Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

1896.] EDITORIAl.. 95
time. The rising signs have a duration of from lb. 13m. to
2h. 35m.: and there is also a variation nf time in tl1e duration
of the different signs in the yearly zodiac. So that, it matter11
not who the authority for the above Ktatenwnt may be, it is ohviously
unreasonable and untrue.
On the other hand, we havp frnm Bihle histo•·y that the
ancient PatriarchR were so Rensiti ve aR to he able to meet and
talk with the angelR of the Lm·cl: ann that even Balaam, who
taught Balak to caRt a Rtnmhling block befme the children of
hrael, waR a hlP to ret~ei ve tme prophPcies eoncerning lRrael's
future. We know that one who is thus senRiti ve is alRo ahle
to senRe the qualitieR of eadt of the RigoR, and can diRtingnish
the exact moment at whit~h theRe signs d1ange,-the riRing
RignR. the moon'R KignK. a111l the signR of the yt~a•·ly zrnliac.
Tht> fact that the names nf the Ki~nR indicate their inherent
eha•·acteJ~iKtinR and also theiJ· alliance to the different organs
of the hotly, i>~ in itself a Rtdficient p1·oof that their was no
Rnperfidal method of detemlining thH dm·ation of the different
Rigns nf the Zt)Cliac.
It may he of intet"PRt to Rome of om· f•·ieml11 t.o know that the
Ft•aternity has a pipe mgan. One of om· memhPrs is R. pro.
fPsllional