154 Spiritual Astrology
sign represents the organs of generation. The kidneys, the
bladder and the excretory organs also come under its rule.
The descent of the Spirit into matter-state is a
converging spiral. The Consciousness of the higher planes
gradually comes down to the state of space in time. It is
then imprisoned in the space as in an egg. It then descends
from the fine state of the deep-blue of space (Taurus) into
the state of star-dust. This descent is in the form of an
inverted cone; it is like a coiled serpent concealed in a
cone. From the tail of the serpent, the star-dust falls into
the earth state of many stars or physical globes of Sun.
This is the beginning of the solar systems which imprison
the soul of the Sun and help the existence of material
worlds. All this process is symbolised in the constellation
of the ‘Minor Dragon’ which is the constellation of the
snake. The snake is imprisoned in an egg and has its
growth in the limitation of the egg for some time. Man
also falls into the womb of the mother and has his first
steps of development for physical perfection.
The spirit loses the spirit-consciousness through the
gradual fall and becomes matter, “When it touches the
ground, it is as dark as night” in the language of H.P.B.
Through hundreds of transformations, matter attains the
level of the spirit of the state of gods with the aid of the
passage from Scorpio to Taurus on the reversed wheel.
But the God-Spirit falls into matter within a very short
period of time. Nahusha, the man, is said to have
performed hundred sacrifices and became Indra. He then
desired for himself the wife of Indra and so fell down, as
the serpent, to the lowest levels by his own sex instinct
through the word of Agastya. This is all but one side of
the picture.