Rosicrucean Emblem Ten: Atlas
Journal, 7 October 2019
Is ecstasy the captive of existential fear? Are they hand in glove? What is love?
Here is a story in Arthur Koestler’s ‘The Act of Creation’: “The great biologist Elie Mechnikoff felt rather lonely one afternoon in 1890 when the whole family had gone off to the circus … he remained alone with his microscope. The microscope was in Pasteur’s laboratory at the Ecole Normale. Mechnikoff was observing the life of the mobile cells in the transparent larvae of starfish, and idly threw a few rose-thorns among them. The thorns were promptly surrounded by the larvae and dissolved inside their transparent bodies – they had been gobbled up and digested. This reminded him of what happens when a human finger is infected by a splinter; it will be surrounded by pus which, like the starfish larvae, attack and try to digest the intruder. By this analogy Mechnikoff discovered the organism’s main defence mechanism against invading microbes: the ‘phagocytes’, cell-eaters, a population of mobile cells among the white blood corpuscles.”
[Hasn’t this some resonance with the development of advanced technologies to bio-degrade the plastics in our oceans? SIXTH SUN LINK – : “The ‘Time of the Sixth Sun Series’ is a movie and documentary series 11 years in the making about the awakening and transformation of global consciousness and the huge potential we have for change in the world. Starring Estas Tonne and featuring over 85 indigenous elders, wisdom keepers, visionary thought leaders with a beautiful soundtrack. If you’d like to see the trailer and sign up to watch for free go to: https://timeofthesixthsunlaunch.com“
This project was first distributed last April, and is being made available again on 6 November. I only saw a small part of it then, and was deeply uplifted and fascinated by the holistic work of a new generation of young scientists – a profound, positive message concerning also our individual untapped potential for the good.
I also started to correspond with Global Energy Parliament – well worth a visit. This Keralan movement grounds spiritual conscience, philanthropy and eco-initiatives in quantum physics – the journey into the Higgs-Bosen or “I” particle.]
Bio-chemistry never lost the helping hand of its elder sister, Alchemy – nature’s interior art of transformation is assisted just a little by humans. Seventeenth century alchemic aphorisms describe red and white soldiers’ activity within the corpuscular bloodstream as they travel to the castles of our interior organs. What ancient medicine!
Think again of this fantastic occult paradox: starfish larvae eat up and digest rose-thorns. Starfish have five extensions (like Vitruvian human); the rose is structured on five petals. HEH is the fifth Hebrew letter, it means seeing and the breath. Y H V H, a Dvine shorthand to indicate the One Reality, is father, mother, child and (second H) the Family which seeds the new Yod. Our technology towards Gaia is as yet crude. It will refine.
And what about this? – in Keith Critchlow’s “the Hidden Geometry of Flowers” is shown the orbital pattern of periodic positions of Venus with Earth around the years. There is no escape for us whatsoever from the beauty, the dance of Venus:
See also my post about the seven-year cycles on the Tree of Life.
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What is Gaia? The human bonding with the planet draws closer and it IS.
Tantra is the living web of touch. Sleeping Beauty awakes within the briar. A starfish drinks the thorn of the rose. Everything dissolves in the Whole Life and Light. What is Real is to be found, not pasted as formula onto a thought or an email. It is off the beaten track. It is cultured, nurtured, gardened, found again and again. The unspeeched song in the vascular branches replies to everything.
Earnest, serious analytical thinking is good as far as it goes; but it is not perception. It sees patterns but it does not perceive what is behind the patterns and behind the fear. The pussy foot approaching the mirror must look behind it.
The character behind the patterns has a Uranian humour. It overturns our apple carts and expectations. The pattern seems real while I and others are wedded to its misery. But actually it isn’t. The pattern is Change and the Design around it is beyond the box. Change can be a sort of eternity of misery including vulnerability to frackers, which pokes my mind away from serenity like the hellish toasting-fork. But the Design wherein all change is temporary upheaval, laughs at locksmiths. What laughs at locksmiths? Love. Compassion. What are locksmiths? Weddings to misery and mistrust of life. And what goes on? Life, fermenting in fact with lovers and teachers and clowns and children and lighthouse keepers. We are unstoppable! We are not so obvious to the earnest thinkers of the pattern, but we shine because when we laugh or cry it falls away like a costume change. It’s simple. Just go on lighthouse keeping. It’s stormy. That’s what lighthouses are for. We are rooted quietly in the rock
Watch my predatory mind which grabs and fastens and worries any misery about environment, society or my physical body, just like a greedy market force. Just recognise it and don’t go with THAT flow. To help build a positive collective tree of life, attend to my environment in HERE and its collective contagion. This is I guess, my best intention with the extinction rebellion activists this week and next. What are we rebelling against? The old movie, the old machine. The old machine for sure is not destined to survive and as long as I stick to it, it gives me grief.
