Since the nineteenth century a number of occultists have asserted that there is a Grand Central Sun at the centre of our galaxy – thousands, or some even say millions, of times larger than our Sun. The theory is that our solar system completes an orbit around this centre once every 26,000 years, and some have referred to it as being the star Alcyone in the Pleiades. More recently mainstream science has poured cold water on this claim by saying there is a black hole in the centre of our galaxy. Now of course on-one has ever seen a black hole, and it is difficult to peer into the centre of the Milky Way because we are situated well out on what is essentially a flat disc, embedded inside it, with bulky celestial matter blocking our line of sight. Admittedly it would be more comforting to think there would be a central source radiating light outwards, rather than unappealing and as yet unproven hole of darkness sucking everything in.
Plato is often quoted (or misquoted) on websites as putting forward the concept of a physical Central Sun. I would like to reiterate his position as I described it in my article The Eye of the Sun-Runner (http://www.solarancestor.com/the-eye-of-the-sunrunner.html ): He tabulates the ‘Simile of the Sun,[1]’ demonstrating that in the Visible World the Sun is the source of growth and light, granting us the faculty of sight and visibility to objects of sense, while in the Intelligible World the Sun-behind-the-sun is the source of reality and truth, granting us the faculty of knowledge and intelligibility to objects of the mind and thought. Ancient Egyptians and Greeks believed the sun we see is just the physical form of a higher ‘Intelligible or Spiritual Sun.’ Philo of Alexandria called it: “The Sun of the sun, the Intelligible object behind the object comprehensible by sense, and from invisible fountains he supplies the visible beams which our eyes behold[2]."
For spiritual seekers and those in the process of shifting to higher consciousness, it is important to focus on the invisible, ‘Intelligible’ Central Sun. Having said that I, for one, would be delighted to learn that there is a greater physical parent to our own Father Sun.
Credit for Image at top of page: http://www.myastrologybook.com/MilkyWayInfraredAPODJan302000.jpg
References:
[1] Plato, The Republic Translation by Desmond Lee, Penguin Books, 1955
[2] Philo, The Special Laws 1, LI (279)
Plato is often quoted (or misquoted) on websites as putting forward the concept of a physical Central Sun. I would like to reiterate his position as I described it in my article The Eye of the Sun-Runner (http://www.solarancestor.com/the-eye-of-the-sunrunner.html ): He tabulates the ‘Simile of the Sun,[1]’ demonstrating that in the Visible World the Sun is the source of growth and light, granting us the faculty of sight and visibility to objects of sense, while in the Intelligible World the Sun-behind-the-sun is the source of reality and truth, granting us the faculty of knowledge and intelligibility to objects of the mind and thought. Ancient Egyptians and Greeks believed the sun we see is just the physical form of a higher ‘Intelligible or Spiritual Sun.’ Philo of Alexandria called it: “The Sun of the sun, the Intelligible object behind the object comprehensible by sense, and from invisible fountains he supplies the visible beams which our eyes behold[2]."
For spiritual seekers and those in the process of shifting to higher consciousness, it is important to focus on the invisible, ‘Intelligible’ Central Sun. Having said that I, for one, would be delighted to learn that there is a greater physical parent to our own Father Sun.
Credit for Image at top of page: http://www.myastrologybook.com/MilkyWayInfraredAPODJan302000.jpg
References:
[1] Plato, The Republic Translation by Desmond Lee, Penguin Books, 1955
[2] Philo, The Special Laws 1, LI (279)
RSS Feed