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                  ROSICRUCIAN CHRISTIANITY ASTROLOGY COURSE:

                         ASTROLOGY LESSON NO. 19B:

                      READING THE HOROSCOPE [continued]:

The personal characteristics given by Sagittarius rising and Jupiter as life
ruler have been given in the preceding pages and need not be repeated  here.
The Moon,  the most impressionable of the planets, is located in the sign of
Cancer.  We find the characteristics of the Moon is in this position on page
226, as follows:  "The Moon in Cancer gives a disposition which is kind, so-
ciable, and sympathetic, but indolent and averse to effort whether physical,
moral, or mental.  These people love to drift with the tide.  They are often
sensitive  to psychic conditions.   This position also gives a love of  home
and its comforts."

   The  Moon has a sextile of Mars, which gives great vitality and a  strong
physique.   It also gives a resolute,  courageous,  energetic and  ambitious
character, and makes the native resourceful and constructive.

   The  Moon has a conjunction of Neptune,  which indicates  strong  psychic
faculties and also a talent for music.

                             NO. 6 THE MENTALITY:

   Mercury governs the reasoning faculty of the mind, and the Moon rules the
faculty of the creative imagination.   In this case we find Mercury with two
adverse aspects, namely, the square of Jupiter and the square of Saturn.  We
find the former described on page 212, as follows:   "Jupiter square Mercury
gives  a  vacillitating and wavering disposition so that the  person  cannot
easily make up his mind when more than one course of action is open.  People
with this aspect often lose their opportunities through procrastination  and
lack of judgment.

   Since Jupiter is the planet of optimism and since the square indicates an
excess  of the qualities conferred by the two planets square to each  other,
it  follows  that Jupiter square Mercury gives an over-optimistic  trend  of
mind and leads the native into unwise and excessive expansion of the  enter-
prises in which he may be engaged.

   The  square  of Saturn to Mercury is found on page 210:   "Saturn  square
Mercury gives a desire to study the occult,  but it impels one to gerret out
nature's secrets for personal power or gain.  It makes the native bitter and
sarcastic and sometimes subject to melancholia."

   Saturn square Mercury confers the power of concentration,  because Saturn
is the planet of contraction,  and when the mind stuff of which the mind  is
composed is held to a point by the contractive power of Saturn,  the  result
is the ability to concentrate.   Thus Saturn square Mercury gives the  power
of analysis and detail work in general, but the motive is likely to be self-
ish.

   The Moon,  the other factor ruling the mentality, determines the strength
of the creative imagination,  that is, the capacity for mental image-making.
WE  have given above some of the effects of the Moon in Cancer and the  Moon
in aspect to Neptune and Mars.   These need not be repeated here.   In addi-
tion  we  may  say that Mars sextile the Moon adds  power  to  the  creative
imagination, and gives the ability to construct mental images and endow them
with  considerable life and force.   Thus this aspect is likely to give  the
native  a creative,  constructive turn of mind and enable him to devise  new
methods  of meeting any particular type of situation.   The  conjunction  of
Neptune brings the inspiration of this planet to bear upon the  image-making
faculty of the Moon, and therefore we may confer a degree of genius.

   Another  element  which strengthens the mentality is to be found  in  the
fact that Mercury is dignified in Virgo, a mental sign.  However, Mercury is
retrograde, which detracts somewhat from its force.  Mars, the planet of en-
ergy,  placed in the mental sign of Virgo stimulate the mind and gives keen-
ness to the faculty of discrimination.

  NO. 7: GENERAL CHARACTER AND DESTINY AS INDICATED BY THE OTHER PLANETS,

              TOGETHER WITH THEIR SIGNS, ASPECTS AND HOUSES:

   Jupiter sextile Uranus is delineated on page 301, as follows:   "It gives
a broad, humane disposition and a tendency to delve into the occult arts and
sciences.   It gives a promise of prosperity in life.   The person is honest
and sincere, and likely to benefit from influential friends.   This position
gives  executive  ability  and success in connection  with  institutions  of
learning."

   Jupiter is dignified in Sagittarius and placed in the 11th house, thereby
indicating many friends.   Uranus in the first house gives an original,  in-
ventive,  and altruistic personality,  although the influence of this planet
is weak end on account of its being retrograde.  These two planets reinforce
each other in their respective fields.   We have Saturn in opposition to Ju-
piter,  however,  which tends to offset somewhat the good effects of Uranus.
We  find Saturn opposition Jupiter delineated on page 299:   "This  gives  a
different,  vacillating mind,  distrustful of others,  and inclined to drift
with the tide."   Saturn is the planet of contraction and therefore of crys-
tallization.  Its opposition to Jupiter limits somewhat the benevolent,  op-
timistic tendencies of the native,  and tends to make him fearful of his fi-
nancial position and to fear failure unduly.  Saturn is the stabilizer,  but
in adverse aspects it over does the matter and makes the person too cautious
and too fearful.   These characteristics will be more or less in evidence in
this horoscope.   The result will be that Saturn will limit the  friendships
which are conferred by Jupiter in the 11th house,  and prevent them from be-
ing as satisfactory and profitable as they otherwise might be.

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   Saturn in the 5th house in Gemini stabilizes the mind, since Gemini is an
intellectual sign.   But Saturn's contractive influence shows up the affairs
of  this  house,  namely,  those having to do with  education,  publication,
speculation,  and children.   The native will be too fearful about all these
matters,  and therefore will not go ahead and fully succeed, although he has
the analytical ability of the methodical Saturn to do so.

   The  trine of Uranus to Saturn helps the matter out very  materially  and
prevents the opposition of Saturn to Jupiter from becoming very serious.  It
brings  the intuition and inventiveness of Uranus to bear on the affairs  of
the 5th house, and tends to counteract the crystallizing,  overcautious ten-
dencies of Saturn.  For further discussion on this point see Lesson 19C.

   These three aspects,  namely, Jupiter sextile Uranus,  Jupiter opposition
Saturn,  and Saturn trine Uranus are among the strongest in the  chart,  and
are quite largely the key to the chart.   The success of failure of the life
will hinge upon them.

   Venus is placed in the heart sign of Leo in the 8th house.   Venus is the
planet of love,  attraction,  social affairs, and art.  The fire of Leo will
emphasize  these matters considerably,  but the square of Saturn  will  hold
them in check.   Saturn square Venus is delineated on page 187,  as follows:
"This  aspect makes the native underhanded and scheming to gratify his  pas-
sions,  often in an unusual manner.   The person is usually a demon of jeal-
ousy,  who  makes life a burden for the marriage partner on account  of  his
suspicious nature.   People with this affliction are also exceedingly avari-
cious.  They have poor business judgment, and are therefore liable to losses
and  failure."   This aspect tends to prevent the native from  getting  very
much satisfaction from his social relations.

                                NO. 8: HEALTH:

   The  health is largely ruled by the Sun,  Moon,  Ascendant,  and the  6th
house.   The Sun in Leo gives a great deal of vitality, and the Moon,  which
governs the reproductive and assimilative functions,  being sextile to Mars,
the planet of energy, gives a strong constitution.  Sagittarius rising lacks
somewhat  in recuperative power,  but still is wiry and flexible.   The  6th
house, governing health and sickness, has not planets in it.  It is ruled by
Mercury,  the ruler of Gemini,  the sign on its cusp.   Mercury is square to
both Jupiter and Saturn;  therefore we may conclude that the native will  be
of a nervous temperament, and will be likely to have more or less ill health
through on by worry induced by these two aspects.   The nature of ill health
is  likely to be mental,  although this in time might communicate itself  to
the  physical organism if it is not checked.   The native can break up  this
tendency,  however, by realizing his proneness to excessive worry, and if he
does this, ill health can be largely avoided.

