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THOUGHT AND THE STUDY OF HUMANITY

BE WISE—" Knowledge puts an end to pain "

VOLUME XIV. NEW SERIES

[Old Serits, XXV111.]

Containing: all the numbera for the year 1917.

Editor—ALAN LEO
{Sub-Editor—Alfred H. Barley)

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 MODERN ASTROLOGY, VOL. XIV., 1917
List of Articles, Letters to the Editor, Horoscopes,
Lessons on Astrology, etc.

PAOE.
Air, Our Future in 235
Alan Leo's New Circular 288
Astrology for Beginners: "I, 32; ~, 96; n, 128;
"E. 160; 1,192; K.256; <?,320; 2;, 352
Astrology, International 8, 47, 104, 133, 169, 208, 233, 307, 332
Astrology for Lent' 106
Astrology and the New Year - 74
Astrological Students on Fate and Freewill 21, 112
Astrology Without Predictions 279
Belgians : King of the - 40
Complete Solar System 189
Conjunction of '? and W - 202
Col, Leo, at Children's Home 65
Col, Leo and Aries 224
Uefinition of Man 289
Directions, Royal 11
Eclipses - 208
Editor's Observatory:
Opening of a New Year, International Astrology, i; The Three Worlds,
Atler Death—What? 33; The Prime Minister's Hoioscope. Cbarlataus
and Humbugs, A Leo Childls Cot, 65; Why ibe War? Political Bias,
Kussian Kevolutiou, 97 ; Times aud Seasons, 129; Fatalism, Beyond
Cause aud Enect, The First Cireat Truth,' VV'heie Prcdictiuns do not
Fail, 1 he Three Factors in each Hoioscope, Mau and Animal Man, 161;
The Hope of immortality, The Manu's Call, Sundry other Matteis, 193 ;
August 1690 to August 1917. Mrs Anuic Besant, Mausiou House
Proitcutiou, 225 ; Rex v. Leo, The Mausiou House Prosecution, 257 ;
Pseudo Astrologers, Mr Kawson auu Mrs Eddy, 290; Direclious after
Death, A Word to the Few, Our late Editor and his Work, A Coinci-
dence, My First Lesson, Astrology Without Prediction, 321.
Great War, The : by G. E. Sutcliffe
Part V.—1 he Cosmic Forces aud the World War 50, Events during the
decade Precediug the War 80, 119; Part VI.—T he Strategy of the
Hierarchy aud the Cross of Matter 146, 175, 219, 249, 334.
Horoscopes.:
King Albert 40, Austrian Emperor 14, Born in a Car 79, Children's
Home 73, The Czar 13, 103; Deaths 17, 39 ; Lloyd George 18, 65, 127;
Kiug George iz, German Emperor 12, Italy, King of, 13, Lord Kitcuener
hi, Lunar Eclipse 8, New Year 74, An Otticer 93, Pembenon Billing 235,
Unusual Birth 59, War Horoscope 5, World Horoscope 88.
II CONTHNTS
PACE
Ideal Accomplished 332

Letters to the Editor :

Saturn in Gemini, The Prenatal Epoch, 29; Progress of the War, Lord
Kitchener's Birth Data, Prenatal Epoch, 60; Appeal for Birth Data,
Prenatal Epoch, The Prime Minister's Horoscope, The Great Munition
Works Explosion, Sg; The Crown Prince's Heir, King Albert of the
Belgians, Storks and Planets, Equipoise, Lloyd George's Horoscope,
123; Sick'ol the War," Liltra-Neptunian Planets, 158; Lord Kitchener's
Horoscope, Rectification, Neptune and the New Era, 317; Predictive
Astrology, 351.

Man, Definition of 289

Mansion House Case 263, 303
Memorial Number 354

Neptune Conjunction Saturn . 202

Neptune and Anarchism 172
Neptune and New Era 214,245, 310

Obiter Dicta :
t seful Publication, Decauate Influences, Japanese Zodiac, The Twelve
Apostles, 143; Comets, Planetoids, An Example in Rectification, 211;
Falling Foul of FTieuds, The Political Mystic, Planetary Apses, The
Planet Isis, The Summer Time, 341,

Passing of Alan Leo 296

Payment for Astrological Work 282

Questions and Answers ;

Good Aspects Only, An Afflicted Mercury, Another Moon, Attracted to
Pai em, ialkiug with Spirits, 1S2 ; Symbols, Trausmutation, Air versus
Earth, Old Egos, San Francisco, Signs Ruling America, 345.

Rectification 140
Reviews:
" FTesh Side Lights on Astrology," by Major C. G. M. Adam, 27 ; " Your
Part in Poverty," George Lansbury, 191; " King or Republic," Ellis T.
Powell, 350.
Royal Directions 11
Rex versus Leo 257

Stars, How to Rule Them 186

Truth, Editor of, on the Mansion House Case 259
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SsSlH JANUARY, 1917. [NO. 1

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THE OPENING OF A NEW YEAR

Although the astrological year does not begin until the Sun
enters the sign Aries in the month of March, the civil year commencing
on January 1st has an importance worthy of our attention. It begins
with the entry of the Sun into the second decanate of Capricorn which
is of the nature of Capricorn-Taurus, and over which the planets
Saturn and Venus preside. To the intuitive student who is not
content with a superficial study of Astrology this combination has a
very significant meaning; and although it may not be clear to all,
nevertheless there are many who will see its significance when
explained in the light of human evolution.
Believing as we do that nothing happens by chance, and that all
things are governed by a wise law, we may trace in what are apparently
chance happenings those keynotes that will lead us to the fundamental
basis of the law underlying all changes in time and space.
It is not necessary to elaborate all the details of our progress in
human evolution to explain the significance of the beginning of the
second decanate of Capricorn in opening the civil year ; it will suffice
for the present if we make the statement that according to higher
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teaching, a summary of which is given in the Secret Doctrine, humanity

is now in the Fifth Sub-race of the Fifth Root-race on the Fourth
Globe in the Fourth Round of the Fourth Chain.

Chains, Rounds, Globes, and Races

Briefly summarised, our Earth is the most dense or material of a
"chain" of seven globes: (A), (S), (C <7 ), (D0), (E S ), (F), (G).
Evolution passes seven times round this chain of worlds. The Earth
lives through seven such * Rounds': in each round there, are seven Root
Races on each Globe, and seven Sub-races to each Root-race ; and,
as already said, mankind is now in the Fourth Round, Fourth Globe,
Fifth Root-race, and Fifth Sub-race of evolution—4-4-5-5.
In three of the Rounds spirit descends into matter (involution),
imparting qualities to matter. In the fourth Round there is struggle,
forming manifold relations between spirit and matter. There are then
three rounds of ascent, wherein matter is fashioned by spirit into more
■and more perfect vehicles.

The Three Crosses

Astrologically speaking these Rounds, Root- and Sub-races are
symbolised by the three zodiacal crosses,—the Fixed, Cardinal and
Mutable.
Commencing with the sign Leo as the ascending sign, they
recede one sign for each great cyclic change; so that in the present
Fourth Round the sign TAURUS is the ascending sign for the Round,
and in the present Fifth Root-race Aries is the ascending sign for the
Race,—as it is also for the present Fifth Sub-race. In the next Sub-
race, the sixth, the sign PISCES will be the ascending sign, and we
shall then have the three zodiacal crosses in activity, which may be
represented thus:

-m

A 25 U
Fourth Round Fifth Root Race Sixth Sub-race
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 3
From this it will be seen also that when we are in the Seventh Round
the sign AQUARIUS, The Man, will ascend, (as also in the Seventh
Root-race and in the Seventh Sub-race). A clear understanding of this
arrangement will explain the idea underlyingtheexpression 'Aquarian'
or perfect age.
We see, therefore, that a Capricorn-Taurus combination has the
effect of linking the culminating sign Capricorn of the Fifth Root-race
with the ascending sign Taurus of the Fourth Round.
Concerning the arrangement of these Crosses governing Round
and Race we have no doubt. They commence with Leo rising, and
end with Aquarius on the ascendant, for both Round and Race; and
the history of the whole world may be traced through them, as well as
the great cyclic changes, of which there are 49 in every Round. At
present the Fixed and Cardinal crosses are in activity, the Mutable
being latent; but in the seventh Sub-race the whole of the twelve
signs of the zodiac will be active through the influence of the Mutable
Cross, as will the whole of the planets ruling the twelve signs—Jupiter
and Mercury now being latent influences.
In the fourth Sub-race of the fourth Root-race in our present
Fourth Globe and Round (4-4-4-4) humanity had reached the most
dense and material period of evolution. This sub-race is known as
the Turanian, a significant name seeing that the Fixed Cross with
TAURUS ascending was then dominating the world ; of this sub-race
it was said they were pre-eminently the ' Rakshasas,' giants of a
brutal and ferocious type. The fifth Sub-race of the fifth Root-racej
the one now ruling, the Teutonic as it is generally called, marks the
greatest activity we can experience while in the Fourth Round. From
this fifth Sub-race those who can respond to harmony and the higher
intelligence are now emerging, leaving others who are still climbing to
fulfil the destiny of the Cardinal Cross.
With regard to Uranus and Neptune, their influence in the fixed
signs Aquarius and Leo will be very potent during the coming years,
since they will set the perpendicular line of the Fixed Cross vibrating,
and bring out all the latent influence ruling the present fourth Globe
and Round. France and Russia, ruled by these signs, will now
become dominant nations affecting Europe very powerfully in the
great federation scheme that will come before the nations of the
 4 MODERN ASTROLOGY

world when the Great War has done its work of breaking up
the balance of power between nations.
During the present year Uranus in Aquarius .will readjust the
national differences of Russia, the coming great European nation,
(which will only reach the height of its glory when the Fourth Round
comes to a close on this Globe) ; Neptune in Leo will bring a
spiritualising influence to the French nation; Jupiter in Taurus will
assist the Irish race to find itself in self-government. But one
nation signified by the setting sign Scorpio will be regenerated, or die;
which that nation shall be, the present war will decide.

Changes in the Calendar

It is not possible to tell the extent of the changes this Great War
will bring, but it is quite possible that it 'may effect a change in the
calendar to mark the epoch of a New Era, either at the close of the
war, or at some more remote period when the Federation of Europe
takes definite form. Then it may be that the rising sign will change
from Aries to Pisces, and the influence of the Mutable Cross begin to
harmonise the nations into a federated whole.
January was added to the Roman calendar 713 B.C. In 1752
the legal year in England was made to begin on January 1st instead
of March 25th as formerly.1 Under the influence of Capricorn-
Taurus, the most earthy of the earthy signs, materialism reached its
culminating point, and was certainly in the ascendant at the time of
the middle ages and onward until the Great War into which we have
now been plunged.

New Year's Day

We have pointed out that the year which begins withjanuary 1 is a
man-made year, not really based upon astronomical considerations, for
the Sun's entry into the second decanate of Capricorn was of course not
"elected"by those who changed the year. Looked at from another point
of view however the whole subject is altered. When the old year is
1
It is worthy of note that this change had been made much earlier on the
continent, where it was introduced in 1582/3, and in Scotland in 1600 ; see article
" Calendar " in any good Encyclopaedia.
 THE EDITOR S •ESEKVATOHy 5
ending and the new year is beginning, the change is noted and thought
about by millions of people scattered all over the world, who reflect
upon the past, look forward to the future, make plans and resolutions,
and generally use this date as a significant period dividing the past from
the future.
We are all of us beginning to realise the importance of thought,
how thought vibrations are started and thought currents produced and
radiated forth into the world around us every time we think. It can
easily be understood therefore that when hundreds of millions of people
are all thinking in, one direction, the effect produced upon the thought
atmosphere of the world is very great indeed, and the fact that the date
of their thinking is non-astronomical does not in any way lessen its
force and importance. The beginning of the new year is just such a
period, and December 25 is another, although the latter lias significance
for Christians only. At the ending of the old year many millions
of people are looking forward into the future, and their mental
attitude may be described as summed up in the words—"What does
the future hold in store for me ? Will the new year be better
than the old ? "
To all intents and purposes this is a kind of Horary Question put
by the world at large ; and if an astrologer is justified in attempting
to give an answer when such a question is put by one man only, how
much more may he not attempt it when it is asked by vast hosts of
men ? We think readers will understand, and because space is
particularly valuable just now we will not elaborate the argument any
further, but will pass at once to a practical illustration.
The Great War began in 1914,^and if there is any truth in what
has just been suggested, indications of war should have appeared in a
map of the heavens for 1/1/1914, 0.0. a.m. The following are the
cuspal and planetary positions for that time at London ; the map
for Berlin would be very little different.
x xi xii i ii hi
ng.o a 15 "ti4 xiG.SS "l2 '3
O D S ? i V- •? HI V
yig.45 xi.ra 725.46 729.43 asi6.3ir V325.10 n 12.46/ »6.r 0227.19/
Libra rises; Saturn, Mars and Neptune are the only planets
above the earth. Mars is the highest planet in the heavens, it is
6 MODERN ASTROLOGY

retrograde in its fall, Cancer, opposition the Sun and Jupiter, sesqui-
quadrate the Moon, with no good aspect, and lord of the seventh house,
—WAR, clear and unmistakeable. Moreover it is curious that the two
planets in the tenth house, Mars and Neptune, are the same two that
were there in the German Emperor's horoscope, and Mars here is
close to the Emperor's ascendant.
There are other interesting points in the map, and students will
find them worth examining closelybut we must pass on.

Position of Major Planets in 1917

The following are the positions and influences of the planets

during 1917.
Neptune in the Sign Leo.—Neptune will be moving between
Sl,50 and 7° from January 1 to December 31 ; it will be in
conjunction with Saturn, August 1 in Sl,50, and in conjunction with
Mars in Sl,6§0, September 22. These conjunctions are likely to cause
much atmospheric disturbance in those districts where they are
angular, causing storms, low temperature and rain with much fog or
mist. The financial burden of Europe will grow heavier under Mars
conjunction Neptune which takes place at 10.54 p.m. 22/9/17, in the
second house at London ; at the same time Mars will be in square to
Venus and also within orbs of the conjunction of Saturn !
Uranus in the Sign Aquarius.—Uranus moves from ™ 17.35 to
™23.43 during the year, and will be in conjunction with Mars 2.19 a.m.
3/2/17. The Sun will be near this conjunction in the third house
and adversely affecting travel by rail or motor, also aviation. It will
however favour new inventions in aviation. It disturbs atmospheric
conditions and finance. It will be a troublesome period.
Saturn on the cusp of Cancer and Leo.—Saturn is retrograde
in 92 28.27 1/1/17, becomes stationary in 92 23.39 at 1 a.m. 26/3/17;
enters Leo 24/6/17, becomes stationary in Sb 14.32 at 4 a.m. 26/11/17,
and then falls retrograde at Sl,13.25 31/1/17. This planet makes
some important conjunctions while in the sign Leo. All persons born
2
The distance of the cusp of the mid-heaven from Mars, and of the Sun from
the opposition of Mars is in each case roughly seven degrees, and the war began
about seven months after the date of this map. It may be that a degree for a
month is a measure of time having some significance in a map of this sort.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORV 7
with the Sun in 515° will feel the effects of this transit. It will affect
the German Emperor who had Saturn in Leo opposition to the Sun at
birth. He will feel the effect of these conjunctions as they indicate
financial trouble to the empire, defeat by enemies, intense discontent
among the people and some personal danger to the Emperor. King
George will also feel Saturn's transit over the place of his ruling
planet Mars. Royal persons will suffer from the transit as well as
countries ruled by Leo, for Saturn is the purifier of nations as well as
men.
Jupiter in three Signs during 1917.—Jupiter is in T25.39 1/1/17 ;
enters Taurus 12/2/17 and Gemini 29/6/17, is stationary in n 11.31
30/9/17 and then retrograde until it reaches n 2.37 at the close of the
year. All countries ruled by these three signs will gain temporary
benefits. Jupiter is in conjunction with Mars at 4.15 a.m. 8/6/17 in
8 25.13, being at the same time in square to Uranus culminating.
Political problems will arise, and there will be much disturbance and
secret intrigues in the camps of rulers. Jupiter will be close to the
place of King George's Sun on September 30 and at the same time
near the German Emperor's Jupiter. THOUGHTS OF PEACE will
FOLLOW THIS TRANSIT.
Mars from Capricorn to Virgo.—At the end of 1917 and early in
1918 Mars will three times transit the opposition of its place in the
German Emperor's horoscope. Mars will then be an unfortunate
influence for Austria and Germany.

Eclipses in 1917
During the year there will be no less than seven eclipses, four of
the Sun and three of the Moon. There will also be five very impor-
tant planetary coniunctions, and these conjunctions will have far
reaching effects, making ihe year 1917 a most disastrous one,
causing national calamities all over the world. Students will do well
to study these in conjunction with the Fixed and Cardinal Crosses.
s: . M
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a as
Total eclipse cf the Moon January 8 in 9o 17.29, partly visible
8 MODERN ASTKOLOGY

at London where the Moon will be setting at the moment of

eclipse.
Partial eclipse of the Sun January 23 in CJ2.46, visible over
most of Europe except Spain and Norway, also over most of Asia,
Arabia and Egypt. The Sun will be rising at London.
Partial eclipse of the Sun June 19 in n 27.39, in the ninth house
at London. Visible in Siberia, Canada, and the Arctic regions.
Total eclipse of the MOON July 4 in Vyi2.17, on the cusp of the
twelfth house at London. Partly visible at London.
Partial eclipse of the Sun July 19 in 2525.51, on the cusp of the
second house at London. Visible in the Antarctic Ocean.
Annular elipseof the Sun December 14 in t 21.49, in the twelfth
house at London. Visible in north east Australia.
Total eclipse of the MOON December 28 in 256.7, on the cusp of
the sixth house at London. Invisible at London.

INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY

Lunar eclipse 8/1/1917, 7.42 rr.m.1

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(0 "Un / 5 / 22 V3 9 K 0 T 17
(2) 11128 / 16 « 3 id 24 K23 b
(3) /!-! r 28 «I3 - 4 T 28 b 28
(4) S127 1^29 in 16 t 16 n 21
(1) London (2) Berlin (3) Petrograd (4) New York
0 3) 5 ? it v IJI V
W17.29 1517.29 jrj.is /21.8" V329.4 r26.i 10,27.sy a 3-56»'

This is an important eclipse of the Moon; it is partially visible at

London, but affects the Central Powers more disastrously than the
Allies. The Sun rises in conjunction with Mars and the' Moon is
setting in conjunction with Saturn. The influence of this eclipse will
be keenly felt along a line running through France from the south
west to the north east, and also along a line passing, through northern
Italy north-eastward through Austria towards Poland.
Some of the greatest battles in history will be fought during the
1
Note.—All times are Greenwich unless stated otherwise. Mundane maps for
eny part of the world may be obtained from the office of Modern Asxkologv at a
charge of 2/6 each.
 T11 K liDITOK'S OI5SUUVATOItV 9
inllueuce of this eclipse and with very far reaching results. Great
tenacity of purpose on the part of the Central Powers will yield to
enormous sacrifice on the part of the Allies. Mars the God of War
is strongly placed in the ascending sign Capricorn opposing Saturn
weakly placed in Cancer. Jupiter is in Aries the sign of the British
Empire afflicted by both Mars and Saturn denoting unprecedented
sacrifices supported by promising realisations. Britain's psychological
influence will now be felt all over the world. Neutral countries
(2 t A If) will indirectly aid the Allies, and some will probably join
them. The position of Neptune in opposition to Mercury from west
to east denotes some peculiar deception, which the most self-deceived
of the combatants will suffer from to their detriment.
Russia gains through this eclipse while Austria and Germany
suffer severely. The French will now have to beware of some subtle
influences at work which their enemies will use against them.
They will be faced with some new and powerful obstacles, which
if not self-deceived they will overcome.
This eclipse will arouse the people in India and disturb
those in America. The common people all over the world will be
affected directly or indirectly. The opening of the year 1917 fore-
shadows momentous events and out of the chaos some decisive steps
will be taken that will weightily affect the future.
This eclipse of the Moon is followed by a partial eclipse of the
Sun on 23/1/1917, 7.39 a.m.J A^ this eclipse the planet Mercury
rises in opposition to Saturn.
This is also an important eclipse and againshows more favourable
influences for the Allies than for the Central Powers. In this eclipse
we see the definite signs of the whole contest becoming an Anglo-
German War. The ascendant for Berlin at the time of this eclipse
will be between Mars and Uranus. This will cause much internal
trouble and discord and shows that the power of the state will be
waning at this time. The people will be easily excited and some
realisations will come to them that will awaken the national instinct
for self-preservation, and the ruling powers will become unduly
aggressive. This eclipse affects the South West of France, Belgium
J
S«e previous footnoie.
10 MODE KN ASTHOLOGY

and Holland. It cahninates in India, and sets in Japan. It is most

inimical to Austria and Germany, and indirectly affects Norway and
Sweden. Earthquakes will follow this eclipse and very stormy weather.
The conjunction of the planets Uranus and Mars follows
closely on this eclipse on 3/2/1917 at 2.19 a.m. We have therefore
four very important periods at close intervals :—
(rt) Ok? 22/12/16, when the Kaiser's birth-Moon rises at
Berlin, is in the house of sorrow at Constantinople, on the ascendant
at Petrograd, and in the third house at New York. He will feel
confident of victory, and his organising ability will now be at the
height of its success.
(6) The Full Moon of 8/1/17 when King George's ruler Mars is
rising in opposition to the setting sign of the Kaiser's ascendant, and
the highest tension of the war will follow.
(c) The New Moon of 23/1/17 when the Central Powers are
faced with internal disorder and great military problems.
(d) The (J d ^ culminating influence of 3/2/1917 which explodes
the delusions which those who have been under the maya of Neptune
have suffered from since the beginning of the war.
The influence of Uranus reveals the Higher Self of humanity, and
strips the mask from the false self of Neptune's Endymion'whose
sleep has been so profound that it required the thunderbolts of Zeus to
arouse him.

" Re your editorial on Birthtimes (p. 342, November)," writes G. L. V.,

•" It is true that the actual birthtimes wen and sometimes are now recorded.
As a rule the birth date is now followed with the indications : born in the
morning; or in the afternoon; or in the evening. Ex.:—Surname;
Christian names; born on the nth of November, 1916, in the afternoon.
Sometimes the actual time is given, but it canuot be considered as the exact
time of birth. The error is generally comprised between -)-20m and -f 60 ;
very seldom — iOm. This is explained by the fact that people are careless
about it; the doctor who declares the birth two or three days after the event
remembers au approximate time, about 3 p.m. or near 5 p.m., and this indica-
tion is the one recorded on the birth certificate. Thus the majority of people
in France are legally born at, for example, x o'clock, or r.15, or 1.30, or 1.45,
or 3 o'clock, never at 1.33 or 1.33 !
"Daylight Saving" in the Australian Commonwealth comes into
operation on January 1st. The bearing of this on the casting of horoscopes
should not be lost sight of.
 Jloijal Bmcticrns

England benefited through King George's good influence of

last year (0 -i!-T^r) as we then pointed out would be the case. The
Allies scored success after success. Another of those coincidences so
often to be remarked where joint horoscopes are concerned occurred
-in June, when the King had W 'n force, being in the second
degree of the watery sign Cancer. Now Lord Kitchener had the Sun
in ffi 2.22 at birth, and the great national misfortune of his death by
drowning took place when the planet Neptune was in transit over the
King's progressed Sun.
The King's good directions continue during the present year and
affairs should go more smoothly. The Jupiterian influence gains in
strength, M.C. It-and asc. S^r both fall due during the year, and
this promises peace with honour. The transit of Saturn over the
progressed Sun in August is not good for the King or country during
the summer months, as Mars (r) is also affected by the transit.
As we have remarked on previous occasions, the Sun's entry
into the sign Cancer each year takes place almost in conjunction with
Uranus' place in King George's nativity ; this year the partial eclipse
of the Sun on June 19 takes place on the place of Uranus, making
the summer of 1917 a critical period for the nation. The King's
progressed ascendant, moreover, is approaching the radical place of
Uranus. What icill be the nature of the revolution it will produce ?
In The Kaiser's directions the square aspect of Mars and
Saturn is not favourable for 1917. Mars has progressed to the tenth
degree of the sign Taurus, and Mars domiuates the M.C. at birth, it
remains to be seen how far the transit of Jupiter over the place of the
progressed Mars will benefit him. Astrologers were correct in their
judgment that the transit of Saturn over the Kaiser's ascendant would
turn the tide against him.
When the Sun enters Cancer this year, 8 8.24 rises at Berlin,
and the Kaiser's ascendant is in the fourth house of the national map.
The summer is full of critical influences for the Kaiser and one false
 12 MODERN ASTROLOGY

move on his part will bring about the end. The New Moon of August
tends to place him in a very unfavourable and peculiar position and
points to a crisis during the summer or autumn of the year. Should
the Kaiser pass safely through the autumn without mishap, let England
beware.
Russia and Italy advance, but the directions in both cases
show many serious difficulties, owing to adverse transits.
The French President has a fortunate'series of influences
during the year. The successful advance of the French forces will
continue. Details of directions are printed below.
NOTE.—We require the time of birth of Czar Ferdinand of
Bulgaria also that of King Conslantine of Greece. The former was
born February 26 1861, the latter on August 3 1868 : any students
who can supply the correct birth hour in either case will help us by
doing so.
KING GEORGE
Soljy Mutual Lunar
OV.IJI Jan 5 * '?>■ Jun j) * Jan
:
p * IJI r May p P c Sep
Asc »• Slay S * '? Jul l eb p A M.C. r * ijl Jul p^/QTyAscr ,,
Op ? Sep 5 p S»'Uct pA^rMar pVpcP Ang p^<{c Oct
Progress:d positions as at 13/11/1917
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— 2J.8 K2o a7 1125.52 1H112 029
G P ? S J ^ '.'lit 1'
31.2.29 m^.22 3124.^0 1117.5 157.19 719.531- ^24.14 oai .43 Tlo,331-
Tiansils.—O eel S S Jan 23; ip d M.C. p Feb; i; □ 13 Msr s; jf rf ? Apr 2 ;
(41 stat d G p A Aso r Apr 12; '? □ ij Apr 16; id? May 10; O eel d Ijl Jun 19 ;
^dQpJul: "jdd Aug 7; if d d Aug 24; '/ □ ? Sep g; 2f stat d Q Sep 30 ;
ijl stat d M.C. p Oct 30; o eel j 11 Dec 14.
THE GERMAN EMPEROR
General Lunar 1917
d □ ij r Aug igtC DA1?'- A dr Mar p d Sr Jul V7\V Sep
Asc p □ r;i [uu 1917 D 7 D' J1"1 DO'ii'- auS D 0 tfi Oct
Progressed Positions as at 27/12/1917
x xi xii i ii iii
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G D 5 S d if 'j Ijl i(i
TO.iS vjtS.2o T 23.10 5C22.g B9.56 II 15.23 31531 II0.31 X25.2
Transits.— p eel d Asc Jan 8 ; O eel d Q Jan 23 ; U a >2 Mar 31: 2; d d P
Apr; U S V Jun 15; 23 d Ijl Jun 27; p eel d ? Jul 4 ; ii d •> p Aug ; '? d Q
Aug 20; ^ d '? Sep 4 ; 23 stat d 23 Sep 30 ; f stat d '? d G Nov 9.
 ROYAL DIRECTIONS 13

THE KING OF ITALY

Soiar M1U11.1l 1917
I* Or Jan 1919 sqij) Apr ? p ]) r Aug 8 V ^ r Dec
0A2I Jul 1920 j p JJI May e oVr ? P 3/
Lunar 1917
I) r Jan 5 rf 0r / ? r Mar 5 a y V May nPn^taJjul
>" Peb D A Ijl Apr J) i O Jun 1) P 31, □ I) r Nov
Transits.— ij stal rf ijO- <f J p Mar 26 ; a rf y Apr 27; 71 9 Q May 15.

THE CZAR OF RUSSIA

Gnuntl Lunar
©0 I? Jim 1917 5 A Or a ,rr Jan 5 a 8 r May ])*3/rSep
M.C. p d 9 r tor Jim I) * ^ Mar ]) * r Jim 5 P 8 Oct
0 3; Sep I) tf ? Apr I) A <r Jul
Transits.— 3/ rf j Jan 27: If rf 0 Jun 19; 1? rf J p Jul; J eel ? IJ Jul 4:
3/4 8 Jul 7; 3/ 5 ij Jul ij ; "li slat tf ]) p Nov g.

PRESIDENT POINCARfi
Sotar; 0 q If, 8 q Or Mutual: ?A<?
Transits.—
1 j) eel rf 9 tf 4 Jan S : •? rf If Sep 26 ; '2 4 8 Sep 30 ; 3f stat 4 iji
Sep 30; 'I slat near 9 4 Nov 9.

Lord KiTcniiNER's Horoscope.—Extract from a letter to the Editor:

" Now, Mr Leo, what I have to say is in a spirit of friendliness ; and refers
to the horoscope of Lord Kitchener. He was born at Baliylongford, Ireland,
June a.flh, 1850,' half an hour after midnight.' My authority for this is John
Hazelrigg ; whose authority was Lord Kitchener him self. Mr Hazeliigg cast
Kitchener's chart in December, 1915 : John B. Sullivan also cast it at about
the same lime. This brings the middle of Aries rising. It takes Neptune a
pretty long way from the 8th house, does it not ? Therefore will you make
this correction in Modern Astrology ? The chart, as I have rectified it, is
as follows (rectified by lunar epoch and events): x >^5.50, xi CJI22, xii }{i8,
i TiS-aaiii baj.iii n 17 : J) 25},—Faithfully yours,'Gabriel Neith.'"
"Southern Cross" writes:—'I "saw" Mr W. M. Hughes re-
cently on the ' movies,' and think him Virgo. I was told some
years ago that he had been seen to attend a Theosophical lec-
ture upon Reincarnation, therefore I place his Moon in Cancer in
preference to Leo. Considering his rather unique public position at
present, a hint respecting the political significance of G □ ^ 8 ^ would be,
I think, of general interest to students of Astrology, especially after your
reference to these two planets in May issue, p. 150. Born September 25,
1864, Wales. The day and year of birth was given by the Sydney'Sun'
newspaper, but the time I have assumed:—xn, xiffi. xiiSL, injj, ii^s, iiiiu ;
©4S3, jjgozg, ?IU!2S, ?=!ir2i, <? H 14, If 11V25, 17=2=19,^1129, ^Tlr."
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WHATEVER may be said for or against the late Emperor Francis

Joseph he was a 6or/r ruler and was in all probability the man best
fitted to hold such a position in the country that he ruled. He had
to govern antipathetic races and antagonistic religions, and although
he suffered more tragedies through his relations than any other monarch
he maintained throughout a dignity that was kingly. His nativity is a
proof of the truth that Saturn in conjunction with the luminaries is
a fatalistic position.
Carl Franz Josef becomes the nominal Emperor of Austria when
his nation is involved in the greatest war that has ever taken place in
 THE HOROSCOPE OF CARL FRANZ JOSEF 15
Europe; the war was none of his making and he receives an inheritance
that no one who understands the circumstances can envy him.
Personally he has no harmful intentions but is destined to witness
calamities over which he has no control.
Venus rising in her own sign Libra gives him a pleasing
personality. He should be a fluent linguist, and possesses an artistic
temperament with kindly intentions to all. Should he ever be crowned,
which is very doubtful, he would be popular and for a time have much
power and influence. But that power would wane through circum-
stances over which he has no control. The Moon ruling the meridian
of his nativity is heavily afflicted between Mars and Saturn, rulers of
his seventh and fourth houses. Mars raises him to the highest point
of temporal power that he can reach, the Moon gives him as much
popularity as the nation is capable of expressing, yet Saturn eventually
casts him down to the lowest point to which he is capable of descending;
and the greater the ascent the lower the descent.
But for this position of the Moon between the malefics Mars and
Saturn, what a splendid horoscope for an Emperor is here. The Sun in
its own sign Leo in the eleventh house ; what friendly relationship with
other rulers this position alone would bring! The Moon in her own
sign Cancer on the midheaven ; what a fine position for popularity and
fame! But alas, it is marred by the conjunction of Mars translated
into a conjunction with Saturn.
The first effects of his horoscope on the War problem as it stands
to-day, will he seen in the influence of Mars in his horoscope on the
ascendant of the German Emperor ; it will produce a quarrel having
far-reaching results, which indirectly may be the first definite move in
the direction of the end of the war. But whatever may happen
between the Austrian and German Emperors one thing is certain, the
latter will move heaven and earth to bring the former under his
compelling will; for the German Emperor's ruler, the Moon, is very
powerfully placed in the young Austrian Emperor's Nativity, and
through this influence alone the German Emperor will be placed
between Scylla and Charybdis, or on the horns of such a dilemma that
he will find no means of escape from his fate—failure.
A strange feature of the new Austrian Emperor's horoscope is
the decline of his ruling planet Venus, which falling retrograde
 i6 MODERN ASTROLOGY

re:edes from the place it held at birth and passes from the ascendant
not forward but backward into the twelfth house. Now the twelfth
house signifies imprisonment, confinement, self-undoing and sorrow.
It may or may not become known in the future, but horoscopically
it is shown that Carl Franz Josef will be the INDIRECT cause of the
ending of the war, just as the German Emperor was the indirect
•cause of its beginning. That which is secret in the mind of the
German Emperor will be revealed by the Austrian, who will not only
intuitively read the heart of the Kaiser but will also have his confidence
and know the whole of his plans,—and will reveal them.
The D d © which occurs in the Austrian Emperor's horoscope
this month (January) will bring him a certain power and authority that
may secure his position for a time, and will also coincide with a
decided change in his opinions and purposes. The retrograde motion
of his ruling planet is, however, unfortunate, for it does not allow him
the power to give open expression to his mind. And what of his mind ?
Will he preserve his sanity with the Moon between Mars and Saturn ?
Has he the strength to overcome the treachery of Mercury square
Jupiter? Is he strong enough to bring into being those reforms
necessary for his nation's future welfare, or will he be forced to witness
the revolutions that (in default of reforms) are shown by his nativity
to be inevitable, whether or not they be instituted by himself personally?
These and many like questions present themselves in connection
with this nativity, which is quite as fatalistic in one way as the late
Emperor's was in another.
THE NEW EMPEROR'S DIRECTIONS
Genera! Lunar
O P H) r May 1916 S P r Jan 1916 ])VO Nov 1916 bVS.POc Feb 1917
5 * jr Jan 1918 j P S >• Jun 1917 D * J >■ Dec ., j^di- Apr ,1
©xJeMay ,, S/rf Aug ,, 5 d ©r Jan 1917D V?».* May ..
r Sep ? * »• Nov 1918
S A f'p Dec ,,
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njj22.18 Jl23,18 iij;26.23 -'-S?'' dlia-M "14-58 a.3-5 ^'1-35 no.3>-
It will be seen that the direction of Sun sextile Mars is approach-
 THE HOROSCOPE OF CARL FRANZ JOSEF
ing and has just been brought into elFect by the Moon trans-
lating light between the two at the time of his accession ; and as
Mars is the highest planet in the heavens this has elevated him to the
throne. The other direction of Mercury sextile Moon will also be
brought into force very shortly by Lunar directions, and speaks of
benefit through treaties, alliances and understandings. But against
these, the progressed Mid-heaven is near the conjunction of Saturn,
and the progressed Ascendant near the square of Mars ! No attempt
has been made to rectify the time of birth, but if approximately correct
these positions have the worst possible significance, telling of both
personal and national danger and disaster.
During the year Neptune transits Mercury (Aug.); Uranus
transits the opposition of the Sun (May) ; and Saturn transits Mars,
the Moon, Saturn and Mercury (Spring and Summer). With the
exception of the first, which is doubtful, all these are unfortunate.

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A REVOLUTION of a peculiar character took place in the first week

of December when Mr Asquith resigned his position as Prime
Minister after an exceptional period of office, and Mr Lloyd George
became Leader. We have long had an affection for Mr Asquith,
owing to the strength of his planetary positions at birth, by signs and
aspects, which show that under all circumstances he would do the
best that is in him. But there are some who declare that Mr Lloyd
George is The Man, and his popularity seems to be unquestionable.
 THE HOROSCOPE OF DAVID LLOYD GEORGE 19
Whether he is the Man or not, the new Prime Minister was born
under the sign of the Man, Aquarius, and in many respects his
horoscope shows him to be the Man that England requires at the
present moment to gather around him the strongest characters the
nation can find to man the ship of state. His horoscope shows
much versatility, and an ambition that is tempered by fine quality.
His popularity is shown by the Moon elevated over all the planets on
the cusp of the eleventh house, the house of friends. The remarkable
manner in which he has gathered around him those he desired to
form his new Cabinet is easy to understand from this position,
especially as the Moon is in the positive sign of Jupiter and applying
to the harmonious sextile aspect (60°) of that planet.
The special feature of the horoscope is the rising of the planets
Venusand Mercury on the cusp of the Ascendant in the sign Aquarius.
This shows niei-it, self-control, and a remarkable insight into Unman
nature.
The trine aspect (120°) of Mercury to Saturn the ruling planet
and also to Uranus, in the airy triplicity, and all operating from angles,
denotes rare ability, quick intuition, and the full appreciation of ideals.
It also denotes that he has power to see in the abstracv the true values
of things, and, in so far as he keeps personal feeling out of his con-
siderations (? □ <? from fixed signs), he will be quite safe in his
judgment with regard to national and social requirements. The un-
known quantity in this horoscope arises out of the Sun in square (90°)
to Jupiter. We will not state publicly our opinion on this aspect, but
students will gather what is in our mind when we point out that
Jupiter rules the whole of the meridian and is balanced in the eighth
house. It is ominous for those who clash with his ideals.
There is one influence in this nativity that is worthy of careful
notice. Uranus is near the cusp of the fourth house, as it is also in
the nativity of King George. This position is a revolutionary one,
denoting quick and sudden changes in all questions where the physical
and psychic environment is concerned. In both horoscopes it is in
trine to Saturn in Libra, showing that the revolutionary tendencies
will be reforms on a far-reaching scale. It may here be noted that the
King has Jupiter's place in his nativity identical with the Moon of his
Prime Minister, and in view of the Uranian position this is fortunate,
20 MODERN ASTROLOGY
and it may be well to try and understand what this combination means
for the future welfare of the Nation.
The symbol of the 25th degree of Sagittarius as given in The
Degrees of (he Zodiac Symbolised is—" A Man IN A BALLOON WITH
DARK CLOUDS beneath HIM." The interpretation of this degree
given by Charubel is very significant in view of the present national
state of affairs.
The greatest test of personal and physical sympathy between two
human beings is the interchange of Jupiter and Saturn in the same
degrees of the Zodiac. Note the Prime Minister's Jupiter in the place
of the King's Saturn. There are many other interesting points of
comparison, but we have neither time nor space to enlarge upon
them.
The description given under the heading of " Cardinal-air " of the
triplicities synthesised in The Art of Synthesis is an admirable
summary of this horoscope and has been fully borne out by the life of
Mr Lloyd George.
We may expect great things from the new Prime Minister. He
has been tempered by the adversities of the Sun square Uranus, and
is now entering upon a train of good interplanetary influences:—
Mercury trine Jupiter, denoting sound judgment, intuitive perceptions
and wise legislation; Mars trine Saturn, denoting courage and
fearlessness, determined action and recognition of responsibilities;
Venus sextile Uranus. These are strong enough to help him to bring
about a successful end to the War.
The good points in Mr Lloyd George's horoscope are such as to
malce him a successful leader of men. and we count as quite the best of
these his splendid ability to judge human nature dispassionately,—a fine
trait of character in a leader. We believe that he is the man the
nation has been waiting for, a man who is ideally sensitive, nobly
ambitious and who possesses that rare quality of inner thoughtfulness
which leads to skill in action.
If ever there was a testimony required for the proof of natal
astrology this horoscope supplies it. There is not a single action of
this remarkable man's life that cannot be traced in his nativity. Read
in the light of the Standard Text-books we have published, a true and
perfectly dispassionate judgement may be obtained.
 21

JlsU-ologicnl Htu&cuts' Siscitasiou

I.—FATE AND FREEWILL

Tins subject is now under discussion. Every reader competent

to express an opinion on the subject is cordially invited to do so.
Without diminishing the value of their belief, readers are requested
to make their letters as brief as possible.1 Correspondents will kindly
observe the ordinary rule of writing on one side of the paper and giving
name and address. If desired name will be withheld in publication.
New readers are referred to Mr Harold Clift's recent letter
" Fatalism : A Friendly Criticism " which appeared on page 367 of the
Novemberissue of last year. The substance of this letter is contained
in the following sentences :
When bad directions are coming, and one knows they are coming, in
one's horoscope, what is to be gained by trying to avoid them ? . . . .
If a given planetary influence cannot be interpreted by a qualified
astrologer, as resulting in certain events, then Astrology is not reliable. And
if it is net, what good is it ?
What do YOU think on this question ? Below are given lettersalready
received.

I.
I must confess that I am much in sympathy with Mr Clift's
remarks in your Novembernumber, and should like to see the subject
of Fate versus Freewill thoroughly discussed.
It seems to me that Astrology should be an exact science, and
that any error in the interpretation of a nativity is due to want of
knowledge on the part of the interpreter. One must however take
into consideration two important facts, namely that maps of the
nativity and of the progressed horoscope do not show all the influences
1
This is essential. In view of the present shortage of space, lengthy letters
must either be excltuloil, or subjected to a process of editorial condensation the
necessity for which it is preferable tu avoid. Those here given have not been
curtailed, but if we are to have a fully representative discussion, 250 to 300 words
must be the limit in future.
 22 MODEKM ASTKOLOGV
operating; for presumably there must be influences operating on the
more subtle levels of the physical plane that are not indicated in a
map which shows the positions of the known physical planets only, to
say nothing of those operating on still higher levels, and if one had a
map or maps indicating all possible influences it would take a
superhuman intelligence to interpret them exactly.
If we postulate an Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent
Intelligence operating in the Solar System, then it would appear that
the knowledge of all causes and effects would lie within the conscious-
ness of that Intelligence and therefore all events, even to the minutest
details and from the beginning to the end of a Solar manifestation,
would be known to such a Being; who, far from having what is
generally called " freewill," would be inexorably bound by His own
laws, as, so far as we can judge, the whole Universe is governed by
Absolute Law. It is only reasonable to suppose that the power, which
might be either intuitive or intellectual, to forecast events (or, in other
words, to judge effects from causes) naturally would he limited in
proportion to the unveiling of individual knowledge.
To one who has a firm belief in the doctrines of Karma and
Re-incarnation, an " optimistic determinism " can bring no terrors or
soul-deadening influence ; it but helps him occasionally to judge things
from a calmer standpoint and to realise that each one is working out
the laws of his own nature, which are in essence but the laws of that
Divine Being of which he is but a part. If in such working out one
is brought to the point where one decides to retire from active work
in the outer world it does not necessarily imply either soul-deadening
or retrogression. The individual could only be judged in relation to
his previous existences, or " scroll of the disembodied man," and it is
only reasonable to suppose that in no case could there be retrogression ;
for every life must, of necessity, .add to the accumulated wisdom of
the incarnating ego and therefore the " conscience " of each future
life.
It seems to me, therefore, that one cannot in any way change the
■events of one's life and the only sense of "freedom" or "freewill"
that comes is the feeling of expansion when one's centre of conscious-
ness is taised. The fact that at any given moment one has an
apparent choice does not in any way mean an actual power of choice
 ASTROLOGICAL STUDliNTS' DISCUSSION 23
for the final decision is the resultant of all the factors that go to make
up the composite "man," in conjunction with the influences operating
at that moment, and such decision could be foretold by a sufficiently
developed intelligence or intuition.
P. Leslie Pielou
II.
May I say that 1 absolutely endorse your correspondent's views?
Mr Clift has expressed what is the attitude of the vast majority of
French astrologers regarding free-will versus fatalism.
G. L. Vigneau
III.
The question of Fate and Freewill reminds me of first lessons in
logic. We are taught to draw a circle in which we write " Metal."
Within this circle we draw another and in this small circle we write
"Gold." We are led to see that all gold is included in metal, but that
gold does not contain all metal.
Let us draw a large circle and write Fate ; and in a smaller put
Freewill. All our freewill becomes destiny because we are con-
tinually by our actions making our future fate. That which has been
made we can modify, but our freewill is limited by it.
To use another illustration. We may imagine a ball set in motion
in the larger circle, intended to strike us in the smaller. We cannot
•hinder the start of the ball, but we may use our freewill, and if we
have sufficient skill, set another ball going which shall deflect the
former. But to do this the will must be trained and active,—free-
desire will not accomplish the purpose,—and it must be informed.
For this reason it is necessary before making prediction to ascertain
the will-power of the horoscope. It is right to assume that we have
freewill where its use is necessary, because, even if we should not
succeed, we shall have made the attempt, and in so doing added to our
good fate.
It is wise not to make predictions until we are sure that all our
premises are correct, and better to say things are probable. We
must remember, too, that there are ' Wheels within wheels' and place
our circle of fate inside one still larger, marking this " National Fate."
E. L. Foyster
24 MODERN ASTROLOGY

IV.

If the events of this life are the result of our past thoughts, deeds,
etc., how can we expect to alter them now ? " As a man sows (has
sown) so must he reap." In homely phrase, we made our beds—and
we must perforce lie on them. We are now bearing the effects of
causes we ourselves set in motion.
"Choose ye this day whom ye will serve." This, I take it, is
applicable to our attitude towards the " evils " of our lives. We can
serve God by bearing patiently, bravely, by overcoming self, by
learning the lessons of the " evil " direction. We can bear like men,
and like our Master we tread under foot every earthly taint, and rise
above into purer air. As we conquer and rise, the higher man subdues
the lower. Patience, charity, love prompt his actions, and he makes
good Karma all along life's way, thus laying up a better iuheritanc
for future lives, until he attains to the perfect man.
No, I feel sure we cannot alter the set plan. That plan is the
result of our past selves. "Character is destiny." Let man rise from
his dead self, using that very self as his stepping-stone.
A man's horoscope is exact and unalterable as far as the events
of life go—hence its truth. If we can hesitate, and chop, and prune,
lopping this, and explaining away that, how can we convince the
outsider ? As Mr Clift suggests, rather teach loyalty to our horoscopes.
Let us accept the good and evil equally; we believe in the former,
let us do the same with the latter, always believing that behind every
blow of fate is the compensating blessing.
Let us study our horoscopes. The back is fitted to the burden.
In the horoscope are embodied not only the difficult situation but the
" way out "—not only what we have been, but what we may become.
" Sun in Aries "

V.

Before we can hope to solve the mystery of fate and freewill,

supposing it is possible to do so, we must give up the prevalent idea
of looking on the subject from an entirely material point of view.
 ASTK0L0G1CAL STUDENTS' DISCUSSION
This material altitude is displayed in our conception of what is good
or bad. It is incorrect to talk about good or bad fortune for there is
no such thing. There is no evil in the world to any man, except that
which comes from within himself. Influences which come to bear
upon a man, whether they are so-called ' good ' or ' bad,' are in reality
colourless and take their colour from the recipient.
.The following will illustrate what I mean:—Two men inherit
fortunes. One of them from that moment becomes a slave of mammon
and worships money to the end of his days; the other uses the money
like a good steward in unobtrusive generosity. Thus for the first the
so-called fortune was entirelyevil.and for the second entirely good. We
might liken fate to sunlight and ourselves to dirty glass through which
the sunlight plays. Ugly hues are the result until we have cleaned the
:glass, when all remains beautiful.
As to so-called evil fortune, I must ask by what authority it is
called evil. I am reminded of babies objecting to their bath or their
dinner, both of which things are very good for them. If we were to
ask them why they objected they would probably say that the bath
was decidedly evil and they did not want it. I believe the influences
which come to bear upon us from the planets, if such influences exist,
might be classified as those we do not want and those we do want,
■instead of 'bad' influences and "good1 influences. It may be that
ultimately we shall come to like those things that we call at the present
time bad fortune, just as the baby grows to like its bath and dinner.
Mark Tapley's enlightened attitude towards trouble is an approach to
this.
Certainly the planets will move from one place to another and
form various aspects, and if as astrologers believe their influence is
absorbable by man, there is still no reason to definitely state that that
absorption is compulsory. If it were so how can one account for
sin. We can call their influence fate if we like for there is no way
of altering its character or time of appearance. But the natural limit
of such fate is outside ourselves, and alteration is possible within
ourselves. St. Paul was possibly fated to be bitten by a serpent, but
it had no effect on him. In fact it is likely that it did him good in this
respect, that it afforded him another reason for giving Glory to God.
In this case we have the operation of both fate and freewill, each in
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
its own place. All things work together for good to those who love
God. Assuredly there is fate without, but freewill within.
The existence of freewill is in no way altered by the fact that it
does not operate in the majority of people. Freewill is will liberated
from the flesh. This liberation comes not from astrological knowledge
or knowledge of any sort, but by exact and habitual practice of the
teachings of Jesus Christ.
And so we come to the old question, " To be or not to be," and
the answer is that slings and arrows are harmless things to the man
who has been liberated from the world and lives in the spirit. For it
is only in so far as we are of the world fhat slings and arrows hurt us.
The man who is entirely liberated from the flesh (though still inhabiting
it) is at one with all God's laws, and since God is entirely good all
things are good to that man. Bad luck so-called is only bad because
we are out of harmony with God's laws. Once completely in harmony
all is good.
It must be mentioned however that harmony with God means
disharmony with all that has been converted into evil by man. Hence
the persecution of Saints. Probably all men come in for some of this
evilised force from their fellows. But the saint affords the popular
target for it, because he is hated by the world. For the most part
he doesn't care twopence about it, indeed glories in it; and when
necessary God causes him to walk out of prison and remain unharmed
by lions. But as regards direct planetary influence nothing of it is
evil to him, all being convertible within himself. That being so the
natural limit of fate is outside ourselves and the domain of freewill
within. Both are presumably facts, but they are perfectly compatible.
Donald S. Howland

Owing to various causes this month's issue is late, for which we ask our
readers' indulgence.
Recent events give special interest to pp. 14-zo, and we have therefore
been obliged to postpone Mr Sutcliffe's article on "Why Good Aspects
favour tbe Allies," but we shall give a fuller instalmeut next month.
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?lebiftu

Fresh Sidelights on Astrology: an elementary

treatise ON occultism. By Major C. G. M. Adam; with a
foreword by Alan Leo. " Modern Astrology " Office ; cloth, 2s. 6d.
This interesting and thought-provoking little work is deserving
of a hearty welcome by all who study the two subjects of which i1
treats, for it is filled with new ideas and suggestions. The author
takes for granted on the part of the reader a fair acquaintance
with Astrology and Theosophy, and then shows how each of these
throws light upon the other, and how a knowledge of the two illustrates
the evolution of man as a spiritual entity. In all probability not every-
one, even among those who are both theosophists and astrologers, will
be able to accept ail the fresh sidelights and novel comments made by
the author, but this need cause neither surprise nor regret, for we are
all students approaching the subject from different points of view, and
a multitude of investigators along different lines are more likely to
discover the truth than if they took for granted the finality of the
methods of past centuries and admitted nothing new.
There are several points of difference between the ideas contamed
in this book and Mr Alan Leo's Esoteric Astrology. The author agrees
with Mr Sutcliffe in taking Neptune as the type of Buddhi or intuition
and the World Teacher. This may of course be true, but the real
difficulty seems to lie in getting any concrete evidence or even any
modern authority to support the idea. The suggestion was put
forward among a few students some years ago that when Mme H. P.
Blavatsky so strangely excluded Uranus and Neptune from the
domain of the other planets, and puzzled so many of her readers
in doing so, perhaps she had at the back of her mind the idea that
they belonged to what may be described as the two that lie beyond
the five. If it was so, Major C. G. M. Adam receives support;
but on the other hand Mrs Besant is said to incline to the opinion that
Vulcan will ultimately turn out to be the true significator of Buddhi.
That Neptune is the planet of the psychic faculties seems to be agreed,
but opinions differ a good deal as to how far, in a spiritual direction,
we can go beyond this. Major Adam and Mr Sutcliffe are weighty
advocates, but we had better keep an open mind until more evidence
is available.
A difficulty also presents itself in dethroning Mercury from its
correspondence with Buddhi as given by Mme H. P. Blavatsky. In
many of the mythologies and theogonies it is certainly Mercury with
which the World Teacher is associated. Writing at a distance from
 MOUEUN ASTROI.OGY
books of reference it is difficult to quote definitely, but Jesus-Mary,
Hermes-Maia, Buddha-Maia illustrate the point, and there are many
other parallels. The suggestion has been made that when the
astrologer classifies Mercury as the planet of thought and the mind he
is taking the actual planet as he finds it exerting its influence in the
horoscope and in everyday experience; but that .when occultists give
it as the correspondence of Buddhi they are thinking not of practical
'astrology at all, but of that planet, or rather Planetary Logos, for
which Mercury has been used as a substitute in the traditional and
still invaluable septenary of planets.
Another point that has caused discussion and that is not yet
settled is the marked divergence between the view taken of Venus by
theosophists and that which is familiar to astrologers. The latter of
course look to the planet for indications of the prospects of love and
marriage, and they are supported in this by the mythologies, where
Venus-Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty. But for the
theosophist, as Major Adam writes, the planet signifies :—
" Metaphysics, astrology, the abstract sciences, and all things
pertaining to the higher mind or vehicle of synthetic or abstract
thought as opposed to the analytical or concrete thought of the lower
sub-planes. The Venus Ray is the astrological Ray."
The author does not accept the view held by some that Uranus
is the octave of Mercury or that it has Aquarius for its house; he
regards it as a synthesis of all the planets except Neptune, but chiefly
of Mars and Saturn. Mr Hiram Butler nearly thirty years ago
gave Aries as the sign of Uranus, a suggestion that has not attracted
sufficient attention among astrologers; and Mr Leo's works have
expressed the view that it combines the coldness of Saturn with the
energy of Mars and the mentality of Mercury.
Major C. G. M. Adam has abundantly fulfilled the promise of his
title in throwing fresh sidelights on astrology: and those who are
interested in these matters will miss much food for thought if they
fail to read this book.
Fresh sidelights are also thrown upon the fascinating question of
the planetary Rays and the problem of whether they can be discovered
by an inspection of the horoscope, while the colours associated with
the planets are rearranged in a novel manner.
H. S. Green

Horary Qukstioks.—"I would like to know," writes a correspondent,

"whether you or any of your staff have anything tangible iu (he way of
experiences to substantiate the text book theories respecting the influence of
the ' terms ' and ' decanates ' that the planets happen to be in any figures
for horary questions."
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Writers to tlje CBbtior

SATURN IN GEMINI
Dear Ser,
I was clearing up some old papers to-day and was
surprised to find some type-written notes of mine made in 1913, three-
years ago, which were to be published but were not. I quote from
them as I had forgotten that I had written them :
" The influence of Saturn in Gemini has always been potent in
" European international affairs especially in regard to the Christian
" Nations and the Moslems.
"Saturn entered Gemini in July 1912, and in October 1912 the
" Balkan States and Greece went to war with Turkey. On November
" 30th Saturn by retrograde motion fell back into Taurus and a few
" days later the armistice was agreed on. When Saturn turned direct
" the war broke out again and Saturn will once more enter Gemini on
" March 26 1913 and will not finally leave the sign until May 1915.
" The last period Saturn was in Gemini was from May 24 1883
"to July 5 1885, and in 1883 it has been said: * Complete anarchy
" ' prevailed in Armenia. The Turkish authorities lost all control over
" ' the Province. Trade caravans were persistently pillaged and foreign
'"consuls were insulted. The-tribe of Malison, numbering 60,000,
"'made a raid on Scutari, but were repulsed by the Turkish troops.'
" But the main event of this period of Saturn's visit to Gemini
" was the British reverse in the Soudan and ' the tide of the Mahdist
" ' war had risen so rapidly that it threatened not only the overthrow of
" ' the Khedive's rule, but also to invade Egypt itself.' The beginning
" of 1885 saw the fall of Khartoum and it was then that Chinese
"Gordon was put to death, a great blow- to British prestige in the
" Moslem world.
"In an article in Modern Astrology that appeared some years
"ago (p. 490, Vol. VI., 1909), I pointed out that Saturn in Gemini
" affected Great Britain far more than when it transited Aries, and
" now that Saturn is again in Gemini England will have a great
" struggle to ward off war and may fail and all Europe may become
a great battlefield before Saturn leaves this fateful sign.
" The Riel rebellion broke out in Canada in 1885.
" The next previous visit of Saturn to the sign Gemini occurred
" from about last of July 1853 until this planet finally passed on to the
"next sign in May 1856. Russia declared war on Turkey on
" November 1 1853 and in 1854 the Crimean war commenced with
" England and France against Russia and continued until peace was
" made in 1856.
" The next previous period of Saturn in Gemini was from
"June 8 1824 to July 22 1826. It was during this period that the
"Turks devastated Greece and butchered thousands and thousands
"of the Greek population and carried women and children into
3° MODERN ASTROLOGY
" captivity. There are many points that might be brought out in
" regard to the effect of Saturn in Gemini in relation to European
" politics, but lack of space prevents, for it would necessitate my
" writing a short history of European affairs for the last ninety years
"and without that we can now test it ourselves by watching the
" present transit of Saturn through Gemini."
I am not recalling this unpublished prophecy to gain any fame as
a prophet, for I long ago came to the conclusion that Astrology can
never be helped by successful predictions, but solely with the.idea of
trying to gel your readers to look into this sign of Gemini as ruling
European nations—and I might say all civilised nations as opposed
to nations like Turkey, etc. If I am correct in my contention you will
see peace established in Europe in 1917 when Jupiter enters that sign
and not before. See article in Modern Astrology already referred
to entitled " Ruling Signs of Cities and Countries" published
November 1909, Yours truly,
Mount Stephen House, Field, B.C. Stuart Armour

THE PRENATAL EPOCH

Dear Sir,
There is between the Editor of the British Journal o/
Astrology and myself a little difference on which I should very much
like you and your readers to express your opinion.
Having noticed that this gentleman advertised in his magazine
the prenatal epoch as a means of rectifying nativities, I wrote to him
some time ago, mentioning that, for technical reasons, I thought it was
impossible to obtain the exact time of a birth, when that time was
unknown or only approximately known, by the prenatal epoch—or in
fact by any other method.
To prove my assertion, I proposed to him the following test: that
he should determine the exact birthtimes in the two cases given below.
Twins
Latitude (geographical) of birthplace 1
,, of place of conception | 48° 50'59" North
Longitude of above oh 07m 05s, 56 East of Greenwich 1
I ::b~ Sf
Year of birth 1907
Month ,, October
Day „ ,, 10th
birth times 8 II "B 122
<.d" 4.53 P m' ,
p.m. Paris mean time
1
These are the bearings of the house where birth took place. I reckoned them
myself with a sextant. As I have not kept a copy of my letter to the Ed.
and misplaced my notes on the subject, I have had to take the bearings a second
time, so that the above data may perhaps slightly differ from those I gave him.
9
For the same reason, viz., loss of notes, these times are different from those
given to the Ed. B J.A. But it is of no importance for the test, as will be seen.
 LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The interesting point lies in the fact that the EXACT birthtimes of
these twins have been published some years ago in a magazine.
Their accuracy is indisputable, the father, who was well aware of
the importance of the fact, having himself recorded the births with a
reliable chronometer. I have only altered the exact times, in the
above data, to approximate times, within the margin of error in
ordinary birth-records.
This is, I think, a straightforward test.
The fact that the exact birthtimes have been made public years
ago does away with all idea of prejudice on any side in checking
results. It is exactly like working a problem in algebra, given in a
text-book, and then looking up the answer at the end of the book.
Yet, referring to my letter in the November number of theBJ.A.
the editor refuses to take up my challenge on the pretext that this test
is " absurd and ambiguous " : (I may perhaps mention that he does
not publish my letter and data). He says that " the epoch alone will
not determine the birthtime when the time is not known, and that an
estimated time must first be obtained by reference to past events."
Sepharial, in his Manual of Astrology, revised edition, does not
mention anything of the kind. And, secondly, I gave the Ed. BJ.A.
estimated times, so that the times are not ' unknown " as he says.
Nevertheless, to tempt him if possible to accept the challenge
and prove the merits—or demerits—of the prenatal epoch as a method
of rectification, I am quite willing to give him here such information
as I possess and as he says he wants : I hope it will prove sufficient.
" A " died on November 28th, 1907, in Paris. Nothing of particular
importance has happened to " B " or to his parents; but I wonder
how the Prenatal Epoch could be used to rectify the birth-time of a
baby two or three days old. What events could the Ed. B.J.A.
expect to have happened ?
His refusal it seems to me proves three things :
(1) That when the exact birth-time is.known to the astrologer, it
is always possible to fit an epoch to it.
(2) That when the birth-time is not known, or only approximately
known to the parents or native, any epoch will do, because there is
no means of control.
(3) That the prenatal epoch is useless for rectifying purposes as it
cannot stand an absolutely legitimate, honest and severe test.
I leave the decision to you and your readers, and only hope, in
the interests of the science, that the editor of the BJ.A. will take up
the challenge and prove the reliability of his method.
7, Rue de Bannplais, Believe me, dear Sir,
Paris II6. Yours sincerely,
1I/I1/T6. G. L. VlGNEAU
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Astrology for Beginners

PERSONAL APPEARANCE
(Continued from page 394)
The third fixed sign is Scorpio (m), a sign niliug not only the scorpion-
but the serpent, and when at a person's birth this sign rises in the East, it
gives a long body and the spine beautifully curved inwards at the waist; the
movements are sinuous and graceful, and just as the serpent progresses
forwards by moving its body from side to side, so does the Scorpio person
when walking, twist himself from side to side, while keeping the head erect
and still.
The head is squarish in shape, the hair grows low on the brow, the eyes
which are usually dark, have an exceedingly intense look in them, as though
looking through and beyond that which is purely material, and the eyebrows
have a ruffled appearance. The nose is often aquiline, the mouth large, the
teeth strongly made and well-shaped, and it is seldom that the jaws are not
markedly square. The hair has many tones of colour in it, and if brown is
the predominating colour, streaks of auburn will also be in evidence, the
effect being that of a sun-burnt look, and the texture is often coarse and
curly. The throat is full and muscular.
The body itself is strongly made and the shoulders are square; the
hands are strong and bony and never plump, and the fingers are square at
the ends. The skin of the body is not white, but is usually swarthy, some-
times even dirty-looking and void of colour in the cheeks; in fact, a peculiar
duskiness and darkness seems often to shade the face of the Scorpio person.
Speaking generally, the spine is particularly strong, although, curiously,
many hunchbacks and otherwise deformed people are found with Scorpio
rising. A peculiar wise and old-fashioned look is to be seen on very many.
As the Scorpio person feels very intensely, even so does he speak, and
his words as a rule, are full of power and conviction and uttered in a tone
of tragedy when he is deeply moved.
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Sh?™.:] FEBRUARY, 1917, [No, 2

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THE THREE WORLDS

Thk question of whether the "dead " are living, is one of much
importance at the present time when thousands of men are passing
out of their physical bodies on the battlefield. It has not concerned
ourselves personally so much as many of our readers, who have been
sorely tried by losing their nearest and dearest in this heroic struggle
between the venusian and martian forces, expressed in the Great War ;
and this, owing to a peculiar inner knowledge that has always
possessed us that the human soul born of a heavenly Father can never
die. To know, and to be silent, is the watchword of those who stand
unruffled amidst the constant changes that result from the ceaseless
turning of the Wheel of Destiny ; for to speak of vital things touching .
God's plan of evolution requires wisdom for the expression, lest
confusion enter the mind of thore who can not see.
We are all temperamentally constituted to receive truth through
different channels; some through faith, and others through reason ;
some by psychic means, and others through spiritual teachings. But to
34 MOUliHN ASTKOI.OGY

all, no matter by which road they approach the truth, the knowledge
comes to those who are desirous of perception. Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle recently contributed to Light an article entitled " A New
Revelation," in which he said :—" In spite of occasional fraud and
wild imaginings there remains a solid core in the whole spiritual
movement which is infinitely nearer to positive faith than any other
religious development with which I am acquainted."
In the religious reconstruction that must take place after the war,
and is now practically beginning, religious thought will have to come
from within, and not, as hitherto, mainly from without. For the
present race of mankind, we have gone to the limits of Saturn's
densifying influence, and the higher physical influence of Jupiter's
harmonising tendency must now draw men inward to the subjective
realization of the truth. Christ in the body of Jesus has been nailed
to the Cross long enough, and we have fully realized His divine
sacrifice in taking upon Himself the burden of flesh. Let us now
realize that He has risen and follow Him to the inner planes of nature
either by meditation or by contemplation upon His Life and teachings.
If Spiritualism has required a Great War before it could avail to
awaken thousands to the recognition of an invisible world, do not let
us delay in our search for the truth and make it necessary that some
other catastrophe must occur before the human soul can realize
its link with God through the angels of the stars. That we are on the
eve of a great religious revival with an entire change of thought in
regard to religions no intelligent person can doubt, and this change is
significantly evidenced by the attitude of such practical men as Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge, and many others who have
the courage of their convictions, and who prefer truth before fear of
the ridicule of those who do not know. Sir Oliver Lodge has not
hesitated to give the world the benefit of his own personal experiences
in an impersonal manner, and his last book Raymond, or " Life and
Death," gives us an indication of what form the revival of the religious
spirit will take.
There are now before the world three great movements that have
been working silently yet surely to reveal those vital truths they have
preserved throughout the ages, for they are the same truths given to
the world at the birth of man.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY

The first as well as the last of these movements, Theosophy,

[theos God, sofia Wisdom), was destined to reveal the Divine
Wisdom, a knowledge of God. It preserves the record of all the
religions of the world, and sums them up in the one and only true
religion—a knowledge of God. Theosophy is now radiating its
•teachings through the Theosophiral and other Societies in every part
of the world, and so far as true religion is concerned, it is the most
powerful movement in the world to-day, for it works silently to form
a nucleus of the real brotherhood of man. There is no other
movement so far-reaching in its claim to establish the Universal
Brotherhood of humanity.
Spiritualism may be considered as the second of these great
movements, although it may be that it will change its name or take a
ceremonial form at some date in the future. Through religious
ceremonies the invisible worlds will be opened to the inner senses of
those who believe those worlds to be but an extension of the physical.
Those who are behind this movement are the Invisible Helpers who
guide the " dead " and who care for those who have passed over as a
mother cares for her infant in the physical world until it has grown
strong enough to take care of itself. There is a constantly increasing
number of intelligent men and women besides Sir Oliver Lodge and
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who know that THERE ARE NO DEAD.
Astrology may be considered as the stepping stone to the fuller
realization of Theosophy—a knowledge of God. Spiritualism oflers
proof of the unity of humanity on all planes of existence, its chief
concern is with humanity, and its methods provide the link of contact
between the visible and invisible worlds in which humanity dwells.
It deals with the world of Emotion. Astrology proves the
existence of super-human intelligences and links man to God through
the Angelic Hosts who work between man and God. Astrology
traces the links between causes and effects; it reveals the law by
which every living thing is governed, and demonstrates the workings
of a Divine law in the Physical, Emotional, and Mental worlds. It
demonstrates by a perfect symbology the motions of the earth in
relation to the ecliptic zodiac; by a series of geometrical figures it
explains the way in which God geometrises; and by observing the
relation of the earth to the heavenly bodies reveals an unbroken
 MODEUN ASTKOLOGY

connection between God and man. There is no theory relating to the

form of man and his destiny through the world of forms that cannot
he reasonably explained by well-established rules founded-upon a
scientific basis known to man since the world began under the name
of Astrology—the ' reason' of the stars.
The dictionary definition of the word Astrology is as/er star;
logos, word, knowledge, or reason; and astrology is thus defined as
the reason or science of the stars.
Astrologers, ancient and modern, found their reasoning on a belief thai
there is One infinitude in which there are innumerable manifestations.
They claim that the Human Self is divine in essence, and therefore
immortal during both past and present; hut they recognise that a
conscious recognition of this immortality must be won by merit and
pure living. " Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God."
Astrology reveals the destiny of the Human Self, through a long
pilgrimage in the material world, from the dimly conscious state of
innocence or ignorance, to the self-conscious state of knowledge, until
the final goal of super- or cosmic consciousness is reached by love or
wisdom. It views the zodiac as a circle of necessity in which the
prototypes of all that is to be will he made manifest through suitable
sheaths. The planets are considered as the concrete centres of vast
spheres of influence from which certain vibrations are transmitted
through the signs of the zodiac with which they are in affinity, and
interpreted to our intelligence physically, emotionally, mentally and
spiritually. Astrology may therefore truly be defined as The Reason
of the Stars; and although the "casting of horos'copes" is an integral
part of astrology, that part is no more fortune-telling than is the
forecasting of certain results from known chemical laws.
Theosophy as the Wisdom religion is the summation of all
endeavours to find God. This Wisdom leads men to the Masters of
Wisdom and to the living Christ through whom the knowledge of
God is obtainable by all who ask with faith and truth in their hearts.
Spiritualism opens the door of psychic vision to the unseen
worlds, but it warns the unclean and the materially minded to beware
of self-deception, since none but the pure in heart shall see God. It
has no terrors for the fearless man or woman who has outgrown
selfish love. It opens up a psychic field filled with wonders and hidden
 THE EUITOll'S OHSIiRVATORy 37
secrets for those whose senses have extended beyond the physical,
whose eyes can see without tears and whose ears can hear without
personal sensitiveness.
Astrology opens the door of the mind to those whose senses are
under control, and reveals the workings of nature to the intelligence
seeking to know God through His manifested worlds. Everything
that has name and form is the outward manifestation of an inner
prototype. Astrology scientifically demonstrates that there is a time
to be born and a time to die in the physical world, a time to weep and
a time to joy in the emotional world, and a time to study and a time
to meditate in the mental world ; and finally it shows that while fate
binds us to forms we have not yetoutgrownthroughlackof knowledge,
we are nevertheless destined to become perfect, even as our Father in
Heaven is perfect. But to attain the knowledge of this perfection we
must obey and not abuse the laws of our being by working with the
laws of evolution and not against them. Astrology warns those who
cannot open the mind beyond the cloudy region of the senses that
divine laws used for selfish ends will produce limitations that bind the
mind to fatalistic conceptions and thus defeat the aim of all true
astrological teachings that " Character is Destiny," and that there is
no compelling influence in any of the three worlds to oblige man to
sin. Ignorance of the laws that govern evolution is the only sin to
be feared. Astrology includes a knowledge of the worlds in which we
live, an understanding of the human souls who are evolving with
ourselves, and a comprehension of the influences that attract us to the
feet of the Masters, to Christ, and to the Lord of the World.
The exponents of Spiritualism, Astrology, and Theosophy may
not have absorbed the teachings belonging to their particular lines of
evolution sufficiently to live constantly in the vibrations of the planes
to which they belong—say the emotion of pure love and devotion for
spiritualists, or the higher and intuitional mind for astrologers, but it
is quite safe to believe that the one is eventually tobscome the Mystic
and the other the Occultist. The Theosophist is the one who is to
become the Altruist and the faithful server of mankind, and he has the
greater task ; for he must be so tolerant that he can see that by
whatever road a man may come, all roads lead to God.
 MODliRN' ASTKOLOGV

AFTER DEATH WHAT?

Mrs C. Despard has written a charming pamphlet entitled Life-,

Death—and- What Then? from which we extract the following.
"' Shuffle off this mortal coil' said our greatest poet, and that is
precisely what happens. The physical body is not ourselves; it is
the vehicle in which we travel; it is the instrument through which we
work. It is worn out, it can express us no longer ; or, it may be, we
have work to do for which it is too unwieldy. Enough! we drop it,
as we might lay aside a garment when its use is done, and take on
another that is ready for us. And why should we fear death ? . . .
It is a beautifully written pamplet written by a real lover of
humanity in whom truly shines the Light of the World.
There is another pamphlet published at twopence entitled After
Death—What? by C. Jinarajadasa, M.A., (Cantab.), in which the
author states that " there is no religion that does not promise man
immortality. But their message is to our intuitions, to our faith,
and not to our reasoning intellects which cannot in these days be
satisfied with faith alone;" and-he concludes with the statement
that, "an exception there is just now to the normal process of
evolution. For in the history of humanity we are at a crisis, in this
World War, when a world is dying and a world is being born.
Behind both the death and the life God stands; and for those that
stand with Him on the side of life He gives the boon of renouncing
Heaven for a while to return to birth at once to be reconstructors of
a destroyed world. That is the inner meaning of this war,
beyond birthing and dying is the never-ending Adventure, the
discovery of God and Ourselves."
From all sides we find men testifying to the fact that there are
no dead; it is only the sheaths which hide the soul, that drop away.
Astrologers, in common with all men who think deeply, have a
scientific explanation to offer of the fear of death. They have ever
taught that man is " a divine fragment " of God's Life, and that his
soul is derived from the Father Star in the heavens. The Chaldean
astrologers taught their pupils many things proving the wonderful
power of the mind, and the imagination of the soul. They declared
 TlIK EDITOR'S ODSJiRVATORY 39
"that our mind being firmly fixed on God may be filled with the
divine power and being so replenished with light its beams being
diffused through all media even to this gross, dark, heavy, mortal
body, it may endow it with abundance of light and make it like the
stars, and equally shining."
Fear is the influence that comes through holding this light in
the mortal body and the desire to hold it as a separated and material
light. They taught the influence of the Light and its illumination of
the mind. Man fears death when he conceives the notion that his
intellect is derived from the gray matter of his brain instead of being
an illumination from the mind. In the astrological scheme there is no
sudden jump from man to God, there are instead a certain number of
intermediate states of existence, and we know of no other system of
thought that scientifically demonstrates the existence of higher
intelligences than the human who form the guardian wall of humanity,
since all intelligences pass through spheres of influence from infinity
to the dense and concrete modes of manifestation, and back to infinity
again, each having won in its pilgrimage a sphere of influence of tVs
O'U'lt.

