URANUS & GAIA
All cultures seem to have some version of creation myth that involve the separation of heaven and earth and the coming in to being of an intermediary world of light or consciousness. The Greek myth has had its most profound effect upon the western mind and civilization.
H.P.B. calls it the exoteric version of the Secret Doctrine.
We can tell it is the exoteric version right away when we hear in the traditional version of Hesiod that Uranus was Gaia’s son. Right here we have materialism at its seed – matter gives birth to spirit. The esoteric version is the reverse – spirit gives birth to matter and Gaia is the child of Uranus who synthesizes the entire cosmic physical plane. From a hierarchical perspective the reality is a fusion of both. Spirit is matter and matter is spirit and so we have in the Orphic mysteries the version where Uranus and Gaia spring together out of Night – or the void..
This is the ‘first fall’ – one that creates a duality. We can think of the seventh cosmic plane as a circle and at its central point the human hierarchy on the buddhic plane.
The human being is therefore both the parent of this duality ( from the cosmic buddhic plane ) and the child ( on the buddhic or fourth plane of the cosmic physical ) . In this latter sense we are Mercury – the son of God and messenger between heaven and earth.
The second fall involves the duality of Saturn and Venus. Saturn is the son of Uranus and Gaia - he castrates his father and replaces him as the patriarchal figure marrying his sister Rhea who then have offspring of their own.
From the severed genitals of Uranus, out of the foam of the sea comes Venus. This is the ‘second fall’ resulting in the fifth hierarchy bestowing human beings with self consciousness at individualization.
Saturn and Venus – the personality and the soul arise together and in their struggle with each other they create the best and worst of what we call civilization – an outpicturing of human consciousness on earth. In his positive aspects Saturn creates a safe container for the nurturing of the soul and for the growth of those structures of consciousness which will serve spirit. In his negative aspect he is the controlling patriarchy – restricting and suppressing in particular the power of the goddess – sexuality. Venus in her positive aspects bestows appreciation of the ‘finer things’ – the finest of them all being spirit itself. In her negative aspects she seeks to undermine all boundaries through desire.
This duality is not however one of sprit and matter – mother and father. It is the duality generated between a Mother’s son ( Saturn ) and a Father’s daughter ( Venus ).
Saturn and Venus are bought together and this duality resolved upon the mountaintop of the third initiation and after this time it is the deeper duality of Uranus/Gaia or spirit and matter with which the initiate deals.
In the great sweep of evolution we can see that the second fall is necessary – without self consciousness humanity cannot fulfill its role as a spiritually creative agent. That self consciousness is developed in the nursery but at a certain point of time that nursery becomes a confining prison and self consciousness must become Self consciousness. The universal self must absorb back the individual self. The son of God ( Mercury ) and the son of mind ( Venus ) must marry and know their parents ( Uranus and Gaia ) and further know and identify with that Self who stands behind the whole triplicity of Father- Mother-Child.
The struggle between Uranus and Saturn it can be seen is primarily waged on the atmic plane. Saturn attempts to keep the potency of Uranus out of the lower five worlds until consciousness and civilization is developed enough to ‘take the seed of the Father’ and Uranus is continually trying to break through into the ‘minds of men’ and reveal himself. The discovery of the seventh planet from the Sun and the naming of it Uranus began a period in human civilization where the potency of this heavenly power began to increase.
This has begun a great revolution and renaissance of human civilization which is ongoing. Symbolically it also coincided with the beginning of outlawing ‘castration’ in modern society – a practise which goes back at least 6500 years. Castration – in animals and then in man – was used as a ‘civilising’ influence. A eunuch was ‘one who can be trusted to watch over the inner household’ and they became great beaurocrats ( we can see the hand of Saturn at work here ) . Ironically the castrati ( boys castrated before puberty ) were prized in the Church choirs for having voices that could ‘call unto the heavenly sphere.’
Prior to the first degree Uranian energy has the effect of stimulating the sacral centre towards desire of form. This does not only express itself through sexuality.
Freedom from
attachment is brought about as the fires of desire are overcome, and though the
sacral centre is depicted as having specific relation to the sex nature, yet
that sex nature (as it expresses itself on the physical plane) is symbolic of
any attachment between the soul and any object of desire other than the spirit.
LOS
We also know that the sacral centre of Humanity is the centre that is used by the materialistic forces ( EXH 100 ) and that four major problems will be solved in the next 200 years. These are
Territorial possession
Sex
Death
The middle East. ( DON 13 )
All are related to ancient fear and we are given the following meditative formula with which to work.
In the sacral centre
lie the ancient racial fears and deep-seated personal desires. Ponder not upon
the sacral centre, for that would bring these ancient inheritances to the
surface, but let your work be related to the creative throat centre. Then
perform the following exercise:
1. Sound the OM within
the throat centre, as the soul focussed in the ajna centre.
