Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

114 THE AIRY AND THE WATF.RY THn•Lrcrrn:s. [September
that the green helongeo to it~ muntlane qualities. The green
was, as it were, a sub.tone. Gt·een denotes growth,-the manifestation
of the mate mal life; hut the. ebb and flow of life is
controlled by the .Moon. The astt·al life qualities of Pisces
and Cancer, t.hen, both shone with a silver light: but the untler·tone
of one was blue, that of the other green. Here a
glimmer of tl'llth heg:ut to dawu upon me: could it be that the
quality of the silver light in one wall posit.ive, aml that of the
other negative, and tint :in astral cnm bi nation of the two was
the meeting of positive and negative force8, between which
there wa.s an especial affinity'!
As is so oftt•n the case when one i8 iutel'estetl in a. pat·ticnlat·
thought, I chance•! upon an artiele npou the Tt·iplicitie!l, wt·itten
hy au authority em Astrology. lie says: "The fourth house
(Cancer), signifies things that, like the uight, indieate quietness.
retirement; sednsion; * * * • antl as the night
JWeset·ves the foltletl flowers, St) does the fourth house }.H'eserve
and nourish through its eonespontletwe with the water·y sign,
Cancer, and the Moon. Hence al.;o its maternal co.-respondence,
its fl'llitful na.t111·e, antl its suppnsf.'tl inflnetwe, in mnndane
Astrology, over the fr·uits of the eal'th."
This "fonrth house ·• i.- supposed to contain the g-eneral
t~h:ua two. we tlo not just see.
Hut. howe vet·, we h:we g-ottt~n holt! of a tlm~a1l ; and we he).!"i n
to follow it hack. hack, into the sh:~tlnwy t·ealms of eanse. The
qnest.ion, "\Vhet·t• dOt>s the moon rise? •• indicated, that. in the
t~r·eative ordet·-the sncPssivtl appt>at·atWI' in the Ct't'ation. of fit·e,
air-, t'at·th. an•l water· -the negative si).!"n C'atwt>r of the \Vatet·.v
'l't·iplit~ity is evolvt>tl ft·om Lilmt. On t•xamination we titul th:~t
tiH' signs of the triangle of ait·-Gemini. Lihra, antl Al)n:trius
_;u·e respeetivel,v the produeing- si;us (that is, a t•hiltl Clont~eivt•tl
in one is hnl"ll in the othet) nf those of the t.riangle of
watt>t•,-Pistles. Caneet·, anti St•orpio: Liht·a of Cam•et•, Gemini
of Pi sees. antl Aqnarins of Scm·pio; antl. as the fnm· f'lt•nwntstire.
air. t>:nth. and watet·-appeat·etl in the tn·eation. water
must ltavt' heen evolvetl from ait· antl have !,een secontl in order.
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