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  primeval darkness。
  The angles of the Sun and the sea are not yet in right relation to each
  other。 A few; standing on the watch…towers of life; seeing the red glow of
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  the risen sun; call 〃Look!〃 But the unfortunate ones in the outer darkness
  cry; as they beat their breasts; 〃No! There is no light! You do but dream!〃
  And yet the Sun of Life has risenthe Divine light glows。
  O child of Adam! Remember that 〃In Him was life; and life was the
  light   of  man;   and   the   light  shineth   in  the   darkness;  and  the  darkness
  comprehended it not。〃
  TABLET THE THIRD
  Gemini
  SYMBOL
  Two stars are rising at angles to each other and to the Polar star; while
  eight stars shine faintly in the black space of background。
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  TABLET THE THIRD
  The Divine symbol of soul…matehood is here signified in the two stars
  rising in the foreground; not only the soul…affinities of humanity; but the
  eternal father…mother forces manifested in the biune spirit of universal life
  and nature; the two great creative powers; Life and Light; whose harmony
  creates   love;   attraction   and   repulsion;   and   the   straight   lines   of   law   and
  justice; which blend in the spiral of mercy。
  The two stars are rising at an oblique angle to the pole…star; the center
  around which; material things revolve。 So; too; life and love are balanced
  by the star of wisdom。 Love in the spirit is adaption to the environment in
  matter and providence in universal life。 The eight stars reveal the mystery
  of the tabletuniversal death; present with life; the final end of all discord
  glimmers faintly afar off; and man questions the love of God; seeing that
  all things pass away; not realizing that death is the germinal promise of life;
  of transformation; of the realization of unrealized hopes; of the union of
  loving hearts in their starry pilgrimage back to the Father's home。
  O   child   of Adam!   Listen   unto   the   words   of   the   Teacher:   〃I   and   the
  Father are one。〃 Suffer little children to come unto me; for of such ii the
  Kingdom of Heaven。〃
  PART I
  Here beginneth Chapter 2 of the Book which is called 〃The Tablets of
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  Aeth;〃    wherein     is  transcribed   the   Second    Quadrant     of  the  Twelve
  Mansions。
  〃How   they  struggle   in   the   immense   Universe!   How   they  whirl   and
  seek!   Innumerable   souls;   that   all   spring   forth   From   the   vast   world…soul。
  They   drop   from   planet   to   planet; And   in   the   abyss   they   weep   For   their
  forgotten land。 These are thy tears; O Dionysus; O Spirit vast; Divine One;
  Liberator。 Draw back thy daughters to the breast of light。〃
  〃Ah;   love!   Could   you   and   I   with   him   conspire   To   grasp   this   sorry
  scheme     of  things   entire;  Would    we   not  shatter  it  to  bits?  And   then
  Remould it nearer to the heart's desire。〃
  TABLET THE FOURTH Cancer
  SYMBOL
  A woman's face unconscious; in trance; surrounded by clouds。
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  TABLET THE FOURTH
  The   dreaming   woman;   whose   brooding   thoughts   shape   the   coming
  man。 The race is never any farther advanced than the average thought of
  the woman。 She is yet sleeping; knowing not her powers。 So; not until she
  awakes and recognizes  herself as conceiving  by the Holy  Ghost and the
  mother of the incarnate God; will that God be brought forth unto universal
  knowledge。
  In   this   is   the   great   lesson  to   woman:   Ever   remember   thy   creative
  power as the mother of the humanity of the future。 The sun in thy mansion
  exerts   its   highest   power。   Awake;   therefore;   O   soul;   and   eclipse   not   its
  brightness with thy dreams of sublunary power。
  O child of Adam! Ever honor the womb that gave thee birth; and know
  that all thy earthly greatness received its seed therefrom。 A fountain cannot
  rise higher than its source。
  TABLET THE FIFTH
  Leo
  SYMBOL
  A man's arm; bent; exceedingly muscular; a knife in the hand; a streak
