Capricorn 181stage it is called ‘Ka-ma’ (desire to create). This emerges in
its fullness as the great fish God “Matsya-va-
tha-ra”, who renovates wisdom as his own form. This
aspect is located in the sign Pisces. Vaivaswatha Manu, the
Perfect Man, is located in the sign Aquarius. The Neptune
potency of Makara comes into the pot of this Manu as a
small fish. It is brought up by him, until it grows and
escapes into the ocean (waters of life) and makes the nine
Praja-pathi
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s cross the deluge as a boat-load. In the Pura-n.ic
symbolism, Ma-ra, the son of Na-ra-yan.a, presides over the
Will to create (for an average man he presides over the
will to reproduce and so the attraction of sex). He has
five arrows (the five points of the star to an adept and the
five senses to the average man).
Let the disciple ponder over the significance of the
banner of Ma-ra. At one stage it is Makara and at a later
stage it is the fish. He got this banner of Makara from the
arch around the head of the World Mother. He got the
banner of fish from the eyes (looks or grace) of the World
Mother. He got the five arrows also from the hand of the
World Mother. This means that all these principles exist
on a very sublime plane with the World Mother who has
been described under Virgo. During the third and fourth
stages of the utterance of the Logos, Ma-ra gets them. The
Neptune activity of Capricorn and Pisces are linked up
with the Venus activity of Taurus through an aspect of
trine and sextile. Now meditate upon the fact that Ma-ra is
the son of Lord Vishn.u by Lakshmi who dwells in his heart.
Ma-ra is the Will to create and the activity of Taurus is
expression of beauty through form.
Since Capricorn and Cancer represent the dawn and
the dusk of the worlds, they link up the east and the west