Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

118 THE AmY AND THE WATERY THII'LICITIES. [September
ism-that of making con1litious through which the approaching
Triplicity (that of water) can wot-k.
I believe the first light whieh t·evealetl embt·,yo creation was
the sil vet· t·ay which shone ft·om tlw Aquarius wate1·s; anti
always sinee, when night descends npon the waters of the deep.
that primal light may be seen penett·a.t.ing the darkness with
its silver ray. The phosphorescent li~ht, so llOlllmonly seen
upon the watt~t·s, is tlw result of the action of the pt·imal pt·ineiple
of f"'t·mentatiou upon the life elements containe1l in the
wat.et·.
\\' e have no\V tracetl the wm·kings of the first two creative
lll'inciple~,-Libra and Gemini: and as a t·esult of theit· union,
we have found the water beat·er Aqmu·ius holding the embryo
life, to which Pisces aud Cancer, the father and mother of all
life; at·e to give form. We have also tmced the qualities of
these two last sign>~ haek to those which ga \'e them uirth.­
fmm the fountains of the Aquat·ins quality. whet·e the pet·feeted
life of both Gemini anti Libra are fmuul, Pisees anti Can.
eer dmw their nmsculine and feminine qualities. Pisces
gathet·>~ up anti intensities the silvet· light, with au undel'toue
of Gemini blue, and Cancer, the silvet· of het· lunar t·a,\', with
the green as its mmHlane manife .;tation, indieative of t.he young
life which she gatlwl's anti ntHn·ishes in its gl'llwth. \Ve now
see wherein Pisces is the fathet· 1winciple. As it is the feminine
qualtty to gathet·, to enspltet·e. to hind, and to seek the
centet·, s•• it is th:lt of the oppo;;ite fon~e, the masculine. to
reach out ft·om the centet·, to scatter, inste:ul of to gathet·.
This is the key-note of evolution. in whidt life is always
t·et•ei\'ing hig-het· fot·m. The feminine fot·mulates, the tnaseuline
tears down. Again she gives form: but life, entlowetl
with hi~het· possihilities. expl'esses its aspiratio11s in new autl
hig-het· fonnulatio11 . This i!l the adion anti interaction of the
fathet· awl tlw 11111thet· principles. C11dt>t' the infltJPtWe of tlu~
Gemini cut·t·ent~. life t.ook its emht·yonie form. Pist~es Ws whi,·h
it assunws in the last p:ut of the sign. I found myself in the
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