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The Zodiac · VII
The second sign, the sign of the neck and the creative larynx and the house of Venus, where the lesson is the Word: the law of karma and dharma, the Verb that made the seven cosmos, the responsible word, the sparkle of Venus, the Bull and the Cow, its natives and its practice, in his own words, from the fifty-two books
The map
Above, the twelve signs in the order of his own list, with Taurus lit, the second, 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 Taurus, or ties the Bull and the Cow to it, in other books. Many of these passages also stand in other works of the shelf, chiefly The Laws of the Three and of the Seven, Slander and The Law of Karma. 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 sign and its tables: its dates and its table, its metal, stones, colour and element, the number two, its plants, the sixth Sephirah and the genii of the sign, and the throat in the living zodiac: “To the number 2 corresponds the constellation of Taurus, which governs the neck” “The plants of TAURUS are similar to the human neck and they belong to the element earth.”
The second is the law: the two golden rules and the third that solves them, the scale of deeds, the Lords of Karma and the Cosmic Bank, karma and dharma, and the three eternal things: “Do good deeds to pay your debts” “We ourselves are the creators of our own destiny.”
The third is the creative verb: the larynx where the verb is born, the verb and the four elements, the seven cosmos, their notes and their laws: “The larynx is also a sexual uterus where the verb is born.” “There are seven orders of worlds, seven cosmos that were created with the power of the Verb, with music, with sound.”
The fourth is the sexual marriage of the word: the three forces and their names, and the seven temples where the Elohim sang the universe into being: “These three forces constitute the Sacred Triamazikamno.” “The Angels create with the power of the word.”
The fifth is the responsibility of the verb: the misuse of the word, slander, criminal silences, sincerity, and sterile and fertile words: “…there is another kind of fornication with the verb.” “The perfect man is he who knows how to keep silent when his “Inner-Being” does not speak.”
The sixth is the sparkle of Venus: the two glands of the neck, the work with the sparkle of Venus and the prayer to the Angel of Venus, the choir of Angels, the clock of destiny and the Magical Ear: “Venus is related to Love and Mars to war.” “That is how the army of the word creates by means of the verb.”
The seventh is the Bull and the Cow: the cattle and music, the Puranic Trimurti, the five-legged Cow, the conductor of the Cow, the Mithraic Bull, the Cretan Bull, and the Pleiades round the eye of the Bull: “The Bull, the Cow, the calf become touched by music” “Father, Mother and Son; that is the Puranic Trimurti.”
The eighth is the natives, those born under the sign: “Taurines are tame and industrious like the bull” “Taurines are like the ox: hardworking and tenacious.”
The ninth part is the practice: the light taken from the head to the throat with AOM and with AUM, the genii of the sign, the vowel E and the perfume: “With the vowel “A” he imagines the light descending from his head to his throat” “The vowel “E” causes the Thyroid gland, which is the center of the magical ear, to vibrate.”
This is the seventh of twelve, one for each sign, each released as the sun enters it.
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The lesson of Taurus in the Zodiacal Course opens with this table: the dates of the sign, what it rules, and its metal, stones, perfume, plant, flower, planet, colour, element, key word, day and ruler. Beside it stand what the Tarot and Kabalah says of the number two and Taurus, and what the plants of the sign are like.
PART ONE
From the 20 of April to the 20 of May Rules: The Neck, Nape and Ears Metal: Copper Stone: Emerald and Agate Perfume: Aromatic Herb Plant: Birch Flower: Thorned Planet: Venus Color: Green Element: Earth Key Word: Love Day: Friday Ruler: Uriel
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Taurus
To the number 2 corresponds the constellation of Taurus, which governs the neck of that marvellous uterus, the creative larynx where the Word, the Verb is gestated.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978
the number 2
The plants of TAURUS are similar to the human neck and they belong to the element earth.
Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978) also in The Herbal Pharmacopoeia
the plants of Taurus
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Two lines from his lists of the sephiroth, in two books: Tiphereth is Venus of Taurus, beauty, the sixth card of the Tarot, the Lover. A line from his list of the twenty-four elders names the two who rule Taurus.
Tiphereth. Venus of Taurus, beauty, love of the Holy Spirit, the buddhic body of man. The sixth card of the Tarot. The lover.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Sagittarius, Tiphereth
Tiphereth
Taurus: Bagdad and Araziel.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
Bagdad and Araziel
Tiphereth: Venus, Taurus—Beauty, the love of the Holy Spirit, the buddhic body of man. The sixth card of the Tarot—The Lover.
Esoteric Course of Kabbalah
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The Hermetic Astrology names the part of the body each sign governs; Taurus governs the throat. The poster The Zodiac Within shows them.
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, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio
Taurus, the throat
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The second lesson keeps a promise made in the first: the clues of the two golden rules, the third rule that solves them, and the image of the scale with good deeds on one pan and bad deeds on the other.
