SPINAL GAS
ASTROLOGICALLY DISCERNED
In an endeavor to further prove the above assertions astrologically, the writer has compared the horoscopes of patients who have been in touch with the Healing Department at Headquarters. She found ten horoscopes of young men and women who were afflicted with epilepsy. Four of these patients were found with the Moon in conjunction with Neptune in the sign of Taurus. This sign has rule over the throat and also indirectly over the generative organs. Here again we find, as Max Heindel has said, that Neptune is the higher octave of Mercury and not of Venus as some astrologers claim, for this planet, which has rule over the pineal gland, also has rule over the brain and the spiritual faculties. Two patients out of these ten have Neptune square to the Moon, while one has Neptune in conjunction with Mars and another Neptune in opposition to Saturn. In all of these cases we found that they had formed the secret habit of sex abuse during childhood, which had wasted the vital fluids necessary in building the brain, and there was a mental deficiency bordering upon idiocy. If the doctors could have opened the brains of these patients to examine the glands, they would have found them diseased according to the planetary afflictions, which might have taken the form of atrophy, tumor, or in the case of the pineal gland, inflammation.
Astrologers in the past have made the claim that Uranus was the higher octave of Mercury, and had rule over the higher mental qualities, and that Neptune was the higher octave of Venus. At the same time they have admitted that an afflicted Uranus in the angles caused separations in marriage, and that a square or conjunction of Uranus and Venus in a woman’s horoscope would attract undue attention from the opposite sex, thereby endangering her morality. Uranus has always been associated with licentiousness and laxity in morals, and illicit love affairs, while Neptune has been connected with secret orders, deceptions, and frauds. The writer has wondered why these two higher spiritual planets were reversed by the astrologers when they represent opposite characteristics. Spiritual investigation shows the higher octaves to be as follows: Neptune, ruler of the pineal gland, is the higher octave of Mercury; Uranus, ruler of the pituitary body, is the higher octave of Venus.
The drunkard when under the influence of liquor has an over-stimulation of the pituitary body which causes reeling, hilarious conditions. This gland regulates the emotional nature and the circulation of the blood. Being ruled by Uranus, the higher octave of Venus, the ruler of music, the pituitary body is influenced by music and harmony which set it into vibration. The morphine or cocaine inebriate receives his stimulus through the pineal gland.
REJUVENATION
We have read much in the papers about rejuvenation through the grafting of animal glands into man to restore his youth. Should this be carried to any great extent, the next generation would be liable to have many degenerate children and the institutions would be filled with mental perverts. The animals from which these glands are taken, the goat and monkey, multiply very rapidly, and naturally there would be a degenerating effect upon the man who is foolish enough to permit this grafting to be done upon his body. Furthermore, this rejuvenation is for a short time only. If the man continues to live the life of the senses, he will soon dissipate this new energy, which will have to be replenished from time to time.
There is but one fountain of youth, one elixir of life, and that is our food and our thoughts. If we live a pure and simple life of unselfishness, eating lightly of vegetables and fruit, keeping close watch over our desires, then we need not sacrifice the life of the animal to replenish our wasted energy. Ponce de Leon sought the fountain of perpetual youth in far-off lands, while he had two tiny cups within his own brain which, if he had only paid the price of making an exchange of the worldly life of the senses for a spiritual life of purity, would have given him the elixir of life.