Gemini – The Twins
GEMINI, the third sign of the Zodiac, denotes the Twins, indicating the dualism inherent in this changeful sign of alternation. It is pictured also by two upright columns, one black, showing its exoteric expression, the acquisition of earthly knowledge by way of the intellect; and the other, a white column, portraying the esoteric expression, which leads to the Spirit and to the perception of truth by way of sense-free, pure thinking and the superconscious Christ-mind.
In Gemini arises man’s sense of his Ego, which I-dentifies his unique seed that is his to sow (Aries) in the soil (Taurus). It is through the ‘I’ – factor and thinking, ruled by Gemini, that man is raised above the animal. In this mutable air sign, consciousness is at work in its objective and subjective expressions, reasoning on the myriad sense perceptions streaming from the outer world and on all the feelings and emotional experiences of the soul, seeking to bring all this to a harmonious synthesis. 
This mutability gives rise to incessant restlessness and constant changefulness; hence, the dualism and the contradictory elements in Gemini. It is, however, because of this dualism that there comes effective advancement, and students of the stellar script will, therefore, not stress or dwell so much upon the outer, double-mindedness of Gemini natives, but will seek esoteric meaning and spiritual purpose behind the striking alternation and the extreme polarity inherent in this airy common sign.
The quality of the imitative and the forces of genius are both resident in Gemini and are expressed by Gemini souls in accord with their soul-age in evolution. In this respect, we are reminded of the parrot whose forte is to mimic easily and to chatter much. The close observer of zodiacal characteristics will even see a facial resemblance to the parrot in certain Gemini individuals, as he will find a likeness to the monkey in others. An ancient esoteric symbol of this sign shows two apes, the first, a witless chattering animal, apishly imitative; the second, an ape who has become a transcendental man and, thus, divine.
In short, in this sign engendering Ego-consciousness, man ranges in quality and degree from the earthly, egotistical man to the spiritually-born Christed Ego, with a sublimated soul expressing its latent genius as a transcendental being. We may point in passing to examples such as Plato, the divine initiate, and in more recent times to Richard Wagner and to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, all of them evolved Egos, strong in or under the influence of Gemini in this sublime sense of the transcendental – earthly men expressing their godlike genius. Such men of Gemini genius never ‘picked the brains of others’ to secure their immortal gems, as some superficial critics would have it, but ever dressed anew with fresh views and new vigor the old ideas or ancient myths, which they raised to new light and quality to suit the new day and time.
Man makes his way to the brain-free power of the Spirit in virtue of the earthly intellect, enlightened and illuminated by the light of love and truth in Gemini and in the other air signs. The air signs are mental and spiritual in their development and manifestation, and Gemini connects the lower man of flesh to his higher mental faculties, until the earthly experiences at last call down true illumination through Spirit-light. Under or in this sign we may see souls that range from the most scatter-minded and superficial, mere dabblers in everything, to the most profound men of genius, wisdom-filled like those just mentioned. The quality and the power depend upon the stage reached in evolution. Much depends on the sharp focus, single-mindedness, and direction of the thinking.
Gemini is receptive to all ideas, for this is the force of the formative intellect, which gathers all sense-impressions and integrates ideas. Souls in this sign are ever seeking knowledge and information, even from their earliest years, and their parents and teachers are apt to be driven into a corner by their incessant questions on a vast variety of subjects. There is a great love for books and reading; hence, self-education continues throughout life. Gemini creates mental awareness. All things are tested by the intellect and the reasoning faculty.
Although Gemini is a positive mutable mental sign, its vice is diffusion. In its outgoing receptivity to all ideas, it lacks the capacity for concentrated mental application to one idea. This makes for great versatility and volatility, as well as for the frequent vice of excessive volubility and loquacity, resulting in an enormous waste of speech forces. However, success is assured those who master their contrasting moods and conquer the restless mobility of this dualistic sign, for it is true that the Gemini individual often wishes to be in two places at the same time, and this dualism, the basic element of the Twins, forever portrays itself throughout life; two things of a kind are always occurring.
