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The Six Enneads
Are the Stars Causes? (10)
If all this be true, we must at once admit signification, though, neither singly nor collectively, can we ascribe to the stars any efficacy except in what concerns the All and in what is of their own function. We must admit that the Soul before entering into birth presents itself bearing with it something of its own, for it could never touch body except under stress of a powerful inner impulse; we must admit some element of chance around it from its very entry, since the moment and conditions are determined by the kosmic circuit: and we must admit some effective power in that circuit itself; it is co-operative, and completes of its own act the task that belongs to the All of which everything in the circuit takes the rank and function of a part.
On the Mysteries
VIII, Chapter VI (1)
You say, therefore, “ that according to many of the Egyptians, that which is in our power depends on the motion of the stars .” What the truth,...