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The Zodiac · XI
The sixth sign, the sign of the Celestial Virgin and the house of Mercury, which with Scorpio is the Eden of the Bible, where the lesson is the Prakriti, the Divine Mother: the Second Birth, the three Gunas, the mind as the den of desire, the belly it rules, 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 Virgo lit, the sixth, 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 Virgo, or the Celestial Virgin of the constellation, in other books. Many of these passages also stand in other works of the shelf, chiefly Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted, Scorpio, The Words He Uses and Zodiacal Course. 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 of the Celestial Virgin: the dates of the sign and its table, its metal, stone, colour and element, its plants, the virginal womb of Nature, the house of Mercury, its number, its place on the Tree of Life, its genii, and the part of the body it governs: “Virgo is the sign of the Celestial Virgin.” “Virgo is the womb of Mother Nature.”
The second is Eden: Virgo and Scorpio, once one sign, the exile of Venus, the three glasses of the white island, the seven serpents of Eden in the Manual and the lessons, the ineffable virgin of the constellation, the Celestial Virgin on the horizon at Christmas, and Virgo, Virgin: “Eden is sex itself.” “One is green as the emerald.”
The third is the Prakriti: the Divine Mother as the primordial substance, the Great Cosmic Day and the Great Cosmic Night, the three aspects of the Prakriti and the Three Marys, the Unmanifested Prakriti, and Isis, whom no mortal has unveiled: “The Prakriti is the Divine Mother, the primordial substance of nature.” “She is the Great Mother.”
The fourth is the Second Birth: the Divine Mother always a virgin, the immaculate conceptions of the religions, the sexual fire of the Third Logos that fecundates her womb, the Solar and the Lunar Races, the Sacred Cow and the Five-Legged Cow, the Kabbalah as the science of the Cow, and the Jinn state: “She, the Prakriti, is always a Virgin, before childbirth, during childbirth and after childbirth.” “The Twice-Born are children of the Sacred Cow.”
The fifth is the three Gunas: Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas in the words of the Gita, the Gunas in equilibrium in the Great Pralaya, what each does to the one who does not eliminate it, and where the three temperaments go after death: “Rajas is the root of all concupiscence.” “…whoever wants to achieve final liberation, should eliminate the Three Gunas of the Prakriti from his nature.”
The sixth is the mind: the sorrows of the natives in love, reason as the animal soul, the tranquil lake and the stone, the senses subdued, and the hunches: “The mind is the cave of desire.” “Subdue the senses and dominate the mind so that you may not react before external impacts.”
The seventh is the belly: what the sign rules, the forces from the earth charged with adrenal hormones in the abdomen, the isles of Langerhans, the solar plexus, and the age of Astro-Theurgy: “Virgo governs the Womb.” “The solar plexus is the antenna which receives distant thoughts”
The eighth is the natives, those born under the sign: reason out of its orbit, science and medicine, Goethe and the mediocre: “The critical-analytical talent of Virgo is formidable” “…they should be simple, they should end all reasonings and have the mind of innocent children.”
The ninth part is the practice of the period of Virgo: the small jumps of the belly, the vowel of the sign and the Gods of Virgo, the end of gluttony, one meal a day and the three foods, the Gunas eliminated, the Jinn state, the Divine Mother asked for help, and the perfume: “Eat what is necessary in order to live, neither too little, nor in excess, drink pure water, bless foods.” “…it is of her, precisely of her, that we should ask for help in the difficult moments of existence.”
This is the eleventh of twelve, one for each sign, each released as the sun enters it.
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The lesson of Virgo 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 August to the 22 of September Rules: The intestines and lower Abdomen Metal: Mercury Stone: The Emerald Perfume: White Sandalwood Plant: The Elm Flower: The Morning Glory Planet: Mercury Color: Yellow Element: Earth Key Word: Reason Day: Wednesday Ruler: Raphael
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Virgo
The plants of VIRGO are similar to the stomach and intestines and they belong to the sign of earth.
Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978) also in The Herbal Pharmacopoeia
the plants of Virgo
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The Manual of Practical Magic gives the dates of the sign and names it the sign of the Celestial Virgin, the virginal womb of Divine Nature and the womb of Mother Nature.
91. VIRGO: August 23rd to September 22nd
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
95. Virgo is the sign of the Celestial Virgin.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
96. Virgo is the virginal womb of Divine Nature.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
100. Virgo is the womb of Mother Nature.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
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The Hermetic Astrology says the same of the sign in one line, and gives its planet and its minerals.
Virgo is the zodiacal sign of the Virgin Mother of the World; it is the house of Mercury, its minerals are the jasper and the emerald.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Words He Uses
4 passages
Number six corresponds to the sixth constellation, Virgo. In two of his lists of the sephiroth, Malkuth is Mary, or Virgo, and a line from his list of the twenty-four elders names the two who rule the sign.
Malkuth. The entire universe, Mary or Virgo. Nature.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Malkuth, Sagittarius
Virgo: ladara and Schaltiel.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
ladara and Schaltiel
To the number 6 corresponds to the sixth constellation, Virgo. The planet is Venus, and the musical note La.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978
Number 6
Malkuth: The whole Universe; Mary, or Virgo; Nature.
