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The crocodile as a symbol of Capricorn has another meaning. The fourth
sign Cancer, represented by a crab, is directly related to this tenth sign
opposite it in the zodiac. The crab is an aquatic creature, as is the crocodile.
The difference is that the crocodile emerges out of water and generally stays
on the bank of a river or sea, while the crab dwells primarily in water and
comes to land only occasionally and for a short time. Cancer is connected
with the life-force emerging in spiritual evolution to get concretized. In
Capricorn this process is reversed. The individualized entity dwells
increasingly in the universal life-force. Gradually, he returns to the world
soul, amma mundi.
The significance of the crocodile symbol has been discussed in length by T.
Subba Rao, the great Indian occultist of the late nineteenth century (EWpp.
6-15). According to him, Makara does not simply refer to the crocodile. It
signifies creative intelligence restricting its boundary of operation, thus
holding every particle within the manifested universe in its arms so to say.
According to him the impulse from the tenth zodiacal sign makes the
cosmos and the human being fulfill their destiny. The ultimate goal of the
individual is to consciously cooperate in the divine plan of evolution.
The word Makara derives from the same Sanskrit root from which comes
such words as Maya, creative illusion; Ma, mother; Manas, mind; and
Mahal, cosmic intelligence, each of which relates to the process of forming
and holding together the individualized particles of the manifest universe.
The second syllabic of the word, Kara, refers to the hand, the organs of
action, and the idea of holding. Numerically, the value of Ma, the first
syllable of the word, is five, corresponding to the five elements of which the
cosmos is composed. The word Kara is also a synonym of Bhuja, which
means the sides of a triangle and indicates the quality of inscribing an area
within its boundary. The five organs of action or five elements hold the
particles of the manifest creation within a specific limit thus protecting the
cosmos from dissolution.
According to Subba Rao, the word Makara (Panchakaram) stands for a
pentagon. This implies that the sign represents "the faces of the universe,"
which are bound by the pentagon. Continuing with this analogy, he states
that the material universe has the figure of a Decahedron, a ten sided figure,
for which Sanskrit writers used the word Dashadisha meaning ten directions.
The real world of the noumena, the soul of the visible universe, which is the
hidden world represented by an icosahedron, a twenty sided figure, is
mysteriously related to the visible universe represented by the decahedron.
The tenth zodiacal impulse includes within its scope the unified field of the