Concentrated thinking and intense feelings are lacking and need to be cultivated by most Gemini persons whose Sun, Moon, Ascendant, or planets are in this mental sign. Changeability can be a clog to their progress. Yet they are eloquent, sensitive, affable, democratic, genial, and humane, even when lacking in deep sympathy or true affection. They are remarkably dexterous and deft with their hands and in their thinking, and are expressive in their gestures, speech, and language. Their hands are usually in motion when they talk. At repartee, they are quick and witty. Although they are not domestic, they make the best servants because of their versatility, adaptability, and dexterity.
Gemini rules the brain and nervous system, as well as the twinned lungs, hands, arms, and shoulders, expressive of the symmetry of the human form. This duality affects the nervous system, through Mercury, and often we find Gemini souls riding the highest heaven one moment, and in the next they are flung down into the depths of dark despair, rapidly alternating from the grave to the gay, and from gladness to gloom. At one moment charming, childlike, brilliant, and joyous, they can revert to pessimism and cynicism as quickly as the ethers change.
Generally speaking, the Gemini Ego has a nature that is adaptable and expansive, the soul is impressionable and intelligent, comprehensive, and comprehending. They are the zodiacal souls who seek an all-round development through seeing and knowing, their successes depending on their power of intense attention and on their ability to make their thinking one-pointed by focusing it at will in concentrated attention, and by achieving the ability to maintain continuity.
Gemini, the first mutable sign, Mercury-ruled, is as volatile as the air it represents and as quick and mobile as quicksilver, the Mercury metal. It is a sign of volatility with a rhythm of such alternating polarity, from positive to negative states of consciousness, that instability often appears in the character, as well as a thought-life that is superficial. From this sign comes the dilettante, who manifests a surface-skimming interest in ideas, things, people, arts, and whatever else. At the same time, no sign gives a greater desire than Gemini for an all-round excellence of expression in the sphere of thought and still gives such deftness in the use of the hands and fingers. Thus we see in this sign the duality of head and hands, thought and action, as a composite power combining physical activities with the faculty of thinking. Gemini Egos will actually embrace and employ ideas and motives that are deliberately opposite, contradictory in type and tenor. The duality is such that it affects thought, so that those who are evolved can seize upon ideas in their polarity, bringing them to a synthesis or an over-all, whole view. Difficulties arise in the less evolved through superficial, inadequate thought power. When the negative aspects of Gemini – superficiality, instability, and flightiness – are transmuted through perseverance and endurance, then reliability and loyalty are assured.
As the other Mercury-ruled sign, Virgo, is contractive, reserved, and analytical, Gemini is expansive, outgoing, and synthetical in its adaptive nature. Gemini is the sign of ego-ity, and so the Ego must test itself by and through its environment; and according to the clarity of consciousness will growth be made. Thinking and feeling interact here; the individual reasons upon his sensations, for this sign in a linking force that unites and shows relationships, the relation between rhythm and form, between self and substance, and between the self and its neighbors and relatives.
There is usually destiny experience with brothers and sisters, and also with soul-kindred as well as with blood-brethren. Gemini rules, too, the outer means of establishing relationships by means of letters, writing, books, and speech; also the postmen who deliver the letters, as well as agents, messengers, middlemen, and intermediaries in general. It gives a passion for locomotion, a fondness for moving about, for walking and for travel, and its natives learn much from travel.
Thought moves with such intense speed in these people and along such varied lines that doubt forever arises and makes for indecision. Always at least two ways open up and make choice difficult, for the advantages of both ways are carefully examined and often leave one wavering, ‘sitting on the fence’. Nervous restlessness, irritability, and worry must first be resolved before the Gemini natives become truly fruitful, proficient, and capable of clear judgment and right decision. Once Gemini Egos are able to synchronize their breathing system, that is, their lungs, with the brain and the nervous system, and then to integrate these rhythms with the cosmic rhythms, restlessness will be arrested, worry eradicated, harmony realized, and comprehensive understanding attained.
The Gemini individual invariably gives the impression of being well-informed in virtue of the susceptibility of his mind and his ability to adopt and adapt many ideas, together with his adroit faculty for imitation and his facile flair for imagery. But things, ideas, people, and whatever else that formerly attracted him may be dropped or discarded when something else suddenly arouses his interest. Although there is a certain superficial quality in a Gemini survey and study which fails to grasp the inner meaning or significance, yet the outer facts and peculiarities are quickly seen with keen observation.
