,,cosmic ,,symbolism ,,cosmic ,,symbolism ,,being ,a ,,discussion ,,and ,,exposition ,,of ,,some ,,recondite ,,and ,,obscure ,,points ,,in ,,the ,,art ,,of ,,the ,,kabalists1 ,,the ,,mysteries ,,of ,,sound1 ,,form ,,and ,,number1 ,,and ,,the ,,basic ,,principles ,,of ,,cosmic ,,symbolism ,,by ,,sepharial ,,author ,,of 8,a ,,manual ,,of ,,occultism10 8,,the ,,kabala ,,of ,,numbers10 8,,kabalistic ,,astrology10 8,a ,,new ,,manual ,,of ,,astrology10 8,,second ,,sight10 ,,etc41 ,,etc4 ,,london ,,william ,,rider ,,son1 ,,limited #h ,,paternoster ,,row1 ,e4,c4 #aiab ,,contents ,,introduction #a ,i ,,the ,,meaning ,,and ,,purpose ,,of ,,occultism #d ,,ii ,,the ,,problems ,,of ,,science #ae ,,iii ,,the ,,modern ,,miracle #bf ,,iv ,,therapy--,,ancient ,,and ,,modern #cc ,v ,,the ,,star ,,of ,,bethlehem #dd ,,vi ,,cosmic ,,symbology #ef ,,vii ,,reading ,,the ,,symbols #fe ,,viii ,,ancient ,,and ,,modern ,,examples #ge ,,ix ,a ,,typical ,,case #hf ,x ,,the ,,law ,,of ,,cycles #if ,,xi ,,the ,,time ,,factor ,,in ,,kabalism #aji ,,xii ,,involution ,,and ,,evolution #aah ,,xiii ,,planetary ,,numbers #abg ,,xiv ,,some ,,further ,,kabalas #aci ,,xv ,,planetary ,,sounds #aec ,,xvi ,,planetary ,,hours #afa ,,xvii ,,celestial ,,magnetic ,,polarities #aga ,,xviii ,,vulcan ,,the ,,chain ,,maker #agi ,,xix ,,alfridaries #aij ,,xx ,,in ,,the ,,lumber ,,room #aii ,,xxi ,,the ,,law ,,of ,,vibrations #bja ,,xxii ,,the ,,equalization ,,of ,,epochs #bai ,,xxiii ,,lunar ,,influence #bbi ,,xxiv ,,solar ,,influence #bda ,,xxv ,,astrology #bea ,,xxvi ,,character ,,and ,,environment #bfd ,,xxvii ,,the ,,law ,,of ,,sex #bgd ,,xxviii ,a ,,test ,,of ,,value #bhe ,,introduction 8,there is no end to the writing of books10 we are told4 ,certainly it seems to be the fact that one book leads to another1 and the many demands made upon me for explanations of points1 problems and paradoxes1 contained in some of my recent works1 have induced me to a comprehensive effort in the present volume4 ,whether ,i shall have succeeded in throwing more light upon the dark problems of ,occultism1 or only in making confusion worse confounded1 it is for the reader to judge4 8,all truth is paradoxical10 says ,laotze1 the great philosopher of ,quietism4 ,in such case it were hard indeed to offer any argument which may be regarded as final and conclusive1 and especially is this the case in reference to the debatable ground of ,occultism4 ,yet a very wise writer has said that nothing can be accepted as true which does not submit to a mathematical statement4 ,this is a tacit confession of faith in the law of numerical ratios1 the geometry of the universe which underlies all revelation4 ,we cannot truly be said to know a thing until we have reduced it to a mathematical concept4 ,we may conveniently regard life as manifesting in three stages or degrees1 namely1 ,principles1 ,causes and ,effects4 ,our conscious relation to these three stages of life gives rise to ,ethic1 ,philosophy and ,science4 ,science is what we know of the universe2 philosophy what we think of it2 ethic1 how that thought affects our conduct4 ,thus the final appeal is to utility4 ,the virtue of everything is in its use4 ,science1 philosophy and ethic must eventually submit to the test of utility4 ,it is not for the sake of the mathematical statement1 nor yet for the pleasure of abstract argument1 but chiefly for the sake of utility that ,i have attempted this popular exposition of ,occultism1 for ,i think it deserves more attention than has hitherto been given to it4 ,the idea that ,occultism serves any useful end in life may not at once appeal to the casual reader4 ,the deeper thinker will1 however1 discern in any coherent system of thought1 in any orderly statement of fact1 a possible means of self-adjustment to the problems of life1 howsoever dimly apprehended4 ,to the categorical imperative of ,kant--,i must because ,i ought1 but why ought ,i8--,occultism offers a very definite answer4 ,it gives a cogent reason for all action1 and may indeed be finally judged on its ethical value4 ,it will not be found inadequate4 ,purposive action has no value without free will in man4 ,that 8free will in man is necessity in play0 is true only of those who are not divine conspirators4 ,we are fated to the extent that we are ignorant of the cosmical and spiritual laws--the one order is a reflex of the other--by which the universe is upheld4 ,we are culpable to the extent that we neglect those laws we know4 ,science has succeeded in harnessing many of the forces of ,nature to the service of mankind4 ,philosophy will bring man into conscious relations with the laws governing his existence1 and ethic will instruct him concerning their employment for the good of the race4 ,to the extent that we understand the laws of our being and use them for our personal benefit1 and through ourselves for the good of all mankind1 we become conspirators with the ,divine ,will1 conscious co-operators towards 8that one divine far-off event to which the whole creation moves10 an apotheosis warranted by the trend of the physical and spiritual evolution of humanity1 and prophetically indicated by the words3 8,thou hast made him a little lower than the angels1 to crown him with glory and worship40 ,as fragments in the fabric of a spiritual upbuilding1 as detached observations of the law of universal harmony1 as things of isolated interest1 all conspiring to the founding of a single idea1 these curiosities of ,occultism are offered to those who are able to appreciate them4 ,,sepharial4 ,,chapter ,i ,,the ,,meaning ,,and ,,purpose ,,of ,,occultism ,before one can enter intelligently into an understanding of ,cosmic ,symbolism1 which underlies all occult science1 it is necessary that he should have some well-defined conception of the meaning and purpose of ,occultism4 ,otherwise he will occupy the position of one who moves in the dark1 a slave to formularies and dogmas1 following blindly where others lead and without any definite idea as to his destination4 ,misconceptions regarding ,occultism are very prevalent and are found to affect the thought of many who in their own walks are exceedingly learned4 ,occultism is a broad and comprehensive system of thought2 a synthetic philosophy aiming at self-realization1 and as much concerned in the practical development of the psychical and spiritual powers latent in man as in the study of those wider cosmical laws which hitherto have escaped scientific observation1 but which are found to afford a ready explanation of man's embodied existence1 and the wide and varied range of his faculties1 aptitudes and individual characteristics4 ,if ,occultism were merely a speculative system of thought regarding the hidden things of ,nature1 it could never find practical demonstration4 ,if the occult were merely the 8hidden10 then ,rntgen rays1 wireless telegraphy and metabolism would have been facts of ,occultism at quite a recent date4 ,in the first case it is confidently affirmed that ,occultism1 so far from being speculative1 is capable of instant demonstration2 and in the second case it anticipated the discoveries of ,science by analogous psychical processes involved in the exercise of clairvoyance1 psychometry1 telepathy and hypnotism4 ,occultism is not indeed mainly concerned in the domain of physics1 but rather in those immaterial forces which are at the back of all material forms1 of those universal laws which find their reflection in the constitution and development of man and the cosmos to which he is immediately related4 ,thus while it seeks to demonstrate some unexplored facts in ,nature1 it also offers a coherent system of thought in which those facts find appropriate places1 and so in effect it affords an ethical basis for all action which is more comprehensive than any system which is the outcome of an insular sociology or a national religion4 ,its peculiar value as a body of teaching lies in its inclusiveness and catholicity1 its freedom from dogma1 and its wide suggestiveness4 ,while offering a definite system of cosmogenesis and anthropogenesis1 it seeks only to throw new light on old truths1 being entirely constructive and in no sense controversial4 ,unlike orthodox ,science and ,religion1 however1 ,occultism does not ignore the facts of man's psychic and spiritual experience4 ,rather it makes use of these as links which bring us into relations with that greater world and that higher life which for ,science has no interest and for ,religion no certain meaning4 ,thus when ,science repudiated the ,chaldean account of the ,genesis1 ,religion was left with no ground upon which it could convict ,science of error6 ,the ,occultist remains wholly unaffected by the incident1 not because he is either unscientific or irreligious1 but because the ,book of ,genesis is for him as true to-day as when it was written4 ,it is the work of ,occultists1 and only ,occultists can rightly apprehend it4 ,in the biblical cosmogenesis we are not concerned with ordinary divisions of time called 8day0 and 8night10 periods of twelve hours each1 more or less1 but with vast periods known as pralayas and manvantaras1 or periods of manifestation and obscuration1 taking place alternately4 ,these great periods answer to the systole and diastole motion of the ,great ,breath1 the out-breathing and in-breathing of the ,cosmic ,life-force4 ,in each of these great out-breathings the seven stages of evolution are realized3 the ,igneous1 ,gaseous1 ,fluidic1 ,mineral1 ,vegetable1 ,animal and ,human4 ,but those monads that have reached any one of these stages do not become involved in the scheme until that stage is reached to which they attained in the last period of cosmic activity2 but from that stage they resume their evolution4 ,now as we have every reason to presume that our present period of activity is not the first of our solar system1 we have reason to place a special meaning on the words ,bersit br ,elohim th hashemyim veth heretz3 ,in the beginning the ,elohim compounded the original matter of the heavens and of the earth4 ,long periods of cosmic evolution elapsed1 and at the point where the ,great ,breath again reached our planet we take up the thread of the ,chaldean account veheretz tohu vebohu3 8and the earth was chaotic and barren40 ,the use of the prefix vau as a copulative conjunction at the beginning of each separate statement1 links up the various stages of the evolutional scheme without defining the vast ages1 the 8days0 and 8nights0 of the cosmos1 which intervene4 ,from the great aqueous development we pass to the amphibians1 the 8creeping things10 the avians or 8flying things and fowls of the air10 until by a process of natural evolution and natural selection1 determined entirely by the individual power of adaptation to environment1 we at length arrive at the evolution of the human-animal4 ,the brief but perfectly scientific statement1 8,and ,god 7the ,elohim7 made men out of the dust of the earth10 is a process which involves an indefinitely long period of evolution4 ,but so far we have only the ascending arc of physical evolution1 which in effect found its apotheosis in the production of giant human forms1 fitted to the great struggle for existence with the saurians and pachyderms and all that mammoth life1 both vegetable and animal1 by which it was environed4 8,there were giants in the earth in those days40 ,nature had done her utmost in the production of colossal forms of animal life1 she had expended all her strength4 ,it was at this point1 where ,nature unaided would have failed1 and in process of time died down to her root1 as a tree that has put forth leaf and flower and fruit1 that the upward arc of physical evolution was met by a downward arc of spiritual involution4 ,the two processes are well defined3 #a4 ,god made man out of the dust of the earth4 #b4 ,and breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives4 ,in effect1 from this union of spirit and matter we get the genesis of the psyche or soul3 8and man became a living soul40 ,the process of becoming is one that was neither immediate nor complete4 ,most of us are still in the process of becoming4 ,but a certain number of advanced monads became living souls1 realizing their spiritual consciousness while in the flesh4 ,these were the 8sons of the gods0 referred to in the text4 ,all else were the sons of men4 8,and the sons of ,god looked upon the daughters of men and saw that they were fair40 ,the self-conscious souls took to wife the daughters of a less-evolved race1 a process that would seem to be necessary to the further uplifting and spiritual vitalizing of the inferior grades of human life4 ,during the present manvantara or period of cosmic activity we have traditional occult knowledge of four great races of humanity before our own1 each of which attained to a successively higher state of civilization1 the ,atlantean transcending the ,lemurian1 as in process of time the ,aryan will transcend the ,atlantean4 ,and as each period of cosmic activity has afforded means of successively higher human development1 it is a question as to what has become of those very high forms of spiritualized humanity who were the final product of the material and spiritual evolution of past manvantaras4 ,earth-born in their origin1 and linked to this ,earth's humanity by a thousand compatriot ties1 by bonds of blood and heritage1 by lives of tireless service1 they wait the time when humanity shall have evolved to that stage when personal intercourse is compatible with their own spiritual status and the needs of our further evolution4 ,to them1 as pioneers1 guardians or masters of the race1 we are indebted for the universal tradition which here and there is gathered up by ,occultists the world over1 and which is realized in its integrity only by those who have fought their way to that place in the scale of spiritual evolution where detachment is possible4 ,to them is attributable the founding of the great world religions1 and at the outset these 8,sons of ,god0 were the spiritual instructors of the world4 ,each race produces its own crop of masters1 evolved initiates sworn to the service of man for ever4 ,as there is a natural selection1 so there is a spiritual selection1 and from the moment a human form is invested with a soul 7psyche7 that soul continues to progress4 ,there is an evolution that has come along the natural line to the production of human lives of great faculty and attainment2 and there is an evolution that has followed the spiritual line4 ,not all evolved humans are invested with the breath of lives4 ,thus a man may be an intellectual giant and yet not be ensouled1 for the psyche is one thing and the pneuma is another4 ,the psyche1 or nephesh is common to man and the lower animals and is capable of immense development when investing the human form1 but unless this nephesh is illuminated by the ruach or pneuma it cannot advance beyond a certain stage in the present cycle of evolution4 ,hence the saying1 8,work while the day is yet with you1 for the night cometh when no man shall work40 ,specialized humanity is a composite of spirit1 mind1 soul and body4 ,the element or principle in man which distinguishes him from the animal 7whether human in form or otherwise71 is the ,mind4 ,only in this possession is he truly man4 ,the word man comes1 indeed1 from the root man 7,sansk471 to think4 ,the limitations set up by embodiment of this thinking self is the primary cause of self-realization4 ,all forms of life are conscious1 but only spiritualized humanity is self-conscious1 or individualized4 ,the criterion of consciousness is response to stimulus4 ,it is to be seen in chemic action1 in vegetation and in animal life4 ,if the ,day's-eye 7daisy7 were not conscious of the sunrise it would not open its petals4 ,you may call it automatism1 a reflex of the chemic action of light4 ,you will be wiser if you call it consciousness of light1 and so spare yourself the trouble of pushing the question back indefinitely1 for somewhere or other you must admit response to stimulus and there you must posit consciousness4 ,thus while the animal soul in man responds to stimulus of every kind coming to it through the sense-channels1 the mind responds also to a higher and immaterial gamut of vibrations1 that is to say1 to spiritual stimulus4 ,as man he continues to evolve while all other forms of life remain in statu quo4 ,the monads investing them have not been caught up by the ,over-soul2 they have not reached the stage where their mass-vibration is capable of responding to the spiritual impact2 they are not attracted4 ,as the outcome of human evolution through successive ages1 cycles and manvantaras there is evolved the ,christ1 or perfect man4 ,the mystical interpretation does not suffice4 ,we require a living individual who shall stand to us for the 8man made perfect0 through that same process of spiritual evolution which is to be our own means of final liberation from samsra1 or cyclic rebirth4 ,the ,christ is truly a generic title4 ,the sons of ,god are legion1 and all of them are invested with the ,spirit of ,truth or ,christ principle4 ,they are the ,children of ,light1 the ,great ,white ,brotherhood1 and at their head is the ,lord1 the gravitating ,centre of this world's humanity4 ,he is the manifestation in time and space of the inscrutable ,deity1 the revelation of ,god to man4 ,the mythological interpretation of the ,christ does not suffice any more than the mystical4 ,the ,sun and the twelve signs of the zodiac may well stand as symbols of the ,master and his twelve disciples1 but they will not suffice for the historical fact1 for the fact is not limited to a drama in which thirteen characters were at one time employed4 ,it is a drama that is playing through all time1 in all places and among all peoples4 ,it is the great work of spiritual selection and co-ordination1 and the twelve signs are the twelve gates through which the elect of all humanity will enter into the ,new ,jerusalem or ,spiritual ,kingdom of a perfected humanity4 ,neither is the kingdom one that is afar off4 ,its denizens are to be found among embodied humanity at this day4 ,the ,fathers and many of the early rulers of the great countries were special representatives of the ,spiritual ,hierarchy which at later stages in the history of the world sent forth its emissaries to become world-teachers1 empire-makers1 legislators1 warriors and inventors1 each speaking the ,word that the world then had need of4 ,beside them are to be found the ,occultists of the ,east and ,west1 followers of their respective ,gurus1 ,sadhus1 ,yogis and ,teachers1 aspirants to the heirloom of the ages1 the ,gupta-,vidya or ,hidden ,knowledge2 with here and there a messenger under sealed orders1 passing from one country to another2 a host of psychic-researchers and higher-thought lecturers1 the aide-de-camps1 sappers and enlisting officers of the vast army of recruits1 regulars and veterans who are enrolled under this standard4 ,to the ,occultist the universe is a symbol and every part of it is symbolical4 ,although essentially an ,idealist he does not attempt the rle of those visionaries who would argue the universe out of existence4 ,he may call it elusive but not an illusion1 for his own existence depends on his consciousness of the world about him and his well-being upon the degree to which he understands and observes the laws of that universe of which he is an integral part4 ,for if it be said that the world has no existence apart from our consciousness1 it may with equal truth be said that our consciousness has no existence apart from the world to which it is related4 ,what we understand as the laws of the universe are formulated in terms of our thought1 but inasmuch as the laws of thought are imposed on us by existence1 it is clear that we do not ourselves impose cosmic laws1 but we merely apprehend them4 ,it is not in the ,idealistic sense that the universe is a symbol1 but in the real sense of it being the embodiment or out-realizing of the ,supreme ,life and ,mind4 ,as symbol the universe is the revelation of all time1 of the past and the future2 the repository of all history1 the source of all prophecy1 the synthesis of actuality4 ,that ,consciousness which is simultaneously immanent in all the universe is called the ,universal ,mind4 ,the ,platonic definition of ,god as 8,that whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is illimitable0 comes as nearly to this conception of the ,divine ,mind as it is possible for words to compass4 ,man is a centre of consciousness in the ,divine ,mind from the time that he realizes his spiritual existence1 a soul investing a cell in the ,brain of the ,grand ,man4 ,as such he becomes subject to the higher spiritual laws of ,being and enters into the ,divine ,conspiracy4 ,the evolving monads circulate and finally become impounded in one or another of the various organs of the ,grand ,man1 in agreement with their several states of evolution1 passing from one to another of them during the successive incarnations of the ,deity4 ,in his effort to reach a higher sphere of consciousness and activity1 a wider sphere of influence and a greater measure of free will1 man comes to realize that obedience to the law of his being is the means of attainment4 ,thus every man is a law unto himself1 and the truly wise are they who are able to say in all consciousness3 8,thy will be done40 ,for human safety and happiness are only assured by devotion to the highest good1 and this is the occult view of the dependence of mankind on an all-seeing and beneficent ,spirit 8in whose service is perfect freedom40 ,occultism1 therefore1 whether consisting in the development and exercise of one's individual psychic powers1 in systematic and impartial inquiry as to evidence of these powers in others1 or in the pursuit of such studies as astrology1 kabalism1 yoga1 hypnotism1 etc41 reaches out from such vague beginnings into regions of thought and aspiration that transcend the average mind and are seen to culminate1 in specialized cases1 in the attainment of powers which may be called miraculous and of attributes that are truly godlike4 ,,chapter ,,ii ,,the ,,problems ,,of ,,science ,it is quite a popular misconception that credits ,science with exact methods and certain knowledge on all matters concerning which it has given an opinion4 ,there is1 in fact1 a slavish reverence for the dicta of ,science which is as inconsistent as formerly was the submission of the public mind to religious dogmatic teaching4 ,and if1 as some writers assert1 there still exists a conflict between ,religion and ,science it is at least satisfactory to see that to-day ,science appears to be getting its own back to a creditable extent4 ,if ,science makes appeal to the popular imagination or proves its claim to public recognition and support on the grounds of utility1 ,religion has only itself to blame if it fails to come into line with the established facts of scientific discovery and lacks the enterprise which is necessary to give it a modern representation4 ,instead of mumbling orthodoxies about the saving of souls1 ,religion could very profitably concern itself with the task of proving that man has a soul to save4 ,it could use the argument afforded by modern experimental psychology4 ,it could observe the scientific method1 and could without loss of dignity employ the facts of ,science in the upbuilding of a scheme of thought which has man's spiritual welfare as the end in view4 ,when we recognize the fact that it is our conception of ,god and of our relations with ,him that is alone effective in the work of regeneration and reform1 and that this altered view-point is largely due to the widening of the mental horizon by scientific discovery and a philosophy adapted thereto1 then religiously-disposed people do wrongly to ignore the facts of ,science1 however much they may appear to conflict with orthodox notions of the relations of ,god to man4 ,it is little more than three centuries ago that the custodians of religious belief burned ,giordano ,bruno at the stake for daring to declare that there were more worlds than one4 ,in his ,della ,causa ,principio ed ,uno 7,of the ,first and ,only ,cause7 ,bruno says3 8,the divine ,omnipotence is more aptly expressed in an infinity of worlds of various dimensions than in the production of a single world of infinite dimensions4444 ,infinite variability is the eternal juvenescence of ,god40 ,that which happened to ,bruno in the name of ,holy ,religion was barely escaped by ,copernicus because of his heresy in declaring the ,sun to be the centre of the system and the ,earth one of its satellites moving about it4 ,it was a pagan doctrine and belonged properly to ,pythagoras4 ,the history of ,science reveals many such persecutions of its devotees1 and yet in modern times it cannot be said that ,science is without its prejudices4 ,it nearly killed religious belief in the nineteenth century owing to its recognition of the ,materialistic hypothesis4 ,yet when we come to examine the claims of modern ,science1 or what popularly goes by that name1 we find that it is largely hypothetical and that sciences which are usually known as 8exact0 are by no means so4 ,science has no certain knowledge of the origin of life and consciousness4 ,many distinguished men have sought to define life4 ,dr4 ,alfred ,r4 ,wallace in his ,world of ,life points out how inadequate are all these definitions1 and wisely refrains from adding to them4 ,consciousness as a by-product of organic matter was quite correct science fifty years ago4 ,to-day1 in the presence of many well-attested facts which go to prove the possibility of consciousness apart from organism as we know it1 the man of science is not at all sure that consciousness is anything of the sort4 ,modern psychology is a new leaf in the book of ,nature which until quite recently had not been deciphered4 ,we are getting our facts sporadically1 a few at a time1 and each new discovery changes our ideas concerning things which had passed for correct theory4 ,the facts remain2 our views of them are changed4 ,we really have no certain scientific knowledge about the wonderful conversion of inorganic to organic matter4 ,the alchemy of ,nature baffles us4 ,even the cosmic theory is incomplete and full of anomalies4 ,in the vortex theory there is nothing to show why some swirls of cosmic matter became suns and others planets4 ,there are two theories regarding the solar system diametrically opposed to one another4 ,there are similarly two theories regarding the ,moon4 ,the most recent theory is that the ,moon acts as a brake upon the ,earth by causing the tides1 which run contrary to the axial rotation of the earth1 thereby slowing down its rotation and causing a longer day than formerly4 ,but the same theory requires that the ,moon is gradually enlarging its own orbit and getting farther away from the ,earth1 which is inconsistent with our records of ancient observations of eclipses1 etc41 for in order to agree our calculations with the observed positions of the ,moon at these ancient epochs1 we have to augment the present mean motion of the ,moon in its orbit by a quantity equal to about #ajt1 which means ten seconds for the first century and the same quantity multiplied by the square of the centuries for times anterior4 ,in other words1 the ,moon was moving quicker in a smaller orbit in former days4 ,but this supplemental theory is wholly destructive of the first regarding the ,moon's tidal action4 ,for if the ,moon is getting farther away from us1 its tidal influence is also decreasing1 and the 8brake0 power being lessened1 the ,earth's axial rotation must be increasing in velocity and the day must be getting shorter than formerly1 which is the exact converse of what was argued in the first place4 ,hence we see how1 in their efforts to explain observed facts1 scientific men can put up two mutually destructive theories4 ,only recently1 in the ,solar eclipse of #agth ,april1 #aiab1 we had an illustration of an exact science blundering in practice4 ,the ,connaissance des ,temps1 the official organ of the ,french astronomers1 gave this eclipse as total1 while the ,nautical ,almanac gave it correctly as partial1 the apparent diameter of the ,moon1 depending on its anomaly1 being some #bj less than that of the ,sun4 ,the theory of what is called the attraction of gravitation is one of the scientific facts which have recently been abandoned as unsatisfactory4 ,it is found that the theory of 8attraction0 does not answer to the facts as experimentally determined4 ,theories that are inelastic are apt to be negatived by the discovery of new facts or modified beyond recognition by extended observations4 ,the ,earth itself is a huge magnet whose radial influence extends some fourteen feet beyond its surface1 and this fact has to be taken into account in all local magnetic observations4 ,the permeability of matter was a fact that had been under scrutiny for a long time before the discovery of the ,rntgen rays4 ,sir ,david ,brewster notes the passage of carbon through solid wood by means of electric fluid1 and by an electric current an acid may be separated from its sodium base and passed through dilute syrup of violets without changing the colour of the vegetable solution4 ,the question then arises1 in what form was the carbon in the one case and the acid in the other when they passed through the respective media8 ,obviously their atomic vibrations were temporarily raised in such degree by electrical action as to change them from their normal characters4 ,i suggest to psychologists that something of the same or a similar nature may occur in the case of individuals when acting under the influence of hypnotism or spiritual afflatus1 ecstasy1 etc4 ,the question is whether they can be rendered permanent effects4 ,but these are not by any means the whole of the problems confronting modern ,science1 which nevertheless has a tendency to become dogmatic in other matters with which it is not officially concerned1 as one may learn from a reading of ,hckel's ,riddle of the ,universe4 ,in ,ernst ,hckel we see probably the last of the old school of materialistic philosophers4 ,another problem is that of atomic arrangement4 ,it has been observed that two chemical bodies composed of exactly the same number of atoms of the same elements assume entirely different characteristics by reason of their respective atomic arrangement4 ,this fact1 while wholly unexplained1 opens up many interesting psychological issues and serves by analogy to explain why two human beings compounded of exactly similar cosmic elements1 manifest different characters and faculties4 ,science has too long neglected the free use of its own hypothesis of the solidarity of the system1 and while astronomy employs interplanetary action in all its calculations1 it scouts the idea of astro-meteorology and relegates astrology to the limbo of antiquated superstitions4 ,yet both these concepts are necessary and logical dependents of the cosmical hypothesis4 ,up to the present day ,science has ignored psychology and opposed the claims of psycho-therapeutics4 ,medical science other than that depending on surgery will soon find that the process of readjustment in the human organism rendered necessary by the rapidly changing conditions of modern civilization and the opening-up of new centres of activity in the mind-sphere of the world1 will present a new series of pathological conditions to which the prescriptions of the ,pharmacopoeia are altogether inadequate4 ,the psychic origin of disease will have to be admitted and provided against4 ,the x-factor in human pathology which defies the action of drugs and evades the scalpel1 call it by what name we may1 will increasingly assert itself1 and medical men will have perforce to take it into their counsels1 make friends with it and get to understand its vagaries4 ,the plurality of worlds and the habitability of the other planets in the solar system1 taught by ,pythagoras in the sixth century ,b4,c41 has received a certain speculative recognition by astronomers1 notably ,camille ,flammarion1 ,richard ,proctor1 ,schiaparelli and ,sir ,robert ,ball1 in recent years4 ,it was affirmed as fact by that remarkable man of science and inspiration1 ,baron ,swedenborg4 ,but in a contemporary issue of the journal of the ,royal ,astronomical ,society of ,canada1 ,prof4 ,aitken1 of the ,lick ,observatory1 states1 as the result of his researches1 that the ,moon is a dead world1 with the exception perhaps of low forms of vegetable life sustained by water vapour exuding from the ,moon's interior2 ,mercury gets seven times as much heat as the ,earth and keeps the same face towards the ,sun1 offering the alternative of an eternal night or an equally unending tropical heat and daylight1 from which it is not protected by any atmosphere4 ,venus1 having many characteristics similar to the ,earth1 is admitted to be problematical1 since it is not yet decided whether its day and year are equal or not4 ,if they are1 then it is uninhabitable4 ,mars has a rare atmosphere1 and there is not enough water on the planet to fill an ,american lake4 ,it has a low temperature1 and there may be vegetable and animal life there1 but no beings of intelligence4 ,the 8canals0 may be natural or artificial canals or merely earthquake markings4 ,jupiter is a semi-sun1 its development is in a state of chaos1 and it is probably gaseous throughout with matter distributed as on the ,sun1 there being no defined surface or crust4 ,saturn resembles ,jupiter1 but probably is not so far advanced1 and it is even less fitted for human habitation than ,jupiter4 ,we see therefore that as between the teaching of ,pythagoras and that of ,prof4 ,aitken there is a great gulf fixed4 ,it will probably be bridged by a little freer use of the scientific imagination that ,prof4 ,huxley extolled4 ,the great ,american astronomer has argued humanity out of existence in a manner so complete as to warrant the instant dismantling of the statue of ,bruno by the ,vatican4 ,but alas for the shortcomings of dogmatic science1 we have not yet been told how or why the ,earth alone is favoured by the presence of humanity4 ,we are left to speculate upon the question as to what has become of the ,moon's humanity1 supposing this dead orb was once alive and afforded habitable conditions4 ,we are left wondering why conservative ,nature evolved the planets ,neptune and ,uranus--which 8are so far away from the ,sun that its light and heat can hardly be effective in protecting life upon them1 even should life in any way originate there0--if they are never to come within the life-belt limit of the solar rays6 ,these vapourings are altogether unworthy of the name of ,science1 and are1 in their way1 as fanciful and speculative as any of the superstitions of a primitive religion4 ,who gave the astronomer to know that man as we see him is the only sort of humanity or intelligent being that can exist8 ,it is open to him to remark that even should there be forms of intelligent life on other planets we should not recognize them as human4 ,that is beside the mark2 we do not recognize the human by its form1 we do not confound the man with the animal part of him2 and we may even speak of discarnate humanity4 ,in every possible way we protest that articulate language1 which infers articulate thought and intelligence1 is the criterion of the human1 and in this category we include for sociological reasons all that are of human generation1 whether intelligent and articulate or not4 ,of the 8infinite variability0 of ,god as expressed in ,nature1 the astronomer takes no count4 ,here on this globe of ours we find the human persisting in temperatures varying from over #aej to - #cj1 and we have no reason for suggesting that the power of adaptation to environment is at the maximum in this world4 ,violent ophthalmia and even madness would result in us if 8the earth's green livery0 were suddenly and permanently changed to red4 ,but a very little alteration in the chemical constitution of the vitreous fluid in the eye would render us immune from these evils1 and we have every reason for thinking that were such a colour-change to take place1 ,nature would not be long in adapting herself to the new conditions4 ,but she would first be sure that they were likely to be permanent1 for although very amicable1 the old lady is extremely cautious and prudent6 ,what we know as solar light and heat have no existence outside the earth's atmosphere1 and even within it they only have the values that our sensation-consciousness gives to them2 so that all we can scientifically assume in regard to those planets that have no atmosphere is that their humanities1 if they have any1 must be physiologically different from man as we know him4 ,we cannot argue that he does not exist or that he cannot exist on them4 ,the sum of the matter is this1 we have need of a ,religion that is scientific1 and equally of a ,science that is religious4 ,what we do not positively know we may logically infer1 but we have to guard ourselves against the tendency to take the inference for fact and to dogmatize about things which are wholly unrelated to our personal experience4 ,the many curious observations ,i shall have occasion to make in the course of these pages are so remote from general experience and so far removed from scientific scrutiny as to belong to the category of things called 8occult10 and it was therefore expedient that the reader should have a fairly clear idea that all the statements of orthodox science do not rest upon the immovable rock of observed fact1 and for this reason are not so well founded as many of the conclusions of occult science4 ,it is advisable also that the reader should discern between the theoretical value of a statement and its experimental value4 ,many things which appear reasonable will not respond to test1 and others that seem unreasonable are found nevertheless to be true4 ,,chapter ,,iii ,,the ,,modern ,,miracle ,it has been said that the medical practice of the future will have to provide for the interference in ordinary therapeutic methods of an x-factor1 which is amenable to hypnotic suggestion and to auto-suggestion1 but which on rare occasions assumes a more positive and extraordinary form1 and acts spontaneously4 ,indeed1 we may have to admit the possibility of an extraneous healing power acting independently of medical skill and contrary to all recognized therapeutic agents1 medicinal or clinical4 ,an instance of this is to be seen in what is called the ,modern ,miracle4 ,a miracle1 it should be understood1 is not supernatural4 ,we have no reason for prescribing limits to ,nature's powers4 ,a miracle is simply an abnormal manifestation of those powers1 and hence something to be wondered at4 ,the case in point is that of ,miss ,dorothy ,kerin1 who on the night of ,sunday1 the #ahth ,february1 #aiab1 being bedridden with advanced tuberculosis1 concomitant disease of the kidneys1 and finally suffering from loss of sight and speech1 together with some signs of aphasia1 was suddenly and miraculously cured entirely of all ailments1 and when medically examined was pronounced to be absolutely free from tubercle bacillus1 or any other form of morbid disease1 and to be in complete possession of all her faculties and normal bodily functions4 ,the evidence is unassailable and the facts beyond dispute4 ,we have to arrange our thought and modify our therapy to accommodate these facts4 ,dorothy ,kerin was born on the #bhth ,november1 #ahij1 in ,london1 her father being ,irish4 ,she received an ordinary middle-class education in a private school1 and would have gone on the stage1 where her sister1 ,norah ,kerin1 has achieved considerable success1 but for the break in her health4 ,at the time of her wonderful recovery she had not stood up for five years1 and latterly had suffered from partial loss of memory1 sight1 hearing and speech4 ,yet she was always bright and cheerful1 and her invariable sweetness of disposition1 her patience and gentleness1 endeared her to all her friends and relatives1 and made her greatly beloved by those who came in contact with her4 ,she was one of those who 8suffered all things gladly10 and was by nature of a religious disposition4 ,the following account of her recovery is extracted from the ,daily ,mirror report of the #aith ,february-- 8,dorothy ,kerin is convinced that her remarkable recovery of apparent health is literally #8a miracle4' 8,her account of the angelic vision1 which on ,sunday night restored her sight1 hearing and strength and left her painless1 happy and #8feeling better than ,i ever felt in my life before1' may be ascribed to hysteria by sceptics1 but1 whatever the cause1 the facts of her recovery are beyond dispute4 8,dr4 ,frederick ,norman1 of ,brixton1 her physician1 is1 of course1 deterred by professional etiquette from public discussion of her case4 8#8,but it is no secret that my husband was incredulous1' said ,mrs4 ,norman to the ,daily ,mirror yesterday1 #8when he was informed that ,dorothy was 8quite well40' 8#8,he did not consider on ,saturday that she could possibly remain alive more than a day or two4 ,the girl had been in ,st4 ,bartholomew's ,hospital1 ,st4 ,peter's ,home for ,incurables at ,kilburn1 and other institutions1 but was sent home finally as a hopeless case two years ago4 8#8,she has not stood up for five years1 and latterly was blind and deaf and utterly weak1 taking only occasional doses of brandy and other stimulants4' 8,dr4 ,norman has been compelled to safeguard his patient4 ,no fewer than sixty people saw her yesterday1 but such a reception has now been stopped4 ,a perfectly healthy girl could not stand the constant excitement of receiving visitors eager to interrogate her4 ,three days ago1 it must be remembered1 she was in an advanced stage of consumption4 8,for breakfast yesterday ,miss ,kerin ate wheat-meal porridge1 bacon and tomatoes1 and drank two cups of coffee4 ,a beefsteak was cooked for her lunch4 8#8,i slept last night more soundly than ,i ever remember doing1' ,miss ,kerin told the ,daily ,mirror yesterday4 ,she read the ,ten ,commandments printed on the base of a minute toy magnifying glass with perfect ease4 ,another doctor who was present said he could not read such tiny print4 8#8,a fortnight ago1' said her mother1 #8,dolly could not call things by their proper names1 and often did not know us4 ,bread was 8soft1 white stuff10 fish was 8white stuff with needles in it10 nut-milk chocolate she asked for as 8lumpy sweet40 8#8,now she can bath herself and is not an invalid at all4 ,often during her long illness her temperature went up to #aje4' 8,miss ,kerin shakes hands firmly1 and her palm has a touch that is quite normal4 ,scores of doctors have already sought permission to see her4 ,the history of her case is well known to the profession4 8,the ,rev4 ,a4 ,j4 ,waldron1 vicar of the adjoining parish of ,st4 ,matthew's1 ,brixton1 visited her yesterday and is making arrangements to have her moved at once to a nursing home1 where she can have privacy and quiet1 with country air4 8,miss ,kerin has no hectic flush1 and declared yesterday that she did not feel a bit tired4 ,but there is little doubt she requires careful supervision to prevent any relapse40 ,i am informed by her brother1 ,mr4 ,g4 ,kerin1 that during her illness1 and especially during the later stages1 when her normal faculties showed signs of decline1 that ,miss ,kerin developed some super-normal powers4 ,she was able1 for instance1 to give an accurate account of incidents happening in connection with her brother while at a distance from home4 ,the greatest care had to be observed by those in the house when speaking of her1 as she could always hear what was said in another room1 although she appeared deaf to those who spoke aloud in her presence4 ,there is1 in fact1 evidence that she developed the telesthesic sense during the later stages of her illness1 but also that she lost this faculty just before her recovery4 ,dr4 ,forbes ,winslow was of opinion that the cure was due to auto-suggestion4 ,it appears to me a singular conclusion4 ,one can understand neurasthenia1 paralysis and other nervous disorders being amenable to auto-suggestion1 and in fact these are the cases which most readily respond to such action4 ,but that a young girl whose mind is perfectly resigned to what she believes to be a mortal disease1 and even suffering gladly the inscrutable ordinances of a beneficent ,providence1 should after five years of such suffering suddenly auto-suggest that there is no organic disease in her body and that she was never better in her life1 seems to me to invest the term 8auto-suggestion0 with a meaning and significance it has never yet held4 ,we have to remember that here there is the certified presence of a virulent organic disease with concomitant functional disorders4 ,can ,dr4 ,winslow advance other instances of voluntary auto-suggestion which have instantly cured morbid diseases8 ,yet we are asked to believe that the girl auto-suggested an angelic presence1 a voice that spoke to her1 hands that touched her1 and the surpassing miracle of instant destruction in her body of all disease germs1 the restoration of all functional powers and the entire clearing of the system of effete tissues4 ,then why did she not do so five years earlier1 before her forces had been undermined by a wasting disease1 and when the will-to-be was stronger in her than it can possibly have been at the last hour8 ,we shall soon be asked to believe that ,miss ,kerin auto-suggested the disease itself4 ,another instance of your scientific mind1 which lacks the humility necessary to say3 8,i do not know10 and plunges into the most absurd speculations to explain what it does not understand4 ,the mental attitude of that atheist who bowed his head and wept in the presence of the ,unknown commands our instant respect and approval1 but this foolish theorizing by reputable men of science is only pitiable4 ,and theories in regard to this particular case are not lacking1 for we have in turn hypnotic suggestion 7the hypnotizer being unnamed because non-existent71 collective mental therapeutic action1 answer to prayer1 and spirit-healing4 ,as to collective mental therapy1 the same objection is raised as in the case of auto-suggestion4 ,if operative at all in a case of organic disease1 it would be more readily efficacious in the early stages1 when supported by a reasonable expectancy1 than at the last1 when all hope had been abandoned4 ,it is true that for some five years prayer had been consistently made on behalf of the patient1 and we have certainly no means of proving that this sustained effort was not instrumental in the recovery4 ,but we do know that no mention was made of it by the angelic visitor4 ,the ,presence did not say3 8,we have heard the prayers of the people10 or that it came in answer to prayer4 ,the theory of spirit-healing is by far the most reasonable explanation4 ,it accounts for the facts without1 however1 explaining the means by which the cure was effected4 ,that it is a perfect instance of organic metabolism everybody must admit4 ,exactly similar cases are difficult to find1 and in effect ,dr4 ,ash1 who undertook the study of the case after the cure had been performed1 is thereby able to give us a most interesting account of what he regards as a unique medical experience4 ,the ,lourdes miracles are1 as far as ,i know1 all of a nervous character4 ,they pertain to cases where functional disorders arise from nervous corrosion without lesion4 ,even where there is lesion there may come a time when nervous contact is complete and an instantaneous cure is possible4 ,but in the present case we have deep-seated organic disease of a chronic nature1 the existence of morbid tissue and whole tracts of the lungs ruined by the action of noxious germs4 ,so far as our experience goes it would seem that the term 8miraculous intervention0 fits this case as well as any other that can be offered1 and certainly better than many that have been applied to it4 ,it is an old and well-worn term1 of a sort to vex the scoffer1 but when it comes to a matter of sticking on labels to cover our ignorance of methods1 we can at least count upon the willing aid of modern science4 ,for a categorical statement of this case by an independent medical observer ,i refer the reader to ,faith and ,suggestion1 by ,dr4 ,e4 ,l4 ,ash1 and to the prcis of that book by the editor of the ,occult ,review1 ,july #aiab4 ,,chapter ,,iv ,,therapy--,,ancient ,,and ,,modern ,in old times1 when the teachings of ,hippocrates were more in vogue than at this date1 when ,aristotle and ,galen and ,ibn ,sina and ,paracelsus made their contributions to contemporary medical science1 it was the custom to regard man in terms of the cosmos4 ,they classified all disorders in a comprehensive manner as accidental or incidental1 as acute or chronic1 as functional or organic4 ,the functional powers were governed by the ,moon1 the organic constitution by the ,sun4 ,accidental and acute ailments were ascribed to the action of ,mars1 incidental and chronic disorders to ,saturn4 ,mars was responsible for all inflammatory action and fevers1 while ,saturn was the cause of all morbid diseases and loss of vitality4 ,it was only a question of the distribution of the vital principle in man1 and this1 originating in the ,sun and regulated by the ,moon1 induced fevers when in excess and morbid disease when deficient in any organ of the body4 ,jupiter was the great healer and arbiter of destiny1 and it was his aid that the physician invoked when at the head of his prescription he wrote the symbol --,help1 ,o ,jupiter6 ,this ancient custom1 together with many of the terms of ancient usage1 is retained by modern physicians1 many of whom see no more in it than the letter ,r1 the initial of the word ,recipe4 ,but we still speak of chronic diseases1 while tracing nothing to the action of ,kronos 7,saturn74 ,we own to a solar plexus and a semilunar ganglion1 and there are many other terms which have survived the practice of putting new names to old facts when some new function or structural peculiarity comes under modern observation4 ,had the ancients known of the existence of ,uranus they would have had a potent cause for paralysis1 nervous lesion and similar disturbances of the organism1 while in ,neptune they would have found the cause of anmia1 consumption and wasting decline1 and possibly of neurasthenia and the various effects of nervous depletion4 ,but who shall say1 without