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- Herausgeber: Jazzybee Verlag
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Sprache: Englisch
Although countless volumes have been written upon the subject of Astrology, this is the only book which states the simple principles of the Zodiac in simple terms, making the entire matter clear to the average understanding. This volume indicates the Location, Characteristics, and Influence of each Sign of the Zodiac, giving the Days which each sign governs, and the Gems and Astral Colors associated with each. The Diseases of the Body, how to cure them, and the Faults of Character incidental to the different Domains. The Methods of Growth for each human being. The Domains from which Companions, Husbands, and Wives should be selected. The Characteristics of Children born in different Domains, and the Conditions to be observed in their Care and Education. The personal Ability and Talent of the individual with reference to Domestic, Social, and Business success.
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The Influence Of The Zodiac Upon Human Life
Eleanor Kirk
Contents:
The Influence Of The Zodiac Upon Human Life
Chapter I - The Quickening Spirit
Chapter Ii - Questions And Answers
Chapter Iii - Disease
Chapter Iv - Development
Chapter V - A Warning
Chapter Vi - Marriage Considered With Reference To Domains
The Fire Triplicity Aries, Leo, Sagittarius
Chapter Vii - Aries
Chapter Viii - Leo
Chapter Ix - Sagittarius
The Air Triplicity Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
Chapter X - Gemini
Chapter Xi - Libra
Chapter Xii - Aquarius
The Earth Triplicity Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn
Chapter Xiii - Taurus
Chapter Xiv - Virgo
Chapter Xv - Capricorn
The Water Triplicity Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces
Chapter Xvi - Cancer
Chapter Xvii - Scorpio
Chapter Xviii - Pisces
Chapter Xix - An Explanation
Influence Of The Zodiac In Closing
The Influence Of The Zodiac Upon Human Life , E. Kirk
Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck
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ISBN: 9783849641931
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The Influence Of The Zodiac Upon Human Life
CHAPTER I - THE QUICKENING SPIRIT
THERE has been for some time a call for a volume, simple and explanatory in style, that shall give the rudiments of what is termed Occult Science. Occult Law is simply unrevealed natural law; hidden, because until recently the world has been entirely satisfied with things as they seemed, with the external and superficial. There are many involved and expensive books dealing with this most interesting, instructive, and fascinating subject, but because they are prepared for those who have had previous instruction, they are not adapted to the needs of the thousands of people who are for the first time touched by the wing of the spirit of knowledge that now seems to be brooding and descending upon the earth. The influence of the Domains, Zodiacal Signs, Planets, and Stars has been recognized and understood by certain wise men for thousands of years, but the esoteric part of occult law has been known only to the initiated of certain nations and secret orders. The signs and wonders described by so many travellers in the East have attracted wide attention, but these phenomena have borne as small a relation to the real philosophy of occultism as the slate-writing of the modern medium bears to true Spiritualism. The quickening spirit is here. Even the usually thoughtless and indifferent open their eyes a little wider sometimes, and stop long enough in their money-grubbing and shopping to wonder what it all means. Competent teachers in mental and spiritual subjects are busy in our towns and cities, instructing great classes of students who hunger and thirst for the truths that make for peace and happiness. Dissatisfaction with old methods and theories and creeds meet us at every hand. Light has flashed upon the dark idols, and they are revealed in all their hideousness. A far-off God and a remote heaven are no longer attractive. The quickening spirit has breathed a thought to those who have ears to hear and hearts to feel, of the Eternal Now, and a God and a heaven in every human soul. The dogmatic absurdities of learned men are passing away. Every power of heaven and earth is friendly to a noble and courageous activity.
To find out some of the causes previously ignored by the majority—even of the so-called educated and cultured— that affect for good or ill the lives of the inhabitants of the earth, has now become a vital necessity. To this end this volume is prepared, and it is hoped that it will give the student a basis upon which to build, as well as the ability to comprehend the sublime truths which every neophyte will more earnestly desire than anything that the world can offer. An acquaintance with the Domains and Signs of the Zodiac places in the hands of every intelligent person a strong overcoming force. The first effect of this knowledge is the birth of a new charity, not only for one's neighbors but for oneself. "Receiving a new truth is adding a new sense. Right wrongs no man." We find that there is a reason for certain traits of character, certain passions and weaknesses "which have burdened all the conflict and hindered all the fight." The friends whom one has criticised and blamed have the same reason as ourselves for their peculiarities and unsatisfactory conduct. The next effect is the assurance that, having penetrated to the cause, it is possible to find a remedy for the conditions that have formerly ruled our lives. Many of us have laughed at what we were pleased to call the superstitions of our grandparents, especially of our grandmothers, as expressed in their devotion to the Signs of the Zodiac. Fevers turned, the sick recovered or died, children were weaned, houses bought and sold, according to some arrangement of the circle with the queer beasts and the much-pierced man that held a place in all the almanacs of the period. Some of us have found out a few things since, and one is that it is the part of wisdom not to sneer at or condemn the things which we do not understand.
