星星的讯息THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS

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CANCER-CAPRICORN
The Sun's passage by precession through the sphere of Cancer with its opposite
sign Capricorn, designates the early third of the Atlantean period,
which was intensely watery as the whole earth was covered by a dense,
drenching fog. The Niebelung, or "Children of the Mist," lived then in the
basins of the Earth. Cancer was not then represented by the same symbol as
today; in ancient times it was pictorially figured as a beetle or scarab.
This was the signature of the soul, for then mankind was much less body than
soul.
The sign Cancer is watery in its nature, and the fish part of Capricorn,
the opposite sign, also helps to symbolize this state of life under water
when the Sun went through the watery sign Cancer by precession. The Moon,
the planet of fecundation, points mystically to this period of germination,
when mankind first commenced to exercise the Creative function at the dictates
of desire inculcated by the Lucifer Spirits. Thus mankind opened the
Gate of physical Life through Cancer, and strayed into the terrestrial
sphere, but opposite stood Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn, ready to slay
them with his scythe, and usher them through the Gate of Death back into the
spiritual realms where they are at home.
Capricorn was the opposite of Cancer and embodied the ideal that as the
goat climbs the mountains, so man must leave the basins of Atlantis and come
up from the mist.

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GEMINI-SAGITTARIUS
Our condition during the middle third of the Atlantean Epoch is illustrated
in the Sun's passage through the sign Gemini, the twins, which aptly
represent infant humanity. During this age the division of soul from soul
by the veil of flesh, which we call the body, became more noticeable, for
the atmosphere had already cleared to a considerable extend, and the faculties
of the spirit had become more focused in its physical instrument. With
this delusion of the personal self, there came at once the idea of "me" and
"thee," "mine" and "thine," our individual interests commenced to clash with
those of others, so that a tragedy such as that recorded between Cain and
Abel became possible. Nor was the shedding of blood confined to human beings,
for we learn from the Bible that "Nimrod was a might hunter". This
savage ideal was expressed in the Celestial Centaur, Sagittarius, with his
bow and arrow.
But both of these pairs of opposites, Cancer-Capricorn and
Gemini-Sagittarius, may be considered pre-historic hieroglyphics of a development
accomplished in Sidereal years, long past, though none the less important
on that account. Our own times, with the development prescribed for
them, are symbolically represented in the two pairs of signs within the
fixed cross, the Bull, the Lion, the Serpent and the Man.
For that reason the two pairs of opposites comprising the fixed signs,
Taurus-Scorpio and Leo-Aquarius, are mentioned in the Bible, and we shallfind that our modern systems of religion are full of allusions to the three
pairs of opposites. Aquarius-Leo and the two adjacent pairs of signs,
Aries-Libra and Pisces-Virgo. These three pairs of opposites are, as already
stated, emblematic of the development in the entire Aryan Epoch. In
the EARLY third of this Epoch, the Sun by precession went through the sign
Aries, the MIDDLE third of its find the Sun in Pisces, by precession, and
during the last third the Sun will go through the sign Aquarius. Then the
solstitial point Capricorn will see the inauguration of a new cycle or age.
The spiritual preparation for this development commenced about thirteen
thousand B.C., when the Sun by precession, was in the sign Libra, the Balance,
the last time. Different phases of this germinal impregnation of
people then living were carried on during the precessional travel of the Sun
through Virgo, Leo, and culminated in Cancer about eight thousand B.C. when
the last of Atlantis was destroyed by water, substantially as related by the
Egyptian priests to Plato. We shall see presently how the germinal ideals,
given to humanity in those far. by-gone days have grown and flowered into
factors of human development and spiritual standards of the greatest importance.

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TAURUS-SCORPIO
In the latter third of Atlantis, egoism had developed to a far greater degree than before, the spiritual sight had been lost by the large majority
of the people who then lived entirely on the material plane and gloried particularly
in their material possessions.
THE BULL was very properly worshiped by them, being an emblem of strength
necessary to conquer the material world. It was, on account of its prodigious
strength, an invaluable aid in all their work. The proverb about "the
flesh pots of Egypt" has remained illustrative to the present day, to show
how abundantly that animal supplied their physical need of food, the milk of
the female being also an important article of diet. The possession of many
cattle was therefore ardently desired by the ancient infant nations, and the
worship of the Bull was inaugurated under the solar precession through Taurus
during earlier Great Sidereal Years, and continued to the comparatively
modern times, when the Sun by precession went through the sign of Celestial
Bull for the last time.
At that point when the Sun entered the sign of the Lamb, Aries, the Aryan
religions were inaugurated. The religion of the Lamb is to hold sway for
the next Great Sidereal Year, while the Sun by precession passes around the
twelve signs of the Zodiac, as the religion of the Bull has held sway during
the previous celestial year from the time the Sun entered Taurus, until it
left the same sign on its next passage.
New religions, however, are not revealed in their fullness at the beginning; they are started and go through a period of gestation long before
the religion which they are to succeed ends its material existence, and
similarly, and ancient religion about to be abrogated survives along after
the religion which succeeds it has become the official source of upliftment
for humanity. The original Semites, chosen to inaugurate the worship of the
Lamb, Aries, during the Aryan Epoch, were taken from "Egypt," the home of
the Bull "Taurus." Not our modern Egypt however. The story of Pharaoh, who
endeavored to prevent their emigration and was drowned, has reference to
Atlantis which was submerged thousands of years before Moses is supposed to
have made his escape with the Israelites through the "Red Sea." The facts
underlying the story are that a multitude of people left the land where the
bull "Taurus" was worshiped, (Atlantis or Egypt) whose inhabitants were then
drowned, to seek a :promised land" beyond the water which had engulfed an
"UNGODLY NATION." There they were dedicated to the worship of the "Lamb"
Aries which had been slain in "Egypt" (Atlantis); through its blood these
pioneers had been preserved from death, and it was thus "the Lamb slain from
the foundation of the (present) World" which we call THE ARYAN EPOCH.
Noah's escape presents another phase of the same occurrence relating that
the mists which had enveloped Atlantis condensed to rain, and flooded the
basis of the earth, leaving a clear atmosphere in which the Rainbow was seen for the first time at the opening of the New Age, the Aryan Epoch, where a
new Covenant was made with the pioneers of the polity then ushered in.
Atlantis was the home of the Bull, Taurus, and when the Sun, by precession,
was leaving that sign the last time, the Religion of the Lamb Aries
was definitely ushered in. Thenceforth, the worship of the Bull was abrogated
and when any of the pioneer race, brought out from the ancient
Atlantean dispensation by the blood of the Lamb, Aries, backslid and worshiped
the Taurean "Calf," they acted contrary to the law of progress and
were therefore "Idolaters," and an abomination to the divine hierarchs whose
task it was to guide them during the ages preceding the advent of Christ.
On account of repeated transgressions many were "lost," and they are the
Jews of today who still retain their Atlantean traits (see Cosmo-Conception).
