In the First Heaven, which is located in the higher regions of the
Desire World, the panorama of life again unrolls and reveals every scene
where we aimed to help or benefit others. They were not felt at the time the
Spirit was in the lower regions, for higher desires cannot express
themselves in the coarse matter composing the lower regions of the Desire
World; but when the Spirit ascends to the First Heaven it reaps from each
scene all the good which it expressed in life. It will feel the gratitude
poured out by those whom it helped; if it comes to a scene where itself
received a favor from others and was grateful, it will experience the
gratitude anew. The sum of all these feelings is there amalgamated into the
Spirit to serve in a future life as incentives to good.
Thus the Spirit is purged from evil in Purgatory and strengthened in
good in the First Heaven. In one region the extract of sufferings become
conscience to deter us from doing wrong, in the other region the
quintessence of good is transmuted to benevolence and altruism, which are the
basis of all true progress. Moreover, Purgatory is far from being a place of
punishment. It is perhaps the most beneficent realm in nature, for because of purgation we are born innocent life after life. The tendencies to commit
the same evil for which we suffered remain with us, and temptations to
commit the same wrongs will be placed in our placed in our path until we have
consciously overcome the evil here. Temptation is not sin, however, the sin
is in yielding.
Among the inhabitants of the invisible world there is one class which
lives a particularly painful life, sometimes for a great many years, namely,
the suicide who tried to play truant from the school of life. Yet it is not
an angry God or a malevolent devil who administers punishment, but an
immutable law which proportions the sufferings differently to each
individual suicide.
We learned previously, when considering the World of Thought, that each
form in this visible world has its archetype there — a vibrating hollow mold
which emits a certain harmonious sound. That sound attracts and forms
physical into the shape we behold, much in the same manner as when we place a
little sand upon a glass plate and rub the edge with a violin bow; the sand
is shaped into different geometrical figures which change as the sound
changes.
The little atom in the heart is the sample and the center around which
the atoms in our body gather. When that is removed at death, the center is
lacking, and although the archetype keeps on vibrating until the limit of
the life has been reached — as also previously explained — no matter can be
drawn into the hollow shape of the archetype. Therefore the suicide feels a
dreadful gnawing pain as if he were hollowed out, a torture which can only
be likened to the pangs of hunger. In his case, the intense suffering will
continue for exactly as many years as he should have lived in the body. At
the expiration of that time, the archetype collapses as it does when death
comes naturally. Then the pain of the suicide ceases, and he commences his
period of purgation as do those who die a natural death. But the memory of
sufferings experienced in consequence of the act of suicide will remain with
him in future lives and deter him from a similar mistake.
In the First Heaven there is a class who have not had any purgatorial
existence and who lead a particularly joyous life: the children. Our home
may be saddened almost beyond endurance when the little flower is broken and
the sunshine it brought has gone. But could we see the beautiful existence
with these little ones lead, and did we understand the great benefits which
accrue to a child from its limited stay there, our sorrow would be at least
ameliorated in a great measure, and the wound upon our heart would heal more
quickly. Besides, as nothing else in the world happens without a cause, so
there is also a much deeper cause for infant mortality than we are usually
aware of, and as we awake to the facts of the case, we shall be able to
avoid in future the sorrow incident to loss of our little ones.
To understand the case properly we must revert to the experiences of the
dying in the death hour. We remember that the panorama of the past life is
etched upon the desire body during a period varying from a few hours to
three and one-half days just subsequent to demise. We recall also that upon
the depth of this etching depends the clearness of the picture, and that the
more vivid this panorama of life, the more intensely will the Spirit suffer
in Purgatory and feel the joys of heaven; also, that the greater the
suffering Purgatory the stronger the conscience in the next life.
It was explained how the horrors of death upon the battle field, in an
accident, or other untoward circumstances would prevent the Spirit from giving
all its attention to the panorama of life, with the result that there would
be a light etching in the desire body, followed by a vague and insipid
existence in Purgatory and the First Heaven. It was also stated that
hysterical lamentations in the death chamber would produce the same effect.
