gravitational pull. The Sun is the sole source of radiating energy that makes possible every form of life found
on the Earth. This energy is received, both direct and by reflection from the planets and the Moon. Due,
however, to the varying chemical constituency of the Sun's reflectors, each absorbs certain frequencies of the
Solar emanations, and delivers to the Earth an altered spectrum. The Sun's energy raditaion is estimated in a
continuous flow of 80,000 horsepower from each square year of its surface.
Around it are so far discovered ten planetary cycles, the bodies of which emit no light except that reflected
from the sun. These, in order from the Sun outward, i.e: Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, the Asteroids,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The astrological significance of the Asteroid has not received
sufficient study to warrant any judgments in reference thereto, but it is generally presumed that they consist of
the matter for what was intended to be another planet in the vacant orbit between Mars and Jupiter, but which
was dispersed by the influence of the ponderous nearby planet Jupiter.
Astronomers and astrologers have speculated on the possible existence of an intramercurial planet, so close to
the Sun as to be lost in its rays and indistinguishable by any known method - but this is mere hypothesis. As
three of the known planets have been discovered since i781, and Pluto as late as 1930, there is an everpresent
possibility that additional outside planets may yet be discovered. In this connection it should not be forgotten
that Pythagoras, on both astrological and mathematical evidence, contended some 2500 years ago that there
must be 10 planets in the Solar atom. From Pythagorcus came the concept that Copernicus developed into his
heliocentric theory, and that gave Einstein, no doubt, a Vision of the Creator as a mathematician rather than an
engineer.
In occult teaching there are in our solar system ten schemes of evolution, each presided over by a planetary
Logos. As the ancients knew of only the Sun, Moon and five planets, each system consisted of a chain of seven
globes, and each chain had passed through seven incarnations. Their idea of ten schemes of evolution was a
further prophetic indication of the three additional plants since discovered.
However, with the inclusion of the Earth and the orbit of the asteroids, we now recognize in the solar system
twelve planetary cycles: the Sun, moving in an undetermined orbit around some remote galactic center; the 8
planets, the Earth and the asteroids, moving in 10 channels around the Sun; and the Moon moving in an orbit
around the Earth.
Astronomically the Moon is too tiny an object for inclusion in such an enumeration. Besides, there are other
moons revolving around other planets in our solar atom. Astrologically, however, our Moon, because of its
nearness to us, assumes an importance that is disproportionate to its size, while the moons of other planets have
no significance for us, other than as they enter into the composite ray reflected in our direction.
In this general picture of our solar system we find three distinct and known forces in evidence: energy
radiations, orbital motion, and gravitation.
Considering the Sun, particularly, one must take cognizance of the fact that its influence as a source of energy
radiation should bc entirely disassociated from the influence it exerts by way of gravitational pull and orbital
motion. Experiment with the little ball on the end of a rubber string, and you will find that a horizontal motion
of the hand will change the vertical motion of the ball into a circular motion that can become an orbit. While