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<span style="font-variant:small-caps">It</span> is curiously interesting to notice what logically impossible conclusions may be arrived at by one who has just sufficient natural impulse towards occultism to produce in him an overpowering desire for “something novel,” without the necessary mental and intuitive qualifications for investigation. “Over the pond” this craving for “novelties” is rather strong, perhaps more so there than in any other part of the globe; and the effects of this tendency are far too frequently of the nature above indicated. The mental atmosphere {{Page aside in Lucifer|v=3|n=18|p=518}}of the West is at the present day filled with these “inflated bladders,” which require but the application of a pin’s point – rather more ''penetrating'' than ''overpowering'' – to destroy their commercial buoyancy. Scientific children are fond of them as toys, but if one more enquiring than the rest should seek to ''know why'' they are so floaty and the rest, the result of his enquiry is usually so much ''wind;'' and it may be, a little colouring matter inside, serves to give the whole thing an attractive appearance.

The sun is, without doubt, the source of all natural life in its own system, and it is in the modification of this one natural life-principle that characteristics are produced in the ''forms'' of life which manifest them. But no allowance is made either for the latitude or longitude of birth in this theory of Solar Biology, and therefore it is to be inferred that, because the geocentric longitude of the Sun is, between the above dates, in the sign Scorpio, all persons born under any conditions and in any clime during that period, will manifest similar tendencies in mind, soul and body. This is rather wide reasoning; for it is a well-known fact that the ''angular distance'' which any celestial body may form in relation to a certain place on the earth’s surface, will determine the degree and quality of that body’s influence on persons happening to be born at the time in that place. In this respect the planets, as moderators of the solar rays, will determine the characteristics of the native, according to their relative angular distances in the Zodiac, and their several positions in respect to the place of birth. But “Hiram Butler” thinks differently, and refers all the electric and magnetic effects of the earth and sun (the cosmical father and mother) and all those of the planets in the solar system to the stars which fall within the limits of certain 30 degrees of the Earth’s Zodiac! For if the Sun, by its apparent motion through the Zodiac, alters its nature 12 times in the course of a year, and if its {{Page aside in Lucifer|v=3|n=18|p=519}}relative angular distance from the place of birth stands for nothing, we must necessarily infer that those changes of the solar action are due to the nature of the constellations with which it is in conjunction “Hiram Butler” evidently has not given sufficient attention to the relationship existing between the fixed or Intellectual Zodiac and the moveable or Natural Zodiac.