M E D I T A T I O N
INVOCATTION of SIRIUS
ALIGHNMENT WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF FREEDOM, LOVE THROUGH MANAS, UNIFICATION
It is held every 15 days on Wednesday evenings
S U N - S I R I U S
The ancient books of
the East point out, in considering this subject, that the seven stars of the
Great Bear, the seven stars of the Pleiades, and the sun Sirius, have a very
close connection with our solar system, and that they hold an intimate psychic
magnetic relation to our solar Logos.
We have seen that the
goal for the atom of substance is self-consciousness; and that for the Entity
Who is evolving through a planet, the goal may be God consciousness. Now, of course, when you consider the solar
Logos words fail, yet for Him also there must be a goal. You can call this Absolute Consciousness, if
you like. Let us again illustrate this. Our body, we have been told, is made up of a
multiplicity of little lives, or cells, or atoms, each having its own
individual consciousness. This
corresponds to its self-consciousness.
The consciousness of the physical body, viewed as a whole, might, from
the atom's point of view, be regarded as its group consciousness. Then we have the consciousness of man, the
thinker. He is the one who energises the
body, and turns it to his will—that is, to the atom in his body, analogous to
what we might call God consciousness.
Our self-conscious realisation is as far removed from that of the atom
as the consciousness of the solar Logos is from ours. Now to the atom in our body that
consciousness of the solar Logos might be called Absolute Consciousness, might
it not? This thought can be extended to
the human atom, to the planetary atom, and you can further predicate that the
solar Logos reaches out to a consciousness beyond His own analogous to that
which stretches between the atom in your body and Him. Here you have a very marvellous vista opening
up. Yet this is, in itself, encouraging;
for if we study closely the cell in a physical body, and consider the long road
that has been travelled between its consciousness, and that which a man now
knows to be his, we have for ourselves the promise and hope of future
achievement, and the incentive to persist in our endeavour.
The old books of the
East have held secreted for many ages the truth about much which is only now
beginning to sink into the consciousness of the Occidental. They taught the radio-activity of matter
thousands of years ago, and so perhaps, after all, there may be an equal amount
of truth in their teaching about the constellations. Perhaps in the stars that we can see in the
distant heavens, and in the life that is evolving within them, we have the objective
of our solar Logos, and the influences that are flowing towards him, attracting
him towards them, and making him, in due course of time, radio-active. In the Eastern books they say that in the sun
Sirius lies the source of wisdom, and that the influence or the energy of love
emanates from there. Then they say that
there is a constellation that is even more closely connected with our solar
Logos, the reason being that He is not, as yet, sufficiently evolved so that He
can respond completely to Sirius, but He can respond to the influence of the
seven sisters of the Pleiades. This
group is a most interesting one. If you
will go to the dictionary and look up the word "electricity," you
will find it suggested that it may be traced back to the star Electra, one of
the seven sisters, and supposed by some to be the little lost Pleiad. The Eastern teachers say that in the mystery
of electricity is hidden all knowledge, and that when we have fathomed that we
shall know all there is to be known.
What the relationship of the Pleiades to our solar system may be, it is
not possible for us to say, but even our Christian Bible recognises it, and Job
speaks of "the sweet influences of the Pleiades," whilst some of the
Oriental Scriptures affirm that the connection lies in sound or vibration. Perhaps the Pleiades are the source of the
atomic life of our Logos, the active intelligent aspect, that one which was
first developed, and which we might call electrical matter.
Then there is the Great Bear. There is much that is interesting said about the relation between the Great Bear and the Pleiades in Oriental writings. The seven sisters are said to be the seven wives of the seven stars of the Great Bear. Now what is perhaps the truth back of that legend? If the Pleiades are the source of the electrical manifestation, the active intelligent aspect of the solar system, and their energy that which animates all matter, they may perhaps represent the negative aspect, whose polar opposite, or the positive aspect, is their seven husbands, the seven stars of the Great Bear. Perhaps the union of these two is what produces our solar system. Perhaps these two types of energy, one from the Pleiades and the other from the Great Bear, meet, and in their conjunction produce that blazing forth in the heavens which we call our solar system.
The relationship of
these two constellations, or rather their subjective relationship, must surely
have some basis in fact, or we would not have it hinted at in the different
mythologies. There must be something that
connects them, out of all the myriads of constellations, with our solar
system. But when we endeavour to give it
a purely physical application we go astray.
If we work it out along the lines of the subjective life, and connect it
with energy, quality, or force, we are liable to stumble upon truth, and find
out some of the reality which may underlie what appears at first sight to be a
senseless fable. Anything that widens
our horizon, that enables us to take a broader vision and a clearer view of what
is going on in the evolutionary process, is of value to us, not because the
accumulation of ascertained facts is of value, but because of what it enables
us to do within ourselves; our ability to think in wider and larger terms is
increased; we are enabled to look beyond our self-centred point of view, and to
include within our consciousness other and different aspects than our own. In doing this we are developing group
consciousness, and we shall realise eventually that the apparently stupendous
facts which we fought and died for down the ages, and emphasised as the entire
truth, were after all but fragments of a plan, and infinitesimal portions of a
gigantic sumtotal. Perhaps, therefore,
when we come back to earth again, and can look back upon the things that
interest us now, and which we consider so important, we shall find how
erroneous facts were as we then apprehended them. Facts, after all, do not matter; the facts of
the last century are not facts now, and in the next century scientists may
laugh at our dogmatic assertions, and wonder how we could have looked upon
matter as we did. It is the development
of the life, and the relationship of the life to all that is around, that
really matters; and, above all, the effect that we are having upon those with
whom we are associated, and the work we do, which affects, for better or for
worse, the group in which we find ourselves.
In closing this series
of lectures, I cannot do better than quote again from St. Paul, where he
says: "I reckon that the sufferings
of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall he
revealed in us...for we are saved by hope...for I am persuaded that neither
death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be
able to separate us from the love of God."
(The Consciousness of the Atom, pp. 153-157)
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