The Crumbling Patriarchy & the Looming Threat of Nuclear Disaster

Images: Left [South China Morning Post], Right [Herald Sun]

"[T]he situation across the world is deteriorating, especially in India regarding Pakistan and the constant intrusion into its territory with blatant ease. It is hard to believe that army camps are left so vulnerable that anybody can get the job done as they recent have killing 17 soldiers and virtually destroying the camp. These attacks are increasing by the day as seen in what happened in NY, Paris and Belgium. There is an escalation. The Indian government has promised its people that it will retaliate but with the mention of retaliation Pakistan immediately reminds India and the world that it is a nuclear power and it will retaliate with nuclear weapons. Therefore all along it has been able to increase its terror strikes on India [with the approval of the Pakistan army that runs the country] and India with its serious limitations inflicted by the Nehru Ghandi non­violent policy, similar to Obama, backs out immediately. Obviously it has been pressured by the world powers. With the developments over the last month or so the worlds focus is on North Korea regarding a nuclear holocaust; none look at India and the menace of Pakistan. To understand really where such a holocaust may be initiated one has to look at the objective of obtaining nuclear capability, and the overall character of the nation. Regarding India, remember we are talking about the Capricorn symbol here, this does not hold for any other nation. So, it is easier to understand what drives Pakistan and exactly how far it will go to obtain its objective. The point is if it loses, at we see happening now (the Baluchistan factor) it will not only seek to destroy India, it will try to pull everything down into a black hole with it." [Thea, 20 September 2016, an email to students]

I recently asked Robert Wilkinson if he would allow me to publish a letter he wrote to Thea on 20 September 2016, in response to her above comments, and he agreed. 

I'm always open to putting things on your blog especially this. I've been quiet on the events associated with the Shadow Temple's Fire Axis because Uranus is still transiting back and forth across the 26th degree of Aries. All during this period we have had the nuclear threats from North Korea and now with Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the Middle East is more if a powder keg than ever before. As you have probably seen, Saudi Arabia is undergoing some radical political changes with Mohammed Bin Salman seeking an alliance with Israel to attack Iran. 

And the Iranian's are countering by providing sophisticated missiles for their Yemeni sympathizers to launch against nuclear power plants in Abu Dhabi and elsewhere. I'm just sitting here completely aghast at what is going on and wondering how we are going to get through this Nuclear insanity with Trump doing everything he can to make things worse. Just unbelievable. So you go ahead and post this on your blog. It's definitely time this got out there.  RW

Robert's mention of the Shadow Temple is a reference to the Mother's Temple (Matrimandir) which was distorted or misconstrued in Auroville, India by its builders. The story of this distortion is told in Chronicles of the Inner Chamber, put forth by Thea and the Matrimandir Action Committee as found on The Flawed Auroville Temple (blog) as well as www.matacom.com. At the age of 91, the Mother presented her Temple vision during an 18-day period, from 31 December 1969 through 17 January 1970. After 17 January, she abandoned her attempts to convey the importance of maintaining the purity of her Temple vision, as she saw it. After this she just let the forces of Ignorance play out their role. 

In my mind all aspects of our world's current predicament are necessary CONSEQUENCES that have to be faced by a civilization that has entirely distorted and dismissed the Divine Feminine (i.e. the Divine Maya) in the world, whether it be via the man-imposed mismeasure of the Vedic Year (i.e. the mismeasure of the Zodiac) in India, or man-imposed abuses on Earth and her inhabitants. Both are the product of the same ill-fated Seed of disconnection between the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine, or Spirit and Matter (Purusha and Prakriti), which the Rishis knew to be One and Inseparable. This seed of separation which is the foundation of our current civilization is captured in the Indian name for the sign of Scorpio, which is Martanda, meaning 'the Dead Egg'. Its fruit is death and destruction and our world is suffering the natural consequences of the fruition of this ill-fated seed or stage of evolution on planet Earth. The zodiac and the Vedic Rishis inform us that evolutionary journey does not end via the Immaturity and Perversion of the Masculine Principle (Mars energy) in the world. Consciousness is eventually born out of the intense LABOR of this dark stage of development or gestation, birthing the Soul's rise (and thus the Earth's rise) into a higher world of creation (Swar) wherein the inherent Sat-Chit-Ananda (Truth-Consciousness-Bliss) of the One Self is victorious.