Killed in tiik War.—A uieinber of the Astrological Society now in

khaki send the following two cases, both ollicers :
<f. Horn i a.m., 15/1/85, Aldershot, killed last Dec. This chap was a
tall weil-bnilt man with very red hair and typical m features. A thoroughly
high principled man. Had a severe love disappointment, also a bad cycling
spill. Ho was instantaneously killed by a chance shell.
6. Horn 545 a.m., 20/7/93, London. Had his leg shattered by a shell
last spring and finally died in hospital last Dec., alter many operations.
Had erysipelas and gangrene. Was tall, slim, handsome,—not at all the Jb
type—and very quiet and refined. Went through some of the severest
fighting and was quite the idol of his Coy. on account of his cheerfulness, I
believe. Had just got his Comm. after months of trying and was coming
home to take up same only a day or so after ho was hit. I thought the close
U-H-CD rln<i 2 on asc would have kept him safe.
Mktiiods of House-Division.—We have received from Mr Aritaka
Kumamoto, of Tokio, a very courteous letter in which after expressing his
high appreciation of the Chapter in Ciisfi/ig t/u Jlcroscope on " Various
Methods of House-Division," he says he is inclined to think the 'Semi-Arc
"system ' in common use needs some further discussion ; and he adds an essay
on the calculation of 'poles' with the object of securing greater accuracy.
This article though higlily technical is very interesting, and we had hoped to
print it in our next issue, together with some commeuls by the compiler of
Casting the Horoscope; but unfortunately the scarcity of space forhids, and
we must therefore postpone it—not indefinitely, but until we have either
more pages at disposal, or less pressure of other matter.
4°

Wuxg Albert of tire Belgians

Students of Astrology the world over will be interested in tlie

following correspondence.
" Modern Astkologv" Office.
40 Imperial Bldgs.,
London, E.G.
November 21 si, ig\6.

To His Majesty King Albert of the Belgians

Sire,
Moos. Jean Delville, the artist, of Brussels, who is known to you.
has suggested that we should-address ourselves to Your Majesty personally,
and ask your help in the following didiculty. The birth-time of Your Majesty
has been given as
(v) April 8, 1875 a little before to a.m.
(4) April 8. 1875 at 4.50 p.m.
It will be known to Your Majesty that the correctness of an astrological
delineation depends upon thc/;t)«r as well as on the <i«yof birth. And therefore
when the birth-time is uncertain, doubt will be cast upon the reliability of the
horoscope. Onr dilficnlly in this instance resides in the fact that these times
have noxH been derived from what appear to be quite reliable sources; and
we have therefore no means of resolving the contradiction, apart from purely
astrological considerations—of the validity of which the public cannot judge.
An unfortunate result of this state of things is that two entirely different
nativities have been published, one in onr magazine Modern Astkologv
and the other in the British Journal of Astrology'.
We are anxious that Your Majesty shall be convinced that we appreciate
our responsibility in such a matter, and that we did not publish the nativity
without being assured that the lime was correct. We therefore entreat Your
Majesty's patience while we relate the circumstances:—
(1) As soon as possible after the War broke out we published a "Special
Number "giving the nativities of nearly all the rulers of European Countries,
except Servia and Belgium. Soon after, a gentleman interested in aslrology
called on us and said that Your Majesty's sister the Duchess of Vendome was
in England, and that he believed he could obtain access to her and ascertain
 KIN'G ALCKKT OF TIIF, BEIXtANS
the information we required. This eventually he did, and the time was given
him by the Nurse who attended at Your Majesty's birth. Onr rcprosentalive
was greatly touched by Her Highness's consideration in allowing him to
interview the Nurse. He said in his letter to ns: "without Her Highness's
co-operation I should not have got the lime from the nurse. She (the nurse)
is quilt certain about it, and there is uo mistake."
The time here referred to is " a little before 10 a.m." Her Highness the
Duchess of Vendomc was then (25/9/1914) staying at near London.1
Her friends were naturally anxious that her whereabouts should not be
known, or oven suspected, and therefore when in the November number of
' Modern Astrology " the nativity was published, we merely stated that the
birth-time had been obtained ' from a reliable source.'
(2) Nine months later, in August 1915, the British Journal of Astrology,
having been informed by a correspondent that a "certificate delivered by the
Lord Mayor of Brussels slates that Albert, King of Belgium, was born on
the Sth day of April 1875, at 4.50 p.m.," published a nativity calculated for
that time.
(3) Quite recently we came across a letter received by ns in 1912 from
a French Doctor of medicine residing at Dole in France, a letter which had
been put aside and unfortunately overlooked : though perhaps it may in the
end turn out to have been a fortunate accident if it leads to the clearing up
of an error. This gentleman writes;—"Je vous envoie les coordonnes
d'Albert, roi des Beiges dclivrer par I'administration commnnale de
Brnxelles. Piece authenilque et officielle. ' Albert, roi des Beiges, huit Avril
1S75 a i/uatre heures cinquante minutes de I'ei/'ies niidi a Brnxelles.'"
The time 4.50 p.m. seems clearly lo be derived from some olficial record
of the birth.
On the other hand we have no reason to suspect the bor.a fides of the
gentleman referred to on the second page of this letter: [par. (1) above].
Yet both times cannot be correct.
In this dilemma we have ventured to appeal to Your Majesty to help us
by directing ns to some authority which can set the matter at rest, or by
Yonr own personal statement.
We ask this, not because wc seek justification for onr own publication as
against another, but because wc arc acquainted with the increasing interest
taken by a large section of the public in the study of astrology, and because
wc realise that the nativities of those who have taken a leading part in this
Great War will be turned to and studied by future generations far more even
than they arc now.
1
[In the actual letter sent to King Albert the name of the house and suburb is
given.]
42 MODE UN ASTROLOGV
Astrologers regard the reigning sovereign as the representative of his
nation, so that his nativity has a national significance, and therefore, in view
of the noble part that Belgium has taken in this great struggle, astrological
students will set a special value on this nativity.
We entitle our magazine: " Modeun AsrnoLOCY: A Journal devoted to
the Search for Truth concerning Astrology," and it is in the interest of (ruth
that we have been so bold as to address ourselves to Your Majesty iu regard
to this matter.
Your Majesty's obedient and humble servants,
" Moderk Astkolooy " and Staff,
(Sigurrf) Alan Leo, Editor

This letter was sent with a suitable covering letter addressed to

King Albert's private secretary in which we begged that our letter
might be laid before His Majesty at some moment of comparative
leisure, and in due course we received the following Reply.

Belgian Headquakteks, December loth, rgifi.

Sir,
In reply to your letter of a ist ultimo, I have the honour to inform
you, after having made careful investigation, that there is every rearon to
believe that the hour and day of the birth of His Majesty, Albert First, King
of the Belgians, as certified in the Civil State of Brussels, is correct.
1 am,
Sir,
Alan Leo, Esq., Ediler, Your obedient Servant,
Imperial Buildings, Ct<: Fr. de Jeuav,
Ludgate Circus, Chief of the King's Cabinet
London, E.G.

P.S.—Would you be so kind as to send me to the undernotod address,

together with a note of the cost, a copy of " Modern Astrology " and a copy
of the '■ Special Number" mentioned in paragraphs ; and 4 on page two of
your letter No. m, dated 31st November 1916 to His Majesty?
Count de Jeiiay,
c/o Major A. A. Gokdok,
Apsley House,
Piccadilly,
London, W.
 KING ALBERT OF THE BELGIANS 43
We do not think we can more fittingly indicate our appreciation
of the truly Royal courtesy which has thus found time amid such
grievous cares to provide for investigation and reply, than by
publishing the correspondence. We have begged His Majesty's
gracious acceptance of copies of the issues of MODERN ASTROLOGY
mentioned in the letter.
The horoscope calculated for 4.50 p.m. 8/4/1875 in accordance
with the information supplied by the Mayor of Brussels, is printed
overleaf.

DELINEATION OF THE NATIVITY

In this nativity the last degree of the sign Virgo is rising, and the
last degree of the sign Gemini is culminating with no planets in the
ascendant or midheaven.
The whole of the sign Libra may be said to govern the ascendant,
and Venus must be taken as the ruling planet. This planet is
unfortunately placed in the sixth house which nullifies much of the
influence of the exaltation of Venus in Pisces.
The majority of the planets are setting. Jupiter the rising planet
is placed in the last decanate of the rising sign Libra. The quality
of. the horoscope is Fixed-Fire, the nature of which is fully
described in The Art of Synthesis, p. 183.
The unfortunate aspects are Sun in opposition to Jupiter and the
Moon in square aspect to Saturn.
The beucfic aspects are Sun trine Uranus and Mars, in the fiery
triplicity; the Moon sextile Mercury and quincunx Jupiter, and Venus
parallel Jupiter and Neptune.
A somewhat rematkabie feature of this horoscope is the influence
of the decanatcs of the signs2 in which the planets are placed at birth,
the planets Venus and Neptune alone being unafTectedin this respect;
2
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commences. It may therefGie be said to correspond to £13.26. But £18.26 is
within the cusp of the eleventh houKe, and in ccnjunction with jjt—hence the
expression " absorbing a U-anian iullnmce."
With tliis hint the other remarks will readily he followed. In order that the
significance of these decannic positions may be apprehended, we have had a
snpoleinoiitary chart prepared in which th^y are shown in their due house position.
This chart faces the nativity.
44 MO HERN' ASTROLOGY

and these two planets alone are unafflicted by adverse aspects, which
they probably could not stand in their weak positions. If the
positions of the planets in their decanates are translated into
mundane positions in the nativity they will be found to produce some
remarkable influences. The Sun is in the Leo decauate 8'26' on the
cusp of the eleventh house absorbing a Uranian influence. Mars is

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tion in this position and producing a miniature Sun conjunction Mars
and Uranus in the nativity—which is quite significant in the betrayal
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 KING ALIjURT or THE BELGIANS 45
square Saturn into a fourth house influence, accentuating the rulership
of the midheaven and the fourth house. And the fateful square o
Uranus is in the Sagittarius decanate afliecting the third house—
neighbours—and accentuating the strain of the conjunctions in the
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the Decanate influence
bringing a square aspect of Jupiter with Venus into activity, showing
the help of foreign countries which failed to bring the King out of his
difficulties. Saturn is in the Libra decanate affecting the first house
and translating the square aspect of the Moon to Saturn into a
personal affliction. Finally Mercury is in the Scorpio decanate
accentuating the sorrowful experiences indicated by the setting
position of Mercury in Pisces the sign of its fall. The opposition of
 MODERN ASTROEOGY

this position to Neptune from the sign Scorpio denotes the treachery
and cruelty of the King's enemies, for Mercury rules the twelfth
house.
King Albert's nativity plainly shows that he had to be the victim
of a cruel fate, over which he had practically no control, and the
worst fate fell upon him at a time when he had to submit to
circumstances, he having no power in himself to alter them.
. The honour and integrity of King Albert is unquestionable and
under no circumstances could he have been bought or made a traitor
to his people. In spite of three planets in the signs of their
exaltation, no amount of effort on his part could have been stronger
than destiny. What he has realized only God and his own heart
can know.
This arrangement of the planets in their decanates is the one we
have adopted for many years, and if it is questioned it may be noted
that the progressed horoscope supports the claim that it is an index to
events that cannot be mistaken. The King's progressed horoscope at
the time of the outbreak of war had brought the progressed MC to the
conjunction of the fateful conjunctions in the first decanate of Leo,
and this alone might easily form a satisfactory point from which to
rectify the nativity, since it signified the sudden ruin of the Belgian
nation.
The invasion of Belgium took place while the malefic influence
of Mars square Saturn was in operation8 from the ascendant to the
midheaven of King Albert's nativity—a decidedly fateful influence,
for then the transit Saturn was in opposition to the radical Mars near
the cusp of the fourth house, besides other factors that students will
have noticed. But these cosmic positions needed an explosive and
tragic series of influences, such as we have found in the decanate
positions, to be affected by them.
We shall have more to say about this nativity later, when the
"directions" will be given and an attempt made to discover where
and how the nation will be restored to King Albert.

* This aspect was completed 12/8/1914 but was within oibs for a foitnightor
more before and after that date.
 47

Itttcraatioanl Jlstrologn

New Moon, 21 February 1917 6.9 p.in. London

X XI XII 11 iii
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Virgo rises at London and the Sun and Moon are in conjunction with
Mars just below the cusp of the descendant in Pisces, but all three in
good aspect to Jupiter in the ninth house. This signifies increased
trouble in international affairs in western Europe, fighting by sea witli
gain to the Allies, but Spain and Portugal will be liable to be affected,
especially the latter country, which is ruled by Pisces. Treachery,
spying and underhand conduct are to he feared during the lunation.
A great (leal of attention will be paid to the forces, chiefly the navy and
the air service, and some necessary changes and reforms will be made.
Parliament will not be under fortunate influences and is not
likely to accomplish much. The re-entry of Jupiter into Taurus will
benefit Irish affairs, although the square from Neptune and Mercury
suggest that everything will not be smooth politically and that there
will be trouble in Parliament, changes and mistakes in policy which
will tell against the Government.
The map as a whole is not of first rate importance and is less
significant than those for the winter and spring quarters. The place
of the luminaries falls as under in various horoscopes :—
Kikcj Gcoiice Sip CZAM o ?
Itai.y <l d Emp. Germany □ ly
,, Bklcium rf ? Pres. Poincare S
,, Sweden s ft Gen. Joffre rf if
At lierlin naval fighting and activity are also indicated; there
will be an epidemic or much sickness in the country, as well as much
discontent on the part of labour and the socialist party.
The Sun, Moon and Mars will rise in the Pacific Ocean;
 MODERN ASTROI.OGY

culminate in North America ; set in west Europe and west Africa;

and be on the nadir near Calcutta. At home the weather is likely
to be rather warmer than the average about this time.

The changes in the government which took place early in

December came as a surprise to the general public, though they were
foreshadowed in our remarks on the autumn quarter in this magazine
last September where Uranus was on the cusp of the fourth house
opposing the Moon on the cusp of the tenth (p. 283, last par.). The
prediction of " the instability of those in power " came true, although
we did not succeed in naming the date when this would eventuate.
Mr H. II. Asquith's resignation of office occurred on December 5,
when Mars was entering Capricorn in square to the Sun's place (lord
of the tenth in the eleventh) at the autumn ingress. The current
lunation was that of 23/11/1915, Venus in the tenth in opposition to
Jupiter in the fourth. The opposition of the two benefics often
presents difficulty in elucidating its precise significance ; but it may
be suggested that it may be read in connection with the fact that it
was a voluntary resignation on the part of Mr H. M. Asquith, and
not one resulting from a government defeat in parliament.
The angular positions of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, three mild or
warm planets, at the November lunation were not followed by mild
weather as was expected. This was an instance in which current
aspects—Sun, Moon, and Mercury trine the colder Saturn, though
none of them angular—completely overpowered the influence of the
warmer angular planets. But our prediction that the entry of the
Sun into Capricorn (Dec p. 379) would be attended by milder weather
was fulfilled, for the cold weather came to an end about this date. In
this case the rising position of Venus was supported by 0 A If, 5 d <?.
The strenuous attempts at peace made by Germany, followed by
Pres. Wilson's peace note to the belligerents, were in full accordance
with our remarks on the map of the winter quarter (Dec p. 378)
where the indications of a more pacific tone were very marked and
were pointed out by us. The November Occult Review also
contained some very accurate anticipations by the editor, Mr Ralph
Shirley, on this subject.
 INTHENATIONAI, ASTKOLOGY 49
Thi: Pkixic Minister's Directions
Gunr.il Diicclions
9 * Sr Jims 1916 S iZor April igig
<r aUT Sept 9 *<11 May igig
S * jr March 1917 A '2 June
9 V MC r ,, , ( S A T/r
9 A 7/ July 1918 O □ J) r March 1920
J A9r Sept
Luntar Directions
D * i) r, * 9 r April D s yrp Fob igt?
..Pi lulv ,. Z 9 M arch
,, <« MCr, * Ascr Aug ,. 8 J ,* S Aug
.. P MC i- Sept .. P.' Sept
* 9 r, a 9 Oct .. iiOr. * 21 rp Oct
.. 0 J r Jan .. PMCr Nov
ricgi tistd Horoscope as at 2/3/1917
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0 5 5 ? <f 2; '? y
X21.26 / 17.41 55 24,22 T13.17 II1.50 ^26.8>' ^3.21- 016.50 V3.5
Transits 1917. —O eel d ? Jan 23 ; 2/ d d T'eb iS ; j eel d J June 19 ; 0 eel
O July 19 : >2 tf ? Aug 9 ; il'i1 9 Ang 29 ; '? 9 asc Sept 8 ; i; 5 Oct 7 ; O
eel d ]) Dec 14.
The Prime Minister's Directions present a suitable picture of the
stormy and unsettled period of our history at which he has been
called upon to take office; for while strongly good in some respects
they are critical and decidedly warlike in others.
The midhcaven of the progressed horoscope has just passed the
conjunction with the Sun, and this has been supported during 1916
by Asc P O, two directions strongly indicative of increase of
power and dignity ; and they were followed by Asc * T A '7, both
very fortunate. Mars rising in the progressed map is also significant
of the times and of Mr Lloyd George's activities in connection with
war and munitions. Jupiter will transit this ascendant during the
second half of the present year, when it approaches King George's
Sun and the German Emperor's Jupiter; induences favourable for
success and tending towards peace.
There is a long train of very fortunate mutual directions during
the ne.\t three years, with only occasional trouble through lunar
directions and bad transits. Out if the position of the Moon on the
eleventh cusp is correct the end of the present government or
parliament or both seems to be indicated in 1920, under Sun srjuare
Moon.
 (Bvtai Max1

Bv G. E. Sutci.iFTE,
Author of The Fomtcialioiis of Physical Astrology"

V.—THE COSMIC FORCES AND THE WORLD WAR

I DO not expect to find that the analysis of the coarse of events

and. their connection with the planetary aspects made in the four
preceding chapters, has been allowed to pass without some criticism.
It may be asked; Why should good aspects favour the Allies rather
than the Germanic Powers? It cannot be replied that some of these
favourable aspects are with the meridian and ascendant of one of the
allied Powers, for the horoscope is assumed to be the world-horoscope,
and not that of any nation in particular. Moreover most of the
aspects are between the planets themselves, and these would remain
the same whatever meridian was adopted.
On the theoryof a World-Horoscope which is here being developed,
favourable aspects can only be interpreted as being favourable to the
evolution of the human race in general, and unfavourable aspects, as
obstacles which have to be surmounted by the forces behind evolution.
It follows front this that the good aspects will favourtltose belligereRt&
whose victory will help forward evof&tion, and that the bad aspects
will favour those whose victory will hinder evolution. I fail to see
how this deduction can be escaped from, without rejecting the theory
on which these articles are based. If lite theory does not fit the facts,
it ought to be rejected, but if it does fit the facts, it may be well to
accept it provisionally.
Just as the exoteric sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy,
etc. are interlinked and mutually support each other, so with the
Occult Sciences ; they are mutually helpful and explanatory. Astrology
cannot be isolated from the rest of Occultism without losing much of
1
Continued from p. 366 of previous volume.
 Til li GRl'.AT W A It
its vitality. Those who say that Astrology has nothing occult about
it are in my opinion wide of the mark ; it would be more correct to
say that everything is occult about it—though that in its turn would
be an exaggeration. On its abstract side Astrology is the science of
time, but on its form side it may be defined as the science of the
mechanism of Divine Government. There may benothingmiraculous
in this mechanism, but there is cei iaiuly much that is occult. To
study the workings of the mechanism, and ignore the Occult Hierarchy
which uses the mechanism, is like watching the career of a chariot
whilst disregarding the driver.

Wnv Good Aspects favour the Ai.lies

The reason why good aspects of the planets should favour the
Allies and not the Germanic Powers is best explained by information
derived from occult sources.
The present war is not an ordinary war, in which the fate of one
or two nations only is involved. It is a contest which will determine
the course of civilisation for the next 10000 years. Most people are
beginning to understand the enormous maguilude of the issues at
stake, but only the occultist can realise them in their full significance.
The last occasion in which so great a world-struggle took place
was before the last destruction of the continent of Atlantis, about
thirteen thousand years ago; and the victory of the Dark Powers, at
that time, necessitated the sinking of the continent a thousand years
later: Thcoso/jhist, Feb 1916, pp. 512-514. This period of 13000
years was known to the Greeks as the Heliacal Year : /sis Unveiled,
i. 31. It is the half of a cycle of Precession, so (hat at the last
contest the first point of Aries was where the first point of Libra is
now, that is, somewhere near the star Spica. The same people who
brought about the war of 13000 years ago, have brought about the
war of 1914. "All those great characters who tower like giants in
the history of mankind, like Bnddha-Siddartha and Jesus in the realm
of spiritual, and Alexander the Macedonian and Napoleon the Great
iu the realm of physical conquests, were but reflex images of human
types which had existed 10000 years before, in the preceding
decimillenium, reproduced by the mysterious powers controlling the
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

destinies of our world " : 26. p..35. The author of the above work,
Madame Blavatsky, long ago told her pupils that Prince Bismarck
was one of the ' Lords of the Dark Face ' whose victories in former
ages involved the destruction of a continent: T/ieosophist, Feb 1915,
p. 518.
To the question therefore, why should the planetary aspects be
reflected in the victories and defeats of the Allies, we may reply, this
is because the issues at stake are of the cosmic order of importance.

Why Germany is fighting on the Wrong Side

It may further be contended that since Germany is the best

organised and most efficient nation, the good aspects should correspond
to German victories and xu'cc versa.
A part of this contention may be admitted. I am told for instance
that German towns have no slums, and that the country in general is
a model of orderliness and successful culture. My reply is that this
result has been oblained at the expense of individual freedom. Now
freedom is of the essence of human evolution. It is sometimes asked
why God has not made man perfect from the first. If this had been
done, the perfection would have been imposed from without. But
this perfction had to be evolved from within. Man had to make
himself perfect by the free play of his life forces. How could God
create a perfect man, was not the problem; the problem was, how
could man create perfection for himself. The efficiency of the
German nation therefore, being imposed from without, was contrary to
the divine plan. The attainment of efficiency can wait, there is plenty
of time for it, but the principle of individual freedom must be retained
at all costs.
This is one reason why the German nation is fighting on the
wrong side. Another reason is that it has adopted a principle which
is deliberately immoral. This principle goes under the name of the
' Frederician Tradition,' and has been thus defined; "The King of
" Prussia shall do all that may seem to advantage the Kingdom of
" Prussia among the nations, notwithstanding any European conven-
" tions or any tradition of Christendom, or even any of those wider
"and more general conventions which govern the international conduct
 THE GREAT WAR 53
" of other Christian peoples " : A General Sktlch of Hie European
War, by Hillaire Belloc, p. 33. Since the above principle, which has
been generally followed since the time of Frederick the Great who
originated it, would make the confederation of the nations impossible,
and since such a confederation is the next step in human evolution, it
was absolutely necessary that this moral cancer should be destroyed
root and branch.
For the above reasons amongst others the Germanic Powers
naturally became the vehicle of the Lords of the Dark Face in the
present contest, whilst the nations which were opposed to such
principles, as naturally became the protegees of the Occult Hierarchy
whosefunction it is to accelerate evolution. Hence the good planetary
aspects arc favourable to the Allies, and unfavourable to the Germanic
Powers.
The analysis of the aspects and the course of events bear out the
truth of this conclusion, and confirm the information derived from
occult sources. We thus see that the linking of Astrology with
occultism is helpful and even essential for a full interpretation.

The Importance of the Conflict

Although the present war has an importance to the human race

of the same order of magnitude as that in Atlantis thirteen thousand
years ago, its elfect on human evolution will be diametrically opposite
in character. For in Atlantis the Dark Powers gained the victory;
the majority of the human race were in their favour. But in the
present war the Occult Hierarchy will win ; Theosophist, Feb 1916,
pp. 515-526. This statement is supported by the secondary directions
which from May 1916 are generally favourable.1 Once the Occult
Hierarchy gains the upper band the whole civilisation will lake on a
new character. A little consideration will make this clear. The
reason why the Hierarchy will win is that there is now a majority of
mankind on the side of the good. Many of those who in Atlantis

1
[The reader may find it of interest to refer back to p. 23S of Modern
Astkoloov for July 1916, where quolaiions from newspapers dated 21/3/1916 and
22/3/1916 are Riven, and note the general agreement of what is there said with the
oursc of events.]
54 MODERN ASTROLOOY

fought for the Lords of the Dark Face, are now fighting against them .
ib. ]). 526. This process of conversion from the evil to the good will
continue as evolution proceeds, so that the supporters of the Occuit
Hierarchy will continually increase, and the supporters of the Dark
Powers will continuously diminish. During the last thirteen thousand
years the government of the world has in a sense been in the hands
of the Dark Powers, but as evil is self-destructive such government
has always a time limit. But once the good gets the upper hand its
power increases without limit. Its system of government is eternal.
This makes the present war of immensely greater interest than the
war of Atlantis, for the Atlantean war put evolution backwards, whilst
the present war will put it forwards. It is therefore the epoch in
human evolution par excellence, which will be recorded in history,
and commented_upon for untold milleniums. It will establish once
more upon the earth the GOLDEN AGE which prophets have foretold
and innumerable poets have sung. This explains the significance of
the letter of an Occultist in April 1912, previously quoted, in which it
is said," the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because
he knoweth that he hath but a short time." For when once the reins
of government have passed out of the hands of the Lords of the Dark
Face, they can never recover their authority. It is sufficiently estab-
lished, by ample evidence, that it was Germany who—in the ordinary
human sense of the word—originated this war; yet the Kaiser and his
Prussian oligarchy were actually the puppets of much mightier forces.
It is the Manu of the Race who really controls these things: Aciyar
Dulletin, Feb 1916, p. 45. Germany trapped Austria into the war,
but she in her turn was similarly trapped ; for she would on no account
have begun the war if she had not felt secure that England would not
fight against her. Germany trapped Austria on August 1st; Germany
was herself trapped on August 5th. It was the Lords of the Dark
Face that decided on war, but it was the Occult Hierarchy that
decided when the war should begin. On this point the Dark Powers
were out-manoeuvred. It was the misfortune of Germany that she
afforded the most suitable vehicle through which the Dark Powers
could function, for reasons above explained. " It is impossible hut
that offences will come; but woe unto him, through whom they
come " : Lake xvii. 1.
 Tin; GUI:AT WAK 55

The Challenge and the Acceptance

The first move on the cosmic chess board was made by the Lords
of the Dark Face, but it was the only move open to them, and it was
promptly followed by a second move which was checkmate. The
second move was that of the Occult Hierarchy.
This statement, which is intuitional, is based principally on
astrological considerations. Just as a general in an earthly campaign
will arrange his forces so as to have the use of railways for his
transports, so will the Heavenly Warriors arrange that the mechanism
of divine government, the astrological aspects, shall have a configura-
tion which shall be most suitable for the work they have in hand.
Hence whilst the earthly general will manoeuvre for a place, or a
position of advantage, the celestial general will manccuvre for a time,
or a period when his mechanism is the most efficient. I have reason
to believe that the cosmic mechanism through which the Occult
Hierarchy helps mankind depends largely upon the configuration of
three planets,—Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. With this kept well in
view, we will now tabulate the aspects of these three bodies with the
world-horoscope during the year 1914.
Major Transits during 1914
Jan If * V June 12 St * <?
Jan 12 U A Asz June 27 ft* S
Feb II y * "ji July 6 y * O and
Feb 27 2J * f July 21 •JJ* Asc
March 9 J/L « 0 and 3 Auj; 5 ft* t
March 3° ly * 0 and 3' Sept 4 ri * y
Apr 7 V si c. V Oct 19 tji st « y
Apr iS 7; * 5 Nov 29 y*y
May 19 ijl st * 0 and 3 Dec 9 ft * t
May 26 V* £ I'ec 29 ft* i
In the above list there are twenty-two serrtiles, and two trines, or
twenty-four good aspects in all, an average of two favourable aspects
per month. If Jupiter and Uranus and Neptune are the planetary
vehicles used by the Occult Hierarchy to assist mankind, then 1914
was one of the best years conceivable to carry out this purpose. It
will probably be asked : Then wdiy in that case did not the Hierarchy
prevent the war ? The reply is that these aspects were only transits
and had no favourable directions, primary or secondary, to support
 MOUEUN ASTUOLOGV

them. On the other hand the evil transits which were also powerful
and numerous, had a whole series of evil directions behind them, both
primary and secondary, the karma of which they were thus able to
precipitate. The Occult Hierarchy dare not interfere with the law of
karma: "The ripple of effect as the great tidal wave, thou shalt let
run its course."
Manceuvking for a Date
The favourable transits could not prevent this precipitation, but
they enabled the Hierarchy to inspire heroism iu the nations, and
give them courage and endurance to bear the karma bravely. Itcoukl
also guide the leaders of the armies at critical moments, so that they
would act wisely, and so avoid irreparable disaster. In this connection
it may be pointed out that one function of the Occult Hierarchy is to
store up the good karma, and to keep it in reserve for critical
emergencies such as occurred in 1914. The prayers and meditations
of religious communities, in our temples, monasteries and nunneries,
the unselfish and holy lives that men and women have led, and which
apparently at the time have had no good result, have all gone to
enlarge this spiritual banking account; and just as the seven evil
aspects that precipitated Armageddon can be tabulated with the seven
vials of " the wrath of God," so the four and twenty favourable
aspects can be tabulated with the four and twenty "golden vials full
of odours, which are the prayers of the saints " : Rev. v, 8.
It will be evident to anyone who examines the matter, that
between 1899 and 1914 it was impossible to find any year in which
the transits of Jupiter and Uranus and Neptune are so favourable as
in 1914; hence if Armageddon bad been precipitated at an earlier
date, the mechanism used by the Occult Hierarchy to protect the race
could not have been worked at its maximum efficiency, and the Dark
Powers might have gained the victory. It is on these grounds that I
have been led to conclude that in choosing 1914 the Hierarchy had
successfully manoeuvred for a date.

A Safety Valve
The story is current in occult circles, that the Boer War was
permitted by the Hierarchy for two reasons. Firstly, to awaken the
 THE GKEAT WAK 57
Unglish nation, and compel it to realise how unprepared it was for the
tremendous cataclysm which was impending over Europe. (In this
object the Hierarchy failed, for the English nation was hypnotised ;
Kipling might write of " flanneled oafs," and Blatchford might thunder
his warnings from the columns of the Daily Mail, but the minds of
the English people were so firmly focussed on the football field and
the race course, that nothing short of the crack of doom could arouse
them from their enchantment.) Secondly, to lighten the pressure of
the evil karma, and prevent it being precipitated too soon, for if war
had not happened in South Africa, it would have happened in Europe,
probably not later than 1907.
We have previously seen (p. 327 October) how at the completion
of the seven oppositions of the progressed Moon and the transit
Saturn, the present war was precipitated. But from 1905 to 1908,
there was a similar series of square aspects, which would have
precipitated the European war, perhaps inevitably, unless the fighting
spirit of the nations had found a vent at some earlier date. The Boer
War in South Africa and the Russo-Japanese war in the East thus
acted as a safety valve, and enabled the Hierarchy to obtain a date
for the final conflict when their controlling influence would have a
maximum efficiency. It will be observed moreover that both the
above wars have had the most beneficent results, and have strengthened
the Allies. The series of adverse aspects that had to be circumvented
in 1905-8 are as follows :—
Lunar SjCCONUARV DlRr.CTIONS TK-ANSITS Or Saturn
I9V5 iM.irch D0y rQLi Teb 26 >! a X
1906 I-'eb S □ 'l' 1906 March 21 ho Ijl
1906 Am ]) □ O anil D 19(16 j-'upt 17 bOO anrl
190G Mov 505 1907 .March 12 '? □ 7
1907 Kch S Q <f 1907 Apr i .i b a <f
1907 A pi" )) n v 19117 May 7 bob
>937 Sttpt Jc t 190S March 21 bo?
The above are the lunar secondary directions and the corresponding
transits of Saturn, from which it will be seen that Saturn has been
"racing the Moon " around the horoscope, and forming aspects of the
same kind nearly simultaneously. Possibly these seven aspects have
some connection with the opening of the seven seals of the book of
Revelation, chaps. 5 and 6. The Primary Directions operating
•during these years were as follows ;—
 MODEKM ASTROLOGY

I'ru.MAKY Directions DURING 1904-1908

KJO., Aui; 3 7 1907 Oct 9 « d B
>905 Nov MC 8 rf 1907 DtO 21 8 dO
TQOO July 190S June r
3 7 3 '5 'litf S
I <jO'> Aug •3 "j 8 5 igo.j March '3 « dd
1907 May 27 Asc 0 S
It will thus be seen that the Primary, Secondary and Transit aspects
in 1905-8 were of the kind that might have precipitated a European
war. If this had .happened we shall see that the mechanism of the
Occult Hierarchy {i.e. the transits of V %' '?) was much less efficient in
those years than in I9I4-. These transits are given below :—
Transits of Jupitkr. Ukaxl-s and Neptune during the years 1905-8
>905 Jan 16 Ad 1907 Oct 2 y A i-i
"JOS Tei> '5 2; * 1907 Oct '7 «AO
1905 Ffh * MC »t 11 2/ A J?
! (11111: 23 1
905 37 8 V 1908 Ian 3 V AIJI
1905 July 9 % A Asc 1908 May 23 n A Ijl
<935 1 >cc f It A Asc 1908 June 11 1/ A ©
IQO-J Teb 20 2i A Asc t, ^A B
1906 May 5 US2 190S July '9 2/ A 5?
,, ,, USD IQOS Aug 5 7/ A d"
I90C JU'SC 7 X8 * 190S AUK i? U A 'y
1906 j nne 23 V8s 1908 A'.'li 20 2/0 2;1
I906 July 4 V 8 >1 190S Aug 25 It * 'J
1906 July 12 h dV >908 Aug 31 72 * MC
190(1 July iS % d MC 1908 Oct 25 22 O 1;1
jgo6 Julv 20 U O Asc 1908 Nov 8 7/ Q©
1907 July 27 n A 2; 2; □ B
The total number of aspects of the above three planets operating in
the four years 1905-8 is 32, of which 21 are favourable and 11
unfavourable ; leaving a balance of 10 favourable, if we consider that
each unfavourable aspect cancels one of the favourable. This gives
two and a half favourable aspects per year, whereas in the single year
1914, there were twenty-four favourable aspects of the same three
bodies, and none unfavourable. Thus the mechanism of the Occult
Hierarchy was enormously more efficient for the helping of humanity
in 1914 than it could have been in the years 1905-8. Moreover of the
three planets only Jupiter could give any transit aspects at all. The
other two, Uranus and Neptune, were out of aspect during these years.

An Occult Trinity
Now there is reason to believe that Jupiter requires the co-
operation of the two more occult planets, Uranus and Neptune, in
 THE GREAT WAR 59
order to work to full advantage; the three planets when co-operating
constitute an occult trinity. In this connection I would refer the
reader to what is said about the Triple JEon in the Secret Doctrine,
iii. 469. Jupiter is the planet linked with the Auric Envelope of man,
the " Luminous Egg," or the invisible magnetic sphere in which every
man is enveloped : id. p. 452, Diagram II. This envelope, called by
occultists Hiranyagarbha, is an emanation from Atma, the will aspect,
manifesting from Uranus, and Buddhi, the wisdom aspect, manifesting
from Neptune; i7>. p. 445. "It is only through these cosmic and
spiritual centres that the physical centres can benefit by their occult
interaction " ; i/j. p. 447. These three planets therefore are interlinked
in the same way as Atma-Buddhi-Manas are interlinked. They
constitute a kind of triple ASon. Jupiter the lowest of the three draws
is forces from the two higher. It is the distributer of the influences
sent down to it by the Manu and the Bodhisattva of the race, whose
planets are Uranus and Neptune. Hence Jupiter governs clergymen,
philosophers, and teachers generally. It is the executive part of divine
government, receiving its instructions from the Manu and the World
Teacher, Uranus and Neptune.
Interpreted in this way we see that the aspects of these three
bodiesin 1914 were immensely more efficient than in the period 1905-8,
and that to so manceuvre that the European War should be deferred
from the period 1905-8 to 1914 was a strategical move of the highest
order of importance.
(To be continued.)

As Unusual Birth.—" Florence Shaddocl;, bom at Long Beach

Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A., Oct. nth 1916, 2.45 p.m.; (We have
110 suininer time over here so the time is regular.) This is a 10 months and
4 day baby ; Q^lbs. in weight. The mother laboured every day from 4 to
■S a.m.,/o»W.r nvcAs before the child was horn. This had gone on so long
that the poer mother had given up almost, and the regular physician had
told her that she would have to undergo an operation, when a Spiritualist
doctor, a masseur, was called in. He told her that she would not labour any
more for 36 hours and that when she started again she was to send for him.
It was almost to a minute 36 hours when they called him again, and they
told him that the child must he dead, as there was no movement and the
mother could not feel any life. He examined the mother, and found the
little one's heart beating right. So he reassured the mother and encouraged
her not to give up hope and in 15 minutes the baby was born. I happen to
know the Doctor, and know the above data to be reliable."
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Neglect of these considerations may cause otherwise valuable letters to be
excluded from these pages. Space at the present time is exceptionally scarce.

THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR

Dear Sir,
As you will remember, a letter of mine was published in
the December 1915 number of Modern Astrology (p. 476), in
which I traced the successive interventions •f neutral powers in the
war to the variations of Uranus, and those variations recurring
methodically twice a year, in- May when it becomes direct and in
October retrograde, I was led by the full study of the matter to the
conclusion that the initiation of the direct motion brings an intervention
in favour of the Allies while the retrograde brings one in favour
of Germany. So it was that in October 1914 Turkey intervened on
Germany's side, in May 1915 Italy with the Allies and in October
1915 Bulgaria with Germany. 1 left it open then as a future lest
that in May 1916 an intervention was due in favour of the Allies.
Asa matter of fact, May 1916 came up and no new intervention
occurred; the next intervention was indeed on the side of the Allies,
that of Rumania, but it came up on the 27th August, viz. three
months behindhand. Why was it so belated, I wondered, until on
September 1st 1 chanced to read in a paper that in an interview one
of the leaders of Rumanian politics had declared the .following:
Everything had been arranged three months ago. It had been agreed
that should certain political and military events take place in a
predetermined space of lime, Rumania then would interfere. Now
in the August number of Modern Astrology, page 295, Mr
Sutcliffe says: " The outbreak of the Balkan War in October may-
appear to be quite contrary to the Transits then operating. But the
critical time is not always when the war actually begins, but the time
when the decision to go to war is made." There is the link, and the
Rumanian intervention may be said to belong to May 1916, the
decision being due to the Uranian influence.
 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 6l

Then we come up to October when an intervention was due in

favour of Germany. No practical intervention has taken place, and
in fact the cycle of interventions is likely perhaps to have come to
an end. Still the events of last October bid fair to claim obedience
to the law. All through the month, Greece has been to the front in
the European anxieties and it wason'the verge of an intervention in
favour of Germany ; it required no less than the disruption of the
whole country, a Uranian influence indeed, to prevent the evil; and
so we saw the Greek unit rent in twain, leaving the interfering side,
the State, powerless, as against the risen Nation, won at last to the
true cause.
Too far past already is the cosmic opposition of Uranus and
Neptune to be able to aflbrd tiny new power in favour of the raging
Evil. Uranus, the Will aspect of the Kosmos, has already gained
power enough to overrun the fateful opposition which imprisoned the
Spirit, the life side of things; the forms are now broken down so that
life may assert itself. If any new intervention is to occur, it will take,
place in May 1917 and that will be the last one, because times are
ripe already and the hour of Justice is at hand.
C. Pascual y Gonis 15 JULES PERMAUD
Valencia (Spain)

LORD KITCHENER'S 13IRTH-DATE

Dear Sir,
I see that a correspondent signing himself Gabriel Neith
writes you a very misleading letter with regard to Lord Kitchener's
horoscope (p. 13 January). Firstly he repeats the mistake that Lord
Kitchener was born on June 2+, and says that this statement has the
authority of Lord Kitchener himself. It appears however from a
letter of Sir Arthur Vickers to the Church of Ireland Gazelle, quoted
in Zadkicl's Alnutnack for the new year, that this date is in error, and
that tlie actual date of birth was June 15. Your correspondent caps
this mis-statement by another when he says that Lord Kitchener is
also his authority for the statement that he was born half-an-liour after
midnight. This, I am in a position to state, is absolutely untrue.
Lord Kitchener personally informed a friend of my own who cross-
questioned him on (lie subject, that he had not the least idea at what
o'clock he was born, and added that he had no means of finding out.
It is a pity that sucii misleading statemsuts should be given currency
and I feel that one is only doing one's duty in nipping them in the bud.
8-11 Paternoster Row, Yours faithfully,
London, E.G. 6/1/T7 Ralph Shirley
[Two points are involved in this letter, first the date and next the time.
(I) The date of birth of Lord Kitchener (to give him the title he
 MOllKKN ASTUOl.UGV

is Renerally known by) is not quite an easy matter to,settle. We had

already written to Mrs Parker, Lord Kitchener's sister, drawing
attention to the publication of a facsimile of an official copy of the
kaptismal certificate, in which the day of birth is set down as June
15 (1850), whereas Who's Who and all biographies give the date as
June 24, 1850. We asked her if she could throw any light on the
matter, even if only by way of conjecture, for a discrepancy of nine
days—which alters the very day of the week—is difficult to account
for. Her kind reply follows :—
Jau. yd 4, Creycunt Gnrduts, Ii dsliiiiiish'y,
S. 11'.
Df.ar Sir,
The registration of births in Ireland where my brother was bcrn.
was at that time very careless.
I can only tell you his birthday was always kept on June 24th mine
was on June 2znd, two years earlier, and they wore kept together. Certainly
our mother considered June 24111 theday of my brother's birth. Knowing the
careless way things were done in Ireland at that time, I have no doubts on
the subject. The 24th Juno was the day in my opinion.
We had a family bible but have been such a scattered family I do not
know where it is. My eldest brother is still in East Africa fighting; ho may-
have it, I will ask him if he remembers. If he has, it is probably in Jamaica
and unget-at-able at present.
Yours truly,
Frances E. J. Parker
(2) As regards the time of birth no knowledge seems available
In reply to a question on this point Mrs Parker wrote on January
19th, 1915, " I am sorry I have no knowledge as to the hour Earl
Kitchener was born—day and year you know." This of course did
not preclude the possibility that Lord Kitchener himself might have
known, and therefore we published Gabriel Neith's note without
comment. Mr Shirley's letter is conclusive, and we think he has
done a service to students in sending it.—EDITOR.]

THE PRENATAL EPOCH

Dear Sir,
Your correspondent, Mons. Vignean, in his letter in your
January issue, shows himself to be very imperfectly versed in the
rudimentary principles of the Prenatal Epoch, otherwise he would not
have proposed such a test as that described.
Permit me to point out to him that it has never been stated that
the Epoch alone, will determine the time of birth, when only the
approximate time of birth is known ; but that events must be given as
a guide to determine such time before the rules of the epoch can be
applied.
As regards the test proposed, your correspondent states that he
 I.UT I ICRS TO Tilli EDITOR
has altered the exact times of birth to approximate times. He gives
these latter as 1.22 p.m. and 4.33 p.m. and states that they are within
the margin of error in ordinary birth records. In his communication
to me he altered these birth times to 4.20 p.m. and 1.36 p.m. nearly
three hours diflTerent from those sent to you, and we are asked to
accept his word that this alteration is ' within the margin of error in
ordinary birth records."
The margin of error in ordinary birth times,—an error of
observation as it is called—cannot exceed more than a few minutes
either way. No birth time ever recorded is absolutely exact, no
matter how much care is taken in ascertaining it.
In conclusion allow me to point out the following facts;—
1. We do not fit epochs to birth times. Every exact birth time
yields an Epoch in accordance with certain well-defined laws and in
which sex is the chief factor.
2. That when the birth time is approximately known, or even
unknown, it is possible to determine the exact birth time from the
epoch, by means of past events, and has been done lime after time.
I am at the present period doing several cases a week.
3. That the prenatal epoch is the one and only reliable method
of rectification, and has stood 'absolutely legitimate, honest and
severe tests."
Your correspondent's arguments are old and obsolete, and have
long since been consigned to the dust heap. If he will be good enough
to obtain a copy of my work on the Prenatal Epoch which can be
obtained from my Publishers, Messrs. W. Foulsham & Co., 61, Fleet
Street, E.G., and make a thorough study of the only complete
explanation of the subject, probably he will see how foolish his test
really is.
Yours faithfully,
E. H. Bailey,
61, Fleet Street, E.C. Editor, B.J. A.
(U'c regret that Mr Bailey is unable to satisfy our correspondent. Perhaps
it would meet the case if he would give the calculation of the Epoch
in the nativity of King George, whose birth time was recorded accurately in
the Official bulletin. This at least would make a useful test case.—Ed.]

Mk Ralph Shirley writes:^—" I am glad to see that yon have published

the correct horoscope of the new Emperor of Austria. Yon do not draw
attention to a fact which I think is worthy of note, that not only is the
ascendant almost exactly identical with that of the late Emperor, but the
Sun also occupies the same degree of the same sign."
" Missing " or Dead ?—E. A. C. writes: "As a regular reader of your
valuable paper may I ask the opinion of other readers respecting my
brother's fate. He was reported " missing " on 18/7/1916, after a battle in
Delville Wood. Horoscope :—x 5527, xi njja, xii njjag, i jx 20, ii 111x6, ili^ 19 :
QT30! DTzi. ^ T24r, ? 02, d1 -24. VK5. ■? Tg, ynEir, ^ fcig."
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radical changes in education as part of the dawning Social Re-construction,
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Brackenhili is to be a Home-School and co educational, and the instruc-
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possible to those for whom such a course is deemed advisable.
Organised games, music, art and eurhythmies will form part of the
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The fare will be vegetarian, and humanitarian principles will be instilled
into the children, and the 36 children chosen as inmates of this Home-School
will be such as have lost one parent if not both.
It is estimated that the general up keep of the house, salaries and
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will cost ^25 per year to feed and cloth, and it is for the feeding and clothing
of one child that we make our appeal; and we would ask those who respond
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the number of years over which they will extend it.
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THE PRIME MINISTER'S HOROSCOPE

Among the " Letters to the Editor" this month there are criticisms
of our judgment on the Prime Minister's horoscope, which seem to
turn upon the question as to whether Mr Lloyd George is a judge of
character, and as to his ideal sensitiveness, etc.
We had no intention of flattering Mr Lloyd George, and had we
dealtmore fully with the judgment, for which we had neither time nor
space, it is quite probable that we should have laid more stress upon
the Moon opposition Uranus and Venus square Mars, the two defective
influences in the nativity. The sensitiveness is shown by the four
planets in Cardinal signs and the " ideal sensitiveness" may be judged
by Mercury trine Saturn, and the Moontelevated in Sagittarius.
We have, in common with many close students of Astrology, been
very disappointed in the sign Aquarius, and have probably expected
more from those born under this sign than they are able to live up to.
We yield to none, however, our belief that Aquarius is a humane sign,
giving the mental qualities necessary for the judgment of human
66 MODERN ASTROLOGY

nature. We hold no brief for Mr Lloyd George, and having no

political bias we are competent to judge his horoscope dispassionately.
We like his map for its versatility, and the favourable blending of the
fixed and cardinal signs; that he is a dreamer of dreams, if not a seer
of visions, we are bound to admit by the nature of the five planets in
airy signs. All that we actually know about the new Prime Minister
is that he has won popularity through the elevation of the Moon over
all the planets, and that he has been fortunate with this popularity
through the Moon sextile Jupiter. We believe that, as stated by one
of his critics, "he has sought to better the conditions of the masses
at the expense of the ' superior classes.' "
Humane Qualities
If the Prime Minister does not exercise those humane qualities
supposed to be latent in the sign Aquarius, we shall be much more
disappointed with the sign. If he fails to work for humanity, with the
opportunities he now has before him, then he will have failed to
respond to what we usually expect from Venus rising in trine aspect to
Saturn and Mercury rising in trine aspect to Uranus from the airy
triplicity. We consider the Aquarian Ascendant, Capricorn Sun, and
Sagittarian Moon to form a very good sequence for a man who has the
power and authority that he now possesses, for it accentuates the air,
fire and earth elements in his nature and causes mind and body to act
in unison.
Applying the idea of the decanates which we use as a test for
certain horoscopes, (see p. 43 of last issue), we find Tf in u 6.24 A 2
and 5 ; 0 in IE 6.49 A S . The test for the Prime Minister will come
from ^ — 7.18 d b and the USl 4.32 settiugS 2 and 5 , the whole of
which is resolved into ^ in the fourth house 8 !)•
From certain methods we employ in judging horoscopes we know
that Mr Lloyd George is a highly evolved Man, and at the same time
a socialist of the new order, the forerunner of many of his kind in the
coming new era.
Self-Control or Self-Seeking ?
Another critic, who writes under the heading of " A Plea for
Universal Astrology," disagrees with the interpretation that was given
of the New Prime Minister's rising sign and planet therein, and makes
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY

the statement that " Self-control would be the last quality one would
judge the native to possess," also that the good influences are
swallowed up by the monster of illusion or self-seeking."
Since a Universal Astrology is asked for, let us consult the wise
Ptolemy on ' The Quality of the Mind.' Venus is rising in conjunction
with Mercury.
" Venus conciliated with Mercury," says Ptolemy, " makes men
lovers of the arts, philosophical, of scientific mind and good genius,
poetical, delighting in learning and elegance, polite, voluptuous,
luxurious in their habits of life, merry, friendly, fitted for various
arts, intelligent, not misled by error, quick in learning, self-
teaching, copious and agreeable in speech, serene and sincere in
manner, delighting in exercise, honest, judicious, high-minded." If it
is contended that this conjunction is not powerful enough to endow the
native with these virtues, then Ptolemy's description of Mercury alone
may suffice. " Mercury alone, having dominion of the mind, and being
in a glorious position (i.e. in the ascendant) renders it prudent, clever,
sensible, capable of great learning, inventive, expert, logical,stncfiows of
nature, speculative, of good genius, emulous, benevolent, skilful in
argument, accurate in conjecture, adapted to sciences and mysteries,
and tractable."
When we consider that Mercury is just separating from the trine
aspect of Saturn and the conjunction of Venus, and is making direct
application to the trine aspect of Uranus we must allow a good
percentage for merit, self-control, and insight into human nature.
Our critic, we think, reveals some bias herself when she demurs to
the trine of Saturn and Uranus on the ground of this being twelve
degrees from completion, and at the same time claims the Moon
square Saturn which is just eleven degrees short. The ponderous
planets have always been allowed a wide orb, and planets in the
same triplicities are more potent in aspect than when formed out of
signs—as from D t 24.32 to'? ^5.32.

' New ' ?—or Old

Since writing the above we have read The 'New' Lloyd George
and the Old, by Mr. E. W. Walters, from which we quote the
following :—
68 MODERN ASTROLOGY

" Forcible, lively, realistic, vivid."

" A thorough man ! And to thoroughness must be added unusual
gifts of courage and tenacity."
" The secret of his power is obvious to all. Indeed it is said that
he wears his heart upon his sleeve. Above all is he hopeful and
courageous. The bigger the task the better he likes it; the higher
the stakes the more heroic the play. He never fears to put his fate
to the touch, and will cheerfully risk his all on a throw."
"That he is a steadfast man goes without saying."
" He looks at life with the eyes of a child."
In looking through this book we are struck with the many allusions to
his life and sayings which fit in with his horoscope. He showed that
he recognised the true value of brains—which he certainly has got—
when he said "although brain, disposition, bias are hereditary, a man
must build up his character."
We may here state, most emphatically, that we have no political
bias, and never have had, and should we be so foolish as to allow our
minds to be biassed when judging a nativity on its merits then the
sooner we retire from the editorial chair of Modern Astrology
the better would it be for the universal science of Astrology.

"CHARLATANS AND HUMBUGS"

Mr Harold Ashton, a journalist on the staff of the Daily Mail,.
has been hunting the " charlatan and humbug," bringing three cases
to the notice of the police who have taken action with drastic effect.
On the merits of these cases we do not propose to enter, for with the
exception of one of them they do not touch Astrology in its pro-
fessional aspect. The exception is the case of Thomas Morgan,
otherwise " Professor Meline," who said he practised palmistry,
clairvoyance and astrology. According to the reported evidence
" prisoner went into a state of semi-coma, his hands twitched and his
eyes closed and kept twitching." Every student of astrology knows
that this is not the attitude of one who uses the scientific methods
required for astrology. A psychic may possibly do such things, but
an astrologer never. This man therefore, whatever he professed, did,
not practise astrology.
 THE EDITOK'S OBSERVATORY 69

We have no sympathy with the professional psychic who claims

to be anything more than a psychic. To be a competent astrologer
one has to devote one's whole mind and attention to the subject, and,
so far as our experience goes, it is not possible to be a psychic and an
astrologer at the same time ; for the simple reason that for the former
the negative and inediumistic qualities are necessary, and in the latter
the positive mental force is required.

Criticism Needed
The newspaper publicity given to the three cases above
mentioned, affecting Thomas Morgan, Madame Brockway, and Mr
I". L. Rawson, has brought us several interesting letters, out of which
we choose the following :
To tht EiHtor oj Modkkn Astrology, London
3, Wilbury Avknue,
Hove, 11.1.17
Dear Sir,
With reference to the heavy fines being imposed on mediums,
palmists and 01 hers for "fortune felling," to what extent is it permissible to
publish criticisms on the published judgment and fines inflicted by magistrates
and others, to show their unfairness and injustice ?
Something should be done to influence public opinion and to prepare the
way for an amendment of the law in connection with the" telling of fortunes."
It seems to me that if those who have some knowledge about such
subjects tand especially when they have no financial interest in fortune
telling, i-e. in palmistry, astrology, etc.), could either by letters to the papers
or direct letters to the magistrates, etc., convey to the material minds of the
latter that there was some truth in these semi-occult sciences, let them
understand that ^50 fines for correctly reading the palms of those who
consult them1 did not rightly interpret the wishes of the country, and that
they would incur some public criticism by such action, they would then be
more inclined to impose less outrageous fines and to interpret the law with a
modicum of common sense.
I am, as you are aware, in no w-ay either professionally or' financially
interested in astrology, palmistry, etc. but I am of opinion that if it was
practicable for students of these subjects to organise a "raid" of this
kind 011 the magistrates whenever they impose ridiculous fines for these
theoretical and technical offences, it might make them more careful what
attitude they adopted when hearing cases.
Yours faithfully,
W. H. S.
(I really wrote this letter for personal information, but it you think it
advisable to publish it you are welcome to do so.)
1
This happened recently at Glasgow.
7° MODEKN ASTROLOGY

So far as we are personally concerned we have no desire to see

the LAW with regard to fortune-telling amended ; the law as framed
was intended to punish rogues and vagabonds, and if any criticism is
necessary with regard to the application of the " Rogues and
Vagabonds" Act, it may be applied to those magistrates who stretch
the meaning of the Act beyond its plain intention."
Through the ignorance of one judge, who made the Act apply to
an astrologer whom he sentenced to imprisonment, Astrology has
unfortunately been associated with fortune-telling ever since, and it
is the duty of every student of Astrology to prove that it has no such
connection.
We cannot afford to lose any opportunity that may be taken to
correct the wrong impression which still exists that Astrology is
fortune-telling. The public must be taught to mistrust the professional
psychic w-ho claims at the same time to be an astrologer, since the
psychic is not always reliable, no matter how good his intentions, for
the astrological reason that planetary influences do not favour
meditunship every day in the week. On some days the so-called
evil influences predominate over those that are termed good.
The suggestion put forth by " W. H. S." that students should
organise an intellectual ' raid' on magistrates whenever outrageous
fines are imposed is a good one, but there is in existence a far more
practical method that may well supplement this suggestion.

The Status of the Astrologer

We believe that psychics generally are represented by clubs,

institutes and journals. It is the duty of these bodies to ascertain
the genuineness of the professional practitioner, and when assured
that a genuine psychic is being persecuted, to defend the victim to the
best of their ability. Psychics as a body are not so separative as
astrologers, and therefore possess more facilities for protection. As
for the charlatan and humbug, no one wishes that he should be
defended, for he is an evil influence in the world and should not be

^ A copy-of the Act (which is known as Gtoree IV v 83) maybe obtained

from Messrs Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, E.G., for CJ.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 71
allowed to impose upon those who are searching for truth, and to this
all right thinking persons must agree.
So far as the Astrological Society and the Astrological Institute
are concerned, we personally know the ability of practically all of its
members. It is the duty of those members to make themselves as
eflicient as possible, in order to win that respect and merit so
necessary, if these bodies are to have any influence in the world in the
future.
We should not have referred to this matter here, but " \V. H. S."
is not alone in wishing to see a better understanding between the
legal authorities and those who practise the occult arts. If we were
to commit ourselves to any suggestion in the matter it would be
expressed in the desire that all practitioners in the future should be
registered. This would mean a recognition of the demand for
divination, etc., and enable the authorities to investigate the claims of
practitioners, and give them an opportunity of judging the status of
the occult arts on their true merits.

Concerning Predictions

There is quite a false notion amongst students to-day with regard

to the tendencies arising out of Ihe progressed horoscope. It is not
only unwise but harmful to make specific ' predictions.' Those who
make them are either not aware, or have forgotten, what Claudius
Ptolemy has said in his first aphorism :
" Judgment m uisbe regulated by thyself as well as by the science; for
it is not possible that particular forms of events should be declared by any
person, however scieiUific ; since the understanding conceives only a general
idea of some sensible event, and not its particular form. It is, therefore,
necessary for him who practises herein to adopt inference. They only who
arc inspired by the deity can predict particulars."
The real truth about the whole matter is this, that those who seek-
to know the future should become their own psychics or astrologers.
Right means of livelihood is one of the great requisites for those who
would tread the path of wisdom, and the responsibility upon those who
take money for interpreting the future is very great indeed, for very
special reasons, the chief being the liability to interfere with another
person's will. There is not a living soul in this world who could have
 MODEUN ASTROLOGY

felt the truth of this statement more than ourselves, and we have no
hesitation in saying that a great deal of our own professional work has
been a sacrifice endured mainly to spread a knowledge of the truth of
astrology.
A LEO CHILD'S COT
One of the reasons given for the study of Astrology in Everybody's
Astrology, states that " It is of inestimable value in the training,
disciplining and educating of children."
Miss Beatrice de Normann in her foreword to " A New Factor in
Education: Astrology" says that 'the first principle in all modern
methods of education is reverence for the individuality of the child,
and a profound conviction that this individuality can best develop
through a discipline the ultimate aim of which is self expression.'
One of the best proofs that our present teaching of Astrology is
fully a century before its time is to be found in the fact that on an
average a dozen horoscopes for adults are cast and judged to one for a
child,—when it should be just the other way about!
With a view to obtaining all the aid that is possible in the
education of children, the Organising Inspector of the Brackenhill
- Children's Theosophical Home is giving lectures on Astrology in
various parts of England and has so far interested herself in children's
welfare as to ask us to cast the horoscopes of those children who enter
the Home. We have consented to give the horoscopes and a
judgment gratis, and intend to interest the members of the
Astrological Institute to such an extent as shall induce them to
add their judgments and eventually take up the task of giving all poor
children a free horoscope.
As already mentioned in the February issue, we have made
ourselves responsible for a " Leo (Si) Cot " in the Brackenhill Home,
and we now call upon all our readers in whom the Leo element pre-
dominates to subscribe toward this child's Cot under the sign Leo;
later on we hope to see another Cot under one of the other signs
established. In every life there will come a time and opportunity
when some unselfish work can be done to assist the Angels who watch
over human destiny, and we know of no better work in this direction
than the education of children.
 THU UDIIOK'S OBSEKVAIOKY 73

Effect of Environment on Character

The data supplied to us of three children admitted to the Home
are as follows :
Sarah A : born 4.28 a.m. 25 August 1906 at Leicester.
Marjorie W : bom 9.20 p.m. 31 January 1909 at Leicester.
Mary L born 2.15 p.m. 28June 1911 at Leicester.
Sarah was born with S124.1 rising; ©^l.S, 1)1116.51, 5 SI 14.18,
?-M5.36, cTSUS^l, LSS4.47, *12.28/-, WW4.40r, Y®11.55.
Marjorie was born with *27.2 rising; ©.x? 10.53, D1114.35, 5 ™28.7,
?Vyi9.14, Jmi2.57r, '?'V'e.l, WVyi8.23, W®15.3r.
Mary was born with •^=26.16 rising; ©®5.45. 3>S1.4.35, 5 n 29.9,
?Sl,20.57, S T 18.22, UmA2r, '? 8 16.40, ^^28.15/-, ^$20.41.
Students desiring to give a judgment on these horoscopes may do
so, and send them to compare with the judgments given by ourselves
and the members of the ASTROLOGICAL INSTITUTE. An epitome of
the whole will then be published later on in these pages, and as the
authorities of the Home will themselves tabulate the leading events in
the children's lives and the various characteristics as they develop,—
which they will compare with the horoscopes,—this should be the
commencement of quite a new epoch in the casting of children's
horoscopes. If the supporters of the Theosophical Educational Trust
Ltd. are earnest in their desire to educate children in character-
building, they, and we, have here a UNIQUE opportunity of studying the
effect of environment on individual horoscopes.
We shall refer to this subject again later on. In the meantime
we shall be glad to hear from those readers who are interested in this
really useful work of rearing and training children from a truly
educational standpoint.

One of our subscribers has written threatening to stop her subscription

if we continue to write about the war, because she is "sick of the warl"
While quite sympathising with this lady we hold that the war has lessons for
us all which we cannot afford to ignore. Our views on the subject will appear
in next month's't Observatory."
An interesting article by Miss Minnie Theobald, entitled "What can
Astrology teach us about Lent," we are obliged through want of space to
bold over till next issue.
Astrological Students' Discussion on " Fate and Freewill."—This
will be resumed next month.
74

Slje Astrological Jieta ^car

Spring Quarter, Sun enters Aries, 21/3/1917, 4.37 a.tn.

zs IS

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The Figore FOR London

X xi xii t ii iii
(') f 22 V3 8 >3 29 K 8 85 n 3
(2) n 7 >322 2:26 82 n 7 U23
(3) D!23 — 23 14 16 7 6 >3 8 = 16
(4) * 4 T 7 W 13 n 17 fflu Jl 6
(i) Berlin (2) Petrograd (3) New York (4) Calcutta
The map for the Spring Quarter supports the map for the previous
Winter Quarter which showed the signs of Peace that were talked so
much about at the beginning of the year.
Mr Lloyd George's rising sign, Aquarius, is on the ascendant at
 THE ASTROLOGICAL NEW YEAR 75
the birth of the astrological New Year at the commencement of Spring,
the place of Mercury in his nativity being moreover this very degree.
This gives the Prime Minister exceptional power, for no less than six
planets come within his ascendant including the Sun and the Moon.
Some strong stroke of genius will surely be exhibited by him, either
in bringing about peace or in the discovery of a plan that will
eventually make for a speedier peace than would otherwise have been
possible.
No less than six heavenly bodies are rising at London, namely
Uranus in Aquarius, Moon, Venus, Mercury, and Mars in Pisces, and
the Sun in Aries; while all except Uranus are also in the ascendant at
Berlin. These are very strong combinations, but a drawback is that
the difficulty of elucidating their precise meaning is in direct propor-
tion to the number of planets involved in these groupings. Such
complex assemblages usually [indicate the end of an old phase and
the beginning of a new one, a period of great changes and fresh
activities.
Our country is more than holding its own and will triumph over
its enemies, but all the nations will be gathering together their forces
for a final struggle on a great scale. Venus rising in its exaltation
would be a real herald of peace and prosperity if it were not for the
conjunction of the Sun and Mercury (ruling the seventh house at
London and Berlin respectively) with Mars; so that the end is not
yet. There will be occasion for public satisfaction and rejoicings and
much popular emotion will be displayed at times : the government will
be strong and popular but everything will turn upon problems arising
out of the war. Expenditure will be very high and the financial
problem serious all over Europe, but efforts will be made at economy,
high prices and expenses will be checked in various directions, and
movements for the relief of small incomes and the poor will be
extended. Naval and aerial successes will be recorded, and the
struggle is especially likely to extend by sea. An increase in the
birth-rate is probable. Problems connected with food, labour and
employment will caufse trouble, especially during April under the
squares to Saturn and Neptune, but trade will be good and the revenue
high.
At Berlin, Venus, Mercury and Mars rise in Pisces, but are in
 MODERN ASTROLOGV

square to the cusp of the midheaven, showing a strong nation but

with division between the people and their rulers, discontent, riots, a
high death-rate, and serious troubles abroad. Jupiter in the second
house shows some improvement in financial prospects, although the
square of Neptune from the sixth threatens ultimate loss followed by
privation among the people. The rising sign, Pisces, is the Kaiser's
midheaven; Venus, Mercury and Mars therein will intensify the
struggle even while attempts are being made for peace. Saturn on
his ascendant foreshadows coming disaster.
At Petrograd, Jupiter rises in Taurus in trine to the cusp of the
midheaven, signifying national success and good fortune.
At New York, Venus, Mercury and Mars are on the cusp of the
fourth house. The president and government will not be fortunate;
foreign troubles will be very serious; underhand attacks from
secret enemies are threatened; personal danger to the president
or some state official ; conspiracies, fires and accidents to
buildings, discontent among the people, reforms demanded and
strikes.
At Calcutta, the Moon and other planets in Pisces will be
culminating. The government will be strong and successful, but
difficult financial questions will arise, and there will be popular
agitation for the removal of grievances.
At the moment of ingress into Aries, the Sun will rise in Poland,
Hungary, Turkey, and Greece ; culminate in the East Indies and
China; set in the Pacific Ocean, and be on the nadir in East Canada.
Jupiter in Taurus will benefit Ireland during its four-and-a-half months
stay therein ; but Mercury and Mars in Pisces will disturb Portugal
and cause discontent and foreign troubles.
The large number of planets angular at London makes any
weather prediction from the map very uncertain ; it is probable that
the temperature will be slightly lower than the average, but the
weather as a whole very changeable and unsettled, with
much wind.
Five planets in watery signs points to increased naval activity,
to struggle by sea and on the coasts, but with many
casualties.
 THE ASTROLOGICAL NEW YEAR 77

NEW MOON, 23/3/1917, 4.5 a.»(.

x xi xii ii iii
(1) / 3 i 21 Irj g a 2 T 2 »10
(2) / 22 n 8 W 29 K 8 B 5 03
(3) W 7 V322 a if) « 2 II 7 1123
(4) 1523 ^23 tiuO TO 19 8 a 16
(1) London (2) Berlin (3) Petrograd (4) New York
G J) S ? 2f I? IJI t)
T1.57 K25.33 K23.il K27.14 B7.20 252340 a22.o Sl2.i3r
At the time of New Moon the positions are so very similar to
those at the Spring Quarter two days before that it hardly seems
necessary to add anything to what has just been stated. Neptune
exactly setting and in good aspect to the luminaries should conduce to
success abroad and the triumph of our forces and our diplomacy,
nevertheless we must guard against secret enemies, spies, and
treachery within our own land or near to us. The luminaries on the
second cusp are fortunate for business and money matters and for
international financial relations; the monetary interests of several
countries will be very closely associated and will influence each other
in a marked degree; expenditure will be very heavy, but means of
raising money will be found.
The place of the lunation falls as follows and is fortunate for the
allies.
King GeOhgh b Asc a J Emperor Austria d 9 S Asc
Czar B 7/ a King Italy a9
D. Lloyd George b "J' Pope □ <r

New Year's Day

On page 4, last January, we gave reasons why a map of the
heavens for the first minute of the New Year should be regarded as a
sort of horary map answering the question put by the world at large :
What will be the fate and fortune of the coming year ? And we
illustrated this by a map for 1/1/1914, 0.0. a.m. at London, in which
the danger of war was shown very clearly.
In continuation of this idea we append particulars of the"
corresponding map for the present year, 1/1/1917, 0.0. a.m. at London.
x xi xii i ii iii
25915 15 "PM ^7.6 'a 2 / 3
G j s? d n h v
1910.1 TI6.ii >929.10 /12.1 1923.20 T25.38 2528.29 S!ri7-34 .(14-8
78 MODERN ASTRODOGY

An inspection of this map will show that it agrees very well with
events so far as things have gone up to the present. The most
important event at the beginning of the year was the German
Emperor's offer of peace and its rejection by the Allies; and in
accordance with this there are seen the Moon and Jupiter both in the
seventh house, the house of peace or war, and going to conjunction.
If this stood alone it would be a strong indication of actual peace ; but
as it is, Jupiter has no good aspect and receives squares from Mercury
and Mars in the fourth house and Saturn in the midheaven, while
Mercury and Mars are both in opposition to Saturn. It was obviously
impossible for peace to come under such influences as these. The lord
of the seventh house, Mars, is also lord of the second, money; it is
seriously afflicted by the opposition of Saturn and the square of Jupiter,
although strong from being in its exaltation, so that although
expenditure is disastrously heavy the end of our resources has not yet
been reached. This heavy affliction of the fourth house is also
significant in connection with the great explosion at a munitions factory
near London on January 19. There are many other points that are of
interest in the map, but for the sake of space we will leave it to
students to examine these and subsequent events as they occur.

The serious munitions works explosion with much damage and loss
of life which occurred on January 19th at the east f London is
accounted for in the map of the Lunar Eclipse, January 7th. Mars
was rising in Capricorn iu opposition to Saturn setting in Cancer. On
the day of the explosion the Sun was passing from the opposition of
the place of Saturn to the conjunction with the place of Mars. If the
ascendant be directed to the place of the progressed Saturn in the way
described in the manual Mundcine Astrology, allowing four minutes of
Sidereal Time for each day elapsed, the direction Asc 3 bp measures
to two days from the event. If the map for the Winter Quarter be
referred to, Sun opposition Saturn measures to the exact date, and
Mercury opposition Saturn to within 24 hours.
We have previously pointed out that the peace overtures from
the Kaiser and the Peace Note from President Wilson coincided with
the rising position of Venus nearly all over Europe at the Winter
 THE ASTROLOGICAL NEW YEAR 79
Quarter. This was followed by the Lunar Eclipse of 8/1/T7 with
Mars rising in opposition to Saturn setting, and by the Solar Eclipse
of 23/l/'17 with Mercury rising in opposition to Saturn setting, thus
flatly contradicting the peaceful indications of the Quarterly map.
The rejection by the Allies of the Kaiser's peace overtures agreed
precisely with these indications. The mild weather at the beginning
of the Winter Quarter, and the cold and stormy weather accompanying
the two Eclipses also fulfilled our anticipations.
Food regulations and control are new experiences in this country
and call for attention from the astrological point of view. They come
apparently under the signs Cancer and Virgo (chiefly the former) and
the corresponding fourth and sixth houses, which together rule those
parts of the body that digest and absorb food. The sign Cancer was
seriously afflicted by the presence of a badly aspected -Saturn at the
Winter Quarter and in the maps immediately following, when a Food
Controller was appointed and his various regulations came into force.
If this idea is correct, the presence of Jupiter in Cancer in 1918-19
should lift this burden from the country.

