Operation Al Aqsa Flood: Signs and Symbols of the Vedic Apocalypse ~ Part 3.2 ~ The Vedic Symbolism of the Islamic Hajj

The three stone pillars (al Jamarat) of the Islamic Hajj, www.islamiclandmarks.com

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For any who are reading this part of the series before reading the previous parts or any of my post-2016 writings, I have been discussing the zodiacal and geometric sense of the Vedic Apocalypse, unveiling, or release of all manner of trapped treasures and higher Light, catalyzed by the birth and victory of the Divine Son, Sage, Warrior-Hero—the ONE god called by MANY NAMES—from which hail all post-Vedic religious mythologies and lore of a world savior, avatar, son, sage, prophet, teacher, conqueror, purifier, healer, unifier, etc., who cleanses the world of its falsehood or evil. Based on the revelations and avataric yoga of Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, and Thea (Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet), I understand this prophesied victory, birth, seat, or apocalypse of the Divine Sage-Son by whatever name, as a symbol of the emergence or birth of Mankind’s divine mind, truth-consciousness, or unity consciousness, all of which Sri Aurobindo discussed as the supermind or supramental consciousness. Subsequently, based on revelations that were poured into my consciousness the year and week of Thea’s passing in 2016, I came to see and understand the zodiacal location of this sevenfold Vedic apocalypse or divine victory as 0° Aquarius/Kumbha, measured out by the seventh of the first seven vesicae piscium or rivers, mothers, or bowls, etc., of the twelve-month zodiacal Vedic Year. Via this revelation, which I first shared in Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom (book), it became clear that the radius of this seventh river or mother, i.e. the radius of 0° Sagittarius, gives us the geometric and zodiacal basis of the Divine Son, Sage, Seer, Prophet, White Horse, Archer, Warrior, Demon Conqueror, etc., of the Vedas. Note that Thea discussed the forgotten zodiacal context of the Rig Veda and the Sagittarian nature of the Vedic Son at length in her writings, as well as the connection between the Vedic Kumbha and the sign of Aquarius, she just did not see, understand, or write about the Vedic Son or his rivers, mothers, cows, etc., as eternal geometric figures, laws, or measures.[1]

Based on these same revelations, I came to see that the Vedic Rishis gave MANY names to not only the radius and vesica piscis of the Zodiac—including the immortal Divine Son and the eternal Virgin Mother, daughter, river, etc.—but also to the location of 0° Aquarius/Kumbha. These names include but are not limited to: a kumbha (=jar, pitcher, vat, bowl, etc.), reservoir, ocean, sea, lake, well, tank, pail, fountain, drinking-place, the vale or valley where waters gather, the celestial waters, the waters’ lap, the desert's watery pool, the stone-born reservoir of heaven; Agni’s golden, lofty or sublime birthplace, home, seat, goal, altar, treasure, and prize; the meeting place, assembly, synod, congregation (sangha), or hosts of gods, goddesses, rivers, and illumined humans; the worshipper's abode; the glorious home which is dear to the people void of guile, the home which men must guard, the Heavenly Race [of Mankind], the house of God, the special place of Gods, the gods’ banquet or feast; the place of sacrifice, the sacrifice or the (sacrificial) rite; a womb of Truth, an udder, lap, or breast; a seat of holy law and order; a cleansing filter, sieve, or cloth; the realm of splendour; a seat made of holy grasses; the cows' stall or pen; the goal of the horses and their chariots, the place where the hoarded treasures (cows, horses, rivers, waters, etc.) are released, and the tree of treasure; the noblest mansion, Vishnu’s seat and highest station, Indra’s heart or throat, the cavern of the Bull, Varuna’s vast comprehensive thousand-doored dwelling or home, as well as the home of Yama and Mitra; the farther goal, the far distance, the sea's farther shore or bank, the farther shore of all misfortune, the limit of [the airy] region, the far-distant home, the loftier heaven, the vault of heaven, the sea of heaven, the heavenly seat, the luminous realm of heaven, the mid-heaven, the fair place of heaven, the height of heaven; the farthest end of Heaven; the sky’s vault or ridge; the hill, Order’s (or Divine Truth’s) summit, the firmament; the stone’s fixed place, the journey’s resting place, the pure place, the common birthplace of the hosts; and the place where the Five Tribes of Men are settled; the final and decisive battle, fight, contest, or fray; the final day, purpose, goal or duty; the end of the (sacrificial) path and the end of the sacrifice; the victory or conquest (of the sacrifice), etc. Note that the above words and phrases are largely direct quotes taken from R.T.H. Griffith’s English translation of the Rig Veda.

I see this ONE Place that goes by MANY names in Vedic and post-Vedic (and likely pre-Vedic) lore of all varieties, including Islamic, as the time, place, sign, stage, and age of our evolutionary journey where the MANY are recognized as ONE Divine Whole in the Divinized consciousness and vessel of the Human Being. This victory is the basis of the “Universal Brotherhood of Man” associated with the zodiacal sign and Age of Aquarius/Kumbha. In Chapter 21 of the Biblical Apocalypse, it is discussed as “a new heaven and a new earth” (i.e. Heaven on Earth) where "the dwelling place of God is with Man."

In Part One of this series I discussed and illustrated the Vedic, zodiacal, and geometric sense of the Flood imagery contained in Hamas’ “Operation Al Aqsa Flood”, echoed in the date of the attack on Israel. I wrote therein that the sixth and last point of the ancient and eternal Satkona—two interlaced ascending and descending equilateral triangles that fit perfectly within a circle and hexagram, which Jews adopted as a sign of their Jewish identity in the 1800s—“corresponds to 0° Aquarius...and thus to the zodiacal location of the sevenfold apocalyptic birth and flood of the Divine Son-Sage of the Rig Veda.”

In Part Two I discussed the sixth and final point of the Satkona, or “Star of David,” as Krishna’s home, Goloka (the cows’ place). I equated this place with the highest goal of the Vedic Yajna or Yoga. It is the “Heaven on Earth” or “Life Divine” that is manifested or BORN FORWARD in the mind and vessel of the Human Being and therefore on Earth rather than in a Heaven, paradise (jannah), nirvana, moksha, or consciousness that negates and transcends manifestation. I discussed this same place and goal of the zodiacal pilgrimage as the forgotten underlying sense of the word and mythology of al Aqsa, the Islamic name given to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount circa the 7th century CE.

