free will by cardanus

[JR]

FREE WILL And PREDICTIONI.

13. However connected the arts and their subjects, it is impossible to
 tell anything definite about the future, and astrologer should not
 say about future anything undoubtedly.
 There is the main reason forbidding precise predictions:
 the Will of God keeping the secrets of the Nature, so the
 final knowledge is ever slipping away from the man.
 Yet, since the subject of the art is ourselves, and the judgements
 depend on ourselves, this connection does influence
 the result. By the Will of God.

I.4. Strong positions of stars, which are mediocre in nature,I.74. The beginning of what happens occasionally is in the native’s soul
 which pushes him to face the occasion. On the other hand, the
 soul is pushed by the sky according to movement of Moon, and
 this in not what is from the nature.
 -Beautiful aphorism demonstrating that free will is nothing
 but an illusion.

The so-called free will is a recent invention. Early Christians
 were mainly gnostics and believed in the pre-destined
 pattern of life. Think about our art and its predictive
 power. If free will existed, then after the first ”free choice”,
the further course of life would be completely different,
 unexpected and out of reach of astrology with no chance
 to estimate the life evolution. What would be astrology
 then? Prediction upto the moment of the free will and
 nothing further? The ”free will” arose together with modern
 science which na¨ıvely claims infinite human power and
 with modern ”psycho-astrology” which is unable to predict.
 This is the ”bipolar disorder” of the civilization: we
 think about ourselves as gods, at the same time wandering
 in the gloomy uncertainty.

I.6. Whoever suddenly achieves great luck, those suddenly suffer great
 disasters.
 The destiny pattern has a certain amplitude of extremes,
 both good and bad. Astrologically, the stronger the chart,
 the stronger rise, as well as downfall. Hence, do not envy
 the lucky.
 I.77. Consider two or three conditions

I.102. The genitures of princes are most true, because they are not under
 power of either general conditions or orders of private persons.
 The genitures of nobles are true, but under the power of the
 sky. Of poor and slaves — not that true, because they are under
 power of the sky, i.e., laws, as well as genitures of rulers and
 general conditions. Therefore, as some rightly said, offsprings of
 rulers are not under power of stars as they are pure.
 --There are two truths in this aphorism. Firstly, the charts
 of powerful people promise and bring at bigger scale and
 with less material obstacles, therefore one can call them
 true: their predictions are more prominent and easier to
 observe. Secondly, the princes are not under the influence
 of the mundane laws, their life is governed purely by astrological
 influence. The nobles are governed by both, and
 the poor are governed by the mundane influence and the
 power of others, and in their case the astrological influence IS MOSTLY BLURRED