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The Ascendant and the Houses 227

which preserves the photographs of previous lives).

The layer of consciousness which is called chetas is

stimulated. In ancient wisdom chetas is said to be

the undercurrent of consciousness which stretches

through many a life. In the eleventh sign, he gains

spiritual wisdom. In the tenth sign, he gains mastery

over the workings of his soul. In the ninth sign, he is

directly taken to the Guru by senior disciples and is

introduced “as the blind child of mortality”. This is

because he has not yet gained mastery over the

gateway between subjective and objective levels. He

still lives in objectivity. Objectivity is dakrness to

yogi. Upto this stage, he receives the first three

initiations with the aid of the senior disciples of his

Guru. On the cusp of the ninth house, he receives

the first initiation of the higher level. He is taken as

a builder, because he is entrusted with the work of

building his Antahkaran.a. Eighth house rules the

Antahkaran.a. His ascendant passes through the

eighth house into the seventh, when the building of

Antahkaran.a is completed. Then, there is the birth of

a new man, when the ascendant passes the degree

of the seventh house in the seventh sign. The veil of

objectivity that blinded his vision hitherto is

removed. He enters into the regions of darkness

where he finds the true light for the first time. The

six houses, above the horizon, represent objectivity

and the remaining represent subjectivity. This

completes the first symbolic journey.

This marks one stage in the spiritual evolution of
man. Henceforth, there is a big change in his horoscope
from the path of the equinoxes to “the path of the bigger
day”. This includes two stages :