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CHAPTER XXX
INSANITY
NO. 19A.--A MENTAL CASE
Female, born June 12, 1897, 9:00 P.M.
WE have at all times tried to impress upon the minds of students of the Rosicrucian Philosophy the great necessity of always looking at the bright side of life, and ever to hold out hope to unhappy and afflicted ones. If we aspire to be helpers of humanity, workers in God's great vineyard, we must always throw the life line to the drowning man, that is, give him that hope, that help, which means life to him. The astrologer who voices the doom of his patient and takes the last ray of hope away when one who is suf-fering comes to him perhaps as the last resort is little less than a murderer. This may be putting it very strongly, but the writer feels that this point cannot be emphasized too much.
To illustrate the danger that lies in the prediction of death: a woman wrote to Headquarters stating that she had but two more years to live, for the astrologers had predicted this. Would we advise her, she asked, to take up the Rosicrucian Philosophy and astrology, and should she go ahead with the school which she had started, or would it be best to give everything up and prepare herself or the coming event, her passing out of the physical
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 19A ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Scorpio 5 SUN: Gemini 22:16 SATURN: Scorpio 25:40R ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Scorpio 29 MOON: Scorpio 26:58 URANUS: Scorpio 25:59R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 21 MERCURY: Taurus 29:50 NEPTUNE: Gemini 20:05 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Capricorn 13:06 VENUS: Taurus 9:38 ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Aquarius 23 MARS: Leo 14:46 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Aries 3 JUPITER: Virgo 3:27 ]
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body? We can assure you that this woman received a letter from Headquarters that as surrounded by strong vibrations which scattered effectually the thoughts of death. As a result of the letter she became a student of the Philosophy and is today an active and healthy woman, destined to reach a ripe old age. The astrologer who predicted this woman's death might have been guilty of murder, but fortunately through her coming in contact with one of our pupils who advised her to write to Headquarters, this was averted.
In 19A we have a patient who has so many weak and afflicted planets that the astrologer must use the greatest diplomacy in order to encourage her. On the first house is the gloomy, pessimistic Capricorn, with the ruler, Saturn, in the Midheaven afflicted by the conjunction of the negative, vi-sionary, worrisome moon and the irresponsible and fanatical Uranus; and to make it even more unfortunate these three planets are in conjunction in the fixed and martial sign of Scorpio, the natural eighth house sign, the house of death. Mercury, the ruler of the mind, is in the gloomy and stubborn sign of Taurus in opposition to the afflicted planets in Scorpio. Could we find anything more unfortunate for mental trouble? When Taurus is afflicted he assists Capricorn in magnifying the gloom side of life and increases his brooding over imaginary ills, so you can imagine the temperament of this poor woman. She was sadly in need of help.
Her request for help came to us in November, 1916. She was at that time in such a mental state that she had threatened suicide, could do nothing but weep, and was surrounded by imaginary troubles. But she was very faithful in writing her weekly letters and did all possible to cooperate with the healers. When she requested healing her progressed Mars was square to the radical moon, Uranus, and Saturn in Scorpio, which caused this mental disturbance. But fortunately the progressed moon at that time was in 25 degrees of Cancer trine and sextile to the afflicted planets in the 10th and 5th houses respectively. This was the life line that was ready to be thrown to help her.
Note that the artistic harmonious, and musical radical Venus is in her own sign of Taurus, trine to the reverent and optimistic Jupiter. The one window of light open to her was this good aspect--music and art. It was necessary to bring harmony into this poor inharmonious mind, and we pre-vailed upon her and her friends to provide her with music in the home and to interest her in art. At the time of her request for help her progressed sun was in 9 degrees and 50 minutes of Cancer, making a good aspect to the radical Venus. This as the means of saving her reason. In May 1917 she wrote us she was feeling so much better that she did not need the help of the healers any longer.
Here we can see what a wonderful work can be done through a true knowl-edge of astrology. Had an unscrupulous astrologer met this woman and
predicted suicide, the danger of which as shown so plainly in the figure, he might have been her murderer. Therefore, dear friends, we hope you will take this as a lesson to use astrology to help and to heal and not to wound.
