160 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
one star after another becomes Pole Star.
Because of this wobbling motion the Sun does not cross
the equator in the same place every year, but a few hundred
rods further back, hence the name, the “precession of the
equinoxes,” because the equinox “precedes”—comes too
early.
All happenings on the Earth in connection with the other
Cosmic bodies and their inhabitants are connected with this
and other Cosmic movements. So are also the laws of
Rebirth and Consequence.
As the Sun passes through the different signs in the
cours e of t he year, the climatic and ot her changes affect man
and his activities in different ways. Similarly the passage of
the Sun by the procession of the equinoxes, through the
twelve signs of the Zodiac—which is called a World-year,
brings about conditions on the Earth of a far greater variety.
It is necessary to the growth of the soul that it should
experience them all. In fact, as we have seen, the man
himself makes these conditions while in the Heaven World
between incarnations. Therefore, every Ego is born twice
during the time the Sun is passing through one sign of the
Zodiac; and, as the soul itself is necessarily double-sexed, in
order to obtain all experience, it incarnates alternately in a
male and a female body. This is because the experience of
one sex differs widely from that of the other. At the same
time, the outside conditions are not greatly altered in one
thousand years and therefore permit the entity to receive
experience in the same identical environment from the
standpoint of both man and woman.
These are the general terms upon which the Law of
Rebirth operates, but as it is not a blind law, it is subject to
frequent modifications, determined by the Lords of Destiny,