We must not lose sight of the fact that the New World is leading the Old World in this perilous passage.” <span style="text-align: right;">– </span><span style="text-align: right;">Thea, <a href="http://www.aeongroup.com/septrilo.htm" target="_blank">“September Trilogy – Plus One, Part Two – The Collapse of the Old”</a> (2001)</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfcuMqtckwd_7t0JjgRktWeMAjAbQM3RPacFZkvy7PVCSWvpTs8VOAO93kIqe6__GDFflp4R8Ct0gbNcAtVpm4zeRCzxiq_aEFzJ2XGNsjBNqqZY_op5AcxGND6muRFtyFOST_O9w3ygkuriSmMo_5R_kB5js4xjib2HlHI-_JAGtJhtcHRxOYAy8a=s451" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The number 8 and the Vesica Piscis (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="297" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfcuMqtckwd_7t0JjgRktWeMAjAbQM3RPacFZkvy7PVCSWvpTs8VOAO93kIqe6__GDFflp4R8Ct0gbNcAtVpm4zeRCzxiq_aEFzJ2XGNsjBNqqZY_op5AcxGND6muRFtyFOST_O9w3ygkuriSmMo_5R_kB5js4xjib2HlHI-_JAGtJhtcHRxOYAy8a=w121-h183" title="The number 8 and the Vesica Piscis (Lori Tompkins)" width="121" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #999999;">[Note: I wrote a draft of what will be Part 8 of “The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Water Sign Scorpio” series, some 9 months ago, before writing much of the series that has been published so far. It was a central part of my first draft on the Obstruction of the Vedic Waters topic, which has expanded into a long series with many parts. When time allows, I will finish Part 8 focusing on the vesica piscis as a key of Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet’s (Thea’s) yoga and on the figure 8 as a numerical symbol of the blockage of the Vedic waters in the sense that these two circles have yet to come together to form and reveal the secret of the waters and the kumbha of the vesica piscis. For the time being, I will focus on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I believe that the Scorpio series will end upon the conclusion of Part 9.]</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>⁓⁓⁓⁓⁓⁓⁓⁓⁓</b></div><p style="text-align: justify;">ON 21 FEBRUARY 2022 ‒ the Mother’s 144th birth anniversary (2° Pisces) and the day after the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14H6kW6HfSc&t" target="_blank">USA’s Pluto Return</a> ‒ Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Russia’s recognition of Ukraine’s two “breakaway regions”, Luhansk and Donetsk, as independent states, and moved troops into Donbas. On 22 February (22.02.2022) he announced that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements" target="_blank">2014 Minsk Protocol</a> was invalid; and two days later, on 24 February (5° Pisces), he began his large-scale military invasion of Ukraine, taking control of the “ruined” Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster site (51°16′N 30°13′E) among other initial targets. The location of Chernobyl, 65 miles north of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, is shown as the purple dot on the Geo-Cosmological map above, which is drawn according to the lines of Thea’s <a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNWblog/?p=60" target="_blank">Geo-Cosmological Map</a> as found in <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i>. [A zoomed in view of the location of Chernobyl in relation to Kyiv and the Dnieper River is available <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper_River_System_of_Dams" target="_blank">HERE</a>.]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Below is a translated excerpt taken from Putin’s 21 February 2022 speech followed by an analyst’s reiteration of what Putin said in that speech. Taken together, these two comments give us a sense of the origins of the battle at hand. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Ukraine has become a colony of puppets,” Putin said. “Ukrainians squandered not only everything we gave them during the USSR, but even everything they inherited from the Russian empire. Even the work created by Catherine the Great.” – <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/feb/21/russia-ukraine-news-latest-crisis-putin-biden-summit-kyiv-kiev-russian-invasion-threat-live-updates?page=with:block-6213ea1b8f081f9e465d1522" target="_blank">“Luhansk and Donetsk regions recognised as independent states by Russia – as it happened”</a>, <i>The Guardian</i>, 21 February 2022</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Putin’s Feb. 21 speech referred quite explicitly to restoring not the Soviet Union, which he criticized in various ways, but the Russian empire as it existed prior to 1917. – <a href="https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/03/01/putins-dark-designs-restore-pre-1917-russian-empire" target="_blank">Paul D’Anieri</a>, March 1, 2022 <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#2a" id="2">[2]</a></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Putin and the leadership of the Russian Federation are stuck in an old-world, Age of Pisces (234 BCE-1926) mindset or consciousness that naturally persists in fighting against its own obsolescence and is engaging in titanic efforts to maintain its power and its relevance in our new Age of Aquarius, which began nine years after the dissolution of the Russian empire (according to Thea’s measure or seeing of the Ages).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In Putin’s mind Ukraine belongs to Russia and to him, and it doesn’t matter if Ukraine disagrees. He refuses to allow the Ukrainian people their freedom, their democracy, and their will to move forward as an “open society”, free of Putin’s suffocating grasp, control, manipulation, suppression, and retaliation. And, no big surprise in our increasingly palpable Age of Aquarius, Putin’s violent and barbaric efforts to usurp Ukraine’s freedom and to violently force Ukrainians back into the Russian fold and back into the old-world order are not going so well, and are naturally being met with world-wide condemnation, with some conspicuous exceptions.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Given the precision of the 144-year timespan between the Mother’s birth (21 February 1878) and Putin’s 21 February pre-attack speech, and given what I have already written about the 144-year timespan between Sri Aurobindo’s birth in 1872 and Thea’s passing in 2016, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#3a" id="3">[3]</a></span> I was compelled to calculate some of the key points of the 1878-2022 cycle, which begins and ends with the number power of 6 (1878 = 1 + 8 + 7 + 8 = 24 = 2 = 4 = 6; 2022 = 2 + 0 + 2 + 2 = 6).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If we divide this 144-year cycle into its four quadrants of 36 years each, <b>1878</b> and <b>2022</b> stand at the Aries cardinal point (0° Aries) – the Alpha and Omega (0°/360°) of the 360° circle. <b>1914</b> – the start of WWI and the year the Mother met and recognized Sri Aurobindo as Krishna (i.e. Vishnu) – stands at the Cancer cardinal point (0° Cancer). <b>1950</b> – the year of Sri Aurobindo’s passing, and just after Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China#Celebrations" target="_blank">the People's Republic of China (1 October 1949)</a> – stands at the Libra cardinal point (0° Libra) which is the 4.5 point of <a href="https://www.aeongroup.com/gc.htm" target="_blank">the Gnostic Circle</a>. <b>1986</b> – the year of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine and the year Thea established her center in southern India (“Skambha”) – stands at the Capricorn cardinal point (0° Capricorn). </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is worth noting here that on the first day of the 2022 invasion, Russian forces seized the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and on the 9th day of the attack (4 March) they seized the world’s 9th largest Nuclear Power Plant (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia" target="_blank">Zaporizhzhia</a>) after shelling it and igniting a fire (3 March) that sent the world deeper into its justified fears about the potentially disastrous nuclear consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">If we divide the 144-year cycle of 1872-2022 into its <b>3</b>, <b>6</b> and <b>0/9</b> trinity, corresponding to the zodiacal fire trine of 0° Aries, 0° Leo and 0° Sagittarius, <b>1878</b> and <b>2022</b> share the 0/9 Point (0° Aries). In turn, <b>1926</b> – the beginning of the Age of Aquarius and the year of Sri Aurobindo’s Siddhi Day – stands at the 3 Point (0° Leo); and <b>1974</b> stands at the critical <b>6/Saturn Point (0° Sagittarius)</b>. 1974 began a month and a half after the Mother’s 17 November 1973 passing, and was the year that Thea wrote <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TGC.html" target="_blank">The Gnostic Circle</a></i>. It was also the fateful year that the distorters of the Mother’s Vedic Temple (the Matrimandir) cemented their mismeasure of the temple’s 24-meter diameter in concrete in Auroville. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#4a" id="4">[4]</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Thea’s <a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">“Chronicles of the Inner Chamber”</a> (2003-2005) gives a full accounting of this unfortunate choice; and in her 1991 article <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/the-third-world-war-the-new-seeing-the-new-power/" target="_blank">“The Third World War – The New Seeing, the New Power”</a> (briefly quoted above), she discussed the rejection of the Mother’s Divine Maya or sacred measure of the temple, as well as her own yoga of establishing the true measure of the Matrimandir in relation to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, “the collapse of communism” in 1991, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Gulf War (1990-1991), and the threat of nuclear catastrophe. Her two-part 1987 article <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/the-capricorn-factor-part-one/" target="_blank">“The Capricorn Factor”</a> discusses the ongoing threat of nuclear war and India’s first detonation of a nuclear device in 1974 in relation to the rejection of the Divine Maya of the Mother’s 12-pillar Vedic Temple, as well as in relation to India’s chronic mismeasure of the 12-month Vedic (Zodiacal) Year. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#5a" id="5">[5]</a></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The new cosmology reveals the true divine Measure. Its basis is the measure of the year, the Earth’s relation to the Sun. Its goal is to draw aside the curtains covering the ancient Vedic Divine Maya, as Sri Aurobindo had prophecied. But <b>the resistances to this accomplishment are considerable, for the consequences of the false measure have to be borne</b> – just as the consequences of the nuclear experience must be borne, and just as the consequences of the Temple’s disfigurement must be borne.” – Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/the-capricorn-factor-part-ii/" target="_blank">“The Capricorn Factor, Part II”</a> [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">I have been writing in great depth about the illuminating role the eternal law of the radius and vesica piscis plays in recovering the Divine Maya (Measure) of the twelve-month Zodiac and of the Vedas since Thea’s passing in 2016 and “the resistances” to this gnosis, which amounts to the purifying truth of the Vedic rivers/floods, continues to be “considerable” in India and beyond.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Below is a visual illustration of the 144-year timescape and its geometries mentioned above, along with several related events, including Thea’s 1938 birth and Sri Aurobindo’s 1963 rebirth conjunct 0° Virgo and 0° Scorpio (<a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">the Two M’s</a>) straddling the 4.5 Point (0° Libra) of the circle. Thea discussed this 4.5 Point as a "Void" that was “filled” by Sri Aurobindo’s completed supramental descent, via his death in the 6-power year of 1950 and his rebirth in the 1-power year of 1963 bearing all of the number powers of the sacred 963 trinity. [Link <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyn4jWX7U1cy9NoGrtQ-pmRLVWH6EJoY/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE</a> to see the 1872-2016 timescape as found in the Appendix of <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i>, p. 409, and a less grainy version of the image below <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pUQPDgKs2-gNfke4eSKpc7r8FAm5oJU0/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE</a>.]</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXay9Dy6Xv0SeoDBTqIVdOi0oc4yBYiJK-PZsfmPkg_PCIapcJFurJrK2sZOkr3GfNj7Vr9skMjLKaTai0KsR8evJIm_9YWwMhujVKm0QaZ2w5GdTmSV0a3KGG7uTsRh2KpSolFuyGHus8LrZJDE1duHL5_IuMNLac2sKJbcoQdR8WBpnxc_K_NKj2=s913" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Putin’s War in Ukraine & the Mother’s 144-Year Birth Anniversary, a cyclical view (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="913" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXay9Dy6Xv0SeoDBTqIVdOi0oc4yBYiJK-PZsfmPkg_PCIapcJFurJrK2sZOkr3GfNj7Vr9skMjLKaTai0KsR8evJIm_9YWwMhujVKm0QaZ2w5GdTmSV0a3KGG7uTsRh2KpSolFuyGHus8LrZJDE1duHL5_IuMNLac2sKJbcoQdR8WBpnxc_K_NKj2=w663-h514" title="Putin’s War in Ukraine & the Mother’s 144-Year Birth Anniversary, a cyclical view (Lori Tompkins)" width="663" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">For those who are not familiar with Thea’s teachings on <a href="https://www.aeongroup.com/gc.htm" target="_blank">the Gnostic Circle</a>, she saw and understood the 3 Point of the Year, and the year’s equivalent cycles ‒ including the ennead (9-year cycle), the 25,920-year Precessional Cycle, the 77,760 Maha Yuga (9 Yuga) cycle, and the 144-Age “Greater Year” (4 Maha Yugas) ‒ as the point “when the soul is 'breathed' into the vessel”.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The angles of the Triangle mark the three major zones in the development. The first, the 0 or conception, is when the seeds are planted. The 3 Point, or four groups of nine months later, is when the soul is 'breathed' into the vessel.... Passage over the 3rd Point is perhaps the least spectacular of all the angles, but it is silently important and has a delicate quality about it. The first manifestation of the psychic being should come forth and take the reins of life to assure a smooth and easy course during further progression.” – Thea, <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, p. 216</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“In the individual's ascent he must first pass over the 3 point, wherein his soul must come forward and guide [the individual] the rest of the way. Any passage over this point brings the strengthening of the soul for the subsequent task that lies before the individual.” – Ibid., p. 237</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is fitting that the advent of the Age of Aquarius falls at the 3 Point of this 144-year cycle, with Sri Aurobindo’s Siddhi day following later that same year. <a id="6Point">Thea wrote</a> of the 6/Saturn Point of the Gnostic Circle or cycle as a dangerous passage entailing contractions and pressures that lead to either a birth of the higher light and truth of one’s soul in manifestation, or a death or collapse in some sense. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he Saturn point [has the potential to] open the gates to the even fuller experience. <b>This point would be the real birth of the soul</b>….[When] the person or the nation must cross the Saturn point, because we must all continue on our journey and meet the Time-Spirit face-to-face, whatever is crystallised in the negative sense must be broken down. The work starts in fact at the 4. 5 Orbit. When the 6th is reached…the greater the matter that is crystallised and serves as an obstruction in the passage, the greater will the suffering and the destruction be in order to bring about the opening to a new life and a new future.” – Thea, <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>, p. 177 [Bold emphasis added] </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The 6 point continually reveals itself to be vitally important, and tremendously dangerous if passage over this point does not serve to open one to the final round of unity and growth on a higher level. It is the point of crystallisation, and matter is energy crystallised.” – Ibid., p. 186 </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Saturn [=the 6 Point] is the crystallisation point of the System. When a critical juncture is reached in the evolution of the soul from lifetime to lifetime, tremendous sufferings may be experienced because of this accumulation from past lives which needs to be violently broken; for the individual's own good it is sometimes necessary that the circumstances of life be such as to produce intense suffering, for it is through suffering that the Ignorance is checked. Progress while the Earth is under the rule of the Ignorance is most often made possible through suffering. In the gnostic development this is no longer the case.” – Ibid., p. 213</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The 9th sign [of Sagittarius] is the chamber, between Capricorn and Scorpio, Life, and Death, the Mother of Light and the Mother of Darkness. It is the chamber of truth where the moment of truth is lived, where the neophyte is either victorious and the soul is born, or he falls a helpless victim to the even greater delusions of his ego.” – Ibid., p. 243</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“After [the birth of the soul] it is no longer possible to cling to the Ignorance or to prefer to remain unconscious….” – Ibid., 283</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“When speaking of human development, the 6 point can in a sense be termed the point of sacrifice. Some part is given up or transmuted, in order to be utilised in another way. <b>There is an element of sacrifice and at the same time of redemption</b>.…</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The entire legend of the Christ reveals to us the goal of the divinisation, or redemption, of matter. The age of 33 in the Gnostic Circle falls at the Saturn point, and as with the minute atom so the crucifixion of Christ becomes the sacrifice: a part of the divine energy is released from the nucleus (the Trinity) and is converted in the act of crucifixion to become the force that carries the evolution a step further along in its process of divinisation….</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“This is the offering, the sacrifice [of the 6 point], and in some cases [those sacrificed] come only for this: to be an instrument of truth, the necessary 'shock' or intervention, at times where it is known that such shocks are to be necessary. The quality of the shock is determined by the ignorance or enlightenment prevailing.” – Ibid., pp. 188-89, 192 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a id="6-point">As I discussed</a> in “The Obstruction of the Vedic Water” series, 1 January 2022 marked the 6/Saturn Point of our current 2016-2025 ennead; just as 234 BCE marked the same point in our Maha Yuga, according to Thea’s measure of the Maha Yuga cycle. [See <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">Part Six</a>]. Thea also indicated that 234 BCE marked the same critical point in our passage through the 144-Age “Greater Circle” consisting of 12 Precessional Cycles (12 x 25,920 years = 311,040 years). <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#6a" id="6">[6]</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglxtjG9F1KNv-8pOv4RTL-0x7xq0iGiWOdtPQHH0HHCyfDnfSFqHqFbIe3OJT6bs55WrwGks1dcD7ehgLaSx55b73OW2nqSGNXfKvhditIOSh5pSO2F4NRFy4JB819YiPKScR3YdQ97H_0WtId9S1xd2rlI4LRuZay8yCwQcDiXxNhxNrkyoq62O3w=s400" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The 2016-2025 ennead-6 Point (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglxtjG9F1KNv-8pOv4RTL-0x7xq0iGiWOdtPQHH0HHCyfDnfSFqHqFbIe3OJT6bs55WrwGks1dcD7ehgLaSx55b73OW2nqSGNXfKvhditIOSh5pSO2F4NRFy4JB819YiPKScR3YdQ97H_0WtId9S1xd2rlI4LRuZay8yCwQcDiXxNhxNrkyoq62O3w=s16000" title="The 2016-2025 ennead-6 Point (Lori Tompkins)" /></a></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">At the 6/Saturn Point of our cyclical journey(s), humans, in our current state of egoic mental consciousness, typically experience some sort of collapse, regression, or employ some escape mechanism or destructive act ‒ self-destructive or mutually destructive ‒ that reinforces old patterns and crystalized beliefs of the Past, if not an actual death. Ideally this is the point wherein the soul, by its own light and truth, has the potential to begin its rise out of the mental egoic consciousness, out of our inherited ignorance of the Past and out of the gravity of the 4.5 Point (Void/Nadir) of the evolutionary journey, and into the higher potentials of the divine soul in manifestation. As Thea illuminated, the spiritual trend or goal of dismissing, transcending or otherwise escaping material existence arises precisely from the 4.5 Point Void of our evolutionary journey, which amounts to our Ignorance, or our <i>absence of direct knowledge</i> of the inherent divinity of our material Mother (Matrix/Cosmos), and equally amounts to our Ignorance, or our <i>absence of direct knowledge</i> of our own divinity, i.e. of the inherent divinity of the Individual.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ultimately and ideally, if the Time-Spirit (Chronos/Saturn) and circumstances allow, the 6 Point is the place in our evolutionary journey, when this Ignorance of the Divine Mother and of the Divine Self/Individual is dismantled by some “point of no return” direct experience of the soul’s Divine Truth and Light, where all energies from that point onward are marshalled towards the full expression and manifestation of that no-longer-hidden seed (and seat) of the soul’s Truth. Here our soul is born out of the womb of Cosmic and egoic ignorance and begins its irreversible and progressive fulfillment of the Life Divine on Earth, aka “Heaven on Earth”. With this birth, which is simultaneously a death of sorts, one “fills the void” in one’s own consciousness with the immortal or eternal light and <i>Satchitananda</i> (Truth, Consciousness and Bliss) of the soul. This birth of the soul can take place on the scale of individuals, collectives, nations, and on the scale of the Earth. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The events of the 6-power year of <b>2022</b> gives us a good sense of the pressures and the crises that come to a head at the 6 Point of our evolutionary cycles. It is notable that some of Ukraine’s major trials over the past 36 years (1986-2022), including the present trial, fall in, or at the precipice of 6-power years. Chernobyl occurred on 26 April <b>1986</b>, in the 6-power year of the 1980-1989 ennead. The Budapest Memorandum was signed on 5 December 1994, less than one month before the 6 Point (1 Jan <b>1995</b>) of the 1989-1998 ennead, wherein Ukraine agreed to relinquish its massive stock of nuclear weapons to Russia, and Russia in turn agreed to respect Ukraine’s territorial boundaries and to never invade Ukraine. In the 1998-2007 ennead, Ukraine’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution" target="_blank">“Orange Revolution”</a> began in the 6-power year of <b>2004</b> (18 years ago), as the Sun moved across the 6 Point (0° Sagittarius) of the year (22 November 2004). Nine years later, in <b>2013 </b><span style="text-align: left;"><b>‒ </b></span>the 6-power year of the 2007-2016 ennead ‒ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan" target="_blank">the <i>Maidan Nezalezhnosti</i> (Independence Square) "uprising"</a> began in Kyiv (21 November 2013 – 23 February 2014), which is the subject of the gut-wrenching 2015 <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzNxLzFfR5w" target="_blank">Winter on Fire</a></i> documentary which Netflix made available for free on YouTube on 4 March 2022. In conjunction with and as a result of the victory of the 2013 Maidan protests, Russia began its usurpation of Crimea, once again breaching the Budapest Memorandum. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“On <b>22–23 Februar</b>y [2014], Russian President Vladimir Putin convened an all-night meeting with security services chiefs to discuss pullout of deposed President, Viktor Yanukovych, and at the end of that meeting Putin remarked that "we must start working on returning Crimea to Russia." <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#7a" id="7">[7]</a></span> [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">With regards to the 144-year cycle drawn out above, it is entirely fitting that both the cementing of the mismeasure of the Mother’s Divine Maya and Thea’s revelations regarding the perfection of the Divine Maya of the Mother’s Temple would sit at the 6/Saturn Point of this cycle whose 0 Point is the Mother’s birth and whose 9 Point is the Mother’s 144th birth anniversary and the beginning of Russia’s 2022 intrusion into Ukraine. At this 6/Saturn point, Thea <i>moved forward</i>, utilizing, and documenting the light and keys of higher gnosis ‒ the light and keys of the Divine Maya embodied and transmitted in the Mother’s Temple, including the Divine Maya of the vesica piscis at the core of the temple’s Inner Chamber. With these keys and with the light of her own seeing and of her own soul, she made great progress in the avataric mission ‒ Sri Aurobindo’s stated divine mission (<i>adesh</i>) from 1908 onward ‒ of restoring the Vedic Wisdom and Sanatana Dharma of the world’s ancient Rishis. And simultaneously, at this 6/Saturn Point the vast majority of the devoted students of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother simply could not move beyond their own crystalized beliefs, sentimentalities, and ignorance regarding what was known up to that point regarding the Supramental Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. In the eyes of these students, Thea’s extensive illuminations and revelations that were born out from 1974 onward were simply elaborate and reprehensible egotistical delusions that were best ignored. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#8a" id="8">[8]</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is also fitting that Sri Aurobindo’s passing falls at the 4.5/REVERSAL Point of this 144-year cycle. See Parts <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/07/seeing-in-understanding-symbols-sense.html#4.5" target="_blank">Four</a> and <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/08/seeing-in-understanding-symbols-sense.html" target="_blank">Five</a> of my <i>Seeing in Understanding</i> series for a discussion of and illustrations of the significance of this point, and our enneadic passage across it in 2020.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he point of Sri Aurobindo’s incarnation is that vision from above, the transcendence, as well as that immanence. It is HIS IMMANENCE as the Fourth, as the Point, as the Seed, that puts the seal on the Descent and allows for the creation of a new Cosmos. And this is what is conveyed in the Gnostic Circle. Sri Aurobindo’s position in that Circle is the 9. That point on the Sacred Triangle describes his work in that incarnation – the Transcendent. But <b>as the Fourth it is the opposite to that 9 Point: it is the 4.5…the ‘Masked Transcendent’…. </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>“That is the Immanent, that is the ‘gold’ hidden in matter, the Hiranyaretas or the Golden Seed. That is what permits a cosmos to be formed, an ordering to be undertaken. It is the infinitesimal point in the core [in the middle] of the Sun that holds a cosmos together.</b> The 4.5 Orbit is therefore the redemption of the Buddhist and Mayavadist ‘void’. This is what Sri Aurobindo meant when he stated that ‘Kalki would come to correct the error of the Buddha’.” – Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/letters-from-skambha-3/" target="_blank">“Letters From Skambha ‘The Infinite and the Detail’”</a>, <i>The Vishaal Newsletter, Vol. 4.1</i>, April 1989 [Bold emphasis and text in brackets added.]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">More could be written on what falls where in the 144-year cycle above, culminating with what many fear as the beginning World War III, but that is all I have to say about this arrangement for now. I will leave it to readers to explore and expand upon these “cosmic harmonies” on their own. For those who are familiar with the supramental yoga of Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Thea, the placements of events in the 1878-2022 cycle should speak for themselves, in the sense that they demonstrate an <i>extraordinary</i> supramental control and precision that can only be seen and understood when viewing the “time line” of certain events as a circle or cycle, which I have been referring to as a timescape. Only then do the hidden supramental geometries, cosmic harmonies, synchronicities, and perfections begin to come into view. For those who want to better understand the basis and logic of this cyclical view of world events, see Thea’s books <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gnostic-Circle-Synthesis-Harmonies-Cosmos/dp/9389530857" target="_blank">The Gnostic Circle</a></i> and <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TMC.html" target="_blank">The Magical Carousel and Commentaries</a></i>. For a quick summary of Thea’s evolutionary understanding of the Zodiac see: <a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNWblog/?p=69" target="_blank">“The Zodiac & the Perception of Unity – an Introduction to the 12 Signs of the Zodiac”</a>, which contains links to her summary descriptions (from <i>The Magical Carousel</i>) of each of the signs, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#9a" id="9">[9]</a> </span>seen together as a whole journey (<i>yajñ</i>a). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In <a href="http://www.aeongroup.com/septrilo.htm" target="_blank">"September Trilogy – Plus One</a>", Thea discussed the difficult and pivotal events of 9-11 (2001) and the collapse of the Twin Towers from her cosmological and supramental view point, helping to put that event and various 20th century wars and events in an evolutionary perspective for the reader. What she wrote then, regarding the “‘hand’ of the Controller” and the usefulness of both positive and negative forces in the progressive journey of the whole, very much still applies to our current world crisis, as does what she wrote about the “baggage” or “encumbrances” of the past that must be shed by whatever means, dissolved or destroyed, at this critical passage in our evolutionary journey.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The ‘hand’ of the Controller has been so evident in the unfolding of events and in the logic of the process that it is unlikely unforeseen developments out of the sphere of its control will occur. Indeed, nothing lies beyond its reach. When the centre and new axial alignment come into being, it means that out of the chaos of the former old way a cosmos has emerged. There is then only one centre, similar to the Sun of our solar system. No other possibility is possible since both negative and positive must <i>serve the purposes of the One</i>.” – “September Trilogy – Plus One, Part IV – a New World Is Born (2001)”</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“What we are experiencing is a critical moment of evolution. It is not even an historical moment but a passage that is stamping a new principle in the evolutionary fabric of the species.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“In this critical passage, or ‘crossroads of destiny’, as Sri Aurobindo has called it, we must understand what this truly means for the entire Earth. To do so, it is necessary to see the entire planet within this evolutionary passage, as a conscious being herself. Nations on this Earth have specific roles to play. Similar to individuals, nations can be instruments of the positive or the negative. The divine Plan will play itself out, this is certain. But nations can be positive elements in this great change, or they can be negative ‒ while still serving the purposes of the One.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Needless to say, when we observe the actual state of affairs, no nation can be said to be a positive instrument at this junction. None are governed, led forward in this singular march to a higher destiny, by leaders with knowledge of this Supramental Manifestation they are nonetheless a part of. It is a ONE EARTH we are discussing. There is no nation with a separate destiny. There is only one destiny for the planet because the Earth has a special role to play within the solar system. The more aware we become of her role, her place within the System and the demands placed upon her during this crossroads of her destiny, the easier will the passage become and the more certain we can be that destruction will not be the method used to attain those lofty goals before us. The only choice we have is whether or not we will reach those peaks of destiny via destruction, or else through its higher expression, dissolution. Regardless of the means, baggage must be shed at this point.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“We have encumbrances which are impeding a forward thrust according to the pace imposed by the Time-Spirit. Destruction comes about when the pace exceeds the capacity available to nations and individuals because encumbrances hold the movement back. These are the forces of Inertia. In critical crossroads such as the present passage, those tools of Inertia have to be either dissolved or destroyed. They have no further purpose in the play of energy that constitutes the planet’s evolution to a higher level. Thus, by one means or the other, they will be shed at this point in time. The only question is, will this be through the process of destruction or dissolution. The symbolism in the vaporisation of the Twin Towers as they collapsed to the ground would indicate Dissolution as the way ahead.” – Ibid., Part One, “The Collapse of the Old” (2001)</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">I recommend that readers read or reread <a href="http://www.aeongroup.com/septrilo.htm" target="_blank">“September Trilogy”</a> in full. Therein, Thea discussed the First and Second World Wars and the Gulf War (1990-1991) and Iraq War (2003-2011) in relation to the supramental descent and yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the entire Solar Line. She wrote of World War I as “Sri Aurobindo’s War” at the tail end of the 2,160-year Age of Pisces (234 BCE-1926 CE), World War II as “the Mother’s War”, the Gulf War as “the Third’s War” (and as the Third World War), and the Iraq war as “the Fourth’s War”. One of the statements in “September Trilogy” tells us much of what we need to know about the roots of Putin’s and Russia’s 2022 War on Ukraine, and the residue of the Age of Pisces that is being exposed and targeted for dissolution or destruction in this 6 Power year of 2022 which contains in itself the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14H6kW6HfSc" target="_blank">USA’s Pluto Return</a> at 27° Capricorn on 20 February (<a href="E:\0 Lori\0-2022\Articles\RSW-8-ect\astro-charts.com\chart\265ff210c" target="_blank">conjoined by Mars and Venus on 3 March</a>), and many other <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkNrj1w_baw&t" target="_blank">transformative transits</a> which astrologers have been discussing for years.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"> “As for 1917, the last 9-power year of the Age of Pisces, it was then that the decisive element surfaced which would shape the entire century. Namely, the rise of Communism and the Soviet Union.” – Ibid., Part 3, “A New World is Born”</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In our 144-year timescape, we can SEE the temporal, geometric and zodiacal relationship between Putin’s 24 February 2022 (5° Pisces) invasion of Ukraine and what unfolded in the 6-power year of 1878 of the Mother’s birth, including the “Congress of Berlin” conclusion of the Russio-Turkish War, which reorganized the states of the Balkan Peninsula, which in turn contributed to the tensions that led to World War I.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“In the long term, the settlement [of the Congress of Berlin] led to rising tensions between Russia and Austria-Hungary, and disputes over nationalism in the Balkans. Grievances with the results of the congress festered until they exploded in the First and Second Balkan Wars (1912 and 1913 respectively). Continuing nationalism in the Balkans was one of the causes of the First World War in 1914.” <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#10a" id="10">[10]</a></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">The timespan between 1878 and 1914 is 36 (4 x 9) years and the timespan between 1914 and 2022 is 108 (9 x 12) years. If the 144-year cycle shown above is seen as equivalent to one year, the timespan of 108-years is equivalent to 9 months or 9 zodiacal signs. Thus we can see that our current war has been gestating for “9 months” (108 years) of this cycle, since the first World War in 1914, corresponding to the entrance into Cancer ‒ the first water sign of the Zodiac. Of course, this current war has been gestating for much longer than that, given much larger cycles of time, but for now I am going to stay focused on the 144-year cycle of 1878-2022 which is the 9-power cycle of 1872-2016 (Sri Aurobindo’s birth and Thea’s passing) shifted to the number power of the 6, i.e. shifted to the number power of the Mother.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">All of the events discussed above that led up to World War I, its conclusion, and the collapse of the Russian empire and the rise of communism in its modern forms or interpretations took place in the very last degree (=the last 72 years) of the Age of Pisces, spanning 1854-1926. Toward the end of the previous degree, on 21 February 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles published <i>The Communist Manifesto</i>. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#11a" id="11">[11]</a></span> Given the backward movement of the twelve-age, 25,920-year Precession of the Equinoxes, the last degree of the Age of Pisces spans from 1° to 0° Pisces, wherein <b>0° Pisces, </b><b>equivalent to 30° Aquarius</b>,<span style="text-align: left;"><b> </b></span>marks the beginning of the Age of Aquarius – 1926 according to Thea. The communism that arose and developed from 1917 onward can be seen and understood as a shadow-play and distortion of the soul’s evolutionary drive to embody or manifest Aquarian ideals in the Age of Aquarius. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Emily Morris from University College London wrote that because Karl Marx's writings have inspired many movements, including the Russian Revolution of 1917, communism is "commonly confused with the political and economic system that developed in the Soviet Union" after the revolution. Historian Andrzej Paczkowski summarized communism as "an ideology that seemed clearly the opposite [of what was developed in the Soviet Union], that was based on the secular desire of humanity to achieve equality and social justice, and that promised a great leap forward into freedom." <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#12a" id="12">[12]</a></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Two notable events circa 1854 (the beginning of the last degree of Pisces) are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War" target="_blank">the Crimean War</a> (October 1853 – February 1856) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857" target="_blank">India’s 1857 rebellion (“Sepoy Mutiny”)</a> which ended the rule of the East India Company and instated British raj or rule. For a bit more information on the late 19th century and early 20th century buildup of World War I, see <a href="https://www.history.com/news/world-war-i-causes" target="_blank">“8 Events that Led to World War I”</a> (History.com). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">When looking at all of this history from the point of view of now entering into what looks and feels to most of the world like the beginning of World War III, and knowing what Thea wrote about <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/the-third-world-war-the-new-seeing-the-new-power/" target="_blank">the “Third World War” as having taken place in 1991</a>, Fiona Hill’s commentary adds a valuable perspective: </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“We’re already in [World War III]. We have been for some time. We keep thinking of World War I, World War II as these huge great big set pieces, but World War II was a consequence of World War I. And we had an interwar period between them. And in a way, we had that again after the Cold War. Many of the things that we’re talking about here have their roots in the carving up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Russian Empire at the end of World War I. At the end of World War II, we had another reconfiguration and some of the issues that we have been dealing with recently go back to that immediate post-war period. We’ve had war in Syria, which is in part the consequence of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, same with Iraq and Kuwait.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“All of the conflicts that we’re seeing have roots in those earlier conflicts. We are already in a hot war over Ukraine, which started in 2014. People shouldn’t delude themselves into thinking that we’re just on the brink of something. We’ve been well and truly in it for quite a long period of time.” – Fiona Hill, interviewed by Maura Reynolds, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-iii-already-there-00012340" target="_blank">"Yes, He Would’: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes"</a>, Politico, 28 February 2022</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Hill did not offer a date to delineate how long she thinks World War III has been going on. Regardless, it feels clear enough that in 2022 we are dealing with a new, critical, and potentially disastrous phase of the Third World War, whether one considers 2022 to be its beginning or not.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">After the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall" target="_blank">fall of the Belin Wall</a> (9 November 1989 = <b>9.11.9</b>, 1989 reduced to its 9 power) and the subsequent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" target="_blank">collapse of the Soviet Union</a> (USSR) in <b>1991</b>, Ukraine established its independence on <b>24 August 1991</b> <b>(0° Virgo)</b>, setting upon “three major tracks of the post-communist transformation: democratization, marketization, and Europeanization”, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#13a" id="13">[13]</a></span> including developing a relationship with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) which led to Ukraine’s 2008 application to join NATO’s Membership Action Plan (MAP). Ukraine’s independence and NATO membership is an anathema to Putin and the current regime of the Russian Federation who cannot let go of Ukraine’s pre-1917 (Piscean Age) status as part of the Russian Empire. So while Ukraine is attempting to move forward and to realize the Aquarian Age ideals of independence, democracy and self-determination, Russia’s current leadership is stuck in the past of the Piscean Age, refusing to accept Ukraine’s predominant will and essentially its soul, refusing to accept that Ukraine and much of the world has moved on, in significant ways, into the Age of Aquarius. In a 10 March 2022 virtual news conference, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tells a reporter, in defense of Russia’s actions, “We were told that Ukraine is ours.” Exactly who told Russia that is not revealed, and it is equally as out of touch with reality as is his and Putin’s assertion that Russia is performing the valiant service of de-nazifying Ukraine. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#14a" id="14">[14]</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Some readers may have already noticed that Ukraine’s Independence Day in 1991 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 fall on the Virgo-Pisces axis of <b>24 August</b> and <b>24 February</b>. In the USA we find a similar axis involving our <b>4th of July</b> (13° Cancer) Declaration of Independence and <b>the 6th of January</b> (16° Capricorn) attack on the US Capitol which was the pinnacle of Trump’s and his co-conspirators’ coordinated attempts to subvert the 2020 American General Election results. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#15a" id="15">[15]</a></span> Thea discussed the cardinal sign Cancer-Capricorn axis in relation to her own birth and India’s geo-cosmological position and its evolutionary role at great length throughout her writings (see <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/articles/the-mothers-chamber-4/" target="_blank">“The Mother’s Chamber, Part Four: An Appeal to America—in defence of the Sacred Feminine”</a>). I will discuss the mutable/dissolution (aka tamasic) and feminine sign axis of Virgo-Pisces in another post. For now, I just want to point out the conspicuous presence of this temporal axis in Ukraine’s independence in 1991 and its struggle to defend that declared independence 31 years later, in 2022. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><a id="Aquarian-War">An Aquarian War and Aquarian Hero</a></b></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Aquarius rules freedom, technology, revolution, humanitarianism, science, collective ideals, the underdog, uniqueness, authenticity, and truth.” <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#16a" id="16">[16]</a></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">President Zelensky was born with his natal Sun and Venus conjunct at 5° Aquarius. His Midheaven ‒ the apex of the sky at the time of his birth ‒ is 21° Aquarius. His Natal Mars, Moon and Saturn all fall respectively at 0°, 17°, and 28° Leo. Given this prominent fixed-sign axis in his chart, he is perfectly suited to lead Ukraine in its heroic efforts to defend its freedom, its sovereignty and its democracy (i.e. its Aquarian-Age ideals) from the repressive and regressive forces of Russia, bent on usurping Ukraine’s freedom, government, land, and resources. Zelensky is perfectly suited to be an inspirational catalyst for the assembly of a united and widespread front against the Scorpionic figure of Putin, aka <a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-the-poisoner/" target="_blank">“the Poisoner”</a>, “Master Spy” and “Master Manipulator”, and against those who share in Putin’s lost cause and lost consciousness. Whereas uber-secretive Putin, born with his Ascendent (Rising Sign) in Scorpio, is constantly described by analysts as being “backed into a corner” and thus being extremely dangerous to himself and others like the Scorpion of the Zodiac, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#17a" id="17" target="_blank">[17]</a></span> Zelensky has become a Uranian, Ukrainian and Aquarian lightning rod, who has quickly (or rather instantaneously) transformed Putin’s War against Ukraine into <b>the World’s War</b> against Putin. Zelensky has emerged as a brave Leonine leader and as an Aquarian hero standing up to the oppressive and desperate forces of the crumbling old world that Putin represents. Many of the world’s countries, businesses, industries (including the tech industry), sports leagues, and peoples have quickly joined in condemnation and sanctions of Putin’s actions. Extreme pressures are being applied, and will continue to be increasingly applied, from all corners of the Earth and from above it via satellites—government operated and commercial alike.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a id="Ukraine-Geo-Cosmology">It must be noted that</a>, in terms of Thea’s <a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNWblog/?p=60" target="_blank">Geo-Cosmological map</a> (as found in full in <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>), both Moscow and Ukraine fall in the area of the Earth’s sphere that is Aquarian in both Latitude and Longitude, highlighted below (just as it is in Thea’s original map) as the brown shaded rectangle encompassing Moscow, as well as unmarked Ukraine, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, Syria, Georgia, and large parts of Iran, Iraq, and western Russia. India is similarly highlighted as the area of the Earth’s sphere that spans the sign of Capricorn in both Latitude and Longitude. The 8 Point of the Gnostic Circle (20° Aquarius) is equivalent to 40° E Longitude, which is the Eastern edge of Ukraine’s territory, and 50° N Latitude (which runs through Kyiv and Kharkiv).</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg48ZKpMgfHV8Y-gNvncbHxlv1UUisPxK1t_BQVAHZ0EKz0Lix828iF2Q9kswVM5skxP_Kt2SrvySQFPG3oe-AjSlC4eEttDcOExbUk2bc6clRNP3V4yceIrUiH8RbrU1VZknolGDLja42JarSBVOTwxPFsOOVG6WrLxswSIWYSEncl_N3h0wF1HWP4=s888" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Top right quadrant of Thea's Geo-Cosmological Map (The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2)" border="0" data-original-height="807" data-original-width="888" height="581" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg48ZKpMgfHV8Y-gNvncbHxlv1UUisPxK1t_BQVAHZ0EKz0Lix828iF2Q9kswVM5skxP_Kt2SrvySQFPG3oe-AjSlC4eEttDcOExbUk2bc6clRNP3V4yceIrUiH8RbrU1VZknolGDLja42JarSBVOTwxPFsOOVG6WrLxswSIWYSEncl_N3h0wF1HWP4=w640-h581" title="Top right quadrant of Thea's Geo-Cosmological Map (The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2)" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjGThPIZBKmpzwLyAfeU1by1xR2rbqzZzAyya3Himg4squhrNUdYyGm77H6zMddDiJjcVCwOcq5zKWemBpiR9hSIuqnvCbe-iQIkWg6mxwM4rD9KCLI0RlVxau4jkVFQ35NKRYGo3sb6v3WjAmz93a5hBY691QrdHQlLEDP-hkoyMZ0mLO-8PkxxKQ=s626" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Close-up of Thea's Geo-Cosmological Map (The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2), with overlaid additions (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="626" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjGThPIZBKmpzwLyAfeU1by1xR2rbqzZzAyya3Himg4squhrNUdYyGm77H6zMddDiJjcVCwOcq5zKWemBpiR9hSIuqnvCbe-iQIkWg6mxwM4rD9KCLI0RlVxau4jkVFQ35NKRYGo3sb6v3WjAmz93a5hBY691QrdHQlLEDP-hkoyMZ0mLO-8PkxxKQ=w296-h283" title="Close-up of Thea's Geo-Cosmological Map (The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2), with overlaid additions (Lori Tompkins)" width="296" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The second and closer view of Thea’s Geo-Cosmological map to the right, is an amended version of an image that I included in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">“The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters” series, Part Two</a>, which discussed and illustrated the position of the Suez Canal blockage in 2021 (the lowest red dot) in close proximity to the Giza plateau, pyramids and Sphinx, and 30° E Longitude, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#18a" id="18" target="_blank">[18]</a></span> in relation to the Earth’s movement into the Age of Aquarius 1926. In this amended image, I have added the approximate positions of Kyiv and Odessa on the same line of longitude. I have also added the latitudinal line of 20° Aquarius (50° N) – the 8 Point of the Gnostic Circle ‒ which runs through Kyiv and Kharkiv. Below are two images, featured in that same post. The first shows our position in the Maha Yuga cycle (according to Thea’s teachings); and the second shows the convergence of the axes of 30° E and 30° N upon the location of Giza. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhH2WF_AUK6KOMYthEu7yHchRwhnDlpzxB6FIyO0ooujr04ujCgiVCu5iH5LUbpYEI3koI9NDVF995Bxj_p1FXOqBBCkykVtepAOHCN_bcKd89fywLb9Blt5SYwt6muBhjfj_5TYIxsIPptjixkJBhXIjROf1U-ML7mJKUUSS4W6CUioFo00UKcfvLB=s613" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Maha Yuga Cycle, 9th Manifestation and Age of Aquarius (Lori Tompkins via the teachings of Thea on the Maha Yuga Cycle from The Gnostic Circle)." border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="613" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhH2WF_AUK6KOMYthEu7yHchRwhnDlpzxB6FIyO0ooujr04ujCgiVCu5iH5LUbpYEI3koI9NDVF995Bxj_p1FXOqBBCkykVtepAOHCN_bcKd89fywLb9Blt5SYwt6muBhjfj_5TYIxsIPptjixkJBhXIjROf1U-ML7mJKUUSS4W6CUioFo00UKcfvLB=w661-h293" title="The Maha Yuga Cycle, 9th Manifestation and Age of Aquarius (Lori Tompkins via the teachings of Thea on the Maha Yuga Cycle from The Gnostic Circle)." width="661" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEih9wy6ScOeH0Zwc4XZPccnzXsNFllygECa_PLBglae7y5SriTHS3HMpMncLI2_9q88wwU0wybUz30OhlZtn9FdtP4JKgkSYUK9Ac5ROcu1EwAc2w4m4gun5PW1JrxJ_6OzNixClgU6TFDRmIqYDGH1mtbzI2SEm9mQPMRg1IoBeX-sxGy1ZtnivhuT=s680" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Navel of the World-Helena Lehman-30° E Longitude/ 30° N Latitude" border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="680" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEih9wy6ScOeH0Zwc4XZPccnzXsNFllygECa_PLBglae7y5SriTHS3HMpMncLI2_9q88wwU0wybUz30OhlZtn9FdtP4JKgkSYUK9Ac5ROcu1EwAc2w4m4gun5PW1JrxJ_6OzNixClgU6TFDRmIqYDGH1mtbzI2SEm9mQPMRg1IoBeX-sxGy1ZtnivhuT=w640-h342" title="Navel of the World-Helena Lehman-30° E Longitude/ 30° N Latitude" width="640" /></a><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image by Helena Lehman [Note the idea that the Giza Pyramids sit at the center of the Earth’s landmass is contested.] </span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">That’s it for now. There will certainly be a Part Two. Among the things that remain to be discussed are the Pluto’s transit through 27° Capricorn in relation to the disfigurement of the Mother’s Temple and likewise in relation to the 26°-27° Cardinal-sign axis that Thea wrote about in <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/the-third-world-war-the-new-seeing-the-new-power/" target="_blank">“The Third World War – The New Seeing, the New Power”</a>. </p><p style="text-align: right;">9-10 March 2022</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Link to <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html" target="_blank">Part Two</a></b></p><hr style="text-align: center;" />
<b> Endnotes:</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> Source text, unknown. People, including Thea, have quoted this excerpt (or parts of it) without giving a reference.</div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a> “Putin’s dark designs: Restore the pre-1917 Russian empire: Leading Ukraine-Russia historian weighs in on why Putin moved against Ukraine, and NATO's best posture”, J.D. Warren, <a href="https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/03/01/putins-dark-designs-restore-pre-1917-russian-empire" target="_blank">www.news.ucr.edu</a>, March 1, 2022 </div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a> See <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i>, Appendix, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyn4jWX7U1cy9NoGrtQ-pmRLVWH6EJoY/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">p. 409</a>.</div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#4" id="4a">[4]</a> Two of the essential measurements the Mother specifically indicated in her design were a floor diameter of <b>24</b> meters (i.e. a radius of 12 meters) and the height of a central vertical solar ray/axis of <b>15.20</b> meters. After seeing this in the Mother’s blueprints for her 12-sided and 12-pillared temple (drawn up by Udar Pinto) in 1974, Thea did the math and came to understand that the measure of the solar ray was the quotient of 365 days of the 12-month year divided by 24 (the number of hours in the day): <b>365</b> ÷ <b>24</b> = <b>15.20</b>833…. See <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 1</i>, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, and <i>Chronicles of the Inner Chamber </i>for more on what Thea saw and understood about the Mother’s Temple, her rejected efforts to get the builders to respect the original measurements of the Mother’s Temple, and the consequences of building, celebrating and promoting a temple in the Mother’s name which rejected the Divine Maya (sacred geometry) and Vedic Gnosis of the Mother. Last year, a correspondent of mine revealed another sacred feature of the 24m diameter of the Mother’s 12-sided Inner Chamber. It yields a precise floor area of <b>432m<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><sup>2</sup></span></b>, or <b>432,000,000mm<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><sup>2</sup></span></b>, containing in itself the sacred number of <b>432,000</b> which I have <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-sacred-measure-of-432000-part-4.html" target="_blank">discussed at length</a> in relation to the sacred and eternal law and divine measure (Divine Maya) of the vesica pisces and its indwelling radius – the Vedic river(s) and the Son of the Waters – which together measure out the 12-month Vedic Year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#5" id="5a">[5]</a> A collection of Thea’s writing on the mismeasure of the Vedic Year (Zodiac) is available <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/articles/articles-on-makar/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#6" id="6a">[6]</a> “[We] are now on the Ninth Spiral of the Greater Circle as well as in the actual 9th Manifestation of the [Maha Yuga cycle]. Therefore, the birth we spoke of as taking place in this Manifestation also corresponds to the birth period of the entire 311,040-year cycle. These two culminations are simultaneous now, which points out to us the tremendous importance of our times.” (p. 42) The “Greater Circle” is found on pp. 25-26 of <i>The Gnostic Circle</i>. There it is shown that the beginning of the Age of Pisces (234 BCE) is the 96th of the 144 Ages of the “Greater Circle”. Given that 96 is two thirds of 144, this point is 240° of the 360 Zodiac, i.e. 0° Sagittarius (=the 6/Saturn Point) of this “Greater Circle”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#7" id="7a">[7]</a> Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" target="_blank">“Timeline of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation”</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#8" id="8a">[8]</a> After the revelations of the Divine Maya/Sanatana Dharma of the Vedic Rivers that descended the year and week of Thea’s passing in 2016, I have faced my own version of this inertia, and it is worth mentioning in the context of the 144-year cycle above that on 17 February 2022 (four days before the close of this cycle), I wrote the following to my colleagues at Aeon Group: “I have been moving forward with the keys of gnosis given in 2016 for six years now and it feels like the Time has come to finish cutting cords with the inertia of Thea’s inner circle.” I had already moved on in spirit and for all practical purposes, but circumstances arranged themselves so that I would finish this cord cutting and fully align with my soul and its particular intentions and mission in the weeks and days before the Mother’s 144th birth anniversary. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#9" id="9a">[9]</a> Below are links to Thea’s short summaries of the twelve signs of the Zodiac.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNWblog/?p=70" target="_blank">1st Quadrant: Aries, Taurus and Gemini</a></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNWblog/?p=71" target="_blank">2nd Quadrant: Cancer, Leo and Virgo</a></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNWblog/?p=72" target="_blank">3rd Quadrant: Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius</a></div></div>
<div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNWblog/?p=73" target="_blank">4th Quadrant: Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></a></div></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#10" id="10a">[10]</a> Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Berlin" target="_blank">Congress of Berlin</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#11" id="11a">[11]</a> More on the deeper history of communism is presented on Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_communism#Origins_of_communism" target="_blank">“History of Communism</a>”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#12" id="12a">[12]</a> Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism#Reception" target="_blank">"Communism"</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#13" id="13a">[13]</a> Mykhailo Minakov, <a href="https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/three-decades-ukraines-independence" target="_blank">“Three Decades of Ukraine's Independence”</a>, September 13, 2021. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#14" id="14a">[14]</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrZDHRoGGHQ" target="_blank">“Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov levels new accusations at Ukraine”</a> [YouTube], Mar 10, 2022. See also: ‘Ukraine invasion: Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov rants about Napoleon, Hitler, Hollywood films and Ukraine's 'Nazi battalions': Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov claims that Russia's attempt to invade Ukraine ‒ which he euphemistically describes as a "special military operation" ‒ is an effort to "de-militarise and de-Nazify and to stop any more violence"’. Greg Heffer, <i><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-invasion-russias-foreign-minister-sergei-lavrov-rants-about-napoleon-hitler-hollywood-films-and-ukraines-nazi-battalions-12556406" target="_blank">Sky News</a></i>, 3 March 2022 </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#15" id="15a">[15]</a> Michael Flynn, who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=romt1iWW4Oc" target="_blank">participated in fomenting the 6 January 2021 attack</a> on the Capitol and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 democratic election, recorded <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/michael-flynn-cnn-qanon-oath-b1879970.html" target="_blank">a video of himself and his entire family taking the QAnon oath on the 4th of July 2020</a> six months earlier.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#16" id="16a">[16]</a> <a href="https://www.perrotta.co/astrology-1/2020/6/11/astrology-of-revolution-and-change-in-history" target="_blank">“Astrology of Change and Revolution in History”</a>, 12 June 2020, AP Astrology.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#17" id="17a">[17]</a> Putin’s natal Sun is in Libra (13°). His Moon is in Gemini (2°) and his North/South Nodes in Aquarius/Leo (19°59’°) For those that are interested in knowing more about his natal chart in relation to the current war, see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtAWZ7flapg" target="_blank">“Vladimir Putin Natal Chart Interpretation | What will happen with Russia and Ukraine?” [Youtube, 22 February 2022]</a>. The same insightful Astrologer/YouTuber posted <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Ibn8SJ0CI" target="_blank">“Ukraine Astrology Update | Parallel history with WWII | Hitler and Putin similarities”</a>, Mar 7, 2022.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-convergence-of-putins-war-mothers.html#18" id="18a">[18]</a> Thea discussed the Giza Sphinx as a symbol of Vishnu's Lion-Man/Leo-Aquarius axis of the Zodiac. One of Vishnu’s avatars is known as Narasimha – the Lion-Man. Vishnu the Preserver. Also discussed by Thea, Vishnu the Preserver is responsible for reinstating the Divine Law/Sanatana Dharma in the Preservation (or fixed-sign) Ages of the Maha Yuga cycle. Here are some relevant quotes from <i>The Gnostic Circle</i> regarding the Sphinx, Vishnu and the fixed-sign Leo-Aquarius axis.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he Sphinx as a symbol is perhaps one of the most important in esoteric tradition. These signs are captured in the ancient imagery of the Sphinx, and are an indication to mankind of the four important Ages in its progressive development [=the four Fixed sign ages of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius]. The Indians have preserved this same knowledge in another way; they call the times of the appearances of the avatars the periods of Vishnu, the Preserver. This is analogous to the Sphinx because Vishnu's periods correspond to the Fixed signs of the zodiac, the second part of the Trinity of Creation, Preservation and Dissolution or Destruction, which are the Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable signs.” – Thea, <i>The Gnostic Circl</i>e, p. 37</div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The Sphinx resting before [the Great Pyramid of Giza] would be the key to the time such a transformation could take place in harmony with the position of the Earth with respect to the heavenly bodies and orbits, and above all with respect to the great centre of our galaxy, which is why it was so necessary to determine accurately the precession of the equinoxes and incorporate this knowledge in the construction. It becomes evident from the Sphinx that work on the full transformation of matter is best achieved during passage either through the Age of Leo or the Age of Aquarius, the Lion and the Man of the zodiac. Between these two points there is the period of 'sleep,, or the loss of knowledge, the 8th Manifestation of Scorpio‒and therefore the ancients of Egypt, with this very precise knowledge, worked to erect the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx not only to make a place propitious for such an initiation and transformation but constructed in such a way as to preserve the knowledge throughout the millennia, which they knew would otherwise be lost and was to be essential for the progress of the civilisations of the Earth toward a more divine manifestation.” – Ibid., p. 245</div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he Sphinx of Giza represents the…axis of Leo and Aquarius, or August and February, the birth months of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, which is the important axis of the Matrimandir. August is naturally the Lion and February the Man, but in fact in ancient times the Sphinx was most often portrayed in its human part as a Woman.” – Ibid., p. 278</div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“After [the Mutable sign/age of Pisces] the sign of Preservation follows which in this present era is the Fixed sign Aquarius, and the new reality of the times comes forth, the new is firmly established when the Vishnu avatars come to reveal the phase human evolution is entering and the work that is to be done. These are our times―today. And we are in turn preparing for the culmination of the Age of Capricorn.” – Ibid., p. 304</div></div></blockquote><p>From <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i> (added 15 August 2022):</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">“[T]he
four Fixed signs of the zodiac, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius―the Bull, the
Lion, the Eagle and the Man (Woman)…are mentioned continually in the Book of Revelation
and other older occult and esoteric documents and spiritual texts. Of these
four signs, the Man and the Lion are the Sphinx of Giza, 'guardian' of the
Great Pyramid. As can be seen from the diagram, the Sphinx of Giza represents
the same axis of Leo and Aquarius, or August and February, the birth months of
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, which is the important axis of the Matrimandir. August
is naturally the Lion and February the Man, but in fact in ancient times the
Sphinx was most often portrayed in its
human part as a Woman, particularly in Babylonia and then in Greece.” </span>– <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">p. 278</span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"> *</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"Near the mouth of the Nile there is the enigmatic Sphinx, in close proximity to the Great Pyramid. This colossus is a Man/Woman with the body of a Lion. These combined images correspond to the zodiacal signs Aquarius and Leo which stand in opposition to each other. The Precession of the Equinoxes, having entered the sign of Aquarius by retrograde motion in 1926, draws the ascendent of the Earth through these two opposite and complementary signs, as it were. In terms of calendar months the Sphinx represents August and February,―the birth months of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother…. The Sphinx is placed at the exact spot where, both in Space and in Time, the sign Aquarius comes into being. In fact, it is during this Age of Aquarius, within the first degree of the sign by retrograde motion―or the first 72 years of the age-that the secret the Sphinx guards is revealed and the conquest of Time occurs, which is the necessary complement to the conquest of Space that was achieved during the Age when the Pyramids and the Sphinx were built. This was the Age of Leo, the sign of the Lion. Now, in the sign of the Woman/Man, the Earth becomes truly whole by the unveiling of her harmony in Time." – <span style="text-align: left;">pp. </span>361-62 </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Agni is the fourth of the supramental avataric descent; he is Skanda of the Puranic Tales: he is Kalki of the Ten Puranic Avatars; he is the Conqueror of St. John's Apocalypse; he is the Horse of the Veda, the symbol of Force (Tapas), the counterpart of the Cow, the symbol of the Light of Consciousness. <b>Cow and Horse of Vedic symbology are Consciousness-Force, the major axis of existence, the axis portrayed in the symbology of the enigmatic Sphinx of Giza</b>. – p. 378 </p></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">If you value the </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b>original research and content made freely </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b><br />available on this blog</b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a></div></div></div><br />Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-18970572643976011102022-02-26T15:02:00.090-08:002022-10-25T17:19:47.678-07:00THE OBSTRUCTION OF THE VEDIC WATERS & THE FIXED WATER SIGN SCORPIO ⁓ PART 7.2 ⁓ The Resurrection of the Father & the Rise of the Sevenfold Man
<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjb4_8XLa_NyWlZfgzLnBMQnt3JS8HyZnWyp7ddEtKmJVRnRUqh71NUDP_gVgERrhAqMgzuF4z2iVXcNJNlob9ktXO3gzzn0wWwzJoWOQVshFREfsXFJS9qyp0F9QJYUvcQitH-qc-DSykqoPwp8xl-juSJ6hP5HLmP5QBaAajb8AcRVncOxaf-lQN2=s1171" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Resurrection Plate. The Maize God (Hun Nal Ye) is resurrected by his sons. Original (color) image by Justin Kerr." border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="1171" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjb4_8XLa_NyWlZfgzLnBMQnt3JS8HyZnWyp7ddEtKmJVRnRUqh71NUDP_gVgERrhAqMgzuF4z2iVXcNJNlob9ktXO3gzzn0wWwzJoWOQVshFREfsXFJS9qyp0F9QJYUvcQitH-qc-DSykqoPwp8xl-juSJ6hP5HLmP5QBaAajb8AcRVncOxaf-lQN2=w400-h395" title="Resurrection Plate. The Maize God (Hun Nal Ye) is resurrected by his sons. Original (color) image by Justin Kerr." width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Resurrection Plate. The Maize God (Hun Nal Ye) is resurrected by his sons. <a href="http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya_hires.php?vase=1892" target="_blank">Original (color) image by Justin Kerr</a>.</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">“Then I shall speak truly of the seven steps of ignorance, seven of wisdom. The stages between are countless and produced otherwise…. By knowing the seven stages of knowledge, one will not be sub-merged in the mire of illusions... liberation follows after the seven stages.” <br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">– Maha Upanishad V-1-7, V-21-35, tr. Dr. A. G. Krishna Warrier</span></div></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">[Link to</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">Part 1</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">4</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">5</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">6</a><span style="font-size: large;">,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">7.1</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">7.2</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;">8.1</a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-size: large;">or</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-size: large;">8.2</a><span style="font-size: large;">]</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Soon after the 432,000ʺ measure of the vesica piscis and its indwelling radius (“Son”) announced itself as a key of consolidating Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet's [Thea’s] work, and thus the entire Solar Line’s work, towards the restoration of the ancient <i>sanatana dharma</i> (eternal law/truth) in our world at 4:32 a.m. on 7 February 2016 (six years ago), it quickly began to dismantle a veil or rather crack open a shell, mountain or cave of collective ignorance that had been just as firmly set in place in my own consciousness as it was set in place throughout the world. The geometry of the radius and vesica piscis, and of the twelve-month Vedic Year (Yajña=Zodiac) they measure out, progressively illuminated and integrated not only a wide swath of Vedic, post-Vedic and Hindu symbols and myths, which I will not repeat here, but also an intriguing array of related symbols and mythologies across multiple civilizations, continents, and time periods, including but not limited to the pouring out of the seven vials of Revelation, Jonah and the Whale, the parting of the Red Sea, the passing of Elijah’s robe or mantle which parts the waters, Jesus walking on water, Jesus turning water into wine, Jesus feeding the masses with two fish, the heavenly virgins of the Quran, the seven Akkadian Apkallu, the Greek mythologies of Pegasus and Hippocrene (the Horse’s fountain), the Arthurian legends of the Holy Grail, the Lady of the Lake, Excalibur and the stone from which it is retrieved, the Ongiara (Niagara Falls) Maid of the Mist mythology featuring a Snake-defeating, water-releasing Thunder-God, the alchemical symbol of the seven flasks, the Pueblo Indian mythology of the Water Jar Boy, the 12,000-year-old Fish and Water-Bearer petroglyphs of Ratnagiri, the three Mayan fire stones and various Mesoamerican representations of Vishnu supporting the world as a Turtle. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">All of these varied and seemingly unrelated mythologies and symbols, which I have discussed in <i><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/p/book.html" target="_blank">Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</a></i> (book and blog) began to make perfect and interconnected sense once their integrating key and context was known. This process of integration and widening seeing and understanding of symbols (old and new) continues with seemingly no end in sight. The puzzle pieces of the fractured whole continue to fall in place within their rightful place and context, and this progressive integration is not simply an academic or mental process. It is a process of yoga (originally <i>yajña</i>) whose Sanskrit root <i>yuj</i>, means “to yoke or join or fasten or harness to join” and to “unite , connect , add , bring together.” <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The most recent example of this progressive illumination and yoking of interconnected ancient symbols involves the Classic-era “Maya Resurrection Plate” (dated circa 600 CE) featuring the Maya Maize god rising up out of the cracked shell of a Turtle and the Hero-Twins – sons of the Maize god, one of whom participates in the “resurrection” of their father by pouring water out of a jar. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#2a" id="2">[2]</a> </span>When I first saw this plate circa the December Solstice of 2021, I was fascinated to see that it contains in itself not only the imagery of the divine Son pouring out his kumbha and its death-conquering “water of life”, it also subtly contains the geometric key and eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) of Vishnu’s avatars, without which the book of the Vedas remains essentially sealed. Looking at this plate as the circle of the Vedic/Zodiacal Year, we can see the Maize god standing as the vertical radius of 0° Aries, and the horizontal figure of the Turtle (Kurma) as an embodiment of the horizontal vesica piscis measuring out the second and third seats or angles of Agni’s fire trine: 0° Leo and 0° Sagittarius. The imagery of the plate makes more integral sense when we understand that the Maya Maize god is equivalent to the “threefold” god Agni, who is known as the “Lord of Plants” in the Vedas, Mars – the Lord of Agriculture and War in Roman mythology, and Triptolemus – the “threefold warrior” of the Eleusinian mysteries who is trained by Demeter to “[educate] the whole of Greece in the art of agriculture.” <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#3a" id="3">[3]</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQ8W0cyiuGVyTAtB4gR_Z4HPuHE50DsLALYww3SZF9cuuTKFBwFkw-wF8qwC5klqD3b9h2x9qBYiAaKFLZ57ln47lmkdNIGUIIFwwBPYJdGqxqXAr9iwcc2qicccptHqyjOHyH02crsJDl6Rf3kHhGBBv7pXpvAWgOJh1oG5rUP9NTyHtU_dJYHU0c=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Maya Resurrection Plate and the sacred geometry of the radius and vesica piscis. (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="1200" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQ8W0cyiuGVyTAtB4gR_Z4HPuHE50DsLALYww3SZF9cuuTKFBwFkw-wF8qwC5klqD3b9h2x9qBYiAaKFLZ57ln47lmkdNIGUIIFwwBPYJdGqxqXAr9iwcc2qicccptHqyjOHyH02crsJDl6Rf3kHhGBBv7pXpvAWgOJh1oG5rUP9NTyHtU_dJYHU0c=w640-h314" title="Maya Resurrection Plate and the sacred geometry of the radius and vesica piscis. (Lori Tompkins)" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In this view, the two seats of the Hero-Twin Sons conjoin the two ends of the turtle shell which correspond geometrically to 0° Leo and 0° Sagittarius, suggesting that the artist saw the Maya Hero Twins as part of the Divine Trinity, with their father holding the position of 0° Aries – the apex of the Fire Trine and the zero point of the Earth’s Zodiacal Year. If we superimpose the seventh vesica piscis or river of the Zodiac on top of this same image, we can see that it rises to the headdress of the water-bearing twin which appears to mark out or conjunct the entrance into the sign of the Aquarian Water Bearer (0° Aquarius/Kumbha) in the zodiacal circle. Of course the “Resurrection Plate” could be oriented or rotated differently, but this particular orientation matches up with the vertical axis of the Maize God. Please note that the ceremonial “kill hole” at the approximate center of this plate, is a feature of the artifact, not something I added to the image.