Planetary Influences 157 



Our immediate interest now is with the Tattvic cor- 

 respondencies which subject their activities that 

 is, their vibrations in physical organisms to 

 planetary influences. 



The Shwagam*, which is the Sanskrit authority 

 for most of our knowledge concerning the Tattvic 

 Law, gives two sets of Tattvic values or corres- 

 pondencies for the planets, which at the outset is 

 bewildering and unsatisfactory. There is but the 

 slightest agreement between the two; and upon ex- 

 amination the logical mind rejects both as equally 

 arbitrary and capricious, and seeks for a satisfac- 

 tory hypothesis upon which to base the law of cor- 

 respondencies. 



We ask ourselves: How do the planets differ 

 one from another in elementary substances, and 

 how are the Tattvas differentiated? In the evolu- 

 tion of the latter (see Chapter V) we know that 



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Akdsha the bowl in which all are mixed is 

 the most sublimated and that they increase in dens- 

 ity as they descend to Prithivi, the activities of 

 which tend to cohesiveness and compactness. This 

 brings us immediately to the question: Are not 

 (the planets differentiated in the same way, and 

 is not their density determined in like manner, or 

 by the variation in the proportions of the Tattvas? 

 If so, which is the most ethereal? 



Fortunately modern science has arrived at very 

 definite conclusions upon this subject of the density 



