Why are Night-Cycles built into history, with their suffering, their fear, anguish, angst, death, emptying and downsizing? Because Night-Cycles are periods of initiation, in which the Soul meets Ghttps://econintersect.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/maya5.pngod face-to-face. This is why religion in humans never dies – because each Night, each thirty-six years, death visits the Earth and each human soul gets to (is forced to) look upon God’s hidden majesty once again.
Day-Cycles are about the evolution of the world, the physical, objective, material world. Night-Cycles are about the evolution of God, the evolution of the inner world – at least, about the evolution of human understanding of God.
Humans are the Middle Kingdom, the Soul-Aspect, of the Solar System. They must evolve both sides, Heaven and Earth, Religion and Science, the Mercy Seat (Jesus/Michael and the Judgment Seat (Michael/Jesus).
This discussion began as an investigation of the Mayan Long Count calendar has become something else. We did not find a perfect fit with this Long Count mathematics; we did, however, find a perfect fit with our concepts of Day-Cycle manifestation of the Father-Energy of the rational Patriarchy, which the Mayan Long Count Calendar is suggesting will end a month from today, being replaced by our Night-Cycle Mother-Energy (Mem-Energy) – Water replacing Fire as the primary element or energy-directed perception – of the so-called non-rational imagination and intuition generated by Earth- or Nature-Wisdom.
I am suggesting some agreement with this, suspecting 2001 to have been the apex of ‘rational development’ – and material excess – in this round of human manifestation – with the understanding that the compulsion toward empire and globalism will weaken now and recede and eventually be dissolved by the waters of a lunar decentralization and dismemberment of the White Beast (Moby Dick?) which the Wall Street Behemoth has come to represent.
The struggle between the principle of amalgamation on the Earth into a common identity, the centrifugal force of will that attempts to organize civilization under one roof and under one aspect (as Rome did), and the principle of decentralized dismantled cells (yes, the centripetal force is a death process) into smaller and smaller units has not been won or lost. But December 2012 represents the turning point away from Rome, and toward the Lunar Dark Night of Rest – which, of course, will be filled with horror, hunger, fear, and initiation into the mystical nature of God again.
Nothing we can do about this. The Dark-Cycle is good and bad; the Night-Cycle is good and bad. We can’t avoid the Night-Cycle by merely refusing to see it. Someone should tell Ben Bernanke and his friends in Europe, Japan, English and China this. The descent is the law. It is not final, terminal, irreversible. But it must have its day. Deflation must do its job also, as the Winter does its job in Nature – destroying debt, leveling the playing field again, ridding the Earth of inferior creations; preparing the Earth for the next season of planting and growth.
This Night-Cycle Tribal Renaissance scenario suggests Artists will be more valued in the future than Engineers, Poets more valued in the future than Scientists, Philosophers more valued in the future than Businessmen. Marsilio Ficino (echoing Plato) writes that (this is my interpretation to a large extent) Night-Cycles are a kind of Necessary Madness (similar to dreaming) that manifests the archetypal personas of Mad Lover, Mad Poet, Mad Prophet and Mad Priest.
The Romantic Era of Autumn or Dusk is the advent of the Mad Lover and Mad Poet (embodied in the life-imagery of Lord Byron, Goethe, Beethoven and William Blake, to name a few). The deeper part of the Wintery Night-Cycle leads to the manifestation of the Mad Prophet – Blake is a bridge between the Mad Poet and the Mad Prophet – all poets worth their salt are also prophets – and Mad Priest.
Tribal cultures admired shaman, witchdoctors, poets and dream-chasers much more than warriors or hunters – for they understood that the Mad Prophets were the mind of the world and the hunters and warriors were, in fact, the body that was being directed by the hidden or even physically-weak mind of the prophets.
In the 1960’s generation in America, business-majors whose ambition was to become rich merchants were considered inferior spiritually; no one joined fraternities or sororities except those who were spiritually and morally bankrupt, for the generation understood that the Classical (form-worship, money-worship) urges were untrue in a spiritual sense.
The humanities in American university were thriving, and intellectual and spiritual animation and growth was in the humanities, truly not in the sciences or in business, not in the practical arts.
The 60’s generation deified artists, mystics, poets, philosophers.
I bring this up because this is what the Autumn experience (the Romantic Nature of Dusk) is about. Jesus Christ was admired because of his spiritual message to turn away from the world, to allow the world – the Roman Empire – to degenerate of its own power, because this world was false and corrupt, and becoming weak, like rotten fruit on a tree – this was clearly the spiritual war (passive fire) against the White Dragon of Colonialism, Capitalism, Money and False Ambition – the world of appearances – the desire to look good ‘in the eyes of the world’ instead of the desire to look good ‘to the eyes of God’.
We looked somewhat hurriedly at the Mayan Long Count, then at the Western ‘longer count’ based on the Precession of the Equinoxes – how it fit quite nicely with my own conception of history’s dual manifestation in 36-year (and perhaps 72-year) cycles, drawing America into this discussion, as well as Rome and Jesus Christ.