A teacher gives new symbolic forms to traditional images
A TEACHER GIVES NEW SYMBOLIC FORMS TO TRADITIONAL IMAGES
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This universal idea is best expressed through planets in
10th degree of Aries (9°- 10°)ARIES 10
As we mature, we need to cast off previous models of reality and reinterpret past experiences, seeing them more clearly as metaphors having deeper meaning than we saw when we were previously absorbed in self-establishment. We are better able and more prepared now, rather than to get lost in them, to contemplate our feelings as symbolic indicators. Rudhyar: Revision of attitude at the beginning of a new cycle of experience: ABSTRACTION. |
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Knowledge evolves as old ideals are embodied into new experiences
What is so often imagined to be a creative slant on reality can be nothing more than a witless distortion of values – just a twisted perspective of events. Although truth is a subjective, unique personal experience, our interpretation surely needs to be kept within the boundaries of reasonableness. Some renderings are simply silly and entirely unworkable as useful models of life. What is needed is a continuous readjustment of understanding that can only really be brought about through a careful assimilation of our personal encounters. Checking out our experiences against the viewpoints of others, including predecessors, provides a degree of objectivity, and helps us to find a more genuine picture of what is actually valid. This brings abstract concepts into the realm of personal significance, so that the collective, usually inherited, ideals of society take on meaning for us as individuals, with our own system of values, which set of values is an important part of how our reality is experienced, since we tend to see things the way we want to see them. These symbols can be of any type from arcane rune stones to works of art, in designs or in poetry and myth. To study them in depth requires a certain degree of embodiment, and then there arises new insights as a direct result of bringing the theoretical intelligence of old symbolism into the hard truths of real encounter. These realizations are reorientations on emotional, mental and indeed physical levels – you can feel them change you. The wisdom of the race is constantly subject to a renewal process that depends entirely upon the dynamic interplay between the theoretical ideals of collective reality, and the hard fact of personal experience. What is encapsulated into historical symbolism as indicative of what is real must not be allowed to die if it is to stay of relevance. We can only grasp the meaning of our lives by the interpretation of symbols; they must be currently apt or our sense of what is true becomes outdated and restrictive. This renewal is by process of trial and error – and works on many levels to keep fresh the heritage that cooperatively we are part of. It works because it validates theoretical knowledge against the incomparable worth of practical experience. Yet eventually, bit by bit, the eternal progression of refinement leaves its mark, and a divine truth emerges. We see that a singular principle is dramatizing itself in multiple forms – one in the many – and is valid for both the individual and the community. Ultimately we learn that all symbols point towards one thing, one source, one wisdom – which is the meaning and purpose of all life for everyone and everything. |
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