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66 THE TREE OF LIFE
greater power to quicken the growth of life, plants and all vegetation
than even the Sun itself. It has always been considered as the planet
of change, of generation and fertility. In The Secret Doctrine there
is a good deal of out-of-the-way information and speculation concerning
the occult relationship of the Moon to our planet, although
merely to know that such a relationship does exist is enough for
practical purposes on the part of the novice. The connection of the
Moon with the Astral Light however is quite valid, most authorities
on this point being in complete accord. Astrologically the Moon is
the planet symbolising change and flux and the continual alterations
of forms, the shifting of conditions. On the Astral Plane the trained
vision has recorded that forms change their shape, colour and size
there in the most extraordinary way ; and to the novice in Skrying
it is a most disconcerting and puzzling phenomenon to have one set of
perceptions fade away under one's very nose, to be replaced by another
shifting of scenes to which the same fate very soon after occurs.
It is a fluctuating kaleidoscope of phenomena ; the figures, forms
and energies being never for a moment quiescent. Hence to establish
a relationship between the Moon and the Astral Light is a perfectly
obvious correspondence. Moreover, it was observed that the Moon
did not shine by its own inward and self-generated light, but reflected
the radiance from the Sun. Yesod, the sphere of Luna, on the Tree
of Life is placed immediately under Tiplzaras, the sphere of the Sun,
thus reflecting - the creative forces from above. There are a number
of other highly significant reasons too numerous to mention here
accounting for this association of the Moon with the Astral Light,
although study and magical experience will prove the validity and
accuracy of the correspondence.
In the legends of every people, even the most primitive savage
tribes, there enters the conception of the Astral Light as the medium
of thought vibrations and of magical acts. Sir J. G. Frazer, the
eminent anthropologist and authority in folk-lore, records a number
of them in his Golden Bough. A number of others have also
discussed the nature of this hypothetical force recognized by
the primitives, without having approached to any clear formulation
of its nature as the great magical agent. This could hardly be
expected, inasmuch as their studies and researches never for an
instant leave the academic plane. The Melanesians of the South
Sea Isles believe, as Professor Bronislaw Malinowsky records in his
booklet on Myths, in a storehouse or a reservoir of supernatural or