Science & Art - The Mystery of Light, Color, and Consciousness[1]
"God is Light," says the Bible, and we are unable to conceive of a grander simile of His Omnipresence or the mode of His manifestation. Even the greatest telescopes have failed to reach the boundaries of light, though they reveal to us stars millions of miles from the Earth, and we may well ask ourselves, as did the Psalmist of old: "Whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend into heaven Thou art there, if I make my bed in the grave Thou art there, if I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea. Even there shall thy hand lead me."
When, in the dawn of Being, God the Father, enunciated the Word, and The Holy Spirit moved upon the sea of homogeneous virgin matter, primeval darkness was turned to light. That is therefore, the prime manifestation of Deity, and a study of the principles of Light will reveal to the mystic intuition a wonderful source of spiritual inspiration. As it would take us too far a field from our subject, we shall not enter into an elucidation of that theme here, except so far as to give an elementary idea of how divine Life energizes the human frame, and stimulates to action.
Truly, God is One and undivided. He unfolds within His being all that is, as the white light embraces all colors. Nevertheless, He appears threefold in manifestation, as the white light is refracted in three primary colors: blue, yellow, and red.
Wherever we see these colors, they are emblematical of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These three primary rays of divine Life are diffused or radiated through the Sun and produce Life, Consciousness, And Form upon each of the seven light-bearers, the planets, which are called "the Seven Spirits before the Throne."
Their names are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.[2]
Each of the seven planets receives the light of the Sun in a different measure, according to its proximity to the central orb and the constitution of its atmosphere, and the beings upon each, according to their stage of development, have affinity for some of the solar rays. They absorb the colors congruous to them, and reflect the remainder upon the other planets. This reflected ray bears with it an impulse of the nature of the beings with which it has been in contact.
Thus, the divine Light and Life either comes to each planet, or directly from the Sun, or reflected from its sister planets. and as the summer breeze which has been wafted over blooming fields carries upon its silent invisible wings the blended fragrance of a multitude of flowers, so also the subtle influences from the garden of God bring to us the co-mingled impulses of all the Spirits, and in that varicolored light we live and move and have our being.
The rays, which come directly from the Sun, are productive of spiritual illumination; there reflected rays from other planets make for added consciousness and moral development, and the rays reflected by way of the Moon give physical growth.
However, as each planet can absorb only a certain quantity of one or more colors according to the general stage of evolution there, so each being upon Earth: mineral, plant, animal, and man, can only absorb and thrive upon a certain quantity of the various rays projected upon the Earth. The remainder does not affect it or produce sensation, any more than the blind are conscious of light and color that exists everywhere around them. Therefore, the stellar rays differently affect each being, and the science of astrology, a fundamental truth in nature, is of enormous benefit in the attainment of spiritual growth.
“Written in the Lambs Book of Life”
From a horoscopic figure in mystic script, we may learn our own strength and weakness, with the path best suited to our development, or we may see the tendencies of those friends who come to us as children, and what traits are dormant in them. Thus, we shall know clearly how to discharge our duty as parents, by repressing evil before it comes to birth and fostering good so that it may bring forth most abundantly the spiritual potencies of the Spirit committed to our care.
As we have already said, man returns to Earth to reap that which he has sown in previous lives and to sow anew the seeds that make for future experience. The stars are the heavenly timekeepers that measure the year; the Moon indicates the month when the time will be propitious to harvest or to sow.
The Art of Children
The child is a mystery to us all. We can know its propensities only as they slowly develop into characteristics, but it is usually too late to check when evil habits have been formed and the youth is upon the downward grade.
A horoscope cast for the time of birth in a scientific manner, shows the tendencies to good or evil in the child. For example, if a parent will take the time and trouble necessary to study the science of the stars, he or she may do the child entrusted to his or her care an inestimable service by fostering tendencies to good and repressing the evil bent of a child before it has crystallized into habit.
[2] Bode's Law proves that Neptune and Pluto do not "belong" to our solar system. See Simplified Scientific Astrology by the present writer for mathematical demonstration of this conception.
