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are alike." She also says: "Every man being 

 born under a certain planet, there will always be 

 a predominance of that planet's color in him, be- 

 cause that principle will rule in him which has its 

 origin in the Hierarchy in question." 



The speech of man preserves the record of time- 

 honored recognition of this fact. We say: " He 

 has a martial bearing." " His is a fiery tempera- 

 ment." " She was always a little luny " mean- 

 ing not crazy at all, but fanciful, imaginative. The 

 very word lunatic, however, expresses the bale- 

 ful effects of the moon's excessive and malign 

 influence. " Even as a child he had a lordly way." 

 That is, Jupiterian, commanding. " A Saturnine 

 disposition " has its happy contrast in a " sunny " 

 one. And thus, " A man of iron," " She is as good 

 as gold," " He has no sand," these all are sig- 

 nificant of elemental constitution. Pages could be 

 filled with examples of this graphic symbology 

 which has enriched all languages; and remember 

 that all symbology is the expression of facts and 

 truths. In losing sight of this, the moderns have 

 suffered much. 



At first the mind refuses to accept this mere pre- 

 eminence of a sheath as changing its relations in 

 kind or quality to the other Principles; but it be- 

 comes possible when we realize, to use Mrs. Be- 

 sant's words, that " the sheaths are not divisible 

 one from another," and that " there are but three 



