Daily Meditation: Wednesday, August 21, 2002

In The Book of Revelation, St. John describes four animals …

08/21/2002

In The Book of Revelation, St. John describes four animals around God's throne, singing day and night without ceasing: 'Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God the Almighty ...' The first is like a lion, the second like an ox, the third with a face like a human face, and the fourth like a flying eagle. These four animals are also found in the zodiac, where they are represented by the cross formed by the axis of Aquarius and Leo and the axis of Taurus and Scorpio. You will say: 'But Scorpio, i.e. a scorpion, is not an eagle.' No, of course, but this substitution of the eagle with the scorpion has a meaning. It should be understood as a psychic process. The eagle flies very high up in the sky and looks the sun in the face, whereas the scorpion scurries along the ground, away from the light. We should see the scorpion as an eagle that has fallen. And what is it that made the eagle change into a scorpion? An error in the direction of the sexual force, which, instead of elevating itself upwards from down below, went in the other direction. It is therefore now up to each and every human being to ensure that within them the eagle takes the place of the scorpion once more.