HINDU YUGA
CYCLE We saw in the Rosicrucian world ages a cosmic cycle as a
permutation of seven, which seven is taken from the central cube and hidden
seventh point residing within the tetractys. We tracked the source of this
system beginning with the Quabbalah, through the Apocalypse of St. John in the
New Testament, to 17th Century and finally 19th Century Rosicrucian symbolism.
This is the progression of Western
occultism. The progression of the Eastern occultism is based upon
the Hindu Yuga cycle of 4-3-2 and not the Rosicrucian cycle of 7 x 7, although
the two cycles are related, as will be later shown. Both Western and Eastern
occult cycles are drawn from the tetryactys. First, as described on page , the Hindu Yuga cycle is
most definitely based upon the tetractys with a root number of 432 which is the
tetractys ratio in reverse order, with the number 1 or unity dropped, viz:
1-2-3-4 reversed to 4-3-2-(1 dropped). Thus, the numbers of years in a Kali Yuga
is 432,000 years and each successive Yuga adds to the tenfoldness of the Maha
Yuga of 4,320,000 years. Now, the Hindu Yuga cycle as well as the Chaldean
numerical and astronomical systems stem from the grand occult solar precessional
cycle called the Great Platonic Year. We shall see this cycle frequently, but a
simple description follows. The sun travels across the sky on a pathway called the
plane of the ecliptic which is also a line that passes through the 12
constellations of the zodiac. The signs of the zodiac are not equal but
approximate divisions of this great circle, which when divided into twelve equal
parts would have equal arcs of 30 degrees. The position that the sun occupies at
the moment of the solar equinox is called the first point of Aries. This point
moves each year and in fact moves in a retrograde direction so that there is a
lag between two successive coincidences of the spring equinox in relation to two
successive coincides of the sun with the same point in a given constellation
(sidereal year). This annual lag is calculated by occultists as about 50 seconds
per year which amounts to 1 degree in 72 years (50" x 72 = 3600" = 60' = 1) and
further to 2,160 years to 30 degrees or one sign of the zodiac and a full zodiac
cycle of 12 x 2,160 or 25,920 years. These numbers of 60, 72, 2,160 and 25,920
are very occult numbers and will be dealt with separately, but the important
object here is that they are derived from the complete solar precessional cycle
of 25,920 years. The discovery of this solar cycle is attributed to the
Greek astronomer Hipparchus in the year 125 B.C. However, this is an exoteric
designation given by Western science including the appellation "great Platonic
Year". That it was known to Chaldean astronomers is obvious from the fact that
the entire mathematical, geometrical, astronomical and musical aritmetic of the
Babylonians was sexagesional or based upon the unit of 60. Divide the standard
Babylonian base number of 60 into the solar precessional year and the result is
our tetractys base number of 432! This sacred number 432 of the tetractys saturates ancient
Hindu, Babylonian, Chaldean and Egyptian cosmological systems. For example,
according to Berossus, the reign of the ten antediluvian kings in the Babylonian
Marduck mythology was 432,000 years and this was called their "great year". In
the Hindu RG VEDA, (the oldest written text) the 10,800 stanzas average forty
syllables per stanza for a total of 432,000. In the geometry of Ptolemy, the
diameter of his great circles in 432,000 and in his musical theory 432,000 is
the least common denominator of his monochord
fractions. Now, the tetractys frequency grid has some interesting
qualities. First, it represents the underlying triangling of nature. As we
showed on page , the only stable polygons have triangular faces. All polygons
are reducible to triangles and are not further reducible. All polyhedra are
reducible to triangulation and not further
reducible. Second, it utilizes 60 degree coordination which we
discussed supra as the most efficient geometry. The 90 degree X-Y-Z coordinate
system is less economical because it is based upon a square and cube. In
addition, in 90 degrees coordination, the lengths of radials are unequal so that
the hypotenuse of 90 degree angles do not integrate with circumference
lengths. Whereas, 60 degree coordination operates either
circumferentially or radially because the angles, lengths, arcs and chords are
of equal length. The prime structural relationship of all polyhedrons and
polygons is with the 60 degree angle. Third, its symmetry is a model of
equilibrium. The triangular grid is composed of equal angles which produce equal
arcs and equal chords. The internal length between each monad or point is equal
and the internal lengths between different monads is proportionally equal in a
harmonic relationship. If nature abhors an equilibrium as much as she abhors a
vacuum, then the tetractys frequency grid is her model of perfection
Inestimabilis et Incomparabilis Magnitudinis! It is upon the system of ten that the universe is
built. Every complete hierarchy consists of ten degrees. Every atom, molecule,
cell, organ, man, planet, sun, solar system and galaxy or as H.P.B. would say,
every God, Monad and atom is a completed whole constructed upon the decad. Each
hierarchy has a dual tendency and function to exist both as a part and a whole.
