270 Spiritual Astrology
cares to mean what he speaks. The link of mind with
speech gives a cogency of thought-power and utterance
to raise the activity of the lower triangle. Here lies the
scientific truth that the student of spiritual path has to
gain control over his speech before he can hope for any
real progress along the first steps. Speaking out good
thoughts and keeping silence about unnecessary things
is the first essential step. Avoiding misrepresentation of
thought in the word is the next step. Full surrender of the
right of judging others in thought and word is the later
step. Careful analysis of thought and aspiring for the
fitness of words is the step that follows. Word becomes
mantram, only when these steps are practised. Then only
his Mercury begins to work as the mouth-piece of Gods
and reveals to him the plan of the higher intelligences
that are at work.
Every word of our speech has got its origin in the
Cosmic will. The Cosmic Will prepares the speech of man
and stimulates the buddhic plane of man. This stimulation
descends to the heart-centre via the A
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jna- chakra. Then,
there is the human stir for the origin of the word in that
centre. This gives an effort to the throat-centre through
the force of respiration. In the meanwhile, the concept of
the word that is prepared in the cosmic level via solar and
planetary consciousnesses descends to A
-
jna- chakra and is
received by the buddhic plane of Mercury. Here, Mercury
translates it and gives out through the effort, that is
produced earlier by respiration and vocal cords. Thus,
we see that the evolution of word in man is a double
process very much like the evolution of man. The activity
of the utterance of a word that lies lower than the buddhic
plane is governed by Mercury. The higher counterpart of
the word, which directly descends as impression belongs
to Jupiter. This relationship between the activity of