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Volume II. AUGUST. 1901. Number 10e c r e t S c i e n c e s ^Tr a n s c e n d e n t a l is m A strology, A stronomy H e l ig io n . Ro m a n c e

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CONTEXTS:A STRANGE CASE OF DUAL PERSONALITY. PRACTICAL MAGIC.Reincarnation. <Poem.»The Moon as a Weather Prophet.Heliocentric Positions of the Planets for August. World’s Events in Capricornus under Cancer. THE ASTRAL NUMBER. The Final Digit. Book

of Time, Y-Root. and Mathematical "W o rd .” ASTROLOGERS AND ASTROLOGY.THE SIGN LEO.Evil Transits Now for Certain People.A Few Occult Notes.OCCULT POWERS OF MOHAMMED.An Occult Sixth Sense.When Dreams Come True. (Poem.i INTELLIGENCE OF NATURE How to Cast Your Astral Number.SOME OCCULT HISTORY.Mythology of Trees.STAR HEAT NOW MEASURED.Representing an Eclipse.Notable Masonic Happenings.Quaiftt and Curious Corner.HEALTH AND HYGIENE. Christian Science in

India Vegetarianism Queer Recipes. EDITOR'S TABLE. Notes. Reviews. Etc.. Etc.

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MAGIA Monthly Journal of Occult Science, Art and Philosophy.

I’ablhhrrf by X m K. Warnl. A. W. II.. SIT La Valla i n , I h ln p i . r . «. A.

Volume II. CHICAGO, ILL., AUGUST I. 1901. Number 10.

DI AL EXISTENCE.Strange Experiences of Alternating Personality

Fully Explained by Reincarnation.That a person may, all at once, from any one of sev

eral causes, become a totally different person, with different tastes, inclinations and modes of life, is a fact frequently well attested. The new existence may last for several weeks, months, or even years, and persons with such an experience are said to possess dual existences. Such jiersons are by no means as rare as one would naturally suppose.

One of the most remarkable cases of dual personality known is that of Charles Washburn, aged forty-one years, who, with his family, resides in Allegheny, Pa. Mr. Washburn-lias just lost his second, and regained his first personality after a lapse of seventeen years, the events of which he cannot now recall to mind. It is just as though he had slept the entire period with the difference of waking up as the father of a fairsized family which he did not possess seventeen years ago when he tirst became possessed of his second self.

Mr. Washburn's native home was in eastern Pennsylvania, but in what town he has not been able to recall. According to his statement to his doctors, made since he again became his former self, he left for the West in 1**4, after the death of his father, to look up some property that had been left to him. He remembers leaving Chicago on the Chicago and Hock Island railroad, but can recall only that the train was wrecked a short time after leaving Chicago. He remembers a crash and the sensation of being hurled through the air, but from that time until a few weeks ago his mind is a blank as to who or what he has been since.

Mrs. Washburn says she met her husband twelve years ago, a few days after his arrival in the city, and two years later married him. Hut Mr. Washburn on the recovery of his memory knew nothing of his marriage nor of the fact that he was the father of four children. He did not recognize ativ of the (it-ople he has known for the last ten years; he did not know anything of the neighborhood in which he hail resided for the same time, nor did he know anything of his former occupation, painting, nor of his present one, the grocery business. Electric cars were to him as something springing suddenly from the earth, and he had but a dim recollection of what electric lights were. An electric bell was also a novelty with the use of which he was entirely unacquainted. The tall build

ings of the city amazed him, and the sights on every hand were as strange to him as to a newly born babe.

For the last year and a half Mr. Washburn has apparently been ill. This caused his retirement fn . his former occupation, a contracting painter, and embarked in the grocery business, conducting a sm all stop? in Allegheny. l>r. S. (1. Small has been bis physician and was treating him for hejiatic abscesses or abscess of the liver. The frequent bursting of the abscesses caused him great pain.

On the night of February he was walking the Mi sir of his dining-room suffering intensely. A daughter, who was in the room with him. accidentally overturned a lamp. Mr. Washburn tried to grasp it as it fell, but as he reached for it he murmured. “ Oh! my head." and fell to the Moor unconscious. He was immediately put to bed. and Hr. Small was summoned. But all the efforts of the doctor were apparently without r, suit, as Mr. Washburn remained unconscious until the next evening.

When he regained consciousness the next day the events of the last seventeen years were entirely forgotten. He regained consciousness at the jioint where his present memory had then left, and his tirst words were: •• Was I much hurt?”

Mrs. Washburn was in the room at the time and replied in the negative. Then he asked as to what hos- pital he was in and asked his wife if she was the nurse. She laughingly replied that she was his wife, whereat he grew indignant anil told her that she was taking liberties with him. He then demanded to see the doctor, and to humor him Mrs Washburn sent for Hr. Small. While awaiting the doctor. Mrs. Washburn again engaged her husband in conversation, calling him by his tirst name and telling him that lie was the father of four children.

“ I’m not married," he replied. “ Nice thing tor a man twenty-four years of age to wake upafter a night s sleep to be told that he is the father of four children "

••Hut you are not a young man." replied his wife, and she handed him a mirror. When he -aw the reflection of his face he acknowledged that he did not look like a man of twenty-tour years of age. but -till did not believe that he was married He did not rec ognize the face as his. exclaiming. My Hod. that is not me." and |ioiutiitg to a |H>rtrait taken alsml the time of his marriage, said it was his own. I hen Mrs. Washburn showed him their marriage certificate and brought in their children, w hich convinced him of the truth of her statement.

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A few days later, when his condition allowed of his being taken out. it was made apparent how complete had been the lapse of his former identity. When lie saw a trolley car he wanted to know what new kind of wagons they were, running without horses. The in- ; formation that they were electric cars was practically no information, so far as he was concerned, and an explanation of how they were operated became necessary to make him understand them. When he called on Dr. Small his ignorance of recent events was again shown. At the doctor's front door he vainly tried to find the knob by which to ring the bell, and a woman showed him how to ring the electric bell. He did not know one of his neighbors, with many of whom he had been on intimate terms, and when, after he had regained his strength, it was proposed that he resume his occupation of painting, he astonished his doctor and family by saying that he knew nothing about painting, and that he had never been a painter, pot- withstanding that he had followed this occupation for over ten years. Of tile streets and city he displayed ; an utter ignorance, not even knowing the name of the ' latter. In short, all memory of his second personality had vanished. He had lost his second self as completely as he had formerly lost his original personal ity. At no time had he been insane. Each of his dual identities had been active and intelligent. His second self, according to Mrs. Washburn, was such that during their entire married life she never noticed anything wrong with him. He acted rationally at all times, never smoked, drank but very little, and. until the time of his illness began, had always worked hard and provided well for his family. He never did anything to lead her to believe that he was not in jiossession of his natural abilities, and her surprise was greater than his when he recovered consciousness and did not recognize her.

Dr. Small said that he had been treating Mr. Washburn for hepatic abscess for over a year. “ He seemed to suffer great pain in his right side." said the doctor,“ and whenever he was touched he would cry out with pain. When he lost consciousness I thought it was - the result of the abscess again breaking, and was amazed after his recovery of consciousness that he did not feel the slightest pain. As soon as I arrived at the house I began examining him. He did not recognize me as any one he had ever seen before. He said that there was nothing wrong with him. and when I handled him a bit more severely than usual he made no complaint of any pain. Nor has he done so since. He is a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and his children, who range from three to nine years of age, are also bright, not showing the slightest trace of there having l»een anything wrong with their father."

In the case of Mr. Washburn, it may be considered pro 'ed. from the foregoing, that:

While a young man, up to his twenty-fifth year, he Isassessed a sane and bright mind and individuality until he met with a railway accident.

That from that time on, for seventeen years, he re- ] membered nothing of his twenty-four years of previous life, though still intelligent and bright, lie married

and became a father, providing well for his family as a painter and grocer until, when ailing, through iimithrf nrritlrut. he became again unconscious.

That when he again became conscious, his mentality took up the thread of his original j>ersonality which had disap|»eared seventeen years before, leaving his mind a total blank on all that he had learned and ex perienced for seventeen years.

That he was possessed, therefore, of a dual person ality. or two seperate mentalities, each of which knew nothing of the habits, thoughts or acts of the other, and were as total strangers to each other.

In view of these facts several queries naturally suggest themselves. Where was the second mentality and in what state was it before it made its appearance at the time of the first accident? An answer to this query will also answer two others—as to what became of the first mentality for seventeen years, and as to what became of the second mentality, after an active existence of seventeen years, upon the occurrence of another accident.

The only reasonable solution of these problems is that given by the philosophy of the doctrine of rein carnation. And the answer goes far in reasonably proving the fact of r e la te d embodiments.

We give three extracts from Mr. E. D. Walker's noted work on the subject, as follows:

“ It has been shown that there are traces of former existences lingering in some memories. These and other exceptional departures from the general rule furnish substantial evidence that the obliteration of previous lives from our consciousness is only apparent............ Exi>erimental evidence demonstrates thatwe actually forget nothing, though for long lapses we are unable to recall what is stored away in the chambers of our soul. ”

•• Instances are frequent illustrating how the higher consciousness faithfully stores away experiences which are thought to be long forgotten until some vivid touch brings them forth in accurate order. . . . There is an interesting class of cases on record in which the mem ory which links our successive dual states of conscious ness into a united whole is so completely wanting that in observing only the difference between the two phases of the same ]>erson we describe it as •alternating consciousness.' These go far toward an empirical proof that one individual can become two distinct ))er sons in succession, making a practical demonstration of reincarnation.”

After giving two cases in line with the one of Mr. Washburn, he further says:

“ Numerous similar cases are recorded in the annals of psychological medicine, and justify us in assuming, according to the law of corres]x>ndences, that some such alternation of consciousness occurs after the great change known as death. The attempt toexplain them as mental aberrations is wholly unsuccessful. Hein- carnation shows them to be exceptions proving the rule—the recall of former activities supposed to Ije forgotten. In these examples of double identity the facts of each state disappear when the other set come forward and are resumed again in their turn. Where

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did they reside meanwhile? They must have been particular invitations and convocations, I believe you preserved in a subtler organ than the brain, which is have already pa-sed throuyh somethiny. which cortv- onlv the medium of translation from that unconscious sjtonds with it. and the |x>int can Is- easily supplied, memory to the world of sense-perception. This must the more so as the ojierator is able to put himself

•* I ta k e a lively in te re s t in th e m ortifica tion of yo u r TRANSLATED, by REV. <iEO. H. PEEKE, FROM THE “ LIFE haviny had so li tt le success. I w as h indered d a r in g

OF MAllTINES l>E PA SQL'ALLEY AND MAKTINISM. " my w ork w hile you have had C onsiderable sa ti I -tion

The following year (1771). at the approach of the as follows: equinoxes, the disciple of Lyons demanded new tech * have no doubt the same as this has transpiredideal directions, which Martinessent him. Saint Mar- 1,1 whole or part in your presence, although you have tin was then secretary of the Master, for the letter is nothiny. If you had l»een able to tix u|xm thein the hand writing of the future initiate and the or- least impression, or only to jterceive it in the swiftness

swer for you, that it will be the same on your part. * ,|'s letter gives us the very im|x>rt.int information As I only lead you by the laws of Nature. I am obliged t*,at practice comprehends two |>arts: to regulate myself by the course of the Moon, for my Hirst, the work or iqieration designed to produce work here below, since she is the star which princi-pallv directs the inferior party, and I have not yet Second, the interpretation of these visions the key made my calculation to know at what time the next ml»»»ls employed by the Invisible World toMoon of Mars will fall. When I shall have assured communicate with the Initiate.myself of it I will take great care that you have a |>art Ik-fore proceeding to exjxtse the doctrine of Marin it, but 1 re|>eat to you that her apfiointment should Hues let us delay a few moments u|«on the practices. corres|s>nd with yours. I know that it will l»e dif- Hrom the llrst a question, which presents itself alter ticult for you to occupy yourself with spiritual work 1 *‘e ,,r*t'r of the successive checks of Willermox. is from the 20th of March to the 5th of April. You will ,hat "< knowing whether the visions really exist and be free before the term. Write me if you should learn i( Marlines has given the proofs before other disciples, the time more nearly, since it is |tossible that the as the merchant of Lyons. I pon that point vritiiism equinoctial Moon may go into the month of April." seems to have exceedingly clarified the question. M

•• Let us suppose the matter of time settled, and let Fournier. We present the two passages upon this us speak of the kind of work you have to do. I lie- question:lieve you have written of not considering further what “ I will not conceal from you that in the school. M. de Grainville has proposed to you and of reserv- where I have passed more than twenty live years, the iny it for a time when you shall have made more pro- communications of every kind were numerous and ire yress. My intention has been and is that you should quent. that 1 have had my part in them, as have all limit yourself to a work of three days, which I have the others, and that, in that |*art. all the signs mdica forwarded from here, wholly translated from Latin to live of the Kest«*rer were embraced." iSaint Martiu. French. You will join the invocation which you have cited by Franck, p. 17. tof ( i ----- A----- , following precisely the instruction “ The A bite Fournier, we understand, upon the faithwhich I have already sent you upon this subject. The of his |tro|ter experience, said that M arlin es had tl* great invocation at midnight does not belong to this gift to confirm (that is the word Consecrated in the last work, so this object is not pressing. As to the school) his instructions by lights from above, by exte

lie in the super-sensuous part of the soul." into it, provided that it always tends to good.”Alas, this o|ieration of Willermox succeeded no more

than the others, and the following year the failure was not re-enacted. Meanwhile the Master gave great hope in one of his last letters, written at I’or tan-Prince:

By Dr. Encausse (Papusi. President of the Supreme Council of the Martinist Order.

mode o f n ea r s i 'o r e ss ILittrr i>f Mi’ij ''. 177 J.)

[rontinui'tl from the July l<*-»ue.| in yours, but meanwhile I have discovered something.

"It will lie quite possible. C----- M------ , for me toappoint a month in advance, according to your desire, the time when you will be able to work in your equinoxes. I am able to give you the choice of three consecutive days, which will best accomodate you within tile week, as I have offered you. The embarrassment will never come from my side, but I am not able to an-

thoyraphy is perfect.

ASTRAL lNFLl'ENt'ES—THE MOON.

(fiettrr of AV*rtmber in, 1771.)

of passing, that would have been a great guide for you. which would have served to disclose the rest: for this experience will never be realized except by yourself, and your right understanding, which will come to instruct and inform you. either in work or interpretation. Nevertheless, it is not necessary to alarm you concerning that which is so rigorous and intractable for you. On the contrary, that should increase your courage and confidence in the certainty that vour time and happiness cannot fail to arrive, if you will it. for at last the man is master. "

THE WORK OF THREE DAYS.Franck, in his remarkable Issik ujsm Martinism. in vokes in effect two witnesses Saint Martin and A bite

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rior visions, at first vague and rapid as lightning, afterwards more and more distinct and prolonged. " (Franck, p. lx.)

Hut another extract, from letters of Saint Martin, cited by Franck, gives us further new and curious details ujtoti this subject:

THK POWERS.“ If the enumeration of powers and the necessity for

these orders is a new domain for you, friend Boehm will give you great assistance upon these subjects. The school through which I have passed has also given us a good nomenclature upon this genus. There are extracts upon it in my works and I am now content to sum up my ideas ujx>n these two nomenclatures. That of Boehm is more substantial than ours and it leads more directly to the main point. Ours is more brilliant and detailed, but I do not think it more profitable, seeing that it is not, so to speak, the language of a country w hich must be conquered, and that it is not the s|teaking of languages which should be the object of warriors, but, indeed, the subduing of rebellious nations. Finally, that of Boehm is more divine, ours more spiritual; that of Boehm is able to do everything for us if we know how to identify ourselves with it, ours demands a practical and decisive operation, which renders the fruits of it more uncertain and less durable; that is to say, that ours is turned towards the operations in which our Master was strong, at the place which that of Boehm is entirely turned towards the fullness of the divine action which should hold in us the place of the other.'' (Unedited correspondence of Saint Martin, cited by Franck, p. 24.)

Finally, it is necessary to return to the certificates, given to Martines to Willermoz in his correspondence, to be convinced that many of the disciples obtained very important practical results.

But the archives which we possess permit our giving the question placed before us a very unexpected reply. Willermoz gained his ends and obtained phenomena of the highest importance, which reached their apogee in 1785; that is to say, thirteen years after the death of Martines de Pasquallv, his initiator.