A Spirit which had thus escaped suffering proportionate to its misdeeds,
and which had not experienced the pleasure commensurate with the good it had
done, would not in a future life have as well developed a conscience as it
ought to have, nor would it be as benevolent as it ought to be, and
therefore the life, terminated under conditions over which the Spirit had no
control, would be partly wasted. The Great Leaders of humanity therefore
take steps to counteract such a calamity and prevent an injustice. The Spirit
is brought to birth, caused to die in childhood, re-enters the Desire World
and in the First Heaven it is taught the lessons of which it was deprived
previously.
As the First Heaven is located in the Desire World (which is the realm
of light and color), where matter is shaped most readily by thought, the
little ones are given wonderful toys impossible of construction here. They
are taught to play with colors, which work upon their moral character in
exactly the manner each child requires. Anyone who is at all sensitive is
affected by the color of his clothing and surroundings. Some colors have a
depressing effect, while others inspire us with energy, and others again
soothe and comfort us. In the Desire World the effect of colors is much more
intense; they are much more potent factors of good and evil there than here.
In this color play, the child imbibes unconsciously the qualities which it
did not acquire on account of accident or lamentations of relatives. Often
it also falls to the lot of such relatives to care for a child and see it
die. Thus they receive just retribution for the wrong committed. As wars
cease, and man learns to be more careful of life, also how to care for the
dying, infant mortality, which now is so appalling, will decrease.
When passing from the First to the Second Heaven, the Spirit experiences
the condition known and described previously as The Great Silence, where
it stands utterly alone, conscious only of its divinity. When that silence
is broken there floats in upon the Spirit celestial harmonies of the World of Tone where the Second Heaven is located. It seems then to lave in an
ocean of sound and to experience a joy beyond all description and words, as
it nears its heavenly home — for this is the first of the truly spiritual
realms from which the Spirit has been exiled during its Earth life and the
subsequent post-mortem existence. In the Desire World its work was
corrective, but in the World of Thought the human Spirit becomes one with the
nature forces and its creative activity begins.
Under the Law of Causation we reap exactly what we sow, and it would be
wrong to place one Spirit in an environment where there is a scarcity of the
necessities of life, where a scorching sun burns the crop and millions die
from famine, or where the raging flood sweeps away primitive habitations not
built to withstand its ravages, and to bring another Spirit to birth in a
land of plenty, with fertile soil which yields a maximum of increase with a
minimum of labor, where the earth is rich in minerals that may be used in
industry to facilitate transportation of products of the soil from one point
to another.
If we were thus placed without action or acquiescence upon our part,
there would be no justice, but as our post-mortem existence in Purgatory and
the First Heaven is based upon our moral attitude in this life, so our
activities in the Second Heaven are determined by our mental aspirations. They
produce our future physical environment, for in the Second Heaven, the
Spirit becomes part of the nature forces which work upon the earth and
change its climate, flora, fauna. A Spirit of an indolent nature, who
indulges in daydreams and metaphysical speculations here, is not transformed
by death respecting its mental attitude any more than regarding its moral
propensities. It will dream away time in heaven, glorying in its sights and
sounds. Thus it will neglect to work upon its future country and return to a
barren and arid land. Spirits, on the other hand, whose material aspirations
lead them to desire so-called solid comforts of hearth and home, who aim to
promote great industries, and whose mind is concerned in trade and
commerce, will build in heaven a land that will suit their purpose:
fertile, mineralized, with navigable rivers and sheltered harbors. They will
return in time to enjoy upon Earth the fruits of their labors in the Second
Heaven, as they reap the result of their life upon Earth in Purgatory and the
First Heaven.
The Third Heaven
In the Third Heaven most people have very little consciousness, for
reasons explained in connection with the Region of Abstract Thought, for
there the Third Heaven is located. It is therefore more of a place of
waiting where the Spirit rests between the time when its labors in the Second
Heaven have been completed and the time when it again experiences the desire
for rebirth. But from this realm inventors bring down their original
ideas, there the philanthropist obtains the clearest vision of how to realize
his utopian dreams, and the spiritual aspirations of the saintly minded
are given renewed impetus.
In time the desires of the Spirit for further experiences draw it back
to rebirth, and the great celestial Beings who are known in the Christian
Religion as Recording Angels, assist the Spirit to come to birth in the
place best suited to give it the experience necessary further to unfold its
powers and possibilities.
