If you have discovered that you are an integral part of the universe, that the greatest progress of the whole depends upon the perfect working of its parts and if you can perceive that the development of each individual is increased by every improvement the whole has to offer, then your path as an alchemist is clear.
You must, advance along spiritual, mental and physical lines to the utmost of your ability not for your own aggrandizement but to render to the universe the richness of your unfoldment.
Having made this decision, it will be well to look to your equipment. To know yourself is the first step.
Certainly, to be able effectively control your future actions you must understand the inner forces of your being and become acquainted with the mechanism which has evolved you to your present state.
Armed with a knowledge of the laws and principles of your soul, you can direct its operations and guide its potentialities into the most constructive efforts.
Your birth chart is a map depicting symbols that denote powerful energies and forces that are individual to you. They have accumulated during all your previous existence. Those energies that have not been understood, or have been wrongly used, are indicated by inharmony in your chart.
When you find inharmony (discord) you may definitely conclude that strong desires within you are in a state of conflict, and because these desires strain to express themselves in your daily life they’re inclined to result in chaotic and confused conditions.
Poverty, disease, and failure can be traced directly to these contrary inner forces. However, this inner nature can be changed by correcting your mental attitudes, applying right thinking, and inducing appropriate emotional states.
Other energies have been followed with pleasure and constructive effort yielding combinations in trines and sextiles. These harmonious or discordant energies are fourth dimensional. They reside in your astral body.
Every living thing in the universe has an astral body.
To help grasp the idea of a finer-astral-body, you can consider the findings of science concerning physical elements.
There are ninety-two elements. Intense study and research have discovered that all these elements follow a certain pattern of interior energy; that is, each is composed of a nucleus, around which a definite number of electrons revolve. The elements are numbered 1 to 92 according to the quantity of electrons found in each.
Thus hydrogen, having one electron revolving around its nucleus is designated by the atomic number one. and so on, up to Uranium, which has ninety-two electrons.
Further investigation by Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev revealed that these ninety-two substances could be classified into families. He tabulated seven at first, and later eight, but an up-to-date analysis reckons nine distinct families. Later textbooks on chemistry show a division of each family into twelve series or compartments.
Now the primal urge of any living thing is to be itself. This drive for significance is maintained by two powerful energies.
One, the reproductive desire, the positive nucleus; and two, the nutritive desire is the negative electron (figuratively speaking) which revolves about it. These two form the basis of all the elements in your astral body.
Your astral body is similarly constructed. Its general substance is called psychoplasm, much as we think of your physical body being composed of protoplasm. Correspondingly, as there are elements and compounds which make up your physical bring, so there are thought-elements and thought-compounds in your astral self.
You call the organization of these thought elements and thought compounds your mind or soul. Every thought you think either strengthens or modifies this organization.
This knowledge is the vital first step in understanding your mental, emotional and spiritual development.
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