Every philosophy or practice must have its premise:
To start with it must first be stated
that if we are sufficiently self-aware; we must first accept that we have a physical body and that it exists in a
physical realm and by merely existing it influences others and the
world. Secondly, if we also believe that human kind have been endowed with a soul
to animate its physical body and a spirit to animate its soul, then these too must have a realm of existence that parallel each other. We accept
that the spirit exists in a spiritual realm of activity, that some call
"heaven" but, we seldom contemplate on where the soul has its activity.
Some confuse the spirit with the soul. Paracelsus stated that each of the three bodies that make up the human being existed were a heaven unto themselves and together they made a whole and each also existed in its own realm of heaven. In this context, heaven is simply a term that defines an intelligent organization of intelligences that work together and are maintained as a medium towards a specific purpose.
In the study of the Christian Mysteries
Hermetics being a universal spiritual discipline is also included. Within that structure the physical body has its physical-material
plane, the soul exists in the astral plane and the spirit exists in the
spiritual or mental plane. The spirit links to the soul or astral body
via the spiritual matrix. The Soul or astral body links to the physical
body through the astral matrix. Consequently the life of the soul is the
spirit and the life of the physical body is animated by the soul or
astral body. In principle, the above mentioned also applies to the
physical Earth we inhabit and all of the created living things upon it.
Therefore to study astrology is to study
the unseen astral influences (activity in the astral plane) that affect
and shape physical life. It is not the study of the "devil" as some
misguided souls blindly have come to believe. Psychology, by definition,
is the study of the soul not the spirit.
Many who study astrology are not
acquainted with the actual "influences" themselves; where they
come from or, how and why they mechanically occur and how they intern
affect us on Earth. The absence of this understanding is like someone wanting to make a wooden cabinet without any knowledge of wood or the art of carpentry. This knowledge is critical in determining and distinguishing
between a clearly physical effect from an actual Astral influence. Also,
the position of the physical heavenly bodies with their effects, and the
Order of the Spheres also known as the Sephirothic Spheres having the
same names have absolutely no correlation to each other and act on
different "planes." The study of the former is regular Mantic Astrology,
the latter is Kabbalistic astrology. These are entirely different
studies - like day and night. The position of a planet or star cannot
project or otherwise instill a talent or attribute anymore than a common rock can do this. These can only be bestowed
etherically from the Astral world governed by the beings of the Spheres. The position of a planet or stars can and do
affect animal, plant life, the weather, the coming of pestilential
diseases and so on. It should be noted that in the past 100 - 150 years,
given the deteriorated state of the environment through pollution, and
the demolition of forests, Nature seems not to be herself as of late.
It should
be mentioned that the subject of astrology in the past was much
less a divination tool and more a spiritual study. It was a
comprehensive system of comprehensively organizing creation on the Spiritual, Astral and
Physical levels by analogy. The ancient herbalists used this system wisely to categorize
herbs, minerals, metals and animals with respect to their attributes
which is also
their "signature." In the work of Jakob Lorber it is stated that this ancient and very wise
methodology based on the science of analogy will be restored in the
future times.
Many people condemn this this would be sacred science without
any understanding of it. Not accepting that the Creator created that we may understand Him
better through His own creations. They accept that these physical things
exist but cannot fathom that they may have a higher spiritual purpose or
have been created according to a spiritual order.
It is not insignificant that over the millennia there has always been an
almost religious wonder as to the effect of the stars upon our Earth.
But, because the actual mechanism of action that produces the effects
has never been adequately or openly explained it is easy to understand that this
subject and others like it are shrouded in the sort of ignorance that
gives rise to an almost superstitious fascination. Many intelligent people
observe the effects and associate them with this or that heavenly body
but do not know why or how the effects manifest.
The various religions of old
all made a point of dispensing only just enough information for the populace to
make their actions seem that much more mysterious in order to place themselves
above them and exert control over them.
Example:
In Europe the Catholic Church was very much aware of the effect of the
heavenly bodies on our Planet. (We are not against the Catholic Church
or Catholicism in general but, history itself has had issues with some of its practices)
A) They knew that weather patterns often followed Lunar cycles and that
rain was more likely with the new Moon. If there was a period of drought
the farmers would beseech the priests to supplicate God for rain. The
priests complied for a fee (this was true of all priesthoods at all times through out history). A special Mass was said for rain. But, the
priests waited for the most advantages astronomical time to say their Masses
- waiting for the new Moon. When the rains came they were very quick to
take full
credit for this blessing.
B) The concept of the flat Earth was also created by the religion of the
day for the same reasons in spite of the fact that the Egyptians, Greeks, Vikings
and Romans were well aware of the Earth being spherical.
C) Also the concept of the celestial bodies rotating around the Earth
had the same origins. They took the truth and deliberately
misinterpreted it. They took the spiritual Kabbalistic concept of the "Order of the Spheres" (also known as the Sephirothic Spheres) which is Earth centric and declared it to be
applied literally to physical circumstances. This of course is
ridiculous and the ancients knew otherwise. Although this model of reality accurately depicts the astral order of
beings relative to the Earth it does not and cannot represent the actual physical circumstances
of the solar system.
Or, Earth centricity can only be justifiably accepted in the context of us
perceiving the other created stars and planets when viewed from Earth as
a vantage point.
In this context we are the center of our universe, while not actually
being at the center the solar system or of existence.
The fact that all religions throughout time including the Christian
religions made it a point to meticulously observe stellar activity. It
would be foolish to think that this was being done without purpose.
Information laying out
the framework of the stellar influences abounded but was kept
exclusively by the elite. With it the priesthoods could anticipate climatic or even pestilential events
and manipulate the people in their ignorance. Because the
general population witnessed the foretold events but in their utter
ignorance could not explain
them rationally, they attributed undue powers and abilities to the priesthoods
(all priesthoods) who used their ignorance for monetary profit and political control. Their
superstitions were borne out of their
fragmented knowledge. Up until recently, in Italy, the land of the Catholic Church, it was considered
"officially" evil to merely star gaze.
To this day those in the know will guard this information
jealously and will deliberately proclaim this information to be mere
superstition. And in addition educated people will reject it because in
their education there was no provision for it and therefore regard it as
old-fashioned superstitious nonsense. Yet who cannot say that they
perceive the differences in how it feels to experience 70 degrees in
spring, summer and fall. They measure the same on a thermometer but "feel" different with the change in
constellation.
Today we accept that the Sun and Moon seasonally influence plant and animal life.
We have long measured time by the movements of these heavenly bodies deriving the
times of day, days of the week and months of the year. The names of the
week are named according to the "order of the spheres" after which the planets were named. Using this method these repetitive cycles
are mathematically predictable and exact.
Why then is it so far fetched that
if all this can be derived from the Sun and Moon, that the other stars might not affect the
Earth and what grows and lives on it. The
mechanism that brings about the effects and how they manifest is at the heart of this very intriguing
subject.
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Some parts of this information has been paraphrased
from the out of Jakob Lorber, Franz Bardon and others.
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