We have all been here many times and in different families, we have
had relations of varying nature with many different people, and usually
there are several families among whom we may seek re-embodiment to work out
our self-generated destiny and reap what we have sown in former lives. If
there are no special reasons why we should take birth in any particular family
among certain friends or foes, the Spirit is allowed to choose its own place
of birth. Thus it may be said that most of us are in our present places
by our own prenatal choice.
In order to assist us in making that choice the Recording Angels call up
before the Spirit's vision a panorama in general outlines of each of the
offered lives. This panorama will show what part of our past debts we are to
pay, and what fruits we may be expected to reap in the coming life.
The Spirit is left free to choose between the several lives offered. But
once a choice has been made no evasion is possible during life. We have free
will with regard to the future, but the past mature destiny we cannot
escape, as shown by the incident recorded in The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception,
where the writer warned a well known Los Angeles lecturer that if he left
his home upon a certain day, he would be injured by a conveyance, in head,
neck, breast and shoulders. The gentleman believed and intended to heed our
warning. Nevertheless, he went to Sierra Madre to lecture upon the fateful
day. He was injured by a collision in the places stated and later
explained: "I thought the twenty-eighth was the twenty-ninth."
When the Spirit has made its choice, it descends into the Second Heaven
where it is instructed by the Angels and Archangels how to build an
archetype of the body which it will later inhabit upon Earth. Also here we
note the operation of the great Law of Justice which decree that we reap what
we sow. If our tastes are coarse and sensual, we shall build an archetype
which will express these qualities; if we are refined and of aesthetic taste,
we shall build an archetype correspondingly refined, but no one can obtain
a better body than he can build. Then, as the architect who builds a house in
which he afterwards lives, will suffer discomfort if he neglects to
ventilate it properly, so also the Spirit feels disease in a poorly
constructed body. As the architect learns to avoid mistakes and remedy the
shortcomings of one house when building another, so also the Spirit which
suffers from defects in its body learns in time to build better and better
vehicles.
In the Region of Concrete Thought, the Spirit also draws to itself
materials for a new mind. As a magnet draws iron filings but leaves other
substances alone, so also each Spirit draws only the kind of mind-stuff
which it used in its former life, plus that which it has learned to use in
its present post-mortem state. Then it descends into the Desire World where
it gathers materials for a new desire body such as will express
appropriately its moral characteristics. Later it attracts a certain amount of
ether which is built into the mold of the archetype Constructed in the Second
Heaven and acts as cement between the solids, liquids, and gaseous material
from the bodies of parents which form the dense physical body of a child,
and in due time the latter is brought to birth.
Birth and Childhood
It must not be imagined, however, that when the little body of a child
has been born, the process of birth is completed. The dense physical body
has had the longest evolution, and as a shoemaker who has worked at his
trade for a number of years is more expert than an apprentice and can make
better shoes and quicker, so also the Spirit which has built many physical
bodies produces them quickly, but the vital body is a later acquisition of
the human being. Therefore we are not so expert in building that vehicle.
Consequently, it takes longer to construct it from the materials not used in
making the lining of the archetype, and the vital body is not born until the
seventh year. Then the period of rapid growth commences. The desire body is a
still later addition of composite man, and is not brought to birth until the
fourteenth year, when the desire nature expresses itself most strongly
during the so-called "hot" youth, and the mind, which makes man, does not
come to birth until the twenty-first year. In law that age is recognized as
the earliest time he is fitted to exercise a franchise.
This knowledge is of the utmost importance to parents, as a proper
understanding of the development which should take place in each of the
septenary epochs enables the educator to work intelligently with nature
and thus fulfill more thoroughly the trust of a parent than those who are
ignorant of the Western Mystery Teaching. We shall therefore devote the
remaining pages to an elucidation of this matter and to the importance of
the knowledge of astrology upon the part of the parent.
The Mystery of Light,
Color, and Consciousness
"God is Light," says the Bible, and we are unable to conceive of a
grander simile of His omnipresence, or the mode of His manifestation. Even
the greatest telescopes have failed to reach the boundaries of light, though
they reveal to us stars millions of miles from the Earth, and we may well
ask ourselves, as did the Psalmist of old: "Whither shall I flee from thy
presence? If I ascend into heaven Thou art there, if I make my bed in the
grave Thou art there, if I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea. Even there shall thy hand lead me."