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjccO00Lx10jPrOjo2gn21gsGfamo7On0QDjRrU3m4EaT47-rp1FjO2rX6ilIqa2AfzPOSzuKqYy3DFDuJa5VTQp85gZ5iYAl55jH3oQt_2FKYeSok2hff4VKY4aVO0_0r2tdCgcK14mjpx5hCeoN6gqVYyEF-Qr7lhwFYDiodJ1IwdSnlLVB3_a5NH=s3882" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Maya Resurrection Plate and the sacred geometry of the radius, vesica piscis and 7th river of the Zodiac. (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="1314" data-original-width="3882" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjccO00Lx10jPrOjo2gn21gsGfamo7On0QDjRrU3m4EaT47-rp1FjO2rX6ilIqa2AfzPOSzuKqYy3DFDuJa5VTQp85gZ5iYAl55jH3oQt_2FKYeSok2hff4VKY4aVO0_0r2tdCgcK14mjpx5hCeoN6gqVYyEF-Qr7lhwFYDiodJ1IwdSnlLVB3_a5NH=w655-h222" title="Maya Resurrection Plate and the sacred geometry of the radius, vesica piscis and 7th river of the Zodiac. (Lori Tompkins)" width="655" /></a></div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Given the above, we can appreciate that the shape and form of the Turtle (Kurma) on this plate is a veiled expression of the eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) and divine measure (divine maya) that Vishnu returns in his Age of Aquarius (and in his other fixed-sign ages) <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#4a" id="4">[4]</a></span> to reestablish in the world. The zodiacal lore and iconography of the pouring out of the Aquarian Water Jar is itself a symbol of Vishnu’s act of pouring out, and thus reestablishing, the eternal law/divine maya in the world, because his waters and his jar are both equivalent to that eternal law and divine measure. Some scholars have recognized the connection between various Mesoamerican Turtle motifs and Vishnu’s Turtle, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#5a" id="5">[5]</a></span> and the Water Bearing Hero-Twin can be easily recognized as a zodiacal symbol by anyone who knows zodiacal symbols and lore. However, no one would really be in the position to appreciate the marvel of this specific array and configuration of Vedic symbols (in a Maya plate) without knowing that Vishnu’s world-saving and dharma-saving Turtle avatar and the kumbha or jar of Amrita that Vishnu recovers from the demons and gives to the gods are symbols of the eternal and sacred law, geometry, and measure of the Zodiac/Vedic Year. [See <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2018/11/recovering-ancient-light-and-amrita-of.html#Kurma" target="_blank">“Recovering the Ancient Light and Amrita of the Vedas ⁓ Part Two”</a>] Likewise, the significance of the specific position of the Water-Bearing Son of this plate only comes to light or into focus once we know the identity and position of the seventh river of the Vedic Year which—together with the radius or Son-Sage-Horse of 0° Sagittarius—measures out the entrance into the sign of the Water Bearer (0° Aquarius/Kumbha). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbtlBPmLAz9JAMNV2-CzNXlgJiEx5VzwGTE-Ozo6ZF_D_uDOIEKKKofjPPlMnFL3WmdnISGasx929W5gWzpBfos2u24eXg6VC5aGocdL6lsm9AWdXTOrDXuc7ssk5cS7YuPfpJsgoCOH_yZTNLIsgV9f13LRsWeD7RZx3knj2y-29o_xaciYmvv6nG=s1237" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="1237" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbtlBPmLAz9JAMNV2-CzNXlgJiEx5VzwGTE-Ozo6ZF_D_uDOIEKKKofjPPlMnFL3WmdnISGasx929W5gWzpBfos2u24eXg6VC5aGocdL6lsm9AWdXTOrDXuc7ssk5cS7YuPfpJsgoCOH_yZTNLIsgV9f13LRsWeD7RZx3knj2y-29o_xaciYmvv6nG=w640-h272" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">In <i>The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayeli</i>, the names for the Mesoamerican Maize god “include <i>ah mun</i> (tender green shoot) <i>zac uac nal</i> (white six new corn) or <i>uac chuaac nal</i> (six tall new corn).” <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#6a" id="6"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[6]</span></a> All of these can be considered apt names of the radius of the circle, mirroring some of the Vedic names and characteristics of Agni, the new-born, hero-son, youngling, who is green-hued in several Vedic hymns. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#7a" id="7">[7]</a></span> “Six new corn” fits given that the radius “measure[s] out the six expanses” (<a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=06.047.03&acc=no&q=six&lang=eng" target="_blank">RV 6.47.3</a>), the six vesicae piscis and thus the <i>satkona</i> (the six angle star or root of David) of the zodiacal “Circle of Life”. Once we see and understand the geometric identity of the divine ray-son Agni, we can easily understand why he was depicted as lord, master, priest, minister, ruler, measurer and “radiant One” of the yajña (year=sacrifice) and “the guard of Law eternal (<i>sanatana dharma</i>)” <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#8a" id="8"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[8]</span></a> who yokes and unites all in his circle of life. It is worth noting here that Sri Aurobindo’s satkona symbol (<a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/SAs-old-symbol-2-TVN-9.1.jpg" target="_blank">old</a> and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipZ1zRwJw5XHoaDWMqq6Dkt0haRWSs2jQ886fj-M7ZcRA6qWb7v0A6xikIocpL2Esl-flbIA8VpjpNn7C77qtc95_S92Bg7DH5Dpu9jY8oK7C8AVR-vWokHc7pusgGWhBHsC3KEaJjIPg/s320/SA-Symbol-thin-01.png" target="_blank">new</a>) are both variations of the sacred geometry of the radius (the “radiant One”/Son) of the circle. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDjALnCVpqihmmfJNupK4k8wSN7ZCDmyDLZ--4Mm4FDbNDVjWNk3BlxUY0bYkMyaGno01GAm1Cvvq1c7uG7TqTHeT6-2ZBwbB2_34ypLTuCz4vv37HqOVLvA2PDSNdN73gR3tpISN5tpGO1l5B9Qh5UhAOoPC3FUB_PKR0ADPIT-Z4tuSzVQIdjCuK=s613" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The division of the circle/zodiac into 6 by the radius and vesica piscis. (Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="147" data-original-width="613" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDjALnCVpqihmmfJNupK4k8wSN7ZCDmyDLZ--4Mm4FDbNDVjWNk3BlxUY0bYkMyaGno01GAm1Cvvq1c7uG7TqTHeT6-2ZBwbB2_34ypLTuCz4vv37HqOVLvA2PDSNdN73gR3tpISN5tpGO1l5B9Qh5UhAOoPC3FUB_PKR0ADPIT-Z4tuSzVQIdjCuK=w640-h154" title="The division of the circle/zodiac into 6 by the radius and vesica piscis. (Lori Tompkins)" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the Vedas, in St. John’s Revelation and in Thea’s Vedic Cosmology, the conquering Sage-Horse-(Sagittarian) Son Agni – “the Sovran Ruler of the plants” <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#9a" id="9">[9]</a></span> – is the Father reborn, victorious over the obstructions of Ignorance and Death. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Thou, O Agni…[art] our Father, thou [art] the Creator of our growth, we [are] thy comrades; together the hundredfold riches, together thousandfold, the perfect heroic force go to thee, to the Guardian of the law of workings , O Unconquerable.” – Rig Veda 1.31.10, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#10a" id="10">[10]</a></span> tr. Sri Aurobindo</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The Son of the sacrifice <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#11a" id="11">[11]</a></span> is a constant image of the Veda. Here it is the godhead himself, Agni who gives himself as a son to man, <b>a Son who delivers his father</b>. Agni is also the War Horse and the steed of the journey, the White Horse, the mystic galloping Dadhikravan who carries us through the battle to the goal of our voyaging.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA Vol. 15</i>, p. 461 [Bold emphasis added]</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“[In the Apocalypse/Revelation, John] says of <b>the Conqueror-who is the Father returned</b>: 'To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.' The 'hidden manna' is the stuff of truth-consciousness and the process of transformation it gives rise to, which allows for <b>the dissolution of the Father and his return in the form of the Son who overcomes or conquers</b>. …[T]he Father dissolves and appears as the Son. And 'no man knoweth' this secret, except he who is that and those who have been initiated into this new way and who have eyes to see this new Name…. [The Conqueror-Son] is the regenerated Father-Time." – Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, pp. 215-216 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As I discussed in <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i> (book), on the geometric level of this Biblical tale, the “hidden manna” and the “white stone” are both Vedic symbols of the divine measure of the vesica piscis. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#12a" id="12">[12]</a></span> The secret name written across the white stone could either be the radius (aka Guha – the “Hidden One”) that spans across the width of the vesica piscis, or it could be a reference to the form of the vesica piscis which is created by the radius. In RV 9.96.16, Agni is beseeched to “stream”, send, or come forward with his “secret name” (<i>gúhyaṃ cā́ru nā́ma</i>). </p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Cleansed by the [rivers], armed with noble weapons, [Agni/Soma Pavamana/Sage] <b>stream to us the fair secret name thou bearest</b>. Pour booty [<i>vayam</i>=food, prizes, energy], like a horse, for love of glory God, Soma, send us kine." – Rig Veda 9.96.16, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">HH Wilson translated the same as:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Well-armed, purified by those [rivers=mothers] who express you, send your concealed desirable form (into the pitchers); like a horse bring us food in our desire for food; divine Soma, bring us life, bring us cattle.”</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In RV 4.5.3 the vesica piscis is referred to as the “secret hymn” and “the lost milch-cow's track”. In RV 9.75.2, the vesica piscis is called the “third secret name of Mother and of Sire”, made by the Son who is “the Tongue of [the] sacrifice.” <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#13a" id="13">[13]</a></span> Elsewhere, I have discussed this “third secret name” of Agni as the “daughter” of the circle. Regardless of the poetic ambiguities, what I most want to convey herein is that the reference to the secret name written across the white stone in Revelation, is a repetition of how the Vedic Rishis veiled or hid the <i>geometric</i> identity of the divine Son and his mothers (=rivers, floods, sisters, cows, mares, etc.). From the language of the Rishis throughout the Vedas, we can gather that this gnosis was veiled and ancient even long before the Rishis’ own time.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The delight-causing Soma [<i>candramā</i> = Agni] <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#14a" id="14">[14]</a></span> lies concealed deep in the waters.... I ask Agni, the first of the Gods, the master of yajna. May he, the messenger please reply. '<b>Where has the ancient Truth gone? Who other than you bears it now?</b>'” – Rig Veda 1.105.1, 4, excerpts, tr. RL Kashyap [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The flowing of the [seven] floods is Law, Truth is the Sun's extended light.… Trita [=Agni] when buried in the well [i.e. hidden in the waters], calls on the Gods [for help]. [[The god Bṛhaspati heard the call [and he] made wide the lid of the well and (rescued) Trita.]]” – Rig Veda 1.105.12, 17, excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith [Text in double brackets, tr. RL Kashyap]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">As I’m sure some readers have already deduced, this well and its wide lid are symbols of the vesica piscis made by the radius of the circle. Whereas all seven rivers bear Agni forward, it is specifically the seventh river (vesica piscis) that completes his birth or rescue out of his concealing waters. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Whilst the Rishis’ elaborate descriptions of the birth, disclosure or revelation of the Divine Son via his seven mother-rivers are veiled references to the sacred geometry, womb and measure of the twelve-month Yajna (=Year=Zodiac=Aditi), they are simultaneously veiled references (as discussed by Sri Aurobindo and Thea) to the birth and recovery of the divine seed, soul-spark, light, law and truth-consciousness (i.e. the “hidden Sun”) of our own material existence, to be lived and realized and fulfilled <i>in the world</i>, in the course of our evolutionary journey which the Rishis’ understood as a macrocosm of the Earth’s 360° year and day. As known to the Rishis, the two-dimensional zodiacal geometry of this 360° journey (<i>yajña</i>) is inseparable from the multi-dimensional reality of the journey of the divine soul-spark in Time and Space, and it is likewise inseparable from the Truth-Consciousness or moreover the Satchitananda (the Truth-Consciousness-Bliss) that the Divine soul-spark bears forward <i>in the world</i> with its own birth or full manifestation. Like St John’s (post-Vedic) Revelation, the Vedas contain in themselves the prophecy of the accomplishment and the purifying effects of this birth and recovery of Truth-Consciousness and its corresponding Bliss on Earth in Vishnu’s Aquarian Age.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Throughout her writings Thea discussed Sri Aurobindo’s supramental yoga and descent as the fulfilment of these ancient prophecies, complete with the return (or rebirth) of the Divine Father as the Divine Son, who establishes—via his birth—the seed of the supramental truth-consciousness in our new age and new world. It is a story that cannot be understood without developing an appreciation for, and a capacity to see and experience, the supramental and cosmological harmonies that manifest themselves in the 360° field of Time and Space. One’s entire consciousness must shift out of the “conventional framework” of the linear mind, and one must learn to see and experience the supramental consciousness-force of the Soul as it manifests and journeys in cycles of Time. Only then do the supramental and cosmological credentials, harmonies, and coincidences that Thea presents begin to reveal the truth of her accounts and explanations of Sri Aurobindo’s (the Father’s) return as the Son. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#15a" id="15">[15]</a> <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#16a" id="16">[16]</a></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he supramental avatar's [Sri Aurobindo’s] realisation of Immortality deals directly with Time and Eternity. This realisation is hence the bringing down of the Eternal into Matter, the rooting of the Eternal Principle in the material universe. And thereafter the unending reproduction of that Principle through the resultant seeds of the experience of harmonised Time, which is Death conquered. </p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“All of this cannot be understood when we place the event within the conventional framework the human being has constructed around death and re-birth, and what his mind tells him should be the supramental victory, the realisation of Immortality. It is imperative to understand that <b>once the birth takes place the victory is immediately achieved. Awareness of the process thereafter is no longer indispensable</b> because total consciousness is primarily necessary during the period of the Father's dissolution and his sojourn in 'the other dimension', not after birth as the Son. Rather we may state that if the consciousness of the Father were maintained by him in all its details after birth as the Son it would only serve to impede the progress of the latter's destiny and mission as the Fourth. <b>A truth-conscious awareness does not conform to the human being's imagination of what it should be. It is aware of the totality, and in that totality the periods of necessary oblivion are automatically contained; a willed limitation is often imperative</b>." – <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, pp. 567-68 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“For those who truly wish to see, all the details of the Solar Line are written [in the measurements of the Mother’s Temple], down to the birth of the victorious Son, who is the first of the new race. In rejecting those measurements the people have also rejected the Father and Son, though this in no way alters the real work he comes to accomplish. His victory has been achieved and no power on Earth can now undo what has been done. But those who fail to see must reap the fruit of that refusal. Sri Aurobindo himself prophesied in <i>Savitri</i> this blindness on the part of 'the wisemen': </p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 80px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>A few shall see what none yet understands; <br />God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep; <br />For man shall not know the coming till its hour <br />And belief shall be not till the work is done. <br /></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 80px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">[Book One, Canto IV, “The Secret Knowledge”] </p></blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“And finally he prophesied in Savitri his own return to Earth in the form of the Youth-God [Kartikeya] who rides the victorious Peacock. In his epic poem he narrates his victory over Death, a work that is made possible by the incarnation of the Divine Mother.” – <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 163</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Via the above, we can better see and understand the Vedic essence of the Maya Resurrection Plate. We can see that it contains, in its own veiled way, the prophetic and zodiacal story of the rebirth of the Father and the victory of the Son, who pours out the Vedic Kumbha and its purifying water of life and its eternal law and divine maya (=measure) to the world, breaking the curse or obstruction of Death and Ignorance that reigns in the 8th stage of the twelve-stage Yajña or Year. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Hundreds of [cosmological/zodiacal details regarding the Son’s birth and the Solar Line] appear as luminous truths before our eyes <b>when we have been initiated into the true Measure of things, and the veils of illusion have been withdrawn to uncover the form of the divine Maya</b>. This Truth of the Supreme Mother is revealed to be eternal and because of its undying and immortal nature, it is possible to reach back into the womb of Time and take up the earliest records of the experiences of Those who See and to find therein the same divine Measure. But without the necessary preparation the experiences expressed in the hymns of the early Rishis are only a garble of incoherent metaphors, strung together endlessly through a maze of tales that appear to have no relation to the man of today. However, let us bring our penetration of the Veda to a close by consolidating these ancient truths firmly into our modern world.” – <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 410 [Bold emphasis and text in parenthesis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thea wrote these words at the age of <b>39</b> in 1977, a year she discussed in terms of her yogic “enhancement”. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#17a" id="17">[17]</a></span> <b>39</b> years later, in 2016, her passing coinciding with the unveiling of the Divine Maya and Eternal Law of the Vedic river and its indwelling Son. As discussed at the beginning of this post (7.2), this unveiling did shed, and continues to shed, great light on the “garble of incoherent metaphors” and symbols in the Vedas and in a wide variety of mythologies across the globe and across “the womb of Time”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the first half of Part Seven, I wrote: </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“As I see it, after Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth in 1963, it was simply a matter of Time until the geometric sense of the seven rivers was released. And it was released, <b>53-54</b> years later, after Thea completed her role as his Mother, as the Third of the Solar Line, and as the seer, the vessel (<i>pātra</i>) and transmitter of the gnosis that descended with his rebirth.” </p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I wrote this because the prophecy of the Vedas and of St. John’s Revelation absolutely links the birth of the Son and the release of his seven rivers (floods, cows, mothers, mares, vials, etc.). Thus, if these ancient prophecies are accurate and if Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth is a fulfilment of these prophecies, his rebirth would necessarily accomplish the unblocking, unveiling, and uncovering of the geometric sense, the divine maya and the <i>sanatana dharma</i> (eternal law) of the Vedic rivers. And, as it turned out, the gnosis that did descend with his rebirth, which was received and given voice and body by his mother, Thea (the “Third” of the Solar Line) – absolutely did unblock the long-lost geometric sense of the Vedic rivers. Seven days before Thea’s passing, the conquering of the blockage or obstruction was apparently complete, because that is when the divine maya and <i>sanatana dharma</i> – i.e. the eternal geometric key/law – of these rivers was released, like a flood, into my consciousness. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As our Age of the universal Aquarian Man/Water Bearer progresses, humanity will necessarily utilize this hard-won key, secret and treasure of the Vedas, of Vishnu’s avatars, and of St. John’s Revelation in order to collectively move beyond the veil and cave of our mass inherited ignorance and enjoy a progressively better and more integral view of what our world’s ancient seers knew and transmitted about the eternal and universal laws of the Soul’s manifestation and awakening in the field of Time and Space. The 9th sign of Sagittarius, which we entered into in our <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#2022" target="_blank">2016-2025 enneadic cycle</a> on 1 January 2022 (and on <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#9th-Manifestation" target="_blank">234 BCE in our Maha Yuga cycle</a>) is the sign of the Sage/Horse wherein the higher light and knowledge of the eternal and universal laws of the “Circle of Life” liberates us from our previously fixed, seemingly set in stone, crystalized falsehood or ignorance of our Divine Matrix and of our own divinity, which is the self-destructing, death-bound state of affairs in the fixed water sign of Scorpio, wherein the immortal Vedic waters of life and purifying wisdom are obstructed and held back from humanity. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Vedic Rishis indicated in many ways (as echoed by St. John in his Revelation) that the purifying release of the seven rivers (floods, vials, cows, etc.) by the Sage-Horse Agni, aka Soma Pavamana/Soma, and his companion Indra, was not only for the benefit of the Gods, but for the benefit, nourishment and uplifting of Mankind (Manu’s kin) on Earth.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“With you as a yokemate, o Soma, and in partnership with you, Indra made the waters flow for Manu [<i>mánav</i>=man=humanity]. He smashed the serpent; he let the seven rivers stream. He opened them up, like holes that have been covered over.” – RV 4.28.1, tr. Jamison & Brereton</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">* </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Thou, Indra, without effort hast let loose the floods to run their free course down, like chariots, to the sea, like chariots showing forth their strength. They, reaching hence away, have joined their strength for one eternal end, even as the cows who poured forth every thing for man, Yea, poured forth all things for mankind.” – Rig Veda 1.130.5-6, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">* </p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“As on the fair-leafed tree rest birds, to Indra flow the gladdening Soma juices that the [seven] bowls contain. Their face that glows with splendour through their mighty power hath found the shine of heaven for man, the Aryas' light.” – Rig Veda 10.43.4, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a id="rendezvous">When we understand</a> the geometric and zodiacal key and context of these seven rivers we see that the Hero-Son-Horse-Sage simultaneously delivers them to and pours them out at the entrance into the only sign of the Zodiac that is associated with not only the Man, but with the pouring out of heavenly and purifying waters of wisdom – Vishnu’s fourth and "highest" preservation sign of Aquarius/Kumbha. These eternal seven rivers allows the Sage-Horse Agni/Soma Pavamana (Child of the Waters) to conquer the obstructions of Ignorance and Falsehood and to be born forward to his one goal which is referred to by many names throughout the Vedas, including the kumbha (=jar=pitcher=kalasha, kosha, etc.), the reservoir of the rivers, the meeting place of the rivers and gods, Agni’s resting or dwelling place, Manu’s and Man’s dwelling place, Indra’s heart, the special place of the sacrifice, and the feast or banquet of the gods. In RV 10.100 this place is simultaneously the “reservoir”, the “seat of law” (<i>ṛtasya sadane</i>=seat of truth) and the “heavenly udder” (<i>ū́dhar divyáṃ</i>). In 9.64 it is the “purifying sieve” or filter (<i>pavitra</i>), the home of Law [<i>ṛtasya yonim</i>], Indra's special place or rendezvous (<i>niṣkṛtam</i>), the “lake” (<i>samudr</i>a=the gathering together of waters=ocean), and the “golden place of sacrifice” (<i>yonim hiraṇyayam</i>). <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#18a" id="18">[18]</a></span> In RV 9.96, <b>this place which Soma flows to (for Manu)</b> is called “the fleecy summit” (<i>sānau avye</i>) <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#19a" id="19">[19]</a></span>, “the god’s banquet”, and the pitcher.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Making the floods…[Agni-Soma-Sage-Horse decks/robes] himself in waters, warding off curses, King of all existence, he shall find way for prayer the while they cleanse him…. As <b>thou didst flow for Manu</b> Life-bestowing, Foe-queller, Comforter, rich in oblations, Even thus flow onward now conferring riches: combine with Indra, and bring forth thy weapons. Flow onward, Soma, rich in sweets and holy, enrobed in waters <b>on the fleecy summit</b>. Settle in vessels that are full of fatness, as cheering and most gladdening drink for Indra. Pour, hundred-streamed, winner of thousands, mighty <b>at the Gods’ banquet</b>, Pour the rain of heaven, while thou with [seven] rivers roarest in the beaker…. Hawk seated in the [seven] bowls, Bird wide-extended, the Banner seeking kine and wielding weapons, following close the sea, the wave of waters, <b>the great Bull tells his fourth form and declares it</b>. Like a fair youth who decorates his body, a courser rushing to the gain of riches, a steer to herds, so, flowing <b>to the pitcher</b>, he with a roar hath passed into the beakers.” – RV 9.96 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith </p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Bull’s fourth form here can easily be seen as Vishnu (the Bull’s) fourth fixed sign/seat – the sign of the Aquarian Man. In 7.100.6 Vishnu’s three steps or strides “over this earth” [i.e. over the course of the Zodiac] are said to give a home or “dwelling place for Manu”. In RV 10.40.13 this special place of the sacred year is called “the ford” (<i>tīrtha)</i> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#20a" id="20">[20]</a> </span>…where men well may drink”. This is the place wherein the waters, rivers, cows, horses, and manna (=<i>amrita</i>) of the gods are gathered and released for the benefit, nourishment, unification and harmony of the gods and Mankind.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[Ye heroes] throw open…unto those who win the cattle-stall that thunders with its <b>sevenfold mouth</b>. The Woman [=Mother] <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#21a" id="21">[21]</a></span> hath brought forth, the Infant hath appeared, the plants of wondrous beauty straightway have sprung up. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#22a" id="22">[22]</a></span> To him the rivers run as down a deep descent, and he this day becomes their master and their lord....Even so, <b>rejoicing in the dwelling-place of man</b>, give hero sons and riches to the eloquent. <b>Make a ford…where men well may drink: remove the spiteful tree-stump standing in the path</b>.” ‒ Rig Veda 10.40.8.9,13, tr. RTH Griffith [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The spiteful tree-stump or obstruction standing in the path to this joyous victory is simply ignorance of what these symbols symbolize. Once we know their geometric and zodiacal key, there is no longer any obstruction – discussed as a curse in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">Part 7.1</a> – and Man can “drink” of the eternal waters of life, rather than continue to be poisoned by the stagnant waters of Scorpio.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Once this obstruction is removed, we can see and understand how the recovery and the pouring out of the eternal truth of the sacred rivers and of the Kumbha by the Vedic Son is essential to the full realization of the Universal Brotherhood of Man (Humanity) in the Age of the Aquarian Water Bearer. We can see that the process of defragmenting our collective consciousness is actually dependent on knowing exactly WHAT WATER IS in the Vedas, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#23a" id="23">[23]</a></span> and equally what the water and Jar/Kumbha of Aquarius IS in zodiacal lore and what the water of life and the vials/bowls are in St. John’s Revelation. The pouring out of the Kumbha (i.e. of the vesica piscis) and its eternal-heavenly waters of life and universal wisdom is both a symbol and a prophecy of the recovery of the vesica piscis as a crucial key and eternal law of unity consciousness. Without the recovery, revelation or unveiling of what this symbol actually symbolizes, the ancient prophecy of the victorious and purifying pouring out of the rivers of the Vedas, the vials of Revelation, and the Kumbha of Aquarius is simply not fulfilled. And vice versa, upon the recovery of the eternal truth (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) and divine maya that these symbols symbolize, the rivers are no longer obstructed and covered by the Dragon of our inherited collective ignorance, and the ancient prophecy, which echoes throughout the world in many variations, is fulfilled. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I certainly do not mean to imply that the geometric sense of the Vedic waters and their release is the only sense or layer of meaning of their symbolism, but I do hold that their geometric sense and layer of meaning is entirely inseparable from its other layers, including the spiritual, mystic, and psychological layers illuminated by Sri Aurobindo, and the zodiacal and numerical layers illuminated by Thea. Thea recognized that all of the layers of the Vedas are integrally connected within the same unifying framework of the twelve-month, 360° Vedic Year. It should not be difficult for readers to appreciate the fact that this unifying framework is one hundred percent based upon the eternal geometric law of the radius and its “two mothers” – the circle and the vesica piscis. Even though it did come as a great surprise in October 2016 to learn that the radius and vesica piscis function as keys of deciphering and understanding the jumble of veiled symbols and lore of the Vedas, in retrospect it is not surprising at all. It makes absolutely perfect sense.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a id="pada-ilas">The final hymn of the Vedas</a>, 10.191 emphasizes the unity conscious to be attained by the Vedic heroes and by humanity at the Kumbha – the place where Agni, Indra, and the gods and the seven rivers (goddesses) and Mankind gather and unite their forces in the course of the 12-month of the sacrifice. In RV 10.191, this place where Agni is enkindled, ignited, or born by his seven rivers is called <i>pade ilas</i> which Sri Aurobindo translated as “<b>the seat of revelation</b>”.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">“O Fire, O strong one, as master thou unitest us with all things and <b>[thou] art kindled high in the seat of revelation</b>; do thou bring to us the Riches. Join together, speak one word, let your minds arrive at one knowledge even as the ancient gods arriving at one knowledge partake each of his own portion. Common Mantra have all these, a common gathering to union, one mind common to all, they are together in one knowledge; I pronounce for you a common Mantra, I do sacrifice for you with a common offering. One and common be your aspiration, united your hearts, common to you be your mind, — so that close companionship may be yours.” – Rig Veda 10.191, tr. Sri Aurobindo</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Pade ilas</i> yields many different translations according to the varying definitions and senses of <i>pade</i> in the Vedas, including “location”, “foot”, “footprint”, “word” (<i>pada</i>), “footstep”, “metrical foot”, “dwelling”, “step”, “mark”, “position”, “trace”, “construction”, “station”, “topographic point”, “path”, “pathway” and “residence”. In the Kannada language, <i>pāḍe</i> refers to a “water vessel” or “boat”. In RV 1.154 Vishnu’s highest step (<i>pade</i>) is equated with “the well of meath”, i.e. the kumbha or pot of Amrita/Soma wine. There are also varying senses of <i>ila</i>, including a river and goddess, a libation or pouring out of a liquid offering, speech (<i>vac</i>), the goddess of speech (Vak), a cow (<i>vaca</i> in Spanish), and manna (food), all of which I have discussed as veiled symbols of the divine measure of the vesica piscis/kumbha of the Vedic Year. RTH Griffith translates <i>pade ilas</i> as “libation's place”, which is fitting for the place where the Soma-wine and the divine waters are poured out of their Kumbha. In RV 3.29 Agni is Ila’s son – “the red pillar” – who is “set down” in her “place” (<i>íḷāyās padé</i>) which Sri Aurobindo translated as “<b>the seat of the Word of revelation</b>”. In RV 10.70.1 Kashyap and Jamison & Brereton translated the same respectively as “<b>the seat of revelation</b>” and “<b>the foot of refreshment</b>” which contains in itself the “ghee-covered” or “oil-filled ladle” (<i>ghṛtācīm</i>). <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#24a" id="24">[24]</a></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[Delight Agni] in the ghee-covered (ladle) in the footprint of refreshment.” – RV 10.70.1 tr. Jamison & Brereton</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Both the ghee (<i>ghṛtā</i>) and the footprint (<i>padé</i>) in this verse are overlapping symbols of the vesica piscis. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#25a" id="25">[25]</a></span> Whereas Agni is said to be <b>kindled in <i>pade ilas</i></b> (the seat, path, footprint, residence, etc. of Ila) in 10.91.1, in 3.25.5 he is equivalently “<b>[enkindled] in the floods' home</b>”. These are just a few of the myriad ways the Vedic Rishis talked about the same place, goal in the Zodiac which is the entrance into the Kumbha of Aquarius—the gathering place of Agni’s seven rivers (=floods), the Gods and Manu/Man. It is here that the Divine Son’s and the Divine Mother’s (Aditi’s) seven streams of eternal truth, law, and holy order (<i>ṛtásya dhā́rā</i>) are poured out for Man/Humanity as a universal basis of unity and harmony as we journey and evolve together within the unified field of Time and Space. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In RV 8.39.8, Agni—the Lord and Son on of the seven rivers—is called the “Lord of the Sevenfold Race of men” (tr. Griffith). In RL Kashyap’s translation of the same, Agni is “the sevenfold human (<i>agniḥ sapta-mānuṣaḥ</i>)…lodged in all the rivers”. Both translations make sense if we understand that the Man of Aquarius can indeed be considered “sevenfold” based on the geometry of the seven rivers and their Son. The sevenfold Man of Aquarius is not the Man of Ignorance. It is the Man (Human) who has entered into the heavenly realm of unity consciousness via gnosis of the eternal law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) and divine measure of the Zodiac, aka Aditi, the Circle of Life, the Tree of Life, the Vedic Sacrifice (Yajna), the Vedic Year and the Holy City of Revelation. This Man is, like the Vedic Kumbha, a vessel full of the seven “rivers of Truth”, and likewise full of the seven-headed thought (<i>dhiyam sapta-śīrṣṇīm</i>) that wins the Swar realm (Heaven), after full passage through the first ten months of the Zodiac. </p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“I hold for you in the waters (i.e. the seven Rivers) the thought that wins possession of heaven (this is once more the seven-headed thought born from the Truth and found by Ayasya), by which the Navagwas passed <b>through the ten months</b>; <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#26a" id="26">[26]</a></span> by this thought may we have the gods for protectors, <b>by this thought may we pass through beyond the evil</b>.” – RV 5.45.11, tr. Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15</i>, p. 175 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In Rig Veda 2.24 the Kumbha which the seven rivers (=cows) flow to is depicted as a “secret well of honey” which has a rock (<i>āśma</i> =stone) for its face.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“In [RV 2.24] Brihaspati is described driving up the cows [=rivers], breaking Vala by the divine word, <i>brahmaņā</i>, concealing the darkness and making Swar visible. The first result is the breaking open by force of the well which has the rock for its face and whose streams are of the honey, <i>madhu</i>, the Soma sweetness, <i>aśmāsyam avatām madhudḥāram</i>. This well of honey covered by the rock must be the Ananda or divine beatitude of the supreme threefold world of bliss….