Eighth sphere

Eighth Sphere
In Theosophy this is a term that is use synonymously with the Planet of Death which describes a place where the lost souls of the very evil are finally destroyed.

Since the eighth sphere cannot claim him until after the death of the body, he preserves it in a kind of cataleptic trance by the horrible expedient of the transfusion into it of blood drawn from other human beings by his semi­materialized astral, ...

"Then, being naked of all the accumulations of the seven Rings, the soul comes to the Eighth Sphere, namely, the ring of the fixed stars.

Figure 2 shows an image of the eighth sphere, i.e., the sphere of fixed stars, from the 15th century prints known as the Tarocchi del Mantegna. Like some of the early Tarots, this shows a female figure holding up the stars.

If the double machinations of Lucifer and Ahriman were to succeed, the world would become hard and devoid of spirit, and would enter a different phase of evolution to the one the Gods intended: the Eighth Sphere rather than the Jupiter stage.

Therefore, since the eighth sphere and the zodiac, which is a part of it, are moved about the axis of the world, the pole of the zodiac, too, will move about the pole of the world.

More probably it was the mysterious eighth sphere of the ancients, the dark planet which moved in the same orbit as the earth but which was always concealed from the earth by the body of the sun, being in exact opposition to the earth at all times.

Luna Moon disc Mercury Flute Caduceus with two intertwined dragons Cock Venus Seashell Ducks Sun Sun disc Scorpion Crabs Mars Sword Dogs (hunting) Jupiter Arrow (thunderbolt) Eagle Saturn Scythe Ouroboros Eighth Sphere Starry Disc Prime Mover Empty ...

And in 1789, "when Saturn will have completed 10 revolutions of the zodiac and the eighth sphere will have come to stand still" [xxiv] , was expected the "arrival of the Antichrist", ...

of a child, is violently snapped, and the disembodied personal entity is left to share the fate of the lower animals, to gradually dissolve into ether, fall into the terrible state of Âvîchi, or disappear entirely in the eighth sphere and ...

See also: World, Moon, Spirit, Plane, Circle