Filename: RC1085.TXT
Compiled from: "The Rosicrucian Philosophy In Questions & Answers, Vol. II"
                by Max Heindel

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                          BIBLICAL PROOF OF REBIRTH:

                              QUESTION NO. 104:

   CAN  YOU PROVE FROM THE BIBLE THAT THE EGO IS BORN AND REBORN TILL IT  IS
FIT TO BE IN GOD'S PRESENCE?

   ANSWER:   There are some people who believe that the Bible is  absolutely
true,  word for word,  from cover to cover.   Moreover,  in controversy they
seem to argue as though it had originally been written in English and  every
word meant just what is said and nothing else.

   As a matter of fact, the Bible has been translated, transcribed,  edited,
and re-edited so many times that interpolations have,  of course,  crept in.
Some have been inserted unintentionally, due to the fact that a copyist will

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make a slip with the pen occasionally.  There have also been cases where in-
terpolations were put in to support a certain doctrine in which the  copyist
believed  and which was not clearly enunciated.   Among scholars it is  well
recognized  that  only a general outline of the original  teachings  remains
with us today.

   In  all  religions an exoteric side was always given  to  the  multitude.
this  contained the more elementary teachings, but a deeper place was  given
to  those  who had fitted themselves by their lives  for  understanding  the
deeper  mysteries.   We  may take the counsel of Christ  to  His  disciples:
"Unto  you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of  the  heavens
but  unto these in parables,"  as an indication that there is a similar  ar-
rangement in the Christian religion.

   Among these mysteries was the doctrine of rebirth,  which you will see He
must have taught from the following conversation.   He asked them:   "Who do
men say that I ,  the son of man, am?"   They answered and said:   "Some say
that you are John the Baptist, some Elijah,  and some that you are Jeremiah,
or  one of the prophets."   These personages had all died and  their  bodies
must have decayed in the grave.  Yet we find people believing that Jesus was
one of them reborn.   If this principle of rebirth had been wrong,  it would
have  been  His duty as a teacher to have set His disciples  right,  and  He
would probably have said:  "What nonsense!  How can I be one of those?  They

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have been gone for centuries."  Instead He asks, "Who do you say that I am?"

   In  the case of Elijah He taught this doctrine outright,  for he said  to
His disciples concerning John the Baptist:   "This is Elijah if you will re-
ceive  it."   There is no equivocation,  but a straight  forward  statement:
"This is Elijah."  This statement was reiterated later on when they left the
Mount of Transfiguration, for on that occasion Christ said to His disciples:
"Elijah has come and they have done to him as they listed."   Then they knew
that He spoke of John the Baptist.

                      NATURE OF JESUS' BODY AFTER DEATH:

                              QUESTION NO. 105:

   IF,  AS YOU SAY,  JESUS' BODY WAS SCATTERED TO THE FOUR WINDS AT THE TIME
OF THE BURIAL, HOW THEN DID THOMAS TOUCH JESUS AFTER DEATH?  HOW DID HE SAY:
"HANDLE ME AND SEE, FOR A SPIRIT HAS NOT FLESH AND BONES AS YE SEE ME HAVE"?
LATER ON IT IS SAID THAT HE ATE FISH AND HONEY.  IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A SPIRIT
WITHOUT A FLESHY BODY TO EAT AND TO BE TOUCHED?

   ANSWER:  This question is one that occurs very often.  We might refer you
to the back files where it has been answered, but as so many new people come

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in  constantly,  it seems that perhaps it is better to take it up anew.   As
the writer never refers to back numbers himself,  he will each time take  up
these matters from a different angel which may give new points even to those
who  have  had them answered before,  and thus the reiteration will  not  be
without benefit.

   Our latest investigations indicate that where a man spiritualizes his ve-
hicles,  the constitution of the vital body, made of ether,  is most materi-
ally  changed.   In the ordinary man there is always a preponderance of  the
two  lower ethers--the chemical and life ethers--which have to do  with  the
upbuilding and propagation of the physical body,  and a minimum of the light
and the reflecting ethers, which are concerned with sense perception and the
higher  spiritual qualities.   After death the body of the ordinary  man  is
laid in the grave and the vital body hovers about two feet above the  mound,
gradually  disintegrating.   The dense  body  disintegrates  simultaneously.
However,  when we say it decays,  we really mean that it becomes  much  more
alive  than it was while man inhabited it,  for each little molecule is  now
taken charge of by a separate, individual life.  It begins to associate with
its neighbors;  the unity of an individual life is superseded by a community
of many lives.

   Therefore  we  speak of such decaying corpses as alive with  worms.   the
denser and the more gross this vehicle is,  the longer time it will  require
for  disintegration,  because  the vital body hovering above has a tenacious

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magnetic  hold  that  keeps the dense molecules in check.   The  two  higher
ethers vibrate at a much more rapid rate than the lower,  and where a man by
spiritual thoughts has massed around him a great volume of this ether, which
then composes his vital body,  the vibrations of the dense body also  become
more intense.   Consequently, when the man leaves his body at death there is
little  or nothing of the vital body left behind to keep the  components  of
the  physical body in check.   The disintegration is therefore  very  rapid.
This  we  cannot  easily  prove because very  few  people  are  sufficiently
spiritual to make the difference noticeable, but you will recall that in the
Bible  it  is said of certain characters that they were  translated.   Also,
that  the body of Moses was so vibrant that it shone,  and his body was  not
found, etc.

   These were cases where the body was rapidly returned to the elements, and
when  the Christ's body was laid in the grave its disintegration took  place
almost instantaneously.

   However,  so long as the archetype of the physical body persists,  it en-
deavors to draw to itself physical materials which it then shapes  according
to  the  form  of the vital body.  Thus it is difficult  for  the  invisible
Helper who passes out of his body to refrain from materializing.  The moment
his will to keep away from himself all physical impediments is relaxed,  ma-
terials  from  the surrounding atmosphere attach themselves to him  as  iron
filings are drawn to a magnet,  and he becomes visible and tangible to what-

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ever extent he desires.  Thus he is enabled to do actual physical work wher-
ever  it is necessary,  no matter if he be thousands of miles away from  his
body.   On the other hand, what really brings about death is the collapse of
the archetype of the dense body.   Therefore the Spirits who pass away  from
this  earth life are unable to materialize save through a medium where  they
extract her living vital body,  drape themselves therewith and thus  attract
the physical substances necessary to make themselves visible to the sitters.