Apart from the Astrological key, the Bible is truly a closed book, but
with this key, the matter is different. In the Old Testament reference is
made of two classes of animals: Bulls, which were Taurean, Sheep and Goats,
which were Arian. These alone were used as Sacrifices. (Turtle doves were
permitted as a concession to poverty). All the principal characters of the
Old Dispensation were shepherds (ARIAN) and Christ also announces Himself as
the Great Shepherd.
In the New Testament we find another animal, the Fish, attaining great prominence, and the apostles were called to be "Fishers of Men," for then
the sun by precession was nearing the cusp of Pisces, the Fishes, and Christ
spoke of the time when the Son of Man (Aquarius) shall come. Thus our
evolutionary journey is mapped out in the hidden astrological allusions of
the Bible.
The student now has a line on the march of events, which it is well to
keep in mind.
Jesus taught the multitudes in parables but explained the mysteries of
the Kingdom to His disciples. Paul gave spiritual meat to the strong, but
the milk of doctrine to the multitude, for there has always been an esoteric
and an esoteric side to every religion. Taking Taurus, the sign of the
Bull, to symbolize the worship of that animal as practiced in Egypt, Persia
and other countries at that time, then we shall find that the opposite sign,
Scorpio, symbolizes the esoteric doctrine if the priesthood, who were the
guardians of the ancient Atlantean Mysteries.
In this connection we will note first that the sign Scorpio is represented
in the pictorial Zodiac by a Scorpion or Serpent, and we wish to impress
particularly on the student's mind that the Scorpion has its STING IN
THE TAIL, while the Serpent has the VENOM IN ITS TEETH. This is very significant,
as well shall see presently.
On looking up the word "serpent" in the Bible, we shall find that there
are about seven words that have thus been translated; but one of them, which was borrowed from Egypt, is NAJA. This word is found on the old tablets in
the ancient temples of Egypt where Osiris, the Sun God, is hailed when arising
from the primordial deep. He was then crowned with glory and has the
Uraeus Naja, AN EMBLEM OF COSMIC WISDOM. The Uraeus was a part of a
serpent's body, with its head depicted as protruding from a point in the
forehead just above the nose, where the human spirit has its seat; and
Christ therefore referred to the ancient Serpent-Initiates, when He said:
"Be ye wise as serpents."
In ancient Egypt the King wore a crown adorned by A DOUBLE SERPENT,
URAEUS or NAJA, which seemed to protrude from his forehead when the crown
was placed upon his head. This was to symbolize the fact that he held the
double office of King and Priest by virtue of his sublime wisdom. In India,
also, the guardians of the Mystery Teachings were called Nagas or Serpents.
In the Icelandic "Eddas," the Northern Vedas, Siegfried, the truth seeker,
slays the serpent, tastes of its blood and them becomes wise. Nor, to
elaborate on the statement made above, is it necessary to go outside our own
religion for proof that the serpent is the symbol of wisdom, for the Christ
Himself said: "Be ye wise as serpents." The serpent is certainly not sufficiently
sagacious to warrant a literal meaning of this saying; but when we
understand that when the creative fire is drawn upwards through the serpentine
spinal cord it vibrates the pituitary body and the pineal gland, connecting the Ego with the invisible worlds by opening up a hidden sense,
the allusion is perfectly clear.
There is, however, a lower phase of spiritual development, symbolized in
ancient times by placing the Uraeus or serpent at the naval, to show that
the mediumistic faculties in the solar plexus had been developed.
Mediumship is a negative phase of spiritual sight or hearing possessed by a
person who, under the control of an outside intelligence, prophesies. This
undesirable phase of seership was represented in the Zodiac by the symbol of
the Scorpion, which has the sting in its tail. In the Serpent, Initiate the
Creative Cosmic Fire was drawn upward through the head to serve as a
spiritual end; in the Medium the creative energy is expressed for selfish,
sensual ends through the procreative organ ruled by Scorpio.
The point between the eyebrows, whence the serpent of wisdom protrudes,
is THE SEAT OF LIFE, whereas all that opens the womb is subject to THE STING
OF DEATH, contained in the Scorpion's tail.
If we now turn with this information to our Bible, we shall find that a
great many things, previously obscure, will become clear. As said, the
Egyptian word for this Uraeus or serpent is Naja and it was borrowed by the
Israelites who expressed the negative faculty of mediumship by affixing the
feminine ending "oth," giving NAIOTH; while those able to function consciously
in the spiritual worlds were given the positive, make plural ending "im," and were called NAIM. If we read the nineteenth chapter of first
Samuel with this understanding we shall readily see that the incident there
narrated was of a mediumistic nature. David had become afraid of Saul and
he went with Samuel to "Naioth." This is supposed by Bible translators to
be a place, and maybe a village was so named. But if that was the case, it
was because the people who lived in that place were Naoith, or mediums.
They were called prophets in the chapter before us, and it is significant
that as soon as anyone came within their camp, he commenced to prophesy or
speak under control. Even Saul, who came there, anxious to get David away
that he might slay him, was seized by the spirits and prophesied, to the
amazement of all present.
In the New Testament we are told that the Christ went to the city of Nain
and there raised THE SON OF A WIDOW. In the Latin Testament, this city was
not called Nain, but NAIM. And it is very significant that all three, Naim,
Naioth and Endor, where the sorceress that assisted Saul is supposed to have
lived, are in the same locality by Mount Tabor.
Every Freemason knows that the brethren of that Order are called "Sons of
the Widow." And it is stated in the Bible that Hiram Abiff, the Master
Builder of Solomon's Temple, was the Son of a Widow, a cunning craftsman.
We cannot in the present article repeat the Masonic Legend which tells the Religions, the religions of the Lamb, have the proper effect on the human
evolution. All previous systems are detrimental to the Western people; and
in time those also who are now in the East, the orientals, will be forced to
embrace this religion, or be left far behind in evolution.

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THE ARYAN EPOCH
ARIES-LIBRA
The Aryan Epoch may be divided into three eras; but they are all served
by the religion of the Lamb. The first division covers the time when the
Sun, by precession, went through the sign Aries, the Lamb. Jesus was born
when the Vernal equinox was in about seven degrees of Aries; so the
twenty-three degrees which lie on the other side belong to the Old Testament
period, when the chosen people were in captivity and lost in the wilderness
of the world; the new religion had not then found its place. Then the
Christ came and inaugurated this new teaching definitely. He came not to
destroy the old prophecies and the law, but to give us something higher when
they shall have been fulfilled. The sign opposite Aries is Leo, the scales
or balance of Justice; and therefore we are told in the new religion that
there will come a day of judgment, when Christ shall appear to give to every
man according to the deeds done in the body.

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PISCES-VIRGO
Christ was the Great Shepherd, but He called His disciples to be "fishers of men," for the Sun by precession was then leaving the sign of the Lamb and
entering Pisces, the sign of the fishes. Therefore a new phase of the Aryan
religions was opening up. The Bishop's mitre is also in the form of a
fish's head.
The New Testament, therefore, does not mention the Bull or the Lamb, but
references to the fishes are numerous. We also found the celestial virgin
prominent and the wheat ear of Virgo is the Bread of Life, to be gained only
through immaculate purity. Thus Christ fed the multitude of fish (Pisces)
and loaves (Virgo).