NO. 19B.--INSANITY
Female, Born January 7, 1868.
Although we are unable to predict the dates of crises in her illness on account of the lack of the birth hour, still the aspects between the planets in this woman's chart, show sufficiently well the nature of the illness and the yearly crises. We find the erratic and eccentric Uranus in the psychic sign of Cancer, in opposition to Mars, the planet of impulse and reckless-ness. Uranus is also in opposition to the life-given sun and to Mercury, the planet of reason, both placed in the belligerent and violent sign Capri-
corn. All four of these planets are square by Neptune in Aries, the sign which rules the head and the brain.
We find that the benevolent ray of Jupiter is quenched by its placement in the twelfth house sign of Pisces, indicating sorrow, trouble, and self-undoing. There is is conjoined with the saturnine Dragon's Tail and squared by the moon, the giver of visions and imagination, making the mind morbid. He is also squared by Saturn, the planet of gloom and melancholy. As a result of all these adverse, perverse, and perverting influences the poor woman has always been weak minded, impulsive, reckless, gloomy, erratic, and visionary. In the year 1915 matters cam to a crisis when the sun was in the twelfth house sign of Pisces, ruling hospitals and asylums. The progressed moon also was there in conjunction with the sun and the saturnine Dragon's Tail, and all of them square Saturn, with the result that the woman as taken violently insane and had to be confined in an asylum, where she has
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 19B [FLAT CHART] ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn SUN: Capricorn 16:31 SATURN: Sagitt. 2:11 ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius MOON: Gemini 11:51 URANUS: Cancer 10:38R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces MERCURY: Capricorn 6:31 NEPTUNE: Aries 12:21 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Aries VENUS: Aquarius 11:54 DRAGON'S HEAD: ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Taurus MARS: Capricorn 15:13 Virgo 7:44 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Gemini JUPITER: Pisces 6:02 DRAGON'S TAIL: ]
[ Pisces 7:44 ]
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been ever since. There has been little or no improvement so far as the men-tal condition is concerned, and the condition of physical health is also delicate.
It is not a hopeless case, however, for the principal inimical influences are from cardinal signs, whose force is comparatively soon spent, and the remainder are from common or flexible signs which are subject to modification. Not that Neptune, the planet of the spiritual mind, is sextile to Ve-nus, the planet of music, and to the moon, the planet of impressionability. Venus and the moon are trine; this shows that the native loves music and that she may be helped by it. With respect to health we find the moon in Gemini, the sign that rules the lungs, which gives a tendency to colds in the lungs. Uranus is in Cancer, squared by Neptune and in opposition to the sun, Mars, and Mercury, which shows nervous indigestion, for Cancer rules the stomach. This can be minimized by proper food, and if this can be pro-vided it will help considerably to clear the mind.
In dealing with the question of insanity students should remember that it is a rupture, complete or partial, in the chain of bodies linking the spirit to the physical vehicle. When the rupture occurs between the dense body and the vital body, or between the latter and the desire body, we have the harm-less idiot. When the break is between the desire body and the mind, the reckless, impulsive, and violent desire nature takes charge of the lower vehicle, and we have the violently raving maniac who must be restrained by a straight-jacket and padded cell. But when the rupture takes place between the mind and the spirit, the cunning and craftiness of the mind exert them-selves to take charge of the lower personality; an insane person of this
order may go about among us for years plotting and scheming with such consummate cunning that we never suspect him of being abnormal until he
carries out some diabolical plot and then laughs and glouts over the ruin, sorrow, and suffering which he has brought upon his victims.
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NO. 19C.--INSANITY, OBSESSION, AND TUBERCULOSIS
Male, born January 30th, 1889, at 12 noon.
THIS horoscope was sent us by the relatives of the native, with permission to use it as a lesson. We find some very interesting points in it, which may be of interest in the study of the science of diagnosis.