Esoteric Course of Kabbalah also in Malkuth
Malkuth
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The Hermetic Astrology names the part of the body each sign governs; Virgo governs the abdomen and the intestines. 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, the abdomen, the intestines
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The lesson enters the constellation, house of Mercury and exile of Venus. Virgo, the celestial virgin, and Scorpio, the sexual forces, are together the Eden of the Bible, and the instructors call those who thirst.
PART TWO
Today we fully enter the constellation of Virgo, house of Mercury and exile of Venus. The ancient sages divided the zodiacal belt in ten signs only, since Virgo and Scorpio were “esoterically” considered one single sign.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Scorpio
house of Mercury
Virgo, the sign of the celestial virgin and Scorpio, the sign of the sexual forces, together, are really that marvelous Eden the Bible talks to us about. This is the paradise of virgin men; this is the paradise of the perfect androgyny. This is the Eden the Bible talks about. Eden is sex itself.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Scorpio
that marvelous Eden
“Come to us all those who thirst and we shall give thee the eternal water of life to drink” “Come to us all weary pilgrims of life and we shall heal thy wounds”.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Sons of the earth! Listen to thy instructors, the sons of the fire!
Zodiacal Course, 1951
In this delightful garden of Virgo and Scorpio, the seven serpents of fire are awaiting to initiate thee in their great mysteries.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Scorpio
“Ask and it shall be given thee, knock and it shall be opened”.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
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To those who thirst the instructors give three glasses, the three sexual forces: of Nature, of the kingdom of the spirit, and of the Absolute. These are the three arcanes of Eden.
Look! My Son! Here is the seal of the heart. To those who visit our “white island” we shall give thee three glasses to drink, three delicious arcanes. One is green as the emerald. It is the sexual force of the virgin-mother, “Isis”, Nature. The other is as blue as the sky. It is the sexual force of the kingdom of the spirit. The other is like the dew of the leaves in the night. It is the sexual force of the absolute, ineffable...
Zodiacal Course, 1951
three glasses
Only to those who have thirst, shall we give these three arcanes of Eden, so that they may awaken their seven serpents. Those who drink from our three glasses will never thirst again; and rivers of pure water will flow from their abdomens.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
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The Manual of Practical Magic on the natives of Virgo and Scorpio as Eden, the purpose of his book, and what we had as elementals and lost on leaving Eden. A later lesson of the Zodiacal Course goes back to what was said of Eden in the sign of Virgo, and to our seven bodies.
We already spoke of the seven serpents of Eden in the sign of Virgo. We have seven bodies and seven serpents of fire. Each of the seven bodies has its Kundalini, its serpent. The first serpent opens to thee the seven churches located in the buddhic body. A stigmatized and Christified buddhic body inevitably fuses with the Inner Being.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Scorpio
92. The natives of Virgo and of Scorpio are together the marvellous Eden of which the Bible talks to us about
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954 also in Scorpio
93. I have written this book precisely so that my disciples can become Omnipotent and powerful Gods.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
94. I want all my disciples to end all their human weaknesses and transform themselves into Gods and Priests of the Universe.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
97. When we were elementals we had the seven Serpents on the rod.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954 also in Elemental Magic
98. When we came out of Eden our seven Serpents fell.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
A practice
99. Our disciples should raise the seven Serpents on the rod so that they can enter Eden and transform themselves into Gods of fire.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
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In the Buddha's Necklace the sign of the Celestial Virgin stands on the horizon at Christmas, when the Child is born, and the constellation of Virgo shines at its zenith at the birth of the Child-Sun.
The sign of the Celestial Virgin rises on the horizon at Christmas, and it is then that the Child is born to save the world. The Christ-Sun, in His childhood, is surrounded by dangers, and the kingdom of darkness lasts longer than His [of light] in the beginning, but He lives despite all the dangers that threaten Him.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Intimate Christ, The Solar Logos
at Christmas
In other solar myths, the Divine Savior, the Intimus Christ of every holy individual, is always born from the womb of the Immaculate Virgin, the Divine Mother Kundalini. This reminds us of the Child-Sun, on December 24th or 25th , coming to life, advancing, walking towards the north at the same time as the constellation of Virgo, the Immaculate Virgin shines resplendent at its zenith. The Sun, the Cosmic Christ, whether in the cosmos or in man, is always born of the Virgin Cosmic Mother.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Intimate Christ, The Solar Logos
2 passages
In Tarot and Kabalah and again in Parsifal Unveiled he sets Virgo, the virgin, beside wine, life and moral strength.
Although the words Wine, Life, and Vine [Spanish: Vino, Vida, Vid] have different origins, it is unquestionable that they retain certain symbolic affinities. Thus Wine [Vino] relates to Vis “Fuerza and Virtus”, Moral Strength. So also with Virgo - “Virgin” - the Igneous Serpent of our Magical Powers.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978
Therefore, we cannot correlate vino (wine) with vis (strength), and with virtus (moral strength), as well as with Virgo (virgin, the Igneous Serpent of our Magical Powers) in any other way.
Parsifal Unveiled, 1970
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The sixth chapter of the Hermetic Astrology opens on the Prakriti: the Divine Mother, the single substance of all the elements, the pure Akasha that fills all space.
