22 Spiritual Astrology
personality-level to the soul-level. During this period, the
minor initiations take place. His consciousness begins to
take possession of his throat and A
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jna--centres. His
relationships with others are only in the group-level
because there are no motives. He learns to live with the
one Higher Soul of the greater intelligences at work on
this earth. In the next stage, the evolution is from soul to
spirit, that is, from the one soul to the parent-soul of this
solar system and above. Spiritual Astrology gives direct
light concerning these steps of unfolding. The following
phenomena take place during the above-said steps :
(1) When one lives in the individual level, in every birth,
the twelve houses of one’s horoscope wield their
influence through the twelve departments of one’s
individual life. The whole globe of the apparent
space around him is made to have a symbolic
beginning from his ascendant and to travel through
the zodiacal signs via his twelve houses. The signs
and the planets influence him only through his
twelve houses.
(2) When the individual unfolds into the personality-
level, gradually the houses cease to exist for him. It
is only the planets and the twelve signs that stimulate
him into the work of the world. Aries works as the
first house, Taurus as the second house and so on.
Another important and interesting change takes
place at this stage. The position of his birth Moon
works as his ascendant and from that point there is
some influence (only on the mental and astral
planes) which divides the zodiac into the twelve
houses of his personality. If you take the Moon as
his ascendant and construct the twelve houses, that