TABLET THE FIRST
Aries
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REFLECTION
TABLET THE FIRST
The blush of dawn of a new life, all nature quivering with the
sense of coming, conscious life; Isis, vibrant with love of the coming
child, her bosom flushed in expectation of the little son soon to breathe
on her yearning breast.
In this we trace the great lesson of preparation, of sending the
light before the form, of the prophecy before the fulfillment. Dawn
must precede sunrise. What you expect will be your destiny.
It is the longing of centuries that incarnates a god, a real Sun-God,
whose vibrant love-life can thrill other lives into prayer—aspiration,
the struggle for eternal life. The dawn represents the expectant
maternity of Nature—God.
O child of Adam! See that thou expecteth much, and that thy aspirations
are
reflected in thy outward life.
TABLET THE SECOND
Taurus
REFLECTION
TABLET THE SECOND
Nature has shown forth her glory, as brought forth by young
Horus, but her creative force is still unreflected. The sea is black and
inky. The Son of God is born, but the sea of human life still remains
unconscious, in primeval darkness.
The angles of the Sun and the sea are not yet in right relation to
each other. A few, standing on the watch-towers of life, seeing the
red glow of the risen sun, call "Look!'' But the unfortunate ones in
the outer darkness cry, as they beat their breasts; "No! There is no
light! You do but dream!'' And yet the Sun of Life has risen—the
Divine light glows.
O child of Adam! Remember that "In Him was life, and life was the light
of
man, and the light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it
not.''
TABLET THE THIRD
Gemini
REFLECTION
TABLET THE THIRD
The Divine symbol of soul-matehood is here signified in the two
stars rising in the foreground; not only the soul-affinities of humanity,
but the eternal father-mother forces manifested in the biune spirit of
universal life and nature, the two great creative powers, Life and Light,
whose harmony creates love, attraction and repulsion, and the straight
lines of law and justice, which blend in the spiral of mercy.
The two stars are rising at an oblique angle to the pole-star, the
center around which, material things revolve. So, too, life and love
are balanced by the star of wisdom. Love in the spirit is adaption to
the environment in matter and providence in universal life. The eight
stars reveal the mystery of the tablet—universal death, present with
life, the final end of all discord glimmers faintly afar off, and man
questions the love of God, seeing that all things pass away, not realizing
that death is the germinal promise of life, of transformation, of the
realization of unrealized hopes, of the union of loving hearts in their
starry pilgrimage back to the Father's home.
O child of Adam! Listen unto the words of the Teacher: "I and the
Father
are one.'' Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such ii the Kingdom
of
Heaven.''
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