Introduction
The goal of this post is to lay down a skeleton or outline for the
next several posts. The plan is to dedicate a post to each characteristic of
the Moon that is present in our psychology.
The
List
Changeable
The moon as observed from the Earth appears differently each night,
i.e. phases of the Moon. Our psychology too constantly changes, where our
psychological processes are ruled by constantly changing egos.
Cyclical
or Recurrent
The moon as observed from the Earth, has phases which repeat in a
cyclical fashion, i.e. each phase of the moon is reoccurring or recurrent. The
ego too is recurrent in manifestation; it grows in intensity and later wanes in
intensity etc.
Two
Sides – Light and Dark
As seen from the Earth, only one side of the Moon is only ever
visible. There is though the other side of the Moon called the dark side of the
Moon that is present but goes unseen by us here on Earth. Our psychology is
like that too, in that there is a visible side and an invisible side, the
conscious part that we are aware of and the subconscious part that we are
mostly not aware of. Just as the dark side of the Moon is the more important
side geologically and geographically speaking for the Moon our subconscious is
the more important part as it really drives us and contains much of the
memories and reasons that shape our life’s actions.
We can do something say for example get angry, but someone else can
not do the same thing and get angry, what’s more we do to others what we don’t
like being done to us. In the nature of the ego is to be the only one, and this
factor of selfishness creates conflict, friction, resistance and opposition
with others.
Only
Takes or Receives
This point is easy to see especially if we contrast the Moon with
the Sun. We see that the sun is the one which radiates energy and life towards
us, whereas on the other hand the moon does not radiate any sort of an energy
towards us, rather it draws or pulls on the Earth. A very direct effect of this
characteristic, are the tides. Our psychology is very much like this and so are
many of the egos. The egos are content to just take or receive. The ego is the
one in us that enjoys taking and dislikes receiving but the essence in us is
the one that enjoys giving.
The ego is very biased towards acting only for its own benefit. The
Sun is most definitely not like that at all. This is a characteristic very
common to the ego in general. This characteristic is inherent in the nature of
the ego.
Blocks
the Sun
There exists the phenomena of a solar eclipse where the moon
happens to block out the sun either totally or partially and for a few minutes
darkness descends over the Earth, where there should be the full light of day.
The ego too is like a moon where it happens to block the light
coming from the Being or the consciousness to our mind and essence. Because we
have the ego too active in our mind, the voice that we think with drowns out
the voice of silence which is the illuminating voice of the consciousness and or
our own divine Being.
Reflects
or Projects
The reason why see the moon, is because light from the Sun hits the
Moon and then reflects off the surface of the Moon, to then enter our eyes here
on Earth. A large part of the sun’s radiation (light) is absorbed by the Moon
and only the wavelengths of light corresponding to the colour or spectral
characteristics of the Moon are reflected.
The Moon is like a subjective mirror, it absorbs nearly all the
wavelengths of light and reflects the wavelengths of light that correspond to
its nature. The light that the Moon reflects is subjective and conditioned to
its own nature whereas the light from the Sun is of a much greater spectrum and
as the Sun does not reflect light, the light that it projects represents its
full and true nature. It gives of itself purely, the Moon on the other hand
takes what it is not from the sun and projects that to the cosmos.
The light from the Moon is the sun’s light (of the sun’ nature) but
conditioned by the nature of the Moon. So the Moon as does the ego, imposes or
projects its own characteristics onto things. Also what it projects is very
limited, it is actually mechanical just as is the Moon it is very bland dead.
The ego does that so often, it is always projecting its reality
onto others and onto life, or it makes assumptions according to it’s own
reality which often leads us to make so many mistakes and misjudgements.
Exerts
its Primary Influence Over the Liquids of the Earth
The chief element by which the Moon influences us is water. There
is much water on the Earth and there is much water inside of ourselves, so the
Moon’s influence on us therefore is great.
We know from very tangible age old observations that the Moon is
the one that produces the tides in the Earth’s oceans and seas, and if the Moon
can exert such a great influence over the Earth’s waters it can influence the
water or liquids inside our body, especially when it comes to the liquids that
flow through the minute capillaries in our body. This is very noticeable in the
times of the full Moon when the Moon’s influence is at its strongest. On a full
Moon we often feel very excitable and energetic because of the effect of the
fluids and liquids in our body being energised and drawn up.
A very important fluid in our body is the sexual fluid. The Moon as
it does all waters influences this as well. As the sexual fluids in our body
are very energetically charged, any agitation or excitement of these fluids has
a very marked influence on the behaviour of the human being.
With the sexual fluids being agitated, the human being is impulse
to engage in the act of procreation and so this way the Moon controls or
influences conception and procreation of all living things on the planet Earth.
Unfortunately in the human being there is a psychological element
called lust, which has come to be the one responsible for managing the sexual
activities in the human being. So when the sexual fluids in the human being are
excited the ego of lust takes this excited energy and channels it to be used for
the fulfilment of its own purposes or conditionings.
There is a strong relationship therefore between the Moon and our
sexual energy and the ego of lust. It is also worth noting here that lust is a
large part of our psychology and is behind so many of our actions, and because
lust and the Moon are related through our sexual waters this once again
confirms the teaching that our psychology is lunar.
It is very interesting to note that the Sun does not have that
relationship with the lust or the sexual waters. We say in Gnosis that the seed
of eh solar human being is in the sexual energy, but for that seed to influence
us it has to be extracted out of the sexual energy via a procedure called
transmutation. Subsequent posts will deal with this subject of transmutation.
Lust was also the cause of the fall of the human being, the lunar
forces can make us to fall spiritually but the solar forces do not do that.
Conclusion
In summary we have examined the following lunar characteristics of
our psyche:
•Changeable, •cyclical, •two sided, •large bias toward receiving, •blocks
the Sun, •projects and •influences the waters and life of the Earth.
In conclusion, we can clearly say that a large majority of the
characteristics of our psyche are also the characteristics of the egos that we
have and they in turn are characteristics that are shared with the Moon. With
the Moon being a manifestation of a lunar force in the cosmos we can state
without doubt that our psychology (with the ego) is Lunar. If we are to remove
the ego our psychology would change to that of the nature of the essence which
is solar.
End (33).
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