   There is a third class,  namely, the initiated Invisible Helpers who have
passed  out of this life.   They have learned to attract or  repel  physical
matter by their wills,  as stated previously, and therefore they are able to
materialize despite the fact that their archetype has collapsed.

   The Christ naturally was at the head of this class and consequently  able
to pass through a wall in His vital body,  for as the ether  interpenetrates
every physical molecule, so also the vital body, made of ether, may likewise
pass through physical obstructions.  Once in the room with His disciples, He
attracted  to Himself by an exercise of will sufficient physical  matter  to
clothe Himself in a dense body.   Then it was possible for His disciples  to
touch and handle Him as stated in the Gospels.

   Respecting  the  eating of the fish and honey,  there is  a  mystic  sig-
nificance to this which will be  taken  up in the Astral Ray department at a

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later date.  You will note that fish is very, very prominent in all the Gos-
pels.   The  disciples were fishermen and had miraculous drafts  of  fishes.
Parables were told of them and people were fed with loaves and fishes.   The
story of Jonah and the whale and all other such narratives have an  esoteric
and  astrological significance that will be brought out in the  articles  of
which  we  speak,  so we will not go into that part of the question  at  the
present time.   We will just answer the last part of your question:   "Is it
possible for a Spirit without a fleshly body to eat and drink?"  In the low-
est  regions of the Desire World which interpenetrate the Etheric Region  of
the Physical World there are classes of Spirits of whom we hear a great deal
in  spiritualistic literature.   They live in houses,  they eat  and  drink.
They have,  in fact,  all relations of life exactly as we have them here and
continue very much the same manner of existence as they did when among us in
the visible world.   It is also possible for a materialized Spirit or for an
initiate who materializes to eat and drink,  but it would then be  necessary
to  dispose of the materials taken into the body in a different method  than
by the ordinary process of assimilation.

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                             THE BIRTH OF JESUS:

                              QUESTION NO. 106:

   HOW DO YOU RECONCILE THE STATEMENT OF THE BIBLE THAT JOSEPH KNEW NOT MARY
UNTIL SHE HAD BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRST-BORN, JESUS, WHO WAS THUS CONCEIVED OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT,  WITH THE ROSICRUCIAN TEACHING THAT JESUS WAS THE SON OF  A
HUMAN FATHER, JOSEPH, AND MARY, HIS MOTHER?

   ANSWER:   If  you look at the genealogies of Jesus given in  Matthew  and
Luke, you will find that the parentage is traced through Joseph to Adam; not
one  word  is spoken about mary.   As we indicated in a previous  answer,  a
copyist  may have interpolated the passage to prove the materialistic  sense
of the Immaculate Conception.

   If  you take the esoteric doctrine of the Immaculate Conception  no  such
judging is necessary.   Jehovah,  the Holy Spirit, the leader of the Angels,
is everywhere in the Bible shown as the given of children.   His  messengers
came to Sarah to announce the birth of Isaac to her;  to Hannah to  announce
the birth of Samuel; to Mary to announce the advent of Jesus, whose vehicles
were later given to the Christ.  The power of the Holy Spirit fructifies the
human ovum as well as the kernel of grain in the earth, and the original sin
occurred when Adam knew his wife contrary to the approbation of Jehovah.

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   That  transgression brought the stain of sin upon a scared function,  but
when a holy life has made pure the desires, a man becomes filled with a holy
spirit  and it is possible to perform the generative function  without  pas-
sion.  Hence the conception is immaculate.  The child born under such condi-
tions is naturally superior, because the conception then is a sacred rite of
self-sacrifice and not an act of self-gratification.

                      QUESTIONS DEALING WITH ASTROLOGY:

                                 DIAGRAM 5:

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|  >--->THE DIVINE SPIRIT>----->---->----->---->--->THE DENSE BODY>----->   |
| /|\                                                                   |   |
|  |      >-->THE LIFE SPIRIT>-->---->---->---->THE VITAL BODY>-->     \|/  |
| /|\    /|\                                                     |      |   |
|  |      |      >->THE HUMAN SPIRIT>-->THE DESIRE BODY>-->      |      |   |
|  |      |      |                                        |     \|/    \|/  |
|  |     /|\    /|\                                      \|/     |      |   |
|  |      |      |                                        |      |      |   |
| /|\     |      |             |-------------|            |      |     \|/  |
|  |      |      |             |    MIND:    |            |     \|/     |   |
|  |     /|\    /|\            | the link or |           \|/     |      |   |
|  |      |      |             |    focus    |            |      |      |   |
|  |      |      |             |-------------|            |      |     \|/  |
| /|\     |      |                                        |     \|/     |   |
|  |     /|\    /|\                                      \|/     |      |   |
|  |      |      |                                        |      |      |   |
|  |      |      <----<----<THE EMOTIONAL SOUL<-<----<----<     \|/     |   |
|  |      |                                                      |      |   |
| /|\     <-----<----<----<THE INTELLECTUAL SOUL<-<----<----<----<     \|/  |
|  |                                                                    |   |
|  <---<----<----<-----<--<  THE CONSCIOUS SOUL---<----<----<----<----<-<   |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

              Diagram 5 shows the Tenfold Constitution of Man 

   Man is a threefold Spirit, possessing a Mind by means of which he governs a 
threefold Body, which he emanated from  himself  to  gather  experience.  This 
threefold body he transmutes into a threefold Soul, upon  which  he  nourishes 
himslef from impotence to omnipotence. 

The Divine Spirit >|emanates|> The Dense Body  >|extracting|>   Conscious Soul
The Life Spirit   >|  from  |> The Vital Body  >|   as     |>Intellectual Soul
The Human Spirit  >| itself |> The Desire Body >| pabulum  |>   Emotional Soul


   The mirror of Mind also contributes increasingly to spiritual growth as the 
thoughts  which it transmits to and from  the  Spirit  polish  it  to  greater 
brightness, sharpening and intensifying its focus more and more  to  a  single 
point, perfectly flexible and under the control of the Spirit. 

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                  ASTROLOGICAL ORIGIN OF CONSCIENTIOUSNESS:

                              QUESTION NO. 107:

   IN  THE  ASTROLOGICAL  READINGS YOU FREQUENTLY REFER TO  JUPITER  AS  THE
PLANET OF LAW,  ORDER,  AND ETHICS, AND ALSO TO SATURN AS THE PLANET OF SYS-
TEM, JUSTICE, AND VIRTUE.

