The science of esoteric astrology is said to be
the basic occult science for the future. It will come into its
own as the esoteric or soul factors begin to supersede the exoteric
focus of the vast majority of professional and amateur astrologers
today.
This is the science which deals with those conditioning and
governing energies and forces which play through and upon the
whole field of space and all that is found within that field.
The Ancient Wisdom teaches that "Space is an entity". It is
with the life of this entity and with the forces and energies,
the impulses and the rhythms, the cycles and the times and seasons,
that esoteric astrology deals.
Esoteric astrology can be applied by the trained worker in
a variety of ways; in medicine, psychology, science, education;
to an evaluation of human problems, of the destiny of nations,
of a correct interpretation of world affairs, and so on. It
is necessary, however, that at this stage the application of
esoteric astrology to human life should be recognised as experimental
and tentative, so that each individual worker can adjust his
thinking and his methods according to his own wrought-out experience.
As with all other aspects of occultism and esotericism, accuracy
and facility to work depend entirely on a consciousness evolving
out of control by the personality into the life of the soul,
out of separateness and self-centredness into a realisation
of unity, and absorption into a centre of group consciousness.
Astrology is described in this book as "the science of relationships"--the
relationship existing between all living organisms within the
universe. Not only the qualities of the ray energies affect
these centres of consciousness, but also the quality and energy
of the ruling planets and the zodiacal signs. Seen from the
exoteric outside, astrology is a vast and most involved and
complex subject. From the esoteric inside, while it is still
vast, all-inclusive and complex, it is also possible to perceive
the thread which unites and the pattern which prevails throughout
the whole system. A basic simplicity in the grand design emerges,
therefore, which can serve to interpret the whole.
The main chapter headings to this book provide the sequence
in developing study: (1) The Zodiac and the Rays (2) The Nature
of Esoteric Astrology (3) The Science of Triangles (4) The Sacred
and Non-Sacred Planets (5) Three Major Constellations (6) The
Three Crosses (7) The Rays, Constellations and Planets. ln addition
there is an appendix which summarises and tabulates many of
the factors of fundamental importance to the study of esoteric
astrology.
This is a book for the true occult student. It may appear
to be too highly specialised for some; but every esoteric worker
finds eventually that his work requires an understanding of
the basic astrological factors which affect all relationships
and all forms of life within the ethers of space, so that he
may learn how to cooperate intelligently in the evolution of
the whole by the right adjustment of the part within that whole;
until eventually "the many are absorbed into the One".
