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other by helpfulness, creativity and fine sensitivity. The Greeks attribute to
the centaur both the wantonness suggestive of its feet being in the mud of
material attachments and the finer sensitivity of artistic and spiritual
awareness, like Arjuna shadowed by doubt in spite of the divine guide being
with him. These symbols for Sagittarius do not merely show the interplay of
the two opposing forces of materiality and spirituality, they arc also
important as a transmuting impulse. The horse in man is the libido, which as
creative energy immersed in ignorance, expressed as animal passion, needs
transmutation.
The arrow aimed towards the spiritual heights is the most revealing feature
of Sagittarius. The arrow stands for the urge towards radical tranformalion.
This urge which alters the nature of the centaur and makes it like wise
Phobes and Chiron requires the sublimation of sexual passion into universal
love and the direction of the yogic perfections, siddhis, attained under
Scorpio toward the good of all. This transmutation begins with Sagittarius.
In the emblem of Sagittarius, an arrow with a cross attached to its base, the
cross stands for matter, and materialization of the creative energy which
brings material affluence and the pleasures of life t. The cross attached to the
arrow refers to the urge towards liberation from the thraldom of this
involutionary immersion. When material pleasures exist inwardly while one
is attracted towards the higher goal, there is great dissatisfaction. The
intensity of the struggle increases as the aspiration for the Real deepens. This
impulse leads the individual on his spiritual pilgrimage. As a result of it,
there is an upward movement. On this path, the material propensities
entrenched in the individual psyche begin to unfold their spiritual content.
This heralds a new beginning, a new way of life based on a different
understanding of the significance of life. In this upward movement and
unfoldment of new intelligence is an inner change which takes the individual
closer to perfection, which is often considered as occuring through the grace
of God.
How the urge towards liberation is aroused depends upon the maturity
gained by the soul and the experiences undergone by it. But, once the vision
of the Ultimate Reality has been received, the aspiration toward the final
goal becomes irresistable. Following such peak experiences, the individual
reorients his efforts towards this realization. This is the stage represented by
the shooting of the arrow. It indicates the transformation of the physical,
libidinal man into a spiritual entity. At this phase of the divine pilgrimage, a
bridge is made between the lower quaternary of the physical, etheric, astral
and concrete mental bodies and the higher triad of the inner Self(Atma),
intelligence (Buddhi), and abstract mental parts of the soul. At this stage,