Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

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cyde ha.'l been R.Spil'ing tn this itll completement. In following
the aset>tuling seale of life, let me ~;uggellt that the reac.ler
hear in mint I that the office of the feminine quality is tf) gather,
that of the masculine to 11oatter, one is a ctmtt·ipetal force, the
other centrifugal. As felt from the astral, the masc!uline
m:mifests itself as an e01wgy, a power of execution, an activity,
while the feminine draws to itself that to which by sympathy
or nature it is allied.
In Libra iM found the home of the pllychic, or serpent power :
she is the purel't expt·es>~i«~n of the gathering ot· feminine prinoiple;
anti it is Juno function to gather for the coming cyclt>,
Cancer, in whom the !lame quality is aotive, draws to heraelf
what i11 needed to give hit·t.h, nom·islunent. ami proteotion to
her uffspt·in~. In Ar·ies we tind the psyohic principle still, in
a tltogt·ee, m;mifest; hut the ma.atl of the intelleetual trinity, and its funetion is to
hold the thought, the ideal, of the coming t•ycle: obllet·ve that
itH exp•·eKset• Gemini is the underlying ma.10 mallculine and feminine qualities, combine the
pnwer11 of lutth. hut thuy muve in a unwh mot·e intel'inr and
llll ht )e 11 pht~r~:~.
But tu l't•tum tu tlw Fiery Tt·iplidty: I have said that the
Leo life mu·•· .. nts 1u·e the completement of the cyde. \Vhen
they flow in ft·om t.he astral. thet•e comes to the cnu~cioltlmess a
seu~e of an nllt!OIIIing. resilltlt~sll power, fur whidt 1 have no
language. One f~:~els tlmt all cre'ltinn mu~t bow befm·e that
•·elfin tieR~ appmnch; that he who dat·ecl tn cliliJIIlte that power
wonltl be gi'Ontul to the fiuu"t dust, atul that it "on lei Rtill roll
calmly on it11 way, )o~t to nll hut the conllt!ioullnPss of its own
might. This i:o~ the tet·rible power of love, which iK the pet·fect
adjnMtmt>ut of the blending of the masculine and feminine
qualities. In this sense, God is luve. Leo is an intet·ior· sign,
aud, it must be rememhet•t>tl, that thiM powet· will not be felt in
tlw intlividnal unle11ll thet·e is something to call it f01·th; and
that it iM in nu way allietl to th~ executive, energetic will power
of t.he maMcmliue 11iguM.
AnothtH' •pmlity resident in the aRtt·al life of Leo iK a great
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