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:

the Triad of Will-Love-Intelligence
or, in Sanskrit, Atma-Buddhi-Manas.

We want to assert them as the foundations of the Science of Union, of the Aquarian common work, and beyond: the Construction of a Hierarchical One Humanity, the central link of Brotherhood; that universal Brotherhood which is the eternal Symbol of the essential Unity of the worlds and of all beings, beyond all size, distance or time.

Let us therefore celebrate Atma-Buddhi-Manas on the three annual Dates or Directions between the Sun–Earth (the Soul–Personality relationship) and the Stars of the three “intimate constellations” indicated as their primary cosmic Sources (Monad) for our solar system:

– BUDDHI: Sun-Earth-SIRIUS Alignment (4 January)

– ATMA: Sun-Earth-Merak/GREAT BEAR Alignment (8 February)

– MANAS: Sun-Earth-Alcyone/PLEIADES (22 November)

“Like the planetary atom, the solar atom not only rotates on its axis but likewise spirals in a cyclic fashion through the Heavens. This is a different activity to the drift or progressive dynamic motion through the Heavens. It deals with the revolution of our Sun around a central point [1] and with its relation to the three constellations so oft referred to in this Treatise:

The Great Bear.
The Pleiades.
The Sun Sirius.

These three groups of solar bodies are of paramount influence where the spiral cyclic activity of our system is concerned. Just as in the human atom the spiral cyclic activity [the evolution of consciousness] is egoic and controlled from the egoic body, so in connection with the solar system these three groups are related to the logoic Spiritual Triad, atma-buddhi-manas [will-love-intelligence], and their influence is dominant in connection with solar incarnation, with solar evolution, and with solar progress.

Further, it must be added that the third type of motion to which our system is subjected [in addition to rotation on its axis and spiral revolution/evolution], that of progress onward, is the result of the united activity of the seven constellations (our solar system forming one of the seven) which form the seven centres of the cosmic Logos. This united activity produces a uniform and steady push (if it might so be expressed) toward a point in the heavens unknown as yet to even the planetary Logoi.” [2]

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Today it is the turn of SIRIUS, the cosmic Source of the Second Aspect BUDDHI united with the Third, MANAS.

Sirius, the cosmic Source of Buddhi/Manas

Around 4 January each year, the Earth is at the centre between the Sun and Sirius, which, along this initiatory Direction qualified for planetary evolution by the signs Capricorn–Cancer, emit a vital impulse, sacred to the Return of the supernal Light, to the Construction of a common Home or Consciousness illuminated by spiritual Love.

In particular, this year, a stellium of other solar Centres exceptionally enhances this heliocentric alignment of Sun-Earth-Sirius: the Luminaries Venus (Fifth Ray of Mind and Knowledge) and Mars (Sixth Ray of abstract Idealism and Devotion) at the Summit, opposite the wide conjunction between Earth and the solar Christ Jupiter (Second Ray of Love-Wisdom) in the Valley (at the bottom).

Fiery Mars is exalted or at its maximum power in Capricorn, and Venus is its hierarchical ruler: Venus is the Isis-Sirius of the solar Hierarchy, conveys Buddhi-Manas and is the higher Ego or solar Angel of the Earth: [3]

EARTH : VENUS = SUN : SIRIUS

Today, in a unique and culminating manner, the Formulas of the current quarter of the cycle are inscribed in the Heaven of the Heart:

Love is the Conqueror!

Let the Lord’s command resound!

Let us assert them and radiate them throughout this proportion of Hearts, penetrating other indications from the Teaching:

“Our [phisical] sun is the embodiment of the heart, or love aspect, of the [solar] Logos (Who is Himself the heart of One about whom naught may be said)… our Logos loses not His identity, even though He forms part of the Consciousness of the Logos of Sirius. In His turn, the Sirian Logos forms one of the seven Grand Heavenly Men, who are the centres in the body of ONE OF WHOM NOUGHT MAY BE SAID.” (TCF, 156 and 572)

By identifying our SOLAR LOGOS with SIRIUS in terms of Ray and Function, it is possible that They constitute the Heart Centre of 2^nd Ray of the Great Cosmic Man (GCM), while remaining distinct Entities from the point of view of consciousness and appearance, but not of Principle: fiery points placed along the same equitonal or harmonic direction, the Way of the Heart.

The cosmic Logos SIRIUS is referred to both as the Source of cosmic Manas (corresponding at the systemic level to the 5^th plane of the human Soul or egoic Groups and causal bodies) and of cosmic Buddhi (the 4^th plane of the spiritual Soul). In other passages of the Teaching, Sirius is referred to as the Prototype of our Sun (and of the other six solar systems?), analogous to the higher Ego for man, or to the Monad for spiritual Man (Ego-Soul). SIRIUS is, in essence, the Second Aspect of the higher Triad of our solar Logos (Ursa Major being the 1^st and the Pleiades the 3^rd); it is the gateway for our solar Logos, Twelve-petalled Heart, towards the higher Three.