The idea of the Gemini individual is to make many connections, and his desire is to expand his circle and to be abreast of everything. A sense for time and a wise use of it become a necessity, for there is never enough time for all his interests. The vice of this sign is its lack of intensity in thinking, which leads to surface-skimming of ideas, devoid of the power of possession and identification, that is, of making one’s self one with the thought or idea. Only in virtue of such identification with the ideas can there be any real knowledge.
In Gemini man becomes a knower and gains knowledge through thinking. Yet the mode of Gemini is first to feel the experience, then to think upon the feeling-episode and to analyze the feelings by means of reasoning; then the more highly evolved Egos sublimate the experience in virtue of the soul’s higher light, the touch with truth and with the teacher found in Gemini’s complementary sign, Sagittarius. In short, thought must become informed by feeling and vice versa; also, the inner reasons must be found for action, hence the importance of motive. By reasoning on the service of suffering in love in all its various phases, from the lowest animal-man to the highest divine, angelic being – the gamut of the forces of feeling, ranging from elemental grossness to the highest, most exquisite etheric refinement – by experiencing this diapason of the soul’s development in the physical body and through the force of feeling, the Gemini reasoner derives increased ability to think. The one sign above all others where man uses thinking as a touch faculty, as it were, is this sign Gemini, which rules the sense of the Ego.
Once we come to understand the foregoing, we shall know why Gemini people always reason upon their sensations and upon their feeling-experiences. By bringing much thought to bear upon their feelings, and by bringing will into their thinking, the intellect at last can become lighted by intuitive brain-free cognition. Men and women make headway in evolution as they become truly discerning of their own soul and spirit, and of the Spirit of the Earth. To know the Zodiac in its esoteric truth is to learn to know oneself as a Christed soul. Such self-knowledge enables one to know all other human selves – their woe and weal – bringing unity and wholeness into life, and the will to be friendly and cooperative, and thus to be an individual of creative good will.
The element of duality is of paramount significance to all human souls, but especially so to Gemini people, for our winter and summer, day and night, man and woman; and God himself declares the phases of Father and Mother, a Divine Duality, as well as a Holy Trinity. In Gemini is inherent the dualism of the brain-free and the brain-bound, the negative and the positive, the objective and subjective, the exoteric and the esoteric, the form and the life, the black and the white, male and female.
Implicit in this symbol of divine wisdom is the perfect purpose of divine love. Love and wisdom are a twain that cannot be separated, and it is in this polarity that there manifests the archetypal light of Christ. Thus, in evolved beings who have learned the lessons of the forces of the Zodiac, there is evident an ethereal loveliness expressive of the divine and the heavenly; the Angel in them connects with the lower earthly man of intellect. This means that work has been well done through many lives on Earth and that the lessons have been learned. Such souls have saved their lives by losing their lower selfishness and by transmuting what was evil in them. These souls no longer live for themselves, but for the welfare of the whole world.
The esoteric element in Gemini is excellently expressed in that part of the most highly occult prayers known, the Lord’s Prayer, which says, ‘Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven’, for earthly man in his physical body endowed with a brain must evolve to the point where his personality becomes conscious of the Christ-Spirit. We human Egos must bring down into the forces of earthly form, the body and the Earth, those life kernels or archetypal forces that are the keynotes of the Spirit. These archetypal ideas are the real forces of all that is on Earth, every last manifestation become spiritualized, ‘born again’, born of the Spirit. The archetypal heavenly region is the source, the ultimate cause of all things. The archetypal kernels originating there become clothed in physical form as a result of the arresting power of the Moon.
Out of the spiritual world there descends the divine directing idea. The spiritual archetype flows downward into and through the soul world – the astral sphere – and the etheric realm, down into earthly matter, where the form takes shape, and life comes to manifestation in the world of matter. It is this matter of the Earth that man must transmute and, in this metamorphosis, man must be ‘born again’ through the Christ Etheric Essence, the creature at last becoming a creator. Thus the spirit leaves its lofty home to manifest in the earthly body, which is to be spiritualized. In this mystical marvel of metamorphosis made possible by the Christ, we may trace the building of the body, which then appears to be what it was called by the ancients, ‘the temple of God’, and we may trace as well the creation of the Earth itself, which bears man in its evolution.