PART THREE
The Prakriti is the Divine Mother, the primordial substance of nature.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
In the Universe, several substances, different elements and sub-elements, exist, but all of these are different manifestations of a Single Substance.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
The Primordial Material is the Pure Akasha contained in all of space, the Great Mother, the Prakriti.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Elemental Magic, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
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In the Great Day the universe exists, and in the Great Night it dissolves in the bosom of the Prakriti. Every world is born from her and returns to her.
Mahamvantara and Pralaya are two very important Sanskrit terms with which Gnostic students should become familiarized.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Mahamvantara is the Great Cosmic Day, Pralaya is the Great Cosmic Night. During the Great Day, the universe exists. When the Great Night arrives, the Universe ceases to exist and becomes dissolved within the bosom of the Prakriti.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Words He Uses
the Great Night
The immeasurable infinite space is full of solar systems, which have their Mahamvantaras and Pralayas.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
While some are in their Mahamvantara, others are in their Pralaya.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Millions and billions of universes are being born and die within the bosom of the Prakriti. Every Cosmos is born from the Prakriti and is dissolved in the Prakriti. Every world is a ball of fire that becomes ignited and extinguished in the bosom of the Prakriti. Everything is born from the Prakriti, everything returns to the Prakriti. She is the Great Mother.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
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In the manifestation the Prakriti has three aspects, the Divine Mother in space, in Nature and in man. Each man has his own particular Prakriti, his own Divine Mother.
The three aspects of the Prakriti during the manifestation are: First, the Infinite Space; Second, that of Nature; Third, that of Man.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
The Divine Mother in infinite space; the Divine Mother in Nature; the Divine Mother in man. These are the Three Mothers, the Three Marys of Christianity.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
the three aspects of the Prakriti
Gnostic students should comprehend very well these three aspects of the Prakriti, since this is fundamental in the esoteric work. Besides, it is urgent to know that the Prakriti has its particularity in each man.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
Gnostic students should not find it strange if we affirm to them that the particular Prakriti of each man even has her individual name. This means that we also have a Divine Mother in each of us. The comprehension of this is fundamental for the esoteric work.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
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He quotes the Gita on the eight categories of the Prakriti and on the beings that come from the Unmanifested Prakriti at the dawn of the cosmic day. Behind her is the Unmanifested Absolute.
“The earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intellect and the Ego, are the eight categories into which my Prakriti is divided.” This is how it is written; these are the words of the Blessed One.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
When the Great Cosmic day dawns, all beings manifest, proceeding from the Unmanifested Prakriti; and at sunset, they disappear into the same Unmanifested Prakriti.”
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Behind the Unmanifested Prakriti is the Unmanifested Absolute. It is necessary to first enter the Unmanifested Prakriti before submerging ourselves within the Bosom of the Unmanifested Absolute.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Ain, Ain Soph, Ain Soph Aur
the Unmanifested Absolute
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The Goddess Mother of the World is Love, Isis whom no mortal has unveiled, worshipped by all the great religions under many names.
The Blessed Goddess Mother of the World is that which is called Love. She is Isis, whom no mortal has ever unveiled; in the flame of the Serpent, we adore her.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
All the Great Religions worshipped the Cosmic Mother; she is Adonia, Insobertha, Rhea, Cybele, Tonantzin, etc., etc., etc.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
3 passages
The Third Logos must first fecundate the womb of the Divine Mother, and then follows the Second Birth. The Prakriti is always a virgin, and he leaves the practical work for his eighth chapter.
PART FOUR
The Second Birth is something else. The Third Logos, the Sacred Fire, should first fecundate the sacred womb of the Divine Mother, then follows the Second Birth.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Three Factors, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
She, the Prakriti, is always a Virgin, before childbirth, during childbirth and after childbirth.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
In the eighth chapter of this book we will talk in depth about the practical work related to the Second Birth. Now, we only give a few guidelines.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
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Every Master has his particular Divine Mother, and comparative religion finds immaculate conceptions everywhere: Mary, Devaki, Hoa-Se and the mothers of Buddha, Zeus and Quetzalcoatl.
Every Master of the White Lodge has his particular Divine Mother, his Prakriti.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
Every Master is the son of an immaculate virgin. If we study comparative religion, we will discover immaculate conceptions everywhere; Jesus is conceived by the deed and grace of the Holy Spirit, the Mother of Jesus was an immaculate Virgin.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Religious Scriptures say that Buddha, Jupiter, Zeus, Apollo, Quetzalcoatl, Fu-Ji, Lao-Tse, etc., etc. were sons of immaculate Virgins, virgins before childbirth, in childbirth and after childbirth.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
In the sacred land of the Vedas, Devaki, the Hindu Virgin conceived Krishna, and in Bethlehem, the Virgin Mary conceived Jesus.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
In Yellow China, on the banks of the Fu-Ji river, the Virgin Hoa-Se steps on the footprint of the Great Man, is covered by a marvelous brilliance and her womb conceives Fu-Ji, the Chinese Christ, by deed and grace of the Holy Spirit.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
immaculate Virgins
A basic condition for the Second Birth is for the Third Logos, the Holy Spirit, to first intervene, fecundating the Virginal Womb of the Divine Mother.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
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The sexual fire of the Third Logos is the Kundalini, and the Divine Mother is Isis, Kali or Parvati, whose symbol is the Sacred Cow. He describes the fire in the coccyx, its seven degrees, and the Prakriti fecundated by it.