making trial of the matter1 that the ancients were at fault in regarding man as embodied cosmos1 a compound of the free elements in the universe about him1 or wrong in interpreting his various disorders in terms of the stellar ambient8 ,it is1 at all events1 just worth notice that at the birth of ,miss ,dorothy ,kerin1 on the #bhth ,november1 #ahij1 the ,sun1 ,venus and ,mercury were in quadrature to ,saturn and in opposition to ,neptune1 while on the #ahth ,february1 #aiab1 ,jupiter was in the #acth degree of ,sagittarius1 the very degree of the zodiac that was rising at her birth4 ,the odds against this coincidence are #d1cai to #a4 ,if it were a solitary example of what is said to be the beneficent influence of ,jupiter in the saving of life it would not be so significant1 but from the array of evidence accumulated by modern observations and retrogressive calculation1 it is quite clear that the ancients were justified in their ascriptions in the case of ,jupiter4 ,possibly it is not to the planetary orb itself but to the cosmic synthesis represented by it in our physical and mental constitution that appeal is made4 ,be that as it may1 and while asserting the fact of planetary influence in human life without fear of contradiction ,i am not in a position to dogmatize as to the modus operandi1 it is yet evident that there is a concert of action between the various cosmic centres and their corresponding principles in ourselves1 such as to uphold the theosophic concept of man as ,microcosmos4 ,i have just been speaking of cancer as a morbid disease4 ,it was known to the ancients and by them named after that sign of the zodiac which responds to the zone most frequently affected by the disease1 namely1 the breast and stomach4 ,it has already been shown that ,saturn was accounted the chief cause of disease4 ,napoleon ,buonaparte died of cancer1 and at his birth we find ,saturn in the sign ,cancer in opposition to the ,moon4 ,on the principle that one swallow does not make a summer1 ,i leave the observation for what it may be worth1 but it is satisfactory if we can recognize a swallow when we see it4 ,we are on the way to distinguish between martins and swifts1 and between house and sand martins1 and thus forefended from building our house upon the sand4 ,for although ,occultism deals with an order of facts outside the normal range of orthodox science its methods are equally scientific1 both analytical and constructive4 ,if we take the horoscopes of a number of persons whose fatal illness was of the same nature and compare them1 we shall find a factor that is common to them all4 ,the existence of this factor in the horoscope of a living person is a presumptive argument for 8tendency0 to the same disease4 ,if in event that person develops the particular malady indicated by the horoscope1 we have at once a scientific basis for a system of astro-therapy and a valid means of prognosis4 ,assuming that the astrologers have been as busy in their special department of research as have the representatives of other branches of learning in theirs1 it may reasonably be expected that with an equal body of tradition behind them and an equal field of experimental research before them1 they have arrived at conclusions of which they are as sure as any scientific man can be in regard to any matter4 ,to ignore their statements or to disparage them without test appears to me to be wholly prejudicial to the interests of truth and most likely to reflect upon the scientific integrity of those who pursue either course1 for as the old philosopher says3 8,where confidence is lacking it is not met by trust40 ,in regard to the faculty of auto-suggestion in connection with psychotherapy2 it has been suggested that this faculty depends on the activity of the subconscious sphere of the mind4 ,it is seen that all action is either purposive or automatic4 ,all purposive action tends to become habitual1 and to the extent that it becomes so1 it passes from the region of mind-control into the subconscious region where it is capable of itself controlling the mind4 ,we then recognize what is called the 8force of habit40 ,but it is further suggested that the activity of the subconscious part of the mind-sphere is at its maximum when we are asleep1 whether natural or hypnotic4 ,certainly it is a fact that at a particular stage in hypnosis the subject passes out of the power of the hypnotist to control and assumes an activity of mental function which is remarkable both as to range and precision4 ,but the facts seem to suggest something more than mere automatism1 for while the patient remains subject to suggestion there is evidence of something more than the discharge of accumulated impressions4 ,the subject is not found to be blundering about in the lumber-room of the mind1 searching for odd bits of stuff that will answer the purpose in view1 but is seen to exhibit direct perception of things as they are1 the power to traverse space and to annihilate time1 and to come into voluntary and conscious relations with the past and the future as if they coexisted and had a present reality4 ,many cases are on record4 ,a single well-attested case would have sufficed4 ,these facts have given us grounds for establishing a theory of psychism very closely akin to the teaching of the ,occultists4 ,it is that the mind-sphere or soul is divided into two hemispheres1 one of which is on the level of normal consciousness and the other below it4 ,the nous or mind is then seen to be energized from above by the pneuma through inspiration1 and from below by the psyche through instinct4 ,intuition and instinct1 or inspiration and passion1 are thus at opposite poles of the mind-sphere1 and appeal can be made to either by suggestion through the sphere of the mind4 ,we trace these opposite aspects of the mind in the ,oversoul and the animal soul of the mystical schools1 the augoeides and antinous of the earlier teaching4 ,in the ,yoga system they are the ,buddhic and ,kamic principles1 the centres of spiritual knowledge and of animal desires respectively1 the process of ,yoga being to bring these opposite poles of our nature into active accord4 ,there are on record a fairly large number of instances in which it appears that either one's subliminal consciousness or an extraneous intelligence affords prescience of things in which one is not particularly interested and for which there is no special call4 ,persons have thus been given the winning numbers in lotteries without1 at the same time1 being given the means of participating in the benefits attaching thereto4 ,an instance quite pertinent to the general accusation of futility lodged against this class of intelligence came to my notice on the #bnd of ,april1 #aiab4 ,a lady1 on awaking that morning1 exclaimed1 8,number twenty-nine will win60 ,asked as to whether it was a number in a lottery she at once replied3 8,no1 it's a horse40 ,some cudgelling of brains failed to suggest any means by which the information could be applied4 ,the problem was1 however1 successfully solved by a twelve-year-old girl who took the morning paper in hand1 counted from the first name of the opening event in the programme for the day1 exhausted the names in that event and continued into the second event until she arrived at number #bi1 against which was the name 8,primrose ,morn40 ,obviously it had no connection with the #bnd of ,april1 but on reflection it was remembered that the lady was born1 on the #bith of the month and was engaged to be married on ,primrose ,morn4 ,immediately below this name in the list of competitors was 8,marie's ,choice10 and the lady's name is ,marie4 ,the coincidence was completed by the winning of the ,bestwood ,park ,plate by 8,primrose ,morn40 ,reference to the morning papers of the #bnd of ,april last will enable the reader to check this statement4 ,the rising and bursting of these bubbles of subconscious activity appear to be quite automatic and in most instances without purpose or utility4 ,they serve1 however1 to demonstrate the fact that there is such a source of inspiration1 a submerged selfhood in touch with the anima mundi or world-soul1 upon which we can at all times call for information and aid4 ,the purpose of ,occultism is to put us in the way of doing this when and as we please4 ,from the point of view of the world-soul1 the future and the past are coexistent4 ,every race is already run1 every event is historical4 ,this gives a new and a higher meaning to the old saying3 ,the future is only the past unfolded4 ,as the old ,philosopher says3 ,tsae yin jo fang--all truth is paradoxical4 ,another interesting feature of the psychic principle in us is that of the projection of the ethereal double or wraith4 ,it is recorded of ,goethe that he had a vision of himself1 or rather of his double1 on more than one occasion4 ,it is well known that he had the faculty of exteriorization of thought1 the projecting of visible thought-forms1 in a remarkable degree4 ,this faculty of ,kriyas'akti is cultivated by the yogis of ,india1 and forms an important feature in all occult training4 ,the poet ,shelley frequently effected 8exteriorization0 and was seen by ,byron and ,trelawney and by his wife on more than one occasion to be visibly present when it was certain that he was some distance away from the scene4 ,many such cases are on record and will be found included in ,real ,ghost ,stories1 and ,more ,ghost ,stories1 published by the late ,william ,t4 ,stead4 ,i know a yogi in ,india who has been certified to be visibly present in four places at the same time4 ,even allowing for slight errors of observation in regard to time1 the fact is remarkable1 especially as there had been no suggestion of pre-arrangement4 ,the theory of 8expectancy0 would not therefore cover the ground4 ,a correspondent sends me the following certified experiences of psychic self-projection-- 8,i intended visiting a great friend 7who is psychic when ,i am with her71 twenty-five miles away1 from ,saturday to ,monday4 ,on the previous ,tuesday night ,i could not sleep at all2 still wide awake at #c a4m4 ,i suddenly thought of ,miss ,h----1 and instantly was in her dining-room1 in thought1 saw vividly furniture1 etc41 and felt beside me her dear dead mother 7my friend74 ,i thought we both went upstairs together to the #8spare room' ,i usually occupy when visiting4 ,we went into the room1 and ,i walked straight to the window1 held the curtains back with my hands and looked out1 then1 turned and looked at the bed1 surprised to find ,miss ,h---- in it1 instead of her own room2 turned to the door and came out of my #8brown study' to find myself in my own bed at home4 8,when ,i visited her on ,saturday she said3 #8,about #c a4m4 last ,tuesday ,i wished you in your own home2 ,i slept in the spare room that night for a change1 and could not sleep2 ,i felt you and my mother were downstairs1 and distinctly saw you both come into the room4 ,you went straight to the window1 parted the curtains with your hands1 and looked out1 then turned your head and looked surprised to see me in the bed and walked out of the room4'0 ,now1 ,i had said nothing about my 8psychic visit40 ,yet in every detail it was authenticated at the other end6 ,one night ,i dreamed ,i felt nervous 7it was a brilliant moonlit night71 and that ,i would go into the next room and see if ,m---- was awake for company4 ,i went in my nightdress1 barefooted1 and distinctly shivered with cold4 ,i found ,m---- sound asleep1 so did not awaken her4 ,wondering what time it might be1 ,i walked to the mantelpiece1 where she keeps her little clock2 it was not there1 but on a chair near the bed4 ,i made out fifteen minutes past something1 but the moon was not now so brilliant ,i thought4 ,then feeling very chilly1 ,i dreamed ,i returned to my bed4 ,i awoke with a shock 7the shock of returning to my body87 feeling sure ,i had been there4 ,my watch pointed to #d4ae4 ,my body was perfectly warm1 so it could not have been sleep-walking2 it was very frosty4 ,next morning at breakfast ,i said3 8,where do you keep your little clock80 ,m---- said3 8,usually on the mantelpiece1 but it is a good way from the bed these frosty mornings1 so last night ,i put it on a chair near my bed-head40 ,she also said3 8,i had a curious feeling when ,i awoke this morning that your presence had been in my room during the night40 ,these experiences undoubtedly show the power of the human mind to take form and to effect visible self-presentation at a distance4 ,it is presumptive evidence for the existence of a mind-form or karana-sharira1 which if temporarily separable from the physical centres of consciousness1 may be so separated permanently at the moment of death1 and thus assume independent and conscious existence in a world inhering in its consciousness4 ,while affording a priori argument in favour of a reasonable belief in post-mortem existence1 it does not prove immortality4 ,the two cases stand upon entirely different grounds and require distinctive evidence4 ,i know that after the butterfly has emerged from the chrysalis it has independent existence and that it is neither grub nor chrysalis1 but a potentiality that has become realized in a new order of being4 ,but ,i also know that the butterfly comes to an end4 ,our problem is concerned with the soul of the butterfly and what becomes of it thereafter4 ,the case is not identical but merely analogous4 ,the human evolution is presumably a good many stages beyond that of the lepidoptera4 ,yet ,i find it quite the usual thing1 especially among ,spiritualists1 to regard evidence of post-mortem existence as equivalent to evidence for immortality4 ,occultism1 in common with all the great ,religions1 teaches that post-mortem existence is natural and imperative1 while immortality is spiritual and conditional4 ,if the shell of a nut be broken the kernel will continue to exist as nut for a considerable time4 ,it is thus with the psychoplasm after separation from the physical body or shell4 ,it is said of those who have attained3 ,these are they over whom the second death hath no power4 ,the tendency to regard all that is not physical as being spiritual in its nature and constitution1 is one of the greatest fallacies to which modern interpreters of psychic phenomena have contributed4 ,a change in the sphere of activity does not involve change of character1 nor does it determine the degree of spiritual consciousness of the individual4 ,that is a matter of evolution1 of knowledge and devotion4 ,the confessed ignorance of discarnate intelligences upon matters mundane and spiritual is sufficient evidence of this fact4 ,,chapter ,v ,,the ,,star ,,of ,,bethlehem ,there is one star above all others which periodically sheds its light upon the world1 but about which very little is known1 and on the occult significance of which little or no light has been hitherto shed4 ,i refer to what is popularly1 and as ,i shall show1 correctly known as the ,star of ,bethlehem4 ,i propose to bring the facts into review with the intention of finally establishing the place of this star in cosmical symbology1 and also of showing its connection with the central fact of the ,christian religion--the ,nativity4 ,the ,star is due to make its appearance during the present century1 but at what precise date cannot be determined1 owing to lack of data4 ,it was seen in the year #ide1 again in #abfd1 and by ,tycho in #aegb1 and after becoming visible in the daytime1 so great was its lustre1 it gradually faded away and disappeared4 ,sir ,j4 ,herschel thought from these facts1 that it would reappear in #ahgb1 but such was not the case4 ,the appearance of a large luminous star in ,perseus at the beginning of this century led to the belief that it was the long-expected visitant4 ,the body1 which was named ,nova ,persei1 was eventually considered by astronomers to be a centre of disruption1 on account of its sudden flaring up and disappearance4 ,it may have been this or a collision of two telescopic stars4 ,tycho tells us that the ,star gradually grew in luminosity until it outshone ,sirius and even ,venus1 and as gradually disappeared4 ,this seems to suggest a star of great eccentricity and vast orbit1 whose major axis is at right angles to the sphere of visibility1 so that it appears to us 8end on40 ,it would thus grow and gradually disappear1 without any sensible alteration of its position in the heavens1 as here depicted-- ,illustration3 ,figure #a4 ,it is of interest to note that mythology connects the ,star with ,cassiopeia1 ,andromeda her daughter1 and ,perseus the husband of ,andromeda4 ,these three constellations are in close proximity to one another in the heavens2 together with ,cepheus1 the husband of ,cassiopeia and father of ,andromeda4 ,the ,star appeared above 8the head of ,andromeda10 according to ,tycho1 which would give it about #cb of ,n4 declination1 and thus make its appearance vertical to the latitude of ,bethlehem in ,judea4 ,the sign of the zodiac coinciding with its longitude would thus be ,aries1 which according to ,ptolemy rules over ,judea4 ,it is the ,oriental sign and stands in relation to the cardinal points thus-- ,illustration3 ,figure #b4 ,this observation satisfies the requirements of that passage where the ,magi are reported to have said3 8,we have seen his ,star in the ,east1 and have come to worship ,him40 ,then if a geographical quarter was referred to by 8the ,east10 why should they travel westward from ,persia to ,judea8 ,obviously they referred to the quarter of the ,heavens1 and1 being ,astrologers1 would well know that ,judea was signified by ,aries1 in which sign the ,star made its appearance4 ,its 8standing over the house where the child lay10 indicates its position in the zenith of ,bethlehem at the time of its southing1 the latitude of ,bethlehem being #ca #dc ,n4 in agreement with the observed position of the ,star in ,tycho's day4 ,now regarding the year of the ,nativity1 we know that it was in the same year as the death of ,herod4 ,this event can be fixed4 ,josephus1 in his ,antiquities1 lib4 xvii1 mentions an eclipse that took place on the night preceding one of the fasts1 and which was immediately followed by the last illness of ,herod4 ,we know from the same source that ,herod reigned thirty-four years after the death of ,antipater1 and thirty-seven from the beginning of his reign4 ,the date is further fixed by the statement that this latter event took place in the #ahdth ,olympiad1 and we hence get the year of ,rome #gad or #ci ,b4,c41 and the year of the eclipse would therefore be #c ,b4,c4 ,the same author says that after mourning ,herod for seven days1 the feast of the ,passover was approaching1 and as this was always held on the #adth of ,abib or ,nisan1 which is the first full ,moon after the ,equinox1 we are able to confirm the date as the #acth ,march4 ,at this date it is found that there is a considerable eclipse of the ,moon as shown by the following calculation 7see p4 #dh74 ,the ,sun being #g #cd from the ,node1 the extent of the eclipse would be nearly five digits1 and the ,moon would be about two-thirds down the western sky and in the south-west quarter of the heavens4 ,it is of interest also to note that the ,moon was eclipsed in the sign ,virgo1 which the ancients say rules ,jerusalem1 where ,herod the ,tetrarch died4 ,in the ,r4,c4 ,festes we are told that the death of ,herod took place before the ,passover and after the eclipse of #acth ,march1 so that the date appears to be very well established4 ,eclipse of the ,moon1 ,march #ac1 #c ,b4,c4 7astron47 ,from ,epoch ,new ,moon ,march #agig ,march ,sun-,node ,moon's ,anom4 ,sun's ,anom4 ,d4 ,h4 ,m4 s4 4 4 s4 4 '4 s4 4 '4 #agig #af #i #ab #i #i #aj #b #ab #ci #h #bf #bf lun4 #ad #ah #bb #j #ae #bj #f #ab #ed #j #ad #cc ---------------- -------------- -------------- -------------- #ca #c #cd #i #bd #cj #h #be #cc #i #aj #ei ---------------- -------------- -------------- -------------- #ahjj--7 #ai #j #cb #i #ah #ei #g #ag #ai #j #a #ca ---------------- -------------- -------------- -------------- ,equats4 #ab #c #b #j #e #ca #a #h #ad #i #i #bh a #d #f #b #c #a #cd -------------- -------------- ,aa -#a #j #g #cd #a #i #dh ,a-a #b ,a #f #cg ---------------- #ab #ac #df i4e41 ,march #ac1 at #d4df a4m4 ,g4,m4,t4 ,e4 long4 #b4bb ,jerusalem4 -------- #d4 #h a4m4 ,luke also gives confirmatory evidence1 and the account is very circumstantial4 ,the ,evangelist mentions ,tiberius ,csar by name1 and also the ,governors of the ,provinces1 as well as many dates4 ,from him we learn that the ,mother had good reason to be in or near ,bethlehem at that time1 because there was a registration or census under ,augustus which was fixed for the ,first of ,tishri1 when the ,jewish civil year commenced4 ,in the same month was the feast of ,tabernacles1 an additional reason for the journey4 ,bethlehem was their objective1 8because they were of the house and lineage of ,david10 who was born at ,bethlehem4 ,now the #ast ,tishri would fall in that year on #aith ,september4 ,at this time there would be 8shepherds abiding in the fields by night10 that being the hot season4 ,the #beth ,december is1 of course1 an impossible date4 ,i now take my cue from the ,apocalypse3 8,a woman clothed with the ,sun and the ,moon under her feet4 ,and she brought forth the ,man-child who should rule the nations with a rod of iron40 ,the ,sun in the middle of the sign ,virgo is the woman clothed with the ,sun4 ,to be 8clothed0 with the solar rays the luminary must be in the middle of the sign and neither just entering it nor just leaving it4 ,the 8,moon under its feet0 signifies a full ,moon1 when the lunar orb was in the opposite point of the zodiac1 namely1 the middle of ,pisces4 8,a rod of iron0 indicates that the ,man-child was born under the planet ,mars1 i4 e4 under the rising of the sign ascribed to the government of that planet4 ,we have to construct a horoscope which1 while in actual accord with astronomical facts1 exhibits these features4 ,we have already seen that the full ,moon of ,march fell on the #acth1 and if to this we add the values for six lunations1 we shall have the full ,moon of ,september in the year #d ,b4,c41 thus-- ,d4 ,h4 ,m4 s4 4 4 s4 4 '4 s4 4 '4 ,march #ab #c #b #j #e #ca #a #h #ad #i #i #bh #f luns4 #agg #d #bd #f #d #a #e #d #ed #e #bd #ch ---------------- -------------- ------------ -------------- #ahi #g #bf #f #i #cb #f #ac #h #c #d #f #b #d -#a #ce ,sun's ,anomaly4 -------------- -------------- ,aa -#a #f #aa #cf #f #aa #cc ,a-,a #b ,sun from ,moon's ,a' -#a #ej ,node4 ,anomaly4 ---------------- #ahi #e #cg or ,sept4 #e1 at #e4cg p4m4 ,g4,m4,t4 ,this is equal to #g4eh p4m4 at ,jerusalem1 and the position of the ,sun informs us that there was an eclipse of the ,moon of about #d digits4 ,the ,sun would be in the middle of ,virgo1 and hence the woman would be literally 8clothed with the ,sun40 ,virgo1 being the birth-sign1 or that which the ,sun occupied1 it comes to be associated symbolically with ,bethlehem1 or ,beit-lachm1 i4 e4 the ,house of ,bread1 for ,virgo is none other than ,ceres1 the goddess of the harvest of cereals1 and is associated with ,isis by the ,egyptians1 as ,leo with ,osiris and ,aries with ,horus4 ,this ,horus is the ,man-child1 ruled by ,mars or ,vulcan1 the ,roman god of fire and iron1 the husband of ,venus or ,aphrodite4 ,astrologically ,mars is associated with the sign ,aries1 and under the rising of this sign the ,nativity would take place1 and with ,aries rising the ,sun would be below the western horizon and in opposition to the eclipsed ,moon1 the latter being conjoined with ,uranus in ,pisces1 and the sign ,aries with the constellation ,andromeda1 and the ,star of ,bethlehem in the orient4 ,saturn and ,jupiter were then in close conjunction in the beginning of the sign ,taurus1 ,mars just entered1 into ,leo1 ,mercury towards the end of that sign1 ,venus setting as an 8evening star0 in ,libra #bb1 and ,neptune in the sign ,scorpio4 ,here we find ,mars1 the ruling planet in the sign ,leo1 ruling ,judah1 hence ,jesus is referred to as the ,lion of the ,tribe of ,judah4 ,the prophecy of ,jacob was that ,judah should be as a lion crouching down4 8,a sceptre shall not depart from ,judah nor a law-giver 7,cepheus7 from between his feet1 until ,shuleh come40 ,this ,shuleh is the name of the star ,cor ,scorpio on whose rising ,leo declines from the position of meridian power4 ,it is in accord with the universal symbology that here in the sign ,scorpio we find the planet ,neptune in the #hth division of the heavens1 signifying 8betrayal unto death40 ,the ,moon1 ruler of the #dth ,house1 conjoined with ,uranus in the #abth ,house1 in opposition to the ,sun is an additional indication of an untimely end1 and that on account of secret enmity4 ,the sign ,scorpio is associated with the principle of evil and is called the accursed sign4 ,the tribe of ,dan1 to whose lot this division fell1 substituted the symbol of its antiscion1 ,aquila1 the eagle1 on that account4 ,among the disciples it was connected with ,judas ,iscariot4 ,the ,pascal full ,moon of ,a4,d4 #cc fell on #crd ,april at #b #ee ,g4,m4,t41 the ,sun being about #f from the ,node4 ,the time at ,jerusalem was #e4af p4m4--8about the sixth hour40 ,the ,sun was then close to the ,star in ,aries1 known as ,alnatha1 i4e4 8the slain lamb40 ,the universality of this incarnation has been frequently commented upon4 ,the cosmical ,man has employed the symbolism of the whole of the solar system as known to the ancients4 ,thus we have him referred to as-- ,saturn--8,a man of sorrows40 ,jupiter--8,the ,sun of ,righteousness10 and a 8priest after the order of ,melchizedek10 i4 e4 the ,king of ,righteousness4 ,mars--,the sword bearer1 8,i came not to bring peace but a sword40 ,sun--8,the ,day-star from on high40 ,venus--8,the ,prince of ,peace40 ,mercury--8,the ,word10 8,the ,messenger40 ,earth--8,son of ,man10 i4 e4 ,adam--,earth4 ,jesus the ,prophet and ,master of ,wisdom is of the order of those 8whose goings forth are from of old40 ,some have seen in ,him the reincarnation of the ,buddha1 whose ethical doctrine is strongly akin to the teachings of the holy ,nazarene4 ,but there are strong reasons in the astrological scheme here presented1 to warrant all ,occultists in accepting the ,incarnation in a sense other than symbolical or mythological4 ,the prophecies and the record agree with the astronomical facts4 ,jesus is called especially 8the ,lamb of ,god10 and is born under the rising of the sign ,aries4 ,he is called also the 8,lion of the ,tribe of ,judah10 and ,mars1 the ruler of the horoscope1 is found in ,leo4 ,he is called 8the ,virgin-born10 and we find the ,sun at the ,nativity in the sign of the ,virgin4 ,these positions are not accidental1 but are in agreement with the particular state of the visible heavens at the epoch to which we are impelled by reference to the facts of the case in conformity with the historical record4 ,we have1 ,i think1 specific evidence of the ,incarnation--of what8 ,of the ,christ1 the ,logos1 the ,word4 ,jesus the man1 whose horoscope we have been tracing1 is not to be confounded with the ,christ principle investing that ,personality1 nor yet with the ,spirit of ,god animating the ,christ4 ,the relationship of these are apparently as ,spirit1 ,soul and ,body to one another1 that is-- ,spirit ,god4 ,soul ,christ4 ,body ,jesus4 ,this order seems to be supported by the earliest statements of the ,christian faith4 ,the ,master-,soul speaking through the person of ,jesus said3 8,these things ,i do not of myself but of the ,spirit of ,god which dwelleth in me10 and again1 8,know ye not that ye are the temple of ,god and the ,spirit of ,god dwelleth in you80 ,further1 the ,master in bidding farewell to ,his disciples said1 8,i go unto my ,father and your ,father1 unto my ,god and your ,god40 ,it is clear1 therefore1 in what relations the incarnate ,christ stood to humanity and to ,god4 ,other masters have appeared at various times as manifestations of the ,spirit of ,truth1 ,bodhisattvas as they are called in ,india1 and are seen to be the founders of schools of religious thought in all parts of the world4 ,they all answer to the universal paradigm1 and consequently we find the same myths and legends centring in them4 ,occasionally we get specific record of the birth of these ,great ,souls4 ,thus we know that ,confucius 7,kong-fu-tze7 was born #eej ,b4,c4 on the #bgth day of the #ajth month1 and died on the #ahth day of the #bnd month in the year #dgg ,b4,c41 at the age of seventy-three years4 ,the birth of ,gautama ,sakyamuni is vaguely indicated as having taken place at the full ,moon of ,jyestha4 ,so far no records have been discovered to throw light upon the year of birth1 so that we cannot determine the cosmic relations of this great luminary4 ,the birth of ,sri ,s'ankarchrya1 however1 is specifically indicated in a stanza of ,yidyranya1 where it is said that the ,sun1 ,saturn1 ,jupiter and ,mars were all in their exaltation signs1 that is to say1 in ,aries1 ,libra1 ,cancer and ,capricorn respectively2 and in ,kendra1 i4 e4 in signs that were upon the angles of the horoscope4 ,this is the ideal horoscope of the successful reformer1 and this ,confucius of ,india1 who began his crusade at twenty years of age1 has left his mark for all time upon ,indian thought and literature4 ,wherever we can obtain the time of the incarnation of these ,great ,souls1 it is seen that either there are some special celestial portents attending them or the planetary positions are such as to stamp the horoscope at once as that of an epoch-making birth4 ,the portents attending the birth of ,romulus1 as recited by ,dionysius1 are no less striking than those which signalized his death4 ,something of this sort was obviously the belief in ,shakespeare's time concerning the death of great men-- ,when beggars die there are no comets seen1 ,the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of ,princes4 ,from this we may conclude that the gods are not democratic1 but favour individualism of the most pronounced type2 and if1 as would seem to be the case1 the whole trend of evolution is the specialization of faculty1 the elaboration of the unit from the mass1 we can readily understand why specially selected cosmical conditions attend the incarnation of highly-evolved souls4 ,,chapter ,,vi ,,cosmic ,,symbology ,a consideration of great astronomical epochs naturally leads to the more comprehensive subject of ,periodicity and the ,law of ,cycles4 ,some notes in my former works have raised special points of inquiry which may very well be dealt with in the present chapter4 ,what is known as the ,great ,year of ,plato is one of those occult statements which seem to point to the existence among ,initiates of some degree of special knowledge in cosmical facts4 ,the observation of the ,precession of the ,equinoxes is usually ascribed to ,hipparchus1 who lived in the ,second ,century ,b4,c4 ,by comparison of the star positions in his day with those of ,timocharis a century earlier1 it was found that while maintaining their relative distances from one another and from the ecliptic1 the stars had altered their positions in regard to the equinox1 and a rough calculation showed that they were moving at the rate of about #ej per year4 ,observations of particular stars1 while confirming the fact of their change of longitude1 did not yield uniform results1 and this no doubt was due to the imperfection of the instruments employed4 ,thus in regard to the star ,spica ,virginis we have the following observations of its longitude at various dates by independent authorities-- ,timocharis1 ,b4,c4 #bic1 ,spica observed in ,virgo1 #bb #bj ,hipparchus1 0 #ade1 0 0 0 #bd #bj ,menelaus1 ,a4,d4 #ii1 0 0 0 #bf #ae ,ptolemy1 0 #aci1 0 0 0 #bf #cj ,copernicus1 0 #aeae1 0 0 ,libra1 #ag #ad 0 0 #aebe1 0 0 0 #ag #ba ,naut4 ,al41 0 #ahbj1 0 0 0 #ba #bj ,thus while the fact of ,precession is very clearly defined by these observations1 the amount of it is not accurately determined4 ,later observations with more perfect means of measurement have enabled the official astronomers to give a true value to the ,precession of the ,equinoxes1 which is #ejbdec plus ,o#jjjbbbe t where t is the number of years from #ahej4 ,thus while ,hipparchus and ,ptolemy found it to be #a in #ajj years1 ,albatani found it to be only #a in #ff years1 and modern observations seem to point the fact that it has been accelerated up to our own time4 ,by taking a mean of all observations during the last eighteen centuries1 the amount appears to be #ejjfb and by extending the observations we can work it down to #ej nearly4 ,now if we divide the circle of the zodiac1 or #cfj by #ej we shall arrive at the figures #be1ibj comprised in the ,great ,year4 ,there are two theories in existence as to the cause of this ,precession4 ,at the point of time when the ,sun crosses the ,equator and comes to the first point of ,aries1 let the ,sun be in line with a star in the heavens4 ,when the ,sun returns to the same position on the ,equator it is found not to be in line with that star but #ej in advance of it4 ,the first theory is that this is due to the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic1 or1 what is the same thing1 in the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic1 a change caused by the action of the ,moon and ,sun on the equatorial bulge4 ,the whole effect is taken to be about #ej as said1 and of this #ce is due to the ,moon and #ae to the ,sun4 ,various observations have shown this change of axial inclination to be about #ej per century1 or one one-hundredth part of the ,precession of the ,equinoxes4 ,of this ,i shall have something to say later4 ,for the moment we may consider it as part of the theory of ,precession4 ,the other theory is that ,precession is caused by the proper motion of the ,sun through space1 whereby it completes an arc of #ej of its vast orbit every year4 ,then the gradual increase of the ,precession already noted would in terms of this theory be due to the fact that the earth is getting nearer to the ,sun and consequently the angle of parallax would be greater4 ,here we may leave the theorists with their own material and turn to the significance of this ,great ,year4 ,as the whole ,year consists of #be1ibj1 during which the ,equinoxes precess an entire circle1 there will be a period of #bafj occupied in traversing one sign1 that is to say1 a twelfth part of the circle4 ,now this period is #gb periods of the planet ,saturn1 otherwise known as ,kronos1 the god of ,time4 ,from this again we derive the foundation of the great ,yugas or ,ages known to the ,indians and referred to in the ,vishnu ,purana as the ,four ,ages1 ,satya-yuga1 ,treta-yuga1 ,dvapara-yuga1 and ,kali-yuga4 ,they correspond with the four ages known as the ,gold1 ,silver1 ,copper and ,iron ages4 ,thus-- #gb #f equals #dcb multiplied by #ajjj #dcb1jjj years4 #gb #ab 0 #hfd 0 0 #hfd1jjj 0 #gb #ah 0 #abif 0 0 #a1bif1jjj 0 #gb #bd 0 #aghj 0 0 #a1gbh1jjj 0 --------- ,total number of years in the ,maha-yuga1 #d1cbj1jjj years4 ,at present the ,vernal ,equinox is at the very end of the constellation ,aquarius1 and there was a time when the equinox fell in the middle of ,taurus1 and the solstices in the middle of ,leo and ,aquarius respectively4 ,thus we find ,varaha ,mihira1 an ,indian astronomer of the fifth century1 stating that in his day the solstices fell in ,katakam 7,cancer71 and ,makaram 7,capricornus71 but that according to former shastras they were once in the middle of ,aslesha 7,leo7 and ,kumbha 7,aquarius7 respectively4 ,this tells us that some two thousand years before ,mihira's time there were ,indian observations which determined the positions of the solstices among the asterisms1 and it cannot have failed to strike ,mihira that there was such a fact as ,precession1 even supposing that he had no knowledge of it from the ,greek and ,egyptian astronomers4 ,it was about this time1 namely #bjjj ,b4,c41 that the ,babylonian empire was at its height1 and accordingly we find the astronomical facts written in all their records and built into their architecture4 ,we find it in the ,assyrian ,bull and in the ,egyptian ,sphinx1 wherein the four constellations which then held the cardinal points are found to be compounded4 ,they comprise ,taurus the ,bull1 ,leo the ,lion1 ,aquarius the ,man1 and ,scorpio 7,aquila7 the ,eagle4 ,in connection with the position of the ,vernal ,equinox in the constellations1 there are a number of very interesting myths and symbols which form an essential part of ,occultism4 ,we find1 for instance1 that at the time when the equinox was in the constellation ,taurus the worship of the ,bull as a symbol was closely associated with the ,spring festivals4 ,the ,egyptians at this time decked a white ,bull with garlands of flowers and set a golden discus between his horns to represent the entry of the ,sun into the constellation of the ,bull4 ,later1 when the signs of the zodiac became confused with the constellations by the fact of their coincidence1 the same myths and ceremonies were transferred to the signs1 and remained associated with them in the popular use4 ,hence the ,may ,day festival1 which had its origin with the ,sun in the constellation ,taurus at the ,vernal ,equinox1 came to be associated with the entry of the ,sun into the sign ,taurus in the month of ,may4 ,history brings to us a curious confirmation of the astronomical basis of the ,bull ceremonials4 ,the ,exodus of the ,israelites from ,egypt is stated to have taken place in #adia ,b4,c4 ,now we have already seen that ,mihira1 the ,indian astronomer1 noted the ,vernal ,equinox at his time to have been coincident with the first point of the constellation ,mesham 7,aries71 and1 as his date is fixed by calculation to have been ,a4,d4 #ecf1 the interval would consequently be #adia plus #ecf1 or #bjbg years4 ,and if we multiply this by #eja1 the mean precession per year1 we shall have as result #bh #ab #ce1 which1 added to the first point of ,aries1 takes us to the end of that constellation on to the verge of the constellation ,taurus4 ,hence we conclude that about the time of the ,exodus the ,equinox was passing out of ,taurus into ,aries1 and consequently we find the institution of the ,jewish ,passover 7,pasach71 to have been inaugurated by ,moses who was 8learned in all the lore and language of the ,egyptians0 and who1 as the adopted son of the ,egyptian ,princess1 would be initiated by the ,priests of ,isis into all the mysteries of the cosmos to which at that time they had access4 ,when1 therefore1 the ,israelites were found to be perpetuating the worship of the ,golden ,calf which they had witnessed in ,egypt1 the great ,lawgiver admonished them1 reduced their idol into an aurum potabile by his alchemical skill and gave it them to drink4 ,thereafter the symbol of the ,ram became paramount in ,israelitish worship4 ,the ,pasach or transit was none other than that of the ,vernal ,equinox from the constellation ,taurus into ,aries4 ,occultists have identified the sign ,taurus with the age of the ,patriarchs1 the age of husbandry and the ascendancy in ,egypt of the ,hyksoi or ,shepherd ,kings4 ,the age of ,aries marks the cycle of militarism1 extending to ,assyria1 ,persia1 ,egypt and ,greece1 and culminating in the ,roman ,empire4 ,pisces marks the age of ,combination1 culminating in the federation of the ,anglo-,saxon peoples4 ,the present-day transit into the constellation ,aquarius is held to inaugurate the dawn of the age of ,baptism1 the pouring out of the ,spirit of ,truth upon all flesh1 and the age will therefore be one of spiritual regeneration4 ,what are called the ,four ,fixed ,signs of the zodiac1 those which enter into the composition of the ,sphinx1 are found to be in the forefront of national symbolism among the ancient ,chinese4 ,the four cardinal constellations are associated with the four colours1 black1 red1 white and blue4 ,the constellation of the ,lion was called by them 8the ,black ,warrior10 ,taurus was called 8the ,azure ,dragon10 ,scorpio the 8,white ,tiger0 and ,aquarius 8the ,red ,bird40 ,in the time of ,wan ,wang there was built a palace whose four walls were of these colours1 and we find them represented in the heraldry of the ,yellow ,empire4 ,in both ,egypt and ,assyria we find the ,bull used as a sacred symbol1 even as it is to this day in ,india4 ,there is a connection of a subtle nature between the ,bull and the ,bee--,apis4 ,in the most ancient ,mithraic monument of ,assyria there is shown in bas-relief the figure of a lion out of whose mouth a bee is coming forth4 ,this at once brings to mind the riddle of ,samson1 himself associated with the ,solar myth4 ,he is made to say3 8,out of the eater came forth meat1 out of the strong came forth sweetness40 ,and when they gave him the answer3 8,what is stronger than a lion1 what is sweeter than honey80 the key to the symbology is supplied in his answering words3 8,if you had not ploughed with my oxen 7,taurus71 you had not found out my riddle40 ,here there is an obvious association of the symbol of the ,bull with that of the ,bee1 and it is here that we get the affiliation of the two signs ,taurus and ,leo4 ,a lion trampling on a snake and a bull in the folds of a snake are to be found among the symbolical monuments of the past4 ,the lion-headed man1 ,abraxas1 is a symbol which links the sign ,aquarius to that of ,leo1 and is of great antiquity3 among the ,persians we find this word ,abraxas or ,abracax engraved on magical stones4 ,it stands for the #cfe days of the year and the virtues corresponding to them4 ,but this ,taurean key to the riddle of ,samson is not merely a cosmical symbolism4 ,it is also a spiritual one4 ,for the four ,fixed ,signs of the zodiac stand for the basic elements or what are known as the ,four ,states1 and these in their turn have analogy with human principles4 ,thus-- ,leo represents ,fire1 which stands for ,,spirit4 ,aquarius 0 ,air 0 0 ,,mind4 ,scorpio 0 ,water 0 0 ,,soul4 ,taurus 0 ,earth 0 0 ,,body4 ,in this paradigm we have ,spirit above and ,matter beneath1 linked together by the ,human ,soul or ,mind in relations with ,spirit1 and the ,animal ,soul in relations with ,matter4 ,the riddle of ,samson therefore may be read kabalistically thus3 ,out of ,spirit proceeded ,matter1 as from ,fire the element of ,earth was evolved4 ,to which we may add the rider in corresponding terms3 ,save by incarnation you could not attain to spiritual liberation1 which is equivalent to the saying3 ,if you had not ploughed with my oxen1 you had not found out my riddle4 ,here we have the process of differentiation covertly referred to by the propounder of the riddle1 showing that ,matter is the ultimate expression of ,spirit1 its negative pole4 ,it stands for the female principle in ,nature1 and hence the tradition involves the woman who betrayed ,samson's secret4 ,thus in cosmical symbology some of the great secrets of cosmogenesis and anthropogenesis lie concealed4 ,the ancient wisdom conceived the two schemes as involved in the complete arc of life1 which holds good for any planet1 and for the system to which it belongs4 ,the ,four states of matter and their corresponding evolutes may be thus figured-- ,illustration3 ,figure #c4 ,in a subsequent section we may profitably consider the analogy existing between the cosmical and anthropological evolutions1 and the consequent relations of the human soul with the planet to which it is related in the scheme of things4 ,,chapter ,,vii ,,reading ,,the ,,symbols ,the possibility of a scientific foreknowledge of events has long engaged the minds of speculative thinkers4 ,in properly informed minds it has assumed an actuality4 ,the learned writer of ,the ,story of the ,heavens has given us a most interesting account of the manner in which the law of the ,tides gradually came to be connected with the ,moon1 and how at length some astute observer formulated a scheme based on the ,moon's age1 by which the time of high or low tide could be predicted4 ,that was a case of scientific foreknowledge4 ,when to the laws of ,kepler1 which gave a mathematical construction to the whole system of astronomy1 ,sir ,isaac ,newton contributed his great law of ,gravitation1 the coherence of the whole cosmical scheme was manifest4 ,kepler showed that planetary motions answered to the functions of the ellipse4 ,newton demonstrated the necessity of this cosmical fact4 ,herschel discovered the proper motion of the ,sun in space and upset the whole scheme4 ,although answering to the functions of an ellipse1 of which the stationary ,sun occupied one of the foci1 the necessary fact immediately assumed the less rigid form of relative fact1 and the ellipse gave place to the cycloidal curve4 ,a cycloidal curve is that described by any point on the tyre of a revolving wheel whose axle is progressing at the same time in a straight line4 ,let the ,sun occupy the position of the axle1 and let a planet be situate at the end of one of the spokes of the wheel upon the tyre4 ,if the wheel be now moved forward it will be found that the ,sun-point is moving in a straight line parallel to the ground on which the wheel rests1 while the planet-point describes a series of arches4 ,it never gets farther away from the centre to which it is united4 ,the planet point1 in fact1 describes a segment of a circle the chord of which is equal to the circumference of the wheel4 ,we are under no necessity of supposing that the ,sun's path in space is rectilinear4 ,on the contrary1 we have presumptive evidence that it is itself answering to the gravitational pull of some body in the remote confines of space and pursuing an orbital path4 ,illustration3 ,figure #d4 ,diagram showing the ,cycloidal curve of a planet on a vector ,s-,c1 where ,a1 ,c1 ,b are the tropics4 ,then the straight line ,s-,s is equal to #b7,s,c7 #cadaei4 ,we are here dealing with a rigid vector1 which is not the case as regards the planetary bodies4 ,there is a difference in nature between the spoke of a wheel that holds the tyre to the hub and the force of gravity that holds a planet to the ,sun4 ,then our cycloidal curve falls of itself into the region of relativity4 ,it would only be true if the ,sun's path in space were rectilinear1 not otherwise4 ,now we have got to our point where the elements of our system assume coherence only by their relativity4 ,this fact is so well established that scientific prediction is a thing assured4 ,every year there is issued a volume of astronomical facts which antedate our calendar by some three or four years4 ,i refer to the ,nautical ,almanac4 ,in this volume we shall eventually find not only that the tides have been correctly predicted1 but that every phase of the ,moon is accurately stated1 its orbit among the stars clearly defined2 the times of its occulting or hiding the various stars that happen to lie in its course2 the time1 place and magnitudes of the various eclipses1 and a host of other phenomena1 are seen to have been foretold4 ,this knowledge could not be otherwise derived than from an intelligent study of an intelligible cosmos1 and a clear definition of the laws governing cosmical relations4 ,keep that in mind4 ,we live in a world of relativity4 ,what we call cosmic laws have only a relative value4 ,the ,ptolemaic system of epicycles was relatively true to the view of the universe which regarded the ,earth as the centre of the system4 ,it answered to all the phenomena4 ,it had an integrity of its own4 ,when the view-point was shifted so that the ,sun came to be regarded as the centre of the system1 then the epicycle no longer held good4 ,but the elliptical theory of ,kepler was only a relative truth4 ,the planets do not really move in elliptical orbits4 ,they only appear to do so from the point of view of a fixed central ,sun4 ,the theory1 like that of ,ptolemy1 answers to the phenomena4 ,the same can be shown in regard to the cycloidal system4 ,in the astronomical text books it will be found that the ,precession of the ,equinoxes is ascribed to the change in the inclination of the earth's axis caused by the attraction of the ,moon and ,sun1 but principally of the ,moon1 on the equatorial bulge of the earth4 ,the same text books will tell you that the ,precession is found to be increasing1 that the ,moon is receding from the earth1 and that the attraction of gravitation decreases as the square of the distance6 ,all of which is a contradiction in terms4 ,but since we have arrived at the fact of relativity in regard to what we are used to calling astronomical 8facts10 we may as well face the situation and accept the universe as symbol4 ,then all facts concerning it come to be regarded as merely symbolical1 and it is our business to relate this universal symbology to the things of our consciousness and the facts of daily life4 ,such a system was evolved ages ago by the philosophers of the ,east1 in ,china1 in ,india and in ,chaldea4 ,they called this system by the name of ,astrology1 that is1 what we reason or discourse concerning the stars4 ,they regarded the stars1 not as bodies having a fixed quantitative relationship to the cosmos1 but as symbols having a significance in our consciousness and a value in terms of experience4 ,these values were doubtless assigned from observation4 ,human nature remaining very much the same throughout long ages1 the symbolism thus instituted would have a more or less constant value4 ,that is how we find it4 ,what ,saturn signified two thousand years ago it signifies to-day4 ,it is an open question whether the planets have a causative relationship in regard to the affairs of human life4 ,before we can decide this point we have to prove our theory of gravitation1 making of it an absolute instead of merely a relative fact4 ,then1 if the planets interact one upon another1 as what is called the 8solidarity0 of the system seems to require1 we cannot very well escape from the logical consequences of our reasoning1 and planetary action in human life must be a fact beyond controversy4 ,but the planets may very well have a symbolical value as being part of the universal inscription1 a feature in the great physiognomy4 ,we may argue from this point of view with perfect safety4 ,it is our business to study this physiognomy of ,nature1 to read the symbolism of the heavens in the same intelligent manner as we read the symbolism of the ,earth4 ,it may be said that the whole art of living consists in what the ancients called the 8end-viewing perception10 seeing the end from the beginning1 which is our modern 8intelligent anticipation40 ,the ,genesis account gives a symbolical value to the ,sun1 ,moon and planets1 when it says3 ,let them be for signs 7,othoth71 and this othic value was early discovered by the ancients and has held to this day4 ,there are various means of foreknowledge1 but all cannot be called scientific1 although they may be the subject of scientific scrutiny4 ,inspiration or revelation escape our apprehension4 ,what we know as the gift of the ,spirit does not lend itself to scientific empiricism4 ,direct perception1 as in clairvoyance or seership1 is allied to certain temperamental peculiarities which can be noted but barely accounted for4 ,mediumism and obsession may sometimes be the source of foreknowledge of events1 and these are the legitimate subjects of study by psychologists4 ,to these we may add the various forms of ,automatism when applied to divination1 and ,numerology or ,kabalism4 ,the latter1 while depending on an universal symbolism and the geometrical relations of thought1 is somewhat distinct in that it lends itself to empirical test4 ,indeed1 it may be said that all the foregoing methods of foreknowledge1 except direct revelation1 may be rendered scientific4 ,that they are not yet so is due to our defect of knowledge concerning the nature and constitution of man4 ,in effect we make final reference to ,astrology as the only means of scientific foreknowledge known to man1 and in this we must include the physical phenomena which have direct relation to astronomical facts as well as anything we may argue concerning the action of the planets upon the minds of men and the disposition of human affairs4 ,astrology lends itself readily to experimental test4 ,it does not necessarily assume a causative relationship between man and the various bodies of the solar system1 but it is open to show that there is an actual relationship between the state of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth into the world and the character and experience of that person through life4 ,there is no need in this place to elaborate the argument4 ,the facts are sufficiently well attested in the experience of all who have taken the trouble to apply the ordinary tests4 ,as to character1 ,ptolemy affirms that ,mercury is the indicator of the rational powers1 the ,moon of the natural powers4 ,by the rational he means those that are peculiar to man1 by the natural1 those that are common to man and the lower animals4 ,the distribution of the faculties and powers are thus symbolically located-- ,illustration3 ,figure #e4 ,there is an obvious consent here to the principles of modern ,phrenology as enunciated by ,dr4 ,bernard ,hollander4 ,it is seen that all the intellectual faculties1 the perceptives1 memories1 the comparative and rational faculty1 are under the sway of the planet ,mercury4 ,jupiter governs the sympathetic faculties1 intuitive perception1 mirthfulness1 wit1 benevolence2 ,saturn the devotional faculties1 wonder1 sublimity1 veneration2 the ,sun has rule over the governing group of faculties--firmness1 conscientiousness1 love of approbation1 stability2 ,venus over the social group--friendship1 inhabitiveness1 constancy1 etc42 the ,moon over the natural faculties--vitativeness1 amativeness1 love of offspring1 etc42 ,mars over the faculties of defence and destruction2 ,uranus over the psychic faculties1 and ,neptune over the spiritual4 ,in ,astrology the ,sun is considered as the radiating centre of vital energy1 and has relations with the heart and the solar plexus4 ,the ,moon is the distributor of this energy1 and represents the element of variability1 being allied to the sympathetic ganglion1 and having relations with the fluidic body2 it also is related to the spleen4 ,the ,sun and ,moon acting together1 as in the production of the tides1 may be regarded as the generator and distributor of all astral influences4 ,according to the positions of the planets at the moment of birth in regard to the luminaries1 astrologers draw their conclusions regarding the constitution and functional powers of the individual4 ,but there is also another most important local factor which plays a very significant part in the determination of personal powers4 ,if we take the vertical circle in the centre of which a birth takes place1 we shall find that this prime vertical is divided into two parts by the meridian which cuts it at right angles1 and again by the horizon at right angles to the meridian circle4 ,these two great circles represent sensitive planes which are capable of responding to the astral vibrations in force at any time1 the intensity of such vibrations being in direct proportion to the nearness of the planets to such planes4 ,hence it is found that planets which are exactly rising or setting1 culminating or passing the lower meridian1 have a very marked effect upon the character and destiny of the person so born4 ,these are empirical observations4 ,they can be tested1 but1 if tested1 they must be so in strict accord with the canons of ,astrology1 which ascribe certain influences to each of the planets4 ,these great circles again constitute planes of direct and transverse polarity1 and they are found to follow the principle of the segmentation of the cell4 ,they serve a most important part in the determination of sex4 ,but this is a long and intricate matter1 and cannot be fully discussed in these pages4 ,now1 by tracing the effects upon health1 character and fortunes produced 7or indicated7 by the transits of the planets over these sensitive planes1 astrologers have been able to determine exactly what effects are due to each1 that is to say1 what they signify in the course of events4 ,ptolemy1 ,tycho and ,kepler1 ,newton1 and others among the great astronomers1 have confirmed the ascriptions of the astrologers from personal observation1 but without in any way contributing to the solution of the problem of their modus operandi1 presuming them to have a causative relationship in human affairs1 or of their status in a scheme of universal symbolism4 ,they have just left the problem where they found it1 while confirming the general claim of astrologers that there is a possible means of a scientific method of prediction4 ,astrologers make no claim to any degree of special inspiration4 ,they merely argue from like causes to like effects1 finding illustration of the law of periodicity in lunations1 transits1 eclipses and revolutional ingresses1 which1 being connected in experience with a certain succession of events1 are found to produce events of a similar nature whenever they recur4 ,astronomy gives us the periodic values of these several factors1 while ,astrology supplies an interpretation from experience4 ,nothing could be more scientific or more satisfactory4 ,i may now pass to the citation of some remarkable instances of scientific prediction4 ,,chapter ,,viii ,,ancient ,,and ,,modern ,,examples ,among the earliest of the great readers of the ,symbolism of the universe was ,thales of ,miletus1 who during the sixth century ,b4,c4 formulated a true theory of the cause of eclipses1 and proved his theory by predicting the eclipse of ,may #bh1 #ehe ,b4,c4 ,he founded the ,ionic sect of philosophers1 which was distinguished for the profundity of its speculations1 to which his successors and pupils1 ,anaxagoras1 ,anaximander1 ,anaximenes and ,archelaus so largely contributed4 ,archelaus became the master of ,socrates4 ,anaxagoras proved himself as skilful as his ,master in the use of the sphere and in astronomical studies1 for he predicted the eclipse of the ,sun which was seen at ,athens in the first year of the ,peloponnesian ,war4 ,from ,thucydides we learn that it happened after noon in the summer1 and that the ,sun assumed a crescent shape and that some of the stars shone out4 ,sir ,j4 ,herschel has spoken of this eclipse as total1 but this cannot be1 as the ,moon's apparent diameter was less than that of the ,sun1 so that even where it was central it would be but annular4 ,now of ,thales it is recorded that he foresaw by his reading of the symbols that there would be a great dearth of olives in a certain year1 and he accordingly bought up all the stock of olives that was on the market and chartered all the stalls1 so that when the dearth occurred he was able to sell at his own price1 and thereby made a great sum of money4 ,this was at ,alexandria4 ,he then went to ,athens and found the plague raging there4 ,he at once took the matter in hand and was speedily successful in purging the city1 so that the people erected a statue in his honour to commemorate the event4 ,seeing his end approaching and knowing that it would be due to the fall of some heavy body1 if indeed he himself did not receive a fall1 he thought to circumvent the evil by taking necessary precautions4 ,to this end he retired to a field where he established himself4 ,being thus far removed from any buildings and himself in no danger of falling from a height1 he thought himself to be secure1 and looked forward to the time when the evil indications should have passed by4 ,but it happened that an eagle1 having secured a particularly fine tortoise as prey1 carried it aloft and sought for somewhat whereon to break its shell4 ,seeing the bald head of the philosopher and mistaking it for a stone1 the eagle promptly let the tortoise fall4 ,exit ,thales6 ,the general truth of the ,hebrew records has been abundantly established by archaeologists both in regard to the ,babylonian and ,egyptian captivities and the sojourn in the wilderness4 ,their prophets were men skilled in the reading of the universal symbolism1 and they described events centuries before they happened4 ,daniel so correctly portrays the career of ,alexander that the early opponents of the ,bible sought to prove1 but without success1 that the prophet was describing what was past instead of predicting what was in the future4 ,however this may be1 we cannot get away from the fact that the ruin and desolation of many cities which were in a high state of prosperity in ,daniel's time and for some centuries after1 such as ,moab1 ,edom1 ,amalek1 ,tyre and ,sidon1 and ,ammon1 were undoubtedly predicted4 ,these cities were to be blotted out4 ,they were in existence in the first centuries of our era1 but now they no longer exist4 ,the subjugation of ,egypt was clearly foretold and has accordingly happened4 ,nineveh and ,babylon were condemned to desolation and utter ruin when in the height of their prosperity4 ,they were to be places of eternal solitude1 the haunt of wild beasts1 and the palaces a hiding-place for jackals4 ,daniel's famous prophecy of the coming of the ,messiah after ,seventy ,weeks1 i4 e4 #dij years from the time of the going forth of the order to restore and rebuild ,jerusalem4 ,the prophet clearly indicates the source whence he was able to obtain initial light upon the basis of prophecy1 for he informs us that in the first year of the reign of ,darius 7#eba ,b4,c47 he 8understood by books the numbers of the years10 etc4 ,thereafter by prayer and fasting he attained great illumination1 but in all his prophecies1 where he makes use of the symbolism of ,nature1 he uses the day for a year that is still pursued by the student of ,astrology4 ,coming to more modern times of which we have closer record1 we find in ,michael ,nostradamus1 ,physician to ,henry ,,ii of ,france and ,catherine de ,medici1 something of the same flame that animated the ancient prophets4 ,he carried his ,astrology to a fine art1 and among his predictions are many that deserve notice4 ,the death of the ,king in a duel is well pourtrayed by him in a stanza-- ,le lion jeun le vieux surmontera ,en champ bellique par singulier duel1 ,frappe a cage d'or ,deux plaies d'une1 et puis un mort cruel4 ,henry ,,ii was killed by ,montmorency on the #ajth ,july1 #aedg1 while engaged in a tourney at the nuptials of his sister with the ,duke of ,savoy4 ,the lance of the ,comte de ,montmorency struck the gilded vizor of the ,king and penetrated to the eye4 ,a tumour subsequently developed and the ,king died of it4 ,this is in agreement with the prophecy of ,morin1 who in his horoscope of the ,king gave his death from a hurt to the head4 ,nostradamus is also believed to have foreshadowed the ,fire of ,london in #afff in the following lines-- ,le sang de juste ,londres fera faut ,brusler par feu de vingt et trois les six4 ,the blood of the just 7spilled7 in ,london requires that it be burned by fire in ,sixty-six4 ,this prophecy is in line with that of the famous astrologer1 ,william ,lilly1 who was patronized by ,king ,charles ,i1 and whose works were collected by ,sir ,elias ,ashmole4 ,lilly so clearly predicted the ,plague and ,fire in two hieroglyphics that he was subsequently arraigned before ,parliament concerning his more intimate knowledge of the source whence he drew his inspiration4 ,his statement contained in ,christian ,astrology is that he founded his prediction on the ingress of the aphelion of ,mars into the sign ,virgo1 which he affirmed was the ruler of the ,monarchy then reigning4 ,the ,aphelion of ,mars was on ,jan4 #a1 #es #b #bc #ai #ahjj ,from this take for #bjj years motion #c #ci #dj ,position for ,jan4 #a1 ,a4,d4 #afjj #ds #bh #dc #ci ,add motion for #ff years #a #ab #bi ,position for ,jan4 #a1 ,a4,d4 #afff #ds #bi #ef #h ,therefore in about four years from the time of the ,fire the aphelion of ,mars would enter the sign ,virgo4 ,kepler's ,tables1 which were current in ,lilly's time1 show the date of entry to be #afed1 and a mean of these shows the year #affb4 ,therefore1 as the hieroglyphic was published some years before the events to which it refers1 ,i think there can be no doubt that ,lilly has given us a true explanation of his reasons for the prediction4 ,kepler1 the great ,astronomer1 not only affirmed his belief in the principles of ,astrology1 but gave illustration of them by his prediction of the rise and fall of ,wallenstein4 ,of ,jerome ,cardan1 the astrologer and mathematician1 who compiled the ,centiloquia of ,ptolemy1 and made important contributions to the study of ,algebra1 there is a remarkable story on record concerning his prescience of his own death and the manner of it4 ,it appears that from a study of his own horoscope he came to the conclusion that at a certain time he would be in danger of death by human violence4 ,he therefore took precautions1 and1 having stored his larder with sufficient material to see him through the evil period1 he securely bolted and barred all the doors and windows of the house1 and thus thought himself to be in great security4 ,but it happened that a band of robbers passing that way saw the house closed up1 and1 finding it to be very securely protected1 they fancied that some great treasure might lay hidden away in it4 ,they were not long in breaking into the place1 and1 meeting ,jerome at the foot of the stairway1 brutally murdered him4 ,john ,dryden1 the poet1 studied ,astrology very carefully1 and the excellence of his faculty may be judged from the precision with which he predicted the career of his own son ,charles4 ,congreve gives us the account very circumstantially4 ,it is said that when his lady was about to give birth to this child1 ,dryden left his watch upon the table1 instructing the attendants to be very careful in noting the time of the child's birth4 ,the event having been carefully timed1 ,dryden computed the horoscope and made the usual calculations4 ,he was thus able shortly to inform his lady that at eight years of age the boy would be in danger of death by a fall4 ,if he survived this he would be again in danger from a similar accident at twenty-three years of age1 but that should he yet survive then at thirty-three or thirty-four he would certainly succumb to the malefic influences which then had indication in the horoscope4 ,in effect it was seen that when the boy arrived at the age of eight years he nearly met his death4 ,his father1 being intent on going to a hunt1 left the lad at home with a ,latin exercise1 enjoining him strictly not to leave the house until his return4 ,as fate would have it1 however1 the stag in breaking away from the hounds jumped the wall of ,dryden's garden1 and the boy running out to see what the noise was all about1 came by the wall just as the hounds were scaling it4 ,the wall gave way under the pressure of the pack1 and ,charles was buried beneath it4 ,after a long illness he was restored to comparative health4 ,at twenty-three years of age1 when descending the steps of the ,vatican1 he fell and received such a severe blow upon the head as to render him unconscious4 ,from this1 however1 he recovered1 and might have lived to defeat the sinister predictions of his father1 but that at the age of thirty-three he was tempted one day to indulge in a swimming feat in the ,thames4 ,having crossed the river twice in succession he essayed to perform the feat a third time1 but being caught with cramp or heart failure he was soon seen to be in difficulties2 and before assistance could be rendered he sank and was drowned4 ,thus we see that among the readers of the ,symbols some were able to admonish others and to give timely warning of the evils which beset them1 while themselves unable to provide against those troubles of which they had equal prescience4 ,one is indeed tempted to say with ,philip ,bailey1 8,free will in man is necessity in play40 ,but we know that the reading of the symbols is not the same as the understanding of the law1 and it is quite reasonable to affirm that the ability to foresee and predict a danger does not carry with it the ability to avert it4 ,that such power lies to the hand of man we may assume from the fact that successive rulers of ancient ,china were able to continue in vigorous life long past the age at which astrological indications extend4 ,thus ,fuh ,hi reigned #aae years1 ,shin ,nung #adj years1 while ,hwang ,ti lived #aaj years and reigned #ajj4 ,show ,hao lived #ajj and reigned for #hd1 and several others lived over #ajj years each1 and according to astrological principles all the 8arcs of direction0 would be completed in #aab years4 ,thus ,fuh ,hi began the ,patriarchal ,dynasty in #bidc ,b4,c41 and the obliquity of the ,ecliptic was then #bd #g1 and taking the capital of the ,yellow ,empire as in latitude #ci #ed the product of their tangents will amount to about #bb1 which added to #ij will give #aab or about the same number of years4 ,but we are also told that these men understood the ,tao-tien1 or universal laws1 and were in possession of the efficacious ,word1 so that by their knowledge1 allied to their great virtues and simplicity of life1 they were enabled to withstand the assaults of cosmical forces and extend their years beyond the low average to which modern civilization has brought us4 ,it has been suggested by some controversialists that the age of ,methuselah1 which is given as #ifi years1 should be reckoned as lunar years1 that is to say1 as nine hundred and sixty-nine lunations4 ,but this would yield a period of about #gh years and #abj days merely1 and by the same computation he would be just over #ae years of age when he begat ,lamech1 for it is said that he was then #ahg years of age1 and #ahg lunations equal #ae years and #dg days4 ,but this would falsify the whole of the chronology1 which1 although not established1 is found to be consistent in itself4 ,thus both the ,chinese and the ,hebrews agree as to the date of the ,flood1 #bcdh ,b4,c4 ,at that time ,noah was the ,patriarchal ruler in ,chaldea and ,yaou and ,shun were joint riders in the ,yellow ,empire4 ,the curious agreement of the ,hebrew and ,chinese records is presumptive evidence of something in the nature of a vast and probably universal cataclysm4 ,the following is the computation from ,genesis-- ,age of ,adam at the birth of ,seth1 #acj years4 0 ,seth 0 0 ,enos1 #aje 0 0 ,enos 0 0 ,cainan1 #ij 0 0 ,cainan 0 0 ,mahalaleel1 #gj 0 0 ,mahalaleel 0 0 ,jared1 #fe 0 0 ,jared 0 0 ,enoch1 #afb 0 0 ,enoch 0 0 ,methuselah1 #fe 0 0 ,methuselah 0 0 ,lamech1 #ahg 0 0 ,lamech 0 0 ,noah1 #ahb 0 0 ,noah at the time of ,flood1 #fjj 0 ---- ,total of years from ,epoch #afef 0 ,beginning of the record1 ,b4,c4 #djjd 0 ---- ,date of the ,flood1 ,b4,c4 #bcdh 0 ,it is quite clear1 therefore1 that if we reduce the natural years of ,methuselah to lunar years the result would be to vitiate the whole of the chronology1 and1 moreover1 if we did so in regard to the years of ,methuselah we must also do so in regard to others of the ,patriarchs4 ,this would mean that ,mahalaleel was born to ,cainan when the latter was just over seven year of age2 or that ,methuselah was born to ,enoch in the sixth year of his age6 ,if there is any improbability in the record at all1 it is rather in the idea of these patriarchal infants than in that of the extreme longevity of ,methuselah4 ,if a mere tortoise can live for #ejj years1 why not a human8 ,what the simple life is capable of1 we of this age have no knowledge from experience1 but ,i see no reason why certain souls1 fitted by spiritual selection for the performance of some great work or the up-holding of a holy tradition1 should not incarnate under cosmical conditions which are also so select as to withstand the concatenation of natural forces which make for dissolution4 ,at all events we have here a rather interesting problem for the ,eugenists1 who1 basing their principles on purely physiological grounds1 are confronted and disarmed on every side by these occult forces in ,nature which they have failed to take into account4 ,while they base all their calculations on physical heredity1 the occultist points silently but impressively to the fact of psychic tradition1 and in support of the occult position we are able to point to a hundred cases of insanity which can be specifically predicted from the moment of birth and years before the symptoms of mental disorder begin to manifest4 ,a theory to have a working value must include all the facts1 and so far as human genetics are concerned not the least among these facts is that of the cyclic rebirth of souls and the continual importation of new psychic forces into the line of physical heredity4 ,the study of ,eugenics should begin in the study of psychology4 ,we know1 for instance1 that progeny generated during intoxication will probably turn out epileptic1 but that does not answer the question as to why one soul rather than another should animate that body4 ,yet out of a dozen horoscopes an astrologer will unhesitatingly pick out any one that may happen to belong to a body thus afflicted4 ,this fact should give us pause to re-examine the foundations of our system of genetics4 ,the secret of health and longevity is not to be found on this side of the spiritual equator4 ,,chapter ,,ix ,a ,,typical ,,case ,the ancient secret records embody a tradition of the going down of ,atlantis into the depths of the sea after the perversion of a race of humanity whose physical culture1 civilization and scientific attainments eclipsed anything of which we have modern example4 ,the ,hebrew records give us the familiar case of ,babel1 that achievement of human arrogance which reached to the gates of the ,sun4 ,the great civilizations of ,assyria1 ,babylon1 ,egypt1 ,greece and ,rome have gone the way of all things temporal4 ,in the modern endeavour to 8beat the record0 there is an element of danger which is too lightly regarded by those who have no knowledge whatsoever of the forces with which they are playing4 ,these are not of the air and wave alone but of the whole universe1 as well spiritual as physical4 ,let us look at the matter in the light of a modern example4 ,i have no record as to when the ,titanic was keeled1 but there is certain knowledge that it was launched on the #cast of ,may1 #aiaa at ,belfast1 the time being ,greenwich ,mean ,time1 #ab4db p4m4 ,the ship was well-named1 not only because it was the greatest embodiment of human engineering and ship-building skill1 a veritable monster of a modern ,frankenstein1 but also because it was the embodiment of human pride and daring4 ,the ,titans1 it will be remembered1 were a race of giants1 sons of ,heaven and ,earth1 who were hurled into the abyss for daring to make war against ,zeus4 ,it is the ,greek story of the submersion of ,atlantis4 ,ambitious in design1 colossal in form1 and inclusive of the very latest of modern luxury1 this floating city took the water for the first time at a moment when the whole amphitheatre of heaven was witness of indications of impending disaster4 ,i do not pretend to know what particular ,master of ,wisdom it was who set ,argo ,navis in the heavens as a symbol of all that maritime prowess with which the world has grown wonderful4 ,i only know that in whatsoever horoscope a malefic planet occupies that particular part of the heavens it stands for a symbol of disaster by navigation4 ,it is associated with ,cancer4 ,neither do ,i know who it was gave to ,neptune the traditional rule of the ocean1 but yet ,i find it a prominent and malefic factor in all significations of shipwreck4 ,now we have said that the time of the launching of the ,titanic was effected under portents of disaster4 ,let us go more closely into the particulars4 ,at the moment of launching the #aith degree of the sign ,virgo was rising at ,belfast with the planet ,mars just below the eastern horizon4 ,the ruler of the horoscope was ,mercury1 and we find it in the #ith division of the heavens1 that part which has significance of voyages1 and in conjunction with ,saturn1 the significator of delays1 obstacles1 obstructions and collapse4 ,both ,saturn and ,mercury were opposed by ,jupiter4 ,the ,moon was in the 8ocean0 sign1 ,cancer going to the opposition of ,uranus1 the symbol of sudden catastrophe4 ,the most striking point is the ruler of the horoscope1 ,mercury1 in the ,house of ,voyages conjoined with the malefic planet ,saturn4 ,the ,titanic set out for ,southampton to take up its first commission on the #bnd of ,april1 #aiab1 at #i4bj a4m4 ,at this time ,cancer was rising1 and the ,moon was therefore ruler of the horoscope4 ,it is found in opposition to the ,sun and in square aspect to ,neptune in ,cancer just below the horizon4 ,here again we have the ruler of the horoscope just separating from eclipse and applying to an evil aspect with ,neptune1 the traditional ruler of the ocean4 ,the leviathan left ,southampton on its maiden voyage at noon of the #ajth of ,april1 #aiab4 ,at this time we find the sign ,leo rising1 and the ,sun1 ruler of the horoscope1 in quadrature to ,neptune in the #abth ,house1 an indication of hidden dangers4 ,thus in every case we find the ruler of the horoscope to be significantly and severely afflicted4 ,but that which was specifically indicated as regards the ,titanic was generally indicated by the position of ,neptune in the #hth ,house 7death7 of the ,vernal ,ingress preceding the event1 whereat the ,sun was in quadrature to ,neptune1 and this indication was repeated in the horoscope for the sailing from ,southampton on the #ajth of ,april4 ,illustration3 ,figure #f4 ,among many notable passengers on board the fated vessel1 none was better known or more generally respected than ,mr4 ,w4 ,t4 ,stead4 ,he was born1 according to his own statement1 on the #eth of ,july1 #ahdi1 8before breakfast40 ,the horoscope which fits the events of his life is one set for that date at #g a4m41 and the above is the figure of the heavens at that time4 ,here again we find the ,sun1 ruler of the horoscope1 in the significant sign ,cancer afflicted by the opposition of the ,moon and the quadrature of ,saturn1 the latter malefic being in the #ith ,house1 which has already been defined as that of 8voyages40 ,the fateful planet ,neptune holds the #hth ,house in the watery sign ,pisces4 ,the indications of a violent and unnatural death are clearly defined by ,ptolemy1 who informs us that when both the luminaries are afflicted by the same malefic1 or when each luminary is separately afflicted1 there being no assistance from the benefic planets 7,venus and ,jupiter7 the native will die an unnatural death4 ,here we find both the ,sun and ,moon in quadrature to ,saturn in the #ith ,house1 showing as clearly as anything can be1 that there would be danger of death in a foreign land or while on a voyage1 and that by violence4 ,i have no doubt at all that ,mr4 ,stead met his death through a blow upon the head1 as there are evident signs of collision1 but none of suffocation4 ,the horoscope is in other ways significant of the main facts of the life of the great journalist4 ,five planets in cardinal signs with ,mars in the ,mid-heaven testify to the tireless energy1 executive ability1 courage and daring for which he was remarkable4 ,this elevated position of the planet ,mars always denotes impulse and impetuosity1 and it is similarly placed in the horoscope of ,kaiser ,wilhelm1 in whom ,mr4 ,stead would doubtless have found a congenial spirit4 ,it gives that 8scorn of consequence0 which attaches to the enthusiast in every phase of life1 and tends greatly to produce the pioneer spirit4 ,with ,gladstone1 ,mr4 ,stead shared the view that 8psychical research is by far the most important work that is being done in the world10 but no astrologer would have recommended him to undertake it1 for with ,saturn in the #ith division of the heavens afflicting the luminaries he could hardly hope for success in that direction1 and there is little doubt that he was very grossly deceived by some in whom he placed great reliance in this matter4 ,the trine of ,neptune to ,mercury would1 however1 impel him to such subjects4 ,borderland was not a financial success1 nor was it much more than a ragbag of fragmentary and ill-assorted evidence4 ,julia's ,bureau was not a success either from a financial or evidential point of view4 ,no message of warning came through from 8,julia0 to save him from his death voyage4 ,let us accept the suggestion that has been offered1 namely1 that he was wanted elsewhere4 ,it was still open to those who were aware of the fact to say so1 and thus contribute one of the most striking pieces of evidence for the operation in mundane life of extraneous intelligences1 which would have gone further to uphold the claims of those who believe in spirit-guidance than all the literature ,mr4 ,stead lavished on the subject4 ,at the time of the disaster we find the following arcs of direction measured in the prime vertical to be in operation-- ,moon opposition ,uranus1 ,sun conjunction ,uranus1 ,moon parallel ,mars1 while the ,moon by secondary direction1 that is1 accounting one day after birth for each year of life and two hours for every month1 was in #bf of ,aries1 exactly the longitude of the catastrophic planet ,uranus at the time of birth6 ,compare this horoscope with that of the ill-fated ,captain of the ,titanic4 ,according to the local record ,captain ,smith was born at ,handley1 ,staffs41 on the #bgth of ,january1 #ahej4 ,here again we find the luminaries in opposition to one another as in the horoscope of ,mr4 ,stead1 and both are afflicted by the aspect of ,mars4 ,the time of birth was probably at about five o'clock in the afternoon1 when the planet ,neptune would be in the #hth ,house and ,saturn and ,uranus in the #ith division of the heavens4 ,sixty-two days after birth the planet ,uranus had reached the ,mid-heaven of the horoscope1 and on the day of the disaster ,mercury was in transit over the same point1 while the great symbol of death and destruction1 an eclipse of the ,sun1 fell in #bg of ,aries on the #agth of ,april1 close to the ,mid-heaven of this horoscope and on that of ,mr4 ,stead's horoscope4 ,further1 the ,moon at the birth of ,captain ,smith was in the #dth degree of ,leo and on the day of the disaster ,uranus was transiting the exact opposition in ,aquarius #d4 ,moreover1 at the time of the sailing of the ,titanic from ,belfast to undertake her ill-fated maiden voyage1 the #eth degree of ,cancer was rising1 and on the day of the disaster ,mars had reached this exact degree of the zodiac1 being in #d #ef of ,cancer at ,noon4 ,no case that could be submitted more fully and completely illustrates the folly of disregarding the symbolism of the heavens1 or more forcibly accentuates the need of human conspiracy in regard to cosmical agencies4 ,man has harnessed some of the most potent forces of ,nature and has constrained them to his service1 but for some as yet undiscovered reason he prefers to remain in ignorance of the laws which relate him to his greater cosmical environment4 ,we have imagined that by controlling these natural forces we have asserted our mastery over destiny4 ,the heavens from out the immeasurable depths of space are the silent witnesses of our folly and arrogance4 ,the same stars that fought against ,sisera fight ever against the man who is ignorant of the laws of the universe which condition him4 ,we are fated to the extent that we are ignorant of those laws1 and culpable to the degree that we disregard those that we know4 ,the sea1 the vessels that are afloat upon it and all their human freight1 are as nearly touched and as surely disposed by interplanetary action and cosmical forces as are the molecules of air and water that constitute the winds and waves4 ,never a ship was keeled or launched but into it were compounded the elements that respond to the great heart-beat of ,nature4 ,that man should use all his faculties to the greatest possible advantage to himself and through himself to the race at large1 that he should put forth all his powers in the effort to master the forces which appear to be in conflict with him1 would appear to be his supreme duty and his highest guerdon4 ,but there is a more convenient and less dangerous way4 ,instead of defying the forces of ,nature he can make use of them1 instead1 of ignoring the laws of ,nature he can adapt himself to them4 ,this is called the covert agreement4 ,it is the ancient wisdom1 the simple way1 and those who anciently observed it found it to be effectual for good4 ,those ancient ,britains who thought ,canute to be so great that he could set back the ocean tides were of that order of ,titans who would measure their strength with the ,almighty4 ,we1 who have understood the laws governing the tides1 have gained a mastery over them by the simple means of adaptation4 ,in this instance we have adapted ourselves to ,nature4 ,it is possible to extend the process to include the election of times and seasons for any purpose whatsoever4 ,solomon1 who is regarded by the average man as an inconsequent babbler of effete doctrine1 affirmed that there is a time for every purpose under the heavens4 ,a closer study of this doctrine of elections--as the proper choice of time for specific purposes is called in ,astrology--would lead men to take a conscious part in the conspiracy of well-doing1 by the adjustment of action to purpose and of both to astral and cosmical conditions4 ,this would be infinitely better than 8taking one's chance10 and certainly more in conformity with the spirit of true religion4 ,but before we can do this we shall have to instruct ourselves more generally in the symbolism of the universe and the reading of those symbols which from the beginning were set and appointed to us for 8signs and for seasons1 for days and for years40 ,a knowledge of cosmical symbolism and of the facts of planetary interaction is that to which science will inevitably be compelled1 and which sooner or later it will recognize as essential to a true concept of the relations of man to his greater environment4 ,and when this system of ,anthrocosmology shall have been established1 as assuredly it will be1 then will humanity perceive in all humility that ,god1 and not ,britannia1 rules the waves1 and that the planets are his agents4 ,,chapter ,x ,,the ,,law ,,of ,,cycles ,it has already been shown that from most ancient times the ,law of ,periodicity was known and expounded4 ,we find reference to it in the ,vishnu ,purna which deals with the great periods of cosmic manifestation and activity1 called ,manvantaras1 and the corresponding periods of obscuration and quiescence known as ,pralayas4 ,these are shown to have an astronomical basis and to have been directly related 7a7 to the period of ,precession known as the ,great ,year of ,plato1 and 7b7 to the inclination of the ,earth's axis to the plane of the ,ecliptic4 ,for whereas the ,precession1 from whatever source arising1 is found to be approximately #ej per year1 the diminution of the ,earth's axial inclination is found to be #ej per century4 ,thus the ,precessional ,year is #be1ibj years1 and the other #b1eib1jjj years in extent4 ,now if we multiply this latter period by ten and divide the product by six1 we shall have the dividend #d1cbj1jjj1 which we have already identified as the value in years of the ,maha-yuga or ,great ,age4 ,this means that the entire revolution of the ,earth's axis occupies a period which is ten-sixths of the whole period of cosmic activity known as the ,manvantara4 ,hence we have the series #a1 #b1 #c1 #d equals #aj1 and the series #f1 #ab1 #ah1 #bd equals #fj1 which we have already shown to be the basis of the ,yugas composing the ,maha-yuga4 ,this value of #fj has therefore a cosmical significance4#a ,it is geometrically derived from the interlacing of two equilateral triangles1 commonly known as the ,seal of ,solomon1 and esoterically invested with the symbolical value of the universe in manifestation of ,spirit 7male1 positive7 and ,matter 7female1 negative71 and also the ,out-breathing and ,in-breathing of the ,great ,breath of ,life4 ,water crystallizes at an angle of #fj1 and the ancient teaching of ,pythagoras1 ,plato1 ,thales and other ,initiates1 was that ,water was the basic element of ,nature4 ,by the elements they did not understand the chemical elements known to modern ,chemistry1 but the ,four states of ,matter1 the ,igneous1 ,gaseous1 ,fluidic and ,mineral1 which have their correspondences in the ,four ,principles of the human constitution1 ,spirit1 ,mind1 ,soul and ,body1 of which the first two are formless or immaterial1 and the last two formative or material4 ,thus we have the higher trial of ,intelligence1 ,life and ,substance1 with their multiplex manifestations in the lower triad of ,consciousness1 ,force and ,matter4 ,for there is only ,one ,intelligence1 ,one ,life and ,one ,substance1 and it is with the manifestations of these in the lower world that ,science is concerned4 ,wisdom has no other concern than to discern the ,unity in ,diversity and to cognize all in terms of the ,one ,being4 ,illustration3 ,figure #g4 ,another very interesting cosmical cycle is that of the ,eclipse ,period4 ,the initial value of this is #ah years #aa days #g hours #db mins4 #ce secs41 being the mean interval between an eclipse and its recurrence4 ,in three cycles the eclipse will have moved through one sign of the zodiac1 and in twelve times three or thirty-six cycles it will have moved through the entire zodiac and come again to the place of the first occurrence4 ,then #ah #c #ab or #fdh years1 to which add one for the precessional increment and obtain #fdi years as the ,eclipse ,cycle1 after which the phenomena recur in the same part of the zodiac4 ,thus ,i find an eclipse of the ,sun in ,june1 ,a4,d4 #abgg1 and the same eclipse in ,june1 ,a4,d4 #aibf1 another in ,june #abie1 which recurs in ,june #aidd4 ,we can hardly escape the inevitable harmony of celestial motions when we note that the eclipse which recurs every eighteen years1 makes seventy-two appearances during the entire period that it takes to work across the ,earth's disc from its first appearance in the ,arctic ,circle to its disappearance in the ,antarctic4 ,here we have four times #ah equals #gb1 and #gb times #ah are #abif years4 ,thus1 again1 we have the cyclic period of #abif years1 which we have already noted in connection with cosmical symbolism4 ,it is twice the eclipse cycle of #fdh years1 after which the eclipses return to the same part of the zodiac4 ,it has not yet been shown that there is any necessary connection between these two periods1 and it is therefore the more remarkable4 ,the average of ,precession being #a in seventy-two years1 it is1 of course1 quite easy to link the eclipse period with the ,great ,year4 ,here1 then1 we have a veritable ,phnix which renews itself after incineration in ,heliopolis 7the ,city of the ,sun71 and although ,eclipses may have no cosmical significance1 they may very well have a terrestrial one1 both causative and symbolical4 ,take1 for instance1 the abscission of the ,sun's rays which takes place at the time of a solar eclipse4 ,this affects only a small area of the ,earth's surface1 but quite sufficient to produce very remarkable results when1 to the known tidal influence of the luminaries we add the violent and sudden change in the electrostatic condition of the atmosphere4 ,thus at the solar eclipse of #agth ,april1 #aiab1 ,i registered a fall of #bg of temperature in the space of one hour in ,london4 ,here the eclipse was not at its maximum1 and in no place was it total but merely annular4 ,if the effects are due to the combined action of the ,sun and ,moon1 the ratio of influence being in regard to the ,sun #cj per cent41 and to the ,moon #gj per cent4 roughly1 then it may reasonably be supposed that when the ,moon is simultaneously in perigee1 that is1 nearest to the ,earth in its orbit1 at the time of an eclipse1 the effects should be proportionately greater1 and also that they should be experienced in that locality which coincides with the zenith position of the luminaries at conjunction4 ,such effects can be traced in the occurrence of great earthquake disturbances1 due1 no doubt1 to an effort of nature to restore the balance of magnetic action1 the local fall of temperature being met by an uprush of electrical energy from the interior of the globe4 ,similar effects are registered in the human body by the local application of ice1 the blood being finally determined to the affected part4 ,and if the whole ,earth can thus be disturbed by eclipse influence1 so also must men be1 since they are compounded of elements which are drawn from the ,earth4 ,not only the waters1 but also all plant- and animal-life1 as well as the solid mass of the ,earth itself1 respond to this influence of the luminaries acting in combination1 and there is little doubt that there is a tidal effect in the atmosphere which proceeds from the same cause1 and which affects the course of the weather4 ,the fact that volcanic eruptions and earthquakes do not follow all eclipses1 merely informs us that they do not always coincide with a volcanic area1 but whenever they do so there are marked disturbances directly attributable to the action of the luminaries1 and similarly the effects upon the weather will vary in accordance with local conditions1 such as latitude1 elevation1 mean saturation point of the air1 etc4 ,those who have failed to trace the connection between lunations and the weather1 have left out of consideration the effects due to 7a7 the time of the conjunction1 and 7b7 the ,moon's position in its orbit at the time4 ,the ,metonic ,cycle of #fidj days or nineteen years1 is another cycle of considerable value1 which informs us what effects are due to the combined influence of the ,sun and ,moon irrespective of their ecliptic conjunction4 ,the lunations occur in the same degree of the zodiac every nineteen years4 ,any effects that may be due to their influence can best be traced by observing how they fall in regard to the positions of the planets at an epoch such as the moment of a person's birth4 ,for if it is found that the ,new ,moon falling on the place of ,saturn in a horoscope of birth is followed by certain privations in agreement with the nature of the planet ,saturn1 and that similar effects are found to occur nineteen years afterwards1 then the influence of the lunation as a factor in human life is presumably established4 ,and if to ,saturn we add the other planets1 and also if we add the other aspects1 such as the opposition1 trine1 quadrature and sextile1 we shall be able to institute a series of observations which depend for their significance on the assumed value 7causative or symbolic7 of the luminaries4 ,such effects are easily traceable1 and serve to establish the significance of this cycle4 ,the cycle of ,jupiter which is taken at sixty years1 assumes a significance only when we have proved the fact of interplanetary action4 ,this fact has been established both astronomically and astrologically4 ,the planet ,jupiter takes twelve years to perform a revolution in the zodiac1 and five times twelve is sixty years4 ,but ,saturn has a period of thirty years1 and twice this is also sixty years4 ,consequently1 if the planets ,saturn and ,jupiter are acting together from the same part of the heavens at a given date1 they will be together again in the same part of the heavens at the end of sixty years1 with a small variation due to the actual difference of their periods4 ,this fact has proved of astronomical value1 inasmuch as it has enabled us to estimate the disturbance due to their mutual action in the orbits of both planets4 ,the period at which these perturbations would recur has been estimated at #ibj years by ,laplace1 who discovered it4 ,these perturbations form what are called the ,great ,equations of the planets ,saturn and ,jupiter1 when calculation is made of their longitudes in orbit4 ,it may be useful to note that at the maximum the disturbance of ,saturn due to ,jupiter's action is #di1 and that of ,jupiter due to ,saturn's action is #ba4 ,as the discovery was not made until #aghf1 it will naturally follow that all calculations made from ,saturn's position prior to the eighteenth century1 when it was incorporated as a factor in the ,nautical ,almanac1 must be to some extent at fault4 ,as cosmic symbols these planets1 ,saturn and ,jupiter1 have great significance1 and they were highly esteemed in the astrological thought of the ancients4 ,jupiter1 as the most bulky of all the planets in the system1 early claimed attention and took a foremost place in the pantheon4 ,we find him as ,jupiter-,ammon1 as the ,deva-pitar1 ,deo-pitar1 and ,jupiter of the ,indian and ,roman theogonies4 ,he is found in the ,sanskrit writings as ,guru1 the spiritual father or ,god-father1 as the name ,deo-pitar signifies1 and also as ,brihaspati1 i4 e4 the ,lord of ,increase or ,expansion4 ,similarly1 ,saturn was ,s'iva1 the ,destroyer1 whose reputation for devouring his own offspring is referred to in the classical mythology of the ,greeks4 ,thus ,jupiter is ,brahma1 the ,creator1 and ,saturn is ,s'iva1 the ,destroyer4 ,such a significance they are found to hold in the concept of modern astrologers4 ,when1 therefore1 ,jupiter is found in that part of the heavens which is empirically determined to have rule over the destinies of a country or people1 there is found to be a period of expansion and prosperity2 but when ,saturn is thus placed the country suffers privations and losses4 ,let us look at some of these instances1 as they have a direct bearing on the practical side of our occult studies1 and give to the ,law of ,cycles an economic value4 ,i have before me an ,investment ,handbook1 giving the dates of the highest and lowest records of the various prices of ,stocks during the last fifteen years4 ,the figures that ,i shall quote are taken directly from this book1 and ,i need hardly assure the reader that the editors have no associations with ,astrology4 ,from any astrological book dealing with the influence of the zodiac published prior to the year at which our observations commence1 the reader may extract the following information3 ,scorpio rules ,brazil1 ,sagittarius rules ,spain1 ,capricornus rules ,india1 ,aquarius rules ,russia1 ,pisces rules ,portugal1 ,aries rules ,england1 ,taurus rules ,ireland1 etc4 ,in #ahie-f-g the planet ,saturn was in the sign ,scorpio1 and in #ahih ,brazilian ,stocks were at the lowest price between #ahie and #aiaj4 ,in #ahih ,saturn was in ,sagittarius1 and ,spanish ,fours were then at the lowest between #ahie and #aiaj1 a period of fifteen years4 ,in #aija ,saturn was in the sign ,capricornus1 but ,jupiter also was there1 and in effect1 we do not find any depreciation of ,stocks1 but the reverse so far as ,india was concerned4 ,in #aijc-d-e ,saturn was in ,aquarius1 and in #aijf ,russian #d and #e ,stocks were at their lowest during the period under consideration4 ,during #aijf-g-h ,saturn was in ,pisces1 and in the following year ,portuguese ,stocks touched the lowest during a period of fifteen years4 ,during #aiji-aj ,saturn was in the sign ,aries1 and in #aiaj ,consols as well as ,annuities were at their lowest for a period of fifteen years4 ,during #aiaa-ab ,saturn was in the sign ,taurus1 and ,irish ,land ,stock is now 7#aiab7 lower than it has been for the past seventeen years4 ,these facts speak for themselves1 and they show that ,saturn is the cause of depression1 destruction of credit and national prosperity1 and loss4 ,the cyclic law and that of periodicity are practically identical4 ,for what we trace as the periodicity of phenomena1 can be shown to bear a direct relation to planetary cycles4 ,take1 for instance1 the periodicity of ,sun-spots4 ,the years of maximum frequency noted have led to the discovery of a period of #aa years and #dj days4 ,many years ago ,i published a statement to the effect that the rents in the luminous envelope or photosphere of the ,sun would be found to coincide with the occursions of the planets ,mars and ,jupiter4 ,since then ,i have made further research1 and ,i find that the mean of the two periods of these planets is #aa years and #bjc days1 which is in excess of the observed period of maximum solar activity by #afc days2 but by taking the periods of ,mars1 ,venus and the ,earth into account1 we have a period of #aa years #dj days1 which is exactly what we want4 ,the ,sun-spot period of #aaaa years is1 therefore1 attributable to the combined action of the planets ,venus1 the ,earth and ,mars1 the mean of whose cycles yields a period so exactly in conformity with it4 ,probably the introduction of ,jupiter and ,saturn to the equation would yield a climacteric every fifth period4 ,it is1 however1 of extreme interest to note that the years of the maximum ,sun-spot appearance1 #ahga1 #ahhb1 #aijd1 #aiaf1 #aibg1 are found to be associated with important configurations of the major planets3 #ahga1 ,saturn opposition ,jupiter2 #ahhb1 ,saturn conjunct ,neptune2 #aijd1 ,jupiter opposition ,uranus2 #aiaf1 ,saturn conjunct ,neptune2 #aibg1 ,jupiter conjunct ,uranus4 ,from this we might conclude that the luminous envelope of the ,sun is acted upon by the planetary bodies when they are on the same solar meridian4 ,an ingenious student of planetary influence1 ,prof4 ,corrigan1 has suggested that by regarding the solar disc as a plane1 and setting off the orbits of the planets from the centre1 the parallels of solar latitude tangent to the orbits of ,mars1 ,jupiter and ,saturn1 are those along which the greatest ,sun-spot activity is shown4 ,thus he shows that at the latitude of #e ,north and ,south of the ,sun's equator1 spots are produced by the action of the planet ,mercury on the ,sun3 at latitude #f those produced by ,venus's action are seen2 at #g those due to the action of the ,earth and its satellite2 at #ac those frequent spots due to ,mars2 and at #dh those due to ,saturn2 while the band corresponding to the orbit of ,jupiter is attended by the largest and most frequent display of ,sunspots4 ,hence the ,professor is quite in agreement with my original statement that ,sun-spots are principally caused by ,mars and ,jupiter4 ,this certainly upholds the original observation that ,sunspots are connected with the occursions of the planets ,jupiter and ,mars1 but it would extend the period to #aa years and #bjc days4 ,the whole subject is1 however1 in its infancy4 ,the cycle of #bfe years arising out of the periodic conjunctions of ,saturn and ,mars1 and marking epochs of great political disturbance in those areas of the world associated with the signs of the zodiac wherein the conjunctions occur1 has already received treatment in my former works1 so that nothing need be added in this place4 ,for the benefit of those who have not hitherto touched the subject1 however1 ,i may give a single instance4 ,saturn and ,mars form their conjunction every two years1 during which period they move forward one sign1 the whole circle embracing about #bi years1 so that they complete nine cycles and come to a conjunction in the same part of the zodiac about the same time of the year after a period of #bfe years4 ,the last conjunction of ,saturn in ,aries was in #aiaj1 and #bfe years before this date takes us back to the year #afde1 when the insurrection under ,cromwell took place1 and #bfe years earlier1 in #achj1 we have the insurrection under ,wat ,tyler4 ,similar effects can be traced in the history of other countries from the same cause4 ,the old astrologers gave certain periods as the ,least ,years of the planets1 the ,sun and ,moon4 ,in the scheme of ,ptolemy1 which differs in some respects from this enumeration1 most of these periods are represented and evidently have reference to the orbital periods of the bodies referred to4 ,thus the ,moon has a period of #d years1 ,mercury #aj years1 ,venus #h years1 ,mars #ae years1 ,sun #ai years1 ,jupiter #ab years1 ,saturn #cj years1 following upon which modern astrologers have added ,uranus #hd years1 and ,neptune #afd years4 ,but by taking the periods of the ancient planets only it is found that they are all contained in a period of #abj years1 and that the periods of those planets which rule opposite signs1 as ,moon and ,saturn1 ,mars and ,venus1 ,jupiter and ,mercury1 when multiplied together produce #abj1 which is one-third of the degrees in a circle1 and is the basis of the ,vims'ottaradasa periods of the ,hindu system1 about which something may be said in a subsequent section of this work4 ,footnote #a3 ,the value #aj #fj as here derived #fjj1 which is the ,messianic or ,naronic cycle1 called ,naros4 ,,chapter ,,xi ,,the ,,time ,,factor ,,in ,,kabalism ,every system of ,kabalism employs numbers in a symbolical sense1 and attributes to them a significance as if they were causative factors4 ,this is legitimate from the point of view of a philosophy that regards the ,universe as ,symbol4 ,in such a scheme every cosmical factor assumes a symbolical value1 according to its ratio in the sum of things1 and each of the planets may thus be symbolized either as deities invested with attributes and virtues of a distinctly human nature1 or yet may be expressed in terms of numerical values1 quantities1 colours1 forms1 and sounds4 ,but in all such systems the symbolism employed must finally submit to a mathematical expression1 which1 indeed1 is the test of its truth1 for as has been very wisely said1 we have reason to suspect all statements of fact which are not capable of a mathematical expression4 ,in this connection the ,time factor becomes of the highest importance in ,kabalism1 and since the matter lies in the region of debate1 something may be said in this place that may prove of value4 ,in my ,kabala of ,numbers and elsewhere ,i have repeatedly pointed out the fallacy of those systems which ignore the cosmic factors1 which alone give symbolism its coherence4 ,nobody can reasonably ascribe any specific sound or numerical value to a planet1 or any influence to any part of the heavens or to any period of time without having regard to some cosmical factor as the basis of the system to which these planetary or time significations belong4 ,yet ,i find that such systems are all too prevalent1 and that in some glaring instances they assume a factor as the basis of the system1 and straightway set about to argue it out of existence4 ,thus it is stated in one small manual intended for the use of those studying the mysteries of sound and number1 that it is 8essential to have an accurate knowledge of the time of the rising of the sun at places on particular days10 and the 8simple method0 of doing this1 according to its author1 is to 8take the sunrise from any reliable almanac 444 and add to it for western longitude at the rate of four minutes per degree1 and subtract for eastern longitude at the same rate1 and you have the mean local time of sunrise40 ,how far this is from the truth any tyro in astronomy will readily perceive4 ,yet when the error was pointed out to this would-be exponent of the 8,mysteries10 instead of being gratefully accepted as a piece of good information which could be utilized in future publications1 the unlucky critic was most thoroughly abused1 and the matter being finally referred to the authorities at the ,greenwich ,observatory1 it was clearly shown that the critic was right and the author of the 8simple method0 wrong in every case4 ,the repetition of these errors in subsequent publications leaves one with no alternative but to conclude that either the intricacies of apparent local sunrise are beyond him1 or that their introduction into his simple method of expounding the mysteries would undermine his market by rendering the truth too difficult for popular consumption4 ,having already given the correct method of finding the local sunrise by reference to ascensional differences1 a process which involves nothing more complex than adding two logarithms together1 7tang4 of ,sun's declination1 tang4 of the latitude of place71 from which we derive the ascensional difference 7sine log471 and comparing the result with that due to the latitude of ,greenwich4 ,i need not waste space on the matter in these pages4 ,but it may be pointed out for the benefit of those who wish to base their calculations of the planetary periods and sub-periods on the correct value of apparent sunrise1 that the equation of time at the rate of four minutes for every degree applies only to meridian transit in ,right ,ascension1 and has no connection with the equation by ascensional difference due to the latitude of the place4 ,in fact1 to find local sunrise it is absolutely necessary to take notice of 8seasons and latitudes of places10 and so long as these are ignored so long will the mysteries of sound and number which depend on calculations made from time of sunrise remain 8hidden mysteries0 in fact as well as name4 ,by way of illustrating the inaccuracy and futility of the 8simple method0 of finding sunrise1 ,i may take an illustration that is actually given by its inventor4 8,for instance1 the sun rises at ,greenwich at #d4ej on the #bcrd ,april1 #aiab1 and we want to know the local sunrise at ,epsom4 ,all we have to do is to add the equivalent of #j #ag 7which is nearly one fourth of a degree71 #a minute to that amount4 ,the local sunrise at ,epsom is1 therefore1 #d4ea10 which for all practical purposes it is1 since ,epsom is on the same1 or approximate1 latitude as ,greenwich4 ,but when it is further said that the local time of sunrise is #d4dh at ,newmarket on the same day1 in the name of holy ,science we must demur4 ,the sun's declination at #d4ej on ,april #bcrd is #ab #bd1 which1 referred to the latitude of ,greenwich1 gives an ascensional difference of #a hr4 #d min4 #ab sec41 and to the latitude of ,newmarket #a hr4 #f min4 #j sec41 the difference of these being #a min4 #dh sec41 so that if the two places were on the same meridian the sun would rise on ,newmarket at this time of the year nearly two minutes before it rises on ,greenwich4 ,but ,newmarket is #j #bd east of ,greenwich1 and therefore it would further advance the time by #a min4 #cf sec41 and taking the two factors into account we have for latitude and longitude combined #c min4 #bd sec4 by which the sun rises on ,april #bcrd sooner than at ,greenwich1 the mean time being some seconds before #d4dg a4m4 ,had a more northerly place been taken it could be shown that the discrepancy is proportionately greater1 and in fact at the summer solstice the sun rises on ,liverpool only #a minute after it rises on ,greenwich1 although the former place is #aa min4 #eb sec4 west longitude1 or #b #eh1 while at ,york it actually rises before it does at ,greenwich4 ,therefore ,i would urge that a kabalism that has reference to the cosmic factor of the sun's rising would be more effectually serviceable than it is known to be if regard were had to the truth4 ,a system that is based on error cannot be true in its structure1 and this fact will account for the constant falling of bricks upon the hapless heads of those who enter the portals of this pseudo-scientific structure1 where everything is at sixes and sevens1 making unlucky thirteens1 and where you have difficulty in distinguishing ,hermes from ,aphrodite1 on account of their exchange of clothes4 ,similarly1 it is no use instituting a system of ,kabalism that depends on the position of the sun at the birth of a person1 and forthwith giving illustration of the system by means of births that are recorded in ,old ,style1 which involves a difference of ten degrees in the sun's longitude4 ,yet ,i have seen this done by sober-minded ,kabalists1 and illustrations of it exist in current works on the subject of ,numerology4 ,a system1 of whatever nature1 must be consistent in itself and must depend for its integrity upon a cosmical factor1 otherwise it can only be described as a conglomerate of detached observations1 which1 being brought together cannot by any chance lay claim to the title of a system4 ,in another section of this work ,i shall be able to show what was the origin of the various sounds attributed to the planets1 and how the ,mantravidya of the ,brahmins of ,india has passed into the hands of ,mohammedans and others1 who have exploited it for their own purposes without reference to its origin4 ,i shall also be able to show the astronomical basis of the various periods and sub-periods of the planets1 including the famous trims'amsha1 or 8four minute period0 which has played such an egregious part in the furtherance of a popular delusion4 ,let me here say that a ,kabalism is not a mere play upon figures1 nor is it a system which arises by necessity from our system of enumeration as some have sought to prove4 ,it is fundamentally an expression of some cosmical law1 whether it be that of planetary periods1 or other divisions of time instituted by us from observation of certain cosmic factors1 or yet the laws of crystallization1 which involve the fact of form in relation to sound vibrations4 ,thus we may have a lunar kabalism depending on the numbers #d1 #g and #bh1 another of the same nature depending on the numbers #c1 #i1 and #bg3 another solar kabala which arises from the numbers #ah1 #ed1 and #gb4 ,if those who seek to show that the decimal system was originated by the use of the ten fingers1 called 8digits10 would only have the patience to examine their theory1 they would find that the facts are entirely against them4 ,for if counting on the fingers reduced men to the decimal system1 this system should be prevalent among the aboriginal peoples4 ,it is1 however1 an ugly fact for the theorists that the very first system of enumeration that we come across is the duodecimal system of the ,chinese and the ,hebrews4 ,in the first place we find that the ,chinese had twelve signs or months1 each of thirty days1 which was the antediluvian value of the year1 afterwards rectified 7#bcee ,b4,c47 by the intercalation of seven months in the course of nineteen years4 ,the cycle of years was twice #fj1 or #abj1 arising out of the employment of ten roots and twelve branches4 ,they appointed four chiefs to command the four gates or cardinal points and elected ,twelve ,patriarchs to govern local affairs4 ,the duodecimal standard was instituted very early in the civilization of the ,yellow ,empire1 as is evident from the ,canon of ,shun1 wherein weights and measures were regulated by the ,yellow ,tube standard4 ,this yellow tube was nine-tenths of a ,chinese inch in bore circumference1 and nine inches in length4 ,it contained twelve hundred grains of millet which weighed twelve pennyweights1 two pennyweights going to the ounce1 sixteen ounces to the pound1 thirty pounds to the quarter1 and four quarters to the hundredweight4 ,thus the basis of the whole system of weights was regulated by sound1 for there were twelve tubes1 each of the same circumference but of different lengths1 and these being struck gave the twelve notes of the ,chinese musical gamut4 ,the measures of length and capacity were also regulated by these tubes1 and thus sound was at the root of all the ,chinese mensuration4 ,the fact that there were twelve sounds in the scale shows that the whole system was duodecimal4 ,the ,hebrew system was also duodecimal1 for we find that they had twelve months in the year answering to the twelve ,gates of the ,sun1 such as those of ,gaza 7,capricorn7 and ,hebron 7,cancer71 which are mentioned in connection with the feats of ,samson1 the original of the ,greek ,hercules and obviously a ,sun-god4 ,the twelve tribes were formed upon the basis of the zodiacal circle1 and are so referred to in ,jacob's last prophetic blessing1 where the sons of the ,patriarch are distinctly associated with the astrological portents of the twelve ,signs4 ,reuben--,taurus1 the first sign of the ,hebrew zodiac1 connected with the constellation ,orion and the letter ,aleph 7,bull74 ,this tribe has often been associated with ,aquarius1 despite the fact that astrologically speaking it is not a watery sign1 but belongs to the airy trigon4 8,unstable as water10 is a figure of speech that has no reference to the astrological functions of the sign ,aquarius4 ,simeon and ,levi--,gemini and ,cancer4 ,the ,levitical sign ,cancer4 ,judah--,leo1 8the old lion10 couchant4 ,the regal sign ,leo4 ,zebulon--,virgo associated with ,argos1 the ship4 ,issachar--,libra1 8servant of tribute40 ,dan--,scorpio1 associated with ,serpentarius1 8an adder in the path40 ,gad--,sagittarius1 the trooper4 ,the sign of ,jupiter or 8,gad40 ,asher--,capricornus4 ,napthali--,aquarius1 associated with the ,tree1 8who yieldeth goodly branches40 ,here the 8hind let loose0 should be 8the spreading oak40 ,joseph--,pisces1 8the fruitful vine by the well40 ,benjamin--,aries1 8the wolf10 connected with ,anubis of the ,egyptian symbology4 ,thus the ,hebraic system is found to be duodecimal also1 and we follow suit in keeping our standards on this basis1 counting twelve inches to the foot1 and twelve pence to the shilling4 ,indeed1 there can be little doubt that the ancients modelled their conceptions and established their standards 8after the pattern of things in the heavens40 ,by common consent they instituted the ,four ,quarters arising out of the apparent motion of the ,sun1 in its daily rising1 culminating1 setting and decumbiture1 and its apparent transit of the equinoxes and solstices4 ,by common consent also they had regard to the twelve signs of the zodiac1 and their corresponding months1 the lunar asterisms or stations arising out of the mean diurnal motion of the moon1 and other points and divisions of time1 such as the syzyges and quadratures of the moon4 ,all these became standards from which all calculations were made1 and hence all kabalism1 as derived from these cosmic phenomena1 has a basis in fact which can only be appreciated when the cosmical factors employed are fully understood and appreciated4 ,hence ,i say that the time factor1 in ,kabalism is of the utmost importance4 ,,chapter ,,xii ,,involution ,,and ,,evolution ,the symbolism of astronomy lends itself in a most interesting manner to the great problem of human evolution4 ,in my opening chapter it was shown that evolution is the natural reaction to the process of involution4 ,logically we cannot speak of evolution without taking into consideration the fact of a preceding involution4 ,ex nihilo nihil fit4 ,the potential of matter is measured by its latent energy1 and this latency is static ,spirit ,force4 ,matter is the ultimate expression of ,spirit1 as form is that of force4 ,the material forms of the visible universe are therefore nothing but concrete spiritual forces4 ,but it would appear that there are two processes going on simultaneously in any cycle of cosmic life1 and these are a downward spiritual involution and an upward physical evolution4 ,the two processes are complementary1 and possibly may be regarded as taking place simultaneously1 although in the ,chaldean account they are spoken of as distinct in point of time4 ,jacob's vision of the ,ladder of ,life depicted angels ascending and descending simultaneously1 and these are the spiritual forces that are in continual play between pure spirit and gross matter4 ,the great tidal influx of spirit towards the plane of materiality admits of a constant ebb and flow of the life-wave1 so that1 although at the present stage of the ,great ,cycle the tide has set back and is at its ebb1 carrying its burden of detached souls along with it towards the region of spirituality1 may yet mark periodic incursions of the spirit towards the material plane1 such incursions being in the nature of abnormal phenomena4 ,thus we have from the beginning of the ,great ,cycle a double influx involving an interplay of ,spirit and ,matter4 ,in the process of manifestation by means of differentiation1 ,spirit 7the positive or male potency7 may be regarded as taking a downward plunge on the left-hand side1 while ,substance 7the negative or female potency7 will in the same scheme take the right-hand side in its progress towards manifestation on the material plane4 ,the ,paramatma or ,universal ,spirit first appears as ,purusha1 while ,mulaprakriti or ,root ,substance manifests as ,prakriti4 ,the ultimate expression of ,purusha is ,prana 7,life force7 while that of ,prakriti is ,prithivi 7,matter74 ,we thus have the ,father ,spirit on the one hand1 and the ,mother ,substance on the other1 manifesting eventually in the multitude of forms of ,living ,matter4 ,spirit ,substance thus invests and is at the root of all physical life1 ,force and ,matter standing always in the same undivided relations as do ,spirit and ,substance in the ,archetypal ,world4 ,such mysteries concerning the origin of things can be read in the astronomical disposition of the signs of the zodiac1 where ,leo is the symbol of the ,father ,spirit and ,cancer that of the ,mother ,substance4 ,these descend along their own arcs of involution through the planes of ,buddhi and ,manas1 which are the higher and lower aspects of ,mind1 and in combination represent the potential and evolved ,hermaphrodites1 denoted by the planets ,mercury and ,venus1 which are set over these signs in the astrological scheme1 and have relation to the signs ,virgo and ,libra on the one hand and ,gemini and ,taurus on the other4 ,thence the ,great ,breath descends to the ,kamic plane1 manifesting in the ,body of ,desire4 ,this is represented on either hand by the signs ,scorpio and ,aries4 ,next the ,spirit-,substance manifests on the ,astral or ,psycho-,physical plane1 which is symbolized by the planet ,jupiter with its signs ,sagittarius and ,pisces1 and finally precipitates in the material world denoted by the planet ,saturn and its corresponding signs ,capricornus and ,aquarius1 the symbols of matter in the concrete and in a state of flux4 ,the scheme may be reduced to a diagram as on page #aba4 ,in view of this statement of the occult doctrine of the origin of the phenomenal world1 we are led to expect in the course of physical evolution1 which is another name for the process of spiritual unfoldment1 that matter will yield continually new characteristics1 which now lie in obscuro or latency4 ,for spirit is now shaking itself free of the trammels of matter1 organisms are becoming more and more subject and responsive to the impulses of the mind1 and matter is everywhere giving way to the effort of a spiritual expression4 ,the world has passed the zero point of greatest materiality and darkness1 and though the mass of mankind are as yet only on the plane of ,kama1 actuated solely by the force of their desires and material appetites1 yet quite a large section of the world's population is coming under the direct influence of the ,manasic forces1 and the demand for knowledge is being met upon every side4 ,some few of the more advanced pioneers of the race are functioning in the light of the ,buddhic plane and are overshadowed by the spirit4 ,at the head of all this ,earth's humanity is the supreme ,arhat1 the ,adam ,kadmon of the ,kabalists1 the ,iswara of the ,hindus1 the ,jehovah of the ,hebrews4 ,illustration3 ,figure #h4 ,what is going on in this world is happening also in others of the solar system1 and over all is the ,supreme ,logos1 ,brahma-,vach1 the ,ancient of ,days1 whom we call the ,lord4 ,these are co-ordinating ,centres of ,intelligence and ,power functioning in their respective spheres and on their several planes as the various nervous ganglia in the body of man1 all being finally linked up to one ,centre in whom resides the consciousness of the ,i ,,am1 as planets are united to their central ,sun4 ,and what we argue in regard to the constitution of the ,universe we also affirm to be true regarding man1 the ,microcosm and epitome of the ,universe4 ,he is one of those angels 8ascending and descending0 on the ,ladder of ,life4 ,for the purposes of illustration we may borrow a symbol from the astronomer1 that of the elliptical orbit of the ,earth4 ,let the ,earth represent the spiritual monad which in process of involution has become associated with material conditions of life1 and is now an imprisoned soul4 ,it answers to the gravitational pull of the material sun and revolves around it1 chained by its material desires1 yet enlarging its orbit as it advances in its evolution4 ,the point where the planet passes its quadrature1 corresponds to the event of incarnation1 its lower apsis being the point of greatest physical vitality4 ,it passes out of the physical at the next quadrature and for the remainder of its orbit continues in the psychic or intermediate state between the higher and lower worlds4 ,at its higher apsis the soul is in its supreme state of elevation1 mingling freely with other discarnate souls and those radiant denizens of the higher spiritual world who are there to minister to their spiritual needs4 ,but when the reaction follows and the desire for earth-life again asserts itself1 the soul responds to the gravitational pull of the material sun and falls again into incarnation4 ,there comes a time1 however1 when by its peregrinations in the sphere of the lower world1 the soul gains knowledge of real values1 and the awakening spirit1 shaking free from the bonds of the flesh1 answers to the gravitational pull of a higher or more interior ,spiritual ,sun which occupies the kenofocus of the great ellipse4 ,such a soul passes directly through the intermediate world into the ,world of ,spirit1 and thereafter revolves around the ,spiritual ,sun1 descending only at the lowest point of its orbit into the intermediate world for the purpose of spiritual ministration1 its only intercourse with the material world being normally through the world of discarnate souls who are subject to incarnation4 ,the diagram presented on page #abd1 may assist the reader in following out the scheme4 ,i am not here laying down any final teaching or creed regarding the peregrinations of the ,soul1 though during a life of inward experience one gets some definite idea of the general plan of these things1 but ,i am taking the position of a symbologist who employs cosmical facts to convey spiritual ideas1 as one may use a figure of speech to suggest an analogy or convey an idea pertinent to the theme of conversation4 ,everything is symbolical1 and things have no other meaning than that which we confer upon them1 as letters or figures which are used to signal a meaning from one mind to another as by a code agreed upon beforehand1 although in themselves these symbols bear no such significance4 ,so in the ,dhammapada it is said3 8,mind it is which gives to things their quality1 their foundation and their being10 to which ,epictetus subscribes when he says3 8,men are disturbed by their view of things and not by the things themselves10 and these two views are at the base of ,idealism and ,quietism1 as we may learn from ,plato and ,laotze4 ,illustration3 ,figure #i4 ,it would therefore have been equally true in a symbolical sense had the ,higher1 ,middle and ,lower ,worlds been called the ,sun1 ,moon and ,earth ,worlds1 for these answer to the ,spirit1 ,soul and ,body of man1 and therefore to the worlds or states of being in which they function4 ,also by the same symbolism they may be called the worlds of ,light1 ,twilight and ,darkness1 answering to the three ,gunas or qualities of the ,soul in the ,hindu philosophy1 namely1 ,sattva1 ,rajasa1 and ,tamas4 ,but the employment of a purely cosmical symbolism gains point from the fact that whatever may be our views regarding these ultimate problems of life1 they must necessarily take form from the things of our experience and find expression in terms of natural phenomena1 or so much of the ,great ,handwriting as we may have mastered and can employ as symbols4 ,the argument from analogy is indeed strongly in favour of the view that all spiritual truths have their counterpart and illustration in the phenomenal world1 that there is a natural law in the spiritual world1 and that this law can only be interpreted in terms of natural phenomena4 ,but it is also permissible to take the opposite view and to affirm that there is a spiritual law in the natural world and that this can only be understood and interpreted in the light of the ,spirit4 ,indeed philosophy tends ultimately to the view that the mind of man is but a centre of consciousness in the ,universal ,mind1 that it reflects the ,ideas of that ,mind1 and that things have no real existence except as products of mind4 ,we all recognize the fact that the idea precedes and outlasts the form that embodies it1 and that there is no constant relation between the thing and the thought of which it is an expression4 ,this idea1 applied to the subject of ,involution and ,evolution1 gives rise to the momentous thought that the ,archetypal ,mind that holds the idea of this universe and is its ,creator1 is under no contract to complete the scheme of things4 ,god is under no necessity to finish ,his work4 ,the ,great ,artificer may at any time destroy his moulds6 ,but long-suffering ,nature comforts us with the idea of an infinite patience1 and the human mind suggests something indefinitely more steadfast than its own caprice4 ,meanwhile by the dim light of our minds we grope our way among the scattered symbols1 seeking in them for some intelligible answer to our questionings1 hoping to find in them1 when all are understood1 a solution of the problem of the human soul4 ,science1 philosophy and religion all assure us that we have reasonable hope1 if not indeed the definite promise of eventual success4 ,,chapter ,,xiii ,,planetary ,,numbers ,in a section of my work on the ,kabala of ,numbers ,i gave the planetary numbers as they have been handed down to us1 and my authority in that case was ,john ,heydon1 who in his ,holy ,guide has delivered the traditional values of the planets1 showing their correspondence with certain numbers4 ,i am now able to cite another authority in the person of ,godfridus1 who in the year #afej published a book called ,things ,unknown4 ,those who read the book1 should they be fortunate enough to obtain a copy of this scarce old volume1 will probably agree with me that most of the information he has collected is really not worth knowing1 being in many instances fanciful and misleading4 ,but among other things he quotes the ,numbers of the planets and the signs of the zodiac4 ,the numbers as given by him are the same as those given by ,heydon1 and for convenience may be repeated here-- ,sun1 #a or #d2 ,moon1 #g or #b2 ,saturn1 #h2 ,jupiter1 #c2 ,mars1 #i2 ,venus1 #f2 ,mercury1 #e4 ,godfridus does not distinguish between the numbers #a and #d attributed to the ,sun1 or those of the ,moon #g and #b4 ,it is important to know that #a is the positive number of the ,sun1 and #g that of the ,moon1 while #d is the negative number of the ,sun as #b is that of the ,moon4 ,that is to say1 if the ,sun is in an even sign at any epoch1 or enumeration is made concerning a male entity1 whether man or animal1 the number #a must be used1 while if the ,sun be in a female sign1 or enumeration has respect to a female1 then the number #d is used4 ,similarly in regard to the numbers of the ,moon4 ,these numbers have been exploited in several books recently as if original with the author1 who indeed has gone so far as to claim for them the authority of a ,guru from whom he professes to have received them4 ,it is a fact1 however1 that they have no representation in the ,east1 neither among the ,shemitic people nor the ,aryans1 and they are1 as ,i have plainly stated elsewhere1 traditional among the ,kabalists4 ,the fact that ,heydon printed them and ,godfridus also1 and that these books are to be found in the ,british ,museum ,library1 clearly indicates the source of inspiration1 and locates the ,guru in this case as residing solely in the fertile imagination of the author of ,the ,mysteries4 ,godfridus gives also the numbers attaching to the signs of the zodiac as follows-- ,aries1 #g2 ,taurus1 #f2 ,gemini1 #ab2 ,cancer1 #e2 ,leo1 #a2 ,virgo1 #aj2 ,libra1 #h2 ,scorpio1 #i2 ,sagittarius1 #d2 ,capricornus1 #c2 ,aquarius1 #b2 ,pisces1 #aa4 ,there is a special significance attaching to the order in which1 these numbers are given1 and it will repay the astute reader to give the matter a little study4 ,i may here say that they were originally attached to the ,twelve ,houses1 and became associated with the signs of the zodiac corresponding with these ,houses at a later date4 ,they should be studied in their prime significance4 ,leaving this point for the time being1 ,i would point out here that these numbers have been used in connection with the ,signs by the author of ,natural ,law ,versus ,chance1 who shows considerable faculty for painstaking research4 ,without referring to the source of his information1 he clearly shows that the names of competitors may be enumerated by means of this zodiacal gamut1 and brought under the unit value of one or other of the planets1 which1 if ruling at the time1 is capable of conferring success4 ,that which appears to vitiate the scheme presented by him is the fact of his using the artificial instead of the natural ,hours1 for if it be allowed that the planets are associated with the days of the week and that the quadrants mark the natural divisions of the day1 as from sunrise to noon1 noon to sunset1 sunset to midnight1 and midnight to sunrise1 then the ,planetary ,hours must be in terms of these natural divisions1 and1 irrespective of the season of the year and the consequent variation of the diurnal and nocturnal arcs1 there will be six such 8hours0 from sunrise to noon1 six from noon to sunset1 and six in each of the other quarters of the circle4 ,in fact1 if 8natural law0 is to rule in the matter at all1 it must be consistently carried out1 and artificial divisions of the day will continue to befog the student of these arcana and prevent him from getting at the truth of the matter so long as they are employed4 ,this putting of 8new wine into old bottles0 has effectually vitiated both the ,natural ,law system and that propounded in ,the ,mysteries4 ,if any student cares to work out the percentages of results derived from a strict following of the rules as given in either of those works1 there will remain no shadow of doubt that a good thing has just been missed1 for lack of a little regard to traditional usage4 ,but the climax of inconsistency is reached in the suggestion contained in ,the ,mysteries1 where it is said that the planets ,mercury and ,venus are misnamed1 that ,mercury is the antithesis of ,mars and ,venus that of ,jupiter1 and that their numbers are interchangeable6 ,it is1 in fact1 calmly suggested that at some remote period of history not named by the author1 the name-plates of ,venus and ,mercury became detached1 and as a result the one planet was thereafter mistaken for the other6 ,i can imagine sober astrologers directing the planet ,mercury to a conjunction with the ,sun for the event of marriage1 or predicting travels from the conjunction of the ,ascendant with ,venus4 ,in effect we are asked to regard the signs ,libra and ,taurus as the signs of ,mercury1 while ,venus in exchange takes ,gemini and ,virgo4 ,this may not appear so terribly inconsistent to such as are ignorant of the disposition of the signs and planets as to others1 but ,i think that any one would jib at the idea of ,venus as the significatrix of travel and trade4 ,and when ,i speak of ,venus in this connection ,i mean ,venus and not ,mercury in disguise4 ,yet one would have supposed that the very order of the days of the week and the planetary sequence from which it is derived would have given the author pause to think4 ,so far from that1 however1 it seems to be set up as an unique discovery of the utmost importance4 ,it is time1 therefore1 that the matter should be set straight1 and the need for this seems the more urgent since ,i have actually known persons1 intelligent and conservative of the truth in these matters1 but keen to follow up any new clue1 actually transposing the planets ,mercury and ,venus in their horoscopes and willing to believe1 on the authority of an ,occultist of some distinction who in a weak moment was induced to write a preface to the book1 that the astronomers have all been wrong for many ages1 and that in following the course of the planet ,venus they were unwittingly pursuing that of ,mercury6 ,the position would be incredible were it not a fact in cold print4 ,let us proceed with the justification of the old tradition4 ,i have elsewhere shown that the planetary periods bear a direct relationship to their sign rulerships as determined by the ancients4 ,it is seen that six bodies1 ,saturn1 ,jupiter1 ,mars1 ,venus1 ,mercury and the ,moon1 embrace between them the circle of #cfj1 each pair being divisors of one-third1 or #abj or years4 ,the pairs are as follows-- ,moon rules for #d years1 which divided into #abj equals #cj4 ,saturn rules for #cj years1 which divided into #abj equals #d4 ,these two are opposites1 ,saturn ruling ,capricorn and the ,moon ruling ,cancer4 ,jupiter rules for #ab years1 which divided into #abj gives #aj4 ,mercury rules for #aj years1 which divided into #abj gives #ab4 ,these two are opposites1 for whereas ,jupiter rules ,sagittarius and ,pisces1 ,mercury rules ,gemini and ,virgo1 which are the opposite signs4 ,venus rules for #h years1 which divided into #abj gives #ae4 ,mars rules for #ae years1 which divided into #abj gives #h4 ,venus rules the signs ,taurus and ,libra1 whereas ,mars rules the opposite signs ,scorpio and ,aries4 ,this may be allowed as a basis for what follows4 ,the values and dominions are those traditionally received through ,ptolemy4 ,the periodic values of all the bodies of the ancient system are twice the square of seven4 ,the square of seven is #di1 and twice this is the value of the periods1 namely #ih years4 ,students of numerology may pursue the subject to its legitimate conclusion4 ,i may now proceed to establish this scheme by a series of numerical tests which have been communicated to me from ,india1 and which ,i have remodelled for the purpose of this demonstration4 ,the harmony of the allotment of the numbers to the planets and signs is shown in the following scale1 which1 as will be seen1 bear the numbers already ascribed to them by ,godfridus and others4 ,illustration3 ,figure #aj4 ,this arrangement is traditional among astrologers1 and in very old works on the subject of planetary dominions we find the following suggestive glyph1 which indicates that the mystery of the ,pyramid may be solved by reference to the elements of the solar system4 ,illustration3 ,figure #aa4 ,it is stated that the perpendicular of the ,pyramid is the radius of a circle whose area exactly equals the area of the square base4 ,if this be the fact1 then we may conclude that the ancients successfully negotiated the problem of 8squaring the circle40 ,the cyclic order of the planets according to the ancients was thus3 ,saturn1 ,jupiter1 ,mars1 ,sun1 ,venus1 ,mercury1 ,moon4 ,this order is not haphazard1 as one might suppose who only knew the order of the days of the week bearing the ,planets' names1 or the apparent order of the planetary orbits as seen from the ,earth4 ,there is nevertheless a very good reason for this order1 and it consists in the orbital periods of the several bodies1 that is1 the times in which they appear to traverse the zodiac4 ,thus ,saturn's apparent period is about #cj years1 ,jupiter #ab1 ,mars #b years save forty-three days1 the ,sun one year1 ,venus about #g months1 ,mercury about #c months1 and the ,moon one month4 ,applying the numerical test to this order1 and retaining as before the same numbers for each of the planets1 we have-- ,illustration3 ,figure #ab4 ,if we begin the cycle with the ,sun and follow with ,venus1 ,mercury1 etc41 we shall have a resolution in terms of the ,moon1 thus-- ,illustration3 ,figure #ac4 ,again1 if we take the positive ,sun number and the negative ,moon number1 we have ,sun1 ,moon1 ,mars1 ,mercury1 #abie1 equals #ag or #h1 ,jupiter1 ,venus1 ,saturn #cfh1 equals #ag or #h1 and #h plus #h equals #af1 which is of unit value #g4 ,but the ,kabalism of the numbers attaching to signs of the zodiac clearly shows that the planets ,mars and ,venus are natural opposites1 and not ,mercury and ,mars1 as erroneously stated4 ,the following scheme will show that this is so4 ,scorpio #i opposed to ,taurus #f ,libra #h 0 ,aries #g ,virgo #aj #a 0 ,pisces #aa #b ,leo #a 0 ,aquarius #b ,cancer #e 0 ,capricorn #c ,gemini #ab #c 0 ,sagittary #d -- -- #bg #bd ,equals #i ,mars ,equals #f ,venus4 ,the series begins with the signs of ,mars and ,venus and concludes under those of ,mercury and ,jupiter1 the numbers attached to the various signs being reduced to their unit values and added together1 thus yielding the sum of #bg for ,mars and #bd for ,venus1 which again are reduced to the unit values of #i and #f1 the numbers of the planets under consideration4 ,exactly the same result is produced if we begin the series with the other signs of ,mars and ,venus1 namely1 ,aries and ,libra4 ,libra #h opposed to ,aries #g ,virgo #a 0 ,pisces #b ,leo #a 0 ,aquarius #b ,cancer #e 0 ,capricorn #c ,gemini #c 0 ,sagittary #d ,taurus #f 0 ,scorpio #i -- -- #bd #bg ,equals #f ,venus ,equals #i ,mars4 ,by making a sum of the values of the signs according to their mutual oppositions1 we have for-- ,aries and ,scorpio1 the signs of ,mars1 values #g and #i equals #af ,sagittarius and ,pisces1 signs of ,jupiter1 #d and #aa 0 #ae ,capricornus and ,aquarius1 signs of ,saturn1 #c and #b 0 #e -- ,total #cf ,these are opposed to the signs-- ,libra and ,taurus1 signs of ,venus1 values #f and #h equal #ad ,gemini and ,virgo1 signs of ,mercury 0 #ab and #aj 0 #bb ,cancer and ,leo1 signs of ,moon and ,sun values #e and #a 0 #f -- ,total #db ,thus we have again #cf1 unit value #i1 for ,mars2 and #db1 unit value #f1 for ,venus4 ,this scheme may be reduced to a diagram1 as on the following page4 ,thus we see that #i1 the number of ,mars1 is opposed to #f1 the number of ,venus1 in whatever direction we look1 and the old legends of ,venus and ,adonis1 of ,vulcan and ,aphrodite1 of ,vishnu and ,lakshmi1 most clearly point to this association of the planets ,venus and ,mars in the minds of the writers of the mythology4 ,as myths or veils they were intended doubtless to hide something from the popular mind1 and initiation into the ,mysteries consisted in the interpretation of these myths in terms of cosmical laws4 ,illustration3 ,figure #ad4 ,,chapter ,,xiv ,,some ,,further ,,kabalas ,although it will be evident from the foregoing illustrations that a very definite design lies at the root of the allotment of numbers to the planets and the signs of the zodiac1 yet the study of the subject would hardly be complete without some reference to some other methods that ,i have evolved or that are to be found hinted at but not expounded in the writings of others4 ,if1 for instance1 ,i were required to demonstrate the fact that a certain method underlies the planetary numbers1 ,i could do so by reference to the ,kabala of the number #i1 and although in the process ,i might have to concede the point that ,jupiter and ,venus are interchangeable1 ,i should still be warranted by my ,kabala in affirming that ,mercury is not interchangeable with ,mars1 but that it is polarized by the ,sun1 and that ,mars is the alternative or opposite of the ,moon4 ,now this little ,kabala1 while itself very suggestive and capable of many applications1 has no cosmical basis1 and therefore may be the occasion of much disturbance1 if carried beyond its legitimate domain4 ,it is only necessary to take the numerical sequence #a1 #b1 #c1 #d1 #e1 #f1 #g1 #h1 #i1 and centralize that number which answers to the planet whose opposite you require4 ,thus for ,saturn1 whose number is #h1 we have the sequence-- ,saturn #defg #h #iabc #bb #ae #d #aj #f or #a ,sun 77 ,for ,jupiter the resolution is as follows-- ,jupiter #hiab #c #defg #bj #bb #b #d #f ,venus ,for the ,sun1 whose positive number is #a1 we have-- ,sun #fghi #a #bcde #cj #ad #c #e #h ,saturn ,for ,venus1 whose number is #f1 the resolution is-- ,venus #bcde #f #ghia #ad #be #e #g #ab or #c ,jupiter ,for the ,moon1 whose number is #g positive1 we get-- ,moon #cdef #g #hiab #ah #bj #i #b #aa or #b ,moon ,so that having found the alternate of ,saturn #h to be ,sun #a1 and that of ,venus #f to be ,jupiter #c1 of the ,moon #g to be #b1 it is quite easy to jump to the conclusion that the alternate of ,mars #i must be ,mercury #e1 and yet to get side-tracked on the very first trip4 ,for observe what happens in the resolution of ,mars1 number #i1 ,mars #efgh #i #abcd #bf #aj #h #a #i ,mars which1 seems to inform us that1 whereas all things may be reduced and converted by ,fire or the ,will1 neither consents to be converted4 ,herein is the spirit of freedom that characterizes the fiery planet and those that are born under its sway4 ,we may now try ,mercury1 the universal resolvent4 ,mercury #abcd #e #fghi #aj #cj #a #c #d ,sun 7-7 ,in antithesis we may set the number of the ,sun negative #d4 ,sun #iabc #d #efgh #ae #bf #f #h #ad or #e ,mercury ,here1 by a curious refractoriness of disposition1 ,mercury is seen to be resolvable only in terms of a negative ,sun1 the number #e being set in apposition to #d4 ,the obvious suggestion to those who are engaged in the hermetic art1 should they happen upon this little kabalism1 is that ,mercury is the one thing that we are able to convert into gold4 ,now if we collect these resolutions we shall find that they are all in terms of ,mars or the number #i1 whose position at the head of the scheme indicates1 as clearly as figures can tell us1 that the ,will is the dominant factor in all human affairs4 ,mars #i ,sun #d #e ,mercury ,jupiter #c #f ,venus ,saturn #h #a ,sun #b ,moon #g ,here we have ,mars #i1 ,sun and ,mercury #i1 ,jupiter and ,venus #i1 ,saturn and ,sun #i1 ,moon 7positive and negative7 #i4 ,moreover1 it is seen that the sum of ,sun1 ,jupiter and ,saturn1 #d plus #c plus #h1 is #ae1 and that of ,mercury1 ,venus and ,sun1 #e plus #f plus #a1 is #ab4 ,then #ae plus #ab are #bg1 and the unit value of this is again #i4 ,it is further of interest to observe that the only planets that are not convertible are ,mars and the ,moon1 and that at the head and foot of the scheme represent ,fire and ,water1 symbols of ,spirit and ,matter1 the ,will and the element of ,variability1 one fixed and the other mutable4 ,the numbers of the ,moon are #b and #g1 and these are equal in sum to #i4 ,to argue thence that we are justified in transposing ,mercury with ,mars or ,jupiter with ,venus in any system that has a cosmical factor for its basis is to argue from cosmos into chaos4 ,the planetary numbers and those of the zodiac were affixed by those who instituted the scheme1 not from any considerations of a fanciful nature1 but on certain cosmical principles which those who have thoroughly mastered the subject of ,numerology will find working out in all astrological practice4 ,it is1 of course1 allowable to use numbers in a symbolical manner after any order that may suit our purpose1 but to proceed from the time of sunrise by progression through the planetary hours1 and to violate the established order of those hours by the introduction of a fictitious interchange of factors1 is an affront to the intelligence of every astrological student and a violation of the principles of cosmic symbology that can only find its karmic effects in a condition of mental chaos4 ,another kabalism which employs the planetary factors has been in use for some time by certain well-known students of interpretation1 and is principally applied to the predictive art4 ,in this system the planets hold the same numbers as those traditionally allotted to them4 ,the signs of the zodiac1 however1 do not follow the same rule1 but take the values that belong to their planetary rulers1 as follows-- ,aries #i1 ,taurus #f1 ,gemini #e1 ,cancer #g or #b1 ,leo #a or #d1 ,virgo #e1 ,libra #f1 ,scorpio #i1 ,sagittarius #c1 ,capricornus #h1 ,aquarius #h1 ,pisces #c4 ,these numbers are combined with those of the days of the week ruled by the planets4 ,thus in the case of a person born on a ,tuesday in the month of ,november1 the numbers are both #i1 for ,tuesday is ruled by ,mars1 whose number is #i1 and in ,november the ,sun is in ,scorpio1 which again gives the number #i4 ,hence those years in which the number #i figures are regarded as important in the production of great events4 ,the months and signs corresponding are thus valued3--,january #h1 ,february #h1 ,march #c1 ,april #i1 ,may #f1 ,june #e1 ,july #g and #b1 ,august #a and #d1 ,september #e1 ,october #f1 ,november #i and ,december #c4 ,but it should be observed that1 in order to keep in touch with the cosmical order1 these numbers are only to attach to the first #ba days of each month1 the number for the succeeding month being used for the last #aj or #aa days4 ,similarly1 the day counts from sunrise to sunrise according to some authors1 but cosmically it counts from noon to noon1 that period from noon to midnight being 8the evening0 and from midnight to noon 8the morning10 as it is said in ,genesis1 ,veyahi oreb veyahi beqer yom echad--8,and the evening and the morning were the first day40 ,perhaps one of the most interesting ,kabalas is that which has reference to the values of the signs and planets when taken in combination4 ,each of the months in the annual circle has a number attaching to it according to the planet ruling the sign in which the ,sun is1 as already shown above4 ,this is multiplied into the number allotted to the sign itself apart from its ruler4 ,thus-- ,month ,sign ,no4 ,ruler ,no4 ,product ,unit ,january ,capricorn #c ,saturn #h #bd #f ,february ,aquarius #b ,saturn #h #af #g ,march ,pisces #aa ,jupiter #c #cc #f ,april ,aries #g ,mars #i #fc #i ,may ,taurus #f ,venus #f #cf #i ,june ,gemini #ab ,mercury #e #fj #f ,july ,cancer #c ,moon #b #aj #a ,august ,leo #a ,sun #a #a #a ,september ,virgo #aj ,mercury #e #ej #e ,october ,libra #h ,venus #f #dh #c ,november ,scorpio #i ,mars #i #ha #i ,december ,sagittary #d ,jupiter #c #ab #c ,it is then seen that the total value of the planets' numbers is #fe1 while the total of the unit values of the products is also #fe4 ,it is satisfactory to find that wherever we are consistent and hold to the traditional values and positions of the several factors1 we obtain results that are wonderfully harmonious and suggestive4 ,there is an ancient symbol known as the 8,golden ,candlestick0 which is in the nature of a candelabrum with seven arms4 ,each of the seven lights answers to one of the seven celestial bodies known to the ancients1 and the order of them is that known as the ,chaldean1 in use among astrologers4 ,here is the symbol-- ,illustration3 ,figure #ae4 ,it will be seen at once that the interchange of the planets is confirmatory of the astrological method derived from the sign rulerships4 ,saturn interchanges with the ,moon1 ,jupiter with ,mercury1 ,mars with ,venus1 while the ,sun stands in the centre of the system giving light to all4 ,these lights answer to the seven ,rays1 the seven ,spirits before the ,throne1 the seven ,archangels1 ,cassiel1 the keeper of secrets--,saturn2 ,zadkiel1 the spirit of ,justice--,jupiter2 ,madimial1 the spirit of those who make ,red--,mars2 ,michael1 who is 8like unto ,god0--,sun2 ,haniel1 the spirit of ,splendour--,venus2 ,raphael1 the spirit of ,healing--,mercury2 and ,gabriel1 the spirit of ,strength--,moon4 ,in connection with this symbol there