Sun Door At The End of Time - Mythology & Science

In the words of the gayatri 'unveil to us the face of the true spiritual sun' we find a theme that has been part of the deep esoteric teaching in many traditions. The great sun, the dark sun, the sun of the sun, the central spiritual sun, the cosmic magnet, cosmic shamballa etc are all references to that entity that lies 'through the sun door'. Christ is a sun god and as the sun he states 'no man comes to the Father except through me'. The 'seat of the Father's throne' was once thought to be Alcyone in the Pleiades and this is also given in the Bailey teachings and the Secret Doctrine. The orbit of our Sun around this centre is purported to be 250000 years. In another paper ( http://www.shamballaschool.org/Aquarian/leo2003/PaperBruce.htm) I have given the reasons for why I think this is a blind and Alcyone is a 'stand in' for the real orbit of the Sun around the Galactic centre - the black hole that represents the outer form of the Galactic Logos or true Grand Heavenly Man. Our Solar Logos is but a point of light within the etheric body of this great being as we are but points of light within the Solar Logos.

While astronomy has only relatively recently established the outer reality we might expect the 'inner truth' to be preserved for us in the world's esoteric and mythological traditions.

In researching this I found someone had been there before me - Ananda Coomaswarmy, in a collection of essays, explores a motif of what he calls the "Sundoor at the End of Time" gathered from a number of traditions. Here is the introduction on line http://www.fonsvitae.com/coomaraswamyintroductionsundoor.html

The keynotes of this motif are:

There is a doorway on the other side of the sun

It is at a crown point or Mt Meru of a vertical axis

To enter it you must pass between the pairs of opposites

You must pass 'in an instant'

You leave the universe and there is no time or space 'there'

It is dangerous and there is usually a toll - the opposites close on a tail feather, stern of a boat etc

There are guardians ( scorpions, centaurs and in one case Indra receives the soma from the lips of the serpent goddess - kundalini? )

What lies on the other side is soma, immortality or the 'waters of life'

These can be taken back to humanity in two ways

- Either the treasure is taken to gain power in which case it brings ruin

- Or it is taken in the spirit of sacrifice for the good of the whole in which case it brings bliss.

These two approaches form part of one reality.

Try these quotes holding the zodiacal meds in mind:

The Sundoor itself, thus hidden by the dazzling rays that illumine and enliven every living being, in whom they operate as the "powers of the soul", is precisely the "point" at the centre of the fiery Wheel, at which they intersect; and since, it most general case, the sun is "seven-rayed,"^{[xlvii]and is situated in the middle, whence the six directions of the cosmic cross (trivrd vajra) extend, so that the universe is "filled" with light, it will be seen that the way in by what is called the "seventh and best ray," ( light supernal and the seventh ray - BPL ) viz., that which passes through the solar disk and so out of the dimensioned universe, leads as before in die case of the Clapping Rocks between contrary pairs, in this case East and West, North and South, Zenith and Nadir. The Way is always a "Middle Way," or as Boethius expresses it, "Truth is a mean between contrary heresies" (Contra Evtychen VII)}

^{The sun-bright Wheel that guards the supra-solar Otherworld is, naturally the Wheel of the Sun himself which Indra tears away from the Great Fiend when either he, or the Falcon for him, robs the Scorcher of "all life’s support" (Rgveda IV.28.2, etc.).[xlv]It is also, in other words, the sparkling sun-hued Brahma Wheel of Fire of Maitri Upanisad VI.24; and the guarded Sundoor of Jaiminiya Upanisad Brāhmana 1.3, 5 and 6, where the "opening in the sky" is covered all over (concealed) by rays (the spokes of the "Wheel") and it is only by his Truth that the Comprehensor "is enabled to pass through the midst of the Sun" and is thus "altogether freed," attaining that Immortality, or Water of Life that rises in the Land of Darkness "beyond the Sun". ( bold mine )}

^{It is, then, precisely from"pairs" that liberation must be won, from their conflict that we must escape, if we are to be freed from our mortality and to be as and when we will: if, in other words, we are to reach the Farther Shore and Otherworld "where every where and every when are focused," "for it is not in space, nor hath it poles" (Paradiso, XXIX.22}

