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1As before stated, the student must understand that these remarks are general and not particular in their application; for instance, we do not mean to assert that because a person is born under a watery sign rising upon the ascendant, that, that person will be dreamy and romantic, or impractical and submissive. This will depend entirely upon the actual position of the planets and their aspects to the sun and moon at the time of birth. But what we do mean to assert is this; that the person then born will possess, deep down and latent, the qualities of the watery trigon, and that under proper conditions and circumstances, it will rise dominantly to the surface and thus mani¬ fest the true internal characteristics of the person’s nature, while the same conditions and circumstances brought to bear upon one born 228 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT under the fiery trigon would operate in exactly the reverse direction. Thus we see how and why two different individuals, under the same identical conditions, will differ diametrically in their course of ac¬ tion. Every day adds fresh proof of this.
2We must now turn our attention to the purely esoteric aspect of the four triplicities, and view them from their Hermetic and Occult standpoint. The four ancient elements; Azoth, Salt, Sulphur, and Mercury, have been symbolized from time immemorial, as The Man, The Bull, The Lion, and The Eagle. Astrologically these are; Aquar¬ ius (^r) “the water bearer,” symbolical of The Man; Taurus ( 8 ) the sign of The Bull; Leo ( £1) represented by The Lion; and lastly Scor¬ pio ( ttl ) anciently symbolized by The Eagle. In this change of symbols the thoughtful student will find much that is well worthy of his care¬ ful consideration, for “hereby hangs a tale.” In the esoteric plani¬ sphere of the twelve signs, Adam Kadmon, the primordial man, pure, and in perfect accord with the Father, occupied that point of the planisphere now designated by the sign Libra (=^=), which signifies the point of equilibrium in the sphere. This esoteric point is where day and night, winter and summer, light and darkness, good and evil are one. Adam Kadmon represents the ideal man, and the very fact that we can form an ideal conception is the absolute proof that we pos¬ sess the possibilities of attaining unto the ideal and realizing our con¬ ception, not perhaps upon this plane, but certainly, when we are trans¬ lated to the higher. The modem English name for this point of the sphere, “The Balance,” which means justice, is a fitting one, as Jus¬ tice is that which discriminates, upon the external plane, between good and evil, and metes out rewards and punishments. Life, Light and Truth are the same, and consist of spiritual reflection. They are spiritual rays, and when these rays become refracted by passing through the prism of matter, Truth becomes illusion, Life becomes limited by assuming the appearance of death, and Light becomes ob¬ scured. This thought is clearly expressed by S. S. Grimke in her book Esoteric Lessons, under the subject “First Lessons in Reality.” The spiritually beautiful and eternally true, have no existence in this world where all is change, strife, discord and death, therefore, we see that the divine spiritual ray of good, when it becomes refracted, presents all the forms and colors of evil, the former only, is real
3zed jy Google INTER-ACTION OF THE STARS 229 and eternal, and the latter is but an appearance, assumed by the fleeting transformations of matter. This celestial point in Libra is represented by Enoch, in the mysteries of the Jewish Temple, the man who walked with God “and was not.” This theological idea was plagiarized by the early fathers of the Christian Church, when they elaborated their Christian mys¬ teries. They make Libra symbolical of their day of judgment, when celestial “justice” will be meted out to all, “both the quick and the dead.” This is the point of the planisphere occupied by their divine man. The Cabalistical Adam Kadmon, the Enoch of Judaism, be¬ comes the Emmanuel of the new dispensation. Jesus is the sacrifice required by the divine justice of God’s anger (?) for the awful errors of a sinful world of His own creation and management. And Judas, who as a disciple of the son of God, was able to soar heavenward upon the wings of an Eagle (the inward aspirations) falls into temptation, and betrays his master into the hands of his murderers. Thence comes the fall, the divine Eagle of the celestial heavens, becomes the lowly reptile, the treacherous, poisonous scorpion, whose sting is concealed in the most unsuspected part of the body, viz., the tail.
