We know this one well, because it refers to the present age, now beginning to pass. A noble man leads a white lion and a black lion with his mouth open. The man's right hand is gloved and holds an exotic flower, such as an orchid. He has just left his golden chariot, which has its traces grounded, and left his whip in the car, which has a kind of pulpit, and a golden sunburst on the front. He is clothed in a strip of white cloth which reaches to his knees in front and hack. He also wears a golden object in the shape of an old-fashioned keyhole or dotted i. Above is a full and mighty sun, and above that a winging eagle facing left, holding three crossed spears in each claw as in the Great Seal of the USA. At left, blue birds hold a transparent curtain with the Masonic letter C on it; behind which are battling wolves. On his right foot, a sandal, with thongs rising above the calf. On the left foot, 2 tiny wings on the heel. He has a tiny crown of seven blue stars. "Who will engage the Armed One? The battle lines are drawn. Shall the armor glisten in the sun till dusk?" The Armed One is us. It has long been known that the Chariot can be correlated with the unprecedented victory of the conquistadors and captains of industry over nature and the world since about 1450. This correlation still holds with the Victorious One. Most of the elements in the Victorious One relate to the rampaging might of the northern civilizations in their rise to world conquest, e.g. the gloved hand of the falconer holding the exotic flower picked in a far corner of the globe, and the footgear of the Roman legions (on his right foot). Also, the warlike gear of the Chariot, the lions, and the warlike eagle above. The pulpit of the missionary is included in the war-like gear of conquest, appropriately so. Only the wolves still believe in the old absurd power struggles, and still battle for supremacy, partially hidden by the semi-tame bluebirds which we shall meet again in the Actor as assistants to illusion. like Hermes (the messenger of the gods), the Victorious One has winged feet... one, at least. He carries a golden keyhole, ignorant that it is part of a golden door which he has not yet found. We are near the end of the time of the Chariot, though, for the Victorious One has found the exotic growth of a garden of Cur planting, and he has unhitched the Chariot. We have found an exotic flower in our conquests, the hidden wisdom of other cultures, and we hold it aloft in triumph, yet we wear gloves to hold it, as if it were something to fear. The door to our Self awaits a key which cannot be supplied in European culture. The strip of cloth hides our center from the back as well as the front, from ourselves as well as from others. A heavy load of karma is ours. How shall we redeem some higher purpose, some holistic light, out of this bloody period? For that matter, how shall we bring this bloody violence to an end! All will be well if we can crown this period with the renewal of the seven ways. The nature of the victory of the Victorious One is told by the crown of 7 blue stars. We find a seven rayed star in the Virgin, and a seven rayed Sun in the Renewer, and seven doors in the Reactor. All these sevens refer to the seven ways. Seven ways, and seven chakras. On the outer plane, victory is when we learn that the world was not meant to simply be dominated by European civilization, and that the period of the Chariot was designed to show us our incompleteness which other civilizations can fill. Blue is renewal. Stars are creativity. WE are met and the violence redeemed when our efforts are crowned by the creative renewal of the seven ways. The book of the Victorious One is a promise of success in that task. |
"Victory comes when We are met. Self-mastery is the meaning of Book. Very noble battle and book and victor. You know this one well. Rejoice! The redeemer draws close. Sing your song."