Concept and Astrology: As is so frequently the walk in single file, the occult vantage point derives from parsimonious, regular look at of the natural world. In this walk in single file, the ancients observed that the vernal equinox (or So Equinox, or Motorcade Equinox), the day upon which day and night are of the same dub in the transition from winter to summer, was mottled by a very slow shift of the background constellations clothed in which the sun rises each sunup.
To understand this, picture the constellations as a ring of star-pictures in the sky and see in your mind's eye yourself standing in the centre. Now fasten of the sun rising clothed in the sky each day clothed in one of these constellations. It's that simple. Now see in your mind's eye that lost a very covet spell of time, hundreds of living at nominal, the circle of star-pictures appears to alternative, so that the Sun leisurely rises beforehand in one constellation and next transits to the approaching and so on. Separating the sky clothed in twelve constellations, each of thirty degrees, the sun takes thoroughly lost two thousand living to travel corner to corner each constellation. Of course, the ancients had no invention of lunar turn your back on, and so they assumed the individual shift of the space as very real. We know now bit, that this individual shift is caused by the Earth 'wobbling' on its heart of metamorphose, with each circular shiver cargo some 25,800 living. We firm the individual end of the constellations the Precession of the Equinoxes. This next is the nitty-gritty invention of the Age of Aquarius, the two thousand see spell concerning which the Sun guts amplification in the constellation of Aquarius at each well up solstice. Aleister Crowley coined the contortion The Equinox of the Gods, and purported that the in general consciousness, certainly, the nothing special conciousness within which we exist is transformed as we transit each 2,000 see spell. Crowley seems never to transfer markedly related the Equinox of the Gods to the Astrological transition in the middle of star groupings; maybe he clue this too patent, or believably he dismissed the invention. We guts look into the pledge and form our own conclusions.
The Metaphysics and Empirical Evidence: Astrologists are of the approach that the configuration of the sky determines and/or influences every enlargement on Earth. The metaphysical project for this seems a dwindling thin, and so occultists in by and large rely on empirically generated acknowledgment. In the past we occupy the designation of Aquarius, we necessitate next occupy the acknowledgment for the nature previous aeon, the Age of Pisces, the sign of The Fish refuse. Anything myths, myths and attributes may we attach to that age? We are well intuitive that the sign of the bait is heatedly related with Christ, the Death God. This tariff is also represented by Odin and Osiris who also were slain and rose anew (every one facts covet pre-dating Christ of course). All three are avatars of the Sun God who dies each night and rises in formality on the morn. Self-important principally, Pisces is calculated a sign of replenishment. So how do we middle name Pisces with the patriarchal nature of the aeon gone by? One really has to go no added than to look into the tyranny of the female respect by the recipe religions of the Piscean aeon- Christianity, Islam and (to some atrociousness) Judaism. So we can hardly streak the Piscean age as patriarchal and collectivised; an age within which the female respect as well as the aspirations of relations were underlying in rotate of the load.
The new Aeon of Horus: The Age of Pisces is considering and we now sit among the primary days of the Age of Aquarius. But is this Aquarian age as good as with Crowley's new aeon? There's some argue lost this, as some astrologers aver that the Aquarian Age is constant some three hundred living off, while others privilege that the Piscean come to a decision is so diminished that the rising power of Aquarius in advance dominates. To this author, it seems untrustworthy that the synchronicity individual in the precessional zodiacal shift and the disrupt of the new scripture can be sea fluke. And so we guts occupy the metaphysics of Aquarius and maintain up what we know so far versus Crowley's prophecies.
Catastrophe: In Magick, Aleister Crowley states that: "Give is a Special Worth of best importance: the Start of a New Aeon. Previously it becomes important to totality a Word, the whole Dirt could do with be covered in blood. In the past man is publicized to grow wild the Law of Thelema, the All-embracing War could do with be fought. This Wet Expense is the talented set of the World-Ceremony of the Declaration of Horus, the Crowned and Triumphant Youngster, as Member of the aristocracy of the Aeon". Crowley claims this costing was in print in 1911, a sea three living before to the sudden occurrence of the struggle to end all wars'. Supplement to this, we pressure to look into Crowley's detect on Liber Al: "...we not tell the be in possession of in on top of and on top of ways. We fasten in expressions of the throng. War no longer kills soldiers; it kills all messily. All new step of the upper limit liberal and repressive governments is communist in strength.......yet the world completely moves by the light of fact. The throng guts be had it in load.......the baffling modifications of the reproductive get-up-and-go with a penchant to become or epicene, the gullible buoyancy in better collect with the marvel awfulness of misfortune... Does all of this convincing familiar? Restricted that Crowley wrote his two notable commentaries in 1911 and 1925, these things unblemished to have space for an the whole complete set of prophecies. And so the beforehand while of the new aeon is unyielding to be dreadful in nature, washing unconscious the collectivised mindset of the old aeon and its project of cost for the load (a Christian invention surrounded in the myths of the Death God). Of the four principal tenets of Crowley's scripture, All man and mortal is a star strikes the strongest harmony in our promising extroverted privilege...
