Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] Cos:vtc EvOt,UTION. 209
If, then, the universality of law so reveals the secret of the
birth of the moon, and if her age is greater than twenty-three
thousand years, or the period when the Solar System last occu·
pied the sign Capricorn, we must look elsewhere for the secret
of the time of her birth. My former calculations were conducted
upon the supposition that the life of the Solar System,
a.CJ a whole, is regulated by the two zodiacs: one does not like
to assail the tenets of accepted authority without good and
sufficient reasons. If the age of the moon is greater than
that indicated by the cycle of the Grand Zodiac, there must be
yet another zodiac, whose influence, combined with that of the
Grantl Zodiac, would throw around our earth the conditions
by which Rhe would pass into the Capricorn tJtage of unfoldment.
In the article upon the Triplicities, in tracing backward both
the evulution nf the race and the cycle of the Grand Zodiac, it
w:lR found. that, when the r;lce stood in a stage of the cycle
in•lic:ltecl by the head of a tt·inity, or a cardinal sign, that, at
the s:une period, the Solar System occnpied that particular
sign. Reasoning from analogy, it is possible. th:lt, when the
sun with his planets occnpie'l the he:ul nf a trinity in the Grantl
Zodhw, the same sign is active in the still gr:lnder zodiac; and,
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