Astrosophia BEING
Metaphysical Ast OBSERVATIONS ON THE STELLAR DOCTRINE, I ITS SYMBOLISM, ITS SPE SPECUL CULATI ATIVE VE TRUT ITS MUNDANE APPLICATIONS AS REV THROUGH DISCERNIBLE FACTS A
PALPABLE CORRESPONDENCES.
By JOHN HAZELRIGG HERMETIC SOCI SOCIETY ETY OF AMERICA, FELLOW AST FELLOW HERMETIC SOCIETY, MEMBER NATI GEOGR OGRAPH APHIC IC SO SOCI CI NATIONAL ONAL GE
Univ library, UC Santa Cruz 1 999
ASTR AS TROS OSOP OPHI HIA: A: BE BEIN ING G METAPHYSICA Having been out of print for some tim edition printed from the original plates comes s to a new generation of st sophia" come may not be familiar with the author's b In that conn connectio ection n it gives me pleasure t the th e la late te John Hazelrigg was founder and dent of the American Academy of Astro which I was also a member. The A. limited to thirty members qualified by pr tribution toward the furtherance of Ast Contemporaneously a member of the Na thus en graphic Society, Mr. Hazelrigg thu organizations by his rare capacity for p search in the the ar arts ts an and d sc scie ienc nces es..
I deem it
an honor to be en ena able led d to
valuable works to circulation.
— Llewellyn
FOREWORD
If,
as said Aristotle in the Dialectics, "every m
his own a refer eren ence ce to hi speak authoritatively with ref adductions made by the astrologer in support of his accorded a righteous deference, and that without to the intellectual prejudices held by the critically this, ho howev wever, er, one cannot otherwise t In spite of this, tendency
of certain petty minds to spew
a profligate
of every effort made towards spiritual upb necessity of careful examination as a sine qua non to pages
tative criticism —by which alone obtains the perem ment — enters not into the prerogatives they feel cal
And this dereliction applies not only to the subjec to other branches of spiritual science as well, all of pecul ulia iarr qu qual alit ity y of animadversion. subject to this pec But it disturbs the equanimity of one's nerves malfea easa sanc nce e i counter with this sort of intellectual malf work as the encyclopaedia, wherein flagrant instance articl cles es on the differe readily found in many of its arti us that ticism. For example, the Britannica tells us performing tricks and exhibiting illusions "the "t he ar artt of performing A mahatma encumbered with the paraphernalia of be a curiosity worth interviewing! Under another mation that "Modern spiritualism arose from one lie ef in hau haunt nted ed h superstitions in the world — the beli
Astrology in the Edin Edinbur burgh gh Cy Cyclo clopad padia, ia, though este of letters, was the greatest wit of his time. It is to amusement to be elicited from a reading of that liter reserved exclusively for students of the astral scienc It is puzzling to un under dersta stand nd why themes of so d as
the occult sciences should have been entrusted
essentia entiall facts of their obviously uninformed in the ess their di not think of employing an architect to elu elucid cidate ate the istry, or a doctor of divinity to descant upon the ph
And when one reflects that the abo solar system. sented in the cyclopaedias and cu curr rren entt sc scie ient ntif ific ic lit dealt with chi chiefly by intellectual opinionists
and
than the wearers of the mantle of authori resultt in each case should longer be surprise that the resul than a disquisition. rath the er
Defections such as the ffor oreg egoi oing ng mi migh ghtt well sug reason therefor — of why mystic tru truth th sh shou ould ld so per But one might as well seek to matic opposition?
with its consequent intellectualism as distinguished beli litt ttle le the thin soul perception, has ever sought to be why that which can be wheedled and twisted to one's that wh whic ich h one must, through the tra grasped than that aspira asp iratio tion, n, str strug uggle gle up to reach. Alas! it has ever brui uise se an and d batter that which dared transc delight to br insult — hi his s ma mate teri rial al understanding. elusive ve cha chara racte cterr of the principl The seemingly elusi which h cann demonstration of astrological truth, and whic
because wanting in particularity.
It
is owing to thi
inadequacy, that the caviller — undiscerning of thing bility of corporeal analysis — first grows to suspect a upon his credulity.
And yet, strange as it might a
accepts without question any statement relative to t
whether it come within the purview of his understand The following pages are intended to throw some l though unjustly proscribed facts embodied in the overcome some of the prejudices so unthinkingly in reach the lay mind and disclose to t i whilom beauti of the verities contained therein. This implies m subject so essentially technical, for more often than s without me facts most convincing to the student i s confidently entertained, ho The desire i scans these pages will eventually be led into closer fundamentals of the science of which they treat.
reader.
— CONTENTS — Chapter
I THE RATIONALE OP ASTROLOGY II INDUCTIVE ASTROLOGY
III ASTROLOGICAL IV V
SYMBOLISM
ECLIPSES NATURE'S ANALOGIES
ILLUSTRATIONS HOROSCOPE OF THE DECLARATION
OF INDEPEN
METAPHYSICAL ASTROL Chapter I.
THE RATIONALE OF ASTRO No science has been so misunderstood,
or
maligned, than that which deals with the magnetic
So sublime in its concepts th cannot appreciate the concinnity of its beauties, n intrinsic value of its fundamental truths, it has re of planetary law.
prejudice of class and sect through ages of stolid man as a self-conceited animal has ever been pron which did not appeal promptly to his restricted s was characterized as
" an upstart astrologer," whil
incurred ridicule, but suffered martyrdom as well, tertain opinions not in strict consonance with th and the narrow bigotry of his time.
That the practice of Astrology should at one erated to so unreliable a state, was far from bein science itself. When one considers the fact that i
the instruments for astronomical observation
w
constructed, and astral mathematics had consequ faulty a standard that a conjunction of Jupiter an
persistent rejection of that which cannot be easil similated, is due the unsolved problems of the Uni not forget that in the Divine Economy every ato
function; that there is no purposeless gearing i nature, no partiality evinced in the outworkin
Whilst George III., the beneficiary of a nation' ment, degenerated into imbecility, Thomas Pa
to a mental apex to which the not aspire. No inhibitive power other than that f could have retarded or assisted either of these ul masses, attained
the student of Astrology lay plainly revealed in tivities. There may be an apparent inequality m one need only remember that arbitrary principle natural law; and to postulate truth and realit economy, is to acknowledge the sovereignty of
Astrology claims to furnish the solution to the soul, for the adept in astral physics confiden ego, in its incarnation into matter, can only be
influences in the primum mobile which are operatin
with its spiritual requirements. Hence, the chart an index of that soul's advancement, but the as tions which are subsequently formed by the progre from their radical places will indicate also its po ment. This in no measure implies fatalism or pr
Thus, man, by a foreknowledge and clear un astral forces which surround him, can so create an he may to a great extent successfully cope with
conditions; while to drift blindly with the tide h attraction, gravitate to the conditions which th provide for him.
As Ptolemy in his Centiloquy
person, acquainted with the nature of the stars, i many of their effects, and to prepare himself for they arise."
"
The Chaldeans in Babylon, the Egyptians, became famous for astrology, havi Diodorus says:
the priests of Egypt." Josephus, the Jewish his for the statement that the approach of the deluge by Seth from the stellar aspects, and that in ord elements of the science for the use of future age logical characters to be engraved on pillars of sto ports his statement by the assertion that he him these antediluvian relics in Syria. Newton, in his
"
Astrology was invented in Egypt by the Kings of Lower Egypt, and Petosiris his pri
tains that
the days of Sabacon (747 B.C.), and propagated th where Zoroaster, the legislator of the Magi, met
however, is lost in the mazes of a remoter antiq to assume that a science which deals with the met
trine of the Chaldeans and Persians afforded the
of these divine principles; and to the astronomical remote peoples is due the invention of those subl which arose the superstructure of every theologi
The symbology used in the interpretation
of
teries, is highly ideographic, and the symbols carr
The Cross (+) and the Cr which come down to us from prehistoric ages, and on the ruined monuments and sarcophagi of a metaphysical import.
Ethiopian, Hindu, Mexican, Tartarian, etc. In is indicative of Matter, or the Body. The Circl all the planetary symbols have their origin, den
Spirit; whilst the Crescent (J)) is emblematical o Soul. Different combinations of these hieroglyph resent the deific principles of that divine cosmol dividuals we are such infinitesimal parts.
The co
character of Mercury, for instance, is aptly de In all Hermetic writings Mercury is significant of less reaching out for the unattainable.
It represe
of the Soul's aspirations, as indicated symbo ordination of the material influence, or gross Spirit, or intelligence, with Perception, symboliz as its directing power. Again, in the symb — in mythology the goddess of Love — we find
icai law, a change of order is now taking place, of materialism is by degrees being transformed in
our inner natures. Thus, it will be perceived that deal with arbitrary principles, but that there is a d
ing underlying all its precepts; and that instead medium to be juggled with by the charlatan and t is the alchemical basis of all that is true and exact
laboratory,
— the fundamental stepping-stone whi
the labyrinth of an intangible materialism into the Real, which shines across the portals of the I
Candid investigation is to-day clearing away t
through the vandalism of the Alexandrian Library phoenix-like, is once again lifting her dignified he ashes.
A contemplation of
that monstrous crime, c
motives of ecclesiastical aggrandizement, makes it
why sacred history, so-called, is rapidly becoming assimilated by philosophical minds.
In Grecian
is represented as the goddess of wisdom, while her is given to one of the asteroids which revolve bet
Jupiter and Mars.