is another which affords several glyphs in combination4 ,it is called the ,seven-pointed ,star and ,star of the ,universe4 ,a star of seven points being drawn1 the planetary bodies1 the ,sun and ,moon1 are placed round it in the ,chaldean order1 the ,sun being at the highest point1 thus-- ,illustration3 ,figure #af4 ,it is then found that the ,sun holds the unique position of supreme elevation1 while the 8pairs of opposites10 ,venus and ,mars1 ,mercury and ,jupiter1 ,moon and ,saturn1 are functioning on successively lower planes4 ,by starting with the first day of the week1 ,sunday1 at the point of the ,sun and following the lines of the ,star1 we shall derive the days of the week in their order1 namely1 ,sun1 ,moon1 ,mars1 ,mercury1 ,jupiter1 ,venus and ,saturn4 ,by reading from ,mars and taking every alternate planet1 we get the order of the atomic weights of the metals to which the ancients ascribed these planets2 namely1 ,iron1 ,copper1 ,silver1 ,tin1 ,gold1 ,mercury and ,lead4 ,this fact seems strongly to support the view that there is a very real connection between the planets and the metals referred to them by the ancients1 for while it is fairly certain that they did not know anything about atomic weights1 they very clearly associated the celestial bodies with the primary metals1 and the fact that they are brought into line through the apparent velocities of the several bodies of the solar system seems to afford a suggestive basis for further inquiry4 ,we all are used to speaking of the 8golden0 sun and the 8silver0 moon1 and we also speak in terms of cosmic symbolism when we refer to an 8iron0 will1 or of 8steeling0 oneself against a danger1 for ,mars is the astrological index of the ,will1 and the uses of steel and iron are for defence and offence4 ,in the name of ,mercury we have actually retained the ancient name associated with the metal1 although the root of it is merx1 trade1 and has no direct associations with quicksilver4 ,but we pick up the link of connection through the known association of ,mercury with trade and shipping1 and when we see the winged messengers or trading vessels carrying their burden of foreign goods from one country to another1 we understand why ,mercury was called the ,interpreter1 for in astrology the planet ,mercury is the symbol of commerce1 and it 8confers the gift of tongues40 ,pliny says that copper was first discovered in ,cyprus1 from which it gets its name1 and1 according to astrologers from the time of ,ptolemy until now1 the sign ,taurus1 one of the signs of ,venus1 rules ,cyprus4 ,this sidelight is of interest1 displaying as it does the universality of planetary dominions4 ,copper1 of course1 was in use before ,cyprus had been named or exploited1 but it is of interest to observe that a copper-bearing territory1 which has given the metal a name in the ,west1 should be found both traditionally and experimentally to be under the dominion of the planet ,venus1 which the ancients associated with that metal4 ,lead1 which is named in connection with ,saturn1 the ,lunar alternative1 has been spoken of by some of the old ,hermetists as a disease of the ,moon1 and it is suggested that the 8sick ,lady0 took a bad turn at a certain point in her career1 and instead of appearing in shining silver robes1 put on those of leaden grey4 ,it is worthy of note that silver ore is frequently found in lead1 and silver has been successfully extracted from lead since #ahbi1 when ,pattinson developed his useful process4 ,before leaving this subject of ,kabalas connected with planetary numbers1 it may be well to point out that the ,kabala displayed in the beginning of this chapter may also be applied to the ,chaldean order of the planets and their numbers1 yielding the same results4 ,chaldean ,order of ,planets and their ,numbers ,saturn #h1 ,jupiter #c1 ,mars #i1 ,sun #a-d1 ,venus #f1 ,mercury #e1 ,moon #g-b4 ,from these we get the following resolutions-- ,sun #hci #a #fegb #bj #bj #b #b #d ,sun ,saturn #fegb #h #ciad #bj #ag #b #h #aj #a ,sun ,jupiter #egbh #c #iadf #bb #bj #d #b #h ,venus ,mars #gbhc #i #adfe #bj #af #b #g #i ,mars ,venus #ciad #f #egbh #ag #bb #h #d #ab #c ,jupiter ,mercury #iadf #e #gbhc #bj #bj #b #b #d ,sun ,moon #adfe #g-b #hci #af #bj #g #b #i ,mars ,in the above resolutions we have1 as before1 ,mercury in apposition to the ,sun 7negative71 and the ,moon in apposition to ,mars4 ,now1 to find a cosmical basis for this order of things1 we shall have to refer to the 8exaltations0 of the planets as defined by astrology4 ,thus1 beside the particular ,signs ruled by the planets1 there are others in which the planets are said to be exalted4 ,the exaltation of the ,sun is in ,aries1 while that of ,saturn is in ,libra4 ,these two bodies are seen to be interchangeable4 ,the exaltation of ,venus is in ,pisces1 which is the ,sign of ,jupiter4 ,but ,jupiter's exaltation is in ,cancer1 which is the ,sign of the ,moon1 and the ,moon has its exaltation in ,taurus1 which is the ,sign of ,venus4 ,thus ,jupiter and ,venus are rendered interchangeable through1 and in the period of1 the ,moon4 ,the three planets1 ,moon1 ,jupiter and ,venus1 have their exaltations in ,taurus1 ,cancer and ,pisces1 and these are ruled by ,venus1 ,jupiter and the ,moon respectively4 ,mercury1 whose exaltation is ,aquarius1 a ,sign of ,saturn1 is thereby linked up with the ,sun through the opposite ,sign ,leo1 which the ,sun rules4 ,a short study of the following ,table of ,exaltations will make these interchanges plain4 ,planetary ,exaltations ,saturn exalted in ,aries1 a sign ruled by ,mars4 ,jupiter exalted in ,cancer1 ruled by the ,moon4 ,mars exalted in ,capricorn1 ruled by ,saturn4 ,sun1 exalted in ,aries1 ruled by ,mars4 ,venus exalted in ,pisces1 ruled by ,jupiter4 ,mercury1 exalted in ,aquarius1 ruled by ,saturn4 ,the planet ,mars1 therefore1 is linked up with the ,moon through ,saturn1 which rules the sign in which ,mars is exalted4 ,much else might be said regarding planetary numbers and ,kabalas depending thereon1 but it is1 perhaps1 advisable that some margin should be left for the exercise of the reader's ingenuity1 should he wish to pursue the subject further4 ,i will therefore turn to the consideration of another aspect of the same subject4 ,,chapter ,,xv ,,planetary ,,sounds ,having dealt with the subject of planetary numbers we may now consider that of ,planetary ,sounds1 these being an obvious connection between ,number1 ,form1 ,sound and ,colour4 ,number underlies all forms1 all sounds and all colours1 for modes of vibration in the same universal medium give rise to all of these4 ,thus it is said that the ,logos or ,word gave existence to all living forms4 ,those who have constructed ,sound-forms by means of the ,eidophone will readily understand how all forms may be derived from simple or complex sounds4 ,sound is also related to colour1 and there are those who are sensitive enough to see sounds and to hear colours4 ,the seven notes of the gamut are related to the seven celestial bodies1 thus-- ,c ,d ,e ,f ,g ,a ,b ,sun ,saturn ,mercury ,moon ,mars ,venus ,jupiter ,the colours answering to these are-- ,orange ,indigo ,blue ,green ,red ,yellow ,violet ,the numbers following the order of the gamut bring us once more into touch with the inevitable apposition of the fire and water elements1 represented by ,mars and the ,moon1 to which reference has already been made in the preceding chapter4 ,the numbers thus arranged are-- ,sun ,saturn ,mercury ,moon ,mars ,venus ,jupiter #a-d #h #e #g-b #i #f #c #ah #ah #i #i #i ,mars ,if we multiply this number #i into the number of the signs of the zodiac we shall obtain #ajh1 which gives us the key to the ,ashtottaravk or #ajh sounds of the ,mantrasara4 ,let us look at the origin of these1 #ajh sounds1 since they have been much exploited without any specific explanation of their origin4 ,in ,indian ,astrology there are #bg lunar asterisms or ,moon-stations which are each of #ac #bj in extent4 ,it has already been said that the whole period of man's life is taken at #abj years1 or an arc of #abj1 which is one-third of the circle1 and by dividing this by #i we obtain an arc of #ac #bj1 which is the extent of a lunar asterism or ,moon-station4 ,these ,moon-stations were in great repute among the ,arabian astrologers1 who attached specific influences to them1 but in the ,west they have been entirely neglected4 ,they still continue to form the basis of all ,indian calculations1 and1 as will be shown1 are at the root of the planetary sounds4 ,each asterism of #ac #bj is again divided into four padams or quarters each of #c #bj1 which is the value of the ,navamsha or one-ninth part of a sign of #cj4 ,now since there are four amshas in each asterism and #bg asterisms in the circle1 there are #ajh amshas1 and these correspond with the #ajh sounds4 ,there are five primary vowel sounds1 and each of these lasts for #bd minutes1 or one ,indian hour1 which is equal to #f of the zodiac or one-fifth of a ,sign4 ,therefore the #e vowels are distributed through the #e parts of the ,sign4 ,the vowels are-- ah ee oo ae oh ,they are all long and pure vowel sounds4 ,the compounds such as oi in 8oil10 ow as in 8now10 etc41 are produced from a combination of these4 ,these five primary vowels range through the several ,signs and are taken up by successive consonants attached to each of the ,signs4 ,these consonants extend throughout the ,signs to which they are attached1 as ,l through ,aries1 ,v through ,taurus1 etc41 so that the five ,indian hours or #abj minutes during which ,aries is in evidence1 are related to the five vowels in connection with the consonant ,l1 as ,lah1 ,lee1 ,loo1 ,lae1 ,loh1 and these are succeeded by ,taurus with the sounds ,vah1 ,vee1 ,voo1 ,vae1 ,voh4 ,by taking into account the five vowel sounds1 the consonants attaching to the various ,signs1 and the relative positions of the planets at any given time1 a mantram may be formed which is in exact harmony with the astral vibrations obtaining at that particular time4 ,mantrams are also formed from the positions of the planets at the time of a person's birth4 ,some of these mantrams are traditional with ,hindu families and others have been adopted4 ,at one time they were delivered with the horoscope immediately after a birth had taken place1 but many of these ancient practices have fallen into disuse among the moderns4 ,here follows a complete table of the sounds showing the ,signs and parts of ,signs to which they are attached4 ,table of ,planetary ,sounds4 #j-f ah #f-ab ee #ab-ah oo #ah-bd ae #bd-cj oh ,aries ,lah ,lee ,loo ,lae ,loh ,taur4 ,vah ,vee ,voo ,vae ,voh ,gemini ,kah ,kee ,koo ,kae ,koh ,cancer ,hah ,hee ,hoo ,hae ,hoh 0 ah ee oo ae oh 7hard ,dh7 ,leo ,mah ,mee ,moo ,mae ,moh 0 ah ee oo ae oh 7,hard ,t7 ,virgo ,pah ,pee ,poo ,pae ,poh ,libra ,rah ,ree ,roo ,rae ,roh 0 ,tah ,tee ,too ,tae ,toh 7soft7 ,scorpio ,nah ,nee ,noo ,nae ,noh ,sagit4 ,yah ,yee ,yoo ,yae ,yoh 0 ,bah ,bee ,boo ,bae ,boh ,capri4 ,jah ,jee ,joo ,jae ,joh 0 ,gah ,gee ,goo ,gae ,goh ,aquar4 ,sah ,see ,soo ,sae ,soh 0 ,dah ,dee ,doo ,dae ,doh 7soft7 ,pisces ,chah ,chee ,choo ,chae ,d ,choh ,from this table we are able to extract the ,planetary ,sounds1 and for this reason ,i have called it a ,table of ,planetary ,sounds1 for in the thought of all astrologers a ,sign infers a planet and a planet infers a ,sign4 ,hence as ,mars rules the signs ,aries and ,scorpio1 we have the consonants ,l and ,n and the five vowels1 when sounded in conjunction with the initial consonant4 ,but it should here be remarked that the five vowels are not all attributable to ,mars1 although they are set at the head of the ,table under the sign ,aries4 ,they merely characterize the five divisions of the ,signs1 and are seen to range through the whole zodiac from ,aries to ,pisces4 ,they are associated with the five disposers1 or moderators as they are called1 namely1 ,mars1 ,mercury1 ,jupiter1 ,venus and ,saturn4 ,we are now able to construct a ,table employing all the ,consonants1 which we may call the ,table of ,initial ,sounds4 ,saturn ,jupiter ,mars ,sun ,venus ,mercury ,moon ,j ,y ,l ,m ,v ,w ,k ,q ,h ,u ,o ,o ,g ,b ,n ,th ,r ,p ,dh ,s ,z ,x ,ch ,a ,t ,d ,sh ,i ,it will be observed that ,i have eliminated some sounds contained in the ,sanskrit alphabet which have no ,english equivalents1 and also that in the ,table of ,initial ,sounds ,i have added some that are allied to those found in the original1 as for instance ,q and ,c 7hard7 under ,k1 ,z and ,x under ,s1 etc4 ,an attempt has been made to fix the vowels under the planets1 but they are not found to be consistent1 and indeed it is not to be expected that they should be1 since the swara1 which is constantly changing1 determines the vowel sound in force4 ,as initial sounds the vowels ,u and ,o1 having affinity with the consonant ,w1 may be classed under ,venus1 ,a under ,mars1 since both are initial factors in the scheme1 and long ,i or ,ee under ,jupiter as related to ,y4 ,but as ,i have said1 when in combination with the consonants1 that is to say1 when not initial1 they are in a constant state of flux owing to the change of swara4 ,subject to this consideration they may be added to the ,table of ,initial ,sounds1 where they will be seen in the above scheme4 ,the application of this scheme of ,planetary ,sounds would appear originally to have been in the direction of determining what sounds should be employed at specific times in the construction of mantras appropriate to the nature of the planet then ruling4 ,they were not originally associated with the signs of the zodiac1 nor yet with the planets ruling those signs1 but solely and specifically with the navamshas1 of which there are #ajh in the entire circle1 and as these are connected with the asterisms through the ,moon's motion1 there can be no doubt that they had originally a lunar basis4 ,each of the signs is divided into #i parts of #c #bj each1 the order being as follows-- ,aries #j-c #bj is under the influence of ,aries navamsha1 #c #bj-f #dj under the influence of ,taurus navamsha1 #f #dj-aj under ,gemini navamsha1 and so on1 the last #c #bj' of this sign ,aries being under ,sagittarius navamsha4 ,the sign ,taurus then commences with ,capricorn navamsha1 and continues on to ,virgo navamsha1 when ,gemini sign commences with ,libra and ends with ,gemini navamsha1 and is followed by ,cancer sign which begins with ,cancer navamsha and ends with ,pisces navamsha4 ,leo then commences again with ,aries navamsha and follows the same course as the sign ,aries4 ,thus nine successive signs are used to designate the navamshas of each #cj degrees of the zodiac1 and so we obtain the #ajh navamshas1 thus-- ,illustration3 ,figure #ag4 ,but we have already seen that the lunar asterisms1 each of #ac #bj1 are divided into four padams or quarters each of #c #bj1 and as there are #bg asterisms we have again the #ajh amshas or subdivisions of the ecliptic1 which undoubtedly were originally associated with the #ajh sounds4 ,the fact that these sounds have come to be connected with the signs of the zodiac is due to the affinity which exists between the asterisms and the signs through their respective planetary rulers4 ,for it will be shown that the ,ashtottaradasha system of ,planetary ,periods 7which see7 recognizes the procession of planetary influence through the #ajh padams in the course of #ajh years1 so that each year comes under the influence of one of these sections of the ecliptic1 and the count in each case is made from the position held by the ,moon at the time of birth4 ,this subject of ,planetary ,sounds is of immense interest1 but inasmuch as it has been developed solely along ,oriental lines and has its basis in a system which did not recognize the ,vernal ,equinox as a starting-point1 but found its yogatara in the first point of ,as'wini 7,zeta ,piscium71 ,i advise my readers to accept with extreme caution the statement that specific sounds are identified with particular planets or signs of the zodiac1 and more particularly would ,i caution the reader not to rely upon the application of these ,initial ,sounds to the problems of speculation4 ,i have merely shown in this place how they are derived1 and thus have no doubt satisfied the curiosity of those who have seen them in other books where they are given without explanation1 authority or warning1 and stated as if they had been experimentally proved4 ,,chapter ,,xvi ,,planetary ,,hours ,no records that are available to us serve to determine at what period in the course of social evolution the need for a week of seven days first made itself felt1 nor can we discover who it was first invented it4 ,newton believed that ,chiron was the first to define the constellations of the heavens1 and this also was the opinion of the ,greeks4 ,but that is to give to the mythical centaur a personal reality4 ,it is true that we may find him1 along with his contemporary ,hercules1 by whose arrow he met his death1 among the constellations1 and if it be the fact that the ,greeks exalted their heroes to the stars and shaped the constellations so as to record their fame for ever1 then we can only conclude that ,chiron did not define the constellations of either ,sagittarius or ,hercules1 whatever may have been his part in the matter so far as the rest are concerned4 ,it is further to be observed that long before the period ascribed to the famous centaur we have mention of the constellations in the ,book of ,job1 where ,arcturus1 the ,pleiades1 ,orion and the ,mazzaroth are mentioned4 ,both ,homer and ,hesiod mention some of the constellations1 but it is known that ,hipparchus1 about #aej ,b4,c41 defined the limits of forty-eight of the asterisms1 while ,ptolemy gave us a complete catalogue4 ,some constellations have since been added by ,tycho1 ,helvetius and others4 ,but from what has already been said on this subject it will be evident that the mythology and astronomy of the ,greeks was closely connected1 but this does not of necessity prove a ,greek origin1 for we have yet to determine the origin of the myths4 ,that many of these are shared by the ,assyfians1 ,aryans1 ,persians and ,egyptians1 seems to show that they had a ,chaldean origin4 ,the ,chinese have an astronomy which appears to be unique and without parallel among other nations4 ,if we go back to the earliest record1 the ,chinese1 we shall find that they had no week of days1 but a cycle of sixty days1 and also one of sixty years4 ,but the days of the month were reckoned from the ,moon's age1 the day of the ,new ,moon being called the first day4 ,thus we find in the earliest record such expressions as 8the first day of the first moon he brought things to a conclusion in the temple of his ancestors10 and 8on the first day of the twelfth moon10 etc4 ,even the great ,confucius gives no hint of any week of seven days4 ,in his ,chun-,tsiu he makes such entries as the following3 8,in the fifty-eighth year of the cycle and the third year of the reign of ,prince ,yiu ,kung1 in the ,spring1 on the first day of the ,second ,moon1 the day being the sixth of the cycle 7of sixty days71 the sun was eclipsed40 ,all his entries are of the same careful and explicit nature1 and expressed in the same terms1 that is to say1 in reference to the ,cyclic year1 the number of the month1 the year of the reigning ,prince of ,lu1 and the day of the cycle of sixty days4 ,the earliest divisions of time among the ,aryans also follow the ,sixty-year period1 and the use of the ,tithi or ,moon day is also to be found in the earliest astronomical records4 ,nothing more1 indeed1 is needed for an accurate record of time than an ,epoch1 a cycle of years counted from that epoch1 the number of the last lunation1 and the day of the month counted from that lunation4 ,the introduction of a week of days is an adjunct that has no special value in a time sense1 and could only have been the invention of a state of civilization in which ceremonies and institutions of a weekly recurrence were required to be indicated and fixed4 ,we find mention of the week1 however1 in ,sanskrit writings1 as ,somavar 7,monday71 ,kujavar 7,tuesday71 ,buddhavar 7,wednesday71 ,brihaspativar 7,thursday71 ,sukravar 7,friday71 ,sanivar 7,saturday7 and ,suryavar 7,sunday71 but there do not appear to be sufficient grounds for fixing an epoch at which they came into use4 ,the days of the week as we have them appear to be of ,hebrew origin1 and probably were derived from the ,chaldeans1 for in the first place the appointment of specific duties for the several days of the week1 culminating in the day of divine worship on the seventh or ,sabbath day1 requires such a division of time1 and in the second place it can be shown that the order of the days of the week can only be accounted for by reference to the ,chaldean order of the planets1 which1 as has been shown1 has reference to their apparent velocities4 ,the ,septenary division of days1 etc41 is distinctly ,shemitic in its origin1 and we find accordingly that the system was extended by the ,hebrews to a period of seven years1 and to a further period of seven times seven years which was celebrated as the ,jubilee4 ,the cycle of seven is not elsewhere found4 ,western nations have done what they can to break down this old institution by associating the ,sabbath with ,sunday instead of ,saturday1 and by celebrating the ,jubilee at the end of fifty years instead of at the end of forty-nine4 ,but the teachings of the astrologers and tenacity of the ,jewish faith have served to keep the astronomical and religious aspects of this institution intact4 ,but whereas we find difficulty in tracing the origin of the week-days through any authentic records1 we have still more difficulty in ascertaining the principles by which the first day was allotted to the ,sun1 the second to the ,moon1 and so forth4 ,one cannot tell the day of the week by looking at the sky or by taking into account any known astronomical factor4 ,but whatever may have been the reason for fixing on a particular day as the ,sun-day and beginning the week with it1 it has been adhered to ever since1 and1 so far as we astrologers and ,kabalists are concerned1 it is satisfactory to know that it works out on empirical test4 ,what are known as the ,planetary ,hours are derived from the succession of the days of the week1 commencing with the planet ruling and giving its name to the day1 and following the ,chaldean cyclic order4 ,thus on a ,sunday the first hour is governed by the ,sun1 to which follow in succession1 ,venus1 ,mercury1 ,moon1 ,saturn1 ,jupiter and ,mars4 ,on a ,saturday the first hour is ruled by ,saturn1 to which succeed in order1 ,jupiter1 ,mars1 ,sun1 ,venus1 ,mercury1 ,moon4 ,then as there are twenty-four hours in the day and seven hours in the planetary cycle1 the latter will be contained three times1 making twenty-one hours1 and there will be three hours still to run4 ,so if we begin with ,sun on ,sunday and follow with the cycle through the day1 we shall complete the third cycle with ,mars1 and the twenty-second hour will be the beginning of the next cycle under the rule of the ,sun1 to which succeeds twenty-third ,venus1 twenty-fourth ,mercury1 and the first hour of the next day will be under the rule of the ,moon1 which will accordingly be ,monday1 as shown in the following tabular form1 which may be extended at pleasure4 ,the planetary hours differ from the statute hours inasmuch as they are divisions of the natural day and night4 ,the day is counted from sunrise to sunset1 and the night from sunset to the next sunrise4 ,from sunrise to noon is the space of six planetary hours1 and from noon to sunset six4 ,hence if the day is fourteen hours long1 each planetary hour will be equal to one statute hour of sixty minutes and twenty minutes beside1 making #a hr4 #bj min4 of civil time4 ,the seventh hour will commence at noon and will last for eighty minutes1 and the eighth hour will begin at #a4bj and will also last for eighty minutes4 ,the foregoing table shows the afternoon or second quadrant of six planetary hours on the #eth of ,july1 when the day is found to be #af hrs4 #bh min4 in duration1 one-half of which is #h hrs4 #ad min4 ,one-sixth of this is #a hr4 #bb min4 #bj sec41 which is successively added to ,noon to find the beginnings of the eighth1 ninth1 tenth1 eleventh1 and twelfth hours4 ,the last hour thus begins at #f4eb and ends at #h4ad4 ,the subdivisions of the hour are one-seventh of #a hr4 #bb min4 #bj sec41 which amounts to about #aa min4 #df sec41 say #ab min4 ,this being continually added1 from noon onwards1 gives the beginnings of the subdivisions of the ,hour1 as shown in the table4 ,in my ,kabala ,i have shown the practical working of these hours and ,periods of the day so that there is no need to repeat the process in this place4 ,illustration3 ,figure #ah4 ,planetary ,hours4 ,the ,kabalists and ,thaumaturgists have always had recourse to the ,planetary ,hours for the purpose of performing their operations under specific influences1 and anybody who will take the trouble to note the time of an event happening and compare it with the nature of the planet ruling in that hour will find ample reason for confirming the scheme as we have it from the ancient ,hebrews4 ,but this1 perhaps1 involves a more intimate knowledge of astrology than is professed by the average man4 ,illustration3 ,figure #ai4 ,it may1 therefore1 be of use to the student if the general significations of the planets are here given4 ,the ,,sun signifies the father1 ruler1 or person in authority1 gold1 health1 life1 matters relating to government1 preferment1 honours1 inaugurations and constitutions1 male life generally1 the daytime4 ,the ,,moon relates to the mother1 public bodies1 silver1 white fabrics such as linen2 changes1 matters relating to public affairs1 women1 the night1 and female life generally4 ,,mars refers to all youths and marriageable men1 fire1 iron and steel1 anger1 strife1 muscular force1 cuts1 burns and wounds1 blood1 death1 things that are scarlet or red1 fevers1 enterprises1 operations1 incisions1 soldiers and pioneers4 ,,mercury has reference to boys and scholars1 writings1 papers1 short journeys1 buying and selling1 deeds of writing1 food1 clothing1 furniture and personal equipment1 trade1 profession1 speech1 quotations4 ,,jupiter has relation to affairs of justice1 gain1 increase1 expansion2 to lawyers1 insurance1 religion1 philosophy2 affairs of grandeur and display2 hopes and fears1 wishes1 expectations1 money and success4 ,,venus refers to young women of a marriageable age1 to engagements1 births1 weddings1 social functions1 pleasures1 theatres1 music1 art1 peace1 rest and happiness4 ,,saturn is related to privation1 darkness1 solitude1 coldness1 hatred1 jealousy1 heavy weights1 gravity1 soberness1 gloom1 doubts1 difficulties1 falling1 loss1 sickness1 aged people1 old associations1 memories1 black and sombre colours1 mourning1 death4 ,in a word1 the characteristics of a letter or event will be3 ,in the hour of the ,sun--,honours2 that of the ,moon--,changes2 that of ,mars--,strife2 that of ,mercury--,business2 that of ,jupiter--,gain2 that of ,venus--,pleasure2 that of ,saturn--,loss4 ,it is to be observed that the use of the statute hour in connection with planetary action has arisen from the consideration of their universality1 and an equatorial scheme in which the ,sun rises at six o'clock approximately would thus yield a day of twelve hours1 and each quadrant would embrace six hours of little more or less than sixty minutes each in duration4 ,but the application of the statute hour to sunrise in high northern latitudes would appear to be without adequate foundation1 and in effect we find that the results depending thereon are not consistent4 ,it is these inconsistencies1 arising from the introduction of new elements into the ancient scheme1 and the general neglect into which the whole subject has fallen1 that has given the impression that the ascriptions are fanciful and the matter not worth investigation4 ,i know enough of the matter1 however1 to warrant my calling attention to these ,planetary ,hours as most worthy of close study by students of celestial influence4 ,a considerable field of research lies open to the diligent student4 ,it has to be finally determined1 for instance1 whether apparent sunrise is to be taken as the basis of the calculations or the true ,sun's centre rising4 ,the latter is not subject to corrections for parallax1 nutation1 and aberration1 but depends on the rising of the ,sun's longitude on the celestial horizon1 the false horizon being ignored4 ,the celestial horizon1 it should be observed1 is always #ij from the ,zenith4 ,the formula for this calculation is3 ,log4 tang4 latitude of place log4 tang4 ,sun's declination log4 sine of ,sun's ascensional difference4 ,for ,north declination add to #ij and for ,south declination subtract from #ij4 ,the result is the semiarc diurnal of the ,sun1 and twice this is the diurnal arc or the time the ,sun remains above the horizon4 ,convert to time at the rate of four minutes for every degree and four seconds for every minute of arc4 ,we have then to determine whether sunrise is the correct starting point1 or whether it should not be noon1 as in agreement with the original ,chaldean conception of the division of the circle into 8evening0 and 8morning40 ,i may say that in my experience the count should be made from sunrise1 that the true ,sun's centre rising should be taken1 and that the ,chaldean order of the ,hours should be preserved4 ,i have also found that the subdivisions play quite a minor part in the determination of results1 and that all events falling within the limits of the ,planetary ,hour should be found subject to the ruler of that ,hour1 and only in a subsidiary degree to the ruler of the subdivision of the ,hour4 ,i may now pass to a consideration of another aspect of this interesting subject4 ,,chapter ,,xvii ,,celestial ,,magnetic ,,polarities ,it has already been shown by one of our ,kabalas that there is a certain polarity existing between the planets of the system by which they become natural antitheses and thus stand in certain relations of polarity4 ,hence it is that the numbers attaching to them are interchangeable4 ,thus it was shown that ,mars and the ,moon1 the one having its exaltation sign in ,capricorn and the other its rulership in ,cancer1 the opposite sign1 were numerical resolvants4 ,also that ,mercury1 having its exaltation sign in ,aquarius1 was resolved into terms of the ,sun1 whose rulership is vested in the opposite sign ,leo4 ,further1 that the ,moon1 having its exaltation in the sign ,taurus1 was interchangeable with ,mars1 whose sign is ,scorpio1 in opposition to ,taurus4 ,the scheme of ,planetary ,hours involved the whole of this question of ,planetary ,numbers1 and it was shown that the matter was open to considerable controversy1 necessitating prolonged observation and research4 ,there is another point in connection with the interchange of ,planetary ,numbers which requires consideration4 ,it is that of polarity4 ,astrologers everywhere recognize the fact that the signs of the zodiac are alternately active and passive1 or positive and negative1 male and female1 and the ,houses or twelve divisions of the visible heavens are said to have the same polarity as the signs with which they are associated1 as ,aries with the #ast ,house1 ,taurus with the #bnd ,house1 and so on4 ,now1 at a mean rate of motion1 which is attained at the equinoxes1 the apparent transit of the ,sun through the ,houses or divisions of the ,prime ,vertical is at the rate of #cj1 or the space of one ,house in two hours4 ,therefore1 if the ,houses are to be regarded as having the same polarity as the signs they are associated with1 then the first #cj of the ,sun's diurnal arc will be negative in action and the next positive1 and so on alternately4 ,but it has already been empirically proved that the quadrant from sunrise to noon is positive1 that from noon to sunset negative1 from sunset to midnight positive1 and from midnight to sunrise negative4 ,for a demonstration of this principle ,i refer my readers to 8,the ,law of ,sex0 developed in my ,manual of ,astrology4 ,this law requires that the majority of influence exerted from the ,s4,e4 quarter of the heavens1 which extends from the ,sun's rising to its culmination1 shall be positive and tending to male generation1 while that from the ,s4,w4 quarter shall be negative and tending to female generation4 ,but it can also be shown that the ,planetary ,hours1 each of which occupies the time of the ,sun's passage through one-half of a ,house1 or #ae1 are alternately positive and negative4 ,we then derive the following useful diagram of the ,illustration3 ,figure #bj4 ,polarity of the ,houses4 ,in this diagram the inner circle shows the polarity of the ,houses1 whether positive or negative1 the next circle outward shows the polarity of the ,hours1 and the outside circle shows that of the ,quadrants1 which is summative of the ,houses and ,hours4 ,applying this to the subject of planetary action1 it will be seen that a planet occupying the ,s4,e4 quadrant of the heavens will exert a positive influence1 but that its influence will be largely negatived when it occupies the second half of the #aath ,house in the course of its rising1 and similarly1 that a planet in the ,s4,w4 quadrant will exercise a negative influence1 which will be rendered more positive when the planet comes to the first half of the #hth ,house in the course of its setting4 ,the fact that male horoscopes are generated from the ,s4,e4 and ,n4,w4 quadrants and female from the ,s4,w4 and ,n4,e41 goes to show that these ascriptions are valid1 and when we further consider that human vitality is lowest at the two points that are occupied by the negative influence1 and highest at those that are here shown to be positive1 should1 in my opinion1 go a long way towards establishing this order in our astrological scheme of things4 ,now1 if we consider the whole earth to be surrounded with etheric vibrations and interpenetrated by them1 we may also legitimately refer these vibrations to colours and sounds since all the forces of ,nature are interchangeable and convertible4 ,such a conception lends itself at once to experimental proof1 and1 as the result of researches carried on during successive years by ,carl von ,reichenbach1 we have a definite scheme of colour attributable to the different sections of the heavens4 ,it is shown that there is a form of electricity visible to persons of a highly sensitive nature when placed in the dark4 ,in ,the ,sensitive ,man ,reichenbach has given a mass of experiments which show that the ,od fluid undergoes a variety of changes according to the magnetic relations of the subject or object from which they proceed4 ,in the second volume there is a description of the ,earth-,aura4 ,this is not1 as one might suppose1 a composite of the various auras of its geological constituents1 but a thing apart and independent of human1 animal1 vegetable and other emanations4 ,every body has its own aura1 and these blend upon contact or within auric distance1 producing changes in the magnetic relations of the bodies concerned4 ,the human aura is like that of the crystal and has an obvious polarity4 ,thus the auric colour at the head is blue while that at the feet is dark red2 the right side is grey-blue and the left side yellow4 ,now this answers exactly to the polarity of the visible heavens1 for it is observed that ,blue1 the most magnetic colour1 is associated with the ,north or midnight point2 ,red1 the most electric1 with the ,south and mid-day2 the neutral to the ,east and the dawn2 and the ,yellow to the ,west and sunset4 ,when the body is laid horizontally1 with the head to the ,north1 the colours were seen at their greatest brilliancy1 passing from blue at the head through blue green to dark green1 light green and yellow1 golden yellow1 and orange to deep red at the feet4 ,but the most remarkable effect is that if the body be gradually revolved so as to pass through the successive points of the compass1 a series of remarkable changes take place in the colours of the aura1 and the original colours are no longer seen1 but the blue at the head undergoes successive changes by the admixture of other colours according to the angle of deflection1 and in effect we have the-- ,,colours ,,of ,,the ,,twelve ,,houses4 #ast1 ,grey2 #bnd1 ,blue-grey2 #crd1 ,blue with red rays1 ,violet2 #dth1 ,blue2 #eth1 ,dark ,green2 #fth1 ,light ,green2 #gth1 ,yellow2 #hth1 ,golden2 #ith1 ,orange2 #ajth1 ,red2 #aath1 ,violet-red1 ,purple2 #abth1 ,grey-red or dull ,red4 ,now the presence of a planet or of a group of stars1 such as enter into the composition of a constellation1 may reasonably be held to effect some magnetic change in the radical nature of the vibrations emanating from that quarter4 ,the planets are found to exert an influence on the magnetic needle1 and both ,venus and ,jupiter1 as affecting the earth in its orbit1 may be regarded as instances of the interplay of cosmical factors4 ,the medium by which the magnetic needle is affected by these planets is doubtless the magnetic aura of the earth4 ,the planets could1 indeed1 affect us through their light rays if by no other means1 for experiments have shown that by directing the rays of ,jupiter and some of the fixed stars through a telescope on to a selenium screen at a distance of ten feet1 the comparative effect was1 of a candle light #a1 of ,procyon #jbfa1 of ,cygnus ,o#bfb1 of ,aldebaran ,o#bgi1 of ,orion ,o#fhe and of ,jupiter #cbgb6 ,astrologically we are able to distinguish the psychically gifted by the presence of the planets in the lower meridian1 but especially ,sun and ,mercury1 ,saturn and the ,moon4 ,this answers to the point of magnetic intensity at the maximum which is registered about midnight1 and this observation leads to the conclusion that the planets do not of necessity influence us by their direct rays1 but by the changes that they cause in the earth's magnetic aura at various points in the circle of the visible heavens4 ,primarily the ,sun must be the cause of the normal magnetic aura of the earth1 and the planets would in this sense be moderators1 which is the old name applied to them by ,ptolemy4 ,thus the presence of several planets or the luminaries in the lower meridian at the time of a person's birth will render that person particularly negative or sensitive to the changes taking place in the auric consensus of environment1 and those who are in the habit of classifying and collating horoscopes will have abundant proof at hand that this is the case4 ,on the other hand1 we find extremely positive people to be produced by the presence of planets in the #ajth ,house1 near the ,south ,meridian1 and especially such as have ,mars 7colour1 red7 reinforcing the natural auric colour of that part of the heavens4 ,two examples come readily to my mind1 that of ,kaiser ,wilhelm1 in whose horoscope both ,neptune and ,mars are in the ,mid-heaven1 and that of the late ,william ,t4 ,stead1 in whose horoscope ,mars and ,uranus are close to the ,mid-heaven4 ,in effect we have the earth as the centre of a vast kaleidoscope1 undergoing changes of colour from hour to hour by reason of the ,sun's passage from one rising to the next4 ,obviously there can be no universal red or blue since the ,mid-heaven of one place is the horizon of another that is #ij ,east or ,west of it4 ,consequently there must be some factor that produces local colouring1 which at the zenith produces vibrations which manifest as red and at the nadir as blue4 ,this factor must be the ,sun1 since it is the only cosmic factor that has a constant relation to any part of the earth at the same hour each day4 ,the planets in their courses will then intervene to bring about modifications of the colours or vibrations instituted by the ,sun1 and of these the ,moon1 as the quickest moving in its orbit1 will be the chief4 ,mercury will come next1 and then ,venus1 ,mars1 ,jupiter and ,saturn1 so that in effect we have the ,chaldean order of interpretation once more4 ,the question then arises as to whether that part of the earth's aura where the ,sun is at any moment should not always be taken as the positive maximum answering to noon and the colour red4 ,if so1 then it follows that the time of birth becomes a very important factor in the constitution of what may be called the magnetic constitution of a person4 ,the whole subject is full of suggestions of the utmost significance1 but hardly at this date in a condition to admit of dogmatic statement4 ,the subject is therefore better left for future consideration4 ,,chapter ,,xviii ,,vulcan ,,the ,,chain ,,maker ,there is an aspect of ,mars which has an interest for us as prisoners in this house of flesh4 ,vulcan or ,hephstus1 son of ,jupiter and ,juno1 is the artificer of human bonds4 ,by some he is thought to be allied to ,pluto1 the god of the ,infernos1 and in the ,kabalistic conception1 ,malcuth1 or the ,earth1 is the lowest of the heavens and the highest of the hells1 being in fact in a state of equilibrium between the ,superior and ,inferior worlds and therefore1 as ,swedenborg suggests1 it is in a state of freedom from that circumstance4 ,but can so much be said of those that dwell therein8 ,i doubt it4 ,the ,oriental doctrine of ,samsara pictures man as a mere 8,butterfly on the ,wheel10 bound by the chains of his own desires to the wheel of cyclic rebirth into a world of suffering4 8,ye suffer from yourselves1 none else compels1 ,none other holds you that ye lag and stay1 ,and whirl upon the wheel1 and hug and kiss ,its spokes of agony1 its tyre of tears1 ,its nave of nothingness60 ,the law of moral causation1 as well as that of affinity1 impels man to rebirth while there are any unexhausted desires in him4 ,these unexhausted tendencies are called skandhas4 ,it does not matter what we call them1 we are all conscious of their existence and of the terrible strife they cause in us4 ,these desires are in the ,adamic nature1 they are in the human blood1 and ,mars is their cosmic symbol4 ,they are the chains of ,vulcan4 ,the number of ,mars is nine and the magic of the number nine haunts us from our birth to the very last day of our existence in this world4 ,in the ,kabala of ,numbers ,i have shown the connection between the ,adamic race and the number nine4 ,this is the ,iron ,age1 the ,kali ,yuga1 and the horoscope of the world shows the sign ,aries1 ruled by ,mars1 in the ascendant4 ,in the age of ,saturn men sought virtue and distinction in obscurity4 ,now there is but one way to recognition and success1 ,force and ,self-assertion4 ,let those take it who will4 ,what is said of those who willingly take to the sword may be applied to the slaves of every other form of human passion4 ,mars will lay them by the heel and bring them back to retribution4 ,the cycle of nine is at the root of almost all the mysteries of human life4 ,it crops up in all the astronomical cycles as if it were at the root of them1 and as representing cosmic energy 7,fohat7 and the human will 7,ichcha7 it manifests in all purpose and all action1 cosmical and human4 ,for ,mars 7nine7 is desire 7kama7 and desire is that which underlies both will and action4 ,there is a period of cosmic activity which runs in a nine-year cycle4 ,it has even been shown that meteorology cannot shake free of it4 ,the year #ahic was a year of drought1 rain being unknown from ,april to ,october of that year1 and the summer was exceptionally hot4 ,the same may be said of #aijb and #aiaa1 which are years falling in the nine-year cycle4 ,but #ahid1 #aijc and #aiab were wet summers1 and the temperature also abnormally low4 ,dr4 ,goad1 who studied meteorology from the same standpoint of cosmic interplay1 considered that ,mars was of chief importance in weather predictions4 ,some people appear to think that the icebergs on which the ,titanic foundered are responsible for the wet summer of #aiab4 ,i dare venture the opinion that it was something many degrees warmer than an iceberg4 ,that icebergs in the temperate zone have a tendency to condense the air and so to produce rain seems reasonable1 but who loosed the chains that bind the icebergs to the poles4 ,undoubtedly it was our ,vulcan4 ,in a scheme of thought that regards the whole world as a symbol1 and that is the standpoint we are taking in this study of the cosmos1 planets are not necessarily causative but they are necessarily symbolic4 ,the symbol of humanity is the number ,nine1 and this is the number of the planet ,mars4 ,hence we may say that for the present and during the whole course of this age of the world's evolution or unfoldment1 we are under the dominion of ,mars4 ,the sooner we get into wireless communication with him and understand some of his ways the better it will be for us4 ,for he is not only the maker of chains but the breaker of them1 inasmuch as he represents both the ,desire that fashions them and the ,will that looses them4 ,nine is also the cosmic factor4 ,we have already seen that the precession of the equinoxes is at the rate of #a in seventy-two years1 and #cj or one sign in #b1afj years1 the whole circle being completed in #be1ibj years4 ,all these numbers are multiples of nine4 ,twice nine gives us the solar cycle1 three times nine the number of the asterisms1 in six times nine years the eclipses move through one sign of the zodiac1 and in #fdh through the entire circle4 ,but this is nine times seventy-two1 and so we find ourselves again and again enmeshed by the network of a nonal necessity4 ,as the ,old ,philosopher truly says3 8,heaven's net has large meshes1 yet nothing escapes it60 ,applying this magic of the number nine to some of the deeper problems of human experience1 we may profitably examine the symbolism of the asterisms1 which are twenty-seven in number1 or three nines4 ,the ,hindus have a period which they regard as the sum of life1 extending to #ajh years1 which is twelve times nine4 ,from this we may draw the conclusion that the ,moon remains in one sign for nine years and that this sign reflects nine others4 ,the system is connected with the ,ashtottaradasha system to which reference has already been made1 and of course1 with the navamshas or ninefold divisions of the signs of the zodiac4 ,we have already seen that the ninth part of a sign of #cj is #c #bj1 and that each such part corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac4 ,this may be seen in the ,navamsha ,table already given4 ,let us suppose1 for instance1 that the ,moon was in the sign ,leo #bb #dc at the birth of a person4 ,by our ,table it is seen that this corresponds with the sign ,libra1 which navamsha extends from #bj #j to #bc #bj of the sign ,leo4 ,then in order to find at what age ,libra navamsha expires we say-- ,as #c #bj is to twelve months so is 7#bc #bj-bb #dc7 #cg to the answer4 ,now #c #bj is equal to #bjj1 so that if we multiply #cg by twelve and divide by #bjj1 we shall have the months required1 namely1 #bbb months or two months seven days nearly4 ,therefore we know that the ,moon is under the influence of ,venus during the first two months of the life1 and from ,libra it passes to ,scorpio1 when it comes under the influence of ,mars1 and then to ,sagittarius navamsha1 where it is under the influence of ,jupiter4 ,with this navamsha the limits of the sign are reached1 and the ,moon in passing into the sign ,virgo comes first under the navamsha of ,capricorn which is ruled by ,saturn1 and from ,capricorn it goes into ,aquarius navamsha and is still under the influence of ,saturn4 ,and each navamsha is one year1 so that we know that the period from two years and two months to four years two months is evil1 for ,saturn is privation1 loss1 darkness and death1 and by the cyclic order of things this will recur every twelve years1 since nine goes into #ajh twelve times4 ,now it is a fact that in the case cited the cyclic recurrence of this influence of ,saturn brought about at four years the death of the father1 at fifteen the death of the grandfather1 at twenty-seven the death of the mother1 at thirty-nine the loss of all property4 ,similarly by this system of the cycle of nine twelves1 at the ,moon's occursion into the navamsha of ,cancer1 which is the lunar influence disposing to changes1 and which occurred at #h1 #bj1 #cb1 and #dd1 there were radical changes in life and surroundings4 ,any case can be worked out with perfect ease from the ,table of ,navamshas1 and will serve to show that there is a veritable law of periodicity at work in the lives of men4 ,not that all events or periods recur at the end of twelve years as might be thought by the impatient student from the examples here given4 ,on the contrary1 it will be seen upon closer study that ,jupiter has a period of three years1 followed by one of nine years2 ,mars1 one of five years1 followed by one of seven2 ,venus one of seven1 followed by one of five2 ,mercury one of nine years1 followed by one of three2 and so on4 ,but all the planets recur eighteen times in the course of the cycle of #ajh years1 and the ,sun and ,moon nine times each4 ,then as there are five planets1 ,saturn1 ,jupiter1 ,mars1 ,venus and ,mercury1 they will amount in all their periods to ninety years1 and the ,sun and ,moon will amount together to eighteen years1 thus making the complete cycle4 ,in the ,brihat-,paras'arahora there are many systems of planetary cycles1 employing the same factors variously1 and all of them symbolically1 since they do not depend on the true motions of the planets in their orbits4 ,indeed1 the ancient writers appear to have devoted themselves very closely to the interpretation of cosmic symbology1 and there are grounds which lead me to think that some of their famous ,nadigranthams or ,books of ,destiny are built up entirely on a symbolical basis4 ,one of the most famous of these is the ,s'ukranadi in which the horoscopes are written out for every #f of the ecliptic rising1 making some #ba1fjj different delineations4 ,but in addition to this there are purva and uttara1 or first half and latter half1 subdivisions of each of the periods dealt with4 ,the planets are distributed after a certain order beginning with the ruler of the rising sign1 and this order differs according to the consideration whether the sign is cardinal1 fixed or mutable4 ,by this means a complete interpretation of the permutations of the cosmical kaleidoscope is effected1 and from various of the readings that have been submitted to me ,i am persuaded that there is without doubt