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The only important theory that has ever been advanced to explain the properties of electricity is that of Faraday; which theory is that the region surrounding charged bodies is traversed by lines of force, the ends of which are rigidly attached to bodies charged with electricity of opposite polarities.

Lodge regards the electron as a point charge of disembodied electricity and nothing else, the vibrating corpuscle being a constituent of the atom but itself possessing no material nucleus. He is responsible for the theory that all matter is electrical in nature and there are now no physical scientists who doubt the truth of the constitution of matter in accordance with this theory.

The earth is a huge magnet electrified by the sun and the impulse, sensations, and varied states of consciousness of every living thing depends upon the vibrations which are constantly being received from the planets. The planets too are huge magnets but of varying sizes and of different constitutions, each of which is likewise electrified by the sun.

If a copper wire be bound spirally around a bar of soft iron and an electric current passed through the wire, the bar of iron will, for the time being, be converted into a magnet. If the bar with its spirally wound wire be balanced on a point or hung horizontally on a thread so that it can swing around, it will point north and south like a permanent magnet or a magnet needle.

An empty spiral of wire, one with no bar passing through it, will behave in exactly the same way if an electric current is sent along the wire and it is balanced so that it can swing. It will point north and south as long as the current passes and the end that points south will be the one at which the current is traveling around the spiral in the same direction as the hands of a watch.

In magnetism, like poles repel each other and unlike poles attract. The north pole of a magnet will repel the north pole of a magnetic needle, but will attract the south pole of the needle.

Because the needle is a permanent magnet, the obvious inference from the fact of its pointing north and south is that the magnetism at the north pole of the earth must be similar in its nature and in the direction of its electric currents to that at the south-pointing end of the needle or of a bar magnet.

Magnetic attraction implies opposites; therefore the magnetism at the north pole of the earth must be opposite in nature to that of the north-pointing end of the magnet. In fact, the earth behaves as if a great bar magnet were thrust through its axis; the south pole of the magnet being at the north pole of the earth.

It follows from this that electric currents are traveling spirally around the earth from pole to pole. If we could look down upon the north pole of the earth and could see these currents, they would appear to move in the same direction as the hands of a watch; that is to say, they would behave just as do the sun, moon, and planets—rise in the east, pass across the meridian, and set in the west.

All electrical energy has its source in the Sun, which is the center of all life, force, and energy, and represents the positive and primal fount of all existence. In the sun are contained all the colors of the solar spectrum. Every form of existence manifesting in the solar system is bathed in these rays from which is drawn the life that is at the center of its existence.

The Moon represents the negative influence, her light being that which is borrowed from the Sun, she having no light of her own except that which she collects as a reflector.

We may think of the Sun as the symbol of the spirit and the Moon of matter, the two acting in unison as spirit matter, or life and form.

The planets nearest the Sun are most active in motion. Making their revolutions around the Sun in the shortest length of time, they travel through space at the greatest rate of speed. As we recede from the Sun toward the orbit of Neptune, this activity of the planets becomes gradually less. Thus Mercury travels through space at the rate of 29.3 miles per second and accomplishes a revolution around the Sun in about eighty-seven days; while Neptune, the farthest removed of the planets, has a velocity of about three and one-half miles a second and requires about 165 years to make a revolution around the Sun. Our Earth travels at the rate of nineteen miles a second or seventy-five times faster than a cannon ball.

Mercury is about 3000 miles in diameter or approximately three-eights the diameter of the Earth. Its mean distance from the Sun is 35,393,000 miles. Its orbit is the most elliptical of all the planets, sometimes approaching within 28,153,000 miles of the Sun and at other times removed 42,669,000 miles.

It is by nature convertible, being affected by the planet with which it is in conjunction. When apart from any other influence, Mercury is a changeable, cold, dry, and "mercurial" planet.