We may discern in this dual sign, Gemini, the evidence of this divine-earthly duality. It is in the light of this wisdom-filled teaching that we may approach and comprehend the stellar script, for it is actually the thought and the wisdom of the Spiritual Hierarchies. Thus, he who would comprehend this thought must lose his profanity and in an oblation of loving reverence, must seek to perfect himself.
The Earth is already ‘born again’, because the Christ has come and has entered the planet through the Man Jesus and the Mystery of Golgotha. The Christ, the ruler of the Sun, is the indwelling Lord of the Earth, and he re-connects now the Earth with its parent body, the Sun. Man likewise takes on now the Christ-consciousness and, together with the Earth, he becomes solarized or Christ-born. Thus, the prayer, ‘Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven’, becomes for everyone of us an invocation for the metamorphosis of man. But the soul become Christ-aware will move forward faster in its evolution through conscious creative spiritual activity.
The thought faculty of Gemini, in sense-free, pure thinking, produces a power of thought that lifts man to the level of that light that is divine – the transcendental atmosphere of the wisdom of love and truth. In this manner the wisdom-filled genius works in men as mystical as Richard Wagner and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, for in highly evolved beings, Gemini is the sign of the sage.
Gemini, being the positive sign of Mercury, the messenger of the gods, creates an interest in all messages from all the worlds and all the gods. These are important to the Gemini soul for, having the desire to study and to acquire knowledge, it ever continues to learn from its total environment. Often one may meet with a Gemini individual whose education has been slight and elementary, yet who may give the impression of being well-informed and able to express his ideas eloquently. Even though his information may be scanty and his thought superficial, there is still evident in him that thought activity that leads to the forming of a comprehensive image, and this is the faculty of synthesis, which is the very reverse of the negative, feminine Mercury-sign, Virgo, for Virgo is analytical and sectional in its image-forming power. This is a very important difference worthy of exact examination and knowledge to the true student of the soul of man.
It is essential to gain whole, integrated views and ideas, full and complete in all respects, of things and of men, of worlds and of life, for they lead to truth and to divine wisdom, a wisdom that connotes wholeness as a matter of course. Self-interest or egotism is fostered by the intellect. Before man became intellectualized he saw and heard and knew the spiritual worlds and beings. The descent, away from the Spirit and down into the physical and earthly personality, has mobilized egotism. The essence to be extracted from Gemini is synthesis. When man reaches this power of synthesis, he is reaching out to and recognizing the wisdom of love, the power that unites male and female as well as the divine and the earthly elements in the sign of the Twins.
The worst fault of the Gemini people who are not yet balanced in the sign is that of mental scattering; they are diffuse and disjointed in their thought life. Their interest reaches to all points of the compass as though irradiating the full circle. They fly from a centre to every circumferential fact and idea to gain a synthesis. This trait gives often to Gemini natives a fine and finished versatility; they fit in and fill every emergency. One would find many of our radio announcers and speakers with Gemini prominent in their nativities, for these men must be very deft and clever with their thoughts and speech.
The vice of many Gemini natives is lack of concentration. They are mentally dispersive, which makes them all too often scatter-minded. The genius of Gemini cannot come to lower unless the individual disciplines himself, to make his thinking one-pointed, functioning in sharp, forceful focus on any one thing or idea at will. Gemini souls must learn to select thoughts and ideas at will, making such ideas and thoughts their very own by acquiring a growing stability in their thinking. No true power is theirs until the superficial and surface-skimming quality of thinking is done away with, the desire to dabble being replaced by an intense power of concentration which makes the mind mighty.
Gemini people must learn to detach themselves from the vice of the shallow and the superficial, arising from their taste for an all-round development rather than for depth. It is their essential need to know the value of depth as well as of breadth, if they would not forever remain dabblers. They must learn searchingly to scrutinize ideas, teachings, statements, knowledge, things, people, and whatever else they meet in life, for unless they make a deep scrutinizing survey, they either accept ideas without thinking, or they ‘pass by without seeing’ the core of truth and thus they deceive themselves. They tend to seek the surface facts rather than the central core from which the circumference takes its rise, and because of such lack of focused or concentrated thinking they miss the truth. Out of this lack of depth and profundity in thinking there arises the shallowness and the element of deceit and duplicity evident in those natives that are not yet balanced or matured, for where one skims all facts and ideas lightly, no depth can be found; the centering force is absent and so is the solidity of thinking and the proper use of will.