When, in the dawn of Being, God the Father enunciated the Word, and the Holy Spirit moved upon the sea of homogeneous virgin matter, primeval
darkness was turned to light. That is therefore, the prime manifestation of
Deity, and a study of the principles of Light will reveal to the mystic
intuition a wonderful source of spiritual inspiration. As it would take us
too far afield from our subject we shall not enter into an elucidation of
that theme here, except so far as to give an elementary idea of how divine
Life energizes the human frame, and stimulates to action.
Truly, God is One and undivided. He unfolds within His being all that
is, as the white light embraces all colors. But He appears threefold in
manifestation, as the white light is refracted in three primary colors:
blue, yellow, and red. Wherever we see these colors they are emblematical of
the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. These three primary rays of divine Life
are diffused or radiated through the Sun and produce life, consciousness, and form upon each of the seven light-bearers, the planets, which are called
"the Seven Spirits before the Throne." Their names are: Mercury, Venus,
Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. Bode's Law proves that Neptune and
Pluto do not "belong" to our solar system. See Simplified Scientific Astrology by the present writer for mathematical demonstration of this conception.
Each of the seven planets receives the light of the Sun in a different
measure, according to its proximity to the central orb and the constitution
of its atmosphere, and the beings upon each, according to their stage of
development, have affinity for some of the solar rays. They absorb the colors
congruous to them, and reflect the remainder upon the other planets. This
reflected ray bears with it an impulse of the nature of the beings with
which it has been in contact.
Thus the divine Light and Life comes to each planet, either directly
from the Sun, or reflected from its sister planets, and as the summer breeze
which has been wafted over blooming fields carries upon its silent invisible
wings the blended fragrance of a multitude of flowers, so also the subtle
influences from the garden of God bring to us the co-mingled impulses of all
the Spirits, and in that varicolored light we live and move and have our
being.
The rays which come directly from the Sun are productive of spiritual
illumination, the reflected rays from other planets make for added
consciousness and moral development, and the rays reflected by way of the
Moon give physical growth.
But as each planet can absorb only a certain quantity of one or more
colors according to the general stage of evolution there, so each being upon
Earth: mineral, plant, animal, and man, can only absorb and thrive upon a
certain quantity of the various rays projected upon the Earth. The remainder
do not affect it or produce sensation, any more than the blind are conscious
of light and color which exists everywhere around them. Therefore each being
is differently affected by the stellar rays, and the science of astrology, a
fundamental truth in nature, is of enormous benefit in the attainment of
spiritual growth.
From a horoscopic figure in mystic script we may learn our own strength
and weakness, with the path best suited to our development, or we may see
the tendencies of those friends who come to us as children, and what traits
are dormant in them. Thus we shall know clearly how to discharge our duty as
parents, by repressing evil before it comes to birth, and fostering good so
that it may bring forth most abundantly the spiritual potencies of the
Spirit committed to our care.
As we have already said, man returns to Earth to reap that which he has
sown in previous lives and to sow anew the seeds which make for future
experience. The stars are the heavenly time keepers which measure the year;
the Moon indicates the month when the time will be propitious to harvest or
to sow.
The child is a mystery to us all. We can know its propensities only as
they slowly develop into characteristics, but it is usually too late to
check when evil habits have been formed and the youth is upon the downward
grade. A horoscope cast for the time of birth in a scientific manner shows
the tendencies to good or evil in the child, and if a parent will take the
time and trouble necessary to study the science of the stars, he or she may
do the child entrusted to his or her care an inestimable service by fostering
tendencies to good and repressing the evil bent of a child ere it has
crystallized into habit. Do not imagine that a superior mathematical
knowledge is necessary to erect a horoscope. Many construct a horoscope in
such an involved manner, so "fearfully and wonderfully made," that it is
unreadable to themselves or others, while a simple figure, easy of reading,
may be constructed by anyone who knows how to add and subtract. This method
has been thoroughly elucidated in Simplified Scientific Astrology, which is a
complete text book, though small and inexpensive, and parents who have the
welfare of their children thoroughly at heart should endeavor to learn the
stellar science for themselves. Even though their ability may not compare
with that of a professional astrologer, their intimate knowledge of the
child and their deep interest will more than compensate for such lack and
enable them to see most deeply into the child's character by means of its
horoscope.