The Sexual Fire of the Third Logos in the Hindustan is known under the name of Kundalini and is symbolized by a serpent of burning fire.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The Divine Mother is Isis, Tonantzin, Kali or Parvati, the wife of Shiva, the Third Logos and her most powerful symbol is the Sacred Cow.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
The serpent should ascend along the spinal canal of the Sacred Cow, the serpent should fecundate the womb of the Divine Mother; it is only in this manner that the immaculate conception and the Second Birth arrive.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Three Factors
The Kundalini, in itself, is a solar fire that is enclosed inside a magnetic center located in the coccygeal bone, at the base of the spinal column.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
When the sacred fire awakens, it ascends through the spinal canal along the spinal column, opening the seven centers of the spinal column and fecundating the Prakriti. The Fire of the Kundalini has seven degrees of power and it is necessary to ascend this septenary ladder of fire in order to achieve the second birth.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Chakras
When the Prakriti is fecundated with the flaming fire, it then has formidable powers to help us.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
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The sacrifice of cattle is the crime of the lunar race, at war with the solar race. The patriarchs worshipped the Sacred Cow, symbol of Isis, and the Twice-Born, the solar race, are her children.
The sacrifice of cattle, of cows, bulls, is a horrible crime proper of these people and of this lunar race.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The two Races, the Solar and the Lunar, have always existed in eternal conflict in the world.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Abraham, Ia-Sac, Ia-Cab, Io-Sep. were always worshippers of the Sacred Cow, Io, or of the Egyptian Goddess Is-is; while already Moses, or better said, Esdras, the reformer, who altered the teachings of Moses, demand the sacrifice of the Cow and the calf and for their blood to fall upon everyone’s head, especially their children.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The Sacred Cow is the symbol of the Divine Mother, Isis, whom no mortal has ever yet unveiled.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Words He Uses
The Twice-Born form the Solar Race, the Solar Nation. The People of the Solar Race would never assassinate a Sacred Cow. The Twice-Born are children of the Sacred Cow. Chapter 29th of Exodus is pure and legitimate Black Magic. In said chapter unjustly attributed to Moses, the ritualistic ceremony of cattle sacrifice is minutely described. The Lunar Race mortally hates the Sacred Cow. The Solar Race adores the Sacred Cow. H.P.B. really saw a Five-Legged Cow. The fifth leg came out of her back; with it she scratched herself, scared away the flies, etc. Said cow was led by a young man of the Sadhu Sect, in the land of Hindustan.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
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The Five-Legged Cow guards the lands and temples of the Jinn, and only a great stone separates us from them.
The Five-Legged Cow is the Guardian of the lands and temples of the Jinn; the Prakriti, the Divine Mother, develops in the Solar Man, the power which permits him to enter the Lands of the Jinas, in their palaces, temples, in the Gardens of the Gods.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Keys of Astral Travel, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
the Five-Legged Cow
The only thing that separates us from the land of Jinn enchantments and marvels, is a Great Stone that we should learn how to move.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
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Read backwards, Kabbalah gives la-va-ca and the Kaaba gives Vaca: both are the Cow. He cites the Koran on the Cow, and says that Gnostics adore her, the Divine Mother.
The Kabbalah is the Science of the Cow (Vaca); by reading the three syllables of the word Kabbalah in reverse, we have la-va-ca.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Words He Uses
la-va-ca
The Stone of Kaaba in the Mecca read in reverse is Vaca (Cow) or the Stone of the Cow. The Great Sanctuary of Kaaba is really the Sanctuary of the Cow. The Prakriti in man is fecundated with the sacred fire and becomes the five-legged Sacred Cow.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Vaca
The Sura 68th of the Koran is marvelous; it talks about the members of the Cow, as something extraordinary, capable of even resurrecting the dead, or in other words, lunar men (intellectual animals), in order to lead them to the Primitive Light of the Solar Religion.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
We, Gnostics, adore the sacred Cow; we worship the Divine Mother.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
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With the help of the Five-Legged Cow the physical body can enter the temples of the Gods in the Jinn state. The Cow has to be developed within us.
With the help of the Sacred Five-Legged Cow, we can enter the Temples of the Gods with the physical body in the Jinn state.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Keys of Astral Travel, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
The placing of the physical body in the Fourth Dimension is something extraordinary, something marvelous, and this is only possible with the help of the Sacred Five-Legged Cow.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
We need to totally develop the Sacred Cow within ourselves, in order to accomplish marvels and the prodigies of the Jinn science.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
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He copies the Bhagavad-Gita on the Prakriti as the womb of all beings and on the three Gunas, Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas, that bind the soul to the body. In the Great Night they stand in balance; when the balance breaks, a universe is born.