Before the time of Christ, the new religion of the Lamb (Aries), could
get no foothold. Moses, the erstwhile leader, could not bring the chosen
people to the "promised land." That was reserved for Joshua, the son of
Nun. Joshua is the Hebriac for "Jesus" and the Hebrew word for "Nun" means
"fish" (Pisces). It was thus foretold that the religion of the Lamb would
attain prominence during the precessional passage of the Sun through the
sign Pisces, the fishes.
This prophecy has been fulfilled, for during the two thousand years which
have elapsed since the birth of Jesus, the Western religion has been taught
by a celibate priesthood, worshiping an immaculate virgin, symbolized by the
celestial sign Virgo, which is the opposite of Pisces. This same priesthood
has also enjoined the eating of fish and forbidden the use of flesh on certain days. When the children of Israel left the flesh pots of Egypt,
where the Bull was slain, they left it by the blood of the Lamb. But in the
Piscean dispensation no shedding of blood is enjoined and flesh eating is
condemned as a sin at certain times, for man is now taught to forsake the
lusts of the flesh and also lusting after the flesh.
This ideal was tried under the Aryan dispensation, when the chosen people
were yet in the Wilderness, so called, but without success; they would not
have the heavenly manna. Now, however, man is being weaned from the cannibalistic
practice, and in the seven hundred years which remain before the
Aquarian age is definitely ushered in, we will, in all probability, have
made great strides, both in overcoming the lust of the flesh and the lust
after the flesh. For Virgo, the immaculate celestial virgin, and the ears
of wheat contained in the sign, show both these ideals as profitable to soul
growth at the present time. Jupiter, the planet of benevolence and philanthropy,
which rules Pisces, has been a prominent factor in promoting altruism
during the past two milleniums.

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AQUARIUS-LEO
It is often said, and rightly so, that the boy is father of the man. And
on the same principle we may say that the Son of Man is the Super-Man;
therefore, when the Sun by precession enters the celestial sign Aquarius,the water-bearer we shall have a new phase of the religion of the Lamb,
exoterically; and the ideal to be striven for is shown in the opposite sign,
Leo.
The Moon, which is the habitat of the autocratic Race Ruler and Lawgiver,
Jehovah, is exalted in Taurus, the sign of the Bull, and all Race religions,
even the Mosaic phase of the Aryan religion of the Lamb, demanded a sacrificial
victim for every transgression of that law. But the Sun is exalted in
Aries, and when the great Sun spirit, Christ, came as High Priest of the
Aryan religion, He abrogated sacrifice of OTHERS by offering up HIMSELF AS A
PERPETUAL SACRIFICE for sin.
By looking to the mother ideal of Virgo during the Piscean Age, and following
the Christ's example of sacrificial service, the immaculate conception
becomes an actual experience to each of us, and Christ, the Son of Man,
Aquarius, is born within us. Thus, gradually, the third phase of the Aryan
religion will be ushered in and a new ideal will be found in the Lion of
Judah, Leo. Courage of conviction, strength of character and kindred virtues
will then make man truly the King of Creation, worthy of the trust and
the confidence of the lower orders of life as well as the love of the Divine
Hierarchs above.
This, the mystic message of Man's evolution, is marked in flaming characters
upon the field of Heave, where he who runs may read. And when we study
the revealed purpose of God, we shall in turn learn to conform intelligently to that design, thereby hastening the day of emancipation from our present
cramped environment to the perfect liberty of free Spirits, risen superior
to the law of Sin and Death, through Christ, the Lord of Love and Life.
It is for us to decipher this message, and solve the Riddle of the Universe.

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CHAPTER II
THE MEASURE OF AMENABILITY TO PLANETARY
VIBRATIONS
When judging a horoscope it is of prime importance that we take into consideration
the social and racial standing of the individual, for configurations
which are of great significance in the horoscope of an educated Caucasian,
may mean little or nothing in the figure of a Chinese coolie and vice
versa. Neglect of this factor would inevitably lead to false conclusions,
as we shall now explain.
It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is
placed the more certainly it responds to the planetary rays, and conversely
the higher we ascend in the scale of attainment the more the man conquers
and rules his stars, freeing himself from the leading strings of the Divine
Hierarchies through the planetary aspects in such a manner that we do not
hurt ourselves beyond recovery in the experiences of life.
But coupled with this guidance there is of course the measure of Free
Will, which grows as we evolve. The child in our midst has really very
little free will, being the subject not only to its parents but to the servants,
if such there be in the household, and to everybody with whom it is
associated, all exercising control over it for its own good. As the child
grows, this measure of restraint is by degrees relaxed, and in the course of
years the child will learn to exercise its free will. This method has been
followed by the Divine Hierarchies in the case of man. Infant humanity was
absolutely guided by Divine rules without having any Will at all; "Thus
shalt thou do, or not do," were injunctions laid upon them which must be implicitly
obeyed, otherwise the Divine displeasure was at once shown by such
strenuous manifestations as appealed to infant humanity's mind, namely,
lightning, thunder, earth-quakes and great visitations of plagues. This was
for their collective guidance, for individual restraint there were strict
laws, commandments and ordinances. Tribute must be paid continually to the
Divine Leader and offered up on the altar as sacrifices, and for every offense
against the law a certain sacrifice of material goods must be made.
Fear was the dominant keynote of that dispensation: for "The fear of the
Lord is the beginning of righteousness." This regime was carried on under
the planetary conditions of Mars and the Moon. Mars, being the home of the
dominant Lucifer Spirits, gave to mankind the energy necessary that evolution may be accomplished; this martial energy was of the very greatest
importance, particularly of course in the earlier stages. The Moon, which
is the home of the Angels, under their Divine Leader Jehovah, gave to infant
humanity that child-like brain-mind which is amenable to rulership, and
bends itself readily before authority.
These with Saturn were the only planetary rays which affected mankind as
a whole during the Lemurian Epoch, and if a horoscope were erected for any
of the people who lived then, it would be unnecessary to enter the places of
the other planets, because they could not respond to their rays. Even today
a great part of mankind has not evolved very far beyond that point, a large
class, particularly among those we speak of as the lower races, and even the
lower classes of our western world being dominated principally by these
planetary rays. Under their impulses they act with automatic certainty in a
specific manner, and it is possible to predict exactly what they will do under
a certain aspect of these planets, because they live entirely in their
emotions and are scarcely, if at all, responsive to the intellectual vibrations
of Mercury. Neither can they appreciate such emotions as signified by
Venus or its octave, Uranus,; they respond solely to the lower nature, the
animal passions. They move under the impulses of Mars and the Moon respecting
sex and sustenance. Their pleasures are of the lowest and most sensual
nature, they live like animals altogether in the physical, and their creed is "eat, drink and be merry." Their desires run chiefly to "wine and
women," for they have not as yet awakened to the charm of song; Neither has
beauty had a chance to enchant the savage heart at this stage of development
for that comes from the Venus rays which are beyond such people. Woman is
to the man of that stage only a beast of burden and a convenience.