In his letter to Thea, Robert discussed the pressures of Saturn, which Thea equated with the Time Spirit as well as with the Cosmic Mother, as it transits points that are related to the mismeasure of both the Mother's Temple and the Vedic Year in India which is the Cosmic Mother or Womb of Earthly creation. As the Soul comes forth it naturally purifies its own field of Time and Space, which will amount in the the total exposure, collapse and defeat of the World's dysfunctional patriarchy. The Soul also naturally reestablishes the Divine Measure of its unified field (or Temple) of Time and Space (which is the real sense of the Zodiac). I think it is important to remember that through all pressures and apparent calamities, there is really only One thing happening, and that is the emergence of the Soul and its Supramental Consciousness on Earth. Regarding the emergence of this Higher Truth of our Being, the Mother wrote that humanity is facing the “choice between serving the truth or being destroyed”. In other words, at this stage of our evolutionary journey the Earth is being cleansed of Ignorance and Falsehood, and one either aligns with the Soul's Truth-Consciousness or with that which is naturally defeated by the Soul's Truth-Consciousness. How long this cleansing process will last remains to be seen.

Before dying, falsehood rises in full swing. Still people understand only the lesson of Catastrophe. Will it have to come before they open their eyes to the truth? I ask an effort from all so that it has not to be. It is only the truth that can save us; truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the truth or being destroyed. [The Mother, The Mother’s Agenda, Volume 13, November 26, 1972, p. 316]

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The Nuclear Play-out

20 September 2016

Dearest Thea, What you wrote this morning is quite remarkable given what I have been discovering this week. As so often happens a little voice in my head says why don’t you look at such and such and I follow through sometimes with the most interesting results. For some reason the latest suggestion has to do with the errors in the temple’s time axis and their measurable effects in the world. I began at the point on January 17th 1970 where the Mother let go of her attempts to enforce her original [temple] vision and made Her final incredible statement on the matter.

'You know, I do not believe in external decisions. Quite simply, I believe in only one thing: the force of Consciousness which makes a PRESSURE… 'So, since there are not many who can understand, I say nothing: I watch and I wait. I LOOK ...".

As I understand it, this event concretized an error in the temple’s time axis that has subsequently revealed itself as four points in the Cardinal cross that mark the anniversary of Her temples' disfigurement. These points in Time are January 17th, April 17th, July 17th and October 17th. These dates fall at the Zodiacal degrees of 26 degrees Capricorn, 26 degrees Aries, 24 degrees Cancer and 23 degrees Libra.

Over the years all of us have been aware that there were certain correspondences between the errors in her temple’s Time axis and catastrophic events in the world. Operation Desert Storm began on January 17th 1991. The Northridge California earthquake occurred on January 17th 1994. This was followed exactly one year later on January 17th 1995 by an earthquake in Kobe, Japan. There were also a number of notable explosive events that fell at or near the Aries axis point but as we have come to know so well any attempt to make a case on this evidence would invariably be dismissed by the ignorant claim of ‘coincidence’. This invited me to look deeper to see if there was a case to be made that could not be dismissed as coincidence. Being an astrologer, I decided to look at the temple’s axis in the same way I would look at a horoscope and since Saturn is the Planetary and Harmonic Essence of the Mother’s Temple, I decided to see if there was any objective evidence marking Saturn’s transit of these four points in Her temple’s disfigurement. Owing to its function of putting order, contraction and limitation, I thought Saturn would reveal the true nature of the misalignment and how it would impact the earth.

At the time of the Mother’s final statement on the matter in January 1970, Saturn was at 2 degrees 13 min. Taurus and would not arrive by transit to the 24 degree Cancer (Water) axis until August of 1975. In my search for any significant event related to water on that date I came across an account of Super Typhoon Nina, the fourth deadliest tropical cyclone on record. Between July 30 to August 6 1975 Typhoon Nina dumped so much rainfall on the Chinese mainland that the Banqiao dam collapsed devastating areas downstream and killing 229,000 people. During the 8 days of this Typhoon and flood Saturn was at 24.22 to 25.15 degrees Cancer exactly conjunct the distorted Cancer Water Axis. While this is a terrible tragedy, the average observer would not have seen anything unique in this singular occurrence unless they looked at what happened 29 years later when Saturn returned to exactly the same point on 26 December, 2004. On this infamous date a magnitude 9.3 earthquake struck beneath the Indian Ocean near Indonesia, generating a massive tsunami that killed over 230,000 people. At the moment of the Earthquake and Tsunami Saturn was at 25.23 degrees Cancer exactly conjunct the distorted Cancer Water Axis in the Auroville temple.  With this degree of exactitude and another massive tragedy related to the Water element the claim of coincidence simply no longer applies. 

