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CHAPTER 2

Cosmology and Consciousness

Numerology is the study of cycle, symbol, and vibration. Its origin is rooted in the very beginning of consciousness. One can even speculate that it predates consciousness. That is especially true if we acknowledge consciousness as part of the manifested creation, or include it in the realm of pre-existence. Sound complicated? It can be helpful to realize that the discussion of esoteric cosmology is best conceived as a metaphor. By contemplating the metaphor, it is possible to release the mind and soul from the bondage of mundane intellectual considerations. This allows awareness to soar into the expanded realms of higher cosmic consciousness. From that vantage point we can dance with the cosmic choreography and directly experience the imprint of expanded cosmic vibrations in our daily life.

Let us begin our journey into the meaning of numbers by contemplating what might be considered as the divine unconscious. We start before the dawn of creation. Because we are members of the created (manifest) world, it is difficult for us to comprehend the unmanifest, for it is that which predates existence. Perhaps the safest thing to say about the unmanifest is that it IS!

The unmanifest is pure being. It is the source of infinite potential from which everything will come. One might consider it as interstellar space resting in complete homeostasis. Sages speak of the void or inner silence in attempt to describe this state. Because we are of the manifest it is impossible to fathom or experience it. The unmanifest is unity. With movement comes the beginning of manifestation. Manifestation brings the beginning of duality.

We might think of manifestation arising from desire. As the desire for manifestation becomes stronger than the force of homeostatic stability, it creates a movement in space.

At this point nothing occurs in space to cause friction so the movement flows ceaselessly. Simultaneously occurring is a desire to return to stability and balance of the unmanifest. This secondary desire acts as resistance upon the primary desire (movement), thus causing the primary (motion) to curve as it progresses. As a result of this resistance, the movement, over eons of time, forms a great circle. The completion of this first cycle results is a vast spinning ring.

One term given to this initial spinning ring is the ring cosmos. The nature of the ring cosmos is evolutionary and its movement is toward the center. One might say it seeks to embrace and integrate new experience. As it spins its way through space it conveys this motion into the space around it that draws more of the space into its influence. This spinning on one plane continues until the combined stresses of the spinning action evokes a secondary reaction setting off a new movement at right angle and in opposition to the first. A term given to this second spinning movement is the ring chaos. The tendency of the ring chaos is to move outward from the center and its desire is to return to the unmanifest. It is the presence of this force that creates the prime duality within manifestation or creation. It is the contrasting reaction upon which consciousness is built. It provides the basis for awareness. Without this opposition the original motion would go on unchecked, with nothing to provide it with sensation of movement. It is this dualistic pressure that underlies all later dualities of matter and spirit, good and evil, masculine and feminine, day and night, life and death, etc.

These two forces now begin in earnest a vast cosmic dance as grand father and grandmother flirt with each other in a come hither, back away dance of attraction and repulsion which arises out of the polarity of this duality. Another analogy used to describe this rhythm is to think of these cycles of expansion and contraction as the breaths of cosmic life, or the cosmic days and nights. These are two spinning rings acting out on a plane. At the same time they are moving rapidly through interstellar space forming threadlike streams of motion like the intertwining threads of a double helix. The ongoing tug and push of these two forces eventually gives rise to a third spinning motion emanating from the first primal ring.

The term given to this third movement is the ring pass not. The ring pass not brings stability to the evolutionary forces at work and sets the boundaries of manifestation. Anything outside of the ring pass not would revert back to the unmanifest. A term used to describe the nature of creation at this point is the prime trinity or the Absolute. It is a metaphorical attempt to imagine the threefold nature of our Creator.

In more contemporary terms the dynamics of the rings might be thought of as the original black hole, first expanding forth as if in a big bang. Then extending itself until reaching the extremity of creation as defined by the balancing action of the ring pass not. Finally, returning to the center bringing everything in creation with it.

Numerologically speaking, until this point in creation you might think of One as being the unmanifest in which is all there is to be. The first duality, two, is manifestation. From the vantage point of the manifested realm one is the ring cosmos. Two is the ring chaos. Combined they compose the basis of duality. With the ring pass not comes three, which completes formation of the prime trinity. The figure below may help to provide a visual and mental clue to the nature of these forces.

