Aquarius 195The number ‘Pu-rn.am of Aquarius is hidden in this eye
of S’iva. Towards the end of the worlds (Pral.aya) this eye is
opened. This is the case with the disciple and with the
cosmos. It marks the Pralaya of all activity. “Into the pupil of
this eye, all the creative forces enter and disappear. There is
a pause. Again there is the reversal of the whole process.
The Paras’u and the Damaru of Maha-de-va (the axe and the
drum as emblems of the spark of light and the emanation of
sound) come out. All chandases (meters or measures), all
de-va-s (creative potencies) and all Rishi
-
s (consciousnesses or
Guru-s of Wisdom) emanate from this eye, praising the Lord
of the Eye.” “Varun.a merges the whole creation upon the
cosmic plane into this eye through his Uranian activity. He
again emerges out of the eye through his Neptunean activity
in the role of Mitra-Varun.a. Ve-na, the Gandharva, lives through
the gap.”*
All the numbers, we know, work in continuity but
the number of sign Aquarius works at one with others. It
can be known as the number of simultaneity or the
number that represents the eternal present. Solar system
and universes and beings enter one after another through
the influence of the other numbers and exit in succession.
But when this number works, all disappear and reappear
at once, again busy with their succession of workings. This
gap, in between, is the concept of “The flood” in the true
sense. The Lord who is a counterpart of Maha-de-va (the
Lord of the eye of S’iva), saves the creation through this
flood as the great fish and again opens the whole drama
of creation “in due and ancient form”.
The de-va-s who find themselves existing after this
opening of the temple, find the tools of the Ritual of
- The Tantric Texts.