Was it purely coincidence tha
symbol of wisdom should have been besieged be
Church, and Mars, the destructive principle?
It
is as a predictive science that Astrology h
rigorously anathematized.
To pull aside the Sh
ing with troublesome problems, seldom acco of the individual whose guiding principle in li point.
In an article on " Astrology and Alchemy
the Quarterly Review, we find the following a
the subject:
"All events
are but the consu
causes, clearly felt, but not distinctly apprehend is sounded, the most untutored listener can tel the key-note, though he cannot explain why ea
at last lead to the concluding chord." Thoug scope of this paper to attempt an explication of
constitute the upahdi or material basis of this are none who have directed their attention to netic susceptibles of the human organism, to tionship existing between the operations of the served correspondence with human destiny, bu
acknowledge its verity.
Dr. Mead, in his
"
Infl
Moon upon Human Bodies," has said: "The tions might be so easily ascertained, that it is
still be pronounced incredible, and denied. rath while the great Kepler asserts:
"
A most unfail
excitement of sublunary natures by conjunctio planets, has instructed and compelled my un
The facility of the astrologer in traversing
consummate wisdom as the whole world could not
who promulgated a treatise called Judicia Gjamasp judgment on the planetary conjunctions.
He ga
predictions therein, including the coming of the mazar, a professor of judicial astrology at Bagdad,
prediction, viz.
:
" In the sphere of Persia, saith A
ariseth upon the face of the sign Virgo a beautiful
ing two ears of corn in her hand, and a child in her him and giveth him suck. This maiden we call Adre
Virgin.
She bringeth up a child in a place which is
Hebrew land), and the child's name is called Eisi prophecy regarding the biblical Jesus is also referre thew, Chap. II.: "They came from the East to Je Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we h in the East, and are come to worship him." In fact,
Holy Bible teem with references to the usage an science. This ecumenical authority is not usually an astrological stand-point; therefore, it may be of
that its very title is suggestive of a meaning, the key furnish a solution to much that is now a source of d
tation.
" on the The word " holy authority of t
Taylor, — acknowledged one of the best linguists of rived from the Greek Helios, the god who drove th sun.
He also traces its etymology to the Hebrew "
had ability in them." Again, that
"
Jacob ha of Heaven what should befall his children and th 1st Chron. xii., 32, speaks thus: "And the so had understanding to know the times
.
.
.
the changes of the moon, and in fixing the lun proper times; skilled also in the doctrine of the
lutions?); astrologers in the signs and stars, th Israel what to do." These Biblical references
to the science ar number which could be quoted for the edificati dependent upon scriptural license for the form dulgence of their opinions. Ashmand, in the Pr tion of the Tetrabiblos, aptly observes: "Amo sons who now treat the mention of Astrology w cule, there is scarcely one who knows distinctly at, or on what plea his ancestors should stand
in their day, contemplated with respect the u modem derision." Indeed, when one considers asticism which individualized these delvers in t lestial knowledge, their marked attainments in losophy and science, the wisdom and morality of must be impressed with, if not convinced of the which could have enlisted the scrutiny and resp tellects; for we find amongst them such names a
becomes more cognizant of the grand creative sc telligent factor as well in its general outworking. , t i or refuses to heed its knock, admits himself incap against the buffetings of acapricious destiny. Th sless to be pitied tha scorns the proffered morsel i deaf ear to the voices of the stars, for their music
lost chord whose vibrations cannot penetrate to t being and enlighten his soul, nor elucidate the prob The heavens are calling you and wheel around Displaying to you their eternal beauties ; slooking on the ground, And still your eye i Whence He, who all discerns, chastises you."
—Dante's
Chapter II.
INDUCTIVE ASTROLOG The sophist and the bigot differ only in this: a false inference from an assumed premise, while inference without even the formality of assuming often arrives at a truth or a fact, for artifice an
rarely favorable to fairness in investigation.
V
sions upon a science of whose true principles h
good specimen of the sop tains chiefly where knowledge cries in vain for
ignorance,
was
a
a discount.
No branch of learning has been more falsifi these two types of reasoners than Astrology; sistently attacked it with the subtlety of his ven with equal malice, though with enmity less cl doggedly uttered his cries of derision, that the n go echoing throughout the halls of Wisdom.
C
is Astrology understood, and so seldom investig
mystic tomes to learn of the theory of correspond and the stellar world.
Since time immemorial t
has apprised the world of this fact through a well-k
or less artistic, representing the " Man of the Zodi
recognized the identity of the Microcosm and Ma not be difficult for the inquirer to go a step furthe there is also a magnetic relationship existing be the Zodiac and the terrestrial divisions. This c
irrelative character, being regarded in a purely Thus, from Aries to Pisces each sign is qualified certain countries, as well as over certain cities, a
in the apportionment being observable in the di the subject, from Ptolemy to the moderns. To to regard these symbols as expressive of certai laboratory of nature, this adjustment may perha or arbitrary; yet centuries of experience and obser of astral physics have disclosed in it a wisdom too been the result either of whim or of guesswork.
An excellent example of vaticination based up of a city, was the prediction made by William L astrologer of the seventeenth century, who, fiftee event, foreshadowed the great fire of London w 1666.
That city is accorded the sign Gemini
as
the exact degree of the ascendant, based upon ast
to
a fixed
star;
for while these arbiters are rar
resolutions of nativities, they are deemed of the
in their effect upon cities and governments.
W
" authority for this in The Considerations of Guid that excellent philosopher maintains: "The Fixed Stars
are most slow in motion, and con
whence it comes to pass that their impressions require subj same nature, that is to say, such as are the more lasting,
with them to perfect or accomplish their effects. For the Stars is finished but if. six and thirty thousand years,* whe or life of man, generally exceeds not three revolutions o the space of ninety years. . . . As an Eagle cannot e of her flight or power on a Fly, nor a Stone coming fort any great execution (in Musciovem), no more can the Fi effects of their impressions; and, therefore, their gifts c men, for men are of so small a duration, and subject to . . For the impressions which . spect of their motion. a more solid thing, continue much longer than that which thing; and yet less in a very slippery transient thing, than or changeable."
The unprejudiced mind seems constrained to astral philosophers were mad, there was an am
method of their madness; and that though Lilly charlatan by the bigotry of his age, his deducti made legitimate by conformity to mathematical
the inductive principles of his art.
and manifestly agreeable to the laws of nature;
deavor to substantiate in the interest of truth and science which, because little understood,
has b
dealt with.
This sign, the Mithuna of the Sanscrit, signific of Being, the house of Mercury, and imaginative a ure, portrays in a strikingly truthful manner the res
aspirational temperament of our people, and rules in the Horoscope of the Declaration of Independe which accompanies this article.
It
may be mentione
the ninth house governs mind, science, commerce, ventions, and it will be observed that quite a sat arbiters — including Venus ( $ ), the ruler of the sc tion with the benefic Jupiter ( y.) — are posited the roborative of the phenomenal growth to which we nation. Sibly, a noted English mathematician and
" The State of Am in 1788 regarding this figure: have an extensive and flourishing commerce, an universal traffic to every quarter of the globe, wi and prosperity among the people."
The doubtful
perimental democracy, confronted with the giga volved in the period of its infancy, could not alo so sanguine a judgment!
The national horoscope is replete with testimo
HOROSCOPE of
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPE Philadelphia, July 4, 1776, Oh 20m P
correlative with those of the external mind, the activity is on the odyllic sphere, whence emanates perception.
In operation Uranus tends to iconocla
plane, while spiritually his activities are reconstr to the soul, and not to the mind; to intuition rat
He accordingly produces in the world of causati antagonism to the conventional order of things, position to all restraints, reconstruction, remarka
It
has been ascertained that Gemini among
bears chief rule over our affairs; therefore it wil
note the electro-magnetic effect upon this countr
Uranus through Gemini, which occurs once in ever
—giving seven years to each sign of the Zodiac. being a visionary science, is founded upon indu observation, and these examples will afford one reflect on some of the quaint analogies in natur extended acquaintance with its arcana would d systematic design which knows neither chance n is regulated by that immutable law of cause and e
the sophist with his subtleties, nor the bigot can decry.
Though Uranus did not come within range of 78 1, his mutations previous to that are easily det matics. Thus, in 1690 we find him entering Gemini 1
A most independent
and aggressive spirit w
Colonies at this period, and the first specific acti by the mother-country was taken, through laws session of the legislature under the new charter. also involved in difficulties with the French and t
History of the United States records: " The war with the French and the Indians, which beg terminated. For seven years were the frontier settlements h and the English employed in expeditions against them. A consist only of repeated accounts of Indian cunning and ba Peace between England and Fra enterprise and fortitude. in 1697, was soon followed by peace with the savages."
The visitation of the witchcraft mania, so abn the narrow concepts of our forefathers, who knew has for all time to come claimed a page of its o
history.
The abatement of this excitement and t
tilities between the warring factions were coincide of Uranus out of Gemini.
Circling in his orbit he again entered this si 1775, contemporaneous
with which we find a spi
asserting itself among the colonists, a belligerent
which culminated in the Declaration when Uranu grees of the sign.
Nor were matters finally adj
just seven years from the commencement of the Uranus left the house of the Twins The En lish
degree of the sign
!
One of our best known astr
made the following prediction concerning the cri
gets out of Gemini, which will not be before the do not look for any peace for this country." * versed in the craft of political chicanery, declared
conflict could not exceed six months
;
the astrolo
templation of nature's laws, knew differently.
