in plant life, in that the human body must obtain it through food. When digestion and assimilation fail because of Calcium starvation it must be derived from the highly triturated tablets of this mineral. Natrium sulph is electro-negative, in this instance. It is linked with sodium and thus especially active in water.
The brain or Aries essence is a proteid, in fact this Ancient of Days in the Greek myth was Proteus—the first substance. It is a well-known chemical fact that sulphur is the only visible mineral substance found in proteid, which proves that it performs a linking function. Thus it serves to link up the brain substance or Proteus with the next chemical agent or Natrium, in order that a more substantial substance may result. There are twelve steps in this reduction or stepping-down process, corresponding to the twelve signs of the zodiac. Therefore the “heavenly dew” is brought into a different state or condition, becoming more earthy or tangible.
One particle of Natrium sulph has the power to attract twice its bulk of water containing waste products and to throw it out of the blood. As waste products consist in the average human body of unhealthy or acid residue, they can truthfully be compared to sulphuric acid. Indeed we find strange and sinister chemical products in a very foul and unhealthy human body.
The sodium, then, takes some of the fluid from the essence, mixes it with sulphur and begins the process of reduction, seeking to make a denser substance. A form is to be created. Spirit is to be clothed with matter.
We have said that Natrium sulph is a reducing agent in chemistry, and it indeed is. Those born when the Sun is transiting Taurus are lymphatic types, for they are deficient in sodium sulphate. They will find many of the symptoms which appear at intervals during their lifetime listed under this salt in Schuessler’s Biochemic System. They are also set forth in Dr. Carey’s work. When this salt is supplied and taken faithfully it will gradually eliminate all these ills.
When the nature and use of Natrium sulph is understood, people will then know why they take on weight and increase in size in spite of strict dieting. It is because the lymphatic system slowly becomes engorged with excess fluid derived from the atmosphere through the breath. Air goes directly into the arterial blood, for the word artery means air-carrier. Air is humid or moist, and when it carries in suspension a great quantity of water the blood becomes quickly overcharged. Particularly is it difficult for the Taurian born to live in comfort in the tropics, and especially in localities where there is great humidity.
I am positive that Dr. Carey has given us the correct explanation of a chill. He says, in his Biochemic System: “There is not a ‘medical authority’ (?) in existence who has given us a true definition of this phenomena. Their so-called explanations are meaningless and glittering generalities. I explain a chill (ague) thus: When the blood becomes overcharged with water, of course the various tissues of the body must suffer from lack of proper nourishment. This sets up a panic.
“Now, as the water-carriers are not present in sufficient quantities to throw out the excess in the natural way, nature does the next best thing—causes a spasm of the vascular, nervous and muscular systems, and thus, by violent effort, throws out the excess of water; hence the profuse perspiration which follows the chill. Where Natrium sulph is not given to supply the workmen, and thus keep out an excess of water, the chill will recur in about forty-eight hours, simply because that much time is required again to overcharge the blood with water.”
Thus we see that kindly Mother Nature actually wrings the water out of the blood, when the needed material which would eliminate water comfortably is not at hand.
We also learn in his book that malarial conditions or symptoms are not caused by microbes from a swamp—he was not at all interested in the germ theory as the cause of disease. Deficient material for Nature to work with and a general toxic condition constitute the reason for physical and mental dis-ease and inharmony. When a person suffering from malaria visits a mountain resort he is relieved, simply because he is breathing the air from a cool, dry stratum, and is above the point where water is held in suspension by heat. A large supply of oxygen is also obtained, but here again, if the Ferrum or iron content of the blood is low, it is not able to enter.
We find the month of May to be a humid month, for the reason that Nature, Aries, is reducing—taking water from the fire—impregnated air—and precipitating it into the fire-impregnated earth, so that the work of production or growth may take place. Thus we see the formation of buds and the trees clothed with their first faintly green spring garments. It is perfectly legitimate for humanity to think of new garments in the Spring, for does not Mother Nature, the eternal feminine, clothe herself anew at this time? We should ever seek to know this cosmic mother of ours, to work understandingly with her.
During the Spring period a great many people feel lazy and debilitated and are thus unable to appreciate what is going on in Nature and what she is endeavoring to accomplish in human bodies. The blood is very deficient in the needed workmen (minerals) and the system is full of physical rubbish. Nature is endeavoring to work—and against odds. We could accomplish marvelous things if we could only work with her.
The human body, like the earth, may actually become dry, parched and barren because of lack of water. It may also become flooded with water and the corpuscles drowned. Many people suffer from drowsiness when the attention is not occupied, in spite of having had sufficient sleep, due to excess water in the brain cells. Sleeping sickness is an exaggerated form of this, and thought is actually drowned, indeed, temporarily submerged.
There is a great need for all three sodium or Natrium combinations. A few of the many indications or symptoms which inform us of a need for this reducing agent are: Irritation due to biliousness; tendency to suicide with wildness and irritability from an excessive secretion of bile and from too much fluid which is of an acid nature in the cells; headache on top of the head; biliousness; vomiting of bile; dizziness; tongue dirty, greenish-gray or greenish-brown color; bitter or metallic taste in the mouth; violent pains at the base of the brain; spinal meningitis; conjunctivitis; lightning-like pain through the ears; enlargement of the liver; diabetes; asthma; dropsy; gout; fistulous abscess of long standing; drowsiness; debility; heavy, anxious dreams, nightmare, etc.
It must be understood that the above are only a few symptoms from the long list which the book on this subject gives us. All symptoms are worse in the morning and in rainy or damp weather, this being what is termed “a modality.”
The Biblical story of the ten captive tribes refers to the remaining ten signs of the zodiac and the allocating parts of the body which are truly captives, forced into bondage by the animal man, Adam, Taurus, the Bull or cerebellum. The animal mind, the emotions, wastes in the pleasures of the prodigal son, the man, the substance, the daily bread from heaven, while the ten tribes or parts of the body slowly starve. In this state they represent the ten tribes of Jacob. But when at last they become nourished and sustained by the conservation of this Alkahest or cerebral honey, they become the tribes of Israel, which means warriors of God—serving the most high, the God-brain, the cerebrum.
Our own poet, Edwin Markham, refers to this constellation in the words “High as that Heaven where Taurus wheels” and says:
“It is a vision waiting and aware,
And you must bring it down, oh men of worth,
Bring down the New Republic hung in air,
And make for it foundations on the Earth.”
Another of our modern day writers, G. A. Gaskell, who has given us A Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths, a most enlightening work for students, interprets Taurus as “A symbol of the second period of the cycle of life. It signifies the divine out-going activity in the creation of forms. The Bull of the West represents the matrix of forms on the Buddhic plane, or the productive energy of Buddhi. It pertains to the period of involution when Spirit is descending into matter and giving it the potencies of forms and qualities afterwards to be evolved in natural phenomena and in the souls of humanity.”
Taurus is a symbol of the second period of the cycle of life, for it is the second sign and house of the zodiac, receiving the out-going electrical energy of Aries, and utilizing it in the formation of the human body. Earth, Taurus, has received the baptism