The Planetary Spirit, the Circle, the Mountain
Man in the Maze
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See articles on I'itoi & Baboquivari Mountain in WikipediaSee also article on the Labyrinth in Wikipedia. Compare the above "maze" with the photos
of the labyrinths given in the Wikipedia article. Be sure to scroll down the article for all the photos.
Also compare Mandala
...the highest Planetary Spirits, those who can no longer err . . . appear on Earth but at the origin of every new human kind; at the junction of, and close of the two ends of the great cycle. And, they remain with man no longer than the time required for the eternal truths they teach to impress themselves so forcibly upon the plastic minds of the new races as to warrant them from being lost or entirely forgotten in ages hereafter, by the forthcoming generations. The mission of the planetary Spirit is ... to strike the KEY NOTE OF TRUTH. Once he has directed the vibration of the latter to run its course uninterruptedly . . . to the end of the cycle — the denizen of the highest inhabited sphere [symbolised by a mountain?] disappears from the surface of our planet — till the following “resurrection of flesh.” The vibrations of the Primitive Truth are what your philosophers name “innate ideas.” [compare this with Jungian Archetypes. Also Archetypes - Jungian]...
Mahatma KH, Letter 18 of the Mahatma Letters
...The Occultist accepts revelation as coming from divine yet still finite Beings, the manifested lives, never from the Unmanifestable ONE LIFE; from those entities, called Primordial Man, Dhyani-Buddhas, or Dhyan-Chohans [Lords of Meditation], the "Rishi-Prajapati" of the Hindus, the Elohim or "Sons of God," the Planetary Spirits of all nations, who have become Gods for men....
H.P.B., SD, I, pp. 9-10 Compare to Cosmic Man in Wikipedia.
Each people and nation. . . has its direct Watcher, Guardian and Father in Heaven -- a Planetary Spirit.
H.P.B., SD, I, p. 576
It is said by Krishna, the Logos incarnate, in the Bhagavat-gita, "The seven great Rishis, the four preceding Manus, partaking of my nature, were born from my mind: from them sprang (emanated or was born) the human race and the world," (Chap. X. Verse 6.)
Here, by the seven great Rishis, the seven great rupa hierarchies or classes of Dhyan Chohans, are meant. Let us bear in mind that the Saptarshi (the seven Rishis) are the regents of the seven stars of the Great Bear, therefore, of the same nature as the angels of the planets, or the seven great Planetary Spirits. They were all reborn, all men on earth in various Kalpas and races. Moreover, "the four preceding Manus" are the four classes of the originally arupa gods -- the Kumaras, the Rudras, the Asuras, etc.: who are also said to have incarnated....
H.P.B., SD, II, p 318 fn
...The Spirit of Life and Immortality was everywhere symbolized by a circle: hence the serpent biting his tail, represents the circle of Wisdom in infinity....
...The incorporeal intelligences (the Planetary Spirits, or Creative Powers) were always represented under the form of circles. In the primitive philosophy of the Hierophants these invisible circles were the prototypic causes and builders of all the heavenly orbs, which were their visible bodies or coverings, and of which they were the souls. It was certainly a universal teaching in antiquity....
H.P.B., SD, II, p 552
...The idea of representing the hidden deity by the circumference of a Circle, and the Creative Power (male and female, or the Androgynous WORD), by the diameter across it, is one of the oldest symbols. It is upon this conception that every great Cosmogony [birth of the universe] was built....
H.P.B., SD, II, p 536
...every cosmogony, from the earliest to the latest, is based upon interlinked with, and most closely related to numerals and geometric figures. Questioned by an Initiate, these figures and numbers will yield numerical values based on the integral values of the Circle - “the secret habitat of the ever-invisible Deity”....
H.P.B., SD, III, p. 69
...each of the Primordial Seven, the first Seven Rays forming the Manifested Logos [Creative Deity], is again sevenfold. Thus, as the seven colours of the solar spectrum correspond to the seven Rays, or Hierarchies, so each of these latter has again its seven divisions corresponding to the same series of colours....