In the corresjM»ndence of Willermoz and .Saint Martin (1771 to 1790) we can follow the conception and progress of practical results, which incited Saint Martin to go many times to Lyons, and we |>ossess from more than one part of his writings also a catalogue of the instructions given by the Visible Presence, which Willermoz designates under the name of “ Tin- t'lilrnowu Aj/rut ( ’ltari/nl with the Work of I nil ini ion."

Here we see the i»erseverence which was necessary for Willermoz to obtain such important results, and we remain astonished at the insistence employed on this occasion by him, who. more than any other, should be called Tin- Man of Venire.

We have now finished the account of the ritual employed by the Martinists. The readers who are familiar with the theory and practice of Magic understand mi rely the traditional character of the ritual. The addition of the cressets |lights| is always characteristic of Martinism. The profane see here only charlatan

ism. hallucination and folly. However, that matter ̂but little to the truth of the facts, which will only tie well known in fifty years. Until then the profane have the right to profane the Mysteries, and disdainful silence should be the only response of Initiates

Let us leave these burning subjects and now draw near the study of the doctrine literally set forth by the founder of Martinism.

THE DOCTRINE.

Of the three principles successively studied by eso- tericism—God, Man and the Universe—it was Man ujMm whom Martines principally fixed his attention. But of all the ideas concerning man and his evolution none interested Martines more than the Fall and Res toration, which he calls the Reintegration. M. Franck also gives in his work some pages of a treatise consecrated by the Master to this question:

‘•First. The fall has been universal for all material beings and so will be the restoration.

‘•Second. Man is the divine agent of this universal restoration.

“ Third. The wrong doer will himself lie restoredby love.

“ Such are the three fundamental doctrines of Martines upon that subject. According to the doctrine of Martines Pasqualis. man is not the only being who bears in him these imprints and who suffers the conse quences of the first sin. All beings are fallen as him self. All who people the heavens or who surround the throne of eternity, as those who are exiled upon earth, all feel with sorrow the evil which holds them removed from their divine source, and impatiently await the day of restoration.” (Franck, p. 14.)

•‘ Martines Pasqualis had the active key of all that which our Brother Boehm exposed in his theories, but lie did not believe mankind was yet able to receive these high truths. He had also some points which our Brother Boehm either had not known or had not wished to reveal, such as the regeneration of the wrong doer, which the first man had been charged to effect " (Saint Martin, cited by Franck, p. 15.)

Let us return again to the theory so admirably developed by Fabre D' Olivet (“ The Hebrew Tongue Restored," Cain):

“ The office of the Savior, of the Christ, is an office accessible to every human soul acting in absolute concert with the principles of Providence ”

Now. observe that which the Abbe Fournier assures us of having heard from the mouth of Pasqually:

“ Each one of us, by following His footsteps, can be elevated to a degree where he has attained to Jesus Christ. In order to do the will of God, Jesus Christ assumed human nature and is become the Son of God Himself. In imitating His example or in conforming our will to the Divine Will, we will enter, as did He, into Eternal Union with God; we will be emptied of the Spirit of Satan and be pervaded with the Spirit Divine; we will become One, as God is One, and we will be i»erfected in the Eternal Unity of God the Father, of God the Son, and of God the Holy Spirit.

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and consequently perfected in tile enjoyment of eternal and divine joys." (Franck, p. 14.)

It is by an intelligent resignation to the evils which sweep along with our destiny that man arrives at this evolution, powerfully aided by the magical o|ierations which jiermit the objective aid of a guide from the Invisible World. Such is the summing up on some lines of the doctrine set forth with details by Martines in the following extracts of his letters, and which also M. Franck has very well determined.

In these most essential elements we now jiossess the doctrine of Martines Pasquallis. It is comjiosed of two very distinct parts. The one interior, spiritual, sjieculative, to which some antique traditions were attached, if it was not entirely according to these same traditions. The other exterior, practical, even to a certain jioint material or, at least, symbolic, which rests, as we understand Saint Martin, a system wholly upon the hierarchy of virtues and powers, or upon the degrees of the spiritual world interjiosed between God and man.

Let us now proceed to cite the principal passages agreeing with the doctrine in the letters of Martines. September 19, 1767. apropos to his illness. Martines makes the following reflections:

THE FEEBLENESS AND GREATNESS OF MAN.

“ We are all men, and in this quality no one of us is just before Him (God). Let us recall that He has not sent us here for Himself but for ourselves. It rests with us to be in Him, since it is thus alone that we can find rest for ourselves.

“ God has punished me by smiting me in this manner. but His just chastisement should relieve all my doubts. Man has never been like a beast, in that the beast remains without punishment, and the man is of God when he lias failed, and the punishment which the man receives, the moment he has sinned, assures him the favor of this perfect Being. Xot willing to lose him completely, He afflicts him and makes him see by that, that He has not withdrawn His mercy and grace.

11 Man is ambitious, inquisitive and insatiable. His imagination follows his thought; his laxity and disgust destroy in an instant the )>erfonnance of his pro jects. All this renders him uneasy, wicked and hostile to those who have wished to elevate him—admitting of no other success than by him who directs their operations—putting in him incomjiarable confidence, taking him even for a God in their demand, and willing even to ignore that such an one is only a man like themselves. As for me, I am a man and do not think that I have in myself more than any other man. 1 have always said that every man has before him all the convenient materials to do all that I have been able to do in my small way. Man has only to Will and he will have authority and power. ”THE PRACTICE— POSITION AND RESTORATION OF MAN.

(A pril I t. 176#.)‘‘ Be not impatient; await your time; this class of

things is not at the dis|>osition of man alone, but even

to that of T----- H----- and T------ P----- Eternal. Itwould be s|>eaking rashly and foolishly if I should declare to you that these things were in my power alone. I am only a feeble instrument whom God wishes well, unworthy as I am to be used by him to recall men. my fellow creatures, to their first estate of masonry, which would s|teak spiritually to man or his soul to make him see truly that man is divine, created after the image and likeness of this Almighty Being."

THE OBJECT OF THE ORDER—THE MAN OF DESIRE.‘•Concerning that which you have s|mken to me.

that you absolutely wish to lie truly convinced of the object of the Order, that depends u|>on yourself. Place it well before you that God and he who has charge of your conduct in this matter have you » ways before them. The Order embraces a true science. It is founded u|ton truth, pure and plain. It is im|x»si ble that sophistry rules there or that charlatanism presides there. On the contrary, the false is only for a time, it flees away and the truth abides. To be convinced of this verity it is necessary that you should have followed me a much longer time than you have done, as by this means all doubts will be dissipated.

‘•You possess about you all the emblems of thus pure truth. Observe only the five unequal digits upon your hands and feet [fingers and toes] and try to divine these different emblems. I vow to you that you will have no greater thing to ask of me to be assured that the Order embraces, for the child of this low world, things very necessary and essential for his ad vantage; therefore the Order seeks <h> >»»» >•/ .1.»«,>. and when he allows himself to be led he is content."

THE PREDECESSORS.“ Observe, T—— P----- M——, all that I am able to

answer u|w>n all the questions which you have put to me in your letter. I answer without disguise and without flattery. I have never sought to lead a |>erson into error nor to deceive tlu>se who have come to me. in good faith, to receive any knowledge which my predecessors have transmitted to me. I will always |>rove the contrary liefore God and men and even for those who are my most cruel enemies. “

This is the only time that Martines s|ieaks in his letters of his mysterious predecessors, of whom he received his doctrine.

Observe the key to the problem of the "five unequal digits." given by Martines to his disciples:

THE Hl'MAN HAND.I .1, /7<W.)

•• Bv the jiower of commandment, man will be still further able to restrain (evil demonsi in bereavement by refusing them all communication with him. which is represented to us by the inequality of the live fin gers of the hand, of which the middle finger typifies the soul, the thumb the good spirit, the index finger the good intellect, tile two others representing equally the spirit and the demoniacal intellect.

“ We readily understand by tb’s figure that man has only been created face to face with the evil demon in order to restrain and coinl»at I im

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•• The power of man was much siqierior to that of the demon since the man joined to his science that of his com|Kinion and intellect, anil that, by this means, he is able to oppose three (food spiritual powers against two feeble demoniacal powers, which should totally subjugate promoters of evil and in consequence destroy evil itself." (Treatise on Restoration.)

THK TRl’E MAX.“ You tell me that you have not been received by

me into the truth. I am not aware of having a surer way than that by which I have received you. My condition and quality of a true man have always held mein my present position. I repeat to you. P-----M------ ,that 1 have, in regard to myself, for every defense, only the truth. It is true that sometimes I have imprudently divulged a little too much. and. above all, to jiersons who have not deserved it."

THK FALL-MAN DISTINCT FROM HIS BODY.(■!/"(/ /?« '.)

“ I have received your letter, which it pleased you to write me last month. I see with much heart ache the pain and suffering which your original nature has caused your body to suffer; but these things are innate and for that reason it is imjiossible to tind means to op]>ose the different effects of this tirst principle. We are corporeally born with seven original evils, every corporeal form of which is not known, and it is not ]>ossible to avoid evil under every form in which it may exist. But, with a little serious reflection, man is yet able to weaken and diminish the many annoyances consequent and dangerous to the integity and stability of our individuality. Therefore wise legislators have well foreseen the great inconvenience which man was susceptible of inflicting u|ion his individuality, by the strength and authority of his free will, able to consider by it and able to reflect with his relative igno ranee after his own pattern and ordinary habit. Therefore the celebrated spiritual legislator has given seven principal and capital crimes to man anil not to his body, although the seven things are attached to the body and not to the man."

LIBERTY OF MAX.“ Man is alone responsible to God for the little care

and consideration lie has had of having unwisely sent into unusual activity the things named above, which I am not able to explain in long detail, but it should bedone. It is. I*----- M----- ,.the great knowledge of thelegislator, as well as the intimate friendship which he has had for man, his imitator, and for his spiritual and bodily preservation, that he has made seven principal commandments, to which he subjects and constrains the man of desire to follow scrupulously. These commandments are based U|*on the conservation of nature, hence all that may be done against nature will be called capital sins. Reflect ujion that: you will see that 1 speak no enigma when 1 say that failing towards ourselves we fail towards God, who is the true Father of the creature."

As a corollary to this passage we will cite this extract from the “ Treatise upon Restoration;"

THE ORIOIlf OF EVIL.{April x. nun.)

“ It can be seen from all that I now say. that the origin of evil is from no other cause than evil thought followed by an evil will of the mind against the divine laws, and not that the spirit which emanated from the Creator is directly evil, since the possibility of evil has never existed in tile Creator. It is born solely from the disposition and will of His creatures."

CONCERNING SECRET SCIENCE.I .W ohV i1 /*;. 1771.)

"Concerning the objects of which you spoke to me.I avow that I would hesitate less to send them to you if I could see those more fruitful which I have already placed in your hands. You have not the courage, you say, to put your hand to so great a work until you have conviction. I declare to you that you will do the greatest wrong in waiting for my intervention. These things are absolutely at the disposition of him who guides all.

“ The science which I profess is certain and true, since it comes not from man, and he who uses it with out feeling the favor should cling to it for himself alone. Christ himself has said, ‘Whatsoever you shall ask in my name, without hesitancy and without doubt in your faith, you shall receive.’ Observe the true key of science. I believe that I should represent to you that the reflections which you have made to me should not hinder you. The reason for it is simple, although you have no conviction'those who would admit you should have it. since there is nothing so free as the progress of the spirit, and if you only attend to these convictions in order to build. I may be able, jierhaps, to send you all the materials which I jwissess and. without doubt, you should make them worth more than the tirst. I do not pretend, in order to refuse you what I have promised, but I much desire that you should make use of what you have."

FINAL CONSOLATIONS.(Aiiyiitt H , 1772.)

“ Pervaded with sentiment and zeal that you have even at present the favor of /.« <'hour, is an assurance that it will not be cruel much longer. You should not doubt that I am filled with the sensitiveness that you have in this matter, but that which strengthens me in the s)H-cial care which I propose to take for your conduct on this subject flatters me that by the assistanceof L----- I shall succeed in making an end of yourpunishment.

“ There is no doubt that your example and precision in the Order which you profess with us. shonld be a striking example for all the members of l.a Therefore I think that although you may be the last pursuing this way among your brothers and equals, you should lie the tirst in true resignation and stub- liorn jierseverence."

|This concludes the section on “ Practical Magic," from the great work on Martinism by Dr. Papus. The September S t a r will contain the first installment of “ The Work of Realization." by the same author.|

August, 1901. STAR OF THE MAGI. 5)

REINCARNATION.

,Yill bff birth ilnr* OM btnmu Imr mute,Xnt lift liirlh ilor* line hemmr n Itriilinimi. lift hi* art inn* altmt mi r brnmn* Imr nmlr. lift hi* iirtinn* illimt nut brnmn* n Itrnlilmiii.

____ — V A S A L A S l ’T T A , 27.

I wonder, when the cycling aeons of eternity Have cast the immortal germ of life to earth again,

In what new shape the inexorable hand of Destiny Will clothe this subtile essence in the eyes of men!’

Will it he as one in whom the spirit of the Magiai, lives.That read on Chaldean plains the mystery of the stars?

(>r yet as one of those vast millions whom their country gives. Like Xerxes’ host, a sacrifice in time of wars?

IVrchance an exile’s fate in Asian wilds may be my lot;Some bloodier tyrant I than e’er swart Afric cursed:

Some Iwokful hermit by his people and his time forgot;Some martyr to the truth the chosen Twelve dis|>ersed.

In countries yet unliorn an empire tottering to its fall Thy hand may rule, like his whose eyes in wonder saw

The lingers of a man come forth that wrote u|s>n the wall Itelshaxzar's doom in words that filled his breast with awe.

The instincts of that later Unman* may lie thine, who strave liy tongue ami pen to foster gluttony and ease:

Or. yet again, thou mayst eclipse in virtue them* who gave Their nights to prayer, their days to labored ministries.

Thou yet mayst rival in the lust for em|drc who can tell?The son of Philip.•* him that smote fresh terror to

laing-ravaged Ind, who crossed the sand to l.yhia's oracle.And countless treasures in the lap of Ammon threw.

A remnant of the martial fire the triple hundred •• felt.Thy liosom may inhrrit in the time to be:

Perchance a heart as soft as that young wife's who piteous knelt llefore stern < >mar >• when he spake his harsh d e . . ■. e.

Do thou, as did of old the Cap|iadocian martyr.)1 slay Thy breastplate selflessness, and truth thy sword and shield

The demoned error, heedless of what dragon guise it may Assume to cow thy soul and fright thee from the field.

\\ ho knows but what the spark of emulation that the name Stylitesof the Pillar wakes within my breast

That ragged Saint1 —may blaze long ages hence into a flame Of mystic force like that the Incarnate Sage -' possessed?

May it not lie that pride and passion, struggling as they do.The seat of mastership to win, if not put down.

Will vex the soul that fain would rise, as the rapt Indian1 knew, With dread Ambition's curse—the mockery of a crown?

He only this thy aim. that whatsoever duty bids Thou wilt |ierform. insensible to greed or gain.

And thou shalt stand immovable as those grim pyramids That centuries hence shall dot the self-same arid plain.

Thou art thyself. I care not by what name thou mayst he known.The sum of all thy deeds thou art, I dare repeat:

To climb the heights the Ilishis dumb it rests with thee atone: Learn this, and in the eight-fold |iatb ** conduct thy fret.

If so, may not some coming Nero he this soul of mine?Some Alaric belike, with Vandal hand uplift

Against some sacred and mysterious temple, at whose shrine Some future vestal tends her fire and plies her gift?

May not another Paris stir my heart with thoughts elate Of some fair Helen yet undreamt of and unknown?

The heritage of some new love-lorn Antony be my fate,Some star-eyed Serpent of the weedy Nile mine own?

Might not in me the Thracian singer’s) long-lost art revive:Or from my lips the .Mantuan poet's5 numbers flow?

Might not these fingers paint a new fampaspe if they strive, And win her as Apelles did—if it lie so?

Such thoughts as these the Inner Self awakes betimes in me, Th' Kternal Pilgrim from the spheres of life beyond;

Say on, thou quenchless spark! for I who am would learn to Ik-. Throughout the ages, all that the ABSOLUTE planned.

