arise from the sensory system and those that arise from the glandular system alone. True, physically these interchange; yet one [the glandular] represents the whole of the development, the other [sensory] represents the step by step activity by an entity in its activity through the material world.
Reading 263-13
The spiritual contact is through the glandular forces of creative energies…
Thus we find the connection, the association of the spiritual being with the mental self, at those centers [glandular] from which the reflexes react to all of the organs, all of the emotions, all of the activities of a physical body.
Editor's Note: In the 281 series of Cayce's discourses, each of the seven glands, or psychic centers, is said to be attuned or related to a planet, as follows:
Pituitary: Jupiter (third-eye chakra)
Pineal: Mercury (crown chakra)
Thyroid: Uranus (throat chakra)
Thymus: Venus (heart chakra)
Adrenals: Mars (solar plexus chakra)
Lyden: Neptune (navel chakra)
Gonads: Saturn (root chakra).
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Free Will vs. Stellar and Planetary Influence
Reading 5-2
These [astrological] influences are not greater than the will of the entity. While the varied aspects may be said to rule the entity, yet the entity—as everyone—should rather, with its own will, rule those integral aspects in the affairs—of the stars, as well as of self's own life. Rather…than the stars ruling the life, the life should rule the stars—for man was created a little bit higher than all the rest of the whole universe, and is capable of harnessing, directing, enforcing, the laws of the universe.
Reading 311-3
In any influence, will—a self, the ego, the I Am—is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, as astronomical and astrological conditions do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships with individuals.
Reading 3340-1
Astrological aspects may or may not become a part of the experience physically for the entity. For these are merely urges, and the will—that which designates God's creation of man from the rest of the animal world—rules as to what an individual soul does with opportunities in relationships with the fellow man.
Reading 1646-2
For, will is that factor…which gives the ability to choose that as may be for the development or the retardment. For, as has so oft been indicated, there is today—now—set before each and every entity, every soul, that which is life and death, good and evil. Each entity, each soul, chooses in its manifestations.
Reading 815-6
Not that there are not definite helps to be attained from astrology, but those who live by same the more oft are controlled rather than controlling their own lives and their destinies.
Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than the will of an individual. Use such directions [from the planets] as stepping-stones. Do not let them become stumbling-stones in thy experience.
Reading 1719-1
. . . will, that factor which may be trained, even as the mental forces, and will, that developer in the material force, being the balance between influences…innately built or those of that karmic influence that makes for the freedom of the mental being; for in Truth one finds freedom, for he that findeth the Truth is free indeed.
Reading 630-2
…it is not so much that an entity is influenced because the Moon is in Aquarius or the Sun in Capricorn or Venus or Mercury in that or the other house, sign, or the Moon and Sun sign, in that one of the planets is in this or that position in the heavens; but rather because those positions in the heavens are from the entity having been in that sojourn as a soul! This is how the planets have the greater influence in the earth upon the entity, see? For the application of an experience is that which makes for the development of a body, a mind, or a soul. For, how has it been written? “He that knows to do good and doesn't, to him it is sin.” Then, the altering or changing factor in an influence is the application of the will, that which makes a soul, an entity—that dwells in that called man or woman (means the same)—capable, through this gift of the Creator, of being one with the Giver.
Reading 441-1
The astrological aspects would vary considerably from that outlined from the position of the planets at the time of birth, or from the causes of the influences that are active in the earth. For, these vary as we find— because of the sojourn of the entity in the environs to which the entity merited or chose its activity from an earthly sojourn. For, as long as an entity is within the confines of that termed the earth's and the sons of the earth's solar system, the developments are within the sojourns of the entity from sphere to sphere; and when completed it begins— throughout the music of the spheres with Arcturus, Polaris, and through those sojourns in the outer sphere.
Reading 451-2
In those experiences, then, as come from the influences of the astrological experience of life, as to how the individual applies these in their experience makes for that as must be called true environ of the entity. As for that which has been done in earth, or in other experiences in the earth, may be called true heredity. In that which is to be met through experiences in the earth, and that which brings about the changes in the application of that known and felt and understood in the experience of an entity in the present as karma, as cosmic influence, as the moving of the spirit forces in an individual's application of its knowledge and understanding of things and conditions—these also are as the use that the entity has made, does make, of its ideal. Not ideas, not wishes, not just desires—for of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh! of the desires of the soul is effort made! The flesh is often weak, the spirit is ever willing!
Reading 452-6
(Q) What months and years will be of greatest progress for body materially and spiritually?
(A) These, as indicated and as given, are builded; rather than their influencing the conditions that come about for changes for material or mental, or spiritual advancement; and are much in the same category as numerological conditions or astrological influences. These influence by the activities that an individual has accomplished in certain periods, that with their cycles bring those influences that act as a stimuli during certain periods.
Reading 457-9
(Q) Should the astrological influences lead us to choose one month or another?
(A)
