CHAPTER II.

THE MEASURE OF AMENABILITY TO PLANETARY
VIBRATIONS

WHEN judging a horoscope it is of prime im-
portance that we take into consideration the so-
cial and racial standing of the individual, for configu-
rations which are of great significance in the horo-
scope of an educated Caucasian, may mean little or
nothing in the figure of a Chinese Coolie and vice
versa. Neglect of this factor would inevitably lead
to false conclusions, as we shall now explain.

It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale
of evolution a being is placed the more certainly it
responds to the planetary rays, and conversely the
higher we ascend in the scale of attainment the
more the man conquers and rules his stars, freeing
himself from the leading strings of the Divine Hier-
archies. This yoke was not, however, placed upon
man in order to restrain him needlessly, but just as
we in our ordinary life restrain a child from doing
things in ignorance, which would hurt it, and maybe
cripple it for life, so also are we restrained by the
Divine Hierarchies through the planetary aspects
in such a manner that we do not hurt ourselves be-
yond recovery in the Great School of Life.
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But coupled with this guidance there is of course
the measure of free Will, which grows as we evolve.
The child in our midst has really very little free
will, it is subjected not only to its parents but to
the servants, if such there be in the household, and
to everybody with whom it is associated, all exercise
control over it for its own good. As the child grows,
this measure of restraint is by degrees relaxed, in
the course of years the child will learn to exercise
its free will. This method has been followed by the
Divine Hierarchies in the case of man. Infant Hu-
manity was absolutely guided by Divine rules with-
out having any Will at all, "Thus shalt thou do, or
not do," were injunctions laid upon them which
must be implicitly obeyed, otherwise the Divine dis-
pleasure was at once shown by such strenuous mani-
festations as appealed to infant humanity's mind,
namely, lightning, thunder, earth-quakes and great
visitations of plagues. This was for their collective
guidance; for individual restraint there were strict
laws, commandments and ordinances. Tribute must
be paid continually to the Divine Leader and offered
up on the altar as sacrifices, and for every offense
against the law a certain sacrifice of material goods
must be made. Fear was the dominant keynote of
that dispensation: for "The fear of the Lord is the
beginning of righteousness." This regime was car-
ried on under the planetary conditions of Mars and
the Moon. Mars being the home of the dominant
Lucifer Spirits, gave to mankind the energy neces-

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sary that evolution may be accomplished; this mar-
tial energy was of the very greatest importance, par-
ticularly of course in the earlier stages. The Moon,
which is the home of the Angels, under their Divine
Leader Jehovah, gave to infant humanity that child-
like brain-mind which is amenable to rulership, and
bends itself readily before authority.

These with Saturn were the only planetary rays
which affected mankind as a whole during the Le-
murian epoch, and if a horoscope were erected for
any of the people who lived then, it would be un-
necessary to enter the places of the other planets,
because they could not respond to their rays. Even
today a great part of mankind has not evolved
very far beyond that point, a large class, particularly
among those we speak of as the lower races, and even
the lower classes of our western world are dominated
principally by these planetary rays. Under their
impulses they act with automatic certainty in a
specific manner, and it is possible to predict exactly
what they will do under a certain aspect of these
planets, because they live entirely in their emotions
and are scarcely, if at all, responsive to the intellec-
tual vibrations of Mercury. Neither can they ap-
preciate such emotions as signified by Venus or its
octave, Uranus; they respond solely to the lower na-
ture, the animal passions. They move under the im-
pulses of Mars and the Moon respecting sex and sus-
tenance. Their pleasures are of the lowest and most
sensual nature, they live like animals. Altogether

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in the physical, their creed is eat, drink and be
merry. Their desires may be expressed as "wine and
women," for they have not yet awakened to the
charm of song, neither has beauty had a chance to
enchant the savage heart at this stage of development
for that comes from the Venus rays which are be-
yond such people. Woman is to the man of that
stage only a beast of burden and a convenience.

