The Aquarian Christ by Donna Mitchell Moniak February
2004
Aqua/water arius/engaged in, connected with; aquarius – connected with water.
What water if it is an air sign?
The waters of life.
Aquarius, the last fixed cross sign, the cross of desire and love, is the water bearer – bearing the waters of the Cosmic Astral plane into the Cosmic Physical. (Higher planes or sources of water might also flow through Aquarius, but the Cosmic Astral plane will be my focus.) The revelations of Aquarius, new and ever radical, are the revelations of source – fountain head within the Cosmic Astral plane.
What is Christ? A principle; the second aspect on any level.
Who is Christ?
Any being that has, at least temporarily, put the benefit of other ahead of benefit for self. Any being that understands and therefore lives the law-fullness of Assistance.
Also, Christ is any being that, for a cycle, chooses to engage the partially known in order to fully Know it, eventually to be It. And for the It to do the same – though at first It does not know this.
I believe on one level the Planetary Logos is the Aquarian Christ, pouring forth much of his essence from the Cosmic Astral plane. I believe the Cosmic Astral plane is the immediate source of the waters of Aquarius (not looking at constellations or Ones about Whom). I believe the keynote of “let desire in form be ruler” is exact: there was no form below the Cosmic Astral plane (to the Logos’ consciousness) until the Logos made it so. And His making it so had to do with the Moon chain “problem” of Love and Desire; thus a hint as to the hierarchical rulership of Aquarius by the Moon. Thus the Logos “moved across the face of the waters”. That first movement from the non-differentiation of the Cosmic Astral plane created the first plane of difference – Adi and the topmost layer of the Cosmic Physical plane. For the Logos the inference is that the Cosmic Physical plane did not exist until he moved.
I also believe that differentiation is naught on the Cosmic Astral plane – at least not as we have a concept of differentiation and its opposite, ONE WITHOUT OTHER. Therefore, “let desire in form be ruler” is again exact – Desire, as the Cosmic Astral plane is, is poured forth into that which resulted from the pouring – the Cosmic Physical plane - and created a reality of differentiation as the only way back to ONE WITHOUT OTHER, WHOLENESS.
As an energy then, the Aquarian Christ, Waters of Life am I poured forth, is the energy of with, and it remains true to its origin even as it moves through the Cosmic Physical plane. I believe the Aquarian Christ is an influence, not quite an antidote to differentiation, but is the internal of it. Therefore, being the with-in, it is also the with that was first.
The Aquarian Christ has pulled me into the at-oning of duality, the possible source of duality, and our mental constructs that maintain duality. Therefore, this probe will look at two related thoughts: a) Aquarian Christ as an energy whose primary quality and purpose is with, born of the Cosmic Astral plane and b) the Planetary Logos as an Aquarian Christ.
“Let desire in form
be ruler”
What is the source of desire? This probe kept bringing me back to the Cosmic Astral plane. I don’t think the astral plane, as lived by humanity, gives us much inference as to what the exalted and refined state of the Cosmic Astral plane might be. Instead we might look to Adi, Monadic, or Buddhic states and planes for some inference.
- A monadic state, experienced from the bottom up, is a sustained state of One Without Other, of differentiation collapsing into a morphic resonating wave that contains all particles, is not them, yet IS.
- Buddhic states vary (ray lines of soul and monad) but have certain factors in common:
o resolution – all things resolve in buddhi;
o light – the encoded light is known, its reason for specificity which is its spectra is understood, therefore the “mathematics” of light is realized;
o compassion – what compassion actually is is experienced and reduces the mind to a thinking apparatus. It is the heart – buddhically understood – that knows.
Monads are called “lords of ceaseless persevering devotion.” The Logos is called The Great Sacrifice. These names infer desire, a boundless and supreme desire. “Let desire in form be ruler” states that desire, Eros, is the fohat of this planetary system (keeping it local). This keynote is the key that when turned unlocks the door to why the state of form-ness brings with it the lived construct of duality. The keynote is stating a law created by this Logos – that desire will rule within form; that as long as there is manifestation there will be duality born of the desire that created the form or expression in the first place.
Therefore, an important factor of
desire (within the life expression this Planetary Logos, since that is all we can
experientially know) is duality or polarity. In the Cosmic Physical plane
everything is polarized – above/below, right/left, before/after. The
personality must become negative to the positive influence of the soul. The
soul must eventually become negative to the increasing infusion of the Monad. The
proposition is that LOVE/DESIRE as it circulates throughout the Cosmic Physical
plane originates from above it. This LOVE is the ‘water of life’. The Logos,
then, is the Aquarian Christ, the primary means by which LOVE and DESIRE pour
forth into the Cosmic Physical plane.
