Chapter XXII. A SIMPLE WAY OF READING HOROSCOPES: Illustrated by（续 1）

In no other system of thought is this problem so reasonably answered as in that known under the title of Astrology. The Sun, Moon, and planets are symbols conveying ideas to those minds able to appreciate what they mean. Thesymbols connected with Astrology constitute the most simple and beautiful imagery we can cenceive, and in them has been preserved from the beginning of our solar system to the present day the truth of man’s past andhis future. The Sun is the body of the Lord and ruler over the solar system, therefore not only the symbol of life and light, but the actual source of all vitality, heat and motion in the system of which it is the centre. The planets are the reflections of the seven spirits before the Throne, they are His messengers and the agents who carry out His will. The Zodiac is the medium through which are transmitted the vibrations coming from the Sun as centre and reflected, or modulated, by the planets.

As each soul comes into the world the note which belongs to it is

struck upon the celestial harp, and the heavens reverberate with its sound. Not a soul is born but an angel or Deva ministers to its birth, and just as no sparrow falleth to the ground without the Father in Heaven knowing it, so doth the Father know the life and manifestation of each individual. Each soul is attracted unto its appointed place, and each has its own special mission to fulfiland its own particular lesson to learn; all souls are one in essence, fragments of the great Soul; in manifestation all souls are different, some are older in manifestation, some are younger, some have grosser and others finer bodies or vehicles, each taking the one best suited for the work in hand. .

Each soul manifests through a body of activity, or Physical Body; a body of feeling and emotion or Astral Body ; and a thought or Mental Body. These three bodies St Paul has mentioned in 1 Cor. xv.

The nativity indicates what we have sown in the past and how we shall reap what we havesown. It is a chart which should be used as a guide in life. In it are concealed our capabilities, and our character, therefore our destiny. There is no study so interesting, instructive or useful as this, to those who are blending the objective with the subjective, or to those who would set their feet upon the path of the occultist or mystic, for it dispels all doubts with regard to the evolution of the soul and helps us more easily than any other known method to a scientific comprehension of ourselves and others.

Every student of Astrology should be thoroughly familiar with its symbology, for in the symbology we have all the required aid to help the intuition. Having committed to memory the opinions of the various writers upon the subject, and fully grasped the general meaning of each symbol, the student would do well to concentrate the mind as often as possible upon one of the symbols, trying to extract all the knowledge he can from the thought currents originally set in motion connected with that symbol; then gradually light will come into the mind, and more will be known in this way than can ever be ebtained from books.

The first map for a student to study should be Ais own.