PART TWO
In the past lecture I promised I would give thee the clues of these two golden rules: The Lion of the Law is combated with the Scales; When an Inferior Law is transcended by a Superior Law, the Superior Law washes away the Inferior Law.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Law of Causality
The solution to these two golden rules is found in a third which says: “Do good deeds to pay your debts”.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Law of Causality, The Law of Karma
two golden rules
Very well, now imagine a scale: On one pan lie your good deeds and, on the other, your bad deeds and your corresponding Karma.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Law of Karma
If the Karmic pan is inclined against you, then you will be able to fight it by placing more weight on the pan of good deeds and then thou shall incline the scale in thy favor and thus kill Karma.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Law of Destiny, The Law of Karma
imagine a scale
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The judges of destiny have a temple and a chief. Good deeds are capital in the Cosmic Bank, and karmic analogies are fought with dharmic ones.
A temple of the Lords of Karma exists in the subtle world and the jackal is great chief of these judges of destiny. This great Being is supreme Judge of the Cosmic Tribunal; he has the appearance of a great man with the head of a jackal.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Law of Destiny, The Law of Karma, The Words He Uses
When we have accumulated capital in the Cosmic Bank, we pay our debts and avoid pain. Those who live daily making “new deposits” to the Cosmic Bank will always have something with which to pay their old debts. In this matter of paying debts, one should always keep in mind the law of “Analogies” and of “Correspondences”. The Karmic analogies are fought with Dharmic analogies.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Law of Karma
the Cosmic Bank
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To modify the causes is to modify the effects. He gives examples of paying a debt with its opposite deed, and reminds the disciple that justice is the supreme mercy of the law.
Karma and Dharma: these two oriental terms mean punishment and reward. In a more philosophical form we would say: bad action and bad consequence, and modifying the causes, one modifies the effects, since the effects are nothing else but causes reproduced in another form. Are you going to be made a prisoner? Give freedom to another ! Is your son going to die? Heal your fellowman ! Are you in misery? Give all that you have left to the hungry and sacrifice all your efforts in favor of others. Beg, in prayer, to the Lords of Karma and you will be heard.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Entropy and Sacrifice, The Law of Causality, The Law of Karma
Karma and Dharma
Do not forget, beloved disciple, that justice is the supreme mercy and impiety of the law. So, I have already taught you the two golden rules and I have explained to you how to kill Karma. In the following lessons I will be teaching you how to manage the sidereal rays.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Seventy Times Seven, The Law of Karma
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He who gives receives, and those who do evil are victims of their own deeds. The lesson on the Law closes with the three eternal things.
He who has, receives and the more he gives, the more he receives: that is the law. But those who do works of evil shall be victims of their own deeds !
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Why do people suffer? Why do they blaspheme against God if human suffering is not God’s fault? We ourselves are the creators of our own destiny. Sanctify thyself, beloved disciple, Sanctify thyself!
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Suffering, The Law of Destiny
There are three eternal things in life: the LAW, NIRVANA and SPACE.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Chesed
three eternal things
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Taurus rules the larynx and the neck. He calls the creative larynx the sexual organ of the future divine humanity, and points to the books where he taught the Great Arcanum.
PART THREE
Taurus rules the larynx and the neck. The larynx is also a sexual uterus where the verb is born. The creative larynx will be the sexual organ of the future divine humanity. The sexual fire of the Kundalini becomes a creator in the word. In our works titled “The Perfect Matrimony”, “The Revolution of Bel”, and “Treatise of Occult Medicine and Practical Magic”, we already have extensively spoken about the Kundalini and we taught the Great Arcanum or supreme secret for the awakening of the asleep princess of the Kundalini
Zodiacal Course, 1951
the creative larynx
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The second chapter of the Hermetic Astrology opens with the creative larynx and the words of John on the Verb in the beginning.
Taurus, being the zodiacal sign that governs the creative larynx, that marvelous uterus where the Word, the Verb is gestated, it is convenient that in this lesson we comprehend in a general manner, the words of John when he said: “In the beginning was the Verb and the Verb was with God and the verb was God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
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He names the seven cosmos one by one, from the Uncreated Light of the Absolute down to the infernal worlds below the earth's crust.
There are seven orders of worlds, seven cosmos that were created with the power of the Verb, with music, with sound.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
The first Cosmos is submerged within the Uncreated Light of the Absolute.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
The second order of worlds is constituted by all the worlds of infinite space.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
The third order of worlds is the sum total of all the suns of starry space.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
The fourth order of worlds is the sun, which illuminates us with all its laws and dimensions.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
The fifth order of worlds is made up of all the planets of the solar system.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
The sixth order of worlds is the Earth in itself, with its seven dimensions and regions inhabited by infinite beings.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
The seventh order of worlds is formed by those seven concentric spheres or Infernal Worlds of the submerged Mineral Kingdom below the earth’s cortex.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
seven cosmos
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Each order of worlds has its musical note and its number of laws, and the Word is sound, music and fire.