Education of Children
Respecting the birth of the various vehicles and the influence which
that has upon life, we may say that during the time from birth to the
seventh year the lines of growth of the physical body are determined, and as
it has been noted that sound is builder both in the great and small, we
may well imagine that rhythm must have an enormous influence upon the
growing and sensitive little child's organism. The apostle John in the first
chapter of his Gospel expresses this idea mystically in the beautiful
words: "In the beginning was the Word...and without it was not anything made
that was made... and the word became flesh." The Word is a rhythmic sound,
which issued from the Creator, reverberated through the universe and
marshaled countless millions of atoms into the multiplex variety of shapes
and forms which we see about us. The mountain, the mayflower, the mouse,
and the man are all embodiments of the great Cosmic Word which is still
sounding through the universe and which is still building and ever building
though unheard by our insensitive ears. But though we do not hear that
wonderful celestial sound, we may work upon the little child's body by
terrestrial music, and though the nursery rhymes are without sense, they
are nevertheless bearers of a wonderful rhythm. The more a child is taught to
say, sing, and repeat them, to dance and to march to them, the more music
is incorporated into a child's daily life, the stronger and healthier will
be its body in future years.
There are two mottoes which apply during this period, one to the child
and the other to the parent: example and imitation. No creature under heaven
is more imitative than a little child, and its conduct in after years will
depend largely upon the example set by its parents during its early life. It
is no use to tell the child "not to mind." It has no mind wherewith to
discriminate, but follows its natural tendency, as water flows down a hill,
when it imitates. Therefore it behooves every parent to remember from morning
till night that watchful eyes are upon him all the time, waiting but for him
to act in order to follow his example.
It is of the utmost importance that the child's clothing should be very
loose, particularly the clothing of little boys, as chafing garments often
product vices which follow a man through life.
If anyone should attempt forcibly to extract a babe from the protecting
womb of its mother, the outrage would result in death, because the babe had
not yet arrived at a maturity sufficient to endure impacts of the Physical
World. In the three septenary periods which follow birth, the invisible
vehicles are still in the womb of Mother Nature. If we teach a child of tender
years to memorize, or to think, or if we arouse its feelings and emotions,
we are in fact opening the protecting womb of nature, and the results are
equally as disastrous in other respects as a forced premature birth. Child
prodigies usually become men and women of less than ordinary intelligence.
We should not hinder the child from learning or thinking of his own volition, but we should not goad them on as parents often do to nourish
their own pride.
When the vital body is born at the age of seven a period of growth
begins and a new motto, or rather a new relation, is established between
parent and child. This may be expressed by the two words authority
and discipleship. In this period the child is taught certain lessons which
it takes upon faith in the authority of its teachers, whether at home or
at school, and as memory is a faculty of the vital body it can now
memorize what is learned. It is therefore eminently teachable; particularly
because it is unbiased by preconceived opinions which prevent most of us
from accepting new views. At the end of this second period, from about
twelve to fourteen, the vital body has been so far developed that puberty is
reached. At the age of fourteen we have the birth of the desire body, which
marks the commencement of self-assertion. In earlier years the child regards
itself more as belonging to a family, and subordinate to the wishes of its
parents than after the fourteenth year. The reason is this: In the throat of
the fetus and the young child there is a gland called the thymus gland, which
is largest before birth, then gradually diminishes through the years of
childhood and finally disappears at ages which vary according to the
characteristics of the child.
Anatomists have been puzzled as to the function of this organ and have not yet come to any settled conclusion, but it has been suggested that
before development of the red marrow bones, the child is not able to
manufacture its own blood, and that therefore the thymus gland contains an
essence, supplied by the parents, upon which the child may draw during
infancy and childhood, till able to manufacture its own blood. That
theory is approximately true, and as the family blood flows in the child,
it looks upon itself as part of the family and not as an Ego. But the moment
it commences to manufacture its own blood, the Ego asserts itself; it is no
longer papa's girl or mama's boy; it has an "I"-dentity of its own.
Then comes the critical age when parents reap what they have sown. The
mind has not yet been born, nothing holds the desire nature in check, and
much, very much, depends upon how the child has been taught in earlier years
and what example the parents have set. At this point in life
self-assertion, the feeling "I am myself," is stronger than at any other
time, and therefore authority should give place to advice. The parent should
practice the utmost tolerance, for at no time in life is a human being as
much in need of sympathy as during the seven years from fourteen to
twenty-one when the desire nature is rampant and unchecked.