I think there is a Kabbalah meditation this evening at D and M’s. Let us gather together!
Recognise chaos (misery) and harmony (life force). Respect the fact of the dissonance towards sanity. Live within the given picture. Reading about the poet Rilke’s Russian journey with Lou Salome – the Divine beauty and vastness of that continent with its tenacious devout peasantry, his love for it, his passionate profound love for large Lou and her homeland – what flew into his poetry in subsequent years of the terror and rape of the timeless sacrament with time’s tyrant? The serfs were an immense population in age-old bondage to Tsars; in young Rilke’s well of discovery they were beautiful like wild flowers in their dream time, their lives a struggle to survive, their devotion a hardy mystic blessing under the heavy foot of feudal taxation. This devotion and faith met its hope in the soviet revolution and was slaughtered. Long grinding holocaust. In more recent times the devotion returns to the open places to build again with God.
What of the holocaust flew into Rilke’s metaphysics as terrifying angels? The 20th century Tsars occupied his new spiritual homeland of endless steppes and skies.
What is my mind? A sort of body which suffers pain! My mind is a skinless lamb turned on the spit. And what is outside, beyond and yet within my mind?
Each country will settle into his or her own nature in due course, including natural divinity and crown of thorns. An idea wishes to be born this morning as I write. What is it? All things come to term. All conflicts pass through each other. In the middle (east) are concrete walls and religious war. That isn’t the idea I had just now, which sank below the waves again, but let’s keep going. Concrete cracks apart and war becomes an outgrown fantasy. Centuries ago, my soul carried weapons, now laid aside. The civil war is in the middle east, concentrically. Civil war is that between those of the same flesh and brotherhood, the same village. So I have a picture of Christ wearing his crown of thorns. There is a mudra of Transfiguration. This is not the fish I almost caught just now, but never mind.
Lou Salome with her independence of thought and life style was a kind of beautiful Madame Blavatsky. I’m also looking at her biography of Nietzsche. I did these two sketches this morning – herself and Rilke:
“Devotion returns to the open places.” This is the fishy phrase or feeling which prevails. Where people believe it is the End, this shy sly hidden card comes out of the sleeve. What comes to its own end is the wall of conditioned belief, whether dumb or intelligent. I see something. I see nature, Gaia, colonising Her own. I hear you talking about the millions of persons and children who will starve and die when Africa becomes uninhabitable due to human carbon emissions.
Yes, this is tragic for human beings, and I cannot spell out – (when in linear left-brain company and its deeply-read concerns) – the solar-plexus intuition’s sense of the natural DNA balances. They transcend what we humans think we do. A vast cross-fertilised gene pool was born over the last century, and as swiftly it may become withdrawn, leaving a rich culture for the generations to thrive. I can’t say such things, which seem heartless; when I awake, I think in paradox. For the psyche which imagines the bigger picture, empaths also the individual sufferings of one of a million such families losing house, home and life through climate change – starving babies – the immensity of their fragile universe. What do I know of the Karmic hinterlands of these souls, and of their future sprouting and rebirth? Fires and heat scorch, and then there are ashes and then in the elder Chinese elementary cycle there is earth and water and wood: a re-sprouting of human wilderness beyond prediction. Compassion.
This is the Generation cycle:
The 64 I Ching Hexagrams are built from the pairing of the 8 trigrams (square root): Thunder, Wind, Fire, Earth, Lake, Heaven, Water, Mountain. To these are attributed the five Chinese elements qualitatively. In the Tao, wood generates fire which as ash generates earth which generates the metals which generate the water which generates earth … (See the Great Treatise in the I Ching, and also ‘The Trigrams of Han‘ by Steve Moore)
this diagram shows also the Destruction or conquest cycle: earth soaks up water which puts out fire which melts metal which cuts the wood which conquers earth.
