CHAPTER I.

EVOLUTION AS SHOWN IN THE ZODIAC

IT IS a matter of common knowledge among:
mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is1
indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies,
who rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and
that the passage of the Sun and the planets through
the twelve signs of the Zodiac, marks man's progress
in time and in space. Therefore it is not to be won-
dered at, that in the course of their investigations into-
the spiritual development of mankind, the writers'
have also encountered much that deals with the Zodiac
which is the boundary of our evolutionary sphere at
the present time. So much has been perceived in
the memory -of nature that sheds light upon obscure
passages of the Bible, and notes have been made from
time to time of different points, but how to collect
and collate these dissociated writings into a united
whole, has been a great problem for a long time.
Even now, the writers know and feel that what they
have to bring forth is only a very, very weak attempt
to set before the students that great body of facts
which have come to them through the memory of
nature. They feel, however, that this will give a new
meaning and more profound to the old symbols, and
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that by passing on what has been found they put
themselves in line to perceive more light.

Concerning the future evolution of planets; the
Rosicrueian Cosmo Conception teaches, on page 256,
that "when the beings upon a planet have evolved
to a sufficient degree, the planet becomes a Sun, the
fixed center of a Solar System. When the beings
there have evolved to a still greater degree, and
consequently it has reached its maximum of bril-
liancy, it breaks up into a Zodiac and becomes, so to
speak, the womb of a new Solar System, thus the
Great hosts of Divine beings who, until then, were
confined upon that Sun gain freedom of action upon
a great number of stars whence they can affect, in
different ways, the system which grows up within
their sphere of influence. The planets or man-bear-
ing worlds within the Zodiac are constantly being
worked upon by these forces but in various ways ac-
cording to the stage they have reached in evolution.
Our Sun could not have become a sun until it sent
out from itself all the beings who were not sufficiently
•evolved to endure the high rate of vibration and the
: great luminosity of the beings who were qualified
for that evolution. All the beings upon the different
planets would have been consumed had they re-
mained in the Sun. This visible Sun, however,
though it is a place of evolution for beings vastly
above man, is not by any means, the Father of the
other planets, as material science supposes. On the
contrary, it is itself an emanation from the central

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Sun, which is the invisible source of all that IS in
our solar system.

"Our visible Sun is but the mirror in which are
reflected the Rays of energy from the Spiritual Sun,
the real Sun is as invisible as the real man."

From this teaching it is apparent that the great
spiritual hierarchies which are now guiding our evo-
lution, have had their training for this path in pre-
vious schemes of manifestation, also that what they
are now doing, we shall some day do for others.
Already the foremost among our race are treading
the path of initiation, and have thereby advanced
into other stages, far beyond the general status of
present humanity. It has been learned that those
who have gone through the Mercurial School of the
lesser Mysteries, and have graduated from the School
of the Greater Mysteries are now preparing human
evolution in the Jupiter Period. They have entered
the planet Jupiter, by way of one of the Moons,
which serves as a stepping stone. Others there are,
unfortunately, who have gone the other way. We
, read in the Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, that even
as the whole population of the earth were at one
time expelled from the present Sun because of their
inability to keep up with the vibrations of the beings
thereon, thus hindering them and being hindered
themselves, so also it became necessary in the Lemur-
ian Epoch, to expel a number of the stragglers upon
earth. Thus the Moon was cast out into space to
revolve as a Satelite around our present planet.

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Those unfortunates are gradually degenerating ana
the time will come when they will all go to the planet
Saturn, which is the door to Chaos. Thence they
will be expelled to inter-planetary space to await the
time when, in a new system, there will be a favorable
condition for their further evolution.

