Astrological foreknowledge enables both society and the individual to either mitigate or take advantage of astrological energies.

C.C.Zain
"On earth each individual has certain functions to perform. And the machine tools we must employ in doing whatever work is on our mind, are our mind and our body."

The mind, which is one machine tool, and resides on the high-velocity nonphysical, inner, astral plane, is attached to, and functions through the other machine tool, the physical body, by psychokinesis (i.e. the power of thought-energy to affect changes in substance and conditions).

This ability to function through such a complex form as the human body by means of the nonphysical power of the mind has required the long training of evolution. Training during which the mind has, step by step, through being attracted successively to higher life-forms, developed the necessary knowledge and psychokinetic power."

Note to Reader. Hermetic traditions holds that the soul has evolved by developing the level of consciousness required to attract ever more complex forms.

Through the experiences it gained in the mineral, vegetable and animal realms, it acquired the ability to attract the highest physical form - the self-conscious human.