realise, insofar as the marriage is consummated, that what he is and what 
he is not are identical. Therefore we cannot pick and choose in our Yoga. 
It is written in the Book of the Law, Chapter 1, verse 22, "Let there be no 
difference made among you between any one thing and any other thing, 
for thereby there cometh hurt." 
     Venus represents the ecstatic acceptance of all possible experience, 
and the transcendental assumption of all particular experience into the 
one experience. 
     Oh yes, by the way, don't forget this. In a lesser sense Venus 
represents tact. Many of the problems that confront the Yogi are 
impracticable to intellectual manipulation. They yield to graciousness. 
     13. Our next planet is Mercury, and the Niyama which correspond to 
him are as innumerable and various as his own qualities. Mercury is the 
Word, the Logos in the highest; he is the direct medium of connection 
between opposites; he is electricity, the very link of life, the Yogic process 
itself, its means, its end. Yet he is in himself indifferent to all things, as 
the electric current is indifferent to the meaning of the messages which 
may be transmitted by its means. The Niyama corresponding to Mercury 
in its highest forms may readily be divined from what I have already said, 
but in the technique of Yoga he represents the fineness of the method 
which is infinitely adaptable to all problems, and only so because he is 
supremely indifferent. He is the adroitness and ingenuity which helps us 
in our difficulties; he is the mechanical system, the symbolism which 
helps the human mind of the Yogi to take cognisance of what is coming. 
     It must here be remarked that because of his complete indifference to 
anything whatever (and that thought is—when you get far enough—only a 
primary point of wisdom) he is entirely unreliable. One of the most 
unfathomably dreadful dangers of the Path is that you must trust 
Mercury, and yet that if you trust him you are certain to be deceived. I 
can only explain this, if at all, by pointing out that, since all truth is 
relative, all truth is falsehood. In one sense Mercury is the great enemy; 
Mercury is mind, and it is the mind that we have set out to conquer. 
     14. The last of the seven sacred planets is the Moon. The Moon 
represents the totality of the female part of us, the passive principle 
which is yet very different to that of Venus, for the Moon corresponds to 
the Sun much as Venus does to Mars. She is more purely passive than 
Venus, and although Venus is so universal the Moon is also universal in 
another sense. The Moon is the highest and the lowest; the Moon is the 
aspiration, the link of man and God; she is the supreme purity: Isis the 
Virgin, Isis the Virgin Mother; but she comes right down at the other end 
of the scale, to be a symbol of the senses themselves, the mere 
instrument of the registration of phenomena, incapable of discrimination, 
incapable of choice. The Niyama corresponding to her influence, the first 
of all, is that quality of aspiration, the positive purity which refuses union 
with anything less than the All. In Greek mythology Artemis, the Goddess 
of the Moon, is virgin; she yielded only to Pan. Here is one particular 
lesson: as the Yogi advances, magic powers (Siddhi the teachers call