The Gate of Life and Death

Thus the Zodiac and the planets are as a book
in which we may read the history of Humanity dur-
ing past ages, and it also gives a key to the future
which is in store for us. In the famous Zodiac in
the Temple of Denderah, Cancer is not pictured as
we have it in modern days. There it is a beetle, a
scarab. This was the emblem of the soul, and Can-
cer has always been known in ancient times, as well
as among modern mystics, to be the sphere of the
soul, the gate of Life in the Zodiac whence the spirits
coming into rebirth, enter our sub-lunary conditions.
It is therefore aptly ruled by the Moon which is the
planet 'of fecundation, and it is noteworthy that we
find Capricorn, which is its opposite, ruled by Saturn
the Planet of Death and Chaos, who is mystically
depicted as "the reaper with his scythe and hour
glass in hand." These two opposite signs are there-
fore turning points in the soul's career. Cancer and
Capricorn mark the highest ascent of the Sun into
the Northern Hemisphere, and its lowest descent
into the South. Observations show us that during
the summer when the Sun is in the sphere of Cancer

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and allied signs, fecundation and growth are the
order of the day. But when the Sun is in the South,
in Capricorn, we have winter, when nature is dead.
The fruits of the summer are then consumed and
assimilated by us. As a circle dance of the Sun
among the twelve signs determines the seasons of
the year when direct, causing the germination of
myriads of seeds cast in the earth, also the mating
of the fauna, which then makes the world alive with
the sights and sounds of manifested life, and at an-
other time leaves the world dumb, dull and drear
in winter's gloom, under the sway of Saturn, so by
the slower backward movement, known as the Pre-
cession of the Equinox, does it produce the great
changes which we know as Evolution. In fact, this
processional measure of the sun marks the bii'th and
death of races, nations and their religions, for the
pictorial Zodiac is a symbolical presentation of our
past, present and future development.

Capricorn

Capricorn, the goat, is not a goat at all as we
know that animal, but part fish and part goat. Its
Saturnine rulership, and the fact that it receives
the Sun as the dawn of each New Year, naturally
by analogy associates it with the beginning of pre-
cessional epochs. It represents the stage in evolution
covering transition from fish, through amphibia to
the mammalian form. The belligerency of the goat
is well known, and an apt symbol of the struggle for

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existence, in which the weak perish unless able to
outdistance their foes. This phase of the matter is
sometime? expressed in the symbol, when drawn as
part fish and part antelope. Jacob, in the thirty-
third chapter of Deuteronomy, pronounces blessings
upon his children, which symbolize the twelve signs.
There he speaks of Naphtali as a 'Und' let loose;
this a very apt symbol of Capricorn, for when the
Sun is there at each winter solstice, it is starting a
race through the circle of twelve signs, which it must
complete in a given time — a year.

Sagittarius

When the Sun leaves Capricorn, by precession,
it enters the sign Sagittarius, and this is pictured
in the symbolical Zodiac as a Centaur, part horse
and part man. Thus it shows aptly, the fact that
we have evolved through the animal stage into the
human. The centaur is in the act of drawing his
bow, showing that there is something for which the
human spirit, on its pilgrimage through matter, is
seeking, that it aspires to something that lies beyond
it, as a lofty ideal, for the bow points upward to the
stars.

Scorpio

The next step in human unfoldment is not so
much along the physical lines as along the mental,
its nature is shown by the Sun's passage through the
sign Scorpio, which is pictorially represented as a
serpent or scorpion, emblems of cunning and sub-

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tility. It is plain from this symbol that the first fac-
ulty of the mind evolved by infant humanity was
cunning, and we still see that that is a characteristic
trait among the lower races, the lower classes and the
lower natures even among our present-day humanity.

Libra

But when the Sun enters the sign Libra, 'The
Scales" by precession, the balance of reason gives
him a new start upon the evolutionary path. Under
the care of divine instructors man had at that time
advanced to the point where because of this new
faculty, reason, he could be made fully responsible
to nature's laws, and thus reap what he sows, that
he may learn the lesson of life by actual experience,
be able to reason out the connection between cause
and effect and in time learn to govern him,self upon
the path of progress.