Facts similar to these are what help to constitu of judicial astrology; they are the irrefutable evid
toward entitling it to the dignity of a reasonable From these inductive processes it requires but l ship to anticipate the revolutionary changes in e
institutions that will mark the next transit of t Gemini, which will begin in June, 1942. He will degree of the sign in October, 1943, at which time
our affairs will be accentuated as never before, fiery fixed star to which we have referred, will, motion of 50%" have advanced to a partile co radical place of Uranus. What inferences are t the concentration of these electro-magnetic vital point in the national horoscope?
pot
Our countr
extraordinary scenes. Grave questions, affecting and political economy, will seek their adjustment methods of force. There will be radical chan es
Since the mutations of Uranus alone have be tion with certain important epochs in the history mentioned in the previous article, the question itself, how are we to account for the various other thatt oc occu currre red d whe hen n th tha at planet wa in our history tha
The intelligence of the reader will possibility of multiple causes in ceaseless activity an importance fully as patent to the astrologer, t
ruling sign?
mark rked ed infl so evident to the lay mind as are the ma derous Uranus.
It
is this very abstruseness
of
tempts the explication of the complex mysteries o
— comprehending
as
it do does an infinite variety of
which has rendered it so difficult of acceptance a
We will touch upon some of these potencies
a
relati tion on of comets to mund mundane ane aff affair airs s sidering the rela
Referring to the figure of the national horos directed to the se seco cond nd mansion, as numbered in of which is the sign Scorpio (TT|). This ho cusp of stance,
and the moneyed in interests of the cou
occupied this constellation and house since Januar this th is tr tran ansi sitt of seven years he has prove proved d esp especi eciall all
of instability much malefi efic c Saturn into the same quarte entry of the mal fall of 1894. To the proximity of these two the fa of finance; world of
conditio tion n a condi
treasury.
The student may con contem templa plate te the ca
effect ect.. serve only the eff
months hs of the present year, In the closing mont form rel relati ations ons similar to those noted, the c again form pect an increasing stringency in matters gover house.
But an improvement over these conditio
for Saturn will then be succeeding sign. Uranus will also have left Sco of 1899 and the ensuing winter he will be passin as the new year advances,
his radical place in the chart, significant of so
complications in national affairs. some id idea ea of the m These citations will afford some
trological deduction.
In the resolution of ind
methods are adopted identical with those emplo of these weightier problems. Indeed, by reason practi ctical cal exa exampl mples es for indu they constitute more pra
Thus, the maxims of astrology are founded betw twee een n th the e constant recurrenc analogy existing be tions in the primutn mobile and synchronal pheno of effect. Lord Bacon, himself a votary of the S
" " in his Novum Organum
says,
"
We are not to
which we have a unanimous of a cause in favor of which analogies, though it may not be apparent how effec fect." t." If in repeated instances a produce the ef
to the philosopher, more so than can be possible to the th e sm smal alll end of a glass, perceives only the physi affec ecti tion ons s to thin As to the contrariety of their aff suffi fici cien entt to es esta tabl blis ish h exists a cumulation of data suf aven av enue ue of science where prejudice has imposed minded research.
In all ages, and particularly among
the anci
have be been en regarded as being astrologers, comets have
cosm smic ic energy as the mo their disturbance of the co matter; though the difficulty in estimatin ticles of matter; essential ial to a pre with that degree of accuracy so essent — a difficulty due to the fact that their orbits tran the Zodiac, and to their eccentric and infrequent v
them th em somew somewha hatt of an indeterminate quantity in th ogy, though no less a part of its subject-matter. apprehension so universally felt on the unheral these fiery messengers seems in every sense to ha
the th e di dire refu full consequences which inevitably follo charac racter ter as to warrant th effe ef fect cts s so reiterative in cha on the part of those investigative minds that, po pages and ever seeking to interpret her mystic
stood perplexed at the strangeness of its idioms. While the ponderous planets, with orderly or obser ervat vatio io mutations, were comparatively easy of obs
Students of biblical history are aware that J destruction of Jerusalem (St. Luke, xxi. 1o-11):
>
them, Nation shall arise against nation, and king dom: And great earthquakes shall be in divers and pestilences;
and fearful sights and great
from heaven." Milichus, a lear We have it on the authority of Milichus, in his Commentary on the second book of Pliny, men to comets; the us usua uall behavior of me ground for the son to gaze at them with so much terror and as ath h been pro do, because it hat prove ved, d, by a large indu and observation, that they announce great slau the sacking of cities, subversion of kingdoms, a asters." Josephus, in his
"
Wars of the Jews,"
comet in the the form form of a sw swor ord d th that at hung over Jeru as a premonishment of its destruction; while Senec
thre reat aten en us with the comets are very cruel, and th behin ind d th the em th the e they bring with them and leave be " Ho writes, learned The Machiavel slaughter." , y t s i it that we h a ve vouched i so bexperienc pass,
commotions are the consequences of such signs
To which might
be appended the observation
writer, who obviously had ref refle lecte cted d deepl deeply y upon upon " Cometes these interactions: signifie corruptio
which hung over the city, that it was presignifie a huge blazing comet that reached from heaven which no man ever saw before." Such scholarly worthies as Cedremis, Longo Melancthon, and Cicero— who maintained that harbingers of the miseries that befell Octavius
" Antony — including others it would be too ted of the soundest authority, could not have concu these opinions, were they not founded upon
"
experience and observation."
It will perhaps
be interesting to note that tne
ing of noon church-bells originated in
a papal
e
the comet of 1456 which accompanied the invasio by Mahomet II., and the threatened dissociation
tian world.
Ave Marias were also ordered, su
" Lord, save us from the devil, the Tur prayer: In the eighteenth century Dr. Halley, in an exam data, identified this comet with the ones which 1607, and 1682, and in thus establishing its peri
aboufseventy-five years he was able to predict its verification of which proved the correctness of hi above periods are all characterized by civil and p of great gravity, particularly around 1682, when mented by the precedence of another comet.
The
B.C. 130, was supposed to have announced the birt
Its second visit thereafter was the first year of t " whic " it have been the Star in East
Could
the
It may seem stran men to the capital of Judea? that, seeing this star in the east, these learned directed their pilgrimage westward. This appar its explanation in the fact that as the sun at the tim (the house of Saturn, and, according to astrology, places of husbandry), it is in consonance with astr the comet or star should have appeared in Aries, w
point of the Zodiac; and vide Claudius Ptolemy, " first century of this era: The inhabitants of Coele Judea are principally influenced by Aries!" Thus ural skeins may be disentangled through a fuller the true astrology, that much-impugned expositor
Four comets made their appearance in 1618, a the Thirty Years' War.
In fact, it
is a matter of
dread precursors have invariably preceded the gre
world's history. Cotton Mather compiled a catal important incidents that had immediately follow many remarkable comets, not only going far to disruptive nature of these dread visitants, but aff a clever demonstration of the theory of a mutual in the Macrocosm and Microcosm.
ance of the American colonies to Britain's monar
of the subversive influence of these harbingers.
Fully
as significant to
our national destiny
of Donati's comet in 1858, simultaneous with t and that state of unrest which culminated in the
consequent assassination of the Chief Executive followed by a brilliant meteor in 1860 and a le
This latter appeared in our ruling sign Gemini, city of London, and with its coming occurred th tion that city had known for two hundred years.
In the face of testimonies like unto these,
is
the comet should have been regarded in all ages
of confusion and disaster, " Threatening the world with famine, plague, To princes, death; to kingdoms, many curse
To all estates, inevitable losses."
Some stress has been laid on the visit of Bie
Chicago holocaust in October, 1871. There i writer's mind that as an adjuvant factor it play there were other celestial influences of signal imp at the same time.
It
has long been conceded on
Chicago and likewise the city of Washington w Gemini. From an astrological consideration of v nected with the history of the former city, its as
ruled by Gemini, and then through his act brought governed by the same sign? These are but facts. They do not attempt any e law behind them, though as stubborn things they the plausibility of a magnetic relationship existent
cosmogony of the universe.
And yet Astrology, which treats of this law of thus merely touched upon, has been maligned as h fact, as a purely visionary science, adapted only to purposes of soothsaying and prophecy, and affecte
of ignorance and superstition. The heliocentric the " " a rank was superstition until through the disc
it became an accredited truth.
And so the dreams
the rational and scientific verities of to-day.
Astrology is metaphysical in origin and motive first principles is revealed in its interpretation of t opposites, of cause and effect, of spirit and manifest sates throughout the domain of Being.