If we follow Saturn’s passage to the next point in the Cardinal cross we come to the distorted Air axis at 23 degrees 12 min. Libra. Saturn would have reached this point in October of 1982. Once again I began to search for any significant event related to Air. What came up immediately was the 1982 El Nino which was described as the strongest most devastating weather event in the 20th century. During this time the Trade Winds not only collapsed but reversed their direction. This caused weather-related disasters on nearly every continent.  Australia, Africa and Indonesia suffered droughts, dust storms and brush fires.  Peru received the heaviest rainfall on record: 11 feet in areas where 6 inches was normal. The 1982-'83 El Niño was blamed for as many as 2,000 deaths and more than $13 billion in damage to property and livelihoods worldwide. During the most destructive aspects of this event Saturn was conjunct the distorted Libra Air axis at 23 degrees 12 min. 

After noting the Banqiao Dam disaster and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami as recurrent events of Saturn’s 29 year cycle, I immediately looked to see if there were any similarities in Saturn’s second transit of the 23 degree Air axis of the shadow temple which occurred on November 8, 2011. Within weeks of this date a tropical disturbance developed within the monsoon trough to the west of Indonesia. After a brief period of strengthening it received the official designation as the Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Thane. In December 2011 Thane made landfall on the north Tamil Nadu coast between Cuddalore and Puducherry creating enormous damage to Auroville itself, the actual site of the disfigured temple. After killing 45 people and causing almost $300 million in property damage, Cyclone Thane is considered one of the most dangerous cyclones in Indian history. At this point it becomes irrefutably evident that there are obvious and earthly consequences of the Temple’s false measure and disfigurement. 

In October of 1982, Saturn continued its 7 year march toward a conjunction with the Capricorn Earth axis where this cosmic tragedy originally began. 

On January 17th, 1991, Saturn arrived at 27.33 degrees Capricorn within 1 degree of the distorted Capricorn Earth Axis. And on January 17th 1991 President Bush announced the beginning of Operation Desert Storm, a military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier. For weeks, a U.S.-led coalition of two dozen nations had positioned more than 900,000 troops in the region, most stationed on the Saudi-Iraq border. This event began the destabilization of the entire Middle East the consequences of which continue on to this very day in Iraq, Libya, and Syria. Since this occurred in 1991 and owing to Saturn’s 29 year cycle, there has not been a second transit of Saturn to this position. It will occur again in February 14th of 2020, some three and a half years from now.

As Saturn transited on from the distorted  26. 27 Capricorn Earth axis, it left in its wake an almost incalculable toll of destruction.  Almost 4,500 U.S. troops were killed and more than 32,000 wounded, including thousands with critical brain and spinal injuries.  Estimates of the number of Iraqi civilian fatalities are staggering, ranging up to 600,000. The monetary cost could exceed $3 trillion. But the social and political consequences promise to be even more staggering and will continue on for decades.

As catastrophic as the Middle East war and its fall out have been, Saturn’s May, 1998 transit of the next Cardinal point at 26.34 Aries is far more troubling in terms of the possibilities it raises. 

It is not my intention to analyze the causes of what took place in May of 1998. Some commentators have said that a domestic political environment made it strategically wise for India to test nuclear weapons in the late 1990s. That is not to say that these political dynamics undergirded India’s decision and implementation of a nuclear weapons program, only that it explains the precise timing of Pokhran-II, also called Operation Shakti.

 According to Pakistani sources, the timing of Pakistan’s nuclear test Chagai-I was a direct response to India's second nuclear tests. In an interview given to Pakistani and Indian journalists in Islamabad, Sharif said: If India had not exploded the bomb, Pakistan would not have done so. Once New Delhi did so, we had no choice because of public pressure. For both of these countries, flexing their Nuclear muscles generally speaking, is publicly seen as cause for pride and celebration, rather than an existential threat.

