planetary forces concerned with our evolution
scrutinize and tabulate every act and deed of man,
and that the effect of harm or benefit to ourselves
and our neighbours is attached to every moral act.
There is no escape, no loss, no uncertainty, The
effect of causes generated on the moral plane will
ultimately exhaust itself in physical circumstances.
Astrology shows the law of cause and effect
working. Its teachings are that every man is the
framer of his own destiny, inasmuch as he can
pluck any fruit he chooses in the garden of life, but
at the same time has to bear the consequences
which ensue from his own action. It would be
impossible for a true astrologer to believe in the
theological dogmas of “Election,” “Predestination,”
and “Foreordination.” He at least is “quit of priests
and books,” for he knows that his destiny is writ-
ten by his own hands and that the stars award him
just what he has earned. The semimaterial theories
of luck, fate, chance, are swept away; nothing
which shifts responsibility or paralyzes effort can
Astrology postulate. We perceive, though dimly,
amid earth’s darkness “the solar light.” We hear,
though faintly, amidst earth’s babble the words of
the Master, Christ, “Be ye perfect even as your
Father in heaven is perfect.” So we perceive the
beauty of that conception of the “Law which
makes for righteousness,” a future which embodies
in it our divine evolution through purgation of all
that is sensual, selfish and belittling. So perceiv-
ing, we try to rule ourselves, and thus rule our
stars, and struggle onward to that perfect goal.
Whatever our ideal, whatever the effort, whatever
the result, it is ours alone; for we must each do our
own thinking, and none can do it for us. Writers
may write for us, teachers may teach us, but they
cannot think for us, and our evolution is in our own
hands. The formative power is lodged in us, deep
within each heart is the germ of Divinity, and it is
for each to evolve that germ into leaf, bud, flower,
and perfect fruit.
Astrology demonstrates the inflexibility of
moral law, and opens to us the highest ideal of reli-
gious fervour. For who can gaze upon the Solar
Orb or the starry host, and not worship the God
behind, sustaining all? As we revere His Law, we
conform to it; and thus we sound a harmonious and
not a discordant note in the symphony of the
spheres.
When we revolve in perfect harmony around our
Sun, the divine Ego within, then we become helpers
and not clogs in the great wheel of evolution.
Teaching these truths, Astrology affirms the
moral consciousness, vindicates the moral sense,
spurs the moral motive. Thus it is in very truth a
guide in life, practical and practicable, and I would
that all who read these words were “Practical
Astrologers” along these lines. Then would the
past knowledge of the laws of life rush in on each
individual consciousness; for all self would have
fled, and we should desire knowledge only that we
might better serve and help our fellow man—
desire only to become pure vessels as channels for
God’s Truth. The Divine Wisdom then would use
us, and we should each be “The Man Aquarius,”
bearing in our hands the water of Wisdom, pouring
it out for others, the service of messenger and car-
rier being our privilege and delight, serving for
pure love’s sake.
Astrology is a great guide in life if it be studied
from its inner aspect. Once the aim is set before a
man, and he realizes the certainty that every act
affects that aim, the question of the expediency of
any act is determined.
Is an act selfish, unfraternal, aggressive? Then it
is not astrological, or according to the wisdom of
the stars, and it will fetter and bind chains about us
in our future life. This is the test, simple, uncompli-
cated, and feasible: Is any act selfish, or otherwise?
He who would be guided through the intricacies
of life need seek no priest or book or intercessor,
but only the “Self,” the divine Self, the still small
voice that can be only heard in the quiet. Let him
study his character from his natal chart, quietly and
meditatively, and then, with no remorse for past
failures, begin anew today, this moment, now, to
rule and dominate the lower nature, living in har-
mony and happiness, free from doubts or misgiv-
ings as to justice or success, strong in the knowl-
edge which esoteric Astrology gives, that he who
has conformed to nature and her laws shall be con-
formed to the destiny she predicts for man, who is
evolving upwards to God.
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—Bessie Leo