Music, the Verb, placed by the Logos in seven musical octaves, sustains the universe firm in its march.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
The first order of worlds, the note Do. The second order of worlds, the note ‘Si’. The third order of worlds, the note La. The fourth order of worlds, the note ‘So’. The fifth order of worlds, the note ‘Fa’. The sixth order of worlds, the note Mi. The seventh order of worlds, the note ‘Re’. Then, everything returns to the Absolute with the note Do. Without music, without the Verb, without the Great Word, the marvelous existence of the Seven Cosmos would be impossible.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Si. Si-La-So-Fa-Mi-Re-Do. The seven notes of the Great Scale of the Creative Verb, resound in all of creation, because in the beginning was the verb. The first order of worlds is wisely governed by the only law, by the great law. The second order of worlds is governed by three laws. The third order of worlds is governed by six laws. The fourth order of worlds is governed by twelve laws. The fifth order of worlds is governed by 24 laws. The sixth order of worlds is governed by 48 laws. The seventh order of worlds is governed by 96 laws.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
the Great Scale
When one talks about the Word, one is also talking about sound, about music, Rhythms, the Fire with its three measures of the Mahavan and the Chotavan which sustain the Universe firm in its march.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
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There are seven cosmos, not two. Each one lives and breathes, and to know one of them we must first know the two beside it, above and below.
Pseudo-occultists and pseudo esoterists only mention the Microcosm and the macrocosm; they merely mention two orders of worlds, when in reality there are Seven Cosmos, seven orders of worlds sustained by the Verb, by music, by the spermatic and Luminous Fiat of the first instant.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
Each of the Seven Cosmos is beyond all doubt a living organism that breathes, feels and lives.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
From the esoteric point of view, we can affirm that every progress upwards, is the result of a progress downwards. One cannot ascend without descending. First one has to descend and then ascend.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
If we want to know a cosmos, we should first know the two adjoining ones, the one that is above and the one that is below, because both determine all the circumstances and vital phenomena of the cosmos that we want to study, to know.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
a cosmos
Example: In this era in which scientists struggle for the conquest of space, tremendous, unfortunately perverse, advances are being made in the field of the infinitely small, in the atomic world.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The creation of the Seven Cosmos was only possible by means of the verb, by means of the word, by means of music.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
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From his summary of the second lesson: the power of the creative verb, and the larynx made fit for the Christic forces, as the larynx of the angels is.
In this lesson we have taught our disciples the power of the creative verb The larynx is a sexual uterus, where the word is gestated.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
In Taurus, we should burn the trash of our larynx so that the Christic forces can express themselves through it as is the larynx of the angels. The angels create by means of the word.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
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Father, Son and Holy Spirit are the three forces: affirming, denying and reconciling. He gives their names in Gnostic science.
PART FOUR
Our Gnostic students should never forget what the three forces called Father-Son-Holy Spirit are. These three forces constitute the Sacred Triamazikamno.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
This is the Holy Affirming, the Holy Denying, the Holy Reconciling; the Holy God, the Holy Firm One, the Holy Immortal.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
In electricity, these are the three poles: positive, negative and neutral. Without the presence of these three poles, all creation is impossible.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Polarities, The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
In Gnostic esoteric science, the three independent forces have the following names: Surp-Otheos, Surp-Skiros, Surp-Athanotos; the Propelling, Affirming, Positive Force; the Denying Force, the Denying force, the Force of Resistance; the Reconciling Force, the Liberating Force, the Neutralizing Force.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven, The Secret Weapon of the Ego
the three forces
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The three forces are three wills that separate and come together again to form new trinities. In the Absolute they are the One Logos.
These three forces in the Ray of Creation resemble three wills, three consciousnesses, three units. Each of these three forces contains in itself all the possibilities of the three. But, in their point of conjunction, each of them manifest only its principle: the positive, negative or neutral.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven, The Secret Weapon of the Ego
It is very interesting to see the three forces in action. They separate, move away from each other and then come together again in order to form new trinities which originate new worlds, new creations.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
the three forces in action
In the Absolute, the three forces are the One Logos, the Army of the Verb within the Great Unit of life free in its movement.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven, The Words He Uses
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How the solar system was made: seven temples in the Chaos, the Elohim in three groups, priest, priestess and choir, and the rituals of fire sung. The angels create with the power of the word.