a great deal of truth in them4 ,one such grantham applies to all those who1 whether ,european or ,hindu1 were born between the ,vindhyas and the ,himavats1 but unfortunately1 having other engagements of a karmic nature1 ,i find myself among the large number whose horoscopes are not contained in the kadjan4 ,these monumental works have hardly received the attention they deserve and ,i am therefore collecting information with a view to their analysis and study4 ,another very important subdivision of the ecliptic circle is that of the ,das'amsha or tenfold division of the sign into amshas of #c each4 ,applied to the twelve signs we have as a result #abj divisions in the circle1 answering to the ,vimshottaradasha system of ,planetary periods1 notice of which has already been made4 ,in this system the amshas do not run consecutively in the order of the signs of the zodiac through the various signs1 but follow the order of the triplicities1 known as the four 8,elements10 ,fire1 ,earth1 ,air1 ,water4 ,thus the ,fiery ,triplicity comprises ,aries1 ,leo and ,sagittarius4 ,the ,das'amshas begin with ,aries1 and the first #c or amsha of ,aries is ruled by ,aries1 the first of ,taurus by ,leo1 and the first of ,gemini by ,sagittarius4 ,the first amsha of ,cancer is ruled by ,taurus1 the first of ,leo by ,virgo1 and the first of ,virgo by ,capricorn1 these being the ,earthy ,triplicity4 ,the first amshas of ,libra1 ,scorpio and ,sagittarius are ruled by ,gemini1 ,libra1 and ,aquarius1 these being of the ,airy ,triplicity1 and the first amshas of ,capricorn1 ,aquarius and ,pisces are ruled by the ,watery ,triplicity comprising the signs ,cancer1 ,scorpio and ,pisces4 ,the second amshas of ,aries1 ,taurus and ,gemini are ruled by the ,earthy ,triplicity1 the third by the ,airy and the fourth by the ,watery1 the triplicities then recurring again in their order4 ,a study of the following ,table of ,das'amshas will make the arrangement quite clear4 ,the twelve signs of the zodiac which occupy the first column are seen to be divided into four groups answering to the four 8,elements10 and the first divisions of these groups are occupied by the four ,triplicities4 ,these serve as entries or indices1 and from them the signs run on in their natural order4 ,those who uphold the ,vimshottaradasha system1 in which the circle is divided into #abj parts answering to #abj years of life1 will find their interpretations from the occursions of the ,moon into these amshas1 each of which answers to one year of life4 ,thus the ,moon remains in one sign for ten years1 during which it successively passes through ten sub-signs or amshas1 reflecting the nature of the planets governing those amshas4 ,it then passes into the next sign and takes up ten influences successively1 and so passes to the next sign4 ,thus in one complete circle of the zodiac it will take up #abj different influences exerted by the several planets in the various signs4 ,illustration3 ,figure #ba4 ,table of ,das'amshas4 ,but each das'amsha or division of #c is reflected in an entire sign4 ,therefore each degree embraces #aj of the reflected sign4 ,thus the first #c of the sign ,aries correspond with the whole of the asterism ,aries1 using that term for purposes of distinction only1 and each of these #c will therefore correspond with #aj of the asterism1 and every #f will correspond with #a4 ,thus1 if we take the first #c of the sign ,aries1 we shall find that they correspond with the #cj of the asterism ,aries1 and the next #c of the sign with the whole of the asterism ,taurus1 and so on4 ,here are the first #c of the sign ,aries reflected in the asterism ,aries-- ,sign ,aster #j #f #a #j #b #ab #j #c #ah #j #d #bd #j #e #cj #j #f #cf #j #g #db #j #h #dh #j #i #ed #a #aj #j #a #aa #f #a #ab #ab #a #ac #ah #a #ad #bd #a #ae #cj #a #af #cf #a #ag #db #a #ah #dh #a #ai #ed #b #bj #j #b #ba #f #b #bb #ab #b #bc #ah #b #bd #bd #b #be #cj #b #bf #cf #b #bg #db #b #bh #dh #b #bi #ed #c #cj #j ,it is to be observed that in all these systems the ,moon's place at the moment of birth or other epoch is the basis of the calculation4 ,the first of these ,i have been expounding bears the sign manual of ,mars1 inasmuch as it is a ninefold division of the sign1 and the latter system is accordingly one that belongs to the ,sun4 ,the ,hindus1 who have many methods of subdividing the signs1 from two to thirty divisions for each sign1 have various uses also for the different methods1 but the object of them all is towards an intelligent anticipation of the course of mundane events4 ,in this direction the ,west has also developed some methods1 which1 on account of their simplicity1 have found a certain vogue among the ,arabs1 and are even at this day exercising the ingenuity of reputable exponents of the predictive art4 ,they are called by the ,arabs1 ,alfridaries1 and some examples of them are to be found in ,the ,manual of ,occultism4 ,let us look at some of the later evolved examples of the ,alfridary4 ,,chapter ,,xix ,,alfridaries ,perhaps the simplest example of the ,alfridary that we have received is that in which the ,sun takes precedence in all ,day births and the ,moon in all ,night births1 the planets following the ,sun in1 the usual ,chaldean order1 and the ,moon in the reversed order4 ,the oldest that is known to us in the ,west is that invented by ,claudius ,ptolemy in the second century4 ,it is developed in the ,tetrabiblos or ,four ,books on the ,influence of the ,stars1 translations of which are easily obtained1 the best being that by ,ashmand4 ,under the head of ,chronocrators1 the ,seven ,ages of ,man1 so graphically described by the bard in ,as ,you ,like ,it1 are for the first time mentioned and placed under the dominion of the seven planets of the ancient solar system4 ,ptolemy's invention consists in ascribing to these ages the number of years they extend1 and applying to them certain periods of the planets and luminaries4 ,thus he makes the ,moon to rule the first four years of life1 the infant 8mewling and puking in the nurse's arms02 the next ten years are under ,mercury1 and denote the 8schoolboy1 with 444 shining morning face1 creeping like snail unwillingly to school40 ,the next eight years are under ,venus1 and represent 8the lover1 sighing like furnace1 with a woeful ballad made to his mistress' eyebrow40 ,the next nineteen are under the influence of the ,sun1 according to ,ptolemy4 ,the next fifteen under that of ,mars1 denoting the 8soldier 444 bearded like a pard 444 sudden and quick in quarrel40 ,jupiter rules the next twelve years and represents 8the justice 444 full of wise saws and modern instances40 ,saturn1 ruling the next thirty years1 figures 8the lean and slippered pantaloon40 ,here the system of ,ptolemy ends1 and to this the poet1 with that prophetic apprehension of ulterior need1 adds a truly ,uranian picture of that 8second childishness and mere oblivion0 which characterizes paralytic dotage4 ,astrologers have sought to apply this system of ,chronocrators to the horoscopes of persons by taking into consideration the aspects held by these planets at the time of birth and judging of the period under consideration accordingly4 ,thus a person at whose birth ,mars is an afflicting planet1 as may be seen by its aspects to the ,sun1 ,moon and other significant points of the horoscope1 would suffer many troubles and misfortunes during the period from forty-one to fifty-six years of his age4 ,one in whose horoscope ,jupiter is a beneficent planet1 as judged by its aspects1 would similarly have good fortune and experience many benefits during the period of ,jupiter from fifty-six to sixty-eight years of age4 ,so in regard to the other ,chronocrators4 ,the scheme is set out in the following table-- ,table of ,chronocrators ,by ,ptolemy4 ,moon #d years4 ,from #a to #d inclusive4 ,mercury #aj 0 0 #e 0 #ad 0 ,venus #h 0 0 #ae 0 #bb 0 ,sun #ai 0 0 #bc 0 #da 0 ,mars #ae 0 0 #db 0 #ef 0 ,jupiter #ab 0 0 #eg 0 #fh 0 ,saturn #cj 0 0 #fi 0 #ih 0 ,this may be taken as the foundation of a number of ambitious attempts to read light into the somewhat misty generalizations of the ,alfridary4 ,one of these has regard to the ,moon's position at birth1 and employs the twenty-seven lunar mansions1 so much in repute among the ,orientals1 the periods ascribed to the planets in this scheme being3 ,sun #aj years1 ,moon #i years1 ,mars #g years1 ,mercury #ac years1 ,jupiter #ab years1 ,venus #h years1 ,saturn #aa years1 making #gj in all1 the planets following the order of the days of the week4 ,an extension of ,ptolemy's system of ,chronocrators seems to be a very feasible scheme1 but to give it more particular application to the needs of the practical astrologer it is found necessary to subdivide the periods allotted to each of the planets4 ,for various reasons ,i should be disposed to adhere to the period of #ajh years1 as being so uniformly reflected in the cosmical order of things1 and there appears no reason why one planet should have a longer period than another1 seeing that in some horoscopes the ,moon may have the major influence and in others ,saturn or another planet1 and hence would dominate the life more particularly4 ,while it rules its influence is paramount1 and that is all that we can logically say of it4 ,the attempt to ascribe periods which are partly astronomical and partly symbolical is at all events inconsistent1 and only invariable experience of their validity would warrant us in accepting them4 ,i propose1 therefore1 to employ all the known operative factors of the cosmos1 and to give to each of them a period of twelve years1 and since there are nine factors1 there will be #ajh years in the circle of life represented by this scheme4 ,the ,chaldean order is adhered to1 and the ,period is ruled first of all by the planet which heads it1 and is followed by the others in succession1 or rather in rotation1 for that which rules the first subdivision of one ,period will be last in the sub-periods of the next ,period1 as the following table will show4 ,the ,moon is seen to rule from #j to #ab1 ,mercury from #ab to #bd1 ,venus from #bd to #cf1 ,sun from #cf to #dh1 ,mars from #dh to #fj1 ,jupiter from #fj to #gb1 ,saturn from #gb to #hd1 ,uranus from #hd to #if1 and ,neptune from #if to #ajh4 ,taking into consideration the known characteristics of the several planets 7all the bodies are regarded as planets from the point of view of a stationary earth71 these periods will1 ,i venture to think1 appear as satisfactory as those of the ,ptolemaic method1 while the inclusion of ,uranus and ,neptune should render the system complete4 ,illustration3 ,figure #bb-;a4 ,planetary ,periods by ,sepharial4 ,illustration3 ,figure #bb-;b4 ,planetary ,periods by ,sepharial4 ,illustration3 ,figure #bb-;c4 ,planetary ,periods by ,sepharial4 ,an objection which has been raised against the ,ptolemaic system of ,planetary ,periods1 and which on the same grounds may be raised against this one1 deserves consideration4 ,it is said that it is extremely unlikely that all persons are under the same planetary influence at the same age4 ,in this ,i should concur were it intended that a single planet entered into the equation4 ,such1 however1 is not the case4 ,for although all persons are under the influence of the ,moon at a certain period of their life1 and all of the same age are under the same periodic influence at the same time1 yet it must be remembered that in the large variety of horoscopes which arise out of astronomical changes during even a single month1 it is extremely unlikely that any number of persons of the same age were born under the same conditions1 and in one horoscope we shall find the ,moon afflicted1 in another well aspected1 and so on4 ,consequently1 the ,moon ,period in these horoscopes will be variously interpreted4 ,for if the planet governing the ,period in force at any age is well placed and aspected at birth1 then the period will be a fortunate one1 and vice versa4 ,moreover1 the sub-periods involving the introduction of a subsidiary influence into the ,period will be interpreted in terms of the aspect the sub-period planet bears to the ,period planet at the moment of birth1 and thus an infinite variety of interpretations are afforded by the consideration of the various houses1 signs and aspects held by the planets in the radical or birth horoscope4 ,each planet then will rule in succession for a ,period of twelve years1 during which it will bring into play the conditions indicated by its position and aspects at birth4 ,the same planet will rule for the first sub-period of that ,period1 and will be followed by the other planets in ,chaldean order4 ,each sub-period will extend over one year and four months1 and will import an influence agreeable to the nature of the planet ruling it1 as well as an influence in terms of its radical relations to the ,ruler of the ,period4 ,thus if at birth the ,moon were badly aspected1 then during the first twelve years of life there would be poor fortunes and changes adverse to the interests of the subject4 ,if ,venus were in bad aspect there would be sickness and family trouble at from two years eight months to four years of age1 which is the ,venusian sub-period of the ,moon ,period4 ,any planet in the eighth sign from the ,moon would import danger of death in the family1 and would threaten the life of the subject himself during the sub-period of such planet4 ,similarly a planet in the second from the ,period planet shows gain2 in the third journeys2 in the fourth change of residence1 adversity to the parents2 in the fifth benefits2 in the sixth sickness of the nature of the sub-period planet2 in the seventh adversity1 rivalries1 hurts2 in the eighth loss and death2 in the ninth voyages and foreign affairs2 in the tenth honours2 in the eleventh new associations and allies2 in the twelfth bondage1 restraint1 anxieties1 etc4 ,it would appear that all the ,alfridaries in existence are modelled upon the das'a systems of the ,hindus4 ,in some of these the order of the periods and sub-periods is regulated by considerations of precedence established in the horoscope of birth1 but ,i have been unable to obtain any definite information which will guide one surely to a correct disposition of the various factors1 and ,i have therefore abandoned them in favour of one that appears to me to have regard to cosmical symbolism1 and at the same time to include the application of considerations of an individual and radical nature1 such as those obtaining in the horoscope of birth4 ,thus every person born into the world is regarded as a variant of the cosmical elements1 a concrete symbol in himself1 born under horoscopical conditions which are part of his greater environment and related to a world of life in which1 for good or ill1 he is required to function in terms of his own nature4 ,hence the statement1 which ,i hold to be inviolable1 that the planets affect us only in terms of ourselves4 ,the superman will have to be content to take incarnation as he finds it4 ,without lying idle on the shelf for some ages he cannot wait for the stars in their courses to wheel into position for the striking of the perfect die4 ,in all ages and nations there are such things as horoscopical misfits1 where the individual finds insuperable difficulty in the way of perfect expression of character4 ,but if we all try to do our best in the circumstances allotted to us1 we shall give to the personal symbol a new and a better value than it has hitherto possessed4 ,it is this fact of human perfectibility that gives to astrological interpretations an ever increasing interest4 ,we see how the anciently destructive forces of the planet ,mars are converted by human evolution into the executive ability of the man of action4 ,how the ostentation of the ,jovian plutocrat is changed to the benevolence of the true philanthropist1 and how even the mean sordidness of the ancient ,saturn becomes the constructive carefulness of the social economist4 ,and from the remnants of this old universe of ours1 maintaining its cosmic integrity for ever1 there shall at length be evolved 8a new heaven and a new earth40 ,for as the expression of divine ,ideation1 the universe is the revelation of ,god to man1 and this ,his handwriting in the heavens means more than all the wisdom of all the ages has yet deciphered4 ,cosmic ,symbolism1 of which here we are only dealing with the crudest elements1 will hereafter come to be regarded as the subject of man's highest intuitions1 the embodiment of a perfected wisdom4 ,only when the last word of the last chapter of the ,gospel of ,nature has been read and understood will the heavens be rolled away as a scroll and the ,word be fulfilled which said3 8,behold ,i make all things new60 ,for our ,god is in the making4 ,,chapter ,,xx ,,in ,,the ,,lumber ,,room ,almost every home has a lumber-room1 a place where all the out-of-date articles1 derelict furniture1 oddments of all sorts1 are stored4 ,nobody ever goes there except the man who wants a bit of stuff to fit something1 one of those quaint little notions that inventive men with time on their hands are always at work upon4 ,and almost every mind has its lumber-room4 ,the world has a huge depository of this sort4 ,into this lumber-room of forgotten things ,i would have you come with me1 you who are interested in odd ideas4 ,time was when the world believed that there was an inherent relativity in things1 and that nothing existed for itself alone4 ,that is one of the notions that we have thrown into the lumber-room4 ,but as it fits my needs ,i will bring it out into the daylight and have a look at it4 ,the belief that is now current in the world regarding the universe is that it is a congeries of detached bodies1 each existing for itself alone1 inhabited1 maybe1 or not inhabited1 but capable of sustaining life of some sort4 ,there they are1 out yonder1 but what has that to do with us8 ,well1 the old-world notion was that by taking a dozen or so of pieces of wood of various shapes and sizes and fitting them together you could make what they called a chair4 ,but nobody ever thought either that the chair could make itself1 or that the shapes1 as they called them1 constituted a chair without being fitted together4 ,the fitting was the most important part of the business4 ,a man picking up a shape would call it a chair leg or whatever it might be1 a back1 thwart1 side or seat4 ,none of them could be called a chair1 but each of them suggested it4 ,their use was in their relativity1 their interdependence1 their connectedness4 ,so it is with the throne of ,god1 which is the universe4 ,that ancient notion of relativity--you will find it in the ,mahabharata or that section of it which they call the ,sacred ,song--was a good one4 ,this earth of ours is a comparatively small planet in a system of worlds4 ,it does not exist for itself alone1 nor do those others which surround it4 ,crude thinkers1 without perspective1 believed the earth to be very big because it filled the eye4 ,a threepenny-piece will cover the ,moon at arm's length4 ,it is all a matter of proportion4 ,but the deeper thinkers knew better1 and if they were foolish enough to suppose that the planets existed for this earth they also believed that the earth existed for the planets1 and they for one another4 ,interplanetary action was believed in before ,ptolemy wrote his book on the ,influence of the ,stars1 or ,kepler had framed his cosmic laws1 or ,newton had found the glue to hold the pieces together4 ,the ,carpenter had been at work before ever man opened his blinking eyes to the morning sun1 and what ,i have called the ,throne of ,god was made by ,him for ,his own use4 ,it is ours to look and marvel4 ,this notion of planetary interaction1 the idea that planets act and react upon one another1 involves that other which ,science has not yet condescended to observe1 namely1 planetary action in human life4 ,tycho and ,kepler1 who argued things to their logical conclusion1 believed in it4 ,well1 there are books enough on the subject already for those who would learn about it1 and ,i do not intend to add another to the number4 ,but ,i would like to revive an odd notion or two which even the dealers in antiques1 ,i mean the astrologers1 especially the modern ones1 have relegated to the lumber-room4 ,one may even be excused for believing that planets1 so nearly linked up with the destinies of our earth1 may have a direct action of a subtle kind upon our lives and thought4 ,but the idea that the ,moon's ,nodes may have such an influence is beyond all saving1 at least so think our modern astrologers4 ,yet this was an ancient belief1 and it survives at this day in ,india and other parts of the world4 ,but then1 you will argue1 they are not bodies at all but mere points4 ,so is the actual centre of the ,sun on which the universe revolves4 ,your point is nothing--or everything1 as you will4 ,i am not looking at the bodies themselves but what they signify to us4 ,i am looking at the ,universe as ,symbol1 ,i am trying to get at its meaning4 ,if the planets may be regarded as symbols1 so may the ,moon's ,nodes4 ,they tried to give them a real existence as the head and tail of the ,dragon1 the devourer of the ,sun and ,moon4 ,but this was for the popular fancy1 as one might put off a child with a fairy tale rather than afflict him with a lecture on astronomy4 ,they who calculated the positions of the ,sun and ,moon and predicted eclipses1 knew how to bring the ,dragon to heel1 and they knew his feeding times4 ,they used that knowledge to enslave a whole people1 and haply the same knowledge may help to set them free4 ,nevertheless1 they ascribed to the ,moon's ,nodes a specific influence in human life1 or more correctly a special signification4 ,one could have affirmed from a mere knowledge of this significance that astronomy was first studied in northern latitudes1 for we see that the ascending node1 that point at which the ,moon crosses the ecliptic in its upward course1 was regarded as fortunate1 while the descending node was unfortunate4 ,and what they knew of the southern climes was evidently not much1 for they called them ,patala and ,avitchi1 and figured the descent of the soul into the depths of a great despair from the circumstance of the ,moon's southern course4 ,but all this was a symbolism not invented by man1 for he regulates neither the ,moon's orbit nor its ,nodes1 and had no hand in the making of eclipses4 ,it was there for him to read1 and that is how he read it4 ,some astrologers say that they were wrong4 ,others are more cautious4 ,they seem to have observed that certain periods in their lives coincided with the transits of these ,nodes over the places of the luminaries1 the ,mid-heaven and the ,ascendant of their horoscopes1 and they have made due note of the fact1 leaving the uninitiated to decide for themselves by experience as to which is the right way to hang up a horse-shoe for luck4 ,yet among those who say it should be one way and those who say the other1 there are few indeed who are aware of the fact that they are using the ancient symbol of the ,moon's ,nodes and 4 ,but if the ,moon's ,nodes have any symbolical meaning and can be used for purposes of prediction1 so surely should the ,nodes of the other planets1 whose influence1 gravitation excepted1 is quite as great as hers4 ,it is at all events just as well that we should have them under observation1 and so ,i give them here4 ,,nodes ,,of ,,the ,,planets ,,for #aijj1 ,,with ,,their ,,mean ,,motions ,,for ,,one ,,century4 ,ascending ,descending ,motion ,neptune ,leo #i #dc ,aquarius #i #dc #a #f ,uranus ,gemini #ac #ag ,sagittary #ac #ag #bf ,saturn ,cancer #bb #e ,capricorn #bb #e #ec ,jupiter ,cancer #i #bd ,capricorn #i #bd #a #j ,mars ,taurus #ah #b ,scorpio #ah #b #df ,venus ,gemini #ae #dd ,sagittary #ae #dd #eb ,mercury ,taurus #ag #i ,scorpio #ag #i #a #ab ,the ,moon's ,node retrogresses through the entire zodiac in #ah years #bbe days1 which is at the rate of #ai #bj per annum1 and about #c per day4 ,the ,nodes of all the other bodies are direct in motion4 ,out of this same lumber-room ,i can bring another piece of neglected furniture1 which possibly may suit somebody's convenience1 for some men build shanties out of old timber and others build theories out of anything4 ,mr4 ,william ,lilly1 whose patrons were ,king ,charles and the ,great ,reformer1 ,sir ,elias ,ashmole1 and others of great fame1 gave us the secret of one of his most alarming and successful predictions4 ,not that these latter are intended to alarm1 but to forewarn and admonish4 ,he says that his prophecy of the ,great ,plague and the ,fire of ,london1 #affe-f1 was effected by means of the ,aphelion of the planet ,mars1 which he noticed was due to ingress to the sign ,virgo1 that ruling the monarchy of ,england in his day1 about that time4 ,astronomy was not a neat science in the time of ,lilly1 and he wisely refrained from giving a date for the fulfilling of his ,prophetic ,hieroglyphs1 but he published them so well in advance of the double event as to secure himself against a possible margin of error in the calculations4 ,in a preceding chapter the reader will find the calculation referred to4 ,in effect ,master ,lilly was called before the ,committee of the ,house of ,parliament and there interrogated as to the founding of his prediction1 and what light he could throw upon the matter4 ,it is reported that he acquitted himself creditably and was thanked for his services4 ,but mark you1 ,lilly said nothing about the ,horoscope of the ,monarchy nor the ,aphelion of ,mars1 because doubtless he knew himself to be in the presence of learned men who made laws and not horoscopes1 and whose business it was to prevent plagues and fires1 not to predict them4 ,but to the student of astrology he has very candidly delivered his whole mind on the matter4 ,now ,i have thought that if one man finds the ,aphelion of a planet to be effectual in producing or indicating certain events in agreement with the nature of the planet concerned1 others may be able to do the same with other planets1 regard being had to their ,aphelia4 ,of course the whole thing may be a bogey1 and ,lilly may be hiding his light in a bushel4 ,commander ,morrison1 who was a clever man and a good astronomer1 sought to prove that the ,fire was due to the precession of the ,bull's ,north ,horn to the ascendant of the ,city of ,london4 ,the reader knows that since this entry of the ,bull into the ,city the herd has greatly increased1 and there are so many of them as to constitute another ,plague1 were it not that they have let loose a host of ,bears to demolish them4 ,morrison's idea is ingenious1 and works out to a fraction1 but unfortunately he did not predict the ,fire and the ,plague1 while ,lilly did4 ,therefore ,i am bound to accept ,lilly's explanation of his performance2 and his reason appears a good one1 is in agreement with the facts1 and employs the astrology of the planet ,mars in a consistent and satisfactory manner4 ,further1 ,i am bound by that performance and that reasoning to examine the effects likely to be produced by the ,aphelia of the other planets4 ,here is a statement of their positions4 ,,aphelia ,,of ,,planets ,,for #aijj1 ,,with ,,motions ,,for #ajj ,,years4 ,neptune ,scorpio #ac #dg #a #be per century4 ,uranus ,pisces #ah #di #a #bh 0 ,saturn ,capric4 #j #ed #a #ej 0 ,jupiter ,libra #ab #dc #a #ce 0 ,mars ,virgo #d #ae #a #eb 0 ,venus ,aquar4 #i #eg #a #ba 0 ,mercury ,sagit4 #ae #ee #a #cd 0 ,looking over these positions of the ,nodes ,i find one from which ,i can strike an ,epoch at once4 ,it is that of ,saturn's ,aphelion ingress to the sign ,capricornus1 which is found to have taken place in the year #ahej4 ,there are four countries which are ruled by the sign ,capricornus in which at this time there were great upheavals1 namely1 ,india1 ,greece1 ,mexico and ,new ,zealand4 ,india was engaged in the ,sikh ,war against the forces of the ,moolraj1 a whole ,bengali regiment was disbanded for mutiny1 and ,sir ,charles ,napier shortly resigned the command4 ,eight years of unrest followed1 culminating in the great ,mutiny1 and the rule of the ,east ,india ,company came to an end4 ,meanwhile ,mexico was engaged in a fierce war with the ,united ,states1 and the political convulsions ended in the resignation of ,president ,arista4 ,four ,presidents succeeded one another in the space of three years1 and the country eventually established a new ,constitution under ,general ,comonfort in #aheg4 ,greece at this time came into conflict with the ,british and other ,european governments because of its oppressions and its non-payment of debts to foreign subjects4 ,insurrections and blockades continued for some years and a change of the ,ministry eventually brought about an agreement of neutrality under the royal seal4 ,new ,zealand at the same time was acting under the ,charter granted to ,sir ,george ,grey and founding new townships4 ,in #ahej1 the year of ,saturn's ,aphelion ingress1 the ,new ,zealand ,company relinquished its ,charter and a new ,constitution was formed1 which was in force from #aheb to #aheg1 when it was modified4 ,in every case the effects of such changes as took place in these several ,constitutions at this period were1 ,i think1 exceedingly beneficial1 and this is what might be expected from the circumstance of ,saturn coming into his own territory1 for ,capricornus is one of the cardinal or political signs1 and is ruled by ,saturn4 ,but the motions of the ,aphelia are so slow that many centuries have to elapse before a new ingress is made1 and this is hardly the way in which one would seek to prove or disprove the symbolism of such phenomena4 ,one would rather consider that the influence of the several planets is vested in their ,aphelia1 and then observe what effects follow the transits of other planets over those places1 and what effects are due to the direction of the ,significators1 ,sun1 ,moon1 ,mid-heaven and ,ascendant1 to the places of these ,aphelia in the prime vertical4 ,but ,i find myself talking the jargon of the astrologers1 as ,lytton would say1 whereas ,i am supposed to be talking about ,cosmic ,symbolism4 ,illustration3 ,figure #bc4 ,what are these ,aphelia of the planets1 and how does their symbolism attach to us as humans8 ,the ,aphelion of a planet is that point in its orbit1 or imaginary orbit--for we have already disposed of the elliptical theory--where it is at its greatest distance from the ,sun4 ,and if these planets severally correspond with certain principles of our human constitution1 they may be said to have greater play and to be in a condition to exert more of their own natures at such times than at others1 and proportionately less at other points in their orbits1 and least when in perihelion4 ,for then those principles and planets are enslaved to the ,sun and answer most fully to his all-embracing and compelling influence4 ,a soul that is in its most perfect condition of physical manifestation may be said to be in its perihelion1 whereas one that has shaken free to some extent from the gravitational pull of the sun of this nether world1 and has winged its way into the outer regions of space1 is to that extent in a condition of temporary liberation4 ,one is almost tempted by this analogy to revert to the symbolism of the elliptical orbit1 and to place in its empty focus another luminary or ,spiritual ,sun1 such as that conceived by ,swedenborg1 and to say that these liberated souls are answering to the gravitational pull of that luminary4 ,the idea is fascinating1 both astronomically and symbolically1 and since the kenofocus of the ellipse is not under lease to any of our scientific theorists1 ,i will place my ,spiritual ,sun in that centre of the empyrean and complete my figure1 as already exhibited in a preceding chapter4 ,now we see what comes of rummaging in a lumber-room4 ,all sorts of suggestions and possibilities1 yet nothing perhaps that anybody would be willing to bring back into daily use4 ,these musty1 time-worn and out-of-date notions that nobody takes much note of may some day claim the attention of a ,ben ,hassam or somebody with a nose for things of value1 and a scramble for priority will be the result4 ,but alas6 they have no market value4 ,planets1 principles1 orbits1 aphelia1 and nodes1 they are all merely symbols in the everlasting ,book of ,life4 ,,chapter ,,xxi ,,the ,,law ,,of ,,vibrations ,in my ,kabala ,i have shown that in the contest between ,chance of the haphazard sort which is merely speculative1 and that because it is grounded in ignorance1 and ,law which proceeds by method because it is based on cosmic principles1 the latter wins an easy victory1 not once but always4 ,i showed that the divisions of the day and night that we call ,planetary ,hours1 whether they be artificial or not1 have a certain security from the fact that they are founded on the cosmic order of planetary velocities4 ,it was also shown that certain numbers answered to the several planets1 and that these numbers bore a definite relationship to sound vibrations4 ,i have received such a lot of correspondence asking for further instruction along those lines that ,i feel constrained1 if only to gain some little respite from my tormentors1 to add a few pages here on the subject of ,chance reduced to ,law4 ,without at all departing from the phonetic evaluation of sounds as given in the ,universal ,alphabet 7,kabala1 p4 #cj71 it is possible to evolve a number of methods by which the same results may be reached1 but ,i find none more satisfactory than that of the ,law of ,number and ,vibration as related to ,planetary ,hours4 ,it has already been explained that ,planetary ,hours depend on the length of the day1 or the time that the ,sun is above the horizon1 in any locality4 ,take1 for instance1 the #ahth ,october1 when the ,sun is above the horizon for some #aj hours4 ,on that day the ,sun sets in these latitudes at five o'clock1 and these five hours are divided into six ,planetary ,hours1 each of fifty minutes' duration4 ,these ,hours1 again1 are divided into seven ,periods1 each of which is governed by or related to a planet1 and these ,periods will therefore be about seven minutes in duration1 since fifty divided by seven yields seven and a fraction4 ,then for this day we have the ,planetary ,hour equal to fifty minutes and the ,planetary ,period to seven minutes4 ,the usual mistake of those who have dealt with the use of the ,planetary ,hour is that they divide the whole time of the ,sun's diurnal arc by twelve1 and apply these ,hours to the time of sunrise4 ,this must not be done4 ,the quarters of the day must be dealt with separately1 the quarter from sunrise to noon by itself1 and that from noon to sunset by itself4 ,six ,planetary ,hours are always completed at noon4 ,thus on the #ahth ,october aforesaid1 the ,sun rises at about #f4be1 and consequently the time from sunrise to noon will be #e hrs4 #ce min4 and this is equal to #cce minutes1 which being divided by six yields the ,planetary ,hour for the first quarter of the day1 namely1 fifty-six minutes4 ,then1 again1 we find that the time of sunset is #e p4m4 and this is equal to #cjj minutes1 which1 divided by six gives the ,planetary ,hour for the second quarter of the day as equal to fifty minutes4 ,this is very different to taking an average of fifty-three minutes for the ,hour and applying it to sunrise1 as the following comparative table will show4 ,false ,hours1 ,true ,hours1 begin begin #f4be sunrise4 #f4be sunrise4 #g4ah a4m4 #g4ba a4m4 #h4aa 0 #h4ag 0 #i4d 0 #i4ac 0 #i4eg 0 #aj4i 0 #aj4ej 0 #aa4e 0 #aa4dc 0 #ab4j noon4 ,having found that the afternoon ,hours are each equal to fifty minutes in duration1 we have to add this amount successively to noon to get the beginnings of the #gth1 #hth1 #ith1 #ajth1 #aath and #abth ,hours4 ,these may be set out in a single line-- #gth #hth #ith #ajth #aath #abth #ab4j #ab4ej #a4dj #b4cj #c4bj #d4aj ,and if to these beginnings of ,hours we add successively seven minutes1 being one-seventh of the ,hour of fifty minutes1 we shall have the times at which the various sub-periods begin4 ,but it is also necessary to affix the signature of the ,planet ruling the ,hours and ,periods1 and for this purpose we may note that the #hth ,hour is always ruled by the planet that gives the day its name1 as ,mercury on a ,wednesday1 etc4 ,the #ahth ,october1 #aiaa1 was a ,wednesday4 ,also note that the first ,period of each ,hour is ruled by the planet that gives its name to the ,hour1 the rest following in the usual ,chaldean order4 ,the table when fully set out will therefore present the following appearance3-- ,illustration3 ,figure #bd4 ,wednesday #ahth ,october1 #aiaa4 ,afternoon4 ,planetary ,hours4 ,the reader will observe that in the periodic succession the #hth planet syncopates1 and the next ,hour commences with the succeeding planet4 ,this is not so exceptional as at first it may appear1 for we have analogies throughout nature of the syncopation of the octave4 ,if you take a wire and stretch it across a bridge1 as is done in the construction of a stringed musical instrument1 you will find that it answers to a certain note when vibrated4 ,at first sight you may be disposed to think that the vibration extends over the whole length of the wire4 ,this1 however1 is not the case1 for on closer observation you will find that at certain points along its length the wire is quite stationary1 while the rest of it is vibrating4 ,by placing the finger upon these neutral points or nodes and again vibrating the wire1 you will find that they are the octaves of the open note produced by the wire when in free vibration4 ,the following sketch shows the principle of these neutral points or nodes4 ,they correspond to the #hth planet in the series4 ,illustration3 ,figure #be4 ,the vibration being the cause of what we sense as sound1 non-vibration must correspond with silence1 and so we know that the sound falls into silence and re-emerges again in the higher octave of vibration4 ,this fact has an interesting application1 which ,i cannot develop in this place1 but which the student will take due note of4 ,having now got our ,planetary ,hours into array1 we are at once able to prove one or two of the occult axioms1 the first being that composites of sound are reducible to numbers1 and the second is that these numbers when reduced to their unit values correspond to one or other of the planets4 ,by the use of the universal alphabet of sound1 known as the ,phonetic ,values1 and which apply to all languages the world over1 we may take the name of any person1 animal or thing which is in evidence at a particular time and prove that its name value corresponds with the planet ruling the ,period in force at the time4 ,let us put it to the test once more4 ,i do not know and should have difficulty in finding the names of persons who met with some distinction on the #ahth ,october in the year #aiaa1 but ,i do know that certain animals bearing distinctive names gained distinction by winning races at ,gatwick on that particular day1 and faute de mieux ,i will make use of them4 ,the first race was at #a4di4 ,this was the ,hour of the ,moon and the ,period of ,saturn4 ,therefore we must look for the numbers #a or #h4 ,it was won by ,tucker--#dbbb-aj-a4 ,the second event took place at #b4ah1 which is the same ,hour of the ,moon and the ,period of ,venus4 ,we must therefore look for #c or #f4 ,the race was won by ,acsu--#abff-ae-f4 ,the third event was at #b4dh1 in the ,hour of ,saturn and the ,period of ,mars4 ,we look1 therefore1 for #e or #i4 ,the event was won by ,lespedesa--#cafhadaga-cb-e4 ,the fourth event took place at #c4ae1 which is the ,hour of ,saturn and the ,period of ,moon4 ,we must look for a #b or #g4 ,it was won by ,peristyle--#habfdac-be-g4 ,the fifth event was at #c4df1 which is the ,hour of ,jupiter and the ,period of ,venus4 ,we must therefore look for #c or #f4 ,the event was won by ,wilfrid--#fchbd--bc--e4 ,this does not harmonize1 but we may note that ,venus was in the sign ,virgo1 ruled by ,mercury--#e4 ,the last event was at #d4af1 in the ,hour of ,mars and the end of the ,period of ,mars or the beginning of that of ,sun4 ,the latter gives us the number #d or #a4 ,the event was won by ,gadfly--#badhca--ai--aj--a4 ,here we see that without the slightest equivocation or deviation from the principle of evaluation of sounds already laid down1 we obtain five direct responses out of six tests4 ,let us go on to the next day at ,sandown1 when the day being ,thursday1 and the sunset about the same time1 the #hth ,hour will be ruled by ,jupiter and the beginnings of the ,hours will be-- ,jupiter ,mars ,sun ,venus ,mercury #ab4ej #a4dj #b4cj #c4bj #d4aj ,the ,periods can be filled in as occasion requires4 ,the first event was at #a4cj1 and in the ,hour of ,jupiter and ,period of ,saturn4 ,we therefore look for distinction to fall to one whose name is of value #a or #h4 ,the winner was ,wild ,duck--#fcdbb-ag--h4 ,the second event1 at #b4e1 was in the ,hour of ,mars and the ,period of ,mercury4 ,the number will therefore be #i or #e4 ,the winner was ,myriad--#dabad-ab--c4 ,this is irregular1 but it is seen that ,mercury was then in the sign ,libra1 ruled by ,venus1 negative #c4 ,the third event was at #b4cj1 in the ,hour of ,sun and ,period of ,sun4 ,we must expect #d or #a to win4 ,the event was won by ,runnymede--#bbeadad-ai-a4 ,the fourth event was at #c4g1 in the ,hour of ,sun and the ,period of ,jupiter4 ,we look therefore1 for #f or #c4 ,the event was won by ,sobieski--#ffbafba-bd-f4 ,the fifth event was at #c4ch1 and fell in the ,hour of ,jupiter and the ,period of ,moon1 but verging on that of ,saturn4 ,the numbers of ,moon are #b and #g4 ,the event was won by ,jessica--#cafba-ac-d4 ,this may be regarded as an exception4 ,the last event was at #d4b1 in the ,hour of ,venus and the ,period of ,sun4 ,the event should fall to #d or #a4 ,it was won by ,pretiva--#hbadfa-bb-d4 ,here again we have four out of six results in strict conformity with the rules of the ,kabala of ,numbers4 ,it is not necessary to go further in this demonstration4 ,taking all the factors into account1 the odds against nine out of twelve events coinciding with the requirements of the ,law of ,vibrations are enormous4 ,the practical use to which we could put such information as this law affords1 is in the regulation of our efforts by the time factor4 ,a person whose name is of value #h must not look for success in the hour that is governed by ,mars4 ,he is sure to be cut out by one whose number is #i if it is between sunrise and noon1 or by one whose number is #e if it is between noon and sunset4 ,similarly at other times4 ,the putting forth of our highest powers is of little effect in this sublunary world unless we do so intelligently and in agreement with the ,law of ,astral ,vibration4 ,moreover1 a ,mars man should not concern himself with things that belong to ,jupiter1 nor one under ,saturn with those that are governed by ,mars4 ,an aviator or motorist who puts a number on his machine and sets it going in a ,planetary ,period that is at variance with the vibrations of that number1 is asking for trouble4 ,where there is danger of accident the ,periods of ,mars and ,saturn should be avoided1 while those of ,venus1 ,jupiter1 and either the ,sun or ,moon when well aspected1 should be chosen4 ,by bringing ourselves into accord with natural operations we share in ,nature's power and efficiency4 ,it is what the ancients called the 8,covert ,agreement40 ,the fact of your having penetrated the secret of the gods enables you to claim their protection4 ,the ,masters of ,wisdom are in league with ,nature for the protection and benefit of mankind4 ,this is what ,i have elsewhere referred to as the ,divine ,conspiracy4 ,,chapter ,,xxii ,,the ,,equalization ,,of ,,epochs ,a considerable importance attaches to the proper understanding of ,epochs1 so that when a statement is made in terms of one ,epoch we should be able to refer it at once to another with which we are familiar4 ,there are several astronomical ,epochs of this nature which are frequently used and ought to be known4 ,those who are interested in tracing the astral cause of events often find themselves debarred from research through ignorance regarding the data employed4 ,much of this trouble can be overcome by the determination and equalization of ,epochs4 ,ptolemy1 to whom we are indebted for a great number of scientific statements in addition to his astronomical observations and those of ,hipparchus which he has preserved to us1 makes use of two important ,epochs4 ,the first is that of ,nabonasser4 ,the first year of his reign was in the year #gdg ,b4,c41 and the month ,thoth began on the #bfth ,february in that year4 ,hence ,nab4 #a1 ,thoth #a constitutes an ,epoch equivalent to ,feb4 #bf1 #gdg ,b4,c4 ,but this latter is the secular date and the astronomical is one less1 namely1 #gdf ,b4,c4 ,the reason for this is that the secular date ,a4,d4 #a passes directly to the year #a ,b4,c41 when counting backwards1 whereas the astronomical account makes ,a4,d4 #a refer back to ,a4,d4 #j1 and then to #a ,b4,c4 ,hence all dates before the ,christian ,era are given in secular accounts as one year more than the astronomical4 ,now as to the ,egyptian months used by ,ptolemy4 ,these were-- #a4 ,thoth ,february4 #b4 ,paophi ,march4 #c4 ,athyr ,april4 #d4 ,choiac ,may4 #e4 ,tybi ,june4 #f4 ,mechir ,july4 #g4 ,phamenoth ,august4 #h4 ,pharmuthi ,september4 #i4 ,pachon ,october4 #aj4 ,payni ,november4 #aa4 ,epiphi ,december4 #ab4 ,mesori ,january4 ,each month contained thirty days1 and there were five days at the end of the year which they called the ,epagomene4 ,the year began at noon on the first of ,thoth4 ,another ,epoch used by ,ptolemy1 and frequently referred to by the ,greeks1 is that of ,calippus4 ,the ,calippic ,period was invented by the man whose name it bears and dates to the year #ccj ,b4,c4 ,it is a period of #gf years1 which is four times #ai1 and was designed to bring the new and full moons to the same date of the solar year4 ,the ,olympiads were in use among the ,greeks1 and began in the year #ggf ,b4,c41 on the #ast ,july 7,o4,s474 ,each ,olympiad consists of four years1 and in marking a date the number of the ,olympiad and the year of that ,olympiad are given4 ,thus the first of ,calippus would fall in the third year of the #aabth ,olympiad4 ,the astronomical years equivalent to these are1 for the ,olympiads #gge ,b4,c41 and for the ,calippic ,period #cbi ,b4,c4 ,the ,kali ,yuga is an ,indian ,epoch which began at the ,new ,moon of ,february #cajb ,b4,c4--,feb4 #eth4 ,the ,epoch of ,salivahana in use among the ,dravidians of ,india is the year ,a4,d4 #gh4 ,the ,chinese ,cycle of years began in the year #bfif ,b4,c4 7astronomical71 at the ,new ,moon of ,february1 the ,sun being then half-way between the ,solstice and the ,equinox4 ,but even when we have the ,epochs equalized there are difficulties depending from this determination of ,epoch4 ,this is particularly the case with the ,indian calendarics4 ,they have in ,india a solar year divided into solar months1 and a lunar year which is divided into lunar months4 ,thus the first of ,mesham is that point of time when the ,sun enters the first point of the constellation ,mesham4 ,this is about the #abth ,april4 ,but the first of ,as'wini is the day of ,new ,moon in the constellation ,as'wini1 and this1 of course1 is a variable date1 depending on the position of the ,new ,moon in relation to the first point of ,mesham4 ,but whatever may be the date given in terms of the ,indian ,calendar1 before we can apply it we have to know in what relations our zodiac stand to theirs4 ,they have a fixed point from which they make their calculations4 ,this is ,zeta ,piscium1 which marks the beginning of the constellations1 and it corresponds with the first of ,mesham1 or the ,sun's ingress to the constellation ,aries4 ,we1 on the other hand1 count from the ,vernal ,equinox1 the point at which the ,sun crosses the ,equator in the spring4 ,this point1 in relation to the fixed constellations1 is continually shifting westward at the rate of about #ej per year1 and this is what is known as the precession of the ,equinoxes4 ,the point we have to make is the relation of the ,equinox to the first point of ,mesham4 ,the difference is what is called ,ayanmsha4 ,the difficulty in the matter of calculation has been--7a7 the exact rate of precession during past centuries1 which has only been determined in comparatively recent years1 and 7b7 the unsatisfactory condition of ,indian astronomical data4 ,but these latter1 with the advance of more exact methods in modern centres of ,indian learning1 have been considerably improved1 and it is now justifiably possible to attempt an equalization of the two astronomical ,epochs4 ,very much depends on this1 for it is quite impossible to study the ,indian astrological literature without being able to refer their quantities to terms of our modern ,western ephemerides or astronomical tables4 ,when1 for instance1 the ,indian books say that a certain yoga or conjunctions of planets in ,kumbha means a particular thing1 or has a particular signification1 they mean the constellation ,aquarius1 and it will depend on the relations of this constellation to our corresponding sign ,aquarius1 as to what we are to understand4 ,also in the determination of the various periods depending on the ,moon's longitude at an ,epoch1 such as that of birth1 we have to convert the ,moon's longitude into terms of our zodiac before we can apply their interpretations1 or synchronize the periods with our own calendar4 ,i have therefore agitated for a long time past for a thorough examination of the matter1 and in despair of collaboration in other directions ,i applied to ,dr4 ,v4 ,v4 ,ramanan of ,madras1 one of the most distinguished pandits of ,southern ,india1 and found in him a most useful and able exponent of ancient ,indian learning4 ,the first attempt at a determination of the ,epoch or point of time when the ,equinox coincided with the first point of ,mesham was from a comparison of the length of the solar year as given in the ,suryasiddhanta and the value given in the best ,european works4 ,it is seen that the ,indian year is longer than the ,european estimate by #c min4 #bjd sec4 ,now it is said that the ,sun entered the sign ,mesham in the year #aijj at #cj ghatikas #ej vighatikas after sunrise at ,ujjain1 on the #abth ,april4 ,this equals #abth ,april1 at #a hr4 #ca min4 #bh sec4 