In Part Three, I have been discussing both the pre-Islamic and the Islamic pilgrimage or Hajj to the Kaaba in Mecca as a forgotten symbol and celebration of this same apocalyptic and zodiacal evolutionary victory. In Part 3.2 I am specifically discussing the Vedic sense of Rami al-Jamarat (throwing seven stones at each of three stone pillars) and Hajar al-Aswad (the Black Stone of Kaaba), as well as the Vedic sense of the 360 Idols of the pre-Islamic Kaaba that the Prophet Muhammad is said to have destroyed when he conquered polytheistic Mecca in the name of the one Abrahamic God.

Rami al-Jamarat: Stoning the Devil with Thrice-Seven Stones   

“On the day of Eid-ul-Adha, pilgrims stone the largest of the three pillars [=the Jamarat] with seven stones. The  pillars represent the spot where the devil tried to tempt Abraham not to sacrifice his son Ismael. For the next three days, pilgrims pelt each of the three stone pillars with seven stones. The devil is rebuked each time, and the throwing of the stones [=rami] symbolises those rebukes and the pilgrim’s resolve to fight temptation. This, along with a final circumambulation of the Ka’bah, completes the rituals of the Hajj. The ritual has a spiritual significance –  by stoning the pillars pilgrims openly declare their enmity to the devil. After stoning the devil, many male pilgrims will then shave their head; women may cut off a lock of their hair. This is a symbol of rebirth, signifying that their sins have been cleansed by completion of the Hajj.” – “Hajj rites: The stoning of the devil”, Aljazeera 

In order to see and understand how the Hajj tradition of “Stoning the Devil” via Rami al-Jamarat is Vedic in its forgotten origin, we must first begin by remembering that in the Vedic hymns the divine hero-god—i.e. the ONE god who goes by MANY names: Agni, Indra, Soma, Bṛhaspati, Brahman, Vishnu, Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman, Vayu, Savitar, etc.—defeats the menacing Demon via the casting or wielding of various weapons, including a stone, lightning bolt, arrow, spear, axe, or dart, all of which are mentioned as both singular or plural throughout the Vedas. 

“Indra and Soma [Indrāsomā], burn, destroy the demon foe, send downward, O ye Bulls, those who add gloom to gloom. Annihilate the fools, slay them and burn them up: chase them away from us, pierce the voracious ones…. Indra and Soma, hurl your deadly crushing bolt down on the wicked fiend from heaven and from the earth. Yea, forge out of the mountains your celestial dart wherewith ye burn to death the waxing demon race. Indra and Soma, cast ye downward out of heaven your deadly darts of stone burning with fiery flame, Eternal, scorching darts; plunge the voracious ones within the depth, and let them sink without a sound.... May Indra slay [the fiend or demon] with a mighty weapon, and let the vilest of all creatures perish…. May press-stones with loud ring destroy the demons.... Hurl down from heaven thy bolt of stone [divaḥ ašmānam], O Indra: sharpen it, Maghavan, made keen by Soma. Forward, behind, and from above and under, smite down the demons with thy rocky weapon. – Rig Veda 7.104 excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith  

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“O thou [Indra] who castest forth the stones crushing the sorceresses' heads, break them with thy wide-spreading foot, with thy wide-spreading mighty foot.” – Rig Veda 1.133.2, , tr. R.T.H. Griffith

Throughout the Vedas, the Demon is referred to as an obstructing serpent or dragon (Ahi), who is frequently called Vritra, meaning "Obstructor" or "Coverer." In Rig Veda 1.32 and in many hymns, the divine hero's conquering weapon is characterized as a bolt of thunder (vajra).

“I will declare the manly deeds of Indra, the first that he achieved, the Thunder-wielder. He slew the Dragon, then disclosed the waters, and cleft the channels of the mountain torrents. He slew the Dragon lying on the mountain: his heavenly bolt of thunder Tvaṣṭar fashioned. Like lowing kine in rapid flow descending the waters glided downward to the ocean. Impetuous as a bull, he chose the Soma and in three sacred beakers drank the juices. Maghavan [=Indra] grasped the thunder for his weapon, and smote to death this firstborn of the dragons…. But he, when he had smitten Vṛtra, opened the cave wherein the floods had been imprisoned. A horse's tail wast thou when he, O Indra, smote on thy bolt; thou, God without a second, thou hast won back the kine, hast won the Soma; thou hast let loose to flow the Seven Rivers.” – Rig Veda 1.32, excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith  

Below are some examples of the role the stone or stones play in the birth and victory of the Vedic hero-god over the Demon, Dragon or Serpent of the Vedas by which the unifying Truth, Consciousness and Bliss (Satchidananda) of the Vedic Seers is unveiled, uncovered, and released from the dark veil, prison, or cave of our own mental Ignorance. 

“Thou, Agni, shining in thy glory through the days, art brought to life from out the waters [=the seven rivers], from the stone….. thou, Sovran Lord of men art generated pure. Thine is the Herald's task and Cleanser's duly timed; leader art thou, and Kindler for the pious man. Thou art Director, thou the ministering Priest: thou art the Brahman, Lord and Master in our home. Hero of Heroes, Agni! Thou art Indra, thou art Viṣṇu of the Mighty Stride, adorable…. the Bright Ones [=cows=mothers=rivers] have made thee, O Sage, to be their tongue.” – Rig Veda 2.1.1-3, 13 excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith  

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“Sending forth flashes he hath bellowed to the jars, led by the men into the golden reservoir [=kosha=kumbha]. The milky streams of sacrifice have sung to [the Son, Agni, aka Soma Pavamana]: he of the triple height shines brightly through the morns. Pressed by the stones, with hymns, and graciously inclined, illuminating both the Parents, Heaven and Earth, he flows in ordered season onward through the fleece [=purifying filter], a current of sweet juice still swelling day by day.” – Rig Veda 9.75.3-4, tr. R.T.H. Griffith 

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“[A]rmed as with arrows is Soma [=Agni]; forest trees and all the bushes deceive not Indra with their offered likeness…. When heightened in his ire [Indra’s] indignation shatters the firm and breaks the strong in pieces. As an axe fells the tree so he slew Vṛtra, brake down the strongholds and dug out the rivers. He cleft the mountain like a new-made pitcher [kumbhá]. Indra brought forth the kine [=cows] with his Companions.... Forward, as herald of refulgent Morning, let thine insatiate arrow fly, O Indra. And pierce, as ’twere a stone launched forth from heaven, with hottest blaze the men who love deception.” – Rig Veda 10.89.5-7, 12, excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith   

