The Astral Body, part III

Photo: Tapestry "Christ is Born as Man's Redeemer" as seen at the Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

The finer and different realignment of Being in the astral body becomes sensitive to the next level of inner spiritual awareness, which is planetary in nature.

When I say planetary, I mean that it reaches into the cosmological community that mediates between the planets and the stars.

It does this specifically in the sense of our own solar system, but a realignment of our Being and understanding reaches both upward and downward through what Gurdjieff called the ”ray of creation;” and in doing so it establishes an inner sensation of the foundation of the cosmos which, in its awareness of connection to our own sun, acknowledges the hierarchy of energies within this solar system and ultimately mirrors, on a much larger scale, the relationship between suns and galaxies. In this sense, the astral body is a direct intermediary with the solar body, which puts Being directly into touch with solar emanations. These are of a different and more refined nature than the emanations which belong to planets, including the emanations that belong to earth.