p4m41 ,greenwich mean time4 ,the ,sun's longitude was then #bb #aa #d from the ,vernal ,equinox1 and this divided by the mean rate of precession yields #aeid years1 which taken from #aijj gives ,a4,d4 #cjf as the ,epoch4 ,let us check this result4 ,we have seen that the ,indian year is estimated at #c min4 #bjd sec4 more than the ,european4 ,if then we multiply this amount by #aeid1 the number of years since the ,epoch1 we shall have #c days #af hrs4 #de min4 #cgf sec4 as the total increment4 ,the ,sun in this time moves at a mean rate #c #ch #dc1 and as this amount represents the excess of the ,indian solar year over the ,european during #aeid years1 we should take it from #bb #aa #d in order to obtain the true difference in longitude between the ,vernal ,equinox and ,mesham #j in the year #aijj4 ,this leaves #ah #cc #ba1 which1 being divided by the mean rate of precession #eja1 gives #acce years4 ,allowing for the difference of the ,sun's anomaly and the consequent increase of longitude1 we should make the longitude #ai #d #g and the ,epoch #acgb years1 which would give the year ,a4,d4 #ebh1 as compared with ,a4,d4 #cjf by the former calculation4 ,this clearly shows that there is some miscalculation in the ,ujjain estimate of the ,sun's ingress1 and ,i am confirmed in this by a note from ,dr4 ,ramanan in which he says that 8,according to ,bhaskaracharya in his ,graha-ganitdhyya1 the ,vernal ,equinox of ,kali ,yuga #cfbh 7,a4,d4 #ebg71 coincided with the starting-point of the ,hindu ecliptic40 ,he adds that 8the so-called fixed ,indian ,zodiac is not thought to be really fixed1 but is subject to a slow motion of about #h per year eastwards4 ,the zero point of ,indian longitude is thus subject to a slight annual displacement1 and this motion is a practical postulate of ,hindu ,siddhntas40 ,but so far we have based all our calculations on estimates made from the ,hindu ,siddhnta and not from modern observations4 ,necessarily correct evaluations made from the same source would work out to the same figures1 and it is therefore important that we should again check the results by reference to modern sources4 ,in the ,panchngam for ,kumbakonam #aiab it is stated that the ,sun enters ,vrishabham 7constellation ,taurus7 on #acth ,may at #cf gh4 #e vigh4 after sunrise4 ,sunrise at ,kumbakonam1 ,lat4 #aa ,north1 on this date-- ,tan4 log4 of #aa degs4 #ibhhfe ,for lat4 #ea #cj #jjiici ,sun's decl4 #f a4m41 #ah4ah #ieaidf #ieaidf ---------------- -------------- ,sine log41 #c #da #ahhjhaa ,sine log41 #bd #cd #ifahhe less #c #da -------------- #bj #ec #d ------------------ #hcm4 #cbs4--#a;h4 #bcm4 #cbs4 ,this represents the difference of sunrise due to latitude4 ,that is to say1 a place in #aa ,north latitude1 and on the same meridian as ,greenwich1 would have its sunrise #a hr4 #bd min4 later than ,greenwich on the #acth ,may1 #aiab4 ,now the sunrise on this date at ,greenwich was at #d hrs4 #ac min4 a4m41 and therefore at ,kumbakonam the sunrise would be at #e hrs4 #cg min4 a4m4 ,the longitude of ,kumbakonam is #e hrs4 #ah min4 east of ,greenwich1 and the equivalent ,greenwich time of sunrise at ,kumbakonam will be ,g4,m4,t41 #j hr4 #ai min4 a4m4 ,the ,sun's longitude at this time according to the ,greenwich ephemeris is #as4 #ba #ea #eg1 which we may call ,taurus #ba #eb4 ,this1 therefore1 represents the ,indian estimate of the present value of ,ayanmsha4 ,the mean rate of ,equinoctial ,precession for the past eighteen centuries being #eja per year1 we must divide #ba #eb by this amount of precession to obtain the year of coincidence4 ,the result is #aega years1 which1 being taken from the present year #aiab1 gives the year ,a4,d4 #cda as that in which the two zodiacs coincided4 ,but by taking the actual precession for #aiab and the increment for t years where t equals #aega - #fb1 or #aeji years1 we have the actual precession as equal to #ej per year nearly1 and #ba #eb divided by #ej is #aegd1 the years to be taken from #aiab1 which gives the year ,a4,d4 #cch4 ,according to our estimate of the rate of precession1 therefore1 the ,epoch will vary between ,a4,d4 #cch and #cda4 ,in round numbers1 therefore1 we may regard the year ,a4,d4 #cdj as that of the coincidence of the zodiacs1 and the number of years since elapsed multiplied by the mean rate of #eja will give the increment known as ,ayanmsha for any date since the ,epoch4 ,but ,i find an entry in the ,ephemeris of ,kumbakonam to this effect4 8,mean amount of precession at commencement of ,k4,y4 #ejad 7,a4,d4 #aiab71 #bb #bg #bj4 ,rate of precession1 #ejbf40 ,now if we divide the above amount of precession by the rate we shall get #afab years1 which would give the ,epoch ,a4,d4 #cjj1 whereas1 as we have seen1 other data in the ,ephemeris lead us to the year ,a4,d4 #cdj4 ,now ,i have checked the ,kumbakonam ,ephemeris1 and find that so far as the ,solar ingresses are concerned they agree with the ,nautical ,almanac1 and there would therefore appear to be no reasonable doubt that if the true amount of precession is here given1 the true ,epoch for the coincidence of the zodiacs has been found4 ,but ,i am advised by ,dr4 ,v4 ,v4 ,ramanan that there is an increment not generally recognized by either the ,indian or ,european astronomers1 but which is nevertheless an essential part of the calculation4 ,it is that of the progression of the asterisms or constellations from west to east1 along the order of the signs at the rate of #h per year1 to which ,i have already referred in an extract from one of his valuable letters4 ,if1 therefore1 we add this #h to the annual precession #eja1 we shall have #eha as the total precession of the ,equinoxes on the first point of ,as'wini1 and then if we further divide the amount of precession for the year #aiab as given in the ,panchngam1 namely1 #bb #bg #bj by #eha1 we shall get #acij years1 which taken from #aiab yields the year of coincidence ,a4,d4 #eba4 ,from various sources1 therefore1 we have the years ,a4,d4 #cjj1 #cjf1 #cch1 #ebg1 #ebh and #eba4 ,the former dates take account only of the precession of the ,equinoxes on a fixed zodiac1 whereas the latter take into account also a direct motion of this so-called 8fixed0 zodiac which amounts to #h per year1 and which has to be applied to the precession4 ,it is further to be observed that the ,epochs #cch and #cjf1 variously derived above1 are unified by the adoption of #eha as the total annual precession of the ,equinoxes on the first point of ,as'wini4 ,it needs but quotation of authority for this increment of #h in order to establish the date of zodiacal coincidence beyond disputation1 at all events within the limits of a very few years4 ,the above questions have an historical interest4 ,varahamihira1 who mentions the coincidence of the solstices with the cardinal constellations ,makaram and ,katakam as having taken place in his day1 has not been finally placed by the chronologists4 ,astronomical notes made by him have chiefly been used for this purpose1 and the writing of his book the ,brihat-samhita1 in which the above note occurs1 is on these grounds fixed at ,a4,d4 #eje4 ,but then we have to remember that ,mihira speaks only in general terms when he refers to the coincidence of the zodiacs4 ,he had no instruments which would have enabled him to make a close observation1 but he could make certain approximations from the meridian transit of some of the chief stars in the constellations4 ,we have no reason1 therefore1 to expect more than an approximate agreement of the date of ,mihira with that of the true coincidence of the zodiacs4 ,the ,graha ,laghava1 which is in general use in ,india1 gives this latter as ,a4,d4 #ebb or #ddd ,shaka4 ,the ,shaka ,epoch is known to be ,a4,d4 #gh4 ,dr4 ,v4 ,v4 ,ramanan gives reasons for accepting the year ,a4,d4 #ebe4 ,in the present state of the controversy ,i see no reason against this ,epoch4 ,,chapter ,,xxiii ,,lunar ,,influence ,the average notion of the ,moon's action is that it affects the tides and lunatics4 ,beyond this the popular encyclopedia does not go1 and the average man himself is not observant of anything in ,nature except the way of his fellow-man4 ,a little study1 however1 will show that the ,moon1 while influencing the tides1 affects also all fluidic life on the globe4 ,it appreciably affects the sap-cells of plants and trees4 ,it exerts a direct influence on blood pressure in the animal body1 and consequently affects the brain and nervous system of human beings1 and excites a variety of passions and impulses which are but remotely connected with the lunar orb itself4 ,it may even be a fact that on account of the observed influence of the ,moon upon the physical system of man1 the ancients said that it ruled 8the populace10 and made of it a common significator of public affairs4 ,for it must be remembered that the belief in lunar influence in mundane affairs1 ordinarily presumed to be of human origination and under human control1 was prevalent before the days of printing and encyclopdic knowledge1 possibly before the art of writing was invented1 and men then depended entirely on their powers of observation for whatever knowledge they had4 ,as many of the ancient astronomical statements will show1 their powers of observation were almost the equal of our scientific instruments4 ,thus ,dr4 ,pouchet rightly says3 8,hipparchus and ,ptolemy had no instruments to scrutinize the heavens with4 ,the astronomers of the ,renaissance1 such as ,regiomontanus1 ,copernicus1 ,tycho ,brahe1 and ,kepler1 were scarcely more favoured1 and yet how many immortal discoveries do we owe to them6 ,they seem with their lynx eyes to have seen or divined everything60 ,they observed not only the courses of the stars and planets as well as those of the luminaries1 but what is of more human interest1 they watched the effects that these bodies had upon the course of human events and upon nations and persons4 ,that the ,moon influenced the weather was the logical deduction from the fact of its influence upon the waters of the earth4 ,for obviously the ,moon must not only be water-lifter1 but also a cloud-lifter1 and its effects upon the atmosphere itself must be in proportion to the saturation point of the air from hour to hour according to the incidence of its rays4 ,only when all meteorological methods have failed to indicate the kind of weather we are likely to have1 to predict the kind of summer we shall have1 or even to explain such as we have1 then men throw about for new ideas1 and frequently manage to seize upon old ones4 ,this of the ,moon's influence on the weather is one such4 ,i have this following note of intelligence from the ,daily ,mail of the #adth ,august last3 8,the tides follow the ,moon2 local weather conditions are indisputably affected by the tides4 ,scientific meteorologists no doubt laugh the belief to scorn1 but observers who are not scientific can produce sufficient data to prove that a change of weather coinciding with a change of the ,moon is usually lasting40 ,the ,daily ,mail is right4 ,but unfortunately the theory of the ,moon's influence on the weather has been badly distorted since the learned and observant ,dr4 ,clark took the matter in hand and formulated a theory based on observations conducted over a very long period4 ,his theory goes to show that the ,moon does not act directly upon the weather1 but by a tidal action upon the ,earth's atmospheric envelope1 which accordingly depends upon the time of the ,moon's syzygies and quadratures4 ,it is this time-factor that has been overlooked and neglected4 ,reduced to a single sentence1 the lunar theory may be stated as follows3--,the nearer to midnight any phase of the ,moon may occur1 the finer will be the weather during the ensuing week1 and consequently the nearer to midday it may occur1 the more humid will be the weather4 ,the barometer which shows the atmospheric pressure at a mean altitude will consequently be affected in terms of the above statements1 and as it ranges from #bh to #cj over these islands1 we may also indicate the state of the barometer from the ,moon's phases4 ,for it will be seen that1 so long as there is but moderate wind1 the barometer will answer to the ,moon's phases in harmony with the weather4 ,very strong winds without rainfall will affect the barometer and register a fall4 ,i have endeavoured to embody the whole of this theory of the ,moon's action on the weather in a single diagram4 ,illustration3 ,figure #bf4 ,in attempting to account for a very wet summer in the year #aiab1 and a record downfall of rain in the month of ,august1 ,i shall have to refer to the times of the phases of the ,moon since the solstice4 ,here are the dates and times1 taken from the ,ephemeris of ,greenwich4 ,june #ba4 ,first ,quarter #h4ci p4m4 ,fair4 0 #bi4 ,full ,moon #a4cd p4m4 ,wet4 ,stormy4 ,july #g4 ,last ,quarter #d4dg p4m4 ,unsettled4 0 #ad4 ,new ,moon #a4ac p4m4 ,wet4 ,stormy4 0 #ba4 ,first ,quarter #e4ah a4m4 ,change4 0 #bi4 ,full ,moon #d4bh a4m4 ,change4 ,aug4 #f4 ,last ,quarter #d4ah a4m4 ,change4 0 #ab4 ,new ,moon #g4eh p4m4 ,change to ,fair4 0 #ai4 ,first ,quarter #d4eg p4m4 ,unsettled4 0 #bi4 ,full ,moon #g4ei p4m4 ,change to ,fair4 ,here there are indications of plenty of variable and changeable weather1 with splashes of very wet and stormy weather1 and just a suspicion of fair in the whole period4 ,but this class of observation does not help us much1 for there are other factors in the cosmos beside the ,moon1 which1 although nearest the earth and exerting much influence of its own kind upon mundane things1 is not a very considerable factor when regarded in its cosmic relations to other great bodies in the system4 ,the idea that the ,moon is the only body capable of affecting the weather is hardly to be sustained by reference to the facts4 ,it is thoroughly well established that the phases of any of the planets1 that is to say1 their conjunctions1 oppositions and quadratures with the ,sun1 as seen from the ,earth1 are accompanied by marked effects upon the weather4 ,dr4 ,clark's theory seems to suggest that fine weather follows the ,moon1 or at all events that the weather will be finest in those places whereat the ,moon is nearest the meridian at the time of one of its phases4 ,there is a great deal to be said for this theory if we distinguish between the syzygies and quadratures4 ,but if the ,moon has any action on the ,earth's atmosphere1 the planets also must exert an appreciable effect1 and it may lead to some well-established theory if we include the positions of certain of the planets at the quadratures and syzygies4 ,in such case it is reasonable to presume that those planets which are near the meridian and horizon at the times of the equinoxes and solstices are likely to give us some indication of the probable weather during the following season1 and similarly1 such as are near these angles at the syzygy may show the modifications likely to occur during the ensuing month4 ,a series of observations such as these would probably lead to the association of certain features of the weather with the various planets4 ,astrologers have already completed their observations1 but that should not prevent an independent series of observations being made by those who wish to come to independent conclusions in the matter1 and the subject is one that deserves attention at the hands of scientific men4 ,but lunar action does not begin and end with its effects on the weather4 ,there are other and even more important effects to be noted1 and although they are more recondite in their nature1 and not so well grounded in reasons which would appeal to any but ,occultists1 they nevertheless deserve attention4 ,one of these is the effect of the ,moon in human affairs4 ,we can all appreciate the effects that the ,moon has on the waters1 for we can see the rise and fall of the tides1 but that more subtle influence that the luminary has upon the finer states of matter in and about the earth is not so readily appreciated4 ,but it will be found none the less a fact if put to the test4 ,what we may call the tidal point is that point midway between the ,sun and ,moon at any time4 ,suppose it to be a new moon to-day1 at the hour of noon4 ,the ,sun and ,moon will then come to the meridian at the same time that they are conjoined in the same longitude4 ,to-morrow they will be about #ab apart when they come to the meridian1 and the next day they will be #bd apart4 ,now as one degree passes the meridian every four minutes1 the daily difference of ,tide-time will be 7#ab #d7_/b1 or #bd minutes4 ,local conditions affect the time at which high tide occurs1 and also the effect of the joint action of the ,sun and ,moon will take time to produce4 ,consequently we do not see that the tides exactly synchronize with the transit of the ,tide-point4 ,but there is a great difference between ether and water1 and between mind and matter4 ,what we know as the ,astral ,tide occurs exactly at the time of the transit of the ,tide-point1 and this fact is of the highest importance to those who would avail themselves of celestial influences and take that tide at the flood which 8leads to fortune40 ,there is an old adage which says3 ,who takes the ,tide takes all4 ,if1 therefore1 we take the difference in longitude between the ,sun and ,moon at any time1 which distance is called the ,moon's elongation1 and divide this by two1 we shall obtain a point which passes the meridian at a time represented by this quantity multiplied by four minutes1 before or after the ,sun's transit of the meridian1 according as the ,moon is increasing or decreasing in light4 ,thus1 ,i would find the time of the ,astral ,tide on the #bast ,august1 #aiab4 ,moon increasing in light1 i4 e4 going to the ,full4 ,sun's longitude at noon1 ,leo #bh #b4 ,moon's longitude at noon1 ,sagittarius1 #ah #cc4 ,distance between them1 #aaj #cc4 ,half this equals #ee #ae4 ,multiply by four--#bbam4 #bs41 or #b;h4 #dam4 #bs4 ,diurnal elongation of ,moon1 #aa #h1 or #bh per hour4 ,this for #c hrs4 #da min4 #b sec4 amounts to about #a #db1 which multiplied by four gives #f min4 #dh sec41 and this added to the above first time of ,tide1 brings us to #c hrs4 #dg min4 #ej sec41 which is the time after the meridian transit of the ,sun at which the ,astral ,tide will occur4 ,reference to the almanac will show that on the #bast ,august the ,sun passes the meridian at about four minutes after noon1 and therefore the ,greenwich mean time of the ,astral ,tide will be #c4eb p4m4 ,now if you would float an idea1 of whatever nature1 let it go out upon the full tide1 not when the tide is flowing in1 and not when it is going out1 but at the point of time when the tide is at the full and about to turn4 ,but reflect that what you send out will come back to you laden with its burden of consequence4 ,it is important1 therefore1 that the nature of your flotation should be scrutinized4 ,astrologers the world over have always considered that the ,moon exerts a great influence over human generation4 ,we know that it plays a most important part in the normal functions of the human body1 more especially as affecting the blood pressure4 ,this may be the reason for its marked influence upon persons in certain forms of insanity4 ,in my ,manual of ,astrology ,i have shown beyond all doubt that it exerts a powerful influence in the matter of sex1 and also that there is an astronomical relation between the ,moon's motion and the process of generation culminating in birth4 ,the ancients have said that the various months of parturition are under the successive influence of the planets1 ,saturn1 ,jupiter1 etc41 thus-- #ast month under ,saturn3 ,plasmic basis4 #bnd month under ,jupiter3 ,amnionic development4 #crd month under ,mars3 ,limbal growth4 #dth month under ,sun3 ,quickening4 #eth month under ,venus3 ,sex distinction4 #fth month under ,mercury3 ,brain development4 #gth month under ,moon3 ,precocious birth4 #hth month under ,saturn3 ,abortive birth4 #ith month under ,jupiter3 ,normal birth4 ,swedenborg has said that all children come from the ,moon4 ,there is a ,greek legend which associates ,selene and ,selinon1 confounding the ,moon with the parsley plant1 and old women to-day tell their inquisitive grandchildren that they were brought from the parsley bed4 ,in the ,greek ,mysteries the soul passes through the sphere of the ,moon in its descent to the ,earth1 taking upon itself a silver vestment1 which is the astral or lunar body1 as distinguished from the imperishable solar body proper to the incarnating ego4 ,the ,hindus1 as has been shown elsewhere1 make all their astrological calculations from the place of the ,moon1 and the horoscope of birth is converted into terms of the ,moon's position at the moment of that event4 ,also they reckon the periodic effects from the same position4 ,it is therefore obvious that the astrologer at all events has not overlooked the enormous influence that this orb is believed to exert upon mundane affairs and human life4 ,as we have seen1 the ancients1 with whom these beliefs arose1 were keen observers of natural operations1 and depended entirely on their unaided and unprejudiced observations for whatever knowledge they possessed4 ,they regarded the ,moon as the purveyor or carrier of astral influence4 ,life and energy were generated from the ,sun1 the vital centre of our system4 ,this life was modified by reflection of rays from the various planets1 which transmitted the ,sun's rays to this ,earth in altered electrical and magnetic conditions1 and the ,moon1 circling round the ,earth at great velocity1 collected and distributed these influences upon our nether sphere4 ,the notion is at least cosmical and coherent4 ,if it also be true it is of the utmost importance to us as terrestrials4 ,the ,moon1 then1 in ,cosmic ,symbolism represents the element of functional variability1 and is the symbol of ,change1 of ebb and flow1 of increase and decrease1 of rise and fall4 ,it is associated with the human soul subject to samsara1 or the law of cyclic rebirth4 ,it is the ,mercabah or vehicle by which the light and heat of the ,sun is distributed1 the ,great ,conveyancer and the ,universal ,purveyor of celestial influences4 ,like the human soul it is subject to phases1 now waxing and now waning1 and sometimes suffering eclipse1 having no light of its own but deriving all from the ,universal ,sun4 ,it has two aspects1 a nether and a higher4 ,that which is above represents the side that1 at the time of conjunction1 is turned towards the ,sun1 and the lower is that which is always towards the ,earth4 ,when the ,moon-,soul is between the ,sun and ,earth it is in correct cosmic relations1 but when the ,earth interposes its dark orb1 there is an ascendancy of the material over the human1 and the spiritual light is in danger of being shut out4 ,the ,moon-body suffers death1 like the physical body1 but it persists after the death of the physical1 and may endure for upwards of one hundred and twenty years1 according to its inherent vitality4 ,it may be regarded as the ,purgatorial vestment in which the ,human ,soul manifests until its liberation to the ,spiritual world4 ,one of the initiations teaches that this same ,moon-,body may1 without suffering dissolution1 be again carried to earth and incarnated4 ,but this is not the normal case1 as those who have witnessed the dissolution of the ,moon-,body well know4 ,as a cosmic symbol the ,moon is replete with the deepest mysteries concerning the birth1 evolution1 and dissolution of all that is commonly called human4 ,its influence in mundane affairs gains an additional signification from this fact4 ,,chapter ,,xxiv ,,solar ,,influence ,the ,sun as the centre of the universe is the gravitational focus of all the forces of the cosmos4 ,it stands to us as the symbol of ,deity1 or of that ,logos which is the manifestation to us of the ,inscrutable and ,omnipresent4 ,so far as we are concerned it is the source of ,light and ,heat to the world1 and these two properties are the ultimate expressions of the ,wisdom and ,love of the ,creator4 ,when we speak of light and heat we mean those forces which1 when they impinge on the ,earth's atmosphere and are sensed by us1 produce the sensations of light and heat4 ,the ,sun is thus rather the source of the cause of heat and light than of heat and light themselves4 ,it is we who are the interpreters4 ,even so is it with regard to the ,divine principles of ,wisdom and ,love4 ,these in expression are manifest as ,truth and ,charity1 as ,knowledge and ,affection1 as ,thought and ,feeling1 as ,speech and ,action4 ,this gives us the following gradient of differentiation-- ,wisdom ,divine ,love ,truth ,spiritual ,charity ,knowledge ,intellectual ,affection ,thought ,psychic ,feeling ,speech ,physical ,action ,thus we see how through the various planes of life the ,divine principles filtrate1 as do the forces we know as ,light and ,heat through the various ethers1 until they manifest in our physical life4 ,for the ,spirit of ,truth is the manifestation of the ,hidden ,wisdom of the ,father1 and its ,bride is the ,spirit of ,charity4 ,manifesting in the human they are seen as ,knowledge and ,affection on the ,intellectual plane1 and on the ,psychic or emotional plane as ,thought and ,feeling1 these being derived from the former1 and ultimately finding expression as ,speech and ,action4 ,thus all the life of man is linked up with the ,divine1 as all the universe is with its cosmic centre the ,sun4 ,the ,sun shines upon all and illumines all when there are no clouds of doubt interposing themselves between us and the open canopy of heaven4 ,these clouds arise by evaporation from the ferment of the lower nature4 ,as the cosmic centre1 the ,sun represents the ,heart or seat of vitality in the ,microcosm4 ,astrologically it has its seat in the sign ,leo which corresponds with the ,cardiac zone1 including the heart and solar plexus4 ,it is thus related to the vital principle in man4 ,its position and aspects in a horoscope will determine the stability of the ,constitution and hence the natural duration of life4 ,its sign1 position and aspects in the world are the chief cause of the variations of season and the nature of the weather4 ,these season changes are1 of course1 related to the climate in different zones4 ,the effects that are due in the ,british ,isles to solar aspects with the various planets have already been scheduled4 ,saturn and ,uranus are found to be magnetic and cold producing1 while ,jupiter and ,mars are electric and heat producing4 ,venus acts to produce condensation resulting in drizzle or fine rain4 ,mercury brings fresh winds2 ,neptune fine weather4 ,saturn in the same way brings northerly and easterly winds1 ,venus westerly winds1 ,jupiter south-westerly and ,mars south-easterly winds4 ,uranus brings winds from the north-west1 and generally frequent showers with intermittent spells of sunshine4 ,thus we may set the compass as follows-- ,illustration3 ,figure #bg4 ,these observations apply only to the ,british ,isles1 and more particularly to ,england1 where the observations were made4 ,everybody will recollect that the ,coronation ,day of ,king ,george ,v was a wet day4 ,at that time the ,sun was in semisquare aspect to both ,venus and ,saturn4 ,those resident in ,england will also recall the exceptionally hot days during the end of ,july and the beginning of ,august4 ,the ,sun was then passing from the quartile of ,jupiter to the quartile of ,mars1 both heat-producing planets4 ,the positions are necessarily geocentric1 as we are considering the effects of the planetary modifications of solar energy so far as this ,earth is concerned4 ,in just similar manner as the solar conditions act upon the ,earth so they act upon the physical constitution of man4 ,for if at his birth the ,sun is affected by the rays of negative planets there will be less vitality and force1 while positive heat-producing planets1 such as ,jupiter and ,mars1 will give great vitality1 strong muscular development1 a great fund of energy and a sound constitution4 ,the ,sun represents the organic constitution in the same way that the ,moon represents the functional powers4 ,hence it is that the ,sun1 when afflicted by malefic aspects of the planets at a birth1 gives warning of organic disorders of an inherent or hereditary nature1 while the ,moon similarly afflicted denotes functional disorders of an acquired nature4 ,for many reasons we may regard man as in the same relations with his cosmic environment as is the ,earth itself4 ,compounded as he is of cosmic elements1 he responds at all points to changes that are continually taking place in the system4 ,but he does so in terms of his radical constitution or root nature1 which1 of course1 varies as the individual concerned4 ,for all sidereal and planetary forces1 while possessing their respective properties and expressing their own several natures1 are differently received and transmuted according to the constitution of the recipient body4 ,hence the planets only affect us in terms of ourselves4 ,the same white solar ray falling upon an emerald and a ruby will be differently reflected by each of them1 appearing as green in the one case and red in the other4 ,so it is with men4 ,they each reflect the ,wisdom and ,love of the ,universal ,being in a variety of forms of knowledge and affection1 expressed in speech and action1 which is the common life4 ,this fact should save us all from the error of bigotry and dogmatism4 ,it is only the ,diamond ,heart that can reflect the pure ray of the ,divine4 ,it is comforting to know that the diamond is the mature carbo-hydrate4 ,given the conditions and the time1 the soul that is as black as coal can become1 by evolutional processes1 as clear and pellucid as the diamond4 ,we begin as fragments of gross earth and end as suns in the galaxy of heaven4 ,it is customary for astrologers to refer to the various planets as good1 evil and neutral4 ,thus ,saturn1 ,uranus and ,mars are regarded as malefic1 while ,jupiter and ,venus are called ,benefics4 ,this is not the truth1 however convenient it may be to retain these ascriptions for purposes of delineation4 ,every planet has two aspects1 and these aspects are referred to the higher and lower natures of our being4 ,mars1 for instance1 is merely ,energy1 the focussed or specialized vitality of the ,sun4 ,it answers to the red ray4 ,operating in a person of low mental and moral calibre1 it will produce a ,free-thinker1 a ,firebrand and ,anarchist1 and a man of violence and lawlessness4 ,the same planet1 when expressing itself through a highly evolved nature1 will manifest as zeal1 fervour1 intensity1 enthusiasm1 enterprise1 ambition and moral courage4 ,venus in the same way may indicate self-indulgence1 idleness1 pleasure-seeking1 vanity1 frailty and licence in a person of low nature1 while in one of greater moral fibre and higher standard of life1 the same planet will manifest as gentleness1 kindness1 charity1 pure affection1 orderliness and refinement4 ,there is a whole cycle of evolution between the sordid1 money-grubbing propensities of 8the man with the muck-rake0 and the provident carefulness and circumspection of the man who is under the influence of the higher ,saturnine ray4 ,it is all a question of personal colouring4 ,it is not that the planets rule us and compel us to be that which we are1 but that we transmute and corrupt the natures of the planets and abuse the energies and powers which they confer on us4 ,we can never hope to be lords of the ,universe1 but we can be rulers of ourselves4 ,self-government is at the root of the matter4 ,we attain to it through experience and suffering4 ,it is not born with any man1 but there are those among us who remember their lessons well and speedily get themselves into touch with their environment1 and their faculties and powers under control4 ,it is not altogether a truth that 8,the wise man rules his stars and the fool obeys them40 ,it is rather the fact that the wise man rules himself1 all else the stars compel4 ,true1 a number of oppositions and squares in a horoscope of birth will certainly give a man a full share of experience1 but the uses of adversity are sweet4 ,evolution does not wholly consist in getting all we can out of life1 but also of reading into it as much as we can4 ,we all know how much we are affected by our environment4 ,our business is to find out how much our environment can be affected by us4 ,and by environment we have to include that which presses us most nearly in the form of our own personality4 ,to get this under our control is very largely to annihilate the adverse aspects of the planets4 ,all this is possible1 because all planetary influences are modes of the ,one life1 and that which animates the physical body is the solar ray1 while that which animates the mind of man is the ,spiritual ,sun4 ,life has no qualities of its own1 it gets them by use or function4 ,the same energy that is expended in rioting and bloodshed could as readily be used for purposes of constructive enterprise4 ,extravagance is only a morbid generosity1 a philanthropy gone astray4 ,the ,sun that shines alike on the just and the unjust cannot be credited with all the abuses to which we submit our vital powers4 ,why1 then1 should we ascribe to the planets all those evil influences which in truth have no existence except in ourselves1 who are both receivers and transmitters of their influence8 ,this truth has been finally stated by the great ,interpreter1 who said3 ,the good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good1 and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth that which is evil4 ,so far as their cosmic functions are concerned the planets are organic interpreters1 the ,sun being the source of ,vitality or ,life4 ,the ,sun1 therefore1 holds chief place in the consideration of astrologers and is the foundation principle of the horoscope1 all calculations and all measures of time having regard to the ,sun's position and to its postnatal motion4 ,no wonder that the ancients gave to the ,sun a place in ,cosmic ,symbolism which embraced a whole mythology and gave rise to the use of its symbol in all religious services1 seeing that it is the source of all physical life and illumination4 ,the ancient ,aryans and the ,persians regarded it as the physical presentation of the ,supreme ,being1 and even at this day it is retained as a divine symbol in the ordinances of the ,catholic ,church4 ,some idea of the divine attributes ascribed to the ,day-star may be gathered from the ,vedic ,hymns1 one of which ,i have endeavoured to represent in the following lines-- ,,invocation ,,to ,,the ,,vernal ,,sun4 ,o quickening ,fount of life1 ,sun-soul supernal2 ,impenetrating stream ,of light1 whose every beam ,instinctive is and rife ,with ,love eternal3 ,lord of the ,stars and ,skies1 ,king of the ,earth and ,sea1 ,list while our anthems rise ,in praise of ,thee6 ,greatest of all great gods in all seven spheres1 ,regent of ,space and ,lord of countless years1 ,who first did spring from out eternal night1 ,piercing its ebon veil with thy swift light2 ,thou who didst live when ,time was yet unborn1 ,the spirit1 soul and substance of primeval morn1 ,that roused the gods from out their lengthen'd sleep1 ,what time thy ,spirit self had brooded o'er the deep3 ,then1 from thy heart1 ethereal1 unalloyed1 ,the seven great worlds sevenfold refulgent sprang1 ,the gods did shout1 the heavens were overjoyed1 ,and all the stars of heaven together sang6 ,thy living beams1 infilling all the scene1 ,burned in each orb and knit the space between ,to ether vault and circumambient air1 ,that breathed thy life and shed it everywhere2 ,whose power1 pervading all1 attracts1 unites1 ,binds with a lasting link1 sustains1 enhances1 ,and adds to all a beauty that invites ,the liquid light of thy love-lingering glances6 ,come6 glorious ,power6 and from thy golden tresses ,shake down on us the blossoms of the ,spring2 ,lo6 how the earth responds to thy caresses1 ,and how in praise of thee the wild birds sing6 ,look down on us from thy so lofty sphere1 ,wrap and enfold us in thine ardent rays3 ,yea1 glorious ,god1 we hail thy presence here1 ,soul of the ,sun1 we yield thee thanks and praise6 ,lord of the ,stars and ,skies1 ,king of the ,earth and ,sea1 ,list while our anthems rise1 ,in praise of ,thee6 ,the ,sun and ,moon are universally regarded as the symbols of the ,male-female unity of ,nature4 ,the ,sun is the father1 the ,moon the mother1 of all mundane events4 ,astrologers refer these orbs to the organs of sight1 giving the ,sun dominion over the right eye and the ,moon over the left4 ,when the ,sun and ,moon are afflicted1 especially in certain parts of the zodiac1 they indicate blindness or defective vision4 ,it has been stated by ,dr4 ,fearon that there is an affinity between the right eye and the male line of heredity1 and between the left eye and the female line1 and that defects inherited from one line or the other are incidental to the corresponding organ4 ,that there is a great connection with the state of the eye and the general health is a proved fact of which medical men frequently avail themselves in their diagnosis4 ,we have already considered the ,sun and ,moon as the luminaries of the day and night1 and we find this idea associated with the visual power in the ,sayings of ,jesus3 8,if thine eye be good thy whole body shall be full of light1 but if thine eye be evil thy whole body shall be full of darkness40 ,in effect we find that when the iris of the eye is firm and clear and of a single unbroken colour1 the health is good4 ,but when it is split up and discoloured by green streaks the health is imperfect1 while red spots in the iris1 giving a patchy appearance1 are a sure sign of some organic disease1 and most likely of a growth4 ,it is only when we come to admit the psychic origin of disease that we can fully apprehend the value of the ,scripture statement4 ,it is an inductive argument which regards the eye as the index of the general health of the body1 itself standing as a symbol of intelligence4 ,conformity with the spiritual law of being would undoubtedly result in perfect integrity of soul and body4 ,the natural has no life apart from the spiritual4 ,the basis of all things is ,spirit1 and matter as we know it is its ultimate expression4 ,the ,sun1 which is the most active form of matter1 is thus the concrete symbol of ,spirit4 ,among all symbolical forms of worship1 that of the ,sun-worshippers is the most rational4 ,human science may avail much to institute artificial conditions of life1 but it will never succeed in dethroning the ,sun4 ,,chapter ,,xxv ,,astrology ,it could hardly be expected that one in my position1 having the reputation of being one of those modern fools who go searching after ancient wisdom1 could write a book on ,cosmic ,symbolism and successfully avoid the subject of ,astrology4 ,i admit to have trespassed on its preserves more or less in every chapter of this book4 ,now ,i may as well take a gun and make a day of it4 ,it is safe to say that no considerable argument has ever been successfully raised against the claims of ,astrology to a place among the sciences4 ,no valid reason can be given for disputing its principles1 and its facts have never been overset4 ,it is true that ,pico della ,mirandola1 called ,flagellum ,astrologi because of his avowed hatred of the subject1 attempted to expel it from among the ,latins and was an ardent pamphleteer in the cause of its suppression4 ,but he justified its claims and practically unsaid all that he had written by dying at the time predicted by the astrologers4 ,dr4 ,john ,butler1 ,chaplain to ,james ,duke of ,ormonde1 had a mind to inveigh against its teachings1 which by some misconception he fancied to be pagan and subversive of ,christianity4 ,he studied the subject the more effectively to assail the assertions of the astrologers1 and ended his campaign by writing a book in support of its teachings4 ,it is a book rather well known to students of the subject and can be seen at the ,british ,museum4 ,but perhaps the most sounding rebuke that was ever given to such as foolishly repudiate the whole thing without taking the trouble to examine its principles and methods1 was given by ,sir ,isaac ,newton to ,mr4 ,halley of comet fame when he ventured to dispute the subject with the great philosopher4 ,the latter heard him to a finish and then quietly remarked3 8,i have studied the subject1 ,mr4 ,halley1 you have not40 ,i do not know what was ,halley's perspective and therefore ,i cannot say in what regard he held the author of the ,principia1 but personally ,i would rather be swallowed by an earthquake than have such a rebuke from the same source4 ,there was always that about ,newton which inspired confidence in his utterances1 for a more fearless and at the same time humble-minded investigator of ,nature never breathed ,god's air4 ,he spoke of what he knew4 ,in the presentation of astrological evidence we are not called upon to display the modus operandi of planetary action in human life4 ,we can observe facts without references to their causes4 ,we may legitimately theorize as to the means whereby a universe is brought into existence1 but none can say why4 ,one is relieved of the necessity from the fact that he is not the ,creator of it4 ,but there are many suggestions afforded by modern scientific discoveries which lead us to the idea that planetary influence1 apart from the attraction of gravitation1 may be due to the functions of subtle states of matter such as we posit as properties of spatial ether4 ,and since we know nothing of force apart from matter it is reasonable to presume that whatever forces are at play in the cosmos have their appropriate material vehicles4 ,spectrum analysis does not lead us to suppose that there is any material difference in the chemical constituents of the various bodies of the system1 and what you find in the planets you find also in the ,sun4 ,certain considerations regarding the nature of matter lead us1 however1 to the conclusion that1 apart from its properties1 it has characteristics which depend not so much upon its atomic constituents as upon their arrangement4 ,from this we may argue that inasmuch as we are all compounded of the same cosmic elements1 differences of character and temperament are due to the ascendancy of one over other of those elements in individuals4 ,this1 so far as the personality is concerned1 may well be true1 but because material atoms have no emotions1 aspirations1 hopes and fears1 and no moral sense1 they cannot be said to acquire such by mere conglomeration4 ,to carry the argument further1 therefore1 we should have to derive our atoms from something rather more spiritual than the hydrogen base1 the 8happy hunting-ground0 of the physicists4 ,so far as the planets' action on our organisms is concerned1 it may be that the brain cells1 infilled as they are with a nervous pabulum1 are capable of responding to the more subtle vibrations of the ether4 ,but the immaterial parts of us must respond to immaterial stimuli1 and we know that there are other than merely physical effects due to planetary influence4 ,and whereas matter is continuous of matter throughout the entire universe1 mind is continuous of mind1 and spirit of spirit4 ,thus it is that 8,soul to soul strikes through a finer element of its own40 ,we must therefore recognize that there may be a supra-cosmical as well as an intra-cosmical planetary action1 and this follows from the argument that1 matter being the ultimate expression of ,spirit1 the material planets have their spiritual counterparts4 ,however1 to come to the practical side of the argument for and against the subject1 ,i may deal with some of the more weighty objections which have been lodged against it4 ,first1 there is the argument of coincidence which is used to explain away the fact of successful prediction4 ,this in cool logic is no argument at all1 for the only coincidence that is shown is that of the prediction and the subsequent course of events4 ,now if there were a single prediction which in human judgment could not have been otherwise foretold but by the application of some commonly-called 8occult0 knowledge1 this would suffice to confirm the claim that foreknowledge is scientifically possible4 ,but what do we mean by coincidence4 ,if apples falling from a tree pursued different directions1 some falling direct to the earth and some in the contrary direction towards the sky1 while others went off at a tangent1 it may be called a coincidence that one should fall in the direction previously determined upon and named4 ,but if all the apples tend in the same direction and fall along the lines of the earth's radial magnetism direct towards its centre1 then we may posit a law of attraction4 ,now if we can show a definite direction of all planetary influence--that is to say1 show that the same planet always maintains the same significance in the astrological scheme1 that its effects are always of the same general character1 and that these effects synchronize with the arc by which the planet is separated from the position of any of the prescribed ,significators1 then we may claim to have established the law of planetary influence--or1 if you will1 of cosmic symbolism4 ,we are not now concerned with the question of the causative or symbolic relations of our greater environment4 ,this connection between planet and event we can certainly show4 ,another argument is that the discovery of the heliocentric system by ,copernicus invalidated the conclusions of the astrologers which were based on the geocentric positions of the planets4 ,we cannot allow this for the following reasons4 ,the ,suryasiddhanta of ,india antedates the system of ,copernicus by many hundreds of years and it is heliocentric4 ,india is nevertheless the schoolhouse if not the nursery of ,astrology1 and planetary influence in human life is practically an article of faith with the ,hindus4 ,the conclusions of ,copernicus were confirmed and demonstrated by ,tycho and ,kepler4 ,tycho practised astrology while ,kepler confirmed its principles and added to its credentials by successful prediction4 ,in a universe of relativity1 every planet is the centre of its own system1 as every man is the centre of his own world1 and the ,astrologer who studies the action of the planets on this earth and its inhabitants1 rightly regards the latter as the passive centre of such action4 ,as the fortunes of a country centre in its ,ruler1 so those of the individual centre in himself4 ,a further argument urged against the ,science is that the discovery of the planets ,neptune and ,uranus must vitiate conclusions drawn from an incomplete cosmical system4 ,the argument has really very little value4 ,the discovery of ,argon as a constituent of the earth's atmosphere does not involve any change in our ideas about oxygen1 hydrogen1 or nitrogen4 ,what was argued in regard to the nature of ,saturn a thousand years ago is maintained by all modern ,astrologers4 ,it is the same with all the other planets4 ,only we have the added knowledge of the nature and influence of the two planets ,neptune and ,uranus to supplement what the ancients knew about the rest of the solar system4 ,in former days when they could not discover adequate reasons for death1 a man was said to have died by 8the visitation of ,god40 ,to-day with our extended knowledge of the solar system it is found that ,uranus or ,neptune has been the agent of the ,lord of ,life and ,death4 ,another objection raised against the idea of planetary influence is that the bodies are so remote and insignificant as to be incapable of producing any marked effects in mundane affairs4 ,the objection is grounded in ignorance4 ,the distance of the planets bears no relation to their influence or power to affect us4 ,this will be obvious to those who have reflected on the fact that etheric vibration becomes 8light0 only when it impinges on the earth's atmosphere1 and the fact also that the attraction of gravitation operates irrespective of distance and maintains the solidarity of the system4 ,planetary perturbations due to the mutual attraction of the several bodies is an adequate reply to the objection of ,cicero4 ,sir ,david ,brewster argues that if light could reach us from the distant stars and planets1 other influences may also reach us from the same sources4 ,cicero1 on the other hand1 while possessed of magnificent ideas of the solar system and fully admitting its solidarity1 asks with evident lack of argument1 8,what contagion can reach us from the planets whose distances are almost infinite80 ,we have gone beyond the 8infinite0 of ,cicero since that question was asked1 and modern astronomers are able to demonstrate the fact that the ,sun1 while acting as the centre of attraction in its own system1 is answering to the gravitational pull of some star in the confines of space1 and that it has a proper motion of its own in a vast orbit about that centre4 ,i have already expressed the view that ,plato knew of this and that it was the basis of his ,great ,year4 ,what hinders that our ,sun may receive influences from its own lode-star1 and that these may be transmitted to us in common with the other planets of our system8 ,there is no harm in using the scientific imagination providing that we have some fact from which to proceed4 ,in connection with the teachings of astrology there is the scientific fact of natural selection to be considered4 ,what is it that determines birth under particular astral conditions4 ,we say that it is innate tendency4 ,locke1 who in his ,human ,understanding argued for 8no innate ideas0 had a faulty perspective4 ,he failed to account for genius through sense-impressions1 as others have later failed to account for it through cumulative heredity4 ,we have instances before us where it is obvious that there was nothing to accumulate so far as special forms of genius were concerned4 ,if1 on the other hand1 we accept the human being as an evolving ,monad passing through a succession of incarnations for the purposes of experience and ultimate specialization of faculty1 we shall at once understand how it is that certain persons are endowed with precocious tendencies of a definite order from infancy1 and indeed birth4 ,given the time necessary to get into touch with the physical instrument and to 8tune up10 as it were1 the appearance of unusual faculty can in no way be hindered1 because it is innate4 ,in this connection ,astrology affirms that persons are born with particular horoscopes