The Planetary Logos
and the Moon
The Moon is the hierarchical ruler of Aquarius. Hierarchical rulers are the highest turn of the spiral of the energy of the sign in question – its purest expression, and this placement uses the highest qualities able to be expressed by the planet ruling.
The Moon rules Aquarius hierarchically.
The Moon – Mother of Form
The Moon debacle
The Moon – astrality, our lunar nature, instinctual, automatic
The Moon – Mother of Form. Is this again telling us and exactitude?
Is it the events on the moon chain or instead the events within the consciousness of the Logos to which the cryptic swiss cheese story of the moon chain refer that created Form as we know it? (swiss cheese – lots of holes) And created the planetary laws by which Form would be lived in, through, and absolved?
The Moon – astrality, our lunar nature, instinctual, automatic. How did astrality become automatic in the Cosmic Physical plane? It is one thing to consider the Atlantean root-race and that humanity is still astrally polarized, but what about the rest of the kingdoms that seem to inherently function by the paradigm of duality and attraction or group? Most animals herd together (flock, school, pack, pride, migrate, spawn, rut). Plants grow in bunches (forests, groves, lawns, beds of kelp, fields of flowers), cross-pollinate – requiring two, and thus thrive. Atoms and molecules cohere, attract and repel. This fact supplies form, structure, complexity, and reduction to all.
In the Cosmic Physical plane polarity is primary. Because of
polarity, we have the phenomenon of electricity, of sexuality, of the
reproduction of all species. Additionally, polarity is not necessarily static.
Wave becomes particle and vice versa.
Aquarian energy, when experienced on an essential level, is by nature at-oned, buddhic, not really hermaphroditic, but asexual, without gender. Therefore, without polarity (hence brotherhood). Yet, polarity is core and key to the Cosmic Physical plane.
Is the Moon’s high rulership in Aquarius – the winged man/ the man-god – the buddhically aware human – telling us something about the mistake on the Moon? Or the origin of duality within the Cosmic Physical plane? Or both? Is all existence within the Cosmic Physical plane a corrective to too much LOVE too fast for the Logos within his own fields of expression? Or feeling the vastness and subject/objectless-ness of Cosmic Astral LOVE – did the Logos fall back into His known – “I AM THAT I AM”? And stating I AM-ness within a sphere created for AM NONE OTHER – AM IS ALL – did that internal statement in the silent vacuum of space cause the split – the rift – that became the first differentiation of the Cosmic Physical plane (Adi) – and thus is the plane where the Logos resides?
The Logos then is Lucifer – Star of the Morning who chose Other.
In choosing such, all suchness would also have the same coloration. All life would be dual, about other. All life within His expression would require other or at-one-ment to know Life or would not be alive. Molecules would have no choice but to combine. Plants would have no choice but to reach toward the sun for sustenance, and to each other to continue the species. Humanity would live the Logos’ decision through all processes of choice. Yet we can merely choose between; we cannot choose not to choose because we are part of His Choice.
The Moon might be a “dead planet” but... When due to the increase of ambient night-time lighting, the stars are blotted out of our night time sky, the Moon remains visible. Is this telling us a story more ancient than recorded time? The Moon remains; it can even be seen in the day time. And something which became duality, separation, and at-one-ment is inherent in all the Cosmic Physical plane. I believe the Moon’s hierarchical rulership of Aquarius is telling us more than Aquarius’ edict to reform matter to fit spiritual intention. I believe it is telling us why matter in the Cosmic Physical plane needs to be reformed. Because the Logos was immature or unready to experience the No Difference – ALL WITHOUT OTHER – THERE IS NO I - of the Cosmic Astral Plane.
The Illusion of
We know the myth of Lucifer, he chose to do it his way. This story is the story of the beginning of self-will. The illusion of independence is born from that decision. And it is an illusion not just for human beings, but of course for the Logos as well. Is there actually a self other than the image of one, or the conceptual adherence to one? Is self the way in which the Logos looked into the Cosmic Astral plane and therefore into the moon chain, the then current focus of his gaze of creation? Maybe the moon chain was not about desire and a debacle, but about Unhindered LOVE, a Love for which we humans have no understanding, and maybe the Logos didn’t either. Maybe it was a door of initiation opened for him, and like kundalini rising prematurely (kundalini is also the water of life), it caused a disconnect in consciousness, and a split instead of an at-one-ment. This event galvanized nascent duality – the Logos was overwhelmed by that which was more than him – and He turned away – thus was Lucifer.
Does the Illusion of Independence stem from the Logos’ act regarding his experience upon and within the Cosmic Astral plane? - Its unbounded LOVE, its LOVE without Other, its LOVE that required no thing for a polarity, no surrender to its expression. And when the Logos chose I AM THAT I AM, automatically then all that He would create would express that I AMness and express it back to Him. From the Gita IX. 4, “All beings exist in Me, but I do not exist in them” Here the Logos is stating separation, duality.
