Qualities of Time, Volume I

THE QUALITIES OF TIME Contributions Towards a Modern Understanding of how the Cosmos Works in Man Some Results of Objective Self-Observation Paul Platt Copyright © 1986 by Paul Platt (#169-652) All rights are reserved. Please do not photocopy without the author's permission Paul Platt Star Cross Press PO Box 1029 110 Root Lane Sheffield, Ma. 01257 Grateful Acknowledgements To Trix Keller who helped me get started again after my fire through offering me aid each month in exchange for my sharing with her letters devoted to recounting the fruits of some of my research. The monthly letters quickly developed into eight or nine manuscripts. To Georgia Ray, who took me into her home for two weeks while I used the National Rudolf Steiner Library to write the letters to Mrs. Keller, and still has me there three years later. To Fred Paddock, the librarian at the Rudolf Steiner Library, who was good enough to move with the library to Harlemville shortly before I came to Mrs. Ray's. Without Fred and the library I would not have found Mrs. Ray. Without Mrs. Keller I would not have needed to use the library to write the letters. To Susan Riley who saw the first manuscript (of letters to Mrs. Keller); thought they were of some value and helped me to come into contact with Chris Bamford. To Chris Bamford and Susan Riley who weekly over months worked with me editorially. To Jeanne Bergen and Caryl Johnston and Hugh Ractliffe for their editorial contributions. To Brenda Ray and Jeff Waymen for editorial suggestions. To Hugh Ractliffe for his suggestion of the title. To Kevin Stein for the electric typewriter and the books of wisdomIiterature. To Anna Lups, M.D., for her generous offer of use of her photocopy machine and for her warm encouragement and confidence in this work. To Daniel Coppersmith for his work on the cover. Finally, I would like to say that throughout the entire fifteen months that I have been working on this book: from its very beginnings to the time of its going to the printer, through typing, editing, drawing the charts, going over its thoughts, exploring directly their basis, enduring all the labor pains of its birth, Susan Riley has faithfully lent me her aid. Without it whatever good I would like to think may come from this work would have lived only as an unfulfilled promise. ERRATA Changes due to revision have led to the necessity of adding a blank side after pages 224A and 226A. This does not in any way affect the progression of the text but was done solely for the sake of maintaining the original page numbering. TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD INTRODUCTION 7 CHAPTER 1: The Twelve Archetypal Regions and the Virtues and Vices (Excess and Lack) .....................................25 CHAPTER I]: Contemplations on the Twelve Archetypal Regions in Man and in the Universe ..........................57 Aries .........................................................................59 Taurus .......................................................................70 Gemini ......................................................................78 Cancer .......................................................................88 Leo ...........................................................................97 Virgo .......................................................................106 Libra ........................................................................118 Scorpio ....................................................................128 Sagittarius ................................................................146 Capricorn .................................................................155 Aquarius ..................................................................169 Pisces .......................................................................181 CHAP. Ill: The Superphysical Forces of the Sun, Human Morality and Daily Life ...............................194 CHAP. IV: The Superphysical Forces of the Moon, Human Morality -and Daily Life ................... ...........222 CHAP. V: The Superphysical Forces of the Earth, human Morality and Daily Life .................................230 CHAP. V]: Concluding Observations to Part 1 ............................253 CHAP. VII: Introduction to Part ll: Guide to Self- Observation ....................................... 256 Practical Guide ......................................................... 266 CHAP. VIII: Concluding Thoughts ............................................... 415 Appendices .............................................................. 417 Bibliography ..........................................-------- ......435 Index ........................................................................437 TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Cover: Mosaic from Baptistry in Ravenna (4th C.) 2. Virtues and Vices (Excess and Lack) ................................................... 29 3. Picture of Human Form and Centers of Focalization 30 4. Pictures of Individual Archetypes, Glyphs in Form and Centers of Focalization ............................................................ 31-35 5. The Twelve Archetypal Regions and Their Centers of Focalization in the Human Form ..................................................... 36 6. The Twelve Archetypal Regions and the Formative Currents of the Body ........................................................................... 37 7. Focalization of the Twelve Archetypal Regions and their Relation to the Virtues and Directions of Vice 38 8. The Twelve Archetypal Regions, the Formative Currents and the Virtues and Vices .................................................................... 39 9. The Twelve World Pictures and Their Centers of Focalization ............ 40 10. The Twelve World Pictures and the Formative Currents ...................... 41 11. Pictures of the Individual Archetypes: Centers, Senses, Virtues, Weaknesses, World Views ................................................ 42-52 12. Statue of John the Baptist from Chartres Cathedral.* ........................... 58 13. Head of Aphrodite, Greek, 4th C. B.C . ............................................... 69 14. Winged "Victory" of Samothrace ........................................................ 77 15. "Pieta" by Michelangelo ...................................................................... 87 16. Resurrection Picture, Isenheim Altarpiece, Grunewald ........................................................................................... 96 17. Sistine Madonna, Raphael ..................................................................105 18. The Marriage of the Virgin, Raphael ..................................................117 19. The Knight, Rembrandt ......................................................................127 20. The Polish Rider, Rembrandt ..............................................................145 21. Statue of Moses, Michelangelo ...........................................................154 22. Statue of David, Michelangelo ............................................................168 23. Waves Breaking on a Lee Shore, JMW Turner ...................................180 24. Table of Tropical Sun Sign Regions ............................................200,201 25. The Yearly Motion of the Sun Through the Thirty-Six Regions of the Tropical Zodiac in Relation to the Cosmic Forces of Virtue and Vice (Excess and Lack) ..........................................203,204 26. Table of Sidereal Sun Regions ............................................................210 27. The Sun's Motion Through the Decanate Divisions of the Tropical Zodiac (Inner Circle) and Through the Trisected Divisions of the Sidereal Zodiac (Outer Circle) in Relation to the Signs, Degrees of the Signs, and Dates Through the Year ..................................................................212 28. The Yearly Motion of the Sun Through the Thirty-six Regions of the Sidereal Zodiac in Relation to the Cosmic Forces of Virtue and Vice (Excess and Lack) ..............................................215,216 29. Table for the distinct Tropical-Sidereal Solar Regions through which the Sun moves during the Course of a Year ............................................................................218-20 30. The Monthly Motion of the Moon in Relation to the Thirty-six Sidereal Divisions ..............................................................224 31. The Monthly Motion of the Moon through the Thirty-six Regions of the Sidereal Zodiac (Tropical degrees) in relation to the Cosmic Forces of Virtue and Vice (Excess and Lack) ..................................... 226 32. Table for the Motion of the Earth Through the Thirty-six Decanate Regions of the Tropical Zodiac ........................................... 234 33. Dates for the Movement of the Sun in Relation to the Tropical Earth position moving opposite .......................................................... 235 34. Table for the Motion of the Earth Through the Thirty-six Divisions of the Sidereal Zodiac ........................................................ 237 35. Dates for the Movement of the Sun in Relation to the Sidereal Earth Position moving opposite .......................................................... 238 36. The Earth's Motion Through the Decanate Divisions of the Tropical Zodiac (Inner Circle) and Through the Trisected Divisions of the Sidereal Zodiac (Outer Circle) ill Relation to the Dates, the Signs (Inner Circle-Tropical Zodiac) and the Constellation Regions (Outer Circle-Tropical degrees opposite) .............................

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