Capital energies
Pride is one of the so-called capital energies, and the other six are: avarice, gluttony, envy, wrath, lust and laziness. They are important points that every soul must work on its own ego, beginning on a certain stage of its evolutionary trajectory. Pride, one of the striking expressions of the ego before it is absorbed by the soul, makes it admire and overvalue itself: qualities, virtues, conquests and accomplishments. It represents a strong cluster of forces that attracts around it other similar ones that also vibrate in the same wave, and which, like satellites, orbit around it, such as arrogance, haughtiness, intolerance, presumptuousness, separateness, vanity and ambition, among others.
The most striking characteristics of an ego
The most striking characteristics of an ego is to consider itself the “center of the universe”, a protagonist, around whom successive concentric circles begin to group: family, professional, social, affective bonds and others; tendencies, preferences, interests and ideas; material goods.
The advances of astronomy
When the human consciousness was still very centered in this construction, its worldview used to express in what we know as the geocentric cosmological system [1]: the Earth in the center of the Universe and the other celestial bodies, Sun, planets and other stars, following orbits around it. This geocentric system was the prevailing thought in astronomy during the whole Ancient times and Middle Ages, and it prevailed until the appearance of the new heliocentric model of Copernicus [2]: now the Sun in the center of the Solar System and the Earth and the Planet orbiting around it. This “conquest” by the human consciousness was a starting point for great changes of perspective for it, especially in what concerns the scale of values and greatness of the Universe.
The subsequent advances of astronomy demonstrated that the Universe was much vaster that it was supposed, both by Aristotelian cosmology (geocentric) and by the Copernican model (heliocentric) itself, and this paved the way for great astronomical discoveries. Thus, we now know that our Sun, in reality, is just one among billions of other suns (stars) that compose our galaxy (the Milky Way), and that there are also billions of other galaxies, also populated, inside the Great Universal and Cosmic Life.
Human consciousness – centered in itself
Nevertheless, human consciousness, in spite of great leaps in universal cosmology, remained restricted to its limited worlds of egocentrism, of geocentrism and even of heliocentrism, because it still swirls around personal life, with its mediocre, limited, archaic interests and values; humanity, as a whole, still struggles for power, centered in itself, in its own ego, inhabiting a tiny ‘cosmic grain of sand’ called Planet Earth.
We urgently need to expand our consciousness
We urgently need to expand our consciousness, leave this limited world of ignorance, supersede the limits of the proud, presumptuous and arrogant ego; of a Planet lost in the cosmic vastness; to be able to come into direct contact with Universal Life, its Laws, its Civilizations, its mysteries. It is not always very productive to clinch the ego and its satellites, but we can be before greater references, which mirror precisely the opposite it has manifested until today. Before us, above and below us, and even inside us, there lies a Stellar-Cosmic Universe, full of life, without ego, in infinite expansion, without self-will, and which only manifests a Greater Will that created it, pervades it, animates and sustains it, where are our Origin and our Destiny.
[1] Geocentric cosmological system, historically and astronomically enunciated by Ptolemy (90-160 A.D.).
[2] Heliocentric cosmological model of Copernicus (1473-1543 A.D.), published in the year of his death, 1543.
The Great Architect builds eternally
(Morya, Fiery World)
“The Great Architect builds eternally. It is senseless to suppose that certain parts of the Universe are completed and remain static. A great deal is made of the term evolution, but people have absolutely no conception of this process in its actuality. There has been much argument about the social structure, but it always has been presumed that human society exists in something inflexible and finite. The stories of the Deluge and of the glacial period are regarded almost as merely symbolic. And it is not proper even to speak of Atlantis, despite the testimonies of the Greek writers. One can see how the human consciousness evades everything that threatens its established comfort.
Likewise, the concept of evolution is turned into an abstraction, thus not disturbing the consciousness of the petrified heart in the least. But does not the heavenly vault evoke thoughts about eternal motion? Only through such evolutionary concepts can one absorb the beauty of the earthly pilgrimage as the sojourn for ascent. The very briefness of the path should not disturb one, on the contrary, it should give one joy, as does the rotation of the sun. It is urgently necessary to expound to what extent evolution is incessantly in the hands of the Great Architect of the Universe. One should feel that the planet is in space, just as seamen know that the vast ocean is beneath their ship. At first seamen were terrified by this suspension over an abyss, but reality and experience accustom them to this truth.
Every inhabitant of the planet is on a similar ship—below him is the abyss. The seamen cannot depend entirely upon their ship and scientific calculations, if they could there would be no shipwrecks. Astronomy knows a few heavenly bodies, but it does not know the starting point of the comets, and it does not anticipate the gigantic meteors. Only upon their obvious appearance are people notified. The destruction of entire worlds is sometimes noticed, but more often it occurs without attracting any attention. Astronomy is a night watchman! But what about the events taking place by day? Thus, we observe only approximately half of that which is evident. How much that is unexpected is concealed from the sleeping heart! (Morya, Fiery World, Vol I, 408)”
Cosmic greatness units – Numbers that speak
We can then use the multiplicity of the
material greatness units of the Universe
for our work of resizing our haughty ego:
- We are cosmic co-citizens of the Milky Way, a galaxy with more than 100 billions stars. Its diameter is about 100,000 light years, that is, if we took a vehicle that travels at the light speed, we would take about 100,000 years to cross the whole galaxy, from end to end!
- Dwarf galaxies can contain up to 10 million stars and giant galaxies up to 100 trillion stars.
- Astronomy estimates in about 170 billions the number of galaxies in the observable physical universe, which in their majority have from 1,000 to 100,000 parsecs [1] diameter, separated by distances of the order of millions of parsecs.
- Light year (symbol ly) is an astronomical unit of distance that equals the distance that light covers in one year, at the speed of 300,000 km/s, which totals a modest cypher of about 9,5 trillion km/year!
- The Earth-Sun distance is about 150 millions km (about 8 min light), which means that the light of the sun takes 8 minutes to reach the Earth.
- Alpha Centauri, the most brilliant star of the Constelation of Centaur (around the Southern Cross), in reality a triple star, and one of its components, the Proxima Centauri, is the closest sun to our Sun, and is about 4,3 light years, that is, about 40 trillion km distant.
- Sirius, the alpha star of the Constellation of the Can Majoris, is also the most visible star, to unaided eye, of the whole sky, and the fifth star closest to our Sun, is located at a distance of 8,7 light years, that is, 90 trillions km.
- Andromeda, the central galaxy of the Cosmological System that spiritual Science calls Local Universe, is located at 2,2 millions light years from our Sun; its diameter is twice that of the Milky Way, of 200,000 light years.
- [1] Parsec. Astronomic distance unit that corresponds to 3.26 light years (symbol: pc).
Silence before the Universe
Contemplating in silence the Universe, its greatness and relativities, allows the deep resizing of the ego, the breaking of pride and its correlated energies, an encounter with humility! And humility alone can place us in silence before the vastness of the Universe, its Grand Void, its lights and mysteries. And in this attitude of reverence and receptivity, the consciousness can thus convert in living mirror of its impulses and subtle stellar vibrations.
The human heart is, in essence, a sublime mirror created by the divine Love to reflect for the grand and uplifted cosmic realities to be reflected on it, and to be the faithful mirror of the universal Law that expresses thus: ‘What is above is like what is below’, which can transform us in depth.
End of the journey on the starry sky!
Those who want to deepen the topic, may listen to the CD by Clemente:
‘Healing through the observation of the Universe’, edited by Irdin Editora:
http://www.irdin.org.br/acervo/detalhes/4306
