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The Zodiac · XII
The seventh sign, the equilibrating sign of the Balance and the house of Venus and Saturn, which rules the kidneys, where the lesson is the law of equilibrium: the three qualities of nature, Evolution and Involution, the Law of the Scale that is Karma, the narrow path, the rune TORN, its natives and its practices, in his own words, from the fifty-two books
The map
Above, the twelve signs in the order of his own list, with Libra lit, the seventh and the last of the twelve works, at the head. Below, the road through the work: tap a part to go to it. The caption is his own sentence, from the passage it links to.
Every word here is his. Nothing has been paraphrased or improved. Each passage was cut out of the book it belongs to by reference, and each carries that book and the paragraph it came from, so anything on this page can be found again in the source. Most of it comes from the three books where he gave a whole lesson on the sign, the Zodiacal Course, the Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology and the Manual of Practical Magic; the rest are the paragraphs where he names Libra in other books, and his chapter in Christ Will on the rune that the sign governs. Many of these passages also stand in other works of the shelf, chiefly Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Law of Karma and Return and Reincarnation. They are gathered here on purpose: the same teaching comes back in several of them because hearing it again is how it settles.
The first part is the equilibrating sign: the dates of the sign and its table, its metal, stone, colour and element, its plants, the house of Saturn and Venus, its number and its genii, the constellation of the Hips where the functions of Karma reside, the sanctum of the constellation, and the part of the body it governs: “Today we have entered the equilibrating sign of Libra.” “…the functions of Karma reside in the brilliant constellation of the Hips (Libra).”
The second is the equilibrating forces: the seven planets that live within our consciousness, the forces of the organism balanced in the kidneys, the mixing of antagonistic forces, the intellect against equilibrium, and the scale that weighs everything: “All the forces of the Universe keep seeking equilibrium and we should learn the equilibrium of all things.” “…the scale is the garb of the ABSOLUTE.”
The third is the kidneys and the rune TORN: the rune sung daily to make the will strong, the two chakras of the kidneys and what the clairvoyant sees in them, and the music-will: “The rune TORN is SOLAR, and is governed by the Zodiacal Sign of LIBRA.” “There are two Chakras in our Kidneys that register our degree of Chastity, or degree of animal fornication.”
The fourth is the three qualities of nature: pleasure and pain, profit and loss looked at with indifference, harmony, emotion and inertia, and the great balance of nature: “We should learn how to look at the alternatives of pleasure and pain, of profit and loss, with indifference.” “…if we want to become free of nature, we must transcend the three qualities of nature called harmony, emotion and inertia.”
The fifth is Evolution and Involution: the two mechanical laws of nature, the one hundred and eight lives, and the fall backwards of Infernal Involution, from which only the Essence is saved: “Everything Evolves and Involutes, ascends and descends, comes and goes, fluxes and refluxes” “…every human being is assigned one hundred and eight lives to become self-realized.”
The sixth is the Law of the Scale: the good and bad deeds weighed after death, cause and effect, Return and Recurrence on the spiral line of life, and the book of destiny in the Temple of Anubis: “Every cause becomes an effect and every effect is transformed into a cause.” “Reincarnation is only for Masters, for Sacred Individuals, for the Twice-Born, for those who already possess the Being.”
The seventh is the path of the Revolution of Consciousness: out of the vicious circle of the mechanical laws, the few who reach the other shore, and the strait gate of the Gospels: “…this is the path of the razor’s edge.” “Among men, few are the ones who reach the other shore.”
The eighth is the natives, those born under the sign: unstable in love as the pans of the scale, frank and just, the superior, inferior and medium types, whom they do well to marry, and what they love: “Libra natives are what they are and nothing but what they are, frank and just.” “Libra natives like to do deeds of charity without expecting a reward or boasting or publishing the service done.”
The ninth part is the practice of the period of Libra: the balancing movement with the arms out as a cross, Ursa Major and the yellow stone, the true order of the days of the week, each event continued in meditation, the karmic debt paid with good deeds, and the perfume: “…with the intention that all of your energies become equilibrated in the kidneys.” “We can pay every karmic debt with good deeds, but we have to negotiate with Anubis.”
This is the twelfth of twelve, one for each sign, each released as the sun enters it. Libra closes the wheel.
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The lesson of Libra in the Zodiacal Course opens with this table: the dates of the sign, what it rules, and its metal, stone, perfume, plant, flower, planet, colour, element, key word, day and ruler. Beside it, Occult Medicine says what the plants of the sign are like.
PART ONE
From the 23 of September to the 23 of October Rules: The Kidneys Metal: Copper Stone: Chrysolite Perfume: Galbanum Plant: Pine and Cypress Flower: Narcissus Planet: Venus Color: Green Element: Air Key Word: Love Day: Friday Ruler: Uriel
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Libra
The plants of LIBRA are hot, humid and aerial. They are similar to the kidneys, bladder and the navel.
Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978) also in The Herbal Pharmacopoeia
the plants of Libra
3 passages
Libra is the equilibrating sign, the house of Saturn and Venus. The Manual of Practical Magic gives its dates, and the Hermetic Astrology its planets, its metal and its stone.
Today we have entered the equilibrating sign of Libra. This sign is the house of Saturn and Venus.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
105. LIBRA: September 23rd to October 23rd
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
Libra is governed by Venus and Saturn; its metal is copper and its stone is the chrysolite.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
the house of Saturn and Venus
2 passages
Number seven, whose planet is Neptune, corresponds to the constellation of Libra. A line from his list of the twenty-four elders names the two who rule the sign.
Libra: Grasgarben and Hadakiel.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
Grasgarben and Hadakiel
Number 7 is a very strong number. Its planet is Neptune and it corresponds to the constellation of Libra.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978
Number 7
2 passages
In My Return to Tibet the planetary spirits of the constellation of the hips are praised, and he says that the functions of Karma reside in that constellation, Libra.
“Praised be ye, oh ye planetary spirits from the constellation of the hips! (Libra).” The Sacred Book of the Occult Abode, crying out from the profound depth of the centuries states: “This is in regards to you, oh Divine Knives of Mysteries.”
My Return to Tibet, 1969
“The Goddess Maat (Justice) comes unto her Lord and God.” You must remember that the functions of Karma reside in the brilliant constellation of the Hips (Libra).”
My Return to Tibet, 1969
the constellation of the Hips
1 passage
In The Mystery of the Golden Blossom he tells how Litelantes entered the sanctum of the constellation of Libra and sat on its cold stone, and why the sign will favour her coming task in the field of Law.
Projecting ourselves into the future, far beyond our present reincarnation Litelantes boldly entered the Sanctum of the brilliant constellation of Libra. At the threshold of that place of worship was an effigy like an Angel; one hand holding the Scale of Cosmic Justice and the other grasping a Sword. Litelantes took some steps into the holy precincts. finally settling on a venerable stone...! Will you continue with Libra? Yes! But notice that the Stone of that constellation is very cold! "It does not matter!" Thus the Initiated answered... As this Lady-Adept is at present preparing to complete a very special mission in a male body, it is obvious that the constellation of Libra will be very favourable , all the more so when her task lies in the field of Law...
The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971
an effigy like an Angel
1 passage
The Hermetic Astrology names the part of the body each sign governs; Libra governs the kidneys. The poster The Zodiac Within shows it.
Aries governs the head; Taurus, the throat; Gemini, the arms, legs and lungs; Cancer, the thymus gland; Leo, the heart; Virgo, the abdomen, the intestines; Libra, the kidneys; Scorpio, the sexual organs; Sagittarius, the major femoral arteries; Capricorn, the knees; Aquarius, the calves; Pisces, the feet.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Aquarius, Aries, Cancer, Capricorn, Gemini, Leo, Pisces, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Taurus, Virgo
Libra, the kidneys
3 passages
The seven planets live within our consciousness, and the soul unfolds within that inner solar system, in the planetary auras that the books of spiritualism call planes.
PART TWO
The planets: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn live and throb within “our” conscience.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
the planets
The soul develops and unfolds within this solar system, that lives in the very depth of our conscience.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Among the death and new birth of the “good souls”, they should unfold within each one of the planetary auras whose mixtures form that which all books of spiritualism denominate “planes”.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
3 passages
Libra influences the kidneys. It is the sign of the equilibrating forces, and the forces of the organism should balance completely in the kidneys, as the Hermetic Astrology says again.
Libra influences the kidneys.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Libra is the sign of the equilibrating forces and the forces of our human organism should balance in a “total” form in our kidneys.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Words He Uses
Libra, the zodiacal sign of the Balance, governs the kidneys. Libra is the sign of the equilibrating forces and in the kidneys, the forces of our organism should balance in a complete manner.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
the kidneys
2 passages · 1 practice
All the forces of the universe seek equilibrium, and we are to learn it. He warns against mixing antagonistic forces, and against living in a house with people full of hatred or superficiality.
All the forces of the Universe keep seeking equilibrium and we should learn the equilibrium of all things.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
A practice
Thou should not mix antagonistic forces because terrible destructive forces result from such mixture. Look carefully at those who surround thee and do not live in a house with people full of hatred, or superficiality, because the mixture of antagonistic forces creates destructive forces for thee and for those who live with thee. Learn, therefore, the force of equilibrium.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Hatred
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Intellectuals go against the forces of equilibrium. He gives the image of an X formed by the seven vehicles with the mind at its centre, and says that ancient man, being simpler, perceived the planetary genii.