Thou speakest now in tones as full of music as the lute The Delian Apollo bore. I’ll hear thy speech

In silence as profound as that which falmiists impute To Pan, what time the Nazarene began to preach.

Thou art thyself through all the myriad lives that thou hast led: Through all the years to come thou shalt lie still the same.

What though the body moulders into dust? thou art not dead: Thou art thyself! Thou canst not die—except in name.

Thou art thyself—the net result of all thy lives agone;And every several life its certain quota yields.

To drag thee nearer to perdition than the former one,Or closer waft thee to the blest Nlrvanic fields.

Who knoweth what the Karmic law may not demand of thee llefore each tittle and each jot have had their due?

< )r yet what consequence, far-reaching as eternity, from thy uncancelled deeds hereafter may ensue?

What hoots it if thy place lie that of subject or of king?We are the puppets and the toys of circumstance.

What though we go unshod, or like that regal s|H-ndthrift* fling A fortune in our wine?—all these are tricks of chance.

What matters if the rags that Misraim- thrust on Joseph's kin, When chains and Inindage held the chosen people fast,

lie all thy earthly share? The soul that hath her lodge within May rise above the purpled Pharaoh's at the last.

Saint Best .

No t k s : t. S t. S im eon : I . j u u n u l h r I M I h i t u u u m 4 o v e n , —■ A Virgil- ) ( I r a f t i n . 7. E g y p t. Api, iu« th e E p trm re * T h e E a b r r * . si. A lex an d er. It. A t T h e rm o p y la e , g T h e S e c is s t K h a l it . IX s t IJ*.--rgi I). T h e W ay a t K igb teou*ne*v

---—̂ —---THE MOON AS A WEATHER PROPHET.

It is a fact, easily susceptible of explanation, that the appearances of the Moon may be made the basis of prognostication of coming meteorological disturbances. The following are some of the deductions which may be drawn, with a considerable degree of accuracy, from lunar appearances:

If, three or four days after the New Moon, its outlines are sharp and clear, it indicates several days of fair weather.

If. on the second or third evening of the Xew Moon, the tips of the horns are indistinct, rain may be ex- |iected within a few hours.

If the face of the Full Moon is very red. a storm or several days of bad weather may safely be expected.

If, in the first quarter, the Moon's face is seen to be devoid of dark sjwits, good weather is indicated.

When the Full Moon ap|H-ars clear and devoid of dark spots, and without a red circle at its edge, fair weather may be almost certainly ex|iected.

If two or three dark spots arc seen on tin- face of the Full Moon, and there are two or three dark and thick circles around its periphery. a large and continued rainfall may be expected.

A red Moon at rising, in summer, indicates great heat.A Moon that rises clear, sharp ami bright, indicates

a long clear spell.A clean-cut Xew Moon also indicates clear weather.These phenomena are atmospheric, the ap|>earancv

of the Moon de|iending entirely upon the medium through which its light comes to us.

8 STAH OF TH E MAGI. August, 1901.

*• Tlie jKiwer of man was much superior to that of the demon since the man joined to his science that of his com|umim and intellect, and that, by this means, he is able to op|iose three good spiritual powers against two feeble demoniacal powers, which should totally subjugate promoters of evil and in consequence destroy evil itself.” (Treatise on Restoration.)

THE TRUE MAX.“ You tell me that you have not been received by

me into the truth. I am not aware of having a surer way than that by which I have received you. My con- J dition and quality of a true man have always held mein my present jiosition. I rejieat to you. P—— M----- ,that I have, in regard to myself, for every defense, only the truth. It is true that sometimes I have imprudently divulged a little too much, and, above all, to jiersons who have not deserved it."

THE FALL—MAX DISTIXCT FROM HIS BODY.iM»n nun.)

“ I have received your letter, which it pleased you to write me last month. I see with much heart-ache the pain and suffering which your original nature has caused your body to suffer: but these things are innate and for that reason it is im]iossible to find means to oppose the different effects of this tirst principle. We are corporeally born with seven original evils, every cor)ioreal form of which is not known, and it is not |>ossible to avoid evil under every form in which it may exist. But, with a little serious reflection, man is yet able to weaken and diminish the many annoyances consequent and dangerous to the integity and stability of our individuality. Therefore wise legislators have well foreseen the great inconvenience which man was susceptible of inflicting U]>on his individuality, by the strength and authority of his free will, able to con- [ sicler by it and able to reflect with his relative igno ranee after his own pattern and ordinary habit. Therefore the celebrated spiritual legislator has given seven principal and capital crimes to man and not to his body, although the seven things are attached to the body and not to the man.”

LIBERTY OF MAX.“ Man is alone res|x>nsible to God for the little care

and consideration he has had of having unwisely sent into unusual activity the things named above, which I am not able to explain in long detail.- but it should bedone. It is. P-----M------ ,.the great knowledge of thelegislator, as well as the intimate friendship which he has had for man, his imitator, and for his spiritual and bodily preservation, that he has made seven principal commandments, to which he subjects and constrains the man of desire to follow scrupulously. These commandments are based u | n >ii the conservation of nature, hence all that may be done against nature will be called capital sins. Reflect ujx>n that; you will see that I speak noenigma when I say that failing towards ourselves we fail towards God, who is the true Father of the creature."

As a corollary to this passage we will cite this extract from the ‘’Treatise U |s > n Restoration:"

THE ORIGIN OF EVIL.(April ft. nest.)

“ It can be seen from all that I now say. that the origin of evil is from no other cause than evil thought followed by an evil will of the mind against the divine laws, and not that the spirit which emanated from the Creator is directly evil, since the possibility of evil has never existed in the Creator. It is born solely from the disposition and will of His creatures."

CONCERNING SECRET SCIENCE.(Kocnuber /8 . 1771.)

“ Concerning the objects of which you spoke to me.I avow that I would hesitate less to send them to you if I could see those more fruitful which I have already placed in your hands. You have not the courage, you say, to put your hand to so great a work until you have conviction. I declare to you that you will do the greatest wrong in waiting for my intervention. These things are absolutely at the disposition of him who guides all.

“ The science which I profess is certain and true, since it comes not from man, and he who uses it with out feeling the favor should cling to it for himself alone. Christ himself has said, ‘Whatsoever you shall ask in my name, without hesitancy and without doubt in your faith, you shall receive.’ Observe the true key of science. I believe that I should represent to you that the reflections which you have made to me should not hinder you. The reason for it is simple, although you have no conviction'those who would admit you should have it. since there is nothing so free as the progress of the spirit, and if you only attend to these convictions in order to build. I may be able, perhaps, to send you all the materials which I possess and. without doubt, you should make them worth more than the first. I do not pretend, in order to refuse you what I have promised, but I much desire that you should make use of what you have."

FINAL CONSOLATIONS.(Auyurt 14. 177!.)

•‘ Pervaded with sentiment and zeal that you have even at present the favor of I.o Chow, is an assurance that it will not lie cruel much longer. You should not doubt that I am filled with the sensitiveness that you have in this matter, but that which strengthens me in the s]>ecial care which I propose to take for your conduct on this subject flatters me that by the assistanceof L----- I shall succeed in making an end of yourpunishment.

“ There is no doubt that your example and precision ir, the Order which you profess with us, shonld be a striking example for all the members of Im Chow. Therefore I think that although you may be the last pursuing this way among your brothers and equals, you should be the first in true resignation and stubborn perseverence."

[This concludes the section on “ Practical Magic," from the great work on Martinism by Dr. Papus. The September S ta r will contain the first installment of “ The Work of Realization." by the same author.|

August, 1901. STAR OF THE MAGI. 51

REINCARNATION.

X o t b y b ir t h d o e * o n e b ec o m e b n r rou te ,X n t b y Irirth d o e * o n e Itennn e o l l r a h m a n . t ty h i * a c t i o n * a t o n e erne h en n n e* toec rou te, t ty h i * o c tU m * a l o n e o n e h en n n e* o I t r a h in o n .

____ — V A S A L A S l ’T T A , 27.

I wonder, when the cycling ;i*ons of eternity Have caat the immortal germ of life to earth again,

In what new *hape the inexorable hand of Detttmy Will clothe thin subtile essence in the eyes of men?

Will it be as one in whom the spirit of the Magian lives.That read on Chaldean plains the mystery of the stars?

or yet as one of those vast millions whom their country gives, Like Xerxes’ host, a sacrifice in time of wars?

Perchance an exile’s fate in Asian wilds may be my lot:Some bloodier tyrant I than e’er swart Afric cursed;

Some Uiokful hermit by his people and his time forgot;Some martyr to the truth the chosen Twelve dinperaed.

Who knows but what the spark of emulation that the name Stylites of the 1’illar wakes within my breast —

That ragged Saint * —may blaze long ages hence into a flame Of mystic force like that the Incarnate Sage*' possessed?

May it not be that pride and passion, struggling as they do.The seat of mastership to win, if not put down,

Will vex the soul that fain would rise, as the rapt Indian3 knew, With dread Ambition’s curse—the mockery of a crown?

If so, may not some coming Nero be this soul of mine?Some Alaric belike, with Vandal hand uplift

Against some sacred and mysterious temple, at whose shrine Some future vestal tends her fire and plies her gift?

May not another Paris stir my heart with thoughts elate Of some fair Helen yet undreamt of and unknown?

The heritage of some new love-lorn Antony be my fate,Some star-eyed Serpent of the weedy Nile mine own?

Might not in me the Thracian singer's4 long-lost art revive;Or from my lips the Mantuan poet's3 numbers How?

Might not these fingers paint a new Campaspe if they strive, And win her as Apelles did—if it be so?

Such thoughts as these the Inner Self awakes betimes in me, Th’ Kternal Pilgrim from the spheres of life beyond:

Say on, thou quenchless spark! for I who am would learn to be. Throughout the ages, all that the Absolute planned.

Thou speakest now in tones as full of music as the lute The Delian Apollo bore. I'll hear thy speech

In silence as profound as that which fabulists impute To Pan, what time the Nazarene l»egan to preach.

Thou art thyself through all the myriad lives that thou hast led: Through all the years to come thou shalt be still the same.

What though the body moulders into dust? thou art not dead; Thou art thyself! Thou canst not die—except in name.

Thou art thyself—the net result of all thy lives agone:And every several life its certain quota yields.

To drag thee nearer to |>erdition than the former one,Or closer waft thee to the blest Nirvanic Fields.

Who knoweth what the Karmic law may not demand of thee Before each tittle and each jot have had their due?

Or yet what consequence, far-reaching as eternity,From thy uncancelled deeds hereafter may ensue?

What boots it if thy place be that of subject or of king?We are the pup|>ets and the toys of circumstance.

What though we go unshod, or like that regal tqtendthrift* (ling A fortune in our wine?—all these are tricks of chance.

What matters if the rags that Misraim7 thrust on Joseph's kin. When chains and bondage held the chosen people fast.

He all thy earthly share? The soul that hath her lodge within May rise above the purpled Pharaoh's at the last.

In countries yet unborn an empire tottering to its fall Thy hand may rule, like his whose eyes in wonder »aw

The fingers of a man come forth that wrote upon the wall Helshazzar's doom in words that filled his breast with awe.

The instincts of that later Homan" may lie thine, who strave By tongue and pen to foster gluttony and ease:

Or, yet again, thou mayst eclipse in virtue them* who gave Their nights to prayer, their days to labored ministries.

Thou yet mayst rival in the lust for empire who can tell?—The son of Philip,10 him that smote fresh terror to

I .on g-ravaged Ind, who crossed the sand to Lybia's oracle.And countless treasures in the lap of Ammon threw.

A remnant of the martial fire the triple hundred • ■ felt.Thy Iswom may inherit in the time to be:

Perchance a heart as soft as that young wife's who piteous knelt Before stern Omar •- when he spake his harsh decree.

Do thou, as did of old the Cappadocian martyr.13 slay—Thy breastplate selflessness, and truth thy sword and shield —

The demoned error, heedless of what dragon guise it may Assume to cow thy soul and fright thee from the field.

Be only this thy aim. that whatsoever duty bids Thou wilt perform, insensible to greed or gain.

And thou shalt stand immovable as those grim pyramids That centuries hence shall dot the self-same arid plain.

Thou art thyself, I care not by what name thou mayst be known.The sum of all thy deeds thou art, I dare repeat:

To climb the heights the Kishis clomb it rests with thee alone: Learn this, and in the eight-fold path >4 conduct thy feet.

S a i n t <>k i »k i ; k B e s t .

No t k s : 1. S t. S im eon . S. t i a u t a m a th e B u d d h a . X C a u ta m a «. o rp ta e u - A V irg il. «. C leo p a tra . 7. E g y p t. s. A p ir lu i th e E p k 'u r r ». T h e F a th e r s . 10. A le x a n d er. II. A t T h e rm o p y la e . I t T h e S e c o a d K h a lil . IX S t t ieo ry te 14. T h e W ay of R ig h teo u sn ess .

THE MOON AS A WEATHER PROPHET.It is a fact, easily susceptible of explanation, that

the appearances of the Moon may be made the basis of prognostication of coming meteorological disturbances. The following are some of the deductions which may be drawn, with a considerable degree of accuracy, from lunar appearances:

If, three or four days after the New Moon, its outlines are sharp and clear, it indicates several da vs of fair weather.

If. on the second or third evening of the N’ew Moon., the tips of the horns are indistinct, rain may be ex

pected within a few hours.If the face of the Full Moon is very red. a storm or

several days of bad weather may safely be expected.If, in the tirst quarter, the Moon's face is seen to be

devoid of dark spots, good weather is indicated.When the Full Moon appears clear and devoid of

dark spots, and without a red circle at its edge, fair weather may be almost certainly expected.

If two or three dark spots are seen on the face of the Full Moon, and there are two or three dark and thick circles around its periphery, a large and continued rainfall may lie expected.

A red Moon at rising, in summer, indicates great heat.A Moon that rises clear, sharp and bright, indicates

a long clear spell.A clean-cut New Moon also indicates clear weather.These phenomena are atmospheric, the ap|>earaiKV

of the Moon depending entirely upon tin- medium through which its light comes to us.

10 August, 1901.STAR OF TH E MAGI.

ASTROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.HELIOCENTRIC SECTION.

H E L IO C E N T R IC ZODIAC.

POSITIONS OF THE PLANETS. ETC., FOR AUGUST. 1901.Mercury—August l*t. in Aries*: tith. in Taurus: 11th, in Gemini:

l«th. in Cancer: 21«t. in Leo: 27th. in Virgo.Venu»- l»*t. in degree 11 of Libra: 13th, enters Scorpio. In de

gree 30 of Scorpio on 31st. Travels about two degrees a day.Earth -1st, in degree 9 of Aquarius: 23d. enters Pisces, the

twelfth house. Travels aUiut one degree a day.Mars 1st. in degree 17 of Scorpio: 2*th. enters Sagittarius:

31st. in degree 2 of same, being degree 242 of the Zodiac.Jupiter -1st. in degree 11 of Capricornu-: 31st, in degree 14 of

same. Now form-* an im|M»rtant conjunction with Saturn.Saturn- 1st. in degree 14 of Capricornus: 4th. in degree 15 of

same: 31st, same.Uranus In degree lb of Sagittarius during the month.Neptune In degree 30 of Gemini during the month.New Moon, in Aymiriu*. on the 13th. in the tliirrthm o f Ia*o from

the Earth in the horn* o f Aquarius and khjh o f Ia*o.Full Moon, on the 211th, in both house and sign of Pisces.The Moon enters the Stun* the following dates. Eastern time:

1st, Pisces: 4th. Aries: t»th. Taurus: nth. Gemini: 10th. Cancer: 12th. Leo: 14th. Virgo: 17th. Libra: loth. Scorpio: 22*1. Sagittarius: 24th. Capricornus: 27th, Aquarius: 20th, Pisces: 31st. Aries.

Sun in Middle States, on August 31st, rises at 5:28: sets at 0:33.Evening Stars Venus. Mars. Jupiter and Saturn.August 31 is the 243d day of the year.

M ETEO Rl II.K i 1C A L IX DI< ’ATM IN S.

Meteorological and other disturbances are indicated for the 0th. 10th. 14th. 18th, 20th. or contiguous days thereto. Extreme heat, natural tires and convulsions, cyclones and tierce storms.

EVENTS AND THEIR ASPECTS.A News Record of Prominent Features of the World's

Current History and Heliocentric Phenomena.(D M P IL E D HY W IL L IS K . W H IT E H E A D .