Those who are born under its influence are extremely sensitive to the rise and fall in atmospheric pressure. The body is easily affected by environment, and is therefore liable to feelings of comfort and discomfort according to circumstances. Physically, Mercury governs the brain, nerves, bowels, arms and hands, mouth, tongue, and lungs. The temperament is excitable, very quick and active, rather changeable, and sometimes highly nervous.

Mercury has been termed "the Messenger of the Gods" and he seems to have the special office of being the messenger of every other planet to the Sun. He is the great mental ruler, for without Mercury's influence we should be devoid of memory and probably of speech, and also all other power of expression.

Mercury is therefore the great actor in life's drama.

The orbit of Venus, like that of Mercury, lies within the orbit of the Earth; and, like Mercury, she is sometimes an evening and sometimes a morning star. Her orbit is larger than that of Mercury, but it never recedes more than 48 degrees from the Sun.

Venus accomplishes one sidereal revolution in about 225 days. The diameter of Venus is 7,510 miles; its distance from the Sun is 66,586,000 miles.

Venus is the most beautiful planet in the solar system. Her influence is for pleasure, cheerfulness and affection.

Venus is decidedly a feminine planet, presiding over all affairs which concern females, and the clinging preserving, nourishing and sustaining element; therefore she has the greatest influence in feminine affairs. She brings out all of the artistic, idealistic, and musical faculties. She presides over the higher emotions and refined desires, as well as over the sensuous feelings. Sentiment and pleasurable desires govern the Venus nature, and wherever mirth, pleasure and joy are found the vibrations from Venus has a decided influence of her own. She is also affected by the aspects from other planets, the feelings and emotions being depressed or expanded according to the nature of the planet with which she is in aspect.

The typical Venus woman is well developed in every way, of medium stature and beautiful skin. The complexion is clear and attractive, the eyes very bright and sparkling, inclined to be dark blue or hazel, and full of feeling. The color of the eyes and hair is affected by the planets aspecting Venus. The face is smiling and pleasant, the voice soft and sweet. The pure Venus type woman is irresistible in charm and she seems destined to draw out all the love and affection of those around her.

Physically, Venus confers beauty of form, clearness of skin, fine hair, and firm flesh, which is usually healthy.

Mentally, she confers an appreciation of the fine arts, but gives very little inclination for study or intellectual pursuits, those born under her influence being more guided by their feelings than by thought or reason. The moral qualities are sometimes rather latent, the Venus temperament preferring to obtain its desires quickly and easily by the most convenient methods and strict morality, or sometimes even reason, is often disregarded where these desires are in question.

The Venus disposition is cheerful, merry, generous, light-hearted, and sometimes very witty.

Males born under Venus are affable, courteous, kind, and sympathetic, though sometimes rather effeminate. Venus governs the feelings and emotions only, and these feelings and emotions will be affected by the planets aspecting or influencing Venus at the time of birth.

Mars is the first of the superior planets; and by superior is meant that it orbit lies outside the orbit of the Earth.

Mars rotates on its axis in twenty-four hours and thirty-seven minutes, and accomplishes a revolution around the Sun in about six weeks less than two years.

The planet Mars is by nature hot and expansive, his influence being entirely different from that of Venus. The latter governs all that is gentle, soft, and feeling, whilst Mars governs all that is forceful, harsh, and often unfeeling. This planet is freer too from the influence of the other planets and distributes a more definite influence of his own, Mars being representative of the masculine sex in the same way that Venus is representative of the feminine sex. The Mars man is of medium height and stature, having a round face and ruddy complexion, sharp, bright eyes, often hazel, a good constitution and healthy body, and a splendid masculine system.

Physically, Mars governs the external generative system, the muscular system, as well as everything in the body connected with movement and action.

Mentally, Mars presides over all adventure, enterprise, and heroism. The influence of Mars is daring, combative, fearless, and venturesome. In everything where pluck, force, and energy are required, the Mars man will be foremost; always ready to defend, he will not hesitate to attack when the situation seems to require action.

The disposition of Mars men is generous, confident, and assertive; quickly angered, often acting rashly and ever inclined to be headstrong, they are first in any act of bravery, frequently regardless of consequences.