The Creative Process of the Sacred Cosmic Common Triamazikamno was initiated with the sexual marriage of the word because in the beginning was the verb, and the verb was with God and the verb was God. Because of him all things were made and without him nothing that is made would have been made.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
In accordance with the Sacred Law of Heptaparaparshinokh (the Law of Seven), seven temples were established in the Chaos for the construction of this solar system. In accordance with the Sacred Law of Triamazikamno (the Law of Three), the Elohim divided into three groups within every temple to sing in accordance with the Litur of Fire. The work of making fecund the Prakriti, In other words, the Chaos, the Cosmic Mother, the Great Womb, is always the labor of the very sacred Teomertmalogos, the Third Force. The three groups organized themselves within each temple in the following manner: First, a Priest. Second, a Priestess. Third, a Neutral group of Elohim.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Polarities, The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
If we take into consideration that the Elohim are androgyny it is then clear that they had to polarize themselves at will in a Masculine, Feminine and Neutral form, in accordance with the Sacred Cosmic Common Triamazikamno.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Polarities, The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
The Priest and the Priestess were before the altar and, on the ground floor of the temple, the Androgyny Choir of the Elohim.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Polarities, The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
The Rituals of Fire were sung and the sexual marriage of the word fecundated the Great Womb of the Chaos and the Universe was born.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
the Elohim
The Angels create with the power of the word. The larynx is a uterus where the word is gestated.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
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A hard word falls back on the one who spoke it. The improper use of words is fornication too, and slander is the worst of all blasphemies.
PART FIVE
A hard word follows us and later falls upon him who pronounced it, like a ray of vengeance.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Slander
a hard word
One does not only fornicate with the sexual act: there is another kind of fornication with the verb.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Slander
The improper use of words is also fornication: Fornication with the verb creates astral larvae and misfortunes. It hurts to see how people abuse the verb and fill the world with pain. Slander is the worst of all blasphemies.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Slander
fornication with the verb
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The perfection of the verb is to be achieved in oneself. The initiates create with thought and materialise with the verb, and names and surnames are not to be mentioned.
One should achieve in oneself the perfection of the verb and language. One should comprehend the responsibility of the verb. One should learn to use the sexual organ of the verb.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Slander
Do you not feel the need to learn how to use the verb? Listen to me, beloved disciple, we, the members of the sacred College of Initiates, can create anything with thought and materialize it with the verb.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Be careful in mentioning names and surnames, because that is slander.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Slander
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Fight theories, never the private lives of their leaders. There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.
If you are a philosopher, fight “theories”, but never talk about the private lives of its leaders. When one talks about a leader, talk about his doctrine, but never mention his private life. Each one, is each one and no one should care about the private life of others. To talk when one should keep silence is as bad as keeping silence when one should talk. There are times when talking is a crime and there are times when silence is another crime. There are criminal silences and also infamous words. One should talk when he should and be silent when he should be silent.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Slander
criminal silences
One should achieve in oneself the perfection of the verb. One should achieve in oneself, the wisdom of the verb.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
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People have lost the substance of sincerity. False words create monsters, and a liar never arrives at the white island.
People have lost notion of sincerity. Nowadays, human words do not carry the substance of sincerity and people suffer due to the lack of sincerity. Today, human words are full of falsehood and hypocrisy.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Hypocrisy, Lying
Do you know what false words are?
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Fraudulent words create monsters.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Have you ever seen the birth of a monstrous child? That is the Karma of the false word pronounced in previous lifetimes. We admire very much the substance of sincerity. A liar could never arrive at our white island.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Lying, The Law of Karma
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The Hermetic Astrology on the word: consciousness sleeps in the larynx, and silence too can be a transgression.
We should Awaken Consciousness in the Word, in the Creative Larynx, in order for it to one day also be able to pronounce the Spermatic and Luminous Fiat of the first instant. Consciousness sleeps in our larynx; we are unconscious with the word; we need to become fully Conscious of the Word.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening
It is said that silence is golden. We say that there exist criminal silences. It is as bad to speak when one should remain silent as it is to remain silent when one should speak. There are times when to speak is a transgression. There are times when to remain silent is also a transgression.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
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Words without deeds are a flower without fragrance. He asks for speech that is precise, conscious and timely.
Words are lovely but sterile of he who does not act as he says, like a beautiful flower, full of color, but lacking in fragrance.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
But similar to a beautiful flower, full of color and fragrance, are the words that are lovely and fertile of he who acts according to how he speaks.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Words are lovely
It is urgent to end the mechanicity of words. It is necessary to speak with precision, in a conscious and opportune manner. We need to be conscious of the verb.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Slander, The Mechanical Man
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Nobody has the right to judge anyone, and accusing words return to the one who spoke them.
There is responsibility in words and to play with the verb is sacrilege. Nobody has the right to judge anyone; it is absurd to slander our fellowmen. It is stupid to murmur about others’ lives.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Slander
Accusing words fall upon us sooner or later, like a ray of vengeance. Slanderous, infamous words always return to the one who pronounced them, converted into rocks that hurt.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Slander
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From his summary of the second lesson: fornication with words, and the silence of the perfect man.
Not only does one fornicate with the virile organ, but also with words. Evil talk, slander is fornication.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
The perfect man is he who knows how to keep silent when his “Inner-Being” does not speak.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Internal Chatter, Slander
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Venus governs the thyroid and Mars the parathyroids, and their struggle goes on throughout the organism. Venus is love and Mars is war.
