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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) Not necessarily; for, remember—as 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.