The next planet beyond the orbit of Mars is Jupiter.

To the naked eye, Jupiter appears as a star of the first magnitude. Its light is constant and scintillates but rarely. This giant planet is over 85,000 miles in diameter, or about 1,300 times larger than the Earth.

The circumference of Jupiter is 268,000 miles or more than ten times the circumference of our Earth.

Jupiter is universally known as the planet of good fortune. Every vibration of this planet is harmonious; and all those who have entered fully into the conditions of Jupiter are the essence of peace, morality, and justice, which last is combined with sympathy and compassion. All persons who come under the influence of this benefic planet are hopeful, joyous, sincere, truthful, and genuinely warm-hearted. Jupiterian individuals are marked by their sober, sincere, honest, and commanding appearances. They are of full stature, high forehead, and possess a luxuriant growth of hair. There is usually a display of true pride and dignity, which is never scornful or arrogant, but goes well with a nature that is benevolent and generous, anxious to do good and to benefit others.

The influence of Jupiter is manifested in prudent ambitions, in magnanimous action, and in sympathetic feelings for the good of humanity. The genuine Jupiterian is the most soft and gentle, and at the same time the most manly and noble of all dispositions. The most desirable virtues are to be found in this disposition; a noble nature, always acting honorably, ever grateful and genuinely courteous to all, high or low, one which is always happy, peaceful, and sincere.

Jupiter is the "greater fortune," the most benefic of planets. Without his influence, there would be no real joy. The vibrations of Jupiter bring bliss and a desire to be helpful.

Yet farther removed from the Sun is Saturn. Saturn is a planet differing in every way from any of the four we have so far considered. By nature, this planet is cold, limiting, restricting, and binding. Physically, Saturn presides over the body structure. Those born under the influence of Saturn are usually lean, of middle stature, narrow forehead, small eyes, and pale complexion. The hair is usually very dark and sometimes black.

Mentally, Saturn governs the thoughtful, meditative tendencies, and makes the mind slow, careful, methodical, patient, contemplative, reserved, and studious.

Morally, Saturn gives justice and he favors all who are chaste, ascetic, pure-minded, frugal, and prudent.

In disposition, Saturnine persons are grave and sober, inclined to little speech, but giving expression to words of great weight when necessary. There is a tendency toward doubt and apprehension; but the disposition is inclined to be faithful and constant, reliable, industrious, and persevering.

Saturn turns on its axis in ten and one-half hours and requires nearly thirty years to complete a revolution around the Sun. The mean diameter of Saturn is about 70,100 miles, or 746 times larger than the Earth. It is 872,137,000 miles away and shines as a star of the first magnitude.

The planet Uranus strikes the highest octave to which we of the present are capable of responding. In fact, there are a great number of human beings who, as yet, are incapable of answering to the Uranus vibration. Its power is illustrated by those who today are not limited by conventional laws, but who maintain their own ideas free from personal bias and public opinion.

Physically, Uranus acts upon the nerves and the magnetic conditions. Surrounding everyone, there is what is called an aura, which is the magnetic field.

Uranus governs that aura.

Intellectually, Uranus governs the inventive and ingenious faculties and favors the romantic, bohemian, and uncommon side of life, and all qualities that are unique and original, such as genius and intuition. This planet inclines toward metaphysical studies, or those principally concerned with the higher mind and the subjective parts of nature.

The disposition of those under Uranian influence is somewhat abrupt, inclined to be mystical, profound and gravely thoughtful, delighting in difficult problems, ancient mysteries, and occult sciences.

After Uranus had been discovered for some time, it was found that upon taking all known causes into account, there was still something affecting its motion. It was suggested that this something was another planet, more distant from the Sun than Uranus itself; and the question was, "Where was the planet if it existed?"

