Spatial Archetypes by Lobell Mimi

Author:Lobell, Mimi [Lobell, Mimi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JXJ Publications
Published: 2018-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

THE RADIANT AXES

World of the Emperor as Sun-God

One climbs the Aha, the lonesome place of the majestic soul, the high room of the intelligence which moves across the sky; one now opens the door of the horizon building of the primordial god of the two countries in order to see the mystery of Horus shining.

~ Egyptian inscription, 840 B.C.1

The Empire and the Inflated Ego

In the last chapter we saw that the Pyramid is often associated with the sun: the Egyptian pyramid was equated with the sun rising between the Horns of Consecration; the Buddhist stupa is circumambulated in imitation of the sun’s apparent course around the earth; and the golden towers of the Khmer pyramids were nightly visited by a female “Lord of the Sun.” But pyramids are predominantly symbols of the World Mountain. In the Radiant Axes archetype the sun itself becomes the prime symbol. The rays of the Radiant Axes diagram are the sun’s rays, radiating their light infinitely through the cosmos. Now there are no boundaries. The old walls around the Four Quarters have crumbled, and the earthbound base of the pyramid has evaporated. Only that singular point of blazing energy and its infinite radiation of power remain. This is the age of the empire.

An empire results when one nation state undertakes military expansion on an unprecedented scale, swallowing other nations whole just as at dawn the sun swallows the stars in its brilliant light. The ruler of an empire is an exponentially more powerful being than the king of a nation state. He is Emperor, absolute monarch, King of Kings. More often than not he fancies himself an incarnation of the Sun-God. No mere nature spirit, tribal deity, or national god can compete with the sun. The sun blazes around the world, the mightiest heavenly being of them all. It is the constant in a world of flux, and the highest conceivable champion of light and consciousness.

This is the age both of the visionary and of the inflated ego. Like the Empire and the Emperor—indeed, like the infinite rays of the Radiant Axes—the inflated ego knows no bounds. It no longer looks for guidance to the mothers and fathers, heroes and chieftains, priestesses and priests, goddesses and gods; it believes it is god, invincible, omnipotent, eternal.2 Sometimes ego-inflated people are revered as visionaries and prophets, and a few do achieve a deep identification with the Self and a total extinguishment of ego. In many others, however, it is at best a source of ego-centrism, and at worst a source of psychosis, sociopathic behavior, despotism, and even brutal fascism.

Any of us may experience mild ego-inflation at various points in our lives, carrying us to manic exhilaration and the temporary feeling that we are omnipotent. A strong religious background may color the episode with the conscious illusion that we are God, or Christ, or the Virgin Mary, or Isis, or Buddha, or whomever is our central religious figure. Usually we cannot maintain this exaltation. The more we try, the more it slips away.

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