In order to link up chemically with the sign Aries, we must again repeat that it is, astrologically, the first of the three fire signs. Therefore it has to do with the first manifestation or appearance of life, Spirit confined within the physical vehicle, and especially in a particular part, its own house. Here it is possible for it to perform its own particular task.
Aries, then, is the house of God, or the Spirit in man. It houses or contains the brain, the organ of thought.
If the mind is able to function clearly it will throw light on every subject—it will illuminate and thus reveal all things to man. The only material which is so chemically constituted that it has the power to produce light or fire, is Kali phos, or potassium phosphate. It produces the highest rate of vibration of any of the twelve basic mineral elements of the body.
Here it must be explained why there are not sixteen considered. The four additional, which are oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon are not minerals. Their presence in the body depends entirely on the presence of the twelve minerals. For instance, we do not consider oxygen, for its presence in the body depends entirely on the Ferrum or iron content of the blood. This wonderful magnetic salt is the chemical attractor of oxygen and is its only means of entering the body. It is equally true that the quantity of oxygen one is able to inspire depends wholly on the amount of iron in the blood stream. Therefore, it is unnecessary to consider this gas as a constituent of the body, for it will take care of itself when the blood is supplied with iron.
Let us return, then, to our consideration of this most wonderful material, Kali phos. It is the mater-ial or mother (mater is Latin for mother) of light, for it contacts and links up with the invisible fire in Nature, and actually harnesses it within the human body. As it produces a higher rate of vibration than any other salt, it is proof that the physical body can respond with safety to no higher rate.
Therefore, if the body is subjected to the vibrations of radium or those of X-ray, the cells of the body receiving them will be burned. As it has been stated by physicians that this ray will kill living cancer cells it is absolutely true that it will also destroy healthy cells by burning. It is well known that scientists who spend their lives experimenting with both radium and X-rays are very low in vitality and, in many instances, suffer from cancer. Their own cells have been burned, and putrify after burning.
Potassium must be used as a healing agent instead, in all three of its forms or combinations, namely, Kali phos, Kali mur, and Kali sulph, together with its opposite pole salt, Ferrum or iron. Thus there will be plenty of oxygen for the fire of purification to consume.
In the study of practical chemistry, we find that when some of this potassium salt is thrown on water, it instantly generates such a powerful electrical current that the hydrogen is separated from the oxygen, takes fire and burns with its characteristic violet flame in the released oxygen. Thus the two gases hydrogen and oxygen disappear. They have returned into the invisible, having been chemically released. If the imagination is active, it is easy to picture in the mind’s eye (the optic thalamus) the inverse operation, the process whereby the Great Chemist and Architect of the Universe invisibly unites or forges the two gases, oxygen and hydrogen, and precipitates them in the form of water. The unification is done by electricity, the hidden fire.
Greek mythology tells us of the mighty Vulcan who forges the thunderbolts. Indeed, that literature is a compilation of scientific facts relative to nature and man, transmitted to us in beautiful and poetic language. The Bible contains the same facts but in noble and stately prose. Truly there is only one story of importance, the story of the process whereby humanity may ascend from the depths to the heights—perfection.
Potassium is a soft, brilliant, bluish-white metal melting at sixty-two and five-tenths degrees to a liquid resembling mercury. In astrology Mercury is “the Messenger of the Gods” or ruling powers. Therefore we see how applicable the comparison is, for potassium is truly the food by which the gods, or gray matter, are nourished.
The sensory nerves are the wires connected with the great generator of electrical energy, the cerebrum, the house of God or Aries. These ramify throughout the entire body, supplying electricity whereby all of its work is done.
It is important to remember, that not only does this electrical system run the body, but it is actually the subtle substance with which thinking is done. For electricity is both energy and substance, although unseen by our eyes, which are incapable of responding to this high rate of vibration as yet.
As potassium is a carrier of fire, perhaps it will be well to explain, at this point, what this research work has revealed relative to carbon-monoxide poison. Since the advent of the automobile a new cause of death has been added to the many already tabulated, and the newspapers frequently state that so-and-so was found dead in his car, the motor running and the garage doors closed, thus shutting out the purifying oxygen. As chemistry states, potassium has a tendency to unite directly with carbon-monoxide to produce a dangerously explosive body. It is my belief therefore that the sensory cells of the brain expand violently and thus burst, causing death.
The spectrum of potassium is characterized by two sharply defined lines, one in the red and the other in violet. The wave length of the former is 0.0007680, and that of the latter 0.0004095. As red-violet or true magenta is the color of Aries, the above is conclusive proof that the potassium of Aries and the iron of Pisces forge together the closing links in the zodiacal circle of life. (See article on allocation of color with the zodiac elsewhere in this book).
In Sir Thomas Vaughan’s works (sixteenth century) translated by A. E. Waite, the earnest student will find a mine of mineral wealth. He says: “Within this fantastic circle (the head) stands a Lamp, and it typifies the Light of Nature. This is the Secret Candle of God, which He hath tinned in the elements: it burns and is not seen, for it shines in a dark place. Every natural body is a kind of black lantern; it carries this Candle within it, but the light appears not; it is eclipsed with the grossness of matter. The effects of this light are apparent in all things; but the Light itself is denied, or else not followed. This Light or Fire is nowhere to be found in such abundance and purity as in that subject which the Arabians call Halicali, from Hali (Summum) and Calop (Bonum); but the Latin authors write it Sal Alkali.
“This substance is the catholic (universal) receptacle of Spirits. It is blessed and impregnated with light from above, and was therefore styled by the magicians ‘a sealed house, full of light and divinity.’”
In Arabic, potassium is given as Al-gali, from which the word alkali is derived. Studying the word, al-kali we find it means, literally, Father (al or el in Hebrew means God or father) and Kali, a Sanskrit word for fire. In the Vedic, an older form of the word means mother. Thus the true interpretation of alkali is father-mother, or positive and negative combined or harmonized, therefore a neutral substance. Indeed it is a chemical fact that it is alkaline.
Vaughan refers to the above as “mineral doctrine,” which is very unique and absolutely true. We will be well on our way in the study of the chemistry of the body when we begin to realize that this is, indeed, a most necessary doctrine and must be religiously followed.
Again Vaughan says: “For in Genesis he hath discovered many particulars, and especially those secrets which have most relation to this Art. For instance, he hath discovered the minera of man, or that substance out of which man and all of his fellow-creatures were made.” He elsewhere mentions the sperm of the world, as the first essence, which allocates perfectly with the first explanation herein of the brain substance, from the word cere-brum, or seed substance. Sperm means seed. Hali-Cali (potassium) is also termed “the casket which holds the Light, and links us up with God and Nature.”
Sufficient proof has been given thus far, in these pages, that potassium is a most subtle substance of very high vibration, capable of holding within itself the fire of life, electricity, prana, or Spirit. Reviewing the information relative to the astrological interpretation of Aries and its definite relation to the cerebro-spinal system, we see that Dr. Carey’s allocation of Kali phos to the zodiacal sign Aries has