For many ancient cultures the double star of Sirius is a symbol for divinity. For the ancient Greeks it is “Sothis” and for the Egyptians it is “Sopdu”. For the Hermetics it is the “virgin of the world” or the “eye star of the cosmos”.

For the Dogon it is “digitaria”, representing the seat of knowledge and the invisible seed of creation. In India it is referred to as “Surya” the sun of our Sun, and in the Zoroastrian tradition it stands for the spirit of wisdom or the ‘Sun Absolute’.

For the Hopi Indian, on whose sacred land we celebrate this event, it is the blue star “Kachina” whose re-appearance is said to usher in a new world.

For our astronomers it is just the brightest star in the night sky.

Yet for some people the five-pointed star represents the “star of consciousness” or the inner eye - the spiritual light that is not confined to any particular time period, Age or Yuga.

Were the ancient seers and observers aware of a cosmic phenomenon that modern astronomy has failed to recognize? Or was it just plain luck or a coincidence?

I will let you draw your own conclusions about these findings. But before you dismiss them merely as chance occurrences, please allow me to say something about chance in science and its significance for understanding Life on Earth.

In his wonderful book “The Nature of the Physical World”, Arthur Eddington warned us about chance coincidences, namely that “chance can deceive us by bringing about conditions which look very unlike chance. In particular chance might imitate organization.”

Yet organization cannot be brought about by randomness, and it appears that under the disguise of precision the only safety that exact science has is in numbers. The more improbable the occurrence, the more certain will be the scientist that it is not the result of a purposeful organization in a world of atoms and stars.

But what is the probability of the silent force that produces the biggest galaxies being the same as the vital force that enables the smallest seeds to grow?

It is not without higher reason that the Dogon equate the small companion of Sirius with digitaria - the world’s smallest grain seed.

Both are ruled by the same laws and structure - they are a manifestation of the omnipotent force and the omniscient feeling which produces the world and makes it conscious.

In the gross material world, life is an evolutionary process that goes against the direction of probability. And a science that rejects questions about the purpose of Life as meaningless or accepts meaningless answers is not a real science in my opinion.*

Life is no coincidence and its purpose might be very different from any human purpose, but not necessarily beyond our comprehension.

There is the possibility for us to overcome the element of uncertainty in life, and eventually to overcome Time itself, the power of cause and effect and the cycle of sorrow and suffering – the ancient quest to become immortal.

* (While the mathematician utilizes irrational, imaginary and hyper-numbers to create a beautiful but abstract picture of an infinite universe full of multi-dimensional patterns, the astronomer tries to fill in the patchwork with dark matter and mysterious forces to make the cosmological picture more concrete. Yet it remains an “unworldly” image of a dynamic universe devoid of purpose that has replaced the vibrant cosmos of the ancients, created and controlled by the opposing and revolting forces of good and evil – a dualistic image that is equally unsatisfying to the rational human mind. And I believe this is where both science and spiritualism went wrong. Deprived of the ability to accept two types of realities - one of the natural order and the other supernatural – neither the scientist nor the spiritualist feels competent or even obligated to reconcile one with the other.)

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