                             NO. 9: HOUSE AFFAIRS:

   The 1st, 5th, 6th, and 11th houses have been previously considered.   The
7th house, ruling partnership, marriage, and one's relations with the public
is occupied by the Moon and Neptune.   Both these planets are intercepted in
the sign of Cancer.  This means that their influence is latent and will into
be brought out actively in the life until by progression they have moved out
of the interception.  (This occurs at about the age of two years).  The Moon
is  strong by being dignified in Cancer,  and Neptune is exalted in  Cancer.
The Moon is also sextile to the planet of energy, Mars.  Therefore,  the af-
fairs  of the 7th house are likely to be very successful,  and  the  success
will  be due quite largely to the inspiration of the native,  which  enables
him to do the right thing at the right time.   In the dealing of the  native
with the public he is likely to come into contact with women,  signified  by
the Moon,  to a greater extend than with men.  His relations with the public
might be in connection with some phase of occultism or mysticism,  signified
by Neptune.  The marriage partner will be of the dreamy, inspirational type.
The partnerships which the native forms will have a good chance of success.

   The 8th house is occupied by four planets, namely, the Sun,  Venus,  Mer-
cury, and Mars.  The 8th house rules the money which one obtains by inherit-
ance.   It  also rules regeneration,  and when strongly occupied as  in  the
present  case,  the thoughts of the native are likely to turn toward  regen-
eration.  He is therefore likely to get away from the materialistic life and
make considerable progress in evolution toward the higher ideals.  The plan-
ets in this house,  however,  are weak, and therefore results will not be as
great  as  would  otherwise  be  possible.  As  stated  above,  the  Sun  is
unaspected, Venus has a square of Saturn, and Mercury has a square of Saturn
and of Jupiter.  The last named aspect is likely to bring litigation in con-
nection with legacies and prevent the native from realizing much from  them.
Mars has about half of its influence in the 8th house and the other half  in
the 9th,  since it lacks only two and one-half degrees of being on the  cusp
of the 9th house.  The orb of a house, extending backward,  is five degrees,
and Mars is practically in the center of this area.   It will therefore  im-
part energy to the affairs of both the 8th and 9th houses.

   In the latter house it will tend  to  make  the  native active in matters

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having  to do with law,  philosophy, or religion,  also long journeys.   The
sextile  of Mars to the Moon will bring the creative imagination to bear  on
these affairs and help to make them successful.   When we have a planet in a
house,  that planet is the principal determining factor with respect to  the
affairs of that house,  and in such a case the nominal ruler of the house is
secondary and given much less consideration.   In the case of the 9th  house
Mercury  is the nominal ruler since it is the ruler of Virgo,  but the  well
aspected  Mars,  having  half of its influence in this house,  will  be  the
dominating factor.

   The 10th house,  governing the profession and one's standing in the  com-
munity,  is ruled by Venus, the ruler of Libra on the cusp.  Venus, as noted
above, has a square of Saturn, and therefore the native will be considerably
hampered in his vocational work by the jealousy and mistrust of Saturn.   He
will  defeat his own best interests by his suspicion and  selfishness.   His
professional work is likely to be of an artistic character, indicated by Li-
bra; it might be architectural drafting or work of a similar nature.

   The 12th house,  that of ripe destiny, is ruled by Jupiter,  the ruler of
Sagittarius on the cusp.  Jupiter's aspect, previously considered,  are both
favorable and adverse.  Therefore the destiny which is to be precepitated in
the present life of the native will vary in character.   Some will be advan-
tageous and profitable, and some may involve him in confinement and sorrow.

   The  finances obtained by the efforts of the native are indicated by  the
2nd house,  ruled by Uranus and Saturn, the co-rulers of Aquarius.   The as-
pects of these two planets have been previously analyzed.   On the whole the
finances are likely not to be very satisfactory.   They will flunctuate more
or  less  on account of the tendency of Uranus to sudden action.   Also  the
fearfulness  of the native will prevent him from being as successful  as  he
otherwise might be.

   The 3rd house,  ruling the lower mind,  brothers and sisters,  and  short
journeys,  is ruled by Jupiter.  Therefore its affairs are likely to fluctu-
ate in accordance with the aspects of Jupiter previously discussed.  The na-
tive will profit however, through his brothers and sisters.

   The 4th house,  governing the home, old age, and the mother,  is ruled by
Mars,  the ruler of Aries on the cusp of this house.   Mars is well aspected
by the Moon;  therefore the affairs of this house will have considerable en-
ergy devoted to them,  and the creative imagination will help to make them a
success.  The mother will be of much help and inspiration to the native.

   The 6th house, in addition to having an influence on health and sickness,
rules service,  that is,  the work which one performs in the world for remu-
neration.   It also rules one's relations with employees.   This  house  has
Gemini, a literary sign, on its cusp, indicating a liking for literary work.
Mercury  as  rules of this house, square to Jupiter  and  Saturn,  indicates
little success along this line, however, and also trouble and worry in deal-
ing with subordinates.

                              NO. 10: PARALLELS:

   The  parallels  have principally to do with health and  sickness.   Space
does not permit us to consider them here.  The student may look in "The Mes-
sage of the Stars" for the meaning of the various parallels indicated in the
index given in Lesson 19A.

                               NO. 11: SUMMARY:

   We have now to balance or synthesize the various elements noted above  so
as to arrive at a net or composite judgment regarding the character and des-
tiny of the native.   In general, this horoscope has the usual proportion of
good and bad conditions in it, and therefore it will give the native a great
deal  of  interesting and valuable experience and enable him  to  make  real
progress in evolution.  When a horoscope is composed entirely of benefic as-
pects, the life is likely to be too easy.  The native acquires what he wants
with very little effort,  and therefore is likely to be a lack of  incentive
to action.   Obstacles bring out the power of the spirit,  and in overcoming
them progress in evolution is made.

   This native has the optimism and vision of Jupiter, the intuition and in-
ventiveness of Uranus,  and the energy of Mars to support him in all his un-
dertakings.   Saturn's efforts in his behalf are divided:   part of the time
Saturn will be constructive,  but at other times he will be too contractive,
fearful, and selfish.  The bad aspects of Mercury are likely to make the na-
tive somewhat narrow-minded and pessimistic.   Jupiter and Uranus,  however,
will help to overcome these tendencies.  The image-making power of the  Moon
and the inspiration of Neptune will powerfully support the native in all his
enterprises.

   This lesson will be followed by Lesson 19C,  which will be devoted to  an
analysis of aspects by the use of keywords.   In the present delineation  we
have  given the net results,  but we have not gone into detail as to how  we
arrived  at them.   This is where the student has the  greatest  difficulty.
Therefore,  the  next  lesson  has been designed to give  him  a  method  of
analysis, step by step, so that he may form his own conclusions in regard to
the  nature  and  effects  of  an  square  and  become  able  to   delineate

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independently.   This is very necessary in order to make him self-reliant in
his  delineations and bring him to the point where he can use his  power  of
analysis to ascertain the message which any horoscope has to give.