Meanwhile "Father Time" represented by the planet Saturn, keeps the
score, and wields over them the whiplash of necessity to drive them forward
on this evolutionary path, meting out to each the fruits of his labor at the
harvest time between lives. When the man has cultivated the savage virtues
of bravery, physical endurance, etc., he dreams in the post-mortem existence
of new field to conquer, and sees where he was lacking and why his desires
were frustrated because of lack of implements. Gradually the constructive
martial ray and the Saturn cunning fertilize the lunar brain which he is
building, so that in time he learns to make the crude implements necessary
for the attainment of his primitive ambitions. Even today we see the same
cunning traits of character, the same crude crafts displayed in and by the
lower races for the purpose of irrigating land, mining ores or milling
grain. All those earliest implements were the result of the planetary rays
of Saturn, Moon and Mars, impinging on the primitive brain of infant humanity.
A little further along the path of evolution, in the Atlantean epoch, the Lords of Venus and the Lords of Mercury came to the earth for the purpose of
giving a further impulse to the mental and emotional development. It was
the task of Venus to combat the lower emotions and raise the brutish animal
passion of Mars to the softer and more beautiful Venus-love. She was to add
beauty to strength, and to attain that ideal the Lords of Venus fostered the
plastic arts, painting and sculpture. These were not taught men of the general
public at that time; the ideals which are to be developed in a race are
always first taught to the most advanced ones in a mystery temple, and at
that time initiation included no spiritual instruction, but consisted of an
education in the liberal arts. Sculpture taught how the beautiful may be
incorporated in physical form. It called attention to the body and idealized
the softly curved lines. The result is now incorporated in our own
race body, for it should be thoroughly understood that in an mystery school
an ideal is not taught today simply to be forgotten tomorrow or in the next
generation, but ideals are inculcated so that in time they may become a part
of the very life, soul and body of the race. Compare the race body of the
modern civilized man with that of the Indian, the Bushman, the Hottentot,
etc., and you will find that there is indeed beauty added to strength.
It may be objected that we are degenerating compared with what is shown
in the Hellenic Arts, but that is positively not so; it is rather that we have not yet attained to that highest ideal. In ancient Greece the mystery
temples occupied a much more prominent position than today; the beautiful
form was idolized to the detriment of the mind notwithstanding the fact that
Greece had a Plato and a Socrates. The Lords of Mercury who had charge of
the development of mind, at the time when the Lords of Venus exercised their
great influence on the emotions, had not then been able to make a universally
strong impression on the early humanity. We are well aware even today
that it hurts to think, but it is easy to follow the emotions. At the
present time the middle class of the West is much further advanced than the
ancient Greeks because of the influence of these two planetary rays in our
lives. Woman naturally excels in the highly imaginative Venus faculty, because
of her part in the creative function which aids in moulding the body
of the race. On that account her figure has the graceful curves which
naturally express beauty, while man has the worldly-wise intellect fostered
by the Lords of Mercury, and is the exponent of reason, the creative agency
of physical progress in the world's work.
We always long for, admire, and aspire to what we lack. In days of savagery
when kicks and cuffs were her daily fare woman longed for a caress
from her lord. The Venus ray gave her beauty and made her an adept in the
feminine arts which have conquered the masculine heart, so that now man have not yet attained to that highest ideal. In ancient Greece the mystery
temples occupied a much more prominent position than today; the beautiful
form was idolized to the detriment of the mind notwithstanding the fact that
Greece had a Plato and a Socrates. The Lords of Mercury who had charge of
the development of mind, at the time when the Lords of Venus exercised their
great influence on the emotions, had not then been able to make a universally
strong impression on the early humanity. We are well aware even today
that it hurts to think, but it is easy to follow the emotions. At the
present time the middle class of the West is much further advanced than the
ancient Greeks because of the influence of these two planetary rays in our
lives. Woman naturally excels in the highly imaginative Venus faculty, because
of her part in the creative function which aids in moulding the body
of the race. On that account her figure has the graceful curves which
naturally express beauty, while man has the worldly-wise intellect fostered
by the Lords of Mercury, and is the exponent of reason, the creative agency
of physical progress in the world's work.
We always long for, admire, and aspire to what we lack. In days of savagery
when kicks and cuffs were her daily fare woman longed for a caress
from her lord. The Venus ray gave her beauty and made her an adept in the
feminine arts which have conquered the masculine heart, so that now man plays the role of protector on the plea that woman is not mentally competent
meanwhile he is becoming that which he admires in her; he is more gentle and
kind, Venus is conquering Mars, but the Mercury delusion of intellectual superiority
needs another influence to conquer it. And this, woman is now
supplying by her aspiration. As she mastered martial brutality by Venus
beauty, so also, will she free herself from Mercurial bondage by Uranian intuition.
To primitive man, driven by the whip-lash of Saturnine necessity, when
not by the animal lust and passions of Mars and the Moon, the world looks
gloomy. Fear is the key-note of his existence: fear of animals; fear of
other men; fear of the nature forces; fear of everything around him. He
must ever be watchful and on the alert, vigilance is eternally the price of
safety. But when evolution makes him amenable to the influences of Venus
and Mercury; they will soften his emotions and brighten the mentality; he
begins to regard love and reason as factors in life. The Sun also begins
to brighten his outlook upon life, and sunshine in the nature of man during
this phase of his evolution partly dispels the gloom of Saturn. Thus, by
degrees, as man evolves and becomes responsive to the music of the spheres,
one string after another in the celestial harp strikes the kindred chord in
the human soul and makes him amenable to its vibrations, so that as a tuning
fork which is struck, awakens the music in other tuning forks of even pitch within reasonable distance, so the planets in our solar system have in
evolutionary succession struck various chords that have found an echo in the
human heart.
But the strings on the celestial Lyre of Apollo are not all in harmony,
some are in actual discord, and while man responds to some he must necessarily
remain, at least partially, unresponsive to others. In fact, before it
is possible to respond perfectly to the rays of Venus it is necessary for
man to conquer Mars to a considerable degree, and bring him under control so
that certain undesirable martial traits in his nature will be kept in the
background, while others, which may be valuable, are retained. The Venus
love which is willing to give all for the loved ones cannot dwell side by
side in the heart with the Mars ray which demands all for self. Therefore
the savage must learn to conquer himself in a certain measure ere he may become
the more civilized family man of modern times. Under the unrestrained
passionate rays of Mars and the Moon, parents bring children into the world
and leave them to take care of themselves almost as animals do, for they are
products of animal passion. The females are brought and sold as a horse or
cow or else taken by force and carried away. Even so late as the mediaeval
dark ages, the knight often carried away his bride by force of arms, practically
in the same manner that the male animals battle for the possession of
the female at mating time.
Thus we see that the first step toward civilization requires that a man conquer one or more of the planets to a certain degree at least. Unbridled
passion such as generated by the primitive Mars rays is no more permissible
under the regime of modern civilization, neither is the tenet that "might is
right" any longer admissible, save in wars when we return to barbarism. The
Mars quality of physical prowess, that at one time made it a virtue to attack
others and take away property, is no longer admired in the individual.
