What meaning do we Gnostics give to the Four Seasons?

Answer from the V.M. Samael Aun Weor.

When we look at the Earth with its four seasons, we understand well that our planet Earth revolves around the sun in 365 days, with a few minutes and fractions of a second. This is called the terrestrial year and has four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

We cannot deny that there is also the sidereal year, the cosmic year. Our solar system of Ors, in which we move and have our being, travels around the zodiacal belt in 25,968 years. This journey of the solar system around the zodiacal belt is what constitutes a sidereal year.

The sidereal year, like the terrestrial year, has four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The spring of the sidereal year is the golden age, where life is a true Eden. Humanity emerges perfect from the hands of its Creator, the solar hierarchies govern, and happiness bubbles and pulsates everywhere.

In the summer or silver age of the sidereal year, this primordial splendor fades somewhat. The solar hierarchies continue to govern a world without borders, a world where there is only peace and love.

In the autumn, the copper age of the sidereal year, humanity begins its borders and its wars, its hatreds and its crimes. But in the winter, in the Iron Age, everything ends with a terrifying cataclysm.

We find ourselves, precisely, in the winter, in the age of Kali Yuga, the Iron Age. Every time a race reaches the Iron Age, the Kali Yuga, it perishes through a terrifying and tremendous cataclysm.

What shall we say, for example, of the polar race, once inhabitant of the northern polar ice cap? They perished.

What shall we say of the Hyperboreans, to whom Friedrich Nietzsche alludes? It is said that they perished, devastated by powerful hurricanes.

What shall we say about the Lemurians? They perished by rain, fire, and earthquakes.

And what has been said about the Atlanteans? What do the sacred books say? Truly, they all affirm that there was a Universal Flood. It was then that the Earth's axis was revolutionized, the seas shifted, and millions of inhabitants perished in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Now it is good for you to understand why we are at the end of the Iron Age. Esoteric, occult symbolism, to represent the current moment, places a large hourglass; it is motionless, not working, as if indicating that the end times have come. Next to the hourglass, a skeleton with its scythe symbolizes death.

The beginning of the end of this Aryan race began exactly in the constellation of Aquarius. It was then that the sun resumed its journey along with all the planets of the solar system around the zodiacal belt. A race lasts no longer than one journey of the solar system around the twelve constellations. Now he has returned to his original starting point.

Samael Aun Weor. Excerpt from the lecture: Lecture on Hercolubus.

Answer from the magazine "The The wisdom of the Being.".

This is generally how life is for human beings, and during their existence, they pass through four fundamental ages: childhood, in which virtues are planted and sown, and personality is formed with the sweet words and affection of mother and father, a stage of blossoming and beauty; later, in the fullness of youth, different creative energies manifest with the capacity to initiate great undertakings, or in nature, we could say, great fruits, like the stage of a wonderful summer in which what was sown in the spring of childhood is reaped; autumn cannot be long in coming, with a certain maturity in the human being, in which he applies all his efforts and experiences, preparing to enjoy wonderful rest and repose in the coming cold of winter.

Thus, represented in human beings as in nature, are these four ages or stages, and if we were to relate them through music, we would find marvelous expressions that exalt the values of the soul. That is what life is for, we could say, to create these values in inner work with joy, inspiration, and profound devotion, recalling one of the fundamental principles of Gnostic knowledge, the emergence of the essence from the Absolute, arriving alive in the worlds, in the races, in the subraces. For Gnostic knowledge narrates that every essence emanates from a paradisiacal place to come into existence.

In Vivaldi's Four Seasons, who was ordained a priest from 1687 to 1693 and practiced liturgies, confessions, and spiritual exercises, he displays exemplary educational characteristics that inspire an imitation of life, with rhythms beyond the joy of trills, graceful and free flights, communing with the soul of the listener, as a full representation of a birth on Earth.

Spring, summer, autumn and winter follow a Kabbalistically related compass with the four, whose representation is the foundation of the development interior.

Similarly, we are in the mother's womb, where there is warmth, protection, love, and nourishment. Upon crossing the door of birth, like the birth of a fruit plucked from the tree for a new stage, the human being begins his or her life. Throughout it, he or she finds many joys, enthusiasm, moments of struggle, confrontation, perhaps, love and compassion. But at the end of existence, a cold winter returns, in which life ceases. According to universal Gnosticism, we can return to the bosom of Nirvana with wisdom or simply return to it.

The Magazine "The Wisdom of Being" 106: "The Four Seasons."