Born in a Strekt-Car.—Tlie fabled stork has (he reputatiou of being

inconsiderate in the matter of delivery of his bounties; his eccentricities,
while happily not frequent as to time and place, the area of his operations
appears to be unlimited, and he has the habit occasionally of mocking the
desires of those upon whom he confers his favours. The ship and the train
have been usual in the course of his activities, and now the street-car has
been added to the list in Winnipeg.
The Arliugton line has the Winnipeg record in this respect. The stork
appeared on hoard at ^ o'clock yesterday morning (4/14/1916), to the great
surprise of Mrs B. Bass, who was on her way to the maternity hospital,
expecting, however, to meet the bird there. Fortunately Mr Bass was with
her, and on the appearance of the noble bird, the passengers paid it the
respect due, giving it and the lady it desired to honor and her attendants the
monopoly of the car. The line was blocked only about 20 minutes, Mr Bass
in the meantime having secured the hospital ambulance.
The new arrival was a girl, strong and healthy. The mother, too.
according to a report from the hospital early this morning, is doing well,
Mr Bass, father of the child, is a dairyman at St. Vital.—Maniluba Free
Press, s/i2/'i6.
The correspondent who sends this cutting adds: "The time used in
Manitoba is Standard Time. I presume that the time given as 7 a.m. is not
exact but it will be nearly correct."
We are very grateful to readers who take the trouble to send us such
items as these, and nope they will have many imitators.
8o

SEar

By G. E. Sutcliffe,
Author of " The Foundations of Physical Astrology "

V.—The Cosmic Forces and the World War

[continued from p. 59)

EVENTS DURING THE DECADE PRECEDING THE WAR

Turning now to the coarse of events, we find that in 1905, about

the beginning of the above series of adverse 'directions, the Dark
Powers, acting through Germany as a vehicle, made a desperate effort
to bring on a European War, and were foiled.
The great French statesman, Theophile Delcassd, who had
smoothed over the Fashoda Incident of September 21 1898, which
threatened war between England and France, had followed up his
success by establishing the Entente with England in 1904: Ency.
Britt., XI Edition, vii 953. Moreover the idea of a war of revenge
for the loss of Alsace-Lorraine in 1870, was practically abandoned by
the French in that same year 1904; see A General Sketch of the
European War, by Hillaire Belloc, p. 51. There were possibilities
therefore that a war in Europe might be deferred indefinitely, and in
fact altogether avoided. In the following year, 1905, Germany made
a deliberate attempt to provoke a war with France over Morocco,
although Count Bulow, the German Secretary of State for foreign
affairs, had declared about September 1904 that Germany had no
interests that were endangered in Morocco: Ency. Britt., XI, xviii,
858.
The act of provocation was perpetrated by the German Emperor,
and I have reason to believe that it was in 1904-5 that he had to make
the " Great Choice " previously referred to, and chose wrongly. A
study of the Kaiser's progressed horoscope for that period is very
illuminative.
 THE GREAT WAR 8r

The Guardian of the Threshold

The primary directions for that period are not available, but the
•secondary directions and the transits are indicative of amoral struggle.
We must remember that the battle ground of our higher and lower
natures is the kama-manasic plane, or rather the narrow channel
between this and manas, called in the East ' antahkarana ': Sec. Doc.
iii 511. This channel between the higher and lower natures of man
is governed by Saturn, the terrible " Guardian of the Threshold."
Saturn and Satan are identical; {ib. ii 245).
Among the Gods is none Hike unto him, into whose hands are committed
the kingdoms, the power aud the glory of the worlds :
Thrones and empires, the dynasties of kings, the fall of nations, the birth
of churches, the triumphs of Time.
Satan is the door-keeper of the Temple of the King ; he standeth in
Solomon's porch ; he holdeth the Keys of the sanctuary ;
Stand in awe of him, and sin not: speak his name with trembling.
For Satan is the magistrate of the Justice of God, hebeareth the balance
and the sword.
For to him are committed Weight and Measure and Number.
Satan is the minister of God, Lord of the seven mansions of Hades, the
Angel of the manifest Worlds.
And God hath put a girdle about his loins, and the name of the girdle is
Death.
Upon Satan only is the shame of generation.
He encompasseth with bonds and limits all things.
Twain are the armies of God : in heaven the hosts of Michael; in the
abyss the legions of Satan.
And both are the ministers of the Father, fulfilling the Word divine.
Holy and venerable is the Sabbath of God: blessed and sanctified is
the name of the Angel of Hades. (ibid. pp. 243-5)
This moral battlefield governed by the planet Saturn is the region
where the Secondary Directions have been shown to be dominant ;
see p. 270 of last volume. Hence combined with the transits we
may take them as indicative of the period when this moral struggle
took place in the case of the Emperor of Germany.

The Turning Point

Both the course of events and the astrological configuration point
to 1904-5 as the time when this struggle took place, and the relation-
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ship between the directions in the World Horoscope, and the horoscope-
of the emperor, are of great astrological interest. It is to be expected
that the man who has been the instrument of precipitating the most
appalling war of all time should have his nativity linked with that of
the era in a way that is very marked. This we shall find to be the
case. The following are the secondary directions operating in the
horoscope of the Kaiser in part of 1904-5.
The Kaiser's Secondary Directions Transits of Jovian Planets
1904 June ? dO- 1904 June 1 ij stat * ?
1904 July © dV 1904 June 1 11 □ Asc
1904 Aug P A MC 1904 June '3 11 enters xl house
1904 Aug p d Asc 1904 June 15 Vl A 5
1904 Sept p A A G p 1904 Oct 20 > stat a u
1904 Dec PAP 1904 Oct 28 It A f
1905 Jan P A cf T904 Nov zo It 0 Asc
1905 Mar p « y 1904 Dec 16 it stat □ Asc
1905 May « * 13 1905 Jan 10 11 □ Asc
1905 July Gd.J 1905 Feb I It A 9
1905 Aug »* y p 1905 Feb 16 *1 * *
1905 Sept p f G 1905 Mar IZ •top
1905 Oct P d •? 1905 Apr Qy
1905 Apr 9 h oO
1905 Apr '7
The progressed Sun was in conjunction with the radical MC-
in August 1902, and from that time onward is in the tenth
house. Just as the Moon in the MC brings a personal culmination,
the Sun in the MC may be interpreted as a spiritual culmination.
The usual effect is to bring honour to the native. To the German
Emperor it brought a choice of two honours, diametrically opposite
in character, the one spiritual and the other material, the one
offered by Neptune, the Ray of the World-Teacher, and the other
offered by Mars, the God of War, both of which planets are in
conjunction near to the MC. For a first approximation we may locate
the time when the Kaiser made his choice as somewhere between July
1904, when the progressed Sun was in conjunction with Neptune, and
May 1908, when it was in conjunction with Mars. In August 1904
we find the progressed Moon in conjunction with the Ascendant,twhiclv
marks the beginning of a new cycle of life. It implies some important
change in the outlook or environment. It is a parting of the ways, and
a choice of some kind which will affect the whole future must here be
made.
Very powerful influences for good are now operating on tha
 THE GREAT WAR
emperor from the cosmic centres, for not only is the Sun in conjunction
with Neptune, but the progressed Moon is trine with the same planet
(Sep 1904), trine also with the MC (Aug 1904), and trine with its
radical position (Dec 1904). It is a contest as to which shall be the
emperor's ruling planet, Neptune or Mars. In this contest the
honours are fairly divided. Neptune is nearer to the MC and is in
Pisces, its ruling sign, it is also in closer trine with the Ascendant.
But on the other hand Mars is in exact trine with the Moon. This
at the moment is toned down by the fact that the progressed Mars is
now out of aspect, and has left the sign Aries where it is strong, and
entered Taurus (Feb 1904), the house of Venus, the love star. The
progressed Venus is in conjunction with the radical Sun (June 1904).
Neptune by progression is closer in trine with the radical Moon, only
2° 15' from exact trine, whilst Mars has moved quite away.
Surely there could be no belter opportunity of transferring
allegiance from the God of War to the Prince of Peace ?'

The Choice:—Neptune, or Mars?

Decide quickly, O Emperor, before the sound of the war drums O * h in

radix
can reach thine ears. The transit Saturn, that enemy of thy spiritual
nature, is at presentstationary in trine with Jupiter, thy spiritual guide. 20/10/1904
Thy soul's Adversary is quiescent for the moment, cling to the
Saviour. Thou hast truly said "the whole of human life hinges Speech at_
simply and solely on our attitude towards our Lord and Saviour." A of his son.
king's word is his bond, go not back on it, cling to the Saviour.
Everything is favourable for thee to choose the path of Love, the XI. xxviii.668
transit Jupiter is trine with the Love Star. Even the cosmic forces 28/10/1904
of the World's Nativity are favouring thee, for thy progressed Moon
is there trine with Jupiter, and thy progressed Mars with Venus. Nov 1904
1904
What hinders thee from deciding now, O King, whilst the best that is
in thee is uppermost ? Is it that the transit Jupiter is square with
thy Ascendant, and stationary there ? And as thy progressed Moon 20/11/1904
is on the Ascendant, to mark the new cycle that begins for thee, it is 1)60 l6th
1 In the paragraphs that follow, the prevailing influences and critical dates are
entered in margin, as nearly as possible in line with the sentence to which they
relate.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
square to that as well. But what of that ? it merely means thou
hast to surrender the lower and lake the higher, to sacrifice the
military show and pomp that inflate thy pride, and make thee feared
instead of loved. Surely the exchange is in thy favour ; " One needs
must love the highest when they see it." Is it not thy fondest hope to
be known in history as " der Frietlenskaiser," the Peace Emperor ?
Then choose Neptune, the vehicle of the Prince of Peace, as thy
ruling planet. Make thy Mars subordinate, let it serve thee instead
of being thy ruler. Let it make of thee a Soldier of the Christ.
Hasten thy decision, for Chronos waits not even for au Emperor.
The transit Jupiter square with thy Ascendant again is frightening
thee. Russia, whom thou fearest, is at death grips with Japan
on the fields of Mukden, and glimmerings of possible World-
Dominion are weakening thy nobler resolutions. Still there is hope
if thou wilt hasten. Await not February as that is dangerous, for
though the transit Jupiter is trine with Venus, as also is the transit
Saturn, thy relationship with the World-Horoscope in that month is
bad.
So far thou hast escaped,— the dangerous month of February has
passed, and thou hast not yet fallen, the transit Jupiter has entered
thy eleventh house, the house of friends. But the transit Mars is in
trine with thy MC, and with thy Ascendant,and is whispering to thee
of the glories of war. Still, although thou regardest thy subjects as
" the salt of the earth," thou declarest that the aim of the Hohenzollerns
is "a world-wide dominion founded upon conquests not gained by the
sword, but by the mutual confidence of nations that press towards the
same goal." Think not too much of world-dominion, O King, for the
day of thy probation cometh, when the transit Saturn is square with
Sunday, thy radical Moon, and near the close of that day, thou wilt be offered
12/3/1905,
11.26 p.m. all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, if thou wilt fall
m.e.t. being
the time of the down and worship thy tempter. Thou art on the eve of it, and the
square aspect transit Sun is on thy zenith. Go down on thy knees, and spend the
night in prayer, appeal to thy " Divine Ally," for none but He can
save thee.
Tomorrow is the fatal Sunday, keep it holy. Let it be
the holiest day of thy life. Shut thyself off from the world, receive
no news, open no telegrams. For news from outside will weaken thee,
 THE GREAT WAR 85
when thou needest all thy strength. The Japanese are shouting Great victory
. . of the Japan-
joyfully because of victory, and thy rival nation, (Russia), is humbled ese at Muk-
to the dust. Let not this news reach thee till Tuesday the I4th,when den IO/4/I905
thy strength may be equal to it. Rule thy stars, Great King, for only Transit O
the fool obeys them. Play off one against the other. Thy progressed ^
Sun is still conjoined with Neptune near thy zenith, and on Tuesday March 14th
next the transit Sun will enhance their strength. Hold on like grim Transit o rf
q p and
death, and let thy Higher Self prevail, for the fate of many nations March 14th
hangs on thy decision.
Alas, thou hast fallen! and with thy fall a mighty civilisation
shall totter to its ruin.
" For then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the
beginning of the world to this time, no, nor never shall be. And
except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be
saved " : Matt, xxiv 21-22.
" Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habita-
tion of devils, . And the kings of the earth shall
bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of
her burning And the merchants of the earth shall weep
and mourn over her; Standing afar off for the fear of her
torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty
city ! for in one hour is thy judgement come " : i?ev. xviii.

Reasons for this Inference

The foregoing inference that the moral fall of the Kaiser centred
about the date March 12 1905, is based on the astrological data, and
on the trend of events about that time. In 1904 the policy of Germany
towards Russia had been very conciliatory and friendly, so much so
that Bebel denounced the policy, which he described as " crawling on
her stomach before Russia " : Ency. Britt. XI, xi, 896, In the same
year 1904 " the German attitude towards Great Britain had been in
the highest degree conciliatory; the Anglo-French agreement as to
Egypt was agreed to at Berlin ; a visit of King Edward VII to Kiel
was reciprocated by that of the German squadron to Plymouth; in
July a treaty of arbitration was signed between the two countries " ;
ibid.
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But after the battle of Mukden on March 10 1905 the attitude of
Germany underwent a marked change, which took the form of "an
-extraordinary demonstration of the emperor William's ideas as to the
world-wide dominion of the Hohenzollerns, in a sort of imperial
progress in the East, made for the purpose of impressing the
Mahommedan world with the power of Germany " ; ibid.
On March 31 1905 the emperor William landed at Tangier and
began an attack upon French interests in Morocco; ibid.
The transits for this period are significant. On April 4 Mars
was stationary on his radical Moon. On April 8 and 9 he had
respectively Saturn square Uranus and Jupiter square Sun, whilst on
April 17 he had Saturn square Saturn.

A Change of Tune
Both the astrological evidence and the course of events point
clearly to the fact that the moral attitude of the Kaiser had undergone
a complete change sometime between the beginning and end of March
1905, and that the cause of the change was the battle of Mukden on
March 10. As there was a clustering of transits on sensitive points of
the nativity on March 11-12, which would also be the time when the
news of the disaster to the Russian army would reach him, I think
we may confidently put our finger on March 12 as the probable day
when this most momentous decision was come to.
This aggressive policy in Morocco "was firmly resisted by M.
Delcasse, the French minister of foreign affairs, and for a while war
seemed to be inevitable. At Berlin powerful influences—notably that
of Herr von Holstein, that mysterious omnipotence behind the throne
—were working for this end ; the crippling of Russia seemed too
favourable an opportunity to be neglected for crushing the menace of
French armaments. That an actual threat of war was conveyed to
the French government (through the German ambassador at Rome it
is said), there can be no doubt. . The price of peace,
however, was the resignation of M. Delcasse " : ibid.
At a meeting of the French cabinet it was found on inquiry that
France was quite unprepared for war, and to save his country from
inevitable disaster M. Delcasse sent in his resignation. Thus did
 THE GREAT WAR 8?
Germany dictate to the proud French nation as to ho should be her
ministers.
War Averted in 1903
It will be noticed that this attempt to provoke a war in Europe
was at the beginning of the series of square aspects in the world
horoscope formed by the progressed Moon, and the transit Saturn. If
war had occurred at that time, the present Allies would have been
conquered consecutively, and Germany would rapidly have become
the arbiter of Europe; for Russia was still at war with Japan, as the
treaty of peace was not signed between the two belligerents until
September 5 1903, and the entente with England was not finally
established. This disaster was avoided by the self-sacrifice of
Delcasse. The post of honour of being the Saviour of Europe by an
act of sacrifice, having been refused by the German emperor, was
given to another. The Dark Powers, therefore, who acting through
their newly acquired instrument the German empercr made a
desperate effort to precipitate the war in 1903, when all the advantages
were in their favour, were out-manoeuvred by the Occult Hierarchy.

Edward VII and Wilhelm 11 as

THE AGENTS OF PEACE AND WAR

Another attempt of the Dark Powers was made in 1908, at the

end of the series of square aspects above referred to. At that time the
emperor's progressed Sun was in conjunction with his radical Mars,
which was now his ruling planet, (May 1908). In the intervening
period, whilst the series of square aspects were operating, the Occult
Hierarchy who were making for peace, and the Dark Powers who
were making for war, appear to have had for their principal instruments
two members of the same family—King Edward the Seventh, who
had at this time acquired the name of the Peacemaker, and his nephew
the German emperor, whose efforts were to precipitate war. The
different functions of these two monarchs are strikingly shown by the
aspects formed by their progressed Moons on the world-horoscope
during this critical period, 1905-8, the aspects being with the same
•sensitive points.
88 MODKRN ASTROLOGY
Aspects of tfie Progressed Moon in the Nativities of King Edward VII
and the Emperor of Germany, with the Radical Positions
of the Planets in the World-Horoscope
King Edward the Seventh The German Emperor
1905 June D * 3/ 1906 Dec P O 2/
1905 Sept D A Asc 1907 Aug D enters xii house
1906 July D*f 1907 Dec D a '1'
1906 Oct D * O and D 190S Feb J o O and ])
1907 May D*B 1908 Sept DOS
1907 Sept D*J 1909 Jan D □ <f
1907 Nov D * '? 1909 Feb D o >2
1907 Dec D □ 2/ 1909 Apr } □!()
1908 Jan D AH) 1909 May D □ MC
I90S Mar ]) A MC 1909 Aug pa?
1908 June D**
The aspects made by the progressed Suns are also significant;—
King Edward the Seventh The German Emperor
igog Jan 0*2/ (World-Horoscope) 1907 Aug 0 □ 11 (World-Horoscope)
1908 May O << cf r
1908 Dec 0 o MC (World-Horoscope)
1909 July O Asc ,, ,,
igit Nov O o 4 ,,
The above series serves to show that in the case of tnonarchs, and
great leaders of world-movements, it is not sufficient to compare the
progressed aspects with the horoscope of the native, but that this should
be supplemented by a comparison with the world-horoscope. The
world-horoscope thus supplies the missing link in Mundane Astrology.
In further illustration of this we find that in December 1899, or
at the beginning of the new era, the German emperor's progressed
Neptune was in exact square with the radical Saturn in the world-
horoscope, and that is quite characteristic of his function as a vehicle
for the Dark Powers.
On the other hand the Anglo-Russian agreement of 1907 was
largely due to the policy of King Edward, and the entente with France
was promoted by his influence, notably by his reception of President
Falli&res in England in 1908; Eitcy. Hritt. viii 999. " The
strengthening of British influence in Europe, which was the marked
result of the Anglo-French and Anglo-Russian ententes, and of the
closer ties between England and other countries like Portugal and
Spain, had, indeed, temporarily the effect of rousing German suspicion
But in February 19092 the King and Queen paid a state
visit to the Kaiser in Berlin, where the greatest cordiality was
displayed on all sides " : {ibid.).
a
King Edward's O pand < p both * 1/ in World-Horoscope.
 Xttters to tl)f (Efiilor

HINTS TO CORRESPONDENTS.—Letters of general interest only are

inserted. Writers of signed articles are alone responsible for the opinions contained
therein. Correspondents desiring acknowledgment or reply will please enclose a
stamped addressed envelope.
Letters are inserted at the earliest possible opportunity, but are sometimes
unavoidably held overthrough lack of space. Correspondents will pleaseremember
(i) that nil communications should be written upon one side of the paper only;
(ii) that planetary posilions, as will as birth dnla. should be given where possible;
(hi) that information should Ire put as concisely as is compatible with clearness.
Neglect of these considerations may cause otherwise valuable letters to be
.excluded from these pages. Space at the present time is exceptionally scarce.

THE APPEAL FOR BIRTH-DATA

Dear Sir,
The response to my appeal for Birth-Data in the August
Number of Modern Astrology lias been very good, and I wish.to
thank all for the interest they have shown in this particular branch of
the work of the Astrological Institute.
Fnrticulars Required
Family Surname Place of native's I3irth
Father's Christian Names* Time (state a.m. or p.m., and if g.m.t. or otherwise)
Mother's Cluistian Names" Day. Month and Year of birth
Mother's Maiden Name" Full Christian Names and Surname of native
I have had many sympathetic letters, and this not only gives me
courage to continue but also to ask for more and still more Birth-
Data. Last time I sent out cards placed in the Magazine with my
letter; owing to the high price of paper I am not doing so this time,
since many are thus lost, but above are the particulars 1 require which
can be sent written on sheets of paper. But I shall be glad to
forward printed cards to any who write to me. for them. Some who
have kindly asked for these have not given me their addresses, so I
have been unable to send them any.
Astrological Institute, Yours truly,
2, Upper Woburn Llace, F. Mary Head,
London, W.C. Recorder of Birth-Data

* I am aware some are unable to give the parentage of the native but in cases
where this is so, I am still glad to have the data. However, these cases have been
in the minority, most having sent me all I asked for.
 MODliKN ASTROLOGY

THE PRENATAL EPOCH

I.
Dear Sir,
In reply to your footnote to my letter (p. 63), if your
correspondent will submit a rational test in which the true principles
of the epoch are involved, I shall be pleased to do my best to satisfy
him. So long, however, as he asks me to undertake a test on his own
misconceptions of the theory, I have no alternative but to decline.
With reference to the nativity of King George, may I point out
that the rectification appears in Chap. XX., " Illustrations of long and
short period births," on page 119 of my work on the Epoch. The
rectified horoscope also appeared in the British Journal of Astrology for
February 1916, page 92. The rectified time is Ih. 20m. 6s. a.m., a very
slight difference from the bulletin lime of 1.18 a.m. Mr A. J. Pearce
now gives the rectified ascendant as TO.13 which makes the birth time
3m. earlier than recorded.
Yours faithfully,
E. H. Basley,
61, Fleet Street, E.G. Editor, B.J.A.
II.
Dear Sir,
When in my recent letter to you re the Prenatal Epoch and
rectification (p. 30) I wrote that I hoped Mr Bailey would take up my
challenge, I expected my hopes would be frustrated. Mr Bailey's
reply—or rather article, because it is not a reply in the true sense of
the word—in the Feb number of the H.J.A. has proved the truth of my
previsions. But, to be quite, candid, I did not expect that he would
clutch at so poor a pretext.
The first time, he refused the test on the ground that it was
"absurd and ambiguous" ; that " the Epoch alone will not determine
the birth time when the time is not known and that an estimated time
must first of all be obtained by reference to past events." Your readers
know that I gave him satisfaction so far as approximate times and
events are concerned.1 Now he takes the pretext that there is nearly
three hours' difference between the times as given to him and those
published in ill.A., an objection I had foreseen and explained in my
letter.4 This he calls a "fake"! The times communicated to Mr
Bailey were, according to his statement—which I cannot control but
have no reason to doubt3:
The difference between the A, A' times is 2h. 58in.; that between
yl 4-20 p.m. I A'1.22 p.m.3
i? 1.56 p.m. Those given in .U./L were 1/>'4.53 p.m.
3
• See p. 31 January.
5
Paae 30, foctr.ote 2.
This permutation of times is rather curious, in the case.
 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
the B, B' times 2h. 57in.; which does not however mean that there
is a difference of 2h. 58iii. and 2li. 57/". respectively between the
EXACT times and the APPROXIMATE ones, as Mr Bailey seems to
imply when he says: altered within the margin of error
in ordinary birth records, the said margin being nearly three hours, an
utterly absurd and egregious error."*
From a professional astrologer, through whose hands a good
many birth data must have passed, the objection is startling. Why,
in my own collection of birth times, in a batch of European nativities
taken at random, and whose data have been stated as known within a
certain margin,' I find :
Time staled as ;—absolutely exact in h.in.s. ami Urilhs of a secomi in o'oi per cent.
,, ,, h.tu.s. 0 03
,, uubnoii'ii o og ,,
known within 12 hours {i.e. C a.m. or G p.m.) 013 tl
known within 15 minutes of error 0 28
(T ft 2/(73 hours of error i*or 9r n
,, 30 jninu/es of ermr ,,
„ ,, 3 to 6 hours of error 1*85 ,,
staled as * morninX,'' afternoon,' ' evening• ni^ht' 218 lt
known within 1 hour 3 0S ,,
Anybody who has dealt with birth-data from South America, Russia,
Hungary, Turkey, Armenia, China, etc., knows the incertitude that
reigns in these countries regarding the birth-times." But the objection
is all the more startling when one sees in every recent issue of the
B.J.A. an advertisement in which Mr Bailey informs his readers that
he ". . . offers to calculate the epochs and correct birth times' for
the following fees :—
0 0
1 Epoch and correct hinhtime when timeis known. Fee 2s. 61I.
" 2° Calculation of the hirthtime when time i> nnknown.1 1Fee 5s.
** I'aniculars required in both cases ; date, time [if known) and place of birlh,
"sex and dates and particnlars of two or ihrce events."
As your readers are aware, I have provided Mr Bailey with all the
above mentioned particulars (plus the indication of the place of
conception), and, in the case of 'A,' with the only event that happened,
viz. her own death, a very important item, being the only event of so
short a life.
If Mr Bailey objects to the discrepancies between the birth
times as giv en to him and to you, why does he not treat ' A' 's nativity
as being " time unknown " and rectify it as he, claims in his advertise-
ment to be able to do ? I am even willing, should he undertake the
work, to. pay him his fee of 5s., provided that, within a reasonable
space of time, the limits of which he shall be free to decide, the
result of his efforts will be made known through his or your magazine.

B.J.Ap. 50.
'*• I purposely leave aside ihose whose daia are slated as " exact " according to
the birth-record—and which never are : (see M.A. Jan. '17, p. 10).
6
A coloured genlleman in Madagascar once wrote 7
to me that he was born
*' when the cows come back from the ford " ! Italics mine.
 MODEKJf ASTROLOGY
What more can 1 do? What new objection can he raise ? Of
course, if Mr Bailey entrenches himself behind a " too proud to
fight " - excuse—as I expect he will, But then one will
expect Mr Bailey to be also too proud to continue blowing his own
trumpet, i.e. his pseudo "scientific" astrology, and advertising a
method of rectification the value of which he dares not test publicly.
9, Rue de Beaujolais, Paris IP. Yours very sincerely,
29/l/,17. Georges Lajuzax-Vigneau.
[Wecannot prolong this controversy: space istoo scarce. Readershave
now the statements of both partiesand must judge for themselves.—Ed.]

MR LLOYD GEORGE'S HOROSCOPE

I.
Deak Sir,
Your exceedingly laudatory summing up of the new Prime
'Minister's character from his horoscope, is hardly likely I fear to
convert sceptics to the truth of Astrology.
Granting that Mr Lloyd George possesses undoubted energy and
will power, there is no sign of the " ideal sensitiveness" you mention
in the man whose suggestions as to the part Mr Asquith was to play
in the " War Cabinet," were too humiliating for that gentleman to
accept and led to his resignation.
Then again Mr Lloyd George is not accepted by a large number-of
the proletariat as by any meansa " dispassionate judge of men." You
speak of "his splendid ability to judge human nature dispassionately."
Ask the Clyde workers in regard to the stoppage of certain
socialist papers that ventured to criticise Mr Lloyd George ; and also
about the deporting of certain trade-unions leaders, and see if they will
not very effectually contradict your reading.
Certainly you convey a slight hint of the nature of the man when
you mention that one of the aspects in his horoscope is "menacing to
those who clash with his ideals"—though ideals is I venture to think
hardly a suitable word to use. Surely there is another less flattering
side to Mr Lloyd George's horoscope ? A writer in the Occult
Review states that judging from his horoscope the Prime Minister is
" not richly endowed with prudence or discretion," and predicts a
stormy time ahead for him. Your usual manner of dealing with the
horoscopes of public people is characterised by a much more judicial
tone, but possibly your evident admiration for Mr Lloyd George has
in this case biassed your judgment. Personally I hold no brief for or
against Mr Lloyd George, I am only a student of Astrology and of
human nature.
Wrigwell Nurseries, Ipplepew, Yours faithfully,
Newton Abbot, S. Devon. Hylda Ball.
(Author of A Vase of Clay, A Star Astray, etc.)
 LETTICRS TO THE EDITOR 93

II.

A Plea for Universal Astrology

Dear Sir,
On reading the superficial, biassed interpretation in MODERN
Astrology for January, of the New Prime Minister's Horoscope,
one queries whether much advance in the innermost truths of. this
Science will be made while we continue to interpret nationally
instead of universally—politically instead of cosmically ; sowing
Chaos instead of Eros.
A recent letter from a friend touched on this point, thus:—
" Astrology must be simplified. At present we have so many factors
that one can find exactly what one wishes. This was proved when
the war broke out, for the German astrologers found what they
wanted in the Kaiser's horoscope, and the English astrologers found
what they wanted—the two results were opposite." I think it must
be admitted that the treatment of the New Prime Minister's horoscope
is very different from the reading that would have been given in the
same magazine, if the same horoscope had represented a Minister of
an enemy country.
As a student of Astrology, I believe that a Catholic foundation
is the bed-rock which will re-found Astrology as a Universal Scientific
Ileligion; embracing and harmonising all religions, because it
interprets and contains all.
An extract from page 19 reads: "The special feature of the
horoscope is the rising of the planets 2 and 5 on the cusp of the
Ascendant in This shows merit, self-control, and a remarkable
insight into human nature."
Self-control would be the last quality one would judge the native
to possess. With 0 o i? and and 2 o i?, D o '? to detriment
the ^ between 0 and b , [sr'c] and the significant position of 5 in a
mutable sign, in the 10th, and ^ also in a mutable sign in the +th : (by
the way ^12° from A to •? can hardly be judged as a).
Here is a chart indicating brilliant intellect; one swift to grasp
and adjust particulars and generals; unconventional and original—
note remarkable airy triplicit^, almost A , and A ? ; but all this
detrimented by the ominous ' personal equation " ; the ideals of " the
good of the many " and of justice being swallowed up by the monster
of illusion, or self-seeking.
This chart is typical of the present state of civilisation, where
intellect, genius, science and to an extent art, are still subservient to
the " Beast," not yet having risen, Phcenix-like, purified to the service
of " Man." Sensation, illusion, and animal tendencies stifling the
aspirations of the embryo " Man."
The preponderance of sensation over the refinements of intellect,
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
—for native's horoscope shows a keenly artistic nature, and if this
predominated he would be truly "the Man," but the subtle J in the
10th; plus in T in the 1st; and V o J from fixed signs,—can
allow the lowering of the idsal standard to play to the " gallery " of
popular sentiment; with ability to mould and hypnotise it ; using
terms that draw out its most animal instincts, " fight-to-a-knock-out,"
etc. The protean geuius is displayed in the swift ascent to popularity.
Having won "the gallery," the "stalls "are played to successfully,
in that the native's passion of energy—^ in b—has gained entrance
into the ' china-shop" of treasured conservatism, trampling down
barriers, creating precedents, which the "patrician " as readily accepts
as did the " proletariat." I say did, as the horoscope shows skill in
commencing but no stability to accomplish. His the power to dis-
integrate but not to re-instate or regenerate. Ask the question. Can
the native hold the confidence of both aristocrat and democrat ? I
trow not; for the chart shows too much disruptive quality to admit of
re-generative agency in this incarnation. The © O If and <? is too
strongly retributive and with 0 in the 12th and •? the ruler in the
7th and $ in the 4th is not a happy augury for the harvest of this
incarnation.
The chart is a healthy sign of the times as the state of high fever
suggests a speeding up. Disease must come to a climax and dis-
integration and disruption is a necessary antecedent of the changing
order "yielding place to new." These things must be, before we can
see that " God fulfils Himself in many ways."
Kate Halltday

THE GREAT MUNITION WORKS EXPLOSION

Dear Sir,
I have been somewhat surprised to find that no mention has
been made in current astrological literature of the recent explosion
that occurred "somewhere in London." As a figure cast for the
time of the disaster contains one or two items of marked interest I
venture to place it before those readers of MODERN ASTROLOGY who
have not hitherto seen it. I estimate the time of occurrence as about
■6.55 p.m., 19/1/17, and the horoscope for this time is appended,
x xi xii i ii iii
a 15 1124 029 JlxSJ ire 16 iii2
O D S tin k HI V
VJ29.9 710.19 Wij-syr VJ5.25 =:8.4 T2656 ®26.53r =:i«.33 fl.3.38i-
It will be noticed that the earthquake (fixed) signs Taurus, Leo,
Scorpio, and Aquarius occupy the angles of the figure, Mars and
Uranus both being within orbs of ™ 13°, the degree holding the mid-
heaven of the City of London, and the Moon within orbs of t \T5\',
the traditional descendant of that horoscope. The Sun, ruler of the
figure, is heavily afflicted on the cusp of the sixth house which
 I.KTTKUS TO THE EDITOR 95
signifies workers and employees, particularly such as are connected
with the army, navy, and other national services; the sign
Capricorn, containing the Sun, also pointing to governmental work.
Venus in the fifth house afflicted by Uranus points to the losses to
women and children, while Mars, ruler of the rising decanate, in the
sixth alone points to an explosion, though other evidence may also be
adduced.
The afflictions of Jupiter in Aries in the ninth house foreshadow
the disturbance in trade, but they will also bear another interpretation,
which brings me to the point of greatest interest in the map, and
concerning which I must ask the student to judge for himself. It is
said that the explosion originated from a fire, and from the figure
there seems little doubt of this, but how did the fire origiuute? I
would call the attention of the student to the opposition of Neptune
to Mars from the twelfth house. In addition Saturn heavily afflicts
the Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter from the cusp of that same
, house, being in his detriment in the sign Cancer, which together with
the other watery signs, has recently been discussed in these pages in
relation to the countries under its rule.
Enough has been said, 1 think, to show that the figure will well
repay study from many points of view, and in conclusion I will draw
attention to another small item of interest, and that is that Charubel's
symbol for the 27th degree of Leo is "A large stone falling on the
head of a man," while that of La Volasfera is "A Dagger" I
Yours sincerely,
V. E. R.

The Word " Gexescope."—Miss Laura de Dainirey writes: "As

I think readers do not, by replying to its questions, often enough show
interest in Modern AsTReLocy's untiring and admirable efforts to promote
the welfare of the Grand Science, I am now going to answer the questions
as to Genescope v. 2oescope (see p. 305, September). I think Genescope is
the best name, as referring to the giniisis or ftyghmiHg, not the life, which is
indicated by Zoiiscope and already called Horoscope in Astrology."
"Answers to Questions."—Answers to some interesting questions,
which have been standing in type for some time, have been crowded out of
this issue by other correspondence.
The Due D'Orleans; Referring to the note on p. 30^ of last volume,
Mr E. H. Bailey kindly writes that the time was given in zadkiel's Almanack
some years ago as Feby 6th 1869, at 1.50 p.m. at Twickenham.
E. L. F. writes:—" Here is the horoscope of one of the officers who
recently visited the King. On July 1 1916, he was left 16 hours on the
battlefield surrounded by dead : x (f 23, xi lr}' 11, xii CCC3, i M 12, ii b 7, iii n 3;
© ^ 22,5=e.iSJ, 5 f igr, 2 miSJ, <? ^21. ifTis. ^ "ig, Wngjr."
J. W. writes, under date 20/1/T7 : "The outlook continues dark. I expect
another peace effort between the iothand2oth April but I do not think it will
succeed as and 2 are in conjunction in the annual figure and ^ becomes
very strong shortly after."
96

Astrology for Beginners

PERSONAL APPEARANCE
(Continued from jmge 32)

When Aquarius te), the fourth fixed sign, rises in the East at a person's
birth, the square fixed look observable in the other three fixed signs is here
less apparent; and there is seldom coarseness visible, but, instead, a quite
ethereal appearance, and the eyes have often a far-away look in them.
A distinguishing feature of most Aquarians is a clear and beautiful
complexion with a fine, delicate skin. The hair either falls in heavy clumps,,
drooping very much over one side of the brow, or is silky and slightly curly,
and of a pale brown colour. The nose is often very slightly aquiline, more
especially if the degree of Aquarius on the Ascendant lies between to0 and
20°, which brings in a sub-influence of the sign Gemini; the Abbas Efiendi,
the present head of the Babai movement, being a good example of this.
The sign Aquarius governs the crocodile, an animal having a very large
mouth; and in the plainer Aquarian types, a big mouth that shows all the
teeth when laughing, and much of the inside of the mouth when talking,
is a characteristic seldom absent in the Aquarian, and this in no wise gives
unrefinement to the face, for zz is essentially a refined and artistic sign, but
adds to the general rugged appearance, seen often when the degree rising
lies between r0 and 10° of The face of President Abraham Lincoln
appeals to me as belonging to this nigged Aquarian type.
When the degree of Aquarius rising lies between 20° and 30°, the
contour of face and body is softer and more rounded, and the body puts on
tissue with age and approaches plumpness, owing to the sub-influence of
Libra.
In conjunction with other fixed signs the body of the Aquarian is long.
The voice is pleasing and refined, and many good public speakers are born
with this sign rising, prominent among them being the present Prime
Minister.

The " Leo" Child's Cot.—In addition to amounts already acknowledged

on p. 64 of last issue the following have been received :—Mr F. Thoresby,
jfs ; Mr Hird, £1; Total Amount to date, £12.
Fcmuied August 1896 under Hie title of
"THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE"

Modcri>

Astrology
A Journal devoied to the search for truth concerning Astrology

APRIL, 1917. [NO. 4

Wlje (Biiitor's QDbsrrbatorii

WHY THE WAR

MlSS B , of the Midlands, has threatened to stop her subscrip-

tion to Modern Astrology if the Editor does not stop his writings
on the war,—because she is " sick of the war."
We should be sorry to lose our correspondent's subscription,
especially at the present time, when subscriptions are not so plentiful
as they used to be, but we can assure her that the best course to
pursue when one is sick is to endeavour to discover the cause of the
sickness. The German Emperor is probably sick of the war by now,
but his sickness, if he has reached that sensitive stage, is due to his
own wrong doing in allowing the martial forces on their way
downward into gross matter to rule him instead of ruling them. We
have all suffered more or less through this Great War, it is part of our
national fate ; and we feel justified in trying to understand why "such
a state of things should come about, and how we may help to avoid it
in the future.
Our correspondent naturally considers individuals and their
g8 MODERN ASTROLOGY

horoscopes much more interesting than national horoscopes ; naturally,

that is to say, because she knows more about the one than the other,
and has not as yet recognised her importance as a unit in the Nation
to which by birth she belongs.
We are not sufficiently advanced in our study of national affairs,
from the standpoint of Astrology, to make the subject specially
interesting to all private students. Yet although this particular branch
of Astrology has led to persecution in the past we dare to venture on
an unbiassed enquiry concerning the cosmic influences that preside
over nations, even at the risk of losing some subscriptions.
The high water mark of all horoscopes, National or Individual,
will be found in the midheaven; in fact the angles, dominated by the
ascendant and the midheaven, may be said to denote the intellectual-
and moral status of all self-conscious entities. Thought and action
are governed by the horizontal line from the ascendant to the
descendant, which vibrates according to the development of the entity
born under its influence, and this is usually determined by the
planets ruling or connected with that line. Moral or equitable
decisions are governed by the perpendicular line, the plumbline,
extending from the midheaven to the nadir, which vibrates according
to the unfoldment of the spiritual (or in the majority of cases the
emotional), nature of the individual.
"And, behold, the Lord stood upon ct zontl made by a p/ntnbline
with a plmnhline in his hand.
"And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou ? And I
said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a
phtntbline in the midst ojmy people. ."—Amos, vii. 7, 8.

Peace Talk and its Value

In the December issue of this magazine we said, when dealing
with the map for the winter quarter:—" These influences are
decidedly more pacific than hitherto, and if only some less martial
sign than Scorpio had been rising there would have been a strong
probability of peace. The martial spirit, however, is slowly wearing
itself out although not yet exhausted, and there will be more likelihood
ot the views of rival nations being soberly considered ; one or more of
our enemies is likely either to retire within its own borders or to
 THE EDITOR'S ODSERVATORY 99
make overtures for peace. Allied countries will be drawn more closely
together and will be busily discussing their common interests;
diplomatic messengers will be actively employed and there will be
much travelling on land and sea on political errands."
These remarks were written three months before they were
published, and they have been well borne out by the Peace commotion
which began during the second half of December just before the Sun
entered into Capricorn.—" Coming events cast their shadows before."
Although much condemned by the newspapers, this Peace Talk
has revealed a moral standard upon which the future peace terms will
be decided, and what is more it affords opportunity for defining the
vital national question of .Right or Might.

A World-Wide Decisiom
This is probably the first lime in the history of the world that such
millions of intelligent persons have been called upon to decide, in their
own minds, between Right and Might, these words now representing
good and evil in the minds of those competent to judge moral
principles; and this decision will mark an epoch quite as important as
that which commenced the Christian era some two thousand years ago.
We are nearing the end of the cycle governing the fifth sub-race, and
are witnessing the birth of the New Era we spoke of so often before
the war. The cycle of Mars, the counterfeit of the spirit, is waning,
and all wicked abuse of force such as we have seen leading up to and
culminating in the Great War will be conquered by a new intellect
and the uprising of a new genius that will refuse to sanction the
exploitation of the weak by the strong.
■ The horizontal line of the Fifth Race is polarised in Aries-Libra
(T-^) representing the national ideals of truth and justice, intellectual
perfections to be striven after by all civilised nations, ideals which have
unfortunately proved to be too high to be realised without the sufferings
that have followed a negation of them.
The designers of the zodiac have handed down five distinct
meanings in each zodiacal sign, easy of interpretation for those who
possess ' scientific imagination,' and two other meanings that are
concealed from all but the truth seeker. One of these meanings we
have seen expressed through the sign Aries in the brute nature of the
IOO MODERN ASTROLOGY

men who have emphasised the notion of strength, of Might over Right.
The Great War has revealed man to himself, and he must now decide
on which side he will stand, the side of brute-force,—symbolised by the
blind butting of the Ram, meaning Avidyci, the Ignorance of the self
blinded by matter,—or on the side of human self-consciousness, finding
itself in the union of its complementary sign Libra.
The perversion of the virtues of the sign Aries has produced a
lying world, following illusions and distortions, and men have been so
indifferent to the truth that even now in the third year of the Great
War we find in the minds of the majority of people not only confusion
as to the actual purpose of the war, but complete ignorance as to the
causes that led up to it and made a European War inevitable.

The Disease and its Cure

The leaders of men have been suffering from a grievous disease,
following animal instincts instead of human principles, and the only
cure for this disease has been the liberation of the destructive forces
prior to the readjustment of the Arian ideals through the Libran
balance. To think that behind the rise and fall of nations, the birth
and decay of civilisation, there is a great law of nature that our
scientific men have not discovered, is proof enough, if any were needed,
of the intellectual apathy that has surrounded us!
Think of all the great men in the past who have declared with
certitude their belief in a great law governing mankind and nations,
whose belief in the influence of the stars has been considered a mere
superstition, and you will understand the intellectual gnilt that is
responsible for the present world-wide sufferings.
Science has been employed by intellectual men in collecting and
classifying every kind of objective knowledge, except that which leads
to an understanding of human nature in the philosophy of history;
and yet while a science, the oldest in the world, is studied by the few
who are not considered intellectual, it is totally ignored by men who
are fast bound by- prejudice and egotism. The narrative of the
greatest event the Christian civilisation has known is written in the
skies, as is the narrative of every human being, and we might proclaim
its truth from the housetops, and even then our intellectual men would
be so apathetic that they would only smile with a belief in their own
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY ioi
superior knowledge, at the idea that God could be so simple as to
write His message to the world on the walls of heaven. We have
for a quarter of a century invited them to exercise a little scientific
imagination, but they are still—apathetic.

The PLUMBLINE
What are the ideals of the ' plumbline ' that vibrates from nadir to
zenith, ruled by the signs Cancer and Capricorn during the reign
of the Fifth Race ?
They are the ideals of Reverence and Duty. Reverence for the
things that are sacred and real, and the realization of the true meaning
of Duty. We have failed in our reverence for the good, the true and
the beautiful, and instead have worshipped the God of Mammon, the
base and the ugly. Our morals have fallen into the shadows of
adulteration. We have followed those whose reverence for the ideals
of a nation has been exchanged for love of temporal power and self-
adulation. A return to Duty and a recognition of individual responsi-
bility will have to result from the great upheaval into which we are
now plunged.
At present Saturn the Reaper is very busy, and until his work is
finished we can only help the thought of the world by pointing to the
heavens filled with the starry hosts of Intelligences who watch over
humanity.

POLITICAL BIAS

We have been advised on many occasions, by those competent to

give advice, to avoid as much as possible any subject that savours of
politics, and we have endeavoured as far as possible to follow that
advice; mainly because we do not carefully study the political
controversies of our own country and also owing to the fact that our
circulation is not confined to the British Isles alone but extends to
many countries whose politics we know nothing of.
We must once again declare that we had no political bias when
commenting on Mr Lloyd George's horoscope. The " certain method
in judging horoscopes " we referred toon p. 66 is to try and under-
stand the nature of the epoch or genescope ; and when we said that
- 102 MODERN ASTKOI.OGY

Mr Lloyd George was a socialist of the new order, what we meant

was that he would be on the side of those anxious to help in the
reconstruciiou of the social order. We gave no suggestion of having
meant either collectivism or anarchism but a socialism that is making
for an entirely new democracy.
While we welcome any criticism that will help us to gain a fuller
astrological knowledge we must object to any expression that reveals
a certain political bias. If we are to publish the horoscopes of
political men and judge them astrological I y we must be allowed to
judge them on their merits. What, then, are the merits in this case ?
. Aquarius is the rising sign, and more than one competent
astrologer not working on our plan has said of this sign ;—" They are
intuitive and remarkably good j.ulges of character, especially so far as
is related to matters of honour and dishonour. Their minds are
frequently very active in the direction of public good. They belong
to the sphere of city life where they can be among and dealing with
the people and are therefore frequently found as politicians.
" They are usually very clear reasoners on subjects of a
materialistic character .... some of our best national financiers
come from this sign.
" They are faithful to their duties in whatever sphere of service
they are placed, being earnest and proficient therein."
Sepharial in his New Manual of Astrology dealing with the sign
Aquarius says the mental qualities are " kind, humane, patient; fond
of literature and science; frequently a good singer or musician;
quiet, happy disposition ; love for humanising influences, surroundings
and pursuits ; very fond of a few people, excellent friends."
Raphael speaking of Aquarius gives the disposition as: "Stable,
good, kind-hearted ; scientific, fond of learning and recreation, gentle,
and temper even."
These characteristics do not favour a man who "aims at
establishing a Servile State."
If Mr Lloyd George is "both distrusted and detested by Labour
as a whole" it is quite clear that "Labour as a whole" is very
strongly prejudiced against the man who by his Saturnian inclinations
is a true friend of Labour; otherwise the influence of Saturn is not what
we had understood it to be.
 THU KDITOIi's OBSEKVATORY

Major Adam's letter seems to us to be written in the same spirit

as the two letters on Mr Lloyd George's horoscope published in our
last issue.

THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA"

In our "Observatory" for June 1916 we spoke of TilE Coming

Revolutions, and foresaw the fast approaching climax of the
tendencies we dealt with in the now celebrated Royal Number of July
1910. In this Royal Number we said " the Nativity of King George V
is as strong as that of the Czar of Russia is weak " (p. 295); we
were then conscious that the Czar's horoscope denoted influences
behind the throne which did not allow him to rule his country with
sufficient individual strength for a monarch possessing so much
temporal power. He was the victim of the " Dark Forces " that have
now fallen and libe-ated Russia from the baneful influence of '? 8 9
acting from the fourth house to the tenth.
In our Special War Number for October 1914 we drew attention
to conjunction of Uranus with Venus on the cusp of the eleventh
honse, and the passing of the O over '<■? and 2 in the Czar's horo-
scope : (p. 473). He has now been mercifully relieved from a responsi-
bility that must have been far too heavy for him to carry without
incurring grave danger to his life during certain periods of his reign.
This revolution in Russia is but the beginning of many that are
to follow until monarchies arc overthrown and the new democracy
sets in to free Europe from the giant octopus of selfish rulers serving
the interests of a class instead of that of the nation—not that the Czar
himself was such a ruler personally.
In the following issue we said "a change undreamed of is
coming": (p. 49l). We are as yet only at the beginning of the
change and we may repeat what we said with conviction seven years
ago : " We have truly reached a crisis in our affairs, and during the
next seven years momentous questions will arise that will sorely tax
the judgment of our keenest intellects " ; (p. 255 July 1910).

1
Al the moment of going to press (17.3.17) full particulars are not yet to hand,
only the bare fact has been announced.
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SntcntiiUonal JlaU'otogy

New Moon, 21/4/'17) 2.1 p.m. London

X XI XII 1 n 111
(') " I SD Q S112 1111 8 11s 30 Si 20
(2) II 1-1 <ZC2I 3123 usiS <XIO ill 9
(3) " JO its S us 30 A 22 111 21
U) * M TI9 8 3° SB 7 «S26 3117
(i) I.ondon (25 Berlin (3) Petrograd (4) Nc-.v York
OJ ? ¥ J n h 11,1 iy
a 0.53 a20.3S T 2<).3S v 1955 H 14.1 0024.17 =izjt) 312.7
SATURN and Neptune in the eleventh house from London to
Vienna, and both rather seriously afflicted, will trouble seriously the
various parliaments and legislative assemblies, and any work accom-
plished by thorn will only be done in the midst of many difficulties
and much opposition. Differences are likely to develop either
between some ruler and the statesmen, or between the latter and the
masses of the people; there will be many complaints and great
discontent abroad, possibly ending in riots and loss of life ; widespread
.privation and suffering will be the cause. Saturn in the German
Emperor's ascendant and in the midheaven of the Emperor of Austria
threaten these two countries especially. Parliamentary and state
officials will die; and, considering the violent nature of Saturn square
Mars and the other aspects here, violent deeds, assassination, outrages
are likely to be threatened or carried out in some places. There will
be changes in Cabinets and Governments, with the downfall and
threatened disgrace of prominent men.
There will be much loss of life at sea, and merchantmen and
passenger vessels will suffer with the rest. Workers connected with
the railways, post office, and shipping will develop grievances and
show discontent. In spite of all troubles, however, trade is likely to
increase and flourish and the allied countries will hold their own.
The conjunction of Mercury, lord of the ascendant, with Jupiter,
lord of the seventh house, should not only draw the various allied
nations more closely together, but also further the cause of peace and
 INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGY 105
the efforts that will be made to restore harmony during this period.
The churches, religious and philanthropic bodies, and friendly neutrals
and nations across the sea may be expected to be active in this
direction, although they will be more interested in restoring trade than
in putting a stop to bloodshed. Ireland will benefit from Jupiter in
Taurus unafflicted, as will also Poland, the Greek Archipelago and
other parts ruled by the sign.
The place of the lunation falls as under in various horoscopes ;—
King George a MC o s Emperor Austria sUo
Italy rf MC ^ ! a ? I'ope a <r
Belgium d if Mr Lloyd George ad d
dd Gen. Joffre d ijl

In western Europe the meridian passes from the semi-square of Mars

to that of Saturn in eastern France, Belgium and west Germany, which
region is likely to be much disturbed.
At New York, Saturn and Neptune in the second house will be
very unfortunate for money matters, especially such as are involved
in, or arise out of, foreign affairs and the concerns of friendly or rival
nations. Statesmen will be very active and will have their bands full
of difficult, important, and contentious problems.

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There are 12 signs of the zodiac, and during 10 of these, from

Aries to Capricorn, the divine life may be said to be coming forth
into the worlds of Time and Space. The astrological year begins at
the Spring Equinox with Aries and on Christmas day, at the end of
Sagittarius, the birth of the divine life into manifestation is accom-
plished and celebrated by our festival of Christmas. Capricorn, the
sign which comes next, is symbolized by the Goat and is the Great
Devil or Resister of the divine impulse as this comes forth into the
spheres of evolution. Aries the Ram and Capricorn the Goat art:
the beginning and end of this emanation of the divine into our worlds.
We may think of the 9 months from the Spring Equinox till
Christmas as a complete cycle of time, even as every 9 months of
prenatal existence does represent a complete cycle of time. This
period of the year is the prenatal period of the third Light Spark,
Sagittarius or the Christ consciousness. Let us imagine these 9
months formed into a circle with Capricorn as the centre. Capricorn
governed by Saturn or Chronos is the Limit, the controller of the
time cycle and may be thought of as the hub of the wheel of lime.
The cube is one symbol for Capricorn, and this forms the resistance
or steadfastness round which the divine life of Aries revolves: it is
the altar upon which the Ram is slain as it sacrifices its eternal
freedom to form a cycle of manifestation.
There still remain 2 signs of the zodiac, Aquarius and Pisces.
These two signs are known to have far less influence on unevolvcd
people, and they are called the signs of regeneration, Aquarius the
regenerate mind, Pisces the regenerate body. What do we mean by
regeneration ? Generation is the fall from the Eternal Order into the
Time Order, birth into matter. Regeneration is the rise out of the
Time Order into the Eternal Order, or birth into Spirit. It lakes 9
months to get born into matter, 3 months to get born into spirit.
Astrology, then, teaches that Lent is the time of year connected with
regeneration, with the return from the Time Order to the Eternal
 WHAT CAN ASTROLOGY TiiACH US ABOUT LENT? I07

Order. It is the time of year when all the currents in the Air tend to
draw us out of Time into Eternity. It is the time when it is most
easy for us to repent, for our consciousness to turn homeward towards
the spiritual regions.
To complete a solar year we need 12 months, but astrology says
that a complete cycle of time has been accomplished within 9 months.
The symbol of Sagittarius, the archer who shoots his arrows backwards
through space during the ninth month, suggests that consciousness is
after this month intended to turn completely round and reverse its
outlook. The man, the seahorse and the arrow arc a triple symbol,
the man and the horse still march forward, they represent mind and
matter within the Time Order. The arrow, that swiftest of all
weapons, which always flies straight for the mark, represents in all
symbolism the highest faculty of mind, the spiritual mind, or lower
down upon another level it represents intuition. The arrow o^
Sagittarius being shot backwards through space gives us, then, the
first suggestion of a return.
During the Winter Solstice, those three days prior to Christmas
day, when our great solar orb stands still, Sagittarius and Capricorn,
the powers of Light and Darkness struggle together. Capricorn the
Evil One, the Great Resister of the Divine, stops the life force from
proceeding for ever down into substance out into manifestation ; he
marks the Limit of Time and makes the return for us possible. He
measures the distance of the fall, while Sagittarius the Light Power,
the new-born Christ, points out to us the way of return. Even so are
both Light and Darkness co-workers in the scheme of evolution, each
assisting in the divine economy.
We have, then, from Aries to Capricorn, from the Ram to the
Goat, from the Spring Equinox till the Winter Solstice one definite
direction, the life impulse is flowing forth into space. But after
Capricorn it is different; there are, as it were, 2 currents. The
Centaur, the monarch of the Time Order, faces forwards ; the arrow,
his swiftest vehicle of spiritual in'.uition, ilies backwards. During
Aquarius and Pisces these 2 contrary currents can be felt. We drag
our weary limbs on to complete the year, while within us we feel
stirring a strange illusive mood, which at times plunges us into the
deepest despair and anguish, while at other times it whispers to us of
io8 MODERN' ASTROLOGY

new life and joy. This is the Aquarian impulse of regeneration^

which tells us to repent, to turn back from the ways in which we are
treading and reverse everything. It plunges us in despair, for at first
we feel that every thing we have ever done was wrong. We are
urged by this inner divine impulse to repent or turn right round away
from the direction we have learned to love. No wonder we despair,
especially as the temporal man in us says " No," you must still march
on, you have not yet completed the necessary annual round. Until
some understanding is born in us, Lent is a dolorous time of year.
But as soon as we have grasped the inner meaning of the 2 contrary
currents, misery and joy begin to blend in us in such perfect proportion
that out of the union a new state of rapture comes.
At Cancer, the Summer Solstice, that fall occurs which is specially
connected with man. Aries to Cancer, the first 4 signs of the zodiac,
are connected with the great sweeps of Nature, with the mineral,
vegetable and animal kingdoms, with life in a pure and primitive
condition. After Cancer the signs become more complex in their
nature and influence and are more connected with humanity. Leo
governs the heart of man, Virgo governs the digestion, Libra the
excretory system, and Scorpio the generative organs. We have in
these 4 signs the essentials for human existence, the 4 processes by
means of which we thrive as primitive protoplasm in space. What
we think and what we do are of infinite importance to us as humans,
but it is the life processes of our bodies which are in touch with the
life pulses af the cosmos and maybe it is through these quite as much
as through our minds that we shall ultimately understand the Life
Throb of the Universe and awaken to consciousness on the Life Side
of Things. Hence is it that these life processes of the human body
have always in all religions played such an exceedingly important
part in the most sacred rites and rituals. They have been the
sacraments, whilst the dogmas and doctrines are added later by the
ingenuity of the human mind. We eat to strengthen and establish
consciousness in the Time Order. During Lent we fast so that this
mode of consciousness may be kept in subjection. Our endeavour
should be to rise into that other mode of consciousness connected with
the Eternal Order. If we do not keep the personality in subjection
at this time of year we set up cross currents, for the tide of conscious-
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ness is rising fast into the Eternal Order, and our innermost soul is
being urged to rise with it.
We see that within the cycle of Time the birth of spiritual
consciousness symbolized by Sagittarius is an apex or turning point
in evolution. Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer give us evolution up to
the human kingdom. Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio give us evolution
during the human kingdom. Sagittarius gives us the first birth of the
perfected consciousness. In Sagittarius this consciousness is just
born, not yet baptised nor anointed, nor attained either to its power to
teach or to its power to redeem." Another whole cycle has to be
passed through before that is accomplished. Sagittarius gives us the
first awareness that we are spiritual beings who have fallen from the
Eternal Order into the Time Order and that the way home is to
repent or turn back. This spiritual consciousness is known in
astrology as the third Light Spark, not Aries the first Light Spark,
which is sub-consciousness, not Leo the second Light Spark which is
human self-consciousness, but Sagittarius the third Light Spark which
is super-consciousness. These three Light Sparks or consciousness
in its 3 modes of cardinal, fixed and mutable may ibe taken as
subliminal, liminal, and supra-liminal consciousness. This supra-
liminal consciousness is for 9 months hidden within the Time Order
unconscious of itself. At the winter solstice it is born, monarch of
the Time Order but not yet risen into the Eternal Order.
Let us now divide the 12 signs of the zodiac into 3 groups, and
connect the first 4 signs with thought, the next 4 with speech, and
the last 4 with action. These terms are here being used in their
widest and most general sense to stand for man's 3 bodies of activity.
Thought is to stand for the first initiative process prior to expression,
speech to represent the first mode of expression and creation, action
to stand for a more highly developed mode of expression and mani-
festation. First think about a thing, next talk about it, then actually
do it; that is the idea to connect with these signs when taking them
as man's 3 bodies of activity. We may think of Aries as abstract
ultimate consciousness coming forth through Taurus, producing self-
consciousness in Gemini; this falls into Time by means of Cancer
and comes to birth in man in Leo. From Leo to Scorpio we have
the expression of thought, that is speech. Self-consciousness born
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into man in Leo developes speech by means of Virgo ; in Libra we

have the conscious expression of thought and in Scorpio we get the
fall into space. Time is an essential factor in the development of
self-consciousness, the self is consciousness within time. For the
expression of thought Time is essential, but before the thought can be
put into action there must occur also the fall into Space, and this
happens at Scorpio.
Next, at Sagittarius, we have the birth of spiritual consciousness,
the first awakening or beginning of that next state after which wc
believe it is the goal of man to strive, that state which is held up to
us as a pattern or example. With this begins definite purposeful
action. The history we have of the Christ life gives us records not
only of the daily life and activities of a man, they are also records of
soul activities common to all life at all times. His life history is not
only a temporal fact but an eternal verity. The Christ or Anointed
One is he who has so consecrated his will to the Divine Will, so
completely sacrificed his personal life to the Whole of Life, that every
act and happening in his daily work becomes a representation of the
Life or Will of the Divine, every act begins to have both an inner
and an outer meaning, both a personal and a cosmic signification.
We find, then, that after the birth of Sagittarius there developes
through the power of Capricorn the capacity to act in this way, to
act with a dual meaning, for a dual purpose. This mode of life acts
not only to live but ever in all things to express. This idea or this
wonderful new mode of action is first taught to man through ritual.
In ritual the Church teaches man how to consecrate the simplest acts
of daily life in such a way as to add further meaning to them, to
bring them into relationship with another mode of being. Capricorn
above all signs of the zodiac has to do with ritual. When by the help
of Capricorn the new-born spiritual consciousness in man has learned
the art of purposeful action, then comes Aquarius, the sign of the true
Initiate or Great One, or be whose every act is magical, full of power
and further meaning. The Aquarian or Initiate is he who ever acts
in such a way as to intentionally liberate life and release wisdom
During the human period of evolution every act binds and chains man
down to the Wheel of Fate. During the next period after the normal
human, that of the Initiate, Disciple, or Bodbisattwa, every act is
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performed as a means of liberation. And finally, after this has been

attained through Aquarius, we come to Pisces the last sign of the
zodiac, the sign of the risen or triumphant Christ, the sign connected,
not with birth into Time, but with re-birth into Eternity.
From Christmas to Easter, then, is the special period of the year
suited to ritual, or action performed for the definite purpose of
liberation. During this time of year especially, when the great inner
currents of life are split in two, the outer going forward and the inner
going backward, should we perform such acts only as can also be split
in two, having a real purpose connected with life down here and
bearing an equally important intent connected with the life which
has turned backward. To the mystic every act of life is a ritualistic
act no matter what the time of year ; he is definitely dedicating his
"whole life to this purpose, he has entered upon the path of liberation,
the path of consecrated action. But for the man of the world there
is a time of year especially set apart which is most suited for the
performance of rites and ceremonies, when his consciousness is most
easily adjusted to this particular mode. And so Lent should be
observed as a time of action, ritualistic action, when we not only
think about repentance, or the turning back of consciousness towards
its spiritual source, not only talk about it, but see that on every day of
the week wc perform some act for the definite purpose of expressing
not only an outer but an inner meaning, when every act we do to
satisfy the necessities of our personal life we deliberately consecrate
to the Greater Life. Such action performed consciously with
deliberate intent releases man from the Loom of Time, starts tne
Spindle of Fate unwinding his life-thread from its grip, even as every
act performed carelessly and without consecration to the Divine Plan
binds man down to the Wheel of Karma and plunges him into the
maze of the Fate Spheres. Lent, then, is the time of year when
man's thread of consciousness is being unwound from the Spindle of
Fate prior to its release at Eastertide into the Eternal Order and it is
towards this unwinding of the personal and external consciousnessthat
we should most earnestly strive.
Minnie B. Theobald
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^alrological ^tu&cnts' discussion

I.—FATE AND FREEWILL

{Concluded from p. 26)

VI.

1 READ with unfeigned delight Mr Clift's article on Fatalism, la

my humble opinion it is high time these obvious statements were
emphatically made since both Astrology and Theosophy stand or fall
on Law Inviolable against which the human will is as powerless as a
straw in the wind. The Adept is the Wise Man who "rules" his
stars for the simple reason that he alone has gone beyond all mundane
and sign positions to the Lords of the Planets Themselves.
As long as human beings are born and given in marriage, make
or lose friends and money, are ill or well, good or bad, happy or
unhappy and finally die in unfailing correspondence with the aspects
operating in their nativities, I for one marvel that anyone dares to
presume that they have ever ruled their stars. Probably those whose
planets are setting have brought more fate into incarnation than those
whose planets are rising.
Where freewill does unquestionably show itself is in the spirit in
which we tackle our past karma. The old soul tries to pay up
quickly and uncomplainingly, realising that such debts block the path
of progress, and he frankly admits that all the suffering entailed has
been self-sown. The young soul stubbornly kicks against the pricks
and goes on making the same sorrowful mistakes life after life.
Incidentally it may be remarked that " fatalism " is a word that
is interpreted in several ways. To the orthodox it signifies
blasphemous belief, to the Agnostic rank superstition, and to the
occultist the Law of Cause and Effect on every plane of being. Ta
put it briefly, fatalism and law are synonymous terms. We forge our
own chains with our perfectly free will. Tolerance and impartiality are
rare and noble gifts of the gods and without them no one should
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venture into the astrological field. At present political and religious
creeds and personal animosity frequently colour the writings and
verdicts of the professional astrologer to the detriment of the science.
When unity and harmony prevail among the teachers, pupils will not
be lacking.
No one can hope to run successfully with the hare of Freewill
and hunt simultaneously with the hounds of Karma. Therefore let
us all agree that we live in a realm of law where we stiller from no
one but ourselves; for as soon as that deep truth sinks into the soul
as a reality, the life inevitably and automatically becomes wider and
nobler with the disappearance of hatred and resentment and kindred
failings. Without these basic beliefs in unity and justice there can
ba no true Theosophy or Astrology—nor can anyone hope to
understand our philosophical science who has not grasped the fact of
Re-incarnation, the pivot on which the unfailing law of Karma rests.
S. F. Smith

VII.

The object of life is perfection. This can only come through

purity. Purity can only come through suffering. Man only learns
through suffering, and the more he suffers the more he learns. Each
individual is born into the world at a time and place, and of parents,
that are in harmony with his past. The horoscope of birth is like a
clock ; it tells the story of your past, if you are able to read it.
The age of the soul is the first thing an astrologer should determine.
This should be his guide in delineating a horoscope, as the aspects
and positions of planets will not have the same effect on a young soul
as they will on one that has learned the lesson they are intended to
teach the young soul.
Here is the whole point between Fate and Freewill. We are
all fated until we learn our lessons. Then we are free. It is true
that a strong will can prevent fate sometimes, in one incarnation ; but
does it pay? Does it pay the child when it misses promotion at
school to stay in the same grade next year ? When we contract a
debt it is certainly easier to pay it when it comes due than to pay it
later with compound interest. For no man can escape paying: " As
a man soweth, so shall he reap."
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When we have learned our lessons through sufTering, having

passed through the fiery furnace of Mars and having turned its rough
iron into true steel ; when we have been weighed in the balance of
Saturn and not found wanting; when Mercury has gathered all the
messages of the Gods, then we possess the Seven Keys to unlock the
mysteries of nature. Having arrived at this point we have learned
our lessons, then and not until then are we able to " rule our stars."
F. C. Marchaod

VIII.
I think the expression " Fate versns Freewill " which occurs in
some letters on this subject, shows a distinct misunderstanding, as it
seems to m e the two do not run counter, but rather side by side; nor are
they interdependent in the present. Is not Fate the resultant effects
of causes in the irs/, and Freewill a power with which we are endowed
to build up our future ?
In the horoscope Fate may be foreseen and predicted, in the form
of circumstances and conditions likely to arise, but surely it rests
with the Individual (with perhaps some few specific exceptions), as to
how those circumstances and conditions are met. One may not
avoid the " bad directions," but may do much to mitigate the evil
effects, and in the effort strengthen the character and thus help towards
better conditions in future incarnations. In this way character is
destiny.
There must be many who are n»t yet conscious of their power of
freewill, or who are indifferent enough to drift along on the flood of
events ; but to the Individual conscious of his power, to be forewarned
is to be forearmed, and is it not in this sense that the wise man
" rules " his stars, the fool " obeys " them ?
A. Whittall

IX.
. If the Absolute has any attribute of omniscience, can uncertainly
in any detail of the future be conceded ? The omniscience being
unqualified, it must result that nothing escapes foreknowledge, and
whatever is kuozvn must inevitably happen.
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If mankind had freewill there would necessarily also be power to

thwart the Absolute, and this seems impossible if the Causeless Cause
has an attribute of omnipotence.
The only alternative to Fatalism,—Atheism,—is unthinkable at
present.
In Modern Astrologv writings, deity is focussed in a central
sun, but if the Universe is without any boundaries can any centre be
logically imagined ?
George MacLochlan

X.
Some Questions and an Answer

Questions.—(<?) You say that Character is Destiny. I lake it

that you mean by this that at the moment of a man's birth the
positions of the planets indicate his character, and that that character,
such as it is, is his limit: he can go no further.
(6) Now how has this character been formed ? How comes he
to possess certain qualities which a fellow-man has not ? Does not
this really indicate that one is in advance of the other, and vice versa ?
This shows that man caunot be stationary; he must be either
advancing or retrograding.
(c) In a recent letter you say that I fail to take into consideration
that there are limitations. Do you mean me to understand that a man
is limited to his character as depicted by the horoscope at birth ? I
do not like this limitation ; it jars on my nerves.
(if) Now can you see the reason why in several instances your
forecasting has failed to come true? You predict solely from your
judgment of a man's character at birth, on the supposition that be is
limited—that he can go only so far. This is where you go wrong.
(«) Now I hold that all men are not tied down by heredity, or
character, as denoted by the planetary positions at birth. I fit were
so we should become stationary ; evolution would cease. This would
be contrary to all the known laws of the universe.
(f) To attempt to forecast a man's future by the dry, hard,
practical lines of mathematics appears to me to be most absurd. Is
not man really his own architect ? Docs he not, according to how be
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Jives, create his own limilations ? Can he not therefore free himself
from any ties, or hereditary influences ? My intuition tells me he
can.
(g) True prognostication must come from within. The man in
advance, whose perception is clear and who is intuitionally strong,
can, I believe, see farther ahead than the majority of his fellows.
Inspiration can be developed: hence the prophet.
{h) In the majority of cases your forecast may be nearly correct,
but those instances where you fail are, I believe, when the native
does for a time expand; when he develops the " 1," and bursts
through his limitations; or when, in other words—perhaps only
temporarily—he " gets beyond his horoscope."

Answer.—I have taken the paragraphs separately in order that

the difficulties which beset the questioner may be the more clearly
defined. But it will be necessary before answering each question t»
clarify oar mind as regards the limitations.
Spirit is undoubtedly free, but it is Spirit unfettered by the
Matter composing the vehicles through which the Ego, as a part of
the All-Spirit, is manifesting. Now when the Logos of our system
measured off the space in which He thought out the Universe, He
caused certain limitations to appear in order that the Spirit might
manifest itself in various directions. For instance, light is a limita-
tion of certain wave-lengths in the ether, producing in human beings a
sense of sight. Sound is another wave-length limited to produce the
sense of hearing, and so on with the other senses. So that limitations
are set for the Ego according to the matter through which he is
expressing himself: thus on the ph3'sical plane he is limited to the use
of his senses and the mind, so that we only sense those things which
exist on the physical plane; but when we have awakened the inner
senses, we shall be able to extend them to other planes beyond the
physical.
The senses are common to every (animal-) man, he having, in
common with all animals, all the senses more or less developed. Now
the mind, working through the senses by either right use or abuse of
Ibem, produces Character; and his character at birth, which is the
resnlt of his former development of the mind and the feelings, is the
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limit that he has to transcend during the life that he is incarnate.
Therefore with regard to question (<7) it is necessary tor the astro-
logical student to take the idea of the soul's re-embodiment into
consideration, which necessitates a study of the theory of Reincarna-
tion, before he can understand the reason why Character is Destiny.
So that in reply to question (b), this character has been formed in a
previous life, and the qualities which he possesses have been acquired
by the right use of the Umitations that vers set in his previous birth.
And not only did some souls start on their pilgrimage earlier than
others, but some have moreover made such good use of the mind and
senses as to be in advance of their time ; the limitations, set for all,
may be overcome directly the next series of limitations is perceived.
No man can be stationary, and all must be advancing. It is said
though with what truth one cannot be quite certain, that it is impossible
for a soul to go backward; all must advance by the law of evolution,
for even if man himself will not advance he is carried forward by
what is known as Providence, or the great evolutionary wave.
In reply to question (c), a man is limited to the matter in which
he expresses himself as Character, and he is born with that character
plus the opportunity to use it along the line of least resistance, and for
this purpose those who guide the world's evolution guide the souls
into proper births. So that if you do not like the idea of limitations,
then simply affirm that there is no limitation, and see that you do not
allow yourself to become limited by anything or anyone.
In reply to [d), the true astrologer always allows for a certain
amount of development; but then no true astrologer will be so unwise
as to make an absolute prediction that such-and-such a thing must
happen, for the true astrology is based upon the belief that " the stars
incline, they do not compel," also that " it is the wise man who rules
his stars, the fool who obeys them."
(c) Heredity has a great deal to do with associations formed and
ties made with others, a fitting birth being found to satisfy certain
conditions in the nature : but none are stationary, all must go forward.
(/) It is not necessary to abide by the dry hard lines of mathe-
matics, for as man creates his own limitations, he can also free
himself from them within certain boundaries.
With (g) I entirely agree. But in reply to (/»): No man can
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get beyond his horoscope, for none can live up to all that it indicates.
Could he, however, fulfil all the conditions that horoscope implies,—
which would mean a perfect will, attuned to the will of the Father, a
perfect Love embracing Wisdom, and finally, a perfect skill in action,
—he would then be beyond further re-birth.
E. D. T. R.

HEROISM
lr takes great strength to train
To modern service our ancestral brain;
To lift the weight of nuaiunbered years;
Of dead men's habits, methods and ideas,
To hold that back with one hand and support
With the other, the weak steps of a new thought.
It takes great strength to bring your life up square
With your accepted thought and hold it there;
Resisting the inertia that drags back
From new attempts, to the old habit's track.
It is so easy to drift back—to sink :
So hard to live abreast of what you think.
It takes great strength to live where yon belong
When other people think that you are wrong:
People yon love, and who love yon, and whose
Approval is a pleasure you would choose.
To bear the pressure and succeed at length
In living ycur belief—-well—it takes strength
And courage. But what does courage mean
Save strength to face a pain foreseen ?
Courage to undertake this life long strain
Of setting yoio-s against yonr grandsire's brain :
Dangerous risk of walking lone and free
Out of the easy path that used to be,
And the fierce pain of hurling those wc love
When love meets truth, and truth mnst ride it'nove.
But the best courage man has ever shown.
Is dating to cut loose and think aloue.
Dark as the unlit chambers of clear space
Where light shines back from no reflecting face ;—
Our Sun's wild glare, oin heaven's shining blue,
We owe to fog and mist they fumble through :
And our rich wisdom that we treasure so,
Shines from the thousand things that we don I know.
But to think new—it lakes a courage grim
As led Columbus over the world's rim.
To think, that costs some coinage, but to go—
Try it. It takes every power you know!
(A ulltor uiin'iioti'ii)
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©Irs (SrcaJ Mlsc

By G. E. Sutcliffk,

Author of " The Fcniuialions of Physical Astrology "

V.—The Cosmic Forces and the World War

EVENTS DURING THE DECADE PRECEDING THE WAR

(coulttiued from f>. 88)

The Kaiser's Activities
The directions of the emperor William similarly correspond to
the character of his activities. During 1904 and up to February 1905
his policy was peaceful and conciliatory, when he had Sun conjunction
Neptune in his own horoscope (July 1904), with Mars trine Venus
(July 1904) and Moon sextile Ascendant (Jan 1905) in the world-
horoscope. His progressed Sun square Saturn in the World- Horoscope
at the end of February 1905, coincided closely with the change from a
policy of peace to that of warlike aggression. After the battle of
Mukden on March 10 he inaugurated this campaign of warlike
provocation by landing in Morocco on March 31 1905, followed by a
visit to Constantinople and a pilgrimage to the Holy Land which
marked the beginning of German dominance in the near East. Just
one week after the destruction of the Russian Fleet by the Japanese
on May 28 1905 he compelled M. Delcasse, the French minister of
foreign affairs, to resign under a threat of war; Eitcy. Britt. XI,x 104.
He further forced France to agree to a conference on the question of
Algeciras, which met on January 16 1906, and the resolutions of
which conference were signed on April 7 1906; ib. xviii 858. He
was supported at this conference by Count Goluchowski, the Austro-
Hungarian foreign minister, and two days after the conclusion of the
conference (April 9) he roused the anger of Europe, and all friends of
European peace, by a characteristic telegram to this minister,
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congratulating him on having proved "a brilliant second on the
duelling ground." Goluchowski's retirement was mainly due to this
compliment : ib. xxviii 668.
Anglo-German relations were apparently improved by a visit of
the emperor to England in November 1907. But early in 1908 they
were again strained by the revelation, made in the Times of
March 6, of a correspondence between the emperor and Lord
Tweedmouth. On August 30 1908 in a speech at Strassburg he
reiterated the intention of Germany to maintain the high level of her
armaments. On October 28 there appeared in the Baily Telegraph
an extraordinary ' interview ' authorised by the emperor, in which he
expounded his attitude. This pronouncement created a profound
sensation, not only in Germany, where the indignation was intense,
but in Russia, France, and Japan, where it was regarded as a
Machiavellian attempt to loosen existing alliances : ib. xxviii 668-9.