</p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“This secret well of honey is drunk by all those who are able to see Swar and they pour out its billowing fountain of sweetness in manifold streams together, <i>tam eva viśve papire svardṛśo bahu sākaṃ sisicur utsam udriņam</i>. These many streams poured out together are the seven rivers poured down the hill by Indra after slaying Vritra, <b>the rivers or streams of the Truth, <i>ṛtasya dhāraḥ</i></b>; and they represent, according to our theory, the seven principles of conscious being in their divine fulfilment in the Truth and Bliss. This is why the seven-headed thought, — that is to say, the knowledge of the divine existence with its seven heads or powers, the seven-rayed knowledge of Brihaspati, <i>saptagum</i>, has to be confirmed or held in thought in the waters, the seven rivers, that is to say the seven forms of divine consciousness are to be held in the seven forms or movements of divine being; <i>dhiyaṃ vo apsu dadḥiṣe svarṣām</i>, <b>I hold the Swar-conquering thought in the waters</b>.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda</i>, <i>CWSA Vol. 15</i>, pp. 178-79 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtYbjqtMNdGrWanI4SPzrnR45remBu2fn_l_RA6R887rxqVWrAZkx1zxtPLLKv-g1P3qWPMM2shbcXhr9wV7wn0u56cMvNJL1G3umpEoPAbra24N2tFrAGCq-Lw6H6Jnae-gkkgUrevJJvASp9MaSngWU28CF_oWsU4QRSKQAQJTDZ_5b0b2sAWXRE=s2920" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="Surya handing Yudhishthira the Akshaya Patra (Inexhaustible Vessel). (wiki)" border="0" data-original-height="2920" data-original-width="2173" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtYbjqtMNdGrWanI4SPzrnR45remBu2fn_l_RA6R887rxqVWrAZkx1zxtPLLKv-g1P3qWPMM2shbcXhr9wV7wn0u56cMvNJL1G3umpEoPAbra24N2tFrAGCq-Lw6H6Jnae-gkkgUrevJJvASp9MaSngWU28CF_oWsU4QRSKQAQJTDZ_5b0b2sAWXRE=w273-h367" title="Surya handing Yudhishthira the Akshaya Patra (Inexhaustible Vessel). (wiki)" width="273" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the ways this well or kumbha of honey (or amrita, soma, meath, waters, milk, butter, oil, ghee etc.) is depicted in the Mahabharata is as the <b>Akshaya Patra – the “inexhaustible vessel”</b> with an inexhaustible (i.e. eternal) supply of food (=manna), which was given to the war hero Yudhishthira by the solar god (Surya).</div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I see the sevenfold race of the Aquarian Man/Water Bearer, as humanity that has reunited with the multidimensional gnosis of the Zodiac and its rivers or “streams of truth”. Via this reunion, we come to see that just as creation manifests with a certain geometric precision in the three most obvious dimensions of Space (width, breadth, and height), that it also manifests with a certain geometric precision in the triadic expression Time (Past, Present and Future). This is not at all apparent unless we begin to understand and develop in ourselves the <i>trikala drishti</i> of the Rishis and see our soul’s sacred journey—its yajna or sacrifice—in Time and Space as a cyclical and supra-conscious whole, containing in itself both micro and macro cycles of Time. And once we see this, we begin to develop, birth, and embody a higher awareness and consciousness of the unified field of Time and Space, and of the supramental way our soul controls its own divine awakening (kindling) within the vessel (kumbha) of our body and within the womb of creation (the Divine Matrix). We become aware of the eternal sacred law and geometry (Divine Maya) of our own body and our own field of Being and Becoming within that Divine Matrix. We move beyond our inherited or adopted ignorance and rebirth our collective soul and recover our Truth-Consciousness and Unity-Consciousness from the dark womb of our own Ignorance. We take on and progressively fulfill the yoga or work of manifesting the Divine in ourselves and in our world. We awaken the Divine Son—the indwelling divinity, the “Hidden One”—in our own consciousness. We collectively cultivate and celebrate the direct experience of the divinity of our macrocosmic and of our own microcosmic lives, correcting the past error (as Sri Aurobindo discussed in his writings) of seeing Spirit and Material creation as severed and separate entities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In <i>The Secret of the Veda</i> Sri Aurobindo wrote of the summit of the Vedic sacrifice as “the great work of upward human evolution” and the “divinising of man”. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#27a" id="27">[27]</a></span> He also wrote of the release of the seven rivers from the obstruction of Vritra as a victory that is won in the progressive course of the twelve-month Vedic sacrifice (c. 1914-1920). </p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The winning of these seven rivers of our being withheld by Vritra and these seven rays withheld by Vala, the possession of our complete divine consciousness delivered from all falsehood by the free descent of the truth, gives us the secure possession of the world of Swar and the enjoyment of mental and physical being lifted into the godhead above darkness, falsehood and death by the in-streaming of our divine elements. This victory is won in twelve periods of the upward journey, represented by the revolution of the twelve months of the sacrificial year, the periods corresponding to the successive dawns of a wider and wider truth, until the tenth secures the victory. What may be the precise significance of the nine rays and the ten, is a more difficult question which we are not yet in a position to solve; but the light we already have is sufficient to illuminate all the main imagery of the Rig Veda.” – Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15, p. 182</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Regardless of the fact that his stage of the restoration of Vedic gnosis and its underlying <i>sanatana dharma</i> did not involve illuminating the zodiacal and geometric secrets of the Vedas, and of the Vedic rivers, his work firmly established the seed and foundation for these progressive illuminations to follow. Below are a few excerpts from his writings on Agni, on the Vedas, and on the evolution of the “true [universal] individual” [=Man/Human] who has ascended “<b>out of the sevenfold ignorance into the sevenfold knowledge</b>” which can now be read, keeping in mind the recovery of geometric and zodiacal sense and law of the seven rivers that liberate and uplift Agni and Man from the obstructions of Vritra (the obstructions of the fixed water sign of Scorpio) to the goal, kumbha, banquet, and special place of the Vedic sacrifice.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[Agni] is a Truth-Conscious soul, a seer, a priest and a worker,—t<b>he immortal worker in man. His mission is to purify all that he works upon and to raise up the soul struggling in Nature from obscurity to the light</b>, from the strife and the suffering to love and joy, from the heat and the labour to the peace and the bliss. He is then, the Will, the Knowledge-Force of the Deva; secret inhabitant of Matter and its forms, visible and beloved guest of man, <b>it is he that guards the law of the Truth of things in the apparent aberrations and confusions of the world</b>.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15</i>, p. 388 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[E]volution, this process of heightening and widening and integralisation, is in its nature a growth and <b>an ascent out of the sevenfold ignorance into the integral knowledge</b>.…</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he method and the result of the conscious spiritual evolution [would seem to be] a transformation of the life of the Ignorance into the divine life of the truth-conscious spirit, a change from the mental into a spiritual and supramental way of being, <b>a self-expansion out of the sevenfold ignorance into the sevenfold knowledge</b>. This transformation would be the natural completion of the upward process of Nature as it heightens the forces of consciousness from principle to higher principle until the highest, the spiritual principle, becomes expressed and dominant in her, takes up cosmic and individual existence on the lower planes into its truth and <b>transforms all into a conscious manifestation of the Spirit.</b> <b><u>The true individual, the spiritual being, emerges, individual yet universal</u>, universal yet self-transcendent</b>: life no longer appears as a formation of things and an action of being created by the separative Ignorance.” – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Life Divine</i>, Part 2, Ch 19, “<b>Out of the Sevenfold Ignorance towards the Sevenfold Knowledge</b>”, CWSA, Vol. 21-22, pp. 756, 769-70 [All emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sri Aurobindo opened the “Sevenfold Ignorance/Sevenfold Knowledge” chapter of <i>The Life Divine</i> with his own translation of Maha Upanishad 5.1.7 (another translation of which is featured at the beginning of this post).</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Seven steps has the ground of the Ignorance, seven steps has the ground of the Knowledge.” </p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This same Vedic theme is found in the seventh aphorism of the Rosicrucian’s “Secret Doctrine”,</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The Soul of Man is Sevenfold, yet but One in essence; Man's Spiritual Unfoldment has as its end the Discovery of Himself beneath the Sevenfold Veil.”</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">What stands to be recognized now in our Aquarian Age – the Age of the illumined Universal Man or Human – is that the liberation beyond <b>the sevenfold ignorance (=the sevenfold forts or castles</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#28a" id="28">[28]</a></span><b>) of the uninitiated, into the sevenfold knowledge of the Vedic Rishis/Seers</b>, is simply not complete without the knowledge of what and where these seven rivers (=seven cows, etc.) are in the twelve-month Vedic sacrificial year. Divorced of this context and geometry, these rivers cannot fully deliver their powers and treasures of gnosis to Humanity.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>[In] the cow’s [step, footprint, or track (=<i>padé</i>)] was born the Great Eternal [Akṣáram=Syllable]. Now shall the statutes [=the laws] of the Gods be valid….I glance back to the ancient sacrifices. Let us declare the truth when [Agni] is kindled</b>.… </p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"Child of two Mothers, [Agni] wanders unrestrained, the single youngling. ….[He] still precedes while resting as foundation.… [He] goeth to the realm of splendour, and looketh on us, clad in wondrous beauty.…Viṣṇu, the guardian, keeps [protects] the loftiest station, upholding dear, immortal dwelling-places.…[T]he two Cows, the Mother and the Daughter, meet and give suck [to Agni] yielding their lordly nectar [=amrita], I praise them <b>at the seat of law eternal</b>….On what world hath the Milch-cow laid her udder? This Iḷā streameth with the milk of Order….I seek <b>the seat of law eternal</b>.…</p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Let the milch-kine [the seven rivers] that have no calves storm downward, yielding rich nectar, streaming, unexhausted</b>, these who are ever new and fresh and youthful.…The two great meeting Bowls hath [Agni] united: each of the Pair is laden with his treasure. – tr. Rig Veda 3.55 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith [bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>He who knows not the eternal syllable [<i>akṣáram</i>] of the Veda, the highest [heaven] upon which all the Gods repose, what business has he with the Veda? Only its knowers sit here in peace and concord</b>." – Rig Veda 1.164.39, tr. Raimundo Panikkar, <i>The Vedic Experience ‒ Mantramanjari</i>, p. 3</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In RV1.164.42, <i>akṣáram</i> <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#29a" id="29"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[29]</span></a>,―one of the many symbols <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#30a" id="30"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[30]</span></a> of the vesica piscis in the above hymn―, is equivalent to Soma’s “imperishable flood” or river which gives the universe life. In the Mahabharata the Vedic <i>akṣáram</i> is portrayed as <b>Akshaya Patra – the “inexhaustible vessel”</b> (discussed above) given to the war hero Yudhishthira by the solar god, Surya. I present these last verses and the geometric sense of <i>akṣáram</i> because the Rishis made it absolutely clear this eternal “syllable” (=flood=river=vessel) is absolutely crucial in accessing and understanding the eternal truth and law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) of the Vedas. Likewise the gnosis of what and where the seven rivers/floods of the Vedas (and of Revelation) are in the twelve-month Vedic year, is crucial for humanity’s rise out of the “sevenfold ignorance into the sevenfold knowledge”. As long as these seven rivers/vials are seen out of their original context, the sevenfold ignorance of humanity prevails and efforts to read and interpret our world’s ancient symbols will continue to amount to reading in a cave of darkness, mistaking the dimly lit mind for lighting.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In my next post I will discuss, among other things, Russia's Invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 in relation to the 144-year anniversary of the Mother's birth on 21 February 2022, Thea's geo-cosmology, and the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14H6kW6HfSc" target="_blank">USA's Pluto Return</a> on 20 February 2022.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">⁓ Link to <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">Part 8</a></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">⁓</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Full Series Links: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">1</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">2</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">3</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">4</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">5</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">6</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">7.1</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">7.2</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">8.1</a><span>, or </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">8.2</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Endnotes:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a> "These deities [God S and God CH], sometimes referred to as the Headband Gods, have commonly been identified as the Classic-period versions of the Hero Twins, Hunapu and Xbalanqu...." [Andrew Finegold Vital Voids: Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture] The Navajo version of the Hero Twins, Naayéé neizghání (Slayer of Monsters) and Tóbájíshchíní (Child of Water) correspond to the descriptions and functions of Indra and Agni in the Vedas.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a> Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triptolemus" target="_blank">Triptolemus</a>.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#4" id="4a">[4]</a> Thea wrote at great length about Vishnu’s incarnations in the four preservation ages of the Great Year, as a mechanism of restoring sanatana dharma in our world. She equated Vishnu’s highest seat in the Zodiac with the fourth preservation sign, Aquarius, and she discussed Sri Aurobindo as Vishnu’s supramental avatar (aka Kalki) in our Age of Aquarius. See: <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TGC.html" target="_blank">The Gnostic Circle</a></i> and <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/SOE.html" target="_blank">Secrets of the Earth – Questions and Answers on the Line of Ten Avatars of Vedic Tradition</a></i>.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#5" id="5a">[5]</a> See <a href="https://dharmakshethra.com/the-turtle-supporting-mount-meru-in-asian-and-mesoamerican-art/" target="_blank">“The Turtle Supporting Mount Meru in Asian and Mesoamerican Art”, Kautilya, Dharmakshethra.com</a>, 13 May 2019.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#6" id="6a">[6]</a> Thompson, J. Eric S. (1970). <i>Maya History and Religion</i>. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#7" id="7a">[7]</a> RV 9.25.1, 9.26.5, 9.57.2. In RV 3.3.5 Agni is referred to as the “Lord of green domains, Vaisvanara dweller in the floods, who finds the light.” – tr. RTH Griffith</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#8" id="8a">[8]</a> “[Agni] Ruler of sacrifices, guard of Law eternal, radiant One, Increasing in thine own abode.” – RV 1.1.8, tr. RTH Griffith</div><br /><div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#9" id="9a">[9]</a> <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.114.02&acc=no&q=sovran&lang=eng" target="_blank">RV 9.114.2</a>, tr. RTH Griffith.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#10" id="10a">[10]</a> RTH Griffith: “Agni, thou art our Providence, our Father thou: we are thy brethren and thou art our spring of life. In thee, rich in good heroes, guard of high decrees, meet hundred, thousand treasures, O infallible!”</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#11" id="11a">[11]</a> The Vedic “sacrifice” (yajna) is the 12-month sacred year, which Thea saw as equivalent to the Tropical Solar Year/Zodiac. She considered the sidereal measure of the sacrifice/sacred year, as adhered to by so-called Vedic astrologers, to be post-Vedic and to be a mass mismeasure (mass distortion) of the Vedic Year. See: <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/articles/the-origins-and-nature-of-hindu-decline/" target="_blank">“The Origins and Nature of Hindu Decline”</a> (Thea, 2006).</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#12" id="12a">[12]</a> See <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom, </i>pp. 339-342 (manna); pp. 207, 228-29, 330-337 (stone).</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#13" id="13a">[13]</a> “[Agni, the] Speaker, unassailable Master of this hymn, the Tongue of sacrifice pours forth the pleasant meath. Within the lustrous region of the heavens the Son [Agni] makes the third secret name of Mother and of Sire.” – Rig Veda 9.75.2, tr. RTH Griffith. </div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#14" id="14a">[14]</a> Kaskhap translated <i>candramā</i> as Soma (=Agni) who is indeed concealed in the Vedic waters. It is worth noting that whereas <i>candra</i> and <i>candrama</i>s are often translated as “Moon” or a “deity of the Moon”, <i>candra</i> means “glittering, shining (as gold), having the brilliancy or hue of light (said of gods, of water and of Soma)” and the root <i>mā</i> means “to measure”. In the Mahabharata and <i>Candramā</i> is a river. This name of Agni [equivalent to the name of Soma] makes sense when we understand that he (the radius) is the measurer of the vesica piscis, measuring out the twelve moons/months (<i>mā</i>s/<i>mās</i>a) of the year. </div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#15" id="15a">[15]</a> See <i>The Gnostic Circle</i> and <i>The New Way, Vols 1&2</i>, pp. 141, 163fn., 190, 193, 207, 255-56, 266, 312-13, 372, 472, 569; <i>The Tenth Day of Victory, Vol. 2.1</i>, pp. 317-378; and <i>The Hidden Manna</i>, which Thea described in <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i> as a “deciphering of John's prophecy…written [in 1976] immediately after the knowledge had come of the Father's rebirth as the Son, or Agni” [p. 472].</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#16" id="16a">[16]</a> <i>The Gnostic Circle</i> presents the initiatory keys of gnosis needed to begin to shift out of the linear, “conventional framework” to see and understand the supramental and cosmological harmonies that manifest themselves in the 360° field of Time and Space.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#17" id="17a">[17]</a> See <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, pp. 302-304, 320-327.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#18" id="18a">[18]</a> Tr. RTH Griffith.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#19" id="19a">[19]</a> <i>Sānau</i>/<i>sānu</i> means summit, mountain or ridge, and <i>avye</i> is a reference to the Soma’s woolen filter or strainer.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#20" id="20a">[20]</a> From Wisdom Library: “The term <i>tīrth</i>a (तीर्थ, “Receptacle”) means <b>a clean vessel containing water</b> [=kumbha]; ‘tīrtha’ (literally) is that which exists for the purpose of saving people, i.e., freeing them from their sins. In some places ‘tīrtha’ is explained as ‘that by which people descend into water.’ … Tīrtha (<span style="font-size: x-small;">तीर्थ</span>, “watering place”) is that place where people go for the purpose of fetching water from rivers, tanks and other reservoirs. Such a place is generally deserted; as none except one desiring water goes near the place…”. Cologne Digital Sanskrit Library lists the following connotations of tīrtha: “a passage, way, road, ford, stairs for landing or for descent into a river, bathing-place, place of pilgrimage on the banks of sacred streams, piece of water…”.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#21" id="21a">[21]</a> This “Woman” could be a reference to the entire Zodiac, aka Aditi, the Mother/Cow of Light. It could also be a reference to Agni’s seventh mother, river, or flood, called by the name of Saraswati in RV. 7.36.6:</div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"><div>“Coming together, glorious, loudly roaring-Sarasvati, Mother of Floods, the seventh-With copious milk, with fair streams, strongly flowing, full swelling with the volume of their water….” – RV 7.36.6, tr. RTH Griffith </div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#22" id="22a">[22]</a> In RV 10.97.8, “the [healing] plants” are likened to cows (=rivers) that “stream forth” from their stall or containment.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#23" id="23a">[23]</a> While writing Part Seven, an acquaintance recited to me the intro parable of David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech called “This Is Water”: “There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?” </div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#24" id="24a">[24] </a>Tr. respectively by Jamison & Brereton and RTH Griffith. HH Wilson translated <i>ghṛtā́cīm</i> as “butter-laden (spoon)”. Cologne Sanskrit Digital Lexicon defines <i>ghṛtā́cī</i> as “<b>the sacrificial ladle (with which the ghee is taken up, poured out</b>; abounding in ghee, filled with ghee, sprinkling ghee, shining with ghee.” RL Kashyap, a student of Sri Aurobindo’s Vedic translations, translated <i>ghṛtā́cī</i> in this verse as “luminous Thought”, which tracks with Sri Aurobindo’s commentaries on <i>ghṛtā</i>. </div><div><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>“I found that <i>ghṛtā́</i> was constantly used in connection with the thought or the mind, that heaven in Veda was a symbol of the mind…." – Sri Aurobindo, <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA Vol. 15</i>, p. 43<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>“The <i>ghṛta</i> of the sacrifice is the yield of the shining Cow; it is the clarity or brightness of the solar light in the human mentality.” – Ibid, p. 243</div></div></blockquote>
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<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#25" id="25a">[25]</a> In RV 4.58.4 the sacrificial oil, ghee or butter <i>ghṛtā</i> is said to be “triply placed in the cow (which is) hidden by the Panis” (tr. RL Kashyap) which is veiled reference to the three vesica piscis (elsewhere three rivers) that divide the Vedic Year (=the cow=mother Aditi) into three. And, as illuminated by Sri Aurobindo, on the psychological/spiritual level:</div>
<div><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>“[T]he clarified butter [<i>ghṛtā</i>] is a psychological symbol, the cow in which the gods find the clarified butter hidden by the Panis must also symbolise an inner illumination and not physical light. The cow is really Aditi, the infinite consciousness hidden in the subconscient, and the triple <i>ghṛtā</i> is the triple clarity of the liberated sensation finding its secret of delight, of the thought-mind attaining to light and intuition and of the truth itself, the ultimate supra-mental vision.” – Ibid, p. 104</div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">
<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#26" id="26a">[26]</a> For readers who are unfamiliar with Thea's teachings on this subject, she saw the seven rivers as being released ten degrees into the 10th sign of Capricorn (10° Capricorn/the 7 Point of the Circle of 9), rather than at the end of full passage through the 10th month of Capricorn. See: <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, pp. 412-417, 422. After the October 2016 revelations of the geometric sense of the Vedic rivers, I came to see the Rishis’ descriptions of the passage through the ten months, as a description of the full passage through ten full months of the Zodiac, ending at the entrance into Aquarius.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#27" id="27a">[27]</a> <i>The Secret of the Veda, CWSA Vol. 15</i>, p. 339.</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#28" id="28a">[28]</a> These forts or castles that are dismantled by Indra and Agni and the Vedic heroes are numbered as seven in a few hymns [1.63.7, 1.174.2, 6.20.10, 7.18.13]. In many hymns they are numbered as 99 and 100. The seven forts, the 99 and 100 forts appear to be entirely equivalent to each other with regards to how they are discussed by the Rishis. The only way this equivalence makes sense to me from my current point of view is considering that these are equivalent locations in the ONE zodiacal circle, a circle which can be (and is) measured or divided in many different ways. If the 12 measure of the Vedic Year was sometimes a 120 measure (one third of the full 360 measure), then 0° Aquarius – the 300° of the 360° Zodiac – would be equivalent to 100 of the 120 measures, just as it is equivalent to 10 (passage through 10 full months) in the circle of 12. [300/360 = 100/120 = 10/12].</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#29" id="29a">[29]</a> See: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-sacred-measure-of-432000-part-4.html" target="_blank">“The Sacred Measure of 432,000 ⁓ Part 4: The Sacred Syllable of the Rig Veda”</a>. </div><div><br /></div>
<div><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html#30" id="30a">[30]</a> Symbols of the vesica(e) piscis or river(s) of the Zodiac in 3.55 include, the cow’s step or track, the statues or laws of the Gods, the beauty which Agni is clad (robed) in, the lordly nectar, the udder of the Milch-cow (Aditi), the river of Ila, the Daughter, and the milch-kine [=cows] that storm downward with their nectar. The two cows, mothers, and “great meeting Bowls” joined by Agni are the bowls of the vesica piscis and the circle.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">If you value the </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b>original research and content made freely </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b><br />available on this blog</b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a></div></div>
<!--Go to www.addthis.com/dashboard to customize your tools--> <script src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-621d2e8d6dde3c1d" type="text/javascript"></script>Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-18863867638300731622022-02-14T14:45:00.227-08:002022-11-17T22:12:30.147-08:00THE OBSTRUCTION OF THE VEDIC WATERS & THE FIXED WATER SIGN SCORPIO ⁓ PART SEVEN ⁓ The Release of the Seven Rivers <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercohttps://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#15a" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="“The being who gave the seven golden vials (Revelation 15:7)”" border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="488" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-jH3q3I03m4tLOc0TtLe_A8CD3YzS2s3fYJ7OLoU6H4Hsl_JoVlxxeugyXc7nyL2P4upnA0Zeltt_3YrSNm5ZiX7euY9P0q0qG7dxbWmlN2Y5WC6k3-Yt4R2cnKA79R5f1B9fyDnK7nZJYJMfzV0KeU1-9w5-zRyWz5eiUjLRqvNsUIud2PqWUAo0=w640-h462" title="“The being who gave the seven golden vials (Revelation 15:7)”" width="640" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">“The being who gave the seven golden vials (Revelation 15:7)”, unknown artist. <a href="https://temoinsdejesus.fr/CONT/Revelation-15-7-one-four-beasts-gave-seven-angels-seven-golden-vials-heavenly-wisdom-divine-justice-watchtower-Jehovah-contradictions.html" target="_blank">Link to Source</a>. </span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them God’s wrath is completed. And I saw what looked like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name.…Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes around their chests. Then one of the four living creatures <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a></span> gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.” – Revelation 15:1-2 & 6-8 (NIV)</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, 'Go, pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath on the earth.' ...The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, 'It is done!' Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake.” – Revelation 16:1 & 17 (NIV)</p></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>[Link to</span><span> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">2</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">3</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">4</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">5</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">6</a><span>,</span><span> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">7.1</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html" target="_blank">7.2</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html">8.1</a><span>, </span><span>or</span><span> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html">8.2</a>]</span></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRawVvsAGxM2AS-JsF8SH6qyeQ48LVk6ujDrwYl1lU7cBaRltmoxSXezPJl8OIPFK4KECbejk53xoKNjLrsUvFNqMPl0CPany7Ch3rJoTL-K8IUL2Enyq6_dQPlyLA4e6yo6ma-IqTLbUPd1T9PgN1pELAp6gF_sjdLyXTRZRp9K4VR1jkVr8HeAiR=s556" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="The Aquarian Water Bearer pouring out his Jar/Kumbha" border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="556" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRawVvsAGxM2AS-JsF8SH6qyeQ48LVk6ujDrwYl1lU7cBaRltmoxSXezPJl8OIPFK4KECbejk53xoKNjLrsUvFNqMPl0CPany7Ch3rJoTL-K8IUL2Enyq6_dQPlyLA4e6yo6ma-IqTLbUPd1T9PgN1pELAp6gF_sjdLyXTRZRp9K4VR1jkVr8HeAiR=w234-h224" title="The Aquarian Water Bearer pouring out his Jar/Kumbha" width="234" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">In both the Rig Veda and in St. John’s Revelation, we find a mythological and prophetic account of the end of the obstructions of the fixed water sign of Scorpio (<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsXjCqvQLhD7ubG2Dw6hyDJRcj6d269xVG3ntqEEUhTRhg0-hhhYf_Ui7VryaJ0AIX0E44HfUVBOvt1_qeW9KyZZ-7cuYH3H3MfEDGS7LWY0nwl2yK3UJ40KTadvj03fzaR5tjuY3wootR1nfny5xmdVboXaOB5dQdFFOA9KXrPaHDVNFKCDvJF_xM=s94" style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="49" data-original-width="94" height="13" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsXjCqvQLhD7ubG2Dw6hyDJRcj6d269xVG3ntqEEUhTRhg0-hhhYf_Ui7VryaJ0AIX0E44HfUVBOvt1_qeW9KyZZ-7cuYH3H3MfEDGS7LWY0nwl2yK3UJ40KTadvj03fzaR5tjuY3wootR1nfny5xmdVboXaOB5dQdFFOA9KXrPaHDVNFKCDvJF_xM=w38-h20" width="24" /></a>) and the apocalyptic and purifying release or pouring out of the heavenly waters from their Water Jar or Kumbha in the sign and Age of Aquarius. The Vedic version centers around the release of seven rivers from the obstructive hold of the dragon-beast Vritra; and the Biblical version centers around the release of the seven sealed “bowls of God’s wrath” which serve to defeat the Beast and liberate “the energy locked or imprisoned in 'the pit' [i.e. in the waters of Scorpio], which turns back upon itself constantly and consumes itself by the poison of its stagnation or imprisonment.” <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#2a" id="2">[2]</a></span> Both feature the victory of the divine Hero-Son (the Conqueror) and the defeat of all who are beholden to or remain in the pit of Darkness, beholden to the Beast of Falsehood. </div><p></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The] Conqueror…must release [the entrapped Sun/Light] from the pit of dense matter. In this mystery lies the essence of the sign Scorpio…. [Revelation 8:11 reads] ‘many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter'…. [These] are the waters that are enclosed and can become stagnant and hence poisoned ‒ bitter.… [N]ow that which was received and swallowed up or engulfed by the thick blanket of inertia must begin to work itself out and upward once more, transforming the darkness as it proceeds. This is the Redemption, the work of the avatar now in its phase of the Conqueror [=Son].” – Thea, <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/THM.html" target="_blank">The Hidden Manna (being the Revelation called Apocalypse of John the Divine)</a></i>, p. 88</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">As I have already written at length, during the week before Thea’s passing in October 2016, I came to see and understand the seven rivers [=the waters] of the Vedas and the seven bowls of Revelation as the first seven vesicae piscis of the Zodiac which extend to and measure out the entrance into the sign of Aquarius, known as the Water Bearer and as Kumbha (=the Water Jar) in Sanskrit. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#3a" id="3">[3]</a> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaTL6zvEDZMM90o4cFH93aIUPrqpXfcJ9ferCESNCaLQGGC5d4XO8LXpj34Jm4INvseWw2pnyyVanZxPJ3JIIpwj8lGejjK7wOvZ56f2pyr_oGILd9mkvjTI_D6fetZYgEAmCS31YYdUmd4Z6INftdLYxgGDHicPG6lat_y75Rbz6KSszIsN4xyQ_n=s1237" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The seven rivers-bowls of the Vedas/Zodiac, extending to Aquarius/Kumbha" border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="1237" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaTL6zvEDZMM90o4cFH93aIUPrqpXfcJ9ferCESNCaLQGGC5d4XO8LXpj34Jm4INvseWw2pnyyVanZxPJ3JIIpwj8lGejjK7wOvZ56f2pyr_oGILd9mkvjTI_D6fetZYgEAmCS31YYdUmd4Z6INftdLYxgGDHicPG6lat_y75Rbz6KSszIsN4xyQ_n=w559-h237" title="The seven rivers-bowls of the Vedas/Zodiac, extending to Aquarius/Kumbha" width="559" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The obstruction of the seven rivers by the dragon or serpent Vritra is often referred to as a “curse” in the Vedas, a curse which is lifted by Indra and by the Divine Son Agni once he ‒ Child of the Waters (<i>apām napāt</i>) – is given birth by his seven mothers/rivers. Upon his birth, Agni is known as Soma Pavamana – the self-purifying god Soma, who is depicted as a conquering War Horse (Dadhikravan) and Sage. Together with Indra and other Vedic heroes and heroines, Agni (Soma Pavamana) breaks open the cave, mountain or pen of ignorance and releases the seven rivers (=floods, bowls, cows, mothers, dawns, etc.) from their containment or container. In my view, on the geometric level of the twelve-month Vedic Year (Yajna), this conquering and curse-quelling Horse-Sage-Son is equivalent to the radius of 0° Sagittarius – the ninth ray, radius or spoke of the twelve-rayed Zodiac, which is the radius of the seventh vesica piscis or river of the Zodiac. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnvtHUvr9qt7911EQcfVfRCk6vgRH9DUwM9P7wQc6vFEZI6imfX7x9TXRhmJvdzXwMpFKTRGWk8a3D0OrgH7G0qyGA1XllliXkxCnbJjYuWpquOLVUF4T6stzxn21HmheAEEdWpE2HQePxSOm0Pa5c7BYVlMxT7U3N3amRLqCTSEDk9jY3pxgGZtS8=s302" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 0em;"><img alt="Agni's Fire Trine and the 7th river of the Zodiac, measuring out Aquarius/Kumbha" border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="276" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnvtHUvr9qt7911EQcfVfRCk6vgRH9DUwM9P7wQc6vFEZI6imfX7x9TXRhmJvdzXwMpFKTRGWk8a3D0OrgH7G0qyGA1XllliXkxCnbJjYuWpquOLVUF4T6stzxn21HmheAEEdWpE2HQePxSOm0Pa5c7BYVlMxT7U3N3amRLqCTSEDk9jY3pxgGZtS8=w200-h219" title="Agni's Fire Trine and the 7th river of the Zodiac, measuring out Aquarius/Kumbha" width="200" /></a>From this third seat or angle of the Fire Trine, Agni, also known as Trita (the Third) and Trita Aptya rises up from the nadir of 0° Libra to the “water-holding [Kumbha] of heaven Veda” [=0° Aquarius/Kumbha]. Trita Aptya is a description of Agni who is given birth by the waters (<i>āpya</i>) at the position of his third angle or seat. Throughout her writings, Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea) discussed the Vedic lore of Agni’s birth as the Horse-Sage [=the Conqueror of Revelation] and his corresponding victory over the obstacles of Death and Ignorance that reign in the 8th sign of Scorpio in relation to Sri Aurobindo’s four-stage Supramental Descent and his rebirth as the Sagittarian Son in 1963, 37 years into our current Age of Aquarius. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#4a" id="4">[4]</a></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[Reborn] on Immortality Day [1963, in the sign of Sagittarius, Sri Aurobindo] is the conqueror of Death, Victorious Mars, the fourth planet.… He is Mars by his position as fourth in the Solar Line – Thea, <a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNW12.html" target="_blank"><i>The New Way</i>, <i>Vols. 1&2</i></a>, p. 290</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Agni is the fourth of the supramental avataric descent; he is Skanda of the Puranic Tales: he is Kalki of the Ten Puranic Avatars; he is the Conqueror of St. John's Apocalypse; he is the Horse of the Veda, the symbol of Force (Tapas), the counterpart of the Cow, the symbol of the Light of Consciousness.... The Horse then is a major symbol in the Vedic hymns invoking Agni…. </p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“When the Son takes birth in the sign Sagittarius, Agni is born on Earth, and the high Truth of the Veda can be revealed. The deciphering of these ancient texts is impossible unless one has the keys of higher knowledge. No scholar or pundit can pierce the veils of the enigmatic hymns unless he has been initiated into the mysteries of the miraculous Birth. And for this he must know the structure of the zodiac thoroughly because only therein can he find the keys to a timeless Knowledge." – Ibid., pp. 379-380 </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The Son, who is the Father [Sri Aurobindo] reborn, accomplishes this task-by his very birth. In this manner he vanquishes the powers of darkness that have possession of the Earth plane and the total [supramental] descent brings about the transformation of all four planes: spiritual, mental, vital, and physical.” – Ibid., p. 143 </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Below are several Vedic verses which convey Agni and Indra’s victory over the cursed obstruction of the waters. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[Agni-Soma] ye have set up the shining lights in heaven. <b>From curse and from reproach</b>…ye freed the rivers that were bound in fetters.” – Rig Veda 1.93.5, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>Queller of curses</b>, mighty, with strong sway, [Agni-Soma] Pavamana shall bring treasures.... Drive ye that Tawny Courser, O ye pressers, on his way to war, Swift Steed who carries off the spoil. Pouring all glories [=rivers, streams, floods, cows, etc.] hither, he, effused and entering the jar [=kumbha], stands like a hero mid the kine [=rivers]…. O Soma, O thou Sage, these worlds stand ready to attest thy might: For thy behoof the rivers flow.” – Rig Veda 9.62.11,18-19, 27 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Born in old time as finder-out of treasures, drained with the stone, decking himself in waters [=in the seven rivers], <b>warding off curses</b>, King of all existence, [Agni/Soma Pavamana] shall find way for prayer the while [the seven rivers/mothers] cleanse him.” – Rig Veda 9.96.10, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[Agni/Soma Pavamana, Child of Waters, Sage, Steed] <b>quells malignities and slays the demons</b>, the King of mighty power who brings us comfort.” – Rig Veda 9.96.10, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Thou [Indra] <b>from the curse didst free the mighty Waters</b> [seven lovely floods, divine, untroubled], and as their only God didst watch and guard them.” – Rig Veda 10.104.9, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Indra who <b>quells the curse blew curses far away</b>, and then in splendour came to us.... In rapid torrent let the mother waters [=rivers] spread. Slay Vṛtra, win the light of heaven.” – Rig Veda 8.78.2, 4 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Severing the hill [<i>adri</i>=mountain, rock, stone] of heaven by words, [Indra-Agni] found them, the radiant ones of the arriving dawn [<i>uṣaso arcino guḥ</i>] <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#5a" id="5">[5]</a></span> spreading wide; [tr. RL Kashyap]; he uncloses (the doors) to the enclosures. The god has opened up the doors belonging to the sons of Manu. [tr. Jamison & Brereton]….</p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Come, let us carry out, O friends, the purpose wherewith the Mother threw the Cow's stall open, that wherewith Manu conquered Visisipra [=Vritra], wherewith the wandering merchant gained heaven's water…. Bright was the young Sage [Agni] moving mid his cattle [=rivers/mothers]…. The wise have drawn him like a ship through water: the [seven] floods obedient have descended hither.... [tr. RTH Griffith]</p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“I hold for you in the waters (i.e. the seven Rivers) the thought that wins possession of heaven [=the seven-headed thought], by which the Navagwas passed through the ten months; by this thought may we have the gods for protectors, <b>by this thought may we pass through beyond the evil</b>.” [tr. Sri Aurobindo] – Rig Veda 5.45 excerpts <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#6a" id="6">[6]</a> </span> </p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In <i>The Hidden Manna</i> – “written [in 1976] immediately after the know ledge had come of the Father's rebirth as the Son, or Agni” <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#7a" id="7">[7]</a></span> – Thea wrote about the resolution of this “curse” and the release of the waters from their Aquarian Kumbha as it was expressed, or rather, prophesized in St. John’s Revelation. Regardless of the fact that she was entirely unaware of the geometric sense, form, measure and law of the waters, bowls and vials of the Vedas and Revelation, her analysis of the pouring out of the seven bowls was nonetheless revelatory and accurate in its own deeply profound ways. As demonstrated below, she understood that the pouring out of the seven bowls corresponded to the ending of the curse (aka “the wrath of God”) via knowledge brought to Earth by the avatar of the Aquarian Age.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[In Chapter 15 of Revelation the] work of the Age of Aquarius begins to manifest. This chapter is a description of the powers of transformation, the waters which are gathered in the golden bowls and will be poured out upon the Earth. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“The image is the same as the symbol of Aquarius, the man-angel who pours the transforming waters from his water jug which bring about a change in all areas of human life. Nowhere else in the Revelation is the sign Aquarius so clearly rendered.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“The 1st verse [of Revelation 15] is translated rather differently [than the King James Version] in other texts. </p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">[The King James Version reads: “And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, <b>seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God</b>.]</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“The Revised Standard Version reads: 'Then I saw another portent in heaven, great and wonderful, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for <b>with them the wrath of God is ended</b>.'</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The New World Translation offers this interpretation: 'And I saw in heaven another sign, great and wonderful, seven angels with seven plagues...'. This rendition has a direct relationship with verse 1 of Chapter 12. Therein the sign described was Capricorn; here it is Aquarius. 'These are the last ones, because <b>by means of them the anger of God is brought to a finish</b>.' The essence of the sign Aquarius is the transformation of consciousness on a universal scale.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“But this is accomplished because the way is opened for the powers to flow onto the Earth from the higher planes. <b>It is only with the beginning of that Age that the veils are rent which block the downward flowing stream of light which is a power. This is accomplished by the avatar who brings new knowledge into the atmosphere, which is a power at work for the purpose of piercing the veils</b>, ― the bridge that is built between the planes by the power of his seeing, a rainbow built to heaven.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Thus the Aquarian Age is ushered in by this higher knowledge that allows the waters to flow from the jug, which John describes in this instance as plagues, because <b>initially their work [the work of poured-out seven vials] is destructive</b>, ―or apparently so, for the old ways must be cast aside, the sediment that is left in the winepress of the Lord.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The two alternate translations present a fundamental difference from the King James Version; in the last phrase of the verse they both indicate; <b>the end of the destructive process</b> ― which the King James Version fails to highlight.” – Thea, <i>The Hidden Manna</i>, pp. 199-200 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In Revelation 15:8 we are told that “no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed,” i.e. until the seven bowl/vials were poured out. To be clear, the temple that St. John was writing about was the temple of the Zodiac, guarded by its four fixed-sign beasts: the Lion, Bull, Eagle, and Man. Thus the ending of God’s wrath – the malignancy or curse of ignorance and falsehood – is firmly connected to Man’s capacity to enter into, or rather to be initiated into the temple of the Zodiac which is the temple (<i>mandir</i>) of the Divine Mother (Aditi), whose divine form, measure and eternal law is established by her own indwelling Son (=radius). <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#8a" id="8">[8]</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the last two books of Revelation the resolution of this world “curse” or “wrath of God” in the sign and Age of the Aquarian Man (aka the Water Bearer and Friend) is firmly linked to the Divine Son’s (=Lamb’s) giving forth “the spring of the water of life” which the “victorious will inherit.”</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 'Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people [<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+21%3A3&version=ESV" target="_blank">with Man</a>], and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. <b>There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away</b>.' And the One [Divine Son/Lamb] seated on the throne said, 'Behold, I make all things new.' Then He said, 'Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.' And He told me, 'It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty<b> I will give freely from the spring of the water of life</b>. Those who are victorious will inherit all this….But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile...they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.' The angel [one of the seven] who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls....The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.” – Revelation 21 excerpts, NIV [Bold emphasis added]</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>The angel showed me the river of the water of life,</b> as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. <b>On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. <u>No longer will there be any curse</u></b>….There will be no more night.” – Revelation 22:1-5, excerpts NIV [All emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The “[golden] measuring rod” of this golden city and its twelve gates is of course the radius. In RV 4.58.5 this measuring rod is called the “golden reed” (<i>hiraṇyayo vetaso</i>). When we understand the seven “golden bowls” of Revelation are measured and poured out by this same golden reed, we can see that the seven angels who pour out the seven bowls (=seven plagues) in this Biblical prophecy are the seven radii who pour out the first seven rivers (=seven vesica piscis) of the Zodiac. It is time for humanity to understand that St. John’s Revelation (aka the Apocalypse) is a retelling or re-envisioning, however altered, of the central Vedic theme of the disclosure and release of the Vedic waters by the immortal Divine Son of the twelve-month Yajna (aka Aditi) and his companion heroes in the Age of Aquarius/Kumbha. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In Revelation, the Beast or Lord of Falsehood is conquered by the victorious Warrior-Son on his White Horse. In the Rig Veda, the Beast (Vritra/Vala) is conquered by Indra and the victorious Warrior-Son-Sage-Horse who is purified and turned white by the seven rivers (seven mothers, floods, vials, etc.) who give him birth and bring him to his heavenly Kumbha (=Jar), equivalent to his goal and resting or dwelling place in the course of the 360° Solar Yajna or Year. Via his seven mothers (=rivers) Agni rises up and delivers the purified Soma (=Amrita) to Indra, who uses it to conquer the obstructions of the Beast/Dragon and to release the seven rivers [=seven vesicae piscis=cows=mares] from their previously sealed or closed container or Kumbha by whatever name,— jar, vat, cask, vessel, bowl, beaker, pitcher, reservoir, filter, cow pen, cave, mountain, fort, rock, stone, hill, cloud, etc. —, thereby dispelling the curse, misfortune, malignancy, or darkness of the fixed water sign of Scorpio. Below are of some of the many Vedic verses that portray Agni’s movement to Kumbha in conjunction with his seven mothers/rivers (=seven vesicae piscis). <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#9a" id="9">[9]</a></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Born like a youngling [Agni] hath clamoured <b>in the [wooden Vat]</b>, when he, the Red, the Strong, would win the light of heaven. He comes with heavenly seed that makes the water swell…. [He is a] far-extended pillar [=<i>skambha</i>] that supports the sky…. [T]he Most Bounteous [rivers=mothers=floods] ever united, love [Agni – the Leader/Son of the seven floods]…. Soma [=Agni] assumes white colour when he strives to [victory]…. Down the steep slope, through song, he comes to sacrifice, and <b>he will burst the water-holding cask of heaven, Yea, to the shining milk-anointed beaker, as to his goal, hath stepped the conquering Courser</b>.” – Rig Veda 9.74 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith.</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">*</span> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“O [Agni/Soma Pavamana], these Seven Rivers flow, as being thine, to give command…. Flow onward, [Agni] in a stream, effused to gladden Indra's heart…. Driving thee in [the Sun’s] course, the Seven Sisters with their hymns made melody round thee the Sage. The [virgin rivers] deck thee…to drive thee <b>to the [filter]</b> when thou, a singer, bathest <b>in the [Vat]</b>. The [seven] streams of [Agni] Pavamana, thine, Sage, Mighty One, have poured them forth...<b>towards the meath-distilling vat</b>: The [seven] holy songs <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#10a" id="10">[10]</a></span> have sounded forth. Like milch-kine coming home, the drops of Soma juice [=the seven rivers] have reached <b>the lake, have reached the place of sacrifice</b>.… Best art thou, Soma…thou as Warrior ever hast prevailed.… Agni, thou pourest life; send down upon us food and vigorous strength; <b>Drive thou misfortune far away</b>…. Beyond his enemies away to sweet praise [Agni] Pavamana flows, like [the Sun] visible to all.… Far-sighted Indu [=Agni] is a Steed. <b>He, [Agni] Pavamana, hath produced the lofty Law, the brilliant light, destroying darkness black of hue</b>. From tawny Pavamana, the Destroyer, radiant streams [seven rivers] have sprung, quick streams from him whose gleams are swift.”– Rig Veda 9.66.6-12, 16, 19, 22-25 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“He goes, effused and singing, <b>to the filter</b>, like priest to measured seats supplied with cattle. Robed in fair raiment meet to wear in battle, a mighty Sage pronouncing invocations. Roll onward to the beakers [=bowls/kumbhas/vials] as they cleanse thee, far-seeing at the feast of Gods, and watchful.... Roar out as thou art purified, run forward....Let him flow, sweetly-flavoured, through the filter, and let our pious one <b>rest in the pitcher</b>.... He quells malignities and slays the demons, the King of mighty power who brings us comfort. Then in a stream he flows, milked out with press-stones, mingled with sweetness, through the fleecy filter…. As <b>he [like a steed, to victory for glory] is purified [=cleansed/whitened] he pours out treasures</b>…. [Agni/Soma Pavamana the Steer] as Child of Waters...performed that great achievement.” – Rig Veda 9.97 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith </p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In Revelation 19:11-21 (NIV), subtitled “The Heavenly Warrior Defeats the Beast” we find the following account of the purified (=white) conquering Warrior, War Horse and Divine Son of the Vedic Sacrifice: </p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True</b>. With justice he judges and wages war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:</p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;">KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, <b>gather together for the great supper of God</b>….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs <b>he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. </b>The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. The rest were<b> killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse</b>, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.” </p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These verses are full of Vedic imagery and cannot be accurately understood without being aware of the equivalence between this White Horse and its rider (the King of Kings, Lord of Lords) and Agni-Soma Pavamana who is the Son, King, Lord, War Horse and Conqueror of the twelve-month Vedic sacrifice. The winepress that the conquering Son “treads” in Revelation is equivalent to the filter that Agni streams or runs through as the purified conquering Horse in the Vedas. Via this “filter” Agni presses out the Soma wine for the “banquet” or “feast of the gods” (<i><b>devávītaye</b></i>) <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#11a" id="11">[11]</a></span> which shows up in Revelation 19 above as <b>“the great supper of God”</b>. In the Vedas, this feast of the Gods is discussed as the meeting or gathering place of the seven rivers, and likewise as Agni’s goal and the place in the Vedic sacrifice wherein the rivers (cow, mares, etc.) of truth are released or poured out from the obstructive forces of ignorance for the benefit and sustenance of both gods and humankind. As I have discussed, this gathering place in the Vedas is called (and disguised) by many names in the Vedas, including the Jar (aka <i>kumbha</i>, <i>kosha</i>, <i>kalasha</i>, <i>pātra</i>, <i>drona, etc.</i>), the reservoir (<i>samudra</i>), Indra's heart, Indra's special place, as well as Agni's resting place and place of sacrifice (<i>yonim</i>).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These heavily veiled Vedic and Biblical symbols and stories only begin to reveal their true sense when we see them in the context of the 12-month Vedic Year (i.e. in the context of the Zodiac); and a much fuller revelation of their long-hidden meaning comes when we understand the geometric key of the conquering Son-Horse-Sage (=the radius of 0° Sagittarius) and his seven mothers-rivers (=seven vesicae piscis=bowls, vials) who simultaneously bear him forward to and measure out the entrance into Kumbha (0° Aquarius) – the Jar from which the heavenly waters of the Zodiac and of the Vedas and of Revelation are poured out. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Vedic symbols of the radius (radii) in the Revelation excerpts above include the lamb (=calf in the Vedas), the angel(s) (=Angiras Rishis=Angirases in the Vedas), the golden reed, the measuring rod (of the Holy City/Jerusalem), the conqueror, king, lord, his war horse, his iron scepter, and his sword. Symbols of the vesica(e) piscis include the mouth with a sword (=radius) coming out of it, the winepress (=soma press), birds flying through the midair, lakes, eyes, flames, crowns, horses (mares) voices, words, robes, bowls, vials, and pearls. I am only including the Vedic symbols of the radius and vesica(e) piscis that occur in the verses of Revelation [15, 19, 21 and 22] featured above. There are myriad symbols (poetic names) of the vesica piscis throughout the Vedic hymns and throughout other chapters of Revelation. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In order to see and understand the cohesive sense and truth of these symbols (and of all of the religious symbols related to them) one has to adopt the wide and cohesive mindset of the Vedic Rishis wherein one can see the Many expressions of the One, as well as the One circular (or spherical) context via which the Many are One. From this view, i.e. with the two eyes of the Vedic Seer (=the circle of the Zodiac and the vesica piscis), one can see through the veils, obstructions and understand what it is that was being discussed in an occult or veiled manner in the Vedic hymns and in Revelation. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">One can see how the Vedic Rishis repeated and overlapped multiple symbols of the same zodiacal geometry even within individual verses and hymns throughout the Vedas, a feat of poetic genius and obfuscation which has served to keep the secret geometric key of the Vedas secret for ages. For example in RV 1.44.12, the seven rivers that bear Agni forward in the twelve-month year are equally depicted as “billows of the flood” and as Agni’s “roaring flames”. In RV 10.68.1 they are “like birds who keep their watch, [s]plashing in water, like the loud voices of the thundering rain-cloud, like merry streamlets bursting from the mountain.” In RV 8.103.3 they are “the seven holy voices [who] pour a wave of meath. In RV 10.114.7 they are the [seven] voices of the seven sages and the “draughts of Soma[wine]”. In RV 9.107.25, Agni as the Sage-Horse is said to be “clad in watery robes", “robed in the flood…clad himself with milk and settled in the vats” as well as “purified in the bowl.” Agni is also described therein as “entering the saucers [=seven bowls] as a man [enters] the fort.” In RV 7.3 Agni rises up to heaven on his everlasting flames (just as elsewhere he rises via his seven mothers/rivers) and is described as being flame-crowned which makes perfect sense when we know that the Vedic Rishis saw and portrayed the vesica piscis as the shining and covering robe, garb, raiment, adornment, splendour and glory of the radius. In RV 1.126.4, 7.18.23, 10.68.11, the radii (horses) of the Zodiac are said to be adorned by or decked with pearl (<i>kṛšana</i>). In RV 2.35.4, the vesica piscis is likewise described as a “chariot [=vehicle] decked with pearl.” [All translations RTH Griffith]</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijaOIH5-udNw9HiqxcFDXV8SmIueXaYIv79QKkTMJaMheW1MS9mY9efjH2zWW_r96bjqS1EBSTJTBGx0FOyyoZPKO-SemtNW7mFcG-lKCbc1dMovLEjFNo75gavNOmC-hJtC8hh4WPZ-QNW19ChL_CwslxyZK-jzUzlkzifmyotRLd6R4Whdt5pkyS=s568" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The 10 months and 7 rivers that give Agni birth in the Vedic Year/Zodiac" border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="568" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijaOIH5-udNw9HiqxcFDXV8SmIueXaYIv79QKkTMJaMheW1MS9mY9efjH2zWW_r96bjqS1EBSTJTBGx0FOyyoZPKO-SemtNW7mFcG-lKCbc1dMovLEjFNo75gavNOmC-hJtC8hh4WPZ-QNW19ChL_CwslxyZK-jzUzlkzifmyotRLd6R4Whdt5pkyS=w230-h223" title="The 10 months and 7 rivers that give Agni birth in the Vedic Year/Zodiac" width="230" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">In RV 5.47 below, the seven rivers that give Agni birth and usher him to and meet him at his “dwelling place” (<i>yonim</i>)—elsewhere known as his Kumbha—are described as “spacious paths without a limit [swift in their motion].” The ten months that these seven rivers encompass and measure out as they travel to this meeting place (0° Aquarius) in the Zodiac are herein referred to as “ten [who] invigorate the Babe”. In addition to the swift “paths” (of heaven) and the <i>yonim</i>, symbols of the vesica(e) piscis in this hymn include: the “stone set in the midst of heaven”, the cows (kine) of “threefold nature”, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#12a" id="12" target="_blank">[12]</a></span> the mothers and their woven garments, and the steer’s spouses.</div><div>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">“Swift in their motion, hasting to their duty, reaching the central point of life immortal, [on] every side about the earth and heaven go forth the spacious paths [=rivers] without a limit. Steer [rising from the Sea/Waters], Red Bird with strong wings, [Agni] hath entered <b>the dwelling-place [<i>yonim</i>] of the Primeval Father [=Manu?]</b>. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#13a" id="13" target="_blank">[13]</a></span> A gay-hued Stone set in the midst of heaven, he hath gone forth and guards mid-air's two limits. Four bear him up and give him rest and quiet, and ten [months] invigorate the Babe for travel. His kine [=rivers, mothers, sisters, floods] most excellent, of threefold nature, pass swiftly round the boundaries of heaven. <b>Wondrous, O people, is the mystic knowledge [the wonder, the enigma] </b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#14a" id="14">[14]</a></span><b> that while the waters stand the streams are flowing</b>…. [T]he Mothers [=seven cows, rivers, floods, etc.] weave garments for him their offspring. Rejoicing, for the Steer's impregning contact, his Spouses [=his seven rivers, floods, cows, etc.] move on paths of heaven to meet him.” – Rig Veda 5.47.2-6 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith [All emphasis added]<p></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">RTH Griffith translated <i>yonim</i> in this hymn as “dwelling-place”, but it is important to note that <i>yonim</i> is translated in a variety of ways throughout English translations of the Rig Veda depending on the context in which the word occurs, including: the womb, uterus, vulva, vagina, female organs of generation, place of birth, source, origin, spring, fountain, place of rest, repository, receptacle, seat, abode, home, lair, nest, stable (Cologne Sanskrit Digital Lexicon). These are all apt symbols of the shape and function of the vesica piscis. In my view, when <i>yonim</i> is referred to by the Rishis as Agni’s destination — often called yonim ṛtasya (the seat, place, womb, receptacle of truth or law) or <i>yóniṃ sádanaṃ</i> (=Agni’s resting place) — it is entirely equivalent to the Vedic Kumbha/Jar which is receptacle and reservoir of the seven rivers (=mothers, sisters, streams, etc.), aka, <i>ṛtasya sādane</i>, the “seat” or “chamber of sacrifice”. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#15a" id="15">[15]</a></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Dropping oil, sweet with Soma [wine], pouring forth their stream, are the Seven Sisters in the seat of sacrifice…. [These Seven Rivers] enrich with gifts and help the worshipper.” – Rig Veda 8.103.4, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">In my understanding, when the veiled zodiacal geometry (the “mystic knowledge”) of the Divine Son and his seven mothers/rivers, and all of the ways this zodiacal geometry is discussed in the Vedas is UNVEILED or UNCOVERED ‒ as it was in October of 2016 ‒ the malignant curse and malady of the obstruction of the Vedic rivers is conquered and lifted. With this key and underlying context the lost treasures, i.e. the lost symbols of gnosis that have been long pent up in the Dragon's (and the hoarders') cave or pit of Ignorance, are released. </p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="text-align: justify;">“And I saw an angel come down from heaven, <b>having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand</b>. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.” – Revelation 20:1-3 (KJV)</p></div></blockquote><div><p style="text-align: justify;">In <i>The Hidden Manna</i>, Thea commented on the first of these verses:</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="text-align: justify;">“[O]nce unlocked [this 'bottomless' pit] gives forth the nectar of immortality.” (p. 89)</p></div></blockquote><div><p style="text-align: justify;">We can now appreciate that once this pit is <b>unlocked</b> and the waters are <b>unblocked</b> by the geometric key of vesica piscis and its radius, the occult symbol of the “nectar of immortality” (Amrita) is likewise unlocked and gives forth its occulted geometric sense and key. With this geometric key — the key by which Vishnu’s avatars recover the Amrita, Eternal Law and Divine Maya of the Vedas — the strange and dense and tangled symbols of the Vedas can be defragmented and read as a brilliant and cohesive whole. With this key, the scales or veils are removed from the eyes of the seeker, who is then in the position to see how painfully lost in translation and fragmented humankind’s understanding of the Vedas has been for many thousands of years. It is worth noting here, in relation to the “great chain” of the angel of 15:1, that some of the myriad Vedic symbols of the vesicae pisces include chains, reins, binding cords, ropes, and the like, as well as garlands and ornaments. I see both the key and the chain of this angel as overlapped symbols of the vesica piscis. In RV 8.47 (vs. 13-15), the darkness, evil, or “bad dream” that threatens the victorious Son of the Waters (Trita Aptya) is said to be turned into a neck ornament, garland, or chain by the Dawn goddess Usha who I have discussed as a symbol of the vesica piscis (the divine daughter of the Zodiac). This is a marvelous display of how Darkness is transmuted into Light — the lock transmuted into the key — in the illumined minds of the Vedic Seers.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi11tfnPboSI1rObI2e8q3em7w3K6vAHOxxjZwy0inwCD9TdmKshyw5xkVZl_evOq6pM9ToQPjBlosGXLtl0tqjnSdbkWSJ3H_IwQWR3x68W7Q1ioxZiEmBBMOZ6FcPsH1fATswI63KrMre6TcIMMamiGodhYGKzmSLSk1yt-zeDZa4OKv8nYy9m8d/s340/Sapta%20Mata-Matrika.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="340" height="485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi11tfnPboSI1rObI2e8q3em7w3K6vAHOxxjZwy0inwCD9TdmKshyw5xkVZl_evOq6pM9ToQPjBlosGXLtl0tqjnSdbkWSJ3H_IwQWR3x68W7Q1ioxZiEmBBMOZ6FcPsH1fATswI63KrMre6TcIMMamiGodhYGKzmSLSk1yt-zeDZa4OKv8nYy9m8d/w489-h485/Sapta%20Mata-Matrika.png" width="489" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Seven Mothers (Sapta Matrika) & deity (≈Agni) in Jar-shaped Trees, Indus Valley Seal, circa 3000 BCE</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Knowing the geometric key and thus the actual path (<i>tirtha</i>) of Agni’s seven mothers-rivers by which he attains and releases the heavenly Kumbha, the <i>yajin</i> (=sacrificer=yogi, aka <i>sādhak</i>) of the twelve-month Yajna has the key to open the Dragon’s bottomless pit, and likewise the key and weapon to break open the cave or enclosure of Vritra, Vala and the Panis who are hoarders and distorters of the Vedic light/law. He or she has the key to conquer and transform the fixed ignorance of the fixed water sign of Scorpio. Like Agni, the <i>yajin</i> is given new birth by the seven rivers, out of the dark womb of the long-entrenched falsehood and distortion of ancient symbols and lore. Knowing the geometric and zodiacal key and path, the seemingly impenetrable obstruction and curse of Ignorance is broken, the waters of the Kumbha are released, and the <i>yajin</i> is born out of our civilization’s inherited cave or pit of long-standing ignorance and can attain a “perfect understanding” of the eternal law and divine measure of the Vedic Sacrifice, and thus of the Vedas. The <i>yajin</i> becomes like Agni, simultaneously born of the waters, and a bearer of the waters (aka “Water Bearer”).</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="text-align: justify;">“Established firm among mankind, [Agni is] the Holy, flame-crowned and fed with oil, the Purifier. <b>Like a steed neighing eager for the pasture, when he hath stepped forth from the great enclosure….the path is black which thou hast travelled</b>. From thee a Bull but newly born, O Agni, the kindled everlasting flames rise upward. Aloft to heaven thy ruddy smoke ascendeth: Agni, thou speedest to the Gods as envoy…. When forth he [Sage and Purifier] cometh, like an axe new-sharpened, pure in his form, resplendent in his body, [sprung from his two Mothers]<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#16a" id="16">[16]</a></span>…. Shine this felicity on us, O Agni: <b>may we attain to perfect understanding</b>. All happiness be theirs who sing and praise thee. Ye Gods, preserve us evermore with blessings. – Rig Veda 7.3 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith</p></div></blockquote><div><p style="text-align: justify;">Thea discussed the zodiacal context and key of St. John’s Revelation at great length in <i>The Hidden Manna</i>. She equated the Holy City of Jerusalem, as found in Revelation 21, with the Zodiac and furthermore with the realization of the Zodiac “in Matter”.</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="text-align: justify;">“This destiny [of] the divinisation of mankind and the transformation of Matter—is written in the zodiac. We find there the image of the soul, for the microcosm and the macrocosm are one. The destiny of the evolving soul is written in the heavens but the races of Earth have lost the key.... </p></div><div><p style="text-align: justify;">“The New Jerusalem [of Revelation 21], that jewel descended from heaven, is the message of the zodiac realised in Matter…. The prophet [describes the New Jerusalem as] the zodiac, in no uncertain terms, and once again he includes in his description a vast body of knowledge. The fact that the final apotheosis is presented to him in this form [i.e. in the form of the Zodiac] is one of the most important features of the Apocalypse. The zodiac, as we have often mentioned, is the history of the evolution of the Earth consciousness. It is the destiny of the planet in terms of its spiritual being. – Thea, <i>The Hidden Manna</i>, pp. 302, 304-05</p></div></blockquote><div><p style="text-align: center;">*</p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="text-align: justify;">“[In Revelation 22:1-5, the] seer transmits the vision of the zodiac once more, but this time in a far more exact manner; scientifically exact one could say, in the sense that he describes it less in terms of symbolic images and relationships, but simply as the ecliptic in the heavens which he calls 'a pure river of water of life...proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb….</p></div><div><p style="text-align: justify;">“The vision is now calm and serene…a vision into the ceaseless eternity where the victory already is, and the process of its experience in Time is mirrored in the zodiacal wheel. Thus John writes of that tree of life which 'bare [sic.] twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruits every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations', the same tree of life as described in Chapter 2, verse 7.</p></div><div><p style="text-align: justify;">“The healing process is that process of becoming within being. The Earth in its totality must have this experience….” – Ibid, pp. 367- 368</p></div></blockquote><div><p style="text-align: justify;">We can see from the above that Thea equated the “river of the water of life” of Revelation 22 with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecliptic" target="_blank">ecliptic</a>. In the previous chapter (Revelation 21) she equated the “fountain of the waters of life” with the “the nectar of immortality”, <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#17a" id="17" target="_blank">[17]</a> </span>also known as Amrita and Soma (wine/juice). Once the identical geometric and zodiacal sense of the seven rivers or fountains (<i>útsaṃ</i>) of the Vedas and the seven bowl/vials of Revelation became apparent in 2016, so did the geometric sense of the river, spring, or fountain of “the water of life” which are revealed at the end of Revelation. I could see that these special waters were equivalent to the Vedic symbols of the vesica(e) piscis that flow through and measure out the Zodiac (=the Circle or Tree of Life). Thea’s understanding of the equivalence between the spring or “fountain of the waters of life” and the Amrita of the Vedic gods was entirely accurate, she just did not see or understand the geometric level or sense of this equivalence in relation to the Divine Maya (measure) or sacred geometry of the Zodiac. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#18a" id="18">[18]</a></span> The following verses from RV 9.107, which describe the victory of the conquering Son-Horse of the Vedic sacrifice, should help readers see not only the Vedic origin of St. John’s Revelation and its apotheosis, but also the zodiacal geometry that is equally hidden in both Vedic and biblical lore. </p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="text-align: justify;">“Cleansing thee [Agni=Soma Pavamana] in thy stream, thou flowest in a watery robe: Giver of wealth, thou sittest in the place of Law (<i>yonim ṛtasyam</i>), O God, a fountain [<i>utsaḥ</i>] made of gold. Milking the heavenly udder [=<i>kumbha</i>] for dear meath, he hath sat in the ancient gathering place.… O Soma,—for the feast of Gods, river-like he [an impetuous steed in war] hath swelled with surge, with the stalk's [=Soma’s] juice, exhilarating, resting not, into the vat [=jar=kumbha] that drops with meath [=amrita=soma]. – Rig Veda 9.107.4-12 excerpts, tr. RTH Griffith</p></div></blockquote><div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijFEaHWlpBQtEqNMC7OEhMsEaxSWLDXIfY3XTN7lx32BT6R0CLi0gWoWYqpL6SjHW9YZgqsRZ3DQpP7hLgCjcZsGmgu6rrVMmghZW8veUGWn064JhyNVsX1620oohSD0-TmlB7i-gGxdvqNMiWbU0XtaUycZbDmVbBphCDTjcHk7i8uHJ71huLNYyI=s640" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="Leaves as symbols of the vesica piscis" border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijFEaHWlpBQtEqNMC7OEhMsEaxSWLDXIfY3XTN7lx32BT6R0CLi0gWoWYqpL6SjHW9YZgqsRZ3DQpP7hLgCjcZsGmgu6rrVMmghZW8veUGWn064JhyNVsX1620oohSD0-TmlB7i-gGxdvqNMiWbU0XtaUycZbDmVbBphCDTjcHk7i8uHJ71huLNYyI=w275-h183" title="Leaves as symbols of the vesica piscis" width="275" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Once we see how the Vedic Rishis occulted the geometry of the twelve-month Vedic Year in myriad ways, we can also see the “leaves” of the “tree of life” which “heal the nations”, and the “twelve gates [that are] pearls” of the Holy City in Revelation 22 in the same light. The image to the right should help readers see why leaves (herbs in the Vedas) are a fitting symbol of the geometry of the vesica piscis. Up until 2016 I understood the twelve gates of the Holy City in Revelation as simply the entrances (<i>sankranti</i>) into each of the twelve signs of the Zodiac. When I learned that myriad names of the vesica piscis in the Vedas include <i>dvāra</i>, meaning door, gate, passage or entrance, I began to suspect that these twelve gates are not only references to the twelve entrances into each month of the Zodiac, but also to the twelve vesicae piscis that measure out these entrances. In RV 2.3.5 the river-goddesses are equated with doors: “Wide be the Doors (<i>dvāraḥ</i>), the Goddesses, thrown open, easy to pass….let them unfold, expansive, everlasting”. This is a beautifully poetic way to describe the eternal vesicae piscis (and their indwelling radii) that flow or swing through and measure out the Zodiac. </div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Aquarian Age Revelations</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">All of the above is written to help readers understand that the fulfillment of the Vedic and Biblical prophecies of the Hero-Son’s conquering of the Beast (and his kin), releasing the rivers/vials, pouring out the Kumbha, healing the nations, ending the “wrath of God”, and thus securing the “destiny [of] the divinisation of mankind” necessarily involves the recovery, revelation and pouring out of the zodiacal and geometric sense of this symbolic lore. With this recovery of Vedic gnosis <b>90 years and 9 months and one day</b> into our fledgling Age of Aquarius (144 years + 48 days after Sri Aurobindo’s birth) the obstruction of the Vedic waters/rivers in the fixed sign of Scorpio was dissolved – a feat set in motion by Sri Aurobindo’s birth in 1872 and his rebirth <b>91 years later in 1963</b>. In Part Nine I will discuss the cosmological significance of the <b>90</b>-year time period, which Thea wrote of in terms of “the oneness of Spirit [<b>0</b>] and Matter [<b>9</b>], the unity of the heights and the abyss” <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#19a" id="19">[19]</a></span> and in terms of transformation and regeneration.