It is a crime to inflict corporal punishment upon a child at any age.
Might is never right, and as the stronger, parents should always have
compassion for the weaker. But there is one feature of corporal
punishment which makes it particularly dangerous to apply it to the youth:
namely, that it wakens the passional nature which is already perhaps beyond
the control of the growing boy.
If we whip a dog, we shall soon break its spirit and transform it into a
cringing cur, and it is deplorable that some parents seem to regard it as
their mission in life to break the spirit of their children with the rule of
the rod. If there is one universal lack among the human race which is more
apparent than any other, it is lack of will, and as parents we may remedy
the evil in a large measure by guiding the wills of our children along such
lines as dictated by our own more mature reason. Thus we help them to grow a
backbone instead of a wishbone, with which unfortunately most of us are
afflicted. Therefore, never whip a child; if punishment is needed, correct by
withholding favors or withdrawing privileges.
At the twenty-first year the birth of the mind transforms the youth into
an adult fully equipped to commence his own life in the school of
experience.
Thus we have followed the human Spirit around a life cycle from death to
birth and maturity; we have seen how immutable law governs its every step
and how it is ever encompassed by the loving care of the great and glorious
Beings who are the ministers of God. The method of his future development
will be explained in a later work which will deal with The Christian Mystic Initiation.
In order to aid those who feel the upward urge to prepare intelligently and reverently for the unfoldment of their inner latent spiritual powers,
we offer three Self-Study Module Courses which furnish instruction to students all over the world. One deals with astrology, the other with Christian Mysticism (The Rosicrucian Philosophy), and the third with Bible Study.
The astrology to which we refer is not to be confounded with fortune-
telling; it is a phase of the mystic religion, as sublime as the stars with
which it deals. To the mystic the stars are not dead bodies moving in space
in obedience to so-called blind natural law, but they are the embodiments of
the Seven Spirits Before the Throne, mighty Star-Angels who use their benevolent influences to guide other less exalted beings, humanity included, upon the path of evolution.
There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is
as potent a factor in creating the ebb and flow as the part of the Moon
which is visible. Similarly, there is an invisible part of man which exerts a
powerful influence in life, and as the tides are measured by the motion of Sun
and Moon, so also the eventualities of existence are measured by the
circling stars, which may therefore be called The Clock of Destiny, and
knowledge of their import is an immense power; to the competent astrologer a
horoscope reveals every secret of life.
Thus, when you have given an astrologer the data of your birth, you have
given him the key to your innermost soul, and there is no secret that he may
not ferret out. This knowledge may be used for good or ill, to help or hurt,
according to the nature of the man. Only a friend should be trusted with
this key to your soul, and it should never be given to anyone base enough to
prostitute a spiritual science for material gain.
To the medical man astrology is invaluable in diagnosing disease and
prescribing a remedy, for it reveals the hidden cause of all ailments in a
manner that has often perplexed the skeptic and dumbfounded the scoffer.
The opinion of thousands is of great value, but it does not prove
anything, for thousands may hold an opposite view; occasionally a single man
may be right and the rest of the world moves, as when Galileo maintained
that the earth moves. Today the whole world has been converted to the
opinion for which he suffered torture, and we assert that as man is a composite being, cures are successful only in proportion as they remedy defects on the physical, moral, and mental planes of being. We also maintain
that results may be obtained more easily at certain times when stellar rays
are propitious to healing of a particular disease, or by treatment with
remedies previously prepared under auspicious conditions.
If you are a parent, the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil
latent in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It
will show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman
of the Spirit entrusted to your care. It will reveal systematic weakness and
enable you to guard the health of your child; it will show what talents are
there, and how the life may be lived to a maximum of usefulness. Therefore,
the message of the marching orbs is so important that you cannot afford to
remain ignorant thereof.
In order to aid those who are willing to help themselves we offer Self-Study Modules in Astrology, but make no mistake, we do not teach
fortune-telling. If that is what you are looking for, we have nothing for you.
Our Self-Study Modules
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They embody the highest moral and spiritual principles, together with the loftiest system of ethics, for astrology is, to us, a phase of religion;
we never look at a horoscope without feeling that we are in a holy presence,
face to face with an immortal Spirit, and our attitude is one of prayer for
light to guide that Spirit aright.
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