What finally occurred in May of 1998 when Saturn reached its exact conjunction with the Temple’s distorted Fire axis at 26.46 Aries was a series of 11 nuclear explosions. India’s nuclear test, Pokhran-II, also called Operation Shakti, detonated 5 thermonuclear bombs and Pakistan, not to be outdone, detonated 6 implosion-type nuclear weapons at its Chagai-I test site.

Why are these events so important in relation to the distortions in the temple’s time axis???  It is as you explain: 

 “In matters of higher Knowledge and Seeing one is trained to look into the ‘seed’ of things, of events, and in this act to perceive what is but what has not yet unfolded in the inevitable course that that seed determines.’ [Thea]

When we look into these matters as symbols or the seeds of things that have not yet unfolded it becomes even more important to examine the influences that are likely to provoke the course that that ‘seed’ is likely to follow. Enter the planet Uranus.  While Saturn has revealed the seed that lies at the misaligned Fire Axis, Uranus promises a sudden and unexpected deployment of the elements of that seed.

While up to this point this study has been focused upon the relationship between Saturn and the deformations in the Matrimandir, further research has determined that the transits of Uranus have also played an active role. In January, 1970 Uranus was transiting through the heavens at 8 degrees Libra. It was in fact the first planet to aspect one of the Cardinal points at 23 degrees 12 min. Libra. This occurred In 1974 when India conducted its first nuclear detonation at Pokhran, described as a "peaceful nuclear explosion," At the time of the blast on 18 May 1974. Uranus was at 24.29 min Libra within about 1 degree of the distorted Libra Air Axis.

Uranus continued its forward movement reaching the Capricorn Cardinal Earth axis in January of 1994. Owing to its forward and retrograde motion it crossed over the Earth axis twice. On January 17th 1994 there was a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in North Ridge CA. At this moment Uranus was at 22.31 degrees Capricorn about 4 degrees off the mark. But on January 17th, 1995 there was a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Kobe, Japan. At this time Uranus was at 26.25 Capricorn exactly conjunct the distorted Capricorn Earth Axis.

Uranus is known for its exact timing and association with sudden and unexpected events. At the Earth axis a case can be made for it being a causal influence in the two earthquakes that occurred on January 17th 1994 and 1995. What is extremely troubling, for me at least, is what kind of unexpected nuclear events will Uranus trigger when it reaches the deformed Fire axis of the Auroville temple on May 23rd of 2017, a mere 8 months from now. 

If my conclusions are accurate about the misaligned axis and the upcoming nuclear threat, what do we do with this information?

Love, Robert

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Thea passed 20 days later with no response to Robert's question. In December of 2017 Robert shared this letter (with the following postscript) with other students of Thea's work. He sent this in response to an analysis by Eric Roth of Saturn's upcoming transit into the sign of Capricorn, soon to conjunct Pluto (see "Saturn in Capricorn"), noting that most all modern-day astrologers have yet to update their understanding of the Cosmic Harmonies via the light Thea has shed on the Zodiac (the sacred year or yajna of the Vedic Rishis) as a map of evolution.

Postscript by Robert (December 2017):

In a recent article on the nuclear issues facing India and Pakistan Al Jazeera has written:

‘…Unless there is a highly improbable radical change in diplomatic relations between India and Pakistan, history suggests that a nuclear exchange in South Asia is merely a matter of time.’ [Tom Hussain, 3 Mar 2016]

 And Thea had said in a 2009 article on the Pak Situation…

'Certainly if any country will start a nuclear war it is Pakistan..’ 

Perhaps the most important article on the current state of affairs is Thea’s extraordinary piece of Seeing called The Capricorn Factor, Part One & Two - India’s ‘lost measure’ and its significance for the world. In this article she writes:

‘…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 prophesied. But the resistances to this accomplishment are considerable, for the consequences of the false measure have to be borne – just as the consequences of the nuclear experience must be borne, and just as the consequences of the Temple’s disfigurement must be borne.’  

In the final analysis, it is beginning to look like these consequences will have to be borne rather sooner than we expected. But in the final analysis the Mother and Thea leave us with a new way of Seeing which allows us to embrace the turmoil of these times, both individual and collective, as part of an optimistic evolutionary vision. In point of fact said the Mother, ‘There are no ‘catastrophes’,

‘...The Supramental is a force of order and harmony. So what may seem to us at first glance to be a catastrophe is bound to actually put things in order, work in every way and every detail towards putting the earth in order.’  [The Mother’s Agendas, July, 1967]