The Lion of Judah (biblical/esoteric studies)
Leo, the Love Principle. Leo the Lion.
Leo is the Lion. Christ is the Lion of Judah.
What/who is Judah? What does this mean?
Judah (in the bible) respresents the sign of Leo.
The sign of the love principle.
Judah (son of Jacob, one of the 12 Tribes of Israel, of which Jesus is the descendant) is Leo.
Judah/Leo – sign of splendor, focused on the heart, the power of love in the heart. The power of love to transform.
Today –
Leo Sun & Venus. Aquarius Moon today, August 2, 2023.
A v/c today at 2;15pm (west coast) till 8pm (west coast time).
Then the moon enters Pisces – sign of the Savior.

Christ is symbolized as having the strength, power & leadership of the Lion.
Biblical history – Jacob had 12 sons (each son symbolized a spiritual attribute & one of the zodiacal signs). Leah was Jacob’s wife. She bore Jacob’s sons – there was Reuben (Aquarius) & Simeon & Levi (the two Gemini twins). And then Leah bore Judah. Judah is leo, the sign of splendor, the home of the heart. Transmutation takes plac through the power & strength & love of the heart center.

Judah, son of Jacob.
Jacob was the son of Isaac.
And Isaac was the son of Abraham. Abraham the first to be settled after the Atlantean floods, & after the human race was remade by the Manu, in the green valleys in the Himalayas (Shamballa).
Judah was the sixth son of Jacob & Leah. Judah became the head of the 12 tribes (12 sons of Jacob became the 12 tribes of Israel – each represents an attribute to be cultivated & one of the signs of the zodiac) of Israel – Judah’s name eventually become israel.
The words Judea (town) & Jewish originate from Judah.
Judah means praise, to praise.

King David came from the tribe of Judah.
Jesus (later overshadowed by the Christ), a later descendant of David, is referred to as “the Lion from the tribe of Judah” (Rev. 5:5).

Judah has 11 brothers, one of which was Joseph. When Joseph (clothing of many colored coat) was being cast away by some of his brothers, it was Judah (Leo) & Reuben who tried to save him. These two signs will usher in a new measure of life for humanity, new life waves. Aquarius – universal brotherhood. Leo – selfless love. “Love leads the way to the new lands”.

The Hosts of Leo await man’s readiness for a flood of love to enter the Earth which would end war, disease & death. Who shall rouse humanity up? asks Jacob/Judah? Shiloh (place of peace, how is peace created many ask) is the place where the pioneers of the new era will be gathered.”
Jesus – from the House of Judah.

Jesus is called the lion of Judah, the symbol of the house of Judah (Old Testament) and Jesus is a descendant of the house of Judah. Jesus, with the qualities of strength, courage & nobility, also understood that he would be a king (spiritual) – the king is the lion, king of all the beasts.

In both the old & new Testaments…the lion is the symbol of Jesus (for his strength, courage, nobility). He is referred to as the World Teacher who, when he returns to the earth, will gather His flock once again, His believers.

In the New Testament of the Bible, in Revelations 5:5, Judah is again tied with the lion, and this time, it extends through the lineage of Judah to David, then Joseph, then Jesus: “Then one of the elders said to me, Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.” This passage alludes to the fact that Jesus will be the one that can open the scroll.

In Judaism, the lion of Judah is a symbol not only of the person Judah and the tribe of Judah but the entire House of David, David being a direct descendent of Judah and also a future king. Due to the prolific nature of both the Tribe of Judah and the House of David, the lion became a very common Jewish symbol. It is often depicted on the Ark of the Covenant, which holds the Torah, or Jewish Bible, that is read during prayer services in Jewish synagogues.

The Lion of Judah – the King of Kings.
Learning today, Wednesday, Mercury (4) guarding/guiding & protecting us today. love, Risa

Full Moon Evening
Thoughts to Ponder
…on the evening of the Leo Solar Festival under a Full Moon.
Safeguarding the Light.
How Light Falls to Earth.
The pattern of livingness in the heavens precipitates to earth in a way similar to falling snow. Like snow, the light just streams into earth. We can see it in light beams, shafts of light in the forest.
And so…
The task of meditating groups is to to gather this light…rending the veils (melting away is what is called rending the veils—there is always something behind the veil, another realityl) through which the light containing great truths may fall to earth and help this light to be anchored here on Earth – in order to unite humanity once more with the cosmos, each year on a higher more intelligent turn of the spiral than before.

Note: We don’t necessarily have to bring geometrical skills to our meditation in order to precipitate these patterns for this geomentric skill is the role of the deva hierarchy that cooperates with man’s thinking by converting the impulses behind his thought and emotion into geometrical force patterns.
What IS needed by each of us?
Exactitude of thought and feeling which generates geometrical precision and beauty with the assistance of nature’s inner helpers.

On a world-wide scale, as will, love and abstract intelligence (burning fires from the Three fires of Leo, Three levels of the Sun) begin to characterize humanity’s thinking, the geometry of the etheric web of the planet will change from a pattern of squares to a pattern of triangles

Light Streams Down
On this Full Moon (Leo Solar festival of light) day….disciples rise up & gather the Light….and on absorbing & holding and in assimilating this light, the disciples symbolically turns their back on the sourced light in order to transmit that light into the world, thus allowing their radiations of light to assume a concretiszed form.

From the minds & hearts of meditators…using the gathering of light & the keynotes of the signs –
Patterns of abstract light stream to down to Earth – the patterns or waves of light are rendered down or ‘spiritually reduced’ into ideas that intelligent thinkers unconsciously absorb & appropriate & apply in some area of human creativity & livingness.

A further reduction then takes place as the lighted ideas are shaped into ideals, new values and human principles. These may take the form of general welfare movements, upgraded social values, or perhaps new international declarations and treaties that would have previously been too idealistic and unworkable.
The quality of new light falling to Earth, via new/full moon times, transits of planets in signs, radiating from Hierarchy & the NGWS – must be externalized and expressed in human activity.
And thus between the heavens and the earth, disciples and discipleship groups take their stand as light bearers.

This process is perfectly described in the following words from the ancient Commentary quoted in the Alice Bailey teachings:

“The Angel of the Presence stands within the light divine – the centre and the meeting place of many forces. These forces meet and blend. They focus in the head of him who stands before the Angel. Eye to eye, and face to face, and hand to hand, they stand. Will reinforces will, and love meets love. The will-to-power merges with the will-to-love and strength with wisdom meets.
These two are one.
“From that high spot of unity, the One who is released stands forth and says:
‘I return from whence I came; from the formless to the world of form I make my way. I will to be. I will to work. I will to serve and save. I will to lift the race. I serve the Plan with will, the Whole with power’” (Esoteric Psychology 2, p. 24)

Reading Within the Words – the Cipher
The Master Hilarion writes in the book, Light on the Path: (MC, pp. 29/30)
“There is a way of reading, which is, indeed, the only one of any use .It is reading, not between the lines but within the words. In fact, it is deciphering a profound cipher.All alchemical works are written in cipher which has been used by great philosophers and poets of all time. Writing in cipher is used systematically by the adepts in life and knowledge, who, seemingly giving out their deepest wisdom, hide in the very words which frame it its actual mystery. They cannot do more.There is a law of nature which insists that a man shall read these mysteries for himself.By no other method can he obtain them.”

We ponder on these words on this Leo solar festival full moon night. Risa

Graphics:
God of Light.
Kandinsky’s art
Olga Roanova’s art
Planets