| The Seven Sisters, the Pleiades References
in The Secret Doctrine
- The Pleiades are the supposed wives of the seven Rishis of the Great Bear. They are also
the nurses of the God of War, Mars, the commander of the celestial armies." (Vol. II,
579)
- "The Pleiades are the central group of the system of sidereal astronomy.
- They are found in the neck of the Bull, the constellation Taurus.
- They are therefore in the Milky Way.
- They are thus considered (Alcyone, in particular) as the central point around which our
universe of fixed stars revolves." (Vol. II, 582)
- "The number seven is closely connected with the occult
significance of the Pleiades, the six present and the 7th hidden." (Vol. II, 654)
- "The Pleiades were at one time the Atlantides and connected with Atlantis and its
seven races." (Vol. II, 811)
- "One of the most esoteric cycles is based upon certain conjunctions and respective
positions of Virgo and the Pleiades." (Vol. II, 454) [658]
From A
Treatise on Cosmic Fire
- "The Pleiades are to the solar system the source of electrical energy and, just as
our sun is the embodiment of the heart or love aspect of the Logos (Who is Himself the
heart of the One about Whom Naught may be Said) so the Pleiades are the feminine opposite
of Brahma." (The third aspect) (156)
- "Our solar system, with the Pleiades and one of the stars of the Great Bear, form a
cosmic triangle or an aggregation of centers in the body of the One about Whom Naught may
be Said." (182)
- "Two other systems, when allied with our solar system and the Pleiades make a lower
quaternary." (182)
- "The sun, Sirius, is the source of the Logoic mind (manas) in the same sense that
the Pleiades are connected with the evolution of mind in the seven Heavenly Men and Venus
was responsible for the coming of mind to the Earth." (347)
- "Sirius, the Pleiades and our Sun form a cosmic triangle." (375)
- "The Pleiades are negatively polarized to our seven schemes." (377)
- "Our seven planetary Logoi are transmitters, via Their seven schemes to the seven
stars of the Pleiades." (378)
- "Three constellations are connected with the fifth logoic principle in its
threefold manifestation: Sirius, two of the Pleiades and a small constellation whose name
must be intuitively ascertained." (699)
- "Three great waves of energy sweep cyclically through [659] the entire solar system
from...the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades, from that one in particular who is occultly termed
"the wife" of the planetary Logos whose scheme will eventually receive the seeds
of life from our planet which is not considered a sacred planet"...(1052)
"Cosmic
evil...consists in the relation between that spiritual intelligent unit or "Rishi of
the Superior Constellation," as He is called (Who is the informing Life of one of the
seven stars of the Great Bear) and our planetary Prototype and one of the forces of the
Pleiades...The Seven Sisters are occultly called the "seven wives" of the
Rishis...(990)
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