“Mr. B. Keightley: They say some astrologers used to say that the stars ruled human destinies and were active agents in controlling human destinies. Others put it that that was not the case, but that there was a sympathetic relationship between human beings and the stars, so that they moved parallel to each other; that you can predict the conditions under which a human being would finish himself from the stellar aspects, but it was not inferred that there was any cause of relationship between them. Those are, broadly speaking, the two different views put forward by the astrologer. The old one is the orthodox.
Mr. Old: There is almost a third class of thinkers on this question, that is those who believe in the planetary spirits – you know, that there are legions under them who directly influence the minds of us, the thoughts, desires, and actions of individuals.
But my own personal opinion is – and also that which seems to me to be reflected dimly in the Hindu works on the subject, in both North and South Hindustan – that there is a relationship between the terrestrial body, of which man’s body is but a differentiation, and the material bodies of all the planets.
There is also sympathy between his astral body, and the whole astral plane to which he belongs, in which – or of which, I might say – and the astral principles animating the planetary bodies. Themselves are the composites, that is, that the astral bodies of planets and of men all enter into and are integral parts of the universal astral plane. Material atoms either collectively or individually make up the material universe; so with respect to the individual or collective astral.
Now, it would appear that life current, called by the Hindus Prana, radiates, permeates, acts and moves in this astral plane, and that it is in passing through this astral that it becomes stranded, as it were, and thrown off, just as a ray of light.
Mr. B. Keightley: Reflected?
Mr. Old: Well, I don’t mean that exactly; spread out, I mean, into its different parts or principles.
A Lady: Refracted?
Mr. Old: And this severance of the one Pranic ray causes the different aspects of life. Thus we might have a single ray of light coming from the sun entering the earth, and, as you know, immediately stranded off into so many other rays – refraction is the word, of course.
So it is with the universal life, which has no particular reference to our visible sun, which is the material universe, and is part of it, although it is the most sublimated kind of matter; but it is with respect to the Pranic plane, that is to say, the plane above the astral plane.
Then they say that the various astral planes corresponding to the material planets receive the rays of the sun and reflect to the earth, first of all to the astral plane, then precipitated on the plane on {where?} the astral planets receive the life rays of the sun.
I am speaking of the sun on the Pranic plane, and the astral planets receive these rays and reflect them to the astral body of this earth, which is in the astral plane, and thence they are precipitated on to the earth, and so into individuals.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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