On this fateful date of the long awaited conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn, the solar Lords of Love and Light – of the solar Heart and Intelligence, we celebrate this causal and causative Event inspired by the impulses of the seven aspects of Light, Love and Power, focusing on the Third Aspect of Love and the Second Aspect of Light, associated to the interval between the Rays of these two Luminaries. [1]
THIRD ASPECT OF LOVE
“We can recognize the third aspect of that one reality which is space (Love) in the concept of “Materia Lucida”. [2]
The term already shows the close link between Light, third virtue, and this third aspect of the second virtue. In fact, there is no space totally devoid of Light: when the sun disappears other light sources emerge in the sky and if man had more sensitive tools than those he currently disposes of to explore the star vault thoroughly, he wouldn’t see only isolated stars, but countless luminous points to form a single shiny plate. The spaces in between that today seem obscure would then be recognized as seats of innumerable lights.
Men will soon recognize that the firmament is an utterly bright sphere.
Wanting to differentiate between Light and the third aspect of Love-Space is therefore a very subtle question, with indefinite boundaries since Light and Space tend to identify with one another.
The intelligent activity of Materia Lucida is manifested as the ability to cover the contents expressed by the higher Will with the appropriate form. Materia Matrix welcomes them and nourishes them, the third aspect builds their shape, adapting perfectly to express the idea and the purpose.
This creative action doesn’t happen by chance for sure, but in an intelligent and organized way. Space is indeed very sensitive to the notions of hierarchy and order and even the very term of Materia Lucida refers to the concept of ordered space, which, precisely because it is ordered, acquires clarity, brightness, splendour.
When hierarchy and order are established in a spatial region, beauty is born. A space that has these characteristics is already a work of art, since it is regulated by precise relationships and correspondences between its parts.
It is a space that has removed all trivialities, and there is no chaos in its sphere. All this leads back to true art, which is never accidental, but it’s rather co-measurement and balance, essential factors of beauty.
These qualities, which enhance the space and can sometimes be captured in the majesty of natural landscapes, prelude to the fourth aspect of space, which tends to perfect harmony, and help to understand it”.
SECOND ASPECT OF LIGHT
“The night fades into the day in an imperceptible way, but all of a sudden, looking at the sky, you understand that it’s over.
This always slow transition between night and day has two phases: the one that precedes the rising of the sun and the one that follows the sunset.
The light of this transition, which announces the new day in the morning and summarizes the day spent at sunset, is different from the one we perceive during daytime: it is diffused, it doesn’t cast a shadow; at dawn it is fresh, renewed, full of hope; the evening is wise, skilful, rich from all the experiences lived during the day.
This twilight, which appears in two distinct phases, manifests the second aspect of Light: in fact it occurs twice during the day and one can recognize a positive polarity (morning) and a negative one (evening). Also clear to us is its intermediate nature between darkness and light, so that at dawn it hides the firmament and slowly nullifies it, clouding the stars, and precedes the rising of the sun; and in the evening, this widespread light blends the intense brightness of the day into the colours of the sunset, announcing the nocturnal stillness.
From sunrise to sunset the day is comprised between this twofold appearance of twilight, and it is typical of the second Ray to encompass, to shroud, expressing magnetism and Love.
It is therefore legitimate to think that in the morning and in the evening, according to this hypothesis, there is a second ray dispensation that certainly acts on the heart, the most receptive centre for this kind of energy, promoting and expanding our understanding and ability to love.
The lack of an identified source in this crepuscular light also refers to the second aspect of energy. While the stellar light comes from known and defined sources and the sun that dominates during the day is so powerful as to be unsustainable to the eye, the light of dusk seems to have no origin of its own or in any case its non-manifest solar origin remains hidden. Now, the second ray is precisely the expression of perfect loving passiveness, not without intelligence, and capable of giving shape to any higher will.
During the night the planet is therefore bombarded with cosmic will and at dawn, in its crepuscular light, this will is collected and accepted; humanity, priest of this liturgy between heaven and earth, is prepared to live it as the sun will dictate and to gather it in hoards of wisdom and experience at sunset.
The second Vertex of the Star conforms to this second aspect: this vertex is therefore invited to recite in the morning and in the evening the second stanza of the great Invocation, so that Love descends into the hearts of men and pervades the Star which engages and works for the common Good. (…)
NOTE
The second aspect of light appears when neither the One nor the Three acts.
It is the light of substance, of Space, of the Mother of the world, and is manifested when the other light sources are not present in the field.
It is the light of the octave interval”.
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