.......Matthew-Aquarius........To
Know.
.......Mark-Leo................To
Dare.
.......Luke-Taurus.............To
Do.
.......John-Scorpio............To
Keep Silent.
In
the Book of Revelations we read
that by the River of Life grew a
Tree of Life and of its twelve
manner of fruits whereby it
yielded a different fruit for
each month of the year.
Elsewhere
in the Bible, which is a great
repository of astrological
truths, we find God referred to
as the Logos, out of which went
four rivers. In Abraham's effort
to restore the Logos, we find
the symbol of an earlier
Trinity: Abraham, the spiritual
father; Isaac, the thought
concept; and Jacob, the physical
externalization.
Jacob's
twelve sons were the chiefs of
the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
These are listed at birth in
Genesis XXIX, and again shortly
before his death (Gen. XLIX).
Ezekiel lists the tribes in the
distribution of land,
substituting Manasseh and
Ephraim, as perhaps the sons of
deceased fathers, Joseph and
Levi; yet in the last chapter in
listing the Temple dates he
employs the names of the twelve
sons, as recounted in Genesis.
The symbolic descriptions
accompanying the names leave
little doubt that they were
representative of the twelve
astrological types.
In
the order of their birth the
twelve sons were named Reuben,
Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan,
Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issacher,
Zebulon, Joseph and Benjamin.
There is disagreement among
authorities as to which Sign
represents each one, but none as
to the fact that they were
astrological. In fact Dan is
definitely established as
representing Scorpio in Jacob's
last blessing, when he said:
"Dan is a snake, a serpent
in the path, that biteth at the
horse's heels so that the rider
falleth backward,"
referring to Scorpio at the
heels of the Centaur or
Sagittarius.
It
is generally considered that the
modern prototype of the tribe of
judah is the British nation; of
Dan, Italy; of Naphtali, the
United States; and of Reuben,
the Jews.
The
twelve layers of the foundation
walls of the New Jerusalem (Rev.
xxi: 19-20) were builded
of:
1.
Jasper, an opalescent or
greenish stone.
2.
Sapphire, a blue, transparent
gem.
3.
Chalcedony, pale gray,
translucent quartz.
4.
Emerald, green, transparent
beryl.
5.
Sardonyx, onyx with layers of
sard, a brownish, red
chalcedony.
6.
Sardius, probably a ruby.
7.
Chrysolite, blue-green magnesium
iron silicate.
8.
Beryl, probably bluish-green or
aquamarine.
9.
Topaz, a yellow sapphire.
10.
Chrysoprase, a light green
chalcedony.
11.
Jacinth, a stone the color of
hyacinth.
12.
Amethyst, purple or blue-violet
quartz.
From
another period we find the
Twelve Labors of Hercules, as
emblematic of the tasks which
Destiny metes out to each of the
twelve basic types, whereby to
attain to an heroic stature.
Hercules, or Heracles, is a
mythological hero celebrated for
his strength in the performance
of super-human tasks, imposed by
Eurysthcus because of the hatred
of Hera (Juno) for Alcmena, the
mother of Hercules by Zeus
(Jupiter). After the death of
Hercules he was deified as the
husband of Hebe.
The
Twelve tasks are not listed in
the same order by all his-
torians, and there are
differences of opinion as to the
signs to which they pertain, but
presumably the hero took the
worst traits of each sign and
transmuted them into the
nobility of which each sign is
capable. The "labors"
are:
1.
Wrestling with and killing by
strangulation the invulnerable
Nemean lion.
2.
Destruction of the Lernean
hydra.
3.
Capture of the Arcadian or
Cerynean hind - or stag.
4.
Capture of the boar of
Erymanthus, when he fought the
Centaurs, killing two friends,
Chiron and Pholus. v.
Demeter's mysteries (not in this
dictionary!)
5.
Cleansing the stables of Augeas.
6.
Killing of the man-eating
Stymphalean birds.
7.
Capture of the Cretan bull -
afterwards killed by Theseus.
8.
Capture of the man-eating mares
of the Thracian Diomedes.
9.
Seizure of the girdle of
Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons.
10.
Bringing the oxen of Geryones
from Erythria in the Far West.
On this adventure he set up the
Pillars of Hercules at the
Straits of Gibraltar.
11.
Bringing the golden apples from
the garden of the Hesperides.
12.
Carrying Cerberus from Hades to
the upper world.
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