Addendum 22.17.a to 22.17, the Moon, and
addendum 18.2.a, Planet Symbols, to
18.2, Planet Meanings as Derivatives of Earth
The moon and prototypes
Symbols as prototypes
In the addendum to text 18.2, we saw that a symbol stands for reality. A symbol can be seen as a prototype, a pre-form, something that precedes or comes before the revealed reality.
The prototypes that we mentioned in our discussion of the planet symbols are also known as forms in the physical realm. The Ankh and the Swastika are two examples of this. As building blocks of Creation, they are expressions of a living reality that (presumably) underlies its outer manifestations. So although they take shape in the concrete realms, the living dimension that is their actual abode, is beyond the reach of the Self and therefore also beyond time and space. These living building blocks are therefore also immune to disintegration. Entropy cannot touch them. Just like mathematical structures, they cannot be destroyed (*).
Such living forms are also present in the form domain of the Moon, that is, in the astral and mental body. They receive their life force from the etheric doubles of both of these bodies (*). So they are the pre-forms of phenomena in the soul. Well-known examples are the images that appear in our dreams, and in a larger context, Jung’s archetypes in the collective unconscious. In contrast to the symbols mentioned earlier, these do not have a fixed form when expressed in the material world. For example, an archetypal witch can be portrayed in many different ways: a skinny old crone can just as well serve as a role model for this as a plump, more vital woman. Even a young beauty may fulfill this role.
So the outer appearance of the archetype may vary, as long as it can be associated with the role it fulfills among the other forces involved.
I use the term prototype for an inherent manifestation that stems from another dimension than our concrete realm or the personal or collective soul field. In this other dimension,* it is not the performance of a role that leads to a result, but the form itself; this form is absolute in its expression.
A swastika, for example, has its own, non-variable form. Its influence is concrete and value-free, that is, free from any preconceived purpose or ethical motive. For this form dwells in a dimension that is not connected to the realms where a distinction is made between good and evil, as it transcends duality. This dimension also includes the imagery of the Zodiac, as a living reality. This dimension is definitely not the same as that of our nocturnal dreams and Jung’s archetypes. The dimension of the prototypes is not the soul field, neither the personal nor the collective one, but generates prototypes as the building blocks of Creation. Moreover, the form in which we know them as a life principle is reversible: the transpersonal, ordering influence of this form generates life. This influence has an objective character. Therefore planet symbols, too, have a twofold influence; in other words, they are reversible.
A lot more could be said about this formative, life-generating influence. For the moment, however, I merely want to point out that even though this dimension is not found in the personal realms and has an objective character, it is not accessible in a general sense but only through the individual. The vehicle for this is our own Moon body, which re-forms itself to this purpose by reversing itself, as is possible with the Es.
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