PART FIVE
The Bhagavad-Gita says, “The Great Prakriti is my womb; in that I place the germ; thence, oh Bharata, is the birth of all beings! Whatever forms are produced, Oh Kountreya, in any womb whatsoever, the Prakriti is their womb and I am the seed-giving father. Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas these three Gunas (aspects or qualities), born of the Prakriti, Oh mighty-armed one, bind fast the embodied to the body. Of these, Sattwa which from its stainlessness, is luminous and good, binds by attachment to happiness and by attachment to knowledge, oh, impeccable one. Know thou, oh, Kountreya, that Rajas is of the nature of passion, the source of desire and attachment; this Guna binds fast the embodied being to action. But know thou, oh, Bharata, that Tamas is born of ignorance, deluding all embodied beings; it binds fast the embodied being, by heedlessness, laziness and sleep” (asleep Consciousness, the sleep of Consciousness).
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Desire and Will, Identification, Laziness
During the Great Pralaya, these Three Gunas are in perfect equilibrium on the Great Scales of Justice; when imbalance of the Three Gunas is produced, the aurora of the Mahamvantara is initiated and the universe is born from within the bosom of the Prakriti. During the Great Pralaya, the Prakriti is unitotal, integral. In the Manifestation, in the Mahamvantara, the Prakriti differentiates into the Three Cosmic Aspects.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
perfect equilibrium
6 passages · 2 practices
To be born again the three Gunas must be eliminated. He says what becomes of the one who keeps Sattwa, Rajas or Tamas.
A practice
To be born again is equivalent to entering the Kingdom. It is very rare to find a twice-born. Rare is he who is born a second time. Whoever wants to be born again, whoever wants to achieve final liberation, should eliminate the Three Gunas of the Prakriti from his nature.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Three Factors
The one who does not eliminate the Sattwa Guna, becomes lost in the labyrinth of theories and abandons the esoteric work.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The one who does not eliminate Rajas, fortifies the Lunar Ego by means of Anger, Covetousness and Lust, We should not forget that Rajas is the very root of animal desire and the most violent passions.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Rajas is the root of all concupiscence. The latter, in itself, is the origin of every desire.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Words He Uses
A practice
The one who wants to eliminate desire, should first eliminate the rajas Guna.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The one who does not eliminate Tamas, will always have the Consciousness asleep; he will be lazy, he will abandon the esoteric work due to slackness, inertia, laziness, lack of willpower, lack warmth, lack of spiritual enthusiasm; he will be a victim of the foolish illusions of this world and he will succumb in ignorance.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Laziness
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What follows death for the Sattvic, the Rajasic and the Tamasic, and the Gita on the one who knows Him who is higher than the Gunas.
It has been said that after death, the people of Sattvic temperament go on vacation to the paradises or molecular and electronic kingdoms where they enjoy infinite bliss before returning to a new womb.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Return and Reincarnation
Initiates know very well, by direct experience, that the people of Rajasic temperament reembody or return to this world in an immediate manner or remain at the threshold awaiting the opportunity to enter a new womb, but without having the bliss of some vacations in the different kingdoms of happiness.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Return and Reincarnation
Every Enlightened One knows with total certainty that after death, persons of a Tamasic temperament join the infernal worlds situated by Dante in his Divine Comedy, beneath the crust of the Earth within the entrails of the subterranean world. It is urgent to eliminate the Three Gunas from our inner nature if we truly want to accomplish the esoteric work successfully.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Laziness, The Klipoth
after death
from Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The Bhagavad Gita says: “When the seer beholds no agent other than the Gunas, and knows He who is higher than the Gunas, he attains to my Being.”
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
3 passages
The natives of Virgo suffer in love for the adultery of past lives. In Virgo, Mercury becomes reasoning, and reason belongs to the animal soul.
PART SIX
Why do the natives of Virgo suffer? Why do they cry? Why are they not happy in love? All sins shall be forgiven, except the sins against the Holy Spirit.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Seventy Times Seven
The natives of Virgo suffer because they committed Adultery and Fornication in past lives.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
The natives of Virgo suffer great amorous deceptions, in Virgo, Mercury becomes reasoning. Reason is of the animal soul, the animal soul is the mind. The mind is the cave of desire.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Desire and Will, The Mind
5 passages · 1 practice
Desire lives in the mind as in a den. He gives the image of a still lake struck by a stone, the senses to be mastered, and the passion of the great intellectuals.
One cannot kill desire without taking it out of its cave, of its den.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Desire and Will
Imagine a tranquil lake. If you were to throw a stone in that lake, thou would see a series of waves coming from the center to the periphery; Take that same image to the mind. All of a sudden you will see a pornographic image; that image passes from the senses to the lake of thy mind, the latter then reacts with its waves before the external impact and its waves then knock strongly on our sexual organs, producing sexual excitement that is consumed in copulation.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Chastity
a tranquil lake
A practice
Subdue the senses and dominate the mind so that you may not react before external impacts.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Mind, Zodiacal Course
The den of the beast of desire is in the mind. The great intellectuals are terribly passionate, vicious and fornicating beings.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Desire and Will
They have developed the mind and the mind is the animal soul.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
1 passage
Under the animal soul we make our own problems, and the one who acts only on hunches lacks for nothing.