</p></div><div><p style="text-align: justify;">What I want to convey in this section is that the ancient and occult geometric and zodiacal sense of the seven rivers (vials), kumbha (jar), and the hidden Hero-Son-God who pours them out, was released from its CAVE as an inevitable and necessary result of Sri Aurobindo’s supramental descent and rebirth. As discussed by Thea in <i>The Hidden Manna</i>, Sri Aurobindo fulfilled the role of both the Lion who “loosens the seals” of the closed Book of Life, and the Conquering Hero-Son-Horse defeats the Beast, releases the seven bowls (=rivers), reestablishes the all-harmonizing Sanatana Dharma of the ancient seers, and ends the “wrath of God”. As I see it, after Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth in 1963, it was simply a matter of Time until the geometric sense of the seven rivers was released. And it was released, <b>53-54</b> years later, <i>after</i> Thea completed her role as his Mother, as the Third of the Solar Line, and as the seer, the vessel (<i>pātra</i>) and transmitter of the gnosis that descended with his rebirth. This release of the geometric sense of the seven rivers was a carefully controlled and arranged process, extending harmoniously from the SEED of the supramental consciousness that Sri Aurobindo planted on Earth. This supramental seed, as demonstrated by Thea throughout her writings, orchestrates its own victories in the field of Time and Space. It is worth noting here that Sri Aurobindo was <b>53-54</b> in 1926, the first year of the Aquarian Age according to Thea, and the year of Sri Aurobindo’s Siddhi Day (24 November 1926). Thus there is a clear correspondence in the time period between Sri Aurobindo’s birth in 1872 and the beginning of the Aquarian age in 1926, and his rebirth in 1963 and the revelations of 2016-17. I will discuss this correspondence further in Part Nine.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Thanks to Sri Aurobindo’s yoga and the yoga of the entire Solar Line, the ancient obstruction of the Vedic waters has been dismantled in our Age of Aquarius and now any who “have eyes to see” can see these immortal waters/rivers (of life) flowing through and measuring out the Zodiac (=“circle of life”=Vedic Yajna). And seeing this, we can better understand the significance of the seven waves of Sri Aurobindo’s “Lotus of the Avatar” at the heart of his geometric <i>satkona</i> (six-angle) symbol. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#20a" id="20">[20]</a> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKYPIW5f-COONb8NkytYDsKvMRL2m-oLtYy08RJsCQzxpKS5QBchGpDJr9AW8CFns7GVFXRLoM_LQ3OM3b68jpjsl092r_5iYgCkmTdfZWlZ9c9hrusZbjMy60GT6Srsx9_6egs_WfoF_p7rJeTLc_GZBcrlu8tUcEk3ETV8DkqmLYzx9p1FyVW7Ia=s2640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sri Aurobindo's Symbol (Satkona) and Lotus of the Avatar with 963 Petals & 7 Waves" border="0" data-original-height="873" data-original-width="2640" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKYPIW5f-COONb8NkytYDsKvMRL2m-oLtYy08RJsCQzxpKS5QBchGpDJr9AW8CFns7GVFXRLoM_LQ3OM3b68jpjsl092r_5iYgCkmTdfZWlZ9c9hrusZbjMy60GT6Srsx9_6egs_WfoF_p7rJeTLc_GZBcrlu8tUcEk3ETV8DkqmLYzx9p1FyVW7Ia=w640-h212" title="Sri Aurobindo's Symbol (Satkona) and Lotus of the Avatar with 963 Petals & 7 Waves" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">We can see that the immortal body and vessel of the vesica piscis – which is in truth the immortal body and vessel of the radius – is Vishnu’s heavenly Kumbha or Jar that contains the nectar and waters of immortality and wisdom. It is the Holy Grail, Holy Wine, Holy Water and Soma Wine (=Amrita). It is the Fountain of (Eternal) Youth. It is the water that the Divine Son turns into wine. It is the Philosopher’s Stone. It is the Divine Manna that cannot spoil. It is the healing balm and herb of the Vedic physician (=Sage). It is an Eye of the Vedic Seers. It is the purifying filter of the Vedic Son-Sage. It measures out one-third (120° = 120° x 60′ x 60ʺ = 432,000ʺ) of the 360° circle and year; and this sacred measure and Eternal Law establishes the equilateral Triangle — the indestructible and eternal Divine Trinity — of the circle. This Trinity in turn is the basis of the Vedic 0/9 (3x3) number system, whose Trinity is the 3, 6, 9 (with the 9 holding the same place as the 0), as well as the basis of the 12 (3x4) division of the Vedic Year (=the Earth’s Tropical/Solar Year), the measure of the Yugas, the measure of the Vedas, and the measure of radius of the Sun in miles. Thus the measure of the vesica piscis purifies, integrates, and unifies not only our fragmented understanding of ancient symbols, but also of the ancient sacred numbers that are born of the circle. We start to see it ALL within the same singular circular context or womb out of which it was ALL was born. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg18xz_Mp2bbIq76Iihru1JM1wWDLdwSmMzQs6FmRWkQ4L-0pDqQeUME0MzVRIFONE9btIOTgnsR6ZHQ0PFXNazenLXuTXL3vTdgC228xNG5XHDE0-mJb4TOyBGKiownNIovPQMAlkFhmtT-UcVQpdKbq-iHWHxqyq3vj3AHCaoICb2AwnFdyRWDyhT=s1506" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sacred Geometry of the Vesica Piscis-432,000, the 3-9-12 Divisions of Circle/Year, Divine Trinity" border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="1506" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg18xz_Mp2bbIq76Iihru1JM1wWDLdwSmMzQs6FmRWkQ4L-0pDqQeUME0MzVRIFONE9btIOTgnsR6ZHQ0PFXNazenLXuTXL3vTdgC228xNG5XHDE0-mJb4TOyBGKiownNIovPQMAlkFhmtT-UcVQpdKbq-iHWHxqyq3vj3AHCaoICb2AwnFdyRWDyhT=w640-h202" title="Sacred Geometry of the Vesica Piscis-432,000, the 3-9-12 Divisions of Circle/Year, Divine Trinity" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Enshrouded in ignorance, this occulted geometric key of ancient gnosis has served as a Tower of Babel of sorts – generating all manner of toxic misunderstanding, distortion, fragmentation, and wide departure from the original hidden meaning of the Seers. All of our world’s rigid, fundamentalist and warring religions have emerged from misunderstandings and distortions of the twelve-month Vedic sacrifice, its Hero-Son and its veiled symbols and lore. In short, people have been bickering, warring, and fighting to the death for ages over symbols and words whose original sense and context has been LOST ON ALL for ages. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">With the light, key, truth, Eternal Law and Divine Maya of Agni’s seven rivers-mothers, the Vedic Son and his companions rise beyond the “Dead Egg” realm (and the “curse”) of Scorpio, beyond all of its inertia and ignorance and into the higher knowledge and universal laws of the cycles of Time and evolution as transmitted by the Vedic Rishis. With the light, truth, Eternal Law and Divine Maya of Agni and his seven rivers-mothers, humankind reunites with the integrating context and origin of our collective body of language, symbols and myth, and we can instantaneously begin to SEE through, and thus conquer and purify, aeons-worth of seemingly set-in-stone ignorance. We recover the long-lost river, son, light, eye, key, kumbha and amrita of the Vedic Seers in our own consciousness and utilize these treasures of gnosis to rise beyond and heal the poisonous fragmentation and malignancy of stagnant religious dogma, belief and ritual that has been long divorced from its original source and sense.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In Part 7.2 I will quickly revisit many of the world’s ancient mythologies and symbols, which I have discussed since 2016, that make new and integral sense in light of the geometric and zodiacal key of the Vedas; and I will discuss the Maya “Resurrection Plate” (dated circa 600 CE) as another example of how this key sheds light on more than just the Vedas.</p>
<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3SzTnF6i73z2BOiEG_uMKuiXtzTpo7SztmRgO6TZDTrdBY387dRE4_Hu4WWeZ4U3cAVXEdLQMMiLvAoRDCiOumvZ82GPACf7ccokCsJZQzc_BtmlQ9d_k61z3ic1aWbHSHIXzfac2cJgj1lwtSxrZcV1JAMSHc5uhWKq-zVlEhiWUWKTGLgkmgqgv=s1301" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Maya Resurrection Plate (c. 600 BCE)" border="0" data-original-height="1301" data-original-width="1208" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3SzTnF6i73z2BOiEG_uMKuiXtzTpo7SztmRgO6TZDTrdBY387dRE4_Hu4WWeZ4U3cAVXEdLQMMiLvAoRDCiOumvZ82GPACf7ccokCsJZQzc_BtmlQ9d_k61z3ic1aWbHSHIXzfac2cJgj1lwtSxrZcV1JAMSHc5uhWKq-zVlEhiWUWKTGLgkmgqgv=w297-h320" title="The Maya Resurrection Plate (c. 600 BCE)" width="297" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya_hires.php?vase=1892" target="_blank">www.research.mayavase.com</a>, Justin Kerr</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">⁓ </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Link to Part 7.2 </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">⁓</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Link to</span><span> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">2</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">3</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">4</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">5</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">6</a><span>,</span><span> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">7.1</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed_26.html" target="_blank">7.2</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html">8.1</a><span>, </span><span>or</span><span> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html">8.2</a></span></div><p>
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<div><b>Endnotes</b></div><div><br /></div><div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> These four creatures are the Lion, Bull, Man and Eagle, i.e. the animal symbols of Vishnu’s four fixed (preservation) signs in the Zodiac: Leo, Taurus, Aquarius and Scorpio. The opening image, shows a Lion-Man (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narasimha" target="_blank">Narasimha</a>) with Eagle wings giving out the seven bowls. Revelation does not mention specifically which of the four creatures (preservation signs) gives out the bowls. I suspect it is the Aquarian Man (Water Bearer) given that 0° Aquarius is the location where the first seven rivers, i.e. vesicae piscis, (=floods, bowls, drops, etc.) of the Zodiac gather and rest and where they are poured out from their sacred vessel. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a> Thea, <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/THM.html" target="_blank">The Hidden Manna</a></i>, p. 88. Text in brackets added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#3" id="3a">[3]</a> See: <i><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/p/book.html" target="_blank">Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</a></i>, 2018.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#4" id="4a">[4]</a> See: <a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TNW12.html" target="_blank"><i>The New Way, Vols. 1&</i>2</a>.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#5" id="5a">[5]</a> I originally thought these rays of approaching dawn were symbols of the seven radii (=rishis =singers) because of Griffiths translation “the bards of approaching dawn”, but as I look deeper into the text, <i>arcino</i> (rays, flames) very much appears to be a reference to the cows (=rays) and thus equivalent to the seven cows (=rivers=Agni’s mothers) who are referred to in RV 6.64.1 as the "radiant Dawns [who] have risen up for glory, in their white splendour like the waves of waters.” (tr. RTH Griffith)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#6" id="6a">[6]</a> Sri Aurobindo’s translation of RV 5.45.11 (the last verse of the hymn) is from <i>The Secret of the Veda</i> (<i>CWSA, Vol. 15</i>, p. 175). I do not know if he published translations of the other verses of this hymn. I drew upon both Jamison and Brereton’s and RTH Griffith’s translations as an attempt to minimize the difficulties and emphasize the merits of the varying translations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#7" id="7a">[7]</a> Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 472. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#8" id="8a">[8]</a> This is particularly interesting considering the misconstruction of the Mother’s 12-pillared Temple (Matrimandir) in Auroville. The builders altered and discarded the Mother’s original dimensions, including the measure of the diameter (and thus the radius) that the Mother specified. They subsequently rejected Thea’s attempts to educate them about the connection between the Mother’s original measurements and the 12-month Year, as well as her exhortations towards building the Matrimandir exactly as the Mother saw it in her vision, discussed it in her Agenda, and measured it in her blueprints. Thus, due to their own ignorance, they could not build and, by consequence, could not enter into the Divine Vedic Temple of Aditi. The result is that all those who do not know any better and those who have chosen to ignore the Divine Maya of the Mother, celebrate and enter into a monument/temple of Ignorance, built in the image of its flawed builders.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#9" id="9a">[9]</a> Below is a larger collection of verses that portray the same zodiacal geometry of the Horse of Sagittarius reaching the Jar/Vat/Beaker/Kumbha of Aquarius (tr. RTH Griffith, bold emphasis added): </div></div><p></p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“[Agni on] his way to war, Swift Steed who carries off the spoil. Pouring all [=rivers] glories hither, he, effused and <b>entering the jar</b>, stands like a hero mid the kine.” – Rig Veda 9.62.18-19 </div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> <span style="text-align: justify;">“[Agni/Soma is] now poured forth <b>to fill the jar</b>.” – Rig Veda 5.51.4 </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Ten sisters [=months], pouring out the rain together, swift-moving thinkers of the sage, adorn him. Hither hath run the gold-hued Child of Sūrya and <b>reached the vat</b> like a fleet vigorous courser. Even as a youngling crying to his mothers [=seven rivers], the bounteous Steer hath flowed along to waters. As youth to damsel, so with milk he hastens on <b>to the chose[n] meeting-place, the beaker</b>.” – Rig Veda 9.93.1-2 </div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> <span style="text-align: justify;">“For Indra and for Visnu poured, Soma hath flowed <b>into the jar</b>.” – Rig Veda 9.63.3 </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">“The vigorous and far-seeing one, the Lord of heaven, flows, shouting <b>to the beaker</b>, with his thousand streams.” – Rig Veda 9.86.11 </span></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">“Soma speeds onward like a youth to youthful maids, and <b>gains the beaker</b> by a course of hundred paths.” – Rig Veda 9.86.16 </span></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">“Dear, grateful to the Gods, on <b>to the beaker</b> moves Soma, sweet to Indra, to delight him.” – Rig Veda 9.96.9 </span></div></blockquote><div><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">“A steer to herds, so, flowing <b>to the pitcher</b>, he with a roar hath passed <b>into the beakers</b>.” – Rig Veda 9.96.20 </span></div></blockquote><div><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">“Rich in meath, Soma, <b>in our beaker take thy place</b>.” – Rig Veda 9.106.7 </span></div></blockquote><div><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">“Filled is <b>the beaker</b> with the meath that gladdens, <b>the beaker</b> which all Deities delight in.” – Rig Veda 10.112.06 </span></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">“The living Somas [=Soma drops] being cleansed diffuse exhilarating drink, Turned <b>to the vat which drips with meath</b>.” – Rig Veda 9.23.4 </span></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">“Forth from the mortar is the juice sent, like a car-horse, to the sieve: The Steed steps forward <b>to the goal</b>. Thus, Soma, watchful, bearing well, cheering the Gods, flow past the sieve, Turned to <b>the vat that drops with meath</b>.” – Rig Veda 9.36.1-2 </span></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">“Fleet as swift steeds, thy drops, divine, thought-swift, have been, O Pavamana, poured with milk <b>into the vat</b>.” – Rig Veda 9.86.4 </span></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">“On through the long wool of the sheep <b>to the meath-dropping vat</b> he flows….” – Rig Veda 9.103.3 </span></div></blockquote><div><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“O Soma,—for the feast of Gods, river-like he hath swelled with surge, With the stalk's juice, exhilarating, resting not, <b>into the vat that drops with meath</b>….Robed in the flood, the Mighty One hath clad himself with milk and settled in the vats…. Urged onward by the pressers, clad in watery robes, Indu [=Agni/Soma Pavamana] is speeding <b>to the vat</b>.” – Rig Veda 9.107.12, 17 & 25 </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#10" id="10a">[10]</a> I added the number seven before “holy songs” to clarify for the reader that the holy songs are a symbolic reference to the seven rivers (floods, bowls, etc.). The verses in which the seven songs/hymns are specifically numbered include: RV <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=01.164.03&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">1.164.3</a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/253624509643805336/1886386763830073162#" target="_blank">9.15.8</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.062.18&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">9.62.18</a>, & <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=09.066.08&acc=no&q=seven&lang=eng" target="_blank">9.66.8</a>. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#11" id="11a">[11]</a> A whole book could be written on this subject. RTH Griffith translates devavītaye as the Gods’ banquet or feast. I do not think <i>devavītaye</i> is the only Sanskrit word that refers to the Gods’ <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/find.pl?q=banquet&lang=eng&acc=no" target="_blank">banquet</a> or <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/find.pl?q=feast&lang=eng&acc=no" target="_blank">feast</a>, but that is research for another day. The concept is that the Gods’ food or heavenly manna — aka. drops or draughts of soma wine, amrita, honey, mead, ghee, oil, butter, milk of heaven, etc. (all symbols of the vesicae piscis) — is gathered in and released from the heavenly Kumbha (just as are the waters, rivers, floods, etc.) for the enjoyment, immortality, empowerment and victory of the Gods and the purification and uplifting of Mankind. Here are a few examples where Agni (Soma Pavamana) flows to the banquet, just as he flows to the Jar/Kumbha:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Flow onward [Agni] with thy juice [Soma] <b>unto the banquet of the Mighty Gods</b>….” – Rig Veda 9.1.4, tr. RTH Griffith</div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Forth through the straining-cloth the Sage flows <b>to the banquet of the Gods</b>, Subduing all our enemies.” – Rig Veda 9.20.1, tr. RTH Griffith </div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Pressed for <b>the banquet of the Gods</b>, O Soma, bring us might, and speed, Like beauty for a brilliant show.” – Rig Veda 9.65.18, tr. RTH Griffith </div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Flow on for <b>the God's banquet</b>, Soma, as a Steer, and enter Indra's heart, the Soma's reservoir [=Kumbha]. Bear us beyond misfortune ere we be oppressed, the man who knows the land directs the man who asks.” – Rig Veda 9.70.9, tr. RTH Griffith </div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The drop of Soma…becomes <b>the banquet of the Heavenly People</b>….” – Rig Veda, 9.91.2, tr. RTH Griffith </div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Pouring out streams [=the seven rivers] at <b>the Gods’ feast</b> with service, thou, [Agni/Soma Pavamana], lookest down, a heavenly Eagle. Enter the Soma-holding beaker [=Kumbha] Indu (aka Agni/Soma Pavamana)…." – Rig Veda 9.97.33, tr. RTH</div></div></div></blockquote><div><div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#12" id="12a">[12]</a> The vesica piscis and its indwelling radius-son has a “threefold nature” in a couple of senses. One vesica piscis measures out one-third (120° = 432,000ʺ) of the circle, and each of these 120° segments in turn amount to three (40°=144,000ʺ) units of the circle of 9. As demonstrated in the main article, three interwoven vesicae piscis measure out the Divine Trinity and Law of Three of the Circle. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#13" id="13a">[13]</a> “Primeval father” is translated from <i>pūrvasya pitur</i>, and may be a reference to Manu, the archetypal Man and Father of Mankind. In my view this reference fits given that the place being referred to as as the “dwelling place of the primeval father” is the sign of the Man (=Aquarius).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#14" id="14a">[14]</a> The “mystic knowledge [the wonder, the enigma]” was translated by RTH Griffith [and Jamison and Brereton] from <i>vápur nivácanaṃ</i>. RL Kashyap, and HH Wilson translated this phrase as a “secret body” and “indescribable form”. Here are the alternate translations of RV 5.47.5 that discuss the riddle or enigma of the Vedic rivers that both stay (stand) and move at the same time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Wondrous, O people, is the mystic knowledge that while the waters stand the streams are flowing….” – tr. RTH Griffith</div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“(Behold), men, this indescribable form from which the rivers (spring), and where the waters dwell….” – tr. HH Wilson </div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“O men, (behold) this secret body from which the rivers flow and the waters dwell.” – tr. RL Kashyap </div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Here is the wonder, the enigma, people: that the rivers move, but the waters stay.” – tr. Jamison and Brereton </div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#15" id="15a">[15] </a>Rig Veda 9.71 includes various versions of this heavenly resting, meeting or gathering place to which Agni travels and thereby “completes his work”, highlighted in bold below. Symbols of the vesica(e) piscis in these verses that do not specifically refer to the meeting place or Kumbha of Aquarius include Agni’s colors, covering and robe, the pressing stones, prayer, water, streams, floods, song, meath, mountain, cows, guidings (elsewhere reins) and milk.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Strong, bellowing, [Agni] goes, like one who slays the folk; he [pours out his godly colors=forms], Throws off his covering, seeks <b>his father's meeting-place</b>, and thus makes for himself the bright robe he assumes.</div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Onward he flows, from both the hands, pressed out with stones: excited by the prayer, the water makes him wild. He frolics and draws near, completes his work with song, and bathes in streams [=the seven rivers] to satisfy the worshipper.</div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">"They pour out meath around the Master of the house, Celestial Strengthener of the mountain that gives might; in whom, through his great powers, oblation-eating cows <b>in their uplifted udder [=Kumbha] mix their choicest milk</b>….</div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Like <b>as a falcon to his home, so speeds the God [Agni] to</b> <b>his own golden wisely-fashioned place to rest (<i>yóniṃ sádanaṃ</i>)</b>. With song they urge the darling to the sacred grass: the Holy One goes like a courser to the Gods.</div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">"From far away, from heaven, the redhued noted Sage, Steer of the triple height, hath sung unto the kine. With thousand guidings he, leading this way and that, shines, as a singer, splendidly through many a morn.</div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">"His covering assumes a radiant hue; where’er he comes into the fight he drives the foe afar. The Winner of the Floods (=Winner of the seven rivers), with food <b>he seeks the host of heaven [=heavenly gathering of the gods]</b>, he comes to praises glorified with milk." – RV 9.71.2-8, tr. RTH Griffith</div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#16" id="16a">[16]</a> As discussed in <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i> (book), I see these "Two Mothers" of Agni as the circle of the Zodiac and the vesica piscis (=the daughter of the circle), both of which are formed by their indwelling radius (=son). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#17" id="17a">[17]</a> “The ‘fountain of the waters of life’ is the nectar of immortality—not spiritual alone but physical as well. This is Alpha and Omega, the serpent biting its tail, or the zero and the nine which are equal, because the Spirit (zero) is one with Matter (nine). This is the beginning which is the end, and the end that is the beginning.” – Thea, <i>The Hidden Manna</i>, Chapter 21, p. 301</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#18" id="18a">[18]</a> See “Recovering the Ancient Light and Amrita of the Vedas”, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2018/10/recovering-ancient-light-and-amrita-of.html" target="_blank">Parts 1</a> & <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2018/11/recovering-ancient-light-and-amrita-of.html" target="_blank">2</a>.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#19" id="19a">[19]</a> Thea, <i><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TTDV.html" target="_blank">The Tenth Day of Victory</a></i>, p. 138.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#20" id="20a">[20]</a> Thea noted the equivalence between the seven waves of Sri Aurobindo’s symbol and the seven rivers of the Vedas in <i>The New Way, Vol. 1&2</i>, p. 452, 479-482</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he Father's symbol the square is the radiant core of the light of Truth-Consciousness. It holds the rivers of eternal life, the seven waves of the mighty Waters that give birth to Agni: in the square we find the lotus, symbol of supramental avatarhood." [Thea’s footnote: "The name Aurobindo means 'lotus'. When as an infant Sri Aurobindo was given this name by his parents it was a very uncommon one in Bengal."] (p. 452)</div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For any readers who are unaware, Thea also discussed the significance of the descending 9-6-3 pattern of the Lotus of the Avatar’s leaves throughout her writings, in relation to the trinity of the Circle of 9, and to the number powers of the first three members of what she referred to as the “Solar Line”: Sri Aurobindo born in a 9-power year, The Mother, born in a 6-power year, and herself, born in a 3-power year, a descent culminating in the birth of the “Fourth” in the 1-power year of 1963, containing in itself the descending trinity of 963.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The element of most profound meaning in Sri Aurobindo's symbol is the Lotus. It is called the Lotus of the Avatar, and three are its levels: there is a top row of nine petals, then one of six, and finally below these an arrangement of three leaves. As explained previously, they correspond to the three powers of the creative OM, which in turn correspond to three incarnations, the 9, the 6, and the 3.” (Ibid., p. 478)</div></div></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">If you value the </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b>original research and content made freely </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b><br />available on this blog</b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a></div></div><p></p></div>Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253624509643805336.post-33043889574059160332021-12-21T21:16:00.096-08:002022-10-22T11:06:39.790-07:00THE OBSTRUCTION OF THE VEDIC WATERS & THE FIXED WATER SIGN SCORPIO ⁓ PART SIX ⁓ The November & December 2021 Eclipses<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjw84ZGsN5-FAQv0EQxl66JNK_Zgi8ISK_IPSSYix6HtppyMMMaAuIt3f-zPxdqeVF5Lvi2KZVxIwKq6svOCZeut4c0oM7I3kdcYqoZqN4yEtNJQoRsOVmaY7Iud-XE1S0uqs0xH6W_MaRvL3fF4Sy8K85rGs0XaUTihlfTIUxtCZ4-7w761aEajcMw=s512" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="19 November 2021 Lunar Eclipse: Full Moon in Taurus opposite Sun in Scorpio" border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="512" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjw84ZGsN5-FAQv0EQxl66JNK_Zgi8ISK_IPSSYix6HtppyMMMaAuIt3f-zPxdqeVF5Lvi2KZVxIwKq6svOCZeut4c0oM7I3kdcYqoZqN4yEtNJQoRsOVmaY7Iud-XE1S0uqs0xH6W_MaRvL3fF4Sy8K85rGs0XaUTihlfTIUxtCZ4-7w761aEajcMw=w640-h426" title="19 November 2021 Lunar Eclipse: Full Moon in Taurus opposite Sun in Scorpio" width="640" /></a><br /><span><span><b>19 November 2021 Lunar Eclipse</b>: <b>Full Moon in Taurus opposite Sun in Scorpio</b> <br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">(</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eclipsenov19.jpg" target="_blank">Wiki Commons</a>)</span></div>
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<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">“[Each point of the Whole] has the possibility of being conscious of itself AND conscious of the original Unity. And that's the work now being accomplished, that is to say, each infinitesimal element of this Consciousness, while retaining this state of consciousness, is now recapturing the total original state of consciousness – the result is the original Consciousness conscious of its Unity AND conscious of the whole play: all the innumerable elements of this Unity. …</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“There are no OPPOSITES. No opposites – not even contradictions, I say, no opposites. It’s that Unity, it’s LIVING in that Unity And it’s not expressed in thoughts and words. I tell you, it was... a limitless immensity and a light... a motionless light, and at the same time a well-being... without even the appreciation of a well-being.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Now I am convinced that’s what the supramental consciousness is….</p><p style="text-align: justify;">“The whole is brought with lightning speed toward the consciousness that will be this Consciousness of the point and the whole at the same time. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“There, I'll write today's date. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>19 November 1969: supramental consciousness</b>.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#1a" id="1">[1]</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">“The first descent of the supramental Force was on a 29th. And this is on a 19th. The figure 9 has something to do with all this .... There are so many things we don't know!</p><p style="text-align: right;">– The Mother, <b>19 November 1969</b>, <i>The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 10</i>,<br /> [Bold emphasis added, link <a href="http://www.sri-aurobindo.in/workings/ma/agenda_10/1969-11-19-01_e.htm" target="_blank">HERE</a> for the full entry]</p></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>[Link to</span><span> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">2</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">3</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">4</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">5</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">6</a><span>,</span><span> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">7.1</a><span>, </span><a href="http://7.2" target="_blank">7.2</a><span>, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html">8.1</a><span>, </span><span>or</span><span> </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html">8.2</a>]</span></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;">One of the first things I noticed about the date of the <b>19 November Lunar Eclipse of 2021</b> was that it fell on the 52nd (7 number-power) anniversary of the Mother’s 19 November 1969 discussion of her vision or experience of the descending supramental consciousness, which ended with her statement regarding the “figure 9”. Thea of course discussed the importance of the number 9 at length throughout her writings, as well as the number <b>19</b> and its number-power of <b>1</b> (1 + 9 = 10 = 1 + 0 = 1).<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#2aa" id="2">[2]</a></span> Since reading the Mother’s 19 November 1969 Agenda entry circa 2003, that date has stuck in my head, not only due to the impactful content of the Mother’s experience of the descending supramental consciousness, but also due to knowing that <b>19 November falls exactly at the 7 Point</b> of my yearly cycle, i.e. 280 days past the “zero point” of my birth on 12 February (24° Aquarius), in the 7 number-power year of 1969.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#3aa" id="3">[3]</a></span> This period of 280 days (7 x 40 days= 360 days x 7/9) corresponds to the 280-day average of human gestation. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">I began writing this Scorpio series in the Spring of 2021 specifically to reflect upon our enneadic passage through the fixed water sign of <b>Scorpio</b> in relation to the 2 October 2016 release of the geometrical and zodiacal sense of the Vedic rivers one day after we moved into the fixed earth sign of <b>Taurus</b>, followed seven days later by Thea’s [Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet’s] passing conjunct the 7 Point of her own yearly cycle on 9 October 2016<a id="2022">.</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#4a" id="4">[4]</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhz7Vm9x8X2bNuRNH2w6igLaRUJNEwogPklw4kgE2mXE6decmbD-9Moo6HudXrjO4KQfRGcaYflLJfFhi-lOWgYq0yvL9lrbRMAwYG366TraMpFXP8r2enVkYthbApN2OYwHV3pX4t8DYNgGq2TE7tsYzChQqu7vZ6GDkL-kLSbxmNyPPhFssdi4Scf=s1446" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="2016-2025 ennead - Aries-Libra, Taurus-Scorpio axes (image by Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="1446" height="566" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhz7Vm9x8X2bNuRNH2w6igLaRUJNEwogPklw4kgE2mXE6decmbD-9Moo6HudXrjO4KQfRGcaYflLJfFhi-lOWgYq0yvL9lrbRMAwYG366TraMpFXP8r2enVkYthbApN2OYwHV3pX4t8DYNgGq2TE7tsYzChQqu7vZ6GDkL-kLSbxmNyPPhFssdi4Scf=w573-h566" title="2016-2025 ennead - Aries-Libra, Taurus-Scorpio axes (image by Lori Tompkins)" width="573" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Taurus-Scorpio axis of the 2016-2025 ennead is highlighted in blue above. In <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html" target="_blank">Part One</a> I wrote:</div><p></p>
<p></p><p></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;">“Our <b>9-month enneadic passage through Scorpio spans from 1 April 2021 to 1 January 2022, bringing us to the 6 Point (0° Sagittarius) of our current ennead</b>, after which we will enter the last third of this 9-year cycle. As April 2021 approached, I was curious about what the passage through Scorpio would bring forward in relation to all that was revealed and released [regarding the seven rivers of the Vedas] 4.5 years earlier from 2 October 2016 onward.”</blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now looking back on this passage through Scorpio, I can appreciate that it served to catalyze a significant widening of my understanding of the Vedic story of the obstruction of the Vedic Waters in the Fixed Water Scorpio and their release from the Vedic Kumbha or Water Jar by the Hero-Son-Sage-Horse (the 0° Sagittarius radius, ray, pillar or <i>skambha</i>) of the Zodiac. I can better see through the veiled symbols the Vedic Rishis used to simultaneously obscure and preserve their gnosis. In Part Six, as the year of 2021 draws to a close and we are about to move from Scorpio into Sagittarius in our current enneadic cycle, I feel compelled to focus on the 19 November and 4 December pair of eclipses – the first of which fell in the 8th month of Scorpio and the second in the 9th month of Sagittarius. These eclipses were formed via the proximity of the Full Moon in Taurus and New Moon in Sagittarius to the Lunar Node axis positioned at <b>1° Gemini/Sagittarius</b>. Thus the South Node position of this pair of eclipses fell conjunct the <b>6 Point (0° Sagittarius)</b> of <a href="https://www.aeongroup.com/gc.htm" target="_blank">the Gnostic Circle</a>. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">During the <a href="https://cafeastrology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/full-moon-lunar-eclipse-november-2021.png" target="_blank">Lunar Eclipse</a>, the Full Moon and Sun were in opposition along <b>the fixed or preservation sign axis of 27°14′ Taurus/Scorpio</b>; and the during the <a href="https://cafeastrology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/new-moon-solar-eclipse-december-4-2021-sagittarius.png" target="_blank">Solar Eclipse</a>, the Sun and New Moon were conjunct in the mutable or dissolution sign of Sagittarius, specifically at 12°22′ Sagittarius. These eclipses naturally fell half of the 29.5-day lunar month apart and <b>their midpoint (4°48′ Sagittarius) fell on 26 November</b>. I noticed this Lunar-Solar Eclipse midpoint because Thea repeatedly discussed 26 November – aka “Immortality Day” – as the midpoint of the 18-day span between the day and month of the “withdrawals” (i.e. deaths) of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, respectively on 17 November (25° Scorpio) and 5 December (12° Sagittarius), discounting the 23 years between their deaths.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#5a" id="5">[5]</a></span> In Thea’s cosmology, 26 November 1963 is the date (and 3°54′ Sagittarius the degree<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#6aa" id="6">[6]</a></span>) of Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth, 37 (36 + 1) years after the original <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#immortality-day" target="_blank">1926 Immortality Day</a> at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, and his rebirth is a realisation or real manifestation of the Vedic victory of the Divine Son-Hero-Sage-Horse-Flame Agni. Thea saw Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth as the victory of Mars, the Roman God of War, (=the Greek god Ares) who went by many names in Vedic and post-Vedic mythologies, including Kalki, Kartikeya, Dadhikravan, Subramanya, Skanda, and the Vedic Skambha (the upholding pillar) of the heavens. She recognized that the victorious birth of Agni – the Vedic fire god who is said to be thrice-born and triply seated in the Vedic Sacrifice (=the 12-month Tropical Year/Zodiac) – corresponds to the third angle of the Fire Trine: 0° Sagittarius. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<div style="text-align: justify;">This point of the Zodiac – 0° Sagittarius is the 6 Point of the Circle of 9. It marks out passage through 240° or two-thirds (8 months out of 12) of the 360° Year, equivalent to 864,000 seconds of degrees of arc (240° = 240° x 60′ x 60ʺ = 864,000ʺ = 432,000ʺ + 432,000ʺ). </div>
