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THE PLACE OF MOON IN SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM

The place of Moon as a planet and as a planetary principle in the field of spiritualism is rather mysterious. As a separate luminary, the Moon is supposed by some spiritualists to have no influence to wield upon any atom or ego of this earth. But as a deputee or an exoteric seat of the lunar deity who has not yet materialised into a planetary centre (since he exists in the ether as one of the seven higher cosmic deities called the entities of omnipresence or sa-dhya-s), our Moon reflects the will of that lunar deity. Modern science knows the reflection of the objective solar ray and nothing else about this cold luminary. Even the modern yoga schools have not yet reached that stage of unfolding which enables them to realise the possibility of life in freezing point and below. The yogi-s of the Himalayas and the poles and four other selected seats on this earth globe, can give out the correct information about the effect of Moon on this earth. In fact, every atom from every planetary globe to earth of the six lower planes contains the lunar principles (the seventh being the solar principle). The lunar principle is called So-ma and the moon is called Chandra in the books of wisdom. The above said lunar principle (So-ma) is focused on to this earth by the mother of this earth which is the present Moon globe. The statement that the Moon is a dead planet is a fact to a certain stage of consciousness which acts as a blind to the ego before attaining the proper

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stage of seership. Our solar system is not yet advanced to such a stage as to realise So-ma in the form of a planet. Until then, the present Moon works as a temporary centre of distribution of a So-ma principle to this earth.

To our earth the Moon beam works as a giver of the animal, plant and mineral magnetism. This magnetism is the cause of the tides of the oceans, the formation of the clouds and the circular path of waters, which form a part of the annual metabolism of this earth. By the incidence of the Moon’s reflected ray upon this earth, the centre of this earth could physically attract matter around itself and thus obtain this globe (garbha) of atoms which we call the earth globe. The very formation of our present earth globe from the invisible planes into the material state is the effect of the magnetism of the Moon. By the same cause, this earth is able to fecundate the colours of the Sun beam into the seasonal effects and the flora, the fauna and the human fertilisation. Without the lunar ray the chemistry and biology of this earth globe would have been like an eye-ball without a mind to receive the solar light. All the main passages of the original scriptures and their commentaries assure that Moon is the mind of this earth.

The second function of Moon is that its ray, whether visible or subtle, forms the mental body of this earth. “Moon is born of (HIS) mind” says the archaic stanza.* Relative to the solar principle, this mental vehicle of this earth has sixteen phases. These phases express themselves as Moon-phases on the physical plane to our mental plane. In us they act as moods. On a bigger plane these phases express themselves on the solar systems and the universes. Each Sun has its Moon-centre or its source of mind to

*Purushasu- kta.

 

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which it responds in the same manner as our earth responds to our Moon. This is because our Sun is also in a stage of the earth globe to a greater Sun. These Moon- phases are called Manvanthara-s, Kalpa-s and Maha- Kalpa-s when they work on solar systems, Suns and constellations. This scale unfolds itself in accordance with our capacity of perception.

Upon the human beings living in the individual level (animal men), Moon works as a stimulator of their minds to a behaviour conditioned by their past karma and expressed through their emotions, sentiments and reflexes. This is indexed by the egg of twelve houses in his nativity (individual chart) along with the planetary transits over these houses. Upon those who live in the level of their personality, Moon stimulates their minds to the activity of motion in the mental plane. This activity is conditioned by their present Karma and is expressed through “the unification through differentiation” which we call the social, political, economic and religious channels of activity. It is indexed under two sections : (a) the sign positions of their birth planets (not the house positions) and (b) the transits of planets over them. The former marks the ‘fate’ which is unalterable until they attain the next step in evolution of the ego. The latter (the transits) mark the ‘free will’ which is alterable by the individual because he is stimulated to his present Karma and through it to his past Karma. At this stage, man begins to disbelieve the existence of the higher order and a higher plan and believes that the human effort is the deciding factor. This is the index of Mars working his role in the evolution of the personality. Consequently Saturn then gives him the required succession of experiences until the person is made to suspect the existence of the higher plane.

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Section (b) of the above said two items, which deals with transits, has four subdivisions that are separately treated in detail in the following chapters.

Upon those who have focused their personality upon a motiveless activity (swadharma or yajna-rtha as it replaces purusha-rtha) the Moon forms a group-mind or soul-consciousness which links up with all other beings of that level wherever they may be. Here, at this point, his Moon changes his focus of manifestation and stimulation. Hitherto, the degree of his birth Moon focused and stimulated all his affairs. Henceforth, the degree of the Moon at the time of fertilization in the mother’s womb prior to his birth becomes the focusing and the stimulating centre. This centre is what we call the ascendant (mystic East or the mystic Sun) at birth.

From motiveless work of the soul-level, man evolves to “the level of the Great Bull” or the level of creating through his word (Vis’uddhi centre). Here Moon provides him, through his rays, “the oil for the flame of creation to light his twenty-one sticks of sound-fuel”* as the stanza describes. Such a man uses his objective word for creative work like blessing or establishing order, in the increasing Moon. He uses his subjective word when the Moon is decreasing. After attaining these two levels, the soul is guided by Moon not because the consciousness is conditioned by the Moon-phases but because he does not disobey the law. He obeys the effects of the Moon-phases even though he is free from them. “As in heaven so on earth” is his Christ-principle. If it is otherwise and if the freedom is exercised by him into an act of disobedience, there will be the temptation and fall of man due to the

* Ta-ntric Texts.

 

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‘tree of knowledge’. This disobedience is called individual independence or black-magic (A-sura nature). Not out of fear or compulsion but out of veneration, bliss and virtue, the soul-man upholds the law. In the next stage the same Moon-beam forms the creation through “the winged Serpent” and through his look which brings up “the Eagle with the serpent” to immortalise his creation. The looks of Gauthama the Buddha and Lord Christ contain the Moon- beam raised to this level.

In a nutshell, our Moon globe is the seat of the mother-principle (fecundating principle) to this earth while our Sun globe is the father-principle (in-forming principle) to all the planets of our solar system.