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Esoteric astrology & psychology of Alexander Grothendieck part 1

A disciple from the inner ashram of Hilarion (Ray 5)


I am trying to discern here energetic (seven rays) pattern in Grothendieck's esoterically challenging life through perspectives offered by Esoteric Astrology, Psychology and the Science of Seven Rays. The exoteric life details of this great disciple can be found on Grothendieck Circle Website, which will be the reference for the exoteric facts of this post.

1. Grothendieck (born in Germany) remained stateless throughout his life but choose to settle in a country (France) whose Soul Ray is fifth and Personality ray is Third reflecting his estimated ray profile through my research.

2. I hypothesize that Grothendieck subconsciously responded to energies from the Avatar of Synthesis by influencing the work of Saunders Maclane giving rise to a foundational branch (although he didn't give first definition of a category) of Mathematics called Category theory which is precisely the synthesis of entire mathematics (not yet fully acknowledged by Mathematical community dismissing his work as abstract non-sense even today as I write this). This branch in contrast to Set theory (which inherently views everything as composed of elements as separative parts) is an alternative foundation for the entire 5th Ray Sciences (by acknowledging that a whole is more than just sum of its separative parts by treating arrows or interrelationships fundamental than objects).

3. Grothendieck was radically opposed to war and violence (esoterically he was responding to the energy from Avatar of Synthesis). He strongly opposed both United States intervention in Vietnam and Soviet military expansionism (A pattern continuing even today in Ukraine-Russia war). To protest against then Vietnam War, he gave lectures on category theory in the forests surrounding Hanoi while the city was being bombed. In 1966, he had declined to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Moscow, where he was to receive the Fields Medal (often informally termed as nobel prize of Mathematics). In 1970, at the age of 42 and after a brilliant scientific career, he gave up his professorship at the renowned Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Paris (after he had found out that IHÉS was partly funded by the military), withdrew from scientific activity (psychologically feeling disappointed that scientific community didn't care enough about ethical applications of mathematics), and soon after from mathematical research altogether. (For exoteric biography, the third volume by Winfried Scharlau covers Grothendieck's life from 1970 until 1991 which is freely downloadable from Grothendieck Circle)

4. Grothendieck's most crucial years of life (42nd - 1970, 56th - 1991) for which he is famously known by average humanity (a term I use from Djwal Khul blue books) as eccentric and unusally dramatic, correspond exactly to the years having esoteric significance on the dial of houses proposed by Dane Rudhyar (who worked towards synthesis of esoteric astrology and psychology starting with his monumental work - Astrology of Personality). Eventually Grothendieck's life became increasingly determined by philosophical, religious and esoteric ideas. Initially Buddhism played an important role, but later he drew closer to a more Christian vision (realizing neither exoteric religions answer all that he was seeking which is put forward as hypotheses in Theosophy and Science of Seven Rays). No doubt he himself points to at least 5 (Rudolf Steiner, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mahatma Gandhi, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, P. Teilhard de Chardin ) in his list of 18 mutants in "La Clef des Songes" whom he respected as visionaries far ahead of their time. The first three were associated or largely influenced in some way with esoteric knowledge and theosophy while the fourth was a mystic saint of Vedantism and the fifth dreamt of a reconciliation of religion and science.

5. Grothendieck wrote a retrospective account of his time as a mathematician entitled Récoltes et Semailles (Reaping and Sowing), and composed other philosophical meditations which remain unknown. In 1991, after undergoing severe psychological crises (again a certain precise year as per the dial), he unexpectedly disappeared from public life.

The Dial of Houses (Grothendieck's 42nd year corresponding to the sixth house of experiences of Crisis and Personal Readjustment and his 63rd year corresponding to the twelfth house of THE TEST OF CLOSURE and finding the courage to let go of the past) - 



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