246 The Law of the Rhythmic Breath 



Seven is " the master of the moon " for she is 

 constrained to change her phase every seven days. 

 Thus she herself is without the seven, being acted 

 upon by them. 



Mme. Blavatsky says : " The seven planets are 

 not limited to this number because the ancients 

 knew no others, but simply because they were the 

 primordial or primitive houses of the seven Logoi. 

 There may be nine and ninety-nine other planets 

 discovered this does not alter the fact of these 

 seven alone being sacred." What you know of 

 planetary influences will enable you to recognize the 

 " houses " as centers respectively of the separate 

 creative forces, or Logoi. 



Though invisible and inaudible to us in detail, 

 the creative forces, in the form of rates of vibra- 

 tion which compound and dissociate the atoms and 

 molecules, become in the synthesis of the whole 

 audible to us on the material plane. The Chinese 

 call it the " Great Tone," or Kung. It is the ac- 

 tual tonic of Nature, recognized by musicians as 

 middle Fa on the piano. 



Among the moderns, the great French genius, 

 Balzac (recently classed with Napoleon and other 

 history-makers of the nineteenth century among 

 the demi-fous, or half-insane) was gifted with a 

 Pythagorean insight into the mysteries of the Kos- 

 mos. He wrote : " There is a Number beyond 



