I have heard that each petal of the chakras represents a moral quality whose actualization puts the chakra into activity. For example, according to the upanishad Dhyiinabindu, the petals of the heart chakra represent devotion, laziness, anger, clarity and other similar qualities. For my part I have not yet observed anything that proves this statement, and it is not easily understood how this can be so, because the petals result from the action of certain forces that are notoriously distinguishable, and in each chakra they are active or not, depending on whether they are or not These forces are updated, so that the development of the petals has no more direct relation with the morality of the individual than that which may have the strengthening of the biceps. I have observed people of not very high morality in whom some chakras were fully active, while other extremely spiritual people of noblest conduct had them
THE CHAKRAS
Poorly vitalized, so it seems to me that there is no necessary connection between the two developments.
However, certain phenomena are observed in which such strange idea could be supported. Although the resemblance to the petals is determined by the same forces that revolve around the center, alternatively above and below the spokes, these differ in character because the influential force or energy is subdivided into its component parts or qualities; And therefore, each radio emits a peculiar, even weak, influence that affects the secondary energy that passes through it and alters its nuance somewhat. Several of these nuances may denote a modality of energy favorable to the development of a moral quality; And after this quality is strengthened, the corresponding vibrations are more intense. Consequently the tenuity or freshness of the hue will denote the possession to a lesser or greater degree of the respective quality.
THE FUNDAMENTAL CHAKRA
The first center, the radic or fundamental located at the base of the spine, receives a primary energy that emits four radii; And therefore arranges its undulations so that it appears divided into alternating red and orange quadrants with gaps between them, which results as if they were marked with the sign of the cross, and for that reason it is usually used the cross by symbol of This center, a sometimes flaming cross to indicate the serpentine fire residing in this chakra.
When it acts vigorously it is fiery red-orange color, in close correspondence with the type of vitality that transfers the splenic chakra. In fact, we will observe in each chakra analogous correspondence with the color of its vitality.
THE SPACESHIP CHAKRA
The second chakra is located in the spleen and its function is to specialize, subdivide and diffuse the vitality emanating from the sun. This vitality arises from the splenic chakra subdivided into seven modalities, six of them corresponding to the six spokes of the chakra and the seventh is concentrated in the hub of the wheel. Therefore, this chakra has six petals or ripples of different colors and is very radiant, as it glows like a sun. In each of the six divisions of the wheel the color of one of the modalities of vital energy predominates. These colors are: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violated; That is, the same colors of the solar spectrum minus indigo or indigo.
THE UMBRICAL CHAKRA
The third chakra is located in the navel, or rather in the solar plexus, and receives the primary energy that subdivides into ten radiations, so that it vibrates as if it were divided into ten undulations or petals. It is intimately related to feelings and emotions of various kinds. Its predominant color is a curious combination of several shades of red, although it also contains much of the green. The divisions are alternative and mainly red and green.
THE HEART CHAKRA
The fourth chakra in the heart is a brilliant golden color and each of its quadrants is divided into three parts, so it has twelve undulations, as its primary energy is subdivided into twelve radii.
THE LARINGEOUS CHAKRA
The fifth center is located in the throat and has sixteen radii corresponding to as many modalities of energy. Although there is enough blue in its color, the predominant tone is the bright silver, resembling the glare of the light of the moon when it scurries in the sea. In its radios, the blue and the green predominate alternately.
THE FRONT CHAKRA
The sixth chakra located in the eyebrows, appears divided into two halves, one in which pink predominates, Although with much yellow, and the other in which a kind of purplish blue stands out. Both colors correspond to those of the vitality that the chakra receives. Perhaps for this reason the Eastern treatises say that this chakra has only two petals; But if we observe the ripples analogous to those of the earlier chakras, we will see that each half is subdivided into forty-eight undulations, or ninety-six in all, because this is the number of the radiations of the primary energy received by the chakra.
The abrupt leap from sixteen to ninety-six radii, and the still greater sudden variation of ninety-six to nine hundred and seventy-two radii of the coronary chakra, show that they are chakras of an order wholly distinct from those hitherto considered. We do not yet know all the factors that determine the number of radii of a chakra; But it is clear that they represent modalities of primary energy, and before we can say anything more about it, it will be necessary to make hundreds of observations and repeated comparisons. There is no doubt, however, that while the needs of the personality may be satisfied with limited types of energy, in the higher and permanent principles of man we find such a complex multiplicity that requires much greater and more selective modes of energy for its expression.
THE CHAKRA CORONARY
The seventh chakra at the top of the head is the most refulgent of all when it is in full activity, offering abundance of indescribable chromatic effects and vibrates with almost inconceivable rapidity. It seems to contain all the nuances of the spectrum, although in the set the violated predominates.
The books of India call it the flower of a thousand petals, and this denomination of truth is not far behind, for there are nine hundred and sixty the radiations of the primary energy it receives. Each of these radiations appears faithfully reproduced in the sheet of the frontispiece, although it is very difficult to mark the separation of petals. Further,
Has this chakra a characteristic that the others do not possess, and consists of a kind of subaltern central whirl of a blazing white with gold colored core.
This subsidiary vortex is less active and has twelve undulations of its own.
Generally, the coronary chakra is the last one that is updated. At first it does not differ in size from the others; But as man advances on the path of spiritual perfection, he gradually increases to cover the entire upper part of the head.
Another particularity accompanies its development. At the beginning it is, like all other chakras, a depression of the ethereal double, through which the divine energy penetrates from the outside; But when man recognizes himself as king of the divine light and is longish with all that surrounds him, the coronary chakra reverts as it were from the inside out, and is no longer a receiving channel, but a radiant focus of energy, not a depression , But a prominence erected on the head like a dome, like a true crown of glory.
The pictorial and sculptural images of the divinities and exalted characters of the East usually show this prominence, as seen in the statue of Lord Buddha in Borobudur (Java Island) reproduced in Figure 2. This is the customary method of representing prominence And in such a way appears on the head of thousands of images of the Lord Buddha in the Eastern world.
In some cases, two-thirds of this chakra is represented as a vault, consisting of nine hundred sixty petals and over another smaller vault consisting of the twelve radiations of the subaltern vortex. Thus it appears in the right-hand head of Fig. 2, which is that of the statue or image of Brahma in the Hokkédo of Todaiji of Nara (Japan), whose antiquity goes back to the year 749. The headdress of this head represents the crown chakra with the garland of flames that sprout from it, And is different from the representation of the same chakra in the head of the Buddha statue.
This prominence in Christian symbology, such as the crowns of the twenty-four elders, was cast out before the throne of the Lord*.
In the highly evolved man, the crown chakra shines with so much splendor, that it girds its head like a true crown; And the meaning of the above passage of the Apocalypse is that all that man has achieved, the magnificent accumulated karma, all the astonishing spiritual energy that he engenders, he perpetually puts everything at the feet of the Logos to employ him in his work.
Thus again and again, repeatedly, he is casting before the throne of the Lord his golden crown, because he continually restores it.