^{Thus the Way "to break out of the universe" (Hermes Trismegistos, Lib. XI.2.9, see note 46) into that other order of the Divine Darkness[xix] that Dionysius describes as "blinding by excess of light" and where the Darkness and the Light "stand not distant from one another, but together in one another" (Jacob Boehme, Three Principles, XIV, 78) is the single track and "strait way" that penetrates the cardinal "point" on which the contraries turn; their unity is only to be reached by entering in there where they actually coincide. And that is, in the last analysis, not any where or when, but within you ; "World’s End is not to be found by walking, but it is within this very fathom-long body that the pilgrimage must be made" (Samyutta Nikaya 1.62),—}

^{Clearly the hero’s quest is never meant to be a one way street – The Holy Grail must be brought back to the world of manifestation. The Hero becomes a "soma-thief," where Soma is the waters of life, the Golden Fleece or the golden apples of Jason. It is also called the "vessel of plenty." "No dweller on earth partakes of the true elixir, but only of substitutes ‘made to be Soma’ by rites of transubstantiation, participation being a prefiguration or anticipation of the blessed life of the deceased." This transubstantiation is achieved in a ritual sacrifice that allows the sacrificer to identify himself with the hero who is always a Christ figure, and who as it were crosses over and brings back the Soma}

^{"The soma can be a nectar or poison depending on how it is drunk. This is why the soma centre is guarded for if an unprepared soul who still clings to earthly ambitions succceeds in acquiring the soma nectar, the results are destructive for that soul and for the world"}

^{From Coomaraswamy  The Guardians of the SunDoor - last quote from Galactic Alignment by John Major Jenkins}

^{So where is this 'sundoor' apart from the obvious which is in the heart of the sun. Coomaraswarmy poses himself this as the fundamental question : At what is the arrow of sagittarius pointing? We know the answer now from astronomy - In between the scorpion, the centaur and the serpent the arrow is pointing at the galactic centre! The black hole. The monad of the Sun. A place where literally time and space end in a singularity and perhaps we 'break out of the universe into that other order of divine darkness' or the 'dark light of galactic shamballa'}

^{Lets have a look now at science and the metaphysics of 'doorways'. Fourth dimensional movement always takes place through the centre where the three dimensions meet - the trivrd vajra mentioned above. This is the centre of a sphere, a six pointed star a cube or an octahedron which have all been used to symbolises a 'self'. In the centre of a chakra is the 'diamond point' . In the centre of the soul is the 'jewel in the lotus'. These diamonds or jewels represent energy which has been compressed until it reaches a stable crystalline state.}

^{Consider this:}

^{The earth's core is made of almost solid iron crystals. In 1995 seismic surveys led scientists to believe there was one giant cyrstal 1500 miles across but it now looks as if the picture is more complicated. What we do know is that there is compressed iron down there in hexagons.}

^{When a star collapses to form a black hole it goes through stages - the final one being compressed iron.}

^{Young stars are hydrogen, and the nuclear reaction converts hydrogen to helium with energy left over. The left over energy is the star's radiation--heat and light. When most of the hydrogen has been converted to helium, a new nuclear reaction begins that converts the helium to carbon, with the left over energy released as radiation. This process continues converting the carbon to oxygen to silicon to iron. Nuclear fusion stops at iron. If you could slice a very old star in half, it may look (sort of) like this:}

^{from : http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/index.html}

^{This is as far as matter goes before collapsing into a black hole. A star has to end its life with a mass of about three times that of our sun in order to form a black hole. Our sun is destined to become a white dwarf - and that means - a diamond!}

^{Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered. The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It's the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk. The white dwarf is not only radiant but also rings like a gigantic gong, undergoing constant pulsations. "By measuring those pulsations, we were able to study the hidden interior of the white dwarf, just like seismograph measurements of earthquakes allow geologists to study the interior of the Earth. "We figured out that the carbon interior of this white dwarf has solidified to form the galaxy's largest diamond," says Metcalfe. Astronomers expect our Sun will become a white dwarf when it dies 5 billion years from now. Some two billion years after that, the Sun's ember core will crystallise as well, leaving a giant diamond in the centre of the solar system.}

^{"Our Sun will become a diamond that truly is forever," from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3492919.stm}

^{So we have the central eye of the earth a molten core of iron - which can be likened to the kundalini fires of the base chakra of a human being.}

^{We have the sun - the sol - becoming at the end a diamond - likened to the human causal body which, when the petals open reveal the diamond or jewel at the centre.}

^{And we have a galaxy - whose central point is a black hole - likened to a human monad whose centre is a doorway or pathway to the cosmic planes}

Bruce Lyon