Meanwhile "Father Time" represented by the
planet Saturn, keeps the score, and wields over them
the whiplash of necessity to drive them forward on
the evolutionary path, meting out to each the fruits
of his labor at the harvest time between lives. When
the man has cultivated the savage virtues of bravery,
physical endurance, etc., he dreams in the post-mor-
tem existence of new fields to conquer, he sees
where he was lacking and why his desires were frus-
trated because of lack of implements. Gradually
the constructive martial ray and the Saturn cunning
fertilize the lunar brain which he is building, so that
in time he learns to make the crude implements nec-
essary for the attainment of his primitive ambitims.
Even today we see the same cunning traits of char-
acter, the same crude crafts displayed in and by the
lower races for the purpose of irrigating land, min-
ing ores or milling grain. All those earliest imple-
ments were the result of the planetary rays of Sat-
urn, Moon and Mars, impinging on the primitive
biuin of infant humanity.

A little further along the path of evolution, in

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the Atlantean epoch, the Lords of Venus and the
Lords of Mercury came to the earth for the purpose
of giving a further impulse to the mental and emo-
tional development. It was the task of Venus to
combat the lower emotions and raise the brutish ani-
mal passion of Mars to the softer and more beautiful
Venus-love. She was to add beauty to strength, and
to attain that ideal the Lords of Venus fostered the
plastic arts, painting and sculpture, these were not
taught men of the general public at that time; the
ideals which are to be developed in a race are al-
ways first taught to the most advanced ones in a
mystery temple, and at that time initiation included
no spiritual instruction, but consisted of an educa-
tion in the liberal arts. Sculpture taught how the
beautiful may be incorporated in physical form. It
called attention to the body and idealized the softly
curved lines. The result is now incorporated in our
own race body, for it should be thoroughly under-
stood that in a mystery school an ideal is not taught
today simply to be forgotten tomorrow or the next
generation, but ideals are inculcated so that in time
they may become a part of the very life, soul and
body of the race. Compare the race body of the
Indian, the Bush-man, the Hottentots, etc., with
that of the modern civilized man, and you will find
that there is indeed beauty added to strength.

It may be objected that we are degenerating
compared with what is shown in the Hellenic Arts,
but that is positively not so, it is rather that we

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have not yet attained to that highest ideal. In an-
cient Greece the mystery temples occupied a much
more prominent position than today, the beautiful
form was idolized to the detriment of the mind not-
withstanding the fact that she had a Plato and a
Socrates. The Lords of Mercury who had charge
of the development of mind, at the time when the
Lords of Venus exercised their great influence on
the emotions, had not then been able to make a uni-
versally strong impression on the early humanity.
We are well aware even today that it hurts to think,
but it is easy to follow the emotions. At the pres-
ent time the middle class of the west is much fur-
ther advanced than the ancient Greeks because of
the influence of these two planetary rays in our
lives. Woman naturally excels in the highly im-
aginative Venus faculty, because of her part in th&
creative function which aids in moulding the body
of the race. On that account her figure has the1
graceful curves which naturally express beauty,
while man has the worldly-wise intellect fostered by
the Lords of Mercury, and is the exponent of reason,
the creative agency of physical progress in the
world's work.

We always long for, admire, and aspire to what
we lack. In days of savagery when kicks and cuffs
were her daily fare woman longed for a caress from
her lord. The Venus ray gave her beauty and made
her an adept in the feminine arts which have conquer-
ed the masculine heart, so that now he plays the

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role of protector on the plea that woman is not men-
tally competent ; meanwhile he is becoming that
which he admires in her; he is more gentle and
kind, Venus is conquering Mars, but the Mercury
delusion of intellectual superiority needs another in-
fluence to conquer it. And this woman is now at-
tracted by the aspiration. As she mastered martial
brutality by Venus beauty, so also, will she free her-
self from Mercurial bondage by Uraman intuition.

To primitive man, driven by the whip-lash of
Saturnine necessity, when not by the animal lust
and passions of Mars and the Moon the World looks
gloomy. Fear is the key-note of his extistence; fear
of animals ; fear of other men ; fear of the naturt
force.s; fear of everything around him. He must
«ver be watchful and on the alert, vigilance is eter-
nally the price of safety. But when evolution makes
him amenable to the influence of Venus and Mer-
cury, they soften his emotions and brighten the men-
tality; he begins to feel love and reason as factors in
life. The Sun also begins to brighten his outlook
upon life, and sunshine in the nature of man dur-
ing this phase of his evolution partly dispels the
cloud of Saturn. Thus, by degrees, as he evolves and
becomes responsive to the music of the spheres, one
; string after another in the celestial harp strikes the
kindred chord in the human soul and makes him
amenable to its vibrations, so that as a tuning fork
which is struck, awakens the music in other tuning
forks of even pitch within reasonable distance, the

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planets in our solar system have in evolutionary suc-
cession struck various chords that have found an
echo in the human heart.

