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T H E M E S S A G E O F T H E S T A R S

M A X H E I N D E L

AND

A U G U S T A F O S S H E I N D E L

AN ESOTERIC EXPOSITION OF

NATAL AND MEDICAL ASTROLOGY

EXPLAINING THE ARTS OF

READING THE HOROSCOPE AND DIAGNOSING

DISEASE

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CHAPTER I

EVOLUTION AS SHOWN IN THE ZODIAC

It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary

career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies who

rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and that 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 wondered 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 pas-

sages of the Bible, that notes have been made from time to time of different

points, but how to collect and collage these dissociated writings into a

united whole, has been a great problem for a long time. Even now, the writ-

ers know and feel that what they are bringing 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 and more profound meaning to the old symbols, and that by

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passing on what has been found they put themselves in line to receive more

light.

Concerning the future evolution of planets; the Rosicrucian

Cosmo-Conception teaches, on page 256, that "when the beings upon the planet

have evolved to a sufficient degree, the planet becomes a Sun, the fixed

center of the Solar System. When the beings there have evolved to a still

greater degree, and consequently it has reached its maximum of brilliancy,

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 con-

fined upon that Sun gain freedom of actions 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 many-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 set out from itself all the beings who were not

sufficiently evolved to endure the high rate of vibration and the great lu-

minosity of the beings who were qualified for that evolution. All the be-

ings upon the different planets would have been consumed had they remained

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 other plan-

ets, as material science supposes. On the contrary, it is itself an emana-

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tion fron THE CENTRAL 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 en-

ergy 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 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. Already the foremost among our race are

treading the path of initiation, and have thereby advanced into stages, far

beyond the general status of our 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 prepar-

ing human evolution for the Jupiter Period. They have entered the planet

Jupiter, by way of one of the Moons, which serves as a stepping stone. Oth-

ers 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

was 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 becomes necessary in the Lemurian Ep-

och, to expel a number of the stragglers from earth. Thus the Moon was cast

out into space to revolve as a Satellite around our present planet. Those

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unfortunates are gradually degenerating and 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 during past ages, and they also give 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 Cancer 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 Capri-

corn, 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 therefore turning points in the soul's

career. Cancer and Capricorn respectively mark the highest ascent of the

Sun into the Northern Hemisphere, and its lowest descent into the South. We

observe that during the summer when the Sun is in the sphere of Cancer and

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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 another 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 PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOX, does it

produce the great changes which we know as Evolution. In fact, this preces-

sional measure of the sun marks the birth 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 re-

ceives the Sun at the dawn of each New Year, naturally by analogy associates

it with the beginning of precessional 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

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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 forty-ninth chap-

ter of Genesis, pronounces blessings upon his children, which symbolize the

twelve signs. There he speaks of Naphtali as a "HIND" let loose; thus a

very apt symbol of Capricorn, for when the Sun is there at each winter sol-

stice, 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 Sagit-

tarius, 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 draw-

ing 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,

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emblems of cunning and subtility. It is plain from this symbol that the

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.

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. Un-

der 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 re-

sponsible to nature's laws, and thus reap what he had sown, that he might

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 himself so

as to progress further upon the path.

VIRGO

Thus, under the guidance of the spiritual hierarchies, focused through

the signs of CAPRICORN, SAGITTARIUS, SCORPIO, and LIBRA, were his physical,

moral and mental attributes acquired, and he was equipped and mental at-

tributes 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 immaculate 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 most mystical, so fraught

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with hidden meaning that its full import cannot be fully understood save

when viewed by the internal light of spiritual illumination. 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.

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