The Sun Symbol and the Torch of Life

All myths, legend and science concur, the Sun is central to all life in our system of worlds. Indeed we are made of stardust! Our Star was probably born as a result of a super nova shockwave passing through a nebula that once spanned our local galactic neighbourhood. During its formation the Sun drew most matter in our system in to itself. All but 0.2% of the matter left over formed the planets. At 99.8% of the mass in our solar system, our star is truly massive. The Sun was perceived by all our ancestors as eternally self resurrecting. As our world turns and day and night follow each other, always victorious over the powers of darkness. Reborn anew each morning in a blaze of glory that is blinding. This is not surprising as our star comprises several million billion tons of exploding hydrogen nuclei! It was not long before the Sun was recognised and worshiped as the Creator and All-Seeing-Eye. It is supreme in human experience and central to the foundation of all world religions. As soon as life developed self-awareness the Sun was recognised as Lord of all things. Almost all thought on the nature of Deity and Divinity have been compared to the Sun. The Persians called the Sun Mithra and prayed to it for protection, mercy, victory and healing. The Greeks and Romans, the Maya, Egyptians and Peruvians, the Aboriginals of Australia and the Norse of Teutonic Europe all recognised the Sun God as Supreme. All our ancestors watched as the Sun sacrificed itself, every day, every year to darkness and then renew itself in a blaze of fertility come spring and every new morning; irrepressible, eternal, awesome and radiant. Ever present and powerful beyond all

forms of measure or conceptualisation. The Sun is Life; more, it is the heart of our collective spirit and its intelligence is our own. The Sun was one of the first facets of life to be symbolised. To our ancestors this symbolisation was an act of magic. The magic of writing is taken for granted in our modern age. However, magic it remains. Bonded to the symbol, every time it is drawn, are the thoughts and beliefs of all beings who have venerated the Sun as holy and all powerful. Every time a symbol is seen it keys the viewer into the morphogenetic field of its idea. Symbols are a harness of collective mind. As such the symbol of the Sun evokes its majesty and ever present celestial intelligence, unfathomable to all but the most enlightened sages.

Solar Worship or Heliolatry is the root of most world religions; at least the realisation that the Sun rules all life on our world generated profound respect for it. It must be said though that although the general populace revered and worshiped the Sun as an embodiment of Deity the Schools of Initiation into Spiritual reality knew and taught that the Sun Symbol represented the Inner Sun, the Infinite Sun.

Images of the Buddha are often shown with the

rays of enlightenment or a solar disk emanating from his head (above right). Christian art (St. Andrew right) often shows the Saints with radiant halos which are symbolic of solar mind or enlightenment. The image above shows an impression of rock art found at High Altai in Central Asia. The Sun Symbol is seen on its bottom right. These carvings are around 7000 years old.

Today, the Sun still rules our lives. Consider its plasmic wind which moves, blown in great arks spanning the solar system (Heleospheric Current Sheet, Below), at around 400kps. It is this which causes the Aurora around the magnetic poles of our world. Truly there is nothing here but the Sun’s presence and a few specks of dust called planets held in orbit by its vast gravitational & magnet field.

Some levels of thought associated with the Sun Symbol are deeply profound. The Dot is the equal to the Word or Original Thought that caused all things to be, the meditation of the ineffable mind of the First Cause. It represents the Initiator of Genesis as the Architect of form, the Primal Source of All Things and No-Things, the Intrinsic Awareness of Self-Existing Divinity.

The circle around the central Dot enfolds all things, it represents the Ultimate Sphere (the Womb of the All-Mother who nurtures all time-space) within which all things come to be and pass from sight. It can also be understood is as the ring pass not of the sacred space, the circumference of our world and the outer rim of our galactic disk (Ouroborus). The Sun Symbol is found at the centre of the Torch of Life mandala. The Torch of Life is a Solar Symbol. Firstly it bears the Symbol of the Sun at its centre.

Secondly the main runic structure takes the form of the sun wheel symbol also knows as the Heart of Buddha or the Swastika. Lastly its dimensions, Fibonacci ratios of the number 27.05515486, are symbolic of one day from the Sun’s perspective in Earth days. That is the mean number of Earth days for the Sun surface to swirl round on its magnetic axis once at thirty degrees north and south of its equator. The diameter of the Galdrastafr represents one Solar day.

The Torch of Life is 3 x a Sun Symbol! By the Word, By the Heart and By its Measure.

Ormungandr Melchizedek www.torch-of-life.com