But the strings on the celestial Lyre of Apollo
are not all in harmony, some are in actual discord,
and while man responds to some he must necessarily
remain, at least partially, unresponsive to others. In
fact, before it is possible to respond perfectly to
the rays of Venus it is necessary for man to conquer
Mars to a considerable degree, and bring him under
control so that certain undesirable martial traits in
his nature will be kept in the background, while oth-
ers, which may be valuable, are retained. The Venus
love which is willing to give all for the loved ones
cannot dwell side by side in the heart with the Mars
ray which demands all for self. Therefore the sav-
age must learn to conquer himself in a certain
measure ere he may become the more civilized fam-
ily man of modern times. Under the unrestrained
passionate rays of Mars and the Moon, parents bring
children into the world and leave them to take care
of themselves almost as animals do, for they are pro-
ducts of animal passion. The females are bought and
sold as a horse or cow or else taken by force and car-
ried away. Even so late as the mediaeval dark ages,
the knight often carried away his bride by force of
arms, practically in the same manner that the male
animals battle for the possession of the female at
mating time.

Thus we see that the first step toward civiliza-

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tion requires that a man conquer one or more of the
planets to a certain degree at least. Unbridled pas-
sion such as generated by the primitive Mars rays
is no more permissible under the regime of mod-
ern civilization, neither is the tenet that "might is
right" any longer admissible, save in wars when we
return to barbarism. The Mars quality of physical
prowess, that at one time made it a virtue to attack
others and take away property, is no longer admir-
ed in the individual. It is punished by various
means, according to law, though it is still effective
as far as nations are concerned, who go to war under
this primitive impulse in order to secure territorial
aggrandizement. However, as said, Mars has been
conquered to a great degree in civil and social life
in order that the Venus love might take the place
of the Mars passion.

As previously noted, the children of primitive
man Avere left to their own resources, as soon as they
had been taught to defend themselves in physical
warfare. With the advent of Mercury another
method is observable. The battle of life nowadays,
is no longer fought with physical weapons alone.
Brain, rather than brawn determines success. There-
fore the period of education has been lengthened as
mankind advanced, and it aims principally at men-
tal accomplishments because of the Mercurial rays
which accompany the Venus development of mod-
ern civilization. Thus man sees nature from a more
sunny side when he has learned to respond to the

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Sun, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Moon and Saturn, even
if only in a very slight measure.

But although these various stages of evolution
have gradually brought man under the dominance
of a number of planetary rays, the development has
been one-sided, for it has aimed to foster interest
solely in things over which he has a proprietary
right: liis business, his house, Ms family, 7m cattle,
farm, etc., are all vitally important, and must be
taken care of. His possessions must be increased,
if possible, no matter what happens to the possess-
ions, family, etc., belonging to anyone else, that is
not his concern. But before he can reach to a high-
er stage of evolution it is necessary that this desire
to appropriate the earth, and retain it for himself
if possible, must give way to a desire to benefit his
fellowmen. In other words, Egoism must give way
to Altruism, and just as Saturn by wielding the
whip lash of necessity over him in his primitive days
brought him up to his present point of civilization,
so also Jupiter, the planet of altruism, is destined to
raise him from the state of man to superman where
he will come under the Uranian ray in respect to
his emotional nature, where passion generated by
Mars will be replaced by Compassion, and where the
childlike consciousness of Lunar origin is replaced
by a Cosmic consciousness of the Neptunian ray.
And therefore the advent into our lives of the Jupi-
terian ray marks a very distinct advance in the hu-
man development. As taught in the Rosicrucian