Virgo

Thus, under the guidance of the spiritual hier-
archies, focused through the signs of Capricorn, Sag-
ittarius, Scorpio, and Libra, were his physical, moral
and mental attributes acquired, and he was equipped
to commence the spiritual side of his evolution. The
germ of this progress is hidden in the celestial virgin,
the sign Virgo, which is the vehicle of the immacu-
late conception, the heavenly mother of Christ ;
not of one Christ only, but of many. This is one of
the most sublime signs of the Zodiac and one of the

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most mystic, so fraught with hidden meaning that
its full import cannot be fully understood save when
viewed by the internal light of spiritual illumina-
tion. Yearly, at the Winter solstice, the immaculate
Madonna is ascendant at midnight, when the new
born Sun commences to rise to the task of growing
the grain and grape, to save humanity from the cold
and famine, which would inevitably result were he
to remain in the southern declination. The Sun is
therefore an apt symbol of the Savior, born to feed
his flock on the spiritual bread of life. But, as we
must have eyes attuned to light to see the sun, so
must the Christ be born within. As Angelus Silesius
says :

"Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born
And not within thyself, thy soul will be forlorn.
The Cross on Golgotha thou lookest to in vain
Unless within thyself it be set up again."

Therefore, by the p recessional passage of the
Sun through the sign Virgo, the germinal impulse
was given towards the birth of Christ within. 'The
mystic marriage' of the lower self to the higher, 'the
immaculate conception,' and 'the divine motherhood'
which nourishes deep in its bosom, unseen by a scof-
fing world, 'the new born Christ,' is an actual expe-
rience of a growing number of people. And with-
out the celestial prototype, fructified by the solar
precession, this would be an impossibility; neither

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has this ideal been realized in such fullness during
the past ages as today. The reason of this will ap-
pear when we take up the joint consideration of
opposite signs of the Zodiac.

Leo

A great future is in store for this offspring of
the celestial virgin. Listen to the wonderful pro-
phecy of Isaiah: "For unto us a child is born, unto
us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon
his shoulders and his name shall be called Wonder-
ful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting
Father, the Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His
government and peace there shall be no end."

Humanity is to rise to a wonderful spiritual
height and this is symbolized by the Sun's preces-
pional passage through the Royal sign Leo, pictor-
ially represented by the king of beasts, the lion. This
is an apt allusion to the King of Creation, who will
then embody the three great virtues of the Master
Man, Strength, Wisdom and Beauty.

It is wonderful to see how the various phases of
the religions given to the Great Aryo-Semitic Race
from the time they were "called out" in the later
third of the Atlantean Epoch, to the end of the
Aquarian Age, when a new race will have been defin-
itely born. This aspect of the Zodiac will form the
subject of our next article. It will shed light on
many of the most obscure passages of the Bible, as
only study of this Cosmic Science can.

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When we consider the Zodiac in its religious as
well as its evolutionary aspects, by means of the six
pairs of opposite signs into which the twelve may
be divided, we also commence with Cancer and Cap-
ricorn, for the reason given in the previous article,
namely: that these are the solstitial points where
the Sun reaches its highest and lowest declination.

Considered in this manner, we find that there
are two sets of three pairs of signs, namely, Cancer
and Capricorn, Gemini and Sagittarius, Taurus and
Scorpio. In these three pairs of signs we may read
the history of human evolution and religion, in the
early, the middle and the latter third of the Atlan-
tean Epoch. In the other three pairs of signs : Aries
and Libra, Pisces and Virgo, Aquarius and Leo; we
find the key to man's development during the Aryan
Epoch. This is also divisible into three distinct
periods, namely: the Aryan Age, from Moses to
Christ, which comes under Aries-Libra; the Piscean
Age, which takes in the last two thousand years un-
der Pisces- Virgo Catholicism, and the two thousand
years which are ahead of us, called the Aquarian
Age, where the signs Aquarius and Leo are illum-
inated and vivified by the solar precession, for the
upliftment of the Son of Man (Aquarius), by the
Christ within, the Lion of Judah (Leo), to the
estate of Superman.

It must not be thought, however, that the Atlan-
tean Epoch only lasted while the Sun by precession
went through Cancer, Gemini, and Taurus, a period

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of only six thousand and a few hundred years; far
from it; but there are spirals within spirals and re-
capitulation takes place in the epochs and races, so
that we may know what is the general destiny by
looking at the Sun's passage through these signs and
therewith taking this import and symbolism into con-
sideration. It may also be said that the further we
advance the smaller do the spirals become, the shorter
the time in which a given improvement is made, be-
cause of the proficiency we attained in former ages,
and therefore it is extremely probable that this pres-
ent is the last lap, that the coming Aquarian Age is
the final preparatory school day which will fit us for
the new age, the Sixth Epoch, and that will begin
when the Sun by precession enters Capricorn.