Intellectuals end up “nutty” or crazy because they attempt against the forces of equilibrium.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Imagine an encounter of energies forming an X. Now then, let us take this example to man. Every human has a connection of seven vehicles and if we concentrate our attention on the mind or mental body, which is the center of thy X, the result would be the rupture of the mental body.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
an X
Intellectuals who have their attention fixed on the intellect, end up breaking the mental body. Almost all intellectuals have their manias, insanities dissimulated by theories and “manias”.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
In ancient times, man was more simple and since he did not have the intellect of the animal soul, he perceived the subtle and the planetary genii.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
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The Manual of Practical Magic on the scale, which weighs all things and is the garb of the Absolute. Justice and mercy united shine in the world of Aziluth.
106. Before the scale existed, the face did not see the face.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
107. Everything that is, everything that was and everything that will be is weighed on the scale.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954 also in The Law of Karma
108. All the Kings that entered the ABSOLUTE were weighed on the scale.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
109. The scale is the dress of the Ancient of the Days; the scale does not become entangled in anything; the scale is the garb of the ABSOLUTE.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
110. Justice and mercy united, shine in the world of AZILUTH.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
the garb of the Absolute
3 passages · 2 practices
He gives the exercise of the rune TORN, sung daily with the right hand on the hip, for those whose will is still weak, so that the will grows strong.
PART THREE
11. The Music converts men into Gods.
Christ Will, 1959
A practice
12. Those that are still weak willed must daily sing the Rune TORN.
Christ Will, 1959
A practice
13. This exercise will be realised by the disciple putting his right hand on the waist or hip, and then vocalising the syllabi: TA - TE - TI - TO - TU, extending the sound of each vowel. Then he will vocalise the mantra TORN as follows: TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN 14. With this indication we wish to affirm that we must prolong the sound of each letter. 15. We know that Sexual Magic is hard and difficult for men of weak will, and because of this we recommend that our disciples first practice the exercises of the Rune TORN, to acquire the strength of Will that permits them to manipulate the Sexual Magic heroically. 16. The Music -Will acts on our water (Semen) transmuting it into Christic energy, that is, into the wine of Light of the Alchemist.
Christ Will, 1959 also in Lust and Chastity
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The rune is solar and governed by Libra, and Libra governs the kidneys. Two chakras in the kidneys register the degree of chastity, as the letter to the church in Thyatira says, and the clairvoyant sees them red or white.
17. The rune TORN is SOLAR, and is governed by the Zodiacal Sign of LIBRA.
Christ Will, 1959
18. We already know that the Zodiacal Sign LIBRA governs the Kidneys.
Christ Will, 1959
19. There are two Chakras in our Kidneys that register our degree of Chastity, or degree of animal fornication.
Christ Will, 1959 also in The Chakras
20. This is why the BIBLE says the following: 21. “And to the angel of the church in Thyati’ra write: The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze. I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls her a prophetess and is teaching and beguiling my servants to practise immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her immorality. Behold I will throw her on a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her doings; and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches shall know that I am he, who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you, as your works deserve. “(Rev 2:18-24).
Christ Will, 1959
22. The Clairvoyant can observe the Chakras of the Kidneys, a dirty red colour for the fornicator, an immaculate white colour for the chaste.
Christ Will, 1959 also in Clairvoyance, The Chakras
the Chakras of the Kidneys
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The colour, stone and metal of the rune TORN, and the music-will, which he calls the sacred arcanum of transmutation.
23. The colour of the Rune TORN is orange, green and yellow. The precious stone of this RUNE is the Carneol, and the metal is the Gold.
Christ Will, 1959
the Rune TORN
24. The Music -Will, is the Sacred Arcane of the TRANSMUTATION.
Christ Will, 1959
25. The Music permits us to transmute the water into wine.
Christ Will, 1959
26. The Chamber three of our Fifth Serpent is the ineffable temple of the Music.
Christ Will, 1959
3 passages · 1 practice
Pleasure and pain, profit and loss, are to be looked at with indifference. He quotes the Bhagavad Gita on the mind that follows wandering thoughts, and the teaching of the Sutta Nipata.
PART FOUR
A practice
We should learn how to look at the alternatives of pleasure and pain, of profit and loss, with indifference.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Suffering, Zodiacal Course
pleasure and pain
The Bhagavad Gita says: “The mind that follows wandering thoughts, makes the soul as invalid as the boat which the wind leads astray on the waters”.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
the boat
“Kill sensation, teach the Sutta Nipata; equally see pleasure and pain, profit and loss, victory and defeat’
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Sensations, Suffering
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His summary of the seventh lesson: the law of equilibrium, and the three qualities of nature, harmony, emotion and inertia, which keep the soul enslaved and must be transcended.