We, created in his image, replay this myth and the lunar phases over and over again, life time after life time. The fact that it takes countless lifetimes to arrive at the consciousness level of initiate (third degree) speaks loudly of how often we say no to LOVE and LIFE instead of yes; as well as how more often we condition it to suit our comfort zones or personal needs.
The illusion of independence is experienced in all signs, but in Aquarius is most glaring. Aquarius is the winged man, not an angel, participating in the higher realms as well as walking on the earth. Aquarius knows intimately the whole – its energy is by nature buddhic. Yet it chooses the path of eccentricity, individuality, and radicalism. On the higher turn, the radical is just the forerunner, but the average Aquarian does not know where to fit in, just they want to.
The Christ, historically, stood apart, was shunned by his home town, and his neighbors. He was a bastard child in a parochial environment. So he, like Aquarius, knew the whole, the utopian (born of the Cosmic Astral plane) possibilities for life, yet had to walk his walk alone – no one else could do it for him.
Therefore, I see the Logos as the macrocosm of this. Walking alone still (not part of the cosmic spiritual hierarchy), trying to figure out LOVE that is not based on the dualistic state. As the Aquarian Christ, He must come to recognize the he is both particle and wave, both whole and Wholistic within the all of Life. He must recognize his own wings. The waters of life are the vibration that sings through the heavens – air sign with water imagery. As he poured himself forth into the Cosmic Physical plane, he concretized his Love. That was the birth of duality. It is the with that is inherent in Him that must be lived by all. Yet he must live it too.
Illumination of the
illusion of independence and the revealing of, what Thich
Nhat Han calls, Interbeing
I believe that the gift of the
Solar Angel is not really Self consciousness – that we and all life on this
planet received from our father in heaven, the Logos – but is ALL Consciousness
because they give us that which He is still learning to receive. Understand, I
am not throwing pages upon pages of the blue books out the window! Instead, I
am taking the Tibetan at his word,
“All that is possible for me is to grope for those feeble words which will somewhat clothe the thought. As they clothe they limit .. I talk now in symbols; I manipulate words to create a certain impression … I know well how much must be left unrelated and how seldom it is possible to do more than point out a cosmology, macrocosmic or microcosmic, which will suffice to convey a temporary picture of divine reality.” TWM pg. 523
The Tibetan tells us the solar Angels deposited the spark of consciousness within infant man, good. When he tells us that they are very highly evolved beings, how highly evolved? They come from a star, the star that is the father to our Solar Logos, that seems high to me. It is with this in mind the my heart/mind over and over again during the last many years has said there is more to the consciousness piece of the solar Angels than meets the eye.
My understanding is that the Solar Angels are the Cosmic Christ principle in all cosmos bringing the seed/flame of consciousness to all matter. They bring the TWO to the Three. I believe there is a hint to this in the reason why the Tibetan tells us that the majority of human beings end up on the Path to Sirius. “In the mystery of this influence, and in the secret of the sun Sirius, are hidden the facts of our cosmic evolution”. (IHS pg. 188)
This probe has led me
to intuit and think that the Solar Angels bring that which the Logos could not to
life within His creation – ALL Consciousness. The Logos gave all his creation
the ability for self consciousness, as a result of His decision, which is part
of the Moon legacy.
Aquarian Christ
Energy
I believe we can experience the energy of the Aquarian Christ through the direct experience of experience. Experience is inter. Our challenge is to just experience – and not bring any thing or limiting construct of self to that experience. No thought about it. No thought form around it. No story to report. Instead to live the experience so completely that there is no I and my experience. No I and my need to remember the experience. In the fullness of experiencing, in the complete abandon to it, experience is with; as a result experience and that which was intimately experienced is completely remembered, distinct, and many things can be related to it or illumined by it. Yet because we began with, we were not separated from; we were not dual – self and not self, ego and egolessness, soul and monad, part and part. This is the particle/wave-ness of Aquarius and the energy of the Aquarian Christ. It is both/and/too. It is that because of with, that which substands difference.
The experience of experiencing uses mind, but does not succumb to its divisions, labels, or the cognitive faculty’s need for this or that. The experience of experiencing uses feelings, but does not condition the experience with forethought of pleasure or pain, loss or fulfillment. Yet, and this might be a whiff of something anent Cosmic Astrality, the experience of experiencing is LIVED so completely that we know, and we feel. The experience of experiencing is complete.
