ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY - VOL. 6: Colloquialisms and Clichés
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ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY - VOL. 6
Colloquialisms and Clichés
By Dr. Douglas M. Baker
This volume is a unique dictionary of permutations in the form of colloquial sayings and clichés, translated into their astrological equivalents. A very valuable reference work for those interpreting astrological charts.
The modes of expressing a language may indicate powerful subjective forces at play deep in the unconscious structure of the Race using that language. This is particularly true of English which has become the international language, for reasons not entirely connected with political developments. The virility of the Anglo-Saxon sub-race is based largely on esoteric foundations as anyone will soon find if he studies a simple handbook of Theosophy.
Idiomatic language reflects the character of the people expressing it and releases numinous energies from their unconscious. Anyone who understands the significance of the mantram, of invocations and words of power will quickly apprehend the energies that lie packaged with proverbs, which themselves are surfacings of racial wisdom. Energy and meaning underlie words as much as they do images and thoughts.
Equally so, the incessant use of certain phrases exhausts their associate energies and degrades them to the level of shallow inanities which we call clichés. The cliché is resorted to by those who are in a hurry to express something or who are mentally lazy or ill-equipped in the language itself. Their frequent usage “shows him up” (cliché), and anyone watching television in which an interview is suddenly thrust upon a trade union leader knows what this does for the latter’s image (I choose my words with care). Phrases like “at this moment in time” and other banalities such as “the point is” render the interview a farce, and its impact becomes negligible.
Nevertheless, the cliché does indicate that the Race is trying to express again and again certain elements of its unconscious. By allocating appropriate astrological glyphs to the cliché being expressed, we can soon come to recognise the qualities of those underlying archetypes. This is as true for the individual as it is for the Race.
Collective unconscious ──────► Archetypes
Deep (racial) unconscious ────► Myth, legend and fable
Individual’s Soul’s purpose ───► Precepts
Superficial (racial) unconscious ─► Proverbs
Individual’s personal ───────► cliché,
unconscious conversationism & colloquialism
By correlating any of the above with the appropriate astrological aspect for it, related meanings and energies lying deeply or superficially in the native’s unconscious or openly in his personality are quickly revealed. The deeper structures, when they are related through their astrological aspect directly to the Rising Sign and its esoteric ruler, etc., are indicative of the native’s Soul’s purpose. Permutations of any aspect reveal meanings covering the whole range of a person’s nature, from the level of his Soul right through to the components of his personality, from psyche and Self to ego.
Douglas M. Baker England, April 1980
About the author
English born and raised in South Africa has done extensive scientific research into those hinterlands of the mind which one might call psi-semantics.
He graduated in the Arts & Humanities in South Africa and qualified in medicine at Sheffield University (UK) in 1964.
Having taught in the East End schools of London for 10 years, he began his tour of the Western world giving lectures and seminars in Esoteric Healing, Esoteric Anatomy, Esoteric Astrology, Esoteric Psychology, Esoteric Science and Metaphysics.
He, more than any other, set in motion the trends towards alternative methods of medicine which have transformed that field in Britain today. As medical advisor to the De la Warr laboratories in Oxford, he undertook research into Biomagnetism and quantum physics their effects on the human aura and dark matter, producing the book by the same name in conjunction with George de la Warr.
Through the years he has given more than 15,000 lectures and attracted people from all over the world to his Esoteric Science Festivals and International Summer Schools staged in America, Canada, England, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
He established Claregate College, first in America in 1972 and later in England in 1977 and encouraged many hundreds of people to systematise their esoteric studies by attending, courses, seminars, and through the Claregate Correspondence Course.
His transformative experiences during the Second World War, when twice severely wounded, set the pattern for his life long investigations into the Powers Latent in Man.
His extensive esoteric writings are said to be the largest collection in the world produced by a living author. He has written over 100 books, many of which have been translated into the 7 European languages at www.douglasbaker.com, and his list of downloadable MP3 audio lectures available at www.douglasbaker.org, include 400 live lectures given around the world and on a vast range of subjects.
He has led the field in esoteric astrology, producing with a team, his magnum opus, a Dictionary of Astrology for the 21st Century in three volumes. This is in addition to the already existing 11 volume set of books on the same subject.
His research work extends into the discoveries in the field of Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Occult Chemistry.
