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The solar orb, like the nature of man, was divided by the ancient sages into three separate
bodies. According to the mystics, there are three suns in each solar system, analogous to
the three centers of life in each individual constitution.
These are called three lights: the
spiritual sun, the intellectual or soular sun, and the material sun. The spiritual sun manifests the power of God the Father;
the soular sun radiates the life of God the Son; and the material sun is the vehicle of
manifestation for God the Holy Spirit.
Man's nature was divided by the mystics into three
distinct parts: spirit, soul, and body. His physical body was unfolded and vitalized by the
material sun; his spiritual nature was illuminated by the spiritual sun; and his intellectual
nature was redeemed by the true light of grace--the soular sun.
The alignment of these
three globes in the heavens was one explanation offered for the peculiar fact that the orbits of the planets are not circular but elliptical.
The pagan priests always considered the solar system as a Grand Man, and drew their
analogy of these three centers of activity from the three main centers of life in the human
body: the brain, the heart, and the generative system.
The Transfiguration of Jesus
describes three tabernacles, the largest being in the center (the heart), and a smaller one
on either side (the brain and the generative system). It is possible that the philosophical
hypothesis of the existence of the three suns is based upon a peculiar natural phenomenon
which has occurred many times in history.
In the fifty- first year after Christ three suns
were seen at once in the sky and also in the sixty-sixth year. In the sixty-ninth year, two
suns were seen together. According to William Lilly, between the years 1156 and 1648
twenty similar occurrences were recorded.
Recognizing the sun as the
supreme benefactor of the material world, Hermetists believed
that there was a spiritual sun which ministered to the needs
of the invisible and divine part of Nature--human and universal.
Anent
this subject, the great Paracelsus wrote:
"There is an earthly sun,
which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may
see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may
feel his heat. There is an
Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those
whose spiritual senses have
awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His
existence; but those who have
not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by
an inner faculty which is
called Intuition."
Certain Rosicrucian scholars have given special appellations to these three phases of the
sun: the spiritual sun they called Vulcan; the soular and intellectual sun, Christ and
Lucifer respectively; and the material sun, the Jewish Demiurgus Jehovah.
Lucifer here
represents the intellectual mind without the illumination of the spiritual mind; therefore it
is "the false light. " The false light is finally overcome and redeemed by the true light of
the soul, called the Second Logos or Christ. The secret processes by which the Luciferian
intellect is transmuted into the Christly intellect constitute one of the great secrets of
alchemy, and are symbolized by the process of transmuting base metals into gold.
In the rare treatise The Secret
Symbols of The Rosicrucians, Franz Hartmann defines the
sun alchemically as:
"The symbol of Wisdom. The Centre of
Power or Heart of things.
The Sun is a centre of energy and a storehouse of power.
Each living being contains
within itself a centre of life, which may grow to be a
Sun. In the heart of the regenerated,
the divine power, stimulated by the Light of the Logos,
grows into a Sun which
illuminates his mind."
In a note, the same author
amplifies his description by adding:
"The terrestrial sun is the image
or reflection of the invisible celestial sun; the former is
in the realm of Spirit what the latter is in the realm of
Matter; but the latter receives its
power from the former."
In the majority of cases, the religions of antiquity agree that the material visible sun was a
reflector rather than a source of power. The sun was sometimes represented as a shield
carried on the arm of the Sun God, as for example, Frey, the Scandinavian Solar Deity.
This sun reflected the light of the invisible spiritual sun, which was the true source of
life, light, and truth. The physical nature of the universe is receptive; it is a realm of
effects. The invisible causes of these effects belong to the spiritual world. Hence, the
spiritual world is the sphere of causation; the material world is the sphere of effects;
while the intellectual--or soul--world is the sphere of mediation.
Thus Christ, the
personified higher intellect and soul nature, is called "the Mediator" who, by virtue of His
position and power, says: "No man cometh to the Father, but by me."
What the sun is to the solar system, the spirit is to the bodies of man; for his natures,
organs, and functions are as planets surrounding the central life (or sun) and living upon
its emanations.
The solar power in man is divided into three parts, which are termed the
threefold human spirit of man. All three of these spiritual natures are said to be radiant
and transcendent; united, they form the Divinity in man.
Man's threefold lower nature--
consisting of his physical organism, his emotional nature, and his mental faculties--
reflects the light of his threefold Divinity and bears witness of It in the physical world.
Man's three bodies are symbolized by an upright triangle; his threefold spiritual nature by
an inverted triangle. These two triangles, when united in the form of a six-pointed star,
were called by the Jews "the Star of David," "the Signet of Solomon," and are more
commonly known today as "the Star of Zion."
These triangles symbolize the spiritual and
material universes linked together in the constitution of the human creature, who partakes
of both Nature and Divinity. Man's animal nature partakes of the earth; his divine nature
of the heavens; his human nature of the mediator."
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