“It is the sovereign science, the sovereign mystery, and the supreme purifier. It is perceived by direct experience, it accords with dharma (law), it is easy to practice, and it is imperishable.” Gita IX. 2
An out of perspective analogy to the completeness of this with is born of the 6th Ray which in its purer expression created the Cosmic Astral plane. Within a human being the 6th ray can manifest as visceral – deep, penetrating, full body. Ecstasy has this within it as does pain. Visceral does not have to mean or be experienced negatively, but it is a full experience. The experience of experiencing, the experience of with as poured forth from the Cosmic Astral plane into the Cosmic Physical might be the origin of locking in, of feeling within any of the four lower kingdoms of root penetrating earth, of flower opening daily to the sun, of animals needing their territory and the nature of it, of humans needing one another yet because of visceral, scared of how much that is true. .
If the energy of the Aquarian Christ is the with of Life, it is not with through identification or shared identity; no, this would be to maintain the distinctions of the Cosmic Physical plane modality. Identification requires that there be an other. The Aquarian Christ energy is not this. And its with is not that.
High Tantra is one of the few
directions to look for a closeness to this with.
I believe the revealing of the energy of
Aquarian Christ is a significant occult reason for the Dalai Lama holding
public Kalachakra teachings and Initiations. The
fact that this has happened post the Chinese invasion of
“… transcending the subjective and the objective instead of reducing the one to the other”[1] is the core of Tantra. Aquarius also does this. Again the symbols are telling. An air sign with a glyph of waves. A man with wings who is not an angel. Aquarius, when lived with some awareness, fosters pure mind and pure mind states as well as brings one to buddhic realization. They need not be combined. In fact, they should not be. They need not supplant one another either. Instead, the energy of Aquarian Christ sourced from the Cosmic Astral plane offers full experience of both, therefore full expression of both, therefore, a hint to what Cosmic Astral is. It is not either/or, yet all duality is immediately the result of its LOVE.
It, and the energy of the Aquarian
Christ, with these factors. With becomes a verb. Each is experienced
fully; neither is reduced to the other or absorbed by the other. Tantra, as an expression of the energy of the Aquarian
Christ, drives us to the edge of directly experiencing Solar Angel nature,
human-ness, buddhic states of reason and compassion, and mind and its
information. That direct experiencing provides a fixity of state, a stability
with and within the experience such that constructs of the habituated mind are
relegated (through the experience) to their rightful place – non-intuitive,
object oriented, and objectifying. That, then, is fine – because it too is
fully experienced – and in that magical moment is not judged but is understood
to be what the mind does, and that for good evolutionary reasons. Yet the mind
does tend to do “misplaced concreteness.”[2]
“Contrary
to our habitual way of objectifying thought which necessitates an ever
increasing expansion of through forms, the purpose … is to arrive at a state of
pure lucidity, luminosity, and radiancy … undistorted
by any concepts.”[3]
Water/air
Particle/wave
String theory/bubble in the coilon
Being-in-itself/Being-this-or-that
With each of these, one is not the
other. Yet, nor is one not the other. Like a Zen koan,
Aquarian Christ energy born of the Cosmic Astral plane asks us to move within
the objectification that seems to turn
separation into factual nature. Aquarian Christ energy
invites us to clean out the Augean
stables of our separating tendency. We see this or that so inherently that we
do not experience fully the this or that-ness of anything. We mind it, process
it, analyze it. But do we experience it? To fully experience something leads to
more than what it apparently is. Always!
Conclusion
So then, through this probe I arrive at an understanding: that within the microcosm of man, the Aquarian Christ is the energy that substands at-one-ment, that this energy is not that which binds but that which looses, thus water is air/air is water. I arrive at an understanding of duality, and that it is not only temporary in states of expansive awareness (that still are ultimately dualistic), but that it is a temporary state of the Logos. Our immediate challenge as the microcosm within the paradigm of duality that is the Cosmic Physical plane is to realize that “This great adventure in consciousness is distinguished from all others in that consciousness deals with itself alone and with the sole aim of arriving at its own essence – pure consciousness.”[4] This takes us into the realm of the Logos, as he is striving to arrive at the pure consciousness of the Cosmic Astral plane (which again, I don’t think we can infer much about).
Our second challenge is experience. This was the challenge for the Logos, epitomized during His cycle called the moon chain. That experience was too much for him. (A show of hands of everyone who has had a spiritual experience that in the moment felt like too much. – yeh, we’ve all experienced that!) Another show of hands of everyone who has known what they purposefully should do, be doing, but has either forestalled that, conditioned it, or denied it? Yeh, that’s part of the challenge.
Hercules re-routed two rivers, the
Let the Waters of Life pour forth. Let all come to experience the Life giving waters as they might be experienced from their source, minimally the Cosmic Astral plane. We can invoke this. But our invocation cannot be the usual, standing in the voice of duality. It must a fiat sounded from THERE IS NO I THAT VOICES, THERE IS NO OTHER THAT HEARS. There only IS.