Hieroglyph of Transfixion.

(The Cross ("Crucifixion") salient out of the "Crescent" (New) Moon.

Man (Saviour), born of Woman).

CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SECOND.

ASTRO-THEOSOPHICAL (EXTRA-NATURAL) SYSTEM OF THE ROSICRUCIANS-THE ALCHEMIC

MAGISTERIUM OR "STONE."

HE letters of all languages are significant marks or symbols, which have the "Twelve," or rather the original "Ten, Signs" of the "Zodiac" for their

beginning. Of these letters there is a certain group which has, in the characters of all languages, a secret hieroglyphical, hagiographical reference to the originally single, and afterwards double, sign, "Virgo-Scorpio," which is supposed to give the key to the secret or cabalistic "Story of Creation." These letters are S and Z, L and M; or rather a group, which is marked by ▲, п, м, 2, S, Z—L, M, V, W. The significant aspirates, or "vowel-sounds," follow the same rule. The "Snake-like Glyph," or "mystery of the Serpent," or disguise, in which the "Recusant Principle" is supposed to have invested himself, has coiled (so to say), and projects significant curves and inflections, through all this group of letters and sounds; which is perceivable, by a close examination and quick ear, in all languages, living and dead. The sigma presents itself to the eye (that recognises) in the Hebrew, the Sanscrit, the Persian, the Arabic, the Coptic, the old Gothic, the Georgian

or Iberian, the Ancient Armenian, the Ethiopic or Gheez, the Sclavonic, the Greek, the Latin, the Samaritan, the Irish, the Etruscan,-of all which alphabets, and the symbols serving for their "numerals," we had prepared a comparative table, to prove the identity of the sign "VirgoScorpio" and its ciphers; but we forbore in deference to our limits (and from other circumstances) which did not advisedly admit of the addition.

A comparative display of all marks or symbols which give occult expression to the "female side of nature," and its astronomical and astrological signs, affords the same result of identity. The marks of the "signs" m and m, and their ciphers, are interchangeable, and reflect intimately from one to the other. It must be remembered that the sign "Libra "our modern September-the "hinge-point" or "balance-centre" of the two wings of the celestial Zodiac —was an addition by the Greeks. Here, according to the Sabæan astrological tradition, the origin of "Good and Evil," of the malific and the benevolent "cabalistic investments of nature," the beginning of this "two-sexed," intelligent sublunary world, were to be found-all contained in the profoundest mysteries of this double sign.

The cabalistic theory, and the Chaldæan reading is, that the problems of the production of the sensible world are not to be read naturally, but supernaturally. It was held that man's interior natural law is contained in God's exterior magical law. It followed from this that present nature is secondary nature that man is living in the "ruins" of the angelic world, and that man himself is a "ruin." Man fell into the degradation of “nature as the result of the seduction by the woman (to sexual sin), which produced the "generations" according to Man's ideas. The strange theories as to the history of the first world prevalent among the Cabalists imply that the appearance of "woman" upon the scene was an "obtrusion," in the sense of a thing unintended.* Thus her advent upon the scheme of creationto use one of their mysterious expressions—was at a late * Even accidental and unexpected in a certain (non-natural) sense.

THE CELESTIAL "ÆGIS."

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spoiled and evil period of the world, which had sunk from the "supernatural" into the "natural." As woman had no part in the earliest world, and as her origin was altogether of another nature and from other sources than that of man, the traces of her introduction, and the hints as to her true character, are to be found mystically in the original sign, "Virgo-Scorpio," double-sided (yet identical) at first, but afterwards divided. These divided "personalities" were set thereafter in mythologic opposition. The reader is referred to the Zodiac on p. 62, fig. 12, where will be found the diagram illustrative of this idea, which was originated amidst the magic of the Syro-Chaldæans; it yet remains the key to all the mythologies and to all the religions.

The sign "Virgo-Scorpio" stands in the present order of things, or in this non-angelic or mortal world, as a divided sign, because in the "World of Man". - as "born of Woman"-enmity has been placed between the "Snake" and the "Woman." Thenceforth, from the "Fall," and as a consequence of it, they are in opposition. The sign of the "Balances" is placed between, as the rescuing heavenly shield, miraculously interposed, separating, as the tremendous "Ægis," the two originally conjoint signs, and simultaneously presented "both ways" (to speak in figure), defending "each from destruction by either"-"until the time shall be complete!"-which means the Apocalyptic "New Heaven and New Earth."

Marks, movements, or influence from the side of "Scorpio," or from the sinister side, are malign, and mean danger; because they represent the "Old Serpent," or, in other terms, the "Great Deep," or "Matter." Of such magic character are the letters "S" and "Z," and all their compounds; because this originally "single" sound, or letter "S-Z, Z-S," came into the world representing its sinful side. Man is pardoned through the "Promise to the Woman," and "Woman" is saved because through her the "Saviour of the World," or the "Rescuer of the World," or the "Deified Man," or the "Sacrifice came into the world. Woman has the intermediate office of reconciling and con

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ASTRO-THEOSOPHIC CHART (No. 1.)

WESTERN OR ROMAN RITE.

Dominion of the Moon in Man's Body,
as she passes through the Twelve
Zodiacal Signs.

Latin Rite, in the Feet; One Nail in the Greek Rite.

PROCESSION OF THE "LOGOS," OR "WORD," ACCORDING TO THE GNOSTICS.

"MYSTERIUM."

ASTRO-THEOSOPHIC CHART.

(West.)

Robertus de Fluctibus (Robert Flood, or Fludd), Rosicrucian.

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