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anything other than himself. He was also insecure, butopen toreason. Yaweh’s openness to argument is apparent in his discussions with Job, while his insecurity caused him totest Abraham's faith. Yaweh’s servants reinforeed his existence and also taught him what he might overlook. Thus humanity had developed anintimaterelationship with God, and in return God had passed over some degree of responsibil- ity to humanity. The Piscean age began with the birth of Jesus, while the Arian age only ended with the crucifixion. The Great Mother returned in the form of Mary who bore Jesus out of the fullness of her being. He was born as the fish to die as the lamb and his life story is really the bridging of two ages. Jesus taught the new Piscean face of God, that of love, forgiveness and the unity of all life. Yet sacrifice is also a Piscean theme and Jesus was abandoned on the cross as humanity was tcleased to its fate. Inthe age of Pisces the fountain took the form of Christianity yet the god-image seemed to have split in two. In the Arian age God was both benign and terrible while in the Piscean age this whole cracked, forming the warring opposites of Satan and Christ. The moral god cast a very dark shadow. Towards theend of the Piscean age we hear Nietzsche's cry, ‘God is dead!’ The old spring which nourished our culture for almost 2000 years randry. The ‘earth moved’ (a major shift inconsciousness) and the imaginative wellspring of the Piscean age was blocked by the emerging scientific rationalism. One could nolongerdigestsymbolic material in it’s raw form and there eame a need to know the meaning behind the symbol. Just the story of the crucifixion or a fairytale was no longer enough. Symbolic stories and events now required an ex- planation which would relate them to one’s own life. Yet the interpretation of the symbolic was unavailable. There werc no systems which could make the Piscean imagery palatable to Aquarian intellect. As such, the symbolic side of life was ignored and the spring was lost. Astrology dried up into astronomy, alchemy became chemistry whilst myths and fairytales were relegated lo the position of children’s stories. Christianity alsoreceived a devastating blow. Dramatic developments of science marked the approach of the Aquarian age. ‘Knowledge’ replaced ‘Faith’. Darwin’s theory over- threw the dogma of Creation, while Freud and Durkheim explained away humanity's need forreligion. Science had become the enemy of religion and in many areas it still is. It is at this point of consciousness at which we find the majority of our population. This is the mythless limbo found between ages; ourmodem world recognises the death of the Piscean age yet fails to find the spring of the Aquarian age. The Aquarian age is the age of reason and our awareness has approached the point where we now celebrate the power of human- kind more than the power of gods. Similarly we fearourneighbouring cultures instead of devils. Our power for both progress and destruc- tion has reached mythic proportions. Blindly, humanity has become a god unto itself. Yet despite our superior understanding many of us suffer for lack of meaning. The scientific constructs which brought the fall of the Piscean myths have no spring at their heart. Science offers us no myth to live by. Our ‘superior’ consciousness has cut us off from our ‘uncon- scious’ roots. The light of consciousness is so bright that our spiritual lives have turncd to desert. It is a vicious circle; we are too aware to believe in the mysteries but without mystery there is nothing to become aware of. A scientist without faith cannot penetrate the mysteries simply because he does not believe in them. We are caught at the cusp of two Ages, when science makes nothing of religion and religion cannot explain itself logically.