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Microcosm Lecture Series Notes

 

Transitioning Into The Aquarian Age

 

Lecture 1 of 25 – When is the Aquarian Age?

 

 

 

            Until the editor obtains permission to use names, there will be only descriptions or pseudonyms of individuals: lecturer as [R].

            [R] referenced Plato and Socrates with the sentiment:

“All of my life I have sought a friend.”

            These lectures are dedicated to “Captain Theosophy,” highly esteemed friend of [R] and former teacher of gifted high school students (also of the “slow and slippery”) who helped establish a discussion group in Madison in the late 60’s and early ‘70’s, and who wrote “The Adventures of Captain Theosophy” which appeared in The American Theosophist.  

            It was a time when forerunners like David Spangler of Findhorn, the head of the Geocosmic Society, and [R] were all giving lectures in the city, lectures that predated Microcosm Book Shop, the location where this to-be-two-year (25-count) series has begun, as of September 2008 – now the former Microcosm Book Shop.

            In conclusion, the lively discussions and lectures of a few decades removed were precursors to this Transitioning Into The Aquarian Age series.

           

            Many people make predictions about the Aquarian Age.  One astrologer claimed that The Age began on the day he was born.  Spangler predicted that Madison would be the spiritual center of the world after the coming geological changes.  Rudolph Steiner speculated that there will be a major spiritual center northwest of Chicago.  [R] stated that all predictions are controversial and nobody knows for certain, but he is sure that he [R] will be declared King of the new spiritual movement.  Was he kidding?

 

            Movement relates to consciousness.  Mystics know that everything that exists lives.  Nothing is dead.  Life is not static, but is active.  Furthermore, everything that lives and moves has consciousness. 

            There are two types of vortices in the desire bodies of individuals, and there are two kinds of consciousness.  This is what is described in the book of Revelations in multiple passages regarding the mark of the beast or the mark of the lamb in their foreheads.  Movement affects consciousness and vice-versa.   Movement awakens and produces consciousness. 

           

            Plato on motion and change:  There are two different kinds of change.

                        Change within itself – ex: spinning, growing, maturing (subjective)

                        Change re something external – ex: standing in water (objective)

            Relationships induce these changes which are personal and impersonal.

 

            In the discipline of physics the source of the motion is unimportant.

            In mysticism the source of the motion is important.

 

            These dynamics are not isolated from each other, but they affect each other.  For example, spinning is attractive – the spinning object attracts things to it. 

            These dynamics are universal.

            These dynamics cannot be managed or counted.  They are too numerous and grand.  Many are cosmic like the galactic arm or the solar system.

 

Earth movements          

Axial Rotation               

            Cause—cosmic force

            Natural effect—night/day

            Consciousness—circadian rhythm

            Astrology—mundane houses

 

Orbital Revolution                                              

            Cause—cosmic thrust

            Natural effect—changingseasons

            Consciousness—extroverting (summer) and introverting (winter)

            Astrology—the zodiacal signs

 

Precession                   

            Cause—gravitational effect

            Natural effect—long term environmental

            Consciousness—historical

            Astrology—the ages

 

            To explain the precessional cause, although the earth’s crust seems sold, the center of the Earth is fluidic and the centripetal force of the Moon’s gravitational pull while it orbits the Earth causes the sphere to be ellipsoidal, not a perfect sphere.  The Moon’s orbital movement ranges both North and South of the equator.  Since the Moon is closest to the Earth when it passes the equator, there is more gravitational pull at this point, and this creates a bulge at the equator, whereas the poles subsequently tend to flatten.  

            When the Earth revolves around the Sun, the North Pole always points to the North Star.  This is its vector force (straight line of magnitude or orientation in space), but the ellipsoidal shape of the sphere causes a slight torque (twisting) motion or “wobble.”        This wobble changes the Earth’s orientation to the Sun in relation to the constellations – to the extent of one degree every 72 years or 50 seconds per year.  It creates a backward movement of orientation, measurable at the Aries point or vernal equinox (when the apparent position of the Sun moves to 0 degrees of Aries).  Every 72 years the first day of spring will begin about one day earlier on the calendar.  Taking a longer view, every 2156 years the vernal equinox will begin in a different sign of the zodiac.   

            Core samples of the earth provide scientific proof of this phenomenon by the measurement of oxygen and the determination of climate patterns.  The very large and widely separated cycles of extreme cold found in these samples cannot be explained by precessional cycles, but the shorter periodic cycles of the core samples follow the precessional cyclical movements.

 

Terms

 

Constellation: con = together, stella = stars.  Each grouping of stars has a picture.

 

Zodiac: circle of animals.  These form the constellations or signs.

