Page:The message of the stars - an esoteric exposition of medical and natal astrology explaining the arts of prediction and diagnosis of disease (IA messageofstarses00heiniala).pdf/196



YTHOLOGICALLY Mercury is represented as

a ‘Messenger of the Gods’ and this is in line

with the oceult faets, for when infant humanity had been led astray by the martial Lucifer spirits and fullon into generation it becume necessary for the other divine hierarehies to take steps looking to a fu- ture regeueration and to further that object the Lords of Venus were bronght to the earth to educate ha- manity in such a manner that love might bo substi- tuted for lust and men might thue be induced to aspire to something higher. While the Lords of Venus dealt with mankind in general the most pre- eoejous among them were taken in hand hy the Lords of Mereury, whose wisdom-teaching is symbolically embodied in the caduceus or ‘staff’ of Mercury, con- sisting of two serpents twining around a rod and representing the solution of the riddle of life: “Whence we have come, Why we are here and Whither we are bound,”’ showing the pupil the spiral path of involution by which the divine spark has buried itself in matter, also the spiral path of cvelu- ton by which humanity will eventually again reach the Father’s bosom, and the short road of Znitiation

192