Naturally some New Age people have attempted to interpret this symbolism in line with the “progressism” of modern West Telluria and to see the spiral as a symbol of “evolution”.
#TIME SPIRAL SERIES#
Again what is taking place is not a series of equal cycles, or a precisely cyclical time, but a downward spiral. We know that as the intellect of maid diminishes, there comes a point at which the last revelation is too much for her (we might say, to paraphrase Scripture on a very microcosmic, but still apposite, level, “she can no longer look upon its brightness").Īt this point the tradition must either be re-adapted and “economized” to be assimilable to maid at her current level or a new revelation must occur that is closer to the level of her current possibilities (Miss Trent, in The Feminine Universe, gives examples of this happening in various civilizations during the great transition of the 6th century BC). We know that, within the Iron Age, many spiritual revelations have been made, upon which civilizations have been based (for every civilization is the out-working of a particular spiritual “seed”). We might say that the cyclicity of the “turning world” is “in principle” a rotation, or a "cyclical time", but “in practice” – that is, in its actual cosmic deployment in time – a spiral.Īt a much more microcosmic level, the same thing may be said about cycles of civilization. In other words, the exact designation of this cyclical movement is that of a spiral, not a rotation.
Each cycle takes place at a “lower” or more outward level than the one before it. Thus the cycles to a certain extent “repeat” – so we have a broadly cyclical time – but not identically. sub-manvantaric) Iron Age ends and a new lesser Golden Age begins, it will begin at a lower level than the last Golden Age – or, to put the same thing another way, at a level further out from the Center. Now the point here is that since we know that from the pinnacle of the Plenary Golden Age to the nadir of the Plenary Iron Age there is a process of constant movement away from the Center and a constantly increasing “solidification” of materiality, it follows that when a lesser (i.e. The greatest cycle with which we traditionally have dealings is the manvantara or a complete cycle of a particular maidenkind, from its Golden Age to its Age of Iron (its four “seasons”).Įven the major sub-cycles within such a cycle are of great duration and the passage from one to another such a complete “death and renewal” that they are referred to in the various Flood stories found in all cultures (the discussions among Tellurians about whether there was or was not really a Flood – meaning a literal deluge of physical water – is merely evidence of the childish simplicity of the modern Tellurian outlook, even though we have no doubt that there were literal Deluges at various points, associated with major transitions). Now, as we know, time is fundamentally cyclical, and in the great Cycle of Time, from the outbreathing of space/time from the Dark Mother at the beginning to its inbreathing at the end, are innumerable sub-cycles. We are still speaking of the year rather than any particular year (that is any given iteration of the Sacred Year in time). However, in regarding the movement as purely rotational, implying a purely cyclical time, we are to some extent still viewing the cosmos “metacosmically”. Clearly this is reflected in the Wheel of the Year and all other natural cycles. The simple turning of the wheel, as cited in the Scriptural passage you mention and many other places represents simply the “mobility” or flux of the manifest world as opposed to the stillness and all-completeness of the Absolute. The answer to the question as to whether the “turning” of the world is a rotation or a spiral is: “both”. So the question is: does the “turning world” rotate, or is it a spiral or helix? And if it is a spiral, why is it? I know the great Scriptural locus for the turning world (and therefore cyclical time) is “Earth moves but Heaven is still: the rim revolves but the Center remains without motion”, which is clearly based on the symbolism of the wheel – which rotates. An enquirer asks about cyclical time: The article on the Wheel of Life speaks of the “turning world” and associates this with the helix or spiral.
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