Gemini is a mental-feeling mill, where the soul is sheared and shredded, as it were, until the turmoil of testing at last tears off the blinders and enables the man to use the eyes of the soul to see the light and walk in it. All the deceit and dualism, the two-faced conditions one may so much deplore in Gemini people, are after all only experiences being churned by the soul in the mill of earthly life, to draw out eventually the light of wisdom. We cannot criticize or condemn these souls but must be ourselves about our ‘Father’s business’, transmuting our own blemishes of character and learning the lessons of life while we have the time, for the work must be done down here in the earth-school of physical form, and we find our earthly hours all too few, once we have a spiritual awakening. It is not only unwise, but dangerous, to study the stellar science unless we are ready to use it in improving our own natures and in helping others through our growing self-knowledge which is at the same time consciousness of our connection with the whole cosmos.
There are not just twelve zodiacal types. Each sign has its positive and negative aspects, making twenty-four characteristic expressions of sign influences. Freedom implies the power of choice, and choice involves good and evil. Every Ego is free to choose the positive or the negative, the good or the ill. The initiate Job states (2:10) in no minced language the truth that good and evil are opposite poles of One Reality, ‘What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?’ Out of our fleshly weakness comes the strength of God, and there is no other road to perfection. There are certain movements today that blind themselves to the principle of evil, but it is by contending with evil that we develop greater good. The great Christ-exponent, St. Paul, speaking out of his gamut of sufferings, says, ‘And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me: My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me’ (II Corinthians 12:7-9)
In this connection, we must stress something that is too often overlooked now, that is, that perfection comes through the power of polarization manifesting in all worlds, in men and in spiritual beings. The Duality as well as the Trinity of God manifests in what is still a Unity. It was in the Ancient Persian Civilization, when the precession of the equinox had brought the Gemini Age, that man was most aware of this duality. He looked upon the world as being made up of two kingdoms – Light and Darkness. The Kingdom of Light was ruled by the good god Ahura Mazdao, or Ormuzd; the dark, material earth realm, by Ahriman.
In Gemini the soul is torn into two parts, the lower and the higher self; the factor of the twain is always at work in the sign of the Twins, and it is in the resolution of this duality of powers, one of earth and the other of heaven, that divine wisdom and love come to be born and become operative in man. In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, we see the rival houses eventually reconciled through the love of Romeo and Juliet.
Many men of true genius, highly original and creative in arts, letters, poetry, and music, may be found in this sign Gemini. In its highest expression, it moves one beyond its ruler Mercury, to Mercury’s higher octave, Neptune, the planet of creative musical and artistic power. In Gemini, experiences, energized by thinking, must be worked over and be lifted and lighted by the superconscious Christ-mind. This Christ-mind is supersensible and synthesizing, imparting ideas and images that are whole; not the disjointed sectional bits offered by the brain. As God is the whole, so must man, made in God’s image, come to express this unity of the whole, which may be heard to be singing in the realm of archetypes.
So intense is the mental activity of Gemini that the mental moods change rapidly and tend to vanish into so much air. There is an incessant desire for new impressions and feelings, which the Gemini Ego seeks as grist for its mill. But so long as the Gemini native refuses to concentrate his mind and make it one-pointed, he lacks what he should win, for often in his far-reaching survey and compass he fails to master the single points of thought, to bring them into sharp relief and thus into full comprehension. But in the evolved soul, there is a power to hold integrated views and to manifest ideas that are rounded and whole, showing an exquisite nicety and balance in letters, art, or music.
The fixed sings bring stability and concentration to thinking, so as to focus the idea sharply and bring the mental activity to white heat, as it were. Only in this incandescence so essential to the expression of genius. We see the effect of this fixed sign force in Richard Wagner, for he had the first degree of Gemini rising, with the Sun therein, also in the first degree, which means that he shared half of the forces of the preceding sign, Taurus, the sign that held his mental Mercury and his musical Venus. Thus the volatile thinking of Gemini was arrested and held in the fixed sign of power Taurus, and his moon and Part of Fortune were in the fixed-air sign Aquarius.