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.
1As before stated, the student must understand that these remarks are general and not particular in their application; for instance, we do not mean to assert that because a person is born under a watery sign rising upon the ascendant, that, that person will be dreamy and romantic, or impractical and submissive. This will depend entirely upon the actual position of the planets and their aspects to the sun and moon at the time of birth. But what we do mean to assert is this; that the person then born will possess, deep down and latent, the qualities of the watery trigon, and that under proper conditions and circumstances, it will rise dominantly to the surface and thus mani¬ fest the true internal characteristics of the person’s nature, while the same conditions and circumstances brought to bear upon one born 228 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT under the fiery trigon would operate in exactly the reverse direction. Thus we see how and why two different individuals, under the same identical conditions, will differ diametrically in their course of ac¬ tion. Every day adds fresh proof of this.
2We must now turn our attention to the purely esoteric aspect of the four triplicities, and view them from their Hermetic and Occult standpoint. The four ancient elements; Azoth, Salt, Sulphur, and Mercury, have been symbolized from time immemorial, as The Man, The Bull, The Lion, and The Eagle. Astrologically these are; Aquar¬ ius (^r) “the water bearer,” symbolical of The Man; Taurus ( 8 ) the sign of The Bull; Leo ( £1) represented by The Lion; and lastly Scor¬ pio ( ttl ) anciently symbolized by The Eagle. In this change of symbols the thoughtful student will find much that is well worthy of his care¬ ful consideration, for “hereby hangs a tale.” In the esoteric plani¬ sphere of the twelve signs, Adam Kadmon, the primordial man, pure, and in perfect accord with the Father, occupied that point of the planisphere now designated by the sign Libra (=^=), which signifies the point of equilibrium in the sphere. This esoteric point is where day and night, winter and summer, light and darkness, good and evil are one. Adam Kadmon represents the ideal man, and the very fact that we can form an ideal conception is the absolute proof that we pos¬ sess the possibilities of attaining unto the ideal and realizing our con¬ ception, not perhaps upon this plane, but certainly, when we are trans¬ lated to the higher. The modem English name for this point of the sphere, “The Balance,” which means justice, is a fitting one, as Jus¬ tice is that which discriminates, upon the external plane, between good and evil, and metes out rewards and punishments. Life, Light and Truth are the same, and consist of spiritual reflection. They are spiritual rays, and when these rays become refracted by passing through the prism of matter, Truth becomes illusion, Life becomes limited by assuming the appearance of death, and Light becomes ob¬ scured. This thought is clearly expressed by S. S. Grimke in her book Esoteric Lessons, under the subject “First Lessons in Reality.” The spiritually beautiful and eternally true, have no existence in this world where all is change, strife, discord and death, therefore, we see that the divine spiritual ray of good, when it becomes refracted, presents all the forms and colors of evil, the former only, is real
3zed jy Google INTER-ACTION OF THE STARS 229 and eternal, and the latter is but an appearance, assumed by the fleeting transformations of matter. This celestial point in Libra is represented by Enoch, in the mysteries of the Jewish Temple, the man who walked with God “and was not.” This theological idea was plagiarized by the early fathers of the Christian Church, when they elaborated their Christian mys¬ teries. They make Libra symbolical of their day of judgment, when celestial “justice” will be meted out to all, “both the quick and the dead.” This is the point of the planisphere occupied by their divine man. The Cabalistical Adam Kadmon, the Enoch of Judaism, be¬ comes the Emmanuel of the new dispensation. Jesus is the sacrifice required by the divine justice of God’s anger (?) for the awful errors of a sinful world of His own creation and management. And Judas, who as a disciple of the son of God, was able to soar heavenward upon the wings of an Eagle (the inward aspirations) falls into temptation, and betrays his master into the hands of his murderers. Thence comes the fall, the divine Eagle of the celestial heavens, becomes the lowly reptile, the treacherous, poisonous scorpion, whose sting is concealed in the most unsuspected part of the body, viz., the tail.
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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