Mahabharat war

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The article below states that kali yuga is 1200 years ... And so we are

now in dwarpar yuga.

I believe the flaw in the argument lies in the fact that the argument

leads to dating of the

Mahabharat war to roughly 600-700BC since it occurred roughly 3000BC

according to the astronomical

Alignment as described in the texts which reoccur every 5000 years. Am I

correct, or is the article

Correct?

 

Thanks

 

Krishna

 

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"Precession of the Equinoxes"

 

 

 

The equinoctial times are about March 21 and September 22 of each year,

when day and night are equal in length all over the earth. This is due

to the fact that only on those two days does the earth's axis come to an

exact right angle (90°) with an imaginary line running from the center

of the Sun to the center of the earth (the equator). The second of time

when this right angle is exactly complete, and the Sun is directly in

line with the earth's equator, the Sun is considered to have reached the

equinoctial points of Aries O° (the Vernal Equinox, or spring in the

northern hemisphere, about March 21) and Libra O° (the Autumnal Equinox,

of fall, in the northern hemisphere, about September 22). The ecliptic,

or Sun's annual apparent path around the earth, is measured off,

starting with the equinoctial point of Aries O°, into 360°, 12 signs of

30° each, called the Zodiac of the Signs. This Zodiac, or imaginary belt

in the heavens, with the ecliptic as its middle line, is considered to

be 16° wide, in order to include the latitude, north and south of the

sun's path, of all those planets belonging to our particular solar

system. The Sun completes its circuit of this Zodiac of 360° in about

365-1/4 days, our solar year.

 

The Equinoxes having been explained, we shall now consider the meaning

of their precession. Modern astronomers have classified every fixed star

in the heavens into groups called Constellations. Those groups, however,

which lie close to the plane of the ecliptic, were arranged into

Constellations in very ancient times, and were considered to form the

belt of the natural and actual Zodiac, through which the Sun appeared to

travel in its yearly pilgrimage around our earth. This was the Zodiac of

the Constellations, and the ancients divided it into 360° or 12 signs of

30° each.

 

What is the difference between the Zodiac of the Constellations and the

Zodiac of the Signs? There is no difference in their division into signs

and degrees, or in the astrological influences ascribed to their various

parts, but there is, at present, a difference in space between them.

There would be no necessity for dual Zodiacs if the Sun, each year,

reached its equinoctial point of Aries O° at exactly the same point of

space, measured by reference to some fixed star of the Constellations.

However, it has been mathematically determined by astronomers that each

year at the moment when the Sun reaches its equinoctial point of Aries

O° and is in exact line with the earth's equator, the position of the

earth in reference to some determinant fixed star is some 50" of space

father west than the earth was at the same equinoctial moment of the

previous year.

 

The position of any fixed star near the ecliptic and near the border

line of the Constellation Aries could be chosen to be the determinant,

or standard reference point, in order to observe this yearly precession

of the Vernal Equinoctial Point among the fixed stars. The Hindu

astronomers selected Revati as the determinant fixed star, and

considered this star as marking Aries O° of the constellations. Each

year the equinoctial point of Aries O° of the signs will be found to

have precessed some 50" of space farther west of Revati than it was the

previous year. The meaning of the term, "Precession of the Equinoxes,"

is now clear. It refers to the slight annual increase in distance of the

equinoctial points from a standard fixed star, which is considered as

Aries O° in the Zodiac of the Constellations, while the Vernal Equinox

is considered as Aries O° in the Zodiac of the Signs.

 

The cause of precession has not been finally established by modern

astronomers, some claiming it is due to a slow change in direction of

the earth's axis, while others believe they have mathematical proof that

the phenomenon is caused by the motion of the Sun in space along its own

orbit, whereby all the bodies of our solar system are being brought

nearer to a Grand Central Sun, around which our own Sun and every other

Sun (fixed star) in the universe is revolving.