Its induc
apparent in its scientific observation and analysis o tions. Herbert Spencer says: "When the explor that molecules on earth pulsate in harmony with stars, when there is forced upon him the inference
in space thrills with an infinity of vibrations passing directions, the conception toward which he tends is
gested Unity; and it is through a comprehensio that we accept the truth of a universal interacti of the whole. This law is comprehended on the Newtonian theory of attraction and gravitation, that
"
every particle of matter in the universe
particle of matter, with a force directly proport of matter, and decreasing as the square of the
In other words, that there
is a sympathetic cos
throughout all nature, which acts in direct ra parts commensurately with their attracting forc The knowledge of the law of correspondence ancients, imbued them with a resolute spirit cosmical as the explicatory source of all wisdo
that in order to consistently postulate an effec conversancy with the realm of cause; that as atom were involved in a right conception of the understanding of the lower dependent upon a c higher. They rightly understood God as the which were generated the imponderable forces heavens, and their labors were the more indefatig the elucidation of these celestial problems, tha read the origin and destiny of all created form.
toward a unification of the parts of the Whole, and intelligent appreciation of their indivisibili
sede any other law in the measure
of its importa energy can have no existence without a magnetic which to polarize the electrical nature of its activiti
The old maxim says, " The wise man rules his
rule himself, but not the stars; neither do the stars, generally accepted idea, govern the conduct and d vidual. As a non-creator of forces, neither of th
" Interaction "
potentiality of arbitrary control. apposite to the real sense of the matter, and conve tion of the law of sympathy and antipathy, of attracti Hawkens, in his " Doctrine of Sympathy," aptly t sition: "Man's organism comprehends a solar sp includes a sidereal one, else he would not be a micr represent or coincide with planes in the organism o of our orb; in other words, they are human psych us. Consequently,
the vital essence by which
through them as distributive organs." By virtue of their organic structure the planetar batteries, or magnetic centres by solar induction spiritual energies seek external manifestation.
The
ciples which co-exist throughout all forms of ma
But far from being creative principles in themselv any virtue in potentia, they are as much subject to as is the chemical organization
of the individual; f
Joseph Butler, author of the was wiser in his generation.
"
Analogy," and
He conceived it t
to familiarize himself with the theme, that he
ligently anathematize it; and, second — not o adherent of the science, but contributed to its choicest classics
!
Nevertheless, these pseudo-philosophers, in
" influence," unconsciously tendered thei word a cardinal principle in metaphysics, though the
only to impart a discoloration to the searchin grandest expositor. Paracelsus, in making the statement that his house.
.
.
.
The carpenters are, at one
other Venus," etc., did not allude to the celesti names, but rather to the spiritual elements an ures ;
for he continues,
" Man is
a sun, and a
filled with stars." There are degrees of activ universal ether, which find their polarity in co centres of energy, brought into external expres media form certain familiarities, or angles, whic terms
"
aspects." Thus, when the Sun and Jup
the visible heavens, the elements which they
going
a process
of coaptation throughout
t
nature, a relation affecting each physical form a
with the volatility of the other, the effect being the potency of the aspect through which the a
ducing
a higher expression at
the angle of 120°,
when in quadrature, or 900 ( □ ). Should, how chemistry become allied with the Mercurial elemen inelastic, inflexible character of the former subdu restlessness of the latter, contributing gravity a
spiritual energies.
Not only among the vicegerents of heaven, intercourse between the members of the human f are constantly being formed, as indicated by th
Th tipathy manifested in their co-relationships. vibrates in unison with the Jupiter in the other; is sounded through the contact of Mars in the o
in the other. Therefore, each of us may be said fi about with us a perfect planetary system, whos come evident to our senses only through a fulle that interdependency which is absolutely essential ponent parts of the Whole.
Franz Hartmann, than whom few modern skilled in alchemical research, says: "The Micr cosm may not only be
'
compared together,' but
actually one in their power, and one in the consti " I ments." Which comports with Paracelsus:
more tuneful adjustment to Nature's diapason. direction of the Saturn element, the effort often the plaintiveness of a threnody; though ever ca expansion of the inherent Will, Sun (O), foun conversion into the higher possibilities of the Ven impulses throb as with the ecstasy of a divine ant
Every atom of matter,
as a concrete express
ergy, answers to a keynote in the scale of Univ endowed with a magnetic responsiveness in perfe tain activities which constitute the Divine har finds an apt illustration in the intervibratory a strings in different musical instruments placed when a string in one has been set in motion — a r enon in experimental physics. Sympathy is the law of the Universe.
We f
number, in color, and in sound, all based upon th principle, Harmony.
The " music of the sphere
mere figment of the idealistic brain: it is a philos
plified in the inevitable concordance which of nec every principle of intracosmic law.
Pythagoras, in the school at Crotona, taught of the planets to the notes of the musical scale, apportionment: = C
f>
= D
= E
= F
=
Saturn and Jupiter the bass, to Mars the tenor, to the counter, or alto, and to Mercury the treble.
I
this unconventional departure from material facts
gruent in a mind accustomed to roaming in unf by-ways, should have excited the ridicule of his les he had but touched upon a mighty truth recogniz
with the temerity to venture into the mystic realm yet incorporate, the orbs of heaven.
And thus throughout the universal Cosmos, t of energy, being but as respective keys accommo sounding-board, respond to every impulse of the a degree consistent
with their attunement.
Fro
observed that there is a rationality in the true conc
interaction scarcely justified by the inequitable
Nor should such a hypothesis
seem at all incredibl
has attained to the broader concepts of a unified
" Barrett, author of the Magus," gives to th " the first and original matter of all th he terms " In the character: exemplary world, they are id in intelligences, they are distribute heavens, they are virtues; and in inferior bodi produced;
forms." They may affect the individual, conside form of intelligence, in divers ways: his soul, his or his physical body. These questions are resol
the observed analogy which obtains between t
Macrocosm. Upon this understanding rests th man, a conception found by the ancients to be not
but essential to a clearer comprehension of the involved. Thus, from Aries (the head), which first, or House of Life in the horoscope, to Pi twelfth, or House of Self-undoing, there exists a
of the order of the heavens. One does not need to refer to astrological t light on the science; for there is but little of th that does not contain nuggets of celestial wisdo tween the lines of fecund soil in which are tr beauties of their religious ethics.
The similitude
of the ancient mythologies and the relative fun the houses of the horoscope, impel the belief th
largely astrological in significance.
That the Twelve Labors of Hercules are but tion of the Sun's passage through the twelve z admitted interpretation.
As to the houses of
for instance the second, the point from which financial prospects of the native. This house a the fixed Zodiac, containing the Ram's Horn, a
or horn of plenty; it embraces the constellation in mythology as the son of Dana? by Jupiter, wh
this constellation
are certainly appurtenant
qualities of the house over which it rules.
to Bac
however, there is an occult significance which ju
The genetic status of the third house — which journeys, and all forms of communication — co the twin brethren, or the Castor and Pollux of companied the Argonautic expedition. each mansion
And s
of the cabalistic figure harmonizin
these celestial allegories that one is forced to t
of a majestic truth back of all.
We take the liberty of adducing a few fact effect of some of these interactions upon the bod
phry Davy has said,
" In natural science there i
versally intelligible, the language of facts; it bel is as permanent as nature." Precepts are founde
of facts; in no science more so than in astrology, axioms, every one of which bears the impress of sanctuary of the eternal muse.
"
Jupiter has been termed the
"
greater bene
greater irrfortune," not that the former is alwa
latter inevitably malignant. Much depends upo
though their inherent qualities are sure to ma some degree on that point of the natal figure beams. They are observed to be especially pote
the semblance of security for a time, but by all must sooner or later end in illusion.
Wellington was providentially blessed with Ju of Napoleon were de Saturnian element. Years before the battle of Wa astrologer, in comparing the two charts, predicted house, while the fortunes
the destinies of these two generals should be bro with each other, the Frenchman would surely suf
Napoleon abdicated in April, 1814, Saturn was ma of his radical Moon. The third Napoleon likewise midheaven.
His rise to eminence and subseq
matters of history. General George B. McClellan's horoscope was manner.
In Broughton's " Planet Reader " (Phil
the following appears in reference to his chart:
McClellan be commander of the American army i it will be very evil for the Northern States. . he will be displaced by the commencement of 1863.
was supplemented in the same magazine in Octobe
cember opens with a bad transit of Saturn over G ascendant,
in evil aspect to his own place in the
enemies will be rampant to have him removed, a are that they will be too successful."
command November 7th.
He was remo
violent death. President Lincoln's natus is a the truth of this assertion, as he had Mars eleva
birth, in evil square with the Moon, the ruler (death). At the time of his assassination, his Sun was in Aries (the head) on the cusp of the fifth
exact opposition to the directional place of Ma arms — in his eleventh house, denoting a false fri
from an astrological stand-point, be more signif
Should any inquire why the astrologers of the ti this ultimation, they are referred to the magazi December number, 1864, where, under the hea
Nation," they may read: " Let the President
enemies, and also of assassination, during this
months
"
!
The horoscope of the Prince Imperial, who land, is another testimony in favor of the scien in its aphorisms. This native also had Mars ele Moon from cardinal signs. At the time of his de
in Aries, in partile opposition to Mars, the Moo rays of Saturn. Among other wounds he receiv the eye. These are not isolated examples, standing tioners to a world's credulity. They illustrate b ciples which constitute the texture of this str
Chapter III.
ASTROLOGICAL SYMBOLIS The symbol, as an expression of the character o called a divine creation. Long antedating the reco
Egypt, the ideograph is found depicted in variou bling sarcophagi as emblematical of the particula mythical divinities whom those earlier races embo heavens.
Whereas the idiomatic phraseology which
c
stricted form of expression is wholly inadequate and obscure when utilized in the domain of spir symbol, interpreted in the light of divine truth,
derstanding to a degree beyond the bounds of hu This fact was recognized by humanity in th metaphysical teachings, for the simplest, or con their art of ideographic expression were used for
What so suggestive of the quality of perfection the symbol of pure spirit, or universal Psyche — t ference which comprehends the Unity, or allness
it typifies Power, which may be abstractly conceiv dial Will in abeyance; but place within it the sugg ( O ) as a generator of activity, and we have indicate
which is Force, the offspring of Power and the
or the vitalizing energy essential to all manifest in astrology by the Sun. The Sun, therefore, is the vivifying principle thr becomes visible as Matter; while the stars are the c through which the higher substantialities are diffe four classes of elemental life — mystically signified In these two symbols are disclosed the true pu as the scientific interpreter of that divine law of corr
formed the basis of those ancient religious cults wh shipped the central luminary as an expression of th
Therein they perceived a sovereign principle in Na doubtless prove most invigorating as a tonic if pe tematically injected into some of the enervated theo ent day.
