2877. Saturn
The whole activity of the universe has two phases
to the mind of man: one is ‘how it is’; the other is ‘how it is
becoming’. The second aspect marks a periodical deviation
from the first. The first is always shadowed by the second.
The first can never be understood. It can only be realised
when we can retrace our path in the workings of the
second phase. The first phase is concealed in the
symbolism of the second phase and is revealed only as
an allegory. The second phase exists as a necessary
limitation to all created beings, whether a man, a planet
or a cosmic entity. This limitation is the effect of a ring,
and the ring is the cosmic principle of Saturn located in
Saturn, the planet. The mystery of ‘as it appears to me’ is
but the effect of limitation. What we know as truth is our
own point of view of truth. The created entities are
helpless but are so for a sacred purpose. This limitation is
a veritable protective shield for the lower upto the time
of ‘fitness’ for the higher. It is the shell of an egg for the
chick inside. This cosmic principle which produces Saturn
and his effects, is called “Lo-ka-lo-ka Parvata” (the node
between plane and no-plane) in the Pura-n.a-s. The gap
between the supramental consciousness of a created being
and this ring, is called the radius of one creation.
Saturn rules over the ring of horizon which is only a
limitation relative to an observer. Saturn sustains this ring
in the mind of man as a self-imposed barrier. He actually
hatches the consciousness of man within this ring and