Regulation 1

Saturn represents the contrary to life, the contrary to warmth. It represents concretisation. It enables manifestation up to the dense physical. Its work is contrary to that of the Sun. Saturn is considered as a cold planet that would not let any further expansion. It means, the expansion meets its limit. Saturn is therefore seen as a limiting principle. To bring any act to its logical limit one needs Saturn. The limit happens when the fire of spirit extinguishes. Every manifestation has its limit. Even the cosmic manifestation finds its limit with the formation of the dense physical Earth. Thereafter what is manifest has to return through cycles of time. When return of spirit is contemplated it faces the conditions stated in this regulation above. Men do not carry much spirit and get conditioned by the material. They loose sight of the values of spirit of service. Men tend to be self-centred and try to seek even the spirit for oneself. This is where the illusion is. Men are conditioned by the thought of receiving and seeking. They think of seeking the spirit. They need to know that a psychological shift has to happen in them whereby the sense of seeking is replaced by this sense of offering. Service is the first step towards that sense of offering. In the absence of the fire of spirit and spirit of service, men move without rhythm and order. They take to endless cycles of birth and death, which is a circular movement. The daily activity for mundane men is a circular activity, while the circular activity can also be a spiralic activity. Lives move on like the rodents around the mill. Life becomes a dead routine. Master compares this state of Saturn to a stove, which is very cold and does not enable emanation of any fire whatsoever. This is the state of a mundane man, who takes to endless incarnations, running after material and material pleasures, and the more one tends towards material, one tends to be cold-hearted and deadly in action.