Originally posted by interestedalways
In Thai (Buddhist) mythology, the rainbow is a staircase linking the earth to the heavens down which the nagas can descend. Here the colors do
not stand for distinct elements, but represent aspects or qualities of the unity that is their source. Hence the rainbow links Samsara -- the world
of illusion and suffering, to Nirvana -- formless Emptiness
Here's what's closest to the teachings of the arcana of the Secret Doctrine in that it represents exoterically, through metaphor, the descent of
Spirit into matter, or the gradual incorporation of Universal Mind, the Logos, into the lower states of Manvantaric existence.
"In the beginning, before Mother became Father-Mother, the fiery Dragon moved in the infinitudes alone" (Book of Sarparajni.) The Aitareya
Brahmana calls the Earth Sarparajni, "the Serpent Queen," and "the Mother of all that moves." Before our globe became egg-shaped (and the Universe
also) "a long trail of Cosmic dust (or fire mist) moved and writhed like a serpent in Space." The "Spirit of God moving on Chaos" was symbolized
by every nation in the shape of a fiery serpent breathing fire and light upon the primordial waters, until it had incubated cosmic matter and made it
assume the annular shape of a serpent with its tail in its mouth -- which symbolises not only Eternity and Infinitude, but also the globular shape of
all the bodies formed within the Universe
from that fiery mist. The Universe, as well as the Earth and Man, cast off periodically, serpent-like, their old skins, to assume new ones after a
time of rest. SD .
This is in essence the devolution of spirit and hence the the fracturing or dissolution of pure light into it's componentary elements, The Trinity,
or the 'Three-tongued flame that never dies';
Atma(Spirit) > Buddhi(Soul) > Manas(Mind)
..and these three then in combination (2^3 + 1 = 7) give the seven-headed Hindu Serpent Ananta, on which Vishnu rests, being the Serpent of Eternity
in Pralaya, and by extension the Seven Principles, 7 Planetary Spirits (Dhyani-chohans) and the 7 Vowels (OEAOHOO).
The Gnostic Serpent with the seven vowels over it's head being the emblem of the Seven Hierarchies of the Septenary or Planetary Creators.
..and these finally devolve into the 7 Chakras and 7 colors of the rainbow on our level of being.
So yes the rainbow serpent is an apt metaphor for the bridging of the lower aspects, the phenomena of creation, to the noumenon of the Divine
Thought.
What has all this got do with Aliens and UFOs?
There exists an archaic MSS called "The Book of Dzyan" written in Senzar, the ancient pictographic symbolic language, housed in the lamasaries of
Tibet, whose cryptic stanzas of Cosmogenisis have been translated and synthesized by Blavatsky into "The Secret Doctrine" .
Some of these stanzas have been correctly interpreted(Blavatsky et al) and others somewhat profanely and erroneously, ie HP Lovecraft, and ..uhm yes
by The US Air Forces Academy, who gave it the stamp of approval, to justify the existence of 'Alien' beings in Earth's pre-historical past...
In principle these beings exist, or have their lower (manasic) vehicles on the Etheric or Astral plane, basically where our Ego or Soul has its seat
(where "Our Father in Heaven" or the divine Monad resides and where we go after each life), and this is composed of Astral light (pure Thought)
essentially.
When they want to engage our reality they do it any number of ways, with the manifestation or concretization of this subtle etheric energy into
plasmic light or forms, and then even further into an organic "metallic" vehicle and an organic body ...or they often simply project thought and
manifest in any form they choose ...which is nice
This in short is what they are about ..the spiritual guidance of mankind and the evolution of it ..ie us on higher levels
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