At every level of hierarchic organization there is a self-assertive tendency
that is dis-associative and an integrative tendency that is associative. This
polarity between the part function as self-assertive and the whole function as
integrative is a universal fabric of life. Dynamic equilibrium exists when these
two tendencies counter balance each other. The ten degrees of each hierarchy is
structured by the Law of Seven and the Law of Three, together. The visible,
manifest world is septenary. The invisible, unmanifest world behind the scene is
threefold, with associative, The "yuga" cycle corresponds to the phenomenon
described as "precession of the
equinoxes" whereby the positions of constellations shift across the horizon over
a period of (if it continues at current rates) 25,600 years. The usual
explanation for this is that it is due to precession, whereby Earth's poles
wobble over time much like the motion of a toy top. However, according to
California venture capitalist Walter Cruttenden of The Binary Research
Institute, the same observed phenomenon could be explained equally well or
better by elliptical motion of our solar system through space, such as would be
caused by it orbiting (and being orbited by) a binary companion. (Such
elliptical motion would cause the "precession" to vary in speed over time,
resulting in a complete cycle of length very close to 24,000
years.) However, Steiner was very careful never to express the
Rosicrucian cycles in ages of years. The Madame H.P.B. does give some idea of
the length in yars when she says there is, "comparative approximation of
duration between the lives of a family race and a sidereal year." We know the
cycle of the occult solar sidereal year is 25,920 years. Steiner does seem to
relate the length of each cultural epoch (the present fifth one beginning year
1413) in terms of 2,160 years or one-twelfth of a solar
year. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In The Holy Science, Sri Yukteswar writes
the traditional view is based on a misunderstanding. He says that at the end of
the last descending Dwapara Yuga (about 700 BC) "Maharaja
Yudhisthira,
noticing the appearance of the dark Kali Yuga, made over his throne to his
grandson [and]...together with all of his wise men...retired to the Himalaya
Mountains...Thus there was none in the court...who could understand the
principle of correctly accounting the ages of the several
Yugas." Nobody wanted to announce the bad news of the
beginning of the descending Kali Yuga, so they just kept adding years to the
Dwapara date (at that time 2400 Dwapara). By the deepest point of the Kali Yuga
(around 500 BC) that
made the date 3600. As the Kali began to ascend again, scholars of the time
recognized that there was a mistake in the date (then being called 3600+ Kali,
although their texts said Kali had only 1200 years). "By way of reconciliation,
they fancied that 1200 years, the real age of Kali, were not the ordinary years
of our earth, but were so many daiva years ("years of the gods"),
consisting of 12 daiva months of 30 daiva days each, with each
daiva day being equal to one ordinary solar year of our earth. Hence
according to these men 1200 years of Kali Yuga must be equal to 432,000 years of
our earth." Sri Yukteswar also writes that our sun is part of a
binary system, orbiting another star, with an orbital period of about 24,000
years. As our sun moves through this orbit it takes the whole solar system
closer to and then further from some "grand center called 'Vishnunabhi', which
is the seat of the creative power, 'Brahma', [which]...regulates...the mental
virtue of the internal world." Interestingly, Western astronomy in
1894 had no concept
whatsoever of binary star systems; however, modern astronomy has recently recognized that
the majority (half or more) of observable stars are part of multi-star
gravitational/orbital systems (binary or
more). The "yuga" cycle corresponds to the phenomenon
described as "precession of the
equinoxes" whereby the positions of constellations shift across the horizon over
a period of (if it continues at current rates) 25,600 years. The usual
explanation for this is that it is due to precession, whereby Earth's poles
wobble over time much like the motion of a toy top. However, according to
California venture capitalist Walter Cruttenden of The Binary Research
Institute, the same observed phenomenon could be explained equally well or
better by elliptical motion of our solar system through space, such as would be
caused by it orbiting (and being orbited by) a binary companion. (Such
elliptical motion would cause the "precession" to vary in speed over time,
resulting in a complete cycle of length very close to 24,000
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