Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

62 TnE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF AQUARIUS. (August
of vibrating to the mystic currents whicl1 come to us from this
planet, so etherealized, so far removed from the coarser atmospheres
of her sister worlds, that even her revolutionary motion
is reversed. To Aquarius seems given the task of receiving
these spiritualized qualitit'S, which, as they pass along the intricate
network of that Rystem (the sympathetic), manifest
themselves in heavenly music, to the rhythm of whose strains
they are transmitted to a bmin !!() illuminated by the divine
fires as to be able to give them thought fllrm .
Truth is always the same, whether we find it in heathen
mythology or in the sacred symbolism which appeat·s in the
dealings of the Uod of Israel with his chilch·en. The Aquarius
nature, as it is found in the new ot·det· and in the old, is so widely
diRtinct, that, in the ancient myth, it is rept·esented by two
perRon!'l. Hebe, who was the dispenser of the .livine elixirs, the
neetar of life (the Aquarius functilln ), pos~e,.se1l the bloom
and freshness of the youth of pure nature; but she was supplanted
in her office by Ganymedes, whose god-like beauty was
characterized by immortal youth.
As Dan passes into his divine inheritan•~e. his hand-mai,l
Music will also pass into the sphere of use fnt· which the Creator
intended het·. :\lnsic is the language .,f sensation. It repro