Thus the cosmical was intersociated with the mo and in this recognition of the absolute identity of the subjective is found the key to the transcendentali
expressive of the seven creative principles includ
stitution.
As the word Pleiades is analogous to the nifying a hinge or axle, there is little doubt the to by Bunsen is none other than the fixed star of the seven distinct orbs included in that c which has been conceded, as the result of care vation, to be the centre of gravity of our sola
point around which the sun and his numerous travelling with immeasurable velocity.
In the light of this revelation, how signific " to Job: Canst thou bind the sweet influence of the bands of Orion?
"
Which may be interpr
turb the equilibrity of the Microcosm? Canst t of universal harmony from a mechanism so or
tiiat, with all its complexities and the multipl volved in its various motions, it continues in pe
out a displacement, an impingement, or a fricti is from the miniature system of the molecule
revolving about the sun, thence to the solar sys Alcyone, and to that colossal fabric in turn mov potential centre — all
" wheels within wheels," a
gradient measures and grander numbers, to th one with the Beginning!
bolism which constitutes the alphabet of Astrol
through the transmutations of a providential Des bosom of the Formless Essence itself. Thus the importance of this science as an elu occult dialectics cannot be rightfully ignored by would attain to
a clearer understanding
of the fu
of Creation, for in it alone is afforded a rational con mysteries as revealed through the intricacies of co
Astrological symbolism viz.
may be classified un
:
Planetary — expressive of the seven-fold con 2. Zodiacal — typical of the evolution of all cor 1.
Astronomical Aspects, or magnetic impuls ment of potency between interdepending essentialit 3.
In the Paternal Unity subsists the Fire of Lif emanates the Life of Fire (Soul), dual entities through an essential third or solidifying elemen These constitute the trinity of being — the life, su nomena; or spirit, soul, and body — and are sy tively, O,
D
,
t. These ideographs,
in combinatio
certain deific attributes, form the planetary symbols
following arrangement, with their correspondent © Sun corresponds to the vital principle. 5 Moon corresponds to the astral body, or s
" There are many who say that man is a understand what this really means. As the world with all its constellations, so is man a constel world in itself; and as the firmament (space) by no creature, so the firmament which is withi not subject to any other creature. This firmam in man has its planets and stars (mental states),
junctions, and oppositions (states of feelings, ideas, loves, and hates), call them by whatever
in space are connected invisible links, so are the organs in man not en as all the celestial bodies
each other, but depend on each other to a cert
A twofold energy is
essential to all intelligen
In cosmic science
th
be characterized as influent and effluent, the
for
active and the reflective.
the Sun as the positive essentiality or vitalizing p
and the latter, or the responsive outward force, as constituting
the human organism, or body
and the planets, as the representatives of the p
terpreters of the Creative Intelligence.
The Sun, as the celestial source of external m scintillations subsist the primal potencies, is ap symbol, the circle of perfection, with a point at " The Zohar has said, When the Unknown of
The point, therefore, as an expression of activi necessarily carries with it the inevitable assurance
or self-subsistent Power, thus bringing into range a essentialities, recognized in the cabalistical teachin or perfection ( O ), and Energy, or manifestation ( • nated not only through the functions of the visible cally signified in its symbol.
This theory of duality in manifestation is in con , " s dou s Hermetic maxim that Everything that i i plies the irrationality of assuming a cause without
proposition
a consequent
s effect. Atomization i
primal powers that require coporeality through whic number as a measurement of force. Stability obta sbut the e association with movement. Evolution i recognition of the involutionary processes which
the activities of Infinite Being.
It
was from the spiritual cognition of these mu
in Nature that the ancients were enabled to formul ous systems of truth and philosophy as comprehend of correspondences, of which Astrology as ascienc the expounder.
The Sun, thus interpreted, symbolically repr s easy to co i i activity, from which stand-point t solar orb has ever stood as the emblem of supre
celestial centre of Being.
The brain, the lungs,
the liver, and the spleen, of the physiological sy as the administrative centre of action, are ana basic elements of substantiality, as potentialized
the distributive functions, respectively, of the Mo
Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. These answer to colors, all of which are resolvable into the clea solar ray, the metaphorical expression of pure s
And
so
in every ray which " falls into matt
seven creative principles, the reciprocal quantities
ibility reposes unity. The Soul has been denned as the conjuncti Spirit and Matter, in which relation it is an ex principle in the sidereal constitution. The astronomical symbol for the Moon has (
3>
), or a rim of light, emblemizing in physical s
recession after its conjunction with the sun, and
dor
it ascends to its opposite lunation.
Eso personifies her as Eve extracted from the side of soul-principle of Spirit, whose effulgence transl as
into the Word of manifestation. Astrologically considered, she is wholly refle fecting terrestrial nature according to her differ to the earth and sun. The analogy is here obs
ing the Moon's symbol that, in the writer's opinion to this line of inquiry than the one advanced abo he acknowledges his indebtedness to Section 21 of ple's
" Metaphysical Chart." Therein the Centre o
ized thus,
o, Spirit (Sun?),
whose manifestation is
expressed by the Circle of Motion, ©, which, in i
Whole, leaves the reflected crescent. In her synodic revolution, as she journeys thro tions of heaven, the Moon portrays, figuratively, the soul from its descent to its purification, while
exerting upon physical nature an influence of a c nificance.
" In the heavens she signifies the sensual soul;
Moon puts on the image of the Sun and is full a true heavenly
complexion, yet by-and-by she l becomes dark, and puts on the image of the Ear the animal soul : for one while she adheres to the i
is full of heavenly thoughts and desires, and in t heres to the flesh and is full of sinful affections;
and rises, rises and falls again, in a perpetual cou so that the most righteous here on earth are sub
ings, for they wax and wane in evil and good disp It was accounted in the philosophy of the an to deal with spiritual truth except by means of the
"
the wealth of spiritual suggestion afforded by a
of the two symbols already discussed; for
as the
resents primordial spirit in activity, the circum
all-inclusive, so does the sun symbol express al nature, and is therefore a constituent part of th characters, in condition and degree according t erators of the cosmic life-forces.
And so, abiding within the bounds of this s instanced, is found the Moon ( 3) ), who reflects the Creative principle.
As with its prototype in the visible heavens, the solar conjunction, so with the moon or soul
it grows larger and larger in its circle of motio plished the at-one-ment by absorption into the tre of pure Spirit (©). "When this union tak
longer need of an initiator. . . . Wherefore so with the Microcosm. They who are neare moon.
But so long
as they have night — so
l
part of the soul remains unilluminated, and her
tion obscure — so long the mirror of the angel the sun to the soul." * Therefore, he who would attain to regenera the scriptural injunction, and trample under fo sensual soul of his being.
for being circumscribed conceptions.
in capacity it can deal
The symbol, on the other hand, l
infinitude of the eternal Silence, in which alone perceived and its wisdom understood,
and wher
manifestation are to be viewed as isonomic facts i
tion of the Divine plan. The celestial philosophy recognizes four spe planes of activity, in the processes of cosmic id symbolically by the Cross ( + ) ; a closer examinat enable us the more thoroughly to understand the significance of these constitutive factors in their vari
Though monadic life comprehends
a trinity
o
body — the triadic forces in the sphere of generati
into corporeal conditions on the objective plane is through a coalition with predetermined intelligibili constituting four elements of manifestation, mys as stability, motion, intelligence, and consciousne These four divisions of elemental activities — w should not be confounded with their physical pro
mically embodied in the fixed stars which compos stellations of the zodiac, and answer to the four w key (5R)i designated in astrology, respectively, as t fiery, and airy trigons, and alchemically expresse mercury, and azoth.
of the intelligence which prevails in each kingdo thus from the beginning of his physical life a cr and, to a certain extent, a concretion of sidereal
into his corporeal and physical constitution." " Pursuant to the maxim mystical
that
the fir
the last shall be first," we are led primarily to a c
Saturn principle as the spiritual representative of
— consciousness — in
the generative spheres of the
Not that this element in any wise claims real p in these alchemical processes
are obviously co
pendent in their essentialities, and therefore n precedence over any one of the others. This orde by reason of his fancied prominence as the mos superior planets in the astrology of the ancients assigned chief dominion over the principality o jective realm.
In this restricted sense his potentialities
are
bounds of limitation, and are symbolically represe
with mundane operations as Matter in dominan the soul principle suspended from the cross of Ma
This seemingly malevolent tendency is plainly astral physicist when this planet is found weak o governance of a nativity, in which case he con malice, selfishness and miserliness, and all such te
should result those disparities in the moral ec courts of justice (?) sagaciously denominate crime, able to the dispensations of a questionable jurispr
Moral responsibility cannot
be measured by l
can arbitrary punishment ever prove a prophyla
wrong-doing.