<div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSBF_3TEN-IEjWdxUA6DXXHVsqvn-BdpCGAyvYjq9EgxxH1L0Tid58qgBFbQvm1K79TQH0BzKn_dk9RmT3WUhGxqtTh6BEuaQYAFlkxJKzd_fbe23dryHB2YobStFZU7I9yKEOYg-V9Ck6mgzVB_zjoN1KWWrEQT4OukyHrzOTcEo69e8sJqxATKeT=s300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Triadic Division of the Circle by Three Vesica Piscis (image by Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="300" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSBF_3TEN-IEjWdxUA6DXXHVsqvn-BdpCGAyvYjq9EgxxH1L0Tid58qgBFbQvm1K79TQH0BzKn_dk9RmT3WUhGxqtTh6BEuaQYAFlkxJKzd_fbe23dryHB2YobStFZU7I9yKEOYg-V9Ck6mgzVB_zjoN1KWWrEQT4OukyHrzOTcEo69e8sJqxATKeT=w361-h283" title="Triadic Division of the Circle by Three Vesica Piscis (image by Lori Tompkins)" width="361" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The sacred number 864,000 corresponds to the diameter of the Sun in miles and <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2010/12/yugas-precession-of-equinoxes.html" target="_blank">the measure of two Yugas</a> and two vesica piscis (=two Vedic “rivers”).<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#7a" id="7">[7]</a> </span>Thea saw Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth equally in terms of the descent the Supramental or Divine Truth-Consciousness in our Age of Aquarius, and in terms of the victory of the conquering Warrior-Son (Mars/Agni/Kalki) over Death or over the Mortal-Mental consciousness that is the basis of the Old World that is currently collapsing in on itself. She referred to Sri Aurobindo reincarnated in the sign of Sagittarius as “the Son”, “the Fourth” and “the One” whose number is <b>19</b> and whose number-power is <b>1</b>, by way of his birth year [1 + 9 + 6 + 3 = 19 = 1 + 9 = <b>1</b>].</div><p></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Sri Aurobindo… took birth as the Son [on 26] November 1963, nine days before the date of his previous withdrawal (December 5th) and nine days after the Mother's withdrawal (November 17) …. Thus the two withdrawal dates embrace a period of exactly 18 days. Precisely at the midway point between the two, Immortality Day, the Father was born as the Son. The day was called Immortality Day by the Mother when, in 1926, she received the promise of immortality, a state which is fundamental in the establishment of a truth-conscious world…. [F]ifty years later in 1976, the real meaning of her experience was revealed and the victory confirmed.” – Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 191 </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The stories of Kartikeya, Shiva's divine Son, describe that One, unveiled, at the perfect centre in the cave of the heart; or, carried in the soul of Savitri for a return to Earth. For this reason Sri Aurobindo's rebirth occurred at the exact centre or mid-point between his passing and the Mother's – Immortality Day.” – Thea, <i>Secrets of the Earth – Questions and Answers on the line of Ten Avatars of Vedic Tradition</i>, p. 96 </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“We speak of [Sri Aurobindo reborn] as the redeemer of the 4.5 Orbit.... Indeed, born on Immortality Day <b>he is the conqueror of Death, Victorious Mars, the fourth planet</b>.” ‒ Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 290 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">“[We must add to our knowledge of the universe] the knowledge of [the Divine/Supramental] Descent, the Sacrifice and the Return, if at all the true laws of universal being are to be comprehended. By understanding the action of the supramental avatar, we are made to see the manner in which the universe is contained in the Absolute and the process of transmutation of energies from the Nonmanifest to the Manifest as it transpires in the so-called descent of the Transcendent into the Cosmos and into individual being…. <b>Sri Aurobindo, as the incarnate Transcendent…achieved the realisation of Immortality for the Earth</b>.” – Ibid., p. 567 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[By] his very own birth and death and re-birth in our earth-time, [Sri Aurobindo] redeems for us the consciousness-matter of our world. He is the Seed, the one eternal Truth from which all truths have sprung. He is the Tree, whose branches are the manifold manifestations of the potentials of the Seed. He is Shiva and His Son…. He is [Vishnu’s Avatar] Kalki, the master of <i>kāla</i>, of Time, who comes to lead on the white Horse, to cleave with his Sword of Truth any darkness that may stand on the way, as he re-poises on its four invincible pillars the kingdom of <i>sanātana dharma</i>, of the Eternal Truth.” – Ibid., p. 514</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The Solar Line carrying out the Supramental Descent) starts from 9 … passes on to 6 and then down to 3; until finally through the 3, the last of the tri-power original cell, <b>the 9 returns as the One</b>, and this is Kalki or Shiva's son Kartikeya, who is 'Shiva himself'.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#8a" id="8">[8]</a></span> – Ibid., p. 123 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[In 1950] Sri Aurobindo left his body and began the process of ‘giving form to the Point’ (that Will), or Agni, or Skambha via the Third Power of the Solar Line.…</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he Fourth Power, the Son of the Solar Line…introduces the horizontal plane after the ‘compressed vertical descent’ of the 9 and 6 and 3. The role of the Third is…to give form to this compressed Point, within which is contained the full force of the vast Transcendent. This is the description of the birth of the Father (Transcendent), through the 6 and 3, the ‘mothers’, the latter of which is the Third Power of the Line and through whom the birth [of the Fourth Power/Son of the Solar Line – aka Agni or Skambha or the ‘compressed Point’] actually takes place – i.e., the Transcendent is compressed to emerge in the cosmic manifestation as the Immanent.” – Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/culture-and-cosmos-3-1/" target="_blank">“Culture and Cosmos – 3, Part 1: Establishment of the Vedic Dharma and Contemporary Indian Society”</a>, <i>The Vishaal Newsletter</i>, Vol. 7.2, June 1992</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“(Agni) must pass through the Father [Sri Aurobindo, born in] the fifth sign Leo, before he can emerge in his fully formed incarnation as the Son of Force, the realiser of Immortality,—the Man-Horse of Sagittarius. <b>Mars (of Aries) must also first pass through the Waters of the eighth sign <u>Scorpio, a sign which [Mars] also rules</u>. Then that Mars force is transmuted and in the ninth sign it is portrayed as the Horse and serves as the harmonized and integrated vahana [vehicle] of the Man, of Agni Vaishwanara, the Universal Man</b>. For this reason the hieroglyph of Sagittarius depicts the arrow released from the tail of the Scorpio hieroglyph….” – Ibid., p. 379 [All emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"[O]n 17 November [the Mother] withdrew, in perfect attunement with Sri Aurobindo's passing,―to the day, to the hour, to the minute; and at the exact completion of the ninth month, 20 November,<a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#9a"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[9]</span> </a>she was placed in her tomb along with the body of Sri Aurobindo. The gestation was complete and the crystallisation of the womb could then compel the emergence of the Third. The bodies of the first and second in the Line represent the process as it is subjected to the laws of the old world; the third and fourth represent the passage of transition and the liberation from those limitations. The new consciousness cannot 'solidify' if initially the womb that holds it has not been solidified. This is the result of <b>the final nine months of the Mother's mysterious yoga of transformation</b>." ‒ Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, pp. 283-84 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">With the above in mind, the 19 November and 4 December eclipses at 27° Scorpio and at 13° Sagittarius, together with their Immortality Day midpoint and their Lunar Node Axis (1° Gemini/1° Sagittarius can be seen as being linked on a cosmological level to Sri Aurobindo’s Supramental Descent, rebirth, and avataric mission in Vishnu's Age of the Aquarian Water Bearer Age. Thea discussed Sri Aurobindo’s yogic victory as a victory over Death and over Chronos (Saturn/Time as a devourer of his children) and equally as a victory over the obstructive forces of Ignorance – the Panis and Vritra of the Vedas – that bear their full force and consequences in the fixed water sign of Scorpio. In the Vedas, this prophesied victory liberates the flow of the Vedic Waters (=the seven rivers-mothers-sisters) along with the eternal Light/Law (<i>sanatana dharma</i>) of their Infant-Son-Agni who is known to be victorious upon his birth. Below are several more illuminating excerpts from Thea’s writings that should help readers better understand the significance of the pair of eclipses falling respectively in the months of Scorpio and Sagittarius at the tail end of our enneadic passage through Scorpio.</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The 8th sign of Scorpio] is the sign of Death, as everybody in astrology knows. And it falls at this level – the 8th. Then you come to the 6 Point [at the end of Scorpio in the Gnostic Circle] and Saturn, and you come to the expansion. From this [6th] Point on this whole third segment is the question that we are unveiling today. The possibility of living this WHOLE WHEEL consciously. So, what it means then is that if you are conscious in this particular way, those energies are not collapsing. In other words, you are able to LIVE THIS PASSAGE.” – Thea [Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet], <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/extracts-from-theas-meeting-at-stone-ridge-new-york-25-9-1988/" target="_blank">25 September 1988, Stonebridge, NY, <i>The Vishaal Newsletter</i>, Volume 4.1</a></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“While externally poised breakdown at the 8th stage is inevitable. Death is the end of the journey. What this signifies is that we fall asleep, we sever our CONSCIOUS involvement with the evolutionary process. We have not BECOME THE EAGLE but remain in the somniferous state induced by the Scorpion's sting.” – Thea, 14 April 2006 (from a study group email)</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Scorpio in our analysis, where the power―the Light―is hoarded, and as has been mentioned, in this second hemisphere we must not analyse the signs alone but rather bear in mind the one that stands opposite to it on the wheel. Then <b>Scorpio is seen together with Taurus, which is indeed the 'miserly hoarder' of energy, of light, of power</b>. The Rig Veda calls this <i>go</i> or the cow. Taurus is indeed the sign of the Cow. But go in Sanskrit means also ray,―a ray of the sun, of light. In analysing Taurus in conjunction with Aries we found that<b> Taurus does hoard the light of the Sun, the Vedic 'cows'</b>….</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The miserly Panis hoard the light, or the 'cows' in Scorpio, the sign directly opposite Taurus.… [W]e are shown that through Saturn [seated at the 6 Point/0° Sagittarius of the Gnostic Circle] the way is to manifest for the release of the light the miserly Panis of Scorpio have hoarded. In Taurus the children ate the fruit of that 'very special tree' in the paradisiacal garden of Matter. Now, by passage through the sign opposite Taurus, they will dig deep into the unknown regions and find the source that feeds that Tree. The Tree of Taurus is the tree of immortal life; it is the very special, penned-in object of Taurus, the sign of matter. Therefore we understand that the secret of immortality is to be found in matter itself. But <b>the source that feeds the penned-in Tree [of Taurus/Tree of Life] is water, yet in Scorpio the flow [of water] is blocked and a poisonous stagnation sets in</b>. This stagnation also sets in motion an intense accumulation of energy. Now and then the accumulation reaches its limits and release is demanded….</p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[In] Scorpio we meet the power of Inertia, or the force that exists not in itself but which is only a reaction and not an equilibrium, a resistance to the forward drive of the evolution of consciousness.… [Inertia’s] companion in the process of stagnation is Ignorance. Or, we may say, ignorance is the child of inertia. Unconscious death is the result of the state of stagnation of energies, which are not being replenished by a superior source. The discovery of that source is the purpose of our odyssey. The liberation that is sought in Scorpio is precisely from the clutches of Inertia, or the discovery of the energy that is the power of release.” – Thea, <i>The Magical Carousel, Commentaries</i>, pp. 60-63 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The Centaur] victoriously sends a flaming arrow into <b>the 'door' that blocked the flow and rendered the waters stagnant</b>….</p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“INERTIA is the power of Death. It is the great Adversary in Scorpio. This is readily understood by observing the planet ruling the sign and the element and energy flow attributed to Scorpio. <b>The planet is Mars, the element is Water, the flow is Fixed, or Preservation. This arrangement indicates that there is a blockage of the precious Martian energy</b>,―the energy by which the manifestation comes into being (Aries) or is set in motion. Unless it is removed, a higher course into realms beyond the range of human mortality cannot be experienced, the journey cannot continue. <b>This great and mighty power is trapped in the Water element the zodiac reveals. And the human body is largely made up of water.</b> Therein the redeeming energy is hidden, and from there it is to be released. Hence it is said in the Rigveda that <b>Agni is 'hidden in the waters'</b>, for he is this energy.</p></blockquote>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">“[The Sagittarian Centaur’s] fire is the element that liberates, because it is the symbol of the power released that generates a speed sufficient to break through the barriers the inertia of Scorpio brings about. Sagittarius is the sign of regions beyond Mind; that is, at this point in the wheel the 'speed of Mind' is surpassed, the lid is rent and the movement proceeds at a velocity never experienced by the human being trapped in the circuits of the mental consciousness.</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">“The Centaur [of Sagittarius] is the symbol of the liberated vital force. When <b>the spirit of Fire descends to break the hold of inertia, the energy previously imprisoned</b>…is released and that very power is the force by which the consciousness exceeds the limits of mortal being.” – Ibid., pp. 70-71 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[In the ninth sign of Sagittarius] we have reached the maturing point of the zero degree of Aries. <b>The Mars energy of Aries is therefore fully redeemed or is wholly liberated in the ninth sign</b>, for the universal harmonies proceed along the same rhythms the human being himself experiences in his gestation and birth. <b>Thus Mars of the first Fire sign Aries is fully materialised in Sagittarius. Therefore it is the sign of the Saviour, of Kalki, of Skanda, or the victorious warrior-son of the Divine Mother</b>. And the Centaur, who is the personification of this liberated and redeeming energy, is the means by which [the daughter and son of <i>The Magical Carousel</i>] find themselves at the foot of the Mountain of Capricorn. The supreme release of energy, outcome of the experience of liberation from the hold of inertia, carries them into the heart of mass, the core of matter.” – Ibid., pp. 79-80 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[F]or the seeker to understand the transformation properly, the alchemical process of transmutation, it is important to comprehend the significance of the victory the God of War achieves. This victory is not the physical battle alone, as we experience in war today. It is that but it is also something much deeper, that touches the very root of being, that carries us beyond the realm of Death and into the kingdom of the everlasting Light. <b>Mars is essential to the process. The victory cannot be achieved without the correct utilisation of the power this planet epitomises</b>. Hence the action of [the Hero-Son in Chapter 8 of the zodiacal odyssey of <i>The Magical Carousel</i>] is crucial. He represents the masculine principle, and as such he stands here for all the males who have taken birth. The Sword is the seed of truth bearing in its core the power of a new destiny. <b>When he strikes the Scorpion he achieves liberation for all those of his kind and he fulfills the true dharma of the Warrior God: he releases the energy Mars epitomises from the clutches of Death</b>.” – Thea, <i>The Magical Carousel, Commentaries</i>, p. 64 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“<b>The 6 Point and the planet Saturn stands at the threshold of the sign Sagittarius</b>, sign par excellence of the Horse. One begins to emerge from the Scorpio cave, the darkness is somewhat lifted of mystifying, burdening veils, and <b>a great release is felt in the open spaces offered by Sagittarius, after the confinement of Scorpio</b>.” – Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/vedic-symbol-of-the-universe-part-1" target="_blank">"Vedic Symbol of the Universe – Part 1"</a>, <i>The Vishaal Newsletter</i>, Vol. 7.5, December 1992 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">*</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“There is hardly an individual in India who has understood the role the Vishnu Avatars play in the evolution of Vedic culture. I am probably the only one who has placed the appearances in the cosmological context – which is where they belong. In fact, the Line stands as the ‘axis’ of the new Indo-centric cosmology itself. That is perfectly as it should be: Reestablishment of the Dharma occurs as the Tradition has upheld for perhaps thousands of years – that is, centred on the Avatar’s [Vishnu’s] coming which is precisely for that purpose…..</p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“The Rig Vedic myth itself provides the key to the process [of Sri Aurobindo’s/Vishnu’s avataric descent]. The dark force the Warrior must conquer is simply inertia. To conquer Death in the quest for Immortality means that this power of Inertia has to be overcome. The entire Rig Vedic ‘yoga’, if it may be so called, is centred on this attainment. This is part of the lost knowledge that is resuscitated in our Age of Vishnu [=Age of Aquarius].” – Thea, <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2011/06/interview-with-patrizia-norelli.html" target="_blank">“Regarding Accusations of Distorting Hinduism"</a>, 28 June 2011 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Additional excerpts on the symbols and significance of the passage from Scorpio and Sagittarius can be found in <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html#Scorpio" target="_blank">Part One</a> of this series. Before further discussing the cosmological details of the Fall 2021 eclipses, I want to share my own experience of seeing the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse (Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Taurus) on the evening and early morning of 18-19 November, which compelled me to contemplate the significance of the eclipses in relation to Sri Aurobindo’s (Vishnu’s) Solar Line and the release of fixed waters of Scorpio in our Age of Aquarius and the 7 Point of my own year.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">After spending much of 18 November 2021 (26° Scorpio) getting reading to publish <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/253624509643805336/3304388957405916033" target="_blank">Part Five</a> of this series about the M-shaped hieroglyphs of Virgo, Scorpio and their connection to the two-wave symbol of Aquarius, my sister (a fellow Aquarian) invited me on a Full-Moon Moonrise walk. I said yes even though it was completely overcast and drizzling and I doubted we would be able to see the Moon at all. Some 45 minutes into the walk, circa 6 p.m., we saw what first looked like two luminous waves of light, one on top of the other, which we both thought looked like the Aquarius hieroglyph. As the clouds shifted a bit and the light of the rising moon increased behind the clouds, a clear M-shape immerged in the midst of the two “waves” of light.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC-HRv2Um-_VknLzp70Ely9B5GWxgNCHWQINJ_0QwwvTod8ThyphenhyphenjlLPVAJq6_SAdQ4eVBBinG6JcWasj5SRXaVan9F_jrsnSBSS_69ONOuR1n1kVVHbT3N9ykRKVYBHQJEOPquzh0eKWiE/s640/IMG_7281.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="M in the Sky - Full Moon in Taurus -18 November 2021" border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC-HRv2Um-_VknLzp70Ely9B5GWxgNCHWQINJ_0QwwvTod8ThyphenhyphenjlLPVAJq6_SAdQ4eVBBinG6JcWasj5SRXaVan9F_jrsnSBSS_69ONOuR1n1kVVHbT3N9ykRKVYBHQJEOPquzh0eKWiE/w514-h385/IMG_7281.jpg" title="M in the Sky - Full Moon in Taurus -18 November 2021" width="514" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo credit: Lisa Tompkins</b></span></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As we marveled at this glowing M, the Full Moon (23° Taurus at the time) emerged through the clouds exactly at the center point of the "valley" or <b>V</b> of the <b>M</b>, as clearly visible in the picture above. After showing itself for a minute or so, the Moon disappeared back into the light-eclipsing clouds and did not show itself again on the walk. What are the odds of the Moon and clouds forming these luminous shapes in the sky and of me being at the right place, at the right time to observe and appreciate them as I was preparing to publish my second article about the M-shaped hieroglyphs of the Zodiac and <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#birth-light" target="_blank">the birth or release of the long-eclipsed Light and Truth and Waters of the Vedic Rishis from the veils and obstructions of Scorpio</a>. In my experience it was a striking supramental convergence of symbol and synchronicity, connecting what I was seeing in my mind’s eye, so to speak, with what I was seeing in my external environment and it altered my consciousness accordingly. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUTtBLPiQPpGiRz1XeM9kbNzwJyJpxqpvWGOOA17lkAJdOT-j7Fcb6JbQFr2uu6DGslS99k9aJjHRQJOeErRM7V6WypDdQ3FuCfvN9ohzPaGo1oOoXId9shO7K-KroLvtcFqv4iL6Nrt4/s97/M-Aquarius-Glyph.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Aquarius Waves and inner M" border="0" data-original-height="88" data-original-width="97" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUTtBLPiQPpGiRz1XeM9kbNzwJyJpxqpvWGOOA17lkAJdOT-j7Fcb6JbQFr2uu6DGslS99k9aJjHRQJOeErRM7V6WypDdQ3FuCfvN9ohzPaGo1oOoXId9shO7K-KroLvtcFqv4iL6Nrt4/w110-h100/M-Aquarius-Glyph.jpg" title="Aquarius Waves and inner M" width="132" /></a>When I got home I constructed the image to the right to help me understand what I had seen in the sky: two luminous waves of the Aquarian hieroglyph which bore forward in themselves a dark M shape, all formed by the play of Moon’s light and its veiling clouds. A few hours later, the longest Lunar Eclipse since 1400 CE (and until 2669 CE) began to run its course. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Going to bed I was aware that the height of the eclipse was circa 1:00 a.m. (Pacific Time), but I did not set my alarm to see it. Regardless, I spontaneously woke up at 12:55 a.m. on the 19th and went outside wrapped in a blanket to see if the eclipse was visible. I looked up and there it was, nearly overhead my geographical position, a mostly eclipsed Moon with a beautiful arc of light remaining. I saw the three luminous points of Orion's Belt to the East but was not aware until the next day that the <b>"Seven Sisters"</b> of the Pleiades (28°-29° Taurus) and <b>the seventh planet Uranus</b> were close companions of the eclipse.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid6lgiik7_BTpNFYUdg0GuTBVzXecW1rjorRbzgJGvnLbmJFZ6owP0pbwYcPGxP60bFtbIa5FZZqNEc8HdLT1jDlZSaIrsYRVqGK3s4I9KOQwwwDITkun23EcclZxiAi1L6_RkDeEEa5c/s950/Lunar-eclipse-Pleiades_Jeff-Berkes_East-Point-Lighthouse-NJ_Nov-19-2021.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Full Moon Eclipse and Pleiades - 19 Nov 2021" border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="628" height="914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid6lgiik7_BTpNFYUdg0GuTBVzXecW1rjorRbzgJGvnLbmJFZ6owP0pbwYcPGxP60bFtbIa5FZZqNEc8HdLT1jDlZSaIrsYRVqGK3s4I9KOQwwwDITkun23EcclZxiAi1L6_RkDeEEa5c/w628-h914/Lunar-eclipse-Pleiades_Jeff-Berkes_East-Point-Lighthouse-NJ_Nov-19-2021.png" title="Full Moon Eclipse and Pleiades - 19 Nov 2021" width="628" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>19 Nov 2021 Eclipse & Pleiades, by Jeff Berkes, as found on <a href="http://EarthSky.org">EarthSky.org</a>.</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhek36s1OQJcb98P50mhAZeLN403eN-8GPF5ciuU1YXIjiSf6dqDYrFjjlYBLtEY8TzFf_UEkSgokLiP1KSRzRYfAlDaJx8izx_ILX4OU-QMCJdj_fRs2ocmgCw8gIrvqmGqttT5IjsKfY/s1916/19Nov2021-Lunar-Eclipse-Pleiades-Uranus-Orion.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Full Moon Eclipse and Uranus - 19 Nov 2021" border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="1916" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhek36s1OQJcb98P50mhAZeLN403eN-8GPF5ciuU1YXIjiSf6dqDYrFjjlYBLtEY8TzFf_UEkSgokLiP1KSRzRYfAlDaJx8izx_ILX4OU-QMCJdj_fRs2ocmgCw8gIrvqmGqttT5IjsKfY/w659-h406/19Nov2021-Lunar-Eclipse-Pleiades-Uranus-Orion.jpg" title="Full Moon Eclipse and Uranus - 19 Nov 2021" width="659" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>A snap shot of the Moon's 19 November 2021 Eclipse position taken on my iPad, Star Walk app.</b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiK783t-do6XvPsAC423em4blgExZJDKwJuFQhEMp3srNBBtedBIDHtU9zosME-949e_dczpUrGK2tbtGmJA0lTBr-Ve_VYfz5OcJab0q5T5XyUo3bOEqKsYTWCprO9BHP4TdmpGhPzamC_IKfZqjQRi7QZONNaodPSzyWQMQRV7pmbMqBhMk_3-vz=s1340" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><img alt="Squares, T-Squares and Oppositions of the Full Moon Eclipse - 19 Nov 2021" border="0" data-original-height="1340" data-original-width="1240" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiK783t-do6XvPsAC423em4blgExZJDKwJuFQhEMp3srNBBtedBIDHtU9zosME-949e_dczpUrGK2tbtGmJA0lTBr-Ve_VYfz5OcJab0q5T5XyUo3bOEqKsYTWCprO9BHP4TdmpGhPzamC_IKfZqjQRi7QZONNaodPSzyWQMQRV7pmbMqBhMk_3-vz=w337-h364" title="Squares, T-Squares and Oppositions of the Full Moon Eclipse - 19 Nov 2021" width="337" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><a id="leo-aquarius-1">I learned</a> of the eclipse’s conjunction with the <b>Seven Sisters of Pleiades</b> and proximity to <b>the seventh planet Uranus</b> the next morning while perusing the internet for images of the event. Again I wondered, “What are the odds that the “Seven Sisters” and the seventh planet, and thus the number-power of 7, would be so prominently featured in this eclipse – which fell precisely at the <b>7 Point of my 7 Power Year</b> of 52.” I was immensely grateful that I had been woken up just in time to see it. <a id="Leo-Aquarius">Looking at the astrological chart of the eclipse</a>, I could see that Jupiter, positioned at 24° Aquarius (the exact degree of my natal Sun), squared the 27° Taurus/Scorpio eclipse axis of the Moon and Sun, and that <b>Mars</b> was positioned at 13° Scorpio <b><i>opposite</i> Uranus</b> (12° Taurus), both squaring Saturn (8° Aquarius). All of these planets and luminaries and their respective squares and oppositions were situated in Vishnu’s fixed (aka preservation) signs of the Zodiac. The only fixed sign not represented in the 19 November Lunar Eclipse was Leo. I have placed Sri Aurobindo’s natal Sun and Jupiter in Leo (respectively 22° and 13° Leo) in the eclipse chart above-right (highlighted in orange), forming multiple oppositions and squares with the fixed-sign planets, luminaries and aspects of the eclipse. Below is a more detailed chart of the Lunar Eclipse chart together with the Solar Eclipse chart (via <a href="https://cafeastrology.com/2021-eclipse-charts.html">CafeAstrology.com</a>). I have added text and highlighted squares, oppositions and axes to both charts in order to illustrate some of the cosmological harmonies I have been discussing. </p><p></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOW3KhrsQUCJNdX3M88yvt_oV2S-fpSrZMCAPdm1XKxjh89cEJ0rfc1f00mLlAnzitMtnJgJrQzqxzQ22jhJj7unwuwyGypnFJCs9biXYU1RFb88_XNsbgib9VW4QpZM3BERgYH_yEQoENcgyk49oNY_zfD-eoKM-Hq823y0BqGZ2uFgqdF_7n9lLN=s2114" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="19 Nov 2021 Lunar Eclipse Chart w/the Mother's Passing" border="0" data-original-height="2114" data-original-width="1800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOW3KhrsQUCJNdX3M88yvt_oV2S-fpSrZMCAPdm1XKxjh89cEJ0rfc1f00mLlAnzitMtnJgJrQzqxzQ22jhJj7unwuwyGypnFJCs9biXYU1RFb88_XNsbgib9VW4QpZM3BERgYH_yEQoENcgyk49oNY_zfD-eoKM-Hq823y0BqGZ2uFgqdF_7n9lLN=w544-h640" title="19 Nov 2021 Lunar Eclipse Chart w/the Mother's Passing" width="544" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtQKeykvNmiBT_oMeytpCxVkj7Cs90OystwshcsUxFvDVJRvwyrFM8fMCLEkvgsUoQb8XGXjFeYmrQiVnjxKWZbUU41qvWNaXMVKlA6Kz9j-6vB_Oz_VtJIx-aJWhCwCEmSByvQTIXN0zSyZ21F8-wi8N8m096SM-JoU4zVj5bJ5QRsnO1NuYDOyU5=s2114" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="4 December 2021 Solar Eclipse Chart w/Sri Aurobindo's Passing" border="0" data-original-height="2114" data-original-width="1800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtQKeykvNmiBT_oMeytpCxVkj7Cs90OystwshcsUxFvDVJRvwyrFM8fMCLEkvgsUoQb8XGXjFeYmrQiVnjxKWZbUU41qvWNaXMVKlA6Kz9j-6vB_Oz_VtJIx-aJWhCwCEmSByvQTIXN0zSyZ21F8-wi8N8m096SM-JoU4zVj5bJ5QRsnO1NuYDOyU5=w544-h640" title="4 December 2021 Solar Eclipse Chart w/Sri Aurobindo's Passing" width="544" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;">The effects of an eclipse are said to last 6 months before and after its occurrence and its reverberating effects on individuals will vary according to what planets, luminaries and structures gets aspected or activated in one’s chart. It may behoove readers take a look at their own charts in relation to the eclipses and current transits. The image above highlights <b>the fixed sign squares and T-squares of the eclipses</b>. In my chart my natal Sun (24° Aquarius) is square Mars and Neptune at 24°/28° Scorpio and my Ascendant (Rising) is 10° Leo; thus the squares and T-squares and of the eclipses (and the current positions of the slow-transiting planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) have a direct impact on my natal set up. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In my mind, the astrological-details of the eclipses (the first in Scorpio and the second in Sagittarius) are underscoring and amplifying the evolutionary task of exposing and dismantling the Scorpionic obstructions that hoard or eclipse the Light/Truth of the Divine Soul. Everyone on the planet is going through some version of this right now, however consciously or unconsciously, regardless of their natal horoscopes. In Vishnu’s Age of Aquarius – we are enduring a collective apocalypse signifying the un-eclipsing and emergence of our own Divine Light and our own Truth-Consciousness, which must necessarily expose and dismantle all that is founded upon Ignorance and Falsehood. Our Higher Light and Truth is being born out of the dark womb (or shell) of our own Ignorance, which has served its purpose and this womb (shell) is now contracting (cracking open), as it must.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8UTtxNXEzezgEeHQ1TjM2Wtpl3NKyHUJI0VJYYd3jowB_dLK5HxOO9JLzx-k_r1I419DYhK_Rc8RxeKDqIa3ANiTyRJzU_S3N_Rrgi_h5OJyJPoRKj3yEQXLAEJpuBFTDIpGNHsHIntVCeu6KZ5HjdiwTS4pJTTcDPRF86AAXJqXmdnHoLGn4FpAU=s1012" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="19 Nov 2021 Lunar Eclipse transits-Mars-Uranus-Venus & the 1-4-7 Trine of the Gnostic Circle (image by Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1012" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8UTtxNXEzezgEeHQ1TjM2Wtpl3NKyHUJI0VJYYd3jowB_dLK5HxOO9JLzx-k_r1I419DYhK_Rc8RxeKDqIa3ANiTyRJzU_S3N_Rrgi_h5OJyJPoRKj3yEQXLAEJpuBFTDIpGNHsHIntVCeu6KZ5HjdiwTS4pJTTcDPRF86AAXJqXmdnHoLGn4FpAU=w320-h307" title="19 Nov 2021 Lunar Eclipse transits-Mars-Uranus-Venus & the 1-4-7 Trine of the Gnostic Circle (image by Lori Tompkins)" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is worth mentioning that Uranus’s transit through Taurus is currently conjunct the <b>1 Point</b> of the Gnostic Circle (10° Taurus). Uranus’s current retrograde motion will take it into 10° Taurus on 30 December 2021 and it will go direct (forward through Taurus) from 7 Feb 2022 onward. Thus <b>the 7th planet Uranus, conjunct the 1 Point, forms a triangle (trine) with its own 7 Point seat (10° Capricorn) and the 4 Point seat of the 4th planet Mars in the Gnostic Circle</b>. During the Lunar Eclipse, <b><u>the 4th planet Mars</u></b> was notably positioned in Scorpio (the sign it rules), <u><i>opposite</i> the <b>1 Point </b>and the transiting <b>7th planet</b></u>, at the nadir of this <b>1-4-7 Triangle</b>, and Venus transited conjunct the 7 Point. Transiting Uranus, Mars and Venus are highlighted in blue in the image to the right. What an interesting arrangement of the 2nd, 4th and 7th planets in relation to the seats and number-powers of the ONE, FOUR and SEVEN in the Gnostic Circle, especially given what Thea wrote regarding the victory of the One, the Fourth, Mars/Agni, and the corresponding release of the seven rivers (=seven sisters, seven mothers) of the Vedas which she associated with the 7 Point of the Gnostic Circle.</div><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Lunar Eclipse’s conjunction with the <b>Seven Sisters</b> of Pleiades is equally fascinating, given what Thea’s wrote about the connection between the seven mothers (=seven rivers) of the Vedas and the seven sisters of the Pleiades and about the position of the Pleiades (always situated at 28°-29° Taurus) at the time of Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth on 26 November 1963 (3° Sagittarius). </p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[T]he Waters [seven rivers] are the seven upholding mothers, the very Pleiades whom the Puranas tell us nurtured the boy Skanda, and which were <b>on the horizon at his birth</b>.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#10a" id="10">[10]</a></span> – Thea, <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, p. 480 [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As I have previously mentioned in this series and in <i>Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom</i>, “seven sisters” is one of many Vedic epithets for the first seven vesicae piscis (=seven rivers, floods, mothers, cows, mares, paths, etc.) of the Zodiacal Year which bear Agni as the Sage/Horse/Skambha forward to his goal (0° Aquarius/Kumbha), which is equally described as a vat, jar, beaker, reservoir, meeting or gathering place of the seven rivers (seven drops of soma, seven paths, etc.). I have emphasized the references to Kumbha below in <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">blue-bold</span></b>.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Like a steed urged to battle, finder of the light; [Agni] speed onward to <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">the cloud-born reservoir of heaven</span></b>, Fleet as swift steeds, thy drops, divine, thought-swift, have been, O [Agni – Soma] Pavamana, poured with milk into <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>the vat</b></span> ….Seven Milch-kine [=cows=mothers=rivers] glorify the Tawny-coloured One [Agni] while with his wave in wool he purifies himself. The living men, the mighty, have impelled the Sage into <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">the waters' lap, the place of sacrifice</span></b>….The <b>Sisters Seven</b>, the Mothers [=rivers], stand around the Babe, the noble, new-born Infant, skilled in holy song….Dweller in floods, King, foremost, he displays his might, set among living things as measurer of days.” – Rig Veda 9.86. 3, 25, 36, 45, tr. RTH Griffith</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Agni – the "measurer" of the sacred year or sacrifice – is quite frequently depicted inside and traveling to a <i>kumbha</i> (jar, vat, etc.) in the Vedas. In Rig Veda 10.44.4 this victorious Son of the seven rivers-sisters – which I see as the ray/radius of 0° Sagittarius – is specifically referred to as “<b>the Sage, the [<i>skambha</i> = pillar] of vigour, in the vat</b>”, i.e. as the Sage and <b>Skambha of the Kumbha</b>. It was actually an exploration of the shape and geometry of the number 7 (shown to the left below) which helped to catalyze my seeing of the geometric and zodiacal sense of the Vedic rivers on 2 October 2016, <b>seven days</b> before Thea’s passing.</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwV3mDF1sOxpHiEP5vplYjyCQrCSE1MerVbrogs-3WRuGJlEqMT8UGQnjn2yAgrR1rft5yFL5srU1mk58TzeQxdqqKrhTTacLaRAFBWx2vZ8KXLEF6wjDjLGQZB8k79KCD029H2dcFxXh4JNGBBnTRMNqgpA1It6B39DXewElL8b_PIY-JtNUCYTm1=s1718" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Seven Rivers of the Vedic Year/Zodiac (image by Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1718" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwV3mDF1sOxpHiEP5vplYjyCQrCSE1MerVbrogs-3WRuGJlEqMT8UGQnjn2yAgrR1rft5yFL5srU1mk58TzeQxdqqKrhTTacLaRAFBWx2vZ8KXLEF6wjDjLGQZB8k79KCD029H2dcFxXh4JNGBBnTRMNqgpA1It6B39DXewElL8b_PIY-JtNUCYTm1=w640-h186" title="The Seven Rivers of the Vedic Year/Zodiac (image by Lori Tompkins)" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Thea equated the seventh planet Uranus – <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5CTLqDeD6r8kEAMMP8XrJhM8C87kEiO5Aw5gch2VOq1Y-mK07w9zJDLBUUSl_r9dKsJ8Q9ML7ofSZiN2WUP1B5WVVRO6ME9zJVBKYyx8uxOy0jTr7Sp4PlSEx7MDy2qffMc-xk9ibCZPwrBpuWWzpIOFdSM7k4xHeyuX_Kw-Tn3sCuVftAeocVoAb=s16" style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="14" data-original-width="16" height="16" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5CTLqDeD6r8kEAMMP8XrJhM8C87kEiO5Aw5gch2VOq1Y-mK07w9zJDLBUUSl_r9dKsJ8Q9ML7ofSZiN2WUP1B5WVVRO6ME9zJVBKYyx8uxOy0jTr7Sp4PlSEx7MDy2qffMc-xk9ibCZPwrBpuWWzpIOFdSM7k4xHeyuX_Kw-Tn3sCuVftAeocVoAb" width="14" /></a> – with the Vedic god Varuna who is described in the Vedas as the discriminator of “men's truth and falsehood”, who stands amidst and “belongs to” the seven rivers/sisters.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#11a" id="11">[11]</a></span> In some hymns, Varuna is credited with leading the seven rivers (also referred to as seven mares) and with pouring out the heavenly “cask” (aka <i>kumbha</i>) of waters.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#12a" id="12">[12]</a></span> In astrological lore, Uranus is the planetary ruler of Aquarius/Kumbha – the sign of the Water Bearer who, in astrological lore, is known to releases the waters from their <i>kumbha</i>, sacred vessel or container. In <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, Thea referred to Uranus as “the planetary ruler of the Aquarian Age,―the age of the Water-Carrier”. