Max Heindel

“ 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 Lemurian 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. Those unfortunates are gradually degenerating and the time will come when they will all go to the planet Saturn, which is the door to Chaos. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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 Testament period, when, as we say, the chosen people were in captivity and lost in the wilderness of the world; the new religion had not then found its place, Then the Christ came and inaugurated this new teaching definitely. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Observations show us that during the summer when the Sun is in the sphere of Cancer 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 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 subtility. It is plain from this symbol that the first faculty 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. ”

“ New religions, however, are not revealed in their 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 existence, and similarly, an ancient religion about to be abrogated survives long after the religion which succeeds it has become the official source for upliftment of humanity. The original Semites, chosen to inaugurate 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. ”

“ 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 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 Uræus Naja, an emblem of cosmic wisdom. The Uræus 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 ”

“ The planets or man-bearing worlds within the Zodiac are constantly being worked upon by these forces but in various ways according 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 remained in the Sun. ”

“ 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 mystically to this period of germination, when mankind first commenced to exercise the Creative function at the dictates of desire inculcated by the Lucifer Spirits. ”

“ 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 confidence of the lower orders of life as well as of the love of the Divine Hierarchs above. ”

“ Mediumship is a negative phase of spiritual sight or hearing possessed by a person controlled by an outside intelligence who then prophesies, This undesirable phase of seership was represented 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 upward 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. ”

“ 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 that by passing on what has been found they put themselves in line to perceive more light. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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 then if we should say with some, that it will never take place. ”

“ By looking to the mother ideal of Virgo during the Piscean Age, and following the Christ's example of sacrificial service, the immaculate conception becomes an actual experience ta each of us, and Christ, the Son of Man, Aquarius, is born within us. ”

“ From this teaching it is apparent that the great spiritual hierarchies which are now guiding our evolution, have had their training for this path in previous schemes of manifestation, also that what they are now doing, we shall some day do for others. ”

“ The belligerency of the goat is well known, and an apt symbol of the struggle for existence, in which the weak perish unless able to outdistance their foes, This phase of the matter is sometimes 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. ”

“ This ideal was tried under the Aryan dispensation, when the chosen people were yet in the Wilderness, 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 overcoming the Inst of the flesh and the lust after the flesh. ”