When we move under the direction of the material mind or animal soul in the physical world, then we create problems for ourselves; we stay imprisoned, suffering the inexpressible. The man who acts only under hunches is happy, will never lack bread, shelter and refuge; will never have problems.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
hunches
3 passages
Virgo rules the abdomen. The forces from the earth are charged there with adrenal hormones on their way to the heart, and Virgo works on the isles of Langerhans.
PART SEVEN
Virgo rules over the abdomen.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
The forces that rise from the earth, on arriving at the stomach, are charged with adrenal hormones which prepare and purify them for their ascent to the heart.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
adrenal hormones
Virgo works on the isles of Langerhans which secrete insulin, so necessary for the treatment of diabetes.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
the isles of Langerhans
3 passages
The Hermetic Astrology on Virgo and the womb, the intestines, the pancreas and the islets of Langerhans, and the forces from the earth in the belly. Endocrinology and Criminology recalls that Krumm-Heller taught the same.
The famous Dr. Arnold Krumm-Heller, professor of medicine at the University of Berlin, stated in his Zodiacal Course that the constellation of Virgo has influence over the womb and especially over the barren islet of Langerhans.
Endocrinology & Criminology, 1957
Worlds are gestated in the Great Womb of the Divine Mother. Virgo governs the Womb. Virgo is very intimately related with the intestines and in a very special manner with the Pancreas and the Islets of Langerhans which secrete insulin which is so important for sugar digestion.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
When they arrive at the belly, the forces that ascend from the earth, become charged with adrenal hormones that prepare them for their ascent to the heart.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
2 passages
His summary of the sixth lesson: the forces from the earth in the abdomen, the vowel U for the solar plexus, and the solar plexus as the antenna that picks up distant thoughts.
In this lesson of Virgo we taught the disciple, that in the abdomen, the forces that rise from the earth are charged with adrenal hormones so that they may become prepared for their ascent to the heart. We also taught him to vocalize the vowel U to develop the chakra of the solar plexus or brain of the emotions.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Chakras
The solar plexus is the antenna which receives distant thoughts, and we can pick up with it, the moral conditions of all those who come into social or commercial contact with us.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Chakras
the antenna
4 passages
The close of the lesson: arithmetic astrology gives way to astro-theurgy, working on the earth from the twelve signs. The era of Aquarius has come, and the earth is a small blue star.
Arithmetic astrology was for the “Black Age”. The age of “Astro-Theurgy” has now arrived!
Zodiacal Course, 1951
We need to learn the sparkle of the stars, manipulating it to heal the sick. One has to learn to work over the earth, from the sidereal temples. We have to learn how to work over the earth from the twelve zodiacal signs.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
The era of Aquarius has arrived, and a new lineage reigns; the era of the “super man” has arrived.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Aquarius
The earth is a small blue star. The inhabitants of other planets of the solar system, when born under the influence of our planet earth, are mystics by nature and love sacrifice and altruism. They suffer much in their lives and feel much love for all that is alive; but the black magicians of the bright blue star, called earth, are extremely perverse and evil.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
a small blue star
4 passages
The Hermetic Astrology on the natives: reasoning beyond the normal and sceptical by nature, gifted in science and medicine, and best not married to Pisces.
PART EIGHT
In practice we have been able to verify that Virgo natives are unfortunately quite excessively reasoning, beyond the normal, and skeptical by nature.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Reason, the intellect are very necessary, but when they come out of their orbit, they are then very harmful.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The natives of Virgo are good in science, psychiatry, medicine, naturism, the laboratory, pedagogy, etc., etc., etc.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
the natives of Virgo
The natives of Virgo cannot get along with Pisces people and that is why we advise them to avoid marriages with Piscine people.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
2 passages
Inertia and scepticism mark the sign, and yet its inertia can pass from the material to the spiritual, as in Goethe. They suffer in love because Venus is in exile in Virgo.
The most lamentable thing of Virgo people is the inertia and skepticism which characterizes them. However, it is interesting to know that that tense inertia tends to go from the material to the spiritual, up to where it is accessible through experience. The critical-analytical talent of Virgo is formidable and among the great geniuses of this sign is Goethe who succeeded in transcending the material, inertia, and entered high scientific spirituality.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Goethe
Nonetheless, all Virgo natives are not Goethe. Ordinarily, the materialists, atheists and enemies of everything that smells of spirituality abound among the mediocre of this sign. The egotism of the mediocre people of Virgo is something too grotesque and repugnant, but the “Goethes” of Virgo are genial and highly altruistic and profoundly disinterested. The natives of Virgo suffer in love and undergo great deceptions, due to the fact that Venus, the star of love, in Virgo, is in exile.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
4 passages · 1 practice
The Manual of Practical Magic gives the traits of the natives in a few numbered lines, and what they must do to progress.
101. The natives of Virgo unfortunately fall into the vicious circle of reasonings and because of this they harm themselves.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
102. The natives of Virgo are unfortunate in love.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
103. The natives of Virgo fall into the aberrations of intellectualism and because of this do not progress.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
A practice
104. If the natives of Virgo want to progress they should be simple, they should end all reasonings and have the mind of innocent children.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
2 passages · 2 practices
During Virgo, lying on the back with the body relaxed, the belly is moved in small jumps so that the forces from the earth are charged there with adrenal hormones. The Zodiacal Course gives the same exercise from Krumm-Heller.
