The Crown is the Symbol of Supremacy

The Crown is the symbol of supremacy or kingship over the lower nature, and of enthroned royalty officiating from the summit of power. In occult terminology, the Monadic Atma rules the whole nature of man. Philosophically the crown is the higher of all principles, the One Source both unmanifest and manifest, the apex of the spiritual triangle, the One Alone. It is also the highest and most secret Wisdom, the very heart of truth.

The crown of  Lower Egypt was formed like an open mouth with a projecting tongue, curled at the end. This may symbolise the Word of Power metaphorically uttered by the kingly Logos to create the universe, and by the royal Monad of man to illumine and direct the individuality. The triple uraeus (serpent band of gold worn by Egyptian royalty), formed of three coiled snakes, was often associated with the Egyptian Crown, symbolising both the three-fold Wisdom of the three aspects of Deity and the three currents- poitive, negative and neutral- of the creative Serpent Fire occultly aroused, sublimated and directed into the head of the initiated Pharoah. An ancient tradition existed that the Monarch of a people was a manifestation of a god, and from this has come down to recent times the idea of the divine right of Kings. Occult Science indicates that the earliest High Priests, Hierophants and Rulers of nations of old were either Adepts or highly initiated Members of the Occult Hierarchy of  this planet. This tradition would seem to be remebered in the triple uraeus of the Egyptian Kings, since in all such highly evolved men and women the Serpent Fire would have been fully aroused.

The Crown is also used as a symbol in the Book of Revelation in which “a woman clothed with the Sun” is described as wearing a crown of twelve stars, indicating that the spiritual powers of the twelve Zodiacal Signs were all developed and were shining as jewels in the perfected Higher Self. The clouds of glory in which the Christ was said to ascend refer to the radiant aura, the Augoiedes, of the Adept, the splendour or the Causal Body, symbolised also by the light and beauty of the Sanctuary of a Temple of the Greater Mysteries.

The Crown aptly represents the actual appearance of the upper portion of the illumined aura of a highly evolved man. The up-rushing individual aspiration is met by the downrushing divine response. The flow of power from below and above forms a crown like radiance, which also is a characteristic of certain Orders of  Devas, called in Hinduism “Bright Crested Ones”.