40 THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS

Cosmo-Conception, we are to advance from our pres-
ent Earth period into the Jupiter period, and there-
fore the Jupiterian ray marks that high stage of al-
truism which will then be a prominent factor in our
relations, one with the other, and it will be readily
understood that before we can really respond to the
rays of Jupiter we must in a measure cultivate al-
truism, and conquer the Egoism that comes through
the Mercurial reasoning power. We have learned to
conquer some of the phases of Mars and the Moon,
we may have also learned to conquer some of the
lower phases of Mercury and Venus; the more we
have overcome these the better we shall be able to
respond to the highest vibratory forces emanating
from these planets; yes, if we strive earnestly we
shall some day be able to overcome even the highest
stage of the Venus love, that always attaches itseli
to an object which is owned by us. We love our
children because they are ours ; we love our husbands
and wives because they belong to us; we take pride,
Venusian pride, in their moral characteristics or
Mercurial pride in their accomplishments, but Christ
set a higher standard: "Unless a man leave his fa-
ther and mother he can not be my disciple." The
idea that we should neglect our fathers and mothers
or that we must hate them in order to follow Him
was far from His mind, of course, but father and
mother are only bodies; the soul that inhabits this
body of the father and mother is to be loved, not
the mere physical garment. Our love should be the

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same whether the person 'is old or young, ugly or
beautiful. We should look for the beauty of the
soul, for the universal relationship of all souls and
not mind so much the relationship of the bodies. Who
is my mother and my brothers, said the Christ, and
pointed to his disciple.s, those who were at one with
Him in that great work. They were closer to Him
than anyone else could be, because of the mere phys-
ical relationship. This attitude constitutes an up-
ward step from the Venus love which places the em-
phasis on the physical garments of the loved ones
and leaves out of consideration the soul that is with-
in. The Jupiterian love on the other hand takes cog-
nizance only of the soul, regardless of the body it
wears. The Mercurial or reasoning phase of men-
tality is also changed by response to the altruistic Ju-
piter. Cold calculation is out of the question. One
who feels the expansive ray of Jupiter is big heart-
ed, first, last and all the time, and in every respect ;
big hearted where his emotions are concerned, his
love; big hearted where all the things of the world
are concerned. "A jovial fellow," is an apt expres-
sion. He is welcomed and loved by everyone he
meets because he radiates not the common selfish-
ness, but a desire to benefit others that breeds in us
a feeling of trust, diametrically opposed to the
sense of distrust we instinctively feel when we come
in contact with a Saturn-Mercury man.

It is a matter of actual experience to astrolo-
gers endowed with spiritual sight that every man's

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planetary rays produce certain colors in his aura,
in addition to the basic color which is the stamp
of the race to which the man belongs. The man with
the thin, sickly blues of a commingled Saturn and
Mercury, is to be pitied rather than censured for the
avarice and gloom which are his constant attitude of
mind; he sees everything in the world through the
auric mirror which he has created around himself;
he feels that the world is cold, hard and selfish, that
therefore it is necessary for him to be more selfish
and more cold in order that he may protect himself.
On the other hand, when we see the divine blue ray
of Jupiter tinted with perhaps the fine gold of Uran-
ia n nature we realize how differently such an exalted
individual must view the world from that sordid
way of seeing and judging things. Even those who
have the faintest Jupiterian tinge are in a world
filled with sunshine, flowers blooming, everything in
nature is gay and glad. And by looking at the world
through such an atmosphere they call forth from
other sources a similar response, as the tuning fork
previously mentioned generates in another of an
even pitch.

After what has been said it will not be difficult
to understand that the Uranian characteristics,
where love becomes compassion, give wisdom that
is not dependent upon reasoning, a love that is not
fixed upon one object alone, but includes all that
lives and moves and has its being ; it is similar to the
characteristics that are to be evolved by humanity

PLANETARY VIBRATIONS 43

during the Venus period when perfect love shall
have cast out all fear, when man shall have conquer-
ed all the lower phases of his nature and love shall be
as pure as it is universally inclusive.

When these Uranian vibrations are felt by ad-
vance in the higher life through aspiration, there is
great danger that we may throw away the fetter of
law and anticipation, before we are really ready to
govern ourselves by the law of Love divine, that we
may disregard the laws that are in the world, that
we may not render unto Caesar that which is
Ceasar's, whether in obedience or coin, that we may
not be careful of avoiding the appearance of evil,
that we may think that we have so far transcended
the ordinary stage of humanity that we can live as
super-humans, that the passion of Mars has in our
case been changed to Uranian compassion, which is
sexless, and under these misapprehensions, many
people who endeavor to tread the path disregard the
laws of marriage and enter into relationships as soul-
mate and affinity. They feel the Uranian ray, but
cannot quite respond to its sublime purity, there-
fore they experience a counterfeit Venusian sensa-
tion which usually ends in adultery and sex-perver-
sion, so that instead of the natural animal passion
of Mars having been transmuted to the compassion
of Uranus it has as a matter of fact, degenerated into
something that is far worse than the fullest sex ex-
pression of the martial rays committed in a frank and
proper manner. This is a danger that cannot be

