180 Spiritual Astrology
describes the ritual of “Man-sacrifice” (Narame-dha).* This
ritual is worked out through the sign Capricorn. This is
the why of naming the sign as the ‘sign of death’. For the
disciple who is born with his ascendant in Capricorn, the
man-sacrifice of the Ve-dic seers or the crucifixion of the
Christians is the most effective sacrament to attain the
robe.
Makara or the so-called white-dragon is a mystic
animal with the head of a goat and the body of a crocodile.
This is the oldest concept of the dragon. This mystic animal
is called the vehicle of Varun.a the Lord of the hidden
potencies of space in his earliest symbolism. His rays come
down to earth through Uranus. In a comparatively later
symbolism Varun.a is described as the Lord of the hidden
potencies of ether (etherial waters or the waters of life).
Varun.a is said to travel on the surface of water by making
his way through the surface with the aid of the trident in
his hand. The workings of this level come down to earth
through the rays of Neptune. For this reason, the sign
Capricorn has the double potencies of Uranus and
Neptune. Aquarius has the workings of Uranus and Pisces
has those of Neptune exclusively.
The birth of a universe is a ripple on the surface of
the absolute. The absolute is beyond all attributes
(Nirgun.a). The first ripple is called “the will to create”.
The ripple starts as “I create” from the level of the Absolute
as the creator. But from the level of the Absolute, who is
above creator, the ripple is “he willed” in the language of
the Ve-da-s. After many a series of chain actions, this
manifests through the Neptune potency of Makara. At this
*Vide Appendix A.