 

All ancient nations considered Alcyone, brightest star of the Pleiades,

to be this Grand Central Sun. To the Babylonians it was Temennu, "The

Foundation Stone." The Arabs had two names for it—Kimah, the "Immortal

Seal or Type," and Al Wasat, "The Central One." It was Amba, "The

Mother" of the Hindus, and its present name of Alcyone was derived from

a Greek word signifying Peace. It is so far distant from us at present

as to appear to be a star of only the third magnitude. There is a

significant passage in the Bible (Job 38:4-31) about the Constellation

containing Alcyone, where the Lord asked Job: "Where wast thou when I

laid the foundations of the earth? Canst thou bind the sweet influences

of Pleiades?"

 

The great sages of ancient India, whose knowledge of astronomy has not

been surpassed by any modern nation, claimed that by the phenomenon of

precession the equinoctial points of our Sun would take 24,000 years to

complete one circuit around the Zodiac of the Constellations. Modern

science tells us that the present rate of precession is 50.1" yearly, or

1°0" in 72 years. At that rate, it would take, not 24,000, but 25,920

years for the Vernal Equinox to make one whole circle of the Zodiac of

the Constellations and return to any given starting point (fixed star).

However, there is no proof that the present rate of precession, or 50.1"

yearly, is constant, and the ancients claimed that at certain stages of

the cycle the rate of precession is slightly more rapid than at other

stages. This theory receives proof from the calculations of the great

astronomer, Hipparchus (146 years BC), who gave the rate of precession

at the time of his observations as 50-2/3", or a rate somewhat faster

than at present. We have, therefore, no scientific reason to deny that

the ancient Hindu astronomers were correct in giving 24,000 years as the

time which would elapse between one coincidence of the Vernal Equinox

with any fixed star and its next exact coincidence with the same star.

 

This precessional cycle of 24,000 years is profoundly related to the

Four Ages or Yugas into which the ancient rishis (wise men) of India

divided each cyclic period. These Ages, known to the Greeks and others

as the Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Iron Ages, are as follows:

 

Satya Yuga—4800 years

 

Treta Yuga—3600 years

 

Dwapara Yuga—2400 years

 

Kali Yuga—1200 years

 

Total, 12,000 years

 

It will be seen that two of these cycles of 12,000 equal one complete

Precession of the Equinoxes, or 24,000 years, and on this parallel the

writer proposes to prove the correct present cyclic Age of the World,

and to disprove the current theory that we are still in the dark Iron

Age of Kali.

 

 

 

DIAGRAM (I). is very simple, but must be carefully studied in connection

with the text.

 

At an important date in Hindu chronology, which would correspond to the

year 3102 BC, the records of Hindu astronomers showed that the last

coincidence of the two Zodiacs had occurred 20,400 years previous. As

present-day astronomers know that a later coincidence of the two Zodiacs

took place in 498 AD, it will be seen that it required exactly 24,000

years (20,400 + 3,102 + 498 = 24,000), just as the ancients had claimed,

for an Equinoctial Precessional Cycle to be completed.

 

The rishis of old divided the Sidereal Year of 24,000 years,

corresponding to the "Great Year" of Plato, into two parts of 12,000

years, each of which embraced a Great Daiba Yuga or Electric Cycle of

the Four Ages in the life of mankind and the world generally. One was

the Daiba Yuga of the Ascending Arc, and the other of the Descending

Arc. The ancients taught that whenever the Sun, in the course of its own

revolution, approached most closely to the Grand Central Sun,

Bishnunavi, the seat of Brahma, (this point is reached whenever the

Autumnal Equinox, or Libra O° of the Signs, coincides with the Revati or

Aries O° of the Constellations) the Golden Age of the Descending Arc

would begin for mankind.

 

The Autumnal Equinox was last on Libra O° in the year 11502 BC, and the

Golden Age of the world (Krita or Satya Yuga) endured from that year

until 6702 BC, or a period of 4,800 years. The ancient calculations tell

us that each of the Four Yugas is composed of a main period lasting

ten-twelfths of the entire duration of the Age, and of two Sandhis,

(mutation or transition periods) one before and one after the main Yuga,

each measuring one-twelfth of the total time allowed. Thus, Satya Yuga

was assigned a total duration of 4,800 years, consisting of a main

period of 4,000 years, which is preceded and followed by Sandhis of 400

years each.