We need not be surprised that two minds, who felt themselves competent to solve the problem, should have independently undertaken to find the unknown world. As far back as July, 1841, we find Mr. Adams determined to investigate the irregularities of Uranus. Early in September, 1846, the new planet had been fairly grappled. We find Sir John Herschel remarking, "We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt trembling along the far reaching line of our analysis with a certainly hardly inferior to ocular demonstration."

On the 29th of July, 1846, the large telescope of the Cambridge Observatory was first employed to search for the planet in the place where Professor Adams' calculations had assigned it. M. Le Verrier in September wrote to the Berlin observers stating the place where his calculations led him to believe it would be found, his theoretical place and Professor Adams' being not a degree apart. At Berlin, thanks to their star map, which had not yet been published, Dr. Gallac found the planet very near the position assigned by both astronomers.

The intuitive faculty and the telepathic sense, as well as genius, are frequently of a nature which might be directly ascribed to the planet Neptune. Hence, it would appear to be in the nature of Neptune to augment and specialize the faculties.

We must not, however, forget that the planets, according to their several natures, always act in terms of ourselves and our environment. A man who is listless and without ambition will not make bold or successful enterprises under the transit of Mars. A man of small ideas will account himself lucky on the receipt of an unexpected dole. Great achievements can come only from great minds and high endeavors. Mars always exacts the penalty of a risk. Saturn demands time in which to mature his benefits. Jupiter is a planet of "great expectations," and oftentimes of little permanence. Neptune dearly loves a plot or intrigue, and Uranus can make or break, according as a man is himself disposed to be constructive or destructive. Man is an embodied universe. The planets are all compounded in his being. It is that which makes him responsive to their actions.

The seven planets are the indicators of the seven Principles which constitute the universe. Just as the Zodiac is complete within itself, with twelve divisions, so are the planets a complete whole in the aura of the Sun, with seven divisions.

As one ray coming from the Sun is broken up into seven rays through the planets, so is each of the seven again broken up into millions of separate rays, each one forming the nucleus for a separate form of matter.

Thus, all life is manifested by combining and compounding these planetary influences.

The story of the formation of the Earth and man has been likened to a mighty wheel ever slowly and inevitably turning, ever pressing onward, each revolution being called an Age. As this "wheel of life" turns, it carries both humanity and the Earth through the various changes and states of unfoldment of their interwoven, yet individual, destinies.

When the physical body is conceived, it is under the prevailing lunar influence. At the time of "quickening," Mars animates the body and the particular planet which is in the ascendant at the moment governs the brain and nervous system.

When a child draws its first breath, it draws into its system a wave of ether charges with certain vibrations coming from the planetary spheres.

Every human being is essentially a seed of the Divine Life, and the unfoldment of the spiritual life within is the one aim of human destiny.

All planetary forces reaching our globe affect us physically, emotionally, and intellectually through our physical, emotional, and mental bodies. The principle of the planetary influences as they affect humanity are neither virtues nor vices; they are qualities common to all who attune themselves to them. They are latent in every human being.

The principle of Mercury is reason; of Venus affection; of Mars energy; of Saturn endurance; of Jupiter preservation; of Uranus constructiveness; and of Neptune mysticism.

The Zodiac holds in solution the various qualities of matter in all its manifold forms. The qualities are indicated by the nature of the signs, and the signs have a definite relation to the constellations. The relationship is, however, not dependent upon the position of the constellations any more than the nature of the radio music is dependent upon the location of the broadcasting station.

The human body possesses innumerable sensory nerves, each of which has an "end organ," whose office is to receive stimuli from without, transmit the vibrations to nerve centers, where in turn they are forwarded by means of the sympathetic system to those organs which are responsive to each particular incoming stimulus, causing chemical changes to take place which give rise to sensation. Sensation produces thoughts in kind. Thoughts determine acts. Acts determine environment.

Before one is conscious of a sensation, a chemical change has taken place, a stimulating vibration has been received which gave the chemical situation an urge and a direction according to the character of the vibration. The vibrations of Mars are positive, exciting, inflammatory; those of Venus are soothing, pacifying, cheering; the vibrations of each planet having its own particular influence.