In this lesson of Libra we taught our disciples the law of equilibrium.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Chakras
Three qualities of nature keep the soul enslaved to nature. Harmony, Emotion and Inertia.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
The three qualities of nature. Before this universe existed, only Akash and Prana existed. These are the three qualities of Satwa, Rayas and Tamas. Harmony, emotion and inertia lived in total equilibrium, but when this equilibrium was lost, then came the movement of the great balance of Nature, the flux and reflux, good and evil, hatred and love, etc. It was then that the human Inner-Beings became a member of this great university of nature; and here we involuted and evolved, and if we want to become free of nature, we must transcend the three qualities of nature called harmony, emotion and inertia.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Law of the Pendulum
the three qualities
the great balance
1 passage · 1 practice
The summary closes on indifference before success and failure, pleasure and pain, praise and insult, and on what follows when all nature returns to its first equilibrium at the end of the great cosmic day.
A practice
We should be indifferent before success and failure, before pleasure and pain, before compliments and insults. When entire nature once again meets its primordial equilibrium, the continents will sink in the oceans, there will be much fire, the oceans will evaporate, the vapors will decompose into their atomic formations, everything will return to the primitive akash, to the cosmic night, to the primeval equilibrium of the great cosmic balance, after the activity of a manhanvantara which lasts 311,040,000,000,000 years. All the great cataclysms of nature were actualized with fire.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
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The seventh chapter of the Hermetic Astrology opens on the dogma of Evolution, which forgot the destructive processes of Nature. Evolution and Involution are two mechanical laws, and Self-Realization comes only from conscious work upon oneself.
PART FIVE
Upon creating the intransigent dogma of Evolution, the decrepit Western mind totally forgot the destructive processes of Nature. It is interesting that the degenerated mind cannot conceive the inverse, Involutive process on a large scale.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution
The mind, in a state of decrepitude, confuses a fall with a descent and the process of destruction, dissolution on a large scale, degeneration, etc., it classifies as change, progress, Evolution...
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution
Everything Evolves and Involutes, ascends and descends, comes and goes, fluxes and refluxes; a systole and diastole exists in everything, in accordance with the Law of the Pendulum.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Law of the Pendulum
the Law of the Pendulum
Evolution and its twin sister Involution are two laws which are developed and processed in a coordinated and harmonious manner in everything created.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution
Evolution and Involution constitute the mechanical axis of Nature.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Mechanical Man
Evolution and Involution are two mechanical laws of Nature which have nothing to do with the Self-Realization of man.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution
The Inner Self-Realization of man can never be the product of any mechanical law, but rather the result of a conscious work carried out upon and within oneself, on the basis of tremendous super-efforts, in-depth comprehension and intentional voluntary sufferings. Everything returns to the point of departure and the Lunar Ego returns after death to a new womb.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, Laziness, Return and Reincarnation, Suffering, The Mechanical Man
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Each human being is given one hundred and eight lives to become self-realized, and whoever does not falls through the demoniac wombs into the Infernal Worlds. The rosary of the Brahmins, the walks around the Cow and the Buddha's necklace all count one hundred and eight.
It is written that every human being is assigned one hundred and eight lives to become self-realized. Time is running out for many persons. Whoever does not attain self-realization within his allotted time ceases to be born, to enter the Infernal Worlds. In support of the Law of Involution or retrogression comes the Bhagavad Gita, saying, “They, the evil, cruel and ungrateful, I cast them perpetually into the Asuric (demoniac) wombs, in order for them to be born in these worlds” (infernal worlds).
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, Return and Reincarnation
“Oh, Kountreya, those hallucinated people go to the demoniac wombs during many lives and continue falling into more and more inferior bodies each time” (Involution). “Triple is the door of that destructive inferno; it is made up of lust, anger and covetousness; that is why it should be abandoned.”
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Anger, Evolution, Involution, Revolution, Return and Reincarnation
The anteroom of the Infernal Worlds is the involutive descent into bodies more and more inferior each time, in accordance with the Law of Involution.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution
Those who descend through the spiral of life fall into demonic wombs during several lives before entering the Infernal Worlds of Nature, situated according to Dante within the interior of the terrestrial organism.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, Return and Reincarnation, The Klipoth
In the second chapter we spoke about the Sacred Cow and its deep significance; it is very interesting that every Brahmin in India, when praying the rosary, counts one hundred and eight beads of the latter.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
There are Hindus who do not consider their sacred duties fulfilled, if they do not walk one hundred and eight times around the Principal Cow, and if, they do not fill a cup with water and place it for a moment on the Cow’s tail, and drink it as the most sacred and delicious divine liquor.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
It is urgent to remember that Buddha’s necklace has one hundred and eight beads. All of this invites us to reflect on the one hundred and eight lives which are assigned to the human being.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Return and Reincarnation
one hundred and eight
It is clear that the person who does not take advantage of those one hundred and eight lives, joins the Involution of the Infernal Worlds.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, Return and Reincarnation
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Infernal Involution goes back through the animal, vegetable and mineral states to the fossil state, and there Karma is paid. Only the Essence, the Buddhata, is saved, to begin its evolution again from the original chaos.