 

The Golden Age of a cycle is the one in which Manu, the great Hindu

sage, tells us neither sin nor suffering are common. "Men live four

centuries." The ideal length of man's life is limited by the number of

years in the Sandhi period of the Age in which he is born.

 

Treta Yuga, or the Silver Age of mankind, started in 6702 BC and

continued for 3,600 years, until 3102 BC The rule is given in the

ancient calculations that, to obtain the length of each of the Yugas

after Satya Yuga, the figure one should be deducted from both the number

of thousands and of hundreds indicating the duration of each preceding

Age and its Sandhis. Hence, the main period of Treta Yuga consists of

3,000 years (one thousand less than that of Satya Yuga), and its two

Sandhis are each 300 years long (one hundred less than those of the

Golden Age); hence, the total of 3,600 years. During this second Age,

men lived for 300 years, and were highly enlightened and spiritually -

awakened, though not to such an advanced degree as was reached in the

Golden Age.

 

The year 3102 BC, saw the commencement of the Dwapara Yuga of the

Descending Arc, the Bronze Age of the ancient world. It lasted until 702

BC, a period of 2,400 years, which was divided into a main Yuga of 2,000

years, and two transition periods of 200 years each. The traditional

account is that the ideal man of that time lived for 200 years. He

developed the great ancient civilizations, more concrete and less

spiritual than those of the Silver and Golden Ages, but still superior

to any civilization of a later growth, all of which come within the

limits of the historical epochs of mankind.

 

The year 702 BC saw the start of Kali Yuga, the last of the Four Ages of

Daiba Yuga of the Descending Arc. This Iron Age lasted until 498 AD, or

a period of 1,200 years, divided into 1,000 years for the main period of

Kali Yuga, and two Sandhis of 100 years each. Most of the ancient world

civilizations and empires deteriorated and crumbled away during this

period, and by 498 AD the creative spirit of mankind was at its lowest

ebb. Men did not live beyond a span of 100 years.

 

This date, 498 AD, marks the completion of the electric cycle of 12,000

years. Daiba Yuga of the Descending Arc, which is attended by the

precession of the Autumnal Equinox from Aires 0° to Libra 0° of the

Constellations. The Sun, with its solar system, including our own Earth,

has traveled, in this period of 12,000 years, from a point in its orbit

nearest to the Grand Central Sun to a point farthest away from that seat

of universal magnetism, and the history of the world has faithfully

portrayed this gradual descent from light to darkness.

 

H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," referring to the condition of

mankind about the beginning of the sixth century, AD (two years after

the close of Kali Yoga of the Descending Arc in 498) says:

 

"It is not perhaps true to say that the world became miserable in these

'dark ages' to which we have now come; much nearer the truth is to say

that the world collapsed into a sea of misery that was already there.

Our histories of these times are very imperfect; there were few places

where men could write, and little encouragement to write at all....But

we know enough to tell that this age was an age not merely of war and

robbery, but of famine and pestilence.... To many in those dark days it

seemed that all learning and all that made life seemly and desirable was

perishing."

 

The year 498 AD, which saw the Autumnal Equinox on Aries 0°, and the Sun

at the nadir of its own orbital path, therefore marks the beginning of

the Daiba Yuga of the Ascending Arc, or 12,000 years of gradual progress

and improvement, wherein our solar system slowly approaches ever nearer

to the Grand Central Sun. This approach will culminate in the year 12498

AD, when the Autumnal Equinox will reach the fixed star Revati in Aries

0°, and the highest point of our next Golden Age will be attained.

