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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 321
stand the causes that brought us low? If so, we have
profited. For then we shall know how to do better and
avoid the pitfalls that caused our sickness in the future.
Or, our inheritance being altogether squandered, we stand
with empty pockets upon the street. Perhaps we can turn
nowhere for ; help we are then forced to think and to break
a way for ourselves. Our talents wr
ere useless while we were
squandering our money. In poverty they are turned to
account, we are forced to use them in doing our share of
the world's work. We have lost our inheritance, but the
world has gained a worker, and if we have learned our
lesson in that way, then the influence of Saturn has been
a blessing in disguise.
And so it is with everything in the horoscope that may
appear evil. Besides, the more spiritual we grow the less
will these so-called evil planets or evil aspects affect us
adversely. They are transmuted to good. Saturn will
not give disaster to the spiritual man, but persistence; not
sickness, but strength ; and thus, by conforming
to the laws
of nature, l)y living our lives in harmony with the stars,
we rule them and change our lives as we desire.
The greater part of humanity drifts with the tide and
acts according to the tendencies implanted by the stellar
influences. Therefore, the astrologer can predict what
they will do with wonderful accuracy. But the more a
man or woman lives the spiritual life the more he becomes
a factor to be taken into consideration, and the predictions
of the astrologer will fail as far as he is concerned
in a measure corresponding to his attainment.
The stars are our helpers in evolution. They are not
dead bodies of matter but the living, throbbing and
vibrating bodies of great spiritual intelligences called in
the Christian religion the Seven Spirits before the throne.