66 Spiritual Astrology
impersonal experience which can be symbolised by a
point merged in eternity. After a pause or stillness, the
point emerges again in three phases : the awakening, the
shining forth and the knowing. This brings forth a three-
fold concept in space and in time which can be represented
by a triangle. The triangle in space of this three-fold
activity is the cognizance of I, You and He or It (1st person,
2 nd person and 3rd person). The triangle in time is the
recollection of time as past, present and future, or more
correctly a present with a past and a future. This gives
out the symbolism of a double triangle with the central
point. This is the three-fold wisdom of eternal perio-dicity,
Thrayee Vidya of the Ve-da-s and the Holy Trinosophia of
the Hungarian adept. It is the same formula of the
teachings of Phythagoras. In the Ve-da this is simply
denoted by the formula “Aksharam, Brahma and Param”.
The Pura-n.a-s call it Trivrit (three-fold). In the Ve-da it is
denoted by a simple figure of a circle, an equilateral
triangle in it and the centre. In its detail, it is described as
the three lines of the metre, Ga-yatri, each line containing
eight syllables. The day is divided into three sets of eight
hours each. The solar year is divided into three parts of
four months each. The zodiac likewise is divided into three
sign-groups of four each. This is the origin of the trines in
astrology. Fire, earth, air and water produce three signs
each in the tropical zodiac. Each set of three signs contains
a cardinal, a fixed and a mutable sign of the same element.
When counted from Aries, we get the fiery triplicity first.
Aries is a fiery cardinal sign. Leo is a fixed fiery sign.
Sagittarius is a mutable fiery sign. The element fire denotes
activity in nature and hence the first fiery sign is active or
cardinal sign.