It is obvious that personal safety is the first consideration of every life form. No matter what the genus or species enemies are feared. It is this strong desire for personal survival that causes increased alertness to danger signals.
How keen the hearing of the deer and how swiftly and cleverly they outrun a pack of wolves. Some life-forms flee from trouble, others burrow and hide, and some resort to camouflage.
South American armadillos wear a coat of arms so strong and hard that Gauchos sharpen their Spanish knives upon them. These animals can burrow so quickly that it is almost impossible for a hunter riding a horse to catch one.
I have read about a certain soft-shelled tortoise that, at the approach of an enemy, hastens to the nearest crevice in a rock and inflates itself to its limit making it impossible to be dragged out.
Insects imitate their environment in color to prevent their devourers from discovering them. For instance, the well-known ‘walking stick’ which so resembles a twig that it will pass unnoticed by even a keen observer.
Leopards, zebras and giraffes have the distinct colorings and spots which make them hardly distinguishable from the surrounding rocks.
There is also the question of food and shelter. Birds build their nests in inaccessible places. Chipmunks and squirrels in an act of safety store nuts and seeds for the winter.
The jerboas, a species of jumping mice, are very gifted in food conservation. They arrange a system of store-houses, and fill these in good seasons. Their wisdom lies in not opening any compartment of their accumulated supply until actually necessary. Any needy ones in the vicinity are always allowed to share.
The American polecat also provides for its young by storing in its adopted cave nursery ten to fifty large frogs and toads alive. Because these are bitten through the brain they cannot escape and young polecats have food at hand while the parents hunt for more.
The records of the naturalists will recite unlimited examples of caution, careful planning, hoarding, disguise and escape tactics in the world of nature. It is experiences of this kind which have built into the astral bodies of life-forms the safety thought-elements.
Humans inherit these qualities and display ingenuity in expressing them. Such thought elements, indicated in your birth chart by the planet Saturn, are the source of secrecy, acquisitiveness, covetousness, casualty and comparison.
All successful lawyers, managers and others who depend upon system, order, and persistence for success – even policemen and top-notch musicians – have safety thought-elements prominent in their astral bodies.
If you listen to a few of the phrases you habitually use you’ll detect the trend of some of your thinking. How often do you say ‘be careful’ meaning take care and caution; or ‘I am afraid such and such will happen’, a fear thought necessitating safety considerations; or ‘save for a rainy day’.
Just how you think in these terms will bring good or bad fortune. Discordant thought attracts loss, hardship, privation, heavy burdens, hard work and many restrictions. The affliction is through deficiency and in diseases is responsible for cancer, fibrous tumor, pellagra, atrophy and constipation. It’s the chief cause of tuberculosis (a congestion of the lungs restricting the breathing areas).
Fear and selfishness are the most unprofitable things in the world because the thought-cells so formed attract loss into the life and develop chronic diseases in the body.
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