In the text The Order of Orion (only available in Italian at the moment), it is hypothesised that the trail of Magnets formed by our solar Logos, Sirius and ORION – a marvellous Entity and Constellation that gives its Name to the galactic arm to which we belong – constitutes the Triad referred to by the Egyptians as Horus-Isis-Osiris, which reflects and veils the GALACTIC HEART in our local universe, along the river of the MILKY WAY.

SIRIUS, the cosmic Isis and Venus, is the cosmic Fire that caused the involution or ‘incarnation’ of our Sun, just as it drives its evolution towards the full realisation of the Second divine Ray, under the impetus of the 3 Chariots (Ursa Major and Minor, Pleiades) and of Her Consort Orion.

It is cosmic Light and Love in action.
It is our universal Magnet and Motive.

“This great Sun [Sirius], which is to our solar Logos what the Monad is to the spiritual man [the Soul], has a peculiar part to play where our Earth [Persona] is concerned. It might be considered by those with a sound sense of occult proportion that our tiny planet with its planetary Logos (one of the “imperfect Gods” of The Secret Doctrine) would be too small to enter in the slightest way into the consciousness of that Supreme Illumined Entity Who is greater even than our Solar Logos. Such, however, is the case. There is a relationship of very ancient date between our Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara, and the Lord of Sirius, and this exists in spite of the fact that our planet is not a sacred planet. It might be added that our planet is… rapidly passing out of this category, and on the inner planes and subjectively considered is a sacred planet; [that is, already able to express its 2^nd R. of Soul on the causal levels, and no longer just the 3^rd of the Personality]; … the great White Lodge on Sirius is the spiritual prototype of the great White Lodge on Earth [EA, 350]…
… A stream of energy coming from the sun, Sirius… enters directly into the Hierarchy and carries with it the principle of buddhi, of cosmic love.  This, in a mysterious way, is the principle found at the heart of every atom. (Rays and the Initiation, 414-5)

Sirius is the Magnet of cosmic Love (a manasic Love for the present level of evolution of the solar Logos), it is the Heart of hearts, and Her Lord is closely connected to Sanat Kumara, the current Personality of our planetary Logos, the 12-petalled golden Lotus.

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On a cosmic or monadic level, Sirius presides over Leo (the Sign ruled by the Sun for human evolution): it is the electrical Source (Buddhi manifesting Atma) of the second type of Fire, the solar Fire, focused in the Heart of the Sun (the solar Lotus on the cosmic manasic plane) and expressed ‘locally’ by the physical Sun. Sirius is literally our Sun of suns, our cosmic Lion of Will-to-Good.

“Later, when the new world religion is founded and is working, we shall find that the major, monthly festival in August, held at the time of the full moon, will be dedicated to the task of making contact, via the Hierarchy, with Sirian force. Each of the months of the year will later be dedicated (through accurate astrological and astronomical knowledge) to whichever constellation in the heavens governs a particular month, as Sirius governs Leo.” (Esoteric Astrology, 299) 

On the astronomical level (that of Appearance), joining in a triangle the Sirius–Orion’s Belt–Taurus/Pleiades axis with the Great Bear at the top, the galactic anticenter emerges inside (red circle in the figure), around which Gemini, Auriga and the ‘arm’ of Orion the Hunter preside.

The cosmic spiritual Triad that guards the galactic anticenter on one side and the galactic Heart on the other: what a supermundane wonder are the signatures of Heaven!

Also in relation to the solar or egoic Plane of the Ecliptic, Sirius is intimately connected to the 2^nd Aspect, particularly through Gemini, the “head” of the cosmic Christ: Gemini is the point of entry, in the 12-sign Zodiac of the evolution of consciousness, for the intelligent cosmic Love/loving cosmic Intelligence coming from Sirius.

The presence of Sirius is in fact all-pervading in the Lotus of the Zodiac, a sort of Heart in the Head (Will-to-Good) guiding the Plan of evolution of solar Consciousness:

• it presides over Leo from a cosmic point of view,
• it distributes cosmic Love in the solar and planetary System through Gemini and the Hierarchy,
• it reaches every heart and the Hierarchy through Pisces and the planet Uranus (EA, 444),
• through the Capricorn-Cancer axis and the planet Saturn, it stimulates sensitivity and the Probationary Path in humanity, exercising this cosmic Traction especially at the time of the solstices,
• is the “brilliant Star of Sensitivity” that dominates the Fourth human Hierarchy through Scorpio and the Fixed Cross, and is “the Star of Mercury and the Buddha” that prepares humanity for the first three initiations:

