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3 particular age. For example, Saturn “ the lean and slippered pantaloon,” or sad old age. Jupiter the solemn and portentous justice, the serious and serene man who has arrived and controls. Mars the soldier, full of energy and life, vigorous and formidable. Sol the man who has still something of his youth left, and is gay betimes and serious betimes, the man who loves and the man who works. Venus explains itself in Shakespeare’s words, “ the lover with a woeful ballad.” Mercury the schoolboy, happy, careless and gay, mischievous and full of an…
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9 Mars, invoked, is indeed capable of victory : but he has already lost the controlled wisdom of age ; in the moment of conquest he wastes the fruits of it, in the arms of luxury. It is through this weakness that the perfected man, the Sun, is of dual nature, and his evil twin slays him in his glory. So the triumphant Lord of Heaven, the beloved of Apollo and the Muses is brought down into the dust, and who shall mourn him but his Mother Nature, Venus, the lady of love and sorrow ? Well is it if she bears within her the Secret of Resurrection !…
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…s illustrating Humanity, its fate both good and evil. Man, unable to solve the Riddle of Existence, takes counsel of Saturn, extreme old age. Such answer as he can get is the one word “ Despair.” Is there more hope in the dignity and wisdom of Jupiter ? No ; for the noble senior lacks the vigour of Mars the warrior. Counsel is in vain without determination to carry it out.