One must penetrate to the chamber
pore over the mystic tomes arranged on its s therein the hieroglyphs of occult law, before one late intelligently the mandates of the spoken Wor
A broader and
more universal perception
of
ciples in the human economy would incline the broader charity, and to a more philanthropic vie
shortcomings of the fellow man who is thus forced to the measure of a discordant strain. It remains in the science of stirpiculture sooner or la to the thinking mind the absurdity and falsehood
a factor
human ethics which involves in its statement th inequality. This, however, is irrelevant to the ma
Subjectively considered, we find in the Saturn apparently at variance with the above interpretatio it represents the World ( + ) of Soul ( ) — the f mounting the crescent —wherein his is the formati corresponds to Intelligibility, by and through wh 3>
Time and Space, arise the corporeal conditions o
moniously adjusted in the microcosmic organis gravity, decorum, contemplation, spirituality, an For example, in the geniture of the mystic dignified as his ruling planet in the just and a scales, or Balance — in that quarter of the natal fig activities impel to mental discipline, philosophy was additionally strengthened by a favorable c
Sun in his house of life, in the airy-metaphysical
A student
of astrology would quickly discern
functional attributes capable of attaining to' a s yond the reach of the ordinary developed ego.
In these two aspects of the
one symbol are obs
of the duality of Being as concerns one of its ra resultant attributes on the two planes of consci on the one the more material qualities, and sens the elements of the purely spiritual type.
But it naturally follows, that as in evolution must ultimately dominate the lower, so are th ever susceptible of transmutation into the mo
sublimated forces.
Thus Saturn, from a physical standpoint te magnetic activities and crystallize the finer forc
ing on the human sounding-board a repressed, di strain; but his conjuncture with the more conco
Intellectual essence, in contradistinction to the Int As regards the dual phases of the Saturn and alluded to above, suffice it to say that the one st
other as gestation is to generation, or affirmation t will be observed that in the Jupiter symbol the cre have exchanged places. Inherent Intelligibility,
World of Soul
( h ), has thus become quickened
i
tributes, intellectually cognized through the veh
Jupiter, significant of the Soul of the World (%). The following excerpt from the ancient MS. clearly illustrates the astrological distinction ac arbiters
:
"
Jupiter (tin) is nothing but the centre of S fested; for in Jupiter, which is the next planet contemplative influence begins to be active, whi
bright light, and such a lively stirring brightness is the first active planet wherein the joy of the con is manifested, which it sets forward for action, a
Saturn to Jupiter. Jupiter, then, as we have said planet, for in him that which first begins to break . . . Therefore formerly conceived in Saturn. attribute to Saturn all scholars and philosophers, and hermits, all melancholy and reserved persons, and retired life, and who are always full of thoug
that contemplation still precedes action, as Satur in the heavens, even as thoughts are conceived in the action of speech." These deductions are certainly in line with th gestions involved in our discussion, and they emp the science of astrology rests upon no arbitrary o The symbolical significance attaching to these t is
consentient with that accorded them in the ol
tems.
The Greeks, in their portrayal of Kronos
emanation from Ouranos(the infinite), undoubtedl of the elementary processes we have touched up
by J was the putative parent— clearly an illustration of be proved in his subsequent dethronement
the one bears the other in the planetary procession
This achievement, so vividly allegorized in the Jupiter the tutelar genius who presided over t mortals and immortals, from the Olympian heights, ency and pacifying justice." science, symbolizing
And
the unfoldment
so is he reg
of the con
inherent in the Saturn principle.
To extend the analogy to
an astrological ap
the representative of contemplative Thought,
a
Time, and the ruler of the sphere in which p assumes form and figure, is granted regency over
and equity.
He therefore stands astrologically
politic in an adjudicative capacity, and holds domi rial system of the physical body. Homogeneous with the primal trinity which c of the astral symbolism, is the triadic character of the mythologies
of the East
;
as, for example,
Hindu philosophy, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva — th and destroyer
;
or, metaphysically, considered as
and dissolution.
The local triad at Thebes includ
and Chous; while identical with the characteristics are those recognized in the more universal worship
Horus in the Egyptian cosmology. That Osiris was typical of the sun is evidenced his soul was in some way allied to the sacred evolved from the fact that at that period of time t the sign Taurus (the Bull) of the zodiac at the v the beginning of the solar year. Being thus recognized as the regenerator of Osiris was reverenced
as emblematical
of the s
sphere of manifestation, and so understood by t
"
source of all
It
"
;
hence, symbolized by the circle
is interesting to note that
Plutarch speaks
having a crescent on its right side. Remember t was extracted from the side of Adam
(the sun)
Silence, typical of substance
in its static cond
symbolized in the Cross.
According to Pierret, are but manifestations
To which Mariette
"The numberless
god
of the One" Being in his Bey subscribes:
— "The
according to the Egyptians, the universe was Go Pantheism formed the foundations of their religio
Viewing these subjects purely from a histori standpoint, neither of these writers seemed to polytheistic doctrines reposed the grand principl thus personified that they might appeal the mo
limited capacities of a fanciful and credulous innumerable deities which followed were but the p tiated into inferior personifications, yet united by were but symbolical of the numerous types and
upon the transformative processes of evolutionary To quote from Basilides, the heretic: — "Th God, by name Abraxas, which the Greeks call emanated the Word
;
from the Word, Providence
Virtue and Wisdom (Saturn and Jupiter?); fro Virtues, Principalities, and Powers (planets?) infinite productions and emissions of angels (cons
In this interpretation
one need not slight
to the projection of these ministerial forces, is th
perhaps all unconsciously. That Jesus the Chri from Jesus the man is qualitative of Divine S question for dispute; though the ordinary creed his supine inattention
toward
matters of
this
doubtless object most strenuously to the imputatio to this principle partakes largely of sun worship.
We think this assertion can
be amply verified.
Through the astronomical law of precession, th point at the beginning of the Christian Era ha Taurus into Aries, the Ram of the zodiac ; h suspended
from the Cross,
became
an object
because the sun-god in his entry therein had c
revolution and was then stationary at the int ification of the ecliptic with the equator (+) for days, after which he began
his ascension into
Subsequently the lamb was replaced by a huma being more congruous to the purposes of allegory. In this light the crucifixion of Christ upon the ical of a principle in the metaphysics of Being, stellar science by an orbital point in the pathw whom the Nazarene was made the archetype. in the Algonquin tongue as Gheezes.
It is
also
this connection that the zodiacal sign Aries rules locale of the crucifixion.
them for the purposes of condensation in the dem expression of thought. says:
Dr. Young, in speaking
" They exhibit also unequivocal
traces o
writing, in which the names of some of the d been principally employed in order to compose t concerned
:
thus it appears that wherever M and
gether or separated by a vowel, the symbol of Amun (Jupiter) is almost universally employed. example, Amenothes, written with the symbol by othes.
We come next to
a
consideration of Mars, th
division of the magical Tetrad — Motion — astrol the watery triplicity.
At first thought, there
i
alism in the assignment of a fiery planet to th trigon.
In alchemic terminology, however, the
in the correspondence of this element to sulphur, in all forms of intelligence
;
therefore, Mars st
lated to the substance of Motion, in which sens acter of this triplicity is to be interpreted.
Thus, Mars, as the principle of Energy in th imparts the fixity needful to a perfect expressi
Will.
His is the cohesiveness which gives to
their relativity. Accordingly, when potent and nativity, he contributes the determination and
fore impermanent, elements — impermanent in so fa
their perverted activities on the physical plane — ar the more refined properties of Venus, the magnet which is generated the sublimated essences of pure ruler of the first of the tetradic forces, stability, power in which subsists the quality of Divine Love.
In the science of Being this
is but another ter
principle through which the complexities of nature synthesized into a spiritual recognition
of the W
which brings the circle above the cross, as represen of this planet (
It will
$ ).
be observed in this method of treatment
stand apparently related to each other in a dual and Jupiter — Thought and Wisdom, constituting the spheres of generation, as do Mars and Venus
tion,
each vested with the animating potency
reflected into mundane channels through the med
the Moon.
And while their respective symbols s
operation, they likewise indicate a fourfoldness in c
This with the exception of Mercury, the habitu the intelligence of the human soul, whose symbol
triple significance.
As the mind appropriates un
which is assimilative, so do we find in the Merc combination of all the glyphs which represent the
Therefore, the mental trend of the individua the affections of this planet in the horoscope
;
f
stant proximity to the Sun, or vivifying principl translator of light from those arbiters with wh mately conciliated. Accordingly,
he was desi
losophy of the ancients as the
Messenger o
"
means an arbitrary appellation.
It
was in consideration of the manifold virtue
astral principles that the Pythagoreans accounte
The immortal the gist of this philosophy in his " Seven Ages," as the vehiculum of man's life.
the Ptolemaic divisions of the life span, in which is ruled by the quadrennial period of the Moon,
compact and formative processes belonging to i ceeding ten years is the Mercury period, wherein the soul begins to attract unto itself the seeds of is followed by the Venus period of eight years, i
intellect unites itself with the generative princi comes the rule of the Sun, agreeing with his peri
nineteen years,
and showing
the attainment
majesty of his powers. Mars governs the next fi the correlation of life's purposes.
The fruition
of Jupiter, which conforms to his astronomical pe after which the reflective age of Saturn carries t
his psychical value in the universal economy;
magnetic operations in the ambient must coordin their similitudes in the interdepending organism.