“Scorpio is under the influence or inflowing energy of Sirius. This is the great star of initiation because our Hierarchy (an expression of the second aspect of divinity) is under the supervision or spiritual magnetic control of the Hierarchy of Sirius. These are the major controlling influences whereby the cosmic Christ works upon the Christ principle in the solar system, in the planet, in man and in the lower forms of life expression. It is esoterically called the ‘brilliant star of sensitivity’.” (EA, 197)

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In the Egyptian Olympus, the Sun of suns is the progenitor of all the gods and goddesses of our “local” Firmament, with a receptive function (Isis) with respect to Orion (Osiris), as well as reuniting all his “lost parts”. Once reunited, Osiris returns to fertility with Isis, who then assumes the role of Great Mother. But he is also the Initiator to the Mysteries and God of Wisdom:

“SIRIUS (Gr.). In Egyptian, Sothis. The dog-star: the star worshipped in Egypt and reverenced by the Occultists; by the former because its heliacal rising with the Sun [today around mid-August in our latitudes] was a sign of the beneficent inundation of the Nile, and by the latter because it is mysteriously associated with Thoth-Hermes [the Dragon God], god of wisdom, and Mercury [associated with the 2^nd Aspect and 4^th Principle Buddhi], in another form. Thus Sothis-Sirius had, and still has, a mystic and direct influence over the whole living heaven, and is connected with almost every god and goddess. It was “Isis in the heaven” and called Isis-Sothis, for Isis was “in the constellation of the dog”, as is declared on her monuments. … Sirius is also Anubis, and is directly connected with the ring “Pass me not” [Anubis is the Egyptian Pluto, also son of Isis, the Egyptian god of generation, depicted with the head of an animal, dog or jackal, also called ‘the Lord of the Underworld, of the lower world or Hades’ where he introduces the souls of the dead (the reincarnating entities); since Hades is in a certain sense the womb or uterus]; it is, moreover, identical with Mithra, the Persian Mystery god, and with Horus and even Hathor, called sometimes the goddess Sothis…”. (H. P. Blavatsky, Theosophical Glossary)

The Great Heart and Magnet Sirius is also the Father of our Sun and stimulates the head centre of disciples:

“Influential and potent forces pouring in at this time from the great stars Betelgeuse [Orion] and Sirius. To these two influences, the disciples of the world in the senior ranks of the New Group of World Servers definitely react, and they produce a stimulation of the heart centre (Betelgeuse) and the head centre (Sirius).” (Esoteric Psychology II, 721)

In summary, the Two Great Origins Isis-Osiris, Sirius-Orion, emanate the Will-to-Good and the Love-Wisdom to realise it.

Thus, in the eternal Symbols of the Firmament, Orion, the Hunter of the heavens, the Great cosmic Soul, pursues the constellation of the Hare, Matter, and dominates it with the help of the two Dogs, Major (Sirius) and Minor (Procyon), the higher Manas dominated by Buddhi prevailing over the lower Manas.

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SIRIUS, Magnet of intelligent Love,

is the lantern of the solar and cosmic Temple,

very high and central,

at the top of the altar of the Heart:

it guides the many to the central Unity,

at the service of the celestial Osiris ORION:

Sirius is the divine Ray of the Great cosmic Christ.

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… And the Sun of Suns shines to the everlasting Song of the Great Labor. [4]

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[1] The central point or axis of the evolutionary and orbital spiral of the solar System is, astronomically speaking, the Galactic Centre. Furthermore, according to the Teaching, our solar System would have a ‘gravitation’ of 250,000 years around the star Alcyone in the Pleiades (Taurus), certainly ‘subjective’, but presumably also objective, in the sense of a possible solar precession around that central point.

“Scientists have not yet admitted into their calculations the fact that our solar system is revolving around a cosmic centre [Alcyone?] along with six other constellations of even greater magnitude in the majority of cases than ours, only one being approximately of the same magnitude as our solar system. This cosmic centre in turn forms part of a great wheel [revolution around the galactic centre?] till—to the eye of the illumined seer—the entire vault of Heaven is seen to be in motion. All the constellations, viewing them as a whole, are impelled in one direction.” (A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, p. 1084 – TCF)

[2] TCF, pp. 1058-9.

This unknown and mysterious point is somehow ‘veiled’ by the so-called “apex” towards which our solar System is heading, according to astronomers, located between Vega in the constellation Lyra (the Seven-stringed lyre of the Music of the Spheres) and the constellation Hercules – the cosmic Disciple.

[3] “Forget not that relating our planet to the planet Venus is a planetary antahkarana [bridge between personality and soul, and between soul and monad], passing from thence to the Heart of the Sun and later to the cosmic mental plane. There are “rainbow bridges” carrying the sevenfold energies of the seven rays from planet to planet, from system to system, and from plane to plane on cosmic levels. It is over these bridges that the will of the related spiritual Identities is projected, producing that synthesis of effort which is distinctive of the cooperative systemic life.” (Rays and the Initiations, p 406 – RI)

[4] Agni Yoga Series, Leaves of Morya’s Garden I – The Call § 200