Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

284 DELINEATION OF CHARACTER. [November
with whom you are asaociated to know what you will do under any
given circumstances. lz in cy> unites harmoniously with your innate
11ign 2D, giving you 1!- very orderly brain, ao that you are always ready
with your pen and able to give a clear, orderly expression of thought.
Your mind is always ahead of you, filled with plans for accomplishment;
and there is the greatest danger, that, in a busine88 way, you
overreach your abilities by having too many things on hand at one
time. Your nature is continually oscillating hetween extreme caution
and extreme venture11omeue88. In striving for the~~e high attainments
it will be necessary for you to study the words of the Nazarene to
Nathanael. "Behold an Israelite indeed in whom there i11 no guile.''
While you have great power of control over the wex nature, yet
you have an overbalance of endowment in that direction; so that
you will have great difficulty in absolutely living the regenerate life.
The hours of your greatest danger of loBS will he when 2D i11 rising.
~rlut.ps also in 'fj ; but your planets are so placed that it is difficult
to point the signs during which you muRt be especially on guard. You '
have strong inclinations towaa-d the mystic, and, ua.less you cultivate
the spirit of devotion and a love of humanity. you are in danger of ·
running into magic, pure and simple : that is. in danger of seeking
power fur your own personal benefit, even to the detriment of others . .
Study to know what it really means to love God. You undoubtedly ·
feel that you undea·stand that, but youn is an ideal love. moa•e of the
reason than of the soul : therefore we ad ,·ise that yotf dig deep. and find
within you1'8elf the fountains of unselti11h and selfll&('rificing love for
God and humanity. 110 that your fidelity may bet•oaue unwavering.
Editor's Wife. May 9. 18ft). Germany.
, E9 in M ; ) in "L. You have a strong vital temperament, with a mind
fia·mly fixed on the fountlation of buKine88 p1·acticality. The mind i11 inclined
to be subtle. You aa·e a lover of knuwlrdge. and have the ability
to couunit to mPmory. and to retain what you learn: loving and devoted
as a wife. but the 11pit·it of jealou11y has beeu at~th·e frum birth. You are
inclined to be tleshy, and thert' aa·e liabilitie11 to di11ease of two kinds :
dr9psy and heart difficulty You should be tmfficiently abstemious in
your diet to keep the fle11h down to a comfortable working condition.
Wi1ile you have a sta·tmg inclination towaa·d the oct!ult or "Piritual•. ,
yet you will have great cliffitmlty in rising above a ta·u11ting in material
sublltance instead of in God. You migl_tt,like Peter. on the impulae of
the moment step out upon the \Vaters at the command of the Lord,
but, like him, when you tind what you have done, your faith would
leave you and you would immediately begin w sink. In order to
reach attainment" you need tht! "Woman' 11 Circular" that we have just
published. Study much upon the thought of what. a practical spiritual
life means. You. no doubt, know what a p~tical business life
means, but a practical spiritual life is itll exact antith&oia.
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