148 Spiritual Astrology
Libra in the zodiac conducts the functions of the fourth
as well as the fifth phase of Ra-ja yoga and ends with the
whole frame of zodiac in the sixth phase. It is replaced by
the six lotuses. Henceforth, the emblem of the disciple is
not the wheel with centripetal and centrifugal forces, but
it is the lotus with only the unfolding activity. The highest
form of Buddha in man is seated in a lotus. He is called the
Jewel of the Seventh Lotus. The Mother of grace is seated
in a lotus and holds the lotus in her hand. The emblem of
the wheel rotates around the commanding finger of the
Lord and conducts the function of the cyclic path of the
worlds on the plane of Ma-ya destroying the obstacles of
creation and protecting His followers until the grace of
the Mother in the Lotus is showered upon them. The
spiritualist is advised to meditate upon this symbolism
for a long time. This is the only path of liberation from
the forces of the wheel (zodiac).
The path from Aries to Libra along the two sides of
the wheel is called “the tree of life”. Since man starts to
retrace the journey of consciousness from the other pole,
he is located in Libra in the beginning. That is why the
tree of life is inverted to him. The branches (manifesta-
tions) are downward (towards the gross matter) and the
roots are above (the causes lie in the subtler planes). As
long as he tries to arrive at the roots from the branches,
he is perplexed because they are intertwined. What he
has to do is not to attempt to get at the seed, but to reach
the centre. Seed is only a part of the cycle of the tree of
life. Many of the secrets of the sign Libra are concealed in
the formula of the 15th Chapter of the Bhagavadgi
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ta.
To the average man, Libra is the path of Scorpio. To
the student of Ra-ja yoga, it is the path to Virgo. There are
the negative and positive paths of consciousness for the