34 Spiritual Astrology
himself and he is its centre. He should use this Ma-ya
(substituted secret) as a symbol in which the truth is
concealed. Through his own spiritual living he should
realise truth through this symbol and make his life an
allegory of this truth. From the day of his origin, man
observed this ring of horizon. It always impressed itself
upon his mind whether he thought about it or not (nature
always does its work irrespective of man’s perception).
This is the reason why every religion has got a symbolism
of the circle. Outside religion also, numbers first revealed
themselves to man as zero. This symbol, like many other
spiritual symbols, is not man-made but is received by man.
This very symbol of circle with its central point has much
to do in astrology. The Sun appears to rise at a point on
this ring and set at another point every day. Through this,
the astrologer derives his concept of the sunrise and the
sunset. The sunrise and the sunset are only relative to the
observer and hence constitute his own symbols. Man
could very easily equate the two points of his own rise
(birth) and fall (death) to these two points. Again, the
whole space around him is a globe to him with himself as
its geometrical centre. In fact, the birth of the individual
is the birth of his globe. This symbolism makes him realise
that there is a globe of his mundane living on this earth.
The egg in the womb of his mother forms a prototype of
this globe. He could therefore very easily study the
properties of the space globe relative to the properties of
the egg in the womb and vice versa.
The law of correspondences comes to his aid. By
studying the rotation of the earth on its own axis from
one sunrise to the next, he could understand the activity
of the day and he could equate this activity to that of his
own life in its entirety. The recurrence of the day gave