  of lightning opposite the arm; which is defying the lightning。
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  TABLET THE FIFTH
  Here we have the symbol of the incarnate fire of the spirit defying the
  mere    natural  fire  of  the  heavens。   The   woman     sleeps  and   broods   and
  dreams; but the man she has brought forth is awake; and bids defiance to
  the fiery forces   of Nature。   He has   armed himself   with the keen knife of
  action; and with it has conquered the forces of matter。 He has harnessed
  the lightning; and made the electric fluid his obedient slave。 And thus has
  he mastered all forces inferior to spiritthat spirit of conscious life which
  is his birthright。
  The lesson to be gleaned from this is that; the kingdom of Nature must
  be taken by storm。 Not for rest; but for work; has Mother Nature sent forth
  her man child; not for peace; but for battle; not for inertia; but for effort。
  O child of Adam! Arm yourself with the swordmayhap the sword of
  afflictionand; gallantly raising the strong right ann aloft; hurl defiance at
  the chaos of Nature; sure that the fire from the Sun of the spirit is burning
  in every vein of that arm。
  TABLET THE SIXTH
  Virgo
  SYMBOL
  A Lotus; rising from the water; coiled around its stem a snake; whose
  efforts fail to reach the flower。
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  TABLET THE SIXTH
  Here     we   have    the   sacred   flower;   symbol     of  the   virgin   soul;
  uncontaminated by the snake of passion; which can only enfold the body
  the stem; the snake of matterof lustof evil。 But the flower of the spirit
  the soullifts its pure white petals upward as an incense cup to the Sun of
  the Spirit。
  In this symbol read the great lesson of the experience of evil。 If; the
  flower   of   the   soul;   blossoms;   the   mud   of   the   soil   and   the   snake   of   the
  passions are but the surroundings of its roots and stem。 Both are necessary
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  for   the   perfection   of   the   flower。   The   roots   sink   deep   into   Mother   Earth;
  and draw nourishment and life; lifting matter upward; while the snake of
  passion   becomes;   under   another   aspect;   the   serpent   of   wisdom。   Coiled
  around   the   stem  of   this   life;   it   gives   to   the   incarnated   soul   that   wisdom
  which later blossoms in the Seraph of the Sun spheres。
  O   child   of Adam!   Take   suffering;   if   it   forge   the   sword   of   the   spirit。
  Take evil and passion; and turn them into deep lessons of life; blossoming
  the evil into good; changing passion into wisdom。 Only 〃the pure in heart
  can see God。〃
  PART I
  Here beginneth Chapter 3 of the Book which is called 〃The Tablets of
  Aeth;〃 wherein is transcribed the Third Quadrant of the Twelve Mansions。
  〃To know what really exists; one must cultivate silence with ones self;
  for   it   is   in   silence   that   the   eternal   and   unexpected   flowers   open;   which
  change   their   form   and   color   according   to   the   soul   in   which   they   grow。
  Souls   are   weighed      in   silence;   as   gold   and   silver   are   weighed   in   pure
  water。〃
  〃The   worldly   hope   men   set   their   hearts   upon   turns   to   ashes;   or   it
  prospers; and anon; like snow upon the desert's dusty face; lighting a little
  hour or two; is gone。〃
  TABLET THE SEVENTH
  Libra
  SYMBOL
  A crowned king; with a scythe raised in the air; looks closely at two
  boys wrestling beneath him in a field of grain; a red poppy below them。
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  The   symbol   of   Nature's   eternal   war   for   the   impossible   equilibrium
  between   spirit   and   matter;   the   symbol;   also;   of   Time;   which   is   but   the
  illusion   in   which   eternity   clothes   itself;   forever   putting   on   and   forever
  putting   off   new   garments   of   matter。   The   crowned   king   is   the   victorious
  soul; waiting; with the scythe of Time; to   reap the harvest   of the   world;
  while incarnated man; as represented in the wrestling youths; is struggling
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