Contents:-

Synopsis. The Hidden Language

The Soul-Wisdom of Aquarius

The Purpose of the Aquarian Bible

The Aquarian Bible and the Zodiac

The Cosmic Language of Symbols

The Symbolic Language of Religion (A)

The Symbolic Language of Religion (B)

Veil of Allegory

The Mysteries of the Kingdom

Piscean Love and Aquarian Science

The Aquarian Age

The Science of Esoteric Psychology

The Temple of the Holy Ghost in Man

The New Birth in Christ

The Unifying Power of Christ

In any text there is a particular language dependent on or derived from the race or culture. The King James version of the Bible demonstrates an exquisite command of the English language, but this version must necessarily differ in interpretation from the Aramaic or Greek versions.

It is important to grasp the essential fact that there are two languages used in the Bible. The first is that of the translator. The second is the cosmic language of symbolism. I have used the symbol of the circle and its divisions to integrate certain biblical teachings and have arranged these teachings to follow the movement around the circumference of the circle, commencing with the astrological sign of Capricorn, which is the Winter Solstice period of Christmas.

The birth of Christ was deliberately changed to the 25th of December to fit the so-called pagan cycle of worship which commenced with the Saturnalia at the Winter Solstice. The Soul of Man follows the cycle depicted by the life of Jesus Christ. We descend into the physical body to gain experience and we ascend from this body into the Higher Self at death. In essence the Higher Self, or Christ-consciousness, can be reached now through meditation, or entered into naturally at the death of the physical body.

From 1968 to 1975 I taught in various cities in the United States such as Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and St. Paul. In these cities I met many young people interested in religion, yoga, the kabala, astrology and other esoteric studies. What became evident was their apparent difficulty in correlating their information from various fields of knowledge into a homogenous unified structure of thought, which could be called Soul-Wisdom.

Why do these young people leave their church or religion to take up some Eastern teaching? On the other hand why do people in the West call yoga an Eastern teaching? Yoga and religion are founded on the spiritual anatomy of Man, therefore they are based on a cosmic universal symbol of the Godhead. How can religion (from re-ligare, to bind back again to God) be other than universal. The Cosmic Christ is universal. Man is made in the image of God, who is not by any stretch of the imagination limited merely to a God for Christians. Such a presumption has led to the dismemberment of the Church into conflicting sects, each with its own petty interpretations of the Bible. Let us unite once more under the Cosmic Christ and re-establish His Church on Earth.

The reason for publication of The Aquarian Bible is to emphasize the esoteric teachings of the Bible and the Cosmic Nature of Christ. He does not belong to an exclusive religion but is in all men from their birth. His crucifixion is not a death on the physical plane. It is the commencement of a descent to the physical plane.

The Christ-consciousness in man evolves to perfection through a series of lives. How otherwise could perfection be achieved? Consciousness can be regressed into previous lives and some people remember their past lives. Reincarnation is a fact which cannot be ignored.

This Bible is arranged to present information which has been aggregated under page headings and which follows the cycle of the year from Christmas. In general, the teachings are complete on each page. There is a contents list to each Part and to each Section within a Part. A Synopsis page follows every contents list.

This volume is designed as an instructional manual to be used in conjunction with the King James version of the Bible. In itself it provides a major key to the esoteric or hidden teaching of the Holy Bible.

To simplify exposition of the esoteric teachings of the Bible in this Book I have grouped similar teachings together under explanatory headings. The unifying theme is the cycle of the church year as related to the festivals and the signs of the zodiac.

The two major divisions of the Book are:

(a) The Macrocosmic Parts I to VII, which deal with the Universe and the cosmic symbols of religion related to the annual cycle of the church year.

(b) The Microcosmic Parts VIII to XII, which refer specifically to the esoteric psychology of man.

The validation of the linear exposition of the Bible, following the guide of the church year, is given in two related volumes:

(a) The Aquarian Mandala: The Macrocosmic Universe in Man.

(b) Aquarian Mythology: A Comparative Study.

