The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

In this passage Lawrence imagines the universe not as inert matter but as an organic, ensouled organism in which human beings participate physically and spiritually. By likening the sun to a “great heart” and the moon to a “nerve center,” he recasts cosmic bodies as organs whose rhythms and “tremors” circulate through us, suggesting a continuous, intimate correspondence between macrocosm and microcosm. The reference to Saturn and Venus evokes astrology and ancient cosmologies, but Lawrence’s emphasis is less predictive fate than lived sensation: an ongoing, “vital power” that subtly shapes feeling, vitality, and consciousness. The effect is to challenge modern mechanistic views and restore a sense of reverent, bodily attunement to the cosmos.