PART SIX
In this course, we have arrived at the constellation of Taurus. This sign governs the neck and a new struggle between Venus and Mars repeats itself here.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Venus governs the thyroid gland and Mars governs the parathyroid. It is an eternal struggle between Venus and Mars. While some glands produce saliva, others dry it This struggle takes place in all of our organism.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Venus and Mars
Venus is related to Love and Mars to war. The Astrologer should learn how to use the sparkle of the stars.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
1 passage · 1 practice
A work of service done for another: the posture, the prayer to the Inner Master asking him to kneel before Uriel in the temple of Venus, the salutes with Jachin and Boaz, and the petition.
A practice
Do you know of any home where bitterness reigns? Do you want to serve disinterestedly? Do you know of a poor woman abandoned in misery by a suitor? Do you want to help her? Listen to me well, beloved disciple, for I will teach you how to use the sparkle of Venus: Sit in a comfortable chair. Close your eyes. Set aside all earthly thought from your mind and focus your thought on your Internal Master, praying like this: “Dear Father, you who art my true Being, I beg you with all my heart and with all my soul, that you penetrate in the “heart temple” of the star of Venus so that you may kneel at the feet of “Uriel” and ask of him the following favor: (One asks for the favor one desires)”. Then, the disciple mentally salutes the guardian at the right column, will take a deep breath and pronounce the password “Jachin”. Next, he will do the same with the guardian at the left column and pronounces the password: “Boaz”, in other words, first the deep breath, then he will pray to his Internal Master telling him: “Lord, take the seven steps into the temple to make the petition. My Father, my Lord, my God”. Once the petition has been made, one asks “Uriel” with one’s whole heart for a choir of Angels to accomplish the work. (Singing, they create).
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Being Is the Being, The Science of Meditation, Zodiacal Course
the sparkle of Venus
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What happens when the Angel of Venus grants the petition. The indigo hierarchies of Venus gave us the causal body.
If the Angel of Venus grants our petition, the choir of Angels, who are his sons and live with him in the temple of the nucleus of the star of Venus, will begin to sing in “sacred language” to do the work we have asked. That is how the army of the word creates by means of the verb.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
the choir of Angels
If any profane observer was to observe the heavens in those instants, he would see the planet Venus shining and glowing in an intensified and rare manner. The observer would simply be amazed on contemplating the original sparkle of Venus in those instants. The indigo-colored hierarchies of the star of Venus gave us the Causal Body or Body of Will.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
2 passages
When the petition is refused, the clock of destiny is shown. Mental force used without the Lords of Destiny is black magic, and the miracle worker unites the mind with the Inner Self.
They grant what we ask for, when Karma allows it. However, if our petition is not granted, then Uriel will show the disciple “the clock of destiny” and, in this case, we have no other option but to bow down our head before the verdict of the Law. In the actual world, there is a great number of schools that try to accomplish these same “miracles” by mental force, without taking into account at all, the approval of the Lords of Destiny. That is simply, pure and legitimate black magic. The Christ-mind works well with the law. Black mental waves do not arrive where they are sent because a multitude of aerial “elementals”, that trap and intercept their path, exist in the subtle world. Innumerable forces, which divert or disintegrate destructive mental waves, also exist in space. Therefore, evil waves can only cause harm when the victim does not know how to love nor forgive.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Law of Destiny, The Law of Karma
the clock of destiny
Mental energy is absolutely deficient when it does not work with the energy of the Inner Self. The miracle worker utilizes mental energy, but uniting it with the Inner Self. That is the wise mind. The miracle worker works only with the divine powers of his “Inner Angel” and his Christ-mind. The saintly masters of the white brotherhood cooperate with the magician and his Christ-mind. The sidereal genii perform their miracles with the ray of justice when the magician officiates on the altar of the “Lion of the Law”.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Mind
3 passages
The Hermetic Astrology on the thyroid gland in the neck, the Magical Ear, and the stone and metal of the sign.
In the Thyroid Gland which secretes the biological iodine is located the magnetic center of the Magical Ear. With the exercises of Taurus one develops the Magical Ear, the power to hear the cosmic symphonies, the music of the spheres, the Rhythms of the Fire which sustain the seven cosmos in accordance with the law of the octaves.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Clairaudience
The Thyroid Gland is located in the neck, in the creative larynx.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
the Magical Ear
The Thyroid Gland is governed by Venus and the Parathyroid are governed by Mars. Taurus is the house of Venus. The stone of Taurus is the agate; the metal of this sign is copper.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Words He Uses
The stone of Taurus
2 passages
Cattle are touched by music, and the cowboys of other times sang to them. The Bull, the Cow and the calf belong to Taurus.
PART SEVEN
In other times, when human beings were not yet so mechanized with this false civilization, cowboys led the cattle to the stable singing in a delightful and natural manner.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The Bull, the Cow, the calf become touched by music; they correspond to the zodiacal sign of Taurus, the constellation of the verb, of music.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
touched by music
4 passages
The Puranic allegory of the Cow and the calf, the Hindu Trimurti read as Father, Mother and Son, and the five-legged Astral Cow.