Infernal Involution is a fall backwards, towards the past, passing through all the animal, vegetable and mineral states, through frightful suffering.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, Return and Reincarnation
The last stage of the Infernal Involution is the fossil state, after which follows the disintegration of the lost ones.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution
The only thing that is saved from all of that tragedy, the only thing that does not disintegrate is the Essence, the Buddhata, that fraction of Human Soul that the intellectual animal carries within his lunar bodies.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Essence, The Human Soul
Involution in the Infernal Worlds precisely has as objective the liberation of the Buddhata, the Human Soul, in order for it to reinitiate its Evolutive ascent from the original chaos through the mineral, vegetable and animal rungs, until it reaches the level of intellectual animal mistakenly called man.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Human Soul
the Buddhata
It is lamentable that so many souls relapse, and return again and again to the Infernal Worlds.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, Return and Reincarnation
Time in the Infernal Worlds of the Submerged Mineral Kingdom is frighteningly slow and boring; for every frightfully long one hundred years in those atomic infernos of Nature, one pays a certain quantity of Karma.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Karma
The one who totally disintegrates in the Infernal Worlds, is even with the Law of Karma.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Karma
5 passages · 1 practice
After death each one is judged by the Lords of Karma, the good and bad deeds placed on the scales of Cosmic Justice. Every cause becomes an effect, and good deeds incline the balance.
PART SIX
After the death of the physical body, every human being, after having reviewed the life that just passed, is judged by the Lords of Karma. The lost enter the Infernal Worlds after their good and bad deeds have been placed on the scales of Cosmic Justice.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Karma
The Law of the Scale, the terrible Law of Karma, governs everything created. Every cause becomes an effect and every effect is transformed into a cause.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Causality, The Law of Karma
Every cause becomes an effect
A practice
By modifying the cause, one modifies the effect. Do good deeds in order for you to pay your debts. The Lion of the Law is combated with the scales. If the plate of the bad deeds weighs more, I advice you to increase the weight on the plate of the good deeds; in this manner you will incline the balance in your favor.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Causality, The Law of Karma
the Law of the Scale
The one who has capital with which to pay, pays and comes out well in business; the one who does not have capital, shall pay with pain.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Karma
When an Inferior Law is transcended by a Superior Law, the Superior Law washes the Inferior Law.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Words He Uses
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The Lunar Ego returns to a new womb, which is Return and not Reincarnation; Reincarnation is for Masters. By the Law of Recurrence each life repeats the last, on a higher or a lower spiral.
Millions of persons speak about the Laws of Reincarnation and Karma, without having experienced in a direct manner their deep significance.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Really, the Lunar Ego returns, re-embodies, penetrates a new womb, but that cannot be called Reincarnation; speaking with precision we will say that that is Return.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Return and Reincarnation
Reincarnation is something else; Reincarnation is only for Masters, for Sacred Individuals, for the Twice-Born, for those who already possess the Being.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Return and Reincarnation
The Lunar Ego returns and in accordance with the Law of Recurrence, it repeats in each life, the same actions, the same dramas of preceding lives.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Return and Reincarnation, The Law of Recurrence
The Spiral Line is the line of life and each life is either repeated in more elevated, evolutive spirals, or in lower, involutive spirals.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Law of Recurrence
the spiral line
Each life is a repetition of the past one, plus its good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant consequences.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Recurrence
In a resolved and definitive manner, many persons descend from life to life on the involutive spiral line, until finally entering the Infernal Worlds.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution
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Every event has its cause in a previous life, and we are to become conscious of it in the state of alert novelty. The initiate can travel outside the body and study his own book of destiny in the Temple of Anubis.
We need to become conscious of our own Karma and that is only possible by means of the State of Alert Novelty.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening, The Law of Causality, The Law of Karma
Every effect of life, every event, has its cause in a previous life, but we need to become conscious of that.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Causality
The one who awakens Consciousness, can travel in his internal bodies outside the physical body, with full conscious will and study his own book of destiny.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Karma
In the Temple of Anubis and his Forty-Two Judges, the initiate can study his own book. Anubis is the supreme ruler of Karma. The Temple of Anubis is found in the Molecular World, called the Astral World by many people.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Karma
Anubis
3 passages
Whoever wants Self-Realization must free himself from the mechanical laws of Evolution and Involution. That is the path of the Revolution of Consciousness, the razor's edge.
