Occult Cosmology

A Symbol major ramifications in all sectors of human civilisation. It would be true to say that the ‘solarisation’ of the Earth is still in progress, and to complete the transition a deeper power is being accessed within advanced humanity. Solarisation requires first of all, the appreciation of solar qualities (the Renaissance), and then the shifting of identity into the soul so that humanity becomes in fact a solar kingdom on Earth, rather than an earthly kingdom which the soul circles.

Much of the spiritual teachings given to date have been focused on creating the pathways in consciousness for such a transition to occur. When A Treatise on Cosmic Fire was written, another significant change was occurring in the human psyche. In the 1920s it was finally realised that our sun was not at the centre of the galaxy as it had been previously thought to be. Even more reorienting was the realisation, confirmed by Hubble, that our galaxy was not the entire universe, but that other ‘island universes’—specifically the Andromeda Galaxy—existed and that the scope of the universe was much larger than we had imagined. Now, not only had the Earth been displaced from the centre of the universe, but the sun and even our galaxy were relegated into insignificance by the scale that was revealing itself. The soul was no longer central; and the human psyche has been struggling to internalise this reality ever since.

A related event was occurring in Theosophical circles during the 1920s. Jiddu Krishnamurti, who had been designated the vehicle for the coming world teacher, renounced this role in 1927, disbanded the order of the Star that had been established to facilitate this mission, and began teaching the ‘pathless path’. Krishnamurti’s spiritual name was Alcyone, and this has a particular significance.

Once it was realised that the Earth orbited the sun, and that the sun was only one of many stars, it was logical to theorise that the sun too might orbit a greater or ‘central sun’. Alcyone in the Pleiades came to be associated in spiritual thought with this ‘central sun’ around which our solar system turned, and this tradition was repeated in The Secret Doctrine and in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. It follows that if the sun is the symbol for the soul, the central sun is a symbol in the Piscean dispensation for a Christ or Maitreya 25