Reply #23: Crisis of consciousness [View All]

[Dover]

Simple Trend, I'm not quite seeing the relationship you are drawing between Rudhyar and the biblical source. Would you explain?
What is the 'holy place' for you?

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More from Rudhyar:


When the human mentality was formed under the rigid patterns of social-cultural systems of communal organization celestially dominated by Jupiterian religions and Saturnian rites and dogmas, everything that would transcend and could lead to the universalization of the worshipped Tradition was publicly taught to be evil, and only made known, in the secrecy of some Holy of Holies, to selected and harshly tested candidates to Initiation. But now that the trans-Saturnian planets have entered the conscious Mind of Humanity, the radical crises of consciousness to which modern man is subjected — as his most fundamental bio-psychic allegiances are being dissolved into meaninglessness — have taken the place of the greater part of what once was occulted. Modern life itself is the tester because this life challenges us to make crucial decisions that only a few selected and trained individuals could make in the past.
We can indeed validly assume that mankind is in the midst of a process of extensive "mutation" — a fundamental change in consciousness; and the fact that Uranus, Neptune and Pluto have entered the field of human consciousness is, I believe, an evident and powerful symbol of the spread of this process to an ever larger section of mankind. This does not imply that the process will be a success, or that the mutation will not have a great many destructive and regressive results. Whether it will or not, how much greater the overall success will be than the inevitable failures, and how changed — and probably much diminished in number — humanity will be at the end of our global crisis: these are questions to which no valid answers can be given today. I do not seek to prophesize, but only to elucidate.
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