Planetary Influences 153 



the creative powers of the Universe work with and 

 for the right. 



Throughout the Universe we have the seven- 

 fold division, and that the planets are closely re- 

 lated with this, having each a correspondence with 

 plane and principle and element, with color and 

 with tone, is so manifest to the Occult student 

 as to need no demonstration. We are so wonted 

 to this seven-fold division in some of the common 

 affairs of life as to accept it unquestioningly. 

 Thus, the seven days of the week are named from 

 the planets, not in haphazard fashion, but strictly 

 in accordance with their movements hour by hour. 



A cardinal tenet of the earliest known principles 

 of astrology was that every hour and every day is 

 under the direct rule and influence of a planet; and 

 there is no record of a period when the nearer plan- 

 ets, from Saturn to Mercury, were not known and 

 symbolized as in our era. Of these, the sun and 

 moon, supposed by the Egyptians to circle round 

 the earth, were recognized as paramount in influ- 

 ence upon it; and the others were dignified accord- 

 ing to the periods of their orbits which were the 

 gauge of their distance. 



The planet ruling the first hour names the day, 

 and the succession begins with Saturn, the most 

 distant, and takes the planets in their order, viz. : 

 Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sol, Venus, Mercury, and 

 Luna. Thus, on Saturn's day Jupiter rules the 



