32 Spiritual Astrology
‘tree of knowledge’. This disobedience is called individual
independence or black-magic (A
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sura nature). Not out of
fear or compulsion but out of veneration, bliss and virtue,
the soul-man upholds the law. In the next stage the same
Moon-beam forms the creation through “the winged
Serpent” and through his look which brings up “the Eagle
with the serpent” to immortalise his creation. The looks
of Gauthama the Buddha and Lord Christ contain the Moon-
beam raised to this level.
In a nutshell, our Moon globe is the seat of the
mother-principle (fecundating principle) to this earth
while our Sun globe is the father-principle (in-forming
principle) to all the planets of our solar system.