Chapter XV Negative Aspects of Astrology

I AM Discourse, St. Germain Nov 21, 1932 (Excerpt)
Invocation; Thou Mighty, Conquering presence, The Majesty of "I Am" everywhere!
We give praise and thanks for the Mighty Presence everywhere.
Thy All Pervading Energy and Power ever stands at the door of our consciousness for use that we may consciously direct to manifest our wonders perfection. For we ever give praise and thanks to be for Thy Might Presence.
I bring you greetings from the great Ascended Hosts, Always giving their assistance, that you may manifest perfection.

The Discourse
Out of the glorious fullness of God Omnipresent Light and substance comes the fullness of all things. The student who is strong enough -- firm enough -- to stand alone with his or her "Mighty I Am Presence," never dividing for single hour the Presence and Power of God, will find himself or herself steadily rising into them mighty perfection, for ever free from all the sins or recognition of any limitation.


The student is fortunate indeed who can hold himself or herself within this Mighty I Am Presence undivided.
For the benefit of some of the students who are so sincere, and yet unknowingly allow their attention to be withheld from that undivided presence, I wish to stay certain facts with no intent to intrude upon the free will of the individual. These records which I shall quote, we have within our possession, and they cover the past 100 years. That of which I wish to speak today is the delusion of astrology.

No one living can give his attention to astrology and enter into the "Presence of the I Am" and remain there.
Underlying the present use of astrology is the human desire for an opportunity to justify and gratify the outer desires. Here let me state appalling fact which is within the records we have;
There is no one thing in all phases of study which has caused more failure or more indirect murder than the present delusion of astrology.

In your city of Chicago, within very easy years, was a splendid student of metaphysics who, consciously accepting the delusion of his horoscope, was driven to commit suicide.

The one thing humanity needs most, and students above all else, is a firm rock and consciousness of the Mighty I Am Presence upon which to stand safely and free from the pitfalls of outer concoctions. It is not the negative statements of prospective death and the so-called ill-fated star force to be overcome the students need to know, but the "Unconquerable, All pervading "I Am Presence" that is the only and all life of there being to which they attention needs to be drawn -- and how they'll within a firm grasp.


In the "I Am Presence" there is no height the student may not reach; but by allowing his attention to be held by astrology, numerology, and in many isms of today, there's no debt he may not reach.

The present use of astrology has no semblance of the use to which it was put centuries ago. Then it conveyed no negative statements of any kind. The great horror of the attention fixed upon it is that students accept the negative statements far more than they are willing to admit. The sinister force generated by mankind and the world always takes advantage of such things as this to get and hold of the attention especially of the student who is progressing, and thus keep it upon that which will pull him down instead of raising him up.