It is punished by various means, according to law, thought it is still effective
as far as nations are concerned, who go to war under this primitive
impulse for purposes of territorial aggrandizement. However, as said, Mars
has been conquered to a great degree in civil and social life in order that
the Venus love might take the place of the Mars passion.
As previously noted, the children of primitive man were left to their own
resources, as soon as they had been taught to defend themselves in physical
warfare. With the advent of Mercury another method is observable. The
battle of life nowadays, is no longer fought with physical weapons alone.
Brain, rather than brawn determines success. Therefore the period of
education has been lengthened as mankind advanced, and it aims principally
at mental accomplishments because of the Mercurial rays which accompany the
Venus development of modern civilization. Thus man sees nature from a more
sunny side when he has learned to respond to the Sun, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Moon and Saturn, even if only in a very slight measure.
But although these various stages of evolution have gradually brought man
under the dominance of a number of planetary rays, the development has been
one-sided, for it has aimed to foster interest solely in things over which
he has a proprietary right: HIS business, HIS house, HIS family, HIS
cattle, farm, etc., are all vitally important, and must be taken care of.
HIS possessions must be increased, if possible, no matter what happens to
the possessions, family, etc., belonging to anyone else, that not being his
concern. But before he can reach to a higher stage of evolution it is necessary
that this desire to appropriate the earth, and retain it for himself
if possible, must give way to a desire to benefit his fellowmen. In other
words, Egoism must give way to Altruism, and just as Saturn by yielding the
whip lash of necessity over him in his primitive days brought him up to his
present point of civilization, so also Jupiter, the planet of altruism, is
destined to raise him from the state of man to superman where he will come
under the Uranian ray in respect to his emotional nature, where passion generated
by Mars will be replaced by Compassion, and where the childlike consciousness
of Lunar origin will be replaced by a Cosmic consciousness of the
Neptunian ray. Therefore the advent into our lives of the Jupiterian ray
marks a very distinct advance in the human development. As taught in the Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, we are to advance from our present Earth
period into the Jupiter period, and therefore the Jupiterian ray marks
that high stage of altruism which will then be a prominent factor in
our relations, one with the other, and it will be readily understood that
before we can really respond to the rays of Jupiter we must in a measure
cultivate altruism, and conquer the egoism that comes through the Mercurial
reasoning power. We have learned to conquer some of the phases of Mars and
the Moon, we may have also learned to conquer some of the lower phases of
Mercury and Venus; the more we have overcome these the better we shall be
able to respond to the highest vibratory forces emanating from these planets;
yes, if we strive earnestly we shall some day be able to overcome even
the highest stage of the Venus love, that always attaches itself to an object
which is owned by us. We love our children because they are ours; we
love our husbands and wives because they belong to us; we take pride,
Venusian pride, in their moral characteristics or Mercurial pride in their
accomplishments; but Christ set a higher standard: "Unless a man leave his
father and mother he can not be my disciple." The idea that we should neglect
our fathers and mothers or that we must hate them in order to follow
Him was far from His mind, of course, but father and mother are only bodies;
the soul that inhabits this body of the father and mother is to be loved,
not the mere physical garment. Our love should be the same whether the person is old or young, ugly or beautiful. We should look for the beauty of
the soul, for the universal relationship of all souls and not mind so much
the relationship of the bodies. "Who are my mother and my brothers," said
the Christ, and pointed to his disciples, those who were at one with Him in
His great work. They were closer to Him than any brother could be on account
of mere physical relationship. This attitude constitutes an upward
step from the Venus love which places the emphasis on the physical garments
of the love ones and leaves out of consideration the soul that is within.
The Jupiterian love on the other hand takes cognizance only of the soul, regardless
of the body it wears. The Mercurial or reasoning phase of mentality
is also changed by response to the altruistic Jupiter. Cold calculation
is out of the question. One who feels the expansive ray of Jupiter is big
hearted where his emotions are concerned, his love; big hearted where all
things of the world are concerned. "A jovial fellow," is an apt expression.
He is welcomed and love by everyone he meets because he radiates not the
common selfishness, but a desire to benefit others that breeds in us a feeling
of trust, diametrically opposed to the sense of distrust we instinctively
feel when we come in contact with a Saturn-Mercury man.
It is a matter of actual experience to astrologers endowed with spiritual
sight that every man's planetary rays produce certain colors in his aura, in his aura, in addition to the basic color which is the stamp of the race to
which the man belongs. The man with the thin, sickly blues of a commingled
Saturn and Mercury, is to be pitied rather than censured for the avarice and
gloom which are his constant attitude of mind; he sees everything in the
world through the auric mirror which he has created around himself; he feels
that the world is cold, hard and selfish, that therefore it is necessary for
him to be more selfish and more cold in order that he may protect himself.
On the other hand, when we see the divine blue ray of Jupiter tinted with
perhaps the fine gold of the Uranian nature we realize how differently such
an exalted individual must view the world from the other's sordid way of
seeing things. Even those who have the faintest Jupiterian tinge are in a
world filled with sunshine, flowers blooming, everything in nature gay and
glad. Any by looking at the world through such an atmosphere they call
forth from other sources a similar response, as the tuning fork previously
mentioned generates a vibration in another of an even pitch.
After what has been said it will not be difficult to understand that the
Uranian characteristics, where love becomes compassion, give wisdom that is
not dependent upon reasoning, a love that is not fixed upon one object
alone, but includes all that lives and moves and has its being' being
similar to the characteristics that are to be evolved by humanity during the Venus period when perfect love shall have cast out all fear, when man shall
have conquered all the lower phases of his nature and love shall be as pure
as it is universally inclusive.
When these Uranian vibrations are felt by advance in the higher life
through aspiration, there is great danger that we may throw away the fetters
of law and convention before we are really ready to govern ourselves by the
law of Love divine, that we may disregard the laws that are in the world,
that we may not render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, whether in obedience
or coin, that we may not be careful of avoiding the appearance of evil,
that we may think that we have so far transcended the ordinary stage of humanity
that we can live as super-humans, that the passion of Mars has in our
cases been changed to Uranian compassion, which is sexless. Under such misapprehensions,
many people who endeavor to tread the path disregard the laws
of marriage and enter into relationships as soulmates and affinities. They
feel the Uranian ray, but cannot quite respond to its sublime purity, therefore
they experience a counterfeit Venusian sensation which usually ends in
adultery and sex-perversion, so that instead of the natural animal passion
of Mars having been transmuted to the compassion of Uranus it has as a matter
of fact, degenerated into something that is far worse than the fullest
sex expression of the martial rays committed in a frank and proper manner.
This is a danger that cannot be too strictly guarded against and it behooves every one who endeavors to live the higher life not to try to aspire to the
Uranian rays until he at first becomes thoroughly imbued with the altruistic
vibrations of Jupiter, for more misery is brought into the world by those
who have aspired too high and fallen low, then by those who are not sufficiently
aspiring. "Pride goeth before a fall," is an ancient and very true
proverb, which it behooves every one of us to take to heart. The Christ
took part in the marriage at Cana. Marriage is a regular Christian institution,
and must exist until abolished in the kingdom to come; there the bodies
we have will not wear out and therefore there will be no need of marriage
to generate new ones.