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too strictly guarded against and it behooves every-
one who endeavors to live the higher life not to try
to aspire to the Uranian rays until he at first be-
come.s thoroughly imbued with the altruistic vibra-
tions of Jupiter, for more misery is brought into the
world by those who have aspired too high and
fallen low, than by those who are not .sufficiently as-
piring. Pride goes before a fall, is an ancient and
very true proverb, which it behooves every one of
us to take to heart. The Christ took part in the
marriage at Cana. Marriage is a regular Christian
institution, and must exist until abolished in the
kingdom to come, because the bodies we have will
not wear out and therefore there will be no need of
marriage to generate new ones.

Let it also be understood that although the min-
ister who marries cannot mate, the finding of the
mate should be done before the marriage ceremony
is undertaken and not after.

As we have seen in the foregoing; Mars, Venus
and Uranus mark three stages in the emotional de-
velopment of man. During the stage where he is
only amenable to Mars, animal passion reigns su-
preme and he seeks unrestricted gratification of all
his lower desires in the intercourse with his fellow-
man but particularly with the opposite sex; during
the stage where he becomes amenable to the rays of
Venus, love softens the brutality of his desires and
the animal passions are somewhat held in leash; he is
even, under the higher phases of this planet, ready

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to sacrifice himself and his desires for the benefit and
comfort of the loved ones. When he has evolved to
the point where he can feel the rays of Uranus, the
passion of Mars gradually turns to compassion ; there
the love of Venus which is only for one particular
person, becomes all inclusive so that it embraces all
humankind regardless of sex or any other distinction,
for it is the divine love of soul for soul which is above
all material considerations of whatever nature.

The mentality also evolves through three stages
according to the amenability of the person to the
vibrations of the Moon, Mercury and Neptune.
While man is only amenable to the lunar influence,
he is childlike and easily guided by the higher pow-
ers, which have led him through the various stages
mentioned in our previous chapters. Under the
stellar ray of Mercury he gradually develops his in-
tellectual powers and becomes a reasoning being. As
such, he is placed under the law of cause and effect,
made responsible for his own actions, so that he may
reap what he has sown and learn thereby the ex-
perience.s that life has to teach him under the pres-
ent regime. Being inexperienced, he makes mistakes
in whatever direction indicated by the afflictions to
Mercury in his horoscope and consequently he suf-
fers a corresponding penalty of sorrow and trouble.
If he has not the mentality to reason on the connec-
tion between his mistakes and the sad experiences
growing from them, during his life time, the pano-
rama of life, which unfolds in the post-mortem

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state, makes this clear, and leaves with him an es-
sence of "right feeling" which we know as "con-
science. ' '

This conscience keeps him from repeating past
mistakes, when the feeling generated has become suf-
ficiently strong to overbalance the tendency to yield
to the particular temptation which caused him suf-
fering. Thus he gradually develops a spiritual con-
sciousness which is above and beyond human reason,
but which nevertheless is also connected with reason
in such a manner that when the result has been
reached, the man who has this Cosmic Consciousness
knows the reason why such and such a thing is and
must be, or why he ought to take a certain action.
This Cosmic Consciousness is developed under the
ray of Neptune and differs from that intuitional
right feeling developed under the ray of Uranus in
the very important fact that while the person who
has developed the Uranian quality of intuition ar-
rives at the truth instantaneously without the ne-
cessity of thinking over the matter or reasoning, he
is unable to give anything but the result ; he cannot
connect the various steps of logical sequence where-
by the final result was reached. The man or woman,
however, who develops the Neptune faculty, also has
the result of any question immediately and is able
to tell the reason why that result is the proper and
right one.

The Faculty of intuition built up from the Mar-
tial base of passion, through the Venusian stage of

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love, and the Uranian ray of compassion, depends
upon the ability of the person involved to feel very
intensely. By love and devotion, the heart is attuned
to every other heart in the universe and in this way
it knows and feels all that may be known and felt
by any other heart in the universe, thus it shares
the divine omniscience that binds Our Father in
Heaven to His children and through the direct
heart to heart touch with that omniscience the per-
son obtains the result of whatever problem is placed
before him.

