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CAPRICORN, THE ZODIACAL SIGN

A symbol of the tenth period of the cycle of life. It signifies the higher mind (white He-goat) which is attained by the ego climbing the mount of aspiration, through the transmutation of the lower mind, in the cycle of evolution.

"The Indian Capricorn is an elephant emerging from a makara, or leviathan. It is called in the Lalita Vistara,' Airâvana (born of the waters)." - A. LILLIE, Budd. in Christendom, p. 7.

The higher mental nature (elephant) arising from the lower nature (sea-monster). The higher mind born of the astro-mental nature (lower "waters”). When the lower nature is perfected, then the higher nature is born, as it were, into the consciousness.

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CANCER
ELEPHANT
GOAT (white)
LEVIATHAN
WHALE
ZODIAC