Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

17ti TnE TRIPUCITJES. [October
earth was in * ; hut the race stood in the t stage of its &!~cent,
which is the priestly 11ign. When the earth entered C'(', another
two thousand years backward, that sign being the head of a
trinity, it wa.'l also active in the ~c>volution of the race. In that
sign the law was given from Mount Sinai: •• In a portion of
the lawgiver was he 11eated; and he came with the heads of the
people, he executed the justice of the Lord, and his judgments
with Israel."
Two thousand years before thi11. when the Solar System occupied
the sign ~. man wa11 in the nt11tage of hi11 growth. Scorpio
is the ultimate of the Watery Triplicity, or that of generation ;
and about that time, l11rael, as a race, waR horn. The twelve
sons of .Jacob, the fathers of the twelve tt-il>e,., tlum •·ecleivell
their .birthright hlessin~s. Anothet· twn thousand yea•·s takes
us hack to the flood, when the earth wa.