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It is not just the regeneration of Nature’s habitat through the altered conditions: it is that the souls which may die in Equatorial and other regions are seeds of the life force, and they get planted again. Between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, where Earth’s circumference rotates faster, are found polarities of good and evil. Dictators engage in tribal warfare and pillage, but at the same time, the land is sprinkled with VSO and other teaching-missions. They save lives; significantly they sow indestructible seeds of cooperation, intelligent farming, self-sufficiency and friendship. No longer are religious dogmas inflicted, which cut the people away from their ancestral roots. There is a movement of atonement.
Humanity cannot be assessed at the level of political gamesters, the turgid knots of the lower mind. Humanity is assessed through the vivid peaks of her philanthropic responsibility.
The goddess Kwan Yin painted by Roerich
The ageless teachings nowadays emphasise this. In the old traditional way, those treading spiritual paths sought personal liberation. The new way is philanthropic: self being for others; embody it. Walk your talk.
There is no answer. There is a kind of seeing of the patterns, in our different ways; and there is acceptance of the whole. Above all, I should not hate or despair, but empathise – understand also the condition of those driven by unconscious fear of change, whose expression is aggressive denial.
I grieve the extinction of waves of humanity and their bio-culture. I may in my next thought deplore the crisis of over-population. Can I combine these concepts? Over the last century or two, Nature’s tidal wave embodied souls in billions upon earth, and is bound to reduce that component as She withdraws. It is difficult to find a language for this: she turns the human acceleration of exhaust, ingenuity and industry to her purpose.
She will use also the human nascent tendency to outgrow our addiction to survival-sexuality. Following what may or may not be dramatic drops in population in afflicted regions … may come a slow diminishing of the birth statistic as we pull our horns in, and our belts. Slowly but steadily, “marketing-sex” becomes replaced by contemplative intimate relationships in the scale of Tantric values. The genetic structure of the new human grows apace, leaving the old state and its passion and its beauty and its abuse behind like a sloughed-off skin or chrysalis.
This takes time and is perceptible in fits and starts, but it is here with us today; new generations are born to meet the environmental challenges creatively; the nature of the family evolves. Our real nature is ecstasy; not static.
This fact is alive also “unconsciously” in the outspoken fear of Extinction. We humans carry a huge amount of perception of which we cannot speak. I feel that the collective androgyne fears what it carries in the DNA – knowledge of a reduced progeny; this is one of the oldest instinctual fears which fuel the blind. Upon this fear ride competition, distraction and the market force. So you can see its INTENSITY!
The terror began to disrupt the old order at the beginning of the twentieth century with tsunamis of world-war, the soviet engine in Russia, Nazism, nuclear weapons and pollutants. Did not the terror shout in the depth of the poet Rilke’s elegies and angels?
Yet there is peace.
Sting flows as ecstasy, that tide of salty foam about to engulf the starfish on the sand, receiving the creature into Her own element. Isn’t this like us? Small i-thought cries and fears the sacrifice into the greater Being which grows within us!
Extinction fear is “a thrust into denial” … as in innumerable behaviours light and dark, sexual and otherwise. The extinction rebellion movement is an actual outspoken expression of this fear! Pluto turning direct last week draws out the sting, and … is there a beginning of healing? … wholeness.
DNA is a fibre throughout the universe and it is without end. Through DNA the cosmic serpent, each phenomenon is entangled and interwoven through the quantum field. Only connect … ! Here I spread jam on toast and there a supernova erupts. The one is a MOMENT in my time; the other is a million light-years in expansion. Or there, a Japanese pauses at work in his orchard.
Japanese farmer in his orchard looks like the Hermit in Tarot, in this recent oracle – flanked by the statements of Master Rakoczy and the Ascension of the child within us.
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“Almost all systems of thought create more constriction inside you, with the exception of those that lead you into deeper acceptance of your true nature.”
Richard Rudd, the 25th Gene Key
- How shall I hold on to my soul, so that
it does not touch yours? How shall I lift
it gently up over you on to other things?
I would so very much like to tuck it away
among long lost objects in the dark,
in some quiet, unknown place, somewhere
which remains motionless when your depths resound.
And yet everything which touches us, you and me,
takes us together like a single bow,
drawing out from two strings but one voice.
On which instrument are we strung?
And which violinist holds us in his hand?
O sweetest of songs. - To Lou Salome from Rainer Maria Rilke
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Photo by Sarah Poland
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