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{{Style P-No indent|East and West, Forces having each a distinct occult property. These beings are also connected with Karma, as the latter needs physical and material agents to carry out her decrees, such as the four kinds of winds, for instance, professedly admitted by Science to have their respective evil and beneficent influences upon the health of Mankind and every living thing. There is occult philosophy in that Roman Catholic doctrine which traces the various public calamities, such as epidemics of disease, and wars, and so on, to the invisible “ Messengers ” from North and West. “ The glory of God comes from the way of the East ” says Ezekiel ; while Jeremiah, Isaiah, and the Psalmist assure their readers that all the evil under the Sun comes from the North and the West — which proposition, when applied to the Jewish nation, sounds like an undeniable prophecy for themselves. And this accounts also for St. Ambrose (On Amos, ch. iv.) declaring that it is precisely for that reason that “ we curse the North-Wind, and that during the ceremony of baptism we begin by turning towards the West (Sidereal), to renounce the better him who inhabits it ; after which we turn to the East.”}}

Belief in the “ Four Maharajahs ” — the Regents of the Four cardinal points — was universal and is now that of Christians, * who call them, after St. Augustine, “ Angelic Virtues,” and “ Spirits ” when enumerated by themselves, and “ Devils ” when named by Pagans. But where is the difference between the Pagans and the Christians in this cause ? Following Plato, Aristotle explained that the term στοιχεῖα was understood only as meaning the incorporeal principles placed at each of the four great divisions of our Cosmical world to supervise them. Thus, no more than the Christians did, do they ''adore ''and ''worship ''the Elements and the cardinal (imaginary) points, but the “ gods ” that ruled these respectively. For the Church there are two kinds of Sidereal beings, the

{{Style P-No indent|Angels and the Devils. For the Kabalist and Occultist there is but one ; and neither of them makes any difference between “ the Rectors of Light ” and the Cosmocratores, or “ Rectores tenebrarum harum,” whom the Roman Church imagines and discovers in a “ Rector of Light ” as soon as he is called by another name than the one she addresses him by. It is not the “ Rector ” or “ Maharajah ” who punishes or rewards, with or without “ God’s ” permission or order, but man himself — his deeds or Karma, attracting individually and collectively (as in the case of whole nations sometimes), every kind of evil and calamity. We produce causes, and these awaken the corresponding powers in the sidereal world ; which powers are magnetically and irresistibly attracted to — and react upon — those who produced these causes ; whether such persons are practically the evil-doers, or simply Thinkers who brood mischief. Thought is matter, * we are taught by modern Science ; and “ every particle of the existing matter must be a register of all that has happened,” as in their “ ''Principles of Science ”'' Messrs. Jevons and Babbage tell the profane. Modern Science is drawn more every day into the maëlstrom of Occultism ; unconsciously, no doubt, still very sensibly The two main theories of science — ''re ''the relations between Mind and Matter — are Monism and Materialism. These two cover the whole ground of negative psychology with the exception of the quasi-occult views of the pantheistic German schools. †}}