This, of course, would mean that the Second
Advent must take place just before that time, ana
though it seems to us that so many signs point that
way, this is a mere surmise and may not have any
truth in it at all. Thousands of people have been
misled during all the ages that we know of, to think
that Christ would soon be here ; it is, however, better
that we are looking forward to it than if we should
say with some, that it will never take place. In that
case the Great Day will find us unprepared and we
should find ourselves among the stragglers who
are unfit to attend the wedding feast of the higher
Self to the lower because lacking the "soul-
body ' ' which is the ' ' wedding garment ' ' that enfolds
them.

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Cancer-Capricorn (HE — V3)

The Sun's passage by precession through the
sphere of Cancer with its opposite sign Capricorn,
designates the early third of the Atlantean period,
which was intensely watery, as the whole earth was
surrounded by a dense drenching fog, and the Niebe-
lung, or "Children of the Mist," lived then in the
basins of the Earth. Cancer was not then repre-
sented by the same symbol as today ; in ancient times,
it was pictorially figured as a beetle or scarab. This
was the signature of the soul, for then mankind
was much less body than soul.

The sign Cancer is watery in its nature, and the
fish part of Capricorn in the opposite also helps to
symbolize this state of life under water when the Sun
went through the watery sign Cancer by precession.
The Moon, the planet of fecundation, points mystic-
ally to this period of germination, when mankind
first commenced to exercise the Creative function at
the dictates of desire inculcated by the Lucifer Spir-
its. Thus they opened the Gate of physical Life
through Cancer, and strayed into the terrestrial
sphere, but opposite stood Saturn, the ruler of Cap-
ricorn, ready to slay them with his scythe, and usher
them through the Gate of Death back into the spir-
itual realms where they are at home.

Capricorn was the opposite of Cancer and em-
bodied the ideal that as the goat climbs the moun-
tains so man must leave the basin of Atlantis and
come up from the mist.

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Gemini-Sagittarius ( U — t )
Our condition during the middle third of the
Atlantean Epoch is illustrated in the Sun's passage
through the sign Gemini, the twins, which aptly rep-
resent infant humanity. During this age the division
of soul from soul by the veil of flesh, which we call
the body, became more noticeable, for the atmosphere
had already cleared to a considerable extent, and the
faculties of the spirit had become more focused in
its physical instrument. With this delusion of the
personal self, there came at once the idea of 'me'
and 'thee', 'mine' and 'thine', our individual inter-
ests commenced to clash with those of others, so that
a tragedy such as that recorded between Cain and
Abel became possible. Nor was the shedding of blood
confined to human beings, for we learn from the
Bible that "Nimrod was a mighty hunter". This
savage ideal was expressed in the Celestial Centaur,
Sagittarius, with his bow and arrow.

But both of these pairs of opposites: Cancer-
Capricorn and Gemini-Sagittarius, may be consid-
ered pre-historic hieroglyphics of a development ac-
complished in Sidereal years, long past, though none
the less important on that account. Our own times,
with the development prescribed for them, are sym-
bolically represented in the four pairs of signs within
the fixed cross: the Bull, the Lion, the Serpent and
the Man.

For that reason the two pairjs of opposites com-
prising the fixed signs, Taurus-Scorpio, and Leo-

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Aquarius, are mentioned in the Bible, and we shall
find that our modern systems of religion are full of
allusions to the signs which lie between them, namely,
the three pairs of opposites: Aries-Libra, Pisces-
Virgo, and Aquarius-Leo. These three pairs of oppo-
sites are, as already stated, emblematic of the devel-
opment in the early third of the Aryan Epoch, the
Sun by precession went through the sign Aries, the
middle third of the Aryan Epoch finds the Sun in
Pisces, by precession, and during the last third of
this Epoch the Sun will go through the sign Aqua-
rius. Then the solstitial point Capricorn will see the
inauguration of a new cycle or age.