June 21. I ’laartu' position*: Mercury in Scorpio, Venus in la-o. Mar. in Libra. .Inpiter and Saturn in Capricornus. Uranus in Sagittarius. and Neptune in Gemini. lairtli enter* Capri- eorini*. in conjunction with .lupiter and Saturn. Agoncillo, Filipino agent. close* hi« Pari* office and .tart* for home. Ex- plosion in N. J. kill* I*. Xebrawka cyclone kill* 7. Itiot in W. Va.

June 22. Pittsburg utorm kill* 3: ♦.700,000 worth property lo*t. itark Falkland founder*: •> io*t. Horne plague in New York City.

.lime 2J. Awful flood* in the Elkhorn Iliver Valley. W. Va.. destroy* Keyntone, Vivian and other villages: 100 live* lo*t. Widespread storm* reported. Labor riots at Columbia, S.

June 24. Hot wave. Filipino General Cailles and troops. 871). surrender: take oath allegiance, tl,.750,000 in gold dust arrive* at Seattle on steamer Dolphin from Alaska.

June 25. Mercury enter* Sagittarius. Hot wave increases. Many killed by railroad wreck in Ind. Leipzig l>ank fails for ♦17.000.000: create* panic.

June 20. Hot wave continues. Police and strikers tight in Rochester. X. Y. Lightning destroys 50,000 barrels petroleum at Decatur. Ind. Steamer Lusitania wrecked. New Foundland. Increase of fl45.000.000 in U. S. foreign trade balance for year.

June 27.- Hot wave continues. Hoers repulsed. Filipinos captured. ( 'hinese rclx-l* active. Italian troops kill 0 striker*.

June 2*. Mill* enter* Scorpio. Heat increases. Chinese rebel* burn villages and kill inhabitant*. Lightning liolt kill* 4 in ind. Italian troop* kill 14 rioting strikers. Hoers whipped.

June 20. Heat kills many. Cyclone at Denver; terrible storm at Bar Harbor, Me. Steamers Armenia and Mohawk lost. In Pennsylvania over 30,000 iron workers go on strike.

June .To. Hot waves, storms and flood* in Europe: many deaths. Heat kills 24 in Pittsburg and New York. Last of volunteer armv mustered out in San Francisco. Great steel strike grows.

July 1. Heat kills 06 in New York City alone. Lightning bolt kills 'll in Chicago. Tug Fern Founders: 5 lost. 50.000 steel workers idle. Cyclone in Wis. Severe Boer losses.

July 2. Heat "kills 225 in New York City, 50 in Philadelphia arid .* in Pittsburg. Tornadoes in X. Y., N. J. and Wis. Euro- pean heat and storms kill many. Frog shower at Minneapolis.

July .7. Nearly .7110 deaths from heat in 8 American cities. William H. Taft inaugurated at Manila as first civil Governor of the Philippines. < len. Gomez entertained at dinner by President McKinley. Fatal labor riots at Colorado mine.

July 4. The Flag waved around the world—United States. Porto Rico. Philippine Islands. Guam. Hawaii, Alaska. Death* from explosives, 27. Dallas Center, Iowa, burns. Financial panic in south Russia. Tornado at Xiles, Mich. Heat continues.

July 5. Heat kills 22 in New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburg. Buffalo Fair flooded. Great downpour in New York I 'tty. Jacobs. Rogers leaves his fortune of nearly f8.000.000 to N. S'. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Carnegie gives f7.70.00o to San Francisco for library. Doers lose. Crop* affected by heat.

July 8. Mercury enter* Capricorntl*. Filipino force of 274 surrender. Gen. Gomez declares Cuba will eventually become part of United States. Hoers adopt guerrilla methi*ls.

July 7. VCull* enter* Virgo. Pierre Lorillard dead: he promoted archaeological researches in Yucatan and Central Am.

July 8. Slump in stocks. Nearly .700 Filipinos take oath.July 0. Four-day storm destroys life and crops in Hayti, etc. July 10. Turkey settles U. S. claim. Ohio Denis quit Bryan.

Terr hie heat. Boers lose badly. Railway wreck in Mo. kills 17.July II. Middle States suffer from drought. White strikers

battle w ith Japanese at Vancouver, B. C. Coreans kill 300 missionaries and converts. Boers burn homesteads: Boer leaders captured. Springfield. Pa., bridge accident; a killed.

July 12. Corn and wheat injured by drought throughout West. President Errazuriz of Chile dead. Boers repulsed.

July I .. Fierce heat. Organized labor will fight Steel Trust. July 14. General strike of steel workers ordered. Great heat. July 15. Drought partly broken in West. Strikers close big

steel mills: over 50,000 workers strike; 1.000 iron molder* strike in Chicago. Corean rebellion becomes serious. Russia fears famine through drought. Lem burg lalsir riot injures loo. Java volcano destroys 700. Roers surprised. Berlin weather hottest known for years. Fatal encounters in New Mexico and Mexico.

July 10. Mercury enter* Aquarlll*. Steel Trust accepts finish light with lalsir unions. Filijiino stronghold and prisoner* taken. Steamer Fremont sinks. Boers on the run.

July 17. Lightning Isdt kills 7 at Areola. 111. Cloudburst at Winona laike. Ind.; much damage. Bad railroad wreck in Mu. New German steamship Deutschland makes Plymouth from New York in 7ds.. 11 h., .7 min., beating record. Baldwin sails for the North Pule. Religious riot* in Spain injure 50. Boer cruelty in murdering British wounded authenticated. Pacific ocean 1**1 ha* active volcano near Hawaii. Over 8.7,(100 miners idle in Wyoming Valley: result steel strike. Allies to leave Pekin Aug. 14.

July I*. < aptured letters show Boer war near collapse: statement confirmed that Boer troops murdered British wounded at Vlakfontien. Petoskey, Mich., has 8500,000 fire.

July lb. Mosquito plague in Texas. Steyn and Dewet fugitives. i hina ask* Russia to give up Manchuria. Heat in Europe.

July 20. Heat in U. S. breaks record: many crop* ruined. Schlatter. •* Divine Healer,” sent to workhouse as a vagrant. .71,000 N. Y. garment workers strike. Siberian crops ruined.

July 21. Heat again*breaks recoid; intense heat in Europe: many deaths; crops w ither. Boer commando captured; further sworn testimony that Boers murdered British wounded.

July 22. Re|s>rts indicate corn crop greatly damaged through drought. Cereals advance. Yellow fever in Cuba. Boers lo se .

July 27. lair til (•liter* Aqiiurlu*. The September Stak will contain a summary of notable events of the Earth'* transit through Aquarius under the Sun in Leo.

A ugust, 1901. STAR OF THE MACiL 11

T H E A S TR A L NUMBER.

Replies to Our Critic - The “ Final Digit ” The "Book of Tim e"—The "Y-Root"— Wonderful Demon

strations—The Mathematical “ Word.""The science of Astral Mathematics has existed on the earth

f o r myriads of years. It is in the hands of no one cult, or sect, o r organization. Individual Mystics only have access to it. and I'll aril and transmit it only to worthy and well i|ualitied successors. . . . As the general necessity of its revealment arises it will be given to mankind, and not otherwise." Thrsnurvs. |i. 4.1.

As we noted last month, the editor of Coming K nots (June issue) further says:

“ It now remains for Mr. Whitehead to show that it |the Astral NumberJ is something more, that it has an occult significance, and that he can extract from it something other than those data ui>on which it is formed: in short, that it is not a mere puzzle.”

An analysis of this short paragraph shows three distinct things that I am now exacted to jierform:

First. Show that the Astral Number “ has an occult significance.”

Second. “ Extract from it something other than those data upon which it is formed.”

Third. That it “ now remains” forme “ to show” these first two things.

As an answer to the third proposition we will introduce what I said in the St A it for January. I stated there that I could not r asonably be asked to give any further information in regard to the Astral Number, etc., but that if ('owing Events would publish the correct Astral Numbers of three jieople the S tak would publish the year of birth of each, and thus show that the Astral Number was not “ balderdash.” Here we rind that the only thing that “ nowremains" for us ~ to show ” is the year of birth of “ C," whose number was first erroneously given by (bwing K nots. We recognize this obligation and will do so.

As a further answer to the third pro|iosition above we will introduce what I said in the May Stak :

" I desire to test the persons A and B yet further, and the July S tak will contain additional matter in regard to them if my analysis of their Astral Numbers is pronounced correct by the June issue of t'oming K nots."

What I had in mind when I wrote the above was to establish the utility of a certain rule of esoteric Heli ocentric Astrology, of which the Astral Number is an integral part. The object of this esoteric rule is to determine the time of day o f birth. But boning Kn ots, jxissibly unwilling to admit anything to its pages that might prove Heliocentric Astrology to be something other than “ balderdash,” said:

“ In the further test of the persons A and B, 1 need hardly point out that I should not consider an Astrological reading from the day of birth, or from the Solar sign as a test.”

In other words, as I understand it. I must not give any evidence of an astrological character “ to show ” that the Astral Number “ has an occult significance,” or that there can be extracted “ from it something other than those data u| k>ii which it is formed. ” As the Astral Number is not a “ so called ” but is a valid Ashot Number, I shall not attempt to do the iin|>ossi-

ble treat it as something se|>arate and different from esnterh- Heliocentric Astrology for the two are one and inseparable, and I will admit of no obligation to treat of the Astral Number otherwise. Such being the case, it is not incumbent on me "to show" evidence as to tile “ occult significance ” of the Astral Numlier -evidence which is rejected in advance by ('owing Knots- and this entirely answers all three propositions as to what ” remains " for us “ to show."

We have and shall keep a free hand in dealing with the marvelous Astral Numlier. We will submit to such tests of it as Comiog Kn ots may reasonably promise. if within our |tower, but the kind and the a w a is t of such evidence must lie determined by the facts. If we cannot submit such evidence as the Astral Number admits of we cannot be expected to furniso any.

★('owing Krrnls, may desire to suppress the Antral or

valid Astrological character of the Astral Number, as it now editorially s|ieaks of it as “ the »>railed Astral Number," and also unfortunately omits its Astntl features in attempting to explain it to its readers We insert in brackets, in italic, such omitted Astral features:

“ Now I must first explain that, to form the Astral Number, one must put down a series of complex numbers according to tables |ohieh giro (hr Astral /Torres of the lionets, the Months owl (heir /toys]—thus if one’s father is dead put down | the Ashed barer of JointerJ, 4*2112: if mother dead | the Ashed barer of Sot a m |. iMlO.Vi; if single | the Ashed barer of Mom\. ilSCrt; if married | the Ashed barer of Jointer). 4'“ 11”. again in all |>erhaps more than a dozen rows of numbers corres|Minding to the |.|s/iW barer* of (he| month and date of birth, and the year of birth is added, and the total sum makes up what is called the Astral Number.”

It may be asked why I insist on preserving these Astral and Astrological features, since directions for casting the Astral Number can lie made without naming the Planets in connection with “ the conditions and culminations of life?”

I answer that the Planets must be named in order to ijr/doin the Numlier as lieing an Anhed one. and tinning Kn ot*, in inefessing to er/Join it. however slightly, as an 1stm l Number should not have omitted its A*hed features. Again. 1 hold that the Astral Number is not an intention but a disieirrry; that its discovery was made as a factor of Beliocentric Astrology; that every part and particular of tile Infinite Cosmos has its own generic ami sjiecial Ashed \nm brr. according to the doctrine of Pythagoras, who learned it from the Magi, the Wise Men of the East, whose profound knowledge excelled that of our present civilization. I do not profess to prove these' things for the simple reason that the Astral Number, like Masonry, seeks no con verts or adherents. Its disciples are liorn in the }>alh pursued by Pytliagoras. and. like him. press forward to the Ashed Light of the Cosmos.

♦The editor of ( ’owing K nots further says, in regard

to the •• final digit ” test of the Astral Number“ In the April issue I s|ioke of the ill success of my

attempt to test the number according to the rules Iasi down. Mr. Whitehead replies: * Analysis is made bv

STAR OF THE MAGI. August, 1901.V 2

means of elaborate books, and as the editor of Coming Event* does not possess the elaborate books, it is no wonder that the Number would not stand the test.' But in • The Mystic Thesaurus' I read: ‘ To test the work, add the four figures of the year of birth together, and their sum to one final digit. This will also be the ‘•final digit ’’ |them- quotation* appear in the role\ of the Astral Number.’ Can any of my readers make this test apply? I cannot. They have the necessary data.”

Turning to page 221 of Coming Event* (April) I read:*• I tried the Astral Number and got others likewise

to do so. according to the rules laid down, but in no single instance would the Number stand the test.”

As the ‘‘ final digit" is not mentioned in this first quotation I misunderstood the kind of test intended. Testing the Astral Number and testing -‘ the work ’’ of its casting are two different things. Again, a number's final digit may be its last digit or the sum of its digits reduced to one digit, which last is the kind and the only kind of “ final digit" the rule quoted refers to; and this shows why it is put in quotation marks in the rule. The plain purpose of this rule is to test the work of casting the Astral Number. Thus:

Year of birth of A=1838. “ Final Digit ” =4.For 1+8+5+8=22, and 2+2=4.Astral Number of A=4764226. “ Final Digit"=4.For 4 + 7+ 6+ 4+ 2+ 2+ 6= 31 , and 3+1=4. ■As the “ Final Digits ” of the Year and Number are

the same the work, thus tested, is proved correct.This is so because the rule eliminates everything ex

cept the “ Final Digit ” of the year of birth.Would not this rule show the year of birth?No. Take the rorreet Astral Number of C=2993406.Following the rule, 2+ 9+ 9+ 3+ 4+ 0+ 6= 33 , 3+3=6.Now, the years 06, '13, '24, '33, '42, '31, '60, '69, 78,

'87, and '96, in the past century, all have the same •• Final Digit." Which of the eleven is the one?

I propose to not only find the right year of birth of C, as promised, but *how goo how to ilo it!

itThe editor of Coming Event* concludes as follows:

ten by twelve inches and is two inches thick. Its contents give, on its left-hand pages, corrected heliocen trie horoscopes for January 1st for over one hundred and fifty years, starting with 1800. Each right-hand page gives the year whose horoscope occupies its opposite page, with the mean heliocentric longitude of the planets for the time given, tables of daily motions and corrections, etc. The left-hand pages are the only ones lettered or numbered, and the horoscope on each one of the numbered pages is that one whose year gives a Y-Ront that corresponds with the number of the page it occupies. Thus, the year 1854 has a Y- Iioot of 6, as 9 goes in 54 just six times, and the horoscope for 1854 is therefore entered on page 6.

★Now, in order to demonstrate that the Astral Num

ber is something more than a “ mere puzzle,” we will operate with this most imj>ortant mystic mathematical method, known to a few western occultists as the Y Root, on the Astral Number of A, about which no mistakes have been made, either in its casting by the editor of Coming Event« or in its analysis by myselt. The Y-Root of any number is found by dividing it by nine, by long division, and annexing the “ final digit " of its product to the right-hand side or after its remainder, if any. and the number thus formed is the Y-Root required. It is an easy and simple operation, plain asday, but look out or you will get mixed.

We will first cast the Astral Number of A—1764221).Male = Power of Mercury..................... 994356Married = Power of Jupiter.................. 482112Dark complexioned=Power of Venus 964224

Also the Power of Mercury.......... 994356Father dead = Power of Jupiter......... 482112Mother living, no powers..................... 0Born January=Astral P ow er.............. 161624On the 25th=Astral P ow er .................. 683584Year born=its own number................. 1858

Total, or Astral Numl>er................... 4764226Add the “ Century Ordinate ” .............. 8331652

Grand to ta l........................................... 13095878“ As regards the ‘elaborate books,' if Mr. White-

head would kindlv give me an opportunity of looking up the subject I should be glad. Though I probably have not the books mvself. I have a library of a few million ‘elaborate books' close at hand —I mean the British Museum.”

The “ elaborate books " that an analysis of the Astral Number calls for are three or four in number. To use them intelligently one must be an Initiate of mys- j tic mathematics and coordinate knowledge. They are possessed by only a few, the editor of the Star , Dr. N. E. Wood, among the number, and, through appointment, they will be shown to the editor of Coming Event* or any one he may delegate for the purpose. They are not to be found in any of the world's great libraries so far as I know. I mentioned these books in the Stak for last January, and have but little to add to what I then said. For the purposes of this ar ’ tid e I will briefly describe “ The Book of Time.”

