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6 Those unfortunates are gradually degenerating and the time will come when they will all go to the planet Saturn, which is the door to Chaos. Thence they will be expelled to inter-planetary space to await the time when, in a new system, there will be a favorable condition for their further evolution.

Thus the Zodiac and the planets are as a book in which we may read the history of Humanity during past ages, and it also gives a key to the future which is in store for us. In the famous Zodiac in the Temple of Denderah, Cancer is not pictured as we have it in modern days. There it is a beetle, a scarab. This was the emblem of the soul, and Cancer has always been known in ancient times, as well as among modern mystics, to be the sphere of the soul, the gate of Life in the Zodiac whence the spirits coming into rebirth, enter our sub-lunary conditions. It is therefore aptly ruled by the Moon which is the planet of fecundation, and it is noteworthy that we find Capricorn, which is its opposite, ruled by Saturn the Planet of Death and Chaos, who is mystically depicted as “the reaper with his scythe and hour glass in hand.” These two opposite signs are therefore turning points in the soul’s career. Cancer and Capricorn mark the highest ascent of the Sun into the Northern Hemisphere, and its lowest descent into the South. Observations show us that during the summer when the Sun is in the sphere of Cancer