   MAY  I  ASK WITH JUST WHAT PLANETS AND SIGNS THE SENTIMENT  OF  CONSCIEN-
TIOUSNESS  IS MOST INTIMATELY ASSOCIATED,  WHETHER THERE IS ANY ONE OR  MORE
PREEMINENT IN THAT SENTIMENT?  CONSCIENTIOUSNESS IS OF COURSE AT THE ROOT OF
LAW, ETHICS, JUSTICE, VIRTUE, ETC.

   ANSWER:   According  to the Rosicrucian Teachings,  when the  Spirit  has
passed out of the physical life at death,  it sees the panorama of its  past
live  passing before it in reverse order.   At that time the pictures  which
make  up this life story are etched into the finer vehicles,  which the  Ego
takes  with it into the invisible worlds.  It is the reaction from the  pic-
tures where the Spirit has done some wrong,  which causes the suffering that
constitues  its purgatorial experience.   This eradicates the pictures  from
the  life panorama,  but leaves an aroma--that which we call  conscience--to
warn  the  Spirit  in its next life not to do the  things  which  previously
caused the purgatorial suffering.  Conscientiousness is the positive quality
of  the  negative conscience.   Conscience prompts us NOT DO DO  the  things
which  are wrong;  conscienctiousness prompts US TO DO the things  that  are
right.

   Mythologically,  Saturn is the reaper with his seythe and hourglass,  the
angel of death,  who ushers us from active life into the purgatorial  exist-
ence where we reap what we have sown.  Therefore, in that sense Saturn is at
the root of conscience.  He always warns us, saying "don't,  don't,  don't,"
and if by listening to his voice in the past we have him in a position where
in this life he aspects the other planets well, notably Jupiter,  the planet
of law, order, ethics, and also the Sun, which gives us our loftiest ideals,
then we have the conscientious man or woman,  who always fulfills every duty
in  life,  no matter how arduous the task and what perseverance and  persis-
tence is required, or what self-sacrifice is involved.   Thus conscientious-
ness  is  not given by one planet alone but requires a  combination  of  the
highest  virtues  in several of the planets to bring it to its  highest  and
most  noble expression.   Of course there are many people who are  conscien-
tious because of minor benefic configurations (astrologically speaking), but
the highest phase requires the cooperation of the Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn.

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                         PLANETS AFFECTED BY PLANETS:

                             QUESTIONS NO. 108:

   ARE PLANETS UNDER THE DOMINATION OF PLANETS AND THE SIGNS?   IF SO PLEASE
EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY?

   ANSWER:   There are,  as we know four different kingdoms now upon  earth:
the mineral, vegetable or plant, animal, and human kingdoms.  The Spirits in
these  four life waves are evolving under the guidance and with the help  of
the other invisible hierarchies.

   The  Lords of Mind make their densest body of mind stuff from the  Region
of  Concrete  Thought.   They are adapts in working with this  material  and
therefore they influence humanity, who have a mind.

   The Archangels make their densest body of desire stuff.   They are adapts
in  the manipulation of this substance,  and therefore they  are  especially
fitted  to aid less evolved beings who have vehicles made of that  material.
Hence they work with animal and man, who possess desire bodies.

   The Angels make their densest body of ether,  so they are well versed  in
the working of this grade of matter and eminently fitted to help others  who
are not so expert.   Hence they exercise an influence for good over  plants,
animals, and men, who have vital bodies made of ether.

   Human  beings  make  their  densest  body  of  the  chemical  and mineral

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constituents of the earth, and ages of accumulated experience have fitted us
to a certain degree to work with beings who have mineral bodies, such as the
plants, animals, and human beings.

   It should be remembered,  however,  that our evolution upon the earth  is
only  half finished and that we have not yet attained fifty per cent of  the
proficiency in this work which will be ours when that part of our  evolution
is completed.  IN the hoary past, before our eyes were opened we say interi-
orly, the creative energy was turned inwards for the purpose of building or-
gans,  as now our genius is used outwardly for building  airships,  bridges,
houses,  boats,  etc.   We use the dead mineral bodies of animals  for  shoe
leather,  billiard balls,  food,  and clothing, but as we can work only with
these  seemingly  dead things our manipulation involves the process  of  de-
struction.   We  destroy the integrity of the mineral to extract  the  gold,
silver, copper, or whatever other part seems precious to us.  We destroy the
trees in the forest to make doors, houses, etc.  We kill the animals to make
them into food, clothing, toys, and trinkets.

   Not so with the Angels or the other creative hierarchies.  They deal with
life in a constructive manner.

   The Archangels inhabit the Sun,  and the Angels are located on the  moons
of the solar system.   It is well known that planets love the Sun,  for they
are in the second period of their evolution,  the Sun Period.   As they  now
constitued,  however, they cannot endure the intense vibrations of the Arch-
angels,  which  are dry and parching us the desire bodies wherein they live.

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The plants need, in addition to the light of the Sun, the water ruled by the
Moon,  and  it is the gentle ray of that orb which carries  the  fertilizing
agent and gives the growth to all that lives.  Therefore,  seed planted when
the Moon is increasing in light,  that is to say,  from the new Moon to  the
full, grow a larger top than if planted when the Moon is dark, or decreasing
in light, from the full to the new.  Contrariwise, seeds sown while the Moon
is decreasing in light will grow more under-ground than on top.

   There are also certain signs that are more favorable than others to plant
growth because they have certain affinities with the lunar vibrations.   The
watery signs,  Scorpio and Pisces,  are fruitful signs for that reason,  and
seeds planted while the Moon,  the queen of the water,  goes through one  of
these  signs will produce better results than when the Moon is in the  fiery
signs,  Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.  These are Sun signs and therefore cal-
culated to burn up the vital spark in the seed.   Much more might be said on
this subject but the foregoing will probably give the information required.

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                     INFLUENCE OF THE PLEIADES AND ORION:

                              QUESTION NO. 109:

   I FIND IN THE BIBLE IN THE BOOK OF JOB THE WORDS:   "CANST THOU BIND  THE
SWEET INFLUENCE OF THE PLEIADES OR LOOSE THE BANDS OF ORION?"   IS THERE ANY
INFLUENCE OF THESE STARS UPON MEN?

