The Arcane Symbolism in Sri Aurobindo´s Work, I Part

This article is a bit complex, but it's the only open door I know to something Sri Aurobindo considered so relevant to justify the Revelatory Vision.
It is indispensable you get first on my post https://sriorobindo.blogspot.com.es/2013/10/the-vision-of-savitri-i-part.html of which the following is an explicative work.

Please follow it and excuse me in advance for not being able to explain it in simpler words, they are concepts totally new even for myself.
But as I understand, it is of fundamental importance for any student of the Integral Yoga, or even better of an Integral Truth, and it would certainly elevate our understanding of the Supermental Realization.
I offer it to you as a service to the Masters and your beloved hearts.

As you will see, in the mentioned post of the Vision, we have a cube surmounted by pyramids on all its sides with Savitri entering in it.

fig.0 this image is only indicative.



So this article is not a speculation of my own, as it results far evident that the Master was representing his own symbol but in a three-dimensional shape.
Why this?
To explain it is the aim of this post.

fig.1

There is only one place in the extensive  work of Sri Aurobindo where his wisdom was laid down without the use of a single word. (fig.1)

When we observe the emblem of Sri Aurobindo: an open lotus floating in a pond enclosed within a square, and the square within an ascending and a descending triangle, we have no doubts it conveys a subliminal, spiritual meaning.

We probably think of the ascent of the human being or of Matter itself, and the descent of the Supramental Consciousness, and the blossoming of the inner Self centered as the lotus in the pond.
All of this sounds reasonably true and probably is, and yet, there´s the possibility that something else remains concealed in the symbol.

It would be sufficient only with a superficial look to be persuaded of the similarity of the Sri Aurobindo´s emblem with that of the kabbalistic tradition, (fig.2)

                                                                              fig.2

though we found it as a recurrent symbol, carrying almost an identical meaning, in the context of different arcane cultures, as for instance the vedic. (fig.3)

                                                                             fig.3

                                                                  a vedic yantra

We positively know that the substantial difference between the star of David and that of Sri Aurobindo is the direction of the triangles: while in the Star of David the ascending triangle is the Spirit and the descending represent Matter, in that of Sri Aurobindo it is the reverse.

So that there can be hardly any doubt that Sri Aurobindo purposefully represented the sense of his work connected with the ancient traditions by using their very symbols and meaning the same principles.
And if we admit such a cultural/spiritual link for the triangles, there is no reason why the square would represent the exception here, as, every single element of the emblem has its own explication. On the contrary,the square had stupendous reasons to be there, describing so to say a pan-cultural trajectory, a comprehensiveness of traditions, a mystical circle around them all.

And it was not for any geometrical or aesthetic solution to contain the lotus and the pond that the square appear, as for that purpose, even a circle would suffice or nothing at all.
Instead, we have the introduction of an additional emblem. The Square. (fig.4)

                                                                                fig.4


And the Square takes us directly to another ancient tradition, that of the sacred geometry.

We can truly say that if it was not for the square in the middle of the triangles, there would be little or no distinction from the kabbalistic symbol. Though it has nothing of casual, the square ought to be there too.

But after all, what was contained in the humble square to be adopted not only as a graphical sign but as the device for, as we will see, a new dispensation of His Work and a farther discover for ourselves?

There were a number of good reasons why the star of David was implemented with a square.

Since the most ancient times the Arcane Symbolism  utilized four lines parallel and convergent (the square), to symbolize the Four Elements of the Chaos Naturae.(fig.5).

The square was considered the proper symbol of the interrelation of the four elements and each of them had in the square its own corresponding place and movement: fig5

fig.5 representation of the Chaos of Nature ( 4 Elements ) as an ordered movement: Ascending Fire, Descending Water, Upper Air, Lower Earth.

It is but evident for anyone that the four elements develop their activity within a three-dimensional world, not in a two dimensional one, so that the true representation of the works of Nature is

fig.6


the Cube, and the Square a devise, a symbol of it.

We can truly say that the Cube is the inner soul of the square, to which the square silently points.
And truly was so in the ciphered language of the ancient Initiate.