Exactly 24,000 years will have elapsed since the previous coincidence,

in 11502 BC of Libra 0 of the Signs with Aries 0 of the Constellations,

and everything in our universe will be in a state of balance and

harmony. The year 12498 AD will begin a new cycle, a new Daiba Yuga of

the Descending Arc, lasting 12,000 years, and thus mankind will descend

through a new series of the Four Ages marked out on the Zodiacal Clock

of Destiny.

 

"Such is the great influence of time which governs the universe," writes

Swami Sri Yukteswarji. "No man can overcome this influence except he,

who, blessed with pure love, the heavenly gift of Nature, becomes Divine

and, being baptized in the holy stream Pranava (Aum + the sacred

vibration), comprehends the kingdom of God."

 

Returning to a consideration of the last Daiba Yuga of the Ascending

Arc, which began in 498 AD, we find man starting a new Kali Yuga, from

which he did not emerge until its period of 1,200 years had passed, in

1698 AD Reference to Diagram (I) will make it clear that this new Kali

Yuga, or Iron (sometimes call Earthen) Age differs from the preceding

Kali Yuga of another electric cycle (702 B.C. to 498 AD) as the latter

was the last Age of Daiba Yuga of the Descending Arc, whereas the Kali

Yuga of 498 AD to 1698 AD is the first age of Daiba Yuga of the

Ascending Arc, which is distinguished by a general upward, not downward,

trend in history. The seeds sown in the Iron Age of our own cycle are to

bear fruit in this our present Dwapara Age.

 

The Age of Bronze, or Dwapara Yuga, begun in 1698 AD, will last for

2,400 years, ending in 4098 AD, 2,166 years hence. The present year of

l932 AD is thus the year 234 of the Dwapara, or Bronze Age, of the

Ascending Arc. At the end of this Age, which is the second of the four

ascending Ages1 (Dwapara Yuga of the Descending Arc is the Third Age.)

the intellectual and spiritual power of the average man will be twice as

great as that of the ordinary man of 498 AD at the beginning of our

present 12,000-year cycle, but will be only half as great as the power

to be attained by men at the highest peak, 12498 AD of the Golden Age of

our Daiba Yuga. In other words, the end of our Dwapara Yuga will mark

the completion of two of the four ages, and the Divine powers inherent

in man will be developed to half their true extent.

 

The 234th year of Dwapara Yuga corresponds to the present equinoctial

positions of Virgo-Pisces 11 degrees. The Vernal Equinox is now falling

each spring (in the Northern Hemisphere) among the fixed stars in Pisces

11° of the Constellations, and the Autumnal Equinox is falling among the

fixed stars in Virgo 11°. For that reason, mankind is not only in

Dwapara Yuga of the cycle of the Four Ages, but is also under the

influence of the Virgo-Pisces period of the Cycle of the Constellations.

 

The signs that lie opposite in the zodiac interact on each other,

intermingling their influences to such an extent that it is difficult to

separate one form the other. Western astrologers attach most importance

to the position of the Vernal Equinox among the constellations, and

hence call the present Era the "Piscean Age," but the ancients

considered the astrological import of the Autumnal Equinox to be the

more significant. We cannot doubt the accuracy of the earlier teachings

when we see (Diagram I) that the Vernal Equinox, now falling in Pisces

would signify the world as being in the Golden Age, if we grant the

spring point primary astrological consequence. None of us are likely to

maintain that the present, or the immediate past, history of the world

displays the state of near-perfection that belongs to a Golden Age.

 

On the other hand, the position of the Autumnal Equinox, falling now in

Virgo of the Constellations, and in Dwapara Era, does accurately point

out the state of present world development, which has lately emerged (in

1698 AD) from the historic "Dark Ages" of Kali Yuga into the greater

freedom, intellectual light, and scientific advancement of the Bronze

Era. For this reason, we must allow first consideration to the

astrological meaning in world-history of the position of the Autumnal,

rather than the Vernal, Equinox. Therefore, properly speaking, we are

now in the "Age of Virgo," not primarily of Pisces, although Pisces has

a very important secondary significance, being indissolubly linked in

character and effect with its opposite sign.

