The Place of Moon in Spiritual Symbolism 29stage of seership. Our solar system is not yet advanced to
such a stage as to realise So-ma in the form of a planet.
Until then, the present Moon works as a temporary centre
of distribution of a So-ma principle to this earth.
To our earth the Moon beam works as a giver of the
animal, plant and mineral magnetism. This magnetism is
the cause of the tides of the oceans, the formation of the
clouds and the circular path of waters, which form a part
of the annual metabolism of this earth. By the incidence
of the Moon’s reflected ray upon this earth, the centre of
this earth could physically attract matter around itself and
thus obtain this globe (garbha) of atoms which we call the
earth globe. The very formation of our present earth globe
from the invisible planes into the material state is the effect
of the magnetism of the Moon. By the same cause, this
earth is able to fecundate the colours of the Sun beam
into the seasonal effects and the flora, the fauna and the
human fertilisation. Without the lunar ray the chemistry
and biology of this earth globe would have been like an
eye-ball without a mind to receive the solar light. All the
main passages of the original scriptures and their
commentaries assure that Moon is the mind of this earth.
The second function of Moon is that its ray, whether
visible or subtle, forms the mental body of this earth.
“Moon is born of (HIS) mind” says the archaic stanza.*
Relative to the solar principle, this mental vehicle of this
earth has sixteen phases. These phases express themselves
as Moon-phases on the physical plane to our mental plane.
In us they act as moods. On a bigger plane these phases
express themselves on the solar systems and the universes.
Each Sun has its Moon-centre or its source of mind to
*Purushasu-kta.