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1Venus absorbs an energy which is totally different from any of the preceding, and radiates “the love element” of Nature. This in¬ fluence is warm and impulsive interiorly, but externally cool and moist, consequently pliable and receptive, clinging and feminine. It is the energy which ever yields to a nature more positive than its own with loving submission; hence the myths of the friendships between Mars and Venus. This energy corresponds to the yellow ray. THE PLANET MERCURY $ Mercury absorbs an energy which, in a general sense, appears to be a compound of all the other planets of the spectrum put together; hence he has been well designated as “the messenger of the gods.” The specific action which this orb radiates is purely intellectual and scientific. It is quick and active, intuitional, enterprising, careless, volatile, bright, changeable, and what we call smart. This influence is extremely inventive, and is the originator of all cunning schemes and devices. It is what men term bright and witty. It is that which makes the live man of commerce, and constitutes the leading influ¬ ence embodied within that sharp, clever and chamelion-like individual who makes a fortune in the real estate business. This energy corre¬ sponds to the violet ray of the solar spectrum. the moon >
2The planet upon which we live, move, and have our being, ab¬ sorbs an energy which we, as inhabitants, cannot by nature fully understand or appreciate, because we only receive this energy as an astral influx by the reflective action of our Earth’s satellite, the Moon. This influence, so far as we, the planet’s offspring, are concerned, is neither good nor evil; because it is part and parcel of ourselves. What the influence may be upon the inhabitants of other worlds we cannot say. Therefore, when speaking astrologically, we credit the Moon’s reflective power and speak of that body as containing our Earth’s at¬ tribute of the solar ray. This energy corresponds to the green ray of the solar spectrum. zed jy Google 216 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
3The foregoing are the seven active principles of Nature, but the ingenious students will notice that two of the major planets have not so far been noticed; we refer of course to Uranus ( $ ) and Neptune (T), each of which radiate one of the same forces upon a higher octave. Each of the seven principles enumerated have three planes of action; the spiritual, the astral and the physical. After the seven notes of the magnetic gamut have been sounded, the next note must be upon a higher octave and form a repetition of the first. The first scale being known and its effects understood, it is not necessary for the Occult initiate of these astral powers to wait, for the years of observation necessary to others, in order to tabulate a newly discovered planet. By the laws of correspondences he know at once what that planet’s action upon the human organism will be. There is still another planet, more remote from our sun than Neptune, but its action on our organ¬ ism at present is nil; because the present races have not yet attained to that special state of spiritual and mental development that will ad¬ mit of its influence becoming manifest. Neither will such a planet become visible to this Earths inhabitants until there is sufficient mental force of the requisite grade to enable its existence to become apparent.
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.
1Venus absorbs an energy which is totally different from any of the preceding, and radiates “the love element” of Nature. This in¬ fluence is warm and impulsive interiorly, but externally cool and moist, consequently pliable and receptive, clinging and feminine. It is the energy which ever yields to a nature more positive than its own with loving submission; hence the myths of the friendships between Mars and Venus. This energy corresponds to the yellow ray. THE PLANET MERCURY $ Mercury absorbs an energy which, in a general sense, appears to be a compound of all the other planets of the spectrum put together; hence he has been well designated as “the messenger of the gods.” The specific action which this orb radiates is purely intellectual and scientific. It is quick and active, intuitional, enterprising, careless, volatile, bright, changeable, and what we call smart. This influence is extremely inventive, and is the originator of all cunning schemes and devices. It is what men term bright and witty. It is that which makes the live man of commerce, and constitutes the leading influ¬ ence embodied within that sharp, clever and chamelion-like individual who makes a fortune in the real estate business. This energy corre¬ sponds to the violet ray of the solar spectrum. the moon >
2The planet upon which we live, move, and have our being, ab¬ sorbs an energy which we, as inhabitants, cannot by nature fully understand or appreciate, because we only receive this energy as an astral influx by the reflective action of our Earth’s satellite, the Moon. This influence, so far as we, the planet’s offspring, are concerned, is neither good nor evil; because it is part and parcel of ourselves. What the influence may be upon the inhabitants of other worlds we cannot say. Therefore, when speaking astrologically, we credit the Moon’s reflective power and speak of that body as containing our Earth’s at¬ tribute of the solar ray. This energy corresponds to the green ray of the solar spectrum. zed jy Google 216 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
3The foregoing are the seven active principles of Nature, but the ingenious students will notice that two of the major planets have not so far been noticed; we refer of course to Uranus ( $ ) and Neptune (T), each of which radiate one of the same forces upon a higher octave. Each of the seven principles enumerated have three planes of action; the spiritual, the astral and the physical. After the seven notes of the magnetic gamut have been sounded, the next note must be upon a higher octave and form a repetition of the first. The first scale being known and its effects understood, it is not necessary for the Occult initiate of these astral powers to wait, for the years of observation necessary to others, in order to tabulate a newly discovered planet. By the laws of correspondences he know at once what that planet’s action upon the human organism will be. There is still another planet, more remote from our sun than Neptune, but its action on our organ¬ ism at present is nil; because the present races have not yet attained to that special state of spiritual and mental development that will ad¬ mit of its influence becoming manifest. Neither will such a planet become visible to this Earths inhabitants until there is sufficient mental force of the requisite grade to enable its existence to become apparent.
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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