PART SEVEN
The one who wants to attain in-depth Self-Realization, should liberate himself from the vicious circle of the Evolutive and Involutive Laws of nature.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution
The one who truly wants to come out of the intellectual animal state, the one who truly and sincerely wants to become a True Man, should free himself from the mechanical laws of Nature.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Mechanical Man
Everyone who wants to become a Twice-Born, everyone who wants Inner Self-Realization, should enter the path of the Revolution of Consciousness; this is the path of the razor’s edge. This path is full of dangers within and without.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Three Factors
3 passages
The Dhammapada, Jesus the Christ and the Bhagavad Gita say the same: few reach the other shore.
The Dhammapada says, “Among men, few are the ones who reach the other shore. The others wander on this shore, from one side to the next.”
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution
the other shore
Jesus the Christ says, “Of a thousand who seek me, one finds me, of a thousand who find me, one follows me, of a thousand who follow me, one is mine.”
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
of a thousand
The Bhagavad Gita says, “Among thousands of men, perhaps one strives to reach perfection; among the strivers, possibly one achieves perfection and among the perfect, perhaps one knows me perfectly.”
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution
2 passages
Jesus never said that the Law of Evolution would bring everyone to perfection. He quotes the Gospel of Luke on the strait gate, and the Law of Natural Selection in everything created.
The Divine Rabbi of Galilee never said that the Law of Evolution would take all human beings to perfection. Jesus, in the four Gospels, places emphasis on the difficulty of entering the Kingdom. “Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: Then shall ye begin to say, we have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.” The Law of Natural Selection exists in everything created; not all students who enroll in a faculty graduate as professionals.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution
the strait gate
Jesus Christ never said that the Law of Evolution would lead all human beings to the final goal.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution
2 passages
There is one door and one path, and the gate is sealed by a great stone, which belongs to the lesson of Scorpio.
Some pseudo-esotericists and pseudo-occultists say that one reaches God through many paths. This is really a sophism with which they always want to justify their own errors. The Great Hierophant Jesus Christ only pointed out a single door and a single path: “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution
The Gate and the Path are sealed by a great Stone; happy is he who can roll away that Stone, but that is not a matter of this lesson, that belongs to the lesson of Scorpio. We are now studying the zodiacal sign of the Balance, the sign of Libra.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
4 passages
The Zodiacal Course and the Manual of Practical Magic on the natives: skilful in everything, unstable in love as the pans of the scale, and able to earn their daily bread.
PART EIGHT
The natives of Libra are very skillful in everything, but suffer much in love, since their love affairs and life are as unstable as the scale.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Sensations, Suffering
111. The natives of Libra always have equilibrium in Love and their lives are as unstable as the movements of the pans of the scale.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
unstable as the scale
112. The natives of Libra suffer in love.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
113. The natives of Libra have many aptitudes and great ability to earn their daily bread. 114. The sword of Cosmic Justice is beyond good and evil.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
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The Hermetic Astrology on the natives: an imbalance in conjugal life, a frankness and a sense of justice that make them enemies, little forgiveness, and no patience with double dealing.
In practice we have been able to verify that the natives of Libra usually have, in their majority, a certain imbalance in matters related to conjugal life, to love.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The natives of Libra create many problems for themselves due to their manner of being frank and just.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Libra people of good aspect like things straight and just. People do not understand Libra people well; the latter sometimes appear cruel and merciless. They do not know or want to know about diplomacy; hypocrisy bothers them, sweet words of the perverse easily upset them instead to softening them.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Libra people have the defect of not knowing how to forgive their fellowmen; they want to see the Law and nothing but the Law in everything, often forgetting mercy.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Seventy Times Seven
Libra natives like to travel very much and are persons who faithfully fulfill their duties. Libra natives are what they are and nothing but what they are, frank and just.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
People usually become angry with the natives of Libra; they are interpreted erroneously due to that manner of being and as is natural, ill is spoken of them and they usually fill themselves up with unwarranted enemies.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The Libra person cannot be approached with double plays; that is not tolerated and forgiven by the Libra person.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Seventy Times Seven
One has to always be friendly and kind or always severe with Libra people, but never with that sweetness and harshness, because the Libra person never tolerates and never forgives that.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Seventy Times Seven
5 passages
The superior, the inferior and the medium types of the sign.
The superior type of Libra always confers total chastity. The inferior type of Libra is very fornicating and adulterous.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The superior type of Libra have a certain spirituality that spiritualists do not understand and erroneously judge.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The negative inferior type of Libra has dazzling and loquacious, versatile people; he likes to always place himself in the limelight, attract the attention of the whole world. The superior type of Libra wants to always live anonymously and unknown, never feels any attraction for fame, for laurels, for prestige.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The superior type of Libra reveals sensibleness and the sense of foresight a thrift. The inferior type of Libra has much superficiality and covetousness.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
In the medium type of Libra, many qualities and defects of the superior and inferior types of Libra usually mix.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
superior and inferior
5 passages
Whom the natives do well to marry, from the chapters on Libra and on Aries, and their love of charity, of select music and of good theatre.