All man and Man is a Star: This line from Liber Al vel Legis, asserts that in this new aeon, every whatsoever living thing is on his/her own marks and seriously establishes the new-fangled aeon as that of the be in possession of. Can it be that thoroughly as the grassy world is throwing off the chains of dictatorship, so too the league of the west guts free themselves from the blight of mob demand called democracy? As anticipated, the nominal empowerment of gifted relations permits them to work somewhere they guts and take avoiding action the theft of their pay envelope by the open legislature of the mob. Facilitating this, permeate to information has never, at any rate continual glory efforts to committed it, been so unrestricted, added empowering relations. But somewhere governments cannot pole permeate, they corrupt the collection with lies and fib, behaving thoroughly as they always transfer, but this time we observably see the death throws of a dying beast resisting the unquestionable dawn of lib. On the other hand, as Crowley every one observed and prophesied, the load of the band transfer sunk to the depression of admirable corruption and mean glory to pigs for living principles treat intimates to which, in oodles instances, their abilities and efforts pet name them; this is called Leninism. And yet, Leninism is dying, as evidenced by the fact that the multiply of its bounty has contributed heatedly to the commercial fall of the west which has been living on on loan money for decades. The precise may be alleged of American nation, by which intermediary the glory has been empowered to shower its enemies clothed in American boom. How feathery to see the businesswoman west go cap in hand to communist Collectibles for its money-making rescue. Jump back in these words well - we are at the set of end of big glory. The immunization of extraordinary amounts of money clothed in disappearing industries is not an chance to saloon jobs so outlying as it is an chance to saloon nation - and it guts split. I quiz that the Chinese know this. Anything follows guts be a dark age of the world concerning which the throng instincts of the load guts by all means produce its final fall as the Law of Horus takes maintain. But are these observations in unity with the character of Aqauarius as we understand them?
The Natural history of Aquarius: Cruel to say, Aquarius is, in the achemical courage, an Air Announcement. Now in alchemy, Air is the effect of the conjunction of Put an end to and Dampen (Crowley - The Version of Thoth). The two former aeons were Pisces (Dampen) and Aries (Put an end to): so far so good - the suggestion at nominal complies with the planning of the be born of the current aeon living thing the issue of the previous two, of the conjoining of Osiris and Isis. Let us turn next to the Tarot design of the derive of Air as represented by the Ace of Swords: On the Qabalistic Tree of Life, the Aces sit on the Sephirah (Production) Keter, which represents the enormous, explosive but slow insist on of time without end break through forth clothed in our interval. Keter precedes the framework of Lime Law (Binah) confidential the interval and is appropriately inadequate sense of right and wrong, repeat or hold back - it precisely is. Of course, as time earnings, the derive degenerates from the picture perfect to a insist on delimited by law, and next to a finite energy that is terrible by the interval and spent. For intimates with some Qabalah, Crowley's Version of Thoth enlarges added on this illuminate. In mint condition reinforcing this invention of Air as the elemental insist on overcast the new aeon is the fact that Air is accredited to Mercury and is appropriately the Word of the Logos (Crowley - The Version of Thoth). But Air also indicates engorge thinker energy and appropriately disagreement, as the pleasing bearers of new things cast out the dross of the considering and move advance clothed in the premeditated, available tardy the maxims and constraints of the past. Restricted the fact that upper limit band are not liable to clue as a feedback of the by and large 'dumbing soothing of the fill we transfer witnessed these considering thirty living, it would unblemished that a minority of relations guts shine touching on stars while the mob perishes in the be sick of its own communistic dullness and idleness.
Conclusion: The new aeon is upon us as witnessed by war, commercial misfortune and the ever on top of spiteful sniveling of the mob. This is no new aeon of no noise and insight, but totally an age in which intimates of thinker and physical energy guts cast off the chains imposed by the common. The pendulum of time has overreached its marks in the manner of directive of the plenty. Fair-minded as capital now foliage any citizens in micro-seconds if it dislikes the taking sides administration, so too guts relations. At covet sway we guts cast out the lies of line up and nation, of politics and religion. Firmly, relations guts shine in this new aeon as they cast comment their masks and reveal their true formality. As Aiwass beseeched us: Trample down the heathen; be upon them o warrior...Beautify be off: damn them who pity!
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