--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Rory Goff wrote: > > > I believe this is essentially correct; analysis of the letters of > > the mantra itself shows the mantra to be that of the Archetypal > > Seeker (Scorpio; Turquoise or Green-Blue Fowler in my system), > > divine anatomy's "female" navel center and liver: > > Neptune's "flight," as opposed to the "fight" of Mars's spleen, the > > other -- "male" half of the navel center. This Seeker archetype is > > often the one explored immediately after one has "exhausted" the > > temporally-preceding one: Libra; the "male" heart center's Green > > Caregiver, or Priest of Compassion, which is *the* > > classic "feminine" archetype in today's patriarchal cultures. The > > Turquoise Fowler is the one who flees an unbearable situation (often > > after feeling as if one has given and given and received little or > > nothing in return) and begins to seek, gestate, brood, or look > > within, in prepration for giving birth to the new Self. This would > > clearly be quite a threat to those family-members still relying on > > Mom's selfless giving in the Green-Priest archetype :-) > > In the Maheshvara sutra, which gives a peculiar ordering for the > Sanskrit alphabet as the sequence of creation (coming from Shiva's > Damaru), it begins with a very unusual sequence, representing "OM/AUM" > and these are the sequence of letters A-I-U-N. Nadikeshvara in his > commentary on this sutra describes A-I-U-N as A = Purusha; I = Shakti; > U = the accomplished "plan" of the manifested Universe and Mahat; and N > = Silence, the > "Gap" between letters. > > AUM also means "A", primordial, non-dual awareness, the "A"-kula or > abode of "A", Shiva-consciousness, flanked by the moon and the sun- -U > and M...and of course the actual Sanskrit glyph always has the nada and > the bindu as a crescent (moon) and a "point" (sun). So it represents > the Universe and the microcosm, the individual subtle body mirroring > the outer.
Another interesting interpretation of the AUM-glyph is given (I believe) by Barbara Walker (maybe in "The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects), who points out it is a pregnant torso: breast above belly, from which emerges an upswooping umbilical cord ending in a baby's upstretched arms (crescent) and head (bindu- point). Though never noticed previously, this interpretation really "clicked" and now it always appears that way to me. This would clearly be another example of AUM being the female navel- center of gestation and birthing of the cosmic egg-Self :-) Yet while AUM is on the one hand merely one of the twelve seed- mantras of the twelve primary Archetypes, it can also be more: the actual soul-note of a portal to inner "Ascension" (i.e. subtle-body Ascension, prior to the physical one of "Pleaidean" or Shiva- Consciousness spoken of earlier on FFL) -- bringing one into identification with the "council of Masters," wherein one actually becomes aware of the existence of these 12 personal Archetypes: Disciples surrounding one's cosmic Christ-Self, or Adityas or rays of one's personal Aditi. :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