 

As the equinoxes, at the present stage of their cycle, take 72 years to

pass backward through the 60 minutes of space that constitute one degree

of the natural or fixed-star Zodiac, and as they are now falling on

Virgo-Pisces 11 degrees, it will need about 700 more years before they

will coincide with Leo-Aquarius 0°. The coming Leo-Aquarius Age, which

will last some 2,000 years, while the equinoxes pass through these

opposite signs, will include all the rest of the Dwapara Yuga and part

of the third Yuga, Treta, or the immensely enlightened Silver Age.

 

Next we will point out when and how the mistaken idea and calculation,

namely, that the world is still in Kali Yuga, crept into modern Hindu

almanacs and astrological and philosophical writings which deal with

such subjects as the "Ages" of the world.

 

Later we will show the fitting application of the term "Bronze Age" to

our modern era, and will cite history in demonstration of the sublime

correspondence of heavenly phenomena with mundane events.

 

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1Dwapara Yuga of the Descending Arc is the Third Age. See Diagram (1)

 

We have now dealt with the method used by the ancient Hindu sages to

arrive at the correct Age of the world in reference to an astronomical

24,000 year cycle, the Precession of the Equinoxes. Following this plan,

we have seen that the present year of 1932, AD, corresponds to the year

234 of Dwapara Yuga (Bronze Age) of the Ascending Arc. Such a system of

chronology commends itself to reason, linking the time-periods of the

world with the heavenly phenomena, which alone, by their impersonality,

can have an universal significance and application.

 

No such universality can be claimed for any other method of

chronological reckoning. All systems of national or religious

time-keeping have meaning only for a limited group of adherents, and

serve as stumbling-stones for historians, since these groups often leave

records dated, without explanation, by various chronological calendars,

such as civil and religious.

 

Thus, the year 1932, AD, of the Christian era, corresponds to the year

5693 of the Jewish era. the year 2592 of the Japanese era, the year 1351

of the Mohammedan era, and the year 2244 of the Grecian (Selecidae) era

in present-day usage among the Syrians. Further, of the many

chronological eras followed in modern times in various parts of the

world, some are reckoned by years based on solar returns, and others on

years based on 12 or 13 lunar returns. There is thus room for much

confusion among later students of history in their efforts to correctly

synchronize past events.

 

We must grant, therefore, that man can have no more accurate universal

measuring-stick for the passage of time than that afforded by the

position of the fixed stars in relation to the yearly equinoctial place

of the Sun.

 

Western astronomers, who have not as yet investigated the great

universal truths which lie hidden in the ancient division of the 24,000

year Equinoctial Cycle into two sets of four World ages, and who hence,

doubtless, would be unwilling to designate the present era as "Dwapara

Yuga," would nevertheless be forced to concede that no more practical

and accurate method of universal chronology could be adopted than one

based on the position of the equinoxes during their 24,000 year cycle.

 

Reckoning time in this way, we could say, with scientific accuracy, that

a new half-cycle (12,000 years) commenced in the year 498, AD, when the

equinoxes coincided with Aries 0° and Libra 0° of the Constellations,

and that, as 1,434 years have elapsed since that time, the present year

could well be designated in present-day usage all over the world as the

"year 1434 since the last coincidence of the two Zodiacs" (or, in more

astronomical language, "since the last coincidence of the Vernal Equinox

with the fixed star Revati.")

 

Such a computation would fit in perfectly with the Brahmanical division

of the Equinoctial Cycle into World Ages, since, after subtracting 1,200

years, length of the last Kali Yuga, from 1,434, we have a remainder of

234 years, which marks our present place in Dwapara Yuga.

 

This accurate method of measuring time was current in India for

thousands of years, up to about 700, BC At that time a colossal mistake

crept into the Hindu almanacs and has been blindly perpetrated ever

since. Reference to Diagram (I), will show that the year 702, BC, marked

the completion of Dwapara Yuga, and the beginning of Kali Yuga, of the

Descending Arc.