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“Press the libation out, most excellent of all: the Pressing-stone is grasped like a hand-guided steed. So let it win the valour that subdues the foe, and the fleet courser's might that speeds to ample wealth. Juice that this Stone pours out removes defect of ours, as in old time it brought prosperity to MAN… Drive ye the treacherous demons far away from us…. Pour riches forth for us with troops of hero sons, and bear ye up, O Stones, the song that visits Gods.… Stirred be the glorious Stones: let it press out the juice, the Stone with heavenly song that reaches up to heaven, there where the men draw forth the meath for which they long…. The Stones press out the Soma, swift as car-borne men, and, eager for the spoil, drain forth the sap thereof to fill the beaker [=kumbha], they exhaust the udder's store, as the men purify oblations with their lips.” – Rig Veda 10.76, excerpts tr. R.T.H. Griffith

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“Fain to lend vigour to [Agni/Indra] the Bull, the sisters [=the seven cows, rivers, mothers, virgins, etc.] with reverence recognize the germ within him. The Cows come lowing hither to [Agni] the Youngling, to him endued with great and wondrous beauties. Fixing with thought, at sacrifice, the press-stones, I bid the well-formed Heaven and Earth come hither…. Agni, thy meath-sweet tongue that tastes fair viands, which among Gods is called the far-extended…. Let thy stream give us drink, O God, O Agni, wonderful and exhaustless like the rain-clouds.” – Rig Veda 3.57 excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

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“When, [Indra] Lord of Might, thou [win] earth and heaven, winning for man the moistly-gleaming waters. This is thy deed, e’en this, Wonderful! Singer! that, slaying [the Snake/Dragon] Ahi, here thy strength thou showedst…. Ye blew him from the waters, from his dwelling, and chased the darkness from the noble's spirit…. When night was near its close he carried forward e’en the Sun's chariot backward in its running. [2] Etaśa [=the Horse of the Sun] brought his wheel and firmly stays it: setting it eastward he shall give us courage. This Indra, O ye men, hath come to see you, seeking a friend who hath expressed the Soma. The creaking [=speaking] stone is laid upon the altar, and the Adhvaryus [=sacrificers or priests of the Sacrificial Year] come to turn it quickly”. – Rig Veda 5.31 excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

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“As such, O [Indra] Caster of the Stone, come with thy succours wonderful…. We will declare thy hero deeds, what Dāsa [Demon] forts thou brakest down.... So let thy bounty come to us…. We have obtained, a gift from thee, ten water-ewers wrought of gold: Thou, Vrtra-slayer, givest much.” – Rig Veda 4.32 5, 10, and 19 excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

The Sanskrit words for “stone”, “rock”, or “mountain” include: adri, ashma, gravan, giri, and pashi. As far as I can tell, the Vedic Rishis never specifically numbered the stones that bear or press Agni as Soma Pavamana (aka Soma) to his home, secret station, and victory as seven. It is notable, however, that in Ganita Shastra—the ancient Indian science of mathematics, algebra, number theory, arithmetic, etc.—adri connotes the number seven. [3] When we see and understand that the Stone is ONE of MANY names of the eternal form, measure, and law of the vesica piscis in the Rig Veda, we can easily understand how adri can simultaneously represent a stone and the number seven, as well as a cloud, mountain, rock, and Indra’s thunderbolt. Occasionally the Vedic Rishis (=sages, poets, singers, and seers) specifically referred to two or both pressing stones but, more often than not, they laud the singular Stone by which Agni-Indra defeats Vritra or an unspecified number of stones. In Rig Veda 1.135.2, the Rishi speaks of the stones that purify Agni-Soma and his soma-wine (=amrita=nectar of immortality=the food or manna of the gods) on his way to his “reservoir”, i.e. his Kosha, Kumbha, or Jar, which is one of the MANY names given for his ONE birthplace, home, altar, seat, goal, ocean, well, banquet, meeting place, etc.  

“Strewn is the sacred grass; come Vayu, to our feast, with team of thousands, come, Lord of the harnessed team, with hundreds, Lord of harnessed steeds! The drops divine are lifted up for thee, the God, to drink them first…. Purified by the stones [adri-bhiḥ] the Soma flows for thee, clothed with its lovely splendours, to the reservoir [kosha=kumbha], flows clad in its refulgent light. – Rig Veda 1.135.1-2 excerpts,  tr. R.T.H. Griffith

R.T.H. Griffith and others take Soma in Rig Veda 1.135.2 to mean soma-wine, but I take Soma in this verse to refer to Agni as the Sage, Horse, Son, Soma Pavamana who is here and elsewhere in the Vedas described as being clothed or clad with his splendours, just as in other hymns he is clad or robed in his seven rivers or waters. This verse makes sense when we know that the stones that purify Agni-Soma, are entirely equivalent to the vesicae piscium—variously portrayed as three and seven rivers, floods, waters of truth, goddesses, etc.—that purify Agni-Soma on his way to his divine home, goal or meeting place by whatever name. Note that “the drops divine” in this hymn are one of the MANY symbolic names given to the vesicae piscium that measure out Agni’s goal or birthplace (0° Aquarius/Kumbha).

The radii of the twelve vesicae piscium that measure out the twelve-month Zodiac, and the radius of 0° Sagittarius whose vesica piscis measures out 0° Libra (the entrance of the 7th sign of the Zodiac) and 0° Aquarius completing 10 months of the zodiacal year, are not shown in the images above. Via this hidden radius we can understand why exactly the Divine Son of the Vedas is called GUHA, “the Hidden One,” hidden in the womb or vessel of his mothers, rivers, stones, etc. until his victorious birth or ascent to the Kumbha or Vessel of Man.

Once we see and understand the long-hidden geometric and zodiacal sense of the stone or stones in accomplishing the Vedic Apocalypse or victory over truth-obstructing Demon of our own self-ignorance, as well as the geometric and zodiacal sense of the three and sevenfold nature of this victory, we can likewise see and understand how the Hajj tradition of throwing seven stones at each of three pillars (Rami al-Jamarat), as a symbolic act of rejecting the Devil, is entirely derivative of and symbolic of the zodiacal Vedic Apocalypse, regardless of who is prepared or willing to see it as such. 

