26 Spiritual Astrology
the Soul and the Body. The spirit in us is the real centre of
consciousness and hence represents the true Sun who is
ever invisible. The Sun we see is but a focus of the effect
of the spiritual Sun upon the lower plane. Our mind
receives this spark of the spirit in us and reflects it upon
the world of matter as thought, word and deed. It is
therefore the lunar (reflecting) principle in us and serves
the role of the Moon. Our physical body is the mass upon
which we live and therefore it represents the earth. This
is replaced by the soul in the higher man. This is because
the seat of his consciousness is shifted in him from his
physical body to the soul. To the lower man, his earth is
his physical body which is represented by his ascendant.
In the soul-man the ascendant represents his soul in its
process of retracing its path to spirit.
The cosmic plan has three main phases which cover
the whole creation on the phenomenal plane. (1) The
building of the solar systems, the planetary planes, the
globes and the individuals who inhabit them. This process
is nothing but the separation or the objectivisation of the
subjective cosmic plan. The whole universe comes out into
objectivity from the subjective level which we call the third
utterance of the Creator. The objective universe forms the
fourth utterance of the word of the indweller. (2) The lives
that are breathed out into the fourth stage of the word will
experience the impulse of objectivising themselves
through their sense organs for a sweep of evolution and
then try to retrace the path through a process of
subjectivity. This latter phase is seen in the attempt of the
spiritualist to meditate, contemplate and attain sama-dhi.
Every living being thus attains the original stage of
subjectivity through its own vehicle of existence. (3) Then
it again makes the whole plan externalised and thus works