   For more detailed information in regard to the effects of the planets  of
this  horoscope  in their signs and houses together with their  aspects  see
"The Message of the Stars"..

                            WORK FOR THE STUDENT:

   In the horoscope for September 15, 1912,  which you aspected and  indexed
in lesson 19A, give a complete delineation of the personality, which depends
upon the following factors:

   Leo on the Ascendant.
   The well aspected sun as life ruler.
   The moon in Scorpio.
   The moon sextile the sun.

   Consult the MESSAGE OF THE STARS, if you have it,  also preceding lessons
Nos.  10 to 19, for general information on these four factors.  Then do some
original  thinking in order to synthesize or blend the information thus  ob-
tained so as to get the net result.   Send this delineation to us;  we  will
criticize it as to its correctness,  and return it to you together with Les-
son 19C.

                          ASTROLOGY LESSON NO. 19C:

                   READING ASPECTS BY THE USE OF KEYWORDS:

   On page 407 of the "Message of the Stars"  a table of planetary  keywords
is  given  for the various planets, both in favorable  and  adverse  aspect.
These  keywords represent the boiled-down essence of the planets.   On  page
405 the following passage occurs in regard to the use of keywords in connec-
tion  with the delineation of a horoscope:   "When the student has  mastered
the meaning of the positions and aspects of the various planets, he may with
the greatest of ease give a good delineation of the effect of each aspect by
combining the keywords in the table and ELABORATING UPON THEM."

   This lesson will be devoted to carrying out this idea.  It will include a
complete set of keywords for all the planets,  signs,  and houses.   It will
also work out two aspects by the use of keywords, namely, Uranus sextile Ju-
piter  and Saturn opposition Jupiter,  showing how one may  arrive  indepen-
dently at the net results which were obtained in Lesson 19B.

   Before we proceed,  however,  let us get a few fundamental conceptions in
regard  to what a horoscope shows.   Astrology is the Clock of Destiny,  but
the horoscope does not create anything for us.  The planets merely galvanize
into action the tendencies which we have within us.  They impel in a certain
direction,  but they do not compel.   The human will is superior  to  astro-
logical influence.   The will cannot be gauged in advance;  therefore we can
never  be  certain that the astrological influences will work  out  entirely
according  to rules,  because we cannot tell to what extend the will of  the
individual may interfere with them.

   The  rank and file of humanity,  however,  may be relied upon to  respond
quite  closely to astrological influence.   In the main only those who  have
begun  to  consciously direct their evolution are able to set it  aside  and
thus  rule their stars.   The student of astrology by his very study of  the
subject  and the endeavor to apply his knowledge is beginning to direct  his
evolution,  and therefore is becoming able to rule his stars.   If astrology
is made the subject of fatalism,  that is, a belief in a fixed fate,  it be-
comes a curse rather than a blessing.  THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY OUT OF THE CON-
DITIONS BROUGHT ABOUT BY ANY ASPECT;  THEREFORE WE NEED NOT REGARD OUR  FATE
AS  FIXED AT ALL.   Moreover,  astrology is a science of probabilities;  any
square is susceptible of several interpretations.   Therefore it behooves us
not to make any hard and fast,  ironclad delineations of the horoscope,  for
it  we do we are very likely some time to be mortified by their  failure  to
materialize.   Astrology is exceedingly valuable as an index  to  character,
and  since character is destiny,  the horoscope gives us a general index  of
our destiny; but in general it has many possibilities of interpretation.

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                           APPLICATION OF KEYWORDS:

   Every planet, every sign, and every house has certain characteristics and
a certain field of action which may be expressed by keywords.  Farther on is
given  a table of keywords.   You will notice that there are three sets  for
the  planets and three for the signs.  The first set gives the basic  nature
and field of action.   The second gives the positive variations or qualities
which  result from right use of the planetary vibrations.   The third  gives
the  negative  variations or qualities which result from misuse  or  excess.
The  basic  keywords  apply in all cases no matter  whether  the  square  is
benefic or adverse.   The positive qualities are brought into action by  the
benefic aspects, that is, the sextile and trine and the benefic conjunctions
noted in the table in Lesson 19A.  The negative qualities are brought out by
the adverse aspects,  namely, the square and opposition and the adverse con-
junctions in the table.

   The  Table of Keywords gives only the more important  characteristics  of
the planets,  signs,  and houses.  As you progress in your study of the sub-
ject,  you  will continually add new keywords and qualities  to  this  list.
There  are also keywords for the aspect itself,  that is,  for the  sextile,
square,  etc.  The keyword of an aspect is usually a verb indicating action.
You will learn the keywords of the aspects when we come to delineate a  por-
tion of this horoscope.

                              TABLE OF KEYWORDS:

                                    SIGNS:

                                    ARIES:

BASIC KEYWORDS:--Self-esteem, initiative, pioneering.
POSITIVE QUALITIES:--Courage, enterprise.
NEGATIVE QUALITIES:--Self-will, temper.

                                   TAURUS:
BASIC:--Determination, harmony, earthiness.
POSITIVE:--Endurance, thoroughness.
NEGATIVE:--Argumentativeness, obstinancy.

                                   GEMINI:
BASIC:--Intellectuality, literary ability.
POSITIVE:--Versatility.
NEGATIVE:--Changeability, superficiality.

                                   CANCER:
BASIC:--Love of home.
POSITIVE:--Sympathy, tenacity.
NEGATIVE:---Clannishness, timidity.

                                     LEO:
BASIC:--Vitality, affection
POSITIVE:--Nobility, loyalty, leadership.
NEGATIVE:--Arrogance, cruelty, vanity.

                                    VIRGO:
BASIC:--Service, mental qualities.
POSITIVE:--Purity, discrimination, hygienics.
NEGATIVE:--Criticism, introspection.

                                    LIBRA:
BASIC:--Capacity for partnership, art.
POSITIVE:--Balance, justice.
NEGATIVE:--Indecision, lack of poise.

                                   SCORPIO:

BASIC:--Sex, healing, secret forces of nature, military affairs.
POSITIVE:--Regeneration, courage.
NEGATIVE:--Discord, passion.

                                 SAGITTARIUS:
BASIC:--Aspiration, philosophy, religion.
POSITIVE:--Idealism, philanthrophy.
NEGATIVE:--Dogmatism, bigotry.

                                  CAPRICORN:
BASIC:--Position, honors, ambition.
POSITIVE:--Authority, organization, justice.
NEGATIVE:--Pride, suspicion, pessimism.

                                  AQUARIUS:

BASIC:--Humanitarianism, universal friendship, scientific methods.
POSITIVE:--Cooperation, diplomacy, progressiveness.
NEGATIVE:--Impracticableness.

                                   PISCES:

BASIC:--Unity, ripe destiny, sensitiveness to the superphysical.
POSITIVE:--Compassion, inspiration, mysticism.
NEGATIVE:--Dreaminess, psychism, sorrow.

                                   PLANETS:

                                     SUN:

BASIC KEYWORDS:--Individuality, life, ambitions, those in authority, men.
POSITIVE QUALITIES:--Generosity, dignity.
NEGATIVE QUALITIES:--Laziness, despotism.

                                    MOON:

BASIC:--Personality, imagination, fecundation, change, the public, women.
POSITIVE:--Magnetism.

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NEGATIVE:--Dreaminess, visionariness, vacillation.

                                   MERCURY:

BASIC:--Reason, speaking, writing.
POSITIVE:--Quick-wittedness, dexteriety.
NEGATIVE:--Restlessness, demagogy, dishonesty.