Imagine that each of these rings spins in its orbit and at the same time each revolving

in a gyroscopic motion. An analogy that might help is to think of a phonograph record turning on its turntable. The needle moves toward the center (a similar action to the ring cosmos). Now visualize picking the record up and turning it over and over and over again. Now you have a sense of the gyroscope effect. Each ring spins and each one turns in its gyroscopic motion. The end result of this interaction is the formation of a spherical body.

The active dynamics of creation are revealed in reoccurring cycles of expansion, contraction and balance. As the forces of the ring chaos predominate, there is an inflationary expansion of awareness and the creative flow. As the tide turns to the ring cosmos, all that has been experienced is attracted back toward the center and becomes integrated and at rest. The stabilizing influence of the ring pass not has its way until once again the desire for movement becomes stronger than the desire for balance and a renewed cycle of expansion begins.

The interactions of the three primary rings of the Absolute converge at the center of the sphere and give rise to the 12 cosmic rays. These rays spiral outward from the center until they reach the ring pass not whereupon they return as the negative polarity of the ray. The twelve ray energies derive from the three attributes of the Absolute times the number four, the number of formation. In various mystical treatises these are sometimes referred to as the twelve faces of God. Each is composed of its own color, tone, and vibrational signature. The ray energies at this phase of evolution form the archetypal energies of the greater zodiac. If this was to be an elaboration of esoteric cosmology, with the rays we have the origin of the angelic or devic kingdoms. These might include the cosmic hosts of seraphim, cherubim, dominions, principalities, and virtues. The point where the rays converge at the center is sometimes known as the central sun. Because the focus herein is with numerical symbolism, however, attention will be given to that subject.

As the ray energies return from their cosmic sojourn they converge at the center of the spheroid mass that gives rise to another series of swirling energy patterns which emanate outward from the center. These seven emanating circles (the three primary creative forces plus the four components of formation) eventually stabilize to become the seven cosmic planes. The figure below provides a visual stimulus that hopefully assists you in the attempt to conceptualize this process. It is a two dimensional display that attempt to portray the third dimensional interaction of the twelve rays and seven cosmic planes.

FIGURE 2

The term given to the development of creation up until this point is the cosmos. This includes the activities of the rings, twelve rays, and seven cosmic planes. The cosmos breathes in reoccurring cycles of expansion and contraction. During the influence of the ring chaos the rays move outward in spiraling fashion until reaching the ring pass not. Then, as the tide swings to the influence of the ring cosmos the ray energy returns along the negative polarity or opposite ray partner. That is, the first with twelfth, second with eleventh, third with tenth, etc. If we were to stretch the spiral motion of the rays for visual insight it would look like the waves in figure three, which is the signature of the sine wave. As the strands of the rays work their way through the cosmic planes they break up those planes into lesser segments of space (see figures 3 and 4).

The tension, attraction and tension created between the two ray paths causes the formation of lines of stress within these segments. These lines of attraction are known as tangentials. As the paths of divergent tangentials cross, a vortex is set up by the opposing influences that modify the action of each. Therefore, a relatively stable composite unit is set up which is influenced by the two factors of itself and to a lesser extent by the greater forces of the cosmos. This new unit is called a “primal atom”, a vortex of forces gyrating in tight units rather than circling the grand limits of the cosmos.

The same laws are at work in the primal atom that started the ring cosmos and ring chaos on their evolutionary journey. The axiom “ as above so below, but in another manner” certainly is most true here. The two opposing movements that gyrate around each other give rise to a secondary movement known as the angular path. Other primal atoms moving along the angular paths become attracted and form composite atoms. These composite atoms gain in weight and mass eventually responding to the primal forces working upon the cosmic planes. The number of facets or angular paths is related to the nature of primal rhythms upon the cosmic plane where they are formed.

Upon the first cosmic plane primary forces reflect the subconscious nature of the Absolute, therefore the composite atoms are three faceted. The number of facets upon the second cosmic plane are four, on the third are five, on the fourth cosmic plane are six, on the fifth plane seven, on the sixth plane are eight, and on the seventh cosmic plane there are nine (see figure 5). Herein lies a clue that will follow throughout the study of numbers. The numbers one through nine reveal the spiral of life toward perfection. Ten is the number of evolution.