The Three and Sevenfold measure of the Vedic Apocalypse and Rami al-Jamarat

In Parts One and Two I discussed some of the MANY numbers the Vedic Rishis used to measure and describe the ONE Place or realm of consciousness where ALL meet in Divine communion, including five, six, and ten. In this section I will specifically highlight some of the many Vedic verses that simultaneously refer to the three and sevenfold measure of the Vedic Apocalypse that is the ancient origin and basis of Rami al-Jamarat—the Hajj ritual of throwing (rami) seven rocks at each of the three stone pillars (al-Jamarat).

“For my protection I invoke the golden-handed Savitar [=Agni]. He knoweth, as a God, the place. That he may send us succour [=aid], praise the Waters’ Offspring Savitar…. The Gods be gracious unto us even from the place whence Viṣṇu [=Agni] strode through the seven regions of the earth! Through all this world strode Viṣṇu; thrice his foot he planted, and the whole was gathered in his footstep's dust. Viṣṇu, the Guardian, he whom none deceiveth, made three steps; thenceforth establishing his high decrees [=eternal laws]. Look ye on Viṣṇu's works, whereby the Friend of Indra, close-allied, hath let his holy ways be seen. The princes evermore behold that loftiest place where Viṣṇu is, laid as it were an eye in heaven. This, Viṣṇu's station most sublime, the singers, ever vigilant, Lovers of holy song, light up." – Rig Veda 1.22.16-21, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

Note that this “eye in heaven” is the vesica piscis, equivalent to the heavenly stone, bolt, weapon of gnosis, and eternal law, by whatever name, that measures out and secures the Vedic victory.

“The Child [Agni=Soma], when blended with the streams, speeding the plan of sacrifice, surpasses all things that are dear, yea, from of old. The place, near the [pāṣyoḥ = stones] of Trita, hath he occupied, secret and dear through seven lights of sacrifice. Urge to three courses, on the heights of Trita, riches in a stream. He who is passing wise measures his courses out. Even at his birth the Mothers Seven taught him, for glory, like a SAGE, So that he, firm and sure, hath set his mind on wealth.” – Rig Veda 9.102.1-4, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

H.H. Wilson translated the above verse as:  

“Performing (sacred rites) the child of the great (waters) sending forth the lustre of the sacrifice (Soma) produces all acceptable (oblations) and (abides) in the two worlds. When the Soma has been taken [to?] the secret station of the grinding stones (at the sacrifice) of Trita, then with the seven supports of the sacrifice (the priests praise) the conciliating (Soma). (Support, Soma) with your stream Trita's three (oblations); cause the giver of riches (Indra) to come to the sacred songs. The intelligent (praiser) of this (Indra) measures out hymns. The seven mothers …[instructed Agni-Soma] the instrumental tutor (of the sacrifice) when born for the prosperity (of the worshippers) so that this firm Soma is cognizant of riches. [All parenthesis is in the original, text in brackets is added]

In many of the Vedic hymns the simultaneous three and sevenfold measure of the divine victory is portrayed by referring to both the measure of seven and the measure of three in some way, in the same verse or hymn.

“Thrice, O ye Asvins, with the Seven Mother Streams (síndhubhiḥ saptámātṛbhis); three are the jars, the triple offering is prepared. Three are the worlds, and moving on above the sky ye guard the firm-set vault of heaven through days and nights.” – Rig Veda 1.34.8, tr. R.T.H. Griffith 

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“He unto whom they sang the seven-headed hymn, three-parted, in the loftiest place, [Indra] sent his thunder down on all these living things, and so displayed heroic might…. He who hath…silenced [Vritra the Obstructor] with deathbolts,‒when he supported yonder heaven and spread it out, then first the son of earth was born.” – Rig Veda 8.95.4, 8, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

In many hymns, this simultaneous three and sevenfold measure of the divine victory (illustrated above) is expressed via a conjunction of the numbers three and seven, for example: tríḥ saptá or triḥ ā sāptāni.   

“For [Indra] the Floods stood still, the Seven Mothers, Streams easy for the heroes to pass over. The Darter penetrated, though [with difficulty], thrice-seven [tríḥ saptá] close-pressed ridges of the mountains [girīṇām ≈ adraya]. Neither might God nor mortal man accomplish what the Strong Hero wrought in full-grown vigour. The mightiest force is Indra's bolt of iron when firmly grasped in both the arms of Indra…. What time, O Indra, in thine arms thou tookest thy wildly rushing bolt to Slay the Dragon [=Demon], the mountains roared, the cattle loudly bellowed…. The Black Drop sank in Amsumati's bosom [upástha=lap], [4] advancing with ten thousand round about it… I saw the Drop in the far distance moving, on the slope bank of Amsumati's river, like a black cloud that sank into the water. Heroes, I send you forth. Go, fight in battle. And then the Drop in Amsumati's bosom, splendid with light, assumed its proper body; and Indra, with Bṛhaspati to aid him, conquered the godless tribes that came against him. Then, at thy birth [Indra] wast the foeman…of those the seven who ne’er had met a rival…. So, Thunder-armed! thou with thy bolt of thunder [elsewhere a bolt of stone] didst boldly smite that power which none might equal; With weapons broughtest low the might of Śuṣṇa, and, Indra, foundest by thy strength the cattle. Then wast thou, Chieftain of all living mortals, the very mighty slayer of the Vṛtras [=Obstructors]. Then didst thou set the obstructed [seven] rivers flowing, and win the floods that were enthralled by Dāsas…. Indra is Vṛtra's slayer, man's sustainer…. This Indra, Vṛtra-slayer, this Ṛbhukṣan, even at his birth, was [fit to be invoked].”  – Rig Veda 8.85, tr. R.T.H. Griffith [Note this is Rig Veda 8.96 in other translations of the Vedas]

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“O thou who castest forth the stones crushing the sorceresses’ heads, break them with thy wide-spreading foot, with thy wide-spreading mighty foot…. O Indra, crush and bray to bits the fearful fiery-weaponed fiend: Strike every demon to the ground. Tear down the mighty ones. O Indra, hear thou us. For heaven hath glowed like earth in fear, O Thunder-armed, as dreading fierce heat, Thunder-armed! Most Mighty mid the Mighty Ones thou speedest with strong bolts of death, Not slaying men, unconquered Hero with the brave, O Hero, with the thrice-seven [trisaptáiḥ] brave [warriors].” – Rig Veda 1.133.2, 5-7 excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

