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

      Blood does not become overcharged with water from the water we drink, but from an atmosphere overcharged with aqueous vapor drawn from water in rivers, lakes or swamps, by heat of the sun above seventy degrees in shade.

      The more surplus water there is to be thrown out of the blood, the more sodium sulphate required.

      All so-called bilious or malarial troubles are simply a chemical effect or action caused by deficient sulphate of soda.

      Chills and fever are Nature’s method of getting rid of surplus water by squeezing it out of the blood through violent muscular, nervous and vascular spasms.

      No “shakes” or ague can occur if blood be properly balanced chemically.

      Governing planet: Venus.

      Gems: Moss-agate and emerald.

      Astral colors: Red and lemon yellow.

      In Bible alchemy, Taurus represents Asher, the eighth son of Jacob, and means blessedness or happiness.

      In the symbolism of the New Testament, Taurus corresponds to the disciple Thaddeus, meaning firmness, or led by love.

      THE CHEMISTRY OF GEMINI

      MAY 21 TO JUNE 21.

      One of the chief characteristics of the Gemini native is expression. The cell-salt Kali muriaticum (potassium chloride) is the mineral worker of blood that forms fibrin and properly diffuses it throughout the tissues of the body.

      This salt must not be confused with the chlorate of potash, a poison (chemical formula KC103).

      The formula of the chloride of potassium (Kali mur) is KC1.

      Kali mur molecules are the principal agents used in the chemistry of life to build fibrin into the human organism. The skin that covers the face contains the lines and angles that give expression, and thus differentiates one person from another; therefore the maker of fibrin has been designated as the birth salt of the Gemini native.

      In venous blood fibrin amounts to three in one thousand parts. When the molecules of Kali mur fall below the standard, the blood fibrin thickens, causing what is known as pleurisy, pneumonia, catarrh, diphtheria, etc. When the circulation fails to throw out the thickened fibrin via the glands or mucous membrane, it may stop the action o^ the heart. Embolus is a Latin word meaning little lump, or balls; therefore to die of embolus or “heart failure” generally means that the heart’s action was stopped by little lumps of fibrin clogging the auricles and ventricles of the heart.

      When the blood contains the proper amount of Kali mur, fibrin is functional and the symptoms referred to above do not manifest. Gemini means twins. Gemini is the sign which governs the United States.

      The astral colors of Gemini are red, white, and blue. While those who made our first flag and chose the colors, personally knew nothing of astrology, yet the Cosmic Law worked its will to give America the “red, white, and blue.”

      Mercury is the governing planet of Gemini. The gems are beryl, aquamarine, and dark blue stones. In Bible alchemy, Gemini represents Issachar, the ninth son of Jacob, and means price, reward, or recompense. In the symbolic allegories of the New Testament, Gemini corresponds to the disciple Judas, which means service or necessity. The perverted ideas of an ignorant dark-age priesthood made “service and necessity” infamous by a literal rendering of the alchemical symbol, but during the present Aquarian age, the Judas symbol will be understood and the disciple of “service” will no longer have to submit to “third degree methods.”

      CANCER: THE CHEMISTRY OF THE “CRAB”

      JUNE 21 TO JULY 22.

      Cancer is the mother sign of the zodiac.

      The mother’s breast is the soul’s first home after taking on flesh and “rending the Veil of Isis.”

      The tenacity of those born between the dates June 21 and July 22, in holding on to a home or dwelling place is well illustrated by the crab’s grip, and also by the fact that it carries its house along wherever it goes in order that it may be sure of a dwelling.

      The angles (angels) of the twelve zodiacal signs materialize their vitalities in the human microcosm. Through the operation of chemistry, energy creating, the intelligent molecules of Divine substance make the “Word flesh.”

      The corner stone in the chemistry of the crab is the inorganic salt fluoride of lime, known in pharmacy as Calcarea flourica. It is a combination of flourine and lime.

      When this cell-salt is deficient in the blood, physical and mental disease (not-at-ease) is the result. Elastic fiber is formed by the union of the fluoride of lime with albuminoids, whether in the rubber tree or the human body. All relaxed conditions of tissue (varicose veins and kindred ailments) are due to a lack of sufficient amount of elastic fiber to “rubber” the tissue and hold it in place.

      When elastic fiber is deficient in tissue of membrane between the upper and lower brain poles—cerebrum and cerebellum—there results a “sagging apart” of the positive and negative poles of the dynamo that runs the machinery of man.

      An unfailing sign or symptom of this deficiency is a groundless fear of financial ruin.

      While those born in any of the twelve signs may sometimes be deficient in Calcium fluoride, due to Mars or Mercury (or both) in Cancer at birth, Cancer people are more liable to symptoms indicating a lack of this elastic fiber-builder than are those born in other signs.

      Why should we search Latin or Greek lexicons to find a name for the result of a deficiency in some of the mineral constituents of blood? If we find a briar in our flesh, we say so in the plainest speech; we do not say, “I have the briatitis or splintraligia.”

      When we know that a deficiency in the cell-salts of the blood causes the symptoms that medical ignorance has dignified and personified with names that nobody knows the meaning of, we will know how to heal scientifically by the unalterable law of the chemistry of life. When we learn the cause of disease, then, and not before, will we prevent disease.

      Not through quarantine, nor disinfectants, nor “Boards of Health” will man reach the long sought plane of health; not through affirmations of health, nor denials of disease will bodily regeneration be wrought; not by dieting or fasting or “Fletcherizing” or suggesting, will the elixir of life and the philosopher’s stone be found.

      The “mercury of the sages” and the “Hidden Manna” are not constituents of health foods.

      Victims of salt baths and massage are bald before their time, and the alcohol, steam and Turkish bath fiends die young.

      “Sic transit gloria mundi.”

      When a man’s body is made chemically perfect, the operations of mind will perfectly express.

      Gems belonging to the sign of the breast are black onyx and emerald; astral colors, green and russet-brown.

      Cancer is represented by Zebulum, the tenth son of Jacob, and means dwelling place or habitation.

      Matthew is the Cancer disciple.

      LEO: THE HEART OF THE ZODIAC

      JULY 22 TO AUGUST 23.

      The Sun overflows with divine energy. It is the “brewpot” that forever filters and scatters the “elixir of life.”

      Those born while the Sun is passing through Leo, July 22 to August 23, receive the heart vibrations, or pulses, of the Grand Man, or “Circle of Beasts.” All the blood in the body passes through the heart. So the Leo native is the recipient of every quality and possibility contained in the great “alchemical vase,” the “Son of Heaven.”

      The impulsive traits of Leo people are symboled in the pulse, which is a reflex of