 

The Maharajah Judhisthir, who began to reign in India during the latter

years of the Dwapara era, voluntarily gave up his throne to his

grandson, Raja Parikshit, shortly before the start of Kali Yuga, and

retried with all the wise men of his court to a religious retreat in the

Himalaya Mountains. Thus, there were none left, at the grandson's court,

sufficiently versed in the ancient wisdom, to calculate the Ages

correctly.

 

So, when the last year of the 2,400 year period of Dwapara Yuga passed

away, and the first year of the 1,200 year Kali Yuga dark Age had

arrived, the latter was numbered as the year 2401 instead of year 1 of

Kali Yuga. In 498, AD, when the 1,200 year period of Kali Yuga of the

Descending Arc had been completed, and the first year of Kali Yuga of

the Ascending Arc began, the latter was designated, in the Hindu

almanacs, as the year 3601 instead of year 1 of Kali Yuga of the

Ascending Arc.

 

Solar Years Become "Divine" Years

 

However, as the wise men of that period were well aware, from conditions

in India and the world generally, that mankind was in Kali Yuga, the

dark Iron Age of Necessity, as described in the prophecies in the

Mahabharata, their sacred teachings, and as they also knew that,

according to these same scriptures, the age of Kali was fixed at 1,200

years only, they fancied, by way of reconciliation between the

scriptures and their current almanacs, that the 1,200 years of Kali were

not the ordinary solar year of our earth, but "Divine" years of the

gods, consisting of 12 Divine months of 30 Divine days. Each of these

Divine days was supposed to be equal in length to one of our solar

years.

 

Thus, the Sanskrit scholars of Kali Yuga, such a Kullu Bhatta, explained

away the discrepancies in their almanacs, saying that the 1,200 years

allotted by the ancients for the duration of one Kali Yuga were equal

(1,200 x 360) to 432,000 solar years of our earth, and that, in 498, AD,

3,500 years of this long Kali Yuga had passed away. Thus the mistaken

calculation gained firmer ground in Hindu chronology, and today the

almanacs used in India state that the present year is the 5,034th of

Kali Yuga, of which 426,966 years still remain.

 

By thus expanding the 1,200 year period into 432,000 solar years, the

Kali Yuga teachers entirely lost sight of the connection of the Yugas

with the 24,000 year Equinoctial Cycle, and the key to the correct

calculation of the World Ages was lost. A modest 24,000 year period is

well within the grasp both of the human mind and of historical annals

and prehistoric records, but who can hope to trace the characteristic

outlines of the two sets of Four Yugas in the affairs of mankind for a

period of 8,640,000 years (24,000 x 360)?

 

No such difficulty faces us if we seek the evidence of the various World

Ages in a 24,000 year cycle, and enough is known of the history of

mankind for the past 7,000 years (which, rightly, covers our historical

period) to enable us to clearly trace the distinctive influence on world

events of the various Yugas which have, either completely or partially,

run their course during that 7,000 year span.

 

The erroneous computations of the Four Ages, given out by the Kali Yuga

scholars when they discovered their chronology was not in keeping with

the rules laid down by the ancient rishis, are as follows:

 

Satya Yuga, 4,800 X 360 = 1,728,000

 

Treta Yuga, 3,600 X 360 = 1,296,000

 

Dwapara Yuga, 2,400 X 360 = 864,000

 

Kali Yuga, 1,200 X 360 = 432,000

 

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Total Mahayuga in Solar Years, 4,320,000

 

No justification exists in the Mahabharata, or in the teachings of Manu,

for this transformation of solar years into "Divine" years in reference

to the Four Ages of the Equinoctial Cycle, yet these mistaken expanded

figures have been accepted, without due investigation, not only by the

mathematicians who compile the almanacs in present-day India, but also

by writers of standard metaphysical and astrological textbooks. These

authors have erected, on this shaky mathematical foundation, elaborate

cosmological structures which will not stand the test of astronomical

verification.