The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints
of the most transcendent spirituality, have attained
their wonderful development through the spiritual
rays of this planet because of the intense feeling
of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and
breathe.8 in the universe.

But there are others who are not thus consti-
tuted and they are not able to walk that path. These,
through the Moon, Mercury and Neptune have de-
veloped their intellect and attained the same re-
sults plus the Neptunian power of idealization.

This is a very important point and it is only
brought out in the Western Wisdom Teachings, for
while it was formerly taught that the spirit involves
itself in matter and thereby crystallizes itself into
form which then evolves, the Western Wisdom
Teachings tell us that there is in addition a third
factor in universal advancement, namely: Epigene-
sis; the faculty whereby the spirit may choose a

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course that is altogether new and independent of
what has gone before. We see the expression of
this in all kingdoms relative to form, but in the hu-
man kingdom, epigenesis expresses itself as genius,
a creative instinct, which makes man more akin to
the divine than any other of his accomplishments.
This is developed under the Neptune ray when that
planet is well placed in the horoscope. There is
of course also such a thing as an evil genius, a des-
tructive faculty developed under an afflicted Nep-
tune.

Only the most sensitive people in the world
feel the rays of Uranus and Neptune at the present
time. To feel these vibrations the connection be-
tween the dense physical body and the vital body,
which is made of ether, must be rather loose for where
these two vehicles are firmly 'interlocked the person
is always of a materialistic turn, and cannot respond
to the higher and more subtle vibrations from the
spiritual world. But when the stellar rays from
these two planets impinge upon a person whose vital
body is loosely connected with the physical, we have
what is called a sensitive. The direction and qual-
ity of this faculty depends upon the placement and
the aspect of the two planets mentioned however.
Those who are particularly under the domination of
an adverse aspect of the Uranian ray, usually de-
velop the more undesirable phases of clairvoyance
and mediumship. They easily become the prey of
entities from the invisible world who have no regard

PLANETARY VIBRATIONS 49

for their victims' desire, even if in a weak manner
these should protest. Such mediums are generally
used in simple trance communications and in a few
cases known to the writer have lived very beautiful
and happy lives because of their implicit belief in
the spirits that dominated them. In these cases the
spirit-controls were of a better class than usually
met with. But as this Uranian faculty is built up
through Mars and Venus, passion is prominent in
such natures and under the influence of obsessing
spirits many of these people are driven into gross
immorality. Vampirism and kindred disreputable
practices are also engendered by the perverse use of
the Uranian ray in mediums.

Neptune may be said to represent the invisible
worlds in more positive aspects and those who come
under the evil rays of this planet are therefore
brought in touch with the most undesirable occu-
pants of the invisible wrorlds. Actual obsession
whereby the owrner of a body is deprived of his vehi-
cle takes place under the ray of Neptune and no
materializing seance could ever be held if it were
not for this stellar vibration. Magic, white or black,
can never be put to practical use save under and be-
cause of this Neptunian vibration. Apart from this
ray it will remain theory, speculation and book learn-
ing. Therefore the Initiates of every Mystery School.
Spiritual Seers who have full control of their faculty,
and Astrologers are amenable in varying degrees
to the ray of Neptune. The Black Magician and the
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Hypnotist, who is a twin brother to him, are also de-
pendent upon the power of this stellar ray for use
in their nefarious practices.

The highest human development at the present
time, namely: the soul unfoldment which is under-
taken in the mystery temples through initiation, Is
directly the result of the Neptune ray, for just as
evil configurations lay men liable to assault by in-
visible entities, so the good configurations of Nep-
tune are particularly required to enable a man to
unfold by initiation his whole soul powers and be-
come a conscious agent in the invisible worlds.
Let us remember, however, that good or evil config-
urations are not the result of chance or luck, but the
horoscope shows the tendencies of the coming life; it
shows what we have earned by our past living and
therefore what we are entitled to in the present life.

Moreover it should always be kept in mind that
fhe stars impel but do not compel; because a man or
woman has an evil configuration of Neptune or Ura-
nus it is not unavoidable that they should go into ac-
tive evil Mediumship and Black Magic and thereby
make life harder for themselves in the future. Their
opportunity to do so and the temptation will come
at certain times when the heavenly time markers
point to the right hour on the clock of destiny. Then
it is time to stand firm for the good and for the
right; being forewarned through a knowledge of As-
trology one is also forearmed and may the easier
overcome when such an aspect culminates.