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“With course unchecked, with many chariots Aryaman [=Agni in Rig Veda 5.3.2] [5] comes with the seven priests to tribes of varied sort.… They [seven priests or horses] with one mind, one thought attend the sacrifice, urged by the favouring aid of Savitar the God. The thrice-seven [tríḥ saptá] wandering Rivers, yea, the mighty floods, the forest trees, the mountains, Agni to our aid, Kṛśānu, Tisya, archers to our gathering-place, and Rudra strong amid the Rudras we invoke. Let the great Streams come hither with their mighty help, Sindhu, Sarasvatī, and Sarayu [=three Rivers] with waves. Ye Goddess Floods, ye Mothers, animating all, promise us water rich in fatness and in balm.… Even where the stone that presses meath rings loudly out, and where the sages make their voices heard with hymns. Thus hath [Agni] the sage…contented the Celestial people.” – Rig Veda 10.64.5, 7-9, 15-16, excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

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“To me who understand hath Varuna spoken, the names borne by the Cow are three times seven [tríḥ saptá].” – Rig Veda 7.87.4, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

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“We, having drunk of meath, will reach his seat whose Friends are three times seven [tríḥ saptá].” – Rig Veda 8.58.7, tr. R.T.H. Griffith     

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“The three times seven [tríḥ saptá] Milch-kine in the eastern heaven have for this Soma poured the genuine milky draught.” – Rig Veda 9.70.1, tr. R.T.H. Griffith        

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“He made the Three Times Seven [tríḥ saptá] pour out the milky flow: Soma, the Cheerer, yields whate' er the heart finds sweet.” – Rig Veda 9.86.21, tr. R.T.H. Griffith        

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“The Milch-cow's earliest name they comprehended: they found the Mother's thrice-seven [tríḥ saptá] noblest titles.” – Rig Veda 4.1.16, tr. R.T.H. Griffith    

In The Secret of the Veda, Sri Aurobindo discussed the thrice-seven seats of the Divine Mother (Aditi) as “the three divine worlds…the three supreme births of Agni…. [which] each fulfils in its own way the sevenfold principle of our existence”. (CWSA, Vol. 15, p. 205) Earlier in the same book he discussed the seven rivers, waters, mothers, cows, lights, radiances, seats, names or seven rays of the Vedas as symbols of “the sevenfold principle of existence.” 

“The Seven Rivers of the Veda, the Waters, āpaḥ, are usually designated in the figured Vedic language as the seven Mothers or the seven fostering Cows, sapta dhenavaḥ. The word āpaḥ itself has, covertly, a double significance; for the root ap meant originally not only to move, from which in all probability is derived the sense of waters, but to be or bring into being, as in apatya, a child, and the Southern Indian appā, father. The seven Waters are the waters of being; they are the Mothers from whom all forms of existence are born. But we meet also another expression, sapta gāvaḥ, the seven Cows or the seven Lights, and the epithet saptagu, that which has seven rays. Gu (gavaḥ) and go (gāvaḥ) bear throughout the Vedic hymns this double sense of cows and radiances. In the ancient Indian system of thought being and consciousness were aspects of each other, and Aditi, infinite existence from whom the gods are born, described as the Mother with her seven names and seven seats (dhāmāni), is also conceived as the infinite consciousness, the Cow, the primal Light manifest in seven Radiances, sapta gāvaḥ. The sevenfold principle of existence is therefore imaged from the one point of view in the figure of the [seven] Rivers that arise from the ocean, sapta dhenavaḥ, from the other in the figure of the Rays of the all-creating Father, Surya Savitri, sapta gāvaḥ.” – The Secret of the Veda, CWSA, Vol. 15, p. 123

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“The first name of the Mother with her thrice seven supreme seats, that which the dawns or mental illuminations know and move towards, must be the name or deity of the supreme Deva, who is infinite being and infinite consciousness and infinite bliss, and the seats are the three divine worlds, called earlier in the hymn the three supreme births of Agni, Satya, Tapas and Jana of the Puranas, which correspond to these three infinities of the Deva and each fulfils in its own way the sevenfold principle of our existence: thus we get the series of thrice seven seats of Aditi manifested in all her glory by the opening out of the Dawn of Truth. [Sri Aurobindo’s footnote: The same idea is expressed by Medhatithi Kanwa (I.20.7) as the thrice seven ecstasies of the Beatitude, ratnāni triḥ sāptāni, or more literally, the ecstasies in their three series of seven, each of which the Ribhus bring out in their separate and complete expression, ekam ekam suśastibḥ.] Thus we see that the achievement of the Light and Truth by the human fathers is also an ascent to the Immortality of the supreme and divine status, to the first name of the all-creating infinite Mother, to her thrice seven supreme degrees of this ascending existence, to the highest levels of the eternal hill (sanū, adri).

“This immortality is the beatitude enjoyed by the gods of which Vamadeva has already spoken as the thing which Agni has to accomplish by the sacrifice, the supreme bliss with its thrice seven ecstasies (I.20.7). For he proceeds; “Vanished the darkness, shaken in its foundation; Heaven shone out (rocata dyauḥ, implying the manifestation of the three luminous worlds of Swar, divo rocanāni); upward rose the light of the divine Dawn; the Sun entered the vast fields (of the Truth) beholding the straight things and the crooked in mortals. Thereafter indeed they awoke and saw utterly (by the sun’s separation of the straight from the crooked, the truth from the falsehood); then indeed they held in them the bliss that is enjoyed in heaven, ratnaṁ dhārayanta dyubhaktam. – Ibid., pp. 205-06 [all text in parenthesis is in the original]

Sri Aurobindo translated ratnāni triḥ sāptāni as “thrice seven ecstasies.” The singular word ratna is more commonly translated as a precious stone, gem, jewel, treasure, or gift. These “thrice-seven ecstasies,” treasures, precious stones, or treasures, etc., are entirely equivalent to the “three times seven” cows (triḥ asmai sapta dhenavaḥ) of Rig Veda 9.70.1, and the “thrice-seven wandering Rivers” (tríḥ saptá sasrā́ nadyo) of Rig Veda 10.64.8. In Rig Veda 1.191, they are called “three-times-seven bright sparks of fire” and “three times seven” peahens (triḥ sapta mayūryaḥ) that conquer and purify the venom (or Ignorance) of the Scorpion, symbolic of the falsehood, obstruction, stagnation, and self-destructive binary mental consciousness. In zodiacal terms this venom is a symbol of the 8th sign of Scorpio [♏︎] where the purifying sacred waters of wisdom are OBSTRUCTED or held back from humanity via our own imprisoning mentality or ignorance, which is naturally a difficult stage in the course of our collective evolutionary journey. [See “The Obstruction of the Vedic Waters & the Fixed Water Sign Scorpio”.]