                                    VENUS:

BASIC:--Attraction, love, social activities, beauty.
POSITIVE:--Artistic ability, harmony.
NEGATIVE:--Laziness, sensuality.

                                    MARS:

BASIC:--Dyanamic energy.
POSITIVE:--Constructiveness, enterprise.
NEGATIVE:--Destructivenss, temper, friction.

                                   JUPITER:

BASIC:--Expansion, ideation, optimism, law.
POSITIVE:--Benevolence, vision, success, popularity.
NEGATIVE:--Extravagance, indolence, over-confidence.

                                   SATURN:

BASIC:--Contraction, persistence, caution, system.
POSITIVE:--Faithfulness, analysis, discipline, tact.
NEGATIVE:--Crystallization, obstruction, avarice, fearfulness, limitation.

                                   URANUS:

BASIC:--Altruism, intuition, originality, sudden action.
POSITIVE:--Inventiveness, independence.
NEGATIVE:--Eccentricity, irresponsibility.


                                   NEPTUNE:

BASIC:--Superphysical entities, divinity, occultism.
POSITIVE:--Inspiration, spirituality.
NEGATIVE:--Delusions, fraud, mediumship.

                                   HOUSES:

1st--Early environment, personality, physical body.
2nd--Finance.
3rd--Lower mind, short journeys, brothers and sisters, speaking and writing.
4th--The home, the mother, old age, lands and mines.,
5th--Pleasure, education, children, publications.
6th--Service, health and sickness.
7th--Partnership, marriage, the public, the fine arts.
8th--Inheritance, cause of death, regeneration.
9th--Higher mind, religion, law, long journeys.
10th--Profession, social standing, the father.
11th--Friends.
12th--Ripe destiny, mysticism, institutions for unfortunates.

GENERAL NOTES:

   Planets represent the driving forces of the horoscope.

   Signs represent the static forces,  which color and modify the  influence
of the planets.

   Planets in signs indicate the character and inner capacities.

   Planets in houses given the circumstantial details of the life.

READING BY KEYWORDS:

   In  Lesson 19A we worked out the aspects and other elements for  a  horo-
scope erected for New York City, Sept. 15,  1912,  2:00 a.m.   In Lesson 19B
this  horoscope was delineated by reference to the "Message of  the  Stars."
We will not take two aspects in the chart of Lesson 12 (Aug. 10, 1912,  4:00
p.m.) and analyze them in detail by the use of keywords.

                        NO. 1--URANUS SEXTILE JUPITER:

   The  sextile is a harmonious aspect and indicates that good  judgment  is
used  in all the matters ruled by these two planets so far as it may not  be
offset by other aspects of an adverse character.   Therefore we use in addi-
tion to the basic keywords the positive set of qualities for both Uranus and
Jupiter and also for the two signs in which they are located, namely, square
and Aquarius.   We will not consult the Table of Keywords above.  From it we
note the following keywords and qualities:

                                   JUPITER:

BASIC KEYWORDS:--Expansion, ideation, optimism, law.
POSITIVE QUALITIES:--Benevolence, vision, success, popularity

                                 SAGITTARIUS:

BASIC KEYWORDS:--Aspiration, philosophy, religion.
POSITIVE QUALITIES:--Idealism, philanthropy.

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   We  now  have to to combine the keywords and qualities  of  Jupiter  with
those  of  Sagittarius to find some of the  characteristics  and  activities
given thereby.   In doing this it is necessary to exercise some ingenuity to
select  and blend into a key sentence the keywords that will produce a  rea-
sonable and probable result.  Upon examination we conclude as follows:   The
POSITIVE  Jupiter in Sagittarius gives vision (Jupiter)  that may be  exer-
cised along  the  lines  of  religion  (Sagittarius),  or  philosophy  (Sag-
ittarius),with   success (Jupiter) therein.    Also  there may be aspiration 
(Sagittarius) for the law (Jupiter) and a high idealism (Sagittarius) in its
practice.

   We  will  next apply the above method to Uranus in  Aquarius.   From  the
Table of Keywords we obtain the following:

URANUS:
BASIC KEYWORDS--Altruism, intuition, originality, sudden action.
POSITIVE QUALITIES--Cooperation, diplomacy, progressiveness.

   Selecting and blending keywords from this list that seem to fit  together
we   conclude   that  the  POSITIVE  Uranus  in  Aquarius   gives   original
(Uranus)  methods  of  developing  and  carrying out humanitarian (Aquarius)
projects and  obtaining  the  cooperation  (Aquarius)  of  others  in  these
projects.   The  altruism  (Uranus)  and  progressiveness  (Aquarius) of the
native  lead  him  to  develop  along  the  lines  of  universal  friendship
(Aquarius), that is, to make all humanity his friends.

   Next we combine the keywords of Uranus and Jupiter to ascertain the  kind
of character and activities given by this aspect.   We conclude as a  result
that   this   person  is  of   the   altruistic (Uranus), inventive (Uranus)
type,  and that the corresponding qualities will be exerted along benevolent
(Jupiter) lines  and   the  maintenance  of  law  (Jupiter),   with  general
success (Jupiter) resulting.

   We  will  now look at the keywords for the houses  containing  these  two
planets.   The keywords for the 1st house as found in the table are:   early
environment,  personality,  and the physical body.  The keyword for the 11th
house  is "friends."   Combining the keywords of the POSITIVE  Jupiter  with
those  of  the  11th  house,   we  find  that  this  position  gives  vision
(Jupiter) in  selecting  friends (11th) and success (Jupiter) in friendships 
(11th). Combining  the keywords of the POSITIVE Uranus with those of the 1st
house, we conclude that the native has a very original (Uranus),  altruistic
(Uranus)  personality  (1st),  and  is  likely  at times  to  be  quite  un-
conventional  (Uranus).   Sudden  action (Uranus) is also shown due  to  the
restlessness  of Uranus.

   When two planets are tied together in an aspect,  it results in a  mutual
action  and reaction between the affairs of the two houses containing  them.
In  this case there will be such an action and reaction between the 1st  and
11th houses.  Briefly, the action of the 1st house affairs upon those of the
11th will be   as   follows:   The  original (Uranus) progressive (Aquarius)
personality (1st) of the native will make (sextile)  for  him friends (11th)
of  an  optimistic  (Jupiter)  idealistic (Sagittarius) type. Note that  se-
ven  keywords  are  used,  namely, one for each of the two planets,  the two
signs, and the  two  houses,  also one for the sextile,  which is a verb de-
noting ACTION.  This is called the "sevenfold combination of keywords."  The
reaction of  the  11th  house affairs upon those of the first is as follows:
The  benevolent  (Jupiter) philosophical (Sagittarius) friends (11th) of the
native will  help  (sextile)  him  in  his   original (Uranus)  humanitarian
(Aquarius) projects,  and  the direct effect upon him will be an improvement
in his personality (1st) due to the help he has given to others.

   (It should be noted here that since Jupiter is in 5:38 of Sagittarius, it
is only 4:22 from the cusp of the 12th house.  Since the orb of a house is 5
degrees,  extending backwards,  it will be seen that a small  percentage  of
Jupiter's  influence,  roughly 10%,  will be exerted in the 12th house.   We
will not investigate this, however.)

