TO KNOW THE STARRY HEAVENS 



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A Midnight Mountain Message from 

 an Astronomical Observatory. 



BY KDGAR LUCIAN LARKIX, IHRECTOR OF 



THE LOWE OBSERVATORY, ^rOUNT 



LO\VE, CALIFORNIA. 



{Especially written on the summit of the 



mountain for the readers of The Guide 



TO Nature.] 



I have been looking- at the Milky Way 

 and upon the hiig"e disk of Jni^iter with 



doubted. The fact is that during all my 

 years in observatories in Illinois i never 

 really saw the unutterable splendors of 

 the Milky Way, the star strewn way, un- 

 til I came to this peak. As I write, the 

 stillness and the solitude are absolute. 

 The imagination is alert, and there 

 alone on the mountain summit I 

 seem almost to hear the axis of the earth 

 turning in space. I just glanced toward 



THE LOWE EOr 

 This illustration and the one on the followi 



iRI \l. TELESCOPE. 



re lent to us by "Tlie Theosophical Path." Point 



Loma, California. They originally appeared in Professoi Larkin's book, "Witliin the Mind Maze." 



the sixteen-inch Clark & Sons equatorial. 

 The air is so pure to-night that \vere I 

 to tell of the inconceivably minute points 

 — all giant suns — that I have seen deep 

 within the galaxy, my words might he 



the south window of the observatory and 

 beheld the majestic Goddess of the Night, 

 personified as from the Galaxy. She is 

 disolaying her supernal robes adorned 

 with millions of stars. Owing to the 