The spiritual preparation for this development
commenced about thirteen thousand B. C. when the
Sun by precession, was in the sign Libra, the Bal-
ance, the last time, and different phases of this germ-
inal impregnation of the people then living were
carried on during the precessional travel of the Sun
through Virgo, Leo, and culminated in Cancer about
eight thousand B. C. when the last of Atlantis was
destroyed by water, substantially as related by the
Egyptian priests to Plato, and we shall see presently
how those germinal ideals, given to humanity in those
far, by-gone days have grown and flowered into fac-
tors of human development and spiritual Standards
of the greatest importance.

Taurus-Scorpio ( b — Til )
In the latter third of Atlantis, Egoism had df-

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veloped to a far greater degree than before, the spir-
itual sight had been lost by the larger majority of
the people who then lived entirely on the material
plane and gloried particularly in their material pos-
sessions.

The Bull was very properly worshiped by them,
it was an emblem of strength necessary to conquer
the material world. It was, on account of its pro-
digious strength, an invaluable aid in all their work.
The proverb about "the flesh pots of Egypt" has
remained illustrative to the present day, to show
how abundantly that animal supplies their physical
need of food, and the milk of the female was also
an important article of diet. The possession of many
cattle was therefore ardently desired by the ancient
infant nations, and the worship of the Bull was in-
augurated under the solar precession through Tau-
rus during earlier, sidereal years, and was continued
to the comparatively modern times, when the Sun
by precession went through the sign of the Celestial
Bull for the last time.

At that point when the Sun entered the sign ot
the Lamb, Aries, the Aryan religions were inaugur-
ated. The Religion of the Lamb is to hold sway for
the next sidereal year, while the Sun by precession
passes around the twelve signs of the Zodiac, as the
religion of the Bull has held dominion during the
previous celestial year from the time the Sun entered
Taurus, until it left the same sign on its next passage.

New religions, however, are not revealed in their

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fullness at the beginning; they are started and go
through a period of gestation long before the religion
which they are to succeed comes into material exist-
ence, and similarly, an ancient religion about to be
abrogated survives long after the religion which suc-
ceeds it has become the official source for upliftment
of humanity. The original Semites, chosen to inaug-
urate the worship of the Lamb, Aries, during
the Aryan Epoch, were taken from 'Egypt,'
the home of the Bull 'Taurus.' Not our modern
'Egypt' however. The story of Pharaoh, who en-
deavored to prevent their emigration and was
drowned, has reference to Atlantis which was sub-
merged thousands of years before Moses is supposed
to have made his escape with the Israelites through
the 'Red Sea.' The facts underlying the story are
that a multitude of people left the land where the
bull 'Taurus' was worshiped, (Atlantis or Egypt)
whose inhabitants were drowned, to seek a 'prom-
ised land' beyond the water which then engulfed
an 'ungodly nation.' There they were dedicated to
worship the 'Lamb' Aries. This lamb had been slain
in 'Egypt' (Atlantis) ; through its blood these pio-
neers had been preserved from death, and- it was
thus "the Lamb, slain from the foundation of the
(present) World" which we call the Aryan Epocli.
Noah's escape presents another phase of the same
occurrence relating that the mists which had envel-
oped Atlantis condensed to rain, and flooded the
basins of the earth, leaving a clear atmosphere in

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which the Rainbow was seen for the first time at the
opening of the New Age, the Aryan Epoch, where
a new Covenant was made with the pioneers of the
polity then ushered in.

Atlantis was the home of the Bull, Taurus, and
when the Sun, by precession, was leaving that sign
the last time, the Religion of the Lamb Aries was
definitely ushered in. Thenceforth, the worship of
the Bull was abrogated and when any of the pioneer
race, brought out from the ancient Atlantean dis-
pensation by the blood of the Lamb, Aries, backslid
and worshiped the Taurean 'Calf, they acted con-
trary to the law of progress and were therefore
'Idolaters', and an abomination to the divine hier-
archs whose task it was to guide them during the
ages preceding the advent of Christ. On account,
of repeated transgressions many were 'lost', and
they are the Jews of today who still retain their
Atlantean traits (see 'Cosmo Conception).

