The Swastika is both a meaningful symbol and a picture of what actually happens. The ever-moving vibration of the ultimate atom goes forward and right in a circle to bring a world into being and to maintain it, but it moves backward and left to deteriorate and eventually destroy it. (This is mirrored in the big dipper, too.)

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 5: Visualizations, Symbols > # 84