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It represents the feminine cosmic energy in our Ray of Creation and, just like Isis and

Aphrodite-Uranus, personifies Love in its reflected, passive, feminine form. It is the last

note of the descending scale that issues from the Sun, the DO of the lateral octave,
fragment of the cosmic Christ, as star of the Macrocosmos. The Sun personifies Absolute

II in our Ray of Creation and lunar energy spreads by re-ascending over the length of the

Great Octave and the lateral octave simultaneously. In the former, it represents the
Mother of God, and in the lateral octave, the Queen of the Heavens, or Regina Astris:

these are the names attributed to the Virgin Mary in the liturgy.

The Moon is, therefore, the receptacle, the matrix which, in response to the energy of

Absolute II, gives birth to the different elements of cosmic life all along our Ray of

Creation, that is, the beings pertaining to the three different kingdoms of organic life:
the latter comes, therefore, under the influence of the Sun-Moon polarity. The Moon's

passive energy proceeds from solar energy. It reflects the latter, but this operation

involves a transformation where its own nature intervenes and which gives the reflected
rays certain polar characteristics as compared with those they had at the outset.

The unfinished character of the Tessaracosmos has been noted already in the first

volume of Gnosis, with the consequences this incompleteness entails for organic life in

general, and man, in particular. The Moon is not a living cosmic being yet, a fact which is

manifested by the absence of an atmosphere and a magnetic field. Unlike