Gemini functions well when combined with the angelic man of Aquarius, as it does when joined with the justice and judgment of the balanced soul in Libra. Then the Gemini soul has reached maturity. Such a soul was Plato. What a versatile genius! According to a probable nativity of Plato set up by Firmicus, he had Aquarius rising with Venus, Mars, and Mercury therein, while the ruler, Saturn, was exalted in the Venus-sign Libra; the Moon was in Gemini, while the Neptune-sign Pisces, held the Sun.
The genius of Gemini is likewise revealed in the nativity of Tennyson, for he had the Moon and Venus, the poetical imaginative planets, rising in Gemini. He drew his inspiration down from heaven, in what he called his ‘waking trances’. His poems are charged with the idea of man being still ‘in the making’, moving ‘Forward, till you see the highest human nature is divine’, and ‘Love will conquer at the last’. In his works are many references to the dual aspects inherent in man, the male-female elements that complement each other, ‘The two-cell’d heart beating, with one full stroke, life’. The blending of the two forces in man he declares in ‘The Princess’:
Not like to like, but like in difference,
Yet in the long years liker must they grow;
The man be more of woman, she of man;
He gain in sweetness and in moral height,
Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world;
She mental breadth, nor fail in childcare care,
Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind;
Till at the last she sets herself to man,
Like perfect music unto noble words;
And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time,
Sit side by side, full-summ’d in all their powers,
Dispensing harvest, sowing the To-be,
Self-reverent each and reverencing each,
Distinct in individualities,
But like each other ev’n as those who love,
Then comes the statelier Eden back to men:
Then reign the world’s great bridals, chaste and calm:
Then springs the crowning race of human-kind.
May these things be!
(Courtesy of Macmillan and Co, Ltd, London)
As we study Gemini we may find confirmed the truth that the progressive evolution of man and planet demands a development through differentiation, and the dualism we see at work in Gemini souls has a purpose as definite as it is divine. Through willed thinking, man sublimates the intellect to sense-free cognition. As thought becomes lighted with the Spirit, man can become active with a positive, powerful earthly and cosmic purpose. The human Ego residing in its earthly members finds the higher Ego. The man finds the Woman, and the Woman finds the Man.
The Biblical symbol for Gemini is ‘Solomon’s Porch’. As a porch serves as a protecting covered entrance to a building, linking the outer with the inner, creating a meditative or connective place, thus the human Ego connects the higher, divine triad of spirit in man with his three lower earthly members, which form the temple. But Gemini does not become Solomon’s porch until the higher, spiritual triad informs, and interacts with, the lower members by way of the Ego’s pure thinking, for Solomon is synonymous with wisdom.
This wisdom is the solar element, the wisdom of love, and we know that God gave Solomon ‘a wise and understanding heart’, because Solomon sought this living wisdom above all things, the wisdom that showed the real motive and truth in and behind all things. The fullness of the solar spiritual truth is revealed in Christ-Jesus – the Sun-god become Man, a divine-human Ego – the pattern of what man must become. In St. John 10:23, it is stated, ‘And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch’. This shows the Man who has become fully integrated in all his forces, a Son of God, through a solar amalgamation of the potencies of the zodiac, in that union which the air signs produce to unite the earthly, intellectual man with the Kingdom of Heaven and the Etheric Christ. According to Acts 5:12, the apostles acquired this solar Christ-power, ‘And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch’.
In Gemini we see the Ego connecting the lower, earthly, brain-bound personality with the higher self. The life-urge is to link the intellect with the mind of Christ. By this means, one may achieve a synthesis which is the integration of ideation, finding and expressing the whole and not a part; and this means that the man of physical form relates himself to and expresses the Solar Man, the genius of God within. It is the chief function of Gemini Egos to comprehend this and to make it a reality; hence, their versatility, the manifestation of many-sidedness and, in the highly evolved, that genius that shows the man has made contact with and has recognized his higher Christ-self.
‘Tis matter’s mode, the intellect,
The earthly brain doth thought infect;
And now the mind must lighted be,
The Christing truth shall make man free.
The empty husk of earthy mind,
Man’s darkened intellect, is blind
To Spirit’s store of joyous youth;
The mind unlighted tramples truth.
What price to pay for intellect,
To set aside, no more detect
The Life of Spirit everywhere,
This mood of man so starved and bare.
The lighted Teachers of mankind,
With Christ, give sight to those now blind,
Reverse the rhythm from left to right,
From darkness to His Marv’lous Light.