Two Attempts to provoke War

It will be seen that the dates of the above events correspond

fairly well with the emperor's directions operating in the two
horoscopes. A very close correspondence cannot be expected without
considering transits which would occupy too much space, though a
minute study of this period on some other occasion promises to be of
great astrological interest. The beginning and end of this dangerous
phase in the world's affairs were marked by two veiled ultimatums on
the part of Germany which were deliberately designed to bring about
a European war. The one to France in 1905 was defeated by the
self-sacrifice of M. Delcasse, and the other to Russia in 1909 was
defeated by a similar act of self-sacrifice on the part of the Czar.
This final episode which enabled Europe to pass safely over the
danger zone, and constituted a triumph for the Occult Hierarchy, will
now be dealt with. It will be noticed that the emperor's directions
both in relation to his own and to the World-Horoscope, in 1908-9,
were very warlike.
On July 22-24 there was a revolution in Turkey, which brought
he Young Turks into power under Enver Bey : Ency. Britt. xxvii
464. The success of the revolution created a serious situation for the
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statesmen of Austro-Hungary and Bulgaria. A regenerated Ottoman
Empire might in time be strong enough to demand the evacuation of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to maintain or extend the nominal
suzerainty over Bulgaria : ib.
To avoid such a contingency the independence of Bulgaria was
proclaimed October 3 1908, and on October 7 the emperor Francis
Joseph informed the powers signatory to the treaty of Berlin that the
annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Dual Monarchy had
become necessary : ib. The protests of Turkey at this violation of
treaty rights were sympathetically received by the powers of the triple
entente, and an international conference was at once suggested. But
Austria-Hungary refused to agree to any conference. The reluctance
of the Russian government, conscious of its military and political
weakness seemed likely to be overborne by the Pan-Slav enthusiasm
of the Russian people. At this point Germany intervened with effect.
Towards the end of March 1909 the German ambassador at St.
Petersburg, armed with an autograph letter from the emperor William
II., had an interview with the Czar. What were the arguments he
used is not known ; but the most powerful are supposed to have been
the German forces which had been mobilized on the Polish frontier.
In any case, "the result was immediate and startling." Russia
without previous discussion with her allies, dissociated herself from
the views she had hitherto held in common with them, and accepted
the German-Austrian standpoint. All question of a conference was
now at an end : ib. ix 952.

The Bismarckian Principle

'Die moral and international issues involved by this event were of

the highest importance. " The whole conception of an effective
concert of Europe, or of the world, based on the supposed sacred
obligations of treaties and the validity of international law, was
revealed, suddenly and brutally, as the baseless fabric of a dream ":
ib. The most momentous outcome of this immoral act was "the
complete triumph of Bismarck's principle that treaties cease to be
valid * when the private interest of those who lie under them no longer
reinforces the text.' Henceforth, it was felt, no reaffirmation of a
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principle of international comity and law, so saccessfally violated,

could serve to disguise the brutal truth that in questions between
nations, in the long run might is right ": ib. Germany alone emerged
from the crisis with prestige enormously enhanced. The cry for
disarmament suddenly died down in England; and the agitation in
favour of an increased ship-building programme showed that public
opinion had been thoroughly awakened to the necessity of maintaining
for Great Britain her maritime supremacy : ib.
Thus the policy of Bismarck', a Lord of the Dark Face, became
established in Europe, and the moral status of the nations sank to a
lower level than that of the middle ages. Further evolution was
impossible until this obstacle, which threatened to bring about the
rapid degeneration and final destruction of the race, had been removed.
The Dark Powers had commenced hostilities against the Occult
Hierarchy, and the legions of the Kings of Darkness were spread out
in battle array against the legions of the Kings of .Light. The Lords
of Hell had declared war on the Lords of Heaven.
"And there was war in heaven ^Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
" And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in
heaven. Woe to the inhabitersof the earth and of the sea;
for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he
knoweth that he hath but a short time " : Rev. xii.

[This concludes Article V. Article VI, entitled " The Strategy

of the Hierarchy and the Cross of Matter," commences next mouth.]

ASTROLOGICAL COURTS PON DHNCE LESSONS.—Mr George

MacLochlan, of Newport, Mou., has gained the Diploma of Murit.
"Su.mmi-r Timk " Abroad.—The French Chamber last Friday adopted
a measure advancing by one hour (he legal time in France and Algeria from
the first Sunday in April to the first Sunday in October: [commencing at
o.o a.m. it may Ire prcsuniedj. The German Federal Council has decided
that "Summer" time is to begin on April 16 at z a.m. and to terminate on
September 17 at 3 a.m.—Mechanic, 23/2/1917.
Erratum.-—Page 73 March ; line 3, for 9.20 p.m. read 9.20 a.m.
The Leo Cot.—Miss E. E, Dickinson. £1.
Answers to several very interesting Questions are unavoidably crowded
out of this issue.
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ffcttcis to tlje (Etriter

HINTS TO CORKESI'ONOICNTS.—I.etiers of general interest only are
inserted. Writers of signed articles are alotie responsible (or the opinions conlaintd
therein. Correspondents desiring actnowiedgment or reply will please enclose a
stamped addressed envelope.
Letters are inserted at the earliest possible opportunity, but are sometimes
unavoidably held over through lack of space. Correspondents will please remember
(i) that all communications should be written upon one side of the paper only;
(iij that planetary positions, us veil as biith data, should be given where possible;
(iii) that informaiion should he put as concisely as is compatible with clearness.
Neglect of these consirieratious may cause otherwise valuable letters to be
excluded from these pages. Space at the present time is exceptionally scarce.

THE CROWN PRINCE'S HEIR

Dear Sir,
The fact that the eclipse of the Moon on July 4th of this
year falls on the birthday of the eldest son of the Crown Prince of
Germany (Prince Wilhelm bom Potsdam July 4 1906 at 9.15 a.m.),
supplies some evidence of the impending misfortunes to the German
royal family for if the Crown Prince is not to succeed the Kaiser in
due time this fact ought to show strongly in the horoscope of the son
next in line. In this nativity we find the Sun besieged between
Neptune and Mars in the eleventh house and Mars and the Sun come
to a conjunction by direction in 1917, exact toward the close of the
year. If the birthtime given is nearly correct, his progressed
ascendant will be making the opposition of Saturn progressed and
natal this year or next, and it comes to a conjunction of his father's
Uranus at same time. It is also interesting to note that Mars at
time of eclipse is square to this point. Of course if this evil means
death to this young prince, and not a cutting off of the inheritance,
the promotion ought to show in the horoscope of Prince Louis
Ferdinand born at Potsdam November 9 1907 at 9.30 a.m.; but I
will leave that point to those interested enough to look into it, for to
my mind this young prince's nativity does not show a coming to the
throne.
However, from a critical study of the Crown Prince's horoscope
I am inclined strongly to the belief that it means the cutting off of
the chances lo the German throne from this eldest boy through the
misfortunes of his father the Crown Prince.
The triple conjunction of Sun besieged between Saturn and
Neptune in the nativity of the Crown Prince presages a downfall and
loss of inheritance to say nothing of reputation. This would naturally
come when the progressed M.C. comes to an opposition of this triple
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

conjunction especially to the opposition of Sun and Neptune. Nothing

has yet occurred to the Crown Prince to indicate that this latter
opposition has been reached. For that reason I think the usual
charts given for his nativity should be rectified a little. I make his
natal M.C. about =^907'and his Ascendant ^8033'. My reasons for
this are that his progressed Sun was at 8033' Gemini on the cusp of
his seventh house at time of his marr'age in June 1905, and this
would bring his progressed M.C. trine his progressed Venus at that
event: both appropriate directions for such an occasion. (I use the
solar arc to progress by but in this case it would only make a matter
of a few months by either system.) This would bring his progressed
M.C. at next birthday 6/5/1917 close to 15° Scorpio applying to
opposition of natal Sun and Neptune which would make the exact
opposition later on during the year.
This opposition will spell CHAOS when it arrives. The opposition
of M.C. to Saturn may not yet have shown its effects except perhaps
by anticipation, by the reverses at Verdun, and those may be but the
multerings of the coming storm ; for his military prestige has been
shattered, a very serious matter in Germany where the Kaiser and
Crown Prince are supposed to be on intimate terms with the God of
Battles.
I do not remember ever seeing any one comment on the fact that
the last conjunction of Jupiter and Uranas fell on Mr T.loyd George's
Ascendant. This conjunction has so much to do apparently with the
present war, and certainly this war has proved his great opportunity ;
though I would prefer the idea that he was the man destined for the
place he is in to guide Great Britain through the coming years of
stress and trouble in the reconstruction of affairs after the war—as
well as leading her to victory during the present year.
Field, B.C. Yours truly.
27/l/'l7 Stuart Armour

KING ALBERT OF THE BELGIANS

Monsieur,
]e possede seul la pifece authentique et originale indiquant
I'heure de naissance de sa Majeste Albert Roi de Beiges et delivre par
Tadministration communale de Bruxelles dont je vous envoie le texte
ci-joint.
Bruxelles U zqjanviey 1912
Monsieur,
En reponso k votre letlre du 22 courant, j'ai 1'honneur de voua
faire connaitre que d'apres la teueur de son acle de naissance Sa Majest6
Albert Roi des Beiges est 116 i Bruxelles Ic huit avdl 1S75, a quatre heures
cinquante minutes aprds midi.
1 Division'
U. 2/315 L'offices de l'etat civil
 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Jiilevno qui avail communique la date de naissance de sa Majeste

Albert Roi des Beiges, a " The British Journal of Astrology " (August
1917), avaif o;nis de mentionner qu'il tenait de moi ce precieux
renseignement.
Si je ne craignais que le courrier porteur de cette lettre ne soil
torpille par un sous marin boche, je vans enverrais la piece origin ale
que je tiens a voire disposition.
Je vous prie de vouloir bien inserer cette communication dans le
plus prodiain numero de Modern Astrology avec mon nom et
mon adresse.
15, Rue du Moot-Roland, Veuillez agree Monsieur Alan Leo,
Dole-du-Jura, France. I'assurance de ma sincere salutation,
3.3.17. Dr. H. Grorichard.
[It may be of interest to state that the letter referred lo on p. 41 as
received by us in 1912, was from Dr. Grorichard. It was at once placed with
other data intended for the second series of Notabte Nativities, and thus got
overlooked when the " War Number" was prepared.—Ed.J

STOCKS AND PLANETS

Dear Sir,
I note on page 377 of your December number a footnote
re Planetary Influence on the stock markets, and as I have made a
special study of this branch of Astrology during the past year, I feel
my notes will not be without interest to your readers. I have found
the Moon the strongest influence, and when this planet enters Aries
each month, the markets have invariably advanced, sometimes
slightly, other times considerably; in any case, stocks have held
firmly when the Moon entered the first sign and the influence lasted
several days before waning. . If in addition to the entry of the Moon
into Aries, Mercury and Venus happened to be strong in northern
signs, the advance would be more certain and lasting. Many of my
friends have profited by following these simple instructions and can
testify to their correctness.
I could give you details of the different months of last year with
the market record, but hardly think this is necessary as the foregoing
represents the results of my investigations along these lines which 1
am continuing.
I may add that the general trend of the stock markets is
determined more by cyclic swings and local conditions, which is
another matter.
Yours sincerely,
Halifax, N.S. W. H. Wilson, D.A.
 MODli KN ASTKOLOGV

EQUIPOISE
Dear Sir,
" Errare est hnmanum " ; therefore, it is not the desire to carp
that impels comment, arising out of the two letters which appeared in
the March number of MODERN Astrology, anent the Prime
Minister's horoscope ; but, a sense of Poise, without which—difficult
though it may be to acquire, by some "of us who are students of
Astrology—much thought and study is in vain.
The keynote sounded in the two letters is " IBias " ;
Without wandering too far into details, it can truthfully be said
to require a really skilled player of Bowls, not to allow too little, or
too much to be put into his throw.
He must allow for it, as his Bowl is biassed ; and, in that sense it
is symbolical of every member of the human race : with thisdifference,
that poise has to be given to the inanimate by the human factor ; who,
to that intent may throw into his 7.eal for the game all his skill.
A great game ; and, so is Life.
If we are leaders of a community or Nation, a bias for good or
ill may display itself, to some degree ; and, allowances must be made
for merits and demerits in the means and skill employed in handling
the human element, which is so diverse.
In weighing crude and heavy substances such as coal and ores,
we should not employ the same Scales as those utilised for delicate
scientific purposes; neither, should we give the light touch necessary
in handling grains of valuable substances,—nor would it be possible
to move tons of crude or heavy materials in a similar manner.
Dealing with multifarious types of mankind analogous methods
are necessary, and a leader or ruler—however compassionate his
nature—to be worthy of his position would have to exhibit the
necessary equipoise in accordance with the finer or coarser human
elements with which he came in ccntact.
The vast majority of us have only reached a comparatively low
stage in evolution, and for the minority to judge them—in any public
fashion according to their (the minority's) own standards," even if it
were probable, which it is not—would be but carping criticism. How
many of us, desiring to ascertain our physical weight, would approach a
Weighing Machine in public dressed as Eros ? Not many, forsooth!
No, we prefer to obtain a superficial result, equipped according
to the Season, and the vagaries of Fashion, in order to avoid Chaos!
No doubt astrologers of to-day are waiting for "The Man" as
did the Magi of old, but in the meantime why should they handicap the
man holding a public position by minutely cataloguing every blemish
they may see ? Why thus handicap a public man, any more than the
"man in the street "—who can if necessary be told more of himself
and his weaknesses than he may care to know, even in private, though
it is not usual to do this. But to blazon it from the housetops!
 LliTTERS TO THE EDITOR I2
7
No, Sir, the astrologer who blurts out, for personal glorification,
everything which a Divine Wisdom enables him to perceive in the
nativity, is not only abusing his Science, but in my opinion sadly
lacking in Equipoise.
M. Wyntek Robinson

MR LLOYD GEORGE'S HOROSCOPE

Dear Sir,
As a Socialist in close touch with the Labour movement I
must protest emphatically against one or two remarks you make in
your Observatory this month. I am not going into the astrological
details, except to suggest that many of us employ " certain methods in
judging horoscopes " in order to try to ascertain the age of the soul,
but in all cases these must be purely intuitional, and cannot therefore
be admitted as evidence. The remark I take particular exception to
(p. 66) is that Mr Lloyd George is "a socialist of the new order, the
forerunner of many of his kind in the coming new era"! (flea veil
preserve us from them!) This statement is entirely inaccurate,
because Mr George is not merely not a socialist at all but is violently
opposed to real socialism; what he aims at is establishing a Servile
State run by a Bureaucracy with all profits carefully secured for ever
to the present owners of surplus value and land.
Moreover Mr George is both distrusted and detested by Labour
as a whole, with the exception of that small portion which allows itself
to be hypnotised by certain newspapers. The idea of classing Mr
George as a Socialist is really ludicrous, and betrays a fundamental
misconception both of the political situation and of the meaning of the
word Socialism. Moreover, what is the " new order " of socialists ?
In the Socialist movement itself, if this term were ever used, it could
only conceivably be applied to the National Guilds League, and as
their first postulate is the abolition of the wage-system which Mr
George is out to retain in the sacred interests of capitalism, 1 fear
they would hardly recognise him as a comrade.
Yours faithfully,
C. G. M. ADAM

[U'e cannot continue to give space to letters of this character,

which concern themselves with matters that are not astrological.
We may fitly repeal in this connection what xce said in our footnote
to a German correspondent's letter on our " War Number " [p. 579
Dec 1914) ;— ' We welcome, and invite, comment, or criticism of our
ASTROI.OGICAI. views, but cannot spare space for controversies whose
proper field is the daily newspaper or monthly review. This
magazine is devoted to the search for truth concerning Astrology,
and that aim. would not be furthered thereby."—Ed.]
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Astrology for Beginners

PERSONAL APPEARANCE
[Contimiitl from page 96)
Having now spoken of the four cardinal and the four fixed signs, we
shall consider the four mutable, taking first the sign Gemini (n ), the Twins
When this sign rises in the East, it gives a thin, slender body, with
unusually long arms and legs and a narrow chest, and, sometimes, sloping
shoulders. An elegant and refined look is observable on many of the better
looking Geminis, and a fancifuluess in dress.
The head is long and narrow with brown, soft hair, the forehead is
straight and tall, and the eyes usually hazel in colour. The nose is either
long and straight or bears a resemblance to a bird's beak. The late Queen
Victoria was born under nfi0 and her nose had the aquiline touch, but this
same characteristic was much more marked in the two Pitts, father and son,
who bad thin, high bridged aquiliue noses, cut straight across, beak-like, at
the end, and a mouth below that was thin lipped and comparatively small in
size.
Many Gemini people exhibit a cruel glint in the eyes when frustrated in
purpose or contradicted in argument, due possibly to wounded vanity.
The complexion is clear and the skin is more yellowish than white, the
ears small and the neck is never full, but thin and long.
Nature usually goes to the trouble of making the fingers particularly long,
slender and artistic-looking.
A Gemini person walks head foremost, as it were, and as though all
anxiety to get there, moving his arms and taking long strides. His voice is
high pitched, his words tumble out quickly, and heard from a little distance
they produce a cackling sound. The feeling of youthfulness is apparent in
all that Gemini persons say and do, and their movements and attitudes
are often bird-like and perky.
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TIMES AND SEASONS

Miss Minnie Theobald's article on Lent, published in last

month's issue, is very suggestive with regard to the importance of
times and seasons. Lent is said to be a time of the year for Fasting,
Prayer, and Regeneration, and those who are sensitive to astral
influences tell us that a peculiar change in life and consciousness takes
place at this time, the spiritually minded being awakened to higher
possibilities, while those who are impassive are stirred instinctively by
a peculiar restlessness toward some unknown influences they cannot
understand.
The full Moon following the Sun's entry into the sign Aries gives
us our Eastertide, the value of which, so far as the new life is concerned,
is but dimly understood by the majority who feel the advent of Spring.
There is however another event of far greater significance to students
of occultism, which is concerned with the full Moon of the month of
May when the Sun is in the sign Taurus, the sign of generation, and
the Moon is in the sign Scorpio, the sign of re-generation.
I^o MODERN ASTROLOGY
It is said that a great festival takes place annually in a certain
part of the world, when certain powerful magical forces are liberated,
and all those who are followers of a Mighty Being assemble to do Him
homage and become more or less conscious of His Presence. Men
and women from all parts of the world, and at all stages of evolution,
congregate on a great plain, coming thither in all kinds of vehicles,
heavy and light, to witness a marvellous ceremony in which the
Great Ones of the earth give expression to their knowledge of spiritual
verities.
This is the true re-generative period, when all who have yearned
for liberation from the bondage of fate look forward to a New Birth.
At this time above all others it may truly be said "where two or three
are gathered together in My Name, there am I in the midst of them."
The Resurrection festival of the followers of Christ is but one
echo of the great ceremony which symbolises the beginning of a new
cycle for those individuals who have been successful in their attempts
towards re-generation. Miss Theobald wisely explains Re-Generation
as the rise out of the Time order into the Eternal order, and states
that Lent is the time of the year when it is most easy for us to repent
and for our consciousness to turn homeward toward the spiritual
regions. It is said that we begin to die as soon as we are born; a
truth we find symbolised by the lord of physical life which is also the
lord of physical death—T, tri. (<? ).
The lower and higher regions of the physical world, governed by
Mars and Venus, are the objective and subjective regions of what is
practically the same world. Very few of us realise that there is an
astral or starry substance surrounding this earth, in which subtle
changes take place at those times we term the four quarters of the
year. Spring-time is a peculiarly active time in this astral world,
during which much psychic phenomena take place that materially
affect our thought and feeling. In this world, loves and hates are
separated into different regions; the loves are divided into mortal and
immortal loves, and the hates into forms that resemble iron and steel.
To be born self conscious into the astral world the generative life
must be re-generated and replaced by the creative life of Venus, the
crown of which is human love, in contradistinction to the generative
force of passion or the animal life of Mars. It is between these two
 T1IK KDITOR'S OBSERVATORY
states that the consciousness of the vast majority of the human family-
is hovering, a consciousness that is symbolised by the vibrations of
Mars and Venus. The festivals of spring-time are love feasts, where
strong souls are gathered together in His Name.
The whole mystery of the inner and outer times and seasons is
contained in the zodiac, which symbolizes the great subjective womb
of nature in which loves and hates are continually born. The budding
time for all life is during the spring season, and all forms of life in the
various departments of nature are generated and re-generated between
theTnoment of the Sun's entry into the sign Aries and the full Moon
of May, with the Sun in the sign Taurus and the Moon in the sign
Scorpio. It is said that this is the time chosen by the Elder Brethren of
our race for the Initiations that take place at the Easter season. It is
an open season for all wonld-be Initiates who can realize the difference
between Time and Eternity, Isolation and Unity. This great Initia-
tion period is mirrored in the three succeeding seasons, each season
being ushered in by a cardinal sign, signifying a physical effort; this
is followed by a fixed sign denoting a soul's endeavour, with changes
in astral consciousness; and finally by a mutable sign which
harmonises with a spiritual unfoldinent.
In the spring season the animal forces of nature contain sufficient
impulse for transmutation in the human life; the sap or life-stream
wells upward and is susceptible to changes that are either generative
or creative, impelled by nature's impulses or guided by consciousness.
In the summer season the human life is ripened and full, ready
for divine impulses, or for aspirations stimulated by faith.
In the autumn season the physical and subtle bodies have
absorbed those experiences, which enables them to end the cycle of
action in the circle of necessity, by entering upon a new life of service.
Miss Theobald suggests that during nine signs, or nine months,
we are preparing for the new spiritual birth, (as a matter of fact
we are always preparing for it) ; from Aries to Cancer we are
evolving up to the human kingdom, from Leo to Scorpio we
are evolving in the human, and from Sagittarius to Pisces our
consciousness is changing into the spiritual. And she very ably
connects thought, speech and action with the three quaternaries of
signs and also gives us the idea that the self is consciousness within
133 MODERN ASTROLOGY

time. This brings us by a new process to the idea that Saturn is the
great ruler of the self-consciousness in man—the " bridge " between
the animal and the spirit.
Miss Theobald says : " Capricorn above all signs of the zodiac
has to do with ritual." If this be true we should like to invite all
students possessing the Capricornian element to prepare an astrological
ritual that may be used by a select body of students at the four
seasons of the year. Ritual we believe to be useful in teaching
reverence for superior influences, and it should teach us that behaviour
which will enable us to conform to the :demands of time ruled by
Saturn, whose limitations after all only require that we shall gain our
freedom from the bondage of fate through SKILL IN ACTION.
With Miss Theobald's comments on the signs Aquarius and
Pisces we are in accord, for we see a link between these signs and the
mysterious planets Uranus and Neptune, the guardians of perfection
in life and form. "The Aquarian or Initiate," she says, "is he who
ever acts in such a way as to intentionally liberate life and realise
wisdom,"—a fine sentence, and one on which a useful article could be
written. Is it any wonder then that so few Aquarians live up to this
sign, and that there are so few AW/ig Aquarians amongst us ? The
Aquarian initiate has a big task to perform, since to live up to his
ideal as a Man he has to:—
"Transform all feeling into power, all life into thought.
"Take emotion and make it purpose.
" Take fever and make it force.
" Take madness and make it divine confidence."
It is surely the Re-generate Man of whom Miss Theobald is
thinking when she says of Pisces that it is " the sign of the risen or
triumphant Christ."
We are anxious to find a few more writers like Miss Minnie
Theobald, and wonder how much longer they arc going to hide their
light under a bushel ? The world is expectant for a N ew Astrology.

We ask the indulgence of subscribers for the lateness of this month's

issue, which is due to printing difliculties.
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Sntmiational Jlstrologij

New Moon, 2l/5l'l7, 0.47 a.m.

X XI XII 1 n lit
(>) 7 II 7 29 V3X8 = 16 TI? B 20
(2) 7 24 >311 =: 2 K 13 B g D 5
(3) « 9 V323 =5 18 87 □ II II 26
(4) 14126 =0,25 11118 7 8 mi = 19
(') London (2) Berlin (3) Petrograd (4) New York
GD 9 ? y t)
» 29,24 »23.0X}. 115.56 a 11.59 B20.5g ®26.O =:23.42 ,9.2.29
URANUS rising in Aquarius is the only planet angular at London,
and there is nothing in any angle at Berlin, so that the ihap is
probably not of prime importance for western or central Europe. The
third house is very strongly tenanted at London, pointing to changes
connected with railways, the post office, or the air service ; new
undertakings will be started and useful reforms introduced; but the
square of Uranus to Mercury therein points to some discontent being
caused among workers and attention called to the subject in JParlia-
ment. Expenditure will continue very high but the internal resources
of the country will improve, trade will be good, railway and postal
revenue will increase, and the crops promise better than might be
expected. Much new shipping will be launched, entailing heavy
expenditure, and some amount of discontent will be expressed in
connection with seamen and the navy. The influences are very good
for the crops and the land, but care will still be necessary with regard
to foods and trade in them.
The planets in Taurus will be in the second house at Berlin, and
national expenditure will demand attention and reform ; heavy outlay
is indicated but the influences are not wholly evil for the time, although
Uranus afflicting from the twelfth house shows heavy national losses
and political troubles caused thereby. The lunation falling on the
Emperor's Uranus in the end of Taurus is very unfortunate and even
dangerous for him and for Germany, especially as his progressed
ascendant is so close to the square of Uranus; sudden and unexpected
disasters are threatened, the Reichstag and internal legislative affairs
will be disturbed, there will be misfortunes connected with the sea,
 134 MODERN ASTROl.OGY
and it is bad for the Emperor in social and domestic affairs; some
sudden quarrel or crisis is threatened and the death of someone
eminent in the state. The place of the luminaries will fall as under :
King Italy □ j; D. Lloyd George aO
The Ex-Czak d MC & O Gen. Jofyre g Asc & D
German Emperor d iji # p Pope gq
Taurus rising at Petrograd gives strength and success. Venus will
be setting at New York, showing friends abroad and favourable
prospects.

The Conjunction of Maks and Jupiter

This occurs 8/6/1917, 41' 15" 22' a.m., at 8 25° 13'. It forms
much the same aspects in the various horoscopes as the place of the
Sun and Moon at the lunation, and it will accentuate the indications of
the lunation. A conjunction of those two planets often coincides with
periods of considerable public excitement over questions of religion,
law, or politics. The rising of the Sun and Venus gives strength and
success to the country. The conjunction in the twelfth house squaring
Uranus in the tenth is not so good ; it will trouble Parliament and the
Government, who should guard against some false step, secret enmity,
treachery and conspiracy not merely in home politics but in our
foreign relations (if rules vii house) which will be liable to become
confused and difficult or unhealthily exciting. There will be loss of
life at sea and from travelling; philanthropic movements, hospitals,
and charities will attract much attention and incur some criticism ;
there is danger of some infectious disease or epidemic, and of secret
crime. But with the trines from the Moon there is a considerable
amount of success and prosperity promised. Ireland, Poland, and
parts of Eastern Europe governed by Taurus will be very much
excited as a result of the conjunction, but there are many fortunate
positions in the map which will introduce changes and reforms that
will ultimately have a beneficial effect. There are two contrary
influences, one promising much diplomatic and military success abroad
and the other warning of danger or some setback. The conjunction
falling on the German Emperor's Uranus and in opposition to his
Moon is very unfortunate for him and accentuates the dangers of the
last lunation.
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Jin Astrological ^jimposhim

THE PREDICTION'S OF TEN PROMINENT AMERICAN ASTROLOGERS

ON
"The War; when is it to end, and
WHO WILL WIN THE EVENTS OF 1917"

An American journal, Asoth, has issued a supplement to its

March 1917 issue with the above title, and the foll»wing is a digest
of the opinions of these astrologers as to who will win, and when the
war will end. We say their opinions, for in one case only do we find
any astrological reasons given for their conclusions.
Mr John B. Early who claims method of calculation
differing slightly from the general practice ' makes the statement that
.the German Emperor has the strongest birth horoscope, and seems
convinced that " England and her Allies cannot win the War for
several reasons, chief among which are King George's weak horoscope
and the fact that England declared war when the Moon in her
detriment was leaving an opposition to Neptune." He concludes by
saying, " I do not see any great victory for the Allies or the Central
Powers, but the advantages are directly and indirectly in favour of
the Central Powers when this war ends." If Mr John Early's
prediction is based upon the strength or weakness of the horoscopes of
the British King and the German Emperor, then it is plain that he
accredits the latter with the stronger nativity and gives the advantages
to the Central Powers accordingly.
We prefer the British King's horoscope with Jupiter culminating
and Venus rising, to that of the Kaiser with Mars culminating and
Saturn rising; probably Mr Early prefers an exhibition of might and
military glory to that of right and intelligence. The Moon in Scorpio
may be stronger than the Moon in Libra, but of the two we prefer the
influence of Venus to that of Mars.
Mr Llewellyn George bases his opinion on the Great War
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

eclipse of August 191+, and gives the duration of the War four and
three quarter years, according to the period of the eclipse which
lasted four and three quarter hours. The method, as Mr George
truly says, is open to question, but we agree with his summary of the
Kaiser's horoscope when he says: "The Moon is in trine to Neptune
from the fifth house in the martial sign Scorpio, hence the populace
(Moon), and particularly the younger generation (fifth house), and the
military element (Moon in Scorpio), have closely allied themselves to
him (the Kaiser) and his ambitions for military supremacy in Europe.
But the Moon is in its fall in Scorpio, under the earth and in opposi-
tion to the erratic Uranus, which inclines to spells of madness and
reversals. Mercury rules the end of life (fourth house cusp), and the
house of self undoing (twelfth house), and it is in opposition to the
ascendant, indicating an end in hostility and enmity, brought about by
his own doing, although his actual death is likely to be the result
of sickness from a long-standing complaint ($1 in sixth in >5)."
This is an astrological judgment, not an opinion, and based upon rules
that all students accept. Mr George concludes; " Thus the Allies
will have won, not by superior arms, but through the internal
exhaustion of their enemies in finance and men, (second and eighth
houses)." A very sound piece of reasoning.
Mr JOHN HazeLRIGG'S contribution is more metaphysical than
astrological, but nevertheless very interesting in its blendings. He
says that be " does not see the Kaiser's horoscope supplies in any wise
a major key to the finalities." He bases his calculations on the Kali
Yuga 3102 B.C., adding 50" for each of the 5018 years since, and gives
the cycle's progressed ascendant as 9° Gemini and the M.C. as 9'
Aquarius, and thus draws his conclusion from the Kaiser's horoscope
after all for the termination of the War between August and October
of the present year. We must, however, agree with Mr Hazelrigg
when he says that:—"From no single horoscope can we read the
solution of so intricate a problem as the present World War, be it
that of king, prime minister, or military generalissimo. Each is a
factotum of the State. The natus of a reigning monarch reflects but
a detail of the passing show ; it is but a spoke in the wheel of a
nation's destiny."
Mr Roscoe H. HiGBEE inclines toa warof exhaustion, unless the
 AN ASTROLOGICAL SYMPOSIUM 137
Allies play their cards successfully during August 1917 ; and we agree
with him.'
INCOG would base his deductions upon the birth of the German
Empire, July 21st 1870, which he uses in conjunction with the Kaiser's
horoscope.
Professor Gustave E. Meyer says he " was the only
scientific astrologer who foretold the great European war in the New
York Suit, Sunday, December 28th 1913, and foretold that Germany
would surely win the Great War, and the probable ending of the same
would occur around July 1917." He says that " the Germans will
invent some new device in warfare that will shock the world and help
them to victory." His contribution is certainly predictive enough to
satisfy any fatalist who requires definite predictions. Unfortunately
he does not give a single astrological reason for any of his statements^
so after all they may be only guesses. As a " scientific astrologer "
surely he knows that it is easy to make statements, but not so easy to
support them by legitimate reasons, unless one is truly scientific.
GABRIEL Neith is not very explicit in his remarks about the
Vernal Equinox 1917-18. He says;—"1917 is the Sun in the minor
cycle of Mars; in the major cycle of Jupiter, therefore, do these
vibrations play the more important parts in the drama of the year."
He is also predictive, but gives some reasons for his statements, which
appear to be based upon the Sun's entry into Aries 1917.
Mr A. Z. Stevenson doubts the accuracy of the Kaiser's
horoscope and yet nearly all his remarks seemed to be based upon that
horoscope. He says "a partial settlement will take place in February
1918, but the war will not be ended."
Mr Frederick White sets out with the following statement; "It
is customary with most if not all the astrologers, to assume to know
more about the subjects they write upon than many other writers; in
fact, astrologers lead the public to believe that they know more and
have greater ability in prophesying correctly than they actually have."
After which it would seem to be a waste of time to read what Mr
White has to say about the war, from an astrological standpoint, and
yet we find him making a good attempt at assuming to know more
about the subject than say Mr Higbee, who modestly contributes only
three short paragraphs as against Mr White's whole age.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

We cannot help thinking that when he sets off with his accusing
statement Mr White shows that he has the political bias of some other
astrologers, and this bias is probably the cause of the differences of
opinion we find when national astrology is the subject under discussion.
We feel grateful to the Editor of Azoth for having summoned
these ten prominent American astrologers to give their opinion on the
War and when it is to end. The majority (8) are seemingly in favour
of the Allies,—as against one for the Teutons, and one who gives no
victory to either side. In this connection it is only fair to say that
Mrs Catherine Thompson gave in the February issue of Azof/tastudy
of the Kaiser's horoscope, which was however so manifestly biassed
as to be of no value to an astrologer. It was, we learn, " owing to the
fact that Mrs Thompson differs so remarkably in her predictions con-
cerning the result of the War from many of the British and European
astrologers, that it occurred to the Editor of Azoth, that it would be a
matter of general interest to bring together for study and future
reference the predictions of the prominent astrologists in America."
We have again to thank the Editor of Azoth for a very creditable
production, which, although we have criticised from an astrologer's
point of view, we think on the whole a very satisfactory production.
While on this subject some comment may be permissible upon
the article by INCOG in the March issue of Azoth entitled " Astrology,
Uranus and the Theosophical Society."
INCOG draws attention to the rising of Uranus in the horoscopes of
the Theosophical Society and of Mrs Annie Besant, he says ;—" a very
cursory glance at the horoscopes of the T.S. and its President will
satisfy any student of Astrology that she has outlived her usefulness,
but when one recalls the splendid work she has done in the past and
how her marvellous intellect has, by voice and pen, carried the
message of Theosophy into almost every part of the globe, one is at a
loss for words to express the regret that one feels at the havoc wrought
by ambition and psychic illusion ; and the most charitable view to
take is that the mind, already taxed beyond its limits, has given way
under the strain."
This is an unjustifiable attack upon Mrs Besant, and I for one (who
may also claim to have been " a student of astrology for many years ")
 AN ASTROLOGICAL SYMPOSIUM X39
;am not satisfied that Mrs Besant has ' outlived her usefulness,' or that
'her mind has given way.'
Because Mrs Besant has taken an interest in Indian affairs, those
who disapprove turn round upon her as though she had committed a
great crime, and seek to turn the genius of her horoscope into madness.
If we are going to place all Uranians in the same category, then the
sooner we know the difference between the material world and the
occult, the better. None save the Uranian is competent to judge a
Uranian, and the sooner Incog exposes his own horoscope in order
that we may see how far he has the right to sit in judgment upon
a great soul like Mrs Besant, the better. Mrs Besant's will is
polarised to that of her Master, who knows what India wants, and
her ambitions are to serve the cause of humanity in whatever direction
His Wisdom and Love direct.
Alan Leo

"Astrological Gossip."—Mr Arthur Mee, of Tremynfa, Llanishen,

Cardiff, has sent us No. 2 of this tiny publication, the former of which we
noticed on p. 178 of last volume. Though curtailed in size it is as full of
interest as its predecessor.
Astrology in the Press.—One of our subscribers, Mr Alfred
Dodsworth, has been contributing a series of astrological articles weekly to
the Birkeiihetid Advertiser, each article dealing with one sign of the Zodiac.
The editor writes that they are much appreciated, he believes, by students
and other thinking people.
The Great Munition Works Explosion: {p. 94 March).—A corre-
spondent writes that two public clocks in the neighbourhood stopped at 6.53
and were for several weeks to be seen with the hands still in that position.
Hence this would appear to be without doubt the exact time of the
explosion, instead of 6.55 as given on p. 94.
" Missing" ok Dead ? (p. 63 February).—E. I. in a letter too long to
print gives interesting reason for her conclusion that E. A. C.'s brother is
" not dead, but being hurt by a shell (gas shell ?) has most likely got into
enemy hands and may have been taken to hospital (see ]) P 'j' in The
Progressed Horoscope)." She also kindly encloses cutting, which we have
forwarded to E. A. C.
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Write before sending, to save disappointment. Address: " Modern
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 40

(Brample in Hectificaticn.

A GENTLEMAN born at Cupar, Fife, 16th July 1859, Lat.

Se'ZO N, 12m. 8s. W., wrote to Modern Astrology 14/1/1914 and
not knowing the hour of birth gave the following events:
Mother died November 1877 Change 1898
Father died August 1890 Change 1899
Brother died 1885 or 1886 Went to Egypt 1899
First went to Africa 1895 Change 1910
Left home in the first instance 1881. Went to Constantinople 1870. Change
again in 1912 and 1913 ; and looks like changes for 1914—appearances uncertain.
The letter continues: " The nearest calculation of time by horoscope
' very fair indeed 1 but hardly think correct, Libra rising 2nd decanate,"
—referring to a horoscope obtained elsewhere.
These particulars were given to one of our calculators (J.P.M.)
who has made a special study of rectifications, and the time was
brought to 11.36 a.m. G.M.T., — 9° 42' on the ascendant, although
some doubt was expressed as to the accuracy of this since one of the
three photos sent did not seem to accord well with Libra. The
rectification was chiefly based on MC p d b r for the death of father
(*? being lord of the fourth house), and MC p being equidistant from
(? r and (? p for death of mother.
This rectification was accepted by the native (who has himself
made some study of Astrology), and nothing further was heard from
him till 25/11/1916 when the following letter was received :
Dear Sir,
You did me a Horoscope and Rectification of Birth, No. 16X047
some two years ago.
A few days ago I got an Epoch and Horoscope Map from Mr Bailey,
editor of the British Journal of Astrology, according to his methods. There
is so much difference in the two maps that I thought it might interest you if
I sent you a copy of them.
I nave been a reader for long of your Journal as well as Mr Bailey's,,
and with so much difierence between such well-known masters of the science
it seems to me a very difficult matter for an amateur to make much headway.
The map referred to was calculated for 3.39 a.m.
Being desirous of giving satisfaction to this gentleman we
submitted the problem to an expert—Mr James R. Wallace, who has
 AN EXAMPLE IN RECTIFICATION
been a member of our staff for over 20 years, a man of great
experience in this class of work, well known to Raphael and others
as the'most reliable and painstaking man we have in the astrological
field in the working out of mathematical problems; and there are none
more difficult than horoscope rectifications. The following are his
remarks :
The Horoscope
x XII 11 in
"(17.47 &8 ^29 "II5-3I 7 14 VJ25
G 5 i <r V h
23-30 3x10.52 Jt 15-54 ®3-48 2125.1 218.8 JI12.55 116.24 X27-5r
Speculum
H.A M.D. S.^ Mundane Position
0 0 0 O
0 "5 22 44 5 126 5 2 3 out of ix cusp
5 313 26 25 51 119 54 14 7 from 111 ,,
1 138 43 20 44 117 34 18 27 .» ix ,4
* 94 7 65 20 129 54 21 16 Vlll ,,
8 1x7 11 42 16 127 45 0 19 J > ix „
* 99 2 60 25 129 54 26 11 viii
135 40 23 47 118 47 15 49 M ix
IJI 64 32 94 55 125 48 30 53 .. vii ,,
4' 357 49 18 22 93 30 18 22 „ iv ,,
" Reclification: Hour of birth quite unknown. I have before me two
rectifications, by ' Sepbarial' and another ; one gives time as 3.39 a.m. the
other as 11.36 a.m. My decided opinion is that both are extremely wrong,
especially Sepharial's. I present herewith a map for 3.14 p.m. It seems to
agree with facts, and is supported both by Primary and Secondary Directions.
1.—Mother died, November 1877 ! arc 18.20 or so.1
.P S 8 / mundo 18. 9 T 27/2/77 : 5 ecli psed m 9, on MC
„ MC L1 1 z.c. 18.12 15/3/77; O K 25, 8 V r
MC i V m 18.22 9/8/77: Q Jl 16, 8 S r I? p
S OPf pr Sep '77
2.—Father died, Aug 1890 ; arc 31.5 or so.
P Asc 9 IJI zod 31- 6 T 1/8/90 : g' 8 IU r, 8 Asc p
.. Asc o 8 z.c. 31-26 ., 10/8/90 ; 8 8 Asc p
SO p 4 Vr Aug '90 .. 3/9/90 : 8 MC r
jp^fp, Qtp Aug "90
3.—Brother died 1885 or 1886 ; 1885 I should say.
P MC 9 s con 25.51
MC t 5 z.c. 26. 7 [Note p in iii house afflicted]
4.—He first left home in 1881 : be bad then,
S D p tf iji r = May 1881 T 28/5/81 : O eclipse 8 IJI r and tf P p
„ 5 p tf IJI p = June 1881
„ IJI p P O r = 1881
1
(The capital letters P, S. and T, indicate respectively Primary Directions,
Secondary Directions, and Transits.)
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
" Native, since 22, has been constantly voyaging and travelling. His-
ruler, Mars, is conjunction Sun in Cancer, on 9th cusp, Mercury in 9th,
opposition Moon in 3rd.
"He seems to be single, Moon applies to opposition and parallel Saturn,
from barren signs."

The above horoscope having been sent to the native we received

the following letter 12/1/1917 :
Dear Sir,
I have had some time to look into the rectified Horoscope you
very kindly prepared for me. However there are some points. I fail to
understand how certain planets in the ninth house coincide with the rules of
Astrology—especially for a titan who has travelled so extensively in foreign lands
as 1 have done. It appears to me impossible, the © d J on cusp 9th, 5 d b
in 9th, and I) g 5 and tj •
Perhaps you would kindly enlighten me on these points. At present I
must admit I fail to understand them through my reading of Astrology.

To this letter the following reply was sent:

January 16//1, 1917
Dear Sir,
In reply to your letter, we should expect anyone with planets
on the cusp of 9th to have-travelled extensively in foreign lands. Odd1
on cusp of gth is exceedingly potent for great activity in connection with
foreign travel. And in the number of horoscopes we have examined we have
found similar influences. In fact, the 9th house is so well tenanted iu your
case that it coincides with the travel, and we are sure any astrologer would
say the same.
Then again, the Moon in 3rd house agrees with much moving from place
to place and supports the 9th house very considerably. Malefic planets are
not accounted as evil in a horoscope, hut signs of activity, all planets simply
giving vibrations which will influence the houses occupied.
We hope this will enlighten you and help you to come to a decision as to
which is the correct horoscope.

These are the facts in this case, and those who are interested in the
subject of Rectification will, derive benefit from studying them, after
which they may read the observations on p. 78 of the British Journal
of Astrology for April and consider how far they are justified. We
there learn that the rectification referred to by our correspondent in his
second letter, was based upon i? d b in J€I3 early in November 1877
which degree being assumed as the MC of the nativity yielded the
arcs asc. 8 D for death of mother and asc. 6 b for death of father.
This rectification may be compared with those given above, and
an estimate formed as to its suitability.
 <9bit(r Strta

A USEFUL PUBLICATION

We have to note the publication of a new book on astrology by Mr

Herbert T. Waite, entitled IVaiU's Compendium of Natal Astrology and
Universal Ephemeris (Kegan Paul).* This book is beautifully bound in
imitation crocodile skin, 6in. by 4, and Jin. in thickness, making a very
handy pocket book containing 212 pages, which includes 150 pages of tables
printed from plates.
The book is all that the author claims it to be: "A simple and practical
handbook containing everything necessary to enable all to' put to the test
the astounding truths of the most ancient science known to mankind, by
casting their own horoscopes and reading their characters and prospects."
From the page facing the preface we learn that " The Author gratefully
acknowledges his indebtedness, in particular to Mr Alan Leo, and to those
other writers who, in the face of much adverse criticism, have shorn
Astrology of the dross of superstition a;;d enabled him to see much truth and
beauty iu this the oldest of all the sciences."
In his preface the author states his reason for publishing the book:
" As a student ol Astrology I always resented the fact that it was impossible
to carry about with one ephemerides for sixty or seventy years, and tables of
houses for most of the civilized world with which to erect the horoscopes of
the sccplics I met and silence them, then, there, and forever. And I felt this
all the more, for as a civil engineer I am used to my trusty little pocket-book
friends, Molesworth and Hurst, which I always have with me, ready for any
poser that may crop up in my profession."
We very much appreciate Mr Waite's inscription to the first copy, which
he has sent us, wherein he says :
"To Mr Alan Leo, without whose genius and magnanimity this little book
would never have been published to the world., the author presents this, the
first copy, with compliments and grateful acknowledgments. March 1917."
We heartily recommend Mr Waite's little book to our readers who
require abbreviated Tables of Houses for all latitudes and an Abbreviated
Ephemeris from 1850 to 1916, etc. The book is well worth the money and is
a credit to both author and publisher.
" The book can be obtained from the oflice of Modern Astrologv, price 5/6 post
free.
 144 MODERN ASTROLOGY

DECANATE INFLUENCE
Concerning King Albert's nativity a student writes that he considers
the decanate influences should be calculated somewhat differently from those
shown in the chart on p. 45. He reasons in this way:—Taking the example
given in the footnote, p. 43, OT18.26, this is the second decanate of Aries,
and therefore corresponds to Leo; moreover it is 8.a6 past the commencement
of the second decanate. Therefore, as the whale of the second decanate,
KMo-ao, corresponds to the whole of Jto-30—i.e. three times the space, the
8,t6 should therefore be multiplied by three yielding 25.18; so that the
'decanate position' of the Sun should be reckoned as SL25.18 instead of
St8.26 as given. Similarly with all the others.
This alters some of the positions in a noteworthy way, and the decanate
chart so calculated stands as follows:—OSl.,25.18, $"18.45,
2H20.54, (?sii8.48, U1123 ■she, ij^io.iS, fyo-h.
It will be noted that this arrangement suggests further ramifications:
e.g. 'decanate ' influence of Q in ^1,25,18 corresponds to T 15.54, this again
to ^17.42, this again to ^ 23.6 and so on for quite a long, series.
There seems no reason why all these influences should not be real, though of
course each succeeding remove must make the influence less marked, just
as 1 overtones' in a vibrating string become fainter as we get higher.
It is a very stimulating thought that the horoscope should possess these
* overtones,' and it is to be hoped that students will investigate their own and
friends' horoscopes from this point of view.

NOTE ON THE JAPANESE .ZODIAC

There are twelve signs in the Japanese Zodiac—in itself a signifi-
cant fact, and one eloquent of the truth of the Science. Numerous
correspondences exist between their names.
Japanese Occidental
Rat Ram
Bull Bull
Tiger Twins
Hare Crab
Dragon Lion
Serpent Virgin
Horse Scales
Gcat Scorpion
Monkey Centaur
Cock Goat
Dog Man
Boar Fish
It will be seen that the Goat and Bull appear in both lists. The
Japanese old calendar begins in February-March with the Rat.
 OBITER DICTA

THE TWELVE APOSTLES

A correspondent suggests the following allocation of the apostles to
the signs.
T Peter. Impetuous. Impulsive.
^ Phillip. Materialistic. " Show us."
n Thomas. Twins. Sceptical. Variable.
S Bartholomew. Hidden. (See Keble's Hymn for St. B.'s Day.)
SL Jude. The Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
itj; James. Chilling (and practical: see his epistle). " And we forbade them."
Simon.
tn John. (Eagle.)
f James the less. Universally popular.
yy Matthias.
Andrew. Fisher. Patron of Russia.
K Matthew. Despised publican.

INTERESTING BIRTH-DATA
The following interesting items have been kindly sent by Miss Elsie H.
Tipple, of Charlbury, Oxon.
Robert Hugh Benson: born 9.20 p.m., Nov 18 1871, Wellington
College, Berkshire (on his nurse's testimony).
Lord Charles Beresford: 5 a.m., Feb 10 1846, Ireland (testimony of
friend at school with him).
Morley Roberts the novelist: 10 a.m., Dec 29 1857, London, (own
statement).
From Sidney Archives: Sir Henry Sidney: b. London, 1.15 a.m.
July 20, 1529. He was the father of Sir Philip Sidney : b. Penshurst, Kent,
4.45 a.m., Nov 30 1554.
Mary II (Queen); b. London, 1 a.m., April 30 1663.
Anne (Queen) : b. London, 11.39 P-m., Feb 6 1664.

A Pre-War Note.—Th. B. writes, in a delayed letter dated 29/8/1913

which has lately reached us ; " It is notable how very marked the ^ ^ con-
junction in n is. The conjunction of 1910 did not, I think, show itself so
much in the decease of King Edward, as in the extraordinary circumstances
of the constitutional struggle.
" By the way, there wasa very remarkable article in Modern Astrology
<1911 p. 97) about the Artistic Party—neutral to Aristocracy, and Democracy
—and I am convinced that it is this element in politics, and not democracy,
that is influenced by ut.
" I wish the Competitions were to be resumed. They were in many
•ways the most valuable feature of the magazine."
 Slje (Brtat Mar

By G. E. Sutcliffe,

Author of "The Foundations of Physical Astrology"

VI.—The Strategy of the hierarchy

and the Cross of Matter

"Tht Secret Doctrine teaches that every event of universal

importance, such as the geological cataclysms at the end of one
Race and the beginning of a new one, involving a great change
each time in mankini, spiritual, moral, and physical, is pre-
cogitated and preconcerted, so to say, in the Sidereal regions of
our planetary system. Astrology is built wholly upon this
mystic and intimate connection between the heavenly bodies and
mankind; and it is one of the great secrets of Initiation and
Occult Mysteries " : S D. ii 525, footnote.
" Space, in its abstract sense, was called the ' realm of
divine knowledge,' . . . the habitat of knowledge, because
it is in Space that duell the intelligent Powers which invisibly
rule the Universe.
" In the same manner, and on the plan of the Zodiac in the
upper Ocean or the Heavens, a certain realm on Earth, an
inland sea, was consecrated and called the 'Abyss of learning';
twelve centres on it. in the shape of twelve small islands,
representing the Zodiacal Signs, , . . were the abode of
Twelve Hierophants and Masters of IKisrfow " : ib. 527-8.

The policy of the Occult Hierarchy during the present century,

as far as one can sense it from the astrological configurations and the
course of events, has undergone a distinct change. In the earlier part
the policy was to prevent a war in Europe, and in the later part the
policy was to arrange a suitable date for the war to break out. The-
date when this change of policy took place was about January 11
1910, when the great cruciform configuration of the planets took
place. The interval of time between the great planetary conjunction
on December 3 1899 and the cruciform configuration in 1910, is
HT08 years, which is about the mean length of the sunspot period.
This eleven year interval is perhaps the smaller dark cycle overlapping"
the Kali Yuga cycle, referred to in the Secret Doctrine (iii 488) over
 THE GREAT WAR
which the " Brothers of the Shadow," embodied and disembodied,,
still held sway.
The Boer War
One of the means by which the Hierarchy prevented the outbreak
of war in Europe during the earlier period was by permitting war to
occur in South Africa, and between the Russians and the Japanese.
I understand that the Hierarchy does not actually bring on wars, but
by preventing the outbreak in some places, and not opposing it in
others, the operation of the Dark Powers does the rest. It may be
noticed that both the Boer war and the Russo-Japanese war were
encouraged by Germany..
" At a banquet given in honour of the German emperor's birthday
in Pretoria in January 1895, Kruger referred in glowing terms to the
friendship of Germany for the Transvaal, which in the future was tO'
be more firmly established than ever. His speech was public evidence
of what was known to be going on behind the scenes. The German
consul at Pretoria at this juncture was a volatile, sanguine man, with
visionary ideas of the important part Germany was to play in the
future as the patron and ally of the South African Republic, and of
the extent to which the Bismarckian policy might go in abetting,
an anti-British campaign. Whether he deceived himself or not,
he led President Kruger and the Boers to believe that Germany
was prepared to go to almost any length in support of the Transvaal if
any opportunity occurred. His influence was an undoubted factor in
the Kruger policy of that time" ; Ency. Britt. XI xxvii 200.
Significant also of the attitude of Germany at that time was an
open telegram sent by the emperor William on January 3 1896,
congratulating Kruger that " without appealing to the help of friendly
powers" he had repelled the Jameson raid: ib. 201.

The Russo-Japanese War

Similarly the Russo-Japanese war was " brought on through the
most extraordinary court intrigues in the modern history of Europe."
It was a policy of aggression " dictated by the court and the tchinoviks,.
acting under the malignant influence of Germany. Indeed German
advice has been disastrous to Russia. It was owing to German
 MOUKRN ASTROI.OGY
influence that the oppression of the Poles was maintained, that
Russia launched on her policy of adventure in the East, and that an
attitude of excessive hostility to the British empire was preserved " :
Times of India, 26/2/1916.
It is interesting to note with what consummate skill the Hierarchy
has manipulated these attacks of the enemy, and turned them to
.advantage. The Boer War has made the South African States an
integral part of the empire, and freed a continent from rivalries
which were a stumbling block to its free development. In the same
way Japan has become the ally of Russia, whose help has been of
enormous value to her in her time of stress. It has further raised the
' status of all the Asiatic races, and prepared the way for their freedom,
and their recognition as the equals of the nations of the West.
But the point upon which I wish to lay particular stress in
•connection with the Boer War, and that between Russia and Japan, is
that France could not possibly have brooked the gross insult to her
dignity in 1905, unless her two possible allies, England and Russia,
had been temporarily disabled from coming to her assistance and
support, by these two wars. Similarly Russia would not have borne
the same insult in March 1909, if her army and navy had not been
weakened and to a certain extent destroyed in the war with Japan.
Hence by allowing these two wars the Hierarchy was able to prevent
a war in Europe before the critical date, January 11 1910. The
Hierarchy had therefore successfully manoeuvred for a date. By
this means also, Germany had been forced to show her hand; for
henceforth she was known as the bully of Europe, whose guiding
policy was the principle that might is right. Thus England and France
■ and Russia were compelled to settle all their minor differences
amicably, and to combine their forces for mutual defence against the
-common enemy. Henceforth the Hierarchy possessed a united army
with which to meet the coming cataclysm. When the astrological
mechanism was ready, the armies were ready also.

A Change of Policy
This brings us to the critical year 1910, where the available
■evidence points to a complete change of policy on the part of the
.-governing Hierarchy. The gage of war had been thrown down by
 THE GREAT WAR
the Dark Powers, and those responsible for human evolution had taken
it up. Henceforth the policy of the Hierarchy was not peace but
war. Several of the leading peacemakers were removed by death, as
their work would now be a hindrance instead of a help. One of the-
first to be removed was King Edward VII, who died May 6 1910..
W. T. Stead died in the Titanic disaster, April 12 1912. Other
strivers for peace such as Baroness Suttner, and Mons. Jean Jaures
were similarly removed. On the other hand former peacemakers like
M. Delcasse, and the Czar of Russia, made rapid preparations for
war. On July 1 when the German emperor made another attempt to
dominate Europe by sending the warships Panther and Berlin to
Morocco, both England and Russia firmlysstood by France, and
Germany had to retire with greatly diminished prestige. From this-
date Europe was practically in a state of war. " It is clearly
demonstrable from the coincidence of dates, from the exact time
required for a special effort of this kind, and from the rate at which
munitions and equipments were accumulated, that the Government at
Berlin came to a decision in the month of July 1911 to force war
upon Russia and upon France immediately after the harvest of 1914 " :
A General Sketch of the European War, by Hilaire Belloc, p. 162.

The Chosen Date

As this was the time when the astrological mechanism was at its-
highest efficiency as previously shown, the manoeuvres of the
Hierarchy had thus been successfully accomplished. One reason why
the time chosen was favourable for the race may be given in the
words of the World Teacher when last amongst us ; " And except
those days should be shortened there should no flesh be saved: but for
the elect's sake those days shall be shortened " : Matt, xxiv 22.
This is based ou the principle that when an operation has to be-
performed which threatens the life of the patient, medical men contrive
to make the operation as short as possible ; otherwise; the strength of
the patient might not be able to hold out. The policy of the Hierarchy
appears to have been so to arrange matters that the nations should not
be shattered by the first shock of combat, and afterwards to precipitateT
all the terrible karma as quickly as possible. The first object was-
attained at the battle of the Marne, whilst the second object—the-
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precipitation of the heavy karma of the nations—was spread through-
out 1915, which will probably be known in future,as " the black year."
During that year all the nations, and particularly the Allies, suffered
terribly; but their resources were continually increasing, so that the
burden was not beyond their strength. The recovery from the
-onslaught and the final victory of the Allies was reserved for 1916.
This plan can be inferred from the Directions.

The Transits of 1915-16

By a reference to the Secondary Directions it will be seen that
the evil aspects begin in 1911 and finish in 1916, but early in 1916
a series of favourable aspects come into operation which, continue
practically without interruption until the end of 1918. Moreover the
unfavourable directions in 1916 are of a mild type, so that the favour-
able transits in that year are greatly strengthened, so much so that
they will probably bring the war to an end. If the war had been
.allowed to precipitate in 1911, when the evil aspects began, it would
need to have been prolonged until the good aspects were operating in
1916, or a period of six years. A six years' war of so destructive a
nature as the present struggle might have destroyed the whole of our
manhood and reduced the whole of civilisation to bankruptcy or
.annihilation. But by holding back the outbreak of the war until 1914
the Hierarchy were able to reduce the period of conflict by more than
half, and thus enable the nations to recover from the ordeal. A study
of the transits of the Jovian planets for the years 1915-16 strongly
inclines one to the view that the war is intended to terminate in 1916.'
These transits have been previously given up to the end of 1914 ;
(pp. 292, 294, 321, 323, 55, 57, 58, 82). The following are the transits
of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune during 1915-16:—

1
[How far the author himself was inclined to this view may be seen by referring
to Modern Astrology for July 1916, p. 238. The whole of the present article was
written before April 1916, and is therefore affected by this estimate, which we can
now see was too nopeful a one. 1: will be remembered, however, that the Allies'
"Great Push" began in July 1916, and that since that time the Central Powers
have achieved no military successes of outstanding importance. At the time of
writing this note (ai^/'iy), the Germans in France are retreating rapidly and the
Franco-British forces have captured over a hundred villages in two or three days ;
and the capture of Bagdad by the British has been announced during the past
week.—Ed.]
 THE GREAT WAR
Transits op Jovian Planets

915 an 1 H* J 1915 Oct 23 $ stat * O and £

915 an 1 i? □ Asc 1915 Nov 15 if stat □ $
915 an 9 i? rf MC 1915 Dec 29 ^ □ <r
915 an JO 3/ * 1?
915 an '3 Ha H 1916
915 an 16 y * O and p 1916 [an 14
915 an 17 V AV igi6 Jan 18 hah
915 an 23 H A MC 1916 [an 23 HDV
915 an 30 >? d'f 1916 Jan 30 H □ MC
915 -eb 5 V*? 1916 Feb 2 K s Asc
915 Feb 27 i? stat 9 1916 Feb 13 Hot
915 Mar 5 if* Asc 1916 Mar 20 HAV
915 Mar 11 V □ if 1916 Mar 29 H ao and p
915 Mar 20 HOQ and p 1916 Apr 10 <41 stat it Asc
915 Mar 24 h dV 1916 Apr 28 Ha*}
915 Apr to if stat * Asc 1916 May 2 y and J in trine
915 Apr M d MC enters 10th and both simul-
915 Apr 21 b □ Asc taneously a 8
915 Apr 22 33 □ 8 1916 May 15 UAJ
915 May 13 if* Asc 1916 May 25 tjjl stat it 8 and <r
915 May 14 l? tf 8 1916 May 27 HA'1
915 May 15 3/ □ J 1916 June 4 H *>V
915 May 27 33 □ 1916 June 11 H * MC
915 June 2 V AH 1916 June 27 HA s
915 June 9 H □ If 1916 Aug 1 f?* 8
915 June 22 33 a MC 1916 Aug 21 >2 ah
915 July 1 H 9 Asc 1916 Aug 30 if enters the nth,
915 uly 20 H stat 9 Asc the hcust of friends
915 uly 20 H stat □ MC 1916 Sept 17 f} * Aso
915 Aug 6 33 9 Asc 1916 Oct 24 HAl
915 Aug 15 H □ MC 1916 Oct 26 iji stat * 8 .Oandp
915 Aug 28 33 □ f 1916 Nov 12 ^ stat * Asc
915 Sept 5 HAH 1916 Nov 16 H * MC
915 Sept 11 Ha >2 1916 Dec 2 H ifc'V
915 Sept 25 33 0 d 1916 Dec 21 H stat a i? ,and * V
A general analysis of the above aspects in connection with the
principal events may be attempted later, but a casual glance at those
for 1915 will show that they accord well with the general character of
the war, if we interpret (as before) the good as favourable to the
Allies, and the bad as unfavourable to them or favourable to the
Central Powers.
Two-and-a-Half Years of War
The aspects may be tabulated under the headings good and bad
as follows:—
Good Bad Good Bad
1914 Aug 1 to Dec 31 6 3 1916 Jan—Apr 4 5
1915 Jan—Apr 8 9 1916 Apr—July 9 o
1913 Apr—July 3 8 1916 July—Oct 4 o
1915 July—Oct 1 8 1916 Oct—Dec 31 9 o
1915 Oct—Dec 31 2 2
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It will be seen that the last of the evil aspects is in February 1916, SO'
that the heavy karma of the races had to be inflicted by the Dark
Powers in a period of about 18 months. The first six months of the
war were generally favourable to the Allies, a breathing time had been
gained in the west, and the Russian armies were victorious in the
east, Galicia having been conquered by Russia. This agrees with the
six good and three bad aspects operating in that period. The first
three months of 1915 were the best of that year of disasters, when
there were eight good as against the nine bad aspects. But neither
England nor Russia had recognised the extreme gravity of the
campaigns they had engaged in. The munition supply was quite
inadequate, and both men and equipments were much too small. It
had not been realised that we were face to face with a general
cataclysm, and not with an ordinary war. From April to July 1915
came the awakening, when the aspects were three good and eight bad.
In April began the disastrous expedition to Gallipoli, and the second
battle of Ypres, when we were confronted by a new weapon of the
Dark Powers, asphyxiating gases. In this month also Germany
concentrated 2+ army corps against 14 Russian corps, with a supply of
artillery so plentiful that " in four hours, on the morning of May 2,
they fired about 700000 shells against the Russian trenches" : Times'
History of the War, v. 106. The Russian army was pierced at the
battle of Gorlice in Western Galicia, and after a few days the whole
of her forces were in rapid retreat. From May 2 to May 12 1915 the
Germanic armies captured 103500 men, 69 guns, and 255 machine-
guns from the retreating Russians : ib. 136. On June 3 Przemysl
was retaken, which had been occupied by Russia since March 22, and
in the fall of Przemysl were involved those not only of Lwow, but
even of Warsaw and Ivangorod: ib. 151. Lemberg was retaken by
the Austrians on June 23. Thus the whole of the previous Russian
captures were swept away in these disastrous three months April-to-
july 1915, when there were eight evil aspects operating as against
three good ones.
The transits of the next quarter, July to October, were even
worse, for there were then eight evil aspects with only one good one
to counteract them. This period marked the nadir of disaster to the
Allies. Warsaw fell on August 4th, Ivangorod on the 5th, Kovno on
 THE GREAT WAR 153
the 17th, Novo Georgievsk on the 19th, Osovietz on the 22nd,
Grodno on September 2nd, Vilna on the 18th, and at the end of this
terrible period even Petrograd was threatened, and Bulgaria was about
to join the Germans. Meanwhile the English and French armies
were helpless owing to lack of munitions.

Consummate Strategy
An interesting feature of the Russian retreat in Galicia and the
Anglo-French retreat from Mons is that they were both preceded, by
the same transit. Saturn conjunction M.C. onJuly28 1914, when
the Germans were concentrating enormous forces to suddenly over-
whelm the western armies of the Allies, was followed a month later
by the retreat from Mons; and Saturn conjunction M.C. on April 14
1915, when Germany was also secretly concentrating enormous forces
to overwhelm the eastern forces of the Allies, was similarly followed a
month later by the retreat in Galicia. There is however this difference
in the two cases, that the retreat from Mons was followed by a
preponderance of good aspects, which enabled the western armies to
recover, whilst the Galician retreat was followed by a preponderance
of bad aspects, which very greatly prolonged the retreat. We have
here another instance of the consummate strategy of the Hierarchy,
for the retreat from Mons could not have been prolonged without the
loss of a part vital to the Allies, whereas the vital parts of Russia
were so far away from the field of conflict, that even with a prolonged
retreat a vital part could not be reached before the approach of winter
put an end to it. In this way the heavy karma of the world was got
rid of, and still the forces of the Allies had not been injured beyond
recovery.

The End jn Sight

We see, then, that the character of the war follows closely the
character of the aspects, good aspects implying victory for the Allies,
and bad aspects victory for the Germanic Powers.
Although the favourable aspects operating during the Russian
retreat in Galicia were less than those which relieved the retreat
from Mons, the effects they produced were similar in character.
 MOmCUN ASTKOI.0(VV
It has been shown (pp. 365, 366) how the transit on
September 1914 drew off part of the German army from the western
to the eastern front, and thus relieved the pressure in the west.
Similarly the transit * Asc on March 5, April 10 and May 13 1915,
brought Italy into the conflict on the side of the Allies : T.H. W. v 19-30.
This aspect on May 13 coincided with the resignation of the Italian
Premier, Signor Salandra, the critical event which brought Italy into
the war: ib. 23. After the fall of Przemysl, June 2-3, part of the
Austrian army in Galicia was withdrawn to the Italian front (t6. 152),
so that the last of the favourable aspects in this quarter (if June 2)
coincided with a certain measure®f relief to the hardly pressed Russian
Army.
We thus see that the principle of good aspects favouring the
Allies, and bad aspects the Germanic Powers, gives consistent inter-
pretations. When therefore from May 1916 we find that the
Secondary Directions are generally favourable, and that from
March 20 1916 the transits are without exception favourable, we
have substantial grounds for concluding that during the last nine
months of 1916 the Allies will be generally victorious, and will
probably be able to bring the war to a satisfactory termination.'

THE PLANETARY TRIPLETS

It has been previously inferred that the change of policy from

peace to war on the part of the Hierarchy took place at the critical
date January 11 1910. If this be so, a horary figure for that time on
the Meridian of the current Root-Race (p. 234), may provide the addi-
tional evidence required. The conjunction of the Great Cruciform
Configuration on Jan 11 1910 (<3 in right ascension) took place,
according to the " Nautical Almanac," at llh SI01 12' a.m. G.M.T.
But before making deductions from the horary figure for this time, I
propose to suggest a particular classification of the centres of influence,
the planets, as an aid to interpretation.

[l This is the prediction made in the Times c/ India and referred to on p. 238 of
ModsrK Astrology for July 1916. It has not been literally justified by evauts,
and later on the author has some observations to make on this fact : (Article VII,
p. 197 MS).]
 THE CHEAT WAR *55
The following arrangement of the planets in three columns may
best convey the concept I wish to accentuate.
1 2 3
III © iji
V ? <1
t J J
The planets in column 1 may be termed the Peace Triplet, and
those in column 3 the War Triplet, whilst the characteristic common to
the bodies in column 2 is freedom of choice. The planets in column 1
are most elficieiit when operating in sextile and trine and the planets
in column 3 are most efficient when operating in square and opposi-
tion, while the strongest aspects for the bodies in column 2 are
conjunction and opposition. In the first and third columns are the
planets of destiny, or the fatalistic triplets, whereas those in the
second column provide a basis for free will and enable us to rule our
stars. The planets of columns 2 and 3 are the constants of nature's
mechanism whilst those of column 2 are the variables, the x, y, z, of
human evolution which can take on any value we choose to give them
up to the measure of our strength : and these values may be combined
with any of the constants in columns 2 and 3, either for or against, so
that they can decide which of these constants can tip the beam.

Mercury
Mercury is the planet of single combination, the lawyer or counsel
of the septet, which can be retained by any of the others in return for
a fee. In its lowest aspect in relation to Venus, it is the deceiving
lover, bringing about the downfall of the beloved. In relation to Mars
it is the pettifogging attorney, encouraging strife and litigation, which
may bring it good business, but ruin its client. In a higher aspect in
relation to Jupiter, it is the eloquent preacher, or with Saturn, it can
act as the clever balancer of evidence, or the stern judge.
In it.", highest aspect it is Mahat, or Maha-buddhi, the fourth
Kosmic Plane, and the highest entity in Kosmos (Sec Doc iii 554-
5-585), from which issue the will and wisdom rays, Uranus and
Neptune. The planets of the second column, Sun, Mercury and
Moon, are the Higher Self, Atma-Buddhi-Manas, the Moon being
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the lower mind controlled by the higher : S.D. ii 520. But this is
only when the lower self has surrendered itself wholly to the higher.
When the lower self is dominant, the will acts through the Moon, and
the higher aspects Atma-Buddhi (Sun-Mercury) are reflected down-
wards, and become physico-aslral. The Sun obtains freedom of
choice not by external combination as with Mercury, but by rousing
within itself any of the seven cosmic centres, for each of the seven
sacred planets has its major focus within the body of the Sun; The
Inuer Life, by C. W. L., i 218. The Sun is therefore not one planet,
but all the planets, and is thus the real centre of freedom. The stars
have to be ruled through the Sun, or the Higher Self. When the
lower self rules, the Moon enslaves the Sun, and through it exercises
freedom. When the lower self is controlled by the higher the Sun is
the friend of the Moon, but when the lower self predominates, the Suu
is an enemy, and leads the Moon astray. It stimulates pride, and " pride
goeth before a fall." " To him is his own self a friend, who by self hatk
conquered himself; but to him who is not self-subjugated, his own
self acteth inimically like an enemy " ; BhcTgavcrd Gila, vi 6. This
point has a special bearing on the function which the German
emperor has been chosen to perform in the present world-war, and is
specially related to the moral crisis of March 12 1905, when the lower
self decided to rule the higher. The astrological results of this fatal
choice will be developed later.
Returning now to the triplets of columns 1 and 3, Saturn and
Mars of the third column may be regarded as the subordinates of
Uranus, and Jupiter and Venus of the first column as the subordinates
of Neptune. The heads of the two triplets in columns 1 and 3
are therefore Neptune and Uranus, and the character of each triplet
will depend on the nature of these two planets.