In size. “ The Book of Time,” otherwise known as ‘‘The Time Book with Astral Culminations,” measures

We now correct this grand total by canceling its first figure, which gives us 3095878. This number represents. I believe, the heliocentric power of the seven planets upon A, as an individual, in his astral horn S C O )* ?. Thus, 8 ,8 ; 9 ,7 ; i , 8; 21, 5; h , 9; « , 0; W, 3. But this methml may not be warranted by the “ books. ”

By means of adding the Century Ordinate and the correction of the Grand Total through cancellation, we now have, as the working Astral Number of A. a number 1,668,348 le** than his original number. Thus:

Original Number.................................... 4764226Working Number.................................... 3095878

Less Original Number....................... 1668348What now becomes of the assertion that we separate

the Original Number into its constituent parts?Is this the prescribed method? Yes, sir; always.

itWe will now. with this working Antral Number, non

metier the work of a Italy*i*.

August, 1901.

We first find the Y-Root of the Astral Number. The mathematical work results as follows:

9 :t095H"8 I 343986 = 3+ 4 + 3 + 9 + 8 + 6 = 33 = 3+3 = 6

3936

8527

8881

7772

5854

6 is “ final digit "of quotient.

We annex this “ final digit "

to the right-hand side of

the remainder—4 —to find

the Y-Root required.

This gives, as the Y-Root or

Key to the Year of Birth ofA,

4 <5 6 =................the number 46.Using this Key, we turn to page iO of the Time Book,

where we find the heliocentric horoscope for the year 1858—the year that A was bom.

But we can find the year of birth from the Astral Number of a person without the material Book of Time by using one of its astral principles. Take the Astral number of C, 2993406. The addition of the Nineteenth Century Ordinate, and subsequent correction through cancellation, gives 1325058, the Y-Root of which, 66, gives the year of birth of C as 1860—unerringly found among the eleven years of the past century having in common C's “ Final D igit.’’ For the Y-Root of the last two figures of i860, or 60—and 66 is such Y-Root shows the page of the Time Book on which the plan etary aspects of January 1 of the year of birth of ( ’ are recorded. (Or, with C's tut, 9x«+fi='60, giving the year he was born. With A’s pi. 9x«+4='58.)

doing back to A, the Quotient 343986 obtained in finding the Y-Root that shows his year of birth—is known as his “Mean Heliocentric Horosropical Antral hnn r Before Birth," and is the number to be used in the next operation to determine his month of birth. But this operation is of so intricate a character as to require the o|>ening in these pages of the “ elaborate books " referred to—a thing “ impossible for me to perform." Our demonstrations therefore cease at this point, hav ing done all things proposed by us.

★

Mr. Zeno T. Griffen, author of the able article on the “ Quadrature of the Circle” in the Star of last November, and an expert along these lines, says:

“ There is a peculiar relation shown when we come to ilissrrt the Astral Number. For instance, to find the basis of time coordination, let us multiply the number of months in a year, 12, by the square of nine. 81, and we have 972. Then multiply this sum by the number of days in the longest months of the year, 81. and we have 30,132, or the cirmmferenee of a circle whom ilia meter hi t i l l in whole numbers. |Mr. Griffen here means 3,013.2 as to 972, no doubt.] Now let us see the factors of 113, the diameter of Man, or the Microcosm. These are 2, 4, 8, 16, 18, 82, 33, and represent'the seven planets by 2 for Neptune, 4 for Uranus, 8 for Saturn.

16 for Jupiter, 18 for Mars. 32 for Venus, and 33 for Mercury; and these equal 113, each unit of which represents 30,132. So that to get the astral power of Mercury upon Man we multiply 30.132 by 33 which gives 994356. The astral i>owers of the rest are obtained in a like manner by their several factors. The Astral Number of each planet is said to give the number of vibrations it has per second, for, according to one of the makers of the Astral Number books, ‘they record the number of vibrations |K-r second of the astral magnetism of all the planets and the Sun, which measures >f vibration express the arithmetical value of the polar angles of the earth at all points of its orbit for all months and days, etc., and constitute the Astral Logarithms used in Heliocentric Astrology.’ "

★I cannot close this brief in behalf of the validity and

integrity of the Astral Number without issuing an invitation to every astrological publication in the world, worthy of notice, not fully satisfied as to the genuine- nees of the Astral Number. If any such will publish the fu ll directions for casting the Astral Number, as contained in the present issue of the Star on (>age 18 (permission for so doing being extended through me by Mr. Zeno T. Griffen, who copyrighted the same for the protection of all genuine Occultists), and will submit the Astral Numbers of three |ieople for analysis, as a test of the same, and will further publish the answers to such public test, we will, through the S tar , furnish them with such evidence as we have given Coming Krents in this connection.

★Like all other things, tlrmcntric Astrology, in its every

particular, has its true, valid and certain Astral Numbers. Because as yet undiscovered is no proof that they do not exist. My Geocentric friends and I have quite a number of them are always pleased to refer to their worthy Art as a Sirm-r. It is but |>artly so. at present, though the absolute Science is there. 1 rejieat. it is there seek far a m i«Usearer the Astral Samis r System of your Islareil Art. my friemls. fo r then, ami not until then, will your Art Is an absolute Sen me, prislneing, tiki every other Srirnei CERTAIN HEsn.TS.

I do not invite you to the jierformance of this work without putting within your hands a tool full able to aid in its accomplishment, although I cannot give but few directions for its use Here yonr men intelligence must WORK. This tool is a Word as expressed in a Ni mekicai. I)u;it . It is Tiik Mathematical Wo r d :

Le t thkki: Be L im it And tiikke Is L im it .

This numerical Word will unlock all Astral Numbers and, inversely, will buihl them. It is known to a few as the “ Golden Y .” and ice testify to you that renters Heliocentric Astrology, through its Astral Number System, is an exact ami ales Jute S. ,, ,,,,, ami Us H, suits are malhematiinlly icrtain.

Now. then, I shall go no farther a s to the r e s i i .t s

that the Astral Number will produce. My work is an empirical one. I choose, for the present, the Art of

1 4 STAR OF TH E MAGI. August, 1901.

Heliocentric Astrology rather than its Science. For this we have good and imperative reasons.

Our object, therefore, is not to extend the influence of the Astral Number except as its purity and preservation may demand at our hands. We inserted it in “ The Mystic Thesaurus ” to keep it pure from the misrepresentations of one, and we have now fully and finally replied to the mistaken criticisms of another.

No: the Astral Number is not “ balderdash,” nor is that Astrology of which it is an esoteric part.

W it.us F. Whitehead.

GEOCENTRIC SECTION.i E d ite d by P n n r . W . m m i Mi h a m . « ii* M o aro e Ave.. C h icago . III., lo

w h o m a ll c o m m u n ic a tio n * r e la t in g to th l* *ectlon -should lie ad d re* * rd .W h e n a p e r* o n a l re p ly i«. in-. r* * arv --in- ->r m o re s ta m j* *h<>ul<i W en« l<H r le f a r t ic le * o f a * u h a b le n a tu r e r e la t in g to e x p e rie n ce * In th e * tudv o f

a * tro lo g v w h ich a r e o f g e n e ra l in te re * t w ill rec e iv e *uch a t t n tio n a* th ey m e r i t , a n d . if iMilili*hed. fu ll c r e d i t w ill lie g iv en th e a u th o r

U u e * tio n * o f g e n e ra l ln te r e * t r e la t in g to a * tro |o g y w hich c a n lie c le a r ly a n d in te l l ig e n t ly a n * w e re d w ill r e c e iv e o u r fu ll a t t e n tio n in th e e a r l ie * t im*- * llile *uli*«‘i |u e n t n u m lie r . W rite jd a in ly . a n d on o n e *ide o f |ia|N-r o n ly .]

ASTROLOGERS AND ASTROLOGY.BY PROP. G. tV. Cl'XXIXGHAM.

We wish to impress the fact on the minds of our readers that there is a vast difference between the true science of Astrology and that which some self- styled, over-enthusiastic, under-educated “ Astrologers” are pleased to call Astrology. Owing to the lack of proper and sufficient knowledge relating to the intents and purposes of Astrology, the general public is unable to discriminate as to the difference between the genuine and the spurious, consequently all who style themselves “ astrologers "are most likely to be classed the same, and the natural presumption is that when a prediction is made public by some “ Astrologer,” no matter how youthful, inexperienced or over-enthused he may be. it will generally be supposed that it is made in accordance with the scientific rules of Astrology. In this way much discredit has been brought to the science by students. Predictions are frequently made from horoscopes calculated from an estimated time of birth which should not and would not have been made if the student had been properly instructed. No student should make predictions which relate to certain houses in any horoscope unless he isabsolutely certain that the time of birth from which he bases his calculations is accurate. If he does he is most certain to fail and in that way bring much discredit to the science as well as himself.

Students of Astrology must keep the fact in mind that when they make a prediction which is published in the daily press, it places them and Astrology at once before the critical eyes of thousands and possibly millions of people who are ever ready to find fault with Astrology and all things pertaining to it from the standpoint of what they have been educated to believe, and not from what they know about it. Furthermore, these readers do not realize that mistakes can Ik- made by an -‘Astrologer " who will risk making a prediction from a horoscope made from an estimated time of birth, consequently they will not be as charitable as they should Ik- in their judgment.

Astrologers are the only jieople who must not make errors. If they do they bring more or less ridicule on

the science they represent from various sources. If a medical student, who may be a graduate of some system of medicine, makes an error and his patient dies, it is taken as a matter of course, for it is not expected that he is perfect as he is only a beginner. His mistake is buried and the science of medicine is still as good as ever, but the error of an -‘Astrologer ” is held up in the glaring light of public ridicule and, as a result. the science of Astrology is assailed from all directions. It matters not if the prediction was made by an amateur or not, the error brings the same result every time.

A youthful “ Astrologer,” who is twenty-five years of age, recently made a prediction which was first published in the Sew York Journal. Among other things he said:

“ Saturn is retrograding at the present time (May 28, I'.iOl) in Mr. McKinley's second house, which, according to Astrology, is his wife's eighth house, the house of death. Mrs. McKinley will not die this year, but there is great danger of her passing away by next April, when Saturn will go direct again and pass over his own place in the second house, indicating Mrs. McKinley's death. The imminent attempt on the life of President McKinley in June (1901) is due to the evil planet Uranus, which is in the tenth mansion of the heavens, indicating trouble for the Government and its ruler.”

He further remarked:“ I also predict strikes in all trades between now

(May 2*) and the month of August, 1901. The dia- , gram for the New Moon for the month of June pre

dicts for the people of the United States great strikes, much bloodshed, loss of life and many riots.”

In the first place, no Astrologer should publicly predict the death of any one. even if he has come to that conclusion in his own mind. It might have a depressing effect on the min i of the sick one, and the prediction could certainly I e of no particular benefit to anyone. If he is capable and wishes to prove the science by such predictions let him make his prediction and seal it and place it in the hands of some editor to be used after the | erson's death. In the second place, at the time mentioned, Saturn was not transit ing in the second house in President McKinley's horoscope but was in the third house. This goes to show that the horoscope from which this “ Astrologer" drew his conclusions was made from an estimated time and therefore if these predictions should be fulfilled to the letter it could not be credited to the true science of Astrology. On the other hand, if the predictions should fail no discredit should come to the science of Astrology. Let us give the credit or discredit, as the case may be. to the individual and not to the science of Astrology. Many people are gifted as prophets and if this “ Astrologer” is so endowed, I say all honor and success to him, such as he may merit and deserve; but in the future I trust that he and all stu dents of this sublime science will keep their predictions within the limits of the true science of Astrology and strictly in accordance with well established rules.

August, 1901. STAR OF T H E M AGI 1 5

Leo 9. THE SIGN LEO. O SunIT S S IG N IF IC A T IO N W H K N T A K E N A L O N E .

(Student* cannot become too familiar with the following introductory remarks.

At all times when considering the description of the |ierxonal appearance and characteristics denoted by this or any other zodiacal sign, students should keep the fact in mind that the descriptions are given to show the indications of the sign when taken alone without regard as to whether the ruling planet and the Moon are placed in dark, light, short, tall, stout, or slender signs at the time of birth. Also without considering the indications of the planet elevated above all others, and those in aspect to the ruling planet. Moon, and rising degree. It must be remembered that all planets may be likened unto a sensitized plate in so far as they partake of the nature of, or partly sym- lolize. the indications of the signs in which they are placed at the time of birth. When less than the sixth degree of a sign is rising at the eastern horizon, it is then necessary to consider some of the indications of the preceding sign and blend them with the testimonies offered by the Rising Sign. It often haje liens that a sign is intercepted in the first house, and in such cases the indications must be properly blended and judgment rendered ai cordingly. When planets are in the first their indications must also be considered. Kach sign is divided into sections. called " terms,” and care should Ire taken to notice as to the proper ‘’ term ” in which the rising degree belongs. All these points can be determined accurately only w hen the horo- «co|ie is calculated according to the date, place, and exact minute of birth. Sun-time. Many of them can lie determined when the time is quite near to the exact, and some of them from the date alone, without the time. When considering the characteristics it is always well to pay attention to the sign in which the Sun is transiting at the time of bi.th or. from a Heliocentric staml)Niint, the sign opposite to that in which the Karth is placed.

At any rate, people should study their horoscopes in accordance w ith the most complete and accurate data to lie had. and in that way arrive at every point they can which will lie to their advantage to know.]

The fifth thirty degrees of the Zodiac are represented by the sign Leo, symbolized by the Lion and ruled by the Sun. It is a northern, fiery, hot, dry, diurnal, masculine, fixed, commanding, talking sign, the only celestial home of the Sun and the detriment of Uranus.

P E R S O N A L A P P E A R A N C E .

I-eo denotes a tall, slender, wiry, muscular figure, with wide •houlders in proportion to the rest of the Is sly. The first ten degrees are less indicative of tallness than the remaining twenty degrees. The complexion is florid: hair and eyes light: the eyes are large, and, when the native is not taking part in a conversation, they will have rather a fierce expression: the hair is line and grows thin and in many instances will Ik- near the color of purr gold.

D IS P O S IT IO N ,

These characters are naturally endowed with great pride, ambition. |KTseverence and independence, coupled with a dignified, commanding, magnetic and majestic presence. No business is too large for them to manage: they are self-reliant and do not hesitate to take the responsibility of any large enterprise ami w ill carry it forward to success if such a thing Ik - possible. They become restless and impatient when placed under restraint am) are not busy with something. They are natural leaders ami will not lie satisfied with a subordinate position, yet will accept one rather than be idle, after which they will soon manage to Ik- the head of their department. They are kind. syni|>athetic. too generous for their own best interests and will Ik - tempted to give away their last penny to assist one in distress when their sympathies are aroused. They insist on having things their own way and will only yield after a struggle for supremacy. They are apt to talk considerable about what has to Ik - done ami often seem to lie crossing bridges before they come to them. To one who does not understand them they will seem to Ik - fretful, irri- I ipble and high-tempered, but, as a rule, their deep anger will Ik - aroused but a few times during their lives. At such times they become very tierce, and the cause of this disturbed mental equi

librium will get the full In-nefit of their opinion, he he king or peasant. They Is-long with a class of people who do a great amount of talking, and one born when la-o is rising, the other testimonies concurring, will he a natural orator with the ability to swfty and completely capture his audience.

I*rof. G. W. Cunningham . ------- — ----

EVIL TRANSITS NOW FOR CERTAIN PEOPLE.When, by their progress in their orbital transits. .Saturn. Mars,

or Uranus reaches certain |s>ints in the Zodiac at which they come to within five degrees either forward or backward from the exact degree of the conjunction, square, or opposition to the place of the Sl'N in a Geocentric, or the Karth in a Heliocentric horoscope it is a warning of an evil, or at least an annoying. period for |ie»ple lorn any year on or between any of the dates given Ik -1o w . This does not take into consideration the

' transits in cardinal houses of the Geocentric horoscope, favorable or otherwise. Here is a |siint in which the two system- harmonize and agree as to the time of an evil period, espet . illy during transits of Uranus and Saturn. If people drift blindly during these |K-riods they are apt to do something which will cause them financial losses, or mental worry from other sources. I)o not understand that some dire calamity awaits you if your birthday hap|>ens to lie mentioned in the following list of date-. “ Forewarned is forearmed." ami by knowing the time in advance when the evil is indicated and then being extra careful of your health and financial matters, ami also being particular to see that your conduct is such as to Ik - above reproach, it is expected that you will counteract at least the greater [art of the evil indicated. At any rate you will be better able to understand yourself ami the condition of affairs surrounding you. ami become a philosophical master of the situation. Thus- horn with a very fortunate nativity will notice that much less evil will lie in evidence for them than for others whose honswropes are pro|sirtionately less fortunate. The following Idrtbdays. inclusive, are the ones to which the above remarks apply:

September 1 to 10. September 27 to October Is. IVcrmber | to 10, December 2ti to January 1-7. February 21 to March 1«. March 2K to April 1.7. May 21 to June 9. June 27 to July 1.7.