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Thus we have seen that man is amenable to
the planetary rays in an increasing measure as he
advances through evolution, but the more highly he
becomes developed spiritually the less he will allow
the planets to dominate him, while the younger soul
is driven unresistingly along the tide of life in what-
ever direction the planetary vibrations propel him.
It is the mark of the advanced soul that it keeps
the true course regardless of the planetary vibra-
tions. Between these two extremes there are naturally
all gradations, some are amenable to the rays of one
planet, more to another, and the bark of life of such
men and women is driven upon the rocks of sorrow
and suffering, that they may learn to evolve within
themselves the will power that finally frees them
from all domination by the ruling stars, as Goethe,,
the great mystic said :

"From every power that holds the world in chains,
Man liberates himself when self-control he gains."'

And it may be asked, have we run the gamut
of vibrations when we have learned to respond to all
the seven planets which are mythically represented
as the seven strings on Apollo's Lyre? In other
words is Neptune the highest vibration to which we
shall yet respond? The Western Wisdom Teachings
tell us that there are two more planets in the uni-
verse which will be known in future ages and that
these will have an influence in developing qualities
of so transcendent a nature that we cannot now un-

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derstand. The number of Adam, man or humanity,
is nine, and there are nine rungs upon the stellar
ladder by which he is ascending to God; up to the
present time he has climbed only five of these rungs;
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, and not
even the vibrations of these he has by any means
learned ; Uranus and Neptune are slowly coming into
our lives; they will not become active in the same
manner and to the same degree that for instance,
the Moon and Mars are at the present time until
many ages have passed. But even when we have
learned to respond to them there are two more of
which we shall know something later on; it is the
opinion of the writers that these are probably not
felt by any except those who have graduated from
the Greater Mystery School and the Hierophants of
that sublime institution.

In conclusion of this article on the Amenability
of Man to Planetary Vibrations we quote from the
Eosicrucian Mysteries the article on Light, Color and
Consciousness :

' ' Truly, God is One and Undivided. He enfolds
within His Being all that is, as the white light em-
braces all colors. But He appears three-fold in mani-
festation, as the white light is refracted in three pri-
:mary colors: Blue, Yellow and Red. Wherever we
;jree these colors they are emblematical of the Father,
;Son and Holy Spirit. These three primary rays of
Divine Life are diffused or radiated through the Sun
and produce Life, Consciousness and Form upon

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each of the seven light bearers, the planets, which
are called the "Seven Spirits before the Throne."
Their names are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ju-
piter, Saturn and Uranus. Bode's law proves that
Neptune does not yet belong to our solar system and
the reader is referred to "Simplified, Scientific As-
trology" by the present writer, for mathematical
demonstration of this condition.

"Each of the seven planets receives the light of
the Sun in a different measure, according to its prox-
imity to the central orb and the constitution of its
atmosphere, and the beings on each, according to
their stage of development have affinity for some of
the solar rays. They absorb the color or colors con-
gruous to them, and reflect the remainder upon the
other planets. This reflected ray bears with it an
impulse of the nature of the beings with which it
has been in contact.

Thus the divine Light and Life comes to each
planet, either directly from the Sun, or reflected
from its six sister planets, and as the summer
breeze which has been wafted over blooming fields
carries upon its silent, invisible wings the blended
fragrance of a^multitude of flowers, so also the subtle
influences from Tlie Garden of God bring to us the
commingled impulses of all the Spirits and in that
vari-colored light we live and move and have our
being.

"The rays which come directly from the Sun are
productive of spiritual illumination ; the reflected

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rays from other planets make for added conscious-
ness and moral development and the rays reflected
by way of the Moon give physical growth.

"But as each planet can only absorb a certain
quantity of one or more colors according to the gene-
ral stage of evolution there, so each being upon
earth, mineral, plant, animal and man can only ab-
sorb and thrive upon a certain quantity of the vari-
ous rays projected upon the earth. The remainder
do not affect it or produce sensation any more than
the blind are conscious of light and color which ex-
ists everywhere around them. Therefore each be-
ing is differently affected by the stellar rays, and the
science of Astrology, a fundamental truth in nature,
is of enormous benefit in the attainment of spiritual
growth. ' '