As to which is the better of anything depends upon the use or purpose of our practice. If I wish to catch fish I go to the seashore ,but if I wish to gather corn I am more likely to find it inland. These heliocentric and geocentric claims are much misunderstood, just as the quarrel between Galileo and the priests is misunderstood, and just as the Bible is misunderstood. This great cry of "We are right and you are wrong" has deluged the world with blood. Right or wrong, better or worse, are but rela-tive terms and depend upon the standpoint from which we view the matter. If I stand upon the hill I cannot see the detail of the valley as well as if in the valley. If I stand in the valley I cannot see the detail of the hill as well as if on the hill. In the days of kings there were contentions between those who worshipped in high places and those who worshipped on the heath, and the latter were called heathen. The former were called the hierarchy (from "higher arc"). The word "heath"is in someway allied to the Greek word for "wild ass,"and this wild ass, or "asses"was not only a term for a beautiful and very swift animal, but also for a standard of measurement, and by some the pictorial sign for Aries was an ass instead of a lamb.

The heathen, prior to the Christian era, were called "wild asses" and the heathen became the Christian. The Jews accused the Christians of "worshipping the sun (not son) and the head of an ass."(This no doubt referred to the first point of Aries, represented by a lamb, or the head of that gentler but independent animal known as a "wild ass.")

If your mind is keen you will see the drift through all ages of this one continual contention in the human family over good and evil, or better and worse, and furthermore that it has been nothing more than a dispute as to whether a man should follow the dictates of his heart or his head. Now the heathen before Christ became the Christian after Christ, and then the Christian became the higher-arc (or hierarchy), and this hierarchial church stood above the state. The state then represented the people or the lower arc. Now, note: The papal tiara was then the Sun, and the imperial crown was the Moon; a strictly astrologic form of distinction, as the Sun in astrology, since the days of Abraham, has always stood for the superior and primary forces on earth.

The Moon has generally stood for the inferior or secondary powers. You will see the evidence of astrologic reverence in the flags of all nations. The Sun has always been recognized as the higher arc of the heavens, and the Moon as the arc of the heathen (or people who live on the lower or sentient plane of life). From time immemorial, the fight of the world, irrespective of church, nation, race or color has been nothing but a continuous one oyer the same question, which was begun when man first learned to understand that he had an internal nature which did not seem to coincide with his exterior views of the things without. Which was first, or which the better of the two, the hen or the chickens, man or woman, state or church, sun or moon, heliocentric or geocentric, light and darkness, God or the devil. It is all one and the same question, from age to age, assuming new shapes and phases. The world will never attain to a condition of true Christianity until it learns the law of non-resistance, coupled with perfect self-control adapted to the particular needs of the ever present, with prepara-tion for the future on earth, by aid of the divine power of fore-knowledge through the infallible laws of astrology.

To know the heart current of the world, or of one of its atoms (a human being) we must follow the course of the sun's influence upon the earth, which is the mover and anima-ter of the heart's blood. To know the mind of the world, or of one of it3 creatures, we must follow the course of the moon, which is the mover and animater of the waters of the earth. The spirit attributes are in both of these lights (or enlighteners) of the world, and in them we have "the spirit, the water and the blood."These three bear witness in the earth, in correspondence with the three (sun moon and zodiac) which bear record in heaven.

The sun sphere, the moon sphere and the zodiacal sphere are separate and distinct, in regard to special requirements, but the misery or happiness of our soul depends upon the harmony of the three. Paul became converted through the power of the Sun upon his heart, and he then began to exalt the Sun (or heliocentric system) above the system of the Ephesians, who were, like the present age, so sentiently disposed that they combated him with the shouts. "Great is Diana (the Moon) goddess of the Ephesians."Whether we are willing to recognize it or not, we are moved in life by the laws of astrology; we create or elect our state affairs by the laws of astrology. We bow down in reverence to our church gods, under the laws of astrology; we reverence th blessed days of the Sun (Sunday) by the laws of astrology. We sicken and die because we are ignorant of the laws of astrology and therefore fail to "Remember the true Sabbath day and keep it holy." The church holding consciously or unconsciously to the higher arc of the Sun, maintains life for the heart spirit of the world (through the observance' of Sun-day), but the spirit of our sentient nature does not receive its allotted season of rest, and so fails to carry sentient life beyond the square of the Sun. The Moon squares its own place at birth, every seventh day, and every human being should observe that seventh day, "that his days may be long."etc. The quarrels over heliocentric and geocentric are illustrated by Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah in the higher arc of the sun, with the waters of the Moon, filled with destroyed mentalities about him. Joseph and his brethren, Moses (drawn out of the water) and Pharoah, Daniel, working the "three witnesses as one" (John 5-8) against the astrologers of Nebuchadnezzar, who were working on the sentient plane, Jesus on the plane of non-resistance with Self-control, against the Roman and Jewish disputants, as to right and wrong. The early Christians on the Sun plane, with the Romans on the Moon plane, and so the astrologic foot prints through all the ages may be traced, until the time of Galileo. He accused the priests of using the lunar zodiac instead of the solar. The world, not understanding the genius of Ptolemy, who had combined the two systems into one, really thought that Ptolemy supposed the Sun to go around the earth because his figure (for convenience in calculating) placed the earth point in centre, with the circles of the other host of heaven about it

Since then the world at large has paid such little attention to the heavens that only wars and contentions have been going on over forms, ceremonies or commercial greed, and

Diana, Luna or the Moon (as you choose to call it) has become great, and is today worshipped under the name "civilization." Large temples are erected in unconscious honor to the goddess, which we call 'jails, poor-houses, hospitals and asylums."These are grand and beneficent institutions for the times, but when the world understands the laws of both heliocentric and geocentric astrology, combined in one harmonious whole, as we illustrate as best we can in our Wonder Wheel, then Diana, the harlot, "seated on many waters," will be cast down to her proper plane, or the lower arc. The Sun in the higher arc will be the heliocentric (or healing centre of confused ideas) and the Moon will still move about the geocentric, and the 24 hours of each day (the saints and angles, or angels, as you choose to term them) will together be full of praises and shouts of hosanna from the hearts of men.