   ANSWER:   Yes,  there is no doubt that all the stars in the universe have
an  influence upon men,  and some astrologers also make the positions  of  a
number of fixed stars when they cast a horoscope.  To our minds that is only
a  waste of time and work,  for the average human mind is now put to a  suf-
ficiently  severe  test  to balance the interacting  influences  of  houses,
signs, and aspecting planets in such a manner as to read accurately the full
message  of  the  stars as shown by these elementary  factors.   It  may  be
stated,  however,  with  respect to the Pleiades that it  is  one  of  three
nebulous spots in the zodiac which has been found to exert an evil influence
upon  the  eyes under certain horoscopic configurations of the Sun  or  Moon
with Saturn, Mars, Uranus, and Neptune.

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                        THE TIME OF THE AQUARIAN AGE:

                              QUESTION NO. 100:


   MANY PEOPLE REALIZE THESE DAYS THAT WE ARE ENTERING, OR ABOUT TO ENTER, A
NEW AGE.   SOME UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS THE AQUARIAN AGE, AND TO A CERTAIN EX-
TEND WHAT IT STANDS FOR.   HOWEVER,  I HAVE NOT AS YET HEARD AN INTELLIGIBLE
EXPLANATION OF JUST WHEN OUR EARTH OR SOLAR SYSTEM WOULD ENTER THIS AGE, AND
WHETHER  THE AQUARIAN AGE COINCIDES WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE SUN THROUGH  THE
CONSTELLATION  AQUARIUS OR THROUGH THE ZODIACAL DIVISION BY THAT NAME.

   ANSWER:  In this paragraph our correspondent takes up a number of points,
and on the principle that "the last shall be first," we shall first consider
the last part of his interrogation, where he makes a distinction between the
constellation Aquarius and the zodiacal division by that name.  This, in it-
self, is a great difficulty to many people, who do not know how to differen-
tiate  between  the zodiacal constellations and the  so-called  intellectual
zodiac.  The explanation is as follows:

   A certain group of stars in the heavens is called Aries;  another  group,
located  close to them,  is called Taurus; a third group of fixed  stars  is
called Gemini,  and so on.  These twelve constellations, or groups of stars,
as seen in the heavens,  always  remain  in  the same relative position, and

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they are therefore unchangeable.

   Through all the centuries of which we have record,  these stars have  re-
mained in the same group and in about the same relative position, one to an-
other.   Through these constellations the Sun circles from year to year with
unvarying  precision,  but owing to the fact that the axis of the earth  in-
clines toward the Sun and has a wobbling motion,  similar to that of a spin-
ning top which has almost spend its force,  the motion of the Sun appears to
be uneven.  Each year, when it enters the constellation Aries,  crossing the
earth's equator, it is a little earlier than the year before.   IT PRECEDES.
Thus the point where the Sun crosses the equator at the vernal equinox moves
backwards from year to year at the rate of one degree in seventy-two  years,
and  the  whole  twelve  signs in twenty-five  thousand  eight  hundred  and
fifty-six years.  This latter period is called a Great Sidereal year.

   It  has been observed that no matter where in the zodiac the Sun  crosses
the equator,  a certain physical effect takes place.   The flowers begin  to
sprout out of the earth, the birds begin to mate,  the mute earth awakens to
new life,  new hope, and new song.  Also the spiritual effects following the
Sun's  entrance into the Northern hemisphere at the vernal equinox has  been
observed to remain unchanged.   Therefore the first thirty degrees from that
point, where the Sun crosses the equator,  are called Aries, the next thirty

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degrees are called Taurus,  the third thirty degrees are called Gemini,  and
so on through the twelve signs.

   This intellectual division of the circle of the zodiac coincides with the
constellations  in the heavens only once in twenty-five thousand eight  hun-
dred and fifty-six years.   During all the rest of the time the intellectual
zodiac moves backwards,  as explained,  on account of the precession of  the
equinox.   The last time when the starting point in the intellectual  zodiac
agreed  with the zodiacal constellations was about 500 A.D.   A  year  after
these  points  were in exact agreement, the Sun crossed  the  equator  about
fifty seconds of space in the constellation Pisces.   The year following  it
was  one  minute and forty seconds of space into Pisces,  and  it  has  been
creeping backwards ever since, until at the present time the Sun crosses the
equator in about ten degrees of the constellation Pisces.   It will thus  be
about 700 years before it actually crosses the celestial equator in the con-
stellation Aquarius.

   The Aquarian Age may be said to start at the time when the Sun enters, by
precession,  the  30th degree of the constellation Aquarius,  and  it  lasts
2,100 years,  while the Sun moves backwards through the thirty degrees until
it comes to the first degree of Aquarius.   There is,  however,  no definite
and sharp cut-off such as we make when we say we enter the year 1915,  which
begins  at  twelve o'clock on the night of the 31st of December,  1914,  and
lasts until the 31st of December, 1915 at  12  o'clock  midnight.  That is a

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mathematical division of time.  The various epochs of human existence depend
upon  vital  influences  in life,  and are conditions of  mind  rather  than
divisions of time, though the two are linked.

   Therefore,  astrologers recognize what is called an "orb  of  influence."
To understand this, we must realize that every human being is something more
than that which we see;  that he has surrounding him an aura,  an  invisible
atmosphere,  a something which radiates from him and which partakes  of  his
distinct  and personal nature.   We very often feel the effect of this  aura
though  we do not understand the reason why.   Suppose that someone has  his
whole mind concentrated upon his work so that he neither hears not sees what
happens about him.  Gradually he becomes aware that someone else has entered
the room--is,  in fact,  standing behind him--and he turns around to find  a
friend there.  He had not heard the friend enter on account of absorption in
his work,  but he FELT him, because the aura of the friend intermingled with
his own auric atmosphere.   Thus,  though there was no physical contact,  he
knew that someone was close by.

   The  constellations  are groups of great Spirits who have  immured  them-
selves in these starry bodies, for the sake of less advanced intelligence to
again the experience of evolution.   Each of the fixed stars in a constella-
tion also has its invisible bodies, which extend from one to the other,  in-
termingle, and overlap.  Therefore, when the Sun reached the tenth degree of
Pisces,  it  touched  the  fringe  of  the  influence  of  the constellation

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Aquarius, though we are still in the Piscean Age.

