The Message of the Stars[15]
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CHAPTER XV
PLANETARY OCTAVES
Before considering the effect of Uranus and Neptune in the various signs
and houses it may be expedient and illuminating to study their relations to
Venus and Mercury which are their lower octaves. That such a relationship
exists has been sensed by various astrological authors who by speculation
and observation have learned a great deal about these two planets. What
they have brought out does great credit to their sagacity, but not having
had the benefit of esoteric training it is not to be wondered at that they
have become confused on certain points which we shall now explain so that
students of the esoteric philosophy may see how these explanations dovetail
into the general philosophy of the Western Wisdom School, and thus bear out
the statement that Uranus is the higher octave of Venus and Neptune the
higher octave of Mercury.
The Western Wisdom teaching of the Rosicrucian states that
man-in-the-making was plant-like and bi-sexual during the Hyperborean Epoch
and thus able to create from himself without the necessity of co-operation
with anyone else. But at that time he was without a brain and unable to
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think, therefore in the Lemurian Epoch the angels directed one-half of the
sex force upward to the part which is now the head and used it for the for-
mation of the brain and larynx. The process is plainly traceable in the
antenatal development of the foetus which accounts for the intimate relation
between the sex organs, the larynx and the brain, observable in the change
of voice which takes place when the boy reaches puberty and the mental dis-
ability which follows the unrestrained abuse of the generative function.
Thus it may be said that the sex function whereby new bodies are created in
the physical world, and become our physical children, is closely connected
with the brain and larynx which man uses to conceive the children of his
brain and mind and give them vocal expression by the larynx. It is a matter
of common knowledge to astrologers that man is incited to perform the gen-
erative function of the begetting of physical children by the love-ray of
Venus; likewise that the ray of reason emanating from Mercury is responsible
for the begetting of the children of mind and their vocal expression by the
larynx, so that both Mercury and Venus are creative in their functions, one
upon the physical plane, the other upon the mental plane.
Mercury is usually associated with reason and intelligence; to him is as-
cribed rule over the cerebrospinal nervous system, which is the medium of
transmission between the embodied spirit and the world without. Thus as
Neptune signifies the sub- and superhuman intelligence who live and move in
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the spiritual realms of the universe, but who work with and upon us, so Mer-
cury indicates the human intelligence focused upon the terrestrial, physical
world wherein we live from birth to death. Therefore it may be said that
Neptune is the octave of Mercury, but there is a deeper sense.
Reference to a textbook of anatomy of physiology will show that length-
wise fissures in the spinal cord divide it into three parts which enclose a
hollow tube. Each of these columns is ruled by one of the Hierarchies in
closest touch with us; the lunar, martial and mercurial; one of the other
predominating, according to the stage of evolution of the individual. In
the spinal canal the rays of Neptune kindle the spinal spirit fire whereby
the human spirit is enabled to pierce the veil of flesh and contact the
worlds beyond; this vision is colored according to the column of the cord
most actively excited. In the childhood days of mankind the creative force
which is now turned outwards to build ships, houses, and railways, tele-
phones, etc., was used inwardly to build the organs of our body, and as the
surrounding physical world is photographed upon the table of a camera
obscura, so the spiritual world was reflected in the spinal canal. There
man behold the first lunar God Jehovah, whose Angels were his first tutors.
Later a part of Angels, who under the leadership of LUCIFER had rebelled
against Jehovah and who are now exiled on the planet Mars forced entrance to
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the spinal cord of man and incited him to abuse of the generative function.
The spiritual inner vision of mankind faded when "their eyes were opened and
they saw they were naked;" then they lost touch with the higher self, they
saw only the person, and the docile creature of Jehovah was soon transformed
to a savage and a brute under the impulses of the Lucifer Spirits, the hier-
archy of Mars but by their promptings man has also learned to conquer mate-
rial obstacles, build outwardly and become architect of the world.
To counteract the unmitigated selfishness bred by the Martian Angels, and
to make mankind humane our Elder Brothers from Mercury, human like our-
selves, whose high state of evolution required the high vibration generated
and prevailing in close proximity to the Sun, were required to invest the
spinal cord of man also, and through their labors civilization has taken on
a different form, mankind is again beginning to look inwards.
At the present time the right cerebral hemisphere is governed by Mercury,
and the pineal gland, its higher octave, is ruled by Neptune who also has
dominion over the spinal canal which is the avenue whereby one pole of the
creative energy was originally turned upward for the building of the brain.
The ray of Neptune carries what occultist know as the Father fire, the
light and life of the Divine Spirit, which expresses itself as will. This
it focuses in the voluntary nervous system of the physical body governed by
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by its lower octave Mercury which acting through the right brain galvanizes
the body into speech and action, expressing the will of the indwelling
spirit.
By this diversion of the creative energy the human being ceased, as al-
ready said, to be a physical hermaphrodite, a complete creative unit, and
was them compelled to seek a mate in order to propagate the species,
Therefore the Son, the Cosmic Christ, focused the love-ray of the Life
Spirit upon Uranus, (ruling the pituitary body), who transmits it to the vi-
tal body where Venus, the lower octave of Uranus gives it expression in
propagation and growth.
Between the Divine Spirit and Life Spirit on the one hand and their coun-
terparts, the physical and vital bodies, on the other hand, is the Human
Spirit ruled by the Sun, and its counterpart, the desire body, ruled by the
lesser light, the Moon. But this is debatable ground contested by Jupiter
and Mercury on the one side, Saturn and Mars being on the other.
The ray of Uranus is gradually forging a SECOND SPINAL CORD by drawing
the lower love-ray of Venus upward and transmuting it to altruism, conquer-
ing for it the dominion over the sympathetic segment of the present spinal
cord and THE LEFT CEREBRAL HEMISPHERE now ruled by the passionate hierarchy
of Mars, the Lucifer Spirits. This work has been completely accomplished by
the Adepts, therefore they have no need to marry for each is now a complete
creative unit on both the spiritual and physical planes, having turned the
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bi-polar creative force, masculine and feminine, upward through the double
spinal cord, illuminated and raised in potential energy by the spinal spirit
fires of Neptune (Will) and Uranus (Love and Imagination). This creative
energy conceives in the twin hemispheres of the cerebrum, ruled by Mars and
Mercury, a vehicle fit for the expression of the spirit, which is then sent
out and objectified in the world BY THE SPOKEN CREATIVE WORD.
This is the secret of how the Adepts form a new body without going
through the womb, and some day all humanity will attain to this standard of
perfection as SPIRITUAL HERMAPHRODITES; then we shall no longer be "a little
lower than the angels" who create by similar methods but we shall be higher
than they are now for we shall have the reason and intellect which they
lack, in addition to the complete creative power.