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EOSICKUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
precession of the equinoxes, which is the motion of the sun
backward through the twelve signs of the zodiac, a motion
that requires about twenty-six thousand years to bring the
sun once around the circle. He may then read back to
the times of the Atlantean floods, counting how many of
such periods of twenty-six thousand years elapsed between
the first flood and the second, the second and the third,
and then the years from then to our present time. If he
is ignorant of the stellar science, he cannot do that, so
that is one more reason why the student of occultism should
familiarize himself with astronomy.
QUESTION No. 50.
Does a person who lias been buried alive become conscious
of his condition? And how does the spirit get
body when it lays in the grave ?
back to the
Answer: It is evident from the changed position of
corpses in coffins that sometimes when a body has been
buried before tlie spirit had definitely left it, that spirit has
returned to the body and moved that body about in ago-
nizing attempts to obtain the necessary air. And, of course,
that would show that consciousness had been regained in