Marriage with people of Libra is favorable to the natives of Aries because fire and air comprehend each other very well.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Aries
Marriage with Pisces people is convenient for the natives of Libra.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
marriage
Libra natives like to do deeds of charity without expecting a reward or boasting or publishing the service done.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The superior type of Libra loves select music, takes pleasure in it and enjoys it to a maximum degree.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Libra people also feel attraction for good theater, good literature, etc., etc., etc.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
3 passages · 2 practices
Standing with the arms stretched out as a cross or a scale, the body is inclined seven times to the right and seven to the left, so that the energies balance in the kidneys. The Zodiacal Course gives the same exercise, and the Hermetic Astrology adds what it does with the forces from the earth.
PART NINE
A practice
Stand up, with the feet firm and arms extended to the sides in the form of a cross, or scale and move inclining the waist seven times to the right and seven towards the left, with the intention that all our energies become balanced in our kidneys.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
A practice
Stand up, in a military position of attention and then with the arms extended in the form of a cross or scale, move in the form of a scale, inclining seven times to the right and seven to the left with the intention that all of your energies become equilibrated in the kidneys. The movement of the upper half of the spinal column should be like that of a scale.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
the balancing movement
The forces that ascend from the earth passing by the sieve of our feet along the entire organism, should become equilibrated at the waist and this is carried out successfully with the balancing movement of Libra.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
equilibrated at the waist
2 passages · 2 practices
Meditating on Ursa Major, and on the yellow stone between waking and sleep, to go in the astral body to the largest star of that constellation. He adds the Lords who rule the karmic balance of the four winds.
A practice
Ancient men grew spiritually under the influence of the “Ursa Major” and students should meditate intensely on the ‘Ursa Major’ if they want to awaken consciousness. That constellation radiates powerful spiritual forces and man should learn to converse with the sidereal genii of that constellation.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Awakening, The Keys of Astral Travel, The Science of Meditation, Zodiacal Course
Ursa Major
A practice
There is a key to transfer oneself to that constellation. The key is to meditate profoundly on a “yellow stone” that exists in the astral. Do this exercise in the moments of transition between vigil and sleep and thou shall then transfer thyself in the astral body to the largest star of the ‘Ursa Major’, where a powerful and gigantic civilization exists. Since the seventeenth century, the earth entered a new era of spiritual awakening. That awakening will shine in all its splendor in the sign of Aquarius, the present era. The cause of that awakening is due to the influence of the great enlightened “Buddha” who in the seventeenth century became the redeemer of the Martian humanity, was crucified in the forces of Mars, to redeem the Martians and help our terrestrial humanity with “BuddhicMartian” forces that radiate from Mars. Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Orifiel are the four Lords that rule the karmic balance of the four winds (North, South, East and West). These are the four angels of the four cardinal points of the earth. Esoteric Astrology should live within the law of perfect equilibrium.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Aquarius, The Keys of Astral Travel, Zodiacal Course
the four winds
2 passages · 1 practice
The true order of the days of the week, the calendar that is to be restored so as to live by the law of equilibrium.
Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday is the true and legitimate order of the days of the week.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
A practice
This is the authentic and legitimate calendar that the Roman-Catholic sect adulterated and which befalls on us to restore, to live in accordance with the law of equilibrium. The authentic week is based on the law of true equilibrium and planetary order.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
The authentic week
1 passage · 1 practice
To become conscious of Karma, each moment of happiness or pain is continued in meditation with a still mind, until the same event in a previous life is seen.
A practice
Every moment of happiness or pain should be continued in Meditation with a Still mind and in profound Silence. The result comes to be the experience of the same event in a previous life. We then become conscious of the cause of the act, whether it be pleasant or unpleasant.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Causality, The Law of Destiny, The Science of Meditation
2 passages · 1 practice
Every karmic debt can be paid with good deeds, and the initiates negotiate directly with Anubis. Credit can be asked of the Lords of Karma, but it must be paid.
A practice
The Initiates can directly negotiate with Anubis. We can pay every karmic debt with good deeds, but we have to negotiate with Anubis.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Karma
The Law of Karma, the Law of the Cosmic Balance is not a blind law; one can also ask for credit from the Lords of Karma, but every credit must be paid with good deeds and if not paid, then the Law collects with pain.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Karma
2 passages · 1 practice
The perfume of the sign, from the table in Occult Medicine. The Zodiacal Course names the same perfume, galbanum.
