p. 246 AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)
PHASE 297 (CAPRICORN 27°): PILGRIMS CLIMBING THE STEEP STEPS LEADING TO A MOUNTAIN SHRINE.
KEYNOTE: The ascent of the individualized consciousness to the highest realizations reached by the spiritual leaders of its culture.
We hear a great deal now about "peak experiences," but this symbol tells us that they depend to a very great extent upon following a path which many have trod before, under the inspiration of the great Teachers and Sages of our race. The shrine is built by the unceasing dedication of perhaps generations of men. The pilgrimage is hallowed by the devotion of many, even though each person finds on his own mountaintop what to him seems a unique and transcendent revelation.
In this second stage symbol we witness the rise of the human consciousness; the preceding symbol spoke of what one may picture as the "descent" of the energies of nature which, like water, flow down toward a lower level of intensity. It is man's supreme task to rise like fire, impelled by a vision he shares with his companions. The Keyword: UPREACHING.
Girlcapsule's Response:
Ok, this turned up by the artist-activist Dallas_Clayton
I am also happy to report that the theme of my evening with friends turned to a discussion of transdimensionality and the possibility of "contact" (à la Carl Sagan...or Interstellar, or Conception). Something like this is on the archetypal horizon, so it seems.
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