THE KEY OF DESTINY
In this volume we consider man, no longer a weak, sinful puppet of fate, ignorant of his own possibilities and blind to his place in evolution and to his great destiny, but man who has now taken his destiny in his own hands; has grasped the mighty scheme of the universe and understands that this earth is an evolved theatre on whose stage he shall work out his evolution according to mathematical laws.
He now comprehends something of the significance of the promise made him in the beginning: “Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” He now deliberately plucks the golden apples that grow high up on the Tree of Knowledge and is determined to eat of them, no longer at the suggestion of the serpent, for he has reaped the bitter experience both of haste and of disobedience to his divine guidance and can no longer be seduced by the senses, but at the direction of the Lord God who planted the tree in the midst of the garden.
Contents
- Number 11, a New Beginning
- The Cycle of the advanced Disciple, The Initiate
- The Legend of Parsifal
- The 11-year Astronomical Cycle
- The 11-year Sunspot Cycle
- Gems and the Zodiac
- Use of a person’s Name
- Number, Reincarnation and Transmutation
- The Permanent Atom
- Physical Immortality
- Attitude for Healing
- Cause of Cancer
- The Hebrew Letters
- The 144,000
- The 11th Hebrew Letter, Kaph
- The 11th Tarot Card, Strength
- Diagrams of the Cycle of Manifestation
- Number 12, the Manifested Universe
- Geometrical Law: why the Zodiac is 12-fold
- Diagram of the Zodiac
- The Aquarian Age
- Why were the disciples called “Fishers of Men”?
- Origin of the 12 Tribes
- The 12 Stones from Jordan
- The 12 Disciples
- The 12 Knights of King Arthur
- The Last Supper
- The 12 Baskets of Bread
- Jesus at 12 years
- When is Incarnation Complete?
- Incarnation in Various Signs
- Mystery of the Gobi Desert
- The 12 Hebrew Simple Letters
- The 12 Body Salts
- Jesus, the Piscean Avatar
- The 12 Labors of Hercules
- Relation of Hercules and Jacob
- Killing the Nemean Lion
- Killing the Hydra
- Capturing the Keryneian Doe
- Capturing the Erymanthian Boar
- Cleaning the Augean Stables
- Killing the Man-eating Birds of Stymphalos
- Capturing the Cretan Bull
- Capturing the Man-eating Mares of Diomedes
- Seizing the Girdle of Hippolyte
- Capturing the Oxen of Geryoneus
- The Three-headed Hell Hound
- Obtaining the Golden Apples of Hesperides
- Change from 10 signs to 12
- Wrestling with Antaios
- Mysteries of Eleusis
- The 13th Hebrew Letter, Mem
- The 13th Tarot Card, Death
- Number 13, Why Considered Unlucky
- 13 at a dinner, Its Real Significance
- The Saviour God
- Mystical Meaning of the Bible
- Higher Critics refuted
- The Life of Jesus
- Number of Judas, 30 pieces of Silver
- Meaning of Playing Cards
- The 13 Apparitions of Jesus
- Number 14, Phantoms of the Mind
- Hawaiian Sacred Shark
- Leviathan
- Jonah
- Use of Perfumes
- The 14th Hebrew Letter, Nun
- The 14th Tarot Card, Temperance
- Number 15, Blood of the Lamb
- The Devil, How Created
- Origin of Diseases
- Race Karma
- Power of Thought
- Dweller on the Threshold
- Hour of Initiation
- The Order of the 15, Why Established
- Contacting the Masters
- The Holy Grail
- Message of the Sphinx
- The 15th Hebrew Letter, Samech
- The 15th Tarot Card, The Devil
- Number 16, Victory
- Nature Spirits
- Enchantments
- The 16th Hebrew Letter, Ayin
- The 16th Tarot Card, The Lightning Struck Tower
- Number 17, Disposing Intelligence
- The Celestial Hierarchies
- 144,000
- Value of Horoscopes
- Diagram of the Hierarchies
- The 17th Hebrew Letter, Pe
- The 17th Tarot Card, The Star
- Number 18, The Second Initiation
- Black Magicians
- The $ Sign
- Symbol of the Swan or Pelican
- Number 666 and the Beast
- The 18th Hebrew Letter, Tzaddi
- The 18th Tarot Card, The Moon
- Number 19, Number of the Sun
- Twice born
- Sun Eclipse every 19 years
- The Hyperborean Land
- Druid Colleges
- Sun Initiation
- The Philosopher’s Stone
- Centre in the Spleen
- The Swastika
- Equilibrium of the Sexes
- The 19th Hebrew Letter, Qoph
- The 19th Tarot Card, The Sun
- Number 20, Celestial Initiator
- Power of the Christ
- Reason for Spiritual Development in Deformed Bodies
- Description of the Pineal Gland and the Pituitary Body
- The Feminine Ray
- The 20th Hebrew Letter, Resh
- The 20th Tarot Card, The Judgement
- Number 21, Incarnations of the Higher Self
- Blavatsky’s last Incarnation
- Spiritual Majority
- The Crocodile
- The 21st Hebrew Letter, Shin
- The 21st Tarot Card, The Fool
- Number 22, The New Jerusalem
- Squaring the Circle
- Law of Cooperation
- Aquarian Age
- Prophecies of Disasters
- Establishing New Conditions
- The Woman’s Age
- Taking Vows
- The 22nd Hebrew Letter, Tau
- The 22nd Tarot Card, The World
“Woman . . . . was deemed higher and more spiritual than man. In Egypt, in days of old, the marriage service contained an article that the woman should be the ‘lady of the lord and real lord over him, the husband pledging himself to be ‘obedient to his wife’ for the production of alchemical results such as the Elixir of Life and the Philosopher’s Stone, for the spiritual help of the woman was needed by the male Alchemist.” There are high Adepts and Masters who have reached that state through the feminine Ray, but so far in evolution the worldly conditions have been so strenuous that the extreme sensitiveness of the Initiate has required a masculine body to cope with physical conditions. For this reason, the feminine Ray has had to exert its helpfulness from the higher planes or else incarnate in a masculine body. But when the feminine cycle or Woman’s Age is fully manifested on earth it will be different, and humanity may be surprised to see a feminine Master manifesting in a feminine body, which heretofore has been impossible. (From The Secret Doctrine).
