The Sun enters Aries about March 21 The Sun enters Taurus about April 21 The Sun enters Gemini about May 22 The Sun enters Cancer about June 22 The Sun enters Leo about July 23 The Sun enters Virgo about August 24 The Sun enters Libra about September 24 The Sun enters Scorpio about October 24 The Sun enters Sagittarius about November 23 The Sun enters Capricorn about December 20 The Sun enters Aquarius about January 20 The Sun enters Pisces about February 19 This brief statement of the most ancient science must suffice. It will enable the reader to understand the philosophy on which the wearing of talismanic jewels rests and may induce him to delve a little into the “wisdom of the fathers.” CHAPTER III THE EPHOD OF THE HIGH PRIEST “_And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when men doth sleep, So may some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes And into glory peep._” HENRY VAUGHAN. THE EPHOD OF THE HIGH PRIEST: THE HEAVENS, THE GATES, THE CAVES: THE FOUR WORLDS. In the 28th chapter of Exodus we learn that those that are “wise hearted” and “filled with the spirit of wisdom” were selected to make for Aaron consecrated garments—a breastplate and an ephod, a broidered coat, a mitre and a girdle. On the shoulders of the Ephod (Hebrew, Hepod) which was to be made “of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet”—these being the colours of divinity—“and fine twined linen, with cunning work” were to be placed two stones, each to be engraved after the manner of a signet, with six names of the children of Israel. Authorities generally agree with the translations in classifying these two stones as Onyx, and there are very important reasons from an occult point of view why they should be so identified even though Josephus accounts them Sardonyx which, he says, represents the sun and the moon. These onyx stones were to be worn “for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel.” The ephod was similar to an upper body-garment of the Greeks (Josephus says it resembled the Epomis) and may be described as a kind of waistcoat held by straps which passed over the shoulders and were twined round the waist with the cunningly woven band. The two large onyx stones were set on the shoulder-straps, and on each stone were engraved the names of the children of Israel—“Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.” In astrology, to which science perhaps on its more esoteric side we are impelled, we can quickly recognize the twelve