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."Who never ate his bread in sorrow,Who never passed the midnight hoursWeeping, waiting for the morrow,He knows not yet ye heavenly powers."From the higher standpoint those who are living in the lap of luxury areto be pitied when their lucky stars give them all the good things of thisworld and cause them to forget that they are stewards and that the day iscoming when their souls shall be required of them with an accounts of theirstewardship.They shall then be forced to confess that they have failed touse the substance entrusted to them in the proper manner; while others underthe strain and stress of live, expressed by the horoscopical squares and op-positions, have wrung from their unlucky stars a measure of victory.Whatwonder then if the king's messengers, the circling stars, take from the[PAGE 60] THE MESSAGE OF THE STARSunfaithful steward that which he had and give to the other, changing thelatter's adversity to prosperity in later lives.Thus the pendulum of luckand loss, success and failure swings through many lives till we learn tomake our own "luck" by ruling our stars."A god can love without cessation,But under laws of alterationWe mortals need, in changing measure,Our share of pain as well as pleasure."And it is this necessity for change that is ministered unto us by the cir-cling stars which form configurations that we call good or evil, though theyare neither from a higher standpoint; for no matter how good the horoscope,by progression of the stars evil configurations are sure to come and no mat-ter how evil, there are always new opportunities for good given by aspectsof the Sun, Venus, and Jupiter to our planets at birth.ALL THAT WE HAVE TOA Collection of Sacred Magick | The Esoteric Library | www.sacred-magick.comDO IS TO GRASP THE OPPORTUNITY, AND HELP OUR STARS, THAT OUR STARS MAY HELPUS.AMULETS, BIRTH-STONES AND PLANETARY COLORSIn the windows of jeweler's shops and in cheap, ready made horoscopes onemay often read that it is "LUCKY" for people born in a certain month to weara particular stone or color.It means business to the jeweler and the as-trological prestidigitator who produced "your horoscope" by a turn of the[PAGE 61] AMULETS, BIRTHSTONES, ETC.wrist from a box when you tell him in what month you were born.Both buytheir instructive (?) literature at a nominal price per thousand, the prin-cipal cost being paper and printers' ink; there are no furrows in theirforeheads from deep and earnest study of the problem.But as the counterfeit coin argues the existence of the genuine, so alsothe fallacious information flippantly dispensed by people who cater to thesense of mystery and wonder which is deeply imbedded in human nature arguesthe existence of a genuine science of mineralogical correspondences with thestellar rays impinging upon all who inhabit our sub-lunar sphere; and whenthis is rightly understood by the majority of people, for then it is THERESULT OF ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE SCIENTIFICALLY USED, and therefore the outcomeis as inevitable as that water runs down hill.The philosophy of planetary colors and mineralogy is that each of theCreative Hierarchies which is active in evolution works with the variousclasses of beings from mineral to man, and is responsible for the progressmade by them.In the course of this work each Hierarchy naturally impartsto the beings with whom it labors some of its own nature and vibration.Thus each group of minerals, each species of plant and animal, vibrates to acertain keynote which blends with the vibration of the Group Spirit, and the[PAGE 62] THE MESSAGE OF THE STARSparticular sign and planet with which he is most nearly attuned.It has been taught by the Elder Brothers in the RosicrucianCosmo-Conception, that:The Archangels, who were humans in the Sun Period when the presentanimals started their evolution with a mineral-like existence, are now theGroup Spirits of the animals.The Angels, who were human in the Moon Period when the present plantscommenced their evolution with a similar mineral constitution are now theGroup Spirits of the planets.Man, who reached the human stage in the EarthPeriod, is now working with the new life-wave which started its evolution onthe Earth as minerals.He is not far enough advanced to assume the role ofGroup Spirit, that being reserved for the future.In the Jupiter Period hewill give them life as plants have, in the Venus Period he will bring outtheir desires and emotions as animals, and in the Vulcan Period he will givethem a mind and make then human.That, however, is all in the future.Atpresent he is working with them to the best of his ability, smelting theminto iron bridges, ships and skeleton skyscrapers; he is pulling them intowires which wind around the world; he is grinding from them gems that glit-.ter and grace the great in our social structure, and thus he is graduallyestablishing an intimate relationship with them and preparing to take charge[PAGE 63] AMULETS, BIRTHSTONES, ETC.of their evolution as a Group Spirit at some future time.It is well known to students of Astrology that an astrological readingbased upon the month in which an individual is born is worth little, for allthe people born in the same month do not have the same experiences by anymeans, but if we consider the DAY, the YEAR and the PLACE we get a horoscopethat is absolutely individual and totally different in detail from the horo-scope of anyone else--and this is the point which concerns us for thepresent argument--the ruler is not the lord of the sign of the Sun is in,except for children born at Sunrise, when the Sun is on the Ascendant [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]