Leo-Virgo:
The Mystery of the Sphinx
(Norwegian Version - Click here)
“When the nature of
the world is revealed,
then the mystery of the Sphinx will no longer exist.”
The Sphinx in the early 1900’s.
The Sphinx
is an Astrological Sign
Leo-Virgo, the Lion and the Virgin, constitute the great astrological mystery
of the zodiacal sign called The Sphinx:
“In this world period we have the division of the sign of the Sphinx into two
signs (the Lion and the Virgin, soul and form) because the state of human
evolution and conscious realisation is that of a recognised duality.”
Leo-Virgo represents the mystery of the solar and lunar angels representing
soul and form respectively. It is said that Leo holds the key to the entire
zodiac and is related to the secret of the solar Angels, the mystery of the
higher and the lower mind and their relation to one other.
Certainly the mind is where part of Leo’s strength derives; we can liken the lion’s
orange mane to the radiatory aura of the mental body; the heart is the other
source of Leo’s strength – physically and spiritually. Both Leo and Virgo each
possess qualities of the heart and mind as will be explained. The dual paths of
the heart and mind are inextricably entwined for human evolution.
“Virgo and Leo together stand for the whole man, for the God-man as well as for
spirit-matter.”
The Sphinx: Individualisation in Lemuria
In ancient Lemurian times some twenty-one million years ago, only eight zodiac signs
influenced animal humanity: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Libra, Scorpio,
Sagittarius and Capricorn. Leo-Virgo did not elicit any response at that time.
Then when the great planetary event called Individualisation took place,
whilst the Sun was precessing through the astrological age of Leo,
Humanity began to respond to these two signs.
Hermaphroditos
‘Animal humanity’
were hermaphrodites at the beginning of Individualisation 21.6 million years
ago. Yet gradually, as the spark of mind was fanned over a period of three
million years, the androgynous form transformed into two sexes, coinciding with
the completion of the Individualisation process in the fifth subrace of the
Third (Lemurian) Rootrace (3.5).
This event lies behind the great mystery of Adam and Eve (Jehovah: Jod-Heva),
the male-female who emerged from the hermaphrodite: Leo (Adam) and Virgo (Eve).
The eating of the apple by Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden represented this
historical moment of soul awakening:
“And when the woman saw
that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a
tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did
eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both
were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves
together, and made themselves aprons.”
Perhaps the
above passage also alludes to why modern masons wear aprons. In Masonry Leo
rules the EA or ‘entered apprentice’ first degree initiation – a form of ‘individualisation’.
The enigmatic
Sphinx is a reminder of Individualisation and the promise of the reunification
of its two halves - in consciousness and physically. Hermaphrodite forms will
once again be appropriated a long time down the track in the next, Sixth
Rootrace:
“...it is only at what is called the "final judgment" that another
fusion will take place and Virgo-Libra will form one sign, for then man's sense
of antagonistic dualism will be ended and the scales will have been turned
finally in favour of that which the Virgin-Mother has hidden from expression
for aeons.”
Libra is quite an androgynous sign and esoterically connected to sex, so the
Virgo-Libra collaboration in the future is intriguing. Just as the signs were
activated in Lemurian times, so will they merge and reactivate in the future,
to reflect the changes that will occur in the physical body and in
consciousness.
Hermaphrodite: Hermes-Aphrodite
The word hermaphrodite is a compound of two words, Hermes and Aphrodite,
representing Mercury and Venus respectively. Mercury, the winged messenger
is the ruler of Virgo, whilst Venus the goddess of love, is esoterically
connected to Leo and individualisation through its rulership of the fifth ray
of Science or Knowledge.
“Venus, Mercury and the Earth then set up a magnetic field which made the
intervention of the Great Lodge on Sirius and the dual stimulation of Gemini
effective in producing significant results of which the fourth [human] kingdom
in nature is the expression.”
The Sphinx represents human emergence from the animal kingdom (the lion), to
the human kingdom (the human virgin). The lion represents the soul or solar
angels, whilst the virgin represents the divine form that must contain and
express the soul. Hence Virgo’s three-fold symbol ( )
representing the three-fold personality that must be refined and integrated.
Leo-Virgo is also the father-mother that gives birth to humanity; it is will
(Leo, 1st ray) and love (Virgo, 2nd ray). Leo represents
Prometheus who stole fire from the gods – i.e. became individualised with the
fires of manas or mind; from whence emerges Leo’s great pride - whilst Virgo is
the epitome of humility. (I know a Virgo Sun in the fifth (Leo) house and there
is no sign of humility whatsoever!)
Leo-Virgo and the Second Ray of Love-Wisdom
Leo-Virgo is profoundly related to the duality of the second ray of
Love-Wisdom. Leo is connected to the solar system as a whole through its
rulership by the Sun.
“Anciently the Sphinx was called Har-em-chu or “Horus (the Sun) in the
Horizon”, a form of Ra the sun-god; esoterically the risen god.”
Humanity are somewhat the ‘Leo’ – a reflection of the macrocosm, especially in
this Fifth Rootrace that corresponds with this fifth sign. Leo rules the physical
heart and is connected to the heart chakra, expressive of Love-Wisdom. Perhaps
Leo is more connected to Love and Virgo more to Wisdom, yet the second ray of
Love-Wisdom finds its strongest expression through Virgo in this current cycle.
