24 Spiritual Astrology
guided by the planetary principles as angels and not
planets. There are three main centres through which
the cosmic energy contacts him. In the cosmic plan,
there are three great forces which are beyond the
planetary level. These are the Solar, the Lunar and
the Earth principles. The principles are the cause of
the planetary creation in each solar system. Every
planet and its every atom contains these principles.
They are explained, in detail, in the next chapter. In
the horoscope of a disciple who has attained this
fourth stage, his birth Sun works as his solar-
principle, his birth Moon as his lunar-principle and
his ascendant as his earth-principle. He gains
mastery over these principles and creates through
them in tune with the cosmic plan. He attains the
level of a worker with the higher beings. At this stage
only, the aspects between the planets that occur
during the progressions of his retrograde horoscope
respond. The Sun and the Moon stimulate him only
through the new Moon and the full Moon and the
half-moons. The ascendant influences him only
through its rotation along the four cardinal points
of the day (the East, the Meridian, the West, and the
Nadir).These four stages form the main content of Spiritual
Astrology. A thorough explanation of these stages, as far
as it is possible at present, will be given in this book.