The first provides an introduction to the language of symbols and then explains the process of spiritual evolution prior to man's appearance on Earth. The second gives a series of parallel accounts of creation drawn from the field of comparative mythology. The description of the same cycle of emanation in the mythologies of various cultures is amply illustrated, and demonstrates the existence of a common source of the teachings prior to the cave-man period.

Man is a universal living symbol of the Creator. All religions are given to man by other men, although they differ from us in being more highly evolved. The fundamental thesis of this Book is that the Soul is becoming perfect through reincarnation, as depicted by its involution to Earth and evolution from Earth in accord with the cycles of manifestation.

Our understanding of this process cannot be confined to biblical studies. Therefore it is necessary to relate the teachings of the Bible to other scriptural and mythological texts. For instance, the so-called "vegetation cycle" religion of the early races relates directly to the church festivals of the year. The importance of the cycle is that it depicts a knowledge of the esoteric psychology of the human being, which is not yet known by western psychologists.

I have used symbolic diagrams and tables extensively throughout the text to demonstrate that the apparently simple concepts of a person having a "Spirit, Soul and body" relate to the triune natures of the Monad, Higher Self and Lower Self, which are definitely associated with the quadrature of the circle known as the mandala pattern. (See The Aquarian Mandala.)

Symbols are important because they serve as a cosmic language of interpretation which transcends the barriers of our written languages. They are the means of integrating different fields of knowledge. The understanding of their import allows meanings to merge from religious texts, which meanings had hitherto been concealed.

The religious systems of humanity have an underlying unity which can be found through the language of symbols. These religions attempt to convey spiritual truths to us via archetypal ideas. The Soul responds to these ideas because consciousness in its higher levels is universal. The Soul, the microcosm, is no different from the universe, or macrocosm, in its real nature. Although it is built on a smaller scale it has all of the powers of the universe within it. The planets in the heavens have exactly the same function as the chakras or spiritual centres along the spine. Many quotations are given from the Bible to support this fact. We are gods in the becoming.

The language of symbols is universal. The study of symbols in various cultures leads directly to an appreciation of their universality. They have a common origin because they are issued forth from one source - the Collective Unconscious or God. He who created the Universe is a mathematician and a geometrician. His avatars, or spiritual teachers, enter the great civilizations present the unchanging Ageless Wisdom. The language of this Wisdom is symbolism. It provides the key to the Unity underlying all religions. We are symbols of the Godhead, being made in His image.

The cycle of evolution of the Soul is the great wheel of the zodiac. All ancient civilizations had this knowledge. The validity of the teachings of this book is founded on a sequence of unchanging cosmic archetypal symbols.

Capricorn	Cancer
Aquarius	Leo
Pisces	Virgo
Aries	Libra
Taurus	Scorpio
Gemini	Sagittarius

These symbols, related to the collective archetypes of Jung, are based on the early spiritual language of Senzar from which Devanagari (the language of the angels, or spiritual hierarchies) and later Sanskrit are derived. Sanskrit is the mother source of the Indo-European alphabets.

My exposition of this zodiacal language follows a strict linear progression from Capricorn through Aquarius to Capricorn. Each step of this evolutionary unfoldment of the universe, or macrocosm, and man, the microcosm, has been extensively documented by quotation; from the Bible. All major mythological structures and esoteric teachings follow this sequence. (See Aquarian Mythology: A Comparative Study, and The Aquarian Mandala; The Macrocosmic Universe in Man.)

Maimonides speaking of the Book of Genesis said, "We ought not to take literally that which is written in the story of Creation, nor entertain the same ideas of it as are common with the vulgar. If it were otherwise, our ancient sages would not have taken so much pains to conceal the sense, and to keep before the eyes of the uninstructed the veil of allegory which conceals the truth it contains."

Jerome said, "The most difficult and obscure of the holy books contain as many secrets as they do words, concealing many things even under each word."

Mosheim said that all the Fathers of the second century attributed a hidden and mysterious sense to the words of Scripture.

Origen asked, "What man is so simple as to believe that God, as a gardener planted a garden in the East? That the Tree of Life was a real tree which could be touched, and of which the fruit had the power of conferring immortality?"

