AMONG the egos whose past lives have been examined, Orion stands out, in my mind, for one especial characteristic. He is a strong ego, with much power of will and determination; but he does not seem to learn readily from his mistakes. He seems incapable of realizing intuitively, as an ego, that there is a Great Will whose purpose will not be gainsaid. He throws himself against that Will again and again, though each time he brings suffering to himself.
He is like a bulldog who, when he has gained a firm grip on another dog's throat, cannot let go though beaten again and again, because they say of the particular conformation of his jaws. Similarly, when once a personality here below of the ego Orion sets out to achieve his plans, he will let nothing stand in his way, not even justice and duty, doing thereby immense harm to others, with a karmic rebound of greater harm to himself. The result has been that on three occasions he has made the same blunder, each time motivated slightly differently; it is the blunder of rejecting the priceless opportunity given him of entering into the Inner Circle of the Great Work and becoming a "pillar" of that temple whence he shall no more go forth.
The lives of Orion were examined in 1907, and published in The Theosophist from April, 1911. But after these lives were transcribed and typed, and the Lives of Alcyone were finished in The Theosophist of February, 1911, some earlier lives of Alcyone were examined, going as far as 70,000 в.с. Orion appear-ed in them, and in a dramatic role in one 29,700 в.с., Life No. 10 in the book, The Lives of Alcyone. I have taken this life and placed it as a "Prologue" to the series of Orion investigated in 1907, because the karmic consequences of a supreme blunder in this life of long ago are seen in several of the Lives now published.
Orion is an advanced ego, appearing often in various relationships to some who are now Adepts. But for a time, as revealed in these Lives, he makes a step backward in evolution, and reincarnates among egos who are primitive and backward in evolution. He has little akin, in his higher nature, with these backward egos. It is as if, since he will not learn certain lessons as to what is the Great Will among those of his own stature, he must be thrown back into a lower stage in evolution, in the hope that there, among the more violent vibrations of pain and suffering, something will penetrate into his nature as to right and wrong.
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