   This finishes the itemized delineation of the aspect.   It is not a  com-
plete delineation,  however.   Many other deductions could be made,  but  it
goes far enough to illustrate the method and give the student an idea of the

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principles involved.  It yet remains to summarize all the above items into a
concise paragraph, using nontechnical language, leaving out all astrological
terms,  and avoiding repetition of the same thought.   We will leave this to
the  student to do as an exercise in synthesis.   Please send this to us  at
the  same  time that you send the delineation asked for at the end  of  this
lesson.

NO. 2.--SATURN OPPOSITION JUPITER:

   The  opposition is usually a somewhat inharmonious aspect;  therefore  in
delineating  it  we will use the basic keywords but combine  them  with  the
negative qualities instead of the positive.  This applies both to Saturn and
Jupiter and the signs which they occupy.  The basic keywords of Jupiter are:
expansion,   ideation,  optimism  and  law.   The  negative  qualities  are:
over-confidence,  extravagance, and indolence.  The basic keywords of Sagit-
tarius are:   aspiration,  philosophy, religion; the negative qualities are:
dogmatism,  bigotry.  Selecting the keywords which will naturally blend,  we
arrive at the conclusion that the NEGATIVE Jupiter in Sagittarius gives  the
native  a  tendency  to   over-confidence  (Jupiter)  and  thus   to  expand
(Jupiter)  too  rapidly  in  matters  connected  with philosophy or religion 
(Sagittarius). He  is also extravagant (Jupiter) and dogmatic (Sagittarius),
and pursues his  studies  in  the  above  subjects  in an indolent (Jupiter)
manner.

   Following this same method to determine the NEGATIVE nature of Saturn  in
Gemini,  we  blend the basic keywords which we find in the  table  with  the
negative qualities.   As a result we conclude that this person will be  per-
sistent (Saturn) in literary (Gemini) pursuits; but his  contracted (Saturn)
mental  (Gemini)  condition  will  make  his  literary (Gemini) product  su-
perficial (Gemini), and limit (Saturn) his success in this field.

   Proceeding similarly with the negative aspect of Saturn opposition  Jupi-
ter,  using the basic keywords and the negative qualities in the  table,  we
deduce   the  fact  that  this   aspect   limits   (Saturn) the   benevolent
(Jupiter) tendencies of the native, obstructs (Saturn) his vision (Jupiter),
and in  general  handicaps (Saturn) him in his  work;  also  the  indolence
(Jupiter) of the native subtracts from his persistence.

   Next we examine the negative effect of these two planets in their respec-
tive houses.  Combining the basic keywords and negative qualities of Jupiter
with  the keywords of the 11th house, we conclude that some of  the  friends
(11th)  who will be attracted under this aspect will be of  the  extravagant
(Jupiter), indolent (Jupiter) type.   Combining the basic keywords  and  ne-
gative qualities  of Saturn with the keywords of the 5th house,  we see that
the native  will  be  limited  (Saturn) in matters connected  with  pleasure
and children  (5th),  and  he will meet obstructions (Saturn) in  activities
connected with education and publications (5th).

   The  action  of the 11th house affairs upon those of the 5th will  be  as
follows:   The extravagant (Jupiter),  bigoted (Sagittarius)  friends (11th)
which the native naturally attracts to himself, so far as this aspect is not
neutralized by others,  will interfere (opposition) with his success in pub-
lishing (5th) his literary  (Gemini)   works by causing him to lose his  na-
tive caution (Saturn)    and become careless.  The reaction of the 5th house
affairs  upon those of the 11th is as follows:   The  avarice  (Saturn)   of
the  native in intellectual (Gemini)    pursuits connected with  educational
(5th)  projects will cause (opposition)  the  loss  of prosperous (Jupiter),
idealistic (Sagittarius) friends (11th). Note that sevenfold combination  of
keywords is used in both cases in this paragraph.

   This delineation of Saturn opposition Jupiter is very elementary in char-
acter;  many other conclusions could be formed regarding this  aspect.   The
delineation  should be summarized in the same manner that was used  in  sum-
marizing Jupiter sextile Uranus.  Please send us this summary along with the
preceding one.

   It will be noted that the two aspects delineated above are quite contrary
in character.   This is where the judgment of the astrologer must come in to
determine which one will dominate and how much of the influence of each will
be  felt.   In  order to determine this we look to  ascertain  the  relative
strength of Jupiter,  Saturn,  and Uranus.  Jupiter is strong because he  is
dignified in Sagittarius and because he is the ruler of the horoscope.  Also
Jupiter is above the horizon,  while Saturn is below it.   Planets above the
horizon  have  greater  freedom  of  action  than those below and are not so

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hampered by fate.   Therefore we may conclude that Jupiter is stronger  than
Saturn,  and therefore will quite largely be able to overcome the  limiting,
contracting  influence of Saturn.   Another factor in the situation is  that
both Saturn and Jupiter are supported by Uranus, the former by a sextile and
the alter by a trine.   Uranus is strong by being dignified in Aquarius  and
located in the 1st house.  Therefore the intuition of Uranus will be used by
the native to overcome the restricting saturnine influence.

   Hence we may conclude that Jupiter,  supported by Uranus,  will  dominate
the situation quite largely and hold the obstructing,  limiting qualities of
Saturn  in  check,  forcing  Saturn to bring  forth  many  of  his  positive
qualities  instead of the negative.   The native will nevertheless at  times
yield to the saturnine inclinations and thereby obstruct his own best inter-
ests and get into a pessimistic frame of mind as a result.  But this will be
only temporary; the expansive optimism of Jupiter will always win out in the
end, and good will prevail over evil.

   When we have two aspects of an opposite nature,  as in the present  case,
it  does not mean that one will neutralize the other.   The two will  appear
alternately from time to time in the disposition of the native.  The effects
in the outer world,  however, signified by the houses,  may be quite largely
neutralized;  that is,  the benefic aspect may dominate the adverse  one  to
such an extent that the latter will not produce marked detrimental  effects.
But  the two phases of the character will persist and  manifest  alternately
until the lower is mastered.

   The  above reading of a positive and a negative aspect has been  done  in
such a manner as to afford the student a key to the whole matter of delinea-
tion.   It is only necessary to apply the above method to all the other  as-
pects, using the keywords which apply in each case and combining them to ar-
rive at conclusions.  If the student can do it once, he can do it any number
of times.  After he has mastered the principles involved in reading and bal-
ancing a pair of conflicting aspects,  he is quite capable of reading an en-
tire chart, because it is largely a repetition of the same process.   At the
end all the departments of the horoscope must be similarly balanced so as to
determine how any department may modify the influence of the others and thus
affect the net result.

WORK FOR THE STUDENT:

   To  see  that you have mastered to some degree the principles  set  forth
above,  will you please delineate by the use of keywords the  following  as-
pect, which occurs in our chart:

   Mars in Virgo in the 8th house,  sextile to the Moon in Cancer in the 7th
house.

