CHAPTER XT. Jupiter THE PLANET oF BENEYOLENCR
ROM cach of the divine Llierarchies which have
ministered at the birth and evolution of humanily we haye reecived certain qualities and faculties upon which we are being nursed from nescience to om- niscience and from impotence to omnipotence in life’s great school. From the Lords of Venus we received the priceless gift of love whieh links hnmanity in the tenderest aifection of varying degrees and makes life beautiful. From the Lords of Mercury we received the no less valuable gift of mind whieh enables us to conqnor the material world and provide ourselve: with the comforts of life, but something more is needed. The divine spark within us is ever seeking an outlet and the greater the two qualities of love and intellect grow the stronger the upward urge, but this -eannot be fully satisfied cither if the Spirit secks to raise itself to its divine Souree through the love nature expressed by Venus and enlminating in its higher octave Uranus. The religious fervor then expresses itself as devotion of the most sublime na- ture but there is still a lack. Feeling without knowl- edge is incomplete. Nor can the inner urge be sat- isfied if through the mereurial channel of intellect it attempts to ratse itself to tho spiritual perception
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