Chapter III. The LuMINARIES AND THE PLANETS（续 3）

In the outer world of human activities Uranus appears now to be exercising more sway. Electrical and mechanical enterprises and inventions of all kinds, railways, educational ‘short cuts,’ index systems, the comparative study of religions, etc., etc., are all more or less under his direct influence and illustrate his peculiar mission—to cause man to seek by the destruction of a /esser form the added life and intelligence dwelling in the higher form of which that lesser form was an integral though separated part; in short, regeneration as distinguished from generation.

NeEptTuNE, the last discovered planet, has, on the whole, but a faint influence upon our earth and its inhabitants. The undeveloped psychic who is unable to control the mediumistic tendencies induced from without, and those who are easily obsessed or of very weak will, always subject to changing impressions, will in one sense come under Neptune as will also those who are very highly advanced psychically. Experience tends to prove that the influence of an afflicted Neptune as a rule is undesirable. There is a possibility of there being such a thing as a lost personality, metaphorically speaking, and such may be in some peculiar manner under this influence. Depravity and exceptional immorality seem to be under the influence of Neptune, but many years must elapse before sufficient tabulation is made to warrant a reliable opinion concerning Neptune’s vibrations.

Much fuller information on these and the other planets will be found in the next volume of this series, where a separate chapter is devoted to each. The beginner, however, will do well to leave these

‘until he arrives at the book in the natural course of his studies; otherwise, he will find himself bewildered with a multitude of ideas for which he has not yet prepared due receptacles. What has been given above is quite sufficient at his present stage, and will furnish him with clear fundamental ideas regarding the natures of the planets, ideas which will form a substantial foundation upon which he can subsequently erect any superstructure which the processes of his thought, aided by further reading, and matured by his own experience and observation, may incline him to devise.

To those who have carefully studied the series of Introductory Manuals issued by the Author, this caution will not, of course, apply, as they will (or should) have already optained a clear outline idea ot the essential natures ot the planets.