                          ASTROLOGY LESSON NO. 20:

              THE MEASURE OF AMENABILITY TO PLANETARY VIBRATIONS:

                                   PART I:

   When judging a horoscope it is of prime importance that we take into con-
sideration the social and racial standing of the individual,  for configura-
tions which are of great significance in the horoscope of an educated Cauca-
sian 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 he responds to the planetary rays, and conversely
the  higher we ascend in the scale of attainment the more man  conquers  and
rules his stars,  freeing himself from the leading strings of the Divine Hi-
erarchies.  This yoke, however, was not placed upon man in order to restrain
him needlessly, but just as we in our ordinary  life  restrain  a child from

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doing things in its ignorance which would hurt it and perhaps cripple it for
life,  so also are we restrained by the Divine Hierarchies through the plan-
etary 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 a measure of free will,
which  grows as we evolve.   The child in our midst has really  very  little
free will; it is subject no only to its parents but to the servants, if such
there be in the household, and to everybody with whom it is associated;  all
exercise control over it for its own good.  As the child grows, this measure
of  restraint is by degrees relaxed;  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, earthquakes, and visitation of
great plagues.   This was for their collective guidance.  For individual re-
straint there were strict laws, commandments, and ordinances.   Tribute must
be paid continually to the Divine Leader and offered upon the altar as  sac-
rifices;  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 Wisdom."

   This regime was carried on under the planetary influences of MARS and the
MOON.  Mars, being the home of the dominant Lucifer spirits, gave to mankind
th energy necessary that evolution might be accomplished.   This Martian en-
ergy was of the very greatest importance,  particularly,  of course,  in the
earlier stages.   The Moon,  which is the home of the angels under their di-
vine leader, Jehovah, gave to infant humanity the childlike brain mind which
is amenable to rulership, and bends itself readily before authority.

   These  rays  with  those of Saturn were the  only  planetary  rays  which
affected mankind as a whole during the Lemurian Epoch.   If a horoscope were
erected for any of the people who lived then, it would be unnecessary to en-
ter  the other planets,  because the people of that day could not  have  re-
sponded to their rays.   Even today a great part of mankind has not  evolved
very  far beyond that point.   A large class  are  dominated  principally by
these planetary rays.

   Under their impulses these people act with automatic certainty in a  spe-
cific 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 emo-
tions and are scarcely, if at all, responsive to the intellectual vibrations
of Mercury.   Neither can they appreciate such emotions as are signified  by
Venus or its higher octave, Uranus; they respond solely to the lower nature,
the animal passions.   They move under the impulses of Mars and the Moon re-
specting  sex and sustenance.   Their pleasures are of the lowest  and  most
sensual nature;  they live like animals,  altogether in the physical;  their
creed is,  "Eat,  drink,  and be merry."  Their desires run chiefly to "wine
and  woman,"  for they have not yet awakened to the charm of song.   Neither
has beauty had a chance to enchant the savage heart at this stage of  devel-
opment,  for  that comes from the Venus rays which are beyond  such  people.
Woman is to the man of this 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 the 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,  and the like,  he dreams in the postmortem
existence of new fields to conquer; he sees where he was lacking and why his
desires were frustrated because of lack of implements.   Gradually the  con-
structive Martian ray and the Saturn cunning fertilize the lunar brain which
he is building,  so that in time he learns to make the crude implements nec-
essary for the attainment of his primitive ambitions.  Even today we see the
same  cunning traits of character,  the same crude crafts displayed  by  the
lower  races  for the purpose of irrigating land,  mining ores,  or  milling
grain as in the case of primitive man.   All those earliest implements  were
the result of the planetary rays of Saturn, Moon, and Mars, impinging on the
undeveloped 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

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giving a further impulse to man's 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 to the general
public at that time.  The ideals which are to be developed in a race are al-
ways  first taught to the most advanced ones in a mystery temple.   At  that
time  Initiation  included no spiritual instruction,  but  consisted  of  an
education in the liberal arts.   Sculpture taught how the beautiful might be
incorporated in physical form;  it called attention to the body,  and ideal-
ized  the softly curved lines.   The result is now incorporated in  our  own
race body,  for it should be thoroughly understood that in a mystery  school
and  ideal is not taught today simply to be forgotten tomorrow or  the  next
generation,  but ideals are inculcated so that in time they may become  part
of the very life,  soul, and body of the race.

   It  may  be objected that our art is degenerating compared with  what  is
shown in Hellenic arts, but this is positively not so.  It is rather that we
have not yet attained to the highest ideal.   In ancient Greece the  mystery
temples  occupied a much more prominent position than today;  the  beautiful
form  was  then 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  emo-
tions,  had  not then been able to make a universally strong  impression  on
early humanity.   We are well aware even today that it is wearisome 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 were 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 faculty aids in molding 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 sav-
agery  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  compe-
tent.   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 in-
tellectual  superiority  needs another influence to conquer  it,  and  this,
woman is now attracting by her aspiration for it.   As she mastered  Martian
brutality  by  Venus beauty,  so also will she free herself  from  Mercurial
bondage by Uranian intuition.

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                                LESSON NO. 21:

             THE MEASURE OF AMENABILITY TO PLANETARY VIBRATIONS:

                                   PART II:

   To primitive man,  driven by the whiplash of saturnine necessity when not
by  the  animal  lust and passions of Mars and the  Moon,  the  world  looks
gloomy.   Fear  is the keynote 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 influence of Venus and
Mercury,  they soften his emotions and brighten the mentality.  He begins to
feel 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 partially dispels  the
cloud of Saturn.   Thus, by degrees, as he evolves and becomes responsive to
the  music of the spheres,  one string after another of the  celestial  harp
strikes a kindred chord in the human soul and makes man amenable to its  vi-
brations.   Thus 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.   While man responds to certain cries,  he  must
necessarily remain at least partially unresponsive to others.  In fact,  be-
fore  it is possible to respond perfectly to the rays of Venus it is  neces-
sary  for man to conquer Mars to a considerable degree and bring  him  under
control,  so that certain undesirable martial traits in his nature are  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.   There-
fore  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 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  bought  and
sold as a horse or a cow, or else taken by force and carried away.   Even as
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 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  is  generated by the primitive  Mars  ray  is  no  longer
permissable  under the regime of modern civilization.   Neither  the  tenant
that "might is right"  any longer admissable, 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 not longer admired in the
individual.  It is punished by various means according to the law, though it
is still effective as far as nations are concerned, who go to war under this
primitive impulse for 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 which physical  weapons  alone.
Brain rather than brawn determines success.   Therefore the period of educa-
tion has been lengthened as mankind has advanced.  Education now mains prin-
cipally  at mental accomplishments because of the Mercury rays which  accom-
pany the Venus development of modern civilization.   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 the 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 in 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 pos-
sessions must be increased,  if possible, no matter what happens to the pos-
sessions,  family, etc., of anyone else; those are not his concern.  But be-
fore  he can reach a higher stage of evolution,  it is necessary  that  this
desire to appropriate the earth and retain it for himself if possible,  give
way  to a desire to benefit his fellow men.   In other words,  egotism  must
give  way to altruism.  Just as Saturn by wielding the whiplash of necessity

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over  him  in  his primitive days brought him up to  his  present  point  of
civilization,  so also Jupiter,  the planet of benevolence,  is destined  to
raise him from the estate of man to that of superman, where he will come un-
der the Uranian ray with respect to his emotional nature, where passion gen-
erated by Mars will be replaced by compassion,  and where the childlike con-
sciousness  of lunar origin will be replaced by the cosmic consciousness  of
the Neptunian ray.

   Therefore  the advent into our lives of the Jupiterian ray marks  a  very
distinct  advance  in  human  development.  As  taught  in  THE  ROSICRUCIAN
COSMO-CONCEPTION,  we are to advance from out present Earth Period into  the
Jupiter  Period,  and therefore the Jupiterian ray marks that high stage  of
altruism  which will then by a prominent factor in our relations,  with  one
the other.   It will be easily understood that before we can readily respond
to the rays of Jupiter,  we must in a measure cultivate altruism and conquer
the Egotism that comes through the Mercurial reasoning power.