This tree mentioned by Origen is the kabalistic Tree of Life or spine in man. Immortality is achieved by the raising of consciousness (in terms of vibrational frequencies) from the Lower Self to the Higher Self, represented by Tiphareth, the heart centre on the middle pillar (spine) of the Kabalistic Tree of Life.

What man knoweth the things of a man save the Spirit of a man which is in him. (2.11)

We speak not in the words man's wisdom teacheth but which the Holy Ghost (as Light) teacheth. (2.13)

We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory. (2.7)

We speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world. (2.6)

Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. (4.1)

Judge nothing until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels... then shall every man have praise of God. (4.5)

These things I have in a figure (or symbol) transferred to myself (Paul) and to Apollos (Sun-Monad). He will come (illuminate the Lower Self) when he shall have convenient time. (16.12)

The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. (2.14)

We have the mind (Higher Mind) of Christ. (2.16)

The teachings of the Piscean Age stressed the need for us to love one another. We have moved over the past 2,160 years into the Aquarian Age when a new revelation is to be given to man. The Mithraic mysteries of the Taurobolium originated when the Sun by the Precession of the Equinoxes appeared to be in Taurus. Then followed, after the golden calf or Bull of Taurus, the worship of the Ram or Lamb of Aries. This in turn was superseded by the Fish of Pisces, the religion of love.

The Aquarian Age denotes the change from analytical thinking to integrative education, from the Lower Mind of desires to the Higher Mind which seeks Holism or unity. We must study the relationships between teachings to find their similarities. Wisdom is unity, its reflections are represented by differentiations of interpretation. Prefer to follow Wisdom to its source by the unification of ideas.

We emanate from the Mother Sea of Love-Wisdom.

We descend into incarnation in the body.

We achieve perfection through successive lives.

This we do through reincarnation on the Wheel.

The Wheel of Birth and Death is our crucifixion.

We can ascend from the Wheel to Immortality.

We can do this because we are gods in the becoming.

The Christ in us is our means of redemption from the Wheel.

Know ye not that Christ in you is your hope of glory.

Ye are truly gods in the becoming.

We are moving towards the Spiritual Science of the Self. The Aquarian Age of 2,160 years in length is one-twelfth part of the total processional period of 25,920 years, sometimes called the Great or Platonic Year. Precession is the apparent movement of the Sun through the zodiac caused by the nutation of the poles of the Earth as affected by the gravitational pulls of the Moon and the Sun.

Each Age gives rise to a major religion. This does not mean that Christianity will be supplanted. But it certainly must be reinterpreted. The original method of exegesis or exposition in Alexandria two thousand years ago was by symbol and allegory. This form of exposition must return.

We are not dealing with a historical Christ because this is too restrictive a concept. Christ is Eternal and Cosmic. Christ is in all people, Christian or not. This is a fact of exoteric psychology because "Christ" is a specific term for the Intuitional Consciousness of the Higher Self. Christ is a reality, or conscious state, within each one of us. He cannot be made finite by reference to a historical Jesus. We ourselves are eternal in Christ as fragments of His consciousness. Yoga is our conscious evidential experience of Religion as a Science.

The scientist has erred in thinking that religion is a myth. It is based, on the superphysical energies that flow in the physical body. Specifically these are Kundalini (the serpent-fire,) Ida, Pingala and Prana. The Christian symbols for these are extensively treated in Part X of this Book - "The Yoga of Christ".

Transpersonal psychology reaches beyond the persona or mask of the Personality. Psychology needs the language of symbolism to penetrate beyond the written signs into the nature of the Real. That which is noumenal exists in reality after the phenomena have been stripped entirely away. Then the Soul emerges in its lustrous splendour as a butterfly from its cocoon of the physical body. Know ye not that ye are gods?

