212 Spiritual Astrology
knowledge and experience. This leaves such readers in
the wilderness of confusion and they are lost in the
vastness and the apparently complicated details of the
canvas.
Such is the sacred mission of the scriptures.
Knowledge of the effects of the planets in various signs,
the meaning of the various aspects of planets and the
intrinsic nature of each planet are necessary to divulge
the above-said plan and interpret the various allegories.
This branch of knowledge is called the true astrology and
we propose to call it “Spiritual Astrology”. Without this
astrological key, the whole literature of world scriptures
is a closed book.
The zodiac is the book of the wisdom of ages and
the planets pinpoint the age required. The zodiac can be
compared to the dial of a huge clock in which the planets
serve as the hands marking the units of time in various
speeds. When each pointer shows a particular division
or ‘hour’ on the dial, it indicates a portion of the great
day and the schedule of that hour is read and followed
from the scriptures.
The whole time-table of the great day is called Maha-
Kalpa. The word Kalpa also means the practical detail of a
Grand Ritual. The law that governs the kalpa is called the
law of Karma. The force that sustains the inevitability of
this order or routine, is called Satya (the law of existence).
This force makes its periodical manifestation through a
latent force called Rita (the rythm of the musical nature
of truth). The cause of this periodical manifestation is
called the Cause of all causes. It is called the utterance of
the word Abhi
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tha-t (So mot it be) from the ever-conscious