the desire nature. It shows the brainy, persevering man able to cope with, and conquer, material obstacles; the organizer and the promoter; the scientific investigator, who follows material lines. As Jupiter, well aspected, denotes the high-minded philosopher, the worthy law-giver, the sincere and ardent priest, in fact, all who have high and lofty aspirations, so Saturn, when evilly aspected, denotes the evilly-minded, creed-bound sectarian, the materialist, and enemies of society, whether church or state. As Jupiter gives the lofty, expansive and benevolent mind, so Saturn, evilly aspected, gives a sarcastic, concrete and narrow tendency.
It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances of the 1500 millions which inhabit the earth alone, not to speak of other spheres. Every moment of time our actions, individually and collectively, interfere with terestrial equipoise, and were not this instantly restored, the earth must leave its orbit, fly off at a tangent and destroyed. Nor are physical disturbances most potent in disturbing or restoring balance, it is a fallacy to confound solidity and rigidity with strength, as most thoroughly explained in our lecture No. 19: The Coming Force. A train has no strength itself, but must be solid because it is operated upon by an invisible gas called steam. There is no force in a rigid hammer; but when driven by a column of flexible liquid, like water, backed by
