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1Anything to be truly beautiful must be truly natural. It is our utterly false idea of so-called female beauty that is doing an incon¬ ceivable amount of spiritual mischief at the present day. If our fairer sex could only see one degree further than the limits of a depraved, artificial fashion they would soon realize that small waists, pinched up with corsets, make them look more like wasps than intelligent human beings, and that small, pinched feet, with their cramped, illformed toes are as much of a real deformity as a shrivelled hand or crooked back, the only difference being, that the latter are apparent to the external eye, and the former concealed by dress and a pair of dainty shoes. Upon the plane of reality, our true selves, the deformity is there and is as much the result of ignorant superstition as the maimed limbs of Hindoo fanatics who place themselves beneath the wheels of the car of Jagannatha. Therefore, let us impress upon each student the absolute necessity of perfect freedom in dress. Remember that a cramped waist means an almost useless solar plexus, and a useless solar zed jy Google 208 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
2plexus means spiritual incapacity; spiritual incapacity means bondage to the forces of Nature, and this slavery means becoming the helpless medium of Nature, upon which the discordant rays of the planetary forces can act and re-act uncontrolled. It is for this latter reason alone that this apparent digression has been made; because the greatest value of astrological science consists in controlling the stellar powers, or rather, let us say, evading their malefic influences. A few more words upon this important subject, and then we are done with it, for “verbum sat Sapienti.” The physician, the priest, and the scientist are equally loud in their assertions that they are perfectly unbiased and open to reason; and they are equally prejudiced and dogmatic should any one be so foolish as to accept their invitation, and attempt to reason with them. We are sorry to say that the fair sex are somewhat similar in regard to their tight lacing. They will, almost without exception, assert that they, individually, do not pinch themselves, but they will readily admit that others do. It is really surprising how blindly foolish we can be when we ourselves are concerned. They little dream that the constant use of corsets retards their natural development, and, though they may have become used to them so that they do not hurt, but on the contrary feel comfortable; yet in real truth they are held in a grip of iron, and are magnetically ruined. One glance at the form around the solar plexus of a female who wears corsets, and one who has never worn them, ought to convince the most sceptical.
3When we regard the astral structure of man and closely examine his magnetic organism, we see that he forms a beautiful oval or egg shaped figure; the narrow end being the feet, the broad end being the brain. This oval form constitutes the magnetic atmosphere, or, in other words, the odylic sphere of the person, and consists of seven concentric rays of force, each of which has a direct affinity with the seven creative principles of Nature, and therefore, corresponds in color to the seven prismatic rays of the solar spectrum. Each zone or ring exercises a peculiar power of its own, and is pure or impure, according to its state of luminosity. When mediumistic clairvoyants assert that such and such a particular color denotes a pure and benevolent person, or one who is depraved and sinful, they assert that which is untrue, for each color has a special purity of its own; purity and impurity depending entirely upon the brightness of its tint. For this reason the animal passions, when exercised, dull and becloud the soul sphere. THE PRINCIPLES OF CELESTIAL SCIENCE 209 while the exercise of the spiritual faculties illuminate. To better understand these facts, see Fig. II. The brain center is represented by a sun, the feet by a crescent moon, and the three secondary centers of force by stars. The ingenious student can easily make this figure complete by mentally inserting within the oval odylic sphere, the seven prismatic color rings.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1Anything to be truly beautiful must be truly natural. It is our utterly false idea of so-called female beauty that is doing an incon¬ ceivable amount of spiritual mischief at the present day. If our fairer sex could only see one degree further than the limits of a depraved, artificial fashion they would soon realize that small waists, pinched up with corsets, make them look more like wasps than intelligent human beings, and that small, pinched feet, with their cramped, illformed toes are as much of a real deformity as a shrivelled hand or crooked back, the only difference being, that the latter are apparent to the external eye, and the former concealed by dress and a pair of dainty shoes. Upon the plane of reality, our true selves, the deformity is there and is as much the result of ignorant superstition as the maimed limbs of Hindoo fanatics who place themselves beneath the wheels of the car of Jagannatha. Therefore, let us impress upon each student the absolute necessity of perfect freedom in dress. Remember that a cramped waist means an almost useless solar plexus, and a useless solar zed jy Google 208 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
2plexus means spiritual incapacity; spiritual incapacity means bondage to the forces of Nature, and this slavery means becoming the helpless medium of Nature, upon which the discordant rays of the planetary forces can act and re-act uncontrolled. It is for this latter reason alone that this apparent digression has been made; because the greatest value of astrological science consists in controlling the stellar powers, or rather, let us say, evading their malefic influences. A few more words upon this important subject, and then we are done with it, for “verbum sat Sapienti.” The physician, the priest, and the scientist are equally loud in their assertions that they are perfectly unbiased and open to reason; and they are equally prejudiced and dogmatic should any one be so foolish as to accept their invitation, and attempt to reason with them. We are sorry to say that the fair sex are somewhat similar in regard to their tight lacing. They will, almost without exception, assert that they, individually, do not pinch themselves, but they will readily admit that others do. It is really surprising how blindly foolish we can be when we ourselves are concerned. They little dream that the constant use of corsets retards their natural development, and, though they may have become used to them so that they do not hurt, but on the contrary feel comfortable; yet in real truth they are held in a grip of iron, and are magnetically ruined. One glance at the form around the solar plexus of a female who wears corsets, and one who has never worn them, ought to convince the most sceptical.
3When we regard the astral structure of man and closely examine his magnetic organism, we see that he forms a beautiful oval or egg shaped figure; the narrow end being the feet, the broad end being the brain. This oval form constitutes the magnetic atmosphere, or, in other words, the odylic sphere of the person, and consists of seven concentric rays of force, each of which has a direct affinity with the seven creative principles of Nature, and therefore, corresponds in color to the seven prismatic rays of the solar spectrum. Each zone or ring exercises a peculiar power of its own, and is pure or impure, according to its state of luminosity. When mediumistic clairvoyants assert that such and such a particular color denotes a pure and benevolent person, or one who is depraved and sinful, they assert that which is untrue, for each color has a special purity of its own; purity and impurity depending entirely upon the brightness of its tint. For this reason the animal passions, when exercised, dull and becloud the soul sphere. THE PRINCIPLES OF CELESTIAL SCIENCE 209 while the exercise of the spiritual faculties illuminate. To better understand these facts, see Fig. II. The brain center is represented by a sun, the feet by a crescent moon, and the three secondary centers of force by stars. The ingenious student can easily make this figure complete by mentally inserting within the oval odylic sphere, the seven prismatic color rings.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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