The Universality of the Tattvas 71 



influence just as are the ganglia of the nervous 

 system. This agrees with and explains the puz- 

 zling tenet of Hermetic philosophy, " As it is 

 above, so is it below," and shows the close parallel- 

 ism between the microcosm and the macrocosm. 

 Always an acknowledged truth, modern science has 

 yet to point out the first coincidence. The Tatt- 

 vic vibrations corresponding thus with the planets 

 necessarily vary in force according to their move- 

 ments; every planet, and therefore the force of 

 vibrations emanating from it, being modified in 

 manifold ways according to its nearness to or re- 

 moteness from a sympathetic or a dominating sis- 

 ter orb. Much more concerning these correspond- 

 ences will be developed in later chapters. It could 

 not be so well understood now. It suffices to state 

 here that every activity in man is a microcosmic 

 reflection of macrocosmic activity. 



This Tattvic influence is the energy, working 

 by the same law, throughout the kingdoms, min- 

 eral, vegetable, and animal of this vast universe. 

 Their myriads of permutations furnish the diver- 

 sity which charms us, and their invariability that 

 ever-recurring unity of action that baffles the phy- 

 sicist with amazing paradoxes. 



In the process of evolution, every Tattva, 

 though retaining its essential primary quali- 

 ties (the properties already described as differen- 

 tiating one Tattva from another see table of 