CHAPTER II - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
THE age of Interrogation has been a long one. We have now come to the period of Response. Time will reveal every truth to posterity.
Questions imply answers. Every Why holds a Because. That answers are long in coming does not prove that there are no answers. The little child demands reasons for things which his elders cannot give him. But the fact that the child is able to formulate these questions shows conclusively that the answers are not only in existence, but that he, as the seeker for this knowledge, will some time be able to answer them for himself. That the hidden forces of the universe are more potent than those we can see and handle is a fact that the world is now beginning to accept. We have asked questions without hope of answer. Now we ask, and know that we shall receive as soon as we are willing to let go of Error and let in the Truth.
In our ignorance we have scorned the invisible and latent, and measured the universe by our five circumscribed senses. Ignorance shuts its eyes and declares itself to be right, while it is the primary source of human misery. The late tremendous progress in electrical science has been a great force in awakening the minds of the people to the realization of hidden or occult power, and it has also helped to prove the truth of the Christ statement that " there is nothing hidden which shall not be revealed." Truth is the daughter of Time. She may languish, but can never perish.
The Moon is the only planet in the heavens which has been generally credited with exerting an influence upon the Earth, and, in the minds of most people, this influence has been confined to the tides. It is a commentary upon the intelligence of the average man and woman when the Moon, the feeblest of our luminaries, is selected as the only planet which has any relation to the Earth. These people will tell us that they know the effect of the Moon upon tides, and in the same breath will disclaim any belief in the power of other planets, which are to the Moon as the light of the Sun to a tallow candle. The light of the Moon is like the sunlight on the face of a corpse, and the power credited to it is a borrowed power belonging of right to the Sun.
We have passed from the age of Questions and come to the age of Answers, and though we still know very little concerning the hidden or occult forces of the universe, we are learning something new every day, among which valuable information we may place the recent discovery of our previous utter ignorance of causes, and our arrogance and dogmatism in denying the powers which we were not able to test by means of our physical senses.
Truth is often too simple for us, and we do not like those who unmask our illusions; but the day has dawned, the clouds of ignorance are rolling away, and the response to the desire for knowledge is coming just as rapidly as the human soul is ready to receive it.
CHAPTER III - DISEASE
PERHAPS there is no term in use by metaphysicians that provokes so much ridicule from those not in sympathy with the science of mind as THE RACE THOUGHT. TO be told in a time of suffering, when the immediate cause is not apparent, that the unhappy conditions are attributable to the thought of disease abroad in the world is to most people a confession of weakness on the part of these philosophers and healers. But let us consider this matter a moment, and turn to the Zodiac for an illustration of this point.
When the astronomers and astrologers of old placed what is called THE GRAND MAN in the centre of a circle, ranging about him the twelve signs of the Zodiac, each one, from Aries to Pisces, was made to point to the weak or vulnerable parts of the body. Look in any of the almanacs, and Taurus will be seen directing attention to the neck, Gemini to the arms, Leo to the heart, and so on. When we think that this picture has endured for ages, and call to mind that our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, although ignorant of the most vital and vitalizing principles of the cult, placed implicit confidence in the influence of these signs upon life and health, we shall be able to approximate at least to a partial comprehension of what is claimed for the RACE THOUGHT. The ancient astrologers and scientists doubtless knew and taught that this tendency to disease had no reference to the regenerate man; that it was a condition which could influence only the person who lived exclusively in the natural and external, and in the belief of the supremacy of matter over mind. The regenerate man, or the divine human, knows that mind is the supreme master, and matter the obedient servant. So it comes to pass that the dangers pointed out by the Zodiacal signs are true as regards man in an animal condition, and absolutely false as regards man in a spiritual state.
