25.science & astrology

It seems that there is never a mistake.

Only a mango tree emerges; everything is repeated correctly. Stored in this tiny seed is all the information which relates to what the seed must do ñ how it must sprout, what type of leaf and how many branches to produce, how big a tree to become, for how long it will grow, how tall it will grow – all this must be hidden within the seed. How many mangoes, how sweet, whether they will ripen or not and all this must be concealed within the seed. If all this is concealed just within a mango seed, then when you come into your mother’s womb will there be nothing latent in your seed?

Now scientists agree that even at this stage the color of your eyes must lie concealed, that the color of your hair must lie concealed, that the height of your body must lie concealed, that the possibilities of health and ill health must lie concealed, and that even your IQ must lie concealed – because without all this how would you develop? And by what means? You must have a program that is built-in in advance. How will certain bones join together as a hand, and others as a foot? One part will begin to see, another part will begin to hear. How can all this happen? Scientists used to say that it is just coincidence. But the word coincidence seems very unscientific. Coincidence means chance. By chance a foot might begin to see and a hand to hear. But there does not seem to be much coincidence; everything seems to be in order, prearranged.

Astrology says a more scientific thing. It says that everything is available within the seed. Astrology says that if we study the seed, if we can discover the language of the seed and if we can decode this language and if we can ask the seed, “What is your intention?” – then we will be able to draw up the complete blueprint of a human being too. Scientists have already begun to draw up such blueprints for plants. Up to now we have considered astrology to be superstition, a matter of blind faith. But if science draws up such blue-prints, it will in fact become astrology – and certainly science has already begun to draw up such blueprints.

Astrology declares that if by divine grace we can come to know the whole, then the future as such will not exist. But because we do not know the whole and we know only a small fragment and what we do not know becomes the future. We are obliged to say, “Perhaps it will be like this.” and because much is unknown to us. If the whole were known then we could say, “It will be like this.” And it would be exactly so.