I*Rl>F. G. W. frSSINGHAM.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. QUERIES AND ANSWERS.We are pleased to acknowledge the receipt of “ The lffanetary

Hour Ibsik.” published in vest pm'ket form by Krnest S. Green. I sot Market St.. San Francisco. Cal. In this he gives the hours of the day which are ruled by each one of_the different planet-. The matter is arranged simply and concisely and is readily comprehended. It is designed to determine good and evil hours. Issued monthly: price 10 cents.

The article on - Astrologers and Astrology." on the oppw-ite !>age. was intended for the July n u m l e r of the S T A R , b u t owing to a lack of space it was crowded out. Taking a retrospective view of the situation we see that the "imminent attempt on l*resident McKinley's life in June 1*.»>I " failed to materialize. Strikes have developed in some but not *• «H fisnfc*." the great steel-workers' strike heing foreshadowed by conditions previous to the prediction made. And. so far as we are informed, no extraordinary “ riot and IdiHHlshed" was in evidence during the month of June. 11101, as predicted.

S. Issi, of IV- Moines. Iowa, refers to a notice relating to " fortunate days" which appeared in the May Star, and wants to know •• how those certain days can he fortunate for everybody,” ami further declares that " the idea that any set of days can he either lucky or unlucky for all the world is something very unscientific.’* Ily referring to Mr. Whitehead’s notice relating to “ fortunate days" |iage 22. column 2. May number you will see that he agree- with you. for the notice was well seasoned with sarcasm ami should not be considerx-d as an endorsement. Fortunate days can only he determined by certain calculations made according to each individual's b r o s s p r . The idea that fortunate days can be and are given indiscriminately by self-styled ** Astrologers.'' has been the means of doing great and lasting injury to the true science of Astrology

10 August. 1901STAR OF THE MAGI.

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EDITORIAL SECTION.Thk phrast*. “ watered stock*,” should

tic relegated to the dust-heap of worn-out things ami in its place the more appropriate phrase, “ Christian ncienced stocks,” should Ite sulMituted. The reasttn is self- evident and needs no explanation as all |teople with an ordinary amount of common sense know that “ watered «tocka** are coni|toned of loo |K*r cent of ** mind ” less enough ” matter” to make a showing.

*At Paris, on July 13. with a steerable

liallmm cigar-*ha|N*d and sup|strting a triangular-sha|KMl frame-work furnished with pro|K*lling and steering apparatus and a petroleum motor M. Santos Dumont. its inventor, made a test trip. The distance covered was nine and three- eighths miles, at a upeed in round numlter* of nearly fourteen miles per hour, half of the trip lielng ” almost in the wind’s eye.” The stiff wind, however, proveil too strong for the machine and it met with an accident from which its inventor luckily escaped unhurt. The occult problem of aerial navigation seems in a fair way of being solved in the near future.

*Thk degenerate cult that misname* it

self “ Christian science” is theological insanity. It is at once not only the most fanciful, the must al*urd ami the most monstrous view of <hmI. his creation ami his revelation, but is productive of the nwist extreme cruelty and inhumanity to the weak ami helpless. Its disciples seem to be those who had their umbrellas up when the good l»rd wa* raining common sense. Krery so-called “ church” of these fool fanatics is really an insanity incubator where the most dangerous degenerates of Christendom gather together in order to debauch reason ami crucify the truth. One of them* incubator* ha* lately been

“ dedi* ated” in Chicago, the cost of which is said to have l>een •l.’iO.OOO, hut much of this amount, it seem?- to us, is “ Christian science” so-called “ mind."

A imin'*; to break the terrible drouth of July in their particular section, down in Denison. Texas, on the 14th, nearly every “ sky pilot” publicly prayed for rain in the morning. In the afternoon a storm came mark this answer to prayer and imrktil a n*tr church! Hereafter (petitions for rain in that locality will probably contain ample specifications that no damage result therefrom to life or proj»erty. and especially as to churches.

----- -ÔCCULT POWERS OF MOHAMMED.

Although the world has millions of Moslems. Iiut few who are not of that faith know ii|Nin what its teachings rest or what was the nature of development exercises to which Mohammed applied himself.

Moslem writers are unanimous in ascribing many marvelous happenings to the prophet of Islam. Yet, according to the w ords of Mohammed himself, he performed hut one miracle, which was the production of the Koran.

His early life was but little different from other Arabian boys, although it is claimed that he walked at the age of three months, and talked at the age of seven. All accounts unite in ascribing to him an honorable and truthful character.

It was by this fair reputation together with a comeliness of |>erson that he succeeded in infatuating the widow Kadijah, whose wealth enabled him to pursue without interruption his occult development exercises.

Although deprived of an early education, he was a gissl listener and had an unusually retentive memory. Thus his mind became tilled at an early age with the folk-lore of his tribe, resulting from long evenings si>ent around the fireside when the caravans were at rest.

He also learned the stories of Christ from the wandering monks whom he often met in his travels. However, his real development was undertaken according to instructions received from the Magi.

When he was about to enter upon his life work, a tent was constructed for him in the suburbs of Mecca. To it he would repair at night, and spend hours lying u|s>n his back, gazing at the firmament and meditating U|ion tilings divine. As he continued his exercises he became reserved and diffident. He was often seen walking alsiut the sacred city alone, with hands behind him and head bowed down.

Hut to no one. not even his faithful wife, did he communicate his ambitions and aspirations.* loiter he refused to eat the flesh of the camel, and soon after restricted his diet to fruits, grains and vegetables. Shortly afterward he attained the trance state, and in this condition would lie motionless for several days at a time.

Finally he gave his confidence to his admiring wife. Kadijah. who at once gave to

him her earnest support and emouralament.

His development was kept a seerrt until the forces with which he sought commerce became too strong for his debilitated physical nature. It was at this time that he began to fall into the trance without warning and without regard to place. It might be in his home, on the streets of Mecca, or even at the Caava, the sacred spot where all of the tribes offered up their prayers before the birth of Mohammed, and where offerings are made even to this day.

His enemies were unkind enough to say that he was suffering from epilepsy, and even hinted that he was insane when he began to tell of his psychic experience. When he finally proclaimed himself a prophet of God he met with violent opposition from the \arious tribes, and history tells how his most bitter assailants were his own relatives.

At length a decree was issued forbidding the prophet or his adherents the privilege of trading with so-called loyal Arabians. So bitter became the opposition to him that he was forced to take refuge in a castle provided by his father-in-law. where he remained for one year.

During this time he and his followers were often reduced to hunger. This severe training. induced in part by necessity, was all that was required to complete his development and give to him the gift of second-sight or illumination.

It is interesting to note in regard to the meeting of Mohammed and the genii, as related by himself, the coincidence of his experience with the precepts of the Magi. He states that while he was preaching in the desert the elementals or spirits of the air were attracted to him by the wisdom of his utterances. In describing them he said. "Some of these beings are gissl. others are evil. The latter seek places of darkness, where they prey upon and annoy the lonely travelers of the desert."

He is said to have taken great courage from this meeting, as he remarked. "I need not despair, though man hearken not, if the spirits of the air find gissl in my words.”

His first demonstration of occult |siwer was made or exhibited at his trial before Habib, the leader of the Koreshites.

When he was summoned before this |siw- erfui tribunal, the venerable Habib received him graciously ami at once propounded to him the pointed question:

“ They tell me thou dost pretend to he prophet sent from God. Is it so?”

“ Even so,” answered Mohammed, “ Allah has sent me to proclaim the veritable faith."

“ Good," rejoined the wary sage, “ luit every prophet has given proof of his mission by signs and miracles. Noah had his rainbow, Solomon his mysterious ring. Abraham the Are of the furnace, which became cool at his command; Isaac, the ram, which was sacrificed in his stead: Moses, his wonderful working rod. and Jesus brought the dead to life and ap

August, 1901. STAR OF THK MAC;I eased the tem|»e*t* with a word. If. then, thou art really a prophet, jfive us a miracle a?* proof.”

The first miracle demanded of Mohammed was to reveal what Habib had in his tent, and why he had brought it to Mecca. At this Mohammed bent toward the earth and traced upon the sands the jtowerful pentagram or five-pointed star. Around this he drew a circle and stood in the middle thereof. He then went into the self- induced trance and. ii|>on awakening, replied:

•o, Habib, thou hast brought thither Satiha, deaf and dumb and lame and blind, in the hope of obtaining relief of Heaven. Go to thy tent, speak to her and hear her reply, and know that God is all |M»werfuI.”

When the judge hastened to his tent he found the words of the prophet verified. Thu- all prophets of the divine world have made the healing of disease a crucial test. But such |K»wer is one of God’s gifts to humanity, and may be attained by those fiersons who will cultivate a pure physical by proper diet, a pure astral by pro)>er breath, and a |>ure |*»ychical by pro|»er meditation. T. J. H k t i k k o . M. D.

AN OCCULT SIXTH SENSE.Nearly a hundred years ago M. Flourens,

a French scientist, noticed that doves whose inner ears were cut in certain places showed a strange uncertainty of movement. The said cuts did not in the least affect the hearing of the birds, but as soon as the latter tried to move they began to make violent pendulous motions with the head, lost their equilibrium, turned somersaults. staggered, etc.

Since then innumerable observations and experiments have corroborated the thesis then enunciated that the ear is not only the organ of the sense of hearing but also that of a distinct sixth sense -the sense of location, of equilibrium, or, to express it scientifically, the static sense.

The function of the ears as the organ of static sense is explained thus: Within theear are three small globular protuberances covered, on their inner side, with innumerable minute cells, each containing a fine hair, surrounded by lymph. If an individual makes a slight motion the hairs follow the motion, while the lymph, subject to the law of inertia, endeavors to retain its former |iosition: thus the hairs are bent in a direction opposite to that of the movement made, and the irritation thereby produced i« immediately telegraphed by the nerves to the brain, thereby causing consciousness of the movement.

If one rotates rapidly until the lymph moves with the body, and then suddenly stops rotating, the hairs will bend in the op|s»site direction and produce dizziness.

The function of the minute hairs is su|»- plemented by minute crystals which swim within the cell-lymph. When a movement begin#, the crystals, subject to the law of inertia, remain a little Itehind. pressing u|M»n the cell-walls, and causing supplementary report* to the brain.

WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE.F a r o v e r «om r my«ti< a l r iv e r , an d u n d e r ***me

w o n d erfu l -kv .W h e re th e r a in n e v e r blot*<»ut th e *un*hin«* and

o u r loves n e v e r w eary n o r die.W h e re th e flower* n e v e r fade . hut. in ‘-hanging .

th e i r maximal *weetne«*- renew .I* a g lo rified rea lm o f e n c h an tm en t. Ti* th e land

w h e re o u r d rea m * com e tru e .

By m v * tira l vUlon* and token* we le a rn of th a t m arv e lo u * land .

Hut. a la* : on m o rta li ty * th re * h o |d th e f ra i l r lu e *llp* fro m m ir hand

A nd th e r iv e r o f d e a th ru n * bef«*re u* t il l i t tw ins* th e b r ig h t p e t a l in view

<>f th e h a v e n o f re* t th a t aw ait* u* in th e lan d w h e re <»ur d ream * com e tru e .

- A dapted Select!.*n

THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY.An Important Essay on the Inherent

“ Intelligence of Nature.”Man’s best lessons are learned close to

the heart of Nature. A sympathetic ole nervation of Nature’s method* renew* man’s inspiration and gives him fresh hone, faith ami courage, by twinging home to him. in some subtle way, a certainty of the existence of an all-embracing Divinity which makes for immortality.

That Nature is inttlliijmt i* lieyond question. Everywhere man sees instinctive foresight, wise purpose ami providence. Witness the care with which plants provide for their propagation. The witch- hazel. for instance, projects its seed for a considerable distance from the parent Imsh that it may fall U|*>n fertile ground and have the advantages of sunlight and air.

The intelligence of flowering ami fruitbearing plants is shown in making those developments attractive to bird* and insects that the latter, in gathering honey and i>ecking at fruit for their own advantage. may carry away pollen ami liberate fruit-seeds. Plants will throw out new roots and travel long distances in search of water and food. Bury a bone some distance away from a given plant ami in a comparatively short time it will have found ami twined innumerable fresh rootlets about it.

The instincts and senses of plants ami animals are naturally finer and truer than ours Itecause they are more defiemient ami limited. Animals can divine the existence of water at long distances. Their sense of locality is so strong it cannot »«e confounded. When carried miles in a to*ket or l»ag. or when driven through a new country at night, they easily find their way hack home again. Their wimderful accuracy of hearing ami -niell is familiar to everyone.

Animals ami plants art* endowed with intelligence amply sufficient for their wants, ami adapt them-elves to their environments more readily ami harmoniously than man. Hut Nature has not failed to provide for the stimulus amt cultivation of their intellectual faculties by making plant* ami animals the prey of each other. Plants have |ara*ite* which live upon them ami would a»**orh their strength hot

i . n

for this intelligence, which stimulates the entity to increase its powers, to grow stronger, hardier ami more resistant.

The same truth applies to the animal. Graft, cunning, strength, speed, endurance. |K*rsistence. ami similar qualities are evolved and developed by the exercise of the predatory instinct. The«e qualities. with the hatnts which they engender, modified by environment, go to f«**ter the individualistic principle. so that we a—«e ciate certain trait- ami characteristics with a di-tinct species.

Hut we mu«t not confound cau*e ami effect. Animal instincts and habit- are evolved umler the leading*, guidance and direction of natural intelligence. The animal or plant i- not the result • 1 natural forces alone, iwit the tem puraincarnation or materialization of an unknown and

, unfinished life quantity, manifesting itself through certain instinct* and habit*. These instincts ami habit* are merely the processes of growth ami development. An in-ect will »it on a twig for b«»ur* at a time, reaching «»ut a leg until it cornea in contact with the liranch. then drawing it it lack, re la tin g the process over and over ami over again, ami thus cultivating ls»th the sense «if touch and the power of motion. What patience and obediencethis suggests!

Plants ami animals illustrate or represent a certain stage in the evolutUmary development of form, just as the crude pottery of ancient Egypt represents the status of the puttcrV art in that age of the world.

We continually make the mistake of confounding the shell of the entity the thing we can see. hear ami feel, and which eats ami moves and temporarily manifests life with the entity itself, which, for a time, occupies this shell.

Once admitting the temporal and changing nature of every form of organized matter, and seeing that the all-pervading Intelligence of Nature pursues its ends eternally, after an orderly. prugre*»*ive fa-hion. appropriating ami adapting matter to its uses ami |*irpioe* in various combination- and arrangements, we get an awe-inspiring view of man’s destiny.

If Nature’s IhhI i- - 1 wise. *o strong, s i |Hirpo*eful. nothing can l»e impossible to man’s «;«■!. »Hir grounds for belief in the Universe bring so stimulated ami vivified, we take new heart. despisr not tin- day of -mall things, seek to improve every upper tunity ami make the m»—t of each lewm.

The danger always lurking in a high degree of material civilisation is that it tend* to blunt the delicate *eu*e of intuition. which sympathises with Nature: to encourage disbelief, to choke up the fount of inspiration, ami to lessen the universal sense of human hrotbevbumk Man this* become* more artificial ami Woe* ofhis native independence ami Integrity. Then corruption begin* to *how it*elf on all hand*.

We can successfully conKit this danger by continually returning tv* Nature, restudying it* fir*t principle* and bringing

1 H STAI5 OF TH E MAGI. August, 1901.

mu faculties ami lumen* into sympathetic hannunr with the great Intelligent Source of all life.- Mnliritl ISrwf.

9̂ ----- ---YOUR ASTRAL NUMBER.