Two special points must be taken into consideration in the horoscope of a patient: the sign on the Ascendant and Mercury. The Ascendant shows the strength of the personality. If fixed signs are on the four angles, namely, the first, fourth, seventh, and tenth cusps, then the patient will be apt to help the healer with his will to overcome disease. If, however, common signs are on the angles, then the patient is apt to drift with the tide, and is prone to lean upon the Invisible Helpers, expecting them to do all the work, failing usually to do anything for himself. To get the best cooperation from the patient it is most necessary that the mind be willing to help. Where there is a weak or a stubborn mind, the patient can do much to thwart the efforts made in his behalf, as we find in this horoscope.
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[ BIRTH CHART NO. 19C ]
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[ MIDHEAVEN: Aquarius 7 SUN: Aquarius 10:50 SATURN: Leo 17:24R ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Pisces 2 MOON: Capricorn 28:48 URANUS: Libra 21:59R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Aries 16 MERCURY: Aquarius 29:11 NEPTUNE: Taurus 29:33R ]
[ ASCENDANT: Gemini 11:06 VENUS: Pisces 26:28 ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Cancer 1 MARS: Pisces 16:15 ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Cancer 18 JUPITER: Sagitt. 28:45 ]
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Mercury being in a fixed sign in the tenth house and square to Neptune here gives a most dominating and stubborn mentality. This is a person who will bear no interference or domination from others.
He has naturally a very devout and religious nature, but instead of following the soul's ideals, which are expressed by Jupiter in Sagittarius sextile to Mercury in Aquarius, his stubborn and ambitious mind led him to respond to the vibrations of Venus square Jupiter, Mercury square Neptune, and moon square Uranus.
Venus is exalted in Pisces, the sign of self-undoing, and in the eleventh house, square to Jupiter, which is strong in its own sign of Sagittarius, the sign of religion. This indicates that a woman friend with her flattery and attention, signified by Venus, was responsible for leading him from his religious ideals into negative metaphysical speculation. In addition, the versatile and restless moon makes a trine to Neptune in the occult twelfth house, which gave him the desire for occult knowledge, but the moon, being square to Uranus, led him to his undoing. A person with the planetary positions and aspects which we find in this horoscope is not satisfied to follow instruction or heed the warnings of those who know about occult matters, but he must needs rush in and investigate for himself. the sun in the Saturnian sign of Aquarius in opposition to Saturn in the sign of Leo gives a vein of skepticism, a nature which demands evidence and which must prove all things. This spirit was his undoing. The sun and Saturn being in mutual reception in the tenth and fourth houses respectively, strengthened this tendency.
With the moon trine Neptune and square Uranus this man developed mediumship very quickly and was able to contact the invisible realms. But he heedlessly sought his knowledge along dangerous paths. While the yogi teachings may be safe for the Fourth Race people, the orientals, and for those of the Western races who are still on the lower rounds of evolution, yet to one of the sensitive Western type these oriental teachings are most dangerous. This poor man became attached to a group of Hindus, from whom he received instructions in breathing exercises and psychic development. He as also active in spiritualism wherein mediumship was encouraged.
After a few years the progressed moon reached the opposition to the radical Saturn and later a conjunction with the radical Mercury. Neptune, being the higher octave of Mercury, works largely upon the nervous system, and any undue stimulation will sometimes cause mental unbalance if Neptune squares the mental planet Mercury, often expressing itself through religious mania. This poor man repeatedly claims that he is the reincarnated Jesus. Especially will Neptune give this tendency when in the twelfth house, where it often causes incarceration in an institution for the insane. The moon in the ninth house in Capricorn, square to Uranus, here increased the evil by attracting undesirable entities to this already weakened mind, which was easily driven out of the body, giving the obsessing entities freedom to take possession of it.
To top off this most unfortunate condition the poor man, who has been in an insane asylum for some years, is slowly dying of that dread disease tuberculosis. This is shown by Jupiter in Sagittarius (Jupiter ruling the arterial blood) square to Venus (which has rule over the venous blood) in
Pisces, two common signs.
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