“The three-times-seven bright sparks of fire have swallowed up the poison's strength.… So have the peahens three-times-seven, so have the maiden [=virgin] Sisters Seven carried [the Scorpion’s] venom far away, as girls bear water in their jars [=kumbhas]. The poison-insect is so small; I crush the creature with a stone. I turn the poison hence away, departed unto distant lands. – Rig Veda 1.191.12, 14-15, excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

It is important to note here, that Thea saw the conjoined three and seven measure of the Vedas as an occult reference to the simultaneous division of the 360° circle by 9—which is the basis of Vedic and modern math—and by 12, illustrated to the right, which is the basis of the twelve-month zodiacal Vedic Year or Yajna [See The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2, p. 402]. Thea referred to and discussed this simultaneous 9 and 12 division of the zodiacal year as the "Gnostic Circle.”

In 2016, after I came to see and understand the equivalence between the Vedic river and the arc of the vesica piscis through the inner space of the zodiacal circle, I could see that each ONE of the seven 120° rivers, aka precious stones, gems, etc., can validly be said to be threefold via the math of 3 x 40° = 120°. Even though the math of the combined 9 and 12 measures of the circle (9 + 12 = 21 = 3 x 7), and the math of the three-fold measure of each of the seven rivers of the Vedic sacrifice still holds, I now see and understand the thrice-seven measure repeated throughout the Vedas as a veiled reference to the fact that the ONE PLACE of Agni’s birth, home, goal, etc.—0° Aquarius—is simultaneously measured out by three and by seven vesicae piscium of the Vedic Sage, as illustrated earlier in this article. These are just two of the MANY different ways the Vedic Rishis measured out and discussed the math and geometry of this ONE celebrated place or passage into unity consciousness in the zodiacal pilgrimage.

The Vedic Sense of the Kaaba's Black Stone (Hajar al-Aswad)

“Three stones were sent down from the Garden: the Station of Ibrahim, the rock of the children of Israel, and the Black Stone, which God entrusted Ibrahim with as a white stone. It was whiter than paper, but became black from the sins of the children of Adam." – “The Hajj,” F.E. Peters 1996 

This mythology makes sense if we understand the equivalence between the Islamic Garden, aka Paradise, (Jannah) and the heavenly goal of the Vedic pilgrimage measured out by three vesicae piscium or “stones,” the third of which can be said to be “white” as it corresponds to Agni’s third birth as the White Horse (i.e. as the radius of 0° Sagittarius), aka Soma Pavamana who is purified by his three or seven mother-rivers and born to his heavenly seat or Kumbha by whatever name, where he illuminates and fills the mind and vessel of Man with Divine Truth, Consciousness, and Bliss (=Ananda).   

“Allah hath promised to Believers men and women Gardens under which rivers flow, to dwell therein, and beautiful mansions in Gardens of everlasting stay, but the greatest bliss in the Good Pleasure of Allah: that is the Supreme Felicity.” – Quran 9.72,  tr. Yusuf Ali 

In The Secret of the Veda, Sri Aurobindo discussed the Sanskrit word jana, as equivalent to ananda or bliss.

“Ananda is creative, it is jana, the delight that gives birth to life and world; only let the things loosed forth on us be of the creation conceived in the terms of the truth and let all that belongs to the falsehood, to the evil dream created by the ignorance of the divine Truth, duḥṣvapnyam, be dismissed, dispelled away from our conscious being.” – CWSA, Vol. 15, p. 304 

Janaloka—i.e. the place, realm, or world of Jana or creative bliss—is sometimes defined as “the world of men.” Sri Aurobindo referred to Janaloka as “Pure Bliss — [the] Ananda World of creative delight of existence. In the Vedas, jana connotes the Man or human being, as well as the divine race and collectivity of humans. On indianetzone.com, Jana Loka is referred to as the heaven of sages or saints and as “the plane of liberated mortals.” Jāna in at least a couple Vedic verses refers to a birth or birthplace. [6] Given the above, it is not difficult to see a connection between the Islamic Paradise or Jannah and the birth, goal, and blissful heavenly seat of the Vedic pilgrimage where humanity is liberated from its Demons, i.e. from its divisive mental Ignorance. Note that one of the many names of the vesicae piscium that measure out the Vedic paradise are maidens or virgins, which I believe is the origin of the Islamic promise of virgins in paradise for God’s faithful men.

Given the role the heavenly stone plays in the birth and apocalypse of the Vedic Divine Son Agni whose accomplishments include connecting Heaven and Earth, we can also see the Black Stone (al-Ḥajar al-Aswad) embedded in the eastern corner of the Kaaba, said to represent the link between Heaven and Earth, as a Vedic symbol as well, whether or not it is recognized as such. 

“[The Black Stone] is revered by Muslims as an Islamic relic which, according to Muslim tradition, dates back to the time of Adam and Eve. The stone was venerated at the Kaaba in pre-Islamic pagan times. According to Islamic tradition, it was set intact into the Kaaba's wall by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 605 CE, five years before his first revelation. Since then, it has been broken into [seven or eight] fragments and is now cemented into a silver frame in the side of the Kaaba. Its physical appearance is that of a fragmented dark rock, polished smooth by the hands of pilgrims. It has often been described as a meteorite….

“The Black Stone was held in reverence well before Islam. It had long been associated with the Kaaba, which was built in the pre-Islamic period and was a site of pilgrimage of Nabataeans who visited the shrine once a year to perform their pilgrimage. The Kaaba held 360 idols of the Meccan gods…. The Kaaba marked the location where the sacred world intersected with the profane, and the embedded Black Stone was a further symbol of this as an object as a link between heaven and earth.” – “Black Stone,” Wikipedia

The Vedic significance of this pre-Islamic and Islamic symbol becomes somewhat clearer when we SEE the silver yoni-shape that frames the Black Stone, shown in the first image above. The second image above is a 1956 hand drawing by Shaikh Mohammed Taher Al-Kurdi (Wikipedia) of a vesica-piscis-like shape or frame, containing fragments of the black stone that were broken apart at some point and cemented back together. The black and fragmented state of this revered Stone of the Kaaba is a fitting symbol of the “Dead Egg” (Martanda) of Scorpio, wherein the Truth and original context of our world’s ancient symbols have essentially been blackened and shattered via the dark and fragmented mind of Man.

