The Divine Language of Celestial Correspondence

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by  C Turnbull

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The Divine Language of
Correspondences
Celestial
A Study in Planetary and Spiritual
Vibrations, with an account of the
Involution and Evolution of the Soul
BY
COULSO T URNBULL
N
Author of
Semi-Kanda, Threshold Memories, Etc.
REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
“How will we know the pitch of that great bell
Too large for you to stir. Let a flute
Play 'neath the fire fixed metal, listen close
Till the right note flows forth a silvery rill.
Then shall the huge bell tremble—then the mass
With the myriad waves concurrent shall respond
In low soft unison.”
—George Eliot.
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CONTENTS
Chapter Page
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
PART ONE
The Gospel of Correspondences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
II The Soul and the Sidereal Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
III
The Esoteric Symbolism of the Planets. . . . . . . . 20
IV The Mystical Interpretation of the Zodiac. . . . . . 25 -
The Kabalistical Interpretation of the Twelve
Houses and Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 32
VI The Evolution and Involution of Soul. . . . . . . . . 36
VII Plants, Leaves, Spirals and Their Occult Analogy
to the Stars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
VIII The Fiery Signs, Aries, Leo and Sagitarius. . . . . . 51
IX The Earthy Signs, Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn. .. 59
The Airy Signs, Gemini, Libra and Aquarius. . . 67
XI The Watery Signs, Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. . 74
XII The Character of the Planets. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . 81
APPENDIX TO PART ONE
Fragments from the Hermetic Books. . . . . . . . . .101
PART TWO
Introduction to Part Two. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
XIII The nature of Signs, Planets, Houses and Pro
fessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
XIV Description of the Signs and Their Decans When
Ascending at Birth. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
XV Mercury in the Different Houses. . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
XVI Moon in the Different Houses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
XVII Venus in the Different Houses. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 148
XVIII Mars in the Different Houses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151
XIX Jupiter in the Different Houses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
XX Saturn in the Different Houses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
XXI Uranus in the Different Houses. . . . . .. . . . . . . .160
XXIN Neptune 162
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
XXII Sun in the Different Houses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.65
XXIII Symbolization of Zodiacal Signs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .168
XXIV How to Erect a Horoscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .281
CONTENTS-Continued
Chaper Page
XXV How to Read a Nativity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .290
XXVI How to Prognasticate Events. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .298
XXVII Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303
XXVIII Important Aphorisms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3.13
XXIX. How to Prove the Moment of Birth . . . . . . . . . . .328
XXX The Nativity of Jesus the Nazarite. . . . . . . . . . . .337
XXXI Some Astronomical Short Cuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .346
XXXIII A Dictionary of Astrological Terms. . . . . . . . . .3.49
APPENDIX TO PART TWO
Transits of Superior Planets.
Houses of New York.
Examples of Ephemerides.
Logarithms.
PREFACE TO FOURTH REVISED
EDITION
I
The first edition of this work was written while was
traveling and lecturing daily. It was published in re
sponse to numerous requests from students and was little
better than a brief collection of my own notes, roughly
drafted and arranged. In this revised edition I hope I
have made clearer the supreme and transcendental truths
seen in the starry planisphere overhead. I have pur
posely divided the book into two parts, the philosophical
and the practical, or the exoteric and esoteric, in order
that the vast array of facts can be better summarized, for
a summary is only attempted, it being impossible to pre
sent all the truths in one volume. So many books on star
correspondence fail to draw attention to the deep spiritual
truth underlying the science, and hence its verity has been
held up to question again and again. The breadth of
view which a true knowledge of Celestial Correspondences
discloses, and a comprehension of the vibrations, operating
on our planet and man which the science teaches bring to
the mind of the student, the wonderful unfolding of his
position as an evolving, growing soul, and his duty to his
fellow man. The science also completely dispels the doubts
which have arisen and fallen at varying periods upon the
understanding of man. The truths learned in celestial cor
respondences completely harmonize with all esoteric teach
ings of any age or religion. The book, I believe, will be
particularly helpful to metaphysical students whose minds
have become illumined by the light of divine wisdom that
arises at some time from the hidden being in all men.
