As presented in the article Sirius, the cosmic Source of Buddhi/Manas, in this year 6.5, we want to give particular importance to the spiritual Triad of Energies that animates the Manifestation and the Evolution of Consciousness:
Atma-Buddhi-Manas:
Will-Love-Intelligence
or spiritual will, intuition and higher mind.*
We wish to assert them as the foundations of the Science of the Union, as the essential Energies of the Work of Building a Hierarchical One Humanity.
And today it is the turn of ATMA, the First Energy of Life, the “universal Soul”, celebrated in resonance with the ecliptic Direction Sun-Earth-Merak/GREAT BEAR (8 February) and, exceptionally, with the rare heliocentric Direction (every 84 years) between Uranus and the star Alcyone of the PLEIADES (9 February), the pivot according to Esoteric Astrology of our cosmic System of Seven solar Systems.**
These Directions and Dates attest to a powerful time, both for planetary and solar Consciousness, a resonance with these cosmic atmic Prototypes that reverberates down to the physical (= astronomical) level.
Merak is the First Rishi of the Great Bear, the Source of the 1st Ray of Will-Power for our solar System through the First Constellation Aries; the sevenfold Energy of the Great Bear, via Aries-Libra and Sun/Vulcan, is focused on the planet in the Head Centre Shamballa: it is the impulse of abstraction that initiates to Being. And the first Luminary that transmits the initiatory Fire of Aries to planetary consciousness is Uranus, the Seventh planetary Logos but First Pattern of Synthesis. [1]
The Most High and the Abyssal are One along this Direction of Power.
And Merak, together with Dubhe of the Great Bear, point to the North Star of the Little Bear, the current guiding Source of our Planet.
Ursa Major, Merak, Dubhe, Polaris, Aries, spiritual central Sun, Uranus, Vulcan, Shamballa…: all Agents of the 1st Ray; all Head (or directive) Centres: Agents of transmission of ATMA.
The cosmic Will and the impulse of Life/ATMA of the Seven cosmic Rays reaches our solar System (and the other six Suns of our cosmic System) from this marvellous Chariot of the Great Bear, which drives and pulls our local universe together with the other two celestial Chariots of the Great Cosmic Man:
“The seven stars of the Great Bear or Ursa Major are involved in an intricate relation with Ursa Minor and the Pleiades… This major triplicity of constellations has a peculiar relation to that Great Being to Whom I have at times referred as the One About Whom Naught Can Be Said. All that can be hinted at is that these three galaxies of stars are the three aspects of that Indescribable, Absolute Monad, the Ineffable Cause of the seven solar systems—of which ours is one.” (Esoteric Astrology, 607-8).
It cannot be merely a figment of human imagination that all three Constellations underlying the “three aspects of the absolute Monad” (Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Pleiades) have “inspired” the shape of the “Chariot”, i.e. a vehicle or driving force, of “cosmic traction”.
In this sense, it is revealing and noteworthy that the two Bears trace the symbol of the swastika, the polar helix of Life, in Space, in the 4 heavens of the 4 discontinui-ties of the Cycle of revolution of each Planet: the two Chariots, like the blades of the Wheel of Life, stir the Summit, distributing the vital energy of the higher occult Centre – the North Pole of the solar Ecliptic burning between the coils of the Dragon.
“Three of the energies [Great Bear–Sirius–Pleiades] work through the head centre but only after the third initiation.” (EA, 23-4)
“The seven stars in the constellation of the Great Bear are the correspon-dences to the seven head centres in the body of that Being, greater than our Logos. Again, two other systems, when allied with the solar system and the Pleiades, make a lower quaternary which are eventually synthesised into the seven head centres in much the same way as in the human being after the fourth initiation.
… The sevenfold head centre [Seven stars of the Great Bear] in its turn finds ultimate expression in the gorgeous twofold centre above the top of the head and surrounding it. Equally so, beyond the above named constellations is still another cosmic centre.” (A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 182-3)
The Seven Rishis of the Great Bear are the Head Centre of the Great Cosmic Man, they “push forward and beyond” the entire manifestation and evolution of the Seven solar Logoi, they are the Great Chariot of the Seven Rays that pulls the plough of Life from the North (septentrional comes from septem triones = seven oxen):
“CHITRA SIKKANDINAS (Sk.). The constellation of the great Bear; the habitat of the seven Rishis (Sapta-Riksha). Lit., “bright-crested”.” (Theosophical Glossary)
The evidence of the seven Stars of the Big Dipper is near the celestial Dwelling of the Poles, the area that includes the Little Dipper (the current planetary pole), the Dragon (the solar north pole) and the North Pole of the Galaxy, the Head Centre of our universe.
The Great Bear is therefore the control centre for this part of the galaxy; it is the sevenfold Will of the First Father Aspect.
With regard to the Evolution of Consciousness (Son Aspect), it is the First Sign, Aries, at the solar level, that holds within itself this initiatory and initiating Power of the celestial Bears, exercised through the Law of Libra, “the open gate to Shamballa”.