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In her view, the release of the seven rivers and the culmination of the Vedic Sacrifice happens at the 7 Point of the Circle (10° Capricorn), the seat of the seventh planet of Uranus which she equated with Varuna (and Ayasya). [See Thea's <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/253624509643805336/3304388957405916033" target="_blank">Gnostic Circle</a> for a full view of the 12 months and 9 number powers/seats of the Vedic Year.] </p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJbf_wcP_3x2R7yIfZWOQ2TaNBsO8yJoMrnY4eY1NqrCi-5ajS4NKN1IFoCpb8X_f7b9RkCagY2DxCC87zaKk-98CI1sPlmaJnrZOKuwTySfymTAJjx4QYutolpWXOEfqf1g56ng__3P8/s783/TNW12-413-415-7-Rivers-Uranus.jpg" style="margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Seven Rivers of the Vedic Year/Zodiac-Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea), The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2, pp. 413, 415." border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="783" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJbf_wcP_3x2R7yIfZWOQ2TaNBsO8yJoMrnY4eY1NqrCi-5ajS4NKN1IFoCpb8X_f7b9RkCagY2DxCC87zaKk-98CI1sPlmaJnrZOKuwTySfymTAJjx4QYutolpWXOEfqf1g56ng__3P8/w640-h358/TNW12-413-415-7-Rivers-Uranus.jpg" title="Seven Rivers of the Vedic Year/Zodiac-Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea), The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2, pp. 413, 415." width="640" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Source: Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea), <i>The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2</i>, pp. 413, 415.</b></span></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In my view, Thea was a great Seer and saw and presented exactly what she needed to in order to accomplish her specific yoga and her specific role in the progressive (multi-staged) recovery of Vedic gnosis in Vishnu’s Age of Aquarius. <i>Her role did not include knowing the geometric sense, form, divine measure and eternal law of the Vedic rivers</i> (=floods, waters, sisters, mothers, cows, etc.); and without knowing the form and <i><u>measure</u></i> of theses rivers, she could not precisely see or identify <i>the exact location of their release</i> in the 12-month Vedic year: 0° Aquarius. That work or stage of the recovery was given to an Aquarian “Water Bearer” (born in a 7 number-power Year) in conjunction with Thea’s passing. Without what Thea did see and illuminate about the Vedic rivers and the zodiacal context of the Vedic Sacrifice, I would not have been in the position to receive the gnosis of their geometric sense, measure and positions in the Zodiac on 2 October 2016. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The students who took over the management of Thea’s centre and place of residence in Tamil Nadu – Aeon Centre of Cosmology, aka “Skambha” – believe that Thea was an infallible Seer of Truth who accomplished all that needed to be accomplished in terms of realizing the Vedic Victory and could not have been “off” or limited in her understanding about the Vedic rivers. They consider what I write about these seven rivers and their victorious release the week of Thea’s passing to be Falsehood. In their minds, what I write about a descent of Vedic gnosis (or the Supramental Yoga) <i>beyond</i> what Thea saw and revealed is akin to blasphemy against their Guru. In my mind, the managers and residents of Skambha have assumed the role of the Scorpionic forces – the Panis and Vritra of the Vedas – who obstruct the flow of the Vedic waters. In keeping with Supramental dictum of “the symbol is the thing symbolized”, the person who took over the role of “Director” of Aeon Centre/Skambha after Thea’s 2016 passing is a Scorpio by birth.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#13a" id="13">[13]</a></span> Thankfully, due to the world-wide-web and self-publishing technologies, the release of the geometric and zodiacal sense of these rivers in our Aquarian Age is a <i>fait accompli</i> and cannot be obstructed by anyone and the Panis have no power except the power to ignore any new influx of Light and to do all they can to preserve their own crystallized beliefs and structures. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Aquarius is co-ruled by Saturn and Uranus. Whereas Saturn is associated with Time’s power of crystallization and the formation of concrete structures and boundaries, Uranus is associated with quick and revolutionary change and freedom from restraints, structures and boundaries of the Past. It is known to be Future-oriented and is referred to as “the Great Awakener”. Uranus’s current transit (2018-2026) of the Earth sign Taurus is fitting in terms of the major upheavals and the breaking down of life as usual on planet Earth that we are collectively facing. [See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyQWdJ4il18" target="_blank">Pam Gregory’s analysis</a>.] We can see the effects of Uranus in Taurus manifesting in our world in many uncomfortable ways, disrupting and altering life on Earth as we have known it. In my mind, it feels like Uranus in Taurus has coincided with the dismantling of a façade and unearthed a level of falsehood and collective ignorance that has been festering under the surface of our civilization for not only centuries, but for ages. There is the sense that there is really no returning to the way things were (in the PAST), pre-Trump, pre-COVID19, pre-January 6th, etc., and the phrase “the new normal” is a common slogan of our times. This upheaval also coincides with <b>Uranus’s square with Saturn – i.e. a square involving the two co-rulers of Aquarius</b> – throughout 2021. Saturn is also the ruler of the Earth sign Capricorn and is associated with reality checks and the difficult clash between egoic mental or emotionally based ideas, beliefs and agendas and the limits or constraints of the present reality.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This Uranus-Saturn square is considered by most astrologers to be the dominant astrological theme of 2021, amplifying the natural and ongoing clash between progressive, Future-oriented and purifying forces, with well-established, increasingly toxic, conservative structures and beliefs of the Past that don’t want to change or loosen their fixed-hold on the Present. It boils down to the epic clash between those that live in the morbid shadow of the <b>eclipsed</b> Truth/Light (Plato’s allegorical cave) and those that strive to <b>un-eclipse</b> (discover and uncover) and live in that Truth/Light.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The position of Mars in the fixed water sign Scorpio during the 19 November Lunar Eclipse energized or added some extra volatility to the already volatile energies of the Uranus-Saturn Square in the fixed signs of Taurus and Aquarius. I will not get into all the ways the energies of this square manifested in 2021, but the January 6th attack on the US Capital (in the month of Capricorn) was certainly one of them. I think the devastating December tornadoes in the USA can also be considered an expression of this square as well along with other <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/weather-disasters-2021/" target="_blank">extreme weather events</a> of 2021 that underscore the Saturnian realities of climate change on Earth in a dramatic Uranian way. Regardless of who does or does not believe that human behavior‒, including dependence on burning toxic FOSSIL fuels as an Energy source, animal agriculture and deforestation‒, is causing climate change, Earth’s climate is changing and new weather patterns are wreaking extreme havoc on large swaths of humanity.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To fully appreciate the volatile energies of the 19 November eclipse and <b>the <u>fixed-sign</u> Saturn-Uranus-Mars T-square</b>, it is important to take into account that the fixed signs are considered to be the astrological signs most resistant to change, though Aquarians do not fit that bill in many ways because they are known for embracing and enacting change and revolution on whatever scale. Astrological “squares”, as found in both eclipses, are known for being “hard aspects”, creating movement and growth through tension, stress and difficulties rather than the harmonious flow associated with a “trine” or “sextile” aspect. We must also take into account what Thea illuminated about Vishnu’s avatars appearing in <b>the <u>fixed-sign (preservation)</u> Ages in order to restore and preserve the eternal law, gnosis (<i>sanatana dharma</i>), light and truth of the ancient Seers and of the Vedas</b>. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What Sri Aurobindo and his collaborators have restored and preserved in the dawn of our Aquarian Age shines great light on and clashes immensely with the long-standing (multi-Age) ignorance, misconceptions, misreadings, errors and distortions of the ancient Vedic gnosis that have crystalized into warring dogmatic religions based on symbols whose meanings have been long “lost in translation’. Via Sri Aurobindo’s avataric descent, the fixed Scorpionic force of obstruction was successfully conquered and <i><b>undercut</b></i> at its Vedic foundation, allowing for the 2016 release of the zodiacal and geometric sense of the seven Vedic rivers (=the seven vials of St. John’s <i>Revelation</i>) 144 years after his birth. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In her series, <i><a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Chronicles of the Inner Chamber</a></i>, Thea documented her multi-decade yogic battle with the forces of Ignorance, Inertia and Obstruction who refused to honor, understand and preserve <b>the Divine Measure</b> of the Mother’s Vedic Temple. She wrote therein that the ‘stinger’ [of the Scorpion] was cut, the power-source of Inertia was eliminated” in the Spring of 2004.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#14a" id="14">[14]</a></span> Twelve and a half years later, in 2016, the Scorpionic obstruction of <b>the Divine Measure</b> of the Vedic Rivers and thousands of interrelated Vedic symbols simply collapsed, once and for all, releasing all manner of ancient treasures to be seen, understood and utilized by all “with eyes that see”. As prophesied in St. John’s <i>Revelation</i>,―which Thea discussed in relation to Sri Aurobindo’s avataric descent in our Age of Aquarius―, the release of the seven vials (=seven rivers in the Vedas) initiates a process of global purification which is devastating for those who are attached to Falsehood and Ignorance rather than to the Light and Truth of the conquering Hero-Son/Avatar of the New Age.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Lunar Node Axis</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the above large color images of the eclipses, the <b>1° Gemini/Sagittarius</b> Lunar Node axis of the eclipses, along with the <b>3°</b> Sagittarius position of Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth, is highlighted in red. Note that I am using the True measure of the Lunar Nodes in this article, as opposed to the Mean measure. The Lunar Nodes consistently move in retrograde motion (backwards) through the Zodiac and complete a full revolution through 360° in approximately 18.6 years. Thus, it takes the Lunar Nodes approximately 18.6 months to move through each sign of the Zodiac and approximately18.6 days to move through each degree on average. The Lunar Nodes will travel through <b>0° Gemini/0° Sagittarius</b> just after the New Year of 2022 begins (3-18 January) and then will move backwards through <b>the fixed signs of Taurus and Scorpio</b> for approximately 18.6 months.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#15a" id="15">[15]</a> </span>They have been traveling through the dissolution (mutable) signs of Gemini and Sagittarius since May of 2020, some three months after the World Health Organization declared the spread of COVID19 a “global health emergency”. The 4 December 2021 Solar Eclipse was a South Node Eclipse meaning it was created by the position of the South Node (at <b>1° Sagittarius</b>) in relation to the Sun and Moon (at 12° Sagittarius), causing the Moon to temporary block of the Light of the Sun from the perspective of certain locations on the Earth. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWXDrJMEanyHq5E_2hYashM46m6us5G4slfwyGHTo1rW7xqIuoZ288at7JWIRXuVDRuvHgL_DnonM5aAohC7ajdhTTltemdLKWzydHZy2Yy-JdMidFHSndWw5DhogKJWwyJTj5DdYtDAjHCiagMVAz6L_R2ME8Kmg-BrbQTDqOtfpSdjZqXtkItYbJ=s1446" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="2016-2025 Ennead-Taurus-Scorpio-Gemini-Sagittarius Axes (image by Lori Tompkins)" border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="1446" height="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWXDrJMEanyHq5E_2hYashM46m6us5G4slfwyGHTo1rW7xqIuoZ288at7JWIRXuVDRuvHgL_DnonM5aAohC7ajdhTTltemdLKWzydHZy2Yy-JdMidFHSndWw5DhogKJWwyJTj5DdYtDAjHCiagMVAz6L_R2ME8Kmg-BrbQTDqOtfpSdjZqXtkItYbJ=w640-h632" title="2016-2025 Ennead-Taurus-Scorpio-Gemini-Sagittarius Axes (image by Lori Tompkins)" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Whereas we reach 0° Sagittarius – the 6 Point of our 2016-2025 ennead on 1 January 2022, the South Node will transit backwards across the 6 Point on 18 January, three days before the Sun moves into the sign of Aquarius/Kumbha. The South Node started moving backwards from 0° Aries on 12 November 2015, 11 months before Thea’s passing (9 October 2016) and three months before I started receiving the Vedic key of the vesica piscis and its indwelling son/radius. It has taken approximately 6.2 years for the South Lunar Node to travel <i>backwards</i> from 0° Aries (the 0/9 Point) through the third triad (the last four signs=120°=432,000ʺ) of the Zodiac to reach its current position, corresponding to the 6 years it has taken us to reach the 6 Point in our <i>forward</i> march through our ennead. This is a truly interesting convergence involving the eternal law and measure of the radius (the Divine One/Son) and its eternal companion and divine raiment – the vesica piscis – which together divide the circle into three and establishes the Divine Trinity (the 3-6-9) of our 9-base number system, the Fire Trine of the Zodiac<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, and <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2010/12/yugas-precession-of-equinoxes.html" target="_blank">the measure of the Yugas</a> as well.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Astrologer <a href="https://thedigestonline.com/astrology/lunar-eclipse-2021/" target="_blank">Kaitlyn De Leonardis</a> has the following to say about the December eclipse. Note that she is referring to the “Mean” (not the “True”) measure of the Lunar Nodes.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">"The solar eclipse in Sagittarius on December 4 is the final eclipse of the Gemini-Sagittarius series. As the Sun and Moon join forces in this valiant fire sign, it marks a new beginning, or a fresh start, as all solar eclipses/new moons do. Being a South Node eclipse, there is an extra emphasis on release. By now, both the lunar nodes will be at the critical 0 degrees mark of each sign. We can’t bring our baggage on this new journey. By letting go of the old, we create space for the new to come flooding in.... There has been a restricted energy with the South Node in Sagittarius and this solar eclipse marks the lifting of those restrictions.”</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;">Whereas this is true and important in terms of a snapshot of the Solar Eclipse, the North and South Nodes will soon be moving into FIXED Earth and Water signs of Taurus and Scorpio for the next year and a half which in my mind means that the challenges or rather the battle of freeing ourselves of our old baggage, old ways and the obstructions of Truth and our higher potentials and inner Light is only going to intensify on a global scale in the coming years. Several current and upcoming astrological transits emphasize an over-arching process of revolution, evolution and transformation on Earth. These include <a href="https://www.moonomens.com/neptune-direct/" target="_blank">Neptune (in Pisces) going direct</a> on 1 December, <a href="https://astrology.tv/uranus-goes-direct-what-opportunities-and-changes-await/" target="_blank">Uranus (in Taurus) going direct</a> on 18 January. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/253624509643805336/3304388957405916033#" target="_blank">America’s Pluto return</a> on 22 February 2022 (22.2.2022) and <a href="https://cosmicintelligenceagency.com/plutoinaquarius/" target="_blank">Pluto’s transit into Aquarius</a> in March of 2023. </p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“Pluto takes 248 years to go around the Sun. The last time Pluto was in Aquarius was between 1778 and 1798, a period of massive change all over the world. <b>The American constitution, still considered the pinnacle of democracy, was written when Pluto was in Aquarius</b>.<b> The Constitution’s first three words – We the People – are perhaps the first modern expression of the “Aquarius entity”.</b> This entity is not a king, a ruler, nor the government. This is exactly what the European settlers were running away from. “We the people” is the people – an entity without a leader, an entity that self-governs and self-regulates according to the interests and well being of everyone.” – <a href="http://Astrobutterfly.com">Astrobutterfly.com</a> [Bold emphasis added]</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notable World Events in the Span of the 19 November and 4 December Eclipses</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I think it is useful to look at some of the real-world events that unfolded within that 15-day span of the 19 November and 4 December eclipses. On 19 November Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of the murder charges he faced for gunning down three people (killing <b>two out of three</b>) with a semi-automatic assault rifle during the 2020 Kenosha anti-racism protests at the age of 17. On 24 November three white men were convicted of shooting and killing Ahmaud Arbery for <a href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/05/11/running-while-black-ahmaud-arbery" target="_blank">“Running While Black”</a>. On 30 November 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley killed four people and injured seven with a semi-automatic handgun at his high school in Michigan. On 4 December Ethan’s parents, who bought the weapon for him as a Christmas present and didn’t lock it up, were arrested (while on the run) for involuntary manslaughter via criminal negligence for their enabling role in the school shooting. On 3 December 2021, the Washington Post published <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russia-ukraine-invasion/2021/12/03/98a3760e-546b-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html" target="_blank">an article</a> on the buildup of Russian troops on the Ukraine border. A 30 October WaPo article indicated that “Officials in the United States and Europe began noticing the movements particularly in recent weeks…after Russia concluded a massive joint military exercise with Belarus known as <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/09/23/zapad-2021-what-we-learned-from-russias-massive-military-drills-a75127" target="_blank">Zapad 2021</a> on its western flank in mid-September.” The 3 December <i>Washington Post</i> article was essentially a heads-up notice to the public that the US intended to intervene in this matter, which took the form of a 7 December Biden-Putin video call during which Biden “made clear that the U.S. and [its] Allies would respond with strong economic and other measures in the event of military escalation [in Ukraine].” [<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov">www.whitehouse.gov</a>] </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Two of these events involve adolescent males [sons] toting semi-automatic weapons and killing or injuring a dozen or so people, one is compared to a lynching of a black man by white men, and one involves men amassing weapons, troops and machinery to invade Ukraine which declared its sovereignty on 16 July 1990 in the midst of the collapse of the USSR. All are extreme expressions of Mars energy which has not risen beyond the Death-bound Ignorance/Darkness of Scorpio; and all are <i>entirely</i> par for the course (and routine) in our modern world wherein dysfunctional masculine energies have the resources and technologies to run rampant with their agendas, and in many cases their delusions, to the great detriment of Earth and its creatures. The dangerous perversion of the true principle of the masculine Hero-Son-Warrior in our world has been greatly amplified by <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/kyle-rittenhouse-right-wing-violence-1257856/" target="_blank">MAGA’s adoption of Kyle Rittenhouse as a HERO</a>, and by the fact that Ethan Crumbley’s parents essentially armed and enabled their SON to go on a shooting spree. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Lastly it must be mentioned that on the 26 November – the midpoint of the Lunar and Solar eclipses – the World Health Organization (WHO) named and announced Omicron as a “variant of concern” because of its super-charged capacity to rapidly spread, causing a new wave of global restrictions, contractions and dread. On 5 December 2021 <i>Bloomberg News</i> published an article entitled <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-05/omicron-sounds-death-knell-for-globalization-2-0" target="_blank">“Omicron Sounds the Death Knell for Globalization 2.0”</a> with the subtitle “On top of an intensifying cold war between the U.S. and China and other seismic changes, the rapid spread of Covid-19’s newest variant could finish off our most recent phase of global integration.” </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In my view the 19 November and 4 December Lunar eclipses coincided with a certain increase in the gravity of our civilizational crises. Life on our extraordinarily beautiful and lush Earth feels extra tense and extra precarious as we approach the 6 Point and into the last triad of our current ennead – a Point in the Zodiac/Vedic Journey which marks either the shift from Ignorance to Higher Gnosis or a collapse upon the falsehood of the Past. It is the point wherein, if Fate and the Time-Spirit allows, one learns, sees, or experiences some Higher Truth that dismantles at least some significant swath of one's previously held ignorance. At this point, one has no choice but to reorganize one’s life based on that influx of higher truth, regardless of the personal cost. It is a point of no return. This is what the 6 Point (0° Sagittarius) in the Gnostic Circle represents. The soul’s truth, and likely its mission, becomes clearly crystallized and known (<i>no longer hidden</i>) as a seed of all that comes next. All of one’s Mars energy is thereupon mobilized to ascend out of the darkness of the past, and to forge ahead into the new world or new territory opened up by the liberating Truth. It is the point in our evolution of consciousness when our stubborn mental-egoic shell of Ignorance is shattered by our indwelling Soul-Spark (Guha—the Hidden One) – via the Soul’s own hidden agenda and its own supramental conspiracy of circumstances. Upon the breaking of the crystalized shell or womb of our Ignorance, the Soul emerges with its higher consciousness and with its capacity to purify and integrate the ignorance of the Past. The Past (however difficult) gets redeemed in a real sense and occurs as Treasure. This Point, whether at the scale of the individual or the collective) is the culmination of an epically difficult evolutionary process and labor, and like any birth process, <i><u>it happens </u></i><u><i>at its own pace</i></u>, and <i><u>the gestation process is not at all controlled by the Mental consciousness</u></i><u>. </u><i><u>It is the </u></i><i><u>Supramental</u></i><i><u> gestation and labor of the indwelling soul.</u></i></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Happy Solstice/Makar Sankranti to all. As light begins to increase and as we approach the 6 Point of our ennead, it feels one-hundred percent appropriate to call forward the Light and Truth that we carry (the Divine Flame however hidden) in the vessels our own bodies and minds, and to pray for or invite in grace, compassion, love and maybe even a sense of humor and joy as we engage in our collective yoga of transformation. In case some readers are interested in more detailed astrological analysis of our current and coming transits, I have added some links in the endnotes<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#16a" id="16">[16]</a></span> to several astrologers and resources that I have found useful this year.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;">⁓ Link to <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">Part 7</a></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">⁓</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Full Series Links: <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-and.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">1</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">2</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">3</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">4</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">5</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">6</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">7.1</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #bf8b38;">7.2</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">8.1</a><span>, or </span><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html" target="_blank">8.2</a></span></div></div></blockquote>
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<a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#1" id="1a">[1]</a> On 1 January of 1969, (the 7 Point of the 1962-1971 ennead), the Mother experienced and discussed “the descent of the superman consciousness”. See <i>The Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 10</i>, <a href="http://www.sri-aurobindo.in/workings/ma/agenda_10/1969-01-01-01_e.htm" target="_blank">1 January</a>, <a href="http://www.sri-aurobindo.in/workings/ma/agenda_10/1969-01-04-01_e.htm" target="_blank">4 January</a> and <a href="http://www.sri-aurobindo.in/workings/ma/agenda_10/1969-01-08-01_e.htm" target="_blank">8 January</a> 1969.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#2" id="2a">[2]</a> See <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2020/05/seeing-in-understanding-symbols-sense.html" target="_blank">“Seeing In Understanding – Part One"</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#31" id="3a">[3]</a> 12 February + 280 days = 19 November. In terms of <b>degrees</b> of the 360° Zodiacal Year, 24° Aquarius (12 February) + 280° [7 x 40°] = 4° Sagittarius, closely conjunct the 3°49′ natal Sun position of “the Fourth”. 24° Aquarius + 270° (nine zodiacal months) = 24° Scorpio. 24° Aquarius + 270° + 1° = 25° Scorpio which corresponds to the date and degree of the Mother's passing on <b>17 November </b>in 1973. Thea referred to the nine months before the Mother's passing as "the final nine months of the Mother's mysterious yoga of transformation."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#4" id="4a">[4]</a> 5 January 2016 + 280 days = 11 October 2016, the day of Thea’s cremation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#5" id="5a">[5]</a> Sri Aurobindo passed in 1950 and the Mother passed in 1973. Thea’s discussion of the 18-day span between their respective departures naturally arose from her seeing both events in the context of the same 12-month Year or cycle. On p. 409 of <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&2</i>, Thea wrote “12° Sagittarius, corresponds to 5 December”. She also discusses the fact that he passed at 12° Sagittarius in terms of his enneadic cycle as well as in the cycle of the zodiacal year. The Mother, on the other hand, passed at the cusp of 20° Scorpio in her ennead (269 days into her 95th year) and 25° Scorpio in the zodiacal year. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#6" id="6a">[6]</a> In <i>The New Way, Vols. 1&</i>2, Thea wrote of <b>3°54′</b> Sagittarius as the position of the Sun upon Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth, in conjunction with the position of her own natal North Node (5° Sagittarius), and in conjunction with the progression of Sri Aurobindo’s Lunar Nodes (3° Gemini/Sagittarius) on 26 November 1963 [pp. 419-420]. Taking <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/brazil/sao-paulo?year=1963" target="_blank">DST (Daylight Savings Time)</a> into account, I calculate the position of the Sun upon Sri Aurobindo’s rebirth (as recognized by Thea) as <b>3°49′ </b>Sagittarius.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#7" id="7a">[7]</a> See <a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-sacred-measure-of-432000-part-3.html#yuga" target="_blank">“The Sacred Measure of 432,000 ⁓ Part 3: The Sexagesimal Measure of the 360° Circle”</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#8" id="8a">[8]</a> This number sequence of the Solar Line refers to Sri Aurobindo born in a <b>9</b> number-power year (1872), the Mother born in a <b>6</b> number-power year (1878), Thea (aka “the Third”) born in a <b>3</b> number-power year (1938), and her son, born in a <b>1</b> number power year (<b>1963</b>), aka “the Fourth”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#9" id="9a">[9]</a> Thea must have calculated these 9 months based on the uneven months of the Gregorian calendar (21-Feb-21 November). If calculated via adding 270 (9 x 30) days to 21 February, the result is 18 November. If calculated by adding 270° to the Mother’s birth degree – 2° 45′ Pisces, the result is 2° 45′ Sagittarius, conjunct the 3° Sagittarius natal Sun of “the Fourth”. As noted in Endnote 3, adding 270° (nine months) to my own natal Sun at 24° Aquarius (12 February), yields 24° Scorpio, conjunct the Mother’s 17 November (25° Scorpio) 1973 passing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#10" id="10a">[10]</a> Thea calculated the Ascendant of "the Fourth" as 26° Taurus, without taking into account that <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/brazil/sao-paulo?year=1963" target="_blank">Daylight Savings Time (DST) was in effect at the time</a>. With DST time accounted for, his Ascendant is <b>12°56' Taurus</b>, still with the Pleiades rising in the first house. Note: Uranus (retrograde) was positioned at <b>12°12' Taurus</b> during the 19 November 2021 Lunar Eclipse, and will move through the last minutes of 12° Taurus circa 1 April 2022.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#11" id="11a">[11]</a> <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=07.049.03&acc=no&q=varuna&lang=eng" target="_blank">Rig Veda 7.49.3</a>, <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=08.058.12&acc=no&q=varuna&lang=eng" target="_blank">8.58.12</a>, tr. RTH Griffith. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#12" id="12a">[12]</a> “Varuna cut a pathway out for Surya, and led the watery floods of rivers onward. The Mares, as in a race, speed on in order. He made great channels for the days to follow.” – <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=07.087.01&acc=no&q=varuna%20cut%20a%20pathway&lang=eng" target="_blank">Rig Veda 7.87.1</a>, tr. RTH Griffith</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Varuṇa lets the big cask [<i>kávandham=kumbha</i>], opening downward, flow through the heaven and earth and air's mid-region.…. I will declare this mighty deed of magic, of glorious Varuṇa the Lord Immortal, Who standing in the firmament hath meted the earth out with the Sun as with a measure. None, verily, hath ever let or hindered this the most wise God's mighty deed of magic, Whereby <b>with all their flood,</b> <b>the lucid rivers <u>fill not one sea</u></b> wherein they pour their waters.” – Rig Veda 5.85.3, 5-6, tr. RTH Griffith </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Thou, Varuṇa, to whom belong Seven Rivers, art a glorious God. The waters flow into thy throat as ’twere a pipe with ample mouth.” – <a href="https://www.meluhha.com/rv/verse.pl?v=08.058.12&acc=no&q=ample%20mouth&lang=eng" target="_blank">Rig Veda 8.58.12</a>, tr. RTH Griffith (Jamison & Brereton: 8.69.12)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#13" id="13a">[13]</a> With regard to the obstruction and distortion of the Mother’s original vision for her 12-pillared (Vedic) Temple by the township of Auroville and all involved, Thea wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">“[The transmutation of Scorpio], hinging as it did on the Yoga of the Chamber, had its counterpart in the Temple episode: the poisoning energy which had to be released and transmuted is the very energy that lodged itself at the heart of the Mother’s township, preventing a successful fulfillment of its destiny. Thus this ‘Scorpion’ had to have its ‘stinger cut’. In another interesting parallel, the two persons largely responsible for the obstruction and blockage in the right construction of the Mother’s Chamber were born under Aries and Scorpio.” – Thea, <a href="https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/scorpio-transmuted/" target="_blank">“Scorpio, Transmuted?”</a>, <i>The Vishaal Newsletter</i>, Volume 4.1, April 1989</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#14" id="14a">[14]</a> <span style="text-align: justify;">“[F]rom 2002 to the present, the Yoga of the Chronicles [of the Inner Chamber] was undertaken. That brought the final demise of the Ignorance, trapped as it was in the Shadow-Chamber expressly created for this most sacred purpose, and of the greatest service imaginable to the Earth. <b>By the spring of 2004 the ‘stinger’ was cut, the power-source of Inertia was eliminated</b>; it was rendered out of bounds to the Usurpers. Thus the ‘purpose’ of the former city and temple has been completed victoriously, dark though it was. But can we really call it a dark purpose? Surely we cannot, in the light of a total vision of the work we are engaged in. <b>Those ‘fields’ were required</b> until August 2005 [when their reason for being was brought to an end].” – Chronicles of the Inner Chamber, <a href="https://matrimandir-action-committee.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-matrimandir-as-foundation-stone-of.html" target="_blank">“Update 9”</a>, 29 September 2005 [Bold emphasis added]</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#15" id="15a">[15]</a> The Mean Lunar Nodes, which averages out the movement of the Lunar Nodes throughout the 18.6-year 360° cycle, cross 0° Gemini/Sagittarius into Taurus/Scorpio on <b>22 December 2021</b>, conjunct the 2021 December Solstice (Makar Sankranti) on 21 December. Steven Forest’s analysis of this transit is worth reading: <a href="https://www.forrestastrology.com/blogs/astrology/the-nodal-axis-shifts-into-scorpio-taurusA" target="_blank">“The Nodal Axis Shifts into SCORPIO-TAURUS”</a>. The difference between True and Mean Lunar Nodes is described <a href="https://amazing-astrology.com/true-node-mean-north-difference/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://circumsolatious.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-obstruction-of-vedic-waters-fixed.html#16" id="16a">[16]</a> Resources: For those interested in learning more about significant transits of 2021 and the coming years/decades, I recommend the videos/analyses of two astrologers. Pam Gregory and Richard Tarnas. They both have a knack for giving a good overview of astrological energies and transformations. I invite readers to send along any links to other analyses that you find informative via email, comments or this blog's contact form. Those who have read Thea’s books <i><b><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TGC.html" target="_blank">The Gnostic Circle</a></b></i> and <i><b><a href="https://patrizianorellibachelet.com/TMC.html" target="_blank">The Magical Carousel</a></b></i> will be best equipped to understand the astrological symbols and signs within the context of our shared evolutionary journey. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="E:\0 Lori\0-2021\Articles-Posts\Releasing the Sacred Waters-Cave-Scorpio\2021https:\www.youtube.com\watch?v=Iv6oMIr80rE&t">Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius 4th December</a> – P. Gregory</p><p style="text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx9IX4aAK7s&t=1s" target="_blank">Lunar Eclipse in Taurus 19th November 2021</a> – P. Gregory</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyQWdJ4il18&t" target="_blank">Uranus in Taurus 2018-2026</a> – P. Gregory</p><p style="text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14H6kW6HfSc&t" target="_blank">US Pluto Return</a> – P. Gregory</p><p style="text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBcfesgsYow" target="_blank">Old Vs. New Under Saturn-Uranus Aspects</a> with Richard Tarnas </p><p style="text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh_Iowub--0" target="_blank">Richard Tarnas - On The Planets</a> - February 5th, 2021 </p><p style="text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://thedigestonline.com/arts-culture/uranus-direct-2021-get-to-know-the-great-awakener/" target="_blank">Kaitlyn De Leonardis, Uranus Direct 2021, Get to Know “The Great Awakener”</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">And here are two links for those who want to draw up their own natal chart or to look at the charts for various people or events (I use both).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/">Astro-seek.com</a> (No limit to the amount of charts you add to your database)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://astro.cafeastrology.com/">Cafe Astrology</a> (10 chart limit, but a more attractive/simpler chart design to print out, in my opinion)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s1600/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="45" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOjzhXvM8aaLZu59l_cVBkecm3uWStwGe32ZsvdXWoLWdAelZoQ9Nt2ElTgjM0-TXapBtzbrVe3-UK_BZnCjq0N2Qd54NzTt8UF_lMyEfBxVlvZU5mZoydh-E8IiaOfhRJqHZL-z7Q2rg/s200/Triple-Knot-red-lg-01.jpg" width="50" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">If you value the </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b>original research and content made freely </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lora" , serif;"><b><br />available on this blog</b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: lora, serif;">, please consider donating.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NUL9BQT4VXZ5G" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHHyLUvWGVnNSz1Yh5MISO8QZH9UPbxIV8qHri6HjrA9XHCx_2bT516SlND9xEzTH4HyEpC0TfjNGp1t8HM2dcte1Xm2L1FNDd9FYIQ92rTI5rfAIWoVamhOI0jCII_2IpByhyjT1T9NM/s1600/Heart-Donate-Here.jpg" width="108" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p></p>Lori Tompkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606540056871893950noreply@blogger.com0