Uranus

It has been previously inferred that Uranus is the planet of the

ruler or Manu, and Neptune the planet of the Teacher or Bodhisattva.
But although these two Beings are immeasureably high in relation to
humanity, they are not the heads of their Rays. The head of the
ruling Ray, for our earth, is the great Being known as Sanat Kumara,
 THE GKEAT WAI{ 157
the Ancient of Days, who came to the earth from the planet Venus
about six and a half million years ago, after the separation of the
sexes: Man: Whence, How and Whither, pp. 98, 102, 269. Of
Him it can in truth be said, " For he spake, and it was done; he
commanded, and it stood fast ": Ps. xxxiii 9.. A description of the
coming is given in Man : Whence, How and Whither, p. 103 :—" There
He stood, ' the Youth of sixteen summers,' Sanat Kumara, the
'Eternal Virgin-Youth' the new Ruler of Earth, come to his
kingdom, His Pupils, the three Kumaras, with Him, His Helpers
around Him; thirty mighty Beings were there, great beyond Earth's
reckoning, though in graded order, clothed in the glorious bodies they
had created by Kriyashakti, the first Occult Hierarchy, . . . out of
the seven Kumaras four sacrificed themselves for the sins of the world,
and the instruction of the ignorant, to remain to the end of the present
Manvantara. These are the Head, the Heart, the Soul and the
Seed of undying knowledge. Higher than the ' Four' is only One on
Earth as in Heaven—that still more mysterious and solitary Being—
the Silent Watcher."
Such is the mighty Ruler who wields the Uranian Ray, the Head
of the planetary triplet, Uranus-Saturn-Mars.
(To be continued)

"Summer Time."—A correspondent writes pointing out how important

it is that students of Astrology should know the datts mid times when
"Summer Time" takes effect in those countries that are adopting it, and
asking us to publish a list showing them.
This we will gladly do if readers will kindly write and acquaint us with
the date and time of introduction of Summer Time in their country, both iu
1916 and 1917.
President Wilson's Horoscope: (A/.AL, January 1914).—Concerning
this map Mr F.T.Allen writes: "Several fellow astrologers disputed the
correctness of the ascendant we had decided on as applicable to Woodrow
Wilson. Hut one student in California reported having received a reply to
a request addresed to Mrs Wilson during the election campaign, in which
she said that the exact time of Ur Wilson's birth was not definitely known,
but that it was during a period which included the time we bad decided upon
as the correct moment of his birth." He goes-on to say that a letter has
recently been received from the President's private secretary, " in which the
statement made by the former Mrs Wilson and our own deductions in the
winter of 1911-12 are verified." ;
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unavoidably held over through lack of space. Correspondents wiil please remember
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Neglect of these considerations may cause otherwise valuable letters to be
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"SICK OF THE WAR"

Dear Sir,
As I see on p. 73, that one of your subscribers proposes to
cease to be one because MODERN ASTROLOGY deals continuously with
the war, of which "she is sick," may I, another subscriber, venture to
write and say that I hope you will in no wise discontinue to give us
monthly your instructive and highly interesting views on the Great
War, together with those of various valued contributors to Modern-
Astrology. To me the Magazine has appeared as first-rate, indeed
has excelled itself, ever since the War number of October 1914 ; we
have had a series of horoscopes and articles of widest interest and
readable not only to astrologers but to many others outside the
astrological circle. I have often wished that its circulation could be'
extended amongst all those who are in a position of governmental
power and trust.
I am sorry for the lady who is " sick of the War " as she must
find it difficult to obtain any dailies, periodicals, or magazines which
do not, from one standpoint or another, deal with the War. But I am
afraid the lady is only " sick of the War " because, like many others
alas, she does not, or has not up to the present " REALIZED the War."
It may be lack of imagination, or it may be lack of sympathy, but to
go so far as to threaten to discontinue reading a serious magazine, of
national value, whose contributors strive to discover and explain, point
out to, and teach its readers the principles, causes, and effects of the
Great War in the light of the metaphysical science of Astrology, (and
even to suggest they should cease to do so !), shows a personality that
is inconvenienced or bothered by the War and therefore resents it; who
has not been made less selfish by the War and who is not looking at it
from the National, International, or Humanity point of view, but
merely from a personal-discomfort one.
Let those who are thus bothered by the War and thus "sick of
 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 159
it" try sometimes to think of BELGIUM ; sick indeed, sick to death in
truth, through torture, martyrdom and every fiendish cruelty the enemy
could devise. Have they ever thought, or conceived the vaguest of
ideas of the siletit alrrost unknown martyrdom of Poland, where the
enemy, hidden from the ears of newspaper reporters, and unseen by
the eyes of surrounding neutrals, commits atrocities which make the
Belgian martyrdom pale before that of Poland? Have they spoken
with any of those who followed in the train of the British Red Cross,
months ago, in Serbia, and heard what they have to tell of the
unspeakable horrors of mutilated human forms strewn for miles along
the roadsides where the triumphant German and Austrian armies had
jsassed ? Well may the Serbians wonder WHY we in England still say
' Oh, the Austrians aren't so bad ! "
These, and a thousand other cruelties and treacheries of which
Germany is guilty, may indeed make your correspondent feel sick, and
ready to die with the horror of it all ; thus, indeed, died two marvellously
refined and spiritual sensitives in the early days of the War, to wit,
the Pope Pius X and Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson, in sorrow and
in tears, in grief too sacred for .words for the suffering of humanity,
particularly Belgium, during those early days when we all stood
staggered and aghast at the discovery that we had a canker, a
primitive savage race, veneered with learning, embedded firmly right
in the heart of our European continent!
Vonrs sincerely,
11/3/'17 Mary Head

ULTRA-NEPTU MIAN P L A NETS

Dear Sir,
I have lately been paying attention to the hypothetical
planets "Osiris" and "isis"1 and find their present positions
remarkably coincident with the Great War. According to my calcu-
lations they were in opposition in 1909, the former in and the
latter in T. These are very significant positions of a great crisis in
Evolution when nations would be weighed in the balance (==0 and the
dawning of a new cycle (T).
It is singular that the two signs concerned rule Austria and
England respectively and the coincidence is worthy of notice. Perhaps
readers of Modern Astrology may feel inclined to investigate
these two unknown planets. A casual observation is not sufficient.
My opinion is that they mark off rare epochs in evolution and their
present positions denote an even rarer epoch when a crisis occurs
between the animal and divine.
Yours truly,
Catford, S.E. Harold W. Cox
1
See Modern Astrology for March 1906, p. 113.
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PERSONAL APPEARANCE
{Continued from page 128)
When Virgo (n*), the second mutable sign, is found on the Eastere
horizon at birth, the native will show iu his dress as in his tastes, a neatness
and faultlessness that depict well his precision and primness—the outcome of
his desire (or perfection in the direction of " form."
Even in the walk of a Virgo person you will see his neatness, and may
observe a busy look about him as he goes his way.
He, is just about middle height and has dark hair and eyes, a skin more
yellow than white, and fairly pale.
It is the sign Virgo that gives the Madonna or " Virgin " look to a face
and is thus the bestower of much facial beauty, with a divine serenity andau
appearance of utter chastity and purity. In such cases the features are
delicately and finely formed, and the nostrils often paper-like in their
thinness, and the wings of the nostrils very mobile.
Equally belonging to Virgo is the face of the shrew and " Virago," where
every feature is sharpened and pointed, and where the close-set eyes give a
foxy and cunning look to the face.
It is a sign that gives moderate physical bulk, but rarely lends itself to
grossness, leaning instead to spareness of figure and refinement.
A considerable amount of vivacity is expressed when the Virgo person
speaks. His eyes are usually dark or hazel in colour, sharp and bright, his
forehead is high rather than broad ; his lips thin, and his head not large.
Compactness and neatness describe his "ensemble " most admirably.
Students will remember that the ex-Czar Nicholas of Russia was born
when the sign Virgo rose iu the East.
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FATALISM.
In the November issue of last year we published a letter from
Mr Harold Clift commencing with the sentence, "I have frequently
noticed your much-quoted dictum that ' the stars incline but do not
compel,' and your corresponding disavowal, of ' fatalistic astrology.'
But in carefully reading your arguments on the question of fatalism,
one finds a good many instances wherein your own views as stated are
contradicted (p. 367).
As Mr Harold Clift discloses an open mind by heading his letter
' A Friendly Criticism,' we may take up the argument with a view to
throwing as much light upon it as we are capable in our present state
of knowledge. In our own mind there is no confusion regarding Fate
and Freewill, since we have long been aware that both exist, and that
those who argue for fatalism have as good ground for their argument
as those who persist in a belief in freewill; and it is quite probable
that a dispassionate judgment would eventually conclude that both
parties are right, revealing the truth that deep within each human
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being there is a will which is ever finding itself limited by external
surroundings. It may easily be contended that Will is the CAUSE,
and Fate the Effect, a conception that is well summed up in the
eastern word " Karma," but this only lands us in the middle of the
argument without a beginning or end. Let us try to find a beginning.
Assuming that all men are created equal as" Divine Fragments"
of the One eternal Life, or, to come lower down, as " sparks " of a
Supreme Intelligence, the first problem we shall have to face is that
of man's physical birth and environment; for whether men were
created equal or not they are certainly not born equal, neither do they
come into an equal environment at hirth. It would seem that, prior
to birth, some invisible agency charged with the building of the-
physical body had chosen materials suitable to the inner temperament
of the incoming will or quality of the ego, and arranged them in
congruity with the future environment. Those who have studied this
problem in connection with the theory of re-incarnation are well
aware that the materials must be found to fit the soul, and not the
soul made to fit the body. As we read in that remarkably illuminative
book A Study in Consciousness, " According to this temperament will
be the time of birth of the body ; it must be born into the world at a
time when the physical planetary influences are suitable to its
temperament, and it thus is born under its Astrological Star. Needless
to say it is not the star that imposes the temperament, but the
temperament that fixes the epoch of birth under that star. But
herein lies the explanation of the correspondences between Stars—
Star-Angels, that is to say—and characters, and the usefulness for
educational purposes of a skilfully and carefully drawn horoscope as
the guide to the personal temperament of a child."
If all men are created equal then that equality must over-ride all
cause and effect, since consciousness is common to all men. Humanity
is the child of God and claims sonship with the Father through Christ,
the perfect man, who declared " I and my Father are one: ye are my
brethren." Animals are fated, but men are not, since it is openly
taught that all men may obtain salvation from the bondage of matter.
If man is not free to choose between eternal life and damnation, then
why cometh the Christ, and what is the value of ethical ideals or
moral principles ?
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 163
" Latent " in every human being is the seed which is to manifest
Will, Wisdom and Love, for man is made in the image of God, a
trinity, and expresses himself as a triad. His physical body is drawn
from Nature, whose lord is Saturn's angel, and is subject to the laws
and limitations of Nature. His soul is subject to fate and fortune
(Saturn and Jupiter), and swings between Nature and Spirit in the
celestial world. His spirit is the Will that is deep within him and is
Jree either to search for God or to seelr isolation and opposition to the
Divine.
Beyond Cause and Effect
Our real difficulty in this problem will be to understand that
man's FREE WILL is above and beyond cause and effect and is ever
poised behind these two great illusions of the phenomenal world; if
this were not so there would be no moral responsibility or spiritual
unfoldment, and the game of life would in consequence become a
chaos instead of a cosmos of law and order. The FREE WILL in
each of us is " the Principle which gives life dwells iu us, and without
us, is undying and eternally beneficent, is not heard, or seen, or smelt,
but is perceived by the man who desires perception." This is the
One Free Will, and man attains the realisation of his own free will
when he has disciplined his emotions and desires into harmony with
It. We have here a fundamental truth that is unquestionable, but it
evades our full understanding because we are at present involved
in the world process; being too busy working consciously, or
unconsciously, with the Logos of the solar system.
The great scheme of evolution is row imperfect, but the Eternally
Beneficent Will works ever by making the best of every detail as it
evolves. We are fated and subject tc all the laws of fatalism while
we persist in dividing time into past, present, and future ; when we
conquer Saturn, the lord over time and Nature, we shall realise the
freedom which comes from our living in the Eternal. Saturn is the
great limitation of consciousness, and as time exists only in our con-
sciousness it is surely obvious that an extension of our consciousness
is equivalent to an extension of time and a consequent freedom of
action. Time with us is at present limited to, or associated with, a
three-dimensional spacej there is, however, a fourth dimension which
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we are seeking to understand believing that it will reveal something
more than height and breadth and depth.1 And the first step toward
a realisation of our true selves and this dimension is to change desire
into its opposite pole—Will; we shall then discover that the will
■within us is really free. We have a splendid astrological illustration
of the conflict between will and desire in the fatalistic tendencies of
the afflictions between Uranus and Mars, which often cause suicide,
death by violence, and other extreme experiences. Uranus represents
the individualised will polarised toward freedom of thought, speech,
and action, while Mars represents the counterfeit of the spirit polarised
toward desire and the attractions of nature and the physical world.
It seems too great an idea for us to realise, that man's free will is
none other than God's free will; and this is because we persist in
thinking of ourselves as separate from God,—which is the greatest of
all our illusions, for by it we deny our own free will. The materialist
can have no active free will since he is wholly bound by matter, but
the God-man is conscious of his free will since he has become united
with God the source of his being.

The First Great Truth

Before a man can understand his own free-will he must have
recognised the principles through which he is working and the planes
to which they belong. His physical body belongs to nature and the
earth ; his soul to the angelic world and the zodiac ; and his spirit to
the world of the Gods and the heavenly spheres. He must also
meditate upon the first great truth and endeavour to understand that:
" The soul of man is immortal, and its future is the future of a thing
whose growth and splendour has no limit." If the soul is limited to
the five senses it is limited to nature and the earth, but when united to
the mind it is free of such limitations and can share in those principles
that belong to the planetary spheres. To tell the ordinary man who
lives in his senses to which his mind, or soul, is a slave that he is a
man of free will would be UNTRUE, for he has no free will, so far as

1
Compare £^esi<i«s iii. 17, 18: "That ye . . . may be able to compre-
hend with all the Saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
and to know the love of Christ." Note that four dimensions are specified.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY
he is aware; and his will can only become free as he makes his lower
nature become obedient to his interior will—the "fragment " in him
that makes him MAN. For all men thefreedom of the will is the goal
of evolution, or the union with God. When our will is finally one
with God's Will we shall then, and only then, realise fully that " in
His service is perfect freedom."
It is abundantly clear from our various writings and from our
notes from time to time in these pages, that of all the teachings we
know none should teach Free Will more than Astrology, since from
its study we know the exact value of Fatalism. Free will begins in
man the moment he becomes a man; before that he is subject to
animal nature, and although it may require the whole of the human
stage of evolution for him to learn what freedom means, nevertheless
the Stars assure him of his freedom and this assurance is contained in
the teaching of Christ, the perfect man, when He said: "He that
loveth his life shall lose it, and he that hateth his life in this world (the
natural world) shall keep it unto life eternal."
No man is free until he has separated himself from his love of
self, and while he loves himself better than any other self he revolves
in a circle round his own orbit. In man's free will lies his immortality,
and as the will-consciousness extends so does he live a larger life
which embraces many others as well as himself; he finds that the
Principle which gives life is within him as well as without, and he sees
in the perfection of the whole of humanity the perfection of himself,
and in the perfection of himself the possible perfection of the whole
human family; this is the transcending of Cause and Effect and the
Karma connected with the three worlds of fatalism.

Where Predictions do not Fail

It is quite clear to the earnest student of Astrology that the

majority of mankind have as yet developed no free will at all, and for
them predictions can be made with a degree of certitude that is
astonishing, and we may say very saddening; but the astrologer who
is merely a "fortune teller" is on the same level, znA thexeioxe to
him prediction is everything, and the whole science of Astrology of no
value apart from its power to foretell events! That the progressed
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horoscope does indicate certain tendencies coming into operation, it
would be idle to deny; every student knows it by his own experience.
But why crystallise these into inevitable happenings ? It is our
painful experience to see far too many of these fatalistic predictions,
which may be prized by slaves but are useless, and worse, to men and
women of intelligence. The true astrologer does not view man as an
animal, subject to, and bound by, nature's laws; he views man as a
human being with reasoning faculties and intuitions that respond to
spiritual laws in the natural world ; and hence the true astrologer
attracts intellectual and intelligent men and women whom he can help
and stimulate by pointing out not only the current tendencies but also
the many possibilities that are lying latent in each horoscope: whereas
the fatalistic astrologer, who ignores the latent free will, magnifies
the evil and overlooks the good.
Mr Harold Clift says " If causes are supposed to result in effects
why the hesitancy in admitting it?" We reply that the real man
is BEHIND the cause that led up to the effects. We must get out of
the circle of birth and death and follow the spiral of reincarnation.
We believe man to have a much wider and fuller life than the one
that is bound by the cradle and the grave; and while we see in the
present horoscope the effects of the causes set in motion in former
births, we also see the possibilities of future horoscopes arising out of
the present. So far as the personality is concerned it is an endless
series of causes and effects, resulting in continuous " fatalism " until
the REAL MAN learns by experience to balance cause and effect and
rise superior to both by the exercise of his free will aided by knowledge
and skill in action ; and by " encouraging a feeling of loyalty to one's
horoscope" he lives up to it by fulfilling all the possibilities it
contains. Mr Clift rightly says : " When bad directions are coming,
and one knows they are coming, in one's horoscope, what is to be
gained by trying to avoid them ? It is better to face the threatened
evil, and say with Paul, ' None of these things move me.'"
During the past twenty or thirty years we have probably put the
theory of " Directions " to a far greater test than any other astrologer,
having had a unique opportunity for doing so, and we may say quite
frankly that it is our own experience that very few people try to avoid
them. We had intended to give one or two anecdotes bearing on this
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point, but they must be reserved for another time, as our space is
limited.
The Three Factors in each Horoscope

In conclusion we may say that very few people, whether

astrologers or others, realise the workings of the spiritual law in the
natural world, which is a far greater thing than the ordinary interpre-
tation of stellar ruling. And it is our conviction, based upon a long
experience, that as a man evolves and rises higher in the scale of
evolution and sees before him a wider sphere embracing smaller
spheres he is not subject to " Fate " to anything like the same extent
as when limited to the narrow sphere of his own personal orbit. We
must never fail to study every horoscope from three definite stand
points;—(i) the House-Divisions formed by Nature and affecting the
natural manandlinkinghimwith his past; (ii) the Moon and theZodiac
affecting his soul and his senses, or his attitude in the present towards
that which he has brought over from the past; and (iii) the Moon in
relation to the Planets, affecting his mind and reason, denoting his
intelligent response to the principles denoted by the planetary influences,
or his inclination to turn those influences to selfish use—affecting his
future. From these we may judge effects and the fatalistic tendencies
affecting the lower or personal man. We attribute pain and sorrow to
certain influences, joy and pleasure to others, but there are some
influences we cannot fully understand such as the higher octaves of
certain zodiacal signs and the vibrations of Uranus and Neptune.
May we suggest that beyond these three considerations we may
find it possible to conceive of another horoscope that may be compared
to our ideas of a fourth dimension, for we are now aware that latent in
the zodiacal circle are the possibilities of millions of mosaics forming
the groundwork of apparently endless varieties of character, each
weaving a pattern corresponding to an original design but differing in
some indefinable way through the colour or some slight additional
colour extension. Who shall say where the limitations are to end
should there be a will behind each mosaic ? While the will is turned
outward and expressed in the limitations of desire then we may judge
how far the personal actor is fated to reap effects. Let the will
however be turned inward, and desire eliminated, and the real actor
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within can modify the nature of the efifects or use them to blend with
fresh causes for future action. Just as a man is free to breathe the
air, to take food, or to move within the limitations of his environment,
so is he free to use modifying and accentuating forces from within
himself; and until he can thus guide his destiny he is more animal
than man. Every man is free to take part in the care of his own
body, and, so far as his rational mind will allow, either to follow the
inclinations of his thoughts and feelings, or to restrain them ; in fact
he is free to choose from his environment those gifts and qualities it
contains and either to encourage or discourage them according to his
latent abilities of will or desire, attraction or repulsion, intelligence or
instinct.
Man, and Animal-Man
On p. 358 Mr Clift takes us "to task for what we said in our
" Observatory " of last May. But he has not quoted the whole of our
statement; we said : " Men thick in the arrogance of their animal
strength that by force alone they can master life, and decide their
ultimate destiny "—we were alluding to animal-man, whom we know
to be fated, and not the real man.
Our friendly critic quotes the Bible. Is not the old testament
fatalistic, and the new testament the promise of a new life ?
With regard to Mr Cliffs last paragraph, he apparently forgets
that Daniel warned as well as prophesied. " Non-committal free-
will statements on Astrology" will not bring it into disrepute, but
fatalistic statements without qualification surely will. All planetary
influences can be interpreted by qualified astrologers, but is it wise to
abstain from giving help to cure a disease that appears fatal or ease a
sorrow that brings depression or relieve an unfortunate brother ?
The future of astrology in the present century depends upon
which side you now have the greatest leaning towards—that of Fatalism
or Free-will: which will you choose ?

Every man is set upon an ascending line of human life. You never find
God calling a man downwards, diminishing the volume of his manhood,
checking his good aspirations, patting him down in the scale of his being.
All the Divine movement is an upward movement.
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Money matters will improve and both home and foreign trade
increase: If in ii lord of ix: but expenditure will still rule very high
through matters arising out of the war : in ii. Accidents in
travelling both by land, sea, and air will occur and cause death, and
naval or mercantile losses will occur through secret crime, treachery,
or submarines: 5 cusp iii d <? lord of viii; <7 d If lord of ix;
^ in xii □ 2f. Theatres and places of amusement will not be under
good influences, some of them will find it difficult to pay their way
and heavy losses will occur; the birth rate will be lower and there
will be many deaths among children : D d •? in v. The Government
and Parliament will not be fortunate, the necessity for national
economy in all things and for increasing the production of foods will
be fully realised : b lord of x and xi dD in S6 * 2f. There is danger
of discontent and strikes on the part of some of the workers; railways,
the post office and some more ordinary trades are likely to suffer in
this way or through scarcity of labour ; and the further regulation of
food stuffs will be required or higher wages demanded : lord of vi
and iii d <7, D lord of iv d b in as lord of x. Mild and showery
weather is probable, with some periods of extreme heat during the
quarter ; ? in iv P Q ; asc. * <7 ^.
At Berlin there will be very heavy expenditure, and the resulting
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

suffering from bad trade and deficient food will be very marked:'
'<? d S cusp ii; D d b in iv. The Emperor and the government will
be very unfortunate : •? lord of x d 2 in iv. Some difference between
parliament and the Emperor or his advisers may develop ; ^ in xi O .
There will be much privation among the people, especially the lower
classes; but Jupiter rising shows that the nation still has stores of
reserve strength and can face its troubles. This position will exert
some amount of pacific influence and will tend somewhat towards a
more peaceful attitude, although cT ruling vii d 5 suggests statesmen
and diplomatists busily consulting about terms, unable to agree, and
quarrelling. The Moon and Saturn in the Emperor of Austria's
mid-heaven near their place of birth is very unfortunate for him and
his country.
At Petrograd the positions are not so important from an inter-
national point of view as elsewhere, but Saturn and Neptune on cusp
iv are unfortunate both for the ruling power and the condition of the
people; there is danger of treachery, conspiracy, secret enemies, and
of deficient crops.
At Calcutta secret crime and agitation against the government are
threatened, with discontent and some privation in parts.
At New York foreign affairs will call for a great deal of attention,
they threaten to become very involved and to cause difficulty and
discontent both at home and abroad. Strikes and agitations amongst
workers and employees will be carried on. The military, naval and
air services will be active. The death rate will be high. Money
matters will not be under such good influences as hitherto, especially
in their international aspect. Some epidemic is threatened and
diseases affecting lungs and nervous system. Cases of spying and
secret enmity will abound.
The conjunction of Mars and Mercury on the one hand and of the
Moon and Saturn on the other are two important features in this map;
the former will excite men's minds and make them averse to peace or
conciliation ; the latter means some hardship and discontent experienced
by the. masses all over the world more or less as well as trouble
connected with food, but it is specially indicated in central and eastern
Europe. Saturn will rise near Calcutta and be on the nadir in the
neighbourhood of Turkey.
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Eclipse of the Sun

19/6/1917, J.2 p.m., GJJ.T.
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This is a partial eclipse of the Sun, visible in Siberia, Canada, and
the arctic regions. Venus will culminate at Ldndon and Paris, bringing
increased prospects of success and prosperity to the two nations; but
Saturn and Neptune will culminate in east Germany, Poland, Austria
and Serbia, bringing many troubles to the people as well as to the
ruling powers of those countries. Serious attempts at improving
international financial relations will be made and'may in part succeed,
but the masses of the people in Central and Eastern Europe will have
many grievances and causes for discontent. The eclipse falling in the
third decanate of Gemini, trine Uranus in Aquarius, with the Sun
ruling the eleventh house points to a closer co-ordination of efforts and
legislative co-operation which almost suggests an international
parliament. Diplomatists will be carrying on an exciting interchange
of correspondence and business between the nations, but the conjunction
of Mars and Mercury threatens disasters by air and sea and increased
violence. There will be much secret crime, and cases of treason and
spying will abound. There will be great increase of expenditure on
all the services.
The eclipse falls somewhat unfavourably in King George's
horoscope (d W 8 V) as well as in those of the German Emperor
(89), the German Crown Prince ( 8 D) and Mr Lloyd George (8 D).

Mr Arthur Mee writes;—"A well-known Cardiff man (Councillor

Taylor) ami his wife were born within 45 minutes of each other.
Mrs James Taylor, ffristol, jS5o Feb 2 o.45p.tn. I
Mr „ Taylor, Llantrisant, 1860 Feb 2 1.30 p.m.)
Can you parallel this ? "
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^.narcliiant antt ^ptmie

A TENDENCY towards socialism in governmental affairs is so

palpable that it hardly needs any argument to show that in Great
Britain since the war there has been a strong tendency for the govern-
ment to step in and regulate private concerns whenever it has been
thought advisable in the public interest. If some economic writers
are correct, this tendency will not cease with the war but will be a
strong factor in the work of reconstruction after peace is declared.
In light.of the facts it may be well for astrological readers to have
a clear understanding of the difference between Socialism and
Anarchism ; for I have often seen it stated in astrological publications
that Neptune rules the Socialists, whereas in my opinion Uranus rules
Socialism and Neptune Anarchism. The articles on Anarchism and
Socialism in the last edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica will make
the fundamental difference plain to any reader and I will only quote
here sufficient to make my argument clear. It is unfortunate for the
cause of the anarchist that the term has almost become a synonym for
the bomb thrower or perpetrator of secret or sudden assassination ; for
the real anarchist deplores force of all kinds and is quick to deny any
connection with the instigators of such crimes. " It is important to
remember that the term ' Anarchist' is inevitably rather loosely used
in public, in connection with the authors of a certain class of murderous
outrages, and that the same looseness of definition often applies to the
professors of 'Anarchism' made by such persons. A philo-
sophical Anarchist would repudiate the connection": (Editor of
Ency. Brit.).
Prince Kropotkin, after accentuating the difference between
Socialism and Anarchism, writes;—"The Anarchists consider, there-
fore, that to hand over to the state all the main sources of economical
life—the land, the mines, the railways, banking, insurance, and so on
—as also the management of all the main branches of industry, in
addition to all the functions already accumulated in its hands (education,
state-supported religions, defence of the territory, etc.), would mean to
 ANARCHISM AND NEPTUNE 173
create a new instrument of tyranny. State capitalists would only
increase the powers of bureaucracy and capitalism. True progress
lies in the direction of decentralisation, both territorial ax\Afunctional,
in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of
free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present
hierarchy from the centre to the periphery."
The distinction between the two ideas is further brought out in
the article on " Socialism " in the Encyclopedia Britannica, in some
general criticisms on the subject;—" If the ideal of state socialism be
viewed in an equally critical spirit, many of the objections brought by
the moderate anarchists are seen to have their weight. A strong
central government to which all power was given over all the chief
industries in the world would, they say, be contrary to liberty. Our
leaders would be too likely to become again our masters. Supervision
would become irksome. Great powers would be a temptation to abuse
of power. A democracy with a strong central government would need
to leave much to its chosen guardians till they fully learned the difficult
business of their office, but this in the end means either what we have
now, a government by elected leaders, who once elected, consult our
wishes only on rare occasions,—or a government by permanent
officials, which means liberty to go on in the old ways but great fear
and jealousy of new ways, in fact, order without progress, no liberty of
change."
Many radicals are classed as socialists who are in truth anarchists
such as Tolstoy. Kropotkin says, " Without naming himself an
Anarchist, Leo Tolstoy, like his predecessors in the popular religious
movements of the 15th and 16th centuries, Chojecki, Denk, and many
others, took the Anarchist position as regards the state and property
rights, deducing his conclusions from the general spirit of the teachings
of Christ and from the necessary dictates of reason. With all the
might of his talent he made (especially in The Kingdom^ of God
in Yourselves) a powerful criticism of the Church, the state and law
altogether, and especially of the present property laws."
To give an American ideal of Anarchism I quote the,words of
Winston Churchill the American novelist whose views have been
termed Christian Anarchism by The Atlantic Monthly.
" What, then, is the Christian ideal of government ? We must
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not let the brightness of the vision dazzle us, we must not let it
frighten us—we must keep our eyes steadily turned towards it. The
Christian ideal is the least possible government, a government wherein
neither you nor I nor any other man or woman will labour and obey
because we have to, but because we have learned the lesson which
Christ taught, thatvhappiness lies alone in service, in giving to the
world that which God gave us. To hold up that vision, the vision of
what we may°be if we try, the vision of what God wishes and expects
us to be, is the mission of the church."
To look now at the matter in an astrological light, it would seem
that Uranus bad- more connection with socialism while Neptune
favours anarchism. Uranus has long been recognised as having a
powerful inflnencejn governmental affairs and in large corporations,
and as the aim of the socialists is to turn these latter over to the
control of the'state the purpose may be termed in an astrological sense
as a solidifying of the influence of Uranus. While anarchism,
permeated as it is with the doctrine of communism and non-resistance,
agrees more with"the ideality of Neptune. Uranus with his affinity to
mechanical appliances^would seek to make us but parts of a great
governmental machine in which the' individual initiative would be
largely restrained or suppressed, whereas Neptune would seek the
development of the individual, allowing each the expression of such
talent or genius as he or she might be born with.
Judging by analogy, since Uranus was discovered first and is
nearer the earth than Neptune, and also judging by the orderly course
of events in nature, it is likely that mankind will first have to go
through the Uranus experience of state socialism before it reaches the
Neptune ideal of communistic anarchism. In fact one seems to be the
necessary step to reach the other, and to pursue the. analogy farther
Neptune could not have been discovered without Uranus first being
known, as it was the perturbation in the orbital movement of the latter
that caused the presence of Neptune to be suspected. So it may well
be that the socialistic experience we seem destined to have will be
eventually the means of discovering for us the peacefulness of
enlightened Anarchism which now seems almost too ideal a system for
the world ever to reach.
Stuart Armour
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©ijc (Srtst War

By G. E. Sutcliffe,

Author of "The Foundations of Physical Astrology"

VI.—The Strategy of the Hierarchy

and the Cross of Matter

THE PLANETARY TRIPLETS

{Continued from p. 157)

Neptune
But which is the planetary Ray wielded by the great Being who
is still more mighty and still more mysterious, the ' Silent Watcher ' ?
There is reason to believe that the cosmic centre through which this
mighty Being so solitary and mysterious exerts His influence, is the
planet Neptune.
He is known as the Root-Base of the Hierarchy, the highest on
Earth and our Terrestrial Chain. "This ' Root-Base' has a name
which can only be translated into English by several compound words
—the 'Ever-Living-Human-Banyan.' This 'Wondrous Being
descended from a ' high region,' it is said, in the early part of the
Third Age, before the separation of sexes in the Third Race":
Sec. Doc. i 223.
Whilst therefore the wielder of the Uranian Ray came to the
Earth after the separation of the sexes, the Silent Watcher arrived
before the separation.
" In the first or earlier portion of the existence of this Third Race,
while it was yet in its state of purity, the ' Sons of Wisdom ' who, as
will be seen, incarnated in this Root-Race, produced by Kriyashakti a
progeny, called the ' Sons of Ad,' or of the ' Fire-Mist,' the ' Sons of
Will and Yoga,' etc. . It was at first a Wondrous Being,
called the ' Initiator,' and after him a group of semi-divine and semi-
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human Beings. ' Set apart' in archaic genesis for certain purposes,
they are those in whom are said to have incarnated the highest
Dhyanis—' Munis and Rishis from previous Manvantaras'—to form
the nursery for future human Adepts, on this earth and during the
present Cycle. These ' Sons of Will and Yoga,' born, so to speak, in
an immaculate way, remained, it is explained, entirely apart from the
rest of mankind.
"The 'Being' just referred to, who has to remain nameless,
is the Tree from which, in subsequent ages, all the great historically
known Sages and Hierophants, such as the Rishi Kapila, Hermes,
Enoch, Orpheus, etc., have branched off. As objective man,
he is the mysterious Personage, about whom legends are rife in the
East, especially among the Occultists and the students of the Sacred
Science. It is he who changes form, yet remains ever the same.
And it is he, again, who holds spiritual sway over the Adepts
throughout the whole world. He is, as said, the' Nameless One * who
has so many names, and yet whose names and whose very nature are
unknown.- He is the ' Initiator,' called the GREAT SACRIFICE.* For,
sitting at the Threshold of Light, he looks into it from within the
Circle of Darkness, which he will not-cross ; nor wilt he quit his post
till the last Day of this Life-Cycle. Why does the Solitary Watcher
remain at his self-chosen post ? Why does he sit by the Fountain of
Primeval Wisdom, of which he drinks no longer, for he has naught to
learn which he does not know—aye, neither on this Earth, nor in its
Heaven ? Because the lonely, sore-footed Pilgrims, on their journey
back to their Home, are never sure, to the last moment, of not losing
their way, in this limitless desert of Illusion and Matter called Earth-
Life. Because he would fain show the way to that region of freedom
and light, from which he is a voluntary exile himself, to every prisoner
who has succeeded in liberating himself from the bonds of flesh and
illusion. Because, in short, he has sacrificed himself for the sake of
Mankind, though but a few elect may profit by the Great SACRIFICE.
" It is under the direct, silent guidance of this MAHA-GURU that
all other less divine Teachers and Instructors of Mankind became,
from the first awakening of human consciousness, the guides of early
Humanity " : S. D. i 228-9.
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The Great Sacrifice

All this points conclusively tc the fact that this Wondrous

Being is the wielder of the Neptunian Ray. He is the Great
Sacrifice, the Root-Base, on whom the Saviours of Humanity model
themselves, and who in their turn instil the principle of self-sacrifice
on the races, for self-sacrifice is the law of evolution for man, as the
law of the survival of the fittest is the law of evolution for the brute»
Hermes, Orpheus, etc., were the World-Teachers of former races, and
this mysterious Being was the Tree from which they branched off. A
reference to column 1 (p. 155) shows Neptune as the higher Jupiter, and
in Indian astrology Jupiter is the Guru, so that Neptune is the Maha-
Gum, which is one of the names of the Silent Watcher. But from
column 1 it is also seen that Neptune is the higher Venus, a
deduction which intuition has led many astrologers to make. But
Neptune is also the higher Mercury, the metal of Alchemy, for
Mercury (Hermes), was the World-Teacher of the Egyptians, and
taught them Alchemy, the science with which Egypt is specially
associated. Thus Neptune may be defined as Mercury-Venus,
Hermes-Aphrodite, the Divine Hermaphrodite, who gives Virgin-
Birth to all the World-Saviours, by the principle of transmutation, or
spiritual Alchemy, which transforms physical generation into Kriya-
shakti, or brings back Scorpio to Virgo, which it was originally,
and produces Libra, Enoch Hermes, (/sts Unveiled, ii 452-3).
Neptune is therefore the "Virgin of the World," or Virgo-Libra-
Scorpio in one sign, the combined house of Mercury Venus and Mars,
but the Mercury concerned in the above is the higher Mercury-Venus,
or the planet of Alchemy, Neptune, whose Ray is wielded by the
Silent Watcher, the Divine Hermaphrodite. A further feature which
may constitute a link in the chain of evidence which connects the
planet Neptune with the Silent Watcher is that its orbit lies near the
borders of the Solar system, or near to the " Ring Pass Not" of the
Solar Logos. The life of the Solar Logos permeates all parts of His
system, but this life is not confined to the system. The portion of the
life within the system is known as the Immanence, and that beyond
the system as the Transcendence. Neptune therefore may be the
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channel between the Immanence and the Transcendence. The
relationship of the Transcendence to the Immanence maybe similar
to that of Light to Darkness. Hence Neptune being situated just
within the Darkness will be also in touch with the Light, so that
" sitting at the Threshold of Light, he looks into it from within the
Circle of Darkness," and thus can act as guide to the evolving monads
within the^olar system, which is the function of the Silent Watcher
as above described.

The Cosmic Monad

The name Silent Watcher is also applied to all the monads
evolving within our system : {Secret Doctrine, i 285). From this
similarity of name we may infer similarity of character and function,
the one being applied to individual human monads, and the other to
the whole system. Hence what the monad is to each human being,
Neptune is to the whole system. It is the cosmic Monad.
Now Atma, the Will Ray, the Ray of Uranus, the Ray
wielded by Sanat Kumara, the Ruler of the terrestrial scheme,
is the fifth plane, but the Monad is situated one plane higher, the sixth
plane. Hence the Silent Watcher, the wielderof the Ray of Neptune,
the cosmic Monad, is a grade higher than the wielder of the Uranian
Ray. It will be observed from the above classification of the planets,
that Venus is a subordinate planet of the Neptunian triplet, the peace
triplet as it has been termed, and that the Four Kumaras, of which
Sanat Kumara is the Head, came from the planet Venus. Hence we
may conclude that it was the Silent Watcher, the cosmic Monad,.
Neptune, who gave us our King.

Explanation of a Discrepancy

A further distinction may be here referred to, Whilst Sanat

Kumara is the King of our terrestrial system, the Silent Watcher is
perhaps the Monad of the whole solar system. The Silent Watcher
is on the Fourth Kosmic Plane, the plane on which the Solar Logoi
are now evolving: S.D. iii 559, 554. There is a Higher Logos for
the whole of these Solar Lcgoi, the Logos of the Central Spiritual Sun,
from which issues the "Primordial Seven," the Lipika; S.D. i 133,
 THE GREAT WAR
153. It is the Primordial Seven that probably send forth the cosmic
Monads: ib. 145. If this deduction be correct, and the Silent
Watcher is our cosmic Monad, He in a sense does not belong to our
system, but is a messenger sent us from the Primordial Seven. This
may throw light on a mysterious statement of H.P.B. that Neptune
does not belong to our system: S.O. iii 217-8, also 563. Occultism,
we are told, " has a strange theory of its own with regard toNeptiine "
(16.). But there is no doubt that astronomically Neptune is a part of
our solar system; and the statement may therefore mean that the
Wonderful Being, the Silent Watcher, who wields the Ray of
Neptune, is a visitor or ambassador from outside.1
This serves to suggest a word of caution to occult students when
they come upon statements of genuine occultists which appear.to them
to be obviously untrue. In these cases there is usually some deep
meaning behind the apparent discrepancy which time may clear up.
In illustration of this I may refer to the differences in the teachings
of H. P. B. and Mr Sinnett on the planetary chains : S.D. i 188. Mr
Sinnett says that Mars and Mercury belong to the earth chain, whilst
H. P. B. says they are the physical vehicles of other planetary Logoi.
Mrs Besant and Mr Leadbeater have endorsed the teaching of Mr
Sinnett: Man: Whence, How and Whither, p. 82. This would
seem to imply that H. P. B. was wrong. On the contrary I hold that
both parties will turn out to be right: for there are ten schemes of
chains in our solar system, {ib. p. 4), but only seven of these planetary
Logoi are at present using physical vehicles, and it may well be that
the three which are not using the physical plane, may loan their
planets to other Logoi, such as the Logoi of Neptune and the Earth,
who being in their fourth chain require additional physical planets for
their temporary use; just as a man living for a time in a foreign
country may loan his house to a friend or a neighbour. The method
of occult teaching is to provoke perplexity which may, or may not, be
1
[On p. 86 of Modern Astrology for February 1907 will be found a reference
to E. E. Fonrnier d'Albe's Electron Theory, in Chapter xvi of which it is stated that
if an atom were magnified to the size of the solar system. Neptune would represent
a ' detachable 'electron (i.e., capable of being parted with by the atom, as in the
process of chemical combination), and that its size and mass bear about the same
ratio to those of the solar system as the size and mass of an electron to those of a
lithium or oxygen atom. This statement seems curiously in affinity with those in
the above paragraph.—Ed ]
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afterwards relieved, (S.D. i 186), and this fact should be borne in mind
by those who do not wish to be driven out of occult schools; for in
occultism the intuition has to dominate the reason, and not vice versa.
In the end both reason and intuition will confirm each other, and until
that happens the student should humbly wait, and be content with
neither affirmation nor denial. This is one of the tests of fitness for
occult investigation. The mental and moral attitude of the disciple
under such difficulties is of primary importance.
The Silent Watcher descended upon earth in the early part of
the third race before the division of the sexes, apparently about
thirteen million years ago ; Man: Whence How and Whither, p. 96.
The Lords of the Flame, the Four Kumaras, descended on earth
after the division of the sexes, about six and a half million years ago :
ib. p. 102. There is a tradition that Neptune wished the Manu of
this bisexual race, a " Happy New Year " : S.D. i 478. One wonders
whether this was a form of genuine congratulation, or an instance of
celestial satire. When Jupiter commissioned Hephaestus to fashion
out of earth the first woman Pandora, the gods bestowed upon her
their choicest gifts. Haphaestus gave her a human voice, Aphrodite
■(Venus) beauty and powers of seduction, Hermes (Mercury) cunning
.and the art of flattery. Jupiter gave her a jar, Pandora's Box,
containing all kinds of misery and evil. Pandora (the "All-giving")
afterwards opened the jar, from which these evils flew out over the
earth; hope alone remained at the bottom ; Bncy. Britt. XI xx 675.

The Division of the Sexes

When our first parents Adam and Eve were placed as naked com-
panions in the Garden of Eden their fall into generation was a foregone
conclusion. In this primeval contest the subtle serpent (Scorpio) un-
doubtedly held the trump card. When the frail culprits' heard the voice
of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day,' the actions
of the conscious-stricken pair proclaimed their guilt. " Who told thee
that thou wast naked ? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I com-
manded thee that thou shouldst not eat ? . cursed is the ground
for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
" Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee. In
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the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread. Unto the woman
he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception ; in
sorrow shall thou bring forth children" : Genesis, iii 11-17.
"And the Lord God said unto the serpent, I will put
enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her
seed ; it shall bruise thy head, and thon shall bruise his heel " ; ib.
Bruising the serpent's head by the seed of woman, implies that in
course of time the children of men shall succeed in conquering their
sensual nature, and attain to Divine Wisdom, [S.D. iii 293), whilst the
bruising of the heel of man by the serpent refers to the pain and sorrow
which the lusts of the flesh, when carried to excess, always bring in
their train.
By the division of the sexes the human principles were wrenched
asunder, and henceforth man had war amongst his members. It
deprived him of the sense of completeness and of balance, and his.
efforts to restore this balance is the basis of all his struggles and
his strivings. It took away his tamas, in exchange for which he
became rajasic, and from this rajas his evolution was immensely
hastened. It is the temporary restoration of the sense of completeness
that gives the momentary, but exalted, joy of sexual union. But it is
not only the sexual element that is here concerned, the sense of incom-
pleteness embraces all his principles. There is a vacuum in the
nature, which gives a general desire for possessions, for power, and for
ever enlarging activities. The hope which remained at the bottom of
Pandora's box stimulates him to increasing effort to satisfy his ever
enlarging appetites, for as his possessions grow his appetite grows
proportionately, and " man never is, but ever to be blessed." The
masonic symbol of the Royal Arch, and of the Theosophical Society,
the ' interlaced triangles,' is ejected from his nature, and in its place is
put the cross, on which his lower nature is being crucified. For the
sextiles and trines of Jupiter and Venus, are substituted the squares
and oppositions of Saturn and Mars.
[To be continued)

•'Ik our traditional system of numeration the base is the number io-
Could we begin anew, the number 12 might be better. . . ."—Simon
Newcomd,Spheticd Aslronowy.
 Jinshm's to (Qiicstions1

GOOD ASPECTS ONLY.—Is it a good sign to have only favourable aspects

in one's horoscope, and should a person with such a. nativity he considered as
advanced intellect na I ly or morally? In the following horoscope there ere no Qs
or ^ s except with the ascendant; there arc many trims and sexliles, und most of
the planets are in. airy signs. Still, the native seems to be rather insignificant.
Horoscope:—x f22, xi V^g, xii Vj'zg, i H7-46, ii 3 6, iii 114; 0™22--(0,
J)=2=X8.4, 5^0.18, <}x;2i.ii, ^5^0.33, 2;=i9.47r, »?Jn.4,
a ig.^or. 11/2/gS, 8 a.in. ManchcUer. (333)
No. It is not a good sign to have only favourable aspects, for
that would show an environment requiring very little effort to progress.
The idea that squares and oppositions, etc., are " evil " is erroneous.
There is no evil in any horoscope, and the more this is known the
better for astrological study.
We know a horoscope with 5 d b and D in T Q <£ , positions that
may easily be interpreted as showing a bad temper; yet the man is
considered by his wife and friends to be a very even-tempered man,
and anything but bad tempered. The J in T Q (? denotes impulse,
quick speech, and high blood pressure in the head—irritability ; 5 d '?
on the other hand denotes a studious mind, an inclination to be over
cautious and reserved, an outlook somewhat exacting and critical.
Here we have a flat contradiction in one horoscope. Two wrongs
-do not make one right, however; how then shall they be interpreted ?
The rising sign and the polarity of the horoscope supply the first key
to a synthesis, physically, psychically, and morally. The ' tempering '
of steel in a smith's forge is a process that might be conceived to
involve the steel atoms in an argument as to which part of the process
they should identify themselves with; and in the same way the brain-
cells in a human body are " polarised" towards one part or another of
the process of evolution. The man who tempers the steel is in the
same position as the ego who heats and cools the personality while it
1
Questions must be of gkneral interest. They should be written upon
one side of the paper only, a separate sheet of paper being used for each separate
question, and addressed to Question Department, " Modern Astrology " Office,
40, Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, E.C. Name and address of sender should
be attached to each question. Questions should be put as concisely as possible.
 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
is being ' tempered.' The man who had Bin T □ <7 was in his youth
exceedingly hasty tempered, impulsive (in speech more than in action),
always seeking pioneer work, finding himself out of gear with unfavour-
able avocations, and restrained and hampered by a religious environ-
ment. At a mature age he balanced this extreme tendency by evolving
his opposite, balance, and found the means through the studious,
thoughtful and meditative nature of $ 6 h. The extremes of this
conjunction made for scientific accuracy, love of truth and justice, it
compensated or was in truth the complementary influence to that of
Jin T □ <7 . The keynote to the character as a whole had a moral
and spiritual basis in Q d and If.
This illustration should help to show that the ingredients in every
horoscope should be used in an alchemical process of transmutation
by utilizing every aspect for the purpose of tempering the personality
until it becomes as true as the mainspring of a watch, which keeps it
in perfect going order.
MERCURY AFFLICTED : NER VOUS STRAIN.—In the two following
horoscopes the ruler. Mars in No. I, Saturn in No. 2, is in conjunction with
Mercury, and receives no good aspects. Would such a conjunction he indicative of
great nervous strain ? In holh horoscopes tjl is prominent, and in No. 2 the ruler
and ^ are badly afflicted by Neptune. In both cases there is a tremendous
nervous strain and sometimes great violence.
In No. i there is a strange bitterness against the parents whom he blames for
severity towards him, while they have been on the contrary only too weak, and at
the same time there is a great irritability and, at least actually, a certain laziness.
It seems as if the influeoce o/ O □ tjl and g B*" dHi iQ'S and 1914 is not yet
exhausted.
In No. 2 there is a great lack of concentration and this young man also suffers
from nervous crises, fainting suddenly, etc. He shows a strange resentment towards
his sister. Both these boys (who do nut know one another and who belong to
totally different families) are causing great anxiety to their relatives, especially
since the last three or four years. Both are, or appear, intelligent however, and
both horoscopes have good points and seem even to contain many promises for the
future. Is there any fear of mental unbalance ?
Horoscopes:—(1) x Sb2?' xi ===1, xii =11:25, i 11113-53, ii ^13, iii Vyzo ;
Ocr-iy.iS. BSl,9. SVyzs-iS, S^ri4.55. <7 kf26.23, 2f ^lo.zr, I? f 10.44, § 73.9,
^1319.53. 6 February, \8g8, about 1 a.m. Paris.
(2) x 79. xi 727, xii 1^17, iiori4.50. « Vn.iii 1317; ©Vyio.so, BSI28.27,
5 721-38 sirti., ? 73.58, d'Sls-ii'-. 2fitl6.4, I?7i7-38, § 7 5-58, 1122.54.
1 January, 1899, 9.45 a.m. Paris. (33+)
Yes, <7 d 8 it? in third house would denote high nervous tension, <7
being ruler of the first and 5 of eighth; but the cause is not far to seek,
<7rules the fifth, andB is in SI the fifth sign. Tocounteract 7 d 5 slow
down the sense vibration by a little tincture of b ruler of third, and
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bring out the blend of S A 'j by leading ? out pf the influence of 3 into
that of •? to temper the whole ; b is the purifier of the emotions, and the
remedy is self-control combined with a realisation that unnatural
practices are unnatural, for the functions of the body are for legitimate
use not abuse. No. 2 shows the same cause for the nervous strain,
but in this case the cause is sub-conscious and is in the emotional
nature ; in No. 1 it is more physical.
The bitterness against parent in No. 1 is explained by the third
house influence, and a lack of moral strength, which O □ tjf by progres-
sion would accentuate ; release 5 from the selfishness of <? and % will
become a useful servant instead of a slave. No. 2 seems to have met
a former tie of a different relationship in his sister, and the resentment
is probably instinctive.
There is hope in both these cases, and that hope lies in awakening
an interest in some pursuit that will allow the absorption of to be
clean and healthy : is the scapegoat—the body, and although the
sins are upon it of a former existence the energy involved in the con-
junctions may be released as effort to ascend the mountain instead of
being tethered in the valley to eat only that which is in the circle of
its limitations.
ANOTHER MOON.—As certain people are of the opinion that theearth pos-
sesses a second satellite of very small mass, I would like to ask whether there is any
astrological evidence of the existence of such a body, and if so, what effect it has on
a nativity. (335)
Such a body is said to have been discovered, and its orbit
defined, by Dr. Waltemath, of Hamburg. Nothing has been heard
about it lately, so whether it has been abandoned by science we
cannot say. As to its astrological influence, an article on the subject
appeared in Modern Astrology for September, 1902, p. 140, with
a table of conjunctions by which its position could be determined for
any dale. In this article the opinion was expressed that its influence
was violent, or at least malefic. We do not think anything further
has been published, save one or two earlier articles in Coming Events
—April 1898, p. 241; May 1898, p. 281; June 1898, p. 354.
ATTRACTED TO PARENT.—What does "being attracted to a parent "
(of the Ego before birth) mean ? (336)
Every Ego coming into physical manifestation must find an environ-
ment to harmonize, more or less, with its own nature, otherwise it could
 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 185
not live and grow in that environment. If an Ego is born into a very
inharmonious environment the strain will be no more than the Ego
can bear without breaking up or leaving the body or the environment.
Hatred being a discordant vibration a hateful child could not live and
be happy with very loving parents without being repressed or much
out of place in such an environment, unless by strength of will or
realization it could change its nature. Hatred brings old enemies of
the past together to work out their fate just as love unites and draws
kindred souls together through many incarnations, for hatred ceaseth
not by hatred but is overcome by love, and love is the fulfilling of the
law, therefore, forgive and forget and restore the lost harmony which
can be recovered in no other way.
TALKING WITH SPIRITS.—An occult magazine once slated that the
time would soon come when all could see and talk with spirit entities by means of
an instrument that would be invented. Assuming the close contact at times of the
other world, nevertheless would not such a course be impossible in the light of
astrology ? For example, universal knowledge cf one another's actions {through
the intelligence of spirits) would tend to prevent the working out of one's horoscope.
There could be 110 secret love affairs—often the signification of Venus in the 12lh ;
no secrecy of any kind. This is but one instance out of many. Could material
destiny be fulfilled if we were constantly in contact with the spiritual P (337)
We see no reason why it should not be possible to communicate with
entities in the super-physical world by means of an instrument
invented for that purpose ; it is not impossible. As we rise in the
scale of evolution our lives will be adjusted to the progress. Material
destiny will always be fulfilled while the material worlds remain.
Those on the astral plane who are awakened, are said to see what is
going on in the physical world; therefore, secret love affairs are
known even now without the aid of instruments other than the
awakened astral senses.
Each horoscope is a chapter in the Ego's book of life, to be read
now or at any future time. In the true sense of the word there are
no secrets of any kind ; all secrets are hidden only to those who have
not opened up the inner senses. To the truth seeker all things shall
be revealed.

" I shall always be grateful to Mr Leo for the extremely interesting and
instructive method of his astrological lessons."
J. J. FitzPatkick [Boston, Mass.)
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®ljougbts an lluling ©he's ^tars

In Modern Astrology for last August, and later in the Theo-

sophist for December, Mr Sutcliffe brings forward the connection
between Primary Directions and the higher mental plane, associating
the review by the ego of the coming incarnation before descending
from the causal body to lower levels, with primary directions, and
associating Secondary Directions with lower planes.
In the study of Astrology one point soon becomes very evident,,
namely that directions produce markedly different degrees of effect on
different people. With some, Primary Directions are strongest, with
others Secondary, while with others Transits only seem to exert
influence.
Now what is the cause of this? A plausible explanation is as
follows;—
If, as Mr Sutcliffe suggests, primary directions indicate the outline
of life as seen in the Causal, mutual and lunar directions corresponding
with the descent through lower planes, we can divide directions and
transits into four groups—Primary, Mutual, Lunar, and Transits.
Now in Esoteric Astrology, the author considers Airy Signs as
significant of the causal, Fiery signs significant of mental, Watery of
the astral, and Earthy of the physical planes. Suppose, then, we have
before us a horoscope in which air predominates ; we may take it as
indicating that the Causal influence is strong, and that the Ego took
great interest in the review of his coming incarnation, throwing him-
self into the events as they passed before him at the speed of 4 minutes
to 1 year of earth time ; and therefore we may expect the key to
events to lie in Primary Directions, in the life of that person.
Where Fire predominates, the review repeated on the lower
mental planes was considered by the Ego to be of greater importance,
and the keynote of the life is to be found in interplanetary or Mutual
directions.
Similarly for watery signs Lunar directions are of great importance
and when we come to earthy signs we must look to Transits.
 A FEW THOUGHTS ON RULING ONE'S STARS 187
Of course, horoscopes usually shew a blend of these triplicities,
hence all the methods of directing will have some force.
Now let us consider Fate and Free Will. In the case where air
predominates and the Ego has reviewed his life very thoroughly on
his own plane, he will have filled in most of the details of the coming
incarnation as the planetary influences known as primary directions
play upon him, and will look at the life from the point of view of
abstract reality and will usually entirely disregard anything approaching
worldly success or even what we call comfort.
He may decide to use good directions in such a manner that the
material benefits accruing are not lasting, and to emphasise bad
directions in order that either the experiences obtained have the
maximum possible value in the direction he requires, or else to work
off some Karma that he is especially desirous to be rid of.
From his high plane, helped by flashes, from the Intuitional
Plane, we may easily think of him so moulding the events of the
coming life as to help even more distant lives. We may think of him
as wishing to obtain a personality under a certain horoscope and
leading up to it step by step incarnation after incarnation as he presses
forward to the first Initiation.
Now in such cases it is unreasonable to hope that the lower bodies
can fight against these primary directions. If the Ego has overloaded
his personality with troubles, so that insanity or death ensues, it is
merely a step toward the knowledge he wants—how to use his vehicles
to the best advantage.
Or let us consider the Fiery person. In this case it seems that
the Ego has deferred planning his life till reaching the lower mental,
where he will not have quite the high altruistic view of life which he
had while in the formless planes. He will be likely to use his influence
as far as he can to produce a good brain and a good education, and a
more successful life from the worldly point of view.
Or, again, the Ego may defer his plans till reaching the astral;
then a comfortable life will be the keynote, with some worldly success
to bring the attendant comforts, hence a certain amount of worldly
ambition is sure to be present.
Again, the ego may decide to put in the details of the life while
the personality is living the life, using Transits as his tools to work
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with ; in this case fate is far less strong and the man can rule his stars
more easily.
In all cases, of course, the radical horoscope as ordained by the
Lords of Karma closely defines the tools with which the ego has to
work. He does not make his opportunities and set-backs, but he does
decide how to use them.
So when we look at a horoscope we can see how the Ego has
considered this incarnation. The Lords of Karma may have given
the Ego a nativity with Air predominating,, and .for those of us who
are in this position we may think of ourselves as merely acting the
life we have already lived through in the few hours before taking up
the first veil. If in a Fiery or a Watery personality, then we thought
and felt the life in much more complete detail during several months,
during the gradual descent into matter.
But in the case of the Earthy personality both the lives are
proceeding concurrently, producing the self made man,—or more often
I fear the self-unmade man. Fate is less insistent, freewill stronger,
and the responsibility of the personality greater.
I think it is a great help when suffering from adverse primary
directions, especially when they hit unexpectedly hard, to think that
after all we are but fulfilling the life already thought out and lived on
the causal plane.
L. Howard-Flanders.

Data for Students.—Madame Tarroui, born 5 a.m. 21 January 1832

Germany. This lady was a well known character in the circle in which she
moved, being very eccentric and remarkably " cute." 'She hated her only
son, born 7.30 a.m. 5 November 1855 Jersey, with a very bitter hatred and
would not be reconciled to him even while he was ill.
Mrs L. A. W., born 4.12 a.m. 2 July 1855 London. This lady suffered
severely from Bright's disease for 13 years: tjt □ 2 supposed to be the cause.
After living on skim milk for nearly a year she was said to be cured, but on
return to normal diet disease came back affecting heart.
Mrs Bridget Trenery, who for many years was a successful boarding
housekeeper, on becoming widowed in her 56th year became a stewardess on
the P & O Boats with great success and profit. She was born at 1 a.m.
2 January 1853 Dublin. She was a typical Venusian Sagittarian. A true
Roman Catholic, thoroughly religious, and yet possessed of the full share of
common sense. She roamed Sept 4th 1871 and had three sons. She was
killed in one of the first hospital ships to be torpedoed by the Germans early
this year.
 ^ ©ompUte ^olar ^gsUnt

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt
of in your philosophy."—Hamlet.

THOSE who have taken up the science of Astrology seriously must

all have found as they got gradually deeper into the subject that while
their convictions of its truth became more and more decided, at the-
same time difficulties presented themselves which showed that there
was much still to learn about this abstruse science. Why, for example,
do certain directions have different effects from what are expected ?
Why do important events sometimes happen with apparently no
suitable direction coinciding in point of time ? " Sepharial" has
tried to explain this by referring to the horoscope of the Prenatal
Epoch : but there is no reason given why the birth horoscope should
not be complete in itself.
For me the clue to the mystery was the conviction that Uranus
and Neptune must rule certain signs, and also that it was too
pessimistic a philosophy which accepted as fact that there were more
evil planets than good ones. Accordingly I set to work experimenting
on different horoscopes with regard to the effects of Uranus and
Neptune in directions. I was brought irresistibly to the conclusion
that Uranus rules Scorpio and Neptune rules Virgo: for in every
case Scorpio and Virgo respectively were on the cusps of the houses
concerned in the directions to Uranus and Neptune. The sign
rulership having been established it was at once obvious that there
were decided similarities between the root meanings of these planets
and signs. Neptune and Virgo are typical of a scholar or one with
artistic creative faculties; with regard to illness they both signify
nervous complaints: again, Neptune in the eighth house shows a
tendency to drowning accidents and a malefic afflicted in Virgo in
the eighth has the same effect. I could multiply instances both with
regard to Uranus and Neptune but the surest proof is for the student,
to test the house-rulership in the horoscopes at his disposal.
igo MODERN ASTROLOGY
It was after being convinced of this sign rulership that I evolved
the theory, subsequently confirmed by many experiments, that there
are tioelve planets each ruling one of the twelve signs, that these
rule the signs in order according to their distance from the Sun,
that the Sun and Moon rule no signs themselves. This idea can be
better grasped by a study of the accompanying table.
Table Illostratino Sign Rclership1
[Planetary periods approximate)
Sign Planet Period
D Mercury J year
Vencs s ..
T Mars 2 years
Jupiter 12 n
ar Circe 15 n
"ri Saturn 30 ..
7 Jason 50
Uranus 84 ..
is Dido 144
U! Neptune 165 ..
it Isis 3fio ..
OS Osiris 990 ..
It will be observed that there are five planets included which are
unknown to astronomers. Of these Osiris and Isis have been known
to astrologers for some time and their position and rate of motion is
given very accurately in some of the " Modern Astrology " publications
The other three are recently discovered by myself and I hope to give
their positions and rate of motion more definitely than I can at present
after carrying out a further series of tests. I may add that in my
own horoscope I have satisfied myself that I have placed all five
" unknown " planets accurately and directions to them all bear out
the theory of sign-rulership here given. I cannot expect that
astrologers will immediately accept what I have stated but I trust
that many will be led to experiment along the lines which I have
indicated; and I feel sure that their experiments will eventually lead
fhem to the same conclusions.
Duncan Macnaughton.
1
Taking the bouse equivalents of the signs (niii, ti ii, etc.), the planets rule
the bouses of the horoscope in succession beginning at the Nadir .passing the Asc
MC Desc, and again finishing at the Nadir, the end of the fourth bouse. S n
and the third bouse signify the beginning of things, and the young, as and the
fourth bouse signify the end of things and old persons: this seems a natural
interpretation of the first and last planets respectively.
 igi

Eelriehi

Your Part IN Poverty. By George Lansbury: with an

introduction by the Bishop of Manchester. Is.
It is the national mission of Hope and Repentance that gives
occasion for George Lansbury to tell us what he thinks the attitude of
the Church should be towards the social chaos and injustice of our
time.
Nothing breeds arrogance more than the bondage of the law, and
nothing kills the spirit more .than the worship of the letter, and no one
has been more swift to recognise this than George Lansbury. The
aim of his book is to incite us to dare something—to take part in a
great spiritual adventure which shall have for its object the removal
of all that is anti-social in our civilisation, and the substitution of a
Cooperative Commonwealth in place of our present Competitive
System; the author asserts that it is not the continual affirmation
of our Independence, but the recognition of our Interdependence, that
will bring us nearer to this desirable goal where Service shall be
understood as the highest and noblest calling in Creation.
This same ideal of the Interdependence of mankind is beautifully
expressed by George Macdonald in Lilith : " So superbly constituted,
so simply complicate is man; he rises from, and stands upon, such a
pedestal of lower physical organisms and spiritual structures that no
atmosphere will comfort or nourish his life less divine than that offered
to other souls; nowhere but in other lives can he breathe. Only by
the reflex of other lives can he ripen his speciality, develop the idea of
himself, the individuality that distinguishes him from every other.
Were all men alike, each would have an individuality, secured by his
personal consciousness; but there would be small reason why there
should be more than two or three such ; while for the development of
the differences which make a large and lofty unity possible, and which
alone can make millions into a church, an endless and measureless
influence and reaction are indispensable.
"A man to be perfect, completeTthat is, in having reached the
spiritual condition of persistent and universal growth, which is the
mode wherein he inherits the infinitude of the Father, must have the
education of a world of fellowmen."
As soon as we concisely realise the ideal that George Lansbury
and George Macdonald urge so strongly, just so soon shall we have
Education and all the other good things that are so ardently
desired by George Lansbury as Universals, in his new book. Then
we shall understand what St. Paul meant when he said: " I could wish
that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren."
Z.
 Astrology for Beginners
PERSONAL APPEARANCE
{Continued from page 160)
Sagittarius {}), the third mutable sign, when ruling the Ascendant,
gives an athletic-looking body, with long bands and feet, and legs dispro-
portionately long in comparison with the trunk. Walking, naturally follows,
as one of the Sagittarian's favourite forms of recreation ; and hecomesalong
with head thrown hack, coat open, arms swinging, taking long strides and as
though ruler of the ground he walks upon, and the aristocrat bearing of the
better-looking Sagittarian makes him a conspicuous figure in a crowd.
Unless the planet Jupiter (ruler of f), is placed in a sign that gives bulk, the
body retains its slim, elegant look till the end.
He is very careful over his dress, but never prim, carelessly throwing his
clothes aside as he takes them off. Women born under f affect tailor-made
gowns in preference to the more artistic, as being, one presumes, more
adapted to out-door pursuits.
The head and forehead are broad and ample, and the face benevolent
looking; the hair has a twist in it usually, and is of a medium brown or nut-
brown colour; the nose is long, thin, well-shaped and fairly close to the face ;
the teeth are strong and long like those of the horse, and this resemblance
to the horse is further expressed in the long, narrow shape of the face, which
is not oval, but of a uniform width ; the eyes are very bright and honest-
looking, with well-marked eyebrows, and the lids have the appearance of
being stretched wide open at their middle points; the chin is well defined
and often has a dimple upon it; the skin is healthy-looking with some colour
in the cheeks; and the neck is usually very long and the shoulders broad.
Listen to a Sagittarian talking, and bis good-natured, sportsmanlike
attitude towards life is quite apparent in bis hopeful, strong voice and in bis
deep, ringing laugh. Joviality, caudour and geniality seem to clothe him.
On such a pattern are the majority of Englishmen formed, or so it seems,
to me.
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THE HOPE OF IMMORTALITY

Dean Inge on Enchantments

In times of prosperity men always tend to ignore and forget the
future life, said Dean Inge in a sermon on "The Message of Easter
Day," at St. Paul's on Easter Sunday morning: In adversity they
remember it, and ask for proofs that there really is one. The Dean
then went on to say, " But to hundreds of thousands bereaved in the
war there has come with a poignant intensity the longing for the
assurance that if a man dies he shall live again." We had hoped, as
we continued to read the Dean's sermon, to find an answer to this
longing, especially since we gathered that he was fully alive to the
failure of the Church to satisfy that longing. Instead we read: "But
the bereaved, looking in vain to their spiritual guides had in thousands
194 MODIiKN ASTRO LOG Y

souRht for enchantments, like Balak, and had gone back to the old,
discredited superstitious of necromancy and so-called spiritualism.
Astrology, witchcraft, and other mischievous delusions had once more
stalked out into the light of day, unsettling the reason of thousands."
We do not question Dean Inge's sincerity, but we deplore his
association of Astrology with Witchcraft since it reveals his ingenuous
lack of knowledge of a subject concerning which he should, as Dean
of St. Paul's, be better acquainted. Holding such a position we may
justly assume that he is an authority on Theology, which teaches its
-adherents that God creates a new soul at each birth into the material
world ; that this soul passes at death into an invisible beyond, there to
remain; and that its happiness or misery there is determined for all
eternity by its belief just prior to death. It may be, however, that the
Dean is not quite sure of this established doctrine, for he proceeds
during the sermon to put aside "the crude material presentment of our
bodily resurrection, which I suppose we were all taught as children."
Contrast this crude teaching of orthodox theology with the theory of
rebirth, which teaches "that each soul is an integral part of God;
that it infolds all divine possibilities as a seed infolds the plant; that
by means of repeated existences in a gradually improving earthly body
those latent powers are slowly unfolded into dynamic energy; that
none are lost, but all egos will ultimately attain the goal of perfection
and reunion with God, bringing with them the cumulative experience
which is the fruitage of their pilgrimage through matter."
The Dean concluded his sermon by askingthis question :—" Is not
this what we want to be sure of, that whatever has value in God's
sight, whether it belongs to us or not, is safe for ever more, and free
from the doom of decay and death ? "
We sincerely regret that he did not display some spiritual
knowledge by answering this question and thus give comfort to many
of his hearers who must have been grievously disappointed.
It was an unfortunate error on the Dean's part to associate
Astrology with witchcraft, but it reveals the fact that Astrology to him
is an objectionable word, and still associated, in his mind, with "fortune-
telling " and charlatanry. Surely the Dean's Oxford education should
have taught him that Astrology is older than the Christian religion,
and he must have heard of the Star of Bethlehem and the Wise Men
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY igc

who saw the Star of Christ. We question, however, whether the Dean
knows why Jesus was born a Jew ; nor why the Jews chose Barabbas,
and crucified Jesus. He probably believes that the great pyramid was
constructed by divine architects and repudiates the theory that it was
used for astrological purposes at a time when men's faith in Astrology
was such as to cause them to devote many years of labour and'
enormous sums of money to the pursuit of astrological researches.
The Chaldean religion, which was purely astrological, is also
probably a myth so far as the Dean's mind is concerned, and the
statement that the Bible is an astrological book may not concern him in
the least; he is only concerned with the Christian hope of immortality.
We can assure the Dean of St. Paul's, with all due respect
to his office, that during the whole of this great war not a single
student of astrology has had occasion to come to us in pain and
sorrow longing for the assurance that if a man dies he shall live again.
We speak for many thousands of astrological students, in all parts
of the world, and we have no hesitation in saying that so far as death
and the immortality of the soul is concerned, they do not hope, they
believe,—and their belief is supported by a science that studies the
workings of the Great Star-Angels,—they believe that although born
into the natural world with a chart for their guidance in accordance
with the divine plan of destiny, their souls are linked with the celestial
world and their spirit is a " divine fragment" linked to God by an
invisible thread of the ONE and only LIFE in the universe.
May we presume to enlighten the Dean of St. Paul's by informing
him that, as the Editor of a magazine founded in the year 1890, with
one aim;—purifying and re-establishing the ancient science of
astrology, which through planetary symbology seeks to. explain the
One universal spirit in its varied manifestations;—we KNOW that
Astrology is in no way associated with " enchantments, superstition or
necromancy and so-called spiritualism or witchcraft." I f the Dean of
St. Paul's loves truth we ask him in fairness to admit the error he has
made and acknowledge his mistake, or else to show his followers WHY,
and now, Astrology unsettles the reason of thousands. If the Dean
is too proud to answer our question we should like to ask him to preach
a sermon on the hymn called " Te Deum Laudamus"—" To Thee all
angels cry aloud ; the heavens and all the powers therein"
196 MODERN ASTROl.OGY

If Dean Inge thinks mortals have more power than the heavenly
powers, then we can understand his attitude towards astrology. If so,
and he is right, then we must be mistaken in our idea that the Star-
Angels are the "ministers" of God, and instead of trying to come
into touch with them through our higher selves we must in future Icok
to mortals to give us salvation.

"THE MANU'S CALL"

If we can afford to smile at the Dean of St. Paul's ideas on

astrology because we believe that he knows nothing about the subject
beyond the association of it in his mind with charlatanry, we cannot
take the Rev. Scott Moncrieff's disapproval so lightly. This gentleman
knows, or should know, the attitude of astrological students towards
the higher life, and yet when he makes an appeal in the May Vahau
under the heading of "The Manu's Call " to members of the T.S. to
turn their attention to social and economic matters, he at the same time
offers a quite unnecessary reprcach when he says ; " At this juncture
it is positively wrong and a treason to fritter time and energies on all
sorts of classes and groups," and infers that this happens in the study
of astrology, for he adds, "In the time of fiery trial and judgment
that is coming we shall not be asked—'Did you attend the Astrology
class?'
We have often heard it said that Theosophists disapprove of
Astrology and we have repeatedly denied the assertion, but now that we
find the Vahan allowing us to be censured for frittering our time and
energies away in Astrology classes we can deny it no longer, and we
regret their attitude because we feel that it adds to the heavy load of
karma that is already connected with Astrology and does not help to
diminish it.
We. have always understood that the Powers which guide
humanity have varied ways of doing so. May we ask the Rev. Scott
Moncrieff if he considers that Astrology is NOT one of those ways ?
If he is disposed to answer in the affirmative we may remind him of a
broad teaching which runs as follows. "To each temperament there
is one road which seems desirable. But the way is not found by
devotion alone, by religious contemplation alone, by ardent progress,
 THli EUH OK'S OiiSEKVA l OKV 197

by self-sacrificing labour, by studious observation of life. None alone

can take the disciple more than one step upwards. All steps are
necessary to make up the ladder."
Why have those of the religious temperament such a sad lack of
perspective? Compare the innuendo of the Rev. Scott Moncrieff
with the broad views expressed in The Ancient Wisdom. Speaking
of a man of sacrifice, Mrs. Besant writes:—
"For him, high and low, great and small are the same; he fills
any place that needs filling, and the Logos is alike in every place
and in every action. He can flow into any form, he can work along
any line, he knows not any longer choice or difference; his life by
sacrifice has been made one with the Life of the Logos—he sees God
in everything and everything in God."
If those who ignorantly conceive that Astrology is adverse to
Christianity would but read the works of modern professors of the
science of the stars, they would find abundant evidence therein that a
strong undercurrent of religious belief and fervent piety characterise
their writings. Modern astrologers have ever taught that the planets
are but instruments in the hand of our Creator and that, in accordance
with His Almighty fiat, the lights in the firmament of the heavens are
"for signs (of future events) and for seasons and for days
AND YEARS." Astrologers ever remember the word of our Saviour,
(Luke xxi, 11, 25):—"And great earthquakes shall be in divers
places, and famines, and pestilences; AND FEARFUL SIGHTS AND
GREAT SIGNS SHALL THERE BE FROM HEAVEN, AND THERE
SHALL BE SIGNS IN THE SUN, AND IN THE MOON, AND IN THE
STARS."
What believer in Christianity will " cast the first stone" at
Astrology, and argue that the one is opposed to the other, after full
consideration of these passages of holy writ? It is true that
it is written, (Jeremiah x, 2) " Be not dismayed at the signs of
heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them," and (Isaiah xlvii,
13) " Let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prog-
nosticators, stand up and save thee." Still, these passages are not
condemnatory of astrology as sinful. They show that the heathen
were dismayed because they were ignorant of a Power above the
planets, and accordingly worshipped them as gods, in order to
ig8 MODEKN- ASTUOLOOV

propitiate them. Although the " astrologers, star-gazers, and monthly

prognosticators" did foresee the impending calamity, they were
nevertheless powerless to prevent it. In any case, this very injunction
proves that there are signs in the heavens !
There occurs in the book of Daniel (v 25) a story which relates
how, at a drunken debauch which King Belshazzar held in Babylon,
the fingers of a man's hand appeared, and wrote on the wall the words:
" Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin," at which the king was much
disturbed, partly by the phenomenal character of the manifestation,
and partly by the fact that he could not understand the writing.
Summoning the soothsayers to interpret the writing he found that they
failed to do so, and hearing of Daniel he sent for him and received the
following explanation:
Mene.—God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
Tefccf.—Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting.
Peres.—Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and
Persians.
And very soon after the kingdom was destroyed and the king killed.
In Astrology classes held very close to the Headquarters of the
T. S., it has been pointed out that certain nations are IVOIV in the
balances, as indicated by the sovereign's horoscope ; and the bearing of
this fact on social and economic matters has received full attention.