Depth psychology deals with the symbols of the collective unconscious, the racial archetypes. These are in no way different from Plato's forms of the Real. Teilhard de Chardin writes of the progression of the Earth's consciousness from Alpha to its perfection as the noosphere in Omega. The Tibetan teachings: refer to the dew drop slipping into the shining sea. (Om mani padme hum.) This is the Great Sea of the Virgin Mary who bore innumerable Christs. You have this consciousness within you. You received it from the Great Mother, and to her you are destined to return at the conclusion of your earthly pilgrimage. The teaching of esoteric psychology can lead man to the spiritual temple not made with hands but reflected in our superphysical bodies, astral, etheric and mental.

Many young people today have left their own sect or religion because they see it as only one body amongst many, all seeming to differ as to points of doctrine. This is caused by the destructive analytical tendency of the lower mind. For a moment think of religion as being based on the physical body of man, whether he be Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu or atheist. The Physical body is truly the temple of the Holy Ghost. All religions are founded on the spiritual structure of the microcosm or man. Religion is a science, as described in numerous texts on yoga and alchemy. These teachings are in the Bible. It is imperative that religion be taught as a scientific discipline of the mind. This is gnosis - the application of Wisdom.

It is regrettable that the early Christians thought fit to suppress the teachings of the Alexandrian university which taught the gnosis of the superphysical planes and bodies. The Church fell into error when it abandoned the symbolic interpretation of the Bible, as found in the writings of Philo Judaeus, and treated cosmic truths as literal historical events. Christ is eternal. He existed before Christianity and will exist after Christianity has passed away. We are fragments of the body of the Cosmic Christ. We desperately need to know who we are and why we are here on Earth. The second coming of Christ is, for each of us, the birth of Christ-consciousness through meditation. This is the Yoga of Christ. He is the Cosmic Christ in all beings, Christian or not.

"I tell thee, that unless thou be born again, thou shalt not see the Kingdom of God." This rebirth is the awakening of Christ-consciousness in us. This is a synthetic consciousness which crosses the barriers of false divisions between subjects or creeds. There is only One Religion and there is only one basis for that Religion, namely, the human body, the Temple of the Holy Ghost.

The mystic Weigelius (A.D. 1650) taught that we could only understand Christ's teachings by enacting his life in an interior fashion. We must learn to bring down to our lower mind these abstract symbolic truths of Religion.

The universals are the products of abstract thought. We as microcosms must reflect these truths in our own little universe based on the physical body. If we interpret these truths too literally they become dogmas and fetters to our minds. Therefore, we must develop our intuition and meditate on the truths of religion which are beyond books.

The descent of the Holy Spirit is, in one sense, the interior illumination of the mind once it has become concentrated on an idea. The mind can penetrate beyond the phenomena or rites connected with the Idea, so as to reach its heart or noumenon. The Soul is a mediator between Spirit (the Monad) and Matter (the physical plane.) Light enters the mind when it is fixed on the Light source - the Sea of Divine Wisdom. Christ-consciousness is born in human minds through the process of evolution. This process is hastened by meditation.

The Unifying Power of Christ The Higher Self

"God and Man are one in Christ."

This statement from the Creed of Athanasius means that the Monad (God) and the Lower Self (Man) are psychologically united through the Higher Self (Christ-consciousness.) The cosmogeny given herein is based on the Gnosis or Wisdom which relates to our spiritual structure. This is, and always has been, a science, dealing with the energies and vehicles of the Soul, whether in the physical body or out of it.

The fundamentalistic and literal interpretation of the Bible must give way to the symbolic and allegorical treatment of apparently historical events or names. The truths of the Bible are eternal. We have made the error of assuming that the events described are related to the past, some two thousand-years ago. The Second Coming of Christ is in us at any time. It signifies the uniting of the consciousness of the Lower Self with the Higher Self, the Sun with the Moon.

We must reformulate the exegesis or presentation of Christian teachings in terms of occult anatomy and of the non-physical planes, of reincarnation and the perfecting of the qualities of the Soul. That which is ancient (the Ageless Wisdom) must be reinterpreted anew. The Mystery of Christ lies not in history but is enshrined within the human heart of every human being from birth.

Christ in you is your hope of glory.