Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] THE ANGLES OF THE ZODIAC. 127
they are the result of natural law; but there are now thousands
of people who have reached a point at which they are
not satisfied with being told that a thing is natural: they perceive
that there can be no natural phenomena. without an ·
adequate cause. No longer is thi11 little globe of ours large
enough to fill the growing mentality of the people: they reach
out into space and begin to inquire if those shining orbs which
float above us have not something to do with the phenomena
we witness here.
The casual reader think11 that the intellect, or reasoning mind,
is leading the world in this reRf'arch, becauMe vet·y little but
the deductions of rPaRon appear in the lite•·ature of the day.
This reasoning, however, has been set in motion by the intuition!~
and psyuhic perceptions of the mollt highly developtl(l
of our 't&ce. Recau11e of the great amount of scepticism in
the wm·ld, the fact is kept in obscurity; hut the inner powers
of knowing have and must always le&.fl the wol"ld. When we
see such a peculiar phenomenon as that connected with the ironfilings
m· the sand upon the pl11te, the rea11oning mind stands
aghast in wonder and is still, l~onMcinnR that it can go no further.
This stillneRs gives frtledom to the inte1•ior consciommeRs,
so that it ill enabled to enter into the inne1· cut·rentR of cause,
float out into space, atul thet·e IJt:lhohl the form:&tive pritwiple
ruling in all nat.nrf'.
It waM tbi11 cnu>~cinnllllt-'!1!1 in th11 di 111 and even forgotten pa11t
that gathtlre•l the knowledge of the influences of the heavenly
hotliPs upon the earth and upnn inrlividnal life. \\•ithin the
rt>aeh of out· histm·y the W111·hl was admitteclly lt~rl by this inner
faculty of mi111l: Lnt, 11..'4 the ageM rolle•l on, reason asset·ted itt1
dominion atul intuition retired into ohKlm.-ity. ReaKou has now
gone the whol" length of it11 eapac~ity, and haM grown huge
ennugla to 1li11cover the nel'tl of it-. counterpart, the intuitions,
m· soul kuowletlge. As Mht~ (intuition) is being llalled ont of
het· long Jli,l i ng pl:we, 11he fi n