In this same number of the Vahan much is said about the

important, indeed commanding place that Education must take in the
new era now dawning. With this propaganda our critic will be fully
in sympathy. He will remember, of course, that children are not
born equally endowed, either as regards character or abilities; and he
will regard this as determined by the previous lives of each soul—
qualities stamped upon the permanent atom around which the body is
built. But it would seem that he has forgotten what Mrs Besant
writes in A Study in Consciousness, in connection with this subject
(p. 98) :—" When the time for reincarnation comes, and the presence
of the permanent atom renders possible the fertilisation of the ovum
from which the new body is to grow, its keynote sounds out, and is
one of the forces which guide the elemental charged with the building
of the physical body, the body must [italics hers] be born
 THE EDITOR'S OUSEKVATORY 1
99
into the world at a time when the physical planetary influences are
suitable, and it is thus born under its astrological star. It is not the
star that imposes the temperament, but the temperament that fixes
the epoch of birth under that star. But herein lies the explanation of
the correspondences between Stars—Star-Angels, that is to say—and
characters, and the usefulness for educational purposes of a skilfully
and carefully drawn horoscope, as a guide to the personal temperament
of a child."
Will any Theosophist, with those words before him, dare to
endorse the Rev. Scott Moncrieff's innuendo that students of Astrology
are necessarily frittering away their time and energy in useless
pursuits?
It is very regrettable that otherwise well-disposed persons should
cast stones at the subjects they do not understand.
When a postman was once asked in a Civil Service examination,
" How many miles is it from the earth to the moon," he replied that
the question did not concern him, since he was not on that route.
Those who seek the way by devotion alone are often unable to
undeistand that each man's individuality and karma are his own
property, which cannot be participated in by another, and as these two
make him, during an incarnation, what he is, each man has his own
peculiar methods of finding out the eternal truth within himself,—the
path, the way and the law.
It has been well said that, " On the surface of the subject, the
beliefs of men seem bewilderingly manifold, hopelessly discordant.
How many the faiths for which the religions have fought I How
contradictory religious beliefs one of another ! What possible ground
of unity can be found for religions as dissimilar as Hinduism,
Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and the various cults of Egypt, of Greece
and of Rome ? Is not the raison d'etre of each great religion, in a
science of comparative religion, to be found in the affirmation of some
truth or truths not held by other systems ? Must not each great
religion, therefore, be dissonant with all other great religions; the
more positive its affirmation, the more strident its discord in the Babel
voices of the soul ? Does, then, the flute or the violin or the clarionet
merely make a discord in the cacophony of the orchestra ? Does not
the master of music blend these variant cries of the iastruments into a
2O0 MODliUN AS1KOLOGY

symphony—a symphony of religions ? The phrase is as scientifically

true as it is poetically fine. For as the golden tides of the music of
the soul beat around the throne of God, all the discords of religions
harmonise in the concord of religion, each truth for which men have
struggled finding its complement in some other truth against which
they have struggled, God thus fulfilling Himself in many ways."

SUNDRY OTHER MATTERS

Facts Wanted
A reader, a clergyman, in sending us some useful data which
appear elsewhere, makes the following remark: "Speculation has
its place in the world, no doubt, but if astrology is at all to be
vindicated, it must be by a publication of FACTS, and again of Facts.
Two years ago I approached the subject with prejudice but since then
the empiric evidence which I have gathered for myself has satisfied
me that this is indeed a science." This gentleman therefore wishes us
to appeal to our readers to send for publication well-attested data from
which we could compile a " monthly column of evidence."
We can assure our reverend friend that we have so much recent
evidence as to the actual truth of Astrology that the idea of offering
it in any form is subject to the question of taking up space which, at
present at all events, cannot be spared. We shall, however, at some
future time give some data for the benefit of students, as there seems
to be a need for this to help them in their practical studies. There are
waiting quite a number of cases in connection with the War, which we
shall publish as soon as the horoscopes have been checked with the
information supplied. In the meantime we are still collecting and
shall be glad to receive any further well attested data our readers will
send us.

Signed Articles
We have recently published several articles by writers who are
not well known to the majority of our readers, some of whom wish to
know if the articles are "authoritative," while a few seem to take it
for granted that we agree with any view that may be expressed.
 THE EDITOU'S OHSERVATORY 201
This is a mistake. Publication of an" article in a magazine does
not necessarily mean endorsement of the views it expresses; writers of
signed articles are alone responsible for the opinions therein contained,
and just so much value should be attached to such expressions of
opinion as the article itself affords evidence for,—and no more. We
welcome all contributions in which matters of common astrological
interest are openly and freely discussed, for truth is reached through
the clashing of opinions, and sameness would mean stagnation. But
if readers are to take as " authoritative " the opinions thus freely
expressed—and usually the less experienced the student the more
confidently he speaks—the very aim we have in view would be
frustrated.
Those of us who have given the most time and thought to
Astrology have naturally been brought into contact with a larger mass
of evidence, of all kinds, than have younger students; and in this way
we htive learned to modify some of our earlier opinions. Others are
bound to reason on their necessarily more limited data, and will
sometimes be led by intuition to a true inference, while sometimes they
will make mistakes. All, however, can contribute something to the
general good, and live minds will be quick to profit by any suggestion
of value.

Earlv Death.—Female child horn at Edinburgh, 5 p.m. fi' Summer "

Time) 28/4/1917 ; died at 6 a.m. 30/4/1917, when by progression ))d :—Bii-th
Figure: x 255, xi SbI2i xii ntjiz, i is.3^, ii =^27, Hi in 27: 0 8 7.47, J) £1,1.42,
?b27.i9, ?«S.25. <TT25-i8, Kb 15-42, 172,24.40, ^^23.20, '-gSlz.q.
Death Figure : x Yj'zi, xi ~ti, xii 3fi6, i 826, ii 1120, iii 056: 0 89-8,
rSli9-57. 8 b28.8, 2810.17, ^<Y'26.25, K b 164. beS24.46, ^~Z3.Z2,
iirS1.2.io. The clergyman who buried the child vouches for the above facts.
Abmokma:, Biktk.—lu cold foggy weather yesterday morning (i.e.
17/12/1916) at six o'clock, Madame Madeleine Pauucci, aged 26, wife of
Monsieur Pierre Orizi, left her home in the Conque valley. She had felt
during the night the first pains of her confinement, and was preparing to go
to the Saint Koch Hospital in order to obtain admission to the maternity
ward, being accompanied by her two young children. On the way, at the
corner of the Boulevard Victor Hugo and the Boulevard Gambetta her
sufferings increased so much that she was obliged to rest on one of the public
seats. Then; she was found by the police who rendered her all the assistance
possible, and went in search of a conveyance. In the meanwhile she gave
birth to two fine youngsters, and was then taken to the Hospital, with the
twins and her other children. —From Le He/it Nicois, 1S/12/T6; (a few days
later it was announced that the twins had died).
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first decanate of the royal sign Leo on August 1st.
What does this great contrast of influence portend ? Is it
 THE CONJUNCTION OF SATURN AND NEPTUNE 203

constructive or destructive, and will it reveal the nature of Neptune in

a more decisive manner than when the world is at peace ? These are
the questions of the hour, and if we suggest a solution of the question
it must be more or less speculatively, rather than as the result of any
actual first-hand experience. Saturn is a planet of realism in practical
affairs and it makes for truth, justice and solidification ; while Neptune
has a vaporous, chaotic and diffusive influence ; therefore two extremes
meet and they either form a new compound or reduce the elements
they represent to a simpler condition.
We have for many years favoured the idea that Neptune
represents the democratic tendencies as against Uranus representing
those that are autocratic. Neptune we consider summarises the
negative influence of all the planets in the same manner as Uranus
summarises their positive influence. Neptune has always seemed to
us to be the guardian angel of the underworld of nature, the subcon-
scious states seeking expression in form that is elusive and instinctive
and more automatic than any other influence. Saturn is on ttie side of
the negative influence in form but the positive in mind or consciousness,
being more determinative and representative of external nature.
At the time of this conjunction the Sun also shares its influence
and gives it life and expression, therefore the combination may have
an influence that is far more potent and remarkable than the conjunc-
tion of Uranus and Jupiter in Aquarius, March 4 1914, just prior to
the war; and students will notice that it takes place in opposition to
that conjunction.
Now although we expected far-reaching results from the conjunc-
tion of Uranus and Jupiter in Aquarius, we were more reticent than
we should have been had we not seen possibilities that at the time
seemed like romance, and we thought it wise not to give expression to
what we thought, but merely to draw attention to the fact that it
affected the Kaiser's horoscope by falling on his Sun, and the late
Austrian Emperor's by falling on his Uranus.
This conjunction of Uranus and Jupiter was highly revolutionary
and affected society through the sign Aquarius in a very pronounced
manner, and we have not yet seen the end of its far-reaching purge.
Is it a coincidence or the fulfilling of a great law, that we should find
the opposite pole of the man sign agitated under the conjunction of
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Neptune and Saturn in the sign Leo, the Lion ? Note the Sun is
with this conjunction, as with the other.
We have given the map of the heavens for this'conjunction, in
order that students may refer to it later on. " Coming events cast
their shadows before."
At the Uranian conjunction Neptune was setting: and at the
Neptunian conjunction Uranus is setting. Both are in the scales!
Aristocrats and Democrats, you are both being weighed in the
balances! The stars incline, they do not compel. Which is it to be,
a new aristocracy or a new democracy ? The old are outworn.
The superficially wise may laugh at Astrology, but as sure as man
is a conscious being the handwriting on the wall of heaven isasplainly
written as the consciousness of any man could desire. In that writing
there is contained a grave warning. In the Spring quarter of the year
1914 the coming of a crisis was denoted by the Uranian conjunction.
In the Summer of 1917 there is a far graver warning in the
Neptunian conjunction. Had the AUTOCRACY of the world in 1914
awakened to the gravity of the crisis when the shadows of the great
Uranian conjunction were cast upon the earth, they could have
averted a shameful and wicked war. Alas! they were fast asleep,
wrapped up in their own cocoon of selfish love of power and wicked
disregard for the suffering and agony of millions of subjects. God's
wrath (e?) is upon them, those whom they enslaved will turn and rend
them. Autocracy as represented by despots has seen its day, and there
is not a reigning monarch to-day who can say he is free to set his will
against the will of God.
God uses Patricians and Plebeians to play their part on the great
world stage, and each man plays his part according to his nature and
his soul's desire. The old order is passing and men have been tested
at either end of the pole. What can we foresee in the shadows of the
coming order ? Saturn is the purifier and carries out the work of the
destroying, or regenerating, angel. Uranus breakes and liberates all
things that have become too rigid to serve their purpose. Saturn
persuades, and tries with pain and suffering to regenerate. The
world is about to undergo much suffering, and in great travail will
the new order be born. Men who were entrusted with power and
failed to study the interests and well-being of those who allowed them
 THE CONJUNCTION OF SATURN AND NEPTUNE 205

to hold that power, will go down with the mummery that aped the
power that could not be wisely used. New men will come upon the
scene and the advent of a new leader may be looked for in the near
future. It must either be the MAN who can lead, or the men and
women collectively who can represent the people and realise that they
too have an equal right to breathe the air of freedom and liberty.
It is a sad picture that we see floating in the shadow of the new
democracy ; liberty unfortunately will be won only after much pain
and suffering. The great heart of Leo will be purged free from the
dross of a selfish will, and the communistic spirit will only be born out
of a sorrowful realization. At no time of the world's history have the
circumstances arising out of these major conjunctions been of such a
nature as to force men to combine for good or ill, and the spirit of
unrest that will torment every person who holds to separated interests
will be so great that in combination only will the remedy for the
suffering be found.
What, then, are we to expect for the shadows of these conjunctions ?
Firstly, Kings and Monarchs, Presidents and high Government
Officials will find their offices untenable, and they will find their
motives regarded as the test for holding those offices in the glare of a
searchlight they have never faced before. The searching rays of
reality will not be confined to one or two nations, but in every nation on
the face of the earth rulers will have to give an account of their
stewardship, power being held no longer as the Divine right of Kings,
but by the right of merit.
Secondly, the peoples of all nations will be moved to see that the
day of the individual is over and the day of the community has
dawned.
Thirdly, a MAN, or a collection of men and women, will arise in a
place unexpected, and by a mandate that will voice the welfare of the
people will strike a note, that will begin the chord of a new era.
Lastly, the shadow of a great teacher is seen by the elevation of
Jupiter, the planet of mercy and expansion of consciousness, over all
the heavenly bodies and in sympathetic aspect to the conjunction at
either end of the fixed air-fire pole of the zodiac, that pole which
seems to exert a dominating influence over Europe at the present
time.
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Let us now turn to the more technical side of the subject.

This is one of the great planetary conjunctions, and it recurs
about every 35 years, the last one having taken place 12/5/ISS2,
4.11 p.m. GMT, in d 16.29. Taurus rules Ireland, and the conjunc-
tion occurred within a week of the Phcenix Park murders; and the
state of that country was very unsettled for years after. If similar
troubles follow on the present occasion, the countries ruled by Leo
and the opposite sign Aquarius may expect to sufifer seriously and
their rulers and governments to be troubled; France, Italy, Russia,
Prussia, Rumania, Sweden.
Districts where the two planets are angular at the time of con-
junction will also be evilly affected. They will rise in Portugal,
Spain, and north west Africa. They will culminate in longitude
100oE, which runs through Sumatra, Siam, and parts of China, Tibet,
and Mongolia ; the ruling powers will be seriously disturbed here,
with danger of political downfalls and disasters. They will set at
Wellington, N.Z., and foreign complications will follow. They will
be on the lower meridian 80°W, at Washington and in the west of
Canada and the United States generally, as well as at Cuba and
Panama; where governments and ruling authorities will be adversely
affected, some political instability or weakness experienced ; danger
through mines, buildings, and the land; scanty crops ; some states-
man personally in danger of loss of position or downfall. An earth-
quake shock is probable in those places where they are ou the upper or
lower meridian.
The transits that are made by these two planets over royal and
other horoscopes are very important. In the case of the German
Emperor they pass over the place of his Saturn and the opposition of
his Sun and are critical in the extreme for him and his empire. The
following includes the most important in his horoscope ;—.T g If Aug
17 ; ■? 8 © Aug 20; <? d Asc Aug 27; '? d '? Sept 4 ; <? 8 © Sept
24; d1 d •? Sept 27. The first of these is important because he has
the direction D d ?r in force at the time; secret movements and
diplomacy very active; treachery to be feared; mental trouble. He
has one good transit, Jupiter stationary near its own place, Sept 30.
Neptune's transits are not quite exact but they are similar to those of
Saturn; ^ stat 8 © Nov 9.
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In the case of King George, Neptune, Saturn and Mars all

transit his progressed Sun and his radical Mars, signifying warlike
movements continued and much political excitement and confusion in
home politics. He also has one good transit, Jupiter stationary on his
Sun, Sept 30. His good direction of Sun parallel Venus measures to
Sept aud promises success and prosperity to the nation.
Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, the Prince of Wales, the King
of Italy, the King of Norway, the Emperor of Austria, and Mr Lloyd
George all share more or less in the evil transits of Neptune, Saturn
and Mars, but space will not permit of full analysis.
* ^ *
A private student writes:—" I quite expect a revolution in Ger-
many and also one in England, I do not know which will come first ;
both seem unlikely and yet are highly probable, if you know what I
mean. Three things are in the shadow just now and to me seem
improbable, and yet they are threatened. First, an invasion of
England round by the French coast. Second, a separate peace made
by Russia. Third, the death of King probably by assassination.
Note the twelfth house position over a considerable area of Europe.
"This combination of Saturn and Neptune is an extreme
influence, much good or much evil; it is the downing of the wasters
whether in high or low circles. When Capricorn and Pisces combine
it means honour afflicted or affliction saved by honour."

ASTROLOGICAL CORRESPONDENCE LESSONS.—Mr Charles

Moreau, of New York, U.S.A., has been awarded the Certificate of Merit.
Mr Charles Lardner Cnrnow has been awarded the Diploma of Merit.
Twins wounded same day.—In thn recent fighting, the twin sons of two
Peterborough families were all wounded on the same day. Privates Arthur
and Walter Stokes were wounded in the right arm and right leg respectively,
while the other twin brothers, PrivatesJ. and H. Fletcher, wereeach wounded
in the left leg.—Daily Express, 14/5/T7.
Monsignor Benson's Horoscope.—B. R. writes : "The birth-time of
R. H. Benson is given in his biography as on p. 145 M.A. May; but in a note,
which contains Benson's own remarks on his judged horoscope, the Moon is
quoted as in Virgo, whereas according to the published dale it should be in
Aquarius. It seems a pity the mistake should be allowed to s-and."
 international ^strologn

Eclipse of the Moon

4/7/1917, 9.40 G.M.T.

X xi xii 3 ii iii
(1) 9 t 27 15 16 = 12 T12 »17
(2) / 21 '■d 9 VS20 H 7 « 4 D 7
(3) V 7 Vj2I ~ r3 T30 a 7 "23
U) 1523 ^23 IT, 16 t 6 V3 8 =: 16
(I) Londoa (2) Berlin (3) retrograd (4) New York
o d ? ? <3 n <1 y v
012.18 1512.i8 233.3 Jio.57 1)14.7 Di.i fti.16 2:23.12 il 3.46
This is a total eclipse of the Moon, partly visible at London and
over a considerable area of Europe and Asia. It falls in the thirteenth
degree and second decanate of Capricorn, and on the cusp of the
twelfth house at London. Its general significance in the zodiac, apart
from any special locality, is trouble to rulers and governments,
differences between the people and their rulers, insecurity of those in
power, unsatisfactory condition of money matters and trade, law and
order relaxed.
At London the map does not appear of prime importance ; there
is danger of secret crime; complaints will be made respecting
charitable funds or institutions and their administration; the labour
world will be unsettled, and the price of food and other commodities
will cause trouble and may embarrass the government, who will not be
very fortunate just now and will be vigorously attacked. The position
of Mars signifies fires in buildings, London is threatened; and as the
planet is in parallel with both the Sun and the Moon a spell of warm
dry weather may reasonably be expected in western Europe, although
it remains to be seen how far the rising Uranus and the conjunctions
of Venus with Saturn and Neptune will have power to modify this.
The latter conjunctions are unfavourable for the interests of
women, and cases of scandal will occur, but employment and public
activities for women will increase; this applies more or less in all
parts.
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In Ireland, Spain and Portugal, Jupiter on the cusp of the fourth

house signifies some improvement in the condition of the people and
the welfare of the country ; but the planets in Leo setting in Ireland
will bring some trouble and disagreement respecting foreign aflairs.
Mars will be on the fourth cusp in 5^° E. longitude, which runs
through Plolland, Belgium and parts of eastern France very close to
the German frontier, and Uranus will be rising in 50° N. latitude.
This looks like the fighting line being pushed eastward in these parts,
and it will be unfortunate for rulers and governments there ; there will
be much incendiarism.
The eclipse falls in the eleventh house at Berlin and Vienna, on
the German Emperor's Mercury, bringing him mental trouble, and in
the mid-heaven of the Emperor of Austria; this will trouble parliaments
and local legislative and executive bodies, causing popular dissatisfaction
in connection with them, and may endanger friendly relations with
allied countries.
It is more or less in the mid-heaven at Petrograd, Constantinople,
Asia Minor, Egypt, and the Balkans, including Athens, and will be
very unfortunate for monarchs and governments.
The eclipse will be in the second house at New York, which will
be unfortunate for money matters and business, heavy expenditure.
Mars and Jupiter both setting provide mixed good and evil influences
in foreign affairs; fighting will be taking place, but success may be
expected from another direction, and either closer friendly relations
with allies or overtures of peace from some quarter abroad.

Eclipse of the Sun

19/7/1917, 3.0 a.m G.M.T.

X XI ^ xn 1 11 in
(0 10 T15 n 2 «za 12 <IS2S Jlz6
U) *24 « 2 ni3 a 24 Si g Si 28
(3) Tli » 27 <010 Si 12 SI26 "P14
(+) /2S V320 ^15 K 25 * S n 6
(>) London (2) Berlin (3) Petrograd (4) New York
01)2 ? J 3/ I? Ill V
J13.I3 JltS.iS 023.3+ D3-48 T. 3-4 0122.46 A+.l?
This is a partial eclipse of the Sun, of magnitude only 0.085, and as
it is visible only in the Anarctic regions it is not likely to be of more
210 MODERN ASTROLOGY

importance elsewhere than an ordinary New Moon. There are many

possibilities of misfortune for most parts of the world, because Sun,
Moon, Saturn, Mercury and Neptune are all within orbs of a
conjunction. Great Britain and the whole of Europe will suffer more
or less from this. At London the planets fall in the second house,
causing trouble in money matters, business, taxation and financial
affairs generally, not merely in their national but also their inter-
national bearings ; employment, wages, pensions and foreign loans and
investments are all likely to prove troublesome questions and threaten
loss or heavy outgoings; the lesson of economy will be enforced and
probably food and other regulations extended ; but the position of the
luminaries will give earning power and success. Activities and
inventions connected with the air service will be especially to the
fore.
The indications are somewhat similar at Berlin, but the rising
luminaries will give strength to the country, and with Venus in the
second house the financial prospects are not yet at their worst
although the other influences are very bad.
The triple conjunction of Saturn, Mercury and Neptune falls as
under in the horoscopes mentioned; it is unfortunate in all, but
especially so with the German Emperor.
King George a rf Eup. Austria
,, Norway rf 5 ly ,. Gukmanv
D. Llovu George s Asc, i
At Petrograd Venus will rise, bringing a wave of success and
prosperity, but there is danger of plots, treachery, treason, and crime
against the state.
At New York the satellitium falls in the fifth house, with Mars
on the cusp of the fourth ; trouble to the President and government,
his opponents may score against him ; death of some person eminent
in the nation ; danger of an attack on some prominent person ; fires
in houses and on railways; legislative bodies troubled and very
unfortunate; stocks, shares and speculative investments insecure and
causing heavy losses.
Saturn, Mercury, and Neptune will rise in south-east Russia,
Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, bringing much trouble and confusion-
there for the nations concerned.
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CONCERNING COMETS

The following letter is one of several we have received about the last
visible comet:—
Dear Sir,
Can you give me any information about the Comet now in the
Heavens ? and is it true that its tail hits the Earth in about 90 days ? If so
surely there is a probability of most of, if not all, the world being blown up
and one way of ending this ghastly slaughter, called Modern War !
Yours faithfully,
21/4/17. G. D
From the Chaldeans, who were past masters in the study of the heavens,
we learn that comets, known to them as " travellers," have a very extensive
orbit which penetrate into the most distant celestial space, and although
they were considered to be the first manifestation of fire, or essence of the
eternal substance, they were never considered harmful or injurious, on the
other hand they were regarded as harmless and more beneficial to the atmos-
pheres they passed through than otherwise. The theory that the passing of
the earth through Halley's, or any other, comet's tail is inimical has never
been held by astrologers so far as we are aware ; it is true that many people,
have dreaded the appearance of comets at various times, but considering the
extreme tenuity of a comet's tail, and the refined gases of which it is com-
posed, it is more likely to be adversely affected by our influence than to
poison our earth atmosphere. The chemical constitution of a comet's tail is
highly complex and undergoes many transformations. All comets within
our own solar system are attracted by the Sun and appear to undergo a
change, some behaving quite differently to others, probably owing to a
process of attraction and repulsion that we do not understand. There have
been many comets of various kinds, some with tails and some without, and
they have coincided with important events; but we believe that like the
fixed stars they have no appreciable effect upon the individual inhabitants of
our globe.
We therefore think that our correspondent has no cause for alarm but
rather of wonder at the great expanse of the Celestial World.
Kepler, who was an astrologer as well as an astronomer, published a
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treatise on comets in 1619, aad ociieved that comets were bodies which
moved in straight lines and that after having passed the Earth they receded
indefinitely into space, Wc have since learned that some comets reappear,
Halley's for instance, whose reappearance has been accurately predicted, and
we now know that Jupiter has quite family of comets, as have also Saturn,
Uranus and Neptune which are spoken of as " captures " as the result of
their attraction.
Modern Astronomy has discovered a great deal concerning the behaviour
of Comets, and their wanderings, and the spectroscope has also done much
to reveal the nature of their fails, which are mostly made up of hydrogen and
carbon. It is said that because interstellar space is airless the carbon in the
tail of a comet cannot burn and so it trails after the comet in the form of a
very fine dust. The following are the positions of three recent comets :—
Comet 1915 n (Hellish)
R.A, Dec! Long
Feb 2 74° 47' 420 29'N n 180 8'
10 74 13 42 16 17 40
'3 73 56 42 4 17 2O
26 73 5' 41 32 17 19
Wolf's Comet (1916 b)
R.A. Dec) Long
Feb L 256° 44' 5° "S'S t 15° 7'
9 260 59 4 25 20 32
17 205 21 3 34 25 4
25 269 50 2 31 29 49
March 5 274 23 ■ 25 19 4 44
"3 279 2 0 12N 9 51
Comet 1917 <1 (Mcllish)
R.A. Declin Long.
March 28 30° 32' 17° C'N 8 4° 21'
30 29 22 17 3S 3 4°
April i- 27 44 17 58 2 8
3 25 27 <7 59 0 6

THE PLANETOIDS.

While on the subject of Comets we are reminded of a request that has

been made for a table of the Planetoids. The existence of the Planetoids
we believe was first suspected by Kepler in his " Mysterimn Cosmograpbicum "
(J59b)i but it was not for two centuries later that a careful search was made
by the " celestial police " for planetary bodies circulating between the orbits
of Mars and Jupiter. The first to be discovered was Ceres, then came
Pallas, Juno, and Vesta. For many years these were known as the four
asteroids but since then many others have been discovered and the number
 ODITl;K DICTA 213
of these little planets is now many hundred. Of them all Eros is the most
peculiar, his orbit passiii;; inside the path of Mars.
An ephemeris of the planetoids (or " minor planets " as they are generally
(termed by astronomers) has been published, but we have neither seen or
heard of one since the year 1891.

"AN EXAMPLE IN RECTIFICATION"

(sei p. 140 of May issue)
A couRiisnosoENT in Edinburgh wrote informing us that, as since
January r 1855 birth-times have been recorded, it would be possible to
obtain the birth-times from the Register House in Edinburgh, by consulting
the record for a small fee, and he offered to loolc up the time if we wished.
The native's consent having been obtained, this was done, and it turns out
that the birth is recorded as having taken place at 7 a.m. From which it
follows that all three rectifications were equally at fault so far as the actual
birth-time is concerned.
We have frequently expressed the opinion where the day only is given, and
the hour is not even approximately known, it is" useless to expect a reliable
nativity by rectification. Here are three different workers, and three
different results, and all of them wrong. Had there been six workers, it is
quite safe to predicate that there would have been six different results.
As we have often said, an arc of some kind or other can be found to fit
any event (see the example quoted from Zadldel I. on p. 101 of Casting the
Horoscope), and generally if a certain agreement is found between (we or
three events and two or three arcs, the rectification is accepted as satisfactory.
In most cases there is no court of appeal; practitioners may differ, and if
they wish to do so may safely sneer at each other's work, for there is no one
to say them nay.
In this case it is different, and we are grateful to our correspondent for
having brought the matter to an issue in this way. Students have now the
opportunity of rectifying the map iu the light of the recorded birth-time.
The stated time, taken as G.M.T., makes the ascendant $(,24.15.
The native himself writes :—" So far as I can certify, the time is as near
correct as it was possible for me to obtain in after years. Personally I think
it satisfactory, and it endorses what I had already written—neither yourselves
nor the Journal of Astrology were correct."

Correspondence Lessons.—"Thank you very much for your corrections

and remarks, which are always most helpful and illuminating."
G. M. G. (H'orfltitig)
 Ileptunc anil t[j£ ihia (Era

During 1913 I spent a great deal of time in collaboration with a

friend, investigating the nature of Neptune and its influence on the
new era. Some of the impressions we obtained are vaguely hinted at
in the book published last autumn,1 and while it was being written,
Mr Sutcliffe's series of articles began to appear in MODERN ASTRO-
LOGY. Now although Mr SutclifTe's investigations are of a different
kind to ours, it is yet evident that they come from a similar source,
and the two fit in together. For instance the basic idea of his articles
is that Neptune is the dominant planetary influence of the New Era now
being born, which is the same idea which we got in 1913 : we are also
in agreement on the point that Neptune is the physical planet of the
Planetary Logos who presides over the second Ray. But from these
points our investigations run along parallel lines which generally
confirm and supplement each other.
It is impossible to make public more than a small portion of our
impressions, and even these will probably be received by many with
scepticism or doubt ; but there will be a few thoughtful students who
will read them with an open mind and may be able to confirm some of
the statements from private knowledge.
Before dealing with these matters however, it is necessary to
analyse the influence of Neptune in the horoscope of the individual.
In Fresh Sidelights I dealt at some length with the two sides of
the Neptunian influence, shewing the depths to which this great
Spiritual Force could be perverted and dragged down, on the principle
of "the higher the mountain, the deeper its reflection in water, i.e. the
astral": and readers must fully grasp all the possibilities implied in
this statement before they can hope to understand the method along
which this influence works. It is a fact that as the race is at present
very unevolved, there are very few persons indeed who can respond to
its higher side at all fully ; consequently the generally accepted ideas
1
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free. is. gd.
 NEPTUNE ANU THE NEW ERA 215
about Neptune being a malefic, and its influence producing homo-
sexuality and similar vices is perfectly correct as far as it goes, but it
is only the lower or perverted side, the muddy bottom of the lake in
which the lotus takes its root. - The real Neptunians are those old
souls whom Mr Sutcliffe referred to in one of his recent articles in
the Theosophist, those "who have been through great tribulation,"
who have had the courage to fathom the depths of all sex experience
in the past, and who have paid for that experience by being scorched
in the flames of " hell," both physical and astral, until the results of
those experiences have been fairly burnt into their permanent atoms.
The reward however comes in strength and wisdom of a kind which
cannot be obtained on any other line.
Neptune, as I have said before, is a synthesis of all the other
planets4; but I have only lately realised what a large share of Saturn
it contains. In the earliest stages it represents an "undertone"—if
one may coin such an expression—of the - ^ influence applied to
sensuality, and of the 5* - f? influence with reference to trickery,
astuteness, and Machiavellian cunning.
At this stage there appear to be two kinds of Neptunians, the
positive and the negative. The latter, who are generally in female
bodies, are very mediumistic, have no initiative of their own and no
morals, and are used by positive Neptunians in male bodies for their
own purposes. It seems more than probable that in ancient Chaldsea,
thousands of years ago, the temple of Neptune was degraded by a form
of black magic carried on by clever and unscrupulous priests who were
evolving along this particular line. The negative kind simply drift
along more or less apathetically ; the positive kind however, dragging
in a perverted form of the Uranian influence, have indomitable will
power and are sometimes cruel, which the negative kind never are.
Cleopatra is one of the best known types of a Neptunian who
though in a female body had much of the positive Uranian quality.
Her absence of any moral sense, her political astuteness in twisting
first Cmsar and then Mark Antony round her little finger, her " affaires "
with each in turn, her sensuous love of luxury and excess as shewn in
the pearl incident, and finally her capacity for " letting people down,"
1
Ibid. p. 29.
215 MODEKN ASTROLOGY

as shewn by her desertion of Mark Antony during the naval battle.

Another more modern example, and one of the political rather than
the sensual type, is Catherine de Medicis.
Here it may be remarked parenthetically that the negative type
appear to be less abnormal in their sex instincts than the positive—
possibly because sensual attraction to the same sex is usually con-
nected by astrologers with the aspect ^ d 9. This makes one
wonder whether the Uranian experiences are only probed by those
Monads who are out to develop power of a particular kind; and if so
what is the occult reason for it ?
Now, how is the necessary transmutation to be acquired in
subsequent lives ? What are the planetary ingredients that are
thrown in to precipitate this mixture?
It appears that the necessary preliminary to responding to the
higher side of Neptune is the blending of Saturn and Jupiter. It has
already been shewn8 how the parallel or conjunction of these two
planets may lead to Jupiter transmuting the coldness and selfishness
of Saturn. The converse is equally true. The restraining, contracting
influence of Saturn limits and checks the outrushing expansiveness of
Jupiter and Mars, which heat the soul to a white heat of fervour,
passion, and a desire to embrace or contact everybody : then down
comes the chilling, contracting Saturn like cold water on white hot
steel, to temper it. The process is painful, but out of repeated
experiences grows strength. For a time Saturn has to form a
protecting shell round the emotional or astral vehicle, and this shell or
scaffolding has to be gradually absorbed. Just as the green of Saturn
absorbs the red of Mars, so is it in turn absorbed into the indigo of
Neptune.
The aura of the astral body of the evolved Neptunian, when seen
clairvoyantly, is chiefly a deep rich indigo shot with pale translucent
green. When the Uranian influence is beginning to be superimposed,
streaks of glorious violet or mauve shew out as well. In the centre of
the aura is a globe of pale golden light, which is connected astro-
logically with the Sun. The whole appearance is like a robe of shot
silk, the green only shewing in certain lights as it were.

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We must now turn to the influence of Neptune in the world as a

whole. Quite apart from the map for the Solar Eclipse of Dec 1899
on which Mr Sutcliffe has built up his elaborate and fascinating theory,
there is another map (to which he has also referred) which is of
immense importance but which has not received the attention it
deserves—the horoscope for the Solar Eclipse of Jan 11 1910.4
In this map Uranus, representing Spirituality, Power, Authority,
etc. is in close conjunction with the luminaries in the M.C.; Neptune
is at the foot of the cross in close opposition to them, while Saturn the
planet of conventionality and orthodoxy in religion, politics and social
affairs is in the sign of its fall and afflicted both by the conjunction of
Mars the War Lord and by the squares of Neptune, Uranus and the
luminaries! (Surely a significant omen of the breaking-up of existing
orthodox customs through the war—and other causes). But the most
significant thing is the position of Neptune as described; and we take
this to mean that neither Spiritual Enlightenment nor temporal power
can be manifested in the iulurc except ihrotigh Neptuiiiati methods
and ways of working.
But what are Neptunian methods ?
A writer has somewhere suggested that the Theosophical Society
represents the world in miniature, and we think that possibly the
Occult Hierarchy use the Society as a testing ground to some extent—
perhaps we might almost say for experimental purposes. So if we
examine some of the events in the Society since 1910 we may get a
clue. The period 1907-12 was one of great activity. Mrs Besant and
Mr Leadbeater both published a great many books, and more occult
information was made public during this period than ever before. At
the same time the Order of the Star in the East was founded, and so
little secrecy was preserved that a rumour was soon spread broadcast
professing to indicate the actual physical body which would be used by
the World Teacher when he came.
All this is what may be termed the Uranian method of "giving
out" publicly, and expecting people to listen and obey; but the

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essentials for its success are Saturnian purity and obedience combined
with Martial devotion, on the part of the people appealed to.
At the same time plans were made for reforming the political
situation along Uranian lines, which included amongst other things
the increase of the power of royalty in all countries, so that it might
be made possible for advanced egos to incarnate as kings and lead the
nations along the old conventional lines of Jupiter and Saturn.
An astral appeal on a gigantic scale was made to the people of
England to accept a Uranian king, but it proved a failure; the people
refused (astrally) to have it at any price, and held for an extension of
democracy. At the same time the Uranian methods in the T.S.
began to prove a failure, owing to the deficiency of the qualities above
mentioned which were indispensable to success. The devotion was
there to a certain extent, but it was of the wrong kind, the perverted
sort which seeks to worship a personal leader: the capacity to obey
was either replaced by criticism and rebelliousness, or else led to an
entire absence of initiative and intuition, so that people were afraid to
trust to their own inner dictates or to dreams or impressions of their
own, and it became a conventional dogma that nothing was to be
accepted unless it had been "conlirmed " by one of the leaders!
Thus we see that coincident with the breaking out of the first
Balkan war, the plans of the Hierarchy for using the Uranian influence
failed. But a substitute was ready. A new influence began to
descend ; sent down apparently by the Logos of the Solar System—
an influence which was so subtle and evasive, so difficult to understand
and to use, that even Great Ones were unable to see clearly the way
in which it would work. This was the influence of Neptune.
C. G. M. Adam
(To be continued.)

RAIN FORECASTS.—It is to be regretted that Mr G. E. Sutcliffe has given

up forecasting the rain/all of the S. W. monsoon, as his last attempt was very
successful. May his forecasts of the viar be as accurate. (336)
This observation, dated from Bombay, should have been addressed to
the Times of India where, we believe, these forecasts used to appear.
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By G. E. Sutcliffe,

Author of "The Foundations of Physical Astrology"

VI.—The Strategy of the Hierarchy

and the Cross of Matter

(Continued from p. 181)

The Two Thieves

The planets are bisexual; and therefore when man became

unisexual, he could only respond to a portion of their influence : hence
for him the planets changed their nature and became unisexual, the
Venus column female and the Mars column male; (p. 155 May). If
the middle column, 0-5-1), represents man, we then have man as the
Christos crucified between two thieves; for column 1, 'j'-lf-?, the
repentant thief, has stolen the female elements from column 3, and
column 3, W -, the unrepentant thief, has stolen the male elements
from column 1, and animal man is being torn asunder in the agonies
of crucifixion. This is humanity ruled by the stars. There is no
relief from these agonies so long as the lives of men and women are
dominated by their lower principles, for these are unisexual. Relief
will come from the heart of Virgo, and not from the sting of Scorpio.
The airy sign of Libra will restore the equilibrium which neither the
earthy womb of Virgo, nor the watery passions of Scorpio are compe-
tent to give. The equilibrium is on the mental plane where the ego is
sexless, and not on the astral and physical planes, where sex is
dominant. Virgo-Scorpio must collapse into Libra, and become a
single sign, and in place of twelve, the signs of man's zodiac must be
ten.
220 MoUliUN ASTMOVOtiV

The Rose and Cross

The rose of love and purity must lie on the heart of virgin man,
and be pierced from within, and his lower nature will be washed in the
blood of the heart. From the Rose and Cross, the symbol of the
Master Jesus, springs the fountain of blood (Buddhi) which cleanseth
from all sin. When this is accomplished man has no longer written
.on his forehead the mark of the beast: Rev. xiii 16. The Christ
triumphant ascends to heaven and rules his stars. The seven planets
and ten signs, are brought to earth aud become his footstool. The
beast with seven heads and ten horns is cast out of heaven, " neither
is their place found any more in heaven ": Rev. xii 8.
" And he said unto me, these are they which came out of great
tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the
blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God,
and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the
throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more ; neither
thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and
shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes": Rev. vii 14-17.
" Before the eyes can see they must be incapable of tears.'
Before the ear can hear it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before
he voice can speak in the presence of the Masters, it must have lost
its power to wound. Before the soul can stand in the presence of the
Masters, its feet must be washed in the blood of the heart": Light
on the Path.

The Mark of the Beast

It is the beast with two horns, Virgo-Scorpio as separated signs,
that puts his mark on the right hand and forehead of humanity:
Rev. xiii 11. The right hand and forehead probably represent the
activities and thoughts of men. It is these two additional signs that
throw our zodiac into disorder, for our ten planets have then to be
distributed into twelve houses, which is like trying to fit the five
corners of a pentagon into the six corners of a hexagon. Only one of
the corners can be made to fit at a time, and the other four, the lower
 THE GKEAT VVAK 22 [

quaternary, are out of aspect, making the lower nature out of

harmony with the system, and reducing it to a condition of continuous
jangle and jar. " For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins,
which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit
unto death. For I delight in the law of God after the inward
man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the
law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin
which is in my members. O wretched man that I am ! who shall
deliver me from the body of this death ?"—Rom. vii 5, 22-2:l-.
It is the beast with two horns that exercises the power of the
beast with seven heads .and ten horns, (Rev. xiii 1.2), for it is these
extra two horns, Virgo-Scorpio, that accomplish all the mischief; they
are Pandora's Box, the fatal gift of Jupiter. The head of the ten-
horned beast that is wounded and healed, (ib. verse 3) is probably the
planet Neptune, the Ray of the Divine Hermaphrodite, the Silent
Watcher, who is called the Great Sacrifice.
" He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him ; he was
despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs,
and carried our sorrows : yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted. But he was wounded for our trangressions, he was bruised
for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him ; and
with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on
him the iniquity of us all " : Isaiah liii 3-6.

The Number of the Beast

In the authentic letter from a Master it is written. " Karma and
evolution have :
" . centred iu our make such strange extremes,
From different Natures marvellously mixed." . .
These different Natures being imparted to us by the seven Hierarchies
associated with the planetary Logoi: S.D. i 211. The division of the
sexes threw these natures into temporary disorder, and by the efforts
of humanity to restore order amongst them its evolution has been
much accelerated.
222 MODERN ASTHOf.OGV

" Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the
number of the beast: for it is the number of a man : and his number
is six hundred three score and six " : Rev. xiii 18.
The number of the beast, 666, may be associated with the advice
of a Master :—"Try to solve the problem of 777 incarnations.
Though I am obliged to withhold information, yet if you
should work out the problem by yourself, it will be my duty to tell
you so " : S.D. i 191.
These 777 incarnations do not refer apparently to the number of
individual incarnations, but to the number of incarnations of the root-
races of humanity. There are seven root-races in a globe, seven
globes in a round, and seven rounds in a chain. Hence the total
number of race incarnations in the whole manvantara is
7X7X7 = 343
which translated from our ordinary decimal notation into an occult
septennial form might be written-777, or 78, in the same way as in
algebra the product hbb = 63.
We have seen that the seven planets are supplemented on higher
planes by three other planets, making a total of ten. Now by the law
of analogy or the occult rule of guidance, "as above so below," we
can infer that after seven incarnations of the root-races under the
Root-Manu, there are three more stages of development in the higher
realms of nature, which are under the control of theSeed-Manu, making
a total of ten incarnations of the root-races for each globe. Similarly
the seven globes may be supplemented by three higher globes, during
the pralaya between the rounds, and the seven rounds by three other
rounds during the larger pralayas between the chains. Thus the 777
incarnations in the occult septennial form may be also true in the
decimal notation, when ten, the complete number, is properly applied.
The number of the beast 666 apparently refers to a particular
characteristic of the sixth round, the sixth globe, and the sixth root-
race. For at all these stages in the evolution of humanity the sexes
are conjoined in the same individual, and man is bisexual—as in the
early part of the third root-race. He is no longer crucified on the
cross of matter. He has finished with the lower orders of Masonry,
the Planetary Builders, and has become a Rosicrucian. He is no
longer "on the square."
 THE GKEAT WAR

Are you on the square ? asks one member of a secret society to

another. But how many members of the craft know the esoteric
significance of the question, and how many if they know the meaning
would be able truthfully to give an affirmative answer? Are you
crucifying your lower nature on the square of matter, and carefully
subduing it so that you can become the Christ Triumphant, the
Rosicrucian ? Are you conquering the human beast with seven
heads and ten horns ? Are you trying to rule your stars ? Are you
evolving your lower nature on the central cross of matter into the
-harmony of the interlaced triangles of the Royal Arch ?

Atxhemical Symbolism
There is a copy of an old MS. which claims to be of the year
1374, that mentions the " Fraternitas Rosae Crucis," and it was in
the year 1378 that the beginning of the Fraternity was attributed to
Christian Rosenkreutz. This was the beginning of Alchemical
Symbolism amongst the secret societies of the middle ages. One of
these symbols of about that time is a structure having three porches
in the form of an alchemical furnace, similar to those of Nicholas
Flame) the alchemist. One of the porches has the Sun on one side,
and the full Moon on the other, and on the Moon is a crown of thorns.
On another portal is a fruit tree with branches of roses at its foot, and
on the third portal is a branch of a tree representing Mercury. We
thus have our planetary triplet the Sun, Moon, and Mercury, repre-
senting the crucified Christos. Alchemically the Sun h.nd Moon
signify gold and silver. The Syrian Mysteries of Adonis represented
the slain Gal, (the Moon), as changed by Venus into a red rose ; and
Theodoratus, Bishop of Cyprus, asserts that the Gnostics deemed Ros
to be a symbol of the Saviour. The Egyptians considered the rose
as a symbol of regeneration and love, and as the Latin word Rosa is
derived from Ros, the dew, it has a relation with baptism; hence the
rose-tree in Christian symbolism is the image of the regenerated,
whilst dew is the symbol of regeneration. In the Crypt of St. Sibald's
in Nuremberg, is a double triangle, interlaced with a circle within
which-is a rose : see The Arcane Schools, J. Yarker, pp. 205-7.
(To be continued)
224

THE LEO (SU COT AND THE NEW ARIES (T) COT
With pleasure and gratitude we have to inform our readers that the
Leo (Sh) Cot, (see February issue), is now " un fait accompli," and we give
below a list of the subscribers' names and the amounts subscribed by them.
We have done so well indeed, that we have subscribed £z beyond the amount
needed for the Leo (Sb) Cot, and with this we start another Cot, which we
propose to name the Aries (T) Cot, and we would ask our Aries friends to
act up to the generous instincts of their sign, and make it possible for another
child who has lost one parent or both to enjoy the benefits and privileges of
the new Co-educational School at Highland Road, Bromley, Kent, opened a
few days ago, on May 29th.
The boy who is chosen for the Leo Cot is Leo A. Wallace Robinson,
a little life vegetarian, who was born August 9th, 1911, at 6.20 a.m., London,
and lost his mother a year ago. It is a curious coincidence that his name is
Leo, and that the Sun was in the sign Leo at his birth, so that this child
appears to us, to be in every respect, the rigid child.
Leo Robinson's horoscope shows him to be a very bright child
intellectually, and possessing an immense will power; he certainly is no
weakling, and when he enters the school, his horoscope, freely cast and
delineated by Mr Leo, will be sent to his teachers for their help in his
education and general upbrioging.
We trust he will bring honour to the school, and will grow up to be a
worthy citiaen and a valiant worker on Humanitarian and (rue Brotherhood
lines.
Our next task is to get an Aries Cot, and we ask intending subscribers to
send in their subscriptions with as much dispatch as possible, so that their
zodiacal sign may be represented at the new school.
List of sudscuibeks to the Leo (Sb) Cot
£ 5. d. £ S. d.
Mr and Mrs Alan Leo 4 0 0 Brought Forward 1 r ^5 0
F. Thoresby. Esq. 5 0 0 Mrs W. M. Scott TO 0
Miss B. de Normann 5 0 Mr W. A. Richards 5 0 0
Mrs M. J. Taylor • •a 10 0 Astrological Society 5 15 0
Miss E. E. Dickinson X 0 0 Mr M. Wynter Robinson 1 0 0
Mrs C. W. F. Gray 0 0 Secretary of Leo Cot 1 0 0
II *5 0 25 0 0

List of Subscribers to the Aries (T) Cot

£ s. d. £ s. d.
Mr and Mrs Alan Leo 1 0 0 MrsG. F. Hird... I 0 0
Secretary of Leo (Sb) and Aries (T) Cots.
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Seven and twenty years have passed since our magaaine, dearly
loved by many, was launched into a materialistic world as an
independent vehicle for the conveyance of thoughts astrological around
the globe; and although the transport facilities of the G.P.O. were
known to be extensive we did not anticipate this benefit to be so far
reaching as it has proved in conveying our ideas to the very distant
places they were destined lo reach.
As the recorders of new thought astrologic, we looked upon the
first issue of The Astrologer's Magazine as a sensitive tendril of our
own opinion as to what astrology is, and not what it is represented to
be. As an indication of our ideas in these days we now reprint the
Introduction that accompanied our first issue of this Magazine in the
month of August 1890.
226 MODKKN ASTKOI.OGY

INTRODUCTION.
To deny the influence of the Stars is to deny the wisdom and providence of God.
—Tvcho Braiie.
In introducing a magazine on (he most ancient of all sciences, viz.
Astrology, to the thinking portion of the community, we do not consider any
apology for doing so is needed. People nowadays, who desire truth, are
not satisfied with mere assertion, but require evidence in confirmation of any
statements or doctrines that may be adduced. As regards Astrology, it will
be both our duty and pleasure to give proof of what we assert, as we have
by personal experience and close examination satisfied ourselves in every
particular of the truth of the science. There are, unfortunately, on this
planet we inhabit, numbers of people who expect from astrologers what they
expect from no one else, viz. Infallibility, forgetting that " to err is human,"
and that even the most talented in every department of life make mistakes,
and although errors are made by those who profess to thoroughly understand
its intricacies (and who in reality have hardly mastered its rudiments), it is
not the fault of the science, which in itself is perfect, its principles being
strictly mathematical. Take the art of medicine for example, the ignorance
of the quack is proverbial, and his nostrums seldom if ever make any great
cures, yet the art of medicine properly admiuisterod docs. Again, the
doctrines practised and taught by Jesus Christ are far different to those
practised and taught by our so-called " spiritual pastors and masters," and
yet bow perfect His doctrines are. Holy Writ again and again bears witness
to the truth of Astrology. We read in Genesis i. 14, that God said : " Let
there be lights . . . and let them be for signs," etc. By means of
a star the Eastern Astrologers were guided to where the infant Jesus was
born. Jesus himself alluded to the influence of the heavenly bodies; [vide
Luke xxi, 11-25). "Great earthquakes shall be in divers places, famines,
and pestilences, fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven ;
and there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars," which
were fulfilled at the destruction of Jerusalem ; and in the oldest book of the
Bible, Job, God said, " Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades,
or loose the bands of Orion I "
Were the science a fanciful one, it would never have had the support of
giant intellects like jEscbylus, Virgil, Horace, Homer, Chaucer, Dante,
Milton, Dryden, Schiller, Byron, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, Bulwer
Lytton, Longfellow, and hosts of others; and we shall in our pages give
extracts from their writings where they in unmistakable language testify to
the truth of Astrology. It will be our aim to thoroughly explain every
branch of the science from the rudiments to the highest branches of it,
 THE EDITOR'S observatory 227
giving horoscopes of the most eminent men and women of the present and
past centuries to prove the various points which arise, and as works on the
science are both scarce and expensive, we shall give extracts from them,
and where we find from experience their statements are unworthy of credence,
we shall say so, and give our reasons.
Students who are advanced in the science will not he forgotten, for a
portion of our space will be set apart for them, and useful information will
begiven from the Editor's note-book, that will assist them in their studies;
and to those who are commencing the study of Astrology, every step will be
clearly explained, so that they may not have obstacles to encounter.
Astrologers of experience, both English and foreign, have been asked to
contribute to these pages, and by unitedfeffort we hope to place the science
of Astrology upon a sound basis, and weed it from the errors that have crept
into it during many centuries.

In this introduction we made the claim for astrology that it was

the most ancient of all sciences, using the word science in its true
meaning as KNOWLEDGE. And after many years we still hold that
the ancient science of astrology is a far greater system of knowledge
than modern astrology so far has been able to interpret. At no time,
either before or since we gave public expression to these thoughts,
have we considered astrology to be merely a method of divination, as
so many of our contemporaries have—rather by implication than by
express statement—declared.

The Yoga of Astrology

We have always held the belief that there is a yoga of Astrology
by which its votaries are assisted to find a path to union with those
spiritual intelligences who are engaged in the governance of the
world. Through the yoga of concentration upon the higher aspects
of Astrology we may understand something of the Grand Man of the
Heavens—Adam Kadmon—and follow his reflection in the human
aspect of the self that is subject to a predestined evolution through
nature and time and space.
The Wise Men of the east saw the Star of the dual man in the
heavens, and on earth ; now symbolised in the Christian faith as Jesus
the man, and Christ the spirit, who is both the descending and
ascending centre round which the human family of each race is
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

steadily but surely revolving. The wise men were the astrologers
of ancient days who knew that humanity is at all times made up of
individuals, representing the diversities and infinite possibilities of
expression in nature" and experience, who are destined to become the
complete and organised body with the Christ life as the centre or the
heart through which all life and light must flow. They saw his star;
and this star is ever shining for us all.
Through the ancient science of Astrology we realize the oneness
of all the religious systems of the world, each under its own star, and
apparently most suitable in its peculiar influence for the race and
period over which it rules, being the prototype, through the Manu, of
what it is to be. In every cycle of the world's history (and astrology
is more closely connected with history than any other science), the
Great Star angels spread their protecting wings of wisdom and
compassion which embrace each individual as he comes more and
more en rapport with the divine essence which flows through them
as representatives of the star to which he belongs.
In the life principle, which is common to all, the Sun is the
heart of the universe, giving the vital energy that is transforming the
mineral, vegetable and animal life, and in man this life principle
provides all the wondrous diversities of nature and character we find
so faithfully depicted in our Solar delineations.
In the zodiac, the most ancient picture gallery of the world's
history, are all the prototypes of everything that mttst be, and reflected
in all the manifested lives of the natural world are the miniature copies
of the great archetypal zodiac, the true representative of Adam
Kadmon, the grand MAN of the heavens.
We have often wondered during the |past twenty-seven years how
many students there are, in addition to the many hundreds we know
of, who realize the true significance of the ideas that are concealed
behind the symbols of astrology ; and how far they are aware of the
inseparable links that bind each individual of the human family to the
father star.
It matters not whether, through our physical heredity, we belong
to the Christ, Krishna, or Buddha, the truth remains that the WISE
MEN, of East or West, have seen his Star rising in the East, and many
students of occultism and mysticism are now watching and waiting for
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 229

its culmination. The spirit has mcved, and is moving, over the face
of the earth, and it is disturbing all who have not found the peace
which comes with the true knowledge that God's law rules the worlds.
We began our connection with this magazine with a firm belief
in the theories of karma and reincarnation, and, with every year that
has passed, this belief has gained in strength by actual experience
until now it is an unshakeable conviction, so much so that to us
Astrology without those conceptions is utterly meaningless and value-
less, useful only as a means of divination.

Why Reincarnation is Necessary to Astrology

In the Astrological Institute that was formed of nearly one

hundred members who believe in the yoga of astrology, we have from
time to time question papers for members to use for improving their
knowledge of astrology, and on the last question paper issued, the
following was question No 7; Can yon give a satisfactory reason
as to why the theory of reincarnation is necessary to a real
understanding of astrology ?
The most simple answer, received from one of the teachers of an
elementary class, was as follows :
" The theory of reincarnation is necessary to the right under-
standing of astrology, because this theory is the only one that throws
any satisfactory light on the horoscope, and the only one that is able
to give a rational interpretation of it.
" Without this theory the horoscope must represent absolute
fatalism. By that I mean that if each horoscope has to be taken as
complete and final, with no past behind it and no future in front of it,
we are forced to accept it as the result of the Will of an arbitrary
Deity who metes out good and ill to his creatures according to his
good pleasure. There is no other alternative. And small wonder,
then, if those to whom the cup of suffering is offered are consistent
enough to rebel and call such a God cruel.
" A horoscope considered like this is not logical, it has no
beginning and no end. It is like a chapter taken out of a story and
read without the context. It may relate a stirring event or recount a
passing incident or what not, but it has no real meaning read alone.
 230 MODERN ASTROLOGY

" But if we consider the horoscope as only the small part of a

large whole, and the direct result of the past, then it becomes intelligible.
Ifallthatis good in it, and all that is the reverse, are considered entirely
in the light of the reaping of a past sowing for a future harvest, then
we are satisfied that law and order and not an arbitrary will are
responsible for our destiny. And with this larger view in mind, the
intuitive brain will read between the lines and understand something
of the 'whence come and whither ending,' and know that it is true that
here we have no abiding city."

A very simple statement, and yet a most reasonable explanation;

and as only one out of nearly a hundred on the same lines, is it any
wonder that we persist in believing that astrology has a great future
ahead as a method of teaching the world ?

To whom Valueless and to whom Priceless

The knowledge of astrology may be of little use to the saintly in
this life, but it is of inestimable value to those who are freeing
themselves from avarice, worldly ambition, and sensuality, and find no
place where the enquiring mind can be satisfied as to why they have
fallen under the control of a selfish mind. Astrology is of no value to
those who alternate between the religious penitential feelings and
the amenities or superficialities of social life, but it speaks with truth
and clearness to him who has sufficient intellect to believe that as a
man sows he shall reap,and who,asking nofavourof external aids, finds
within himself the path that leads from the senses through the soul to
the Stars, "whose very essence he finds in his own nature ready for
the' transmutation through which he shall rise on his dead self to
higher things.
Astrology will not afford any weapon to weaken ritual or
ceremony, neither will it " side-track " any theosophist in his search
for God, but it will reveal the methods by which the emotional instinct
may be turned to intuition, and the narrowness of the intellectual
scientist and religionist be changed into scientific imagination and a
religious conviction in the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood
of God. During the past twenty-seven years we have been
criticised on all sides, from a column-and-a-half leader full of ridicule.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 231

that did not kill, in a daily newspaper published in Fleet Street, to a

sitting in the Mansion House before a city magistrate. We have now
become—not case-hardened to all criticism, but sufficiently sympathetic
to know that we must look within ourselves to find the cause for
incurring criticism upon a true science that must for ever stand above
and beyond all cavil.

MRS ANNIE BESANT

Many of our readers who are interested in the horoscope of Mrs

Besant will be sorry to learn that she has now been deprived of her
liberty so far as her active work is concerned. The following
paragraph appeared in the Times of JuneT? :
Madras, June 16
Mrs Besant was recently ordered to go to Ootacamund, but the order
was cancelled. The Governor, Lord Pentland, to-day came to Madras, and
in the course of the day Hie following order was issued :— ,
In the exercise of the powers conferred on him by Rule 3 of the Defeuce
of India (Consolidation) Rules, igrs, the Governor in Council has directed
the service of oiders on Mrs Annie Besant, Mr G. S. Arundale, and Mr B. B,
Wadia, prohibiting them from attending or taking any part in any meeting,
from delivering any lecture, from making any speech, and from publishing or
procuring the publication of any writings or speech composed by them,
placing their correspondence under censorship, and directing, further, that
after the expiry of a brief prescribed period they shall cease to reside in the
city of Madras or district of Chingleput fa large town near Madras^, and
shall take up their residence and remain within any one of the following six
areas:—Nilgiri district, Coimbatore district, Bellary district, the Palni Hills,
the Shevaroy Hills, and the municipal town of Vizagapatam.
Immediately the news was known to the Theosophical Society a
meeting of its members was called at which they passed the following
resolution ;
That this meeting of the London members of the Theosophical Society
most earnestly protests against the Orders of the Governor of Madras in
Council made on the r6th June, igty, against Mrs Besant, Mr Arundale and
Mr. Wadia in so far as they constitute a bar to their taking part in non-
political work, but particularly in the work of the Theosophical Society:
it declares that in preventing those persons but particularly Mrs Besant,
 232 MODERN ASTROLOGY
from speaking or writing in the future and even from re-publisbing
speeches ami books composed and published in the past, those Orders
deal a very serious blow against the operations of the Tbeosophical
Society in the United Kingdom as well as in India: it maintains that
consequently they constitute in fact whatever may have been the inten-
tions of their authors a very serious attack on religious and civil libcr'y :
and it calls on H. E. the Governor of Madras to cancel such Orders and
in default of his doing so on H. E. the Viceroy to disallow them without loss
of time.

MANSION HOUSE PROSECUTION

It will be remembered that in May 191+ the Editor cf this

Magazine was proceeded against on a charge of " Fortune-Telling."
The case, which was dismissed on a technical point, was fully dealt
with in Modern Astrology for July and August 1914. A second
case has now been brought, and was opened on July 9th, when Mr
Ernest Wild, K.C., who defended, intimated that his client intended
to fight this matter out in some form or other if need be up to the House
of Lords : (see Times 10/7/'i7, p. 3). Mr Wild had not concluded his
address at the rising of the Court, and the hearing of the case was
adjourned. A fall account of the hearing will be given in this
Magazine.

ASTROLOGICAL CORRESPONDENCE LESSONS:—Mrs Bains,

of Crowlain', Peterboro', has been awarded the Certificate of Merit.

Born in an Automobile.—Alter a night-long fight for life, the " jitney

baby" and its mother, Mrs Bluma Sacrabelsky of 1314 Natoma Street. S.-n
I-rancisco, Cal. U.S.A., were declared out of danger by physicians of Mount
Zio'.i Hospital this morning. The chihl, a boy, weighs but 5^ pounds. Mrs
Sacrabelsky was bound for the hospital at 4.30 p.m. yesterday (28/7/1916) in
a jitney bus, the little newcomer winning the race with time. The attendant
commotion brought Dr S. Ginsberg, who was just leaving the hospital, and
several internes. Mother and son were quickly removed to a ward.
A " jitney " is a motor passenger car run by a private individual for a
small fare—usually five cents. It got its name from the Negro tlang for five
cents, "jitney."
 233

international ^Btrolotjij

New Moon 17/8/1917 6.21 f).m. G.M.T.

X XI XII 1 II III
(') * 3 / 21 VJ 9 =1 T 2 a 10
N ^ 15 n 3 19 22 =23 T24 «25
VJ 1 VJ 14 = 5 T 5 » 29 018
U) nniC ^17 ill 11 / 0 VJ 2 = 9
(') London (2) Berlin- (3) Petroj>rad (4) New York
oi) ? ? t Uazbh ig ip
A24.I4 i|K 24,17 2SI3.38 08,31 ^16.52 r:2i.38K
nj 20.59 •I1!24.I7 r:2i.38r *15-22

At London Uranus rises in Aquarius in opposition to the Sun and

Moon setting in Leo ; and the chief feature of the map is the number
of planets in the seventh house in western and central Europe, which
will intensify the struggle and increase the complexity of international
affairs. Venus in conjunction with Mercury indicates some attempt
at peace negotiations, but the remaining positions show strife, conflict,
confusion and a weakening of the forces of law and order in some
parts.
If the angles are examined it will be found that Neptune and
Saturn are near the seventh cusp at Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam ;
this position is difficult to interpret, but it suggests attempts at a
settlement with the enemy imposed by force rather than good will, and
the increase of power on the part of the Allies in the, west. The
influence is uncertain and critical, however, and no settlement can
come while the luminaries are so afflicted. Uranus is rising and the
Sun and Moon setting at Berlin, indicating the intensification of the
struggle, and powerful enemies who are making headway against
Germany. The outlook for that country is very unfavourable during
the lunation ; there will be danger of invasion and great efforts will be
necessary to avoid a collapse; the people will be discontented and
internal affairs very disorganised. Mercury and Venus will be near
the seventh cusp in the Balkans, hence that region will be less
seriously afflicted and the prospects of peace will seem less remote
234 MODERN ASTRO I.OG V

than in central Europe. Mars will be on the fourth cusp in

Mesopotamia, showing warlike movements proceeding there.
Jupiter in the fourth house is good for food and the crops and the
fruits of the earth generally, in western Europe ; it is nearest to the
cusp in Spain. The position is said to favour fruitful and warm
weather, but the strong opposition from the angles is likely to cause
storm and rain.
At New York Mercury and Venus will be in the midheaven and
Jupiter setting, which will bring national success and prosperity, good
fortune abroad and through other countries, the probability of peace
negotiations in some direction, success through allies. But there will
be trouble through travelling, both by ships and railways, for the third
and ninth houses are heavily afflicted.
In many parts of the world there is a likelihood of disputes and
discontent between rulers and ruled, master and -man; but especially
in Germany where Uranus rises afflicted. There will be serious
accidents and loss of life by air. Some epidemic affecting the
alimentary canal is probable in Great Britain and western Europe.
The lunation falls in square to the German Emperor's Moon and
Uranus, an unfortunate influence. The evil transits in his horoscope
have been given elsewhere.

Three Aviators.—A student writes: You may like to have the

following three dates of airmen at present alive. I had already been
struck by a speech of Captain Hicks on aviation, in which he said that he
did not find the man who was a good motorist make a good airmau, but the
man who was a good horseman. I therefore expected to find f strong and
much air.
1. Sanford Gavin. Born 7/4/1890, at 4.15 p.m., in Romsey, Hants.
(,? inward) (3 in air).
2. Mr Roy de L. Munro. Born 29/9/90 at Westport, New Zealand, at
1.30 a.m. Was an ordinary soldier, wounded in trenches more than once and
then entered air service, so that it was hardly chosen for preference, but he
makes an extraordinarily good aviator. Was sent to France two weeks ago,
but was recalled to guard East coast (Folkestone). J) in Y in 9th. Date
given by mother. He was educated in England. (5 planets in air.)
3. Charles Dempster Bruce. Born 23/4/1894 at Button, Surrey, at
9.30 a.m. He chose aviation before war as a profession. Date given by
mother, he has his ruler, p, in f.
Apart from these you may like to have A. C. Benson, brother of Hugh
Benson. He was born 24/4/62, at 6.20 p.m. in Berkshire (Wellington Coll. ?)
obtained by Mrs Hinton and given at Institute.
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(Dnr jfutim in tljc JUr

By the Editor

'i he cumulative experience of aviators during this great war

appears to have established an opinion that the aeroplane is likely to
become quite as important a factor in the progress of evolution in the
new era as any other invention connected with the conquest of the air;
and many students of astrology are now curious to know how far this
victory will coincide with the unfoldment of the known latent
possibilities of the Airy triplicity of the zodiacal signs, the only
triplicity containing a non-living symbol, Libra—the Balance. While
the telephone and wireless telegraphy may well find agreement with
the characteristics of the sign Gemini—the Twins—uniting individuals
through communication at a distance, the sign of the Balance makes a
forward step by enabBng man's physical body as well as his thought
and speech to be rapidly carried over great distances; it has been
stated that the passenger service of the future will enable a man to
work in his London office in the morning, do business in Paris in the
afternoon, and be home for dinner in the evening. The statement
goes farther, saying that an Atlantic Air Service will be carrying all
those who value their time and prefer a peaceful voyage high above
the clouds to a long and somewhat troubled crossing on the sea.
These things are not yet, but such practical people as Messrs
Grahame-White and Harper, whose book on 'Air Power' has just
been published (Chapman & Hall), believe that within a very few years
after the war there will be such an advance in aviation as few yet
conceive.
" The average man argues that the higher you are up in the air
the more terrible ig your fall and the more certain your death in case
•of accident, but one ought rather to say that the greater is the chance
of retrieving a mishap before the machine comes to the ground, and
the impartial reader will recall for himself the remarkable instances
•during the war of aviators who recovered control of their machines
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

after a fall of several thousand feet. The danger of motoring, if any-

thing goes wrong with the machine, lies in the unyielding material on
which and amid which it moves and against which it may be dashed,
together with its occupants.
"in the air there is no such deadly resistance to be found; the
pilot has nothing to fear from the friendly unresisting medium in
which he moves; his only danger is actual damage to the machine,
and the farther he is from the earth the longer is the time at his
disposal to overcome the danger, whatever it may be."

The Conquest of the Air

Coming events cast their shadows before them, and this conquest
of the air is a sign of the direction in which astrological students should
look for future developments. The airy triplicity of zodiacal signs is
connected with one of the ethers of space. In the essays on the
Science of Breath we are taught that " V&yu is a form of motion
itself, for motion in all directions is motion in a circle, large or small.
The V&yu Tattva has itself the form of spherical motion. When to
the motion which keeps up the form of the different ethers is added
the stereotyped motion of the Vayu, locomotion is the result."
The planet ruling this great sphere of influence is Jupiter, who is
however a fourfold God and said to be lord and master of the four
elements. While primarily lord of the ether, Jupiter is said to have
handed over fire to Vulcan, the sea to Neptune, and the earth to Pluto.
The Chaldean Oracles say that " From Aether have come all things,
and to it all will return ; that the images of all things are indelibly
impressed upon it, and that it is the storehouse of the germs, and of
the remains of all visible forms, and even ideas."
Modern astrologers have not advanced sufficiently in their
knowledge of the Tattvas to understand the connection between the
higher ethers and the planets, apart from their sub-influences, but we
may trace through the zodiacal signs and their relation to the ethers
something of the seven Cosmocratores with which the mysteries of
astrology are concerned.
The great Breath in which we live and move and have our being
is reflected for our understanding in the zodiacal circle, wherein we find
 OUR FUTURE IN THE AIK 237
the life of the elements fire, earth, air, and water, unfolding through
innumerable forms, the " world cinema," whose pictures reveal all
things concerned with time, whether of the past, present, or future,
which in miniature is the astrologer's "Eternal Now."

The Gateway of the Zodiac

The ultimate of the airy triplicity, apart from its essence or tattva
as a whole, is supposed to be the sign Aquarius, the Man, and it is
probable that it is this sign that we shall eventually consider as the
main gateway out of the zodiac into the essence of life everlasting, for
the changing of life into consciousness seems to be more closely
connected with this sign than with any other; not that the other signs
do not act as gates that lead the life away from the senses to the mind,
but the very nature of Aquarius seems to suggest an easier outlet than
the others, owing to its stability and its motion in the circle that is
tending ever toward the spiral.
A Representative Airman
A very interesting and useful book recently came into our hands
entitled Dream Psychology, by Dr Nicoll, whose belief in astrology
has certainly assisted him in explaining those mysterious extremes
psychologically termed by him Extroverts," and " Introverts," but
whom students of astrology would probably refer to as MARTIANS and
Saturnians. To blend these two natures in one person is said to
produce balance so far as the extremes of these two natures go.
In the horoscope of Mr Pemberton-Billing we find many points
which tend to extremes brought to a balance in th? humanising sign
Aquarius. As most students of astrology would expect, we find this
fixed-air sign strongly in evidence in the map of one who has beyond
question deeply interested himself in aviation ; and although we may
not have always understood Mr Pemberton-Billing's methods, we
have admired the courage with which he has voiced his convictions.
We have been fortunate in obtaining the approximate hour of birth
from himself, and judging from what we have read concerning him the
above map seems to fit him admirably, and he appears to make strong
endeavour to live up to it, and give it full expression as a
representative of the people he has chosen to serve.
 MODERN ASTROLOGV

As readers of the recently published Life1 know, Mr Pemberton-

Billing has passed through many vicissitudes during his private and
public career, but he is destined to rise in life to far greater things
than he has even yet achieved. For not only has he courage and
perseverance, but with it he has very clear perception, a prompt and
decisive mind, and very fine business abilities. The greatest asset in
his horoscope is the trine aspect of Mars and URANUS in the earthy

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triplicity; this gives him an independent, original and expressive

nature and fortunately for him a temper that never tires. The clear
and frank expression of the SUN, Moon and Mercury rising in
Aquarius must make of him a charming companion, and a devoted
friend to those who win his affections, and his counsel and advice for
them would always be wise and discreet. It is in this Aquarian

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 OUR FUTURE IN THE AIR 239
combination that the extremes of his nature are harmonised, and we
should judge that we have here one of the best illustrations of the
Aquarian nature we could have, not even excepting the Prime
Minister, Mr Lloyd George, who is born under this sign. The Prime
Minister finds his balance in a totally different temperament to that of
the native now under consideration, but both are men whatever their
faults may be, and as men they are fit and proper persons to be true
representatives of the people. The contrast between the two horo-
scopes is the versatility of the one and the tendency to specialise in
the other.

The Champion of the Aviator

Mr Pemberton-Billing has apparently made aviation a speciality,

and as an actual aviator, as well as an inventor and constructor of
aircraft, he has made it his especial task to espouse the cause of
aviators. And from his nativity we should judge him to be a fit and
competent person to speak on their behalf.
The strength of the Uranian influence favours original methods
and individualistic tendencies, more especially as in this case Uranus
is the only planet above the earth. The majority of the planets
rising in favourable positions, and the ruling planet Saturn in mutual
reception with the rising planet, Mars, on the ascendant, are all
testimonies of strength. The extreme tension of Mars in square
with Jupiter seems to be modified very considerably by this mutual
reception: otherwise it would have spoilt, by impulse, and by "extro-
version," the measure of his usefulness as an independent member of
the House of Commons. As an independent member he will awaken
some of his fellow members to a sense of their responsibilities as
representatives of the people they are intended to serve. The true
value of Aquarius is the expression of the Human Nature it is said to
reveal, and whatever errors our subject may commit, under the
enthusiastic tendencies of Mars square Jupiter from the first to the
third houses, he is at least a HUMAN being in whom the animal nature
is controlled and used in the legitimate aims of Capricorn—active
service.
 MODiiKN ASlK(.)LOGV

Not Aik-Supremacy Alone

Air Supremacy, although the immediate objective, is not the

boundary of his efforts. It is, he says, "but part of the great constructive
policy I had formulated, and will one day endeavour to explain to you.
For without National and imperial security great internal reforms
cannot be initiated, much less carried out; and I was convinced even
then [1913] that in the near future—through Air Supremacy alone
would such security be attained and maintained. Given that, we
could devote our minds and our energies in peace to the Imperial task
of reforming and rebuilding our Empire ; lacking it, we should—we
shall—be lost indeed ! " {Life, p. 75).
In October 1916 he founded The imperialist, a weekly paper
published by subscription only, with the object of furthering his views.
Concerning the title he says in the issue for June 23, "An Imperialist
should, if he be a Briton, place the interests of the British Empire—of
the English speaking races who comprise that Empire, and of the other
races, black and brown, who are protected by and within that Empire
—before his own personal interests; and to that end he should
insistently strive to maintain the safety of, and uphold and increase
the honour, the dignity, and the welfare of the Empire.
" That is what I mean by Imperialism, that is why I named this
paper The Imperialist, that is why, at present, I am concentrating on
our Air Service especially—for Great Britain is the heart and head of
the Empire, controlling and directing its policy and thereby shaping
its destiny.
" When anything is wrong with heart or head, or both, the whole
body suffers, and at this time, the most critical, the most perilous in
all its history, the heart of the Empire is syncoptic, beating irregularly,
spasmodically, while the brain alternates between feverish activity and
dull apathy.
" Before a cure can be wrought, the causes of the disease must be
discovered and dealt with, and, as I see it, the primary cause is the
present existing political system, which has flourished and spread its
ramifications throughout the Nation and the Empire ; the contributory
cause is the apathy of the people, who, having allowed that evil plant
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to attain its present dimensions, yet do not address themselves to the

task of tearing it up, destroying it root and branch.
" I make no apology for setting the necessity of attaining and
maintaining an Imperial Air Service first, for Supremacy in the Air is
the one factor that will give us victory in the War, restore to our
Empire the power not only to make but to maintain Peace throughout
the world—and the strength and security that will enable us, when this
War is over, to address ourselves to the great task of setting our own
House in order, and of solving the pressingpublic and political problems
that confront us now."
The first step, he adds, is the formation of an Association
with the object of returning to the House of Commons, to act
as "Vigilantes," watchful for the interests of the people, a maximum
of Nine Independent Men, whose necessary qualifications shall be
integrity, intelligence, and an intimate knowledge of the particular
Department of State the working o: which they are returned to watch,
and who in their turn, before they be accepted as Candidates
for Election, shall have pledged themselves to the following solemn
undertaking :
1. To work honourably together in order to attain and maintain an
Imperial Air Service worthy of our Imperial destiuy, and eusuring the safety
and welfare of the Nation aud the Empire.
2. To watch aud guard the interests of the people in all matters, as
against the interests of Party politicians.
3. Never to place themselves under any obligation whatever to any
Government or Party.
4. Never to hold any interest in, or deiive any profits either directly or
indirectly from, any commercial concern which may be influenced by
legislation.
5. Never to accept any Government bribe of " Honours," Office or Title.
•One shilling on joining, and one shilling towards the expenses of any
such candidate when an election has to be fought, is all that is asked
in the way of money.
We think no apology is needed for thus affording our readers a
glimpse into the aims and methods of the man whose horoscope is
before us.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Hope for the Future

If this horoscope is a sample of the coming Independent members.
of Parliament, then we have nothing to fear and much to hope from
them as leaders of public opinion.
The sextile aspect of the Sun and Mercury to Jupiter denotes
good judgment, an active and positive mind, and enough of the social
element to allow for a free exchange of thought without much bias or
too great an inclination to be affected by the views of his co-workers.
The sextile aspect of the Moon and Saturn shows a love of truth and
principle. Both luminaries lighting up by aspect the third house, the
mind, shows intellect that is above the normal.
Mr Pemberton-Billing is fortunately young enough to have
survived the destructive force of Sun opposition Uranus, and his
reputation will eventually be such that he can afford to smile at his
critics of to-day who are evidently more afraid of his influence as an
independent member than they would have been had he belonged to a
clique that could have been silenced by party methods.

