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GATHA DAYS, FIVE

These five intercalary days of the year are added to the 360 days (degrees) of the Zodiac, to complete the actual year of 365 days. They are then taken as symbolising, as in Egypt, the five manifest planes of being; because they imply the potential cycle (360) becoming the actual cycle (365) in which the Self (sun) manifests in time and space.

"These five Gathas (hymns) are made up from the body of a Righteous Man." - Shayast La-Shayast, Ch. XIII., S.B.E.

The "Righteous Man" signifies the Archetypal Man from whom humanity proceeds; and his measure is the Macrocosm of the five planes in which he manifests completely, potentially, and will manifest completely, actually, in all souls at the end of the cycle. For every soul is a Microcosm of the five planes, the same as the Macrocosm in every particular.

See Also

ARCHETYPAL MAN
AROUERIS
Birth of OSIRIS
CASTES
CLASSES
DAYS (five)
ELEMENTS (Five)
MACROCOSM
MICROCOSM
MUSIC
RULERS
THIEVES (five)
TREE OF LIFE
WORLDS (five)