In the Great Puranic Allegory, the land that is persecuted by Prithu flees, transforming itself into a Cow and taking refuge in Brahma. But this Brahma is the first person of the Hindu Trimurti. Vach (Vaca), the Cow, is the second and Virah, the Divine Male, the calf, the Kabir, the Logos, is the third person.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Brahma is the Father, The Cow is the Divine Mother, the Chaos; the Calf is the Kabir, the Logos.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Words He Uses, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
Father, Mother and Son; that is the Puranic Trimurti. The Father is Wisdom, the Mother is Love, the Son is the Logos, the Verb.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
the Puranic Trimurti
The five-legged Astral Cow which Colonel Olcott believes to have seen physically in front of the hypogeum of Karli, the strange and mysterious cow that a certain young miner sees in the Andes as an exotic guardian of those treasures that the miners of his ranch sought, represent the Divine Mother, Rhea, Cybele, totally developed in the Authentic Man, in the Self-Realized Master.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
the five-legged Astral Cow
3 passages
The conductor of the Cow uses its Jinn fire, the power of the Divine Mother. Taurus invites reflection, and governs the creative larynx.
Gautama the Buddha or Gotama, literally means the conductor of the Cow. Every Cowherd, every conductor of the Cow can use the Jam fire of the Cow to enter the Jinas lands, palaces, temples and cities.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Keys of Astral Travel
With the power of the Divine Mother, we can visit Agarthi, the Jinn cities of the subterranean world.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Taurus invites us to Reflection. Let us remember that Mercury stole the Cows of the Sun. Taurus governs the Creative Larynx. It is urgent for the Kundalini to flourish in our fecund lips made Verb; it is only in this manner that we can use the Jam fire to enter the Kingdom of the Jinn.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
3 passages
The Mithraic Bull and its degeneration, the Sacred Cow and her Calf, and the Taurinean Mysteries.
The mystical greatness of the Mithraic Bull that is not comprehended by the superficial people of this tenebrous era of the twentieth century, later degenerated into the worship of the Golden Calf.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The Sacred Cow symbolizes Isis, the Divine Mother and her Calf or Heifer represents Mercury, the Messenger of the Gods, the Kabir, the Logos.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
the Mithraic Bull
It is necessary to know about the Taurinean Mysteries in order not to alarm ourselves with the luminous horns of Christus-Lucifer within each one of us.
Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in Lucifer
2 passages
The Three Mountains ties the constellation of Taurus to the labour of the Cretan Bull and tells how the bull came to Minos.
Nearly adjacent to the brilliant constellation of Pisces we find that of Taurus, which is unquestionably related in an intimate way with the esoteric transcendent work: the capture of the Cretan Bull.
The Three Mountains, 1972
the Cretan Bull
This animal had been sent to Minos by the god Neptune to be offered as a holocaust, but the king, greedily, improperly kept the bull for himself, and then the animal became frightful and menacing, terrorising the whole country.
The Three Mountains, 1972 also in Greed
5 passages
The stars of the constellation: the Pleiades, Aldebaran the red eye of the Bull, the Hyades, Orion and the groups around them. The Solar Bodies places the Astral Sun among the Pleiades of Taurus.
Esoterically included in the sign of Taurus are the Pleiades, the Celestial Pleiades or Cows; the latter appear to be seven, but in reality they are more than two thousand, with their reflection nebulae, Alcyone their principal star and its companions Atlas, Taigete, etc.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Around the red eye of the Bull or Aldebaran, the only one, together with Antares, heart of Scorpio, that can compete in coloring with Mars, the telescopic Hyades, another Celestial Cow, group together in an extraordinary and marvelous manner.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Behind the Bull comes the gigantic Orion. Above and towards the north of the constellation of the Bull, there is this celestial group, symbolic of King Cefeo, Zephyr or Zephyrus, of Queen Cassiopeia; that of the liberator Perseus with Medusa’s head in his hands, and Andromeda, the liberated one; while in front the whale appears surrounded by Pisces and Aquarius.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
the Pleiades
The panorama of Taurus and its neighboring sidereal regions is truly amazing.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Before the eyes of a Mystic, the Astral or Equatorial Sun flamingly shines, assembled in the celestial group which we call the Pleiades or Seven Sisters from the Constellation of Taurus.
The Solar Bodies, 1968
2 passages
The Zodiacal Course on the natives: amorous, tame and industrious like the bull, sometimes aggressive, lovers of music, dance and beauty.
PART EIGHT
Now, let us begin explaining the exercises of the constellation of Taurus. The cortege of stars that form the constellation of Taurus is the house of Venus, the ineffable star of love, the break of dawn and consequently, Taurus is of Venusian nature. Taurines are of amorous and Venusian nature due to this. They love much in love and always pass through great deceptions
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Taurines are tame and industrious like the bull, that symbolizes that group of stars, but, at times, they are also “aggressive” like the bull, they are tenacious and gluttons, romantic and sensual. They love music, dance and beauty. They have ability for all types of manual arts.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Taurines
5 passages
The Hermetic Astrology on the natives: hard workers like the ox, slow to anger, and the mediocre type and the superior type.
