The Zodiac and the Salts of Salvation. George W. Carey

of the brain and spinal cord, nervous headache, hungry feeling after eating food, etc. The writer, however, does not deal with symptoms, but furnishes the individual plan whereby the body may be entirely made over.

      This plan is founded on the natural zodiac, wherein the planets are placed in the degrees of the signs in which they were at a person’s birth. Allocating the mineral salts with these signs will give the correct analysis and indicate the tendencies to deficiencies. This being known, one can then give a list of the symptoms, mental as well as physical, which may at any time tend to appear, until the blood is more nearly supplied with the needed salts. And as Shakespeare so truly said:

      “And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,

      And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,

      And thereby hangs the tale.”

      If our chemical needs are supplied we will ripen, physically and spiritually, but continued deficiencies in “the dust of the earth,” result in the other unattractive and undesirable condition.

      In The Gospel of Buddha we read the following: “But to satisfy the necessities of life is not evil. To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom and keep our minds strong and clear.” Truly does Kali phos, or phosphate of potassium feed this lamp.

      And from the same ancient source, the Sanskrit, we obtain the following physiological information: “The living brain is constituted of gross sensible material (Mahabhuta) infused with prana. Its material has been worked up so as to constitute a suitable vehicle for the expression of consciousness in the form of mind—Antahkarana.” (From Serpent Power, p. 127). Potassium phosphate is the vehicle of consciousness.

      CHAPTER II

      THE ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF TAURUS AND NATRIUM SULPH.

      “I come from a land in the sun-bright deep

      Where golden gardens glow—

      Where the winds of the North becalmed in sleep

      Their conch-shells never blow.”

      —From: Moore’s Song of the Hyperborean.

      ON the twenty-first of April, approximately, the Sun enters that part of the heavens wherein is the constellation of the Bull. Dr. Wakeman Ryno writes of it as follows: “This sign has been the inspiration, in all ages, of more myths and stories than all the other twelve signs put together. Taurus was worshiped as a healing god, because he represented the growing strength of the Sun, and healing, from ‘Helios’ the Sun. In the Greek we have the word Theos, which is the basis of our English words theology and theological. He is Taur, Thor or Theuth; the Golden Calf of Horeb, of the Bible story; he is Hesperia, where Hercules conquered the Oxen of Geryon; he was Amen-Apis of the Thebans.”

      Helios is also Apollo, and every nation and every people has had its own particular term for this divine giver of life, light and heat.

      Taurus is the first of the earth triplicity. As two weeks of May and one of April are concerned with its labor, we find the true interpretation of the sign in the word May, the source of which is a Sanskrit root, Mag, meaning to move. The word Maia is derived from the same root. She it was to whom the ancients offered gifts on the first day of May, and even to the present day children celebrate May-Day night by exchanging baskets of gifts, hanging them on door knobs. They also delight in May-pole dances and playing pranks of a more or less harmless and foolish nature.

      The parts of the body with which this sign allocates are the ears, face around lower jaw, cerebellum, neck, throat, liver and gall-bladder.

      The word cerebellum differs from cerebrum in its ending only. The first part of the word, cere, means seed. Bellum is a Latin word meaning war or antagonism, contention. Thus contention or antagonism. It should not be; but, because it is the animal brain, the bull-headed god of the Age of the Golden Calf, it represents that stage in the evolution of humanity when it is torn by animal passions. Microprosophus (of the Kabbala) is not co-operating with Macroprosophus; in other words, the animal man, Adam, “is ever contending against God,” for passion can not hear the voice of reason. Seed (cere) essence is destroyed. The word Taurus or Torus also means any round swelling or protuberance—a projecting part or cushion. It is a well known anatomical fact that the cerebellum has such a protection, and is seen in any chart. Indeed it is colored red on the charts so as to be outstanding.

      The sub-conscious mind functions through the lower brain or cerebellum. To be sure this is contrary to what psychologists teach, but the following is proof of its functioning process.

      Naturally the cerebrum, being the spiritual brain, is the organ of consciousness. It is Rama, the Most High. In the Greek it is Athens, and the goddess Athena means wisdom. It is from this Greek word that we derive the term attic. An attic is the top-most room in a house. Delicate wit is termed “attic wisdom.” Therefore the cerebrum is the first house or first compartment in the physical dwelling. When this part of the brain is chemically perfected and hence all knowledge is obtained, consciousness or Spirit manifests as the Christ Consciousness.

      The term sub means under, and is derived from the Latin. Therefore, the sub-conscious brain in which the sub-conscious mind functions is situated under the brain pertaining to consciousness or the cerebrum. It is, we may say, the basement or cellar brain, where the things stored become damp and full of moths. How beautifully true is the Biblical injunction: “Lay up treasures in heaven (re-read the first chapter) where moths do not corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal.”

      Again, when it is understood that Aries or the cerebrum is the God-brain and Taurus or the cerebellum (the contending brain) in the animal, it becomes perfectly clear.

      The state of mind, then, which each one of us manifests in our imperfect state becomes the divine Bull by being yoked to our higher consciousness. When a statement presented to us is understood do we not say “Yes, I am conscious of that fact.” And is it not equally true that, when we are unable to cognize another we say, “No, I am not conscious that that is a fact” This, then, is summed up in the statement that we are not fully conscious.

      No one can be fully conscious who is living in the animal passions, and to whom they are attractive. To the degree in which we are able to master them, to transmute or use that same energy (Taurus) in mental work—in the house of consciousness, the cerebrum, do we merge from the subconscious state to that of the conscious, or spiritual. The animal is the sub-human and the cerebellum is the animal brain. Taurus must be yoked—controlled—guided by wisdom. Many contend that the solar plexus is the sub-conscious brain; but an understanding of anatomy and physiology proves that this great center which is a collection of twelve great nerve ganglia and hence a zodiac in itself, is a receiver of energy, and hence one of feeling and sensation, not of thought.

      It is indeed true that, as long as we live in the animal brain and are carnally minded, we are spiritually moldy and full of moths; and eventually the form itself goes back into the ground to be consumed.

      “The last enemy to be overcome is death.”—Bible; and “The wages of sin is death.” Therefore, when we no longer fall short or are deficient, which is the true meaning of sin, we will no longer die, for it will be physiologically and chemically impossible.

      Taurus, or the Bull, is said to plow the earth, preparing the soil that it may bring forth. Here we must recall the parable of the sower who went forth to sow. The Adam man is the sower. He is given, has made, and contains the seeds of all things, as also does the earth.

      But upon what kind of ground will these seeds fall—on fertile or barren? Ponder well on a mighty fact: The corpuscles of the body are its seed. I am not referring to the seed of procreation, for that is a different kind. But I will give you another point, equally mighty: The animal man actually robs his body of its corpuscles (one tenth, to be exact) in forming the germs of procreation. This is a fact which science will one day admit.

      The Bible states that “Man purchases a field with thirty pieces of silver.” The field (and the