Some Basic Concepts about Planets 211that occur commonly in the lives of individuals born under
each Moon-phase. The particular features and the detailed
sequence of events can be studied further by locating the
position of the Moon and the Sun in the twelve signs of the
zodiac. Therefore, in all, 12 sets of the 14 Moon phases can
be studied. Similarly, the differences between the twelve
sets of manvanthara-s can be known on the cosmic plane.
Further details of the individual can be studied by locating
his ascendant in one of the twelve signs. These details of
the individual can be applied by the law of correspon-
dences to the manvanthara-s when we get 144 different sets
of manvanthara-s living simultaneously on the supra-cosmic
plane. Roughly, this is the arrangement of the astrological
key to the various prophecies of the Pura-n.a-s.
To a student who knows this key and works it out
for his own benefit and the benefit of others, the stories of
the Pura-n.a-s are concealed symbols and revealed allegories
of the one life in the cosmos and the one life in him. To
him, the life pulsating in the individual and in the universe
is one. The pattern of man in the heavens is located.
Through this key, man speaks with God in the language
of heavens. This whole pattern is the only scripture of
man to know the Will of God. All the scriptures of the
world are copied from it by man. It is the revelation of
God to man and hence the gospel. For this reason, this
book of the heavens, as well as its copies as scriptures are
the impersonal writings of God revealed to man. The will
of man co-operates with the will of God so that “His Will
will be done on earth as in heaven”. To the reader of the
scriptures, who does not possess this key, all the stories
of the scriptures appear as only man-written stories and
pleasant fairy tales. Therefore, some people understand
the scriptures as only the books of some branches of