Cancer-Virgo: Mother, Goddess
Virgo is similar to Cancer – both are signs of the divine feminine and the
mother. Both signs helped to ‘birth’ the so-called ‘first solar system’, the
previous incarnation to this, our second solar system. It is said that Cancer
ruled the first half of that system’s development and Virgo the second half. In
that past solar system, the third ray of creative intelligence was developed,
whereas Love-Wisdom is the goal of this solar system. Hence this solar system
is built upon the creative intelligence/knowledge of the last system, and is
more closely related to Wisdom than Love.
At Individualisation in Lemuria, in the middle of the process between the precessional
ages of Leo and Gemini, Cancer was naturally prominent in the birthing process
of Humanity. In this respect it echoed a recapitulation of the evolution of the
first half of the previous solar system. On a higher turn of the spiral of
individualisation, at the height of the following rootrace’s development in
Atlantis, Virgo was very powerful, reflecting the second part of the
development of the first solar system.
This was at the time of the third subrace of Atlantis (4.3), where there was an
amazingly accelerated development brought about by a huge influx of souls who
had individualised on the Moon Chain, and who had the quality of
creative-intelligence highly developed. The Moon is of course related to the
Mother, being the exoteric ruler of Cancer and the soul ruler of Virgo:
“The word Virgo itself is a descendant of and a corruption of an ancient
Atlantean root name which was applied to the mother principle in those far off
times. This Virgin was the founder of the matriarchate which then dominated
civilisation and to which various myths and legends bear evidence and which
have come down to us concerning Lilith, the last of the Virgin Goddesses of
Atlantean times; the same thought is also to be found in the traditionary accounts
of the ancient Amazons, whose queen Hercules defeated, wresting from her what
he sought. This is an allegory, teaching the emergence of the spiritual man
from the control of matter.”
Amazonian Warrior
It is interesting to
note that Hercules failed his particular labour in Virgo because he slew Hippolyte,
Queen of the Amazons, when she was freely offering her girdle.
“Three of these goddesses are Eve, Isis, and Mary. They are of peculiar and
significant importance where our civilisation is concerned for they embody in
themselves the symbology of the entire form nature, which, when integrated
and functioning as a whole person, we call the personality. ... Eve is the
symbol of the mental nature, and of the mind of man attracted by the lure of
knowledge to be gained through the experience of incarnation.
Eve, therefore, took the apple of knowledge from the serpent of matter and started
the long human undertaking of experiment, experience and expression ... Isis
stands for this same expression down on to the emotional or astral plane. ...
in Isis the midway point is reached; the quickening of that which is desired ...
has taken place and Isis consequently stands in the ancient zodiacs for
fertility, for motherhood and as the guardian of the child.
Mary carries the
process down to the plane or place of incarnation, the physical plane, and
there gives birth to the Christ child. In these three Virgins and these three
Mothers of the Christ, you have the history of the formation and the function
of the three aspects of the personality through which the Christ must find
expression. The sign of Virgo itself stands for a synthesis of these three
feminine aspects—Eve, Isis and Mary. She is the Virgin Mother, providing that
which is needed for the mental, emotional and physical expression of the
hidden but ever present divinity. These three expressions are brought to the
needed perfection in Leo, the sign of the individual, developed
self-consciousness and personality unfoldment.”
Isis is Sirius: The Sphinx is Aligned to Leo
In Egytpian mythology Isis is regarded as Sirius A, the brightest star in
the sky. Her consort Osiris is regarded as the white dwarf star Sirius B.
Hence can be seen again the importance of The Sphinx zodiacal sign (Leo-Virgo)
and its connection to Leo:
“Later, when the new world religion is founded and is working, we shall find
that the major, monthly festival in August, held at the time of the full
moon, will be dedicated to the task of making contact, via the Hierarchy,
with Sirian force.”
The reason for this festival is because eventually most of Earth Humanity,
having liberated themselves, will choose their onwward cosmic journeying to
Sirius – as neophytes in a whole new evolution!
The Sphinx faces east and the rising Sun. According to some authors it matches the celestial
configuration of the vernal equinox sunrise in Leo around 10,500 B.C. It may
well have made this alignment, but this author suspects that it was several
25,000 year precession cycles earlier.
The star Regulus sits on the cusp of Leo-Virgo, literally at the centre of
The Sphinx. In the auspicious and much-vaunted 2012, Regulus will move into
Virgo. Regulus is said to hold the keys to the Hall of Records, speculated to
be under the Sphinx. Sirius and Regulus also have a very close relationship:
“The influences of Sirius, three in number, are focussed in Regulus, which
is, as you know, a star of the first magnitude and which is frequently called
"the heart of the Lion." There is more real occultism hidden in the
names given to the various stars by astronomers down the ages than has yet
been realised, and here you have a case in point.”
Regulus is related to ‘regulation’ or the law, particularly the karmic law
that emanates from Sirius and under which the whole solar system is ruled.
And a final parting statement from HPB, who knew a thing or two about these
matters: |
From “The Message of the Sphinx” by Bauval and Hancock.
“... the
re-establishment of the religious mysteries, in which ancient truths might be
taught to the coming generations under the veil of allegory and symbolism. Behold
the imperishable witness to the evolution of the human races from the divine,
and especially from the androgynous Race—the Egyptian Sphinx, that riddle of
the Ages! Divine wisdom incarnating on earth, and forced to taste of the bitter
fruit of personal experience of pain and suffering, generated under the shade
of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil—a secret first known only to the
Elohim, the SELF-INITIATED, “higher gods”—on earth only.”
Phillip Lindsay © 2010.
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