158 The Law of the Rhythmic Breath 



of the planets, a triumph of mathematics, that 

 wonderful science on the wings of which the most 

 severely materialistic mind fares forth into the in- 

 visible and brings back irrefutable data. When 

 we group the planets in the astronomical order of 

 their density; we find that it increases in an almost 

 regular progression from Saturn to Mercury, 

 which harmonizes perfectly in sequence with the 

 age-honored order of the hour-by-hour rule; that 

 is, from the most distant to the nearest. The re- 

 mote planets Uranus (Herschel) and Neptune 

 (pronounced by Occultists to be outside our sys- 

 tem) do not come within the relations we are con- 

 sidering. They were unknown and invisible to 

 the ancient world. Both discovered within the last 

 century and a quarter (1781-1846, respectively), 

 their influence upon earth life as yet is very slight, 

 but they are heralds of coming changes. 



Dropping out of this planetary sequence, tem- 

 porarily, during our search for Tattvic correspon- 

 dencies, the sun and moon, lords respectively of the 

 positive and negative currents of Prdna, we are 

 reminded that the earth upon which we live is also 

 a planet and has its place in this progression of 

 density; and we find it between Venus and Mer- 

 cury. But in her orbital distance from the sun, the 

 earth's place in the sequence is between Venus and 

 Mars. Remember this, for it will be found to 

 explain a seeming Tattvic irregularity. 



