Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

60 THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF AQUARIUS. [August
which is an old trick of the serpent (Dan shaH be a serpent
by the way, an adder in the path).
As in the Aquarius sphere of uRe, the production of mental
activity is its most important work, thus enabling the menta]
machinery to convert the currents of life into thought forms,
so in the Aquarius nature, more than in others, the coloring of
the mental action is regulated by the quality or degree of refinement
of the sympathetic RyRtem, or. in other wordR, by the
purity of the life currents; and, I believe, the people of this
sign are dependent in a peculiar manner upon sncC'.ess in the'
true regeneration, in all itR phases, for E>levatiun from the old
selfiRh principle of generation, the old Aerpent desire to draw
to one's self, the aire to formulate thnught in worsts a peculiar sen11e of tbi!l
deadening 'cluality. Thus Gemini, which is the expre!lser· of
mental activity, by reverRe aetion destroys sensation, the
motive power of those activities.
The mechanism of the Aqnariu!l function is so d~licate as to vihr·ate
to the most Rnhtle qnalitie11. arul it~ 11phcre of mental activ.
ity give~ it peculiar powet·s of tli'lt~t·iminatiou, thus m3king it the
best psychom('ter of the twelve Rigns.
The coloa· of the astral qualitie11 of the sign i!l a hlend-
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