We here produce the necessary table* and instruction* *o those of our reader* who desire may ascertain their Astral Number*. The matter was copyrighted in 1801 by Mr. Zeno T. Griffen. and is republished by hi* |*ermiasion.

Kerry |*er*on ha* an Astral Xumlier which represents the co 'dition* and culmination* of life. It is formed from the Astral Xumlier* of the day and month of birth, the year born, and the planetary- forces operating on the individual, as denoted by |>ersonal history and constitutional make-up. Following are the Table* of Astral Powers:

POWER!* o r THK PLANETS.

Mercury.......MM33H Saturn __ .241056Venus.......... !*i4'>"4 I'ranus__Mars............ .>42370 . 0<r2t»4Jupiter........ 412112

POWERS OK THK MONTHS.January.......1*11024 July.......... .401204February__ 36ft43ft August__March.......... 334154 September . .v»;w>7’»April............400637 i Krtolier ... .227f*i3May..............507721 N’orenlier. .217433June ............603380 I>ecember .

POWERS OF THK DAYS.1....157732 12... .1122341 23.. .3161522 . . . 21313ft 13... 401128 24.. .4617723__ 2514876 14... .3ft1852 25.. .6135144__ 3.V4CM 15... ,23b4ft4 2d.. .5241765__ 461068 Hi... . 1*1*92 27.. .3H2834«.:. jtxtm i it. . . .1014300 2ft.. .200.7127__ 010510 Ift... .15481ft 2H.. 246114H__ 0S03N0 11*... .221**4 30.. . 1015560....7224tM 2U... .23354* 31 . lti.Vil»4

lu__ ftftlft72 21... .274:1721 1 ....71954ft 22... .370432

CEXTl’HY ORDINATES.llith Cent'y.H33HI52 21>*t Cent’y «331«3220th Cent'y.H331ft42 22d Cent'y. H.01G22

These tables are ronrrf, firing the only one* that will work out according to rules ami book* that relate to them.

You can ca*t your Astral Xumlier by ole serving the following

DIKE* T H IN S .

.Set down in regular order, under each other, the powers of the planets, etc., as follows:

1. If a male, set down the power of Mercury.

2. If a female, the power of Venus.3. If single now. the |Miwer of Mar*.4. If never married, or a virgin, the

power of I'ranus also.5. If married now. the power of Jupiter.ft. If single through divorce, the power

of Neptune.7. If light complexioned. the |*i*er of

Venus.ft. If black hair and eyes, the power* of

both Mercury and Venus.0. If medium complexioned. set down no

power*.

HI. If own father is dead, the power of Jupiter.

11. If own mother is dead, the (tower of Saturn.

12 Set do n |>owcr of month of birth.13. Set down (lower of day of birth.14. Set down the year of birth.l.i. Add together. The sum total is the

Astral Xumlier required.To test the work, add the four figure* of

the year of birth together, and their sum . to one final digit. This will also lie the ! " final digit" of the Astral Xumlier.

Our issues for January. May. July, and page* II. 12 and 13 of this number, contain articles on the Astral Xumlier. which see.

OCCULT HISTORY.Mexico and Central America Visited

In 499 by Buddhist Priests.If we follow down the official chronolo

gies to 400 A. D. we will find an account of one Hwui Shan, who in that year returned to China with the statement that he hail come from a country lying a great distance tn the east. Hi* story so excited the interest of the government that the ini(ie- rial historiographer was commanded to enter it upon his official records. Although the Chinese and Japanese Isith are thoroughly familiar with the story of Hwui Shan's discovery, the celebrated Chinese scholar, Ma Twan-lin, searched the original record* and made a copy of the imperial historiographer's original digest that it might be proved lieyond doubt.

Ilwui Shan was a Kuddhist missionary priest. With five brother missionaries he left China, sailing north by the |>enin*ula of Kamchatka, to the Aleutian islands, eastward to Alaska, and thence to Fusang. which i* the name of the country he tell* the mo-t alsiut. He describes the people he encounters on his voyage. The Aleutian islanders, he said, were a happy, joyous people, having the custom of tattooing their Isslie*. and they received the stranger with great hospitality. Kast of these islands was the country he called the ‘•fireat Han." whose inhabitants had no implement* of war, nor carried on a war with any one. but were content to live by- hunting and fishing. This description of a people applies truly to the inhabitants of Alaska, the Eskimo*, who are a peaceable people, never having been known to have had wars of any kind.

Fusang. literally " The Land of the Mulberry Tree," is described as being situated twice 10,000 li to the east of "Great Han." Hy a glance at the map it will be seen that an easterly course from that part of Alaska nearest the Aleutian islands would bring

) the navigator to British Columbia, but then the old Buddhist missionary may have

! been careless in regard to his sailing directions, or east for southeast may have been substituted in the record.

“ Twice lo.uonli " i* figured variously between 0,000 and 7,000 miles, and that distance in a southeasterly direction from Alaska nearest the Aleutian islands, would bring the navigator off the coast of Mex

ico. Xow, Hwui Shan's account of Fusang and its people, where he appear* to haw tarried some time, applies to Mexico. His particular attention was called to the fact that the inhabitants of the country had nc walled cities or towns, which would naturally lie the observation of a Chinaman arriving in a thickly-populated country from one where everything is encompassed with a wall, as in China.

Hwui Shan describes the houses of Fusang as being constructed of adolie* or sun-dried bricks, similar to those of the Pueblo Indians of the present daj. and then he gives a faithful description of the Mexican agave, that most useful of all plant* to the native Mexican. He said they made cordage and paper from its filler and ate the tender sprouts of its young -oots. He speak* of a milk which wa- prohahly the fermented juice of the maguey. the pulque of the present day. and calls the tuna, the fruit of the cactus, which we call a prickly pear, a red pear, which, if not (ducked, remains on the tree throughout the season. The |ieople had no iron, but used copper in a variety of ways, and gold was of no value. Shaking of the inhabitants, he said the children married at a very young age. which is true of the alsiriginal tribes of Mexico.

The religion of Buddha was founded in Central India alsiut the lieginning of the Christian Kra. and he commanded hi* follower* to go forth and preach his doctrine- in every part of the world. Thus with religion Kast Indian arts were carried into China and Buddhism was eventually accepted a* a religion by the Chinese, who preserve in their records accounts of journey* made by various Buddhists in 385 A. |).. 31IW. olft and 620. These accounts are all w ritten by the Buddhists themselves where the account of Hwui Shan is chronicled.

After the destruction of the dynasty of Tsin in 420 China was divided into two empire*. that of the north and that of the south. Li Yen Chen, a Chinese historian, who wrote a history of these two empire* alsiut the lieginning of the seventh century. gives an account of Fusang. and describes how the land is reached by sailing along Kamchatka, the Aleutian island- and the coast of North America. By tbi- route the navigator is out of sight of land but once, and then but for 200 miles.

We have it that when Hwui Shan returned to China he had left behind him hi* five companions to carry out the missionary work commanded by Buddha. What became of these is not known, but they may have heen the means of instructing the nativesof Fusang in building the citie- found by the Spaniard* a thousand year- later, and in other arts as well.

The Mayas of Yucatan bad attained a greater degree of civilization than the Aztecs, as the remains of their cities attest. The S|ianiards, in their blind zeal for the Komish faith, destroyed everything that showed the civilization of this people.

J Whence came this civilization?The Toltecs appear to lie the first of the

1 alwriginal races who had attained to any

August, 1901. S T A R O F T I I H M A G I . W

degree of civilization. They inhabited the valley of Anahuac (the valley of Mexico), built cities* and temples* and were a peaceable people. The Aztec?*, a warlike tribe, came down from the north, deflated the cities* of the Toltecs and drove them south into ( entral America and Yucatan. taking to themselves* s*ome of the Toltec arts* and industries*. So the civilization of the Tol- tecs* became dilTus*ed. The remains of the Mayas in Yucatan are evidently Toltec, and what do we find?

In the National Museum at Madrid is preserved one of the b*»oks of the Mayas which escaped the general onto do ft of the Bishop Land a, who burned these ls>oks whenever found. Its paper resembles very much that of the Chinese, and consists of a long strip doubled in folds i>etween two hoards like their early books. The text consist* of hieroglyphics and picture writing and does not resemble Chinese text.

In Mexico exist traditions of the visit of a people who taught them many things.

When we come to search the remains of the Toltecs, or whoever the laiilders of those cities were, now scattered in ruins throughout lower Mexico and Yucatan, we And in many places the counterpart of such Buddhist temples as are found in Java and many other Asiatic countries to which the Buddhist religion was carried. M. Desire t harnay. in his •• Ancient Citie> of the New World,*’ gives a drawing from a photograph of the “ Temple of the Sun “ at Palenque, and op|>osite, a picture of a Jafianese temple. One is almost a counterpart of the other. He also compares the stucco bas reliefs on the ruined nunnery at Chichen Itza to Chinese carvings. If we examine a drawing of the restored palace at Palenque and compare *'t with the temple at Boro Budo. in Java, we will find that they resemble each other. Wal- deck found the old temples of Yucatan analogous to those of the Buddhists at Ava. Pegu. Siam, and the'Indian Archipelago, with the same niches in which the cross- legged god Buddha sits in Java. How are we going to explain these things to the contrary of the Chinese records?

MYTHOLOGY OF TREES.Trees have always been closely associ

ated with man, both in his every day and religious life. He has inherited a sort of ancestral worship for stately forest trees that has become as much a part of him as his later and broader ideas of spiritual things. Every race has a tree of life or a form that either accounts for the origin of the race or else possesses some wonderful properties closely connected with human welfare. Thus there is the primeval ash or world tree of the Scandinavians: the Hindoo soma* tree, with its divine branches and life-giving sap: the sacred tree of Buddha, imparting wisdom: the world tree of the Iranians, producing its immortalizing drink, and the South African tree of life, which gave birth to bush- men, oxen and zebras. The Hebrew tree of life, written of in Genesis, conveys the same idea as the others. It was probably

obtained, as was most of the Hebrew mythology. from Egypt or Assyria, where ancient sculptors |>ortray such a tree, by whose fruit the votaries of the gods were worshi|K*d and pre|»ared for immortality.

One of our mo*t familiar and rapidly growing trees is the |s>plar. so called from the fact that it com|s»se*l the grove in which the |>opulos of Home assembled. It also formed the grove of Archimedes. It was in memory of the cure of a snake bite by |M>plar that Hercules erected pillars joined by a ser|>ent. This legend still exists in the symbol of the dollar. *. yet how few would look in this direction to find the source from which this mark originated?

STAR HEAT MEASURED.Astronomical Instruments Invented

at the Yerkes Observatory.Means by which the heat of the stars

can be measured has been discovered at the Yerkes Observatory, at William- Bay. Wit., of the I'niversity of ( ’hicago.

For years scientists and astronomers have conducted a scientific war over the problem as to whether or not the stars gave any heat at all along with their light, and for two years careful experiments have l»een going on at the Yerkes t Hiservatory to attempt to settle the dispute. The re-

: suit of these experiments is the announce- ! ment that the stars not only give heat lmt

their heat can Ik* measured.The instrument by which starlight is

measured is so delicate that it will record the strength of light of a candle a mile

! away. For the successful outcome of the i exiK*riment here scientists will Ik* indebted I chiefly to Professor E. F. Nichols of Dart

mouth Pol lege, who leaves his own institution frequently to work at the Yerkes * observatory. being assisted in this particular work by Professor Charles E. St. John of otierlin College, ami A. L. Colton, fortc-

| erly assistant at the Lick observatory. Ci. W. Ritchey aided n the instruments.

The instrument which can record such an infinitesimal amount of heat is called a radiometer. Though liased to some extent u|M»n the same principle as the dolonieter and radiomicrometer, which have been so successfully used in measuring heat rays,

| in construction it is essentially different, and for this |Hir|Hx*e has proved far more effective. As a basis of measurement an ordinary |»araffin candle was used. By com|>arison and mathematical reductions. Professor Nichols ascertained that the heat coming to any |K>int of the earth’s surface from A returns, one of the nearest fixed stars, is something greater than the heat which would be received at a given point from a candle six miles distant, if none of the candle’s heat were absorbed by the atmosphere. Observations on Vega, another fixed star, showed about one-half the quantity of heat receive*! from Arctu- rus. The planet Jupiter semis to the earth twice as much heat as A returns, and from Saturn comes only heat enough to equal the unalmorbed radiation of a candle ten miles away.

The ap|»aratus used in these experiments was no sensitive that the heat of a candle sixteen miles away could lie detected, if no air intervened to ab*«»rb the heat rays. The sensitive portion of the instrument i- sus|>ended in a block of lironze which U b red out to receive It. A whip of line- drawn glass, hanging by an almost invi*i~ hie filler of quartz, suspends a small plane mirror. About two-thirds of the way to the top a delicate cross-arm of drawn glass was fastened, bearing at its extremities the radiometer vanes, which were coated with lamp black. These vane* were small circles, stamped out of thin mica. The distance between them was four ami one-half millimeters, or nearly two-tenths of an inch.

The block was sealed so as to he as o-*rly air tight as practicable. A window of the trans|iarent substance, flourite. was made to admit the rays of light upon the instrument. while a glass window was used to |K*rmit the deflections of the vanes upon a scale to lie read with a telescope.

The observations with this instrument were conducted in the heliostat room of the observatory. By a system of three mirrors, made for the {turpose by Mr.CL W. Kitchey. astronomer and superintendent of the instrument making department of the observatory, a ray of light from the star under examination was thrown directly u|»on the radiometer. The mirrors served to concentrate the heat of the »tar as well as to direct its rays into the radiometer. where they were allowed to pa— through the window of fhwrite and fall u|Min tine of the vanes.

Another valuable and im|M>rtant instrument is now being constructed at the observatory from designs drawn l»y Mr.CL \Y. Kitchey. It isa horizontal reflecting tclc- scope.

The cuncave mirror, the basic part of the telescope, is two feet in diameter and has a focal length of Ha feet. The apparatus is designed, however, sithat am*her mirror of sixty feet focal length may he used in Its stead by being placed correspondingly nearer the laboratory. A rectangular tube, live teet high, nine feet eight inches wide at one end. and four feet wide at the other, connects this mirror with the laboratory.

The rays of light from the object under observation are received at the larger eml •if this tube hy a coelostat. This is a mirror mounted so as to be mo\*d by cUnrk- work to correspond with the motion of the earth and reiect the rays constantly to the same point. This is a plane mirror thirty inches in diameter.

Another mirror, which is adjustable to allow for the position of the star or ma. receives the rays and reflects them through the ICVfoot tube to the concave mirror at ̂the other end. This -vvond mirror is aho a plane one and i* two feet in diameter.

The concave mirror form* an image of the object at its focus, a point near tbe coelostat. In direct photography the image is received u p« a photographic plate which is mounted upon a pier and furnished

•2< > S T A I f < > F T I I K M A C » I. August, 1901.

with ;tn eyepiece ami adjusting screws, by mean* of which the astronomer keel* the imafc constantly In the same position on the sensitive plate.

In other work the image is received into a spectroscope, where its spectrum is observed and photographed on a large scale. When used in connection with the large spectro-hclingraph an instrument designed by Professor George E. Ilale. director of the observatory), the corona, prominences, and other solar phenomena may I k* photographed, a thing hitherto im- l»o*sihle except at a total eclifise.

The mirrors are of silvered glass and were made by Mr. Kitchey. The details of the instrument ami it.- accessories were worked out by Professor Ilale and Mr. Hite hey to a satisfactory completion.

—— ^REPRESENTING AN ECLIPSE.

An extraordinary representation of an ecli|»se of the Sun was lately hit upon by •ome ingenious Englishman in the course of his experiments with light as affected by water. e-|H*clally when made semi- opaque by various colored *ul»stancrs. A total eclipse of the Sun is so rare a spectacle that, when one occurs, it excites a more widespread interest than almost any mere sublunary event, and we here give precise directions for representing such an uuu-ual phenomenon. The notion of presenting this Iwautiful representation of anecli|s*eof the Sun in a nwdern parlor is certainly novel and somewhat remarkable, considering the wholly artificial means employed, for nothing is made use of that owes its existence to a genuine eclipse of the Sun. not even a photograph of one or Its reproduction.

A rectangular tank of glass is the principal feature of the apparatus employed in this striking yet simple experiment, and which may lw made by any person inclined to entertain his friends who will undertake the small amount of outlay required. If you hap|wn to have a small aquarium it will answer for the purpsw of the required tank. Fill it with clear water. ami then add a tablespoonful of alcoholic solution of gum mastic, which. being thrown down in a fine precipitate, will give to the water a milky appearance.