   That this influence is making itself felt, a glance of retrospection will
soon show.   We readily recognize the Piscean influence during the last  two
thousand  years.   The dark ages, the superstition and intellectual  bondage
then prevalent,  are not entirely routed,  but since the middle of the  last
century,  when  the Aquarian influence first began to make itself  felt,  an
irresistable intellectual impulse has been instilled into our everyday life.
Science  has made such strides as never before.   Invention has  electrified
the world and is now conquering the air, etc.   This scientific intellectual
influence  will  make itself felt more and more during the  centuries  which
will  pass before we definitely enter the constellation Aquarius by  preces-
sion of the equinox.   As the narrow,  conservative Piscean influence dimin-
ishes, so will the broadening, inquiring Aquarian influence increase.

   Regarding  what the Aquarian Age stands for spiritually,  we may  realize
that Aquarius is the only figure in the zodiac representing the full stature
of a man.  All the principal characters of the Old Testament were shepherds,
having reference to "Aries,"  the sheep, ram or lamb.   In the New Testament
they are fishermen, referring to Pisces, the sign of the fishes, but the Son
of  Man is the subject of prophecy:   of something yet to come.   He  is  to
usher  in  a  glorious  age, and therefore we may look for developments of a

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startling nature to take place in the nearest centuries before us.

   Moreover,  each of the foregoing ages has had its teachers.   Osiris  and
Mithras were worshiped in Egypt and Persia,  while the Sun was going through
Taurus, the sign of the Bull.  The Lamb was slain from the foundation of the
Christian world,  by Moses,  while the Sun was going through the sign Aries.
There  was a great controversy concerning the symbol of Christ,  on  account
whereof the Bishop's mitre is still make in the form of a fish, to symbolize
the  fact that the phase of the Christian religion then inaugurated  was  to
hold sway during the Piscean or Fish Age,  in which we now are.   Later  the
ideal  of  the Son of Man,  or Superman,  will furnish inspiration  for  the
Aquarian Age, which is now being ushered in.

   The Aquarian Age is not to be confounded with the kingdom of Christ,  who
is  to come again.   Neither is the Aquarian Age to be confounded  with  the
Sixth (Galilean) Epoch,  for to quote the words of Christ,  "Of that day and
hour (when He comes),  knows no man; neither the angels in heaven,  nor  the
Son,  but only the Father."  It is absolutely preposterous and a mark of ig-
norance for anyone to predict that the coming of Christ will take place at a
certain,  specified time.   Perhaps it is even presumptuous to guess at  the
approximate time when the Second Advent will take place,  but the writer has
the idea that, as the precessional cycles, so far as they are connected with

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the evolution of man,  seem to commence with the Sun's entrance into  Capri-
corn,  there may be a development at that time.  If that is correct, the Ad-
vent cannot take place for at least three thousand years.

                      THE ACTUALITY OF THE AQUARIAN AGE:

                              QUESTION NO. 111:

   A  CORRESPONDENT SENDS US A NEWSPAPER CLIPPING IN WHICH SOMEONE ASKS  THE
EDITOR WHAT IS REALLY THE AQUARIAN AGE, AND THE QUESTION IS ANSWERED AS FOL-
LOWS:   "THERE IS NO AQUARIAN AGE;  THIS FAKE WAS STARTED BY A  PROFESSIONAL
FAKERS BY TEACHING THAT THE SOLAR SYSTEM ENTERED AQUARIUS RECENTLY.  NOT ONE
TELLS WHEN, AND THEY WRITE ASKING ME THE REAL DATE.  THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS GO-
ING  DIRECTLY AWAY FROM AQUARIUS WITH THE SPEED OF TWELVE AND A  HALF  MILES
PER SECOND.   THE SOLAR SYSTEM NEVER HAS BEEN AND NEVER CAN BE ANYWHERE NEAR
AQUARIUS.   YET PAMPHLETS AND MONTHLY MAGAZINES ARE CONSTANTLY  ISSUING  AR-
TICLES  SAYING THE SAME OLD THING,  THAT THE SOLAR SYSTEM HAS  JUST  ENTERED
AQUARIUS  AND GREAT CHANGES ARE COMING TO THIS HUMAN RACE,  ALL OF WHICH  IS
TOTALLY FALSE."

   ANSWER:   Our correspondent wants our ideas on the matter,  as we believe
in and advocate the view that the Aquarian Age is at hand.  We are therefore

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also among the class of publishers denounced by this editor as "fakers," but
have  no  hesitation in complying with the request of our  correspondent  to
shed  more light on the subject of the Aquarian Age on that score.   WE  are
not disturbed by the attack when we consider the source.

   The question is one which depends upon the point of view,  in one of  its
phases.   It is true,  as he says,  that the solar system has never been  in
Aquarius and never will be.   It is in fact moving away from the  constella-
tion Aquarius.   It is also true that the Sun has never "risen,"  and  never
will "rise," yet we do not denounce the man who makes use of that expression
as a faker.  We understand that from the point of view of an observor on the
earth  it  APPEARS as if the Sun rises,  and the occultist  means  something
similar  when he says that we are going into Aquarius by the  precession  of
the equinox.  We do not stop to say that by the rotation of the earth on its
axis the Sun came in view at seven o'clock.  We simply say that the Sun rose
at  seven o'clock.   For similar reasons we do not say that "because of  the
precession of the equinox it now appears as if the Sun, when viewed from the
earth, is nearing the constellation Aquarius at the time when it crosses the
equator at the vernal equinox."  If we did, all astronomers would agree with
us concerning the phenomenon seen in the heavens, though they would disagree
with us in our contention  that  this  has  an influence upon the affairs of

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humanity.   Instead  of using this long explanation we simply say  that  the
"sun  is  going  into  Aquarius,"  and people will  just  have  to  keep  on
criticising  until they have learned to understand what we mean by this  ex-
pression, just the same as they understand what is meant when we say the Sun
rises.

   In  the  meantime students of occult philosophies  ought  to  familiarize
themselves  with the astronomical facts so that they may be able to give  an
intelligent  reason for their beliefs.   It cannot be denied that when  stu-
dents  who have studied the higher philosophy and thereby acquired a  knowl-
edge of super-physical facts are close at hand,  such as given by  astronomy
and physiology, they do not impress the hearers very well.  When we speak so
learnedly about man's finer vehicles we ought also to know at least the main
facts  concerning  the mechanical motions of the heavens as  understood  and
known by astronomers.   In order therefore that students who have not famil-
iarized themselves with these things may gain an insight into the matter  we
will elucidate briefly.   For a more thorough explanation the student is re-
ferred to our SIMPLIFIED SCIENTIFIC ASTROLOGY.   The subject is there  death
with in the Philosophic Encyclopedia under the heading "The Intellectual Zo-
diac," and elsewhere.