It is also revealing that this dynamic and electric Sun-Earth-Merak alignment (8 February) occurs for us ‘within the time’ of the Sign of Aquarius (19 January-18 February), i.e. on the Aquarius–Leo axis, because:
“Aquarius expresses the universal consciousness of the Great Bear… synthesis or universal fusion”: ATMA. (EA, 349).
The Synthesis of Being, the divine Life-Will Aspect, ATMA, is neither knowable nor expressible before a certain high initiation, since in the current 2nd solar System the loftiest goal is the power of Love, that sacrifice/sacrum facere (making sacred), or sacrum esse (being sacred), which sanctifies Matter according to the will-to-good of the Spirit. ‘Currently’, therefore, Buddhi-Love/Wisdom is the ‘electric fire’ (1st Fire) that “is found in the nucleus of every atom”; but Buddhi is the 2nd Aspect, ‘solar Fire’, with respect to the dynamic Fire of Atma-Will (1st aspect), which cannot manifest itself except through Buddhi, just as Buddhi cannot manifest itself to man except through Manas (the 3rd aspect, the Mind).
ATMA, “the plane of the spirit”, is therefore the highest mystery and principle for human beings, that Will which is what it wants, without time or distance, through identification and identity between Essences, very different from its human refraction, emotional desire, connected to what it desires by a tension, a space, an attraction.
“ATMĀ or ATMAN (Sanskrit) – The Universal Spirit, the divine Monad, the 7th Principle, so-called, in the septenary constitution of man. The Supreme Soul.” (TG)
“ … the Spirit employs the will aspect or atma (in man), which has, for its distinctive feature, that coherent force which keeps the purpose of the entity ever in view, working it out through love in substantial form.” (TCF, 334)
“The spiritual man is he who having been both a man of the world and an occult student has reached the conclusion that behind all those causes with which he has been hitherto engaged is a CAUSE; this causal unity then becomes the goal of his search. This is the mystery lying behind all mysteries; this is the secret of which all that has hitherto been known and conceived is but the veil; this is the heart of the Unknown which holds hid the purpose and the key to all that IS, and which is only put into the hands of those exalted Beings Who—having worked their way through the manifold web of life—know Themselves indeed and in truth to be Atma, or Spirit itself, and veritable sparks in the one great Flame.” (TCF, 1239)
* “Triad. This is literally Atma-buddhi-manas, the expression of the Monad, just as the personality is the expression of the Ego. The Monad expresses itself through the Triad, and in its lowest or third Aspect forms the Egoic or Causal body, the infant or germinal Ego. Similarly, the Ego expresses itself through the threefold lower man, mental, emotional, and etheric (these being the reflection of the higher Triad) and these three give rise to the dense physical manifestation.” (TCF, footnote 26, p. 70)
** The cosmic Traction of Uranus, entering Gemini heliocentrically on 9 January 2026 where it will stay for the next seven Earth years and aligning with the Great feminine Origin Alcyone of the Pleiades on 9 February 2026, elevates the vibration of the planetary and solar Systems to the cosmic one. Uranus, the Initiator to Synthesis, is One with our cosmic Origin at the centre of the Seven solar Systems, of our cosmic Order: every open Eye sees the Infinite.
This systemic alignment of Uranus-Alcyone seems to ‘conclude’, implement and confirm at the solar level the recent Sun-Earth-Uranus-Alcyone alignment of 22 November 2025, when the planetary Ajna, the New Group of World Servers, opened itself to the contemplation of Infinity.
[1] “In connection with Aries, which expresses or is the agent primarily of the first Ray of Will or Power, the ray of the destroyer, it should be stated that first ray energy comes from the divine Prototype in the Great Bear, that it becomes transmuted into the force and activity of the planetary Logos of the first ray [Vulcan], and works out as His triple activity under the guidance of the three ruling planets—Mars, Mercury and Uranus. (…) Uranus [hierarchical Ruler of Aries] embodies the energy of the seventh ray and its work is analogous to that of Mercury, for the seventh ray is the ray which relates spirit and matter and brings together electric fire and fire by friction, thus producing manifestation. Uranus leads the soul to the burning ground during the final stages of the Path, when the fire of Aries and the fires engendered through the potency of Uranus produce the flaming heat of the final burning ground. Through this burning ground, the initiate has finally to pass. Uranus rules the occult Way and is, in an esoteric sense, connected with the Hierophant of the Mysteries of Initiation.” (EA, 99-101)
“… the energy of will—newly released by Sanat Kumara upon our planet—emanates, via the head centre of the planetary Logos, from the Great Bear; it is stepped down in vibration via one of the Pleiades (hence its influence upon matter and hence also its pronounced Taurian effects upon humanity) and so enters into the solar system. It is there absorbed by that major centre of our planetary life to which we give the name, Shamballa.” (EA, 376)
Every meditation,
Every moment of transcendence,
Every night, year, or lifetime,
One has the opportunity to slip away
Into awareness of Spirit:
One with the Universe,
One with Love,
One with Stillness by the sea.
The rings of my shell expand out infinitely
Returning light, transcendence and peace
In an ambience of fog.
Half on land and half at sea,
Suspended between.
Knowing, sharing, caring.
Thou.