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 Saturn corroborate the belief. No other planets 



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have rings. Only from Akdsha could they eman- 

 ate. 



Saturn's rings are the girdle with which Satan 

 alone among the gods is girt about; for Satan is the 

 Soul and spiritual ruler of Saturn. His kingdom 

 is the house of matter. " Evil is the result of lim- 

 itation, and Satan is the Lord of Limit" (see 

 "Perfect Way," page 369). Remember that 

 through Akdsha spirit descended into matter. 



Ancient myths represent Saturn as devouring his 

 children, which symbolizes exactly what the Akd- 

 sh'ic Tattva does with every other Tattva. Ages 

 before Christ, all the lesser celestial bodies were re- 

 garded as Saturn's children. The Hebrews had 

 several names for Saturn, but as Sater, or Seater, 

 the attributes conferred upon him will be recog- 

 nized as symbolizing perfectly the qualities or pow- 

 ers of Akdsha. He was called the " god of se- 

 crecy," " parent of successive being," and " author 

 of generation." It was believed that Sater con- 

 sumed all things and again repaired them. Men 

 were in closer touch in those days with matters ce- 

 lestial to have felt the mysterious influences of all 

 these things which it is our privilege to understand 

 rationally as inherent in the power of one of the 

 centers from which the life we live is flowing con- 

 stantly to us. 



Saturn's influence tends to fix more deeply that 



