has been the ideal—all spirit comes from the one source. And as has been indicated, there is that giving of same from the one spirit. Thus the preparation of body and mind, and then offering self as the channel, would insure, would bring about that association that is giving the mother the opportunity for the expressing of the hopes and the desires—and the preparation of same for that channel.
Reading 311-10
(Q) Would it be well for me to make a study of astrology?
(A) Well for everyone to make a study of astrology! for, as indicated, while many individuals have set about to prove the astrological aspects and astrological survey enable one to determine future as well as the past conditions, these are well to the point where the individual understands that these act upon individuals because of their sojourn or correlation of their associations with the environs through which these are shown—see? Rather than the star directing the life, the life of the individual directs the courses of the stars, see?
Reading 262-94
As has been declaimed by a teacher, there is one Glory of the sun, another of the moon, another of the stars; each differing in their Glory according to the purpose for which they each have been established. For what? That man might in himself see the Glory of the Father being made manifest by they each performing their purpose in their cooperation, in their activity, before Him.
So, in thine own life, in thine own relation, in thine own associations one with another, how speakest thou—how readest thou? that ye do this or that in order that ye may be well thought of? or are ye fearful of what another will say because thou art called to do this or that?
Does the sun fear the Glory of the moon, or the moon the sun?
Do the stars fail to shine because the sun is in His Glory?
Yea, these should be to each of us that example, even as He gave, “Abide in me, I in thee, and ye shall have and know the Glory of the Father.”
Reading 288-50
As the sun, the moon, the stars would be given for signs, for seasons, for days, for years in man's experience—then it would not be amiss that these would indicate the symbols as they were represented in those stages or phases of experience in the earth.
Reading 2608-1
Thus a soul is in the earth, in the material manifestations, as in a school of experience. For, no soul gains knowledge or understanding save through experience.
The experience is not of another's making, but of thine own. For in spiritual truths, His spirit beareth witness with thy spirit—not thy uncle nor thy aunt, nor thy father or mother, but thy soul self.
For, until the Creative Force—or God—becomes a personal experience of the soul it has only been heard of, and the activity more oft is because of what others will say. This may be truly called environment, while those experiences while absent from the body are in that realm in which the soul is present with what it has done about the opportunities in the material plane. Thus this may be truly called a spiritual-hereditary influence. Here it is called astrological aspects.
For ye live, ye move in an environ of dimensions according to the awareness and application of thyself to these influences in thy activity. It is not then what ye think or what ye say that counts, but what thy soul desires, what thy soul hopes for, what thy soul manifests in thy relationships to these environs; that are opportunities for the application of that understanding ye may have at any given period of manifestation.
Thus, astrologically, in the solar system of which the earth is a part, other environs are manifestations of the influence that controls centers in the human body—as the brain, the sun—sex, the moon—as the centers through which activity manifests in the five senses of the body, and the centers that manifest same.
To such has been accredited, then, those influences represented in what a soul-entity may have applied in the individual self. That magnified, to be absent from the body is to be present with that ye have magnified, or glorified, in thy relationships one with another.
For He hast not willed that a soul should perish, but hath with every temptation prepared a way, a means for correction; and it is through those awarenesses, or those dimensions, that these take their course with an individual entity.
In thyself ye find Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus as thy experiences; to be sure with their correlating from earth's experience in the sun and the moon.
Either or any of these may be magnified to the detriment of another. It is best that they be correlated, co-balanced. For, as the earth—we find body, mind, soul; in the Godhead we find Father, Son, Holy, Spirit. These are one.
So, in thy dealings, be not the extremist—as may be magnified either from the Uranian or the Venus influence. For these partake of those influences. These cause the urges by their expression, not because of thy being born at any given hour when this or that planet was in the ascendancy, or in the 1st, 2nd or 9th house, but because of thy doings through those environs or those dimensions.
In Venus we find the love influence, the desire for beauty.
From Jupiter we find the universality.
In Mercury we find the judgement.
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Planetary Influences
Reading 254-2
(Q) Do the planets have anything to do with the ruling of the destiny of men? If so, what? and what do they have to do with this body?
(A) They do. In the beginning, as our own planet, Earth, was set in motion, the placing of other planets began the ruling of the destiny of all matter as created, just as the division of waters was and is ruled by the moon in its path about the Earth; just so as in the higher creation, as it began, is ruled by the action of the planets about the earth.
The strongest power in the destiny of man is the Sun, first; then the closer planets, or those that are coming in ascendency at the time of the birth of the individual; but let it be understood here, no action of any planet or any of the phases of the Sun, Moon, or any of the heavenly bodies surpass the rule of Man's individual will power—the power given by the Creator of man in the beginning, when he became a living soul, with the power of choosing for himself.
The inclination of man is ruled by the planets under which he is born. In this far the destiny of man lies within the sphere or scope of the planets. With the given position of the Solar system at the time of the birth of an individual, it can be worked out—that is, the inclinations and actions without the will power taken into consideration.
As in this body here [Edgar Cayce] born March 18,1877, three minutes past three o'clock, with the Sun descending, on the wane, the Moon in the opposite side of the Earth (old moon), Uranus at its zenith, hence the body is ultra in its actions. Neptune closest in conjunction, or Neptune as it is termed in Astrological survey, in the ninth house; Jupiter, the higher force of all the planets, save the Sun, in descendency, Venus just coming to horizon, Mars just set, Saturn—to whom all insufficient matter is cast
