INDEX 583
The solar force works in vital body, makes for life,
the lunar rays crystallize the dense body and cause death ...265
Prior to end of Hyperborean Epoch sun, moon and earth
were yet one and humanity were male-female ....................268
PLANETS AND MOONS
Spiritual reason for the formation of planets ...........................218
The planets are the bodies of the Planetary Spirits which
direct their movements from the center ..................... 255, 256
Birth of Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter ........................................258
Mars and its canals, the Earth, Venus and Mercury ..259, 271, 272
The influence of Mars prevented the Ego from
entering the body before that was ripe ..............................268
The influence of Mercury will help man free himself so that
he may leave body and re-enter at will ..............................273
The Lords of Venus as leaders of humanity ............................272
Why some planets have moons ..............................................259
Our moon, the abode of failures who crystallized ....................264
Crystallization of the matter which is eventually thrown off
as a planet commences at pole of the sun where motion
is slowest .........................................................................263
The Earth was thus expelled from the sun in the end
of the Hyperborean Epoch ................................................263
Then a part of the Earth crystallized too early and was
expelled in the beginning of the Lemurian Epoch;
that is the Moon ...............................................................264
Neptune does not really belong to our solar system .................260
(For proof of this assertion, seeSimplified Scientific
Astrology, page 5)
Future evolution of planets .....................................................256
Each planet has three worlds: the Physical World, the
Desire World and the World of Thought ............................ 53
MARS
Our evolution on that part of the sun which now constitutes
the earth commenced after Mars had been expelled
and became a separate planet ............................................263
The influence of Mars on the indwelling spirit ................ 268, 274
The Martian canals ................................................................259