The Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars - Volume 2

ghteen degrees wide, in the heavens, the center of which marks out

ons which once occupied them. Nay, he, as a rule, still imagines in some sense that the signs (constellations) are still the

so, the lords of these signs ought to be changed, but that they are not can be proved by the fact that our earliest records of that dim, historic past show, equally as well as your latest "text-book," that Mars is the lord of Aries-a fiery planet in a fiery sign; but astrologers still say that Pisces is watery and Aries fiery, WHICH IS NOT THE CASE, IF THE STARS HAVE ANY INFLUENCE AT ALL. It is not necessary," say these logical thinkers, "to learn your abstruse science if we can demonstrate that the very basis upon which your conclusions rest is in every sense fundamentally false." The scientific facts of the case are as

of those inner principles of our planet's constitution all these mental conflicts have a meaning and a purpose within Nature's divine economy; for it is neith

olar center of our solar system, NOT FROM THE STARS which occupy the twelve mansions of space. Aries, the fiery, and PISCES, the watery, ARE ALWAYS THERE, and, instead of its being an argume

ime. If this state could be registered by any instrument and compared with any other set periods during the day, it would offer a remarkable contrast. Two hours later there is a very different influence, and at noon there is a wonderful contrast. The same may be said of sunset, and again at midnight; and, lastly, note the difference two hours bef

me, to some of the various, different portions of the globe, it demonstrates most conclusively that the Earth itself

aches the celestial equator, so that it is equal day and equal night on the Earth, that he is on the line of the celestial horizon; it is co

magnetic polarity after the first fiery flush of cosmic life; the gleeful chattering of the birds an

it is with infant life, and s

f equilibrium toward the North. As this sign represents the powers of absorption, we see that at this

ux, sixty degrees removed from his point of equilibrium. Then comes another change of magnetic polarity. It is rest from labor; it is noon. This corresponds to Cancer. The analogy is perfect. It is th

part of the day is about two hours after noon, or middle of the

ry and the lifeless period two hours before dawn of a new day upon the Earth, a new year to man and a new cycle in the starry heavens. The Zodiac, then, as it applies to the human constitution and the science of astrology, has its foundation in the Sun,

on the first of March is wholly different from the sunrise upon the first of May. So is the beginn

nd interaction, we come nearer and nearer to the one

of experience, his harvest-time-it may be tares or golden grain; his gradual decay, the ebbing of the life forces and the icy winter of death; his gentle zephyrs and destructive hurricanes, floods and tempests, periods of drought and plenty. Within his triune constitution there are spring ti

in its own peculiar plane. So we see that, the whole visible universe is one vast organism, the medium of expression for the invisi

nwearying motion of our Mother Earth. She alone makes our seasons, years and destiny; and she a

the twelve constellations have no existence as objective facts of concrete formation or cosmic potentiality. No! But as unalterable symbols of occult truth

n they have with the twelve constellations