because when the heavens are so disposed as to admit of1 and indeed to favour1 the expression of certain forms of genius and faculty1 the ,soul requiring those conditions is borne into earth-life4 ,the doctrine involves the suggestion that there is a purpose in human existence and that such purpose is neither begun nor fulfilled in any one incarnation4 ,then1 as there is a ,spiritual ,law in the ,natural ,world1 and a supra-cosmic law of planetary action1 we can see how the line of least resistance is determined by innate tendency4 ,in the ,wisdom of ,solomon it is said3 8,i am not good because ,i was born into an undefiled body1 but being good ,i was born into a body undefiled40 ,there is therefore an ancient belief in the determination of birth conditions to innate character4 ,colourless and purposeless individuals are found to be responsive to general or group influences and to be moved by the feelings and thoughts that animate the crowd4 ,they have not yet attained that power of self-direction which characterizes the highly evolved ,monad4 ,accentuated and purposeful characters1 on the other hand1 require specific influences under which to be born1 and these influences must be conformable to the purpose in view4 ,what that purpose is may be seen from their life and actions1 and indeed it is written all over them for those who understand the physiognomy of ,nature4 ,occasionally we have the incarnation of special ,messengers who are responsive to the collective spirit of the superior world4 ,these are found to voice the needs of the soul rather than of the body of man and their minds answer to a higher law than that which controls the average individual4 ,very many factors conspire to the production of those astral conditions which favour the expression of individual character of a high order4 ,much depends on the sphere of life in which the purpose of evolution requires that they shall function4 ,we have such examples of marked men in all spheres of life4 ,but wherever they appear they are easily discernible by their horoscopes4 ,nature is not so profligate as some people imagine1 for in the long run it is seen that her ways and means are those which invariably secure the end in view4 ,if she is apparently careless of the mass she is at all events jealously careful in regard to such as have specialized1 and we find by practical experience that she adapts environment to purpose with infinite care and foresight4 ,if we take the astral conditions obtaining over any particular period of a year and consider them in relation to the number of births occurring in any particular area1 we shall find that so far as the cosmic relations of the planets are concerned they will remain practically undisturbed for a considerable time4 ,thus ,neptune will be in the same sign for about #ad years1 ,uranus for #g years1 ,saturn for #b years1 ,jupiter for one year1 and ,mars for nearly two months1 ,venus and ,mercury changing signs within the month4 ,so that1 from a cosmical point of view1 quite a large number of births will take place under similar conditions1 for even the ,moon1 which represents the element of variability1 will continue in the same sign for about #b days1 and in a thickly populated area such as the ,city of ,london1 where the average birth-rate is #ad per hour1 we may have as many as #hdj births under exactly the same zodiacal conditions4 ,but it happens that the ancient astrologers thought out this problem somewhat fully1 and consequently they directed their attention to the conditions obtaining in regard to a given locality4 ,in other words1 they paid more attention to the rising1 culmination and setting of the planets than to their zodiacal positions4 ,now a simple calculation will show that as #a of the zodiac passes the meridian every four minutes1 and #ae every hour1 there is enough and to spare for the fourteen births which take place on an average in the most densely populated centre of the world1 so that each of them may be born under a separate degree4 ,but the fact probably is1 and necessarily ,i am theorizing on the point1 that people are born in batches1 for where special conditions are not required the common experiences of life will serve for all the evolutional needs of a large majority of those born into the world4 ,moreover1 as ,i have already said1 the planets affect us in terms of ourselves1 so that the same planetary conditions will be variously interpreted by individuals born at the same time1 according to their degree of evolution4 ,consequently ,i do not see any astrological objection to any number of persons being born under the same stellar conditions1 and it is indeed probable that the horoscopes of all our kings and leaders will find duplicates all over the country4 ,all that we note in such circumstances is that the events of their lives have a certain set parallelism from birth until death1 while so long as these individual souls are under the sway of those stellar conditions1 they interpret them according to their own natures and in terms of their sphere of life4 ,a notable case1 but by no means the only one that could be cited is that of ,john ,hemmings and ,king ,george ,,iii4 ,both were born on the same day and at the same hour in the same parish of ,st4 ,martins-le-,fields1 in ,london4 ,when ,george ,,ii died ,john ,hemmings' father died4 ,george ,,iii succeeded to the throne and ,john ,hemmings to his father's business1 which was that of an ironmonger4 ,they were married on the same day1 had the same number of children of the same sexes1 and died on the same day and at nearly the same hour4 ,the ,webbs1 the ,cloughs and the ,morells are famous cases of twins whose lives were at all points similar1 and this1 not because they were born of the same parents but because they were born under exactly the same astral conditions4 ,the mundane factor as distinguished from the zodiacal1 that is to say1 the positions of the planets in the prime vertical as distinguished from their positions in the zodiac1 is that which makes for individual expression4 ,three hundred and sixty persons could be born in a single day in any one locality and each of these could have a horoscope that is distinct and individual4 ,the highest record does not reach this number4 ,with this factor of variation in the expression of human character and destiny1 it is possible to understand how the ,arch-arbiter of our destinies may1 for the ultimate purposes of our spiritual evolution1 determine the application of the individual psychoplasm to the physical centres of life at times when the cosmical and mundane conditions are harmonious to the end designed4 ,from an astrological point of view there is room and to spare for the expression of every phase of human character and development1 and that is the same as saying that the ,one ,life is capable of an infinite variety of manifestations in the process of time4 ,this doubtless was the thought animating ,shelley's oft-quoted phrase-- ,life1 like a dome of many-coloured glass1 ,stains the white radiance of ,eternity4 ,,chapter ,,xxvi ,,character ,,and ,,environment ,,sir ,,francis ,,galton in his ,enquiry into ,human ,faculty has laid it down as an axiom for the study of ,eugenists that 8,nature is stronger than ,nurture40 ,his researches and tabulated statistics undoubtedly point this conclusion4 ,we have therefore to regard life in terms of this fact4 ,in the making of destiny ,character is the prime factor1 and the modifying factor is ,environment4 ,reform that has an eye only to externals will never be finally effective4 ,only that which makes for the upbuilding of individual character will secure permanent results4 ,without doubt character demands for its full expression the most effective instrument that can be placed at its disposal1 and this is the whole case for ,eugenics4 ,how that efficiency of instrument is to be secured for the majority is another matter4 ,certainly it will never be found along the lines of stock4 ,we have before us hundreds of examples of thoroughly fit persons of both sexes whose children are weaklings or mentally defective4 ,i have cited two cases of women simultaneously bearing children in the same hospital4 ,one child dies and the other lives4 ,why8 ,they were born under the same stellar conditions4 ,they had equal care from their births onwards4 ,the reason is that in one instance the mother's horoscope shows success in progeny from the presence of ,jupiter in the #eth ,house1 and the other shows no success at all from the presence of ,saturn in that part of the heavens4 ,both mothers were perfectly fit in themselves and in the same station of life4 ,obviously there is here imported a factor that is of immense importance to those who have a mind for improving the race4 ,seed1 ,season and ,soil are all essential to the production of healthy offspring4 ,our ,eugenists leave out of consideration the factor of ,season4 ,they imagine that1 given healthy parents1 you are bound to have healthy children4 ,nothing is further from the truth1 if we regard children as composite beings and not merely as animals4 ,we may frankly admit that the personality determines the final expression of character as the coloured glass through which the ray of intelligence finally strikes upon us1 but to confound character with environment--and there is no environment which presses a man more nearly than his physical body--would be to negative the whole effort of reform4 ,character is inherent and is imported to the physical environment4 ,it is not derived from it4 ,it is no by-product1 but a thing as essential to ,soul as shape is to matter4 ,beyond the fact of physical heredity1 which counts for a great deal where bodies are concerned1 there is the yet more important factor of psychic tradition4 ,the importation of this factor into the problem is of the utmost significance1 and ,i venture to say that apart from a thorough sounding of modern ,psychology and ,occultism1 and a due consideration of all the factors that go to the making of a man1 there will be no satisfactory solution of the problem modern ,eugenists have before them4 ,in the analysis of personal efficiency we find three factors in co-operation3 faculty1 function and instrument4 ,all faculty is strengthened and increased by use or function4 ,function it is that adapts environment to its needs1 as a force pressing towards expression in matter4 ,for the expression of faculty1 therefore1 we need functional integrity1 adaptation of environment1 and efficiency of instrument4 ,it has been said that1 given an instrument that is out of tune there would not be much difference in expression of faculty between an impresario and a man entirely ignorant of music4 ,this is true only in time and as regards the immediate effort of each4 ,but one can very well see that there are essential differences which will very soon be made manifest4 ,the musician would know that the instrument was defective1 while the other would not4 ,in a short while the musician would get that instrument into tune so that he could express his faculty4 ,the man ignorant of music could not attempt the business4 ,character counts for more than environment1 and faculty than instrument4 ,now in our ,occultism we distinguish between that which is incidental1 as faculty and character2 and that which is accidental1 as instrument and environment4 ,it is recognized that the horoscope of birth is accidental in this sense1 and represents the cosmical and mundane environment in which the character is required to express itself4 ,it represents a composite of cosmic forces energizing through two great streams of heredity4 ,but it is not essential to the man1 as is character4 ,it is not going to damn him for ever or confer on him the guerdon of a blessed immortality4 ,it is merely an environment1 and that but a temporary one4 ,astrologers classify characters into three primary groups1 representing stability1 flexibility and incisiveness1 or again1 originality and independence1 adaptability1 and executiveness4 ,these answer to the grouping of the planets in the several signs of the zodiac1 namely1 the ,fixed1 ,common and ,cardinal signs1 otherwise known as the grave1 circumflex and acute4 ,these may be tabularized in the following manner-- ,sign4 ,character4 ,faculty4 ,aries1 ,libra1 ,incisive4 ,executiveness4 ,capricorn1 ,cancer4 ,cardinal or ,acute4 ,taurus1 ,scorpio1 ,leo1 ,aquarius4 ,stable4 ,originality4 ,fixed or ,grave4 ,gemini1 ,sagittary1 ,virgo1 ,pisces4 ,flexible4 ,adaptability4 ,common or ,circumflex4 ,from this grouping we know at once what is the predominant mould of character and hence what environment is most suitable for the exercise and expression of that character4 ,and as applied to eugenics1 we are able thereby to make selection of suitable partners in life1 setting off the stability of the one by the flexibility of the other1 and so on4 ,take1 for instance1 the man who shows a predominant flexibility of character1 wide sympathies1 versatility1 prolixity and diffuseness4 ,he is apt to become a dabbler1 never thorough1 and aliquid in omnibus4 ,obviously his ambitions need pointing1 his faculties concentrating1 and his natural powers conserving4 ,bring him into relations with a woman who has a majority of the planets in cardinal signs1 and he will find one who can be of the greatest use to him in the shaping of character and the directing of his ambitions and powers4 ,we might ring the changes and derive from these three types seven distinct characters1 all mutually interdependent and capable of fulfilling some special function in the economy of life1 but never wholly of service when working alone4 ,it is from the interplay of human character in the ordinary course of life that the main purpose of human evolution is served4 ,it has already been shown that the lunar sphere is the last of those through which the incarnating entity passes when it proceeds towards mundane existence4 ,it has been shown also that the ,moon exercises a most important influence in human generation4 ,it is to the ,moon1 therefore1 that we look for the final determination of that personal colouring which is the prime environment of the ,soul4 ,accordingly we find that the ,moon's position in a horoscope of birth is of the greatest importance4 ,not only does the ,sign occupied by the ,moon give to the character a special colouring1 but the decanate and even the degree that is held by it play their part in the final determination of the personal colouring4 ,but inasmuch as there is an adaptation of means to end and of character to environment1 we may go further and infer character as indicated by the lunar position4 ,in this way the whole phenomenal world may be regarded as the reflex of the noumenal4 ,the person1 as phenomenon1 assumes a cosmic and spiritual significance4 ,he is one of the divine symbols4 ,to take a concrete instance4 ,the ,kaiser ,wilhelm ,,ii was born with the ,moon in the #bhth degree of the sign ,scorpio1 which is ruled by the ,sun1 the sign being under the dominion of the planet ,mars4 ,the ,moon is opposed by ,uranus1 which disposes to a wayward and autocratic disposition1 some degree of eccentricity1 a nature subject to impulses and precipitate actions4 ,the ,moon therefore takes the prime colouring of the planet ,mars1 because it is in the sign of ,mars1 ,scorpio1 and we accordingly find that ,mars is a very prominent planet in the horoscope1 being in the ,mid-heaven and near the conjunction with ,neptune4 ,it is not1 therefore1 surprising that the ,kaiser ,wilhelm has received the name of 8,war ,lord40 ,he represents the fighting principle which makes for conquest and freedom4 ,zeal1 courage1 enthusiasm1 enterprise and frankness are among the martial attributes4 ,to these attributes1 the solar degrees held by the ,moon will contribute a degree of pride1 love of fame1 glory and display4 ,take another instance4 ,napoleon ,i was born with the ,moon in the #bhth degree of the sign ,capricornus4 ,the sign is ruled by ,saturn1 and we find ,saturn in the most prominent position in the horoscope1 being in the ,mid-heaven in opposition to the ,moon4 ,saturn is in the sign ,cancer1 and he died from the disease associated with this sign4 ,the degree is ruled by the ,sun4 ,here we have the ,moon in the cardinal sign ,capricorn1 ruled by ,saturn1 the most powerful planet in the horoscope4 ,it is altogether suitable to the 8,man of ,destiny40 ,the degree held by the ,moon is ruled by the ,sun1 and this gives the desire for fame1 honour1 glory and rulership4 ,the decanate of the sign occupied by the ,moon is related to the sign ,aries ruled by ,mars1 and here we have the military instinct4 ,but the presiding influence in the horoscope is undoubtedly that of the planet ,saturn1 in whose sign the ,moon is found at the moment of birth4 ,saturn had an ancient reputation of devouring his own children1 which means that those whom he raises in the world he eventually despoils4 ,it was thus in the case of ,napoleons ,i and ,,iii1 both of whom had the planet in the ,mid-heaven of their horoscopes4 ,but the tally of its victims is a lengthy one1 and includes all grades of life4 ,what sphere is likely to be occupied by the subject of this or any other horoscopical influence coming through the ,moon1 depends most of all upon the position of the planet governing the ,moon-sign1 that is1 the ,sign in which the ,moon is placed at the birth4 ,thus ,i find that ,rudyard ,kipling has the ,moon in ,gemini1 and this is ruled by ,mercury1 who is in the sign ,sagittarius in conjunction with ,venus4 ,mercury is pre-eminently the representative of literature and ,venus that of poesy4 ,but the ,moon is also in the degree of ,gemini that is ruled by ,venus1 and in that part of the sign which reflects the sign ,aries1 so that we have direct evidence of the military associations of his poetical genius4 ,the poet ,shelley was born with the ,moon in ,pisces1 which is ruled by ,jupiter1 a powerful planet in his horoscope1 and1 conjoined with the planets ,mars and ,neptune1 denoting the fearless and zealous nature allied to mysticism and inspiration4 ,the ,moon being in a degree that is ruled by itself1 denotes that love of change and that restless inconsequence which characterized his life1 while the ,moon1 being in the decanate which reflects the sign ,cancer1 adds that abiding love of maritime pursuits which eventually brought about his death1 and once more accentuated the import of the phrase3 8the ruling passion strong in death60 ,nelson was born with the ,sun in the sign ,leo1 and the ,sun1 its ruler1 in elevation4 ,shakespeare was born with the ,moon in ,taurus1 with ,venus its ruler in elevation4 ,thus we see that all those who have distinguished themselves in their sphere of life have the ruler of the ,moon-sign in a prominent position in their horoscopes1 and further that the exact position of the ,moon as to decanate and degree gives us the particular setting of the character and the special faculty by which they are distinguished4 ,yet while the study of character and environment from the point of view of ,astrology is in every way satisfactory to those who take it seriously in hand1 it does not in itself afford that degree of evidence that is looked for by people newly acquainted with its claims and teachings4 ,for human character is a very complex thing1 and universally shows the admixture of elements that are common to all in a greater or less degree4 ,it is rather in the specialization of some one characteristic that persons become distinguished4 ,it is sometimes in the suppression of some prevailing characteristic that others attain distinction4 ,thus we see that the selfless devotion of one man to the needs of others draws him away from the mass of commonly selfish people4 ,accentuation and abnegation may thus both claim their hold upon the public esteem1 yet always it is thoroughness that makes its mark in the world1 and by that ,i mean the steadfast adherence to a plan of life which wins its way through in the end4 ,so then1 we see that the evolution of the unit from the mass1 the specialization of faculty in the individual1 is the law of ,nature1 and it hardly needed the philosophy of ,nietzsche or the cult of the ,superman to enforce the fact upon our minds4 ,and yet1 after all1 there is no individual evolution possible for man apart from the race to which he belongs1 and when all is done that self-effort can accomplish1 when we have specialized and perfected to the highest possible degree1 what remains but that we must perforce acknowledge our indebtedness to the world and find our whole destiny to consist in the service of mankind4 ,thus ,bulwer ,lytton makes ,zanoni to say3 ,after all ,i perceive that the common lot of mankind is its greatest and its sweetest blessing6 ,astrology at all events has no higher doctrine than this3 ,study how best to serve4 ,,chapter ,,xxvii ,,the ,,law ,,of ,,sex ,synthetic ,philosophy and ,comparative ,theology have sought wisely to establish a common basis for human thought and aspiration4 ,from the complex of life and thought they have argued to fundamental unity4 ,it has been well said that the foolish and superficial look for differences in things about them1 but the wise seek for the underlying identity4 ,in the last analysis of things animate and inanimate1 we are faced by the insoluble fact of sex distinction4 ,when we speak of chemical affinity1 of magnetism1 of polarity1 we are really speaking in terms of sex4 ,however far we push back our investigations along the lines of evolution we come at length to the distinction which separates one-half of nature from the other1 and which is seen to be at the root of all natural attractions and to be the source of generation4 ,sex1 as considered by itself and apart from function and organism1 may be the result of a mode of vibration4 ,we cannot say4 ,we may go right back to the first principles of our conception of ,life and we find the active and passive principles of ,force and ,matter1 ,heat and ,moisture1 ,fire and ,water1 penetrating through the various philosophies and schools of thought1 but always a duality4 ,even in the ,theological conception we have the divine principles of ,wisdom and ,love in apposition1 but united for the purpose of ,creation and ,preservation of the ,universe4 ,it is a mystery that cannot be solved4 ,we cannot in fact1 determine whether sex distinction is temporary or eternal4 ,we have reason to regard it as radical and not accidental4 ,for whereas in the process of evolution it appears from time to time to merge in various forms and to become hermaphroditic1 we find it continually emerging again1 persistent and irrepressible4 ,from the occult point of view it appears to be impounded in the very elements of our being4 ,it has been shown in these pages that the ,microcosmic ,man is an epitome of the universe1 compounded of universal elements1 and responsive at all points to the laws controlling the cosmos4 ,it has also been shown that the ,moon1 so far as this earth is concerned1 is the cosmic factor which represents variability4 ,it has also been shown that it exercises first influence in the process of generation1 and1 therefore we may expect to find it intimately connected with the question of sex4 ,it is1 in fact1 found to be the factor which determines the astral forces towards the evolution of sex function and organism4 ,by an empiricism based on an occult law and proved by the application of this law to hundreds of cases of well-authenticated births1 it has been established that the determination of sex follows a definite course from a certain point of time bearing a mathematical and astronomical relationship to the moment of birth4 ,thus1 given the moment at which a birth took place in any locality1 it is possible to at once indicate the sex without the fact being communicated4 ,by this ,i do not mean that sex production is voluntary in human or animal generation4 ,that is a problem which the ,eugenists should consider in the light of the law of sex ,i am now concerned with4 ,the four cardinal points of the zodiac1 ,aries #j1 ,libra #j1 ,capricorn #j and ,cancer #j1 are the generating points of the circle or ,wheel of ,life4 ,these points are not artificial4 ,they are natural4 ,they mark the stages at which the ,sun in its apparent course about the earth cross the equator1 and attain the maximum and minimum degrees of elevation4 ,by analogy they are related to the ,dawn1 ,noon1 ,sunset and ,midnight of the daily circle2 to the ,spring1 ,summer1 ,autumn and ,winter of the year2 and to the periods of ,childhood1 ,manhood1 ,maturity and ,senility in the life of man4 ,it is this consent of ,nature to the universal paradigm that enables us to trace the course of mundane events from astral conditions in force at these several points of the year1 as ,kepler allowed from his own experience1 and as ,astrologers find continually to be the case4 ,taking these four points of the zodiac1 then1 as the starting-points for the determination of cosmic forces ultimating as sex1 we find that ,aries #j is female1 ,capricornus #j male1 ,libra #j male and ,cancer #j female4 ,they follow the lines of the segmentation of the cell in the animal organism4 ,thus-- ,illustration3 ,figure #bh4 ,from each of these points there are six others generated1 which are alternately male and female in potentiality4 ,here it is necessary to introduce the lunar factor1 since it is the means of the distribution of the 8sex degrees0 as we may call them1 which are generated from the four cardinal points4 ,for this purpose we have to regard the moon in relation to the number #g1 which is the number of days in which it forms its successive phases4 ,from one phase to another is a quadrant of #ij and this divided by seven will give the mean acceleration of #ab-f_/g4 ,if we divide the circle into seven parts we shall get #ea-c_/g and further dividing this into four parts1 in order to get the twenty-eight days of the ,moon's passage1 we shall have again #ab-f_/g4 ,it is the septenate division of the circle which enables us to get the sex degrees that are generated from the four cardinal points4 ,thus1 from ,aries #j we arrive at ,taurus #ba-c_/g1 ,cancer #ab-f_/g1 ,virgo #d-b_/g1 ,libra #be-e_/g1 ,sagittarius #ag-a_/g1 and ,aquarius #h-d_/g4 ,these are found to be male and female in alternation4 ,from ,libra #j we derive the same degrees of the opposite signs1 but the sex is reversed in each case4 ,from ,capricornus we derive ,leo #ba1 ,libra #ac1 ,sagittarius #d1 ,capricorn #bf1 ,pisces #ag1 and ,taurus #h1 the sex of each being the same as the corresponding degrees of the zodiac generated from ,libra4 ,from ,cancer we derive the same degrees of the opposite signs to those derived from ,capricornus1 but the sex is reversed in each case4 ,there are thus four sets of degrees alternately male and female in tendency which are generated from the four cardinal points1 and these may be set out in order as derived1 thus-- ,illustration3 ,figure #bi4 ,it will be observed that the fractions are omitted and the nearest complete degree inserted4 ,then if we arrange these four sets of degrees into their groups under the radical generator1 we shall have a central generating point with a six-pointed star or interlaced triangle around it1 the upright triangle being male and the reversed triangle female at the radials4 ,each of these stars will occupy one of the four cardinal points of the ,cosmic ,cross4 ,illustration3 ,figure #cj4 ,diagram of the ,cosmic ,star4 ,showing the generation of the ,sex ,degrees of the ,zodiac from the ,four ,cardinal ,points4 ,the application of the ,law of ,sex requires some little astronomical practice4 ,it is first of all necessary to find the place of the ,moon at the time of birth4 ,if the moon is found in a sex degree or within three degrees of one1 it will retain the sex of that degree4 ,otherwise1 it is necessary to observe whether the ,moon is increasing or decreasing at the time1 and if increasing1 the ,moon's place must be put on the ,east horizon1 but if decreasing1 it will be on the ,west horizon4 ,this position is found to answer to the ,moon's place at the ,prenatal ,epoch1 concerning which some explanation is necessary4 ,the normal period of human gestation is nine solar or ten lunar months4 ,it will be found that the moon makes ten revolutions while the ,sun passes through nine signs of the zodiac4 ,but this normal period may be increased or decreased1 and that quite normally1 by the relative positions of the luminaries at the time of inception4 ,i use this word to distinguish it from conception1 which term connotes certain physiological processes and facts4 ,the astral factor should not be identified in point of time with the physiological processes of coitus and impregnation4 ,now it is found that when at birth the ,moon is increasing in light1 that is1 going towards the full1 and above the horizon1 or conversely1 decreasing in light and below the horizon1 the period from birth to inception is less than ten lunar months by a quantity determined by the ,moon's distance from the horizon4 ,but when the ,moon at birth is found to be decreasing and above the horizon1 or increasing and below the horizon1 the period of time from birth to inception is found to be more than ten lunar months by a quantity determined by the ,moon's distance from the horizon4 ,the measure of this plus or minus quantity is thus computed4 ,the ,moon's distance is taken from the horizon ,east or ,west1 according as it is increasing or decreasing in light4 ,if increasing1 it is taken from the ,east1 and if decreasing from the ,west4 ,the number of zodiacal degrees between the ,moon and the horizon thus indicated has then to be divided by the ,moon's mean diurnal motion1 which is #ac #aa roughly1 and this will be the number of days more or less than ten lunar revolutions by which the birth is separated from the inception4 ,this calculation from the ,moon's position in the zodiac and prime vertical enables us certainly to fix the day of the inception4 ,the next step is to find the time of day at which the ,moon is in exact horoscopical relations with the moment of birth4 ,this is done by a single observation4 ,in all normal cases it is found that if the ,moon is increasing in light at the time of birth1 that is to say1 going from the new to the full1 its longitude at the moment of birth will be the ascendant at the inception1 and if decreasing at birth its longitude will be the descendant at the moment of the inception4 ,then universally it is found that the ,moon is1 at that moment1 in the exact longitude which was rising or setting at the birth4 ,now having the moon's acceleration as a variable factor1 ranging from #aa #ej to #ae #ag per day1 the chances are millions to one against the ,moon being in the exact degree and minute that was on the horizon at birth at the same time that the ,moon's place at birth was rising or setting on a local horizon4 ,yet this is found to be the fact6 ,what other conclusion can we come to1 having regard to all the factors employed1 and the wonderful harmony that is observed to result1 than that 8,god geometrizes10 as ,plato wisely said4 ,things do not happen by chance1 but by law4 ,law is the expression of intelligence inhering in action4 ,the universe is rendered intelligible by its laws4 ,whatever is intelligible expresses ,intelligence4 ,but we have yet to consider the variation of the law that is conformable to the ,law of ,sex4 ,this ,law of ,lunar ,appulsion in the matter of human generation would work out exactly as stated above in every case were it not for the fact that ,sex is the dominant and controlling factor1 and that by reason of it a birth may be delayed or advanced by a period ranging from a fortnight to as much as two months4 ,for1 whatever may be the other factors involved in the horoscopical conditions of a birth1 sex must be satisfied first and foremost4 ,it is the controlling factor4 ,observe1 then1 that if the birth is male and the ,moon occupies a female degree1 as indicated above1 should the ,moon be increasing in light1 the ,law of ,lunar ,appulsion already detailed will require that the ,moon's place should rise at the ,epoch of inception or1 as it is called1 the 8,prenatal ,epoch10 and consequently a female degree would be rising at such ,epoch4 ,this would be contrary to the sex1 and consequently we know that the ,moon's place at birth must be setting at the ,epoch1 so that a male degree may be rising4 ,this is the case1 mutatus mutandis1 when the ,moon is in a male degree and the sex is female4 ,then1 this adjustment being duly made1 it is found that the horoscope resulting will find the ,moon in the exact degree that was rising at birth4 ,exactly similar considerations hold in the case of a ,moon that is decreasing at birth4 ,this is the first establishment of the ,law of ,sex as controlling the time of birth4 ,the next is when the ,moon does not occupy a sex degree but is more than three degrees removed from either male or female degrees4 ,in such case we have to consider whether the degree on the horizon at the moment of birth pertains to either sex4 ,for if it be so1 and the degree is of the sex of the child born1 then we know that the ,moon was in that degree at the ,epoch1 whether it was increasing or decreasing in light at the birth4 ,this will control the day of birth in the same way that the first rule controlled the moment of it4 ,only when neither the ,moon nor the horizon are occupied by sex degrees the ,law of ,lunar ,appulsion operates without restriction4 ,this clearly shows that the ,law of ,sex is paramount1 and that it can and does control the ,law of ,lunar ,appulsion4 ,by appulsion we mean that outbreathing from the moon-sphere towards the earth which corresponds to the diastole of respiration1 by which the vital forces of the cosmos focussed by the ,moon are carried towards the earth for the production and sustentation of the species4 ,if this ,law were a matter of chance it will be seen by any one acquainted with the astronomical facts1 that the chances are dead against it working out in practice4 ,yet the facts are in daily test by astrologers the world over1 and we may hence conclude that the ,law of ,sex has absolutely been discovered1 or at all events the rules by which we may recognize its cosmic relations4 ,with a closer knowledge of the initial stages of generation1 it will be possible1 by a reversal of the factors here employed1 to argue from the inception to the birth1 instead of as now from the birth backwards to the ,epoch of inception4 ,in such case we shall have obtained the secret of how to determine the sex of offspring at will4 ,that the ,prenatal ,epoch here established answers to some incipient stage of the process of generation there can be no reasonable doubt whatever1 for wherever the time of birth is accurately taken by a medical man it answers exactly to the astronomical considerations required by the ,law as formulated4 ,elsewhere ,i have delivered a diagram showing the ,moon's position for each month from the inception to the birth1 from which we see that there is a definite law of pulsation marking a spiral descent of the ,monad along the line of energy instituted between the ,moon's place at the ,epoch and the point of the zodiac on the horizon at the moment of birth4 ,this ,i have called the ,descent of the ,monad1 and it affords a study of the greatest psychological value4 ,very many attempts have been made on the part of gynecologists to ascertain the law controlling ,sex1 and ,i have introduced this section in the hope that such as may have a practical interest in this question will avail themselves of the facts so far derived from the study of occultism4 ,,chapter ,,xxviii ,a ,,test ,,of ,,value ,the ,old ,philosopher of ,china has said that the virtue of everything is in its use4 ,if ,cosmic ,symbolism cannot be applied to the practical ends of life it will not succeed in appealing to the average intellect1 which sets for its standard the single test of utility4 ,in these pages ,i have endeavoured to show that the ,universe as ,symbol is best studied in relation to its bearing on the common needs of humanity4 ,i have also shown that ,astrology is the only system of thought and practice that attempts the application4 ,i propose now to examine the educational value of this study and its practical use in daily life1 and thus to place it among the list of those subjects that have a serious claim to the consideration of enlightened people4 ,tracing our way through the ,encyclopdia of knowledge we find that most of the deeper studies that engage the powers of men are valuable1 not so much for the ends they lead to1 as for the mental training obtained in their pursuit4 ,it is one of the outstanding features of modern scientific methods that we are required to bring our theories into agreement with known facts4 ,the facts themselves are often uninteresting and of small practical value1 but they serve as landmarks by which to direct our course towards conclusions which in themselves are often valuable4 ,it is thus with astronomy4 ,the application of the ,principia or of the ,laws of ,kepler to the cosmos as we know it is an exercise requiring the greatest possible care1 considerable mathematical ability1 and the patience of a ,prometheus4 ,the bare facts of astronomy are not generally interesting4 ,we are not solicitous of knowing in exactly how many days1 hours1 minutes and seconds the planet ,jupiter completes its course about the ,sun4 ,what is of more practical interest to us as terrestrials is to know ,jupiter's relations to this world of ours1 what it stands for in the economy of life1 and what influence1 if any1 it exerts over us4 ,now ,astrology1 while employing all the elements of astronomy that have any certain foundation in fact1 is calculated as a study to engage all the highest faculties of the human mind1 while it brings to the results obtained the added virtue of utility4 ,the late ,professor ,max ,mller once paid ,astrology a great tribute when he said that many of our most distinguished men of intellect were at this day practiced astrologers1 but that 8few cared to let their studies be known1 so great was the ignorance which confounded a science requiring the highest education with that of the ordinary gipsy fortune-teller40 ,possibly he had in mind the late ,lord ,chief ,justice1 or ,dr4 ,richard ,garnett1 or indeed any one of the host of intelligent students who have secretly avowed their adherence to the science4 ,that which held the admiration of ,claudius ,ptolemy1 and received the imprimatur of ,tycho and ,kepler1 which attracted ,lord ,verulam1 ,francis ,bacon1 and was held in the highest esteem by that trained scientific observer and profound thinker1 ,sir ,isaac ,newton1 and which in all ages and nations has included the highest intellects among its votaries1 is affirmed by the great ,orientalist to have a real value in the estimation of modern students whose attainments have placed them in a position to judge in the matter4 ,let us1 therefore1 look soberly and carefully at this science of ,astrology and see if its study is likely to be at all profitable from the point of view of education4 ,astrology is both a science and a philosophy4 ,as science it is concerned with the facts of astronomy and as philosophy with the application of those facts to the problems of life and mind4 ,the astronomical facts are of first interest4 ,before we can say anything at all about the interplay of planetary action in human life we have to be able to set a map of the heavens for any time and place at which a person may have birth4 ,for this purpose one can avail himself of the ,ephemerides of the ,nautical ,almanac1 the ,connaissance des ,temps1 or any of those cheaper publications which are extracted from them4 ,from various handbooks written by astrological authors he may then learn how to erect a horoscope or map of the heavens for any time and place4 ,such practical knowledge is not to be found in any exposition of astronomy that ,i have yet come across4 ,it enables the student to observe with perfect accuracy in what relations the various heavenly bodies were at the given time and exactly where they were situated as seen from a particular locality on the earth's surface4 ,the student finds considerable satisfaction in this piece of practical work4 ,but it is only preliminary to the further study of the subject4 ,for it will be seen that whereas the positions of the planets at the moment of birth have a symbolical value as regards the whole tenor and course of the life1 the particular times at which events prefigured are likely to take place can only be known from a study of the subsequent motions of the heavenly bodies after the date of birth4 ,for it is from the constant changes taking place in the kaleidoscope of the greater world about us that we draw our conclusions as to the time and nature of events4 ,the planets are continually altering their relative positions owing to their different velocities and they thus form aspects or certain angular distances in regard to the places of the planets in the horoscope of birth and also among themselves in the heavens4 ,the process of bringing a planet to the place of another in the horoscope of birth is called 8directing0 and involves a knowledge of spherical trigonometry4 ,this brings me to an interesting fact4 ,it is that the whole science of astronomy and the art of making ephemerides of the planets' positions was kept alive solely by the personal labours and special knowledge of a handful of practical astrologers4 ,the ,alphonsine ,tables which were composed by the ,arabian and ,spanish astrologers and which were collected under the command of ,alphonso ,x of ,castile at a cost of four hundred thousand crowns1 and published with a royal preface in the year #abeb1 are among the earliest examples of their great devotion4 ,the ,almagest of ,ptolemy was completed about ,a4,d4 #adh and was inscribed in the ,temple of ,serapis4 ,the ,rudolphine ,tables composed by ,tycho and completed by ,kepler were digested and recomposed by ,morinus1 ,mathematical ,professor to the ,king of ,france1 and printed at ,paris in the year #afej4 ,ptolemy1 ,tycho1 ,kepler and ,morin were all practiced astrologers4 ,the ,nautical ,almanac was first published in #agfg by ,dr4 ,neville ,maskelyne1 and afterwards greatly improved in #ahcd4 ,the ,connaissance des ,temps was published in #afii4 ,whence1 think you1 did the astrologers obtain their information regarding the positions of the planets prior to these years of authorized publication8 ,they calculated them for themselves4 ,without astronomy there could be no ,astrology4 ,they kept astronomy alive4 ,very few people understand what labour there is attaching to the production of the various elements that one finds in the common almanac4 ,how many of my readers are prepared to calculate for themselves the time at which the ,sun will rise or set upon the horizon of a particular locality8 ,how many could say with any certainty at what time the ,moon would south1 or cross the upper meridian8 ,what percentage of people could say when and where an eclipse of the ,sun or ,moon would occur1 where it would be visible1 its extent and duration8 ,the modern astrologer has a remarkably easy time compared with the labours of his predecessors4 ,he can refer to his official guide1 or consult the popular almanac for all his elements4 ,but for the working out of a horoscope and its subsequent directions1 he must certainly have a practical knowledge of the use of an astronomical ephemeris4 ,from astronomy his attention is turned at once to ,geography4 ,he has to determine the exact longitude and latitude of a place1 the name only of which is given1 for he has to make his map of the heavens as seen from the place of birth4 ,here he gets a practical knowledge of localities and of the orientation of horoscopes4 ,in his pursuit of ,astrology the student will find himself tracking back through the biographies of great men and women in order to find data from which to test the various ascriptions of the astrologers4 ,he will turn up cases of dementia and insanity in persons of repute and compare the data afforded by their horoscopes with the rules of ,ptolemy1 ,morinus and ,cardan4 ,he will incidentally acquire a considerable knowledge of men and things which else had been to him an unwritten book4 ,further1 testing the theory of eclipse influences he will inevitably find his way back to the ruined cities of ,nineveh and ,babylon and the three historical eclipses which preceded the downfall of the great ,empire1 which eclipses we have received from ,hipparchus through the ,syntaxis of ,ptolemy4 ,as to the latter there are the ,greek1 ,latin and ,english editions of the work open to his study4 ,the student will not proceed far before he comes up against the problem of ,calendarics4 ,he will find it impossible to understand and follow the works of the ancients without some notion of the equilization of ,eras1 and it will become imperative1 if he would check the statements made in their works1 as he should do1 that he undertake the task of converting ancient into modern calendars4 ,he may even find it necessary to know the names of the ,assyrian1 ,egyptian1 ,greek1 ,indian and ,chinese months4 ,it is all involved in the process of his study4 ,he will certainly require to know what are the ,eras of the ,hegira1 the ,salivahana1 the ,olympiads1 and the ,kali ,yuga4 ,keen on the track of this ancient lore he may elect to study the primitive ,chinese language1 and the noble ,sanskrit of ,india1 the more perfectly to acquaint himself with the traditions of these peoples and to study their ancient presentment of the science of ,astrology4 ,he may conveniently follow up the record through the ,greeks and ,latins4 ,assuredly he will need to acquaint himself1 at least superficially1 with the anatomy of the human body1 its physiology1 pathology and hygiene4 ,in the allocation of faculty to environment he will come into touch with sociology and will discriminate between the planetary occupations cited by ,ptolemy and those that enter into the complex of modern life4 ,in connection with the questions of marriage and progeny1 the study of eugenics and gynecology will claim his attention4 ,the study of character as revealed by the planetary dispositions at the moment of birth will bring him into touch with the profound and as yet only partially developed science of ,psychology4 ,cosmogony will inevitably hold his attention while studying the effects of planetary action in the world at large1 and seismology and meteorology are branches of mundane astrology that cannot be overlooked by any thorough student4 ,for the argument comes easily to hand that if the planets do not affect the world at large they cannot affect us as denizens of the world4 ,from this by no means exhaustive category of subjects directly connected with the study of ,astrology1 it will be seen that it entails a liberal education and one1 moreover1 that cannot be matched by the curriculum of any of our schools or colleges4 ,so that1 whether we regard ,astrology as a science1 a philosophy or an occult art1 it is certain that its pursuit1 if carried out consistently1 cannot fail to improve the mind of all who engage in it4 ,but as ,laotze has said1 the virtue of everything is in its use4 ,if ,astrology has no practical advantages to offer us it will at best only secure a place of academical repute4 ,those who have followed it out into the broad issues of life will1 however1 be able to affirm that in infancy1 youth1 adolescence and old age1 ,astrology is adequate to the needs of all as a source of guidance and information4 ,from the very outset of life we are faced by considerations of health1 questions regarding the continuance of life1 matters connected with education1 the development of special faculty1 and all those problems that vex the parental mind4 ,then later on we have to decide upon the choice of occupation1 and later still on the all-important question of marriage4 ,then come the host of considerations hedging the welfare of the average man1 questions regarding business affairs1 travelling1 partnerships1 alliances1 and the final disposition of one's affairs4 ,there are also the financial problems to be dealt with1 matters of investment and of speculation--for it is never wise to speculate unless you know--and on the domestic side of life we have a multitude of problems which can easily be imagined but are difficult to recite4 ,in all these matters ,astrology is found to be consistently useful as a guide and system of foreknowledge4 ,let me take some practical illustrations of the value of foreknowledge4 ,the ,russo-,japanese ,war and its outbreak in the ,korea was foreseen and specifically predicted by me from the ,eclipses of #ahic4 ,the fact that thousands of persons are directly or indirectly concerned in the appreciation or depreciation of the commercial interests and ,government securities of those countries will point the practical value of this piece of intelligent anticipation4 ,the ,hispano-,american ,war of #ahih was predicted and the corner in wheat coinciding with the outbreak of that event was foreseen4 ,was this of any value to those whose business it is to anticipate the price of commodities and to arrange their shipments accordingly8 ,was the fall in ,consols in #ahii on the outbreak of the ,boer ,war of no consequence to trustees and financiers8 ,consols were then at #aab and they fell to #hh4 ,my statement to the ,daily ,mail twelve months before the event was that ,consols next year would1 on account of war1 be as much below par as they were then above it4 ,these are not isolated predictions carrying with them a fictitious value as spasmodic evidences1 but they form part of a coherent and consistent system of forecast which has been available to the public for many years and of which many have taken advantage4 ,judged by the test of fact and utility it will be seen that ,cosmic ,symbolism as developed in the science of ,astrology is everywhere and in all directions abundantly justified in its claim to a patient and dispassionate investigation at the hands of competent critics1 and universally it will be found to answer the common problems of life and to throw a flood of light upon some of the more recondite mysteries of our being4 ,in this work ,i have sought to be rather suggestional 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