 

The 12,000 year period, which loses its intrinsic significance when

turned into 432,000 years, was known to all ancient civilizations as the

half of an Equinoctial Cycle. The old Mazdeans (Magi, of whom the modern

Parsis are descendants) had a 12,000 year cycle, Zervan Daregho Hyadata

("Sovereign Time of the Long Period.") With the Greeks and their

instructors, the Egyptians, the "Great Age" again referred only to the

tropical or sidereal year of the Equinoctial Cycle.

 

There are cycles within cycles—cycles of inconceivably long as well as

of unimaginably short duration. It is not, therefore, my aim to contend

that the cycle (rather, half-cycle) of 4,320,000 years (Mahayuga or

Manvantara) which the Kali Yuga scholars brought into prominence, has no

basis in fact. In truth, a solar cycle of that length is recorded in

ancient Hindu almanacs as having been preserved from the chronological

compilations of a great astronomer-astrologer, Asuramaya, of the old

lost continent of Atlantis, but I do wish to point out that, whatever

the astrological import of the 4,320,000 year cycle, it should not be

confused, as it has been since the dark days of Kali Yuga of the

Descending Arc, with the Equinoctial 24,000 year Cycle with its two sets

of four World Ages.

 

Our 24-hour solar day, divided (on the equinoctial days) into 12 hours

of day (corresponding to Daiba Yuga of the Ascending Arc) and 12 hours

of night (corresponding to Daiba Yuga of the Descending Arc), repeats,

on a smaller scale, the grand Equinoctial Cycle. According to this plan,

the hours of our day would be under the influence of the various

Age-vibrations, as follows:

 

Ascending Arc (Day Cycle)

 

6.00 a.m. to 10.48 a.m. Golden Age Hours

 

10.48 a.m. to 2.24 p.m. Silver Age Hours

 

2.24 p.m. to 4.48 p.m. Bronze Age Hours

 

4.48 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. Iron Age Hours

 

Descending Arc (Night Cycle)

 

6.00 p.m. to 7.12 p.m. Iron Age Hours

 

7.12 p.m. to 9.36 p.m. Bronze Age Hours

 

9.36 p.m. to 1.12 a.m. Silver Age Hours

 

1.12 a.m. to 6.00 a.m. Golden Age Hours

 

The above arrangement is ideal, rather than practical, since it assumes,

for the sake of a simple mathematical division, that sunrise occurs at 6

a.m., and sunset at 6 p.m., whereas this is true only on the equinoctial

days, about March 21 and September 22 of each year. This ideal division

of a 24-hour day into two 12-hour parts, follows faithfully the

Equinoctial Cycle plan of separating the cycle into two divisions of 10

parts each, of which the Kali Yuga period measures one-tenth part, the

Dwapara Period two-tenths parts, the Treta period three-tenths parts,

and the Satya period four-tenths parts.

 

Hence, in the compilation given above, the Kali Yuga hour-period

measures one-tenth of the 12-hour half-cycle, or one and one-fifth

hours, while the Satya Yuga hour-period is as long as four-tenths, or

four and one-fifth hours. In practice, however, the length of these

hour-periods would vary, according to the season of the year and the

latitude of the place on the earth, since all mundane things are under

the limitations and changes imposed by time and space.

 

Still following the analogy between the 24,000 year Equinoctial Cycle

and our 24-hour day, we may (ideally) divide our daily period between

sunrise and the following sunrise, into 12 parts of two hours each, and

allot the first two hours after sunrise to the influence of the zodiacal

Aries, and so on around the circle of the 12 Signs (see Diagram I),

ending with Pisces ruling the two hours before sunrise of the next day.

 

The above illustrations may have a more theoretical than practical

interest for most of us, since a day is so short that we may not think

it worth our while to determine the astrological influences which lie

within it, but the examples have been given here in order to point out

the relation of smaller to larger cycles, and the mathematical

perfection of the Divine Plan which links the greatest to the most

infinitesimal within, and doubtless beyond, the shores of our universe.