Wednesday 5 February 2014

Lunar Characteristics in Our Psychology – List 1 (109)

Introduction

The goal of this post is to lay down a skeleton or outline for the next several posts. The plan is to dedicate a post to each characteristic of the Moon that is present in our psychology.


The List

Changeable

The moon as observed from the Earth appears differently each night, i.e. phases of the Moon. Our psychology too constantly changes, where our psychological processes are ruled by constantly changing egos.

Cyclical or Recurrent

The moon as observed from the Earth, has phases which repeat in a cyclical fashion, i.e. each phase of the moon is reoccurring or recurrent. The ego too is recurrent in manifestation; it grows in intensity and later wanes in intensity etc.

Two Sides – Light and Dark

As seen from the Earth, only one side of the Moon is only ever visible. There is though the other side of the Moon called the dark side of the Moon that is present but goes unseen by us here on Earth. Our psychology is like that too, in that there is a visible side and an invisible side, the conscious part that we are aware of and the subconscious part that we are mostly not aware of. Just as the dark side of the Moon is the more important side geologically and geographically speaking for the Moon our subconscious is the more important part as it really drives us and contains much of the memories and reasons that shape our life’s actions.

We can do something say for example get angry, but someone else can not do the same thing and get angry, what’s more we do to others what we don’t like being done to us. In the nature of the ego is to be the only one, and this factor of selfishness creates conflict, friction, resistance and opposition with others.

Only Takes or Receives

This point is easy to see especially if we contrast the Moon with the Sun. We see that the sun is the one which radiates energy and life towards us, whereas on the other hand the moon does not radiate any sort of an energy towards us, rather it draws or pulls on the Earth. A very direct effect of this characteristic, are the tides. Our psychology is very much like this and so are many of the egos. The egos are content to just take or receive. The ego is the one in us that enjoys taking and dislikes receiving but the essence in us is the one that enjoys giving.

The ego is very biased towards acting only for its own benefit. The Sun is most definitely not like that at all. This is a characteristic very common to the ego in general. This characteristic is inherent in the nature of the ego.

Blocks the Sun

There exists the phenomena of a solar eclipse where the moon happens to block out the sun either totally or partially and for a few minutes darkness descends over the Earth, where there should be the full light of day.
The ego too is like a moon where it happens to block the light coming from the Being or the consciousness to our mind and essence. Because we have the ego too active in our mind, the voice that we think with drowns out the voice of silence which is the illuminating voice of the consciousness and or our own divine Being.

Reflects or Projects

The reason why see the moon, is because light from the Sun hits the Moon and then reflects off the surface of the Moon, to then enter our eyes here on Earth. A large part of the sun’s radiation (light) is absorbed by the Moon and only the wavelengths of light corresponding to the colour or spectral characteristics of the Moon are reflected.

The Moon is like a subjective mirror, it absorbs nearly all the wavelengths of light and reflects the wavelengths of light that correspond to its nature. The light that the Moon reflects is subjective and conditioned to its own nature whereas the light from the Sun is of a much greater spectrum and as the Sun does not reflect light, the light that it projects represents its full and true nature. It gives of itself purely, the Moon on the other hand takes what it is not from the sun and projects that to the cosmos.

The light from the Moon is the sun’s light (of the sun’ nature) but conditioned by the nature of the Moon. So the Moon as does the ego, imposes or projects its own characteristics onto things. Also what it projects is very limited, it is actually mechanical just as is the Moon it is very bland dead.

The ego does that so often, it is always projecting its reality onto others and onto life, or it makes assumptions according to it’s own reality which often leads us to make so many mistakes and misjudgements.

Exerts its Primary Influence Over the Liquids of the Earth

The chief element by which the Moon influences us is water. There is much water on the Earth and there is much water inside of ourselves, so the Moon’s influence on us therefore is great.

We know from very tangible age old observations that the Moon is the one that produces the tides in the Earth’s oceans and seas, and if the Moon can exert such a great influence over the Earth’s waters it can influence the water or liquids inside our body, especially when it comes to the liquids that flow through the minute capillaries in our body. This is very noticeable in the times of the full Moon when the Moon’s influence is at its strongest. On a full Moon we often feel very excitable and energetic because of the effect of the fluids and liquids in our body being energised and drawn up.

A very important fluid in our body is the sexual fluid. The Moon as it does all waters influences this as well. As the sexual fluids in our body are very energetically charged, any agitation or excitement of these fluids has a very marked influence on the behaviour of the human being.

With the sexual fluids being agitated, the human being is impulse to engage in the act of procreation and so this way the Moon controls or influences conception and procreation of all living things on the planet Earth.
Unfortunately in the human being there is a psychological element called lust, which has come to be the one responsible for managing the sexual activities in the human being. So when the sexual fluids in the human being are excited the ego of lust takes this excited energy and channels it to be used for the fulfilment of its own purposes or conditionings.

There is a strong relationship therefore between the Moon and our sexual energy and the ego of lust. It is also worth noting here that lust is a large part of our psychology and is behind so many of our actions, and because lust and the Moon are related through our sexual waters this once again confirms the teaching that our psychology is lunar.

It is very interesting to note that the Sun does not have that relationship with the lust or the sexual waters. We say in Gnosis that the seed of eh solar human being is in the sexual energy, but for that seed to influence us it has to be extracted out of the sexual energy via a procedure called transmutation. Subsequent posts will deal with this subject of transmutation.

Lust was also the cause of the fall of the human being, the lunar forces can make us to fall spiritually but the solar forces do not do that.


Conclusion

In summary we have examined the following lunar characteristics of our psyche:

•Changeable, •cyclical, •two sided, •large bias toward receiving, •blocks the Sun, •projects and •influences the waters and life of the Earth.

In conclusion, we can clearly say that a large majority of the characteristics of our psyche are also the characteristics of the egos that we have and they in turn are characteristics that are shared with the Moon. With the Moon being a manifestation of a lunar force in the cosmos we can state without doubt that our psychology (with the ego) is Lunar. If we are to remove the ego our psychology would change to that of the nature of the essence which is solar.


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Lunar is an Esoteric Qualification (108)

Esoteric Qualification

The main reason of this post is to say that lunar and solar do not really mean much in the conventional sense. For example the adjectives lunar and solar conventionally mean: “of or to do with the physical Moon” (lunar) and “of or to do with the physical Sun” (solar), such as: lunar rock samples, lunar eclipses, lunar landings, the lunar calendar, solar eclipses, the solar calendar, solar flares and solar panels.

The previous posts and future posts that have used the terms lunar and solar were used from the esoteric point of view, that is speaking esoterically, where the terms lunar and solar encompass not only the physical Moon and Sun but all the physical moons and suns, the lunar and solar representations inside the psychology and esoteric (spiritual) constitution or structure of the human being.


Conclusion

In short, the terms lunar and solar really only take on a deeper and broader meaning when viewed esoterically, instead of just physically. In previous posts and in future posts the terms lunar and solar are essentially used in the esoteric as esoteric qualifications, that encompass the physical, the psychological and the esoteric .


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