   When the earth moves in its annual orbit  around  the  Sun it seems, when

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viewed from the earth,  that the Sun travels through the heavens in a narrow
belt consisting of twelve constellations or groups of stars which have  been
given certain names:   Aries, Taurus, Gemini, etc.  If the axis of the earth
were  as stationary as the axle of a wheel the Sun would always be found  at
the  same place in the constellation where it was on the same day  the  year
before,  but the axis of the earth has a wobbling motion somehwat resembling
that of a spinning top, whose momentum is about spent.  This changes the ap-
parent position of the Sun as viewed from the earth in such a manner that it
appears  to reach any given position a little too early.   IT PRECEDES,  and
therefore astronomers speak of the "precession of the equinox."   That is to
say,  the Sun appears to cross the equator at the vernal equinox each year a
short  distance BEFORE it reaches the point where it crossed  the  preceding
year.   Thus if one year it crossed in the first degree of Aries,  the  next
year it would cross slightly within the limits of the constellation  Pisces.
The  following year it would still be farther away in Pisces from the  first
point of Aries and so on.  This backward motion, however, is so slow that it
takes  nearly twenty-six thousand years to go backwards through  the  twelve
signs,  or twenty-one hundred years to go through one sign, or seventy years
to move through one degree.

   Astronomers usually speak of "degrees of right ascension,"  by which they
divide the circle of the heavens into the usual number of  three hundred and

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sixty degrees,  starting with the point where the Sun crosses the equator at
the next preceding vernal equinox.   But they also call the first thirty de-
grees from the point Aries,  the second thirty degrees,  Taurus,  etc.,  the
same  as the astrologer.   Thus there is the NATURAL ZODIAC composed of  the
twelve constellations or actual groups of stars in the heavens which  change
so  little that it is imperceptible in one lifetime or even in several  hun-
dred years,  and the INTELLECTUAL ZODIAC which starts from the point of  the
vernal equinox for any given year.

   Seeing  that the Sun by precession travels BACKWARDS among the  signs  of
the zodiac,  it will be understood that there must come a time when the ver-
nal  equinox occurs in the first point of Aries;  and thus during that  year
the  intellectual  and natural zodiac agree.   This occurred the  last  time
about the year 500 A.D.,  and as the Sun has been traveling backwards at its
accustomed rate of one degree in about seventy years,  it is evident that at
the  present time the vernal equinox occurs in about ten degrees of  Pisces.
Thus,  IT WILL BE ABOUT A. D. 2,600, OR SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS, BEFORE IT ACTU-
ALLY ENTERS THE CONSTELLATION AQUARIUS.   Or, to be in line with  scientific
facts,  let us say,  before it APPEARS from the earth as if the Sun  crosses
the  equator in the constellation Aquarius.   During the twenty-one  hundred
years from the time,  it will appear as if the Sun were in the constellation
Aquarius every year at the time when it crosses the vernal equinox.  Thus it
may be said that the Aquarian Age comprises the twenty-one

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hundred years counting from about A. D., 2,600, during which the Sun by pre-
cession  appears  to be in the constellation Aquarius at the  time  when  it
crosses the equator and vernal equinox.

   Has the reader ever sat quietly absorbed in a book or perhaps in  writing
or some other task, and then suddenly become aware that someone was standing
behind his or her back,  the approach of whom had been undetected because of
absorption in the book or other matters?  If so,  though the person did  not
speak or move,  the presence was felt more and more keenly until it made you
turn.  Surely this experience is so common that everyone is personally aware
of the fact,  but what is the explanation?   I is simply this:   besides the
physical body which we all see, man has certain vehicles which are invisible
to ordinary vision.  THESE SUBTLE SHEATHS EXTEND BEYOND THE PHYSICAL BODY so
that when we stand close to another person the ethereal bodies  intermingle,
and at times when we are very quiet and passive these subtle influences  are
more  readily felt that at other times,  though they exist and are  powerful
factors in our lives at all times.

   "As above,  so below,"  and vice versa.  This is the law of analogy,  the
master  key to the mysteries.   Man is the microcosm and the stars  are  the
macrocosm.   Therefore we may conclude that these great stars which move  in
the  heavens and are the bodies of Spirits have subtle vehicles  similar  to
the auric atmosphere of our earth.  Hence the proximity of  the  Sun  to the

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constellation Aquarius at the time of the vernal equinox transmits these in-
fluences  to the earth along with the solar rays,  and as the spring is  the
particular  time when everything on earth is impregnated with life,  we  may
also  judge  that the Aquarian Ray thus transmitted will  make  itself  felt
among  the  people of the earth no matter whether they believe  it  or  not.
Thus  if we can find out what the influence of Aquarius is we shall be  able
to answer the question,  "What is the Aquarian Age?"  from another point  of
view, and astrology gives us this information based on experience and obser-
vation.

   Aquarius  has  an intellectual influence which  is  original,  inventive,
physic,  scientific,  altruistic,  and religious.  If we apply the  Biblical
standard,  "By their fruits ye shall know them,"  to this problem,  we would
expect to see that the Aquarian Age would be ushered in by original  endeav-
ors along all lines connected with science, religion, mysticism,  and altru-
ism,  and we can no look back upon a period of about seventy years in  which
the  Sun by precession has traveled one degree in the orb towards  Aquarius.
During  that  time we find that there has been a very marked change  in  all
lines of thought and endeavor from that which history records throughout the
past  two millennia.   Almost all the inventions which make our  life  today
what it is have been made during that time.   The telegraph,  the telephone,
the use of electricity, the conquest of air and steam, the gas engine, which
is  superseding  steam,  and  other  inventions  too numerous to mention are

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marking the Aquarian progress in the physical world.

   We also note the rapid rate at which all the movements of liberal thought
in religious matters are superseding the old creed bound conditions and  the
increasing  number of those who have developed the spiritual sight  and  are
investigating the trend of evolution in the higher phase.  Note the rapidity
with which the science of astrology is gaining ground,  and in this  respect
we  may mention that one firm which deals in astrological  ephemerides  used
only for astrological calculations is reported to sell about half a  million
a year.