CoulSON TURNBULL.
San Diego, California,
July
7, 1913.
PART ONE
CHAPTER I.
The Gospel of Correspondence
Ages ago, man discovered his Heart needed a nobler
language than mere words, and his Love desired to encircle
something grander and vaster than our little planet, like
wise his soul could not be content with its boundaries, unless
such boundaries included the Universe. There is nothing
so profound in human knowledge as the philosophy of the
Past which aimed to apprehend the supreme truths of exist
ence, and satisfy alike the Heart's Love, and the Soul's
aspiration. The language of that philosophy in myth, in
symbol, and star, told the story of the Universe, and in its
telling the history and mission of the Soul unfolded itself.
Such undoubted proofs of a mystic knowledge cannot
be denied when one studies the venerable and profound
writings of Greece, Chaldea, India and Egypt. The im
mense intellectual power, the profound scientific knowl
edge, and great wisdom have scarcely been equaled even
in our present era.
Did an early human race once live, ask the Dwellers in
Sense, who desired to aid a later humanity in finding the
Unit of All things?
Did such a race see a time in the future when man’s
spiritual eye would be opened, and his ear listen to the
Silent Soul? Did those ancient Masters prophetically see
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8
an infant humanity arising who would desire a language
that should link together the intuition and the intellect?
Whatever the answer, they have left us a key by which
to enter the Temple of Wisdom, to worship at the Altar of
the Universe and that Key is in the knowing the Geometry
of the Heavens and the Unity of life.
Perhaps those ancient Masters felt the glad glow of the
Increate Fire of the Soul, when it first made known the
meaning of its deepest self, when it unfolded to man the
truth that he had always been, and ever will be, whether
millions of ages ago or to come; that no star so remote but
that the same essential nature is in the Divine-human man.
Man is only rediscovering today what has been taught
by the Ancients of the Past, namely, that in man’s deepest
essence is the nature of all things which awaits interpreta
tion by him through his will and the understanding of his
inner life.
Every pulsation of the worlds without centers and
vibrates in him. Says the Hindoo: “The inmost life of
things is one, and That Life art Thou.”
“All things are connected with one another and the
bond is holy,” says Marcus Aurelius.
Every time-form of outward substance has its cor
responding nature in man. If we could briefly survey
what the history of science and philosophy teaches today,
we should find the world without is mind, is One. In
this One are contained all the elements or ideas in the
Universe. From this One substance proceed the myriads
of worlds, and from the world proceed the myriads of liv
ing creatures, slowly evolving from finite sense to grand
and yet grander intelligence, until man sees a first flash
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of the Eternal principles at work in and around him, and
is intoxicated with its indescribable beauty.
He sees the vital principle of the Universe to be thought,
passion, aspiration, back to Unity. The same order exists
everywhere, the same system, unity governing variety. As
the eye of man first strains to distant fields of nebulae, or
to the immensity of worlds overhead, he perceives each
system to be alike in virtue and One-ness; each system of
worlds moved, repelled, or attracted by the infinite eternal
passion. Each turns in its own center, and moves in a spiral
towards the center of the whole, where rests the Altar of
the Universe. It is a transcendant fact that in everything
is the same imprint of harmony, proportion and color.
If we turn again with microscopic eye to nature's min
iature forms, the microcosmic cell of a delicate fiber, we find
many chambers mirroring tiny worlds as grand, and beauti
ful, as the radiant star fields o'erhead.
“The Law is One, the Source is One, the Sub
stance One, and from this One proceeds variety,
each variety a world, impelled into motion by the interior
Divine Breath. The World’s Breath ! Listen to its systole
and diastole ! See how birth and death follow the pulsings.
From this Breath was man born. “In the image of
God created he him.” The human soul is like this breath
diffused over all, and penetrating everything. This soul of
man is apparently separate, yet not separate. There is the
same harmony at work in the human soul as in the heavens
and the outer world, the same order, constancy, the same
circling within and without of worlds.
Just as the Breath in passion moves worlds into space
and order, so the same Breath in the human soul moves