The Solar Logos

About this book

The Sun is only one member of a planetary order in Coulson Turnbull's Solar Logos. Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn acquire spiritual characters alongside the astronomical bodies that bear their names.

Drawn from lectures, the work moves through the Logos, the soul, mystical interpretations of planets, Hebrew numbers and a spiritual horoscope. Turnbull gathers Gnostic, Christian and Hermetic material into a correspondential scheme of the cosmos. His system belongs to esoteric belief, yet the chapter-by-chapter movement through familiar planets gives the ambitious metaphysics a clear structure. Each orbit becomes a possible lesson in the soul's development.