TABLET THE FIFTH
Leo
REFLECTION
TABLET THE FIFTH
Here we have the symbol of the incarnate fire of the spirit defying
the mere natural fire of the heavens. The woman sleeps and broods and
dreams, but the man she has brought forth is awake, and bids defiance
to the fiery forces of Nature. He has armed himself with the keen
knife of action, and with it has conquered the forces of matter. He
has harnessed the lightning, and made the electric fluid his obedient
slave. And thus has he mastered all forces inferior to spirit—that spirit
of conscious life which is his birthright.
The lesson to be gleaned from this is that, the kingdom of Nature
must be taken by storm. Not for rest, but for work, has Mother Nature
sent forth her man child; not for peace, but for battle; not for inertia,
but for effort.
O child of Adam! Arm yourself with the sword—mayhap the sword of
affliction
—and, gallantly raising the strong right ann aloft, hurl defiance at the
chaos of
Nature, sure that the fire from the Sun of the spirit is burning in every vein
of
that arm.