   We have learned to conquer some of the phases of Mars and the Moon and we
may have also learned to conquer some of the lower phases of Mercury and Ve-
nus.   The more we have overcome these the better we are 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,  which love always attaches itself to  an  object
owned by us.   We love our children because they are ours;  we love our hus-
band or wife because he or she belongs 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 cannot be my disciple."  The idea that we should neglect our fa-
ther or mother 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  the  body  of the father or mother is to be loved,  not  the  mere
physical  garment.   Our love should be the same whether a person is old  or
young,  ugly or beautiful.   We should look for beauty of the soul,  for the
universal relationship of all ouls, and not mind so much the relationship of
the bodies.   "Who is may mother and my brother?" asked Christ,  and pointed
to  His disciples,  those who were at one with Him in His great work.   They
were closer to Him that anyone else could be through mere physical relation-
ship.   This attitude constitutes an upward step from the Venus love,  which
places  the emphasis on the physical garments of the loved 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  men-
tality is also changed by response to the altruistic Jupiter.  Cold calcula-
tion is then out of the question.   One who feels the expansive ray of Jupi-
ter is big-hearted where his emotions are concerned,  also big-hearted where
the  things  of  the  world are concerned.   "A jovial  fellow"  is  an  apt
expression to describe such a man.   He is welcomed and loved by everyone he
meets,  because he radiates not the common selfishness, but a desire to ben-
efit  others  that breed in us a feeling of trust,  diametrically  different
from  the sense of distrust we indistinctively have when we come in  contact
with a Saturn-Mercury man.

   It  is  a  matter  of actual experience  with  astrologers  endowed  with
spiritual  sight that every man's planetary rays produce certain  colors  in
his aura,  in addition to the basic color which is the stamp of the race  to
which he belongs.  The man with the thin, sickly blue 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 that auric mirror which he has created around himself; he feels that
the world is cold, hard, and selfish, and therefore that 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 per-
haps with the refined gold of the Uranian nature, we realize how differently
such an exalted individual must view the world from the usual sordid way  of
seeing  and  judging things.   Even those who have the  faintest  Jupiterian
tinge are in a world filled with sunshine and blooming flowers everything in
nature is gay and glad.   And by looking at the world through such an  atmo-
sphere they call forth from other sources a similar response,  as the tuning
fork  previously mentioned generates a similar vibration in another of  even
pitch.

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                                LESSON NO. 22:

             THE MEASURE OF AMENABILITY TO PLANETARY VIBRATIONS:

                                  PART III:

   After what has been said it will not be difficult to understand that  the
Uranian  characteristics,  in which love becomes compassion,  give a  wisdom
that  is not dependent upon reasoning and a love that is not fixed upon  one
object alone but includes all that lives and moves and has its being.  These
are similar to the characteristics that are to be evolved by humanity during
the  Venus  Period when perfect love will have cast out all fear,  when  man
will have conquered all the lower phases of his nature,  and when love  will
be as pure as it is universally inclusive.

   When these Uranian vibrations are felt by advancement in the higher  life
through aspiration, there is great danger that we may disregard the restric-
tions of law in anticipation before we are really ready to govern  ourselves
by the law of love divine:   namely, that we may disregard the laws that are
in  the world;  that we may not render unto Ceasar that which  is  Ceasar's,
whether  in obedience or coin;  that we may not be careful to avoid the  ap-
pearance  of  evil;  that we may think that we have so far  transcended  the
stage of ordinary humanity that we can live as super-humans;  that the  pas-
sion  of Mars has in our case been changed to Uranian compassion,  which  is
sexless.  Under these misapprehensions many people who endeavor to tread the
path disregard the laws of marriage and enter into relationships as soulmate
or affinity.  They feel the Uranian ray but cannot quite respond to its sub-
lime  purity;  therefore they experience a  counterfiet  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 a matter of fact degenerated into something that is far worse
than the fullest sex expression of the Martian ray performed in a frank  and
proper manner.

   This  is  a danger that cannot be too strictly guarded  against,  and  it
behooves everyone who endeavors to live the higher life not to aspire to the
Uranian ray until he first becomes thoroughly imbued with the altruistic vi-
brations of Jupiter;  for more misery is brought into the world by those who
have aspired too high and fallen low than by those who are not  sufficiently
aspiring.   That pride goes before a fall is an ancient and very true  prov-
erb, which it behooves everyone 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
the  bodies we will have then 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 people cannot really mate them.  The finding of the
true  mate should be done before the marriage ceremony is performed and  not
after.

   As we have seen,  Mars,  Venus,  and Uranus mark three stages in the emo-
tional  development of man.   During the stage where he is only amenable  to
Mars,  animal passion rules supreme, and he seeks unrestricted gratification
of  all  his lower desires in the intercourse with his fellow men  but  par-
ticularly 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 he can feel the ray of Uranus,  the passion of Mars gradually turns to
compassion; then 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  amena-
bility 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 eas-
ily  guided  by  the higher powers which have led him  through  the  various
stages  mentioned in the previous lesson.  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 and made  responsible
for his actions, so that he may reap what he has sown, and learn thereby the
experiences which life has to teach him under the present regime.

   Being inexperienced, he makes mistakes in whatever direction is indicated
by the afflictions to Mercury in his horoscope,  and consequently he suffers
a corresponding penalty of sorrow and trouble.   If he has not the mentality
to reason about the connection between his mistakes and the sad  experiences
growing from them during his lifetime, 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.

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   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 man-
ner that he who has this cosmic consciousness knows the reason why such  and
such a thing is and must be, and why he ought to perform a certain action.

   This cosmic consciousness is developed under the ray of Neptune, and dif-
fers from the intuitional right feeling developed under the ray of Uranus in
the following very important particulars:   The person who has developed the
Uranian  quality of intuition arrives at the truth  instantaneously  without
the  necessity of thinking the matter over or reasoning,  but is  unable  to
give anything but the result; he cannot connect the various steps in logical
sequence whereby the final result was reached.   The man or woman,  however,
who  develops the Neptunian faculty also has the answer to any question  im-
mediately, and in addition is able to tell the reason why that answer is the
proper and right one.

   The  faculty  of  intuition built up from the Martian  base  of  passion,
through the Venusian stage of love,  and through the Uranian ray of  compas-
sion 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  uni-
verse,  and in this way it knows and feels all that may be known and felt by
other  heart  in the universe;  thus it shares 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 solution to  what-
ever problem is placed before him.

   The  noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the  most  transcendant
spirituality,   have  attained  their  wonderful  development  through   the
spiritual rays of Uranus because of the intense feeling of oneness with  the
Divine, and with all that lives and breaths in the universe.

   But there are others who are not thus constituted,  and they are not able
to walk this path.   These through the Moon,  Mercury,  and NEGATIVE:-- have
developed  their intellects and attained the same result PLUS THE  NEPTUNIAN
POWER OF IDEATION.