This explanation is vitally necessary, because the author is under an obligation to her conscience never unnecessarily to call attention to disease.
Knowing that the body is what the mind makes it, and that of itself it is of no more account than a clod of dirt, it does not seem an honest thing to mention man's susceptibility to sickness without a presentation of the other and true side of the case.
The spiritual man has no master but God, and his mediator is the essential Christ, embodied in his own bosom.
CHAPTER IV - DEVELOPMENT
THE threefold division of man's constitution, as illustrated in the twelve signs of the Zodiac, has long been known as triune in its nature, such as spirit, soul, and body, correspondential in their relationship of father, mother, and son, and, according to the Hermetic philosophers, objective, subjective, and passive, or sleeping—the state of inertia. The corporeal nature or animal soul of man is formed in the life of the physical body; hence man has his natural animal soul from the life of the objective natural man and of the human body, formed by man himself. The spiritual soul, or the Divine human, is the immortal individuality, which is formed by the Divine breath, Spirit, the Holy Ghost—essential soul-action from God, the life-principle of the universe in its localized and physical manifestation. There is no such thing as chance in natural and spiritual law. Every man and woman has a spiritual mission somewhere along life's journey, and it is for this mission God has created each individual.
From the glowing and the growing of the spiritual or immortal soul springs individuality. From the reason, mind, and will of the physical and corporeal man, and from the desires, appetites, and phantasies of the natural animal man, arise all the strifes in a human being. Hence men claim "life is a warfare"; and so it is—a strife of the immortal soul to ripen out, and of the spiritual principle to illuminate the man; a strife of the rational or intellectual human will, which becomes dogmatic, often intolerant; a strife of the animal man, with his desires, ambitions, and appetites. Life is motion and action. Not to do is death. Life is kindled only by life, and, like the waters of the sea, freshens only when it ascends to heaven.
There is a natural mind and will, which are driven and tossed about by the planetary storms and solar fluids. This mind is distinguished from the intellectual reasoning principle, for there is a mind more interior than the animal mind, which is the human understanding through reason and experience. This is also quickened by the solar fluids or planetary action, for it is the genius of the natural man. And there is a still more interior mind, the spiritual, which is absolute over all earthly or planetary conditions, which glows and continues to ripen the divine human into celestial man, whose finality is angelhood.
CHAPTER V - A WARNING
THE alleged influence of some of the signs is certainly more powerful and more difficult to overcome than others. Signs that are governed by the Sun and Saturn are particularly hard, but right here let it be emphatically stated that neither Zodiacal Signs nor planets have the slightest power over the spiritualized man or woman, spirit being absolute over all matter. The stars may influence us, but God rules the stars, and when man recognizes God in himself, he can be dominated no longer by anything apart from God. It is the habit of some students to complain of their signs and planets, and in some cases rather to look down upon their neighbors who have more to contend with in this matter of overcoming natural faults. But this is unwise, because the more there is of outward conditions to work out of the greater the credit.
The student in this science is soon convinced that there is no delusion about it, and after a little practice the careful observer can calculate with almost unerring fidelity the domains of his friends and acquaintances by their general conduct and habits. The people who belong in the fiery triplicity, for instance, are as different from those who belong in the watery triplicity as fire is different from water; the air people are entirely unlike the earth folks, and so on.
When a marked difference really exists between two persons born the same day, the intelligent observer and student will immediately set about comparing the environments, always remembering that education is a most potent force in the evolution of the race. Take the hard-working washerwoman, for instance, whose life from birth has been a struggle for the bare necessities of life, and the educated and protected wife and mother, who were born under the same sign. They may not appear to have any traits in common, but if the matter is looked into they will be found alike in fundamental characteristics. Take those, again, who are on the same plane of social and intellectual life. One may show the selfishness or the quick temper that belongs to her sign, the other may appear quite thoughtless of self and as gentle as a summer breeze. The last has probably conquered the disagreeable and hindering qualities, while the former has allowed them to conquer her.
If radical differences do really obtain, they can be explained by the governing planets; but these differences, comparatively speaking, are few.
THE CUSP
Those who draw their first breath when one sign is giving place to another are said to belong on the Cusp, and so partake of the characteristics of both signs. This may be an advantage or a disadvantage, according to the harmony or in harmony of the signs. Six days in a sign is said to constitute a residence, but anything less than this time endows one with some of the qualities of the preceding sign.
