Message of the Stars - Max Heindel

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T H E M E S S A G E O F T H E S T A R S
BY
M A X H E I N D E L
AND
A U G U S T A F O S S H E I N D E L
AN ESOTERIC EXPOSITION OF
NATAL AND MEDICAL ASTROLOGY
EXPLAINING THE ARTS OF
READING THE HOROSCOPE AND DIAGNOSING
DISEASE
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THE ROSICRUCIAN FELLOWSHIP
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CHAPTER I
EVOLUTION AS SHOWN IN THE ZODIAC
It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary
career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies who
rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and that passage of the Sun
and the planets through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, marks man's progress
in time and in space. Therefore it is not to be wondered at, that in the
course of their investigations into the spiritual development of mankind,
the writers have also encountered much that deals with the Zodiac which is
the boundary of our evolutionary sphere at the present time. So much has
been perceived in THE MEMORY OF NATURE that sheds light upon obscure pas-
sages of the Bible, that notes have been made from time to time of different
points, but how to collect and collage these dissociated writings into a
united whole, has been a great problem for a long time. Even now, the writ-
ers know and feel that what they are bringing forth is only a very, very
weak attempt to set before the students that great body of facts which have
come to them through the memory of nature. They feel, however, that this
will give a new and more profound meaning to the old symbols, and that by
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passing on what has been found they put themselves in line to receive more
light.
Concerning the future evolution of planets; the Rosicrucian
Cosmo-Conception teaches, on page 256, that "when the beings upon the planet
have evolved to a sufficient degree, the planet becomes a Sun, the fixed
center of the Solar System. When the beings there have evolved to a still
greater degree, and consequently it has reached its maximum of brilliancy,
it breaks up into a Zodiac and becomes, so to speak, the womb of a new Solar
System. Thus the Great hosts of Divine beings who, until then, were con-
fined upon that Sun gain freedom of actions upon a great number of stars
whence they can affect, in different ways, the system which grows up within
their sphere of influence. The planets or many-bearing worlds within the
Zodiac are constantly being worked upon by these forces but in various ways
according to the stage they have reached in evolution. Our Sun could not
have become a sun until it set out from itself all the beings who were not
sufficiently evolved to endure the high rate of vibration and the great lu-
minosity of the beings who were qualified for that evolution. All the be-
ings upon the different planets would have been consumed had they remained
in the Sun. This visible Sun, however, though it is a place of evolution
for beings vastly above man, is not by any means, the Father of other plan-
ets, as material science supposes. On the contrary, it is itself an emana-
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tion fron THE CENTRAL SUN, which is the invisible source of all that IS in
our solar system."
"Our visible Sun is but the mirror in which are reflected the Rays of en-
ergy from the Spiritual Sun, the real Sun is as invisible as the REAL man."
From this teaching it is apparent that the great spiritual hierarchies
which are now guiding our evolution, have had their training for this path
in previous schemes of manifestation, also that what THEY are now doing, WE
shall some day do FOR OTHERS. Already the foremost among our race are
treading the path of initiation, and have thereby advanced into stages, far
beyond the general status of our present humanity. It has been learned that
those who have gone through the Mercurial School of the lesser Mysteries,
and have graduated from the School of the Greater Mysteries are now prepar-
ing human evolution for the Jupiter Period. They have entered the planet
Jupiter, by way of one of the Moons, which serves as a stepping stone. Oth-
ers there are, unfortunately, who have gone the other way. We read in the
Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, that even as the whole population of the earth
was at one time expelled from the present Sun because of their inability to
keep up with the vibrations of the beings thereon, thus hindering them and
being hindered themselves, so also it becomes necessary in the Lemurian Ep-
och, to expel a number of the stragglers from earth. Thus the Moon was cast
out into space to revolve as a Satellite around our present planet. Those
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unfortunates are gradually degenerating and the time will come when they
will all go to the planet Saturn, which is the door to Chaos. Thence they
will be expelled to inter-planetary space to await the time when, in a new
system, there will be a favorable condition for their further evolution.
