All things ebb and flow, the cycles of the moon and Sun, the ocean tides, the rhythms of all our body functions. There is ebb and flow in the emergence and decline of entire worlds. We can learn about the creation of a world from the patterns of nature in a single day. The wisdom of the divine Mother Nature contains all the secret teachings of the universe.
Our world developed through cosmic days and nights known in Sanskrit as manvantaras and pralayas. In ancient previous cosmic days the Earth existed in the superior, rarified dimensions. In ancient previous cosmic nights the Earth was only a seed in the mind of God, and was reborn, recapitulated into the next level of density of creation.
In the Lunar period, the epoch before this Terrestrial Period, matter existed only in the etheric realm, but the great plan of creation was always toward the physical. In his book Revolution of Beelzebub, Samael Aun Weor notes something very interesting about this time.
On the altars the pentagrams were pointed downward, indicating the spiritual direction, the will of God, was directed toward matter.
The leaves of trees drooped downward like umbrellas, as written in Nature’s living scripture, this process of development was necessary.
“The flora and fauna of that time were very different from our own. Here we clairvoyantly see plant-minerals—that is to say, semi-plants, semi-minerals, semi-animal plants, etc. In other words, the three kingdoms of Nature were not completely defined as in the present time, since in that epoch one kingdom was integrated with the other.
Among the trees there was the marked tendency for the branches and leaves to make a concave shape, which caused them to resemble gigantic umbrellas. Through all existent things, this marked tendency of inclining downwards was Nature’s living scripture foreseen everywhere. Its process downwards was towards the condensation of our present physical Earth. Nature is a living scripture everywhere; therefore, its designs are written based on this living scripture.”
-Samael Aun Weor, “The Lunar Period”, Revolution of Beelzebub
Now that the Earth is completely materialized, and in fact, fallen, there is a great spiritual urgency to return to the rarified realms. The pentagram on the altars must point upright in order to indicate a path in alignment with God. The time of materialization is over, continuing on that path leads to the abyss.
The living scripture of nature teaches the path to the light, as trees reach their leaves and branches toward the Sun.
“On the other hand, we see in our present epoch, in this twentieth century, a marked tendency of the human being to build very high buildings and airplanes, each time more and more rapidly, etc.
The branches of our contemporary trees do not want to incline downwards, instead they want to elevate themselves upwards to the sun. This is because our Earth has already reached its maximum material condensation, and now it yearns to elevate itself anew, to “Etherealize” itself again… Really, the ether is inundating the air and Etherealizing the Earth successively, more and more. Thus, at the end of the great Aryan Root Race, the ether will be totally visible in the air. Then, all the creatures who live in the ether will share all of their activities with the human being.”
-Samael Aun Weor, “The Lunar Period”, Revolution of Beelzebub