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There can be no more interesting study relative to cosmogony and to luno-anthropology than that which is offered in lunar function and form. It is the hylegiacal center which governs the principles of formulative creation. The lunar sphere is the great menstrual reservoir and channel of universal fluxion as pertaining both to alchemico-organic activity and the corresponding principles in the organo-vital sphere of creation. She is queen of the psychic realm, as the sun is king of the pneumic spheres. In this aspect of their qualities the sex functions of moon and sun are viewed from the external or exoteric point of observation. As the hylegiacal center and sphere of formulative force she holds, in the solutions of her menstrua, all the elements of transformation from which the foundations of the universe are laid and its superstructure established. She is the terminal of the seven planetary oozings, and the final reservoir of their accumulations. The basis and resource of her power to rebuild are the seven laminae or beaten plates (rakayia) of the firmament, rendered stable through the processes of her depository function. She is the final product of the action of solar energy upon the metallic strata contiguous and superimposed one upon another, comprising the outer rind of the crust of the earth, reflexed as an energetic menstruum and aggregated as the lunar gravo-photosphere beneath the contiguity of the upper stratum of the oxygen of our atmosphere and the lower circumference of the atmosphere of hydrogen above us.
The subtle and interior forces of the sun penetrate the inner crust and water of the earth’s surface, permeating even the metallic strata and acting as a disintegrator to the layers of metallic substance, reducing their surfaces of contiguity to electro-magnetic and levic energy. This energy proceeds, as a complex solution or menstruum, from seven metallic bases constituting so many circumferences, formulating in the heavens—as it proceeds from these circumferences toward the center of the kosmos—the seven planetary spheres. The direct cause of the aggregation of the seven spheres or planets is the conjunction of the inflowing energies, of which there are seven qualities, with the co-ordinate seven qualities outflowing from the solar sphere. The moon is the culminating and aggregate product of the seven; she being the final receptacle of the seven fluxions.
The Moon’s Phases.
The waxing and the waning of the moon are continuations of the same phenomena belonging to the planets. The moon is not a direct reflection of the earth’s surface against the contiguity of our present oxygen with the hydrogen atmosphere above us, but the consecutive storage reflections of the various planes of metallic strata responding to the penetration of solar energy. We have in the moon a vague but correct outline of the surface of the earth, implanted by a storage process and viewed by us as a complex reflection of the concave of the earth. We see Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, Oceanica, the waters of the earth, etc., pictured for our inspection in outline above us.
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The Flaming Sword · Vol. 6, No. 2 · July 1893 · PDF p. 6