In this recognition of specific values attaching t expression of Being, one has opened the way to a sion of the real purport of the planets as adjuv analyses of remote conditions in the life of an indiv
It
is the woeful misconception of the inductive
lying this branch of the astral science, which has charge of empiricism and irrationality. Man, as a sidereally constituted individual, or spiritual centre of energy, a dynamo of psychic act ally expressed through his attractions, and evolut pulsions. These processes are no more nor less th of that law of self-adjustment, which the classes but which is more philosophically defined in the He
Destiny, " the executive instrument of Necessity. tion projected from out a condition of latency int active Being, necessarily assumes the attitude of order of its attraction back to the seat of its genese act of expediency, demanded by the exigencies which can be subserved only through the provid Necessity. Therefore, conceding, through the known laws o
of the vibrations peculiar to each of the planets tively to each of the seven prismatic colors, p have discovered a rationalistic correspondence be human emotions.
The red of Desire is but th
activity, conducing to anger and passion
;
the gree
the predominance of the Luna element, begetting when excited in the horoscope ; while the blue of the passions.
"All" lies the
In this chemistry of the soul and it secret of the influences arising th
teraction.
It
is the province of judicial astrology to det
these operations in the horoscope, and to interpre
losophy of its tenets their spiritual as well as worl "What wonder, then, that we a science scan, Which, tracing nature, analyzes man ; Whether we view him placed in joy or woe ; Whether trace earth or search her depths b Whether we contemplate the glorious Sun, The circling planets or the changeful Moon In all, th' Almighty Architect we mark, Clear, though mysterious, luminous, though
Chapter
IV
ECLIPSES. "Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against against kingdom; and great earthquakes shall be in diver and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall ther —
And likewise does the prophet Jeremiah's ref of heaven, and kindred scriptural allusions too nu here, concede to the celestial indices a relevancy in which can scarcely be ignored by those whose faith a
of Holy Writ.
While the Sacred Volume so cog importance of the stars as reliable promittors in t inexorable providences, the pages of profane history authentic instances which signalize eclipses as the ha adversity to the nations of the earth.
It was
not until after years and years
of systema
the ancients became convinced that the disturbed t
which invariably attend upon the heels of the eclipti but logical concomitants of such phenomena.
The
wise the intelligent apprehension of the primary la individually and collectively part and parcel. Hence, stition and ignorance found surreptitiously placarde
of every vestibule which leads to
It
the Inner Sanctua
is amusing to note with what aptitude the sc
the vainglory
of his attainments, seeks to credit to s
belief which has the temerity to outstrip the compass
For which reason there
ment.
has been a great
much-abused term which never bore the slightest misconception of a self-evident fact.
Thus, Lockyer, writing of eclipses and the ign
of the Oriental nations in regard thereto, state when they see the black disc of our satellite adva
some
believe that the jaws of a dragon are gradually ea
which it is obvious that Mr. Lockyer knew not th sun can only take place at one of the moon's node being that point where it passes the plane of the ear to north, known as caput draconis, or the Dragon's been
so immature
discern.
And
in decrying that which he had
so the untutored
( ?) Hindoo's super
into the recognition of an astronomical fact, beside a Lockyer does not readily commend itself.
The material scientist, whose devotion to phys onizes him against aught which cannot be confined
law is the relativity which exists between cause an factors in the world of phenomena. Eclipses of the luminaries produce, through pote tion, unusual disturbances in the boundless ether, impulsion
of magnetic vibratory forces too harsh
to which sublunary nature
is accustomed.
The
disharmony in the interdepending parts, in time and the measurement and character
of the disturbing
alone supplies the key to the solution of these compl ubiquity of an all-pervading essence throughout the
Nature must be conceded in order to postulate unive Consciousness. Upon this obvious truth is reare structure of predictive science.
There is no dearth of testimony at the command in corroboration of the direful effects of eclipses up inhabitants. One need not turn to the Bible nor to so remote as to abound in doubtful tradition
and revolution astrologer.
that had been clearly
Nor seemingly
for the r
foreseen and
is it given to the intelli
to apprehend, by his art, the grave import attaching
Naturalists have observed the fear evinced by the l
of the luminaries, they undoubtedl some subtle function the gravity of the portents t
the obscuration
might we declare that the dumb brute who instinctiv
the moon, and which, after they were grown up, fu
tions of the eclipse by their miserable death — one asunder by hounds, another falling off from a hig his thigh, and the next time his neck
;
the third was
Every monad in process of evolution, whether it b animal, vegetable,
or mineral kingdom,
is amenabl
Therefore, an eclipse may impress its influence in any Individuals
are affected, disorganizations
beset
th
totter, dynasties fall, drought and pestilence bechance, and old ocean upheaves her tides — all in response to set in
motion by these abrupt changes in nature's po
Chapter V.
NATURE'S ANALOGIES.* To no class of investigators, perhaps, does Na reveal the sublimity of her method and purpose a
the stars. Pledged to a system of interpretatio rationalism of induction and correspondence, he
of the great Mother-Soul a grand undemonstrable through the concepts of physical s His philosophy teaches him that in order comprehend the purport of his own being, the reflection
diffusive of all manner of tumults and emotions, able to grasp the meaning of the centre of the en with its attendant satellites, each of which is likew specific impulse.
There are many paths, but none, we believ logically and truly to an intellectual contemplati Essence itself as that afforded by the scale of sim
Though the material thinker regard the physic of terrestrial life, the astral physicist recognizes i a basic principle which exists in every instance of a composite universe,
or a microscopic atom.
generates a light of its own, one must understa
every physical
impulse
and every centre
of
principle, whether it be a visible ray, or a psychic Thus, each molecule, as a world unto itself, e which may be conceived as its very own, aug according to its relationship with coterminous ac as a member
of a group, is in turn but a centr
each expressing its individual measure of lumin
much importance in the Universal Economy a planet swinging majestically in its celestial pathw
This luminous principle is everywhere. unmanifest,
W
it is omnipresent. Darkness is no
light," but an abeyance in its manifestation.
T
by the flint is as much an entity prior to its em of that act. From this we deduce that the hum nation is obscured by the density of his astral env within him not only the possibilities of the man from the mountain top, but likewise the potenti
of which he is
a part.
One may attain to a quasi-scientific understan
relative, no one of which can be apprehended association with some other force. That which a
thing to act upon, else no cognizance can be ta speaks of the light of the Sun ; but if all space there could be no conception of a luminous princ organism. Whence it comes that Nature abhors a out her domain, Force and Matter — or Energy a are but co-ordinate factors, each equally depend
for its measure of expression.
To them may
be
parentage of every phenomenal impulse. And herein arises the duality of Being — S negative,
cause-effect,
winter-summer, male-f
terms which but serve to impress us with the f nature is assumed and not real. Though Venus antithesis of Mars, yet in all natural operation dependent upon a recognition of its polar opposit as a unifying factor can be apparent only through
the different impulses involved. Likewise, Satu
crystallization, though usually associated with th and heat, is, in the world of soul, directly relate of the Sun; because
life (Sun) can become
through that convergence of activities which And so on, throughout the realms of (Saturn). perfect equilibrium contingent upon the law of
mist, the metaphysician, and the astrologer, unb
of grotesque religiosity, it expresses a law of su divinity lies beyond the purview of sect or cree Mercury, Sulphur, and Salt, or spirit, soul, and bo recognize in the Trinity the three fundamental di which, functioning through the four mystic ele seven principles of eternal nature.
These phases of Being may be readily illustrat solar spectrum. Thus, Unity is literally expresse Passing this through the prism — analogous we find the trinity in the three distinct gradations ray.
the primaries, or blue, yellow, and red.
The d
the two poles, the blues representing the negativ
refrangibility, and the reds the positive, beca deflection. From the natural affinities or admixt get four subdivisions,
or secondaries, which comp
tones of the prismatic scale. Their analogy to t
planes of vibration as interpreted through the pla
And so, in the tiny ray of light which co secret mirth through the open lattice, do we find capable
of analyzation,
the genetic principles
Universe. Truly, God's ways are not altogether
Field scientifically
demonstrated
the nume
primary colors, yellow, red, and blue, to be res
8. Blue.
w
Actinism.
Decompositi
3.
Yellow.
O
Light.
Transformati
5.
Red.
4-
Heat.
Combination.
These numerical proportions are thus found the astrological chart of the heavens, in that the ei cant of death, or putrefaction, conformably
of corruption shall come incorruption
"
;
to t the t
mind, accords with the Divine Intelligence that,
tions of the fifth house (offspring), effects the spirit through matter. The principal scheme of Nature is revealed i constituting as they do the symbol of Mercury ($) materia which forms the basis of every chemical relate to a vulgar or a spiritual regimen.
Through the chemical values as given above ism — one may
study the trinity in
its applic
phenomena. Light and heat are specific verities every intelligent being, because visually perceive felt. This third attribute, however, is not so fa unconcerned with the deeper intricacies of nature, most essential factor in that laboratory of activitie and the Unseen are correlated into harmonious fo
As the efficient principle in the production of
sunlight. Likewise are all the various gradatio evolution of plant forms but different expressions
UNITY
MERCURY
To extend the analogy, accord with the variations
SUJPHUR
we find this arrangeme
in the chemical actio
throughout the progress of the seasons, emphasi actinism, light, and heat, or the colors of the sola successive dominating principles
in all natural
natural forces never act at variance with their esta
Thus, in the spring of the year, when Nature's germination, the rays predominantly active are th
Saturn (Tj). This is because a n essential to the incipient stage of plant life, where the first step towards fructification, is coincident ($), Jupiter
As the summer approaches the actinic rays di
ray of the spectrum, and includes those
formative the law of chemical affinity is the most active.