These Hierarchies can only be symbolized as concentric circles of prismatic colours; each Hierarchy being represented by a series of seven concentric circles, each circle representing one of the prismatic colours in their negative order. But in each of these “wheels” one circle will be brighter and more vivid in colour than the rest, and the wheel will have a surrounding Aura (a fringe, as the physicists call it) of that colour. This colour will be the characteristic colour of that Hierarchy as a whole. Each of these Hierarchies furnishes the essence (the Soul) and is the “Builder” of one of the seven kingdoms of Nature which are the three elemental kingdoms, the mineral, the vegetable, the animal, and the kingdom of spiritual man....
H.P.B., SD, III, p. 69
...for every nation had [in ancient times] and many still have holy mountains : some, Himalayan Peaks, others, Parnassus, and Sinai. They [the mountains] were all places of initiation and the abodes of chiefs of the communities of ancient and even modern adepts....
H.P.B., SD, II, p 494
See also Wikipedia, "Axis Mundi" See also what David Leeming writes in his Mythology Dictionary:
"In Central Asia, Tibet, Korea, and other places in Asia, it was thought that the primal being or first king arrived on earth by landing on the summit of a mythical mountain. Mountains are the gateway to heaven."
"Meru: The Olympus of the Hindu...gods and goddesses, Mount Meru, or sometimes Sumeru or Mandara... is, according to the Mahabharata..., a golden mass of intense energy. Brahma's golden city is at its summit. It is the axis mundi...for both Hindus and Buddhists. For Pure Land...Buddhists, it is the place of the Buddha fields." Leeming's Asian Mythology
See also Mount Kailash
Mount Sinai
Thus all the world-mountains and mundane eggs, the mundane trees, and the mundane snakes and pillars, may be shown to embody scientifically demonstrated truths of natural philosophy. All of these mountains contain, with very trifling variations, the allegorically-expressed description of primal cosmogony; the mundane trees, that of subsequent evolution of spirit and matter; the mundane snakes and pillars, symbolical memorials of the various attributes of this double evolution in its endless correlation of cosmic forces. Within the mysterious recesses of the mountain — the matrix of the universe — the gods (powers) prepare the atomic germs of organic life, and at the same time the life-drink, which, when tasted, awakens in man-matter the man-spirit. The soma, the sacrificial drink of the Hindus, is that sacred beverage. ...
...The snake, which plays such a prominent part in the imagery of the ancients, was degraded by the absurd interpretation of the serpent of the Book of Genesis into a synonym of Satan, the Prince of Darkness, whereas it is the most ingenious of all the myths in its various symbolisms. For one, as agathodaimon, it is the emblem of the healing art and of the immortality of man. It encircles the images of most of the sanitary or hygienic gods.... In the oldest Egyptian imagery, as in the cosmogonic allegories of Kneph, the mundane snake, when typifying matter, is usually represented as contained within a circle he lies straight across its equator, thus indicating that the universe of astral light, out of which the physical world evolved, while bounding the latter, is itself bound by Emepht, or the Supreme First Cause. ... When the serpent represents eternity and immortality, it encircles the world, biting its tail, and thus offering no solution of continuity....
H.P.B., ISIS UNVEILED, Vol. 1, pp. 156-157
| Sephora: Today he sleeps. Moses: Who sleeps? Sephora: He who has no name. Moses: Does your god live on this mountain? Sephora: Sinai is his high place, his temple. Moses: If this god is God, he would live on every mountain, in
every valley. Sephora: It is said he created all men in his image. Moses: Then he would dwell in every heart, in every mind, in every soul. Sephora: I do not know about such things, but I do know that the mountain rumbles when God is there, and the earth trembles, and the cloud is red with fire. Moses: At such a time, has any man ever gone to see him face-to-face? Sephora: No man has ever set foot on the forbidden slopes of
Sinai. Moses: To know that he is. And if he is, to know why he has not heard Moses: You have strong faith in this god, Sephora... but for me, there
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