The middle decan of Aries, allocating with the optic thalami, is the place of the sagittal or All-Seeing Eye, the seat of knowledge where we interpret all that we see, hear, smell, taste and touch. So the last decan of Taurus is also concerned with the senses, and especially with eyesight. As the nerves from the head contact or cross at the base of the brain, a chart will often indicate trouble with sight. The reason for this is that there is interference with circulation, and the special nerves having to do with this function are unable to carry nutritive blood to the center in sufficient quantity, or to bring away the waste products. As a result we often find cataracts forming on the eyes. The middle decan of Aries is, therefore, the positive pole pertaining to the vision, and the last decan of Taurus is the negative end.
Referring to our interpretation of the sign with which we are dealing, we must again note that it means to move. After the outpouring of Divine Fire at the Spring equinox and until April 21st, action begins. Nature starts to manifest visibly or bring forth objectively. Here again we check accurately with the anatomy and physiology of the cerebellum, for it is the motor brain, the mechanical brain. It does things. It receives the electricity which Aries, the cerebrum, generates. For cosmic electricity—Spirit—starts the motor, and the medulla oblongata relays it so that it may start on its long journey down into Egypt (the torso, or place of darkness). The energy thus sent is received by the solar plexus, consisting of twelve large nerve ganglia, which, in turn, broadcasts it to the organs. If the solar plexus is weak because chemically deficient, it is not only unable to receive sufficient of this great influx, but is also unable to supply the organs. It can not give what it does not possess. Then, again, the trouble may originate in the cerebellum itself and that organ may be unable both to receive and dispense energy. Stop and consider, please, all of the allocations that we have thus far synthesized: the meaning of the period which constitutes Taurus (May—the doing, or moving month) and the cerebellum (the motor, the brain which acts).
Here we must dwell, for a time, on the chaotic condition in which we find humanity today. We find everything perverted—religion, science, law, medicine, sex, finance, amusements. Nothing has escaped, with the exception of mathematics. We are indeed fortunate that two and two still make four, and that no one contradicts.
It is a self-evident fact that, if all the parts of a machine are in perfect order, properly co-ordinated and contacting power, it will work perfectly. The human mechanism is subject to the same law. If a motor stops and starts, the result is spasmodic action, not action which is harmonious. Thus, spasmodic thought results in inharmonious acts, and to the degree in which it thus manifests chaos results.
With both cerebrum and cerebellum extremely deficient chemically, is it then any wonder that human thought and action are unsettled, inharmonious and spasmodic? It can not be otherwise. This is the solution, then, for it explains why wars exist, why there is no agreement, no harmony among nations, and why social, civic, religious and racial inharmony is rampant.
The spirit or God confined in an unhealthy, deficient brain, poisoned with the waste products of gluttony and wrong living, is utterly unable to produce harmonious thought. The lower brain in an equally imperfect condition can not give birth to a vibration or current of energy that is as constructive as is necessary. For the most part the energy generated is used in a negative or destructive way. Thoughts are imperfect and spasmodic, and the acts which follow are equally so.
The Gold of Ophir mentioned in the Scriptures is the manna or dew referred to in Aries, and is the first substance with which Spirit (the Erotes of Life) links up, uniting the elements and bringing order out of chaos. The word Ophir means in Hebrew a fruitful region. In Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1915, Appleton) we find that Baron von Wrede made a small vocabulary of Himyaritic words in the vernacular tongue, and among these he gives ofir as red. As this color is associated with Aries, energy and fire, it allocates perfectly.
In addition we have, on leaving off the letter O, fir, which is the fir or evergreen tree which from time immemorial has been used as a symbol of the Tree of Life.
As the word pine is also used interchangeably, we find that the pine cone has been employed as a symbol of the pineal gland in the head, and indeed the word itself literally means pine god. The evergreen is a symbol of the renewal and hence continuity of life. Likewise this wonderful and so-called mysterious gland in the head is the creator and renewer of life. A1 and el in Hebrew mean God. Fine gold is refined gold and there are many references in the Scriptures to the Gold of Ophir being of this nature. The cerebrum is truly a mine, a cave, in which is cloistered that most precious of all substances which has always been likened to gold.
In this Garden of Eden, coiled around the trunk of the pine tree or Tree of Life we find the serpent, which is symbolical of energy, the head issuing forth from the midst of its branches. In many very ancient illustrations we find that the serpent has three heads, the middle being more elevated.
This is in keeping with the physiological correspondence, for those on either side stand for the right and left sympathetic systems which constitute the two thieves of the Scriptures. Here the Gold of Ophir changes, takes on a different vibration and becomes silver. The Spiritual Man is represented by gold, the feminine counterpart by silver, while the Adam man is copper. Both gold and silver are said to be noble metals, because not easily oxidized. Gold is the fire of life, while silver is the water of life. The adi nerve is associated with the pituitary body or gland in the head, while the pengala connects with the pineal gland. The Sun rules the pineal and the Moon the pituitary. These constitute the male and female which God joined together in the Garden of Eden, otherwise Aries, the cerebrum.
The nerve-fluid from these two glands meets and crosses at the point or place in the head where Taurus begins. It is Golgotha—Place of the Skull. This is the cross on which animal nature brings suffering. We must refer to the sign opposite Taurus, its complement, that of Scorpio, as it is here that we find much of the animal energy of Taurus expressed. There is a curious reference in the Bible to Scorpio which ecclesiastics do not seem to deal with: “In Sodom and Egypt where our Lord was also crucified.”
Not only do these nerves cross at the base of the brain but at the second lumbar vertebra also, for the fire and water of life go downward into Scorpio and are literally thrown away. This causes the real man, the Spirit, to be crucified, defrauded by the animal nature of material with which to express divinity.
But when the fire and water of life are not used prodigally,—when Adam no longer sacrifices his own son (substance) but offers up the animal instead, these divine fluids, gold and silver, the noble metals (because high born) return to their source. They ascend by going over the cross from Taurus into Aries, when the father and son, the creator and the product of that creation, again merge or blend into one another.
The right and left sympathetic systems are thieves, for until the emotions become controlled through the proper supply of the necessary chemical elements, the real function of this part of the body is unable to manifest. The real function is motion and not e-motion. The e-motional life robs the body of nerve energy and of the highly specialized nerve or soul fluid. Summing up this statement and referring to our zodiacal sign which deals with emotion—Leo—it is made plain that the conservation of nerve energy and of soul fluid recreates that body which initiates it.
We must understand, then, that the story which Taurus gives us is relative to motion, work, doing. Therefore in order that such may result, it is self-evident that there is in Nature a certain substance that creates motion (which is energy manifesting). Natrium or sodium is said to be a reducing agent. In other words it steps down chemical action and lowers the rate of vibration. It has the power to decompose water. In the form of Natrium sulph or sulphate of sodium, the addition of the sulphur causes a little different action.
Sulphur has been known from the remotest times. It forms an essential part of human