2. See (with the
creative imagination) the throat centre as a radiant, vibrant, brilliant
reservoir and know it to be so.
3. Then send forth
from that centre a broad and vital stream of energy, down the spine to the
sacral centre in the spine, preserving the stream intact in your consciousness
so that no part of it is deflected to the physical counterparts of the sacral
centre, the gonads.
4. Then see the sacral
centre (in the spine) as a radiant reservoir of energy, but as energy deflected
from physical creative activity to the destruction of ancient racial fears in
the world. Then project that energy out into the world of men, to aid in the
destruction of fear.
5. Next, reaffirming your consciousness positively in the ajna centre, withdraw your attention from the sacral centre and the throat centre and sound the OM—as the directing disciple—seven times, slowly and inaudibly. DINA 2 c 500
If we apply this formula to the planet as a whole we would have the following:
Sound the
This would be an Aquarian meditation – groups working with groups. Third degree initiates are those who have ‘conquered death’ and are in conscious touch with the life principle. Uranus rules their crown chakra and they have lifted and sacredised their own
lower nature . Standing together as part of the NGWS or ajna centre of Humanity they are able to generate a reservoir of that Life and transmit that vital fearless energy to that centre where desire, distorted by fear, prevails. They can do this because they are in touch with light supernal – a sevenfold light which is the synthesis of the planes (and chakras) with the soul ( 7=5=12).
Saturn is unable to ‘seal the door’ but can merely attempt
to control and limit the activity of the materialistic forces. We can see this
in
What is required is the revelation and affirmation of our true parentage and our essential divinity.
Gradually, behind the scenes but becoming more visible are the players in the original duality. Gaia is making Her presence felt and humanity is suddenly becoming aware that there will be consequences to its unbridled desire. Uranus, through Hierarchy and recently directly through Shamballic impact is beginning to make its presence felt. Like two poles of a great defibrillator this primary duality generate the electric charge to kick start the Heart of the system – the human soul – into Life more abundant.
Uranus, Hierophant of the mysteries, resolves the tension – not by balancing the desires of the individual and the needs of the whole ( as does Saturn through Libra ) but by revealing to the individual that He IS the whole. The individual and universal – leo and aquarius are bought together by Uranus who rules them both (the highest and lowest) from the hierarchical level.
The same process that involves the transmission of ‘life’ in the individual or within the planetary life also takes place cosmically. Our Solar Logos has yet to take the third cosmic initiation and so a more developed Logos ( Sirius ) played the part of energy transmitter when the last phase of the anchoring the mysteries on earth was enacted. Just as the individual soul needs a Christ, so our Solar Logos has his Cosmic Christ who is in touch with His Father or monadic origin ( The Galactic centre ) .
We might illustrate the anchoring of the Sirian mysteries on earth via Uranus as the first pictograph below. The second shows the remaining phase that corresponds to building the higher aspect of the dual antahkarana. We might expect our Solar Logos to make His own direct alignment with the Galactic Centre in this next phase and its registration in the consciousness of humanity as a centre in His body seems to be a critical part of that process.
Phase 1 Phase 2
The Anchoring of the mysteries
The third planetary initiation is the first solar. The third solar is the first Sirian and, as we might expect, the third Sirian is the first galactic or cosmic initiation. In this way the great empowerment of the cosmic life force is transmitted throughout the consciousness of the galaxy and each initiate forms part of the transmission of that Life.
What we call the ‘solarisation of a planet’ or the ‘Return of the Christ’ or the ‘Externalistion of the Hierarchy’ is a single process that is spread throughout time, space and consciousness. The anchoring of the soul on earth begins to take hold in the first degree initiate and consummated in the third. Humanity as a whole is undergoing the first degree and so the planetary sacral centre is being raised to the throat as the Christ returns.
First degree, third degree and fifth degree initiates all experience different consciousness and roles in this process. For higher initiates – at the same time as the process we call the ‘return of the Christ’ is taking place a paralleling process we might call ‘the return of the Father’ or more accurately ‘the return of the Father/Mother is occurring’
Of course nothing is really returning as nothing ever left – it is human consciousness that is doing the re-turning and so experiences the appearance and disappearance of certain ever present realities.
Yes, it is true at a level that Venus is the ‘soul of earth’ and yes it is true at a level that the earth scheme is synthesized by Saturn. At another level however we will experience earth as the bride and Uranus the heavenly bridegroom and at that wedding feast the water will be turned to the wine of communion that the Aquarian Age promises.
An Aquarian version of the Lord’s prayer might be more like the following:
Our Father/Mother who art everywhere and when
Hallowed be all names
Thy kingdom is ever present
Our Will is being done
On this earth as part of Heaven
Let us realize in consciousness
What we experience in Life
DIVINITY IS