Apart from the Astrological key, the Bible is:
truly a closed book, but with this key, the matter is
different. In the Old Testament reference is made
to two classes of animals: Bulls, which were Tau-
rean, and Sheep and Goats, which were Arian. These
alone were used as Sacrifices. ( Turtle doves were
permitted as a concession to poverty). All the prin-
cipal characters of the Old dispensation were shep-
herds (Arian) and Christ also announces Himself
as the Great Shepherd.

In the New Testament we find another animal,

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the Fish, attaining great prominence, and the apos-
tles were called to be 'Fishers of Men,' for then the
sun by precession was nearing the cusp of Pisces,
the Fish, and Christ spoke of the time when the
Son of Man (Aquarius) shall come. Thus our evo-
lutionary journey is mapped out in the hidden astro-
logical allusions of the Bible.

The student now has a line on the march of
events, which it is well to keep in mind.

Jesus taught the multitudes in parables but ex-
plained the mysteries of the Kingdom to His disci-
ples. Paul gave meat to the strong, but the milk of
doctrine to the multitude, for there has always been
an exoteric and an esoteric side in every religion.
If we take Taurus, the sign of the Bull, to symbolize
the worship of that animal as practiced in Egypt,
Persia and other countries at that time, then we
shall find that the opposite sign, Scorpio, symbolizes
the esoteric doctrine of the priesthood, which were
the guardians of these ancient Atlantean Mysteries.

In this connection we will note first that the sign
Scorpio is represented in the pictorial Zodiac by a
;Scorpion or Serpent, and we wish to impress par-
ticularly on the student's mind that the Scorpion
"has its sting in the tail, while the Serpent has the
•venom in its teeth. This is very significant, as we
shall see presently.

On looking up the word "serpent" in the Bible,
we shall find that there are about seven words that
have thus been translated; but one of them, which

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was borrowed from Egypt, is Naja. This word is
found on the old tablets in the ancient temples of
Egypt where Osiris, the Sun God, is hailed when
arising from the primordial deep. He was then
crowned with glory and has the Urasus Naja, an
emblem of cosmic wisdom. The Urasus was a part
of a serpent's body, with its head protruding from
a point in the forehead just above the nose, where
the human spirit has its seat; and Christ therefore
referred to the ancient Serpent-Initiates, when He
said: "Be ye wise as serpents."

In ancient Egypt the King wore a crown adorned
by a double serpent, Uraeus or Naja, which seems to
protrude from his forehead when the crown was
placed upon his head. This was to symbolize the fact
that he held the double office of King and Priest by
virtue of his sublime wisdom. In India, also, the
guardians of the Mystery Teachings were called
Nagas or Serpents. In the Icelandic 'Eddas", the
Northern Vedas, Siegfried, the truth seeker, slays
the serpent, tastes of its blood and then becomes
wise. Nor, to elaborate on the statement made above,
is it necessary to go outside our own religion for
proof that the serpent is the symbol of wisdom, for
the Christ Himself said: "Be ye wise as serpents."
The serpent is certainly not sufficiently sagacious to
warrant a literal meaning of this saying; but when
we understand that when the creative fire is drawn
upwards through the serpentine spinal cord it vi-
brates the pituitary body and the pineal gland, con-

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necting the Ego with the invisible worlds by opening
up a hidden sense, the allusion is perfectly clear.

There is, however, a lower phase of spiritual
development, symbolized in ancient times by placing
the Uraeus or serpent at the navel, to show that the
mediumistic faculties in the solar plexus had been
developed. Mediumship is a negative phase of spir-
itual sight or hearing possessed by a person con-
trolled by an outside intelligence who then prophe-
sies. This undesirable phase of seership was repre-
sented in the Zodiac by the symbol of the Scorpion,
which has the sting in its tail. In the Serpent
Initiate the Creative Cosmic Fire was drawn up-
ward through the head to serve a spiritual end; in
the Medium the creative energy is expressed for
selfish, sensual ends through the procreative organ
ruled by Scorpio.

The point between the eyebrows, whence the
serpent of wisdom protrudes, is the seat of life,
whereas all that opens the womb is subject to the
sting of death, contained in the Scorpion's tail.