FIGURE 5

With the advent of the composite atoms, activity increases rapidly in the confines of creation. The composite atoms, because of their growing mass, respond to the cosmic cycles. As the ring chaos predominates they began to move outward in space following the lines of least resistance--the rays. There are such composite atoms on each of the cosmic planes. They now become traveling atoms. These atoms spiral through the cosmic planes eventually experiencing each cosmic plane from every possible angle (a clue for the astrologer). Once the influence of the ring cosmos again predominates, the atom spirals toward the central stillness taking with it the experiences of that cycle. This experience is absorbed and integrated into the absolute. The atom then rides the next impulse of the ring chaos moving outward along the complimentary ray path. This progressive journey continues until the atom has experienced all of the ray energies from every angle upon all of the cosmic planes.

In the course of its journey the composite atom is stimulated by the tides of the cosmos, and imprinted with experiences from interaction with the different cosmic planes and nuances from traveling each of the ray energies. As a result of these experiences the traveling atom develops the beginning of self-consciousness. Once the traveling atoms of a given tide have all completed their journey through the rays and planes the entire experience is drawn back to the central sun which goes into a vast cosmic night of integration and stillness.

Eventually the desire for movement becomes stronger than the desire for stillness, and the dawning of a new cosmic day begins. There is now a collection of traveling atoms that have gone through the entire circuit of experiences and no longer need to repeat the journey. These atoms seek the appropriate plane, according to their facets, and begin to orbit around the central sun. Having become awakened and aware of self from the previous journey, the atom now has the potential to become a co-creator. The common term given to these newly awakened being is Great Entity or Solar Logos. We have traced in laymen’s terms the origin of a sun. There are suns on each of the seven planes. We are speaking now of our sun which manifests on the seventh cosmic or material plane.

Having become aware of itself the Solar Logos extends its aura, or if you will, extends a thought form of itself into a portion of the cosmos and organizes the region like unto itself. In simple terms the solar logos forms a solar system giving rise to the birth of planets much like its own process of development in the cosmos, but in another manner.

Traveling atoms form into composite atoms similar to the cosmic process. Eventually these atoms begin to orbit the sun becoming the children of the solar logos or planets. Yet another series of cycles then evolves. Out of the heart of the solar logos radiate waves of divine sparks that will bring the entire spectrum of life into manifestation.

The first wave is known as the lords of flame. They establish an archetypal outline for the new planet. The second wave, lords of form, have a little more time because they must wait for their predecessors.

These entities work to give the planet its bodies of manifestation from spiritual to increasingly more dense on the following return cycles. During the final cycles of passing they bring the systemic ingredients for the material or physical body of the planet. The third wave known as the lords of mind have excess time on each of their runs because they must wait for the preceding waves to complete their intent. We might say metaphorically that they have a little time to use their imagination while waiting for their predecessors to complete their mission.

The lords of mind use this time along with a little imagination. This allows for each planet to develop some unique characteristics of evolution rather than just becoming repetitive clones of the solar logos. This process is sometimes called epigenesis. Once the first three waves of lords have gone through their rounds of manifestation the planet is formed and developing life. The next wave is often known as the lords of humanity. It is this wave that implants the individual spark of life bringing the awakening of self- consciousness in the life form distinguishing it from the group consciousness experienced in the other kingdoms. At this point in the story of consciousness we are describing the beginning of the divine sparks journey into human experience. It is a story of our collective journey and of your individual story. Before continuing that journey, let us examine further some of the numerical metaphors.

One is all. From unmanifest comes manifestation, the first duality (and the first appearance of two). The interplay of the two gives rise to the third stabilizing force and consequent manifestation of the Absolute or prime trinity (having three attributes).

In the progressive stages of cosmic evolution 1 is the Absolute, 2 is the Manifest, 3 pertains to Evolution (Creation), 4 pertains to Formation, and 5 becomes the number for Life. The number 3 (creation) + 4 (formation) results in the cosmic planes. The number 3 (creation) x 4 (formation) results in the cosmic rays. The reader is reminded here once more that this should not just become an intellectual conclusion from reading a cosmological theory. Ones own mediation and dedicated contemplation is encouraged to make this a living realization rather than a reached conclusion. The book previously mentioned in this chapter is again highly recommended as a focus of study and meditative guidance.

(Author’ Note) The reader who is further interested in the cosmology is encouraged to read The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune. It is this extraordinary text that has inspired this author with the wonderment of creation.