   All  these things show,  or give an inkling of,  what may be expected  to
happen during the Aquarian Age.  When such great strides have been made dur-
ing seventy years while the Sun is just beginning to transmit the  influence
from the outskirts of Aquarius, what then may be expected when it enters the
sign  itself?   Both the possibilities and the probabilities are far  beyond
the range of the wildest imagination,  and this applies both to the physical
and  the psychical side of life.   It is the opinion of the writer  that  at
least  the majority of mankind,  if not by all,  so that the sting of  death
will  be removed at least partly by the companionship that will  exist  with
our  friends and relatives who have passed out of the body.   We shall  them
continue to see them a while and have time to get used to the fact that they

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are going to higher realms.  We shall not grieve at all for the little chil-
dren  who die and retain their vital bodies,  for they will probably  remain
with their parents until it is time for them to take a new embodiment.  This
often occurs in the same family.   In those cases there would be  absolutely
no sense of loss.

   When this point in evolution is reached mankind will also be so much more
enlightened that it will avoid many of the pitfalls which cause trouble  to-
day, and it therefore favors a much happier existence than has been the rule
up to the present stage.   The added intellect will help us solve the social
problems in such a manner that it will be equitable to all,  and the use  of
continually  improving machinery will emancipate mankind from physical  toil
to  a  great extent and leave more room for intellectual and  spiritual  im-
provement.

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                      THE BEGINNING OF THE AQUARIAN AGE:

                              QUESTION NO. 112:

   WHY  DO  SOME  ASTROLOGERS GIVE THE YEAR 1912 AS  THE  BEGINNING  OF  THE
AQUARIAN AGE?

   ANSWER:   We have seen that statement made, but no reason is given.   You
don't need astrology for that calculation,  for ordinary astronomy will give
it very clearly.  The vernal equinox at the present time is in 10 degrees of
the  CONSTELLATION PISCES,  and that of course is called by astronomers  the
first degree of Aries.   They have the system we use in astrology of differ-
entiating between the two zodiacs.   They always start with the first  point
of Aries,  which they call 0 degrees of longitude, at the same time when the
Sun passes over the equator every year.   They know and measure  precession,
at the rate of about fifty seconds of space ever year.  When we go back that
fifty  seconds  of  space every year it amounts to one degree  in  about  72
years, and one sign in about 2,100 years, so that is the same measurement we
are using astrology.

   The  Sun is at the present time crossing the equator in about 10  degrees
of the constellation Pisces as already said, and as it precedes at the  rate
of 50 seconds a year or one degree in 72 years,  you can easily figure  when
the Sun will by precession enter the constellation Aquarius:  about the year
2638.  Why anybody should say that the Aquarian  Age begins in 1912 we don't

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know.   This much may be said,  however,  that every one of us has  an  aura
which interpenetrates the physical body and extends about 16 inches from its
periphery.  It grows larger as we become more spiritual, but that is the av-
erage.   This accounts for the fact that sometimes we FEEL a person standing
behind us.   His aura and ours blend, and thereby we sense the presence  and
feel his vibration.   It is the same with the Sun, Moon, earth,  and all the
other planets.   Each has its particular aura.  Thus as the Sun moved toward
the  constellation  Aquarius,  its aura went before  it  and  contacted  the
Aquarian  vibration,  so that the influence began to be felt by us in  about
the middle of the last century.

   If  we  will  consider the fact that Spirit is  the  sign  of  invention,
originality,  and independence, changing the world to brighter and more lib-
eral ideas, and them remember that since 1850 the religious and social ideas
of the world have undergone a very complete revolution, and that science and
invention have taken a wonderful turn,  this seems to work out.   Just think
of  the  things that have come into the world since that  time.   Steamships
were  then beginning to be used, then the telegraph and telephone,  wireless
telegraphy,  automobiles,  airships,  electrical appliances,  and everything
that  has revolutionized life in the past 60 or 70 years.   The whole  world
has been transformed with that Aquarian influence and this is being more and
more  felt  every  year.  Therefore  it  may  be  said that we ARE IN ORB OF

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AQUARIUS,  but the AQUARIAN AGE has not actually started.   When Christ came
the Sun by precession was in Seven degrees of Aries.  It still had Seven de-
grees to go to Pisces, but it was in orb.  In 498 A.D.  the Sun crossed in 0
degrees of Aries,  and from that it has been preceding into the sign  Pisces
and then the Piscean Age began.

   It  is usual for a great teacher to come in each age,  and we may  expect
him to come through the Rosicrucian Fellowship, because the Rosicrucian Fel-
lowship is the herald of the Aquarian Age as John the Baptist was the herald
of the Piscean Age.

                            PLANETARY HOUR TABLES:

                              QUESTION NO. 113:

   IS IT RIGHT TO USE THE GUIDANCE OF THE PLANETARY HOUR TABLES FOR THE PUR-
POSE OF PECUNIARY GAIN, OR TO GAIN THE ADVANTAGE OVER ANOTHER PERSON?

   ANSWER:  It is certainly very wrong to use any means to get the advantage
over another person,  it doesn't matter what the reason is.  If on the other
hand, we want to help somebody--let us say that a person is sick and we want
to pour out our vitality and give him all that we can spare--then we can  do
that best in the hours of Mars, the planet of dynamic energy.  If we want to

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help  somebody obtain a position,  and we use the hour of the Sun to go  and
ask for a position for him, the Sun signifying an employer, then we are more
likely to be successful than at another time.  We are using it legitimately,
also, if we have to go and face somebody that may harm us.  If we can find a
good hour it is all right.

   The  editor was in Germany in 1908, and over there in peace times  every-
body had to register.   Those who were strangers had to register at the  po-
lice  station and go in person to show their papers and give a good  account
of themselves.   The police secured a good description of them,  asked about
their  religion,  whether married or single, and how long they  intended  to
stay.   These and many more questions had to be answered,  and if one  moved
around the corner to another place,  the process had to be repeated.   These
officers were very brusque and it was not very pleasant to face them.  So we
thought  we would go in the hour of the Sun when the Sun was well  aspected,
and  everything  was as harmonious as possible.   We were treated  very  po-
litely,  and everything went beautifully.  However,  later we  moved.   That
time  we  couldn't find an auspicious hour of the Sun,  so went  in  another
hour.   They were so brusque that we were relived, pleased,  and thankful to
get out of the station with a whole skin.   So planetary hours do have  some
effect, if that experience counts.

