Chapter 6Sun, Moon, Star, Fire · Star
Book 5. Part Two: The Opening of the Inner Senses · Section Three: Symbols
The star signifies a creation or formation or the promise or power of a creation or formation.
* The star is always a promise of the Light to come; the star changes into a sun when there is the descent of the Light. It is not possible to fix the actual value of these signs for the future; they indicate a turn or a possibility, but everything depends on herself and the future orientation she gives to her being.
* Stars in such visions1 indicate points of light or of higher experience in the consciousness. The earth means the physical consciousness.
* Stars indicate points of light in the ignorant mental consciousness.
* They [gold stars in the sky] are simply indications of divine Truth in the mind — the sky is a symbol of mind very often.
* The sky is always some mental plane. The stars indicate be-ginnings or promises of Light — the various lights indicating various powers of the consciousness: gold = Truth, blue = higher 1 In one vision the correspondent saw stars in the sky, in another stars upon earth. — Ed.
spiritualised mind, violet = sympathy, unity or universal compassion.