Saturn 291Capricorn, man is bestowed with a consciousness having
its centre as the Hierarchy. Christ rose to that level and
he played his role of the Saviour under the highest
influence of Saturn.
Saturn governs the physical span of all living beings
in accordance with the relationship of the karma of the
individual with that of the planets. The physical death is
a promise of a new opportunity created for a better birth.
Saturn rules over physical death through Scorpio and the
new opportunity of rebirth for betterment of the soul is
created through Capricorn.
As we have already explained, Saturn governs the
time-sense of man. All the periodicities of other planets
bear a definite relationship with the periodicity of Saturn.
The average daily motion of Moon is equal to the average
annual motion of Saturn. The average daily motion of Sun
is equal to the average monthly motion of this planet. In
other words, a day of Sun on his scale is equal to a month
on the Saturnine plane of consciousness and also to a
twelfth part of the day in the lunar plane of consciousness.
Herein lies a great clue to find the cycles of rebirth of a
man, because Moon brings souls to earth and Saturn takes
them away by death, while Sun makes the souls live
through life in birth and death. There is a special type of
calculation to retrace past births, to compute the birth
charts and the impregnation charts of those births and
read the trend of events of a man through many of his
births.
In the physical body of man, the nerve-thread is
under the control of this planet. Nervousness, paralysis
and neuralgia are due to the influence of Saturn. The
connection between the functions of the brain and the