p. 81 AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)
PHASE 47 (TAURUS 17º): A SYMBOLICAL BATTLE BETWEEN "SWORDS" AND "TORCHES."
KEYNOTE: Refusing to depend upon the past, the seeker turns warrior, fighting anew the eternal "Great War."
When Gautama, having sought in vain for the answers to his questions among the teachers of tradition, sat under the Bodhi Tree, he had to fight his own battle in his own way, even though it is an eternal fight. The spiritual light within the greater Soul must struggle against the ego-will that only knows how to use the powers of this material and intellectual world. There is no possibility of escape; it is the energy that arises out of the present moment––the inescapable NOW––that the daring individual has to use in the struggle.
This second stage symbol suggests that salvation is attained through the emergent individual's readiness to face all issues as if there were only two opposed sides. So teaches the Bhagavad-Gita. This is the dharma of this stage of human evolution: a stage of POLARIZATION OF VALUES.
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