There should be hardly any dissension about it, because we know the cubic stone was carved by the ancients with the name of the divinity and ceremonially placed as cornerstone of the sacred buildings. (The foundational stone in public buildings in our modern era is a remnant of that ancient tradition).

fig.7 the kan (the Square) ancient Egyptian instrument of masonry

With his Kan the Egyptian Mason gave measure and dimension to the formless and irregular stone ( which was to him the chaos of nature) taking order out of disorder (by giving shape to its secret soul, the cube), rendering it apt for the edification of the Temple.

We reach a first human attempt of reducing to an ordered movement the otherwise unresting and uncontrolled forces of Nature, and we reach a first emblemization of the Work. (emblemization: symbolical representation of an esoteric-spiritual work or of a concept).

As well, the synchronization of the 4 Elements, produces and sustains Life. So that in first instance the square is a dynamic and not a static symbol, and in second instance, the elements act into three dimensional space, so that the true representation of matter and life becomes intimately connected with or rather shifts from the exoteric square to the esoteric cube.
It is the cube which explains life, not the square.
(In the Vision, the Water ascends and forms a cube which Savitri enters, and is Savitri which justify the cube, not the reverse. So to say, is the last element that enters which explains all the others. In Evolution, it would be the involved spirit finally deploying itself in matter, as for Sri Aurobindo's vision of Evolution).

While the square is the representation of the sum of the works of Nature, the cube is its inner sense.

And it is the square and not any other symbol, because in the square there is the symbolic representation of the four elements by means of lines comprehensive of the whole manifestation and activity of Nature operated from their respective directions and locations: fig 8

To the eyes of the ancient Initiate the Square or the Cube were not empty.

When we unite the lines appears the square

fig.9

with the fifth element delimited by it and delimiting it, its secret Matrix, the Lac Virginis of the Alchemist, the invisible Etheric Light support and container of all the existing, the Prana of the Rishi.

So that in last terms is the Cube and not the square what really symbolizes the activity of the four Elements.
So we can see that if we allow such a treatment to the square, and if the square and the triangles were meant to mean something, the whole emblem of Sri Aurobindo would synthesize within a few lines the core of the relevant traditions both of the East and the West.

....end I part
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The Galactic Waves of Supermental Light

One of the ways to understand the action of the Galactic Waves of supermental Light is to see how their tides deeply influence generations of human beings.
One such wave (rather several) could be observed around  1968 (Auroville was founded that year), when a whole generation at planetary scale felt impelled to an introspective research, the generation known as "the Children of the Flowers"*.
Because this is the explication of that phenomenon, so intense was in certain cases the inner call, that someone had to withdrawn from society trying to build what their inner reality suggested, not a mere society of beings but a true communion of hearts.

They are not to be blamed for having searched in different fields of human endeavour and knowledge not always with full positive results, in gross, their influence on society has been more positive then negative: aside of their original achievements in the field of music and arts in general, it has certainly supposed an healthy and vivifying shock to the somehow sleepy
 post-war society.

 A middle-term observation of this phenomenon should not consider excesses as determining or deteriorating the edge of this generational push, excess which unavoidably presents itself too any time such a Wave wipes Earth, Heart and Mind.
This is one evidence of the work of the Galactic Waves: it is not new-age folklore, it is the subsiding reality either we perceive it or not.

 Sri A. and Mother, in mentioning different years and approaches of the Supermental Light to Earth  -as tentatives of that Light-, are implicitly admitting the possibility of such tidal movement and waves, though I do not hold any evidence they explicitly mentioned these waves.

What we can say, is that in the actuality such waves are not only tiding but even increasing their frequency both in time and vibrationally.
If we can´t grasp at it, we are likely to lose some factor of importance in understanding  this wonderful process.
The Galactic Waves are not terms of belief: they are strict reality.
And Galactic Wave only refers to galactic wave of Supermental Light.
Not any other Light.

*We actually know of several such waves as Sri A and Mother testify, in 1956 and at least other earlier in 1937 I seem to remember.