The Prophet Muhammad’s Destruction of 360 Idols 

The Kaaba was a pilgrimage site, goal, and meeting place for various Arabic tribes long before the rise of Islam. It was built, according to Islamic tradition, by Abraham and his prophet-martyr son Ismail circa 1700–2000 BCE. The Kaaba is said to have contained 360 idols or gods, which Karen Armstrong wrote in her book Islam: A Short History, “probably represented the days of the year.” The odds of this specific number of idols representing anything other than the 360 degrees of the solar, zodiacal, and tropical Vedic Year or “Sacrifice”, entirely equivalent to the Sumerian Year, are extremely low, especially given that the Lord of the Kaaba and of the 360 gods, Hubal, was known as a warrior, diviner (i.e. prophet, seer or sage), and rain god, with seven arrows, suggesting his equivalence to Agni as the Sagittarian sage, seer, son, archer, warrior-hero, and rain or river-bearing god of the zodiacal Vedic Year, who conquers the obstructive forces of Ignorance via his seven rivers, mothers, or cows (=rays) which are equivalent to bowls, bows, bolts, arrows, etc.

“I laud the seven-rayed, the triple-headed, Agni all-perfect in his Parents' bosom, sunk in the lap of all that moves and moves not, him who hath filled all luminous realms of heaven.” – Rig Veda 1.146.1, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

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“[Agni] Put forth like a wide-spreading net thy vigour; go like a mighty King with his attendants. Thou, following thy swift net, shootest arrows: transfix the fiends with darts that burn most fiercely.... Rise up, O Agni, spread thee out before us: burn down our foes, thou who hast sharpened arrows.” – Rig Veda 4.4.1, 4, excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

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“Agni, from days of old thou slayest demons: never shall Rākṣasas in fight o’ercome thee. Burn up the foolish ones, the flesh-devourers: let none of them escape thine heavenly arrow.” – Rig Veda 10.87.19, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

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“The well with mouth of stone that poured a flood of meath, which Brahmaṇaspati [=Agni] hath opened with his might—All they who see the light have drunk their fill thereat: together they have made the watery fount flow forth…. With his swift bow, strung truly, Brahmanaspati reaches the mark whate' er it be that he desires. Excellent are the arrows wherewithal he shoots, keen-eyed to look on men and springing from his ear.” – Rig Veda 2.24.4, 8, excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

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“Bṛhaspati [=Agni], when first he had his being from mighty splendour in supremest heaven, Strong, with his sevenfold mouth, with noise of thunder, with his seven rays, blew and dispersed the darkness. With the loud-shouting band who sang his praises, with thunder, he destroyed obstructive Vala. Bṛhaspati thundering drave forth the cattle [=mothers, rivers, floods, rays, etc.], the lowing cows who make oblations ready.” – Rig Veda 4.50.4-5, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

The seven arrows of Hubal make perfect sense when we know their equivalence to the seven rays of the Vedas—equivalent to the seven vesicae piscium, aka the solar cows, rivers, mother’s, bowls, archer’s bows, etc. Via these seven rays, bows, mothers, etc., the Sagittarian Archer (the radius of 0° Sagittarius) attains his divine mark or goal—0° Aquarius/Kumbha—establishing the DIVINE MAN and DIVINE CONGREGATION or meeting place, and releasing the eternal waters from their sacred Kumhba, sacred reservoir, or eternal WELL. In my view the lore of Hubal and his seven arrows is born of this ancient zodiacal Vedic geometry and victory, as is the lore of the miraculous Zamzam Well—located approximately 20 meters from the Kaaba—and the ancient tradition of journeying or pilgrimaging to this symbolic home of God, eternal well and sacred meeting place. In my view, there is simply no way these symbols of the divine victory can be fully and properly understood, and ultimately realized, as long as their 360° zodiacal context remains unseen, hidden, or unacknowledged.  

It is important here to note that the Arabic word rami—found in the name of the Hajj stoning ritual, Rami al-Jamarat, means not only “to throw”, it also specifically refers to an ARCHER or good marksman whose arrow or weapon reaches its goal. Ain ar-rāmī, meaning “eye of the archer,” is the Arabic name given to the triple star system Nu Sagittarii, in the constellation of Sagittarius (the Horse-Man Archer). 

It also must be noted that the three chief goddesses of pre-Islamic Arabia, celebrated in Mecca, and presumably at the Kaaba, were Hubal’s three daughters. The oldest and most venerated of these three was Manat, a goddess of Time whose name is based on the root mana, meaning, like maya and māna of the Vedas, “to measure out.” In the Vedas the three goddesses who measure out the 360° circle, year, or wheel of Time into three even (120° = 432,000") parts are portrayed as three goddesses, three sisters, three dames, three bodies, three wheels, three steps, three feet, three heads, three lakes, three spheres, three rivers, three lakes, three reservoirs, three jars, three vessels, three regions, three words, etc. Given what I have already presented and illustrated, hopefully readers can see and understand that the three goddesses of pre-Islamic Arabia, were, in all likelihood, symbols of the three vesicae piscium who bear the Divine Son (=the circle’s radius) as the Sagittarian Archer or hero-god (by whatever name) to the goal, resting place, reservoir, home, or seat, etc., of his pilgrimage.