PART NINE
A practice
In the Zodiacal Course of Master “Huiracocha”, we are taught that we should give small “jumps” to the stomach during this sign, so that the energies that rise from the earth be charged in the stomach, with adrenal hormones. One should be lying in a horizontal position.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
A practice
During this sign of Virgo (the Celestial Virgin), we should, lying on our backs with the body relaxed, move the belly with small jumps, with the purpose of the energies which ascend from the earth becoming charged in the belly with the adrenal hormones.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
small jumps
4 passages · 1 practice
The vowel U is sounded for an hour daily during Virgo for the solar plexus, and the Inner-Self is asked to bring the Gods of Virgo to heal the stomach. He adds that the sidereal temples are within the conscience.
A practice
The fundamental zodiacal exercises that we give here, come from the ancient temples of mysteries and, therefore, are not the exclusive patrimony of anyone. However, we must be grateful to the great Guru Arnold Krumm Heller (Huiracocha) who had collected and investigated them, to make them known to us in his marvelous Zodiacal Course. During the zodiacal sign of Virgo, thou should vocalize the vowel “U” daily to develop the telepathic center of the solar plexus, like this: UUUUUUUUU…. during one hour daily. Sit down on a comfortable chair, focus thy mind on thy Inner-Self and ask him to betake himself to the heart temples of the stars of Virgo, so that he may bring the Gods of Virgo to thy house, so that they may awaken thy virgin powers and heal thy stomach.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Gratitude and Kindness, The Chakras, The Science of Meditation, Zodiacal Course
the vowel “U”
Be assured, beloved reader, that the Sidereal Gods will attend thy call.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Thy Inner-Self can enter and leave the body anytime he wants and due to this, he is not enslaved in the body.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
He will really enter the sidereal temples, do the necessary salutes, as I have taught thee in the first lessons and will bring the sidereal Gods to thy side, to prepare thy body. The planets move, evolve and progress within the conscience. The sidereal temples are within the conscience. Man is a zodiac and the zodiacal belt is within the conscience. The ten Sephiroths of the Kabbalah are the solar system. The seven inferior sephiroths are the seven planets and the crown of Kether, Chokmah and Binah, are the triune spiritual sun. Those ten sephiroths are within us and we should learn to manipulate them. We should learn how to transfer ourselves to the different stars to know the horoscope of people. Conversing with the sidereal Gods, we will know our horoscope without the need for the so touted arithmetic astrology.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
3 passages · 2 practices
The student is to understand the stomach and end gluttony. The disciples of the Buddha ate once a day, and fish, fruit, grains and vegetables are named as foods.
A practice
The Gnostic student should comprehend the importance of that cauldron called the stomach and put an end to the vice of gluttony forever.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Gluttony
A practice
The disciples of lord Buddha maintained themselves with only one meal per day.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
one meal per day
Fish and fruits constitute the principal food of the inhabitants of the planet Venus. Marvelous vital principles exist in grains and vegetables of all types.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
fish and fruits
3 passages · 1 practice
The three kinds of food, Sattwic, Rajasic and Tamasic, and how to eat: what is needed, pure water, and the food blessed.
There are three types of foods: Sattwic, Rajasic and Tamasic. Sattwic foods are constituted of flowers, grains, fruits and that which is called Love.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Rajasic foods are strong, passionate, excessively hot, too salty, exaggeratedly sweet, etc. Tamasic foods are in reality constituted by blood and red meat; they do not have Love, they are bought and sold or are offered with vanity, pride and haughtiness.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
three types of foods
A practice
Eat what is necessary in order to live, neither too little, nor in excess, drink pure water, bless foods.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Gratitude and Kindness
3 passages · 1 practice
There is no separate technique for eliminating the Gunas: they go as the Lunar Ego is dissolved. He describes the one in whom this is done.
A practice
Many would like a technique to eliminate the Three Gunas but we affirm that it is only by dissolving the Lunar Ego that one can successfully eliminate the Three Gunas. The one who remains indifferent and is not perturbed by the Gunas, who has realized that it is only the Gunas that function and remain firm, without vacillating, is the one who has already dissolved the Lunar Ego.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The one who feels equally in pleasure or in pain, who dwells in his own Being, who gives equal value to a piece of clay, to a small pebble or to a gold nugget, who remains impartial before the pleasant and the unpleasant, before censure and praise, in honor or dishonor, before the friend or enemy and who has renounced every egotistical and earthly enterprise, is the one who has already eliminated the Three Gunas and dissolved the Lunar Ego.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The one who no longer has concupiscence, who extinguished the fire of Lust in all the forty-nine subconscious departments of the mind, has eliminated the Three Gunas and dissolved the Lunar Ego.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Subconscious
1 passage · 1 practice
Meditation on the Five-Legged Cow and on the Divine Mother, imploring her to place the body in the Jinn state, and getting up from bed still drowsy.