The Solid Metatronic

If you were interested in the Vision Sri Aurobindo provided me, you may have noticed one of the initial symbolic elements of the Vision, (see "The Vision" Part II) it was when the Water which flows at the feet of Savitri start to levitate in the Air forming a giant blue solid cube of water surmounted by quadrangular pyramids on all its faces.
It took me little to understand it was a tri-dimensional transposition of the
 bi-dimensional symbol of Sri Aurobindo, especially when Savitri entered in it dancing in an ecstasy of joy and freedom.
I recognize it took me quite a few years more, instead, to understand how it fit with the tradition of the Solid Metatronic.
The reasons why there is a transposition from bi-dimensional to tri-dimensional reality of the symbol of Sri Aurobindo is object of a next article, here I should mention only this peculiar solid of the Vision in relation with the Metatronic one.
First of all, there is the essential need of the Vision to express his teaching under the symbol of a solid geometric, a polygon, which is directly related with the works of the Supermental Light, which in other traditions is called Metatronic diamond, jewel etc. of Light.
This symmetry of teachings is real and was sub-intended in the Vision.
(Just a little mention is needed to say we are referring to the original tradition and not any other speculation or manipulation it may have undergone).

So that the works of the Light are effectively expressed trough polygons, which is the inner semblance of that work, the semblance open to our human vision. That is, when we finally can see it.
It is undisputed that the solid metatronic relates with an Angel of that name, Metatron.
There is no solid metatronic without the presence of the Angel there to vivify it.
Necessarily, the Supermental Light is, at least in the theory, related with that Angel of the Presence of God, which is said to be the closer outer manifestation of God Himself, the first born of a generation of hierarchies of angels which extend till the human beings.  Metatron is the closest Presence to the Source.
Knowing myself that the Vision provided me from Sri A. was authentic, I searched for correspondences and farther information on the Solid Metatronic, though most of it seemed coming from evident speculations on the movement order and position of the pyramids and a confused understanding of their connection with the Elements, with which the solid is strictly related, as the solid is not a theory but the factual manifestation of the work of that Light within the Elements of Nature and Matter.  As much as within ourselves. It is an orderly process related with the positions and movements of the Elements.
Because you have seen  in the Vision that for Savitri entering the Solid, the Element Water which is below has ascended, this means Air has descended, and if Fire descends  Earth rises.
Fire here is the Supermental Fire.
This transposition of Elements is the Supermental manifestation.
Of course, is a bit more complicated than that, and I should try provide you of some elements as far as myself understood them.

Soul-Consciousness

Outward self consciousness coexists with inner Soul-Consciousness.
It is when the  "Night of the Soul" happens that the outer self first recognizes the presence of that Soul and start a process which will end in total identification, fusion, with that inner soul-consciousness.
From that moment one may say the path is not a human path anymore but a Soul-path.
In fact, it can be noted a progressive  spontaneou submission of the human tool as server of that soul-consciousness, and the sadhana it´s not understood as an effort and a strive and a control but rather an opening to the sure action of that soul which the outer self recognize as wiser and superior to himself. That is the reason of the -fusion-, there is no element of our nature to fight or rigidly control anymore as the whole sadhana is overtaken by the Soul and under its ways.

At all the effects the "Night of the Soul" is a, momentary, obscure overshadowing of our whole nature, not only of the Soul but of the outer self as well. As it were, in the absolute darkness the being has to discover and rely only on its own light, but that light do not appear at once, there is such thing as a temporary space, psichological space or inner space of absolute, sacred darkness before it remitts into a first settlement of that light-process. It is symbolized in many traditions, and in the christian is related with the three days the Christ spent in the sepulcre before the Resurrection.

It has remined definitely clear that this Death and Resurrection process is not only something related to christian church, and not only peculiar to Jesus Christ,  but a cosmic process of  the manifestation of the Light which has been called at times Christic Light and Supermental Light, Maitreya Light and as more recently, the Galactic Wave.
What is known as the Coming of Christ or of Maitreya refers to one same happening which is true at individual level as much at mass-consciousness level, or as an objective coming, as much the sidereal transformations needed to host this greater Light within it.