Let it also be understood that the minister who marries cannot truly mate
people, therefore the presence of the basic harmony for true marriage should
be determined before the marriage ceremony.
As we have seen in the foregoing, Mars, Venus and Uranus mark three
stages in the emotional development of man. During the stage where he is
only amenable to Mars, animal passion reigns supreme and he seeks unrestricted
gratification of all his lower desires in the intercourse with his
fellowman but particularly with the opposite sex; during the stage where he
becomes amenable to the rays of Venus, love softens the brutality of his desires
and the animal passions are somewhat held in leash, he is even, under
the higher phases of this planet, ready to sacrifice himself and his desires for the benefit and comfort of the loved ones. When he has evolved to the
point where we can feel the rays of Uranus, the passion of Mars gradually
turns to compassion; there the love of Venus which is only for one particular
person, becomes all inclusive so that it embraces all humankind regardless
of sex or any other distinction, for it is the divine love of soul
for soul which is above all material considerations of whatever nature.
The mentality also evolves through three stages according to the amenability
of the person to the vibrations of the Moon, Mercury and Neptune.
While man is only amenable to the lunar influence, he is childlike and easily
guided by the higher powers, which have led him through the various
stages mentioned in our pervious chapters. Under the stellar ray of Mercury
he gradually develops his intellectual powers and becomes a reasoning being.
As such, he is placed under the law of cause and effect, made responsible
for his own actions, so that he may reap what he has sown and learn thereby
the lessons that human life has to teach him under the present regime. Being
inexperienced, he makes mistakes in whatever direction indicated by the
afflictions to Mercury in his horoscope and consequently he suffers a corresponding
penalty of sorrow and trouble. It he has not the mentality to
reason on the connection between this mistakes and the sad experiences growing
from them, during his life times, the panorama of life, which unfolds in the post-mortem state, makes this clear,and leaves with him an essence of
"right feeling" which we know as "conscience."
This conscience keeps him from repeating past mistakes, when the feeling
generated has become sufficiently strong to overbalance the tendency to
yield to the particular temptation which caused him suffering. Thus he
gradually develops a spiritual consciousness which is above and beyond human
reason, but which nevertheless is also connected with reason in such a manner
that when the result has been reached, the man who has this Cosmic Consciousness
knows the reason why such and such a thing is and must be, or why
he ought to take a certain action. This Cosmic Consciousness is developed
under the ray of Neptune and differs from that intuitional right feeling developed
under the ray of Uranus in the very important fact that while the
person who has developed the Uranian quality of intuition arrives at the
truth instantaneously without the necessity of thinking over the matter or
reasoning, he is unable to give anything but the result; he cannot connect
the various steps of logical sequence whereby the final result was reached.
The man or woman, however, who develops the Neptunian faculty, also has the
answer of any question immediately and is able to tell the reason why that
answer is the proper and right one.
The faculty of intuition built up from the Martial base of passion,
through the Venusian stage of love, and the Uranian rays of compassion, depends upon the ability of the person involved TO FEEL VERY INTENSELY. By
love and devotion, the heart is attuned to every other heart in the universe
and in this way it knows and feels all that may be known and felt by any
other heart in the universe, thus sharing the divine omniscience that binds
Our Father in Heaven to His children and through the direct heart to heart
touch with that omniscience the person obtains the answers to whatever problem
is placed before him.
The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent
spirituality, have attained their wonderful development through the
spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with
the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe.
But there are others who are not thus constituted and they are not able
to walk that path. These, through the Moon, Mercury and Neptune have developed
their intellect and attained the same results plus the Neptunian power
of idealization.
This is very important point and it is only brought out in the Western
Wisdom Teachings tell us that there is in addition a third factor in universal
advancement, namely, EPIGENESIS; the faculty whereby the spirit may
choose a course that is altogether new and independent of what has gone before. We see the expression of this in all kingdoms relative to form, but
in the human kingdom, epigenesis expresses itself as genius, a creative instinct,
which makes man more akin to the divine than any other of his accomplishments.
This is developed under the Neptune ray when that planet is
well placed in the horoscope. There is of course also such a thing as an
evil genius, a destructive faculty developed under an afflicted Neptune.
Only the most sensitive people in the world feel the rays of Uranus and
Neptune at the present time. To feel these vibrations the connection between
the dense physical body and the vital body, which is made of ether
must be rather loose for where these two vehicles are firmly interlocked the
person is always of a materialistic turn, and cannot respond to the higher
and more subtle vibrations from the spiritual world. But when the stellar
rays from these two planets impinge upon a person whose vital body is
loosely connected with the physical, we have what is called a sensitive.
The direction and quality of this faculty depends upon the placement and the
aspects of the two planets mentioned, however. Those who are particularly
under the domination of an adverse aspect of the Uranian ray, usually develop
the more undesirable phases of clairvoyance and mediumship. They easily
become the prey of entities from the invisible world who have no regard for their victims' desire, even if in a weak manner these should protest.
Such mediums are generally used in simple trance communications and in a few
cases known to the writer have lived very beautiful and happy lives because
of implicit belief in the spirits that dominated them. In these cases the
spirit-controls were of a better class than usually met with. But as this
Uranian faculty is built up through Mars and Venus, passion is prominent in
such natures and under the influence of obsessing spirits many of these
people are driven into gross immorality. Vampirism and kindred disreputable
practices are also engendered by the perverse use of the Uranian
ray in mediums.
Neptune may be said to represent the invisible worlds in more positive
aspects and those who come under the evil rays of this planet are therefore
brought in touch with the most undesirable occupants of the invisible
worlds. Actual obsession whereby the owner of a body is deprived of his vehicle
takes place under the ray of Neptune and no materializing seance could
ever be held if it were not for this stellar vibration. Magic, white or
black can never be put to practical use save under and because of this
Neptunian vibration. Apart from this ray it will remain theory, speculation
and book learning. Therefore the Initiates of every Mystery School,
Spiritual; Seers who have full control of their faculty, and Astrologers are
amenable in varying degrees to the ray of Neptune. The Black Magician and the Hypnotist, who is a twin brother to him, are also dependent upon the
power of this stellar ray for use in their nefarious practices.
The highest human development at the present time, namely, the soul
unfoldment which is undertaken in the mystery temples through initiation, is
directly the result of the Neptune ray, for just as evil configurations lay
men liable to assault by invisible entities, so the good configurations of
Neptune are particularly required to enable a man to unfold by initiation
his whole soul powers and become a conscience agent in the invisible worlds.
Let us remember, however, that good or evil configurations are not the result
of chance or luck, but are the product of our own past acts; the horoscope
shows what we have earned by our past living and therefore what we are
entitled to in the present life.
Moreover it should always be kept in mind that THE STARS IMPEL BUT DO NOT
COMPEL; because a man or woman has an evil configuration of Neptune or
Uranus it is not unavoidable that they should go into active evil Mediumship
and Black Magic and thereby makes life harder for themselves in the future.
Their opportunity to do so and the temptation will come at certain times
when the heavenly time markers point to the right hour on the clock of destiny.