A practice
If the student meditates profoundly on the Five-Legged Cow, on the Divine Mother and implores her to place his physical body in the Jinn state, he can succeed. The important thing is to rise from the bed without losing drowsiness, like a somnambulist.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Keys of Astral Travel, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
2 passages · 2 practices
The devotee of the Virgin Mother can ask, and in the hard moments of life it is of her that we ask for help.
A practice
The devotee of the Virgin Mother can ask; the Sacred Scriptures say, “Ask and thou shalt be given, knock and it shalt be opened.”
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
A practice
The Divine Mother is very close to her son; she is within the very Inner-Self of each of us and it is of her, precisely of her, that we should ask for help in the difficult moments of existence.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
2 passages · 1 practice
The perfume of the sign, from the table in Occult Medicine. The Zodiacal Course names the same perfume, white sandalwood.
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
: perfume of White Sandalwood
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 Virgo chapters of three books: the Zodiacal Course (1951, ¶408–456, the sixth lesson, with its summary, ¶1014–1016; 52 paragraphs), the Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology (1967, ¶344–439, 96) and the Manual of Practical Magic (1954, ¶476–489, 14). It then took every other paragraph in any book that names Virgo (17), and every paragraph that names the Celestial Virgin, or a virgin beside the zodiac, a constellation or a sign (4), for the readers to keep only where he ties her 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 (8). Four paragraphs on the Virgin of Light of the Pistis Sophia (all four in Pistis Sophia Unveiled) were set aside before the readers: they speak of that Virgin, not of the sign. The Prakriti, the Divine Mother and the solar plexus were not searched for on their own: they run all through his books, and the lessons on the sign carry what he says of them under Virgo. That returned 194 candidate paragraphs in 15 books, 77 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 96.9%. A third reader, who saw neither verdict, settled the six differences of class: the second and third of the three glasses in the Zodiacal Course (¶430, printed with ¶429–431), the call to the disciples in the Manual (¶484, printed as a practice), a line of the Gita in the Hermetic Astrology (¶357, printed with ¶355–360), and in that book the line on Rajas and the one meal a day (¶387 and ¶409, printed as practices) and the Rajasic and Tamasic foods (¶430). 171 were judged printable; none was left out, and 30 were joined into the passage before them where his sentence, his list or his quotation ran across several paragraphs, so 141 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 sixteen passages marked as practices are the ones the readers marked as giving the reader something to do. Eleven are gathered as the last part, with the nine passages that stand among them in his order. The other five stay beside the teaching they belong to: the call to enter Eden again in the Manual’s numbered run in the second part, the elimination of the Gunas and of Rajas in the fifth, the senses subdued beside the tranquil lake in the sixth, and the Manual’s last line on the natives in the eighth.
What was set aside. Of the 23 paragraphs the readers set aside, thirteen were headings, salutations, sign-offs, list numbers and the labels of his tables; of the four paragraphs of the Celestial Virgin the sweep found, one is printed, where he ties her to the constellation, and three spoke of her, or of a virgin, without the sign; seven belonged to the sign before or the sign after, named Virgo only in a list of the signs, sent the reader to another chapter, or spoke of something else beside it.
Nothing left out, eleven mends and two trims, recorded. This page prints “Mahamvantara” for “Mahamuantara”; “Mahamvantaras” for “Mahamvantara.s”; “twice-born” for “twiceborn”; “Rajas” for “.Rajas”; “the Cow” for “the Caw”; “and” for “arid”; “darkness” for “dark ness”; “Langerhans which” for “Langerhan which”; “Sit down” for “Sit dawn”; “the triune spiritual sun” for “the trill spiritual sun”, as the scan has it: each right spelling stands elsewhere in the same chapter or the same sentence. The heading of the next lesson that the scan runs onto the end of the sixth lesson’s summary, and the sign-off at the end of the lesson, are trimmed. No heading was lifted. Otherwise the passages are printed as the extraction gives them, its remaining slips included (“ladara” among the genii, “Io-Sep.” and “Kountreya”).
No sentence of his is cut in half. Each range was extended against the corpus until his sentence closed, and 13 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: Malkuth as Mary or Virgo, Virgo and the Virgin beside wine and strength, the forces from the earth charged in the belly in the lesson, its summary and the Hermetic Astrology, the isles of Langerhans in three books, the small jumps of the belly in two, and the natives in three.
64 passages also stand in a finished work, and every one is marked where it stands, most often in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted (20), Scorpio (7), and The Words He Uses and Zodiacal Course (5 each). 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.
One passage carries an editor’s note: the Manual of Practical Magic (1954, ¶484), the call to the disciples in the second part; the note under it gives his later teaching. Every passage was read for a line that credits the Kundalini to anything other than the work of the couple, and that is the only one. His other lines on the serpents and the fire are printed as he wrote them, each read and ruled before placing: in the Zodiacal Course the seven serpents wait in the garden of Virgo and Scorpio, which he calls sex itself, and the three arcanes of Eden are the three sexual forces; in the Hermetic Astrology the fire is the sexual fire of the Third Logos, which fecundates the Divine Mother. The vowel of the sign is given for the solar plexus.
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 eleventh work of The Zodiac, beside Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo 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 a deep ochre, the nearest the shelf leaves to the yellow of his table for the sign.