For the last 12 years Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet has lived at 'Skambha', her farm in southern India where she conducts the operations of the Aeon Centre of Cosmology. Aeon Centre is a microcosmic laboratory where Patrizia observes and records for publication the direct collaboration of Material Nature acting to unveil a new principle of order in the world. In keeping with the ancient Vedic symbology, Cows and Horses have become the first subjects of her applied cosmology because, for seers throughout the ages, they have embodied a connection with Time and the Divine Measure of the Year.

The guiding principle of the Aeon Center is expressed in its motto: 'The Symbol is the thing Symbolised'. At this level of observation Ms. Norelli-Bachelet's work with these animal symbols goes far beyond their utilitarian value. It represents a new way of 'seeing' in which animals represent something of universal importance which can be applied to the way cultures are formed and function and which reveal the deepest principles of their organization. The animals participating in this process as symbol powers reveal again and again the presence of a force controlling the entire play of circumstances in which the explicit collaboration of material nature can be objectively observed.

As a result of her research at the Aeon Centre, Ms. Norelli-Bachelet has published some of the most important and original works of Knowledge since the sages of Vedic India. Her work with these symbol creatures has provided a body of knowledge which has allowed her to unveil the inner meaning of some of the world's most obscure and profound spiritual texts. Significantly, she is one of a handful of seers in thousands of years who has been able to pierce the mystery of these ancient texts and publish their original meaning. Her ability to accomplish this formidable task derives from the yogic faculty of 'seeing.'

 

 

 

 

SKAMBHA - 'AXIS MUNDI'

FOR

THE EMERGING SUPRAMENTAL SPECIES

All myths and wisdom teachings share common primordial themes but there is one more important than all others because it involves the revelation of an absolute fixed point where the sacred unveils itself and establishes the order of the world. This mythic point is known as the ‘Axis-Mundi’ - ‘junction of heaven and earth’ where a vision of the sacred bursts into view. A proper alignment with this axis allows for a sublime communication between these two realms and the acquisition of a supra-physical knowledge. Many ancient cultures built their temples and holy cities on these consecrated sites, for they were believed to exert a harmonious influence upon the population. Throughout history there have been numerous images of this eternal archetype from Moses and the Burning Bush to the Totem poles of the Native Americans to the Egyptian Pillar of Djed, and the Omphalos stone at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. With each manifestation of the sacred axis came a more complete body of knowledge and a greater understanding of Reality and the Cosmic Order. Our culture is rich with these images of an evolving spirituality but there is none so important as the axis mundi of our presently emerging Supramental species – “SKAMBHA.”

Skambha is mentioned in the Vedic scriptures of ancient India as the Supreme Principle of Creation; the universal Pillar which at once connects and supports Heaven and Earth. Its realization goes to the very heart of creation and unveils the mysteries of existence itself. While there can be no doubt of Skambha’s supreme importance as the foundation of the total reality, almost no one since the Vedic age has attained this incomparable realization. Fortunately for us, there is one individual, now living, who has realized Skambha and revealed its deepest secrets. Her name is Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea) and she lives in southern India where she directs the operations of the Aeon Centre of Cosmology and continues the great evolutionary work and yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The first law of the Aeon Centre, and the foundation of its higher knowledge is: “The Symbol is the Thing Symbolized”. For this reason Thea has named the physical site of her work “Skambha”.

Over the last century, Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Thea, known collectively as the ‘Solar Line’, have revealed a body of knowledge unequalled in the history of the world. Each forms a link in a chain of divine births which has taken form as a ‘Living Axis Mundi’ bridging the multiple planes from Spirit to Matter. Each member of the line has revealed a new and integral knowledge of their respective planes and each has performed their allotted tasks to facilitate the greatest collective transformation in human history; what Sri Aurobindo called the “Descent of the Supermind.”

Through the collaboration of these Divine incarnations, the two ends of existence have become linked. The Spiritual summit and the Material base were purposefully joined so as to interpenetrate the intermediate regions of Soul, Mind and Life. After a lifetime of the most intense yogic tapasya to achieve this goal, the Mother announced:

"The greatest thing that can ever be, the most marvelous thing since the beginning of creation, the Miracle has happened... A new world, yes, a completely new world is born and here. Yet even now, there are very few people who are aware of its birth and of the difference it brings into the world."

The birth of this new world follows the ancient Vedic dictum that the material creation is born and expands from a core, a central point, like the hub of a wheel. All that happens in the periphery extends from and has its origin in the Hub or Center. From that Center alone can one obtain a true vision of the order of things decreed behind the veil and taking form in the physical.  Only from that Skambha can we begin to See in such a way that nothing that we can observe in the Physical will be seen as separate from its Source again. Sri Aurobindo called this gnostic vision the Truth-Consciousness and today Skambha is the only place on earth where one can be initiated into these mysteries and attain that coveted realization.
 
These mysteries are not for the masses but for those intrepid seekers who wish to move beyond our present immature culture of “Spiritual relativism” in which no one’s religious truth is more relevant than anyone else’s. They are for the advanced spiritual aspirant seeking an exactness, clarity, and order that only absolute knowledge can confer. But most of all, these Supramental mysteries are for those rare souls who recognize the desperate need in the world today for a body of spiritual absolutes through which we may end generations of sectarian strife and move forward together in real knowledge, acquiring along the way a more harmonious orientation to life and the cosmos in which we live. These seekers alone are qualified for the Supramental initiation.