Taurines are like oxen, humble and hard workers, but when they become furious they are terrible like the bull.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Words He Uses
In their lives, Taurines undergo great amorous deceptions; they are reserved, conservative; they follow step-by-step, like the ox, the outlined path.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Taurines are very sensitive. Anger in Taurines is of slow growth and customarily culminates in strong volcanic outbursts.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The mediocre type of Taurus is customarily very egotistical, gluttonous, quarrelsome, passionate, irate and proud.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The superior type of Taurus is full of Love, loves classical music, wisdom, works happily for humanity, is very intelligent, comprehensive, faithful, sincere in friendship, a good Father, Mother, good friend, good brother, good citizen, etc.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The mediocre type of Taurus
3 passages
Fixed earth and mobile air are incompatible. The same book, on Aquarius, says what troubles Taurine husbands.
In practice we have been able to evince that Taurines should not marry persons of Aquarius because they inevitably fail due to the incompatibility of characters.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Aquarius, The Words He Uses
The sign of Taurus is fixed, an earth sign; it tends towards stability and since the sign of Aquarius is aerial, mobile, revolutionary, it is clear that they are incompatible.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Aquarius
Taurus is fixed
The women of Aquarius are good wives, good mothers, but they like to be out of the house and this bothers the husbands a lot, especially if the latter are Taurines.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Aquarius
5 passages
The Manual of Practical Magic gives the dates and the traits of the sign in a few numbered lines.
59. TAURUS: April 20th to May 20th
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
Taurines are gluttons; they love what is beautiful and gorgeous.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
60. Taurines love much and suffer much because they go through great amorous deceptions.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
61. When Taurines become furious, they are real furious bulls.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
62. Taurines are like the ox: hardworking and tenacious.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
1 passage · 1 practice
The exercise of the month in the Zodiacal Course: the posture and the drowsiness, the prayer to the principal star of Taurus, and the light taken from the head to the throat with the mantram AOM.
PART NINE
A practice
Let us now enter the exercises of Taurus. During this month, the following exercise is done: The disciple should sit on a comfortable chair. Close your eyes, remove all thought from your mind, make yourself a little drowsy and then focus your mind inwards, towards the Inner Self, praying like this: “My Father, now transport yourself to the principal star of Taurus, enter through the doors of the heart-temple making the salutes which you already know and beg the sidereal genie and his angels of that star to condescend and come to me, so that they may “prepare” me and cure my larynx.” Then, already sleepy, the disciple should imagine seeing light accumulated in his head now descending to his throat, while he pronounces the word: “AOM”. With the vowel “A” he imagines the light descending from his head to his throat; with the vowel “O”, he will imagine the light flooding his throat; and with the vowel “M”, the disciple will exhale the breath as if expiring the refuse that resides in his throat. This mantram is pronounced four times.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Science of Meditation, Zodiacal Course
AOM
1 passage · 1 practice
The salutes and passwords serve for every star. The genii of Taurus come to awaken the powers of the larynx and to heal it.
A practice
I will warn my disciples that the salutes as I have described them when I spoke of Venus, along with the passwords “Jachin” and “Boaz”, apply to all the stars in the sky. Therefore, the genii of the constellation of Taurus will personally come to awaken the powers of the larynx and if the disciple has any laryngeal illness, he can ask of these genii of Taurus to be cured and they will cure him. The disciple will also be able to take advantage of these powers to heal others.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
the salutes
3 passages · 1 practice
The vowel of the sign, sounded for an hour each day: the thyroid, the magical ear and the mental body.
A practice
The disciple should daily vocalize the vowel “E”, like this: EEEEEEEEE…, for one hour. The vibratory sound of this vowel will awaken the power of the occult ear in him. The vowel “E” causes the Thyroid gland, which is the center of the magical ear, to vibrate.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Clairaudience, Clairvoyance, The Chakras, Zodiacal Course
The vowel “E” also develops clairvoyance of the mental body in us.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Clairvoyance, Zodiacal Course
The vowel “E” makes the mental body vibrate and gives us conceptual synthetism and the power to penetrate the Intimate sense of words.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
the vowel “E”
3 passages · 3 practices
The exercise of the Hermetic Astrology: the light gathered in the head during Aries carried to the larynx, and the mantram AUM sung four times.