Now take an ordinary six-candle-power incandescent lamp, and pass the wires that lead to it through a short glass tube, and fasten the lamp to the tulie with sealing- wax so that the joint is water-proof. The lamp, thus joined, should lie at a right angle to the tulie. Next, firmly attach a metal disk to the tip of the lamp: see that its diameter is a little larger than the lamp so as to c<mceal the latter.

Now immerse the affair in the aquarium so that the metal disk close- flat against the center of the front glass of the tank. Darken the room, seat your friend* closely together in front, and turn on the electric light. Immediately the metal disk representing the Moon a beautiful representation of a total eclifsH* of the Sun will burst into view, with an exquisite corona which is caii-ed by the diffusion of the

electric light of the lamp by the small particles of gum ma-tic suspended in the water.

To tender the effect |ierfect, a small quantity of solution of malachite-green aniline dye may In- added to the water, giving to the sky represented by the water *he peculiar and weirdly greenish tint that characterizes the real sky on the occasion of the Sun's eclipse. This. also, brings out with greater distinctness the corona, which extends its misty streamers of jwarly luster and exquisite texture far out into the background of the heavens. The effect is made more startlingly like an eclijise by draping the corners of the tank.

THE MYSTIC CRAFT.Symbolism. Discovery and Legend

Drawn From Masonic Sources.In the publications of (ûatuor Coronati

Lodge. Uindon. may be found an account of the last gavel stroke of Frederick the Great. Frederick's initiation as Crown Prince of Prussia has often been told, and much ha- been written about the “ Koval Lodge*' which he constituted, and over which, at times, he presided in the Palace at Potsdam. The following is alleged to have taken place at the last meeting at which the King presided as **G. Master.**

Shortly after the close of the second Sile-ian war. Prince Kaunitz. the Minister of Maria Theresa, opened a correspondence with Major-General G. C. von Wall* rawe. Chief of the Engineer Cor|»s. and induced him to ••betray" the plans of the Fortress of Neisse. The correspondence with the Minister of Queen Theresa was discovered in the post and unassailable proof of the betrayal laid before the King in the shap* of a certain letter from Wall- rawe to Kaunitz. Wallrawe was not only a man whom the King had |wrsonally trusted as an intimate friend, but he was a mem tier of the Koval Lodge, and Frederick -aw him-elf betrayed in every quality- as King, friend and Mason. The Koyal Lodge had not been called together for four years, but after full consideration the King ordered it to 1** summoned once more for the loth of February. 174*. at Potsdam. At the conclusion of the order of proceedings the Koyal Master s|*oke asfollows:

“ One of the brethren here present has offended against the laws of the Craft, his duty to the State, h s oath, his fealty and gratitude to me a- his Worshipful Master ami King, and deserves death. As King 1 do not want to know it. as Master 1 would wish to |»ardon him. as a brother 1 desire to give him my hand and help him to rai-e his fallen self, and as a man I will forget the pa-t. I only demand that he shall acknowledge his crime here and now repent, in this case everything shall lw utrirtly

fti oiHowj tHtrptln*. ami never again mentioned. Should, however, he lw silent and not seize the pardon here offered him. then I imi-t print out to him that, as Master. 1 shall feel obliged, on account of his acts, to close this Uslge forever, and as King

and ruler of this realm to hand him over to justice.**

The brethren were naturally much disconcerted. but as Wallrawe had no previous suspicion that his treason wasdiscov- ered, no reply was made. The King re- |wated his adjuration a second and a thin: time, still there was no response. Then, with a tremulous voice, and tears in hi- eyes. he solemnly closed the Koyal liorigt forever, and. passing into the antechamber, ordered General Wintereld to arrest the traitor. The condemned brother wa- imprisoned for life in one of the fort re—e- which in earlier days he had constructed for the defense of the kingdom.

E N G L A N D 'S N E W G R A N D M ASTER.

II. K. H., the Duke of Connaught, wa- elected March d, at the regular quarterly communication of the United Grand Lodge of England, to succeed King Edward VII as Grand Master of English Freemason-, and was installed as such on July 17. The Duke of Connaught was already a Pa-t Graml Master and has been for manyyear- Provincial Grand Master of Sussex ami District Grand Master of Bombay. He was admitted to the Craft in 1*74. He i- now the fifth Grand Master of the United Grand I>>dge of England. The Prince of Wales, now King Edward, ruled the fraternity for over twenty-six years. The Ihike of Connaught, who takes his place, is King Edward’s only surviving brother.

T H K K N IG H T S T E M P L A R

of the United States will hold their Triennial Conclave in Louisville. Ky.. August 2*1 to 21*. inclusive. The city raised one hundred thousand dollars for their entertainment. and it is expected to iw the most brilliant affair in the history of the Order in this country. The parade will lw the largest and most impwing ever witnessed. Templars from all over the world will be there, including the editor of the S t a r . who. with his " better half.” will go with his Commandery (Aprilo. No. 1, of Chicago), and be quartered at the Hotel Louisville.

T H E i n f l u e n c e o f w o m a n .

The sweetness of a pure-minded woman sheds a fragrance upon all around her. She has a comforting word for a sorrowing heart, a helping hand fora needy sister or brother, a cheerful smile for the sad and disheartened, a forgiving look for the weak and erring. She bring- sunshine into the darkened household, ami by her example brings dead hojws to life again. She looks only for the good in life and re- * joices in it. She shuts her eyes to evil, prays for the victim, and follows up her prayers, as did Abraham of old, and seeks to save the evil-doer by appealing to the good that is in his nature. Her voice is raised in praise and commendation for all good works, and is never heard in canting fault-finding. Her words are gentle, kind and loving, never harsh, stinging or hitter. When she cannot praise her lipsaresilent. She has a good word for every one. for she Iwholds in every character some trace of goodness. A/osomIc ShimbirtL

August, 1901. S T A R T 1 I K

QUAINT AND CURIOUS.unk of the queerest known Itsh is the

archer, that lives in Javanese waters. It s h o o ts a stream of water at insects and brine* them down within reach. The Jav- anese keep it in jars for their amusement ami cause it to show its marksmanship by placing insects within range.

A y o u n g man at Hallstead, Fa., named Frank McCrojr, claims to have discovered the lost art of the ancient Egyptians, the tempering of copper. Chemists and scientist* hav.e labored to discover this lost art for years. The Government is said to have offered a reward of $6,000 for a formula that would bring the temjierof cop|ier up to the desired hardness.

A solid silver cross was recently found In an Indian while digging in the Lake hcmargarningue district, Canada. It has two liar* and is recognized by a Jesuit as one of the lifty silver crosses presented to the Huron Indians in the early part of the sixteenth century to bribe them to light for France against the Iroquois Indians, who were then friendly to England.

Ax entire town has recently been discovered in the dominions of the Czar of the existence of which no one seems to have had any idea. Deep in the forests of the Ural lies a flourishing city, the inhal* itants of which speak a curious language of their own and seem to form a sort of ideal commonwealth in which taxes and other troublesome things are unknown.

A PECULIAR phenomenon was noted during a severe thunder-storm by the attendant* at a recent picnic near Wausau, Wis. Ituring the progress of the storm several pcnon* pulled their knives from their junkets simultaneously and threw them upon the ground, asserting that they were 11n► hot to carry. It is *up|>osed that the knives liecame heated by reason of the electrical conditions of the atmosphere.

A S T R A N G E case of inoculation is that of H. I- Carpenter, Algona, Iowa, who, while traveling with Barnum .V Bailey's show a few years ago, was attacked by a |iet leopard. From the virus introduced through the wounds made by the animal's teeth and claws, Mr. Carpenter's body and face are covered at certain times with leopard s|s>ts, as plainly marked as those on the skin of the beast, which remain for a little while and then fade away. They cause a frightfully disagreeable sensation.

A little creature found in South America by a party of naturalists is a relic of bygone ages. It is known as the crested hoatzin, and the adult bird is about as big a- a peacock. The young birds have four leg* when hatched, the front pair being reptilian in character, and have strung claw*. This makes the creature look like a bird. Iwast and snake, all in one. As the bird* grow older the claws fall off, the legs Income fattened, feathers grow on them and they develop into wings. The nestling* are the nearest approach to a rep- i i that can lie found Anywhere among bird*, and they can cliuili and dive and • wim with great facility.

In narrating “ Some Remarkable ( ases of Double Personality." Dr. < Kgissl Mason cites the case of a “ young ecclesiastic of Bordeaux, France, who was in the habit of getting up at night in a condition of somnambulism. going to hi* study and com- |sising and writing his sermon* in the dark. When he had finished one page he read it over carefully and properly corrected it. A broad piece of cardboard inter|s>sed lie- tween his eyes and his writing made no difference to him. He wrote, read ami corrected just the same as if there had been no obstruction. Having completed his work to his satisfaction, he returned to bed: in the morning he knew nothing of it."

value as judged by mere chemical analysis, will not -atisfv the more s u b t l e criticism of the stomach."

HEALTH AND HYGIENE.Medical Advice on Matters of Gen

eral Interest.WHAT A RC2VMTA SAYS.

Pundita llainabia. a hit'll caste Indian woman, who visited America a few year* ago under the auspice* of the missionary societies, returned to New York lately. When told aliout the Christian Science fool fad she said: “ The name degenerate philosophy ha* been taught among people for four thousand year*. It wrecked million* of live* and caused im- mea*urahle suffering ami *orrow in my land, for it i* ba*ed on selfishness and know* no *yni|»athy or companion. It mean* ju*t thU- the philosophy of nothingness. You are to view the whole universe as nothing but falsehood: you are to think it doe* not exist you do not exist: I do not exist: the bird* and l»ea*t* that you see do not exist. When you have degenerated enough to feel that you have no personality whatever, then you have attained to the highest perfection of what is now called Christian Science in America. You draw on the blackU»ard a zero, you add a zero, multiply by zero, divide by zero, and it equals zero. Christian Science i* just like that nothing more.

HfXLEY ON VKUKTAK1AN1SM.In order to give more weight to vegeta

rian claim*. *ay* Madame Sophie Leppel. table* are given of the respective properties of the various vegetarian food-. These tables are assumed to l»e drawn up by scientist* of the greatest eminence. Ik— fore whom ordinary |ieopie must Ihi« down in worshipful adoration. Hut I desire to quote to you the opinion held of such tables by the most distinguished scientist of his day. Professor Thomas llenry Huxley. He *ays: “ It may Ik* worth while to point out that mere chemical analysis i*. by itself, a very insufficient guide as to the usefulness and nutritive value of an article of food. A sutmtance to l»e nutritious mu*t not only contain some or other of the above finnl-sturt*. Imt contain them in an available, that is digestible f«»rm. A piece of beefsteak i* far more nourishing than a quant ity of |»va-podding containing even a larger pro|M»riion of proteid material. Iiecause the former is far more digestible than the latter. Ami a small piece of dry hard cheese, though of high nutritive

g t 'K E K KW IP K S T O M A K E T H E H A IK .

How to grow hair is a problem that ha* puzzled the »on* of Adam f«»r year*. Expensive lotion* are often advertised: ssn r stimulating, some injurious, father* indifferent. Many who have grown heard* and luxuriant head* of hair have homely recipe* of their own. hut of course these recipe* are not guaranteed to act i n i every face and scalp with a like result: wherein they differ from the lotion* wrap|*e«i up in liottle* with revenue -tamp- on them.

A man who lived long in Ireland u—*d no other hairdressing than a fluid * p ofonion juice ami ca-t$»r oil. to whiff) a little rum was daily added. Although wit -up- plied with the usual ammint of hair at the age of thirty, at fifty he wa* a hairy w«*o- der. Hi* beard wa* twenty-seven inches in length, ami his mustache from the ha-e of hi* nostril* to it* extreme tip was nearly six inches on either side.

Possessing a beautiful head of hair, which, when unfastened, hung far bey«Kid her waist, an old lady told that her recipe

my had come from a fisher-woman residing in ha* the Shetland Islands. She declared that

in her girl bond days her hair was miserably thin. In making her hair tonic a fresh herring was heated over the fire-grate, no dripping or butter added, and the fatty matter procured from the fl-h wa- poured into a -mall p it. mixed, and retwdled with the water in which c«»mm«»n box leaves had lieen steeped.

A man of fifty whose beard reached far Ik*low hi* knees declared that he owed its luxuriance to c«»nstantly treating it to a wash wherein the berries of the deadly nightshade formed a principal |*art. People laughed at him at first, but fiwimi afterwards that he wa- not entirely without sense. This formidalde herb w a great hair grower, in cases where the r.mt- are not destroyed. This man had a peculiar method. He boiled the berries and su n t

| of the twigs of this dangerous plant in a ; large, dimmed pepper-box. No «*hcr in

gredient* were added.An actress, whose hair is a perfect won-

' der in it* wild, undressed beauty, say- that ill cent* will furnish her with hair tonic

I for a year. Hum is the m«*-t ex|w n-ive Ingredient. The -pirit is first boiled and a little pulverized -age then added.

It ha- generally been a—umed hitherto that the hair of the human head grow-, a Unit an inch and a third per month, or

, nixtwn inches a year. Hut an investigator who ha- made minute measurement- at various times of life timis that hi-own hair grew only a little morv than half an inch a m«*nth in his twentieth year, and rather lew* rapidly in his -ixtieth. He made - hik other interv-tiug dKVwvrkx In coot r.tdict i»*o t%* thv c»wn«w»n Iwdief. he -ays that cutting retard- in-tcad ot promoting the growth of the hair, and that the normal rate of growth is not rv-torvd until a considerable interval ha- elap-cd after cutting.

S T A R O F T H E M A G I August. 1U01.

EDITOR S TABLE.

The extraordinary hot weather ir rw to have ••floored” the Volunteer Brigade in common with everything else. That** right. friend**, take a vacation ami **o will we. So far. result** do not justify the ex- l*en«*e of issuing the private lesson* pro- |Ki»ed. hut we will do so later on. In the meantime try and **ee what you can do to aid the S t a k in the matter.

*lx a )i*t of work** given by .Voh* ami

ifmrit* on “ Number** ami Their Symbolism** we find that “ The Mystic Thesaurus ** is noted among the forty-three presented. It is a hook that one finds himself consulting quite frequently, and should be in every occult library. .Vo##* ###♦<# also favorably notices the series on Mar- tinism now running in the S T A K . and states that many articles we publish “ are of es- l*ecial interest to the esoteric Mason and mathematician.** We note some very fine articles in this unique publication for July and August (double numk-r . among which arc •’Modern Mystics.** “ GenesisChapter Fifty-One.** ** Prayer of Zoroaster,** ami a generous number of arcane matters.

*We have received a circular from our

esteemed friend. .1. Houston Hrixey. 1IWT W. Harrison St., Chicago. which informs u» that he will cast horoscopes with delineations of two to five years in advance for

We s|»eak from |»er*onal exjierlence when we say that Mr. Itrixey is a first class and thoroughly reliable Astrologer.

*The most noteworthy “ new thing** of

the |»ast month is the initial apj*earance of lloz*Irojtjn ,\*tiy»h»jiral Ahmntar, published monthly by the Cillwrt Printing <'o., 141 W. 24th St.. New York Pity: *1 a year. We welcome it to our sanctum and wish it an alftimlance of success. We regard its name as falling short of its scope and general character, for it is something more than the word “ almanac ** implies to the ordinary astrologer. The present August i*-ue contains several very fine articles of general interest. We commend it.

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Kn gland is 77## Spirit toil U>rinr. edited by J. J. Morse. 2b o*nal*urgh street. Euston Hoad. l>»ndon. N. W.f at *1 a year. We always view its arrival with deep interest.

*We are in receipt of some interesting

photo* sent us by Mr. George M. Hacon of 1431 lawrencr street. Denver. Col.. which represent hi* ingenious A*tro-< ard Chart. The chart has two interlaced )N*ntagram», to each |M#int of which is assigned *otne one of the principal liodie* of the *#»lar system and also four card* as the ruler*. The whole i* *u|»erimposed on the Zodiac, the sign* of which are go\erned by the remaining twelve card*. He intends to puls )i*h the chart with an explanatory book.

*We are out of "Old Moore** Almanac”

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WOTR “ Pappus Planetarium ** is a splen

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