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16, are mentioned in the Bible, and we shalt find that our modern systems of religion are full of allusions to the signs which lie between them, namely, the three pairs of opposites: Aries-Libra, Pisces-Virgo, and Aquarius-Leo. These three pairs of opposites are, as already stated, emblematic of the development in the early third of the Aryan Epoch, the Sun by precession went through the sign Aries, the middle third of the Aryan Epoch finds the Sun in Pisces, by precession, and during the last third of this Epoch the Sun will go through the sign Aquarius, Then the solstitial point Capricorn will see the inauguration of a new cycle or age.

The spiritual preparation for this development commenced about thirteen thousand B. C. when the Sun by precession, was in the sign Libra, the Balance, the last time, and different phases of this germinal impregnation of the people then living were carried on during the precessional travel of the Sun through Virgo, Leo, and culminated in Cancer about eight thousand B. C. when the last of Atlantis was destroyed by water, substantially as related by the Egyptian priests to Plato, and we shall see presently how those germinal ideals, given to humanity in those far, by-gone days have grown and flowered into factors of human development and spiritual Standards of the greatest importance.

In the latter third of Atlantis, Egoism had