Continuing towards the red or positive polar trace the similitude in nature to the heat forces wh ripening season, through and by which the yieldin qualities of the gestative and circulatory processes developed into the perfection of weight and solidi forces have thus become polarized by the positive, is the result.
With this corollation of the threefold methods fructification, the differentiating potencies are appa and, figuratively, "earth returns to earth, and du trinity, however, has but merged into the fourth or nature in abeyance,
— which in
sum makes I
the number of Unity.
And so in demonstrative physics, if the prism variegated colors vanish, and once again the pure to us as the symbol of the Eternal One. For bac is Unity !
With
a slightly different arrangement
of our diagr
more clearly to perceive the tonal and color values an out of Unity into septenary expression —
NEGATIVE r Actinism
V
si
represented
the vibratory values
as reflected
t
onto the plane of physical or material expression not only in the chemical evolvement of Natur treated of, but other corroborations will be note enquiry.
Color, as is evident, is that manifestation of appeals to us through the organs
palpable exhibition
of vision, and i
afforded us of occult proce
intellectually or substantially. Take, for exampl negative to positive in the prismatic scale, as be the rainbow reflected athwart
the misty curtain
Did it never occur to you that Nature by safing a glimpse of the marvelous secret operation shower.
the harmony
of her melodies? —that
she was, su
revealing to you that law of vibration which is ide whether it be in the blending of a color scheme, scale, the unfolding processes
of the mineral, the
kingdom, or a stellar aspect in the sidereal heave the fact.
Vibration as the primal law is obviously more color than in other realms, for herein the gradation tensions, or vice versa, may be readily sensed by
do or .C, being the lowest register of the music sc coarsest air vibrations; likewise is red as its col
a
distinct steps in her season of fructification, viz.
:d
period of spring she utilizes the actinic or electric f
ly
I
in the blue rays of the spectrum ; during the evolving
j '
ir
:
the principle of light, which centers in the yellow, is sition ; and at the ripening season the element of heat, ray, is essential to the completion of her purposes.
h
Now, as with the seed of grain, so with the human m
it d
or embryonic activities are synchronal with those of th
n
pole of nature's battery, which is violet (Mercury, in
f
mind), for a spark of the Divine Intelligence has n
r
quickening; passing along the line of the spectrum t
i-
attained in the yellow, Venus, or — as in Astrology — th
p
principle; thence into the red (Mars), which is the and independent selfhood, and behold! this is the s
s,
human soul is ripened into outward being.
And so with every undertaking, whether mental .
c
il y
j [
emanates from
the thought realm, conception
and
systematically through the same gradations as depict and the music scale, and interpreted by the celestial sci
i r
j
For example,
\
which is through the mind (Mercury), but in order p
,
!
:
;
a vague image
or idea first enters the
this idea there must be a correlation
of
of these mental
the principles which constitute that idea, and this
the Venus or love element.
With the forces thus arrai
and color, then as a fundamental fact this order m
of the universal Cosmos. There c and distinct laws of motion in our economy, for su
the broad domain
ultimate antagonism and consequent chaos.
Lest the claim that a chromatic and hence a musi in the starry heavens be too vague for ready acc here, without fear
of contradiction, that star color
by a little observation. the dusky redness a preponderance
One need only use the nak
of Mars. This planet, strong in
of red corpuscles in the blood, th
martial or positive, aggressive, temperament.
of this fact that
led the old sages
It
to denominate
of war. Ascending the planetary scale we come to the Mo about her being made of green cheese is really, th sciously, but a quaint reference to a fundamental
of which this planet is color scheme!
the symbol, green being her
The green cheese theory, by the w
drous truth, interesting
if homely.
As is well kno
for producing curd is milk which has been concreted Why this should effect the desired sucking calf. stomach from whence the milk is taken for purpo (stomach) activities, of The result is prod the Moon partakes.
germane with the Cancer astrology,
is green, and Lyra blue.
"In
the pure transparent at
regions the colors are far more brilliant. There, often sky is a blaze of jewels, the stars glittering with the g the blue
of the amethyst, and the red of the topaz,
and multiple stars every color is presented in all its
We find also combinations of colors complementary is a green star with a blood-red companion; here
The triple formed of an orange-red sun and two others of an e tint that blooms in the flowers of summer flames out sun, there a yellow and purple one.
'The rainbow flowers of the footstool and the st throne,' proclaim their common author, while rainb alike evince the same Divine love of the beautiful" (
The stars being thus indisputably identified wit follows they must correspond to a tone value, for between these two planes of activity is too obvious to Thus are we enabled to perceive far more than gestion in the expression "music of the spheres." vested
not only with wondrous rationality,
but wi
admits of logical demonstration.
To view
of the heavens as a tremend with the seven planets as the sovereign keys of Nat demand some stretch of the imagination, yet to the the vault
rh thm of the stellar harmonies they discourse strain
which attention is directed further along to the sev sions in the mineral kingdom analogous to the cos each of which obtain the same harmonious depen
in color and music, and so demonstrated in astral ph necessity of geometrical aspects, or points of depar
of celestial magnetism. In text-books on Astrology we are told, for insta aspect with Saturn has a significance relatively differe
Mercury in aspect with Mars.
We also read tha
Uranus produces jealousy, that her familiarity w the native to be affable, just, complacent, etc., while
Jupiter begets
a keen sense
of humor, generosity an
the surface all this sounds the veriest jargon, becaus terms foreign to the usual habits of thought
;
yet th
are the universal ones to be found operating in nature.
Now, if we will but view the several planets in symbols of certain specific
potencies
in
the astra
analogous to known elements in physical chemistry, point from which to illustrate some of the fundam
For which purpose I subjoin here
the analogies
metals, and a list of equivalents belonging to the four
tion, viz.
:
In Astrology, the four divisions of eleme
as triplicities, with their planetary
rulerships
acco
These are here regarded as spiritual forces, thos being identical in essence, no matter where found tory. Thus, Venus, or the love element in the human
unifying principle that gives to organized matter its
As chlorine it is chief of the elements called salt be found
in most ashes after calcination.
principle of that name is obvious.
And
Its analogy so with each
of manifestation as indicated in the above tabulatio the psychic chemistry
of man, and in the constitution
vegetable, must and do correspond with those in t
of the sidereal world. With these basic facts let us
see
if
a logical rea
for the various interpretations bearing upon the
of the planets. Reference is made to the astrological precept th
with Uranus produces a species of green-eyed monste Such term as applied to this passional quality will a one when the chemical relations
understood
;
of these two
for this chlorine, which is a gas of a g
(ruled by Venus, of the earthy or stable triplicity), by Uranus) combined, form a stable tetrachloride (U lizes in dark green octahedra. Uranium is lacking i other chemical element, just as its stellar equival
spiritual symbol for all such as might be expressed
"Love and hate exist in minerals state
of consciousness,
as they do in
and a tragedy or comedy
regard to their family history ; describing, for instanc
Princess Sodium
fell in love and was married to
Oxygen, and how the happy union lasted until one d named Chlorine, fell in love with her, and althou
married to a flighty woman whose name was Hydr the princess, and there was nothing left
for poor Ox
deserted woman and turn to water with her. Such
from a similar one enacted in human life only in so the latter would intelligently and consciously follow
are enacted without individual intelligence in the mi These interactions
and correspondences in
nat
brought to the notice of the student in Astrology, so
within the limits of the individual, as shown by a con or in the fermentative processes analogous to discord between the separate economies elements inherent
of two or more pers
in the one refuse
to combine
dominant ones in the other.
That Mars in aspectal terms with Jupiter superind be scientifically demonstrated, though were
I
to tell y
is one of its equivalents in the chemical laboratory, feel fully as humorous as the statement could possibl
is the fact, for laughing gas is a nitrous oxide, form
of the metal become depolarized, and speedy disinteg is just why the individual thus constituted so freque cial substance, as ruled by Jupiter, similarly dissipate
We are told in Astrology that Mercury conjuncti the mental functions, leading generally to undue gravi
You will note in the present list of analogies that with quicksilver, and Saturn with lead. to govern the intellect, and Saturn
In Astrolog
the memory.
universal scheme, they act correspondentially
on all
{Archidoxis Magicce) states that "Mercury is coa no metal has greater affinity for mercury than lead the fixity or coagulation
of
the mineral element, m
by a proper union with lead, is seen to analogize wit two principles upon the psychical aura of man, caus
tion of the normal functions of the mind. Again, with Mars unbends and renders flexible the martial el temperament, just as a steel rod,
if anointed with
broken like glass.
I might extend these illustrations indefinitely,
b
further to corroborate the claims of Astrology, that the spiritual structures
of
the sidereal systems rep
both the inner and the outer mysteries of nature. the one upon the other, and together constitute a D
this is not a baseless assumption may be gleaned fro
these higher subjects, sees fit to express his disbelie he, however, devote three to five years seriously to
t
templation, as a beginning, and then voice the abo would indeed be cause for the profoundest amazeme
But, though one may readily grasp the fact o succession possessed
apprehend
in relation to properties of things know
of the further faculty of soul perception, the marvelous significance
the correlations
attaching
to
that abide along the inner pathway
efficients to finals.
The difference between the two v
canery of reason as compared with the verities of me and celestial magic;
for one may truthfully assert
in the Ambient are purely and essentially magical, to means to invade the sanctuary wherein spirit rules, a
are those of Divine alchemy. Well might one who
Kepler: "Nothing holds me; sacred fury ; I will triumph over man, for I have stol
concept exclaim with
of the Egyptians!"
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