Then it is time to stand form for the good and for the right; being
forewarned through a knowledge of Astrology one is also forearmed and may
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Thus we have seen that man is amenable to the planetary rays in an increasing
measure as he advances through evolution, but the more highly he
becomes developed spiritually the less he will allow the planets to dominate
him, while the younger soul is driven unresistingly along the tide of life
in whatever direction of the planetary vibrations impel him. It is the mark
of the advanced soul that he keeps the true course regardless of the planetary
vibrations. Between these two extremes there are naturally all
graduations, some amenable to the rays of one planet, some to another. The
bark of life of men and women is often driven upon the rocks of sorrow and
suffering, that they may learn to evolve within themselves the will power
that finally frees them from all domination by the ruling stars. As Goethe,
the great mystic, said,
"From every power that holds the world in chains,
Man frees himself when self-control he gains."
And it may be asked, have we run the gamut of vibrations when we have
learned to respond to all the seven planets which are mythically represented
as the seven strings on Apollo's Lyre? In other words is Neptune the highest
vibration to which we shall yet respond? The Western Wisdom Teachings
tell us that there are two more planets in the universe which will be known
in future ages and that these will have an influence in developing qualities
of so transcendent a nature that we cannot now understand them. The number of Adam, man or humanity, is nine, and there are nine rungs upon
the stellar ladder by which he is ascending to God; up to the present time
he has climbed only five of these rungs; Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and
Saturn, and not even the vibration of these has he by any means learned;
Uranus and Neptune are slowly coming into our lives; they will not become
active in the same manner and to the same degree that for instance, the Moon
and Mars are at the present time until many ages have passed. But even when
we have learned to respond to them there are two more which we shall know
something later on; it is the opinion of the writers that these are probably
not felt by any except those who have graduated from the Greater Mystery
School and by the Hierophants of that sublime institution.
In conclusion to this article on the Amenability of Man to Planetary Vibrations
we quote from the Rosicrucian Mysteries the article on Light, Color
and Consciousness.
"Truly, GOD IS ONE AND UNDIVIDED. He enfolds within His Being all that
is, as the white light embraces all colors. But He appears three-fold in
manifestation, as the white light is refracted in three primary colors,
Blue, Yellow and Red. Wherever we see these colors they are emblematical of
the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. These three primary rays of Divine Life
are diffused or radiated through the Sun and produce LIFE, CONSCIOUSNESS AND FORM upon each of the seven light bearers, the planets, which are called the
'Seven Spirits before the Throne.' Their names are, Mercury, Venus, Earth,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Bode's law proves that Neptune does not
yet belong to our solar system and the reader is referred to 'Simplified,
Scientific Astrology' by the present writer, for mathematical demonstration
of this condition.
"Each of the seven planets receives the light of the Sun in a different
measure, according to its proximity to the central orb and the constitution
of its atmosphere, and the beings on each, according to their stage of development
have affinity for some of the solar rays. The planets absorb the
color or colors congruous to them, and reflect the rest upon the other planets.
This reflected ray bears with it an impulse of the nature of the beings
with which it has been in contact.
"Thus the divine Light and Life comes to each planet, either directly
from the Sun, or reflected from its six sister planets. and as the summer
breeze which has been wafted over blooming fields carries upon its silent,
invisible wings the blended fragrance of a multitude of flowers, so also the
subtle influences from THE GARDEN OF GOD bring to us the commingled impulses
of all the Planetary Spirits and in that vari-colored light we live and move
and have our being.
"The rays which come directly from the Sun are productive of spiritual
illumination; the reflected rays from other planets make for added con-sciousness and moral development and the rays reflected by way of the Moon
give physical growth.
"But as each planet can only absorb a certain quantity of one or more
colors according to the general stage of evolution there, so each being upon
earth, mineral, plant, animal and man can only absorb and thrive upon a certain
quantity of the various rays projected upon the earth. The remainder
do not affect it or produce sensation any more than the blind are conscience
of the light and color which exist everywhere around them. Therefore each
being is differently affected by the stellar rays, and the science of Astrology,
a fundamental truth in nature is of enormous benefit in the attainment
of spiritual growth."

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CHAPTER III
WERE YOU BORN UNDER A LUCKY STAR?
Have you ever looked through a kaleidoscope at the patterns formed there
by the many little pieces of varicolored glass, and noticed how the slightest
disturbance of the position changes the pattern? Also, do you realize
that it would be impossible, or almost so, to duplicate any pattern, no matter
how much you were to turn; there is such a variety of effect. Similarly
when you look into the heavens night after night you will notice changes
among the planets, in fact such is the variety of changes that occur among
them that it would be impossible to duplicate the position which they hold
relatively to one another while you are reading this, for almost twenty-six
thousand years. Thus in the planetary kaleidoscope there is, we might say,
an infinity of patterns. When we realize that human beings are entering the
world constantly and that each being is stamped at the first complete breath
with the planetary pattern then in the sky, everyone must necessarily be
different from everyone else. Nor should this statement about stellar influence
create doubt when we consider that wireless saves of different
lengths and different pitch sent out from a tiny man-made contrivance can make themselves felt and can register by mechanical operations involving expenditure
of energy thousands of miles from their source. The planetary vibrations
from those great orbs in the heavens make themselves felt millions
of miles away as surely, as easily, and with equal uncertainty. We know
that the angle of the solar ray determines whether it is winter or summer.
We also know the effect of the Moon upon the waters, and it is within the
experience of all that we feel more buoyant when the atmosphere is clear and
dry than when it is moist and murky. And what determines these atmospheric
conditions but the planets, the circling stars?
When we look up at this planetary kaleidoscope from time to time we see
in the heavens various configurations which are pronounced lucky or unlucky
according to whether they are formed between so-called benefices alone, such
as Venus, Jupiter and the Sun, or planets said to be malefic such as Saturn,
Mars or Uranus. When Jupiter and Venus are in close conjunction near the
mid-heaven, it is a foregone conclusion that those who come into the world
under this configuration will enjoy a measure of good fortune far above the
average, and such persons would therefore me considered "lucky" in the extreme.
On the other hand there are times when Saturn and Mars occupy the
zenith position for souls that are born to suffer.
But why should one suffer and another be born under a lucky star? Why do
the stars give good fortune to one and misfortune to others, and if we are born to "luck": whether good or bad, what is the use or where is the incentive
to individual effort? If there is a law of nature which is established
beyond doubt it is surely the law of Cause and Effect. Every cause must
produce an adequate effect and nothing which we see as an effect can be
without a pre-existence cause. Moreover, if this is a universal law it must
apply to the conditions of birth as well as to subsequent life. Following
up this idea the next question is: If our birth under a lucky or unlucky
star. Thus by induction of belief in Astrology requires also a belief in a
previous existence as well as in future lives, for while we are now reaping
in our horoscopes the effects of our past lives we are also by out acts laying
the foundations for a new horoscope which can only be worked out in a
future life.