 

The philosopher, Porphyry said that the zodiac actually predates the actual stars. 

 

There are 3 zodiacs:

 

1.  Constellational.  (14)  The apparent motion of the Sun travels through all of them, but they are of different sizes – some large and some small.

 

2.  Sidereal.   (12)  Also known as the “natural zodiac,” each sign is made the same size and is like the section of an orange.

 

3.  Intellectual.  Also known as the “tropical zodiac,” is like the sidereal, but it is measured from equinox to equinox, and relates to the invisible, psychological phenomena. 

 

Fixed stars:  As latitude stars, they can be exact determinates.  They produce/mark events. 

 

Fixed stars and constellations are the foci: collections of divine beings.

 

Precessional relevance –   

 

All cycles that relate to time are indicated by Capricorn/Cancer (solsticial)

All cycles that relate to form are indicated by Aries/Libra (equinoctial)

 

Whereas the Ascendant represents the physical body in an individual’s natal chart, with respect to the world the precessional movement is like the world getting a new Ascendant.

 

The cusp between Cancer and Gemini is considered the Northern Gate.

The cusp between Capricorn and Sagittarius is considered the Southern Gate.

 

A very rough time-table of precessional movement through history:

 

Cancer           7900 – 5800

 

Gemini            5800 – 3700              Gatherers, stalkers, a scene of a cart pulled by lizards.

                         

 

Taurus            3700 – 1600              Clannish groups, merchant heroes, massive architecture, religion of the bull, esotericism of the serpent

                                                                                                           

Aries               1600 – 500                Bold and simple, war heroes and champions, Libra brought law.

 

Pisces             500 – 2600                Martyrdom, blind faith, the fishes, esotericism of the virgin, sea explorers, gargoyles, flying buttresses.

                       

                                                           

Aquarius         2600 – 4700              Altruism, humanism, gain control of the heart and circulatory system, glass (Uranus) and concrete (Saturn) architecture.

 

Capricorn       4700 – 7000             

 

There is no precise finish line or demarcation between ages.  Considerations are the broad and general manifestations.  Approximation is good enough.

 

Reference Books for fixed stars:

 

The Witness Of The Stars, E. W. Bullinger.

Star Names—Their Lore and Meaning, Richard Hinckley Allen.

 

The aspects to the brightest (alpha) star of the Aries constellation, El Nath aka Al Hamal, produced the brightest events and many of the world’s most revered sages: Daniel the prophet, a Zoroaster, Pythagoras, Buddha, Confucius, etc.

 

The beta star, Mezarthim, star of the coming of Jesus (not to be confused with the star of Bethlehem).

The beta star appearing at the tip of the left horn of the bull, El Nath, defined as “the wounded or the slain”

 

THE NEXT MAJOR EVENT: The solstitial colure will align with the center of the galaxy (the black hole of the milky way).

 

For spiritual reasons the lecturer uses the sidereal zodiac of Indian astrology which makes corrections for the beginning of the zodiac based on the current equinoctial point.   

 

Using the above, the year 498 a.d. marks the beginning of the Piscean Age.  Supporting this was the event of the second council of Nicea of 496 a.d. and the Augustinian influence declaring Gnosticism, etc. heresy.  (Editor’s note: The first Council of Nicea 325 a.d., the second Council of Nicea 787 a.d., must clarify)

 

The year 2654 will mark the “exact” beginning of the Aquarian Age.

 

The Piscean Age was centered in the renaissance, at the beginning of Rosicrucianism born out of the Johnanites (given by Heindel as 1313) and marked by the brightest star of Pisces, Algenib. (editor’s note: at the extreme tip of the wing of Pegasus)

 

For those who want to return to earth “swiftly” to experience the beginning of the new age, [R]’s advice is to work very hard on your spiritual exercises. 

 

The brightest time of the Aquarian Age will be in about the year 3850 with its alignment to the winter soltitial colure and the bright stars of the fixed signs, Al Debaran (Taurus), Regulus (Leo), Antares (Scorpio), and Fomalhaut (Aquarius)

 

 

The Aquarian Age:

 

’is not the New Galilee,

’Is not the dissolution of the earth or the second coming.  (Heindel and Steiner think this will be about 4810.),

’Is not the last judgment (Nobody knows when that will be.).

 

Historical dates:

           

1850   dawning of the Aquarian Age

2654   the hard-cusp beginning of the age

3234   the heart of the age

3850   the ending of the age

4000   dawning of the Age of Capricorn

4810   beginning of the age

6966   end of age

7000   major evolutionary changes marked by the Southern and Northern Gates and opposite the point of the Biblical geat flood and which align with the rivers in the pictorial zodiac.