If we now turn writh this information to our
Bible, we shall find that a great many things, pre-
viously obscure, will become clear. As said, the
Egyptian word for this Uragus or serpent is Naja
and it was borrowed by the Israelites who expressed
the negative faculty of mediumship by affixing the
feminine ending "oth": Naioth, while those who are
able to function consciously in the spiritual worlds
were given the positive, male plural ending "im,"

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and were called Nairn. If we read the nineteenth
chapter of first Samuel with this understanding we
shall readily see that the incident there narrated
was of a mediumistic nature. David had become
afraid of Saul and he went with Samuel to "Naioth."
This is supposed by Bible translators to be a place,
and maybe a village was so named. But if that was
the case, it was because the people who lived in that
place were Naioth, or mediums. They were called
prophets in the chapter before us, and it is signifi-
cant that as soon as anyone came within their camp,
he commenced to prophesy or speak under control.
Even Saul, who came there, anxious to get David
away that he might slay him, was seized by the
spirits and prophesied, to the amazement of all
present.

In the New Testament we are told that the
Chirst went to the city of Nain and there raised the
Son of a Widow. In the Latin Testament, this city
was not called Nain, but Nairn. And it is very sig-
nificant that all three, Nairn, Naioth and Endor,
where the sorceress that assisted Saul is supposed
to have lived, are in the same locality by Mount
Tabor.

Every Free Mason knows that the brethren of
that Order are called "Sons of the Widow." And
it is stated in the Bdble that Hiram Abiff, the Master
Builder of Solomon's Temple, was the Son of a
Widow, a cunning craftsman. We cannot in the
present article repeat the Masonic Legend which tells

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the reason why. This we have given in the books on
"Free-Masonry and Catholicism" and also in our
book on the Rosicrucian Philosophy. But suffice
it to say that in the Bible story to which reference
has been made, we have one of the Nairn, a Widow's
Son or initiate of the old Serpent School, for the
priests of Egypt were "pliree messen," children of
light. Each had within, the ancient Serpent Wis-
dom. But a new religion was being inaugurated,
and it was necessary to raise the ancient Initiates
to the Mysteries of the Coming Age. Therefore the
Christ, the Lion of Judah, Lord of the new Kingdom,
went to the Widow's Son of Nairn and raised him
up by the strong grip of the Lion's paw. And we
may here emphasize that the first Initiate under the
new system was Hiram Abiff, the highest Initiate of
the old system, who, by this new initiation given him
by the Christ, became a Christian, pledged to bear
the Rose and the Cross, which were the symbols of
the New Mystery Teachings of the Western World
and he was then given the symbolical name: Chris-
tian Rosenkreuz.

Thus from the time when the Sun enters the
sign Aries by precession, it became a crime for the
chosen people to worship the bull exoterically, or to
partake of the esoteric Serpent wisdom. And for
a similar reason it is Idolatry when people of the
West take up the Eastern religions, Hindooism,
Buddhism and kindred teachings. For in the Aryan
Epochs, only the Aryan Religions, the religions of

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the Lamb, have the proper effect on the human evo-
lution. All previous systems are detrimental to the
Western people ; and in time those also who are
now in the East, the Orientals, will be forced to em-
brace this religion, or be left far behind in evolution.

THE ARYAN AGE
Aries — Libra (T — ^=)

The Aryan Age may be divided into three eras;
but they are all served by the religion of the Lamb.
The first division covers the time when the Sun, by
precession, goes through the sign Aries, the Lamb.
Jesus was born when the Vernal equinox was in
about seven degrees of Aries; so the twenty degrees
which lie on the other side belong to the Old Testa-
ment period, when, as we say, the chosen people
were in captivity and lost in the wilderness of the
wrorld ; the new religion had not then found its place.
Then the Christ came and inaugurated this new teach-
ing definitely. He came not to destroy the old pro-
phets and the law, but to give us something higher
when they shall have been fulfilled. The sign op-
posite Aries is Libra, the scales or balance of Jus-
tice; and therefore we are told in the new religion
that there will come a day of judgment (=a=), when
Christ shall appear to give to every man according
to the deeds done in the body.

Pisces — Virgo (^ — Tlfl)
Christ was the Great Shepherd (T), but He

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called His disciples to be "fishers of men," for the
Sun by precession was then leaving the sign of the
Lamb and entering Pisces, the sign of the fishes.
Therefore a new phase of the Aryan religion was
opening up. The Bishop's mitre is also in the form
of a fish's head.