“I am the royal Ruler [=Indra=Varuna=Agni=Soma Pavamana=Bṛhaspati, etc.]....I made to flow the moisture-shedding waters, and set the heaven firm in the seat of Order. By Law the Son of Aditi [=the Son of the 360° Zodiac], Law Observer, hath spread abroad the world in threefold measure.” – Rig Veda 4.42, 1, 4, excerpts, tr. R.T.H. Griffith 

Muhammad’s revelations regarding the Oneness of God began in his birthplace and hometown of Mecca circa 610. His subsequent teachings on this subject put him and his followers at odds with the polytheistic Meccan tribes. Due to whatever persecution Muhammad and his followers experienced for their beliefs, they left Mecca and resided in Abyssinia and subsequently in Medina until Muhammad amassed enough followers to overtake Mecca in 630 AD. Upon this supposedly peaceful victory, Muhammad reclaimed the Kaaba for the monotheistic worship of Abraham’s god, Allah, who is the One God of all Abrahamic religions. He is said to have celebrated this victory by destroying the 360 idols of the Kaaba and quoting from the Quran:

“The truth has come, and falsehood has vanished away; surely falsehood is ever certain to vanish." – Quran 17:81, tr. A.J. Arberry

Muhammad’s reclamation of the Kaaba from the polytheists or pagans of Mecca is considered to be “a major milestone in the establishment of the Islamic faith and the spread of monotheism.” (Wikipedia) The tragic irony of Muhammad’s statement "Truth has come and Falsehood has vanished" becomes fully apparent when we realize that a central and absolutely necessary key of achieving the all-unifying Divine revelation or apocalypse—which is the much anticipated advent of Truth and the conquering of Falsehood in our world as prophesied by ancient Seers—is understanding the 360° zodiacal key and context of the MANY names the Vedic or pre-Vedic Sages gave “TO WHAT IS ONE.” 

“To what is One, sages give many a title they call it Agni, Yama, Matarisvan. Dark the descent: the birds [7] are golden-coloured; up to the heaven they fly robed in the waters. Again descend they [=the waters/floods, rivers] from the seat of Order, and all the earth is moistened with their fatness. Twelve are the fellies, and the wheel is single; three are the naves. What man hath understood it?” – Rig Veda 1.164.46-47, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

This KEY of the Vedic Apocalypse or Revelation—i.e. the return of the Sun (or Son) of Truth, and its (or his) 360° body and measure which conquers Falsehood—has simply been hidden from the fragmented mental consciousness of Mankind which does not see or experience the Many forms, forces, and unfoldings of our material creation or Matrix as the manyfold expressions of the Divine One. Without this key of unity, all subsequent ideas, conceptions, mythologies, and dogmas regarding the Divine Son, Sage, Prophet, Avatar, Conqueror, Purifier, or God by whatever name, who comes to reestablish the Divine Truth in our world, have long been widely off the mark. The victory comes only when our emergent unity consciousness —i.e. our inner Divine Son, Sun, or Soul—breaks through and emerges victorious from the cave, shell, pen, prison, or dark womb of our divisive binary consciousness, uplifting us from the errors and misperceptions of our own self-ignorance, freeing the MANY treasures of our existence hidden therein. In Part 3.1 I wrote: 

“This victory is the condition and basis of humanity’s experience of Heaven on Earth which Sri Aurobindo wrote of as the rise of the supramental truth-consciousness or Supermind, and as ‘The Life Divine.’ The establishment of the seed of this victorious Sage-consciousness in humanity and on Earth, and with it the unveiling of the veiled symbols of the ancient seers, was the luminous core of Sri Aurobindo’s avataric mission and yoga. [¶] Sri Aurobindo credited Swami Dayananda Saraswati with recovering for India and thus for the world, this central key of Vedic gnosis and thus of understanding the Rig Veda itself.” 

As Thea laid out in her various books and articles, the apocalypse, unveiling or emergence of this consciousness is already unfolding in our present Age of Aquarius or Age of Kumbha, which she saw as beginning in 1926 and referred to as the Age of Unity, the Age of Synthesis, the Age of Universal Transformation, and the Age of Supermind. 

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In Part 3.3 I will discuss the Zamzam Well as the Kumbha of the Vedic and Islamic Pilgrimage.

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Endnotes

  

[1] Thea saw and wrote about the Vedic Victory as corresponding to the 7 Point of the Circle (10° Capricorn). I will soon make a reference page consisting of some of Thea's many discussions of this Sagittarian Son, who she saw and discussed as Sri Aurobindo reborn in the sign of Sagittarius in 1963.

  

[2] This could very well be a reference to the twelve-age (25,920 year) “Great Year” which is the 360° Precession of the Equinoxes which moves backwards through the zodiacal circle. 

[3] “Adri, Ādṛ, Ādṝ: 22 definitions,” Wisdom Library.

[4] In many hymns, this upástha or “lap”, is depicted as Agni’s destination, entirely equivalent to his sevenfold goal, birthplace, altar, kumbha, etc. This is especially clear in Rig Veda 2.35:

“The friendly Son of Waters by the greatness of Godhead hath produced all things existing. Some floods unite themselves and others join them: [the] sounding rivers fill one common storehouse [=vessel≈kumbha]. On every side the bright Floods have encompassed the bright resplendent Offspring of the Waters….. Here was the horse's [Agni’s] birth; his was the sunlight. Save thou our princes from the oppressor's onslaught. Him, indestructible, dwelling at a distance in forts unwrought lies and ill spirits reach not.... The Waters’ Son [Agni] hath risen, and clothed in lightning ascended up unto the curled cloud's bosom (upástha); and bearing with them his supremest glory the Youthful Ones [=rivers, floods, mothers, etc.], gold-coloured, move around him. Golden in form is he, like gold to look on, his colour is like gold, the Son of Waters [aka “the Flood’s Child” from apām napāt]. When he is seated fresh from golden birthplace those who present their gold give food to feed him.” – Rig Veda 2.35 6; 9-10, tr. R.T.H. Griffith

More verses that laud this sacred upástha  (lap, bosom or place) of the zodiacal Vedic year can be found HERE and HERE.

[5] “Thou at thy birth art Varuṇa, O Agni; when thou art kindled thou becomest Mitra. In thee, O Son of Strength, all Gods are centred. Indra art thou to man who brings oblation. Aryaman art thou as regardeth maidens mysterious, is thy name, O Self-sustainer. As a kind friend with streams of milk they balm thee what time thou makest wife and lord one-minded.” – Rig Veda 5.3.1-2, tr. R.T.H. Griffith    

[6] Rig Veda 1.37.9, & 1.95.3.

[7] I see the birds who fly up to Heaven “robed in the waters” in this verse, as the seven radii of the seven vesicae piscium that flow or fly, like Hubal’s seven arrows, to the zodiacal KAABA (0° Aquarius), which is the seat, goal, home, etc., of the ONE God or Hero-Son of the Vedas who is called by MANY names.

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