The Age of Aquarius teaches that human beings should look towards Heaven without turning away from and losing sight of earth

"For centuries Christians have been taught that earth is a place of iniquity and that the physical body is an instrument of the devil; only Heaven and the salvation of their soul count. What lack of understanding! And most of those who accepted these theories neglected their body and ended up desiccated and fossilized. They thought of themselves as being sublime, but people who do not take on life here on earth can have no true life in Heaven.

The age of Aquarius, however, brings a different philosophy. Aquarius teaches that human beings should look towards Heaven without turning away from and losing sight of earth. We must look up at Heaven and bring down from it all that is beautiful, pure, luminous and eternal. We in turn shall then become a mirror of Heaven, a conductor of Heaven, a garden, an orchard, a sun. Why should Paradise only be up above and misery, poverty and ugliness only be down here on earth? No, from here on in things will be different and beauty will descend on earth, and everything - the stones, the plants, the animals and human beings - will be radiant."

As a conscious entity, the human being stands at the frontier between the lower and higher worlds. If he is not vigilant, he is drawn in by the dark forces of the lower world which crush and devour him. And once he is devoured he is thrown out, because nothing is left of him. Whereas if he is attracted and absorbed by the forces of the higher world, everything brightens and he becomes a centre of luminous, powerful and beneficial currents. While you must strive to escape the attraction of the lower world, however, you must not abandon yourself completely to the attractions of the higher world. Your mission is to work on earth using the forces of heaven, without losing sight of the balance that must be maintained between heaven and earth. Since you are here on earth, you must not abandon it prematurely. If you upset this balance in an attempt to hasten your return to heaven, you will perhaps live in the immensity, in the light, but you will fail to fulfil your mission, which is to work on earth with the resources of heaven.

To give and to take: nothing is more important for us than to balance these two processes. But to take from what, and give to whom? The answer lies in the symbolism of the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Aleph a . Aleph represents the human being who has succeeded in creating a bond between heaven and earth, so that he can receive from heaven and give to earth. Why would we take anything from human beings, when the poor creatures have next to nothing? It is from heaven, which is infinitely rich, that we must take so that we can give to people. The letter Aleph teaches us that our work is to become the link between heaven and earth. From a symbolic point of view, the Christ, the perfect man, is this link. He receives heaven’s blessings and distributes them on earth. Consider the letter Aleph, then, as the symbol for the highest possible ideal you can attain. Let it be a constant reminder of the work you must undertake, so that you too can bring heaven to earth.

"Tarot cards are full of meaning, if you know how to interpret them. Take the first card, the Magician, which corresponds to the first Hebrew letter, Aleph. It shows a man standing before a table, with one arm raised and the other lowered. So this man is performing an action. But what is it? His raised arm connects him with heaven, and his lowered arm with the earth, with humans. The forces he receives from heaven pass through him, and he gives them to the earth. He is the letter Aleph (a), which schematically resembles someone with one arm reaching toward the sky and the other reaching toward the earth.

But to be Aleph also means knowing how to take the forces of the earth and project them towards heaven, in other words how to act as an intermediary. This is what Jesus was expressing when he said, 'No one comes to the Father, except through me.' Aleph is a symbol for the perfect human being, who is linked to heaven and therefore works for the earth and all of humanity."