Between 1917 and 1928 Rudhyar made
an in-depth study of occult and various
Oriental philosophies. His studies
confirmed his early intuition about
the importance and universality of
cycles. The
Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky
especially laid the foundations for
much of his later philosophical development.
But Rudhyar did not study theosophy
and Oriental philosophies to accumulate
a mass of scholarly date .Through his
studies he consciously tried to develop
a new type of mind able to deal with
universal, spiritual, and metaphysical
principles and cyclic processes. He
came definitely to feel that his dharma
(destiny or truth-of-being) would be
to reformulate ancient and traditional
metaphysical and occult concepts in
terms that would both nourish the development
of, and and be understandable by this
kind of mind which he calls "the mind
of wholeness," through a process which
he calls "clairthinking"—the
direct experience of ideas.
While he studied a vast number of
books and met an impressive list of
notable personalities, Rudhyar remained
isolated from the mainstream of official
and academic thought. Between 1933
and 1968, his work in reformulating
astrology along humanistic and transpersonal
lines was his main contact, not so
much with his own generation as with
succeeding ones.
Yet his astrological work cannot
be understood fully unless it is seen
within the context of the basic philosophy
and metaphysics he formulated in the
books listed in the left hand column—none
of which refer to astrology.
From The
Essential Rudhyar: An Outline And
An Evocation (1983) by Leyla Rudhyar
Hill. Read part 2 of an
interview with Rudhyar originally
published in the American Theosophist
in September 1977 where he discusses
his philosophical origins and the then
upcoming decade of the 1980's.
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