Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

l896.] THE ~ATURF. AJI:D FUNCTION OF AQUARIUS. 5!)
who shows more pleasure in listening to it. This instance is
simply an example of the nse of sensation as it exists in the
higher order, a glimpse of Dan's sphere of use in the day of
his "salvation."
But, in the fun1•tion of sensation, we meet the law of progression,
as we do in all nature. It!! 1levelopment is proportionate tu
the sphere of ment:ll activity which it set·ves. In the lowest
forms of animate life, we finrl a mere suggestion of it; and, as
we ascend the scale. an m·ganism becomes more sensitive as its
needs demand a greater manifestation of mentality, whether, as
iu the animal king,Jmn, its mentality he merely the creative
thought which gni1les it as a speeit>s, giving it the instincts of
!lelf-pt·eset·vation and the l'unning with which to seek its pt·ey.
or, a!l in man, it becoHJe!l inclividualized and creative.
As sensation st>rves it!l uses in the human family, it becomes
intensified as the mentality recedes ft·om the control of the animal
nature :mel appi'Oacht>s the wm·ld in which the law of min,{
rnle:>s supreme. As it ministers to the mental needs of the anilllal
man, it is CI'IHie and pro)lortionately ohtnse. It is said that
a Ren!liti ve person would shrink hom even witnessing the amust>meuts
of the criminals as thc>y associate in the common ward.
Theit· ing-enuity taxes itself to invent games in which physical
pai 11, to themselves and others, is the pivotal idea. Thus, a." we
trace the course of sensation, or the pm·tion of Dan, as it appear!~
in the human family still living in the genet·ation, we find it in
va1·iecl c~t>gt·ee:>R of nnfohlment. hom its lowest manife11tation, 8!<
in the daRses just refeJTed to, nnt.il it passes into the !lervice of
the intt>llet!t which has mlt>tl the wol'lcl.
In an examination of the dates of hit·th of those who haw•
lwi,J a ptwe in the foremost ranks of literature. S!•.ience, p(,)j .
til't-~,-whatevet· has intet·este1l the puhli1l mind,-we find a
large maj ..•·ity of them wet·e horn in the Mign Aquarius. Their
life power!~ wtore ehat·ac•tfwized hy thiM function, an1l, conselJUently.
they h:we jJnSsessed pi'O)ICll'tionatel y !1upe1·ior power"
of mental activity-but always on the plane upon which tlw
seusational system i!l fontHl. ThuR they have dominated their
fellows by mt>ntal force; and. heing still under the contt·ol of
the serpent, or psychi,•, principle of drawing to one's self, they
ha\'e selfiKhly used this power, not even disdaining, in theil·
c!outJ·ol of the eleetl'ie fit·,•s of life, to send those magnetic currents
from ti1e toye. in md,.,. to 1lraw their prey to themselves.
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