THE GATE OF LIFE AND DEATH
Thus the Zodiac and the planets are as a book in which we may read the
history of Humanity during past ages, and they also give a key to the future
which is in store for us. In the famous Zodiac in the Temple of Denderah,
Cancer is not pictured as we have it in modern days. There it is a beetle,
a scarab. This was the emblem of the soul, and Cancer has always been known
in ancient times, as well as among modern mystics, to be the sphere of the
soul, THE GATE OF LIFE in the Zodiac whence the spirits coming into rebirth,
enter our sub-lunary conditions. It is therefore aptly ruled by the Moon
which is the planet of fecundation, and it is noteworthy that we find Capri-
corn, which is its opposite, ruled by Saturn the PLANET OF DEATH AND CHAOS,
who is mystically depicted as "the reaper with his scythe and hour glass in
hand." These two opposite signs are therefore turning points in the soul's
career. Cancer and Capricorn respectively mark the highest ascent of the
Sun into the Northern Hemisphere, and its lowest descent into the South. We
observe that during the summer when the Sun is in the sphere of Cancer and
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allied signs, fecundation and growth are the order of the day. But when the
Sun is in the South, in Capricorn, we have winter, when nature is dead. The
fruits of the summer are then consumed and assimilated by us. As a circle
dance of the Sun among the twelve signs determines the seasons of the year
WHEN DIRECT, causing the germination of myriads of seeds cast in the earth,
also the mating of the fauna, which then makes the world alive with the
sights and sounds of manifested life, and at another time leaves the world
dumb, dull and drear in winter's gloom, under the sway of Saturn, so by the
slower backward movement, known as the PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOX, does it
produce the great changes which we know as Evolution. In fact, this preces-
sional measure of the sun marks the birth and death of races, nations and
their religions, for the pictorial Zodiac is a symbolical presentation of
our past, present and future development.
CAPRICORN
Capricorn, the goat, is not a goat at all as we know that animal, but
part fish and part goat. Its Saturnine rulership, and the fact that it re-
ceives the Sun at the dawn of each New Year, naturally by analogy associates
it with the beginning of precessional epochs. It represents the stage in
evolution covering transition from fish, through amphibia to the mammalian
form. The belligerency of the goat is well known, and an apt symbol of the
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struggle for existence, in which the weak perish unless able to outdistance
their foes. This phase of the matter is sometimes expressed in the symbol,
when drawn as part fish and part antelope. Jacob, in the forty-ninth chap-
ter of Genesis, pronounces blessings upon his children, which symbolize the
twelve signs. There he speaks of Naphtali as a "HIND" let loose; thus a
very apt symbol of Capricorn, for when the Sun is there at each winter sol-
stice, it is starting a race through the circle of twelve signs, which it
must complete in a given time--a year.
SAGITTARIUS
When the Sun leaves Capricorn, by precession, it enters the sign Sagit-
tarius, and this is pictured in the symbolical Zodiac as a Centaur, part
horse and part man. Thus it shows aptly, the fact that we have evolved
through the animal stage into the human. The centaur is in the act of draw-
ing his bow, showing that there is something for which the human spirit, on
its pilgrimage through matter, is seeking, that it aspires to something that
lies beyond it, as a lofty ideal, for the bow points upward to the stars.
SCORPIO
The next step in human unfoldment is not so much along the physical lines
as along the mental. Its nature is shown by the Sun's passage through the
sign Scorpio, which is pictorially represented as a SERPENT or SCORPION,
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emblems of cunning and subtility. It is plain from this symbol that the
faculty of the mind evolved by infant humanity was CUNNING, and we still see
that that is a characteristic trait among the lower races, the lower classes
and the lower natures even among our present-day humanity.
LIBRA
But, when the Sun enters the sign Libra, 'THE SCALES,' by precession,
the balance of reason gives him a new start upon the evolutionary path. Un-
der the care of divine instructors man had at that time advanced to the
point where because of this new faculty, reason, he could be made fully re-
sponsible to nature's laws, and thus reap what he had sown, that he might
learn the lesson of life by actual experience, be able to reason out the
connection between cause and effect and in time learn to govern himself so
as to progress further upon the path.
VIRGO
Thus, under the guidance of the spiritual hierarchies, focused through
the signs of CAPRICORN, SAGITTARIUS, SCORPIO, and LIBRA, were his physical,
moral and mental attributes acquired, and he was equipped and mental at-
tributes acquired, and he was equipped to commence the spiritual side of his
evolution. The germ of this progress is hidden in the celestial virgin, the
sign VIRGO, which is the vehicle of the immaculate conception, the heavenly
mother of Christ; not of one Christ only, but of many. This is one of the
most sublime signs of the Zodiac and one of the most mystical, so fraught
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with hidden meaning that its full import cannot be fully understood save
when viewed by the internal light of spiritual illumination. Yearly, at the
winter solstice, the immaculate Madonna is ascendant at midnight, when the
new born Sun commences to rise to the task of growing the grain and grape,
to save humanity from the cold and famine, which would inevitably result
were he to remain in the southern declination. The Sun is therefore an apt
symbol of the Savior, born to feed his flock on the spiritual bread of life.
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