“Do you not behold the regions to which you have come?
The whole universe is comprised of nine circles. or rather spheres.
The outermost of these is the celestial sphere, embracing all the rest,
itself the “Star Goddess” (supreme god), containing all of the other spheres.
In it are fixed the eternally revolving movements of the stars. “

“The Dream of Scipio” from De Republica
by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-42 BCE)
(names in “quotes” added by myself)

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All art by Gustave Dore

The “Dream of Scipio” embraces many of the planetary correspondences included in the
Pythagorean concept of the Harmony of the spheres. In many ways, the Universe, that I have experienced both exoterically and esoterically, is very much like the short description of the “Dream of Scipio” listed above. In my own spiritual journeys, I have gone beyond the bounds of ordinary reality to walk the pathways of the Beyond. Such a place is the realm of the star Goddess. We’ve already encountered Cicero and his work when we discussed ancient memory techniques that may have been similar to those used by the Druids. I have chosen Cicero’s work as an illustration of the cosmology of the spheres for many reasons. First, because he was familiar with the philosophies of the Druids from his association with the Druid Diviciacus (who addressed the Roman Senate in 60 BCE), and secondly, because he followed the philosophies of Plato and the Stoics (Plato being a Pythagorean revisionist).

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