Conclusion
There is some tendency to abnormal psychic development
toward the close of life, denoted by the planet Neptune in the fourth
house in trine aspect to Uranus in the eighth.
Although not altogether the temperament that favours ceremonial
(and as a rule Aquarius does not understand it), the psychic develop-
ment in this case would be greatly assisted by Masonry or ceremonial
as a means of bringing the subjective and objective expressions of the
horoscope into greater harmony or balance.
The only drawback to this horoscope is the egotism denoted
by the position of Mars rising in square aspect to Jupiter in the
martial sign Aries, combined with the ruling planet Saturn in Aries,
the whole being a combination likely to produce undue confidence,
and an assertiveness that never underrates the importance of the
personality. The will to achieve and the desire to accomplish are
strong features of the map, and the " extroversion " of the mind is apt
at times to exaggerate circumstances beyond thsir due proportion;.
 OUR FUTURE IN THE AIR
the reactions from this condition are apt to cause rebounds that will
tend to increase in momentum rather than diminish, causing a liability
to " make or break " and thus accentuate the extremes that are seen
to exist in the horoscope. From what we have seen of his conduct
and of his writings we gather that he is aware of this tendency, and
that in coming to decisions he makes allowance for it.

Time for which the Figure is Calculated

Mr Pemberton-Billing was born on January 31 1881 in a
house in the Finchley Road, Hampstead. The following data will be;
useful for those who wish to examine the current directions.
if.AAf.C. = 213.52.
Bodv of Planet Without Latitude
Lai Dec RA AD Dec RA AD
17.20s 314.0 22.59 17.20s 314.0 22.59
D 4.31N 7-.VS 321.50 9.56 12.6s 330.24 15-33
u 2.IS 18.143 318.12 24.21 16.19s 317-35 21.29
? O.5S 1.17s 357-15 1-37 1.13s 357-13 1.31
S 0.42S 23-34S 283.47 33-3 22.52s 283.38 31.50
■U I. US 4.47N 14.10 5-59 5.52N 13-42 7.23
b 2.25s 4.59N 23.1 6.16 g.GN 21.39 il.33
0.49X 7.27N 164.37 9.25 6.42N 164.17 8.27
1.47s 13.3SN 39.40 '7-53 15.19N 39-7 20.1
The horoscope has been rectified in the following manner. The
stated time of birth is " early morning," and Sagittarius was taken as
the probable ascendant—an assumption which subsequently had to be-
rejected. The adopted time, 5.33.52 a.m., is based upon the four arcs,
(а) $ <3 Asc inundo i2005S-2' measuring to 19/1/1S94
(б) O <3 Asc 33 71' „ 151311914
(c) D <3 Asc „ 340054'1' » t. 24/12/1915
(rf) ? <3 Asc zod 35 n-y' ,, „ 13/4/1916
which correspond to certain events given in the autobiography just
published, namely (<t) ran away to sea, " soon after I was thirteen ";
(i») Aero Show, the " P.-B.l" exhibited, two being immediately ordered
by German air pilots; (c) decided to leave Air Service to enter House
of Commons; (d) " spying" poster exhibited, giving rise to the libel
action which was the direct cause of the publication of the Life. The
dates of these events will be found on pp. 14, 82, 90-91 and 127: (see
also Daily Express for 2/i/'I7).
 MODEUN ASTHOLOGV

Since, in exact correspondence of dates of this kind, much

depends on the degree of precision used in calculations, it may be
proper to mention that Raphael's Ephemeris for 1881 was used, and
the geoce«<nc latitude of birthplace, 3102r7': 0.£. 23027'3'. Five-
place logs were used, the calculations being made to the nearest
tenth of a minute of arc.
Before the rectification was accepted, a little disc was made,
showing on its rim the possible directions to Asc and MC : this was
then concentrically mounted on a larger disc showing dates, and on
being rotated backwards and forwards enabled a comparative estimate
to be made of a multitude of possible rectifications. Eventually this
was chosen as the most accordant, notwithstanding an original
predilection in favour of Sagittarius.

THE ATOM AS A SOLAR SYSTEM

Prof. Robert S. Millikan, of Chtgago University, pictures this up-to-date

atom; A nucleus charged with positive electricity around which revolve, in
fiNed orbits, negative electrons, as planets about a central Sun. There are
exactly ninety-two chemical elements, and the only difference between them
is in the electrical charge of the uncleus, which differs always by the same
amount from one element to the next in the series. Hydrogen, the lightest
element, has only one electrical element in its nucleus, and Uranium, the
heaviest, has ninety-two.
The orbits draw nearer to the nucleus as it is heavier and more powerful,
but they always remain at the same distances for the same substance.
When an atom radiates light or heat, an electron jumps from one orbit
to the next, so that radiation is a series of little explosions, and not a
•continuous process.
For further details see p. 327 of the English Mechanic for June 22 1917.
Interesting references to the atom will be found in Moorrn Astrology,
xiiia^i, III 502, IV 86,263. (VI 389), (VI 397), XIV 179 footnote; in which
similar suggestions are made : {small roman numerals indicate " Old Series.")
 deplane aab ilj£ licto ®ra

{Continued from page 218)

Let us now return to the question, What are Neptunian methods ?

To answer this we must see what took place on the failure of the
world and the T.S. to answer to the Uranian vibration. First of all
in the T.S. the giving out of occult information ceased. No more
books of any importance appeared after the publication of Man:
whence, how and whither ? early in 1913. The leaders withdrew to
concentrate on other work, and the Society was left to learn to stand
alone, so that its members should begin to realise that the first thing
which Neptune demands is ISOLATION—to encourage the development
of Intuition.
Again, the Uranian method having been broken up by the failure
to respond to Satumian standards of purity, Neptune was the only
influence which could redeem the situation. Now the essential differ-
ence between the two lines is this: that whereas Saturn-Uranus
demand perfect physical purity as a basis to work from, to Neptune this
is not essential because he can transmute in a way unknown to any
other planetary influence.
Let us not be misunderstood. We do not mean that under
Neptune it is possible to combine occultism and sensuality, because
that invariably opens the door to the dark forces and smashes up
whatever group it is connected with, and if persisted in would result
in black magic. What we do mean is that (i) when such a mistake
has been made it can be transmuted by a Neptunian sacrifice on the
higher planes so that the dark forces are no longer able to take
advantage of it, and (ii) that W is indifferent to impurities of the past
belonging to a physical body—occult progress on His line is not
barred by them—provided they have been given up. It is difficult if
not impossible to explain one's meaning in print; the best explanation
may be found in the way the Christ regarded the sin of adultery. The-
Pharisees and Sadducees, who typify the conventional Jupiterians-
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and Saturnians, always want to stone: but W says " Thy sins are
forgiven, go, and sin no more." Hitherto the Neptunian influence
has been confined to rare individuals such as St. Francis of Assisi
who is a typical example; but now, ever since 1913 it has to be the
dominant influence in the world at large.
What we mean is that hitherto the Neptunian influence has been
confined to those few who were evolved enough to respond to it, and
it was poured down direct through their own highest vehicles, as
indeed will continue to be the case for individuals, but^now a part of
its influence will be manifested outwardly and ivill govern the entire
■world plan, including the manner of the Coming of the Teacher,
which will be "like a thief in the night" instead of with Uranian
publicity. As has been already stated, the world astrally rejected the
Uranian vibration undiluted, and therefore if the Teacher had tried to
come under the existing order of Jupiter and Saturn conventionality
combined with Uranian publicity, the world would not have received
Him—indeed He might have been again murdered.
The Hierarchy have apparently begun to modify their plans in
accordance with this. For example, the first materialisation on to the
physical pl^ie of the astral rejection of Uranian kings is shewn by
the recent revolution in IJussia, which set an example that will be
followed by other countries. Neptune is the planet of Socialism, and
placed at the foot of the 1910 Cross shews that Uranian power and
Spirituality can only be manifested through Socialism. Neptune
forms as it were a cup to receive the light of the Sun and Uranus, and
this idea explains the glyph ; the semi-circular line representing the
cup or Grail, the vertical line passing through it the Spiritual Life
poured through, terminating in the + representing physical matter.
The difference between the method of working of Uranus and
Neptune is as wide as the poles. Uranus goes straight ahead, dashing
through obstacles and making public all plans. This answers all
right until the irresistible force comes up against an insurmountable
obstacle, such as the freewill of the race. Then force can no longer
be used and other methods have to be adopted. Neptune on the
other hand has nothing definite about it: all is vague. It is like a
form without shape, or rather capable of constantly changing its
shape so as to confuse and baffle the dark forces when they try to work
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against it. Its methods are the apotheosis of subtle diplomacy ;

instead of going straight for its end, it approaches like a sailing ship
tacking against a headwind ; it moves as it were like a crah, sideways,
hence its probable rulership of Cancer. It also has the power of
holding on with Cancer tenacity to intuition, and to what it believes
to be the right way. No apparent failures or discouragements can
daunt it. No one can be a Neptunian in the highest sense till he can
surrender everything, make the complete self-sacrifice, and has
developed some intuition. For the Neptunian has to find his own
way relying on his Higher Self; he gets neither orders nor encourage-
ment from any outside source.
Neptune is the planet of the sixth Race ; Uranus of the seventh.
The special faculty or characteristic of the sixth Race is intuition,
that of the seventh direct cognition. And just as every new race is
founded by those egos in whom the dominant characteristic of the
previous race is least manifest, as for example the people who show
out most intuition are to some extent deficient in scientific intellectual
{Ability which belongs to the fifth, so it may be presumed that the
seventh Race will ultimately be founded by those in whom intuition is
not strong. There seems to be a connection or correlation between
alternate races, the fourth and sixth, the fifth and seventh. Therefore
one may assume as a reasonable hypothesis that it is not necessary
for all people to become Neptunians; those who cannot do so will
follow the line of Saturn and Mercury on to Uranus: (see diagram
p. 71 ibid.) The pioneers of the sixth Race will not be found among
the orthodox of any body, even the T.S. None who are held by the
bondage of convention whether of Jupiter or Saturn can expect to be
chosen. It would seem that one of the necessary qualifications is the
power of breaking away from everything—home, friends, societies or
associations—not necessarily severing the link with them but becoming
■one apart from the crowd, so as to learn to stand alone ; for only this
way can intuition be developed. One may expect to find many of the
artists and bohemians of the present time in the new race eventually,
and some may even be found among the Magdalenes. For some of
the most essential qualities required for this race will be an appreciation
of art and beauty, perfect tolerance, and a sense of humour.
Neptune in the early stages always brings chaos, hence the end of
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the war in Europe will not bring real peace, because strife will
continue internally in the various countries till all the existing
orthodox and conventional institutions, social, economic and religious,
connected with Saturn and Jupiter have been overthrown and cast into
the melting pot. Mrs Besant in her 1909 lectures foreshadowed
Self-sacrifice or Revolution as the only two possibilities; the
possessing and ruling classes, so far from responding to the call for
self-sacrifice, have taken every advantage of the war to make gigantic
profits and further enslave the rest of the populations by their
exactions; which will produce the inevitable result of Revolution and^
a period of chaos. Then will appear the World Teacher to " make
all things new," and, the old edifice having been completely over-
thrown, He will lay the foundations for the new Temple of Humanity.
Uranus is related to the air—(ouranos), Neptune to the sea.
Upon the sluggishly heaving sea of Neptune Uranus suddenly
descends like a bolt from the blue (Uranus always descends
vertically; whereas Neptune moves laterally). Neptune rises up to
meet this influence, aroused to antagonism, and forms a sort of
waterspout or channel for its conduct ; it seizes on the Uranian
influence, absorbs it, tinges it with its own colouring, and acts like a
commutator, reducing the voltage till all the aggressive force of
Uranus is transmuted and only the highest and purest influence, that
of Spiritual Enlightenment, the 5 side remains: $ and W each
synthesise different sides of the four planets If 2 , and 5 being
the adaptable planet is the only influence they have in common.
This means that in future the world will refuse to be governed by
force or superior authority imposed from without. Neptune will have
nothing to do with discipline, it is the apotheosis of tolerance, and
never tries to force anyone against bis inclinations.
C. G. M. ADAM
(To be continued)

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By G. E. Sutcliffe,

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VI.—The Strategy of the liierarchy

and the Cross of Matter

{Continued from p. 223)

Spiritual Alchemy

The Alchemists of the middle ages were also Astrologers, they

were likewise often Rosicrncians. Astrology cannot be separated
from the other branches of Occnltism. The course of human evolu-
tion is a story of Spiritual Alchemy, and its history is written,
astrologically, in the stars.
By alchemical transmutation the seven planets, or the seven
heads of the beast, become the seven horns and seven eyes of the
Triumphant Christos, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the
World : Rev. v 6. They are then the radiant seven-pointed-star
which crowns the ladder of Masonry, on the lower rungs of which is
the cross of matter. It is the ladder the Mason has to mount in order
to become the Rosicrucian. He is then able to open the book with
seven seals, and to rule the seven planets of destiny.
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open
and to read the book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders
saith unto me, Weep not: behold the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the
Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven
seals thereof. And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne and of
the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had
been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven
Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth vv. 4-6
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The Reign of the Beast

If the period or cycle of a root-race be spoken of symbolically as
a 'year,' the period or cycle of a sub-race may be likewise spoken of
symbolically as a ' month,' which is the natural division of a year.
From the beginning of human evolution on this Globe, and in this
Round, to the end of the Sixth Root-Race, 7 X 6 = 42 Sub-Races
will have run their course of evolution,—and the time occupied by
this might be described symbolically as a period of " forty and two
months." Now by the end of the Sixth Root-Race the whole of
humanity will have become bisexual, and attained the Christos stage
of evolution. It will then be no longer subject to the beast with seven
heads and ten homs, but will be able to rule its stars. It will be a
race of Rosicrucians.
In this way we are able to interpret the length of the reign of
the beast in Revelations, which is given as forty and two months:
" And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast:
and they worshipped the beast saying, Who is like unto the beast ?
who is able to make war with him ? And there was given unto him a
mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given
unto him to continue forty and two months" : Rev. xiii 4, 5-

The Coming Race

Since the bisexual condition of humanity will be established in
the next root-race, the Sixth, which will grow out of the sixth sub-
race of the current root-race, the Fifth, we should already expect to
see signs of the change; for the sixth sub-race is now in process of
formation in America and Australia. It will apparently take the form
of a more equal distribution of power and responsibility in the sexes,
with an equal freedom of association. The union between men and
women will tend to be mental and moral rather than physical. The
physical bonds will be slowly relaxed and be replaced by the bonds of
the mind. This is shown in America, where the marriage tie is easily
broken when mental incompatibility shows itself. The woman's
suffrage movement is also a move in the direction of equal freedom
and power between the sexes. After the war all such movements
may be expected to make rapid progress, and women will become
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economically independent. The desire for sexual intercourse will

slowly be replaced by that of mental communion. There will of
course be many vagaries and lapses in the process, but these will be
gradually eliminated. Women will probably take the lead in this new-
evolution, as in women the sex passion is less spasmodic than in man,
and she is better able to keep it within bounds. In the freer associa-
tion of the sexes which the future will bring, woman will be able to
accelerate the evolution of the more aggressive male by hergentle and
sympathetic restraint, and will be as before his natural help-meet.
Evolution should not be attempted by complete suppression of the sex
passion, and separation from the opposite sex, for this would lead to
black magic. For many thousands of years the race will continue to
be generated in the way familiar to us, and the love between men and
women will probably increase rather than diminish, but the joys of
their association will be increasingly mental joys, and the physical
pleasure will be resorted to with continually diminishing frequency.
It will probably come to be regarded as bad form.
The physical creative power being thus restrained, the creative
powers of the mind will develop rapidly. Thought-Power will become
a real force, able to act on physical matter. Eventually the bisexual
organs in the brain, the Pineal Gland, and Pituitary Body, will begin
to function in the more advanced members of the race; S.D. iii 504.
Materialised bodies such as are sometimes seen oozing out of certain
mediums, will be consciously produced by the power of Kriyashakti
{ib. ii 184), and Virgin-Born Humanity will have begun its course.
Long and weary will be the road humanity will have to travel
before that consummation will be reached, but the Christ must carry his
own cross, and the pangs of many failures will be interspersed with
the joys of victories gained. The Divine Hermaphrodite, the Silent
Watcher, will remain with us to the end, and see us safely through,
and His Messengers, the World-Teachers, will come amongst us, and
point us out the way.
For know, O Mason ! Thou art Solomon, the King, if thou wilt
only mount thy ladder, and claim the Radiant Aureole, which is thy
Crown. The temple that thou buildest is for thine own delectation.
The " Lost Word " that thou seekest is the Logos within thyself; it
is thy Radiant Augoeides (S.D. i 626), thy Father-Soul in Heaven.
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Return, O Prodigal; cease thy riotous living, and return unto thy
Father, Who is ONE with thee ! And He will kill the fatted calf, thy
animal nature, and crown thee with Divinity. Yea, seeing thee afar
off, He will run to meet thee, and will rejoice exceedingly—" For this
my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found."
Luke xv 24.

The Sibylline Prophecy

Already the Sibylline prophecy as given in the fourth Eclogue of

Virgil sounds like the warblings of the approaching Springtide :—"The
last era of Cumjean song is now arrived and the grand series of ages
begins afresh. Now the Virgin Astraea returns, and the reign of
Saturn recommences. Now a new progeny descends from the
celestial realms. Do thou, chaste Lucina, smile propitious to the
infant Boy who will bring to a close the present age of Iron, and
introduce throughout the whole world the age of Gold.
Come then, dear child of the Gods, greatdescendant.of Jupiter ! . . . .
The time is near. See the world is shaken with its globe saluting
thee ; the earth, the regions of the sea, and the heavens sublime."
" And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they
shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their
God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there
shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there
be any more pain : for the former things are passed away Rev xxi, 3,4.

One Number and Three Numbers

The number of the beast, 660, should not be regarded as a single

number : it is rather three numbers, six hundred, and threescore, and six,
as given in the text 600, and 60, and 6; three separate numbers. But it
may also be true as a single number, 666. It is therefore a trinity in
unity, or a kind of Athanasian paradox in numbers. As 600, it is the
number of root-races incarnated in the six first rounds of a chain, when
humanity attains the bisexual state. As 60, it is the number of
incarnations in the first six globes of a single round, which again is
 THE Gi<EAT WAK 253
bisexual. As 6, it is the rn.ce incarnations in a single glebe, or the end
of the sixth root-race of that globe, in which stage humanity is bisexual.
Similarly with the 777 incarnations of the Master's letter, which
should be read as 700, and 70, and 7; three separate numbers. After
700 incarnations of the races, in the seven rounds of the chain, humanity
begins the three higher rounds under the Ssod-Manu, who is a Manu
a grade higher than the Root-Mann: Man, Whence, Hois, and
Whither, pp. 57, 76. After 70 incarnations in a single round, evolution
will begin in the three higher globes of a round beyond the seven.
After 7 root-races in a single globe, wiil begin the three higher root-races
between the globes. There is thus a close analogy between the three
separate numbers into which 666 and 777 can be split up, when applied
to the rules of racial incarnation.
It is evident from the above that other numbers, such as 555 and
444, can be analysed in the same way, and corresponding analogies
drawn from them. My object in drawing attention to this form of
analysis is that when applied to the number 555, it leads to deductions
which have an important bearing on present day affairs, and particularly
in connection with the astrological treatment of the World-war.
Near the end of 500 racial incarnations in a chain, that is, near the
end of the fifth round, there occurs what is called a Day OF J UDGMEN'T
Man, pp. 14, 50, 55; The Inner Life, Leadbeater, 294-5. This is the
time when those who for any reason are unable to pass on to the
higher stages of evolution which are beyond the fifth round, or are a
hindrance to the evolution of the more advanced, cease to incarnate
further in the chain, but go into Pralaya, until the next chain.

The Coming Day of Judgment

Now by the law of analogy which is of practically universal
application in occult studies, " As above so below," we may infer from
this that after about 50 incarnations in a single round, that is near the
end of the fifth globe of each round, there is a secondary Day of
Judgment, in which the laggards are held back, not until the next chain,
but until the next round. Hence in our fifth globe of this round,
which is the present Mercury, there will be a Day of Judgment for all
of us, and those not sufficiently advanced will have their evolution
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suspended until the fifth round. Of course the evolution on Mercury

is a long way off, and an event so distant in time may not cause much
present uneasiness. But when we carry the analogy a little further,
matters become rather ominous. For by a similar reasoning after
five root-races, and particularly during the fifth sub-race of the
fifth root-race, a Day of Judgment of a third rate order of importance
is due to take place. The laggards here will have their evolution
suspended, not into the next round, but into the next globe—Mercury.
This of course is much shorter than into the next chain or into the
next round, but still it is fairly long. The time between the chains is
about 4,320,000,000 years, between the rounds, 432,000,000 years, and
between the globes, 43,200,000 years, so that even the current Day of
Judgment is sufficiently formidable.
The above deduction from the law of analogy is supported by
other considerations. It has been previously pointed out that the book
of Revelation linked together in the public mind three things;—
Armageddon, the End of an Age, and the Coming of a World-Teacher.
But there was also linked with it the idea of a Day of Judgment; and
the reasoning which showed that these popular ideas had probably
some basis of truth applies equally to the fourth, the Day of Judgment.

Lords of the Dark Face

Moreover the reason given for the suspension of the laggards in

the fifth round appliesequally to the present time. The civilisation of
the sixth root-race as described in Man, Whence, How and Whither
(p. 341, etc.) will be utterly impossible if the Lords of the Dark
Face continue to incarnate amongst us. Anyone who will study the
life of Bismarck, and see how he built up the German nation with a
view to dominate the world, will I think be led to this conclusion. A
description of this particular type of humanity is given in the above
work (pp. 100-1). They are known as the orange type; owing to
their pride they
" became a backward race, cunning but not good, and passed through many
unpleasant experiences; they diminished in number by constantly coming
into collision with the common order, and being hammered, largely by
suffering, into ordinary folk. A few—strong remorseless and unscrupulous
 THE GUEAT WAR 255
—became Lords of the Dark Face in Atlantis; some were seen among the
North American Indians with refined but bard faces; some few still persist,
even down to our own day—the unscrupulous among the kings of finance,
statesmen like Bismarck, conquerors like Napoleon ; but they are gradually
disappearing, for they have learned many bitter lessons. Those who are
wanting in heart, who are always fighting, always opposing everything
everywhere, on general principles, must ultimately, in a realm of law, be
beaten into shape; a very few may end in black magic, but the steady
pressure*is too great for the majority. It is a hard road to choose for
progress!"
Such is the type which, if not retired for a time, may make the
next step in evolution impossible. It is responsible for much human
suffering in the past, for the oppression of the weak, and for the
tortures of the inquisition. It has on two occasions caused the
destruction of a continent, and has brought about the present war, the
most appalling the world has ever seen. It has made human history
during the last 10,000 years one prolonged nightmare, a kind of hell-
life of suffering. Will it be allowed to continue it ? Perhaps not.
We may be sure however that if there is a Day of Judgment, as the
above facts indicate, the object will not be punishment, but the
uplifting of the races; for Nature mothers her progeny, even the most
refractory.
[To be coitiinued)

"Modern Astrology" Legal Defence Fund.—Particulars of the

formation of this fund will be found in Modern Astrology for September,
1914. It was hoped that the effort would meet with an ever widening response,
and that a steadily increasing fund would have been built up. That hope,
however, has unfortunately not been realised, no further subscriptionshaving
been received since those announced on p. 389 of that issue. This being so,
it has reluctantly been decided to close the Fund, and the amounts received
have therefore been returned to the donors with grateful thanks : (signed)
Alan Leo, Bessie Leo, Alfred H. Barley, Annie L. Barley, A. S. Ellerbeck,
M. Wynter Robinson, Florence A. Higgs, Trustees of the Fund : 12/7/T7.
Abnormal Birth.—A creature born at 11 a.m. (about) 4/6/1903 in the
North of England was formed in the shape of a horse to the waist, the other
part being a female. The parents were not married at the time of conception,
and it is supposed that while on a holiday at a seaside pleasure resort the
mother had a fright in a Circus. The montrosity was allowed to die by the
doctor. The parents married January 1904. The mother's father died very
suddenly in December 1903 six weeks before the marriage.
 Astrology for Beginners
PERSONAL APPEARANCE
(Conclstded from page 192)
The foiu'lb mutable, atid last, sign of the Zodiac is Pisces (>f), the Fish.
When this sign is on the Eastern horizon at birth the native is of medium
height and of much bulk, and the bones of the body being weak, the spine
easily curves and the shoulders round, causing the head to droop forward. In
old age the rounded shoulders become a very accentuated feature of Pisces,
and in younger years the narrow chest, along with the rounded shoulders,
suggest restricted lung action, from which the natives of this sign often suffer,
the Pisces body being one that falls an easy prey to consumption.
The skin of the Pisciau is remarkably thin, accounting for some of the
beautiful complexions this sign produces; the colour easily comes and goes
in the cheeks, and the general appearance of the skin is as though clear
water flowed beneath it.
The eyes are usually blue, with the look of the sea in them, and it is
noticeable that many Piscians adopt the sea-faring life as a profession. The
facial expressions are as changeful as the sea, registering every passing
emotion, and when the Pisciau is reduced to laughter, which is easily done
for he sees humour in everything, it is uncontrollable; his face becomes
convulsed, and his features appear to lose definition and distinctiveness,
The head is on the large side and wide, the brow ample, the nose wide and
the mouth large. The teeth may be small and shell-like or uneven and
crowding one over the other, but whatever they are, they do not endure,
owing to the weak bony structure of the body.
The walk of the Piscians is akin to that of the sailors when on land,
lurching, as they do, from side to side. The body puts ou flesh easily and
becomes heavy for the legs to carry, which are invariably short for the length
of the body. The feet and bands are small and plump.
Secretary of the Lessons Department

Testimonial
To the Secretary of the Lessons Department —
With the enclosed answers I finish the course of Astrological
Lessons. They are wonderful in many respects; they teach much more
than the title promises, and they will surely be a source of pleasure and
moral benefit to me to the end of my days.
I am very thankful to you personally for your patience and kind
assistance in correcting and supplementing my answers.
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A Journal devoted to the search for truth concerning Astrology

VOL. XIV."I SEPTEMBER, 1917.

New Series. J

Rex v. Leo

By The Editor

THE MANSION HOUSE PROSECUTION

God is a Spirit and they that worship Him
must worship Him in spirit and in truth.

A " bomb " more cruel than the German air raiders' bomb fell into
the astrological camp at 11.5 a.m. on July 2nd, when we were served
with a summons to appear at the Mansion House at 11.30 a.m. on
July 9th on a charge of "pretending and professing to tell fortunes."
The hearing, which was adjourned for a week, ended in a nominal fine
of £5 and £25 costs. The Times report will be found on p. 262.
It had been our intention to appeal against the magistrate's
decision, but on second thoughts, taking into consideration the line
of action adopted by the prosecution, we came to the conclusion that
the time had not come to push the matter further, especially in
view of the ONE sentence—in a horoscope of about 25,000 words—
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which the Public Prosecutor considered, and which we must also

agree, was predictive.1 It is not possible, in a Police Court, to obtain
a hearing that will sufficiently enlighten either the Director of Public
Prosecutions, or the magistrate, on the subject of Astrology so as to
obtain a ruling such as will secure for us the decision we require, and
enable a competent professional astrologer to deal with what are
commonly termed " Directions" or " Tendencies." Although we
■were represented by two vary able Counsel, instructed by an
experienced firm of solicitors, and notwithstanding the fact that we
obtained an unusually respectful and patient hearing—there was no
" facetiousness"—we have had a realisation that has decided our
future course of action and has at the same time opened our eyes to
the reason why all genuine astrologers must for the time being abide
by this Mansion House decision.
There has been too much loose and irresponsible prediction by a
few professional astrologers who have been not only too reckless in
their language, but also we regret to say immoral in their statements,
proof positive of which we received (privately) during the process of
our case. And in face of this sad realisation we are only too well
aware that to allow these persons unbridled license, as might have
been the case had the summons been dismissed, would prove utterly
fatal to the immediate welfare of Astrology.
It is not advisable at the moment to say anything further on this
subject, since nemesis is on the heels of these irresponsible ones who
have neither reputation nor honour to lose; and for us to clear the
decks of the astrological ship for them to act with impunity would, we
think, make us equally blameable with them. Recognising, then, the
difficulty of the present situation our readers will not be surprised
when we say that we prefer to let the verdict stand against us.
Our action in the future will be that which strengthens the
Astrological Society and the Astrological Institute with a view to
obtaining a charter by which astrologers and astrological students
may become a recognised corporate body.

1
Those who are interested in the legal aspect of the matter are referred to the
issues of Modern Astrology for July and August 1914, where the legal status of
the astrologer in relation to prediction is adequately discussed. The latter issue
is now out of print, but a few copies of July 1914 are still to be had.
 REX V. LEO 259
We must not close these few remarks without an expression of
deep-felt gratitude to those who made such a wonderful and spontaneous
response to our need. Our ideal of friendship has been realised, for
not one of our friends failed us, and we can truly say that if our
prosecutors declined to consider us otherwise than as " a rogue and a
vagabond professing and pretending to tell fortunes with intent to
deceive," our friends have seen to it that their' beloved vagabond 'did
not suffer more than was actually necessary, by providing very
substantial assistance towards the easing of the financial part of the
burden.
We may now put on record this strange fact, that we experienced
the exquisite joy of pain that arose out of the emotions which welled
up in the hearts of many of our friends who felt our sorrow in this
crisis to be their own. That fact has given us a spiritual body which
undoubtedly must be the nucleus of all our future activities ; for in
this as in all other spiritual movements, " God moves in a mysterious
way His wonders to perform."

"TRUTH" on ASTROLOGY

The following comment by Truth on the recent prosecution has,

we are pleased to note, a more temperate tone toward the science of
Astrology than we have noted hitherto in its criticising columns.
Mr Alan Leo, the editor of Modern Astrology, is the latest of the
astrologers to make his appearance in the police court, he being fined at the
Mansion House last week ^5, with £1$ costs, for fortune telling. The result
of the prosecution should make clear beyond any doubt that in the eyes of
the law the scientific astrologer is just as much a rogue and vagabond as any
gipsy woman who asks you to cross her hand with a piece of silver. There
is, of course, a vast gulf between Mr Leo and the majority of the horoscope
merchants. The element of imposition was lacking in his case. He could
and no doubt did draw up horoscopes scientifically accurate. Where he
went wrong was in interpreting his maps for money. Rightly, I think, our
laws decree this to be ao offence, for whether such interpretations are
honest in intention or otherwise, they are equally likely to be harmful to
persons credulous enough to believe them. Mr Leo or any other astrologer
has, of course, a right to believe in and practice astrology, but he must not
make his living by it,—Truth, as/y/'ry.
The editor says: " The result of the prosecution should make
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clear beyond any doubt that in the eyes of the law the scientific astro-
loger is just as much a rogue and a vagabond as any gipsy woman,"
etc. Now while it is true that the law takes this view we are sure
that every student of astrology and other intellectual men and women
will agree that it says very little for the intelligence of those who are
unable to discriminate between the itinerant gipsy woman and the
scientific astrologer.
The inference that we went wrong in interpreting maps for money
is hazardous, as the law does not appear to distinguish between those
who take money and those who do not. The vagrancy act says that
it is unlawful " to pretend and profess to tell fortunes," and we allowed
the summons to stand on this statement alone, as a test case so far as
we were personally concerned; otherwise we could have easily won
the case on the fact that there was no intent to deceive. In view of
our credentials we are sure that Truth will correct the assumption
that we have made a living out of the casting of horoscopes. Every
student of Astrology knows that this is not so. Throughout the past
thirty years we have had and still have a motive—well known to many
—for giving time, labour, and money to this work. "We would ask the
Editor of Truth if he considers a horoscope of 25000 words, the
whole of which (with the exception of the Introduction) was originally
transcribed and typewritten from shorthand notes, together with a map
of the heavens, (for verifying the correctness of which an assistant at
the Nautical Almanac Office charged 10s.), and ten additional pro-
gressed maps, for an inclusive charge of Five Guineas—a particularly
profitable undertaking, especially if he thinks of good paper, type-
writers and ribbons to say nothing of office rent, staff, etc. ?

For many years we have made great sacrifices of time, money

and labour to establish the truth of Astrology as a science, and having
done this by giving direct proof to thousands of students all over the
world we are now content to have lost our case in the Police Courts
since the real genuineness of Astrology as a science was tacitly acknow-
ledged—in fact openly admitted,2 and that is all we had hoped for.
e
We understand the magistrate (Mr Alderman Moore) slated during the
hearing of the case that he was (juile willing to admit that Astrology was a science,
and that it was studied by a great many people.
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We had a splendid case for appeal on legal points, such as omission

on the part of the prosecution of any attempt to prove intent to
deceive, and the rejection of evidence tendered to prove there was no
such intent; but we did not proceed with it simply because we had
obtained a clear and complete realisation that by so doing we should
only open the way for the charlaton who does make his living out of
the credulous. It is open to the Editor of Truth or to any one who
so desires, to inspect our writings during the past quarter of a century,
when it will be found that for years we gave many thousands of
horoscopes quite free of all charge, thus incurring much labour and
expense, and all for the purpose of assisting the " credulous " to
become their own astrologers.
However, as it was not our intention to put all our energy
into a vindication of predictive astrology, we were satisfied that
the telling paragraph on page 13 of What do we mean by Astrology
should have been read at the Mansion House. And while the last
sentence of that paragraph no more affects the whole of Astrology
than the Copernican theory affected its scientific aspect, nevertheless
we affirm for the horoscope, as Galileo is alleged to have said on rising
from his knees, with regard to the earth's motion—"all the same, it
moves!"
The idea that a few persons have that astrologers should not
charge for their scientific researches is sanctimonious nonsense.
Astrology is neither a psychic nor an occult means of divination ; and
until the astrologer is employed by the State, to work with it for the
good of humanity, he is on the same level as the lawyer or medical
practitioner—and they are State protected : the labourer should be
worthy of his hire. The evidence now before the world regarding the
truth of astrology proves the State to be either ignorant or apathetic
regarding celestial laws.
Alan Leo

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MODERN ASTROLOGY

A Police Inspector's Horoscope

At the Mansion House yesterday, before Mr Alderman Moore, Alan
Leo, editor of Modern Astrolooy, Iinperial^Buildiogs, Ludgate Circus, was
summoned at the instance of the Director of Public Prosecutions for on
May a3 being a person " pretending and professing to tell fortunes." He
pleaded " Not Guilty" and was defended by Mr Wild, K.C., and Mr W.
Warren.
Mr Travers Humphreys, appearing in support of the summons, said the
defendant advertised horoscopes and things of that sort. Information about
astrology could be obtained for a shilling and upwards, but in the advertise-
ment it was stated that the " complete and perfect horoscope which is a
masterpiece in judgment and arrangement " could be had for five guineas.
Inspector Nicholls, of the City Police, sent the defendant five guineas for a
horoscope, which was forwarded to him in due course. Counsel said the
horoscope contained specific predictions for the next 10 years. In one year
it was stated that marriage was not recommended. Under the heading
" igzo " it said :—
This year appears to be dominated with [by] the Sun's square to Jupiter—an
adverse aspect that will tend to affect you socially and financially ; hence you will
need to go cautiously and see that your expenses do not exceed receipts, and
do not become surety for another in any way. ... It seems to be worse
[more] in the latter half of the year that this affliction will affect you, and as
Jupiter governs your eleventh hour [house] at birth trouble with friends is shown
and you may lose someone to whom you have been attached. Do not make any
new acquaintances or push yourself forward in any way, for there will be a tendency
to be misled. It would be wise to look after your circulation by keeping the blood
in a good condition, and do not neglect any chills or colds, but give all minor
ailments attention and, above all, avoid all tendencies to worry and anxiety.
Mr Wild, K.C., for the defence, said that the defendant had no intent to
deceive or to impose. He never purported to tell the events of everyday
life. There was no evidence that he ever professed to tell more than
"tendencies." If necessary, his client intended to fight this matter out in
some form or other even up to the House of Lords.
Mr Wild had not concluded his address at the rising of the Court and
the hearing of the summons was adjourned.
From The Times 10/7/'17, p. 3.
(For report of proceedings on the 16th July, see p. 287).
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By the Sub-Editor
Sure, Ue that wade us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and god-like reason
To fust in ns wtus'd.
Hamlet, iv. 4.

It may be remembered that I wrote a short article under this title

in Modern Astrology for July 1914, dealing with the prosecution
of Mr Alan Leo on a charge of " fortune-telling" on 6/5/'14. I
reproduce it here.
" Being sent to fetch a book which it was thought Counsel might
wish to refer to, I was absent from court during the greater part of
the case and only returned in time to hear the summons dismissed.
So that my impressions are necessarily founded upon what may be
termed ' residuals.' From these, hov/ever, it seems to me the salient
features of the prosecution may be gathered.
" One thing stands out clearly : The ' fortune-telling ' is saying
anything whatever about the future.
"That is the plain fact of the matter, as may be seen even from
the Tf/nes report [for which see Jlf.A. July 1914, pp. 304-307]. No
exception was taken to the delineation of character contained in the
horoscope. Nor was Mr Leo placed in the witness box and examined
as to the basis of the forecast. No; it related to the future, and that
was enough. Because, as everybody knows, to foretell the future is
impossible, and therefore anyone setting out to do so is self-confessedly
a charlatan and a rogue.
" The three words in italics are the kernel of the matter. They
are NOT TRUE, and everyone knows they are not true—and yet
supposes they are! Everyone knows that in all walks of life some
person is found who can see further into the future than his fellows
and his judgment, his 'foresight,' is valued and paid for accordingly,
whether his foresight concerns commerce, politics, or engineering ; the
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man "who can ' look ahead ' commands a liberal salary and ungrudging
respect. Everyone knows this. What everyone does not know, is
the bearing of Astrology on the matter. When this same faculty of
judgment and foresight is coupled with a knowledge of Astrology,
intelligent anticipation of the future widens its field in a very
remarkable way.
" Everj-one does not know this, and it rests with us students of
Astrology who do know it, to permeate the public mind, not only with
the fact that this foresight is the possession of the astrologer (more, or
less, according to his capacity and experience) but also with the
reason WHY the astrologer has this power, however limited its extent.
And in this connection it may be remarked that there is great point in
Mr Reilly's question : ' Is the astrologer to be the only professional
man who is debarred from establishing a reputation for himself by his
work ?'
"To return to the Mansion Mouse. It was open to the Lord Mayor
and his advisers to permit witnesses for the defence, Mrs Besant and
Mr Sinnett and others, to enter the box and to cross-examine them
but they elected not to do so. Instead, the case was dismissed on a
technical point, one cannot help thinking because it was the easiest
way out of a difficult position."

That is the whole of the article and only the first and last
paragraphs are inapplicable to the recent prosecution on Q-lfi/?/'!?,
the first because on this occasion I was in court the whole time, and
the last because certain witnesses were allowed to testify to the high
character borne by the defendant—though they were not permitted to
give evidence/or As/rology. It is true that on this or.casion Mr Leo
was put in the witness box, and that he was examined as to the basis
of the forecast to this extent, and to this extent only, that he was
permitted to say that the forecast or "tendencies" on p. 83 of the
horoscope were based upon the facts set out on p. 77 [a list of
" progressed aspects "]. But no interest was manifested in this page ;
it was sufficient that they were "astrological technicalities." And
when Mr Leo under cross-examination asked " Do you wish me to
explain Astrology to you ? " the reply of the prosecuting Counsel was
" God forbid ! " or some similar semi-jocular outburst.
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The judgment of the magistrate (Mr Alderman Moore) was given

as follows:—" After a very patient hearing of the able and ingenious
"arguments of Mr Wild, the Defendant's Counsel, and the evidence
"for the accused, I find the Defendant did unlawfully pretend and
" profess to tell fortunes, contrary to the form of the Statute, and on
" this finding the question is one of penalty. The maximum penalty
"under the Statute is three months' imprisonment, but under my
" extended power under the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, in lieu of
" imprisonment I fine the defendant £"5, and £lb costs."
What, then, is the Statute referred to ?

The Vaguancy Act of 1824

The Act under which the prosecution ostensibly took- place, is

5 Geo. IV, Cap 83, generally known as the "Vagrancy Act."
Paragraph 4, which is the part with which we are here concerned,
covers a whole page of foolscap, but the essential words are : " Every
Person pretending or professing to tell Fortunes, or using any subtle
Craft, Means or Device, by Palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and
impose on any of His Majesty's Subjects shall be deemed
a Rogue and Vagabond, within the true Intent and Meaning of this
Act; and it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace to commit
such 02endcr(being thereof convicted before him by the Confession of
such Offender, or by the Evidence or Oath of One or more credible
Witness or Witnesses) to the House of Correction, there to be kept
to hard Labour for any time not exceeding Three Calendar Months."
And the page-long paragraph concludes, "and every such Picklock
Key, Crow, Jack, Bit, and other Implement [in plain language
burglars' tools], and every such Gun, Pistol, Hanger, Cutlass,
Bludgeon or other offensive weapon [i.e. kighwayman's armoury],
shall, by the Conviction of the Offender, become forfeited to the
King's Majesty." We have italicised this portion of the paragraph,
because it indicates—what the context of the whole makes abundantly
clear—that the Act was framed to deal with violent and shifty people
a cut or two below the " loafer " class.
It is worthy of remark and indeed of emphasis, that in spite of
the verbose particularity of definition usual in Acts of Parliament, the
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word Astrology is NOT MENTIONED, showing that the use of this Act
as an instrument of persecution in the manner of which we have just
had an instance, was not contemplated by those who framed it.
We earnestly hope all who are interested in this matter—whether
as a question of simple justice or for any other reason—will procure
a copy of the Act,1 and study its provisions. Many amiable people
are under the impression that the practice of Astrology is " illegal " or
is in some way forbidden by the law. This is the Statute which is
the ground of that supposition. It is drastic, and searching, but is
quite obviously directed against a class of persons now happily less
numerous than at the time the Act was passed, persons of no fixed
place of abode or settled occupation, and subsisting by violence or
chicanery of the dark passage and back door variety—a class
represented in many country districts by so-called "gypsies."
To use such an enactment as an engine of persecution against a
person, however hopelessly infatuated he may be supposed (for the
purpose of argument) to be, who is openly and honestly purveying
astrological work whether dealing with the future or not, is flying in
the face of the most obvious intention of the Act. That the Act by
" deceive " means deliberate and fraudulent intention is as plain as
anything can be. It could not even be construed to cover unintentional
deception arising out of incompetence or inexperience.
And yet in the face of this, a reputable person is placed in the
dock charged with intent to deceive, while no attempt is made to
substantiate the charge of intent to deceive, nor even of deception.
The bona fides of Mr Leo as an astrologer was never brought In
question. Those who would have spoken for him were not asked to
do so, were not, indeed, permitted to do so.
In the face of all this, even while dismissing the case the [Lord
Mayor] ventures to say that he himself has no doubt that Mr Leo had
been telling fortunes ; which, of course, w as an obiter dictum, and
carries no legal weight. It has indeed no legal meaning, since
" fortune telling " had not been defined.
But it tells us one thing very clearly, and it is a useful thing to
know. It tells us that there is a type of mind, and one that is not
1
Copies can bs had from the Off.ce of Modern Astrology, Crf. post free;
mention this page.
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uncommon—[for the Lord Mayor may fairly be considered as

representative of a class, namely those who elected him to his honourable
office]—a type of mind which tacitly assumes that Nature has no
secrets which IT does not share. Tacitly assumes, for no intelligent
person could put the thought into so many words, and not realise its
absurdity. And yet what does it amount to, if not this : " Here is a
man that professes to know something of the future, by none of the
ordinary means of foresight with which I am acquainted; it must be
humbug." What other way is there out of the impasse ?
No reflection on the [Lord Mayor] of course. He only did what
any other of his colleagues would have done in his place. The piece
of false reasoning which looks so ridiculous when exhibited in this
way, is just average reasoning after all. Who believed in the X-Rays
when first he heard of them ? or in Radium ? or in Mr Bachelet's
Flying Train ? And yet what warrant had any of us for disbelieving
in them ? Simply that we had never beard of them before!
The same method of obtaining certainty lies before us in the one
case as in the other. It is, to make a personal investigation of the
subject.

The foregoing observations on the Vagrancy Act have been

reproduced from-MoDERN ASTROLOGY for July, 1914 (pp. 336 to 338)
because they apply as well to the present as to the former prosecution,
so far as all essentials are concerned. Even the epithet "obiter
dictum " applied to the Lord Mayor's remark in the former proceed-
ings is, in the present writer's opinion, an eligible term if used of the
magistrate's decision in the present instance. This without disrespect
to Alderman Moore, who listened with patience and attention both to
prosecution and defence, as well as to the evidence, and, in a difficult
situation, manifestly tried to do his duty to the best of his ability.
The prosecution is based upon the Act cited. This Act does not
define fortune-telling, except in so far as the fortune-telling is applied
to deceive and impose. These words (deceive and impose) were not
included in the summons on this occasion, significantly enough, though
they were included in the previous summons. On neither occasion was
there any attempt to prove intent to deceive, nor any admission of
evidence controverting this implied charge. This being the case can
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the phrase " fortune-telling " be said to have any legal meaning at all,
as used in this and the previous prosecution ?
Here is an extract from the "Notes" of the evidence taken
by the Solicitor's reporter:—"(Mr Wild proposes to ask witness
[Mr Sidney Randall] the result of his studies and experience : this is
objected to by the prosecution. The Magistrate disallows it. The
Magistrate says if he finds as a fact that the Defendant is predicting
the future he declines to accept evidence, except as to mitigation
of penalty, as to Astrology being a genuine science, or, as to
the Defendant honestly believing in what he professed. Mr Wild
desires to tender a number of witnesses to that effect. The Magistrate
declines to hear these witnesses as not in his opinion being relevant.) "
It is quite impossible to escape the inference which peepsout every-
where, that fortune-telling is making any specific statement about the
future. Whether that statement is based upon the result of calculations
which can be verified and whether the same inference would be drawn
by another competent student of Astrology, from the same calculations,
is not in question. The statement refers to the future and says, or
implies, that such a thing will (or is likely to) happen. That is enough
That is " fortune-telling."

The Defence

Mr Ernest Wild, K.C., based his defence upon two " propositions,"
as he termed them. His first proposition was that before a conviction
can be obtained the magistrate must be satisfied that as a fact (whether
those particular words appear in the summons or not) the accused did
" tell fortunes " with intent to deceive and impose. His second pro-
position was that the phrase" to tell fortunes " involves predicting future
events, and that there is no evidence that the Defendant ever professed
to tell more than " tendencies."
In the course of a very able speech—which it would be well to
have printed and circulated in the form of a pamphlet—he showed
that Astrology was an integral part of the belief of millions of people
at the present time, that it had been studied in all ages by men of
learning and renown, that even so recently as the beginning of the
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present century it was being studied, believed in and written upon by

no less a person than Dr Richard Garnett, late Keeper of the Books
at the British Museum, who so far back as 1880 claimed in the
Univefstty Magazine to have established a prim a-facie case for its
value as a study worthy of the attention of medical men and others.
That at the present time it was being studied by large numbers of
people, largely through Mr Leo's influence and writings, a fact attested
by seven large text-books and fourteen small manuals, to say nothing of
a monthly magazine which had been issued continuously since 1890—
twenty-seven years—of which hewas, and had been during all that time,
Editor. And that he would bring evidence to show not only the high
character borne by the Defendant (testified to by the seventy-three
letters received by his solicitor during the week preceding the hearing
of the case), but also the value of the advice which had been given.
His bona-fiiies could not be questioned : [and in point of fact it was
not\. As regards the legal aspect of the matter, it was not necessary
for the Court to be satisfied that Astrology was a science, it was only
necessary that it should be satisfied that Defendant had a bond-fide
belief in it and that he was a competent exponent of the subject.
On his second proposition Mr Wild claimed that specific events,
or definite happenings were not foretold ; that in the Ten Years future
prospects to which the prosecution had almost exclusively directed
attention, " tendencies " only were indicated ; that Mr Leo not only
did not claim to predict but declared that he could not do so, free-
will being an integral part of the science of Astrology in accordance
with the ancient dictum that " The Stars incline, they do not compel."
And he concluded with a wonderfully telling condensed exposition
of Astrology in such terms as must have pleased Mr Leo, representing
the Sun as the body of a central omnipotent Intelligence, outposts
of whose consciousness are the planetary angels whose vehicles are
the circling orbs,—the fingers, as it were, of One Great Hand.
I have not the notes of this speech before me, and have done but
poor j'ustice to the interest and power of his address, but sufficient
perhaps to give those who were not present some idea of the way in
which the subject was handled.
A striking point was made by him in reference to the judgment
give in Penny and Hanson, quoted in their own support by the
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Prosecution, in which the judge, Mr Justice Denman, held (although as

a matter of fact in that particular case he was satisfied there had been
intention to impose) that it was not necessary, to bring evidence to-
prove intent to deceive where the thing claimed was so preposterous that
no sane man believed in it. This was in 1887 and as Mr. Wild neatly
pointed out, in those days no sane man believed in the possibility of
seeing the bones in one's own hand by Rontgen Rays, or in the
possibility of an enemy nation dropping bombs on London from a
squadron of flying machines! We had learned a great deal in the
past thirty years, and the next thirty had doubtless just as many
surprises in store, of which a general recognition of Astrology might
well be one.

To Be, or Not to Be, teiat is the Qoestion

The reader might probably expect, after all this, to learn that an
Appeal will shortly be heard to try whether this judgment is to stand.
And when he reads that it has been decided NOT to appeal on this
case, it is not unlikely that he will say ; " In the name of all that is
reasonable, why not ?
I quite sympathise with him, and will frankly admit that they
were my own thoughts if not my actual words when the decision was
first made known. However, I have come to look upon the matter
differently; and perhaps he may do so, too, after a little consideration.
Let us view the matter from the point of view of the prosecution
—which, remember, represents the party at present in the field.
From their point of view, foretelling the future, in any form, is fortune-
telling, and therefore illegal; whether the person believes in his ability
to do so, or whether the enquirer believes or does not believe, has
nothing to do with the case.
What then, was our defence, from their point of view ?
Briefly our defence was: (i) Our work is bona-fide and we have
a thorough belief in the methods by which we work, (ii) We do not
make definite predictions ; we indicate tendencies, not inevitable
happenings.
As already stated, (i) from the standpoint of the prosecution (and
the magistrate too, as was clearly shown) is irrelevant. On the other
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hand, (ii) is plainly regarded as a quibble, an attempt to evade the

spirit of the prohibition by taking shelter behind the letter of the law.
And as such it naturally arouses a certain contemptuous resentment
as a mere excuse." In effect—/co/n the point of view of the
prosecution—it is saying that we can and do foretell the future though
not by definite statements but by vague ones; yet it is manifest that
whether definite or vague they are believed and are therefore
predictions.
I admit that I have strong sympathy with that view; indeed, were
it not for my own actual knowledge, by first band study and experience
(apart from all traditions or text-book statements) of what" prediction "
by Astrology means, what it is based upon, how far it is a matter of
tendencies only, and how far it is merely a question of rational
inference that the person concerned will make no effort but respond in
the simplest way to the influences operating,—were it not for this, I
say, that view would be mine. And therefore it was with little surprise
that I saw the word " tendencies" which had been figuratively
speaking clung to for support, prove but a broken reed when the
prosecuting Counsel pointed to the phrase "at this time a death in
your family circle is likely to cause you sorrow." Counsel asked
sarcastically was the death a tendency, or, was there a tendency to a
death ? The prosecution was naturally rather triumphant in tone
here, and in the final result it seemed to me as though the whole case
had hinged round this point.
It may be argued fairly enough,—and it was so argued,—that
this was a single statement inadvertently so phrased, in a long type-
written document of about 100 pages and 25,000 words; that the
whole tone of the preceding 80 or 90 pages had been to the effect that
the stars incline they do not compel; and that prior to the later
pages dealing with the progressed horoscope there was a special page
inserted quoting Ptolemy's famous aphorism "that it is not possible
that particular forms of events should be declared by any person,
however scientific, since the understanding conceives only a general
idea of some sensible event, and not its particular form, etc." All
this was swept aside. It was plainly regarded by the prosecution as a
mere "get-out" (to use a vulgarism),—their view being tacitly
endorsed, by implication, by Alderman Moore in his finding of guilty.
 272 MOIJliKN ASTKOl-OGY

This was the yolk of the egg. Something had been foretold as to
take place. That was a prediction. It was therefore fortune-telling,
and illegal.
Is Astrology fortune-telling ? Either it is or it isn't. Yes or no,
which will you have ; for you cannot have it both ways ? That is the
attitude of the prosecution, using the word prosecution in quite an
abstract sense.
Thepoint has been taken by a student of Astrology, M. Matthews,
who in the issue of Modern Astrology for July 1914 already
referred to writes: (p. 333)—"It surely must be admitted that
Astrology does include ' fortune telling,'—that is, that as well as
temperament and character, the general tendency of the future life
can also be foretold from the horoscope of birth—the kind of events
likely to hapi cn in the future,—with the possibility of more or less
modifying part of it, our attitude towards events at any rale, by the
exercise of FREE-WILL " : [italics mine].
I have said that the prosecution—using that word in its widest
sense—evidently regards the use of the word " tendencies " as an
attempt to evade the spirit of the enactment, and thereby they claim,
in effect, that the Vagrancy Act should be interpreted according to the
spirit and not according to the letter.
Agreed, so it should. And in that case there can be no prosecu-
tion against an astrologer under this statute unless intent to deceive is
proved to the satisfaction of the magistrate. The intention of the Act
in this respect is as plain as anything in words can be. 13ut one must
abide either by the spirit or by the letter. One cannot have it both
ways.
This being so, what then is to hinder us from going forward to
Appeal with the object of obtaining a judgment that will admit the
validity of astrological interpretations of the progressed influences of
the horoscope, as well as of the ' static ' influences as represented in
character and temperament ? What indeed.
When you engage competent legal assistance, place yourself in
their hands, ask their opinion, act according to their advice, if results
do not turn out according to your wishes, you yet do not despise their
assistance. You recognise that they have studied, and understand,
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the medium in which they work ; that they have given advice based
upon the properties of that medium; and that though it may not have
had a favourable issue, yet that issue is probably a better one than if
you had ignored it. Should they therefore venture on a forecast of
the event in a certain contingency, you do not approach it in the spirit
in which the law approaches the forecast of an astrologer. You take
it seriously, as being based upon principle, judgment, and experience ;
and you therefore carefully weigh the probabilities of its being justified
by events.
Thus approached, legal opinion has pronounced that here is a
good case for Appeal.1 A favourable judgment cannot be regarded as
a certainly. Nevertheless it is recommended that the case should be
carried to Appeal.
In weighing such advice as this, the person advised cannot help
reflecting that while there is an uncertainty, it is an uncertainty that
is all on one side. The Appeal may be won, or it may be lost; in
either event the legal expenses will have to be met, and they must be
heavy. The fine and the costs in the recent prosecution formed the
least part of the expense entailed.
The decision arrived at was taken in full view of these facts.
Where a principle is at stake,—such for example as the vindication of
Astrology as a science lawful to pursue and to profess,— and a great
deal of money is needed to achieve the aim in view, one may well
pause and consider in which of several alternative ways that outlay
may most judiciously be made. The moving of the public mind is
the object to be attained. Occasionally such an end may be gained
by the publicity attendant on a legal controversy—a sharp contest, and
a clear decision. But when this hitter is lacking, and the upshot is
inconclusive, more harm than good is done by the public attention
excited, the issue is left more confused than before, old prejudices
.are strengthened and new hostility provoked. In view of such a

1
Two observations of Mr AMermun Mocre during the hearing of the caso are
worthy of meniion in this connection : he said he was quite prepared to admit ihat
asfology was a science, and ihat it was studied by a gr. at number cf people. And
when the question of Appeal was mooted he remarked that he would bs very glad 10
see the whole question thoronchly threshed out. The way in which lie said th's
shewed the interest which the case had had for him.
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possibility it is therefore a matter for consideration whether the moving

of the public mind may not be more safely brought about by other
means, such for example as steady propaganda by books, lecturing,
correspondence lessons, debates, and so on.
At any rate, those who are expected to pay the piper have a right
to call the tune. Will therefore any who are inclined to urge that in the
interests of astrology the Appeal should have been proceeded with at
all costs, remember this ?

, The Relatiokship of Pkophecy to Astkology

And what after all is the relationship between Astrology and

prediction, the non-technical reader is like'y to enquire at this point.
There is a chapter with theabove title in the little book What do we
mean fry Astro/ogy.and since so much reference was made to this book in
court, both by counsel for the defence and by the prosecution, one is a little
surprised that this chapter did not come in for comment. However,
a sentence from the book was cited by the prosecution in cross-
examination, and Mr Leo in the witness-box distinctly scored when he
claimed—and in this the magistrate supported him—that the sentence
should not be taken apart from the whole paragraph of which it was a
part, and the last part. Here is the paragraph, from p. 13 of the
book, as it was read out in full by Mr Travers Humphreys in the
magistrate's court:
" The claims of Astrology then are, that it offers first and foremost
a means of general character-study entirely surpassing the combined
advantages of ordinary anthropological methods, being at once more
comprehensive and more subtle. Secondly, and this is pre-eminently
its greatest, its divine use, a means for the unbiassed examination of
one's own character, and the most effective means of strengthening it.
Thirdly, a knowledge of times and seasons appropriate for certain
works, and a means of /esfn/gone's development of character. Lastly
and leastly, though unfortunately by many made firstly and solely, a
means to some extent—indeed, with those specially fitted, to a very
remarkable extent—of forecasting future events."
Those who have not studied the subject for themselves, and those
who will not so study it, have no interest in Astrology beyond that
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application of it mentioned in this last sentence. To all such, Astrology

is divination or it is nothing.
But how, persists the interested sceptic, how is it possible to
foretell the future ; surely in the very nature of things that is impossible ?
Put a seed into the ground, into the right ground, and at the right
season. In due course it will " become " a plant. And a gardener
could have /ore.'o/rf—predicted—prophesied it, and told yon
moreover what Kind of a plant. Why ? Because he has studied
seeds, and soils, and seasons.
And so with the astrologer. He too has studied seeds—horoscopes,
and soils—national characteristics, and seasons—cyclic periods. And
his prediction is essentially of the same type as that of the gardener.
It is founded on the same Nature, it is based on principles, it is
dependent on ability, and it is developed by experience.
For a more detailed illustration the reader may be referred to the
particular chapter of the little book- already alluded to.

Why the Case was Lost

Mr Leo has given it as his opinion that the case was lost because,
hada verdict in his favour been given, then, in the present state of com-
plete ignorance on the part of the public concerning astrology and astro-
logers, the way would have been opened for any self-styled ' astrologer '
to trade upon this ignorance with every catchpenny device as to fore-
telling the future—"fortune "-telling indeed ! Those who were present
in court and followed the case as carefully as I did, will, I think, agree
with this view. There can be no doubt that much harm has been
done by professing astrologers (both genuine and pseudo) in " fore-
telling" the future to people who either do not realise that Character
is Destiny or who are only too eager to forget it.
It is indeed a singular irony of circumstance that Mr Leo, who
years and years ago lost favour with his brother astrologers for his
perpetual insistence on free-will to the detriment of fate or
" scientific prediction," as they were pleased to term it, should now be
publicly condemned for doing that which he and he alone has been
successful in persuading students of Astrology N07' to do ! The fact
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that the particular passage complained of implies a definite event, is a

mere detail; the whole tone of the delineation, the express statement of
the introductory page preceding the passage complained of, the whole
tenour of the WHOLE of Mr Leo's writings duringthe past twenty-five
years or more,—every word of his that I have ever read since in May
1899 I bought his Simple Method of Instruction in the Science of
Astrology, and since in February 1903 I entered his service as a
member of his staff",—all attest his firm belief that freewill is stronger
than fate, and that planetary influence is a tool to be worked with not
a bogey to be terrified by.
And yet he is a " fortune-teller" 1
Never perhaps was there a situation fuller of irony than this,
since three hundred years and more ago Galileo was imprisoned for
teaching that which was CONTRARY TO TRUTH !

Chakactek versus Fate

How can you in one breath say you can predict, and m the next
breath say you do not and indeed cannot predict ?
did readers of this magazine are familiar to weariness with this
paradox, and the explanation of it. It has been repeated over and
over again, and there can hardly now be a student of twelve months'
standing (who is also a reader of this magazine) who is not familiar
with the problem, at least theoretically, in all its bearings. But for
the sake of new readers, and those strangers to whom this issue of the
magazine is sure to be handed, the explanation must once more be
briefly outlined.
Prediction and prophecy are words to which almost invariably
too rigid a significance is attached. They are held to imply the
foreteWing of an event, which subsequently takes place as foretold:
and although it is not always so specified in formal definitions of these
words, there is generally implicit in their use the idea that such event
must exactly fulfil in every detail the wording of the forecast—else it
is not a prediction. When such exact fulfilment does not take place,
the word if not exactly withheld is somehow felt to be out of place,
or its application to be a little strained.
And if the forecast is not expressed in terms of some acttial event,
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the bare idea of prophecy would probably be scouted and the word
" opinion" used instead. By way of example, suppose someone
' predicted ' that on a certain date fifty aeroplanes would drop bombs
on a certain town, and that when the day came nothing of the kind
happened, but that the next day forty (not fifty) aeroplanes flew over
the town without doing real damage, all bombs falling in open fields.
Would you call that a fulfilled prediction? Perhaps you would;
some people, however, would not. Now suppose that instead of
foretelling an air raid the prophet had merely said the enemy would
make a 'determined attack": would you then call it a "fulfilled
prediction " ? Perhaps, but hardly.
These are but clumsy illustrations, but they may serve to show
that the idea covered by the word prediction is more or less rigid, and
that the whole thing is more or less a matter of degree. Thus if thirty
years ago a man had said that some day England and Germany would
go to war, that would have been a prediction the fulfilment of which
we have ourselves witnessed. Yet most folks would agree in
excluding the use of the word prediction from any such vague and
indefinite statement.
Let it be admitted then, that the public mind conceives of a
prediction as some statement, tolerably explicit, of an event to take
place in the future, and that the date of such an event is to be stated
in tolerably precise terms. Otherwise, it is not a "prediction."
It is in this sense of the word that the modern astrologer
declares that he does not and can not predict.

But there is another and more elastic sense in which the word
predict—(note that it is the verb which is used in the more elastic and
the noun in the more rigid sense),—in which the word predict may be
used. You watch an intelligent youngster, and you predict"That
lad will make a clever man." You observe the unnecessary expenditure
of an extravagant young man, and you predict: " That man will
become a bankrupt."
Here the basis of the prognostication is the recognition of certain
forces or causes at work, the working out of those causes is foreseen,
and this working out is expressed in the form of a statement of an
event, or of a type of event, which will take place. In some cases it
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may be possible to indicate the time, or approximately indicate the

time, when this will take place.
These, then, are the two extremes of the notion covered by the
word predict, and it is in this latter sense—and in this sense only—
that the astrologer may be said to predict.

The causes that the astrologer sees at work arc the aspects and
positions of the planets in the horoscope of birth. The time-element
is often indicated by what is known as the "progressed horoscope," in
which by the progressive motion of the planets after birth new forces
are called into play and bring to bear upon the " native " a new set of
influences which, as compared with those initiated at birth, may be
likened to the new factor in destiny supplied by environment as
distinct from heredity. It is not pretended, mark, that the horoscope
corresponds precisely to heredity, nor that the progressed horoscope
corresponds precisely to environment; but that these two ideas in their
relation to each other supply an apt analogy by which the relationship
between the nativity and the progressed horoscope, and between both
and " prediction," can be apprehended by those who have no technical
knowledge of Astrology.
Now it is when such interpretations are made to take the form of
prediction of specific events—as for instance " you will have a splendid
business ofler made you during the coming winter "—that they may
become mischievous or hurtful, even when based upon accurate data
and developed by sound judgment. For the astrologer reads in the
horoscope causes and principles, not events and happenings, and if he
attempts the task of translating the language of principle (or symbols)
into the language of fact (or events) he is not only essaying that which
may prove, beyoad his powers, but—and this is far more important—
he is tending by suggestion to bring about the event he predicts, in so
far as the person concerned is amenable to the influence of another's
thought as distinct from his own inclinations and desires. Wherefore,
whether the event be 'good' or 'bad,' should it take place as pre-
declared, the share of the astrologer who made the prediction becomes
an integral part of the KARMA of that event,—a fact to which the
student of occultism, if no other, is fully alive.
Therefore, if and when it becomes desirable to consider the pro-
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gressive infiuences in another person's horoscope, and an interpretation

is asked for, this interpretation should be given as -far as possible in
elastic and figurative terms, as for example to take the instance in
the last paragraph; "during the coming winter opportunities of
business expansion will arise, if you are able to appreciate and take
advantage of them."

'Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther.'

There is a certain fixed limit in every life, of that there can be no
question, and beyond this limit, in age, in opportunity, in success, in
character, in destiny even, that person cannot go. It is conterminous
with the " prarabdha karma " of the eastern philosophers. It may be
termed the fixed fate. But it is very doubtful if the average
practising astrologer, however great his experience—and still less the
average student,—has any idea what this is and when it has been
reached ; (I the present writer certainly have not and never pretended
to). For the rest, it may be affirmed with certainty that no one has
the right to say "this or that aspect or this or that combination of
aspects in such a horoscope will result in such-and-such-an-event."
Experience does not warrant it, notwithstanding that experience daily
attests that such-and-such a class of aspects tends to eventuate in
such-and-such a class of events.
Always character is the deciding factor. Character is stronger
than "fate," it indicates the attitude maintained towards events, and
it points the way to " destiny " ; for while fate represents the fruitage
of the past, is the promise of the future. And character is
the very trunk of the soul itself. It is born in us, but it grows during
life, and nothing stimulates its growth so well as a conscious self-study
based upon a knowledge of Astrology and one's own horoscope.
But to invoke the aid of Astrology without making a personal
study of it is, in my opinion and not in mine alone, to use it without
in reality benefiting by it—nay rather being degraded by it.

Astrology without Prediction

The conclusion we arrive at, therefore, is this. Astrology, if it is
to flourish in this country, must be shorn altogether of its predictive
side. And a good thing too. It is an unfortunate fact that Astrology
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hitherto has been so inseparably associated, not only in the public
mind but in the thoughts of those who should have known better
(Theosophists, I am looking at you!), with prediction;—prophecy,
prediction, forecast, forecast, prediction, prophecy, one has become
weary of the trivial round, the common task of replying suitably to the
ever-repeated question " Well, what have the stars in store for me
to-day?" varied during the past three years with " When is the war
going to end, can't you tell us ? "
Why shouldn't all this sort of thing go? Cannot we do without
it? We at least who are students can; the best astrologers I know,
if suddenly asked what their directions are, have to stop and think, or
turn up the ephemeris—their thoughts are not always running in that
groove.
This question of foreseeing the future,—at its best, was it ever
more than a lure, a bait to tempt the unthinking to a study of
astrology ? Those who have followed Mr Leo's work during the
past twenty years know well that he has employed it thus, and thus
only.
It is, as it were, the bandages and splints of a broken limb,
useful, necessary, indispensable—for a time.
For a time. May not the day have come when such fettering
aids may be dispensed with once for all ? Or, at the least, removed
and laid aside for a little while ?
I believe it has.
Friends in Need are Friends Indeed
When on Monday 2/7/'17 legal assistance was first sought, the
immediate question was: "Have you any people who can speak to
your bona fides and your abilities."
A letter was hastily drawn up by the solicitor and about 100
copies were despatched by us to various friends within the next two
days. No less than 73 replies were received by the solicitor in the
course of that week. Through some inadvertence one man, Mr Herbert
Waite, received his only on the morning of the prosecution 9/7/'17.
He immediately wired to the solicitor, a full and explicitly worded
message, and (on learning that the case had been adjourned) followed
it up with this letter:—
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Lassdown, Lincoln Road,

Pi-rERBOROuGH. is/y/'iy.
Dear Sir,
Further to my telegram of July gth, as a civil engineer and an
amateur astrologer I am particularly qualified to judge of Mr Leo's ability
as a exponent of Astrology, both on the mathematical and philosophical sides
of the science.
Being convinced that Astrology, properly understood, is a great and
useful science giving practical and observable foundation for faith in God,
and thus elevating and helping mankind, I have written, and published in my
own name, a Coinjieiidiioit of Ntilal Asticlexy and Universal Ephemeris.
There is, in this book, some valuable information which, being culled
from Mr Leo's works, I offered to omit or to come to some mutual arrange-
ment over, if Mr Leo so desired. His reply was that he rejoiced to find that
I was helping in the dissemination of astrological knowledge to the world,
which was his life-work. He would no', alter my MS in any way, and would
not (and did not) receive any consideration in respect of it.
I emphatically say that this was the action of a noble-minded and
unselfish man, and a very practical illustration of Mr Leo's high motives in
his astrological work.
In my opinion Mr Leo has done more good than any thousand churches,
since he has given faith to scientifically trained minds, where dogma and
creed would never have succeeded.
A high-minded and spiritual man, he speaks from firm belief based on
life long study and experience.
The horoscope he prepared for mc has proved true in every detail, and
I know of many cases in which his work has been of inestimable value.
Arthur Atlenborough, Esq., Yours faithfully,
15 & iG, Thavic-s Inn, E.G. H. T. Waite

There is something in the reading of a letter like that that makes

one's blood thrill. Those of us who are in constant association with
Mr Leo know that it is perfectly true and free from any exaggeration.
And I for one will fully endorse the statement about a thousand
churches. For I must surely have come in contact with at least 1000
churches before, in 1899, I found in the philosophy expounded by Mr
Leo (in conjunction with the means of testing it also provided by him)
something which brought new life and light into my life and which has
provided me with greater happiness than at that time I thought could
possibly be in store for me.
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There were many other letters as warmly worded as Mr Waite's,
and if his has been selected it is only owing to the peculiar circum-
stances surrounding it. Typed copies of all the letters have been
bound into a book, and it is a book which it is safe to say will be
treasured by Mr Leo in no common degree.
The effect of this "bombardment" of letters on the solicitor, who
himself had never previously heard of Mr Leo, was quite interesting to
witness.
The presence in Court of Mr Sinnett and Mrs Maud Sharpe
during the whole of the hearing on each occasion, was a great asset,
as was also of course Mr Sinnett's testimony. It is no mean trial of
strength, at his age (75), to sit out a long hearing in a close atmosphere.
Apart from this it was a fine thing to see one of the earliest friends
of H. P. B. appearing in support of one of her earliest pupils, and
altogether I for one felt profoundly grateful to him—to them both.
In fact, taking the case as a whole, and all the facts connected
with it, I am inclined to agree with Mrs Sharpe, who, speaking
at a meeting at which a number of Mr Leo's friends and co-workers
were present, on the evening of the day judgment was delivered,
remarked that though there had been a technical defeat she considered
that Mr Leo had gained " a moral victory." When one considers the
change in tone regarding Astrology, the serious and one may say the
respectful reports in the press, it does indeed seem as if some of the
work that Mr Leo has been doing for 27 years and more, is now
beginning to bear fruit.