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                            ASTROLOGICAL SYMBOLS:

                              QUESTION NO. 114:

   WOULD YOU TELL US WHAT WAS THE ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLS,  AND THE SHAPES  OF
THESE SYMBOLS REPRESENTING THE DIFFERENT SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC, ALSO THE PLAN-
ETS?   WHY ARE SOME QUITE EASY TO DECIPHER,  WHILE OTHERS ARE JUST  THE  RE-
VERSE?

   ANSWER:   There  seem to be about three factors in the  symbols  for  the
planets.  There is a circle which means spirit, the half circle which we may
take  as a symbol of the soul,  and the cross which we take as a  symbol  of
matter.   If we apply that key, we have in the Sun  symbol  a  circle  which
stands  as a symbol of Spirit.   Then we have  Mars  which  is  composed  of
the  circle and the CROSS ABOVE.   The Spirit is under the cross,  which  we
make  take to mean that the Spirit is in bondage to matter and to the  body.
Thus we find the martial people very material.   They usually do not believe
in anything supernatural, as they call it--only what they can see, and might
is right with them.  The higher, finer, and nobler feeling are held in abey-
ance;  there is mainly the physical side expressed.  Everything is for self.
Mars  always asks:   "What can I get for MYSELF and how much pleasure can  I
get?   What  is the best I can do for MYSELF and how can  I  oust  everybody
else?"

   Venus is just the reverse.  Mars  will  fight,  but  Venus doesn't fight.

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Her symbol  has  the  Spirit  above the cross of matter.  The Spirit has the
balance  of power and therefore she is the planet of love.   She says,  "How
much can I do for somebody else?   I want to help somebody.   I want to  at-
tract everybody to myself that I may do them some good."

   Next we have the symbol of Saturn.  There  is  the  soul,  or instinctual
mind.  symbolized by the half circle, under the dominance of matter,  repre-
sented by a cross.  Therefore the Saturn people are materialistic in the ex-
treme.   They are very selfish also in every way.  They grasp everything for
self.  The heart and better nature are put underneath.

   When you take the  opposite  combination,  you  have  Jupiter,  the  soul
ABOVE the cross of matter.   The Jupiter person is the jovial,  good-natured
fellow, saying, "Well, how are you?  Is there any way I can assist you?"  He
is  always trying to be philanthropic and help somebody.   Thus we  see  how
well the planetary symbolism expresses nature.

   We  also have the half circle by itself, the  Moon,  but  that  is  just
the soul.   The lunar people are emotional,  but they haven't much backbone.
Finally,  we have the planetary symbol composed of all three factors.   This
is  the  planet  of  mind,  Mercury,  uniting  all  the attributes of  body,
soul,  and Spirit.   It is the pivot.  Mercury enhances the good of both the
reason and the reasoning mind,  but is of no value except as colored by  the
other planets.

   If  we combine the planets symbolism is also seen.  The  Moon  with  Mars

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makes  the person still more foolhardy and harebrained than he would  other-
wise be.  The Moon together with Venus, makes that person more emotional and
devotional than otherwise.   If Mercury is with Mars,  it gives a keener in-
telligence and reasoning power;  with Saturn it gives him deeper thought and
a grasping and selfish mind.  Jupiter with Mercury enhances the good of both
the  reason  and benevolence and they work together for  philanthropic  pur-
poses.   So with all the planets,  because they are composed of  these  con-
stituent parts of the symbols.

                            EGYPTIAN ASTROLOGERS:

                              QUESTION NO. 115:

   WHY DID THE ANCIENT PRIESTS OF EGYPT STUDY ASTROLOGY SO THOROUGHLY?

   ANSWER:   Why,  the whole fate of humanity is bound up by the stars.   It
doesn't  matter whether we go to our own Bible or the textbook of any  other
religion.   Everywhere  we  shall  find that the  stars  are  given  a  more
prominent  place.   In our own Bible we know that they are called the  Seven
Spirits  before the Throne.   They are the Seven Star Angels as  known  par-
ticularly  to the Catholic Church, the Seven Planetary Spirits that have had

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to  do  with  our evolution every since humanity began  to  evolve  on  this
planet.   Therefore,  naturally the course of the stars and their configura-
tions are time markers in the history of humanity.

   We hear Pythagoras speak of the music of the spheres.   Most people think
that a poetical expression.   It is not;  it is a fact.   Anywhere we go  we
shall  find there is a sound distinct from the sounds of other places.   The
rustle of the trees when the wind is blowing, the babbling brooks,  all have
peculiar  sounds.   No two brooks will give the same sound.   Musicians  who
have a trained ear can hear the difference.  If we go into a city there is a
conglomerate  noise,  but all that noise blends into the tone of  the  city.
The composite of all the sounds all over the world,  the rustle of the winds
in  the  trees,  and all the noises are heard in space as a  certain  single
tone--the tone of the earth.

   These  stellar orbs travel around,  as is well known to astrologers,  but
not in a circle.  They don't stay in one order, but come into different con-
figurations  with one another.   The same is true of the Seven tones in  the
octave,  which are the replica of the Seven Planetary Spirits.  Just as they
can be brought into different connections and make different chords, so also
these  different tones of the worlds that are moving through space  make  up
the harmony of the spheres,  and according to the change in these vibrations
humanity is evolving.  There is a different vibration every single moment of

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time,  and as a new being comes into existence, these varying vibrations act
upon him and make him different from all others.  Therefore he has a certain
fate.

   It is the same in the microcosm and the macrocosm,  the little world  and
the big world.   We all have to with the stars.   Everyone is bound up  with
the stars,  without them there is nothing done or made.  That is why the an-
cient priest of Egypt who knew, took up that phase of religion.  That is why
they  studied astrology so thoroughly,  and the day will come when  a  great
many  more people will study it.   The science of astrology will be  revived
when we grow wiser.

                            ASTROLOGY A RELIGION:

                              QUESTION NO. 116:

   IN SOME OF YOUR LITERATURE YOU SAY, "TO US, ASTROLOGY IS A PHASE OF RELI-
GION."   PLEASE  TELL US WHEREIN ASTROLOGY CO-ORDINATES WITH  THE  CHRISTIAN
TEACHINGS.

   ANSWER:   The preceding question ought to answer this.  The Seven Spirits
before the Throne are the Planetary Spirits of the marching orbs.  We cannot
separate them from religion.   Even in the earliest times we find everywhere
the  stars are a part of religion and without them there could be  no  reli-
gion.

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