A practice
Sick people must smell their zodiacal perfume on a daily basis:
Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978) also in Aquarius, Aries, Cancer, Capricorn, Gemini, Leo, Pisces, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Taurus, Virgo
: perfume of Galbanum
Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978)
their zodiacal perfume
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How this was made. All fifty-two books were extracted (73,105 paragraphs, 2,157,671 words) and swept for the sign. The sweep took the whole Libra chapters of three books: the Zodiacal Course (1951, ¶457–498, the seventh lesson, with its summary, ¶1017–1022; 48 paragraphs), the Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology (1967, ¶440–520, 81) and the Manual of Practical Magic (1954, ¶490–498, 9). It then took every other paragraph in any book that names Libra (15); the chapter of Christ Will (1959, ¶295–310) on the rune TORN, which he says the sign governs, as a family of its own (14, the other two already taken because they name Libra); the lines of his correspondence tables not already in, from Occult Medicine and Practical Magic (3); and, where his sentence ran across the paragraph break, the paragraph beside it (8). The sign of the Balance, and the balance or the scales of the zodiac, were searched for too: two paragraphs, both in the Hermetic Astrology’s chapter and both naming Libra, so that search added none of its own. The bare words scale and balance were not searched for on their own: they run all through his books. That returned 178 candidate paragraphs in 10 books, 76 of them already printed in another work of the shelf. Every candidate was read twice, by independent readers working from a written brief. The two passes agreed on whether to print 100.0% of the time and on the class 97.2%. Since they agreed on everything that prints, no third reader was needed: the editor settled the five differences of class, the line of the Sutta Nipata in the Zodiacal Course (¶493, printed as teaching), the next lines of the Gita in the Hermetic Astrology (¶450, printed as a passage of its own) and the strait gate of the Gospel there (¶485, printed with ¶484–489), and in Occult Medicine the label of the perfume table (¶1607, set aside) and the perfume itself (¶1619, printed as teaching). 158 were judged printable; none was left out, and 29 were joined into the passage before them where his sentence, his list or his quotation ran across several paragraphs, so 129 passages are printed here. The rest are recorded with the reason each was set aside.
The practices were not gathered in a separate pass. The fourteen passages marked as practices are the ones the readers marked as giving the reader something to do. Eight are gathered as the last part, with the four passages that stand among them in his order. The other six stay beside the teaching they belong to: the force of equilibrium in the second part, the rune TORN in the third, where his chapter on the rune stands whole, indifference before pleasure and pain and before success and failure in the fourth, and the plate of the good deeds in the sixth.
What was set aside. Of the 20 paragraphs the readers set aside, fourteen were headings, salutations, sign-offs, numbering lines and the labels of his tables; six belonged to the sign before or the sign after, named Libra only in a list of the signs, or, in one case, told a story without speaking of the sign itself. That one, The Mystery of the Golden Blossom ¶1542, is printed after all, with ¶1543, which was no candidate, as his own lead-in to ¶1544: without them that paragraph does not say what sanctum or what stone it speaks of. Nothing is reworded there.
Nothing left out, four mends and no trims, recorded. This page prints “self-realization” for “selfrealization”; “Self-Realization” for “SelfRealization”; “water and place” for “water and. place”; “understand Libra people” for “understand. Libra people”, as the scan has it: two joins of the scan and two stray stops, each right form standing elsewhere in the same chapter or the same sentence. No heading was lifted. Otherwise the passages are printed as the extraction gives them, its remaining slips included (“foresight a thrift”, “Kountreya”, “BuddhicMartian”, “manhanvantara”, “Rayas” and “Music -Will”).
No sentence of his is cut in half. Each range was extended against the corpus until his sentence closed, and 12 ranges run over more than one paragraph.
Nothing else was left out. Where he says the same thing in two books in different words, both are printed: Libra governing the kidneys in the lesson, the Hermetic Astrology and Christ Will, the balancing movement in two books, Venus and Saturn in two, the dates in two, the natives who suffer in love in three, and the debts paid with good deeds in three steps of one chapter.
68 passages also stand in a finished work, and every one is marked where it stands, most often in Evolution, Involution, Revolution (28), The Law of Karma (12) and Return and Reincarnation (11). The repetition is wanted: this is the vocabulary of the whole teaching, and a reader who meets the same line in a second book holds it better. What is not allowed is an overlap a reader cannot see.
No passage carries an editor’s note. Every passage was read for a line that credits the Kundalini to anything other than the work of the couple, and none was found; ten passages were read and ruled before placing. His lines on the rune TORN are printed as he wrote them: he gives the rune to strengthen the will for the Sexual Magic, and calls the music-will the sacred arcanum of transmutation.
Checked twice over. Every section and part title is a line of his, proved against the passages under it. And every passage was checked word for word against a fresh extraction of its book.
The twelfth work of The Zodiac, beside Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo and the Zodiacal Course booklet on the shelf, which prints his practice for every sign. This one gathers everything he says on one sign, and with it the wheel is whole. It wears the pale night-blue of the zodiac and the themed works’ two hairlines, in green, the colour of his table for the sign.