Pisces 203the personality through social, political and economic
activities. Venus is the ruler of the sign for those who
follow the path of love. The path is led by Lord Maitre-ya
but, at present, the duty is conducted by Gauthama, the
Buddha for some reasons.
It is strange to notice that the numerical potency of
this sign is also seven. Virgo and Pisces express the
vibration of this number in its positive and negative
aspects. The synthesizing power of the number is called
the positive potency and the analysing power is called
the negative potency. Virgo represents the negative side
of this number, because it manifests the rainbow. Pisces
represents the positive aspect because it is the sign of
blending the various aspects of the lower consciousness
into the unity of the higher. A man of Pisces cares more
for the general, while the man of Virgo works out for the
particular. Therefore Virgo is the sign of analysis and
Pisces, the sign of synthesis. Virgo is the sign of scientists
and Pisces is the sign of artists. The two opposite currents
of life are blended in Pisces and are interpreted in Virgo.
Pisces is a sign of ‘photography’. It is the cause of
the preservation of impressions. All the stories and
associations of the past cycles of lives are recorded in man
through Pisces. Pisces represents “the tablet of the
universe” on which an adept can read the past, present
and future of the whole creation. The adepts of various
schools train their students to read the “A
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ka-shic records”
and the invisible books of the cave-temples by stimulating
the Piscean activity in them. This is done by linking up
the activity of the “eye of the bull” with that of the two
fishes, the pineal and the pituitary bodies. Aldebaron is
called the ‘eye of the bull’. It governs the power of