   This is a very important point, and it is only brought out in the Western
Wisdom Teaching,  for while it was formerly taught that the spirit  involves
itself  in  matter  and thereby crystallizes itself  into  form  which  then
evolves,  the Western Wisdom Teaching tells 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  indepen-
dent 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  Neptunian  ray
when that planet is well placed in the horoscope.   There is of course  also
such  a thing as evil genius,  a destructive faculty developed under an  af-
flicted 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  be-
tween  the dense physical body and the vital body,  which is made of  ether,
must  be rather loose,  for when these two vehicles are firmly  interlocked,
the  person is always of a materialistic turn of mind and cannot respond  to
the  higher and more subtle vibrations from the spiritual world.   But  when
the  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 depend upon the placement and  the
aspects of the two planets mentioned.  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 they 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  be-
cause of their 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 influences of  obsessing  spirits
many of these people are driven into gross immorality.   Vampirism and  kin-
dred  disreputable  practices are also engendered by a perverse use  of  the
uranian ray in mediums.

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                                LESSON NO. 23:

             THE MEASURE OF AMENABILITY TO PLANETARY VIBRATIONS:

                                   PART IV:

   Neptune  may  be  said to represent the invisible worlds  in  their  more
positive  aspects,  and  those who come under the adverse  aspects  of  this
planet are,  therefore,  brought into touch with the most undesirable  occu-
pants 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 ma-
terializing  seance could ever be held were it not for this  stellar  vibra-
tion.   Magic,  white or black, can never be put to practical use save under
and because of this Neptunian vibration.   Apart from this ray it would  re-
main theory, speculation, and book learning.  Therefore the Initiates of ev-
ery Mystery School, spiritual seers who have full control of their clairvoy-
ant 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 the
former,  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 Neptunian Ray.   For just as evil  configurations
with  Neptune  are particularly required to enable a man to unfold  by  Ini-
tiation  all his soul powers and become a conscious agent in  the  invisible
world.   Let us remember,  however, that good or evil configurations are not
the  result of chance or luck.   The horoscope shows the tendencies  of  the
coming life;  it 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 THEY
DO  NOT  COMPEL.   Because a man or woman has  an  evil  configuration  with
Neptune  or Uranus,  it is not unavoidable that they should go into  active,
evil  mediumship or black magic and thereby make 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 is the time to stand firm for the good and for  the
right.  Being forewarned through a knowledge of astrology, one is also fore-
armed and may the easier overcome when such an aspect culminates.

   Thus  we have seen in the three continued articles on this  subject  that
man  is  amenable to the planetary rays in an increasing measure as  he  ad-
vances through evolution;  but the more highly developed he becomes spiritu-
ally,  the less he will allow the planets to dominate him, while the younger
soul is driven unresistingly along with the tide of life in whatever  direc-
tion  the planetary vibrations propel him.   It is the mark of the  advanced
soul that he keeps the true course regardless of planetary vibrations.   Be-
tween these two extremes there are naturally all gradations.   Some are  ex-
cessively amenable to the rays of one planet,  and the bark of life of  such
men and women is driven upon the rocks of sorrow and suffering that they may
learn to evolve within themselves the will power that will finally free 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."

   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 of Apollo's sent as the seven strings on Apollo's Lyre?
In other words,  is Neptune the highest vibration to which we shall ever re-
spond?  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 transcendant 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  as-
cending  to God.   Up to the present time he has climbed only five of  these
rungs,  namely,  Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and even the vi-
brations of these he has not 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 of which we shall know something  later
on.  It is the opinion of the writer that these two are probably not felt by
any except those who have graduated from the Greater Mystery School and  the
Hierophants of that sublime institution.

   In concluding this article, on the amenability of man to planetary vibra-
tions  we  quote  from THE ROSICRUCIAN MYSTERIES a part of  the  article  on
"Light, Color, and Consciousness".

   "Truly,  GOD IS ONE AND UNDIVIDED.   He enfolds within His being all that
is,  as the while light embraces all colors.   But He appears  threefold  in
manifestation,  as  the  white  light  is refracted in three primary colors,

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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,  CONSCIOUS-
NESS,  AND FORM upon each of the seven light bearers, the planets, which are
called the "Seven Spirits before the Throne."  Their names are Mercury,  Ve-
nus,  Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and unconscious.  Body's law would indi-
cate that Neptune does not belong to our solar system, and the reader is re-
ferred  to  SIMPLIFIED  SCIENTIFIC  ASTROLOGY  by  the  present  writer  for
mathematical demonstration of this contention.

   "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.  The beings on each, according to their stage of develop-
ment,  have affinity for some of the solar rays.   They absorb the color  or
colors congrous to them,  and reflect the remainder upon the other  planets.
These  reflected rays bear with them an impulse of the nature of the  beings
with whom they have been in contact.

   "Thus the divine light and life come to each planet, either directly from
the sun or reflected from the six planets.   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  influ-
ences  from  the GARDEN OF GOD bring us to the mingled impulses of  all  the
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 absorb only a certain quantity of one  of  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 remain-
der does not affect it or produce sensation any more than the blind are con-
scious  of  light and color which exist everywhere around  them.   Therefore
each being is differently affected by the stellar rays;  and a knowledge  of
the  science of astrology,  a fundamental truth in nature,  is one  enormous
benefit in the attainment of spiritual growth."

   Besides  the stellar vibrations which we have discussed in the  foregoing
there is one of vital importance to which all mankind is responsive, namely,
that of THE LUNATION OR NEW MOON.  The progressed planets may be regarded as
the  hour hand of a clock.   They mark the year when certain events are  due
according to their positions and their aspects and our amenability to  their
vibrations.   By  them the destiny or opportunity in store  for  mankind  is
forecast;  but unless the moon,  which corresponds to the minute hand in our
illustration of the clock of destiny,  moves along through the houses of the
horoscope by progression and gives her consent by acting as a focus for  the
planetary vibrations, these would never take effect upon humanity.

   Besides  the actual progression of the moon and the planets in the  horo-
scope at the rate of a day for a year, there is,  as said in the first para-
graph,  THE LUNATION, which occurs each month in a different sign of the zo-
diac by a conjunction of the moon with the sun.   Whenever this  conjunction
occurs  within three degrees of an aspect to any one of the planets  in  the
natal  horoscope,  the effect of the configuration will be felt  during  the
month governed by this lunation,  provided of course that the person is  re-
sponsive and amenable to that particular stellar influence.   For  instance,
if a lunation were trine to Neptune in the horoscope of a Hottentot or Bush-
man,  you would find no effect from this configuration;  but if on the other
hand,  this  configuration occurs in the horoscope of  an  advanced  mystic,
there  will be certain definite spiritual experiences of a beautiful  nature
during that month.

   The  influences of these lunations may be divided into three classes  ac-
cording to whether they affect the moon, Mars or Saturn at birth,  producing
physical results; the sun, Venus, or Mercury, producing social,  moral,  and
mental  effects;  or Jupiter,  Uranus,  or Neptune which would act upon  the
spiritual nature.

   The  results produced under the vibrations of a new moon  will  naturally
depend upon the aspects.  Squares and oppositions give trails and troubles..
Sextiles and trines give pleasures of a nature consonant with the  planetary
aspects.

   The  ordinary lunation does not produce effects for more than one  month.
But if the lunation happens to be an eclipse,  the effect will be felt for a
full  year  from the time of its occurrence.   Every time that year  when  a
lunation falls in square to the place of the eclipse,  it will re-awaken the
evil,  if any,  experienced at the time when the eclipse,  it will re-awaken
the  evil,  if  any,  experienced at the time  when  the  eclipse  occurred.
Similarly,  if  the  original lunation was good,  then  every  formation  of
sextile and trine to its place will bring correspondingly good results.

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