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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