Payment for Astrological Work

There appears to be in impression prevailing in certain quarters

that no charge should be made for astrological^work; sometimes it
takes the form of an implication that no altruistic person would be
likely to charge for such work, sometimes the more specific statement
that taking money for it is actually blamable. Let us see what all
this amounts to.
The payment demanded by any honest man for work done
depends on two things: the consciousness of energy expended, and
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the rate of remuneration current for the work performed. Eroadly
speaking, in a normal state of society and for ordinary kinds of work,
these two generally balance each other; and in the long run they
always do. If a man charges above ordinary rates, customers diminish
and he has to lower his terms; if he charges too little, he cannot
make ends meet and he therefore goes to the wall: and so the balance
is established. Occasionally market rates are not just, and men have
to accept a rate of pay incommensurate with the energy expended.
Such a thing may go on for a time, but in the long run an adjustment
is made—by organised strikes or open rebellions in the last resort—
and a more equitable state of things supervenes. The law of Nature
sometimes referred to as the " economic law of supply and demand,"
maintains (within broad limits it is true) a definite relation between
energy expended and remuneration received.
This applies, as stated, to ordinary occupations, trades and
professions. A different interplay of conditions has to be considered
when we are dealing with ((/(ordinary kinds of work, as for example a
consulting specialist. Here there are no market rates of pay; a man
claims what he thinks he is entitled to, or what he thinks he can get,
and thus—in the opinion of those who don't happen to stand in his
shoes—he has things all his own way. But this opinion overlooks the
fact that such a man's market does not exist ready-made for him, he
has to make it; and he has to make it in one of two ways—by
advertisement, or by reputation: or, more frequently in these days,
by a combination of the two. Hut in the long run a connection of
this kind is established and maintained by REPUTATION ; advertisement
is merely a guy-rope, as it were, to keep it steady. Here, then, the
balancing factor, which in our previous paragraph we found to be
the market rate, is—personal reputation. If a man's charges are
disproportionately high, his reputation suffers in this respect, clients
drop off, and he has to moderate his fees. If on the other hand his
charges are too low, he finds himself over-burdened with work, and in
sheer self-protection has to increase them. In this way the balance
is maintained.
•The question that must be faced by those who charge a consulting
specialist with demanding exorbitant fees, is : How can he afford to do
it ? For his fees, as we have seen, are decided for him by the actual
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conditions under which he works, they are not dictated by his own
fancy.
These remarks, it must be remembered, apply only to such
workers as come properly into the category of ' consulting specialists.'
And, a/ present, owing to astrology having no recognised status, the
practising astrologer is in that category.
If, therefore, a man is in practice as a consulting specialist or,
let us say, as a practising astrologer, and has been so for a number
of years, it is a fair presumption that the fees he charges represent
adequate, and not more than adequate, payment for the energy
expended by him. Any other inference is not only unfair, it is
unscientific.

The other idea, that no charge at all should be made for astrological
work, has been severely characterised by Mr Leo as "sanctimonious
nonsense." It is certainly nonsense, not always sanctimonious let us
hope, but, as I shall show, proceeding from confusion of thought.
It is well known amongst students of the occult that there is a
prohibition against the taking of money, or any material recompense,
for the exercise of psychic or spiritual gifts. To accept money
therefore for the giving of advice founded upon psychic investigation,
is not legitimate : hence the outcry against the employment of paid
' mediums,' professional psychics, and so forth, and against results
obtained by such means. This prohibition, as I say is well-known ;
but the reason for this prohibition does not seem to be so generally
perceived. I will state it as it appears to me.
At any particular period of the world's history, and during the
predominance of any one Race, say for example the Fifth Root Race
now dominating the world, there is one particular quality or faculty
which mankind is engaged in developing, and which it is the aim of
its Teachers that it should cultivate as fully as possible, all honest
means to that end being not only legitimate but desirable. There is
also some one quality (more than one, in fact, but one in particular)
which has already been sufficiently developed in past Root Races and
now requires to be not exactly suppressed, but so repressed and
superseded as to be thrown entirely into the background. Of these
qualities, that which is to be cultivated and stimulated is that which
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pertains to the current Root Race, while that which needs to be super-
seded—being already sufficiently developed and even perhaps too
luxuriant—is that which pertained to the previous Root Race.
Therefore, in any Root Race that which constitutes a " legitimate "
means of livelihood for any person is any occupation which tends to
promote the development in that person of the special faculty
appropriate to that Root Race ; providing of course, that it is also
work which in some way is useful and not harmful to the community ;
while an " illegitimate" means of livelihood would be anything either
injurious to the community, or, (and this is quite as important) tending, in
the individual practising it, to provide a means of " playing truant"
as it were from the particular lesson the Race is set to learn, thereby
retarding his development. " In the sweat of thy brow," runs the old
commandment, " thou shalt cat thy bread," and it is in the spirit of
this commandment that we recognise the illegitimacy of any means of
livelihood which does not involve effort.
The special work of the Fourth Root Race was the stimulation
and development of the kamic vehicle—the astral body, the apparatus
whereby the lower psychic as well as the higher spiritual intuitions
reach the consciousness functioning in a physical body. Anything
therefore which helped to extend the "psychic" powers, was, in that
Race, a desirable thing and might justifiably become a means of
livelihood.
The special work of the Fifth Root Race, on the other hand, is
the awakening into activity of the intellectual faculties—reason,
reflection, judgment, combination, discrimination—inference in lieu of
instinct, calculation in lieu of impulse: the very antithesis, as it were,
of what had gone before. And, accordingly, we are told that the
pioneers of the Fifth Root Race were selected from the least admired
specimens of the Fourth, men and women with indifferent psychic
but dawning mental faculties.
It follows, then, from what has been said, that for us who are
now in the Fifth Root Race (as the whole of Western civilisation is),
a "legitimate" means of livelihood is any which being useful to the
community at the same time aids the performer in the development
of his intellectual and reasoning capacities. By the exercise of our
brains, our intelligence, shall we live. Other means of livelihood, even
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when not actively predatory or parasitical, may be classed as illegitimate.

A crude example might be pointed to in the position of a " fat man
in a show.

Psychic sensitiveness is of two kinds. There is psychic

sensitiveness " on the way down " and psychic sensitiveness " on the
way up." The former is that which is manifested before the intellectual
faculties have been developed. It is chiefly characterised by a want
of interest in mental things, and by incurable mental idleness or
incapacity, or both, and not infrequently if not invariably by a want
of the moral sense. Such people " feel " all they want to know, and
if put into touch with another person by conversation or correspondence,
or even by a horoscope, have little difficulty in ascertaining anything
about his personal surroundings—anything, that is, to which he is
attached by feeling—that they may wish to know. Such people when
professing to be " astrologers," (as many of them do), are the bane of
the science and have done it more harm than any persecution could
do.
The other kind of psychic sensitiveness is distinguished by the
fact that it is very rare, and never found unassociated with conspicuous
intellectual and reasoning ability and a highly developed moral sense.
Good instances of this type are Dr Anna Kingsford, and Elizabeth
Deuton—authoress of ThalSonl of Things. Such people will never
exercise their psychic faculties as a means of livelihood. Some
instinct restrains them.

We have now only to consider whether the practise of casting

and judging a horoscope is a task calling for the active exercise of the
rational mind—those faculties of calculation, discrimination, reflection,
combination, inference and judgment, alluded to in a previous
paragraph ; for if so, it is a legitimate means of livelihood, or may
legitimately receive recompense in money. Legitimate, that is to say,
from the standpoint of occultism whether technically so in a police-
court sense or not.
No one who has ever attempted the judgment of a horoscope—
which may be paralleled, though only faintly, by a chess-problem—can
have any hesitation as to the answer.
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Those who deliver a judgment of a horoscope without the exercise
of these faculties, and their strenuous exercise too, are not astrologers.
They may be psychics : but under the circumstances, and in view of
the explanation which has just been given, 1 prefer the term swindlers.
Alfred H. Barley

THE STARS AND DESTINY

London Astrologer Fined
At the Mansion House yesterday, before Mr Alderman Moore, the
hearing of (he summons against Mr Alan Leo, Editor of Modern Astrology,
Imperial Buildings, Lndgate Circus, for on May 23, being a person " pretend-
ing and professing to tell fortunes," was resumed. In the result the Alderman
imposed a fine of ^5, with ^25 costs. It was intimated that the defendant
would appeal.
Mr Travers Humphreys appeared for the Director of Public Prosecutions;
Mr Wild, K.C., and Mr Walter Warren appeared for the defendant, who
pleaded " Not Guilty." On the part of the prosecution it was stated that the
defendant advertised horoscopes, and that in May Inspector Nicholls, of the
City Police, purchased one for five guineas.
Mr Wild, K.C., continuing his speech for the defence, said the defendant
did not tell fortunes. He was not an impostor, because he was practising a
science in which he had a bond fide belief. Although astrology professed to
tell " tendencies," free-will was an integral part of the science. The stars
might influence life, yet a man was master of his own destiny. If a person
chose to go out when bombs were falling and get killed, then the fault was
his own and not in the stars. Mr Leo was the author of seven large works
and fourteen smaller manuals on astrology.
Mr Sidney Randall, Major Montagu Adams, and Mr A. P. Sinnett, who
was for ten years Editor of the Pioneer, the Anglo-Indian newspaper, testified
to the high reputation borne by the defendant.
The defendant, in evidence, said he became so impressed by the truth of
the science, that in 1887 he gave up his business as an engineer and took up
astrology as a profession. He had twice studied the subject in India. He
did not claim to be able to predict the future or the fortunes of others, and
his clients were mainly among the rich and intellectual classes.
From The Times, 17/7/1917, p. 3.
(For report of proceedings on the gth July, see p. 262).

[All other matter, Letters, etc., held over this month.]

 Alan Leo's New Circular.

All circulars, etc., for Astrological Work issued prior to this

date, August 1917, are now cancelled.

IT IS NONSENSE to say that Astrologers should not charge for their

scientific researches. Astrology is not a psychic or occult means of
divination, it is a Science requiring intellect and a brain-capacity
above the average to understand and interpret correctly.
HOROSCOPES ARE CAST and interpreted for an inclusive fee of
One, Two, and Three Guineas; comprising respectively a brief, full,
or complete interpretation free from any intended form of prediction.
THESE HOROSCOPES deal with the twelve houses, as follows:—
The Self, disposition and characteristics.
Finance, and the capacity to earn money.
Educatability, the objective mind.
Environment, the life unfolding. PLEASE NOTE: Each Horoscope con-
Enterprise, results of effort. tains much more than is here stated.
Hygiene, the care of the body. including a Summary of the life's unfold-
Complements, unions and partnerships. ment and general advice as to the best way
Co-workers, the influence of others. of making the Horoscope useful for all time.
The Higher or subjective mind, philosophy.
Avocation, the physical activities.
Friendships, aspirations.
Latent influences.

FOR THE CASTING OF HOROSCOPES wc require to know the

Time, Date, and Place of birth, also the sex, and the title—Mr. Mrs,
Miss, etc. If the precise time of birth is given we guarantee satisfactory
interpretation.
SINCE OUR WORK IS NOT DONE for the credulous, the unintel-
lectual, or for persons who cannot afford to pay the same fee they would
pay a lawyer or medical practitioner, this plan is adopted to avoid
dealing with those whose minds cannot formulate a sensible question.
We give general advice, in the form of a personal letter on any
subject; provided it is accepted as an astrological opinion based upon
specially prepared calculations necessary for the purpose,—which may,
or may not, be paid for separately, according to circumstances. The
fee for a brief letter of advice is 10/6, or full letter 21/-. If covering a
variety of subjects, including the calculations, 42/-.
THE INTERPRETATION OF "Tendencies" or "Directions" for
any year or period is now entirely abandoned. The calculations, how-
ever, may still be obtained at the rates mentioned in pre-war circulars,
also the charts by which they may be read from "The Progressed
Horoscope " book.
ALL WORK IS DESPATCHED in the order received
Cheques, Postal and Money Orders may be made payable to Alan Leo,
and letters should be addressed to Alan Leo, or "Modern Astrology"
Office, Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, London, E.G. 4.
FOR ALL AMOUNTS over £1 an acknowledgment is sent, but a
stamped addressed envelope will ensure the acknowledgment of any
letter.
Fowiiied August 1890 under the iille of
"THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE

Moderp

Astrology
A Journal devoted to the search for truth concerning Astrology

yoL-XIV.-l OCTOBER, 1917. [No. 10

New Serjes. J ' L ]

Definition of a Man

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master ;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same ;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build them up with worn-out tools ;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt yon,

If all men count with you, but none too much ;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man my son !
From Rudyard Kipling's "IF "
ago

®Ijc ©bttor's ©bsfriiRtor^

We regret to announce the death of Mr Alan Leo which took place

suddenly, after a brief lllneES, at Bude in Cornwall where he and Mra
Leo were staying for their holidays. Mr Leo, who was hard at work up
to within a day or two of his death, had made arrangements tor the
continuance as hitherto of the enterprise so long associated with his
name as Modern Astrology—magazine, bocks, lessons, etc— end with the
loyal co-operation of those who realise the value of that work, its
continuation during the remainder of the present century may be
confldentiy looked for.
The printer's proofs of this month's magazine reached Dude the third
day after his death, and with the exception of Mrs Leo's account of his
lest hours the magazine isjust as it would have been if he were still with
us In body instead of In light.
It is proposed to make the December Issue of the magazine a Special
Memorial Number, and we ask tor the help of all our readers in this
matter, only reminding them that Mr Leo himself always valued
appreciation of his work, and of its object, far more highly than ony
personal encomiums—from which Indeed he was rather averse. As one
who was present at the cremation put it, ho seemed to be saying
" Forget that body and do my work."
Alfred H. Barley
A cling Editor

PSEUDO-ASTROLOGERS
The following much needed editorial admonition appeared in the
American Magazine'Azof/j for the month of July 1917. Its application
to our remarks on p 258 ofslast issue will be obvious.
FAKE ASTROLOGERS
We are constantly coming across circulars and advertisements offering
to supply completely written horoscopes, naming lucky and unlucky days,
months, etc., advising what kind of person one should marry, outlining the
future, and what not, all for twenty-five or fifty cents.
We suppose there are few readers of Azoth who would be caught by
such baits put out to catch their loose silver, but we hope that what we have
to say may at least help to drive these frauds out of business.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY
Astrology is a profound and difficult study. It demands years of hard
work and practice to become proficient in it, and the very deepest students
realize that there is still much to leant, even though they limit their researches
strictly to its divinatory side.
To erect a horoscope, to study it carefully, and to write out even a
general reading, is a matter of several hours' work. To progress it and study
the aspects to the radical chart which have formed or are forming, and
to give a full interpretation, is, in all, a good day's work cr more. To
imagine for a moment that any reputable, or even disreputable, astrologer is
going to take this trouble for twenty-five cents or even a dollar is absurd.
Anyone who knows anything about the matter will recognise that an
offer to set up and read your horoscope for twenty-five cents is pure hum-
buggery, and the faker so advertising is obtaining money under false pretences.
What he or she does to earn the fee is, simply, to copy from some book the
indication given of the Sun in a particular sign at birth, and perhaps in some
cases add what the same book says on each day of the month, derived from
the rising sign or ascendant at noon. These are mimeographed, and with a
good supply on hand it is merely a matter of mailing a suitable copy to the
dupe who has so readily parted with his quarter. It may or may not fit the
individual concerned—but at its best, it is but a very faint and general
delineation of character, with almost nothing else, and is practically valueless.
Astrology was once a recognised science in high repute. Concerning
itself with forces which materialistic science could not and would not
recognize, it came in more moderu days to be generally and popularly
considered a superstition ; but, as unseen and unknown forces are now
being admitted though not understood, the interest in Astrology is spreading
rapidly and many are again looking upon it with respect.
In the professions of law and medicine a regular course of study must be
completed before students are qualified to practise, but with Astrology there
is no enforced study, no standards by which to estimate the fitness or
capacity of the student. This permits unrestrained charlatanism, and the
veriest novice, armed with an elementary manual and a set of ephemerides
may tack " Prof." before his name, gull the public, and bring obloquy and
disgrace upon the title of astrologer and upon those who are earnestly
devoting themselves to the renaissance of a most important branch of occult
wisdom.
A great handicap to a reinstatement of the science to a place of dignity
and utility, are these ignorant astrological quacks who are out simply to filch
money from the gullible public.
Astrology is suffering from these gentry just as Spiritualism has suffered
from (he frauduleut and pretended mediums.
Any magazine devoted to occultism in any form, which admits such
 MODKR.V ASTROLOGY
advertisements to its pa»es confesses the ignorance of its editor and lays
itself open to severe criticism. It is most unfortunate that periodicals and
newspapers permit the use of their columns these frauds, but, if the
various Astrological Societies of the country would get together, they might
be able to take such action as would prevent it.
Needless to say we are in entire sympathy with the Editor's
comment on those 'astrologers ' who are not astrologers merely because
they use that name. With regard to the last paragraph, we have
pointed out the mischief that is done by these advertisers to the
Editors of the journals admitting them, but to no purpose, probably
owing to the fact that they have been unable to discriminate between
the genuine and the false astrologer. In one case, however, there was
apparently no excuse, for one of these deceivers reproduced in his
advertisement the photograph of a well-known writer and author in
America presumably hoping that the public would take it for his own.
It was as much like the advertiser as a lion is like a mouse, and when
this was pointed out to him he had the efTrontery to declare it was the
portrait of—his own grandfather!
There is also another advertiser, who although of the female sex
advertises as Mr using a well known name and evidently
desiring her clients to believe she is a male, another piece of gross
deception ; if the advertisement is misleading, what must the work be?—
for to begin with deception does not lead one to suppose that it will
end there, especially when we know that this person uses psychic
means of divination instead of scientific ability.
We might have filled our advertisement pages with advertisements
from these frauds and derived a good revenue by doing so, but we
have always considered that the publishers of advertisements of this
kind are morally quite as responsible fcr deceiving the public as are
the advertisers, although they may not think so.
The Astrological Society as well as'the Astrological Institute are
now moving to take such steps as will restrain these charlatans in the
future. All persons who wish to take part in the genuine astrological
movements of the present day are now earnestly asked to combine
with us to this end, when the handicap mentioned by the Editor of
Azoth will soon disappear.
A word may be added on the fourth paragraph from the end—" No
 THli EniTOK's OI5SEKVATOKY

standards by which to estimate the fitness or capacity of the student."

While this is unfortunately true in the sense in which the writer evi-
dently means it, namely that there ars no officially recognised standards,
of which the law will take cognisance, yet we may be pardoned for
pointing out that the elaborate Course of Correspondence Lessons
inaugurated by us in September 1913, and the Certificates and
Diplomas that have been awarded tothose who have proved themselves
competent, (announced from time to time in this magazine), does
provide the discriminating public with a means for distinguishing
between the efficient and the non-efficient or fraudulent.

DIRECTIONS AFTER DEATH

Our old friend and fellow studentMrA. Urquhart.of India,has raised

a very interesting question with regard to the continuance of progressed
influences after death.
When on our tour of investigation into the merits and demerits
of professional astrologers, some twenty years ago, we found in
Hamburg an astrologer whom we judged competent to give an
opinion on this subject, as he had studied the matter very carefully for
many years—finding as a result of his numerous calculations that
families were all affected more or less after the decease of one of
their members, as a result of his or her progressed horoscope. The
evidence he produced seemed convincing enough at the time, and it
has gained in strength by our own experience since.
The theories of Re-incarnation and Karma would lead us to
suppose that it is quite possible to exhaust karma on the astral and
mental planes after death, and it seems quite reasonable to expect that
a considerable amount of karma connected with the senses of an
individual may be consumed on the astral plane; in fact we are much
more inclined to this belief, than to the idea that physical death finally
closes the record of the current life. Most of us are far too much
inclined to limit the interpretation of horoscopes to physical experience,
whereas we know that mental and emotional experience may be far
more real and vivid to some temperaments than physical happenings.
Sir Edwin Arnold tells us in his beautiful poem The Light of
Asia :
 MODE UN .ASTROLOGY
"The Boolcs say well, my Brothers ! each man's life
The outcome of his former living is;
The bygone wrong brings forth sorrow and woe,
The bygone right breeds bliss.
That which ye sow j'e reap
So is a man's fate born."
That there is a link between the natal figure and the succeeding
rebirth we have very little doubt, and we foresee a future line of
astrological investigation, by strictly scientific methods, that will do
much to make the ideas of Karma and Re-incarnation something more
than theories. As one indication of the influence of deceased persons
on those left behind, we may mention that there are now a large
number of people who do not believe that Lord Kitchener is dead.
We have received a number of letters from various parts of the world
stating this belief from persons who are quite convinced that he is not
dead. These very strong impressions, as they undoubtedly are, can
only be accounted for by the fact that Lord Kitchener possessed a
remarkably strong personality and his astral activity would be very
pronounced, for he would be identically the same individual character
minus the thick coating of his physical body ; so that his thoughts and
feelings would be much more potent when free of the body than when
hampered by it. And sensitives, therefore, responding quickly to astral
influences, would feel and sense him through the " wireless " astral
currents to such an extent as to imagine that he was still in the
physical world and actively engaged in organising his war plans.

MR RAWSON AND MRS EDDY

We have been asked if we will publish the birthdata of Mr

Rawson and Mrs Eddy. Both of these Christian Science advocates are
considered by our correspondent to be under Neptune's influence, and
she desires to know how far Neptune's influence is shown in their
horoscopes.
Mr F. L. Rawson, although not favourably disposed toward
Astrology has kindly given us the following particulars :—Born at the
Cape of Good Hope, on 27/7/1859, hour unknown; by profession a
Civil Engineer; father died 20/11/1899, mother died 14/2/1912.
Mr Rawson's horoscope should be interesting in view of the
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY 295
trouble he has had in connection with his work, also on account of his
statement that the end of the world will come either on the 3rd or 4th
December 1917. This statement he qualifies by adding " that is to say
the end of all sin, trouble, worry and limitations "; and he goes on to
say, "It would be very interesting to see what the position of matters
will be astronomically on the 3rd December."
In manner and appearance Mr Rawson gives the impression that
he was born under the sign Taurus. We are inclined to think that
15° to 20° is rising with ^ in the ascendant and V the only planet
above the earth. This would bring I),S into the second house and
the O <? b into the third, with 5 in the fourth O^. However, a
rectification which has been attempted on the basis of the information
supplied, results in the following map, which students may like to
study:
xii
x xi i " ili
tii5-35 -28 K17 T23.11 B2i D23
O D V 9 S V 't tjf V
,514.17 ®6.i6 hjii.8 017.33 312.18 (Bio.47 ji 14.19 D6.52 H26.57r
A very good photograph of Mr Rawson will be found in his work,
Li/e Understood. His remarks on Astrology in that book are too
puerile for notice, so that his disapproval of Astrology is of a purely
biased character.
We do not know Mrs Eddy's time of birth, perhaps some student
can supply it. The planetary positions will be found on p. 14 of
Modern Astrology for January 1908.

PRICE OF "MODERN ASTROLOGY"

It is with understandable regret that, as announced last

month, owing to the increased price of paper, labour, and War
advances, we have been compelled to raise the price of Modern
Astrology to Ninepence Monthly, and 10/- per annum to annual
subscribers. We are coerced into this decision much against our
inclination, but it is a question of either increasing the price, or
curtailing the size once more, and we know that the majority, if not
all of our readers, would prefer the former course.
[SMftscr/fters who order copies through a bookseller will kindly
remit additional amount, so that the trade may not lose.'\
 ®1}£ passing of ^.lan ~£ta

My husband, Mr Alan Leo, Editor of Modern Astrology,

passed away very suddenly at Bude, Cornwall, on the morning of
August 30th at 10 a.m. of apoplexy.
We were taking a summer holiday in a small furnished cottage
and my husband spent four or five hours daily in writing up a new
system of Astrology without predictions.1 lie was then in excellent
health and enjoyed the quiet and bracing air of Cornwall after the
recent worry and trouble of the law case, and it was only on the
morning of August 27th at II a.m. he complained of feeling very
shivery and cold, remarking, " I feel I have taken a chill." He then
drank hot lemonade which induced perspiration, said he felt somewhat
better and went on with his letters. lie ate his usual mid-day meal
about half past one, but about 2.30 complained about feeling very sick
and bad, vomited his dinner and seemed very indisposed altogether.
I got him a very hot bath and persuaded him to go to bed about
5 o'clock ; when I retired at 8.30 he seemed much better, told me he
had slept well and felt about normal. He had a fairly good night and
only woke once, but at 6 o'clock he said he felt very sick and threw up
a great deal of bile; he said to me " I have very bad Directions on,
and have taken a chill on my liver." Later on he drank some tea, the
sickness not returning; about 11 a.m. he got up and came downstairs.
We induced him to lie down on the sofa and made a nice fire as
the day was cold. He did not take any solid food but drank some weak
tea with hot milk and ate a few biscuits. Towards 2 p.m. he wrote
four or five letters and said he felt better for rousing himself up. lie
saw a letter of mine addressed to Mr Green begging him to take a
figure for Mr Leo's illness as I felt very anxious, and he jokingly said
" My wife is trying to find out how long I shall live ! "
I enquired if he still felt sick and he said " No, not now, but I have
a great tightness in the chest and a feeling as if there was an iron band
1
Further information about this will be given later.
 THE PASSING OF ALAN LEO

round my throat." I saw the glands were very miich swollen outside
his necli, and as he seemed to be in pain I persuaded him to go (o bed
and he retired at 6 o'clock with a cheery 'good night.' I put extra
blankets on the bed and gave him hot drinks and he-perspired very
thoroughly. I gave him hot milk and water every four hours and a.
hot water bottle to his chest as he seemed in a great deal 6f pain and
complained that it hurt him to breathe. I got up at 5 o'clock and
aroused Mrs Hart, our housekeeper, who is very devoted to us both,
and she got up at once and gave him hot tea, afterwards lighting a fire
in the bedroom. I wanted to get a doctor at once as I knew he had a
"temperature," but he begged me to wait until later. He very much
objected to doctors and physic so to please him I waited, but as his
temperature increased and he seemed to get worse I sent a letter by
my housekeeper to the leading doctor in Bude asking him to call and
see him at once. My husband took his own temperature himself and
saw it was 100°. When Dr King arrived he examined him thoroughly
and said to me—" Don't be anxious Mrs Leo, your husband will be
quite all right in two or three days ; he has got a bad chill, and it has
settled on the liver. I will send you at once some fever medicine and
a pill,—give him the medicine every four hours and the pill to-nightj
late, a dose of salts in the morning, and be wiil soon be all right."
Mrs Hart fetched the medicine at once as the doctor took her
round to the surgery in his car. As the night came on Mr Leo seemed
to grow very flushed and hot and complained that he could not lie on
either side but only on his back; so I felt he would rest more
comfortably in the bed alone, and was going to sit up by his side all
night, but as my health is not very good Mrs Hart persuaded me to
rest on the bed in the next room, leaving the door open so that I
could hear every sound. She herself had a mattress on the floor and
promised to come to me each time he awoke. He slept very well for
nearly three hours and Mrs Hart remarked that the fever was going
down and she thought he was better. I went in to look at him and
was thankful to find him sleeping ; he only roused twice, once to take
milk and once medicine, so Mrs Hart told ine. She took the first half
of the night and I went in about 5 o'clock ; he was then awake and I
gave him a drink of hot milk and water, washed hirri and made him
comfortable. After this was done, he said to me (it was then 7 a.m.);
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

"Bessie, leave me quite quiet here for a little while, I want to pull
myself round." I went downstairs and 1 had only been there about
five minutes, (the room was under his bedroom) when I heard a
curious cry and rushed up to find him sitting up in bed in a terrible
fit.
Mrs Hart was making bread and milk for his breakfast and as I
was supporting him and trying to bring him round, I could not ring for
some minutes. He was quite wrong mentally and in convulsions, and
when Mrs Hart came upstairs he was most violently sick for over five
minutes and both of us had to hold him up. He kept saying:
" What is it, what is it, where am I ? "—and his eyes were quite
fixed. I said: " Alan, rouse your will and try to pull yourself
together," and then said to Mrs Hart, " fly for a doctor." She was
gone nearly an hour, but I succeeded in getting Mr Leo back to con-
sciousness and the convulsions seemed to have passed over. When the
doctor arrived about 8.30, Mr Leo made apologies for calling him up
so early. The doctor sounded his heart and remarked to me "That's
••all right." My husband turned to him and said, " Am I going to die
doctor, I don't mind if I am, I'rr. not afraid of death," and the doctor
said, " No certainly not, Mr Leo, you will be quite all right by and
bye."
My husband then said, " I believe I have been off my head for
quite a quarter of an hour," and the doctor answered, " Well you're
quite all right now anyway."
Outside the door I said to the doctor, " If you want another
opinion, get it at once, money is no consideration, his life is a very
valuable one to the world." But he said " Don't worry, Mrs Leo,
your husband is not going to die; there is no necessity for another
opinion. I will come in later." A few minutes after Mrs Hart came
into the room and Mr Leo was again sick and said, " Oh my poor
head, it is going round; the eclipse on my Moon has done this," he
then became convulsed. There were only two pillows on the bed, so
to support him Mrs Hart knelt on the bed and held him up in her
arms while I supported his head on the other side; another convulsion
seized him, his face turned.almost black and he was quite unconscious.
" Quick !—the smelling salts, and brandy," said Mrs Hart. His
weight overpowered her and she was forced to lay him down. I saw
 THE PASSING OF ALAN LEO 299

he was passing out, and rushed round for the doctor, hoping to get
oxygen administered; that was 9.55 a.m. on Thursday morning;
(Mrs Hart said his heart stopped at 10 a.m.). I told the doctor's wife
that my husband was unconscious and I was sure would be dead
before the doctor returned. When I came back I was met outside
the door by Mrs Hart and the doctor and I remarked, " It's all over,"
and passed into the room.
I then questioned the doctor very earnestly as to the cause of his
death and told him that my husband had an objection to taking
any drug. I asked if it was the medicine that had caused it or failure
of the heart's action. He said " No Mrs Leo, your husband died
of a seizure and no one could know it was going to happen, it
has been as great a shock to me as to you, I am very sorry, but believe
me nothing could be done. He was only really ill for one hour."
It was a terrible hour that Mrs Hart and myself lived through
but I know and she is beginning to understand that only my husband's
body died that day, that his soul lives and works on in the astral world
in the same great field of labour that was his on earth. He was called
to higher work and is more alive than ever, not less ; his body clothed
in a finer vesture than the physical.
He died as he had lived, brave, noble and true, trusting that his
band of devoted workers would carry on his work as he wished it
carried on.
Om, Mani Padme, Om ! the dewdrop slips
Into the shining sea !

The foregoing is Mrs Leo's account of the last days at Bude,

and it may be interesting to add that in reply to a written request from
Mrs Leo Mr H. S. Green calculated a horary map for 29/8/1917,
3.10 p.m. Summer Time, 50o+3'N., 32' W ; (Bournemouth, where
Mr Green was staying). The following are the positions :—
x xi xii ii lit
£16 nu itzz K5I4 =28
G D 5 ? J ¥ IJI M1
V324 —2 ■aSJ 2BZI U10 J) 8 srzif Jl6
" Will Mr Leo's illness be serious ? " Mrs Leo asks the question.
The reply given was that while the illness was serious, the worst
300 MODERN AST [{•LOG V

need not be feared, and that it should pass off in a few days. Stomach
and liver affected.
In the light of subsequent events there is here a failure to predict
the death, but it is curious that the judgment agreed exactly with the
doctor's diagnosis, of which Mr Green knew nothing. The ascendant
Sagittarius stands for Mrs Leo, and the seventh house for the person
enquired about. Jupiter is in the seventh in good aspect to Venus
culminating, to Saturn, and to Neptune, both in the eighth house.
Mercury, Mr Leo's significator, receives none but good aspects.
The afflictions are the Sun in Virgo in square to Jupiter in the
seventh (Mr Leo's ascendant), and the Moon, ruler of the eighth in
opposition to Mars in the eighth ; the Moon always being co-significator
in a horary question.
Looking back after it is all over it is easy to say that more weight
should have been given to the opposition of the Moon to Mars from
the second to the eighth houses; but notice that this aspect is
separating and that Saturn, ruler of the second house (Mr Leo's
eighth) is uniformly well aspected, including sextiles to Jupiter in
Mr Leo's ascendant and to Mercury, his significator.
Mars in Cancer and the Sun in Virgo, as well as its square to
Jupiter, indicate stomach and liver.
Mr Leo actually died of effusion of blood on the brain, the
bursting of a blood vessel in the head being the cause of the fit
previously described, ani of the head sensations. Some years ago Mr
Green had pointed out to Mr Leo that if the Ptolemaic theory of the
hyleg were strictly applied the Moon would be hyleg in his case and
not the Sun ; and that while the trine of the Moon to the Sun and
Mercury gave him abundance of physical vitality and nervous energy,
its square to Mars, lord of the fourth house, was dangerous and would
play a part when the end came. The Moon was in Aries in the
horoscope, governing the head, the part affected. The rupture of the
blood vessel was brought about by the strain caused by the vomiting ;
and if the latter had been stopped the death would not have occurred
just when it did but would have been postponed, being in a sense
unnecessary.
From an occult point of view, no death ever occurs without a
deva.'or angel, intervening to sever the link between soul and body.
 THE PASSING OF A I. AN LEO

In this case the "death angel " took advantage of what might other-
wise have been a comparatively trilling illness to bring about the end
of life. The patient was wanted elsewhere to do work for which he
had fitted himself and which was awaiting him, but his interest in the
astrological work he has left on the physical plane continues unabated.

Time of Passing
Mr Alan Leo breathed his last at Bude, Cornwall, about 10 a.m.,
Summer Time, 30/8/1917, when the following were the positions:
X xi xii ii ii iii
aij S122 11V21 ^13 itig r 10
© I> 9 S <f If IjJ M'
156J =6 a.2 ugh -322 n 10 il8 r:2ir Sl6
Mercury and Venus are rising in Libra in good aspect with the
Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune, and free from oppositions or
squares; but Venus as well as being in her own sign, Libra, was also
ruler of the eighth or death house; and his last few minutes of life
were quiet and peaceful. So far as the cusps are concerned, the signs
of the zodiac are the same as in his Progressed Horoscope, under
which map he may therefore be said to have passed out.
Here, as in the horary map, Virgo and Cancer are seen to be
afflicted, but the head signs are entirely free from affliction, unless
Venus rising in Libra—the ascendant ruling the head—can be called
an affliction because Venus rules the death house.
Mars is culminating; the Moon in the fourth is in opposition to
Saturn and Neptune ; but there are a number of very fortunate
aspects, and if this map indicates the influences under which he began
his career in the astral world he should achieve a considerable
measure of success. The exact signification of such a map as this,
however, is still to some extent uncertain. The fact that in some
cases it can be definitely correlated with the horoscope of birth shows
that it is not accidental or without significance; but, as most readers
know, the occult teaching is that beyond the solids, liquids, and gases
of the physical world, lie other states of matter loosely called ethers,
which form the etheric double of the dense body but which also
belong to the physical world. Death as ordinarily understood is the
cessation of life in the dense physical body only; but after this has
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taken place and the link between the etheric double and the dense
physical has been broken, the real man is still clothed in the double
and still belongs to the physical world. Not until he has disengaged
himself from the double is he free to begin his activities in the astral
or psychic world, and this may take a period of minutes, hours, or
even days in some cases. This disengagement will probably be the
real horoscope for astral life; but because it cannot be detected by
4
ordinary vision it is impossible to register the time of its occurrence.
It is known that Mr Leo quickly became active psychically but the
precise time is unknown.

"SUMMER TIME."
The Russian Provisional Government has decided that clocks through-
out Russia shall be advanced one hour from to-morrow.—D.Express is/y/'iy.
"Judging by our local press the majority of country folk in Australia,
and a good many town folk, too, are distinctly against the Daylight
Saving Act. On the 24th of March at 2 a.m. all the clocks in Australia
were put one hour back. On the 23rd September next all the clocks,
will be put one hour in advance unless (his Act is repealed in the nieantime.
In certain mines in Victoria they refused to entertain or prolong the new
idea after trying it for a week or two."—From a letter from an Australian
subscriber in English Mechanic 13/7/17.
Note.—This matter of "Summer Time " is going to become aserioMS
trouble to the astrologer of the futxire unless—unless—the astrologers of the
present are active in placing on record the actual dates and times when the
various countries of the world commence Summer Time in each year.
Doubtless in the future definite dates will be settled upon (such as say April
1 and October 1 for England), but at present no two countries have adopted
the same date, and few the same hour ; nor are the dates chosen in 1917
identical with those in 1916. A Table is needed, showing what these are for
each year.
We the editorial staff of Modern Astrology) cannot do this of
ourselves; we have not the data. But our readers, who are found in every
quarter of the world, can if they will. On page 157 of May issue we asked
them to help, and they have been all this time thinking about it: now, of
course, they are going to act, beginning with the present year. A post-card
will do. Date and time, please, of introduction of Summer Time into your
country, both in 1916 and 1917.
Attention to this request will earn our real gratitude.
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®Ij£ ^anEions||ons£ (Bs.se

The following leading article by Mr Ralph Shirley ("Rollo Ireton")

appeared in the August issue of the Occult Review. We have ventured
to italicise one passage in view of its importance.

NOTES OF THE MONTH

THE trial of the case of Rex v. Leo, at the Mansion House on July 9 and
16 last, brought up some interesting points to which it is in the highest degree
advisable that the attention of the public, and particularly those interested
in astrological investigation, should be drawn. The case arose out of a
charge brought against Mr Alan Leo, Editor of " Modern Astrology," for
"purporting to tell fortunes" by means of his five-guinea horoscopes. It
was contended on the defendant's behalf that he did not purport to tell the
future, but merely to indicate tendencies, dangers, etc., and
REX v. LEO ^bat he could not bo termed an impostor because he was
practising a science in which he had a bond fide belief. The
case was tried before Mr Alderman Moore, who ruled that the casting of
horoscopes came within the category of fortune telling, and in effect brushed
aside the contention that it was merely tendencies and probabilities that
were indicated. This, however, was the least important point in the case.
The trial in reality hinged entirely upon the question whether the defendant
was making predictions with intent to deceive the public. Both the
prosecuting and defending counsel were agreed on the point that it was
necessary, in order to convict, to establish the fact that predictions of the
kind should be made with intent to deceive, in order to come within the
purview of the statute. The dicta of judges in various previous trials were
quoted in support ot this view, among them those of Lord Young, and of
Judge Denman in the well-known case of Rex v. Penny.
Judge Denmau's statement that it was absurd to suppose that any sane
person in the present age could conceivably believe in such a discredited
science as Astrology was quoted with approval by the prosecuting counsel,
who amplified on his own account the judge's observation by including within
its scope all attempts whatsoever to predict the future. These, he argued,
must be accepted as indications of insanity, and therefore for the purposes
of the statute you must assume that the individual who predicted the future
must either be insane or practicing deliberate imposition upon His Majesty's
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subjects. Counsel for the prosecution frankly admitted that
" WITH IN- '1 was necessary to make this point in order to secure a
TENT TO conviction, as the statute was clearly not directed against
DECEIVE " those who made predictions sincerely believing in the truth
of what they foretold, even though such predictions should in
effect lead to the deception of the people for whom they were made. From
the point of view of the law, therefore, Mr Alan Leo, unless he were insane,
must be regarded as an impostor. It was not, however, made clear whether
in effect this assumption was actually accepted by Mr Alderman Moore, who
presided at the case, or whether, as appeared to the writer of these notes,
Mr Moore adopted the assnmption'as being in the nature of a convenient
legal fiction which would enable him to convict all those who in his opinion
were guilty of telling fortunes whether they came within the scope of the
wording of the Act or not. He appeared, in fact, to take the line that it was
customary to convict all those who predicted the future for money, avowedly
under this statute, and that in a case like the one before him in which thirty
years of the defendant's life had been in the nature of a convincing testimony
to his own sincere faith in the science which he taught, the only means of
conviction was to-assume this legal fiction that any one who told fortunes
must ipsofacto be an impostor. It is true that Judge Denman in his notorious
ruling brazenly affirmed that no sane person could believe in Astrology, but
so flagrant was the mendacity of this statement that it brought upon the head
of its author one of the most crushing retorts that has ever been made in the
press of this country to any public judicial pronouncement-—the Editor of
the Pall Mall Gazette observing that " Seldom has any judge uttered a state-
ment at once so arrogant and so untrue," and drawing attention incidentally
to the fact that the majority of her Majesty's subjects were at that very date
firm believers in astrology.
If the question were raised as to what man in the history of modern
Europe had the highest reputation for sanity, I think there is no doubt that
among the great thinkers of the present day nine out of ten at the lowest
estimate would give the name of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. And yet
this man, who stood pre-eminent among his fellows for the clearness of his
judgment and the perspicacity of his intellect, was one of the
WAS GOETHE goodly company of the leaders of the world's thought whom
INSANE ? this impudent and arrogant exponent of the law had the
effrontery to stigmatize as a lunatic ! Goethe's views on the
subject, and his defence of the science of Astrology, may still be read—and
should be read by all magistrates who try such cases—in his correspondence
with the poet Schiller. The fact that the late Dr Richard Garnett, C.B.,
was also in the estimation of this precious legal luminary another lunatic,
did not prevent the authorities from appointing him to the honoured position
 THE MANSION-HOUSE CASE
of Keeper of the Books at the British Museum, nor did it prevent Dr Garnctt
from discharging those duties with credit to himself and to the satisfaction
of those who appointed him.
Another of these candidates for Bedlam was the late Sir Henry
Drummond Wolff, whose insanity, however, was not regarded by the British
Government as a bar to his appointment to the responsible position of
Ambassador to the court of Madrid. Yet another was the celebrated Sir
Richard Burton, who would doubtless have characterized Judge Denman's
pronouncement in his customary vigorous phraseology. Sir William Huggins,
•the eminent astronomer of Tulse Hill, was appointed President of the Royal
Society in spite of the suspicion, if we may take Judge Denman seriously,
that a more suitable place for him would have been a padded cell at
Hanwell.
So much, then, for Judge Denman's test for insanity quoted with such
unctuous approval by the prosecuting counsel as justifying the flagrant
violation of the law by the conviction as an impostor of a man whose life
work was in the nature of a testimony against . his sentence.
We come now to an even more serious point. The magistrate iu the present
case, while refusing to accept evidence as to the defendant's belief or disbelief
in Astrology, and as to his fionrfyJ./zs in the matter of the casting of horoscopes,
where his liability to sentence under the statute was concerned, consented to
receive any evidence that might be'brought forward in respect of the honesty
and integrity of his character in mitigation of penalty! He took
Ayi the line, in short, that if the defendant could be shown to be
ASTOUNDING honest and sincere in his convictions, if, in short, the statute
CONTENTION could be proved to be inapplicable in his case, this fact of his
being not guilty might be considered with a view to the
mitigation of his sentence 1 . . . If it could be shown that the
defendant was not an impostor, if he was sincere and honest in his beliefs,
he was clearly not liable to conviction under the statute. If, on the
other hand, he was convicted as an impostor, it was manifestly absurd to
takesubsequent evidence as regards his honesty and integrity in mitigation
of a sentence which carried with it the implication that he had neither.
The magistrate, in short, cousented to receive evidence of the defendant's
innocence, but only iu extenuation of the extent of his guilt.
Cases of fortune telling by astrology have of course been heard on a
number of occasions in London courts of law, but generally speaking it has
been a case of some impecunious caster of horoscopes who was obviously
engaged in the occupation for the purpose of earning his daily bread. It
might be assumed, though it has been frequently assumed wrongly, that such
people were trading on the credulity of the public. There was nothing
generally to show that they believed or disbelieved in this particular means
 MODERN ASTROLOGY
of fortune telling. But the case of Mr Alan I.eo is a very different one. He
has been occupied in the study of astrology for upwards of thirty years.
Though he has doubtless made money incidentally by the casting of horoscopes,
the publication of his iniigazine and itiiinerons exhaustive volumes
MR ALAN on subject of astrology cannot, I imagine, he looked upon in the
LEO'S LIFE light of a money making business. I do not know whether or not
WORK it has paid its own way, but judging front my own brief experience
as the editor of an astrological magazine,1 I should say that the
chance of making money in this manner was remote in the extreme, and that no one
would carry on such a work merely with a view to financial gain. It stands to
reason in any case that the same amount of work put into some ordinary
business would bring in a far more satisfactory return, and the assumption,
therefore, is that if a man has devoted thirty years of his life to writing and
publishing matter on this particular subject to the exclusion of others, he has
done it not for the sake of gain, but through interest and belief in the science
itself. It cannot be legitimately contended that any oue who does this is an
impostor. Had Mr Leo not had private means to fall back upon, he could
hard) have carried through the work in which be has been engaged. . . .

Mrs Alan Lro would like through the columns of Modern Astuologv
to thank the many friends and well-wishers of her late husband for their kind
letters of sympathy to herself and keen appreciation of Mr Leo's life-work,
that of purifying and raising the ancient Science of Astrology. It is not
possible to answer over three hundred letters, but will all friends and helpers
who have written take this expression of her gratitude and thanks.
The loss to her and to the astrological world cannot be replaced but on
the other side of death Mr Leo is working and helping jnst the same as ever.
There is no death 1
Huxley on Astrology.—Mr D. VV. Lrskine writes to Light: " Perhaps
it may interest those unfamiliar with this subject to learn what Piofessor
Huxley wrote of it, viz.,' So I think astrology is a science in so far as it
professes to reason logically from principles established by just inductive
methods.' " In reply to a letter he kindly informs ns that the reference is to-
"Science and Hebrew Tradition; Essays by T. H. Hnxley," {Macinillan,
1893): ch v., Mr Gladstone and Genesis, p. 193.
Astrological Correspokdesce Lessons.—Mr Theodore L. A..
Viensseux, of Marrickville, Australia, has been awarded the Diploma
of Merit. Mr V. E. Robson, B.Sc., F.G.S., of London, has been awarded
the Certificate of Merit.
Erratum.—In the table on p. 243 August, a misprint occurs ; the R.A. of
the Moon should be 328.5 o,not 321.50. This correction docs not invalidate
the direction (r) below, as calculation will show.
Astrological Child's Cot.—Received on behalf of " Aries " Cot, from:
Mrs Smithies £1, from Mrs Harker £1, from Miss A. Whiltall £1.

[' The Horoscope, a quarterly raxgazine which was started in 1903 and was-
continued for two years.]
 international ^.strologg

The Autumn Quarter

Snn enters Libra 23/9/1917, 3 p.m. G.M.T.
X XI XII 1 11 lit
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London (2) Berlin {3) Petrosrad (4) New York
Q D 9 S S If >1 111 W
HO.O / 22.26 IIV2I.9C 1118.26 A6.54 n 11.26 ,P. II.6 i:2o.20»' 416.30
The most important feature of the map is that Neptune, Mars,
and Saturn are setting in Leo over the greater part of Europe from
London to Petrograd except at Constantinople and the Balkans ; they
are especially close to the western horizon at Vienna and Rome.
This will intensify the struggle and increase foreign complications for
the time being, although in some of the succeeding maps during the
quarter there are indications that attempts at peace will be made
before long in various directions.
There will be discontent of the people with their rulers and of
workers with employers. The positions of rulers and statesmen will
not be very secure; loss of power and weakening of authority are
threatened, with strikes, rioting, and various expressions of discontent.
There is danger of the death or downfall of a ruler or great statesman.
International financial relations will assume great importance,
and much discussion and diplomatic interplay will turn upon this. In
central Europe parliaments and legislative bodies will be in a very
unstable and fluctuating condition with much disharmony and division
into contending parties, and the position of the masses and their
representatives will be increasingly hostile to those in power.
Sea fighting will continue with much loss of life and property.
In Great Britain or France scandal will attack prominent persons
connected with religion, law or politics. Foreign trade will increase
and money matters will be satisfactory in spite of heavy outgoings.
 MuDIiKN ASTUOUJGY

With the seventh house so prominently tenanted there is a likelihood

of another combatant joining the struggle. The weather about the
equinox bids fair to be stormy and unsettled. Some epidemic threatens
Turkey and the Balkans; and in that region peace overtures are
likely to make diplomatists very busy with regard to terms and
negotiations, and possibly some preliminary steps may be taken.
In the United States losses at sea and in connection with shipping.
Foreign loans and international finance will prove very difficult. The
nation will be concerned in some efforts towards peace which might
almost prove successful if the contrary influences in Europe could be
ignored. Secret enemies will make themselves felt and especially
hostile female influence. Some eminent writers and servants of the
state will die both in Europe and America. The religious world will
be unfortunate and disturbed.
Neptune, Mars, and Saturn will culminate in Mexico and the
middle of the United States and Canada. They will be on the nadir
in India and Tibet. Political and national affairs will be very much
disturbed here and seismic shocks may follow.
The conjunction of Mars and Neptune takes place at 10.54 p.m.
G.M.T, on the day before the equinox, and falls at SI 6.29 in the second
house at London and western Europe, where it speaks of a crushing
burden of expenditure and taxation, with much speculation and loss
through fluctuation in stocks and shares.
The two planets will rise in Asia Minor, Palestine, and
Mesopotamia; culminate to the east of Japan and eastern Australia;
set in the middle of the United States and Canada, where they will
cause trouble abroad and will increase warlike movements ; and will
be on the nadir in the extreme north east of Brazil and the Atlantic
ocean.
The New Moon : 16/9/1917, 10.27 a.m. G.M.T.
X XI XII i 1L in
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G5 s t s it ly <1'
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 INI EKNATIONAL ASTROLOGY

The luminaries in the mid-heaven will give strength to the government

and the nation, but the same remark applies to most of central
and eastern Europe, for the Sun and Moon culminate in Poland,
the Balkans, and Turkey. Mars and Neptune with Saturn in the
ninth house seems to be the most striking feature for west and central
Europe ; it signifies troubleat sea, loss of life and of shipping, accidents,
probably naval warfare with heavy losses; it is unfortunate for the
churches and religious bodies. But the sextile of Jupiter, lord of the
second on the cusp of the eighth, to Neptune and Saturn is favourable
for foreign trade and money matters generally in spite of the serious
obstacles indicated. International financial relations will improve
although expenditure will be heavy; the death duties and excess
profits will flourish. Some discontent among the workers is threatened
and there may be a strike in connection with shipping. In the extreme
west of Europe, and especially in Portugal, Uranus will be on the
lower meridian, a very unfortunate influence tending to disturb and
upset statesmen and governments as well as promoting discontent and
grievances among the workers; and the same applies to the correspond-
ing meridians of West Africa. Where Uranus is on the cusp the
weather is likely to be colder, there may be seismic disturbances,
and it will be unfortunate for the fruits of the earth. The lunation
falls as under in various maps and is unfortunate in most of these, but
particularly so with the German Emperor.
King George □ JJ German Emp. f'fs.
Italy o i? p Lloyd George b
Belgium ff 5 a D Pres. Wilson (li
„ Sweden 9f
At Berlin the influences are not very different from those at
London and Paris, except that Jupiter in the seventh house is favourable
for putting forward overtures towards peace, for the time being,
although these are contradicted in the map of the Autumn Quarter.
At New York the positions are very favourable for the strength
and prosperity of the country and its success abroad, and they are not
hostile to efforts towards peace or a better understanding between
nations.
 31°

Ifoplmtc ani> t\jt €ra

{Cotichideci from page 248)

The secret of the 1910 Cross is this opposition of Uranus to

Neptune; arfesce;/r of Uranus into Neptune, the man-woman in one
as typified by Aquarius the sign of the New Age, when man becomes
woman and woman man. That this cannot come about easily is shewn
by the square to Saturn and Mars. As this Cross is obviously the
Cross of the Coming Teacher, does not this mean that He will
■combine the Power and Force and wonderful intellect of Uranus with
the compassionate Love of Neptune? Last time He came under
Neptune alone, with hardly any Uranus because the world was not
ready, but it has been prophesied that His next coming would be with
Power—though not necessarily temporal power. Moreover last time
the world was still under the Jupiter-Saturn influence. He was
practically the only Neptunian.
And what of the political future? Are the plans for an occult
monarchy in the future to be abandoned ? On the contrary, it is only
by a complete pulling down of the existing effete and corrupt institu-
tions that Authority can be restored ; as shewn by Neptune reflecting
the Sun and Uranus. The churches of to-day are overgrown with
.accretions of dogma to such an extent that they no longer appeal to
intelligent people, who demand a teaching that appeals to their reason
• and harmonises with scientific teaching. The economic system of
■Capitalism dooms four-fifths of the population to perpetual poverty,
while the monarchy exists only in name, as a shadow and puppet.
-Democracy is a fiction, all real political power being vested in the
hands of those few individuals who control economic power.
If the solar eclipse map of December 1899 be really the horoscope
of the New Era, then we may expect a great blessing to descend on
the world when Neptune comes to the sextile of its radical position,
which will be somewhere about 1927, while during the preceding 8 or
•9 years it will have formed the trine aspect in succession to all the
 NEPTUNE AND THE NEW ERA

planets in Sagittarius; thus gradually strengthening the Socialist

movement and making it a vehicle which the World Teacher can use
for His own purposes.
It seems certain that monarchies will have to disappear for a
time, for two reasons—one that the peoples may learn that oppression
and tyranny are not the prerogatives of kings alone but depend on the
nature of the individuals at the head of the government, also that the
greatest tyrants are often those who rise from the ranks instead of
being born in the highest positions ; and the other in order that the
royal families themselves may be prepared for advanced egos to be
born into them ; a state of things which is impossible at present.
The swing of the pendulum to any extreme brings inevitable
reaction. At the present moment civil liberties are more in abeyance
than at any period since Magna Chai ta; the reaction will produce
revolutions, and the chaos resulting therefrom will bring a desire on
the part of the peoples for a just and efficient administration from
above, which shall afford each individual perfect liberty of action and
equal opportunity for self-development.
The necessary steps to this are a perfected system of education
in which astrology shall receive recognition ; the abolition of class
distinctions and prejudices which prevent the recognition of brother-
hood, and the transmutation of the selfish competition of the capitalist
economic system into the unselfish co-operation of real Socialism.
Along these lines astrolcgical students should work to accelerate the
coining of the New Era.
The more one examines the horoscope of the 1910 Cross, the
more one becomes convinced that this foreshadows the crucifixion of
the human race through war, and the breaking up of all existing con-
ditions. It is a rending not merely of the physical but also of the
higher bodies. The aspects are as follows: 12 squares, 5 oppositions,
4 conjunctions ; while the only beneficial influences are a trine from
Jupiter to Mercury and a sextile from Venus to Mars, and these are
the only aspects formed by Venus and Mercury. These planets seem
to be detached from the strife, and it is a peculiar thing that these two,
Hermes and Aphrodite, should be placed in the hermaphrodite sign
Aquarius the sign of the coming age, thus seeming to hint that the
way out of the cross lies in the transmutation of sex, which again can
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

only come through Neptune at the foot of the cross, the guardian of
the threshold of this map.
This horoscope seems to denote a literal War in Heaven—a
contest between the Planetary Rays for supremacy! With regard to
this, I think that Mr Sutcliffe is right in saying that the head of the
2nd or Neptune Ray for this globe is the Silent Watcher; but after
meditating on this point I get the impression that this is only part of
the truth. This mighty Being may have evolved in past kalpas along
the Neptune Ray, but it seems probable that He is actually the
controller of all the Planetary Ray influences for this globe. To use
a material analogy, if one may say so without irreverence, it seems that
He regulates their flow like a man at a switchboard, turning them on
and off or moderating the force of some and increasing that of others.
Just now He appears to be reducing the force along Saturn and Jupiter
lines and increasing that of Neptune, till eventually, as the number of
physical centres for Neptune increases during the next few hundred
years, it will colour the whole world and reign supreme.
The Lord of the World is head of the 1st Ray, Will or Power,
but the Will even of the Logos is controlled by His Wisdom, therefore
it seems natural that the Power behind the Throne should be Wisdom
incarnate.
The question of interest for students to try to discover is how
long this process of change will take. For it is obvious that the
Jupiter and Saturn line cannot be abandoned suddenly, for there are
many millions of egos along this line who may be unable to become
Neptunian, at any rate for many lives. At this point it is necessary
to explain more clearly what we mean by the term Neptunian and
what relation it has to the 2nd Ray. Many may be confused in their
minds by the use of the same word to imply different things. For
assuming that Mr Sutcliffe and ourselves are correct in placing
Neptune as the 2ncl Ray, what do we mean when we talk of this new
influence coming down ?
The explanation is that hitherto only a very small extent of the
Neptune influence has manifested along the 2nd Ray, and in that
portion its Mercury side has predominated ; which possibly is "the
reason why many astrologers have placed Mercury at the head of this
Ray. But now a very much larger and wider extent of its influence
 NEPTUNE AND THE NEW ERA

is descending, it is as though a tiny mountain stream issuing from a

large lake had suddenly become swollen to the size of a. river by the
opening of a hole in the restraining dam. What is the reason for
this ?
We believe it to be that the Supreme Wisdom, seeing the hope-
less condition of the western races, and their inability to accept the
strict yoga conditions of the East, has let loose this great new
influence which opens up a new path to occultism through the power
of TRANSMUTATION ; or Spiritual Alchemy.
Neptune appears to govern several distinct types at different
levels of evolution, among which will be found
(1) Mystics, musical and artistic geniuses, and a few astrologers.
(2) Artists of the Quartier Latin type, bohemians, and humourists.
(3) Socialists of the newer type, such as the I.L.P., and pacifists.
(4) Decadents, and people who sacrifice everything for love,
rebelling against the Jupiterian codes of conventional restrictions and
moral laws.
(5) Cripples and deformities. Apropos of this we must remember
that to be crippled is the karma for past cruelty, and this means a
deformity in the astral shape. Also that Neptune is formless ; cf.
also Mr Sutcliflfe's quotation from the S.D. " It is He who constantly
changes shape." The reader is also referred to what I wrote on p. 82
of Fresh Sidelights. Neptune appears to be always prominent in the
horoscopes of cripples.
Of course it must not be imagined that all the above types are
" Neptunians," because very few are at present, but what we mean to
imply is that Neptune governs these particular types, and each person
in them may probably become a Neptunian towards the end of his
evolution. To become a Neptunian does not mean to be on the 2nd
Ray, necessarily. The word as we use it implies not a Ray but a
temperament; and people on any Ray may be Neptunians, even those
on the 1st, through the power of that descent of Uranus into Neptune
on which we commented previously. The rulers of the future will
have to cover up their mailed fist in a thick velvet glove, the power
and will of Uranus will be there, but balanced by the opposition of
Neptune, and only tolerated when concealed under Neptunian methods
and manners. In other words they will have to govern by persuasion
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

and subtlety, guiding the people instead of driving them. If a ruler

is to be successful he must first be loved ; and all the personal charm
and magnetism of Neptune, which was shewn out to some extent by
the Stuarts, will have to be on the surface, concealing the force
behind. For Neptune will have nothing to do with discipline or
convention. The tyranny of military discipline as shewn by <? d b
must break itself against the square aspect, as must also the convention"
and hypocrisy of '4 .
The evolved Neptunians, such as the first two classes in the above
category, are distinguished from the rest of the world by their tolerance
for others, their total disregard of and indeed dislike of conventions of
any kind, by their acute sense of what is artistic, and by the quality of
their wit and humour, which is far more nature-spirity than that of the
Jupiterians or Mercurians. The reason for this is that they are largely
influenced by the astral and mental devas, and as these beings are
quite non-moral, it accounts for the Neptunian's disregard of the
moral standards of the Saturnian and Jupiterian. (This does not mean
that the Neptunian has no moral standards of his own, but that they
depend on connno/i-sense and not on conventions.)
How far in advance of their time these people are need hardly be
pointed out, but in the 6th Race we learn that "people marry distinctly
with the view of furnishing a vehicle for a certain soul, and when that
is safely done it seems to be entirely at their option whether they
renew the agreement or not. There are cases in which the agreement
is terminated, and both parties form other alliances. {Man, etc.,
p. 418). Another statement in this book bears out our remark about
the deva influence : speaking of the heaven life Mr Leadbeater says
" It is a type which is much more amenable to the influence of the
Devas than the other. .■ . . They can be more easily influenced
for good by invisible beings, but there is a corresponding liability to
less desirable influences." {ibid., p. 467.) Theosophists and others
who wish to qualify for the 5th Race should carefully study Mr
Leadbeater's descriptions and try to apply mental analysis to them.
The nation which seems furthest on as a whole towards the
Neptune influence is Russia, as shewn by their willingness to try new
experiments (such as the recent revolution), and their unusual artistic
developments as instanced by the Russian dancers, and'the musicians
 NEPTUNE AND THE NEW ERA

such as Rimsky-Korsakov, Scriabine and others, whose music is of a

distinctly Neptunian character, introducing entirely new combinations
of tone and colour.
The English nation on the other hand, apart from the martial
note can apparently only touch the lower side of the if -'? combination,
as shewn by their rigidity and fear of letting themselves go—always
watching what other people are doing before daring to initiate anything.
Why is it, people have asked so often, that foreigners have been
engaged for the leading parts in opera and the concert platform ?
Simply because the national method of training initiates against the
conscious and artistic expression of emotion. Jupiter always restrains
and limits the highest expression of art, as shewn by the case of
painters who are forced to sacrifice their ideals in order to produce
" pot boilers." Even in its highest form V always means restriction
by form. Our national amusements usually take the Jupiterian form
of sports or something to do with horses. The man who is not a
sportsman is despised by the majority. So strong is the Jupiter
influence that it will lake many generations to supplant it. There are
millions of egos under Jupiter, and if Neptune prevailed too suddenly
they would have no centre to return to. Moreover, Neptune being
connected with the sea, its force comes up in waves and then recedes,
each wave coming up in turn a little higher. At present a period of
recession seems to exist, as there is a strong opposition from the
combined influences of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, as shewn by the
determined opposition in most countries to entertain any idea of Peace.1
It has been said that kings are denoted by Uranus, but this does
not apply to the kings of modern democratic states, who are part of
the Jupiterian constitution. What Uranus stands for is the autocrat,
the scientist, the organiser, the Napoleons of commerce, finance and
politics. The Uranian despises ceremonial and very often dresses
negligently, while he scorns such petty details as laying foundation
stones and noticing medal ribbons or the pattern of gold lace.
More than one European monarch has Jupiter afflicted
by Uranus. Does this mean that if the downfall of monarchy
comes it will be brought about by Uranians? Uranus being
1
Written early in June 1917.
 MOniiRN ASTROLOGY

the first Ray is connected with the Shiva aspect of the Logos,
the destroyer and disintegrator. The lower side of Uranus represents
tyranny, despotism, bureaucracy and State Capitalism, where finally
love of power and organisation amount to a disease. The circle of
influence revolving round Uranus has to become larger and larger,
desiring further expression and love of domination, leading finally to
ceaseless activity, no rest for recuperation or leisure ; and in conse-
quence handicapped by physical disability causes ceaseless irritability
which possibly leads to nervous breakdown and mental collapse.
An example of these may be found in some of the Napoleons of
commerce, especially in America, men who can dictate four letters
simultaneously on four diflerent subjects. Is it surprising that after
a period of this, chronic dyspepsia curtails their form of nourishment
to patent foods and slops ?
We foresee that some readers may ask how we reconcile the
Aquarian age with Neptune when Aquarius is governed by Uranus.
To this we reply that we are not convinced that Uranus does govern
Aquarius. It seems to have much more in common with Leo,
Capricorn and Scorpio. The ordinary Aquarian is a most unstable
and easy going person, like a broken reed to rely upon, and the
patriarch's comment on the sign was " Unstable as water thou shall
not excel." They are less positive and more tolerant than almost any
other sign.
The glyph of Aquarius may possibly stand for the two waters,
above and below the firmament, that is to say the individualisation or
recognition of the Self as distinct from the group soul of Pisces. The
Aquarian age follows the Pisces age, and whereas in Pisces we are
all one, i.e. not yet individualised, in Aquarius we are all brothers; t.e.
the separate Buddhic vehicle is individualised under this influence.
Pisces is the ocean of chaos, the dissolving influence,
reading and tearing the subtle bodies before the union of
the lower to the Higher self. This leads on to the turning
inward oi Aquarius. We are inclined to think that Aquarius is the
sign in which Neptune receives the downflowof Uranus the Awakener,
which steadies it, and at the same time combines the positive and the
negative—making the circuit complete—the male-female in one.
C. G. M. ADAM
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therein. Correspondents desiring acknowledgment or reply will please enclose a
stamped addressed envelope.
Letters are inserted at the earliest possible opportunity, but are sometimes
unavoidably held over through lack of space. Correspondents will please remember
(i) that all communications should be written upon one side of the paper only;
(ii) that planetary positions, us well us birth data, should be given where possible :
(iii) that information shouMbe put as concisely as is compatible with clearness.
Neglect of these considerations may cause otherwise valuable letters to be
excluded from these pages. Space at the present time is exceptionally scarce.

LORD KITCHENER'S HOROSCOPE

Dear Sir,
On looking up Lord K.'s horoscope (as given in MODERN
Astrology for August 1915), at the time of his death, I noted that
the Moon was approaching but had not completed a square aspect with
his radical Mars. Assuming that this aspect was actually complete,
we should get his birth horoscope approximately as below :
x xi xii i ii iii
il 19 111(22 ^17 111 6 74 Vjio
O D 8 S <J 7/ '3 111 V
as 3 V3 4 D 15 Jl 1 ,(123 11)116 V20 T30 H yr
The first decanate of Scorpio on the ascendant is typical of his
indomitable will and his silence ; Mars culminating, of his military
genius as well as the virulence of his critics ; Venus in the ninth, of
his success abroad.
On the day of his death the Sun was transiting his radical Mercury
in the eightli house. Following up the progressed Moon it will be
seen that it forms a trine aspect with the progressed Mars in March
1917. As this corresponds with the time of publication of the
Dardanelles Report and the defence of Lord K. by Mr Asquith in
Parliament, it suggests the interesting question of whether the influence
of the progressed horoscope continues after death, and indicates the
trend of the native's life in the higher worlds, and whether it links on
to the natal figure for the succeeding rebirth.
Perhaps the Editor might favour us with the results of any
investigations he may have carried out on such lines: [sec p. 293].
Kirkee, 26/6/17 A. UrQUHART.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

RECTIFICATION
Dear Sir,
I welcomed your remarks on Mr Pemberton-Billing's horoscope.
I venture, however, to give you my own method of rectifying. As a
matter of fact I usually collect a very large number of dates before
rectifying with any certainty ; but on the date;; mentioned by you I
rectify the horoscope to about S.T. 12.46.0, M.C. asc. ^ 12 (to
nearest degree).
I never consider that a Primary Direction measures to the month
exactly but only to the year—the progressed D bringing it into
operation whenever it forms an aspect.1
Sfcondary Priwiiry
19/ 1/1894 })p/i8 2nd cusp ~ 19
15/ 3/1914 p p y 11 <t I'r Asc p A g'r
24/12/1915 i)ptl4

[Dating each year from progressed birthday.]

It will be noticed that in reality I base my rectification on 2 of
the dates only. But the fact that the D was approximating to the
d ^ in Mar. 1914 is very significant as A Y A ^ is undoubtedly
the best combination in the radical horoscope, and to my mind it is
beyond doubt that it was that combination in Primary Direction which
brought Mr Pemberton-Billing into prominence.
In Jan. 1894 t 18-19 would be forming an aspect to an unknown
planet in aspect to the 2nd cusp.'
In Dec. 1915 the Progressed S would be forming an rtsjjec/by
■declination to a known or unknown planet. [I have only Condensed
Ephemeris without declinations for 1881.]
I hope you do not object to me airing my views in contradiction
to your own, but it is only by the clash of opinions that progress comes !
You yourself seemed to have a leaning to the theory that Mr
Billing wasa t, and certainly his very erratic and somewhat lightning
•character supports that view. As a / myself I know that such
•changeableness is the weakness as well as the strength of the
"Sagittarian.
Edinburgh, Yours truly,
26/7/1917. Duncan Macnaughton.
1
[More accurately, the progressed Moan's places at dates given are respectively
A 12.2, y 16.5, a 8.6, □ 11.47; this, reckoning from the 'radical' birthday in the usual
•way. Reckoning from the progressed birthday alters the progressed Moon's place
by making it less by about 2'for each year of birth. The progressed cusp of the
-second house for 1894 is =;6 not 19 as stated. The wrong year altogether has been
taken for the Srst date, as th: Moon could not be in Sagittarius 13 days after birth
These corrections seem called for, as having 1
some bearing on our
correspondent's conclusions.—Sub editor.] See former footnote.
 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

"NEPTUNE AND THE NEW ERA"

Dear Sir,
What can MrC. G. M. Adam mean by saying (p. 248)
that " the possessing and ruling classes, so far from responding to the
call for self-sacrifice, have taken every advantage of the war to make
gigantic profits, and further enslave the rest of the populations by
their exactions ?"
How far this may apply to other countries, I am not in a position
to say, but in England the only people who can have made any profit
through the war are manufacturers and middle-men, who are not
usually considered as the " possessing and ruling classes." Those
generally placed under this head, so far from making " gigantic profits,"
are greatly impoverished, through heavy taxation, the general rise in
wages, and the continual demands made upon them to support Funds,
either connected with the war, or otherwise. These sacrifices, in
every case of which I have any knowledge, are made readily and
gladly, in a spirit of patriotism, and with the desire to help fellow-
countrymen and Allies to the utmost cf their power.
Mr Adam's article is most interesting, but the statement I have
referred to seems to have no relation to present day realities.
Oakly Park, Ludlow, Yours faithfully,
27/7/'17 G. Windsor Clive

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS.
Dtlays must arise in regard tj many things at the present moment, some inevitable
and also some unexpected ones which may seem to arise from carelessness or inattention
otring to the impossibility of giving explanations at the moment.
In order to avoid the possibility of anything of this hind I have hastily drafted
out this little note to use in place of a letter (on any subject) where time makes it
impossible to answer as one would like.
Miss Felfe, who has charge of the adniinistration of all office work, and I are
doing everything we can to adjust and expedite all matters.
To adapt a rather well-known phrase from newspaper correspondence columns,
W ill therefore those eorrespondtnts who only receive this reply please remember it is
not from want of courtesy but lack of time.
Alfred H. Barlev
(deling Editor).
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Astrology for Beginners

THE PLANETS

We have now considered briefly the personal appearance given by each

of the Zodiacal signs when on the Ascendant, and we will, for the next few
months, endeavour to obtain some idea of the nature of the nine heavenly
bodies whose path lies through that etheric space we term the zodiacal belt.
No two of these " heavenly bodies" have the same path and no two paths
touch or cross each other at any point, so that there is never any fear that
any one of these heavenly bodies will impinge upon, or in any sense collide
with, any ether heavenly body. Each has its own rate of motion and its own
path, and exerts its influence, according to its nature, in a manner peculiar
to itself.
Also, each " body " has a name and a symbol by which it may be
recognized, and (he latter is vastly the more important, because names have
no significance to those who do not speak the language to which the names
belong, but symbols retain their significance and speak the same eternal
truth throughout the Ages. Symbology acts as a universal language for all
time, for all civilizations and for all religions, and the symbols used for the
nine heavenly bodies with which we shall concern ourselves, and which we
will for brevity, call planets, are built from three well-known symbols:—the
circle, the cross, and the sejni-circle, and these are found graven on rocks or
carved on pottery of every civilization (no matter how ancient), of which
man has yet made discovery.
The Logos of this Solar System cannot, of course, be personified, but it
is possible to conceive of the various qualities of godhead, as exhibiting
themselves through mighty Intelligences; and if we consider that mighty Intel-
ligence, or Being, who shows forth that great quality of godhead which we term
Energy, as using for his physical vestment, the planet Mars, and continually
sending out through this planet, energizing force, by means of vibrations,
through the ether, known as the Signs of Ihe Zodiac, we shall then understand
how closely our Earth is kept in touch with the great Being who animates the
planet Mars.
These vibrations reach our earth, energizing and stimulating its mineral,
vegetable and animal growth, and giving to man force, initiative, devotion,
buoyancy, hope, etc.
Secretary of Lessons Department.
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Astrology

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SwsSi] NOVEMBER, 1917. [NO.

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N«xt month's issue, as our readers are aware, is to be a Special
Memorial Number, and will probably be in the printers' hands by the
time this appears. We reprint here the last article that came from
Mr Leo's pen, written for the Astrological Society's " Notes."
Alfred H. Barley
Acting Editor

A WORD TO THE FEW

To have it admitted that Astrology is a Science, to hear a King's
Counsel say that he is staggered by the weight of evidence he has
received, and to find a firm of well-known solicitors armed with an
abundance of testimony as to the bona fides of an exponent of Astrology,
all taking place in a London Police Court, is not the least of the
wonders connected with the astrological movement at the present time.
The greatest wonder is that a body of earnest and sincere students of
322 MODERN ASTROLOGY

this subject should have been sufficiently unified to arouse the attention
of those spiritual influences that always work in the atmosphere that
is formed when two or three are gathered together in the Master's
name. Those who are the most receptive to these influences know
that any movement that can survive a severe and thorough shaking,
is a sound movement. As President of the Astrological Society I
have had sufficient evidence during the past three years that the astro-
logical movement is going forward during the present century by
leaps and bounds, and it is due to a majority of the members of the
Astrological Institute and Society that this forward movement has been
assured.