"How closely luck is linked to merit
Does never to the fool occur;
Had he the wise man's stone, I swear it,
The stone had no philospher,"
said MEPHISTO sarcastically in "FAUST" and it is true. If we are born under
a lucky star it shows that we have earned good fortune thereby indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives,
for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves. If we happen
to have Saturn and Mars instead of Venus and Jupiter near zenith, it shows
that in the past we ourselves have not been kindly and friendly or we could
not now express the opposite traits. But this is just the point where the
study of Astrology should help us. It shows our limitations for the present
and it points out the obvious remedies and HOW TO BUILD FOR THE FUTURE. Can
the leopard change its skin? No. Can the lion cease to prey? Absolutely
impossible. Can the flower cease to bloom or the mineral to crystallize?
Certainly not; because they are under laws which are as unchangeable as the
laws of the Medes and Persians. THEY HAVE NEITHER CHOICE NOR PREROGATIVE
but must obey the dictates of the group spirit which guides them along their
path of evolution. But in this respect we differ radically from those lower
kingdoms, we have both choice and prerogative. WE MAY DO WHATSOEVER WE WILL
and that is a factor which is never shown in the horoscope, a factor that
may be made to play an all important role in every life. It is not enough
to be born under a lucky star to have a lucky life, for the horoscope shows
only the tendencies and the person who is so well endowed will without questions
have an abundance of opportunities to make his life fortunate in the
very highest degree. BUT ONLY IN SO FAR AS HE EXERTS HIMSELF TO GRASP OPPORTUNITY on the wing, will that which is foreshadowed in his horoscope
come to pass. And similarly with the person who is afflicted by the conjunction
of two malefics in the mid-heaven or anywhere else in the horoscope.
By his will, and the exercise of choice, which are his divine birthrights,
HE MAY RULE HIS STARS and make of the unlucky horoscope a fruitful
life from a far higher standpoint than the other. The bark that has been
tossed by the tempest harbors a job when the haven of safety is reached that
is not equaled on the ship that has always said on smiling seas.
"Who never ate his bread in sorrow,
Who never passed the midnight hours
Weeping, waiting for the morrow,
He knows not yet ye heavenly powers."
From the higher standpoint those who are living in the lap of luxury are
to be pitied when their lucky stars give them all the good things of this
world and cause them to forget that they are stewards and that the day is
coming when their souls shall be required of them with an accounts of their
stewardship. They shall then be forced to confess that they have failed to
use the substance entrusted to them in the proper manner; while others under
the strain and stress of live, expressed by the horoscopical squares and oppositions,
have wrung from their unlucky stars a measure of victory. What
wonder then if the king's messengers, the circling stars, take from the unfaithful steward that which he had and give to the other, changing the
latter's adversity to prosperity in later lives. Thus the pendulum of luck
and loss, success and failure swings through many lives till we learn to
make our own "luck" by ruling our stars.
"A god can love without cessation,
But under laws of alteration
We mortals need, in changing measure,
Our share of pain as well as pleasure."
And it is this necessity for change that is ministered unto us by the circling
stars which form configurations that we call good or evil, though they
are neither from a higher standpoint; for no matter how good the horoscope,
by progression of the stars evil configurations are sure to come and no matter
how evil, there are always new opportunities for good given by aspects
of the Sun, Venus, and Jupiter to our planets at birth. ALL THAT WE HAVE TO
DO IS TO GRASP THE OPPORTUNITY, AND HELP OUR STARS, THAT OUR STARS MAY HELP
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AMULETS, BIRTH-STONES AND PLANETARY COLORS
In the windows of jeweler's shops and in cheap, ready made horoscopes one
may often read that it is "LUCKY" for people born in a certain month to wear
a particular stone or color. It means business to the jeweler and the astrological
prestidigitator who produced "your horoscope" by a turn of the wrist from a box when you tell him in what month you were born. Both buy
their instructive (?) literature at a nominal price per thousand, the principal
cost being paper and printers' ink; there are no furrows in their
foreheads from deep and earnest study of the problem.
But as the counterfeit coin argues the existence of the genuine, so also
the fallacious information flippantly dispensed by people who cater to the
sense of mystery and wonder which is deeply imbedded in human nature argues
the existence of a genuine science of mineralogical correspondences with the
stellar rays impinging upon all who inhabit our sub-lunar sphere; and when
this is rightly understood by the majority of people, for then it is THE
RESULT OF ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE SCIENTIFICALLY USED, and therefore the outcome
is as inevitable as that water runs down hill.
The philosophy of planetary colors and mineralogy is that each of the
Creative Hierarchies which is active in evolution works with the various
classes of beings from mineral to man, and is responsible for the progress
made by them. In the course of this work each Hierarchy naturally imparts
to the beings with whom it labors some of its own nature and vibration.
Thus each group of minerals, each species of plant and animal, vibrates to a
certain keynote which blends with the vibration of the Group Spirit, and the particular sign and planet with which he is most nearly attuned.
It has been taught by the Elder Brothers in the Rosicrucian
Cosmo-Conception, that:
The Archangels, who were humans in the Sun Period when the present
animals started their evolution with a mineral-like existence, are now the
Group Spirits of the animals.
The Angels, who were human in the Moon Period when the present plants
commenced their evolution with a similar mineral constitution are now the
Group Spirits of the planets. Man, who reached the human stage in the Earth
Period, is now working with the new life-wave which started its evolution on
the Earth as minerals. He is not far enough advanced to assume the role of
Group Spirit, that being reserved for the future. In the Jupiter Period he
will give them life as plants have, in the Venus Period he will bring out
their desires and emotions as animals, and in the Vulcan Period he will give
them a mind and make then human. That, however, is all in the future. At
present he is working with them to the best of his ability, smelting them
into iron bridges, ships and skeleton skyscrapers; he is pulling them into
wires which wind around the world; he is grinding from them gems that glitter
and grace the great in our social structure, and thus he is gradually
establishing an intimate relationship with them and preparing to take charge of their evolution as a Group Spirit at some future time.
It is well known to students of Astrology that an astrological reading
based upon the month in which an individual is born is worth little, for all
the people born in the same month do not have the same experiences by any
means, but if we consider the DAY, the YEAR and the PLACE we get a horoscope
that is absolutely individual and totally different in detail from the horoscope
of anyone else--and this is the point which concerns us for the
present argument--the ruler is not the lord of the sign of the Sun is in,
except for children born at Sunrise, when the Sun is on the Ascendant. IT
IS THE RULER OF THE RISING SIGN, THAT IS THE DETERMINATOR WITH REGARD TO OUR
MINERALOGICAL AFFINITY, because at the moment of conception when the
seed-atom of our present mineral body was deposited the Moon was in that
particular sign and degree, (or its opposite), and acted then as a focus of
forces which have since crystallized into the vehicle we now wear.
The following table shows the affinity of each of the twelve signs with
certain gems, metals and colors, and in that chart there are the elements
for making an effective talisman by any individual who has the knowledge of
how to cast a horoscope and blend the ingredients according to the requirements
of the case. We have no scruples about telling how this is done, for
it may help some to help themselves and others. The only harm it can do is that it might induce some unscrupulous person to make tailsman for money and
even then, if he is conscientious about the work, whoever obtains them will
not be cheated, the re-action being upon the one who prostitutes the
spiritual science for material gain.