The New Testament, therefore, does not mention
the Bull or the Lamb, but references to the fishes are
numerous. We also find the celestial virgin (n£)
prominent and the wheat ear of Virgo is the Bread
of Life, resultant from the immaculate purity. Thus
Christ fed the multitude on fish (Pisces) and loaves
(Virgo).

Before the time of Christ, the new religion of
the Lamb (Aries), could get no foothold. Moses, the
erstwhile leader, could not bring the chosen people
to the "promised land." That was reserved for
Joshua, the son of Nun. Joshua is the Hebraic for
"Jesus" and the Hebrew word "Nun" means
"fish" (Pisces). It was thus foretold that -the re-
ligion of the Lamb ( T ) would attain prominence
during the precessional passage of the Sun through
the sign Pisces, the fishes.

This prophecy has been fulfilled, for during the
two thousand years which have elapsed since the
birth of Jesus, the Western religion has been taught
by a celibate priesthood, worshiping an immaculate
virgin, symbolized by the celestial sign Virgo, which
is the opposite of Pisces. This same priesthood has
also enjoined the eating of fish and forbidden the use

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of flesh ( T 8 ) on certain days. When the children
of Israel left the flesh pots of Egypt, where the Bull
( b ) was slain, they left it by the blood of the Lamb
( T ) . But in the Piscean dispensation no shedding
of blood is enjoined and flesh eating is condemned
as a sin at certain times, for man is now taught to
forsake the lusts of the flesh and also lusting after
the flesh.

This ideal was tried under the Aryan dispensa-
tion, when the chosen people were yet in the Wilder,
ness, so called, but without success; they would not
have the heavenly manna. Now, however, man is
being weaned from the cannibalistic practice, and
in the seven hundred years which remain before the
Aquarian age is definitely ushered in, we will, in all
probability, have made great strides, both in over-
coming the lust of the flesh and the lust after the
flesh. For Virgo, the immaculate celestial virgin,
and the ears of wheat contained in the sign, show
both these ideals as profitable to soul growth at the
present time. Jupiter, the planet of benevolence and
philanthropy, which rules Pisces, has been a promi-
nent factor in promoting altruism during the past
two milleniums.

Aquarius — Leo ( £? — SI )

It is often said, and rightly so, that the boy is
father of the man. And on the same principle we
may say that the Son of Man is the Super-Man;
therefore, when the Sun by precession enters the

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celestial sign Aquarius, the water-bearer, we shall
have a new phase of the religion of the Lamb, ex-
oterically ; and the ideal to be striven for is shown in
the opposite sign, Leo.

The Moon, which is the habitat of the autocratic
Race Ruler and Lawgiver, Jehovah, is exalted in
Taurus, the sign of the Bull, and all Race religions,
even the Mosaic phase of the Aryan religion of the
Lamb, demanded a sacrificial victim for every trans-
gression of that law. But the Sun is exalted in
Aries, and when the great Sun spirit, Christ, came
as High Priest of the Aryan religion, He abrogated
sacrifice of others by offering up Himself as a per-
petual sacrifice for sin.

By looking to the mother ideal of Virgo during
the Piscean Age, and following the Christ's example
of sacrificial service, the immaculate conception be-
comes an actual experience to each of us, and Christ,
the Son of Man, Aquarius, is born within us. Thus,
gradually, the third phase of the Aryan religion will
be ushered in and a new ideal will be found in the
Lion of Judah, Leo. Courage of conviction, strength
of character and kindred virtues make man truly the
King of Creation, worthy of the trust and the con-
fidence of the lower orders of life as well as of the
love of the Divine Hierarchs above.

This, the mystic message of Man's evolution, is
marked in naming characters upon the field of
heaven, where he who runs may read. And when we
study the revealed purpose of God, we shall in turn

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Icam to conform intelligently to that design, thereby
hastening the day of emancipation from our present
cramped environment to the perfect liberty of free
Spirits, risen superior to the law of Sin and Death,
through Christ, the Lord of Love and Life.

It is for us to decipher this message, and solve
the Riddle of the Universe.