Day of Creation

As this series nears its conclusion, it will be of interest to examine the relationship of the equinoctial cycle with greater cycles, those which determine the duration of solar systems and universes. The ancient Hindu rishis claimed that a new Day of Creation is ushered in with all the planets, which belong to any given solar system, placed in the same zodiacal degree. The fixed star which marked this degree would serve, throughout the entire life of the solar system, as the starting point or first degree of Aries of a fixed zodiac. The star Revati (Zeta Piscium) is considered by the Hindus to mark Aries 0° in the heavens for the present solar system.

Mr. G. E. Sutcliffe, an eminent astronomer and astrologer, in an article entitled A Day of Brahma, has proven that there is a cycle of 23,892 years (or revolutions of the Earth around the Sun) wherein three members of our solar system, Venus, Earth and Mars, return simultaneously to the first degree of the fixed zodiac. It is likely that this period of 23,892 years coincides exactly with one equinoctial cycle, and that the ancient Hindus assigned 24,000 years to the cycle, partly because of the greater convenience, for ordinary purposes, of the round numbers, and partly because the exoteric figures given out by the ancients were seldom exactly true but required esoteric interpretation or change from one scale of measurement into another. Thus, many Hindu figures which do not appear illuminative as expressions of the decimal system become clear when considered as written in duodecimal, septenary or other notations. ₁

If, then, we accept a period of 23,892 years as the true length of an equinoctial cycle, and bear in mind that in this period three members of our solar system return to the same zodiacal degree, we will realize that the life of our present solar system must be measured by some number that is an exact multiple of 23,892 years. ₂ Sutcliffe has shown that in a period of 4,300,560 years, which exactly measures out 180 equinoctial cycles, every planetary member of our solar system returns to the first degree of Aries. An exact multiple of this period of Maha Yuga (4,300,560 years) will measure the life span allotted to out present solar system. The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 8, Sir Edwin Arnold's translation) sheds the following light on this point:

If we consider the Maha Yuga (a thousandth part of a Kalpa) of 4,300,560 years as constituting one of the "thousand Yugas" which make a "Day of Brahma," we arrive at 4,300,560,000 years as the period of a Day of Creation or life of one solar system.₃ Twice this number, of 8,601,120,000 years, will measure out the "Day and Night" of Brahma, or the period of both creation (Manvantara) and dissolution (Pralaya). Sutcliffe furnishes many intensely interesting reasons for believing that these enormous figures do accurately represent the periods of Brahma. One of his mathematical demonstrations is as follows:

"What is the numerical relation between a Day and Night of Brahma and a day and night of 24 hours? A simple multiplication will tell us this. The number of days in a sidereal year is 365.256, and 8,601,120,000 x 365.256 = 3.1416 x 1012 = n x 1012. The number 3.1416 is the relation of the diameter to the circumference of a circle and mathematicians represent it by the Greek letter ñ (pronounced Pi). We, therefore, see that the number of ordinary days in a Day of Brahma is ñ or 3.1416 multiplied by ten to the twelfth power, or multiplied by a million millions. Pi is full of occult significance; it is the symbol of the circle or cycle, which in its turn is the symbol of Brahma, or the Deity . . . When we learn, therefore, that the relationship of an ordinary day to a Day of Brahma, or the day of the earthly man to the Day of the Heavenly Man, can be expressed by the figures of ñ, we may feel ourselves to be on the track of the occult figures. . . An Age of Brahma, we are told, consists of 100 years of Brahma so that in figures an Age of Brahma is 314,159,000,000,000 years."

While a Day of Brahma covers the period of existence of a solar system, an Age of Brahma measures out the life span of an entire universe.

Thus, through the clue afforded by the period of an equinoctial cycle, and guided by the records left us by Hindu rishis' of Golden Ages long past, we have traced out the interrelation of the greater and lesser cosmic cycles and measured the appointed times of suns and universes.

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₁ Scientists who have investigated the significance of measurements of the Great Pyramid have likewise found that the ancient architects made use of various scales, chiefly but not solely the duodecimal notation.

₂ There is a difference of only 108 years between this number and the exoteric figures of 24,000 years, and the length of the eight World Ages which are contained in one equinoctial cycle would not be appreciably shortened by taking these 108 years into consideration.

₃ A number of modern scientists have given their estimate of the life of the Sun as four thousand million years.