Avatar who descends into physical manifestation from the higher realms to become the World Teacher for the Aquarian Age.5 "Hesiod's explanation that the astronomical Phoenix represented the great circle of the stars tells us for the first time that the S. Phinx is the Sign of the Phinia. . . . . This Sun Phoenix named the great Sun cycle of 25,920 years, and in America the Maya priests who claimed to have kept all times from the beginning, also named their Ages by their word for 'Suns' and said we were now well on in the world's third Sun or Age. . . . . Our R O C K god is named in the Egyptian and Irish way by Bee-Hives. He wears Twelve Balls or BE A Ds (Anglican for 'priests'). These named the Twelve assistants of deity in all ages. John gives the names of these twelve precious stones as representing the twelve Apostles." " Thus number 12 stands for and expresses the entire scheme of manifested creation. The Sun and Moon, the earth and all the stars of heaven, with the Rulers thereof, each has its appointed place and definite work to do in bringing into physical manifestation and completing the Grand Plan, that through it the Great Law (the Lord God) of Divine Love and Wisdom may bring forth and perfect Man made in the image of God. For "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them by their names. Great is our Lord (Law), and of great power: his understanding is infinite."7 As the Teacher of the O. C. M. has said: "Just as in the trifling period of a man's life or of a single day there are twelve hours, and over these hours there plays the seven-fold manifestations of our life, each emanation in turn bringing its influence into the day, the moment and the second to the infinitesimal point within the second, so it is with this Great Law manifesting in larger and ever wider circles of manifestation. This is so familiar that we hear often of the great Clock of 5 See The Voice of Isis, Curtiss, Chapt. X. "The Doctrine of Avatara"; also lesson The Mighty Angel. 6 Jarvis Letters, Chapter VI. 7 Psalms, 147, 4. the Ages with its twelve hours and its seven powers. This great sidereal clock is often called the zodiac, and each of the signs of the zodiac is but an hour in this great day-period. "Like the days in the week and the hours of the day, you will find upon close analysis that the influences of these zodiacal signs, or, to speak more correctly, the influences of these Angelic Rulers of the hours of the heavens, manifest just as distinctively and as perfectly through the periods of the day as in the greater periods of the year. Moreover, every one of the so-called planets, or more correctly speaking their Angelic Rulers, rule over and emphasize those periods of the day and bring upon the Soul the varying experiences, joys, temptations and testings which a careful study of the greater map of the heavens will elucidate and make clear. . . . From the beginnings of time this great Clock of the Heavens has marked off its hours, and the Planetary Rulers, the Regents of the Stars, have passed in grand procession with the torch of their inimitable illumination through the pathways marked out. That which is true of the little things of life is equally true of the Cosmos and we find that through the different Races of mankind these same planetary configurations have ruled, hence we find that each of the seven Great Races of mankind has been the direct outpouring of one of the great planetary expressions. Now that we understand it, let us consider the Races of mankind, each Race being the expression of one of the cosmic emanations called the Planetary Hierarchies, altho in each Race all the Hierarchies must manifest. And in each Race the hours, symbolized by the zodiacal signs, are passed through largely as a Race. When its hour strikes, or when its day is done, that Race sinks into oblivion and that portion of the globe upon which it manifested is either changed and prepared for the new day or it is swept away, according to the hour or the great day or the period or the cycle. "Today we are reaching a time when this great Clock of the Heavens is pointing to a most important era. The Third Race of mankind was in reality the first physical race. I speak now of the ancient Lemurians. When its final hour of dissolution struck, the whole continent of Lemuria sunk beneath the waves and with it the Race disappeared. But as the racial hours passed by, certain conditions we will say or a certain embryonic larva, was deposited in the soul of humanity -in the thought world, in the psychic realms, et cetera-which was to be developed and built into the subsequent Races. "We are now entering the sixth sub-race of the Fifth Great Race. This is the most important of all the sub-races of the Fifth, inasmuch as we are now planting the seed of and preparing for the Sixth Great Race. Very little thought will convince one that between this Third Race, which was the first race to materialize or to emerge from the mere astral bodies into the denser material bodies, and the Sixth Race-which is the 'third hour' after it completed the triune manifestation-there must be a very important relation. In other words, on the Spiral of Evolution the Sixth Race stands directly over the Third Race. It completes the triangle. It is the other diagonal side; the lower, more dense, physical, horizontal line of the triangle being represented by the Fourth Race and the Fifth. Therefore it is quite reasonable to suppose that as the hour of the Sixth Great Race is marked out in the heavens there should gradually come about changes quite as marked as were the changes from the more ethereal bodies into dense physical bodies, but these changes will be in the reverse order. In other words, the more dense physical bodies will gradually merge into more ethereal bodies, bodies in touch with the higher ruling spiritual emanations of the Godhead, and a continent will also emerge from the Great Deep prepared for a Race such as we have described." As we have said elsewhere, "The 12 thrones mentioned in Revelation are the seats of the rulers of the twelve signs of the zodiac from which the Disciples or those who have followed the Christ and have sounded His key-note and have come into harmony with the divine Spiritual Sun, shall rule 7 the twelve tribes of Israel or the chosen people. Israel does not mean that the Jewish tribes were the chosen people of the Lord. It is a symbol of all those who are able to follow their Divine Guidance, following the divine law symbolized by Moses, the Law-giver. Hence it refers to any people who have recognized the Law and are willing to conform their lives to it." |