A practice
In this period of Taurus we should take light to our creative larynx with the purpose of preparing it for the advent of the Fire.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
A practice
The disciple should sit in a comfortable armchair; he should close his physical eyes in order for nothing of this vain and stubborn world to distract him; he should empty the mind, cast out of his mind all kinds of thoughts, desires, worries, etc. He should now imagine that the Light accumulated during Aries, in his chalice, in his head, moves with Taurus to the creative larynx.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Desire and Will, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Science of Meditation
the creative larynx
A practice
The devotee should sing the mantra AUM, he should open his mouth properly with the A, imagine that the Light descends from the head to the larynx; vocalize the U, vividly imagining that the Light floods the throat; the mouth should be rounded properly to sing the U. The last letter is the M, closing the lips, expelling or casting out the breath with force, as if eliminating the refuse from the throat. This work is done singing the powerful mantra AUM four times.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Science of Meditation
AUM
2 passages · 1 practice
The perfume of the sign, from the table in Occult Medicine. The Zodiacal Course names the same perfume, aromatic herb.
A practice
Sick people must smell their zodiacal perfume on a daily basis:
Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978) also in Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio
: perfume like Costusroot, aromatic herb
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 Taurus chapters of three books: the Zodiacal Course (1951, ¶78–153, the lesson on Taurus, with the summary of the second lesson, ¶982–987; 82 paragraphs), the Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology (1967, ¶48–122, 75) and the Manual of Practical Magic (1954, ¶442–447, 6). It then took every other paragraph in any book that names Taurus or the Taurines (21), and every paragraph that names the Bull, the Cow, the calf, the heifer, the ox, Apis, Mithra, the Minotaur, the Pleiades or Aldebaran (215), for the readers to keep only where he ties it to the sign; 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 (12). The larynx and the thyroid were not searched for on their own: they run all through his books on the mantras, and the lessons on the sign carry what he says of them under Taurus. That returned 414 candidate paragraphs in 42 books, 183 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 99.0% of the time and on the class 98.3%. A third reader, who saw neither verdict, settled the four disagreements on whether to print, and set all four aside: a rule the Zodiacal Course gives for every sign (¶944), a line of another sign’s chapter that only names a Taurine husband (Hermetic Astrology, ¶1024), and two paragraphs of The Three Mountains (¶2120, ¶2122) where the Cretan Bull is his own task, with no word of the sign. The three that differed only on the class were settled in placing: ¶130 of the Zodiacal Course as a practice, ¶50 of Hermetic Astrology as the end of the sentence before it, and a heading of Occult Medicine set aside. 166 were judged printable, and 35 of them were joined into the passage before them where his sentence or his list ran across several paragraphs, so 131 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 eight passages marked as practices are the ones the readers marked as giving the reader something to do. Seven are gathered as the last part, with the three passages that stand among them: what the vowel E also gives, and the perfume of the sign. The eighth, the work with the sparkle of Venus and the prayer to the Angel of Venus, stays in the sixth part, because the passages after it say what follows when the petition is granted or refused.
What was set aside. Of the 248 paragraphs the readers set aside, 216 spoke of the Bull, the Cow, the calf, the ox, Apis, Mithra, the Minotaur or the Pleiades without tying them to the sign: images, sayings, stories, and the Sacred Cow of other chapters. Of the 215 paragraphs of the Bull the sweep found, 214 were set aside; the one kept tells how the Cretan Bull came to Minos, straight after the line where he relates it to Taurus. Twenty-one were headings, salutations, sign-offs and the labels of his tables; eleven belonged to another sign, named Taurus only in a list of the signs, or gave a rule for every sign.
Two mends, recorded. In the Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology this page prints “names: Surp-Otheos, Surp-Skiros” for “names: SurpOtheos, Surp-Skiros”; “humble and hard workers” for “humble and hard. workers”, as the scan has it: the first is settled by the same sentence, which spells the other two names Surp-Skiros and Surp-Athanotos (¶74); the second by the Manual of Practical Magic, where the same natives are “hardworking” (¶447). Otherwise the passages are printed as the extraction gives them, its remaining slips included (“The Revolution of Bel”, “others dry it This”, “Give freedom to another !”).
No sentence of his is cut in half. Each range was extended against the corpus until his sentence closed, and 16 ranges run over more than one paragraph. The three headings inside printed ranges, PRAYER and EXERCISE in the Zodiacal Course (¶134, ¶142, ¶144), are not printed.
Nothing was left out on purpose. Where he says the same thing in two books in different words, both are printed: the larynx as the uterus where the word is gestated, the misuse of the word, the criminal silences, the sixth Sephirah in his two lists, and the natives in three books.
81 passages also stand in a finished work, and every one is marked where it stands, most often in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven (28), Slander (10) and The Law of Karma (9). 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 from his early books was read for a line that credits the Kundalini to anything other than the work of the couple, and none does: the one passage of the lesson that names its secret names the Great Arcanum, the work of the couple; the exercises of the sign are given for the larynx, the thyroid and the occult ear, and in them the light descends from the head to the throat.
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 seventh work of The Zodiac, beside Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries and the Zodiacal Course booklet on the shelf, which prints his practice for every sign. This one gathers everything he says on one sign. It wears the pale night-blue of the zodiac and the themed works’ two hairlines, in the green of his table for the sign.