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URANUS AND NEPTUNE. 629
Monads and spiritual faculties. In order to avoid creating new misconceptions,
let it be stated that among the three Secret Orbs, or Star-
Angels, neither Uranus nor Neptune were included;
not only because
they were unknown under these names to the ancient Sages, but
because they, like all other planets, however many there may be, are
the Gods and Guardians of other septenary Chains of Globes within
our System.
Nor do the two great planets last discovered depend entirely on the
Sun, as do the rest of the planets.
Otherwise, how can we explain the
fact that Uranus receives s^th part of the light received by our Earth,
while Neptune receives only ^-^th part; and that their satellites show
a peculiarity of inverse rotation found in no other planets of the Solar
System At any rate, what we say applies to Uranus, though the fact
has again |een disputed recently.
This subject will, of course, be considered as a mere vagary, by all
those who confuse the universal order of Being with their own systems
of classification. Here, however, simple facts from Occult Teachings
are stated, to be either accepted or rejected, as the case may be. There
are details which, on account of their great metaphysical abstraction,
ca7inoihe entered upon. Hence, we merely state that only seven of
our planets are as intimately related to our Globe, as the Sun is to all
the bodies subject to him in his System. Of these bodies the poor little
number of primary and secondary planets known to Astronomy, k)oks
wretched enough, in truth.* Therefore, it stands to reason that there
are a great number of planets, small and large, that have not been
discovered yet, but of the existence of which ancient Astronomers—all
of them initiated Adepts—must certainly have been aware. But, as
the relation of these to the Gods was sacred, it had to remain arcane, as
did also the names of various other planets and stars.
Besides this, even the Roman Catholic Theolog\^ speaks of ''seventy
planets that preside over the destinies of the nations of this globe;"
and, save the erroneous application, there is more truth in this tradition
than in exact modern Astronomy. The seventy planets are connected
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When one remembers that under the powerful telescope of Sir William Herschell, that eminent
Astronomer—gauging merely that portion of heaven in the equatorial plane, the approximate centre
applying
of which is occupied by our Earth— saw in one quarter of an hour, 16,000 stars pass ;
and
this calculation to the totality of the "Milky Way" he found in it no less than eighteen millions of
Suns, one wonders no longer that Laplace, in conversation with Napoleon I, shouldihave called God a
hypothesis—-p^riecWy useless to speculate upon for exact Physical Science, at any rate. Occult Metaphysics
and transcendental Philosophy will alone be able to lift the smallest corner of the impenetrable
veil in this direction.