The influence of Mars is expansive, impulsive, and ever moving. It contains the essence of energy, strength, and motion. It is not an influence to be suppressed, but rather one to be controlled, refined, and directed.

There is not a stone but has a spark of the Martial ray in it, not a planet but feels its animating influence, not an animal that is not moved by its energy, not a human being uncontrolled by its power.

The principle of Venus is love. Love in this sense is not a mere sentimental abstraction; it denotes rather the principle of cohesion operative throughout the universe, the accretive faculty that attracts whatever is in accordance with its nature, whether it be construction or destruction. Nothing is ever lost, for in the Divine Economy creation consists in nothing but recreation—an exchange of the old for new.

The influence of Jupiter is mainly social, charitable, and religious. Jupiter is the preserving influence of that which manifests as the objective influence of Saturn. Saturn and Jupiter govern the physical conditions, Mars and Venus the emotional nature, and Mercury the mental nature of the human being. The influence of Jupiter is expansive; it favors expression by decoration and adornment, it develops the talent for organization, it influences the unfolding of seeds and buds and creates a fitting environment for the life within them. Jupiter, therefore, brings out all that is sociable, cooperative, and harmonizing.

Every force, whether magnetic, sympathetic, dynamic, or mechanical, is a planetary vibration, and as Jupiter is fourteen hundred times as large as the Earth, the vibrations which he imparts and the force which he exerts is lofty and grand. His influence is for harmony, grandeur, and physical excellence.

Perhaps the most individualistic trait of the Saturnian type is the quality of slowness of inertia. The three qualities inherent in matter are inertia, activity, and mobility. These three qualities are combined in varying proportions in all types of planetary influence, but in the case of Saturn, inertia preponderates.

Those who belong to this type are slow to move, but steadfast and unchanging in action. They are faithful, enduring, unyielding, and fixed. This peculiarity of inertia makes the individual slow to accept new ideas and makes him adhere to old thoughts and methods with great tenacity. One consequence of this type of character is that it keeps what it gets. This is true in terms of ideas, feelings, habits, or actual property. Another consequence is the development of the qualities of concrete exactitude and particularization. Saturn thus favors the expression of the mind through form in sculpture, architecture, and physical science.

There is in Saturn the property of contemplation, which is traced to an innate desire for all arcane wisdom and deep science. This is the secret of Saturn's influence as the Master Builder of character and destiny.

Thus we find Saturn ever willing to accept responsibility, to accentuate it, and to transmute it through the regenerating influence of meditation and contemplation. In a like manner, the influence of Mars is frequently transmuted into devotion, and of Mercury into wisdom.

Saturn thus ever tends to isolation and separativeness; his influence is steadily contractive, ever tending to shape in detail by forming a series of limitations binding the individual to concrete principles.

On the contrary, all that is unlimited and unbound comes under the influence of Uranus.

All metaphysical thought and advanced views find in him a lead; in fact, his influence is so marked and romantic that once it is felt it never can be forgotten.

If the philosopher who draws his influences from Saturn is slow to think, then how much slower is he who draws his influence from Neptune, which is twice as far removed! If one wishes to receive inspiration, he must be very quiet and for a long time. It will be recalled that when Saint John received the Revelation he was put off on the island of Patmos, where he would be undisturbed. He was placed there by his enemies, of course, but they could not have done him a greater good, for here he could let his spirit soar without being molested. It takes time to receive inspiration, but there have been a few men who have been willing to fast forty days in order to be able to reap such reward.

Man is a compound of all the elements. In his early stages, the animal instinct is uppermost and he is conscious only of objects that appeal of his senses. Later, he learns to be conscious of a force within, which appeals to his reason. Finally, he becomes conscious of his unity with the entire universe. He thus passes from the animal to the human, and finally to the divine.

Solar Science is then the spiral stairway that is destined to lead to a glorious future, for instead of simply believing in authority, we can have our faith confirmed by knowledge and our intuition supported by reason.