Bruce: Crosses & Alcyone
February 8, 01
A few more thoughts on numbers and crosses.
Mental polarisation - holding the mind steady in the light helps us move from the mutable to the fixed cross ( 2+3=5 the number of consciousness). The TOP [technique of the presence] is helping us move from the fixed to the cardinal cross or from soul into triad (2+1=3) perhaps there is a technique used by the Masters at the sixth degree which help them step out of the system of three crosses ( 1+2+3=6). They become the seventh point at the centre synthesising all six arms of the system and then leave on one of the paths through the centres on the monadic plane.
This progression starts with the twelve, the seven become five become three become one (which is the seventh) which is recognised as the synthesis and origin of the twelve. 12+7+5+3+1=28 - the number of ideas in the mind of God and the stars in Capricorn. Stephen, that is a great and very timely compilation on Alcyone.
Two quotes in particular struck me.
The energies coming from Alcyone impregnated the substance of the universe with the quality of mind. As a consequence of this most ancient activity, the same force was present at the time of individualization in this solar system, for it is in this system, and primarily upon our planet, the Earth, that the major results of that early activity have made themselves felt. Two of our planets, the Earth (non-sacred) and Uranus (sacred), are directly the product of this third ray activity. This is of great importance to remember. I would also ask you to link this thought with the teaching that through the divine center of intelligent activity which we call humanity, the fourth kingdom in nature will eventually act as the mediating principle to all the three lower kingdoms.
Humanity is the divine Messenger to the world of form; it is essentially Mercury, bringing light and life to other divine manifestations and of this all divine world Saviors are the eternal symbols There are four constellations, as you know, which convey the required energies which will make humanity divine. They are Aries, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. I need not enter into an analysis of them as this was covered when we studied each of them earlier and separately.
I would, however, like to point out that each of these constellations is closely connected, as a transmitter of energy, with certain stars, lying outside our zodiac altogether, thus connecting our tiny planet with certain great focal points of energy. Aries, the initiator of impulses (either the impulse to incarnate or the impulse to return to the originating source) is closely in touch with one of the stars in the Great Bear to which we give the name "Pointer" in common parlance. This Pointer is a "major star of direction" because through it (in this world cycle) flows the will to unify and to bring about synthesis. This is the force which brings about the fusion or integration of the personality, the at-one-ment of personality and soul, the unification of humanity or the Great Approach of the Hierarchy to Humanity. It will produce also the integration of our Earth into the body of the "sacred planets" and the consequent establishing of a triangle of force composed of the Pointer, Aries and our Earth. This triangular relationship will have a potent effect upon the solar system as well as upon the planet itself and is also one of the factors producing the shift in the Earth's axis. Related to this triangle is a secondary one within our sun's orbit, composed of Vulcan, Pluto and the Earth. In the Archives of the Great Lodge this is referred, to symbolically as: [483]
These quotes indicate the path of liberation from the fixed cross. The Human hierachy is Scorpio, situated on the buddhic plane between the highest and the lowest - Leo and Aquarius seeking to make the atonement. Now we know Taurus, the liberating light is the fourth arm of this cross on the fifth subplane of the cosmic astral. Yet it is only through reaching up to Aries that the Will energy is contacted which will allow for Victory on the buddhic plane.
Humanity is Mercury (ruler of buddhic plane) and Mercury must bring down the electric fire of Uranus (ruler of fourth subplane of cosmic astral) in order to fuse spirit and matter and achieve his own liberation from matter thereby. The earlier chart I sent on the Hierarchies makes this clearer if anyone is interested to follow up this line of thought. The planes on either side of Aries, where the PL of our Earth is polarised are ruled by Vulcan and Pluto which makes a particular triangle which is the equivalent to our spiritual triad on the cosmic astral planes.
The other triangle is between Aries, Taurus and Gemini, ruled by Uranus, Vulcan and Earth. This triangle is AGNI - the combined light of the ninth, tenth and eleventh hierarchies and the key to the cycles of Vishnu.
The counterpart of this triangle on the cosmic physical plane is the buddhic, astral and mental planes - Scorpio, Sagittarius and Capricorn ruled by Mercury, Mars and Venus.
These hierarchies ARE humanity in expression. The energy of Aries provides the will and wakeup call to remind us of our essential nature in Scorpio. Taurus balances the fixed cross so that we can stand in the centre. And Gemini relates the opposites allowing us to bring Leo and Sagittarius together and thus make the atonement, liberating the human kingdom in the process.
One more thought on Alcyone.
If this is the great SUN around which the seven solar systems turn, is there perhaps a galactic centre around which Alcyone also turns.
Is this the black hole currently in the direction of Sagittarius?
Might Sun, Black Antahkarana also refer to the relationship between Alcyone and this galactic hub?