Title: FW: The Importance of Twilight, Related to the Pisces-Virgo Axis and Liminal Consciousness
This post below from Curtis speaks to some of what Mary Stewart Adams wrote in “War, Mars & the Divine Feminine” (forwarded by the other Jane on this list [via Storch] posted on Nov. 21 subject: Mars in it’s current cycle). Here’s an excerpt from that post:
“With Mars� movement through the heavens during the next two years we are afforded an opportunity to find a new way of responding to these events by aligning ourselves to the Pisces-Virgo axis of the zodiac, the abode of the Divine Sophia, the realm of the threshold. We are challenged, we could say, to guide the Mars forces of war and conflict along the way of healing and compassion. This transformation of the Mars impulse requires the effort of the human being, for this transformation of planetary impulses must happen within the human being. We are helped to understanding our role in this by the following words of Rudolf Steiner:
Stars once spoke to humanity
It is world destiny they are silent now.
To be aware of this silence
Can be pain for earthly humanity
But in this silence
There grows and ripens
What humanity speaks to the stars
To be aware of this speaking
Can be strength for Spirit Man.[iii] <mhtml:mid://00000023/#_edn3>
It is appropriate to consider Mars specifically in this context, for we know that Mars, in addition to being the planet of war and aggression, is also the planet of speech. As war and talk of war rages around us, we might ask: what is it we would speak to the stars at this time, how do we do this, and how is this individual activity transformative for society at large? When we try to answer these questions, we actually engage with the Sophia, the divine feminine, for it is the activity of the Sophia that allows us to see through world events and find the solution to begin with, not in outer activity, but by inner vision. Sophia is the wisdom that sees through the world and enables man to comprehend the world.[iv] <mhtml:mid://00000023/#_edn4>
In this we must bear in mind that the first phase of Earth evolution was marked by greater consciousness in the physical world and was guided by Mars. The task of our time, however, entails the conquest of the spiritual world and is guided by the impulses of the planet Mercury, ruler of Virgo, constellation of the divine feminine. Thus, our efforts to speak back to the stars entail our working together with the being of Sophia, in order to transform the Mars impulses of physical conquest into an inner activity of spiritual discovery, conscience and transformation.”
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From: Curtis Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:40:11 -0500
To: Jane Sherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The Importance of Twilight, Related to the Pisces-Virgo Axis and Liminal Consciousness
THE HOUR OF TWILIGHT
For the future we intend that at this hour the Mystic shall be at
home, less metaphysical and scientific than is his wont, but more
really himself. It is customary at this hour, before the lamps are
brought in, to give way a little and dream, letting all the tender
fancies day suppresses rise up in our minds. Wherever it is spent,
whether in the dusky room or walking home through the blue evening,
all things grow strangely softened and united; the magic of the old
world reappears. The commonplace streets take on something of the
grandeur and solemnity of starlit avenues of Egyptian temples; the
public squares in the mingled glow and gloom grow beautiful as the
Indian grove where Sakuntala wandered with her maidens; the children
chase each other through the dusky shrubberies; as they flee past
they look at us with long remembered glances: lulled by the silence,
we forget a little while the hard edges of the material and remember
that we are spirits.
Now is the hour for memory, the time to call in and make more
securely our own all stray and beautiful ideas that visited us during
the day, and which might otherwise be forgotten. We should draw them
in from the region of things felt to the region of things understood;
in a focus burning with beauty and pure with truth we should bind
them, for from the thoughts thus gathered in something accrues to the
consciousness; on the morrow a change impalpable but real has taken
place in our being, we see beauty and truth through everything.
It is in like manner in Devachan, between the darkness of earth
and the light of spiritual self-consciousness, that the Master in each
of us draws in and absorbs the rarest and best of experiences, love,
self-forgetfulness, aspiration, and out of these distils the subtle
essence of wisdom, so that he who struggles in pain for his fellows,
when he wakens again on earth is endowed with the tradition of that
which we call self sacrifice, but which is in reality the
proclamation of our own universal nature. There are yet vaster
correspondences, for so also we are told, when the seven worlds are
withdrawn, the great calm Shepherd of the Ages draws his misty hordes
together in the glimmering twilights of eternity and as they are
penned within the awful Fold, the rays long separate are bound into
one, and life, and joy, and beauty disappear, to emerge again after
rest unspeakable on the morning of a New Day.
Now if the aim of the mystic be to fuse into one all moods made
separate by time, would not the daily harvesting of wisdom render
unnecessary the long Devachanic years? No second harvest could be
reaped from fields where the sheaves are already garnered. Thus
disregarding the fruits of action, we could work like those who have
made the Great Sacrifice, for whom even Nirvana is no resting place.
Worlds may awaken in nebulous glory, pass through their phases of
self-conscious existence and sink again to sleep, but these tireless
workers continue their age-long task of help. Their motive we do not
know, but in some secret depth of our being we feel that there could
be nothing nobler, and thinking this we have devoted the twilight
hour to the understanding of their nature.
GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL
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"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
- Kahlil Gibran
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