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Here I cannot resist the temptation to quote from Sri Aurobindo's "Man, the thinking Animal": "A trifling unit in a boundless plan, Amidst the enormous insignificance, Of the unpeopled cosmos' fire whirl dance, Earth, as by accident, engendered man: A creature of his own grey ignorance, A mind half-shadow and half - gleam, a breath That wrestles, captive in a world of death. To live some lame brief years. Yet his advance Attempt of a divinity within, A consciousness in the inoonscient Night, To realise its own supernal Light, Confronts the ruthless forces of the Unseen. Aspiring to godhead from insensible clay, He travels slow-footed towards the eternal day."
One such result of the interplay of these multiple concious forces, now known to man is the fact of a 'sidereal year. Though really it is the Earth that moves round the Sun once a year, it is the Sun that appears moving and by such repeated movements the Sun appears to be completing a full circle of all zodiacal signs in 25.920 earth yaars equal to one sidereal year. This is the same thing as saying that the Earth moves through a 25.920 year sidereal precession of equinoxes which causes the equinoxial points to move backwards through the zodiacal signs creating ages of 2.160 years of the Earth in each of the 12 zodiacal signs. The first such reading taken was in 150 B.C. when the Earth moved from Aries to Pisces and now once again the astrologers are seeing that the Earth is balancing on the brink between the passing Piscean era and the infant Aquarian age signifying similar enlightenment and illumination as before i.e. nearly 2.160 years ago. Allowing marginal errors in avents of this kind, a period of almost 500 years on either side could certainly be overlooked. We see in the present age beginning from the 16th century signs of what happened during 1,300 B.C. to 400 B.C. being repeated on a stupendously colossal scale : perhaps the New Age has set in, perhaps not being now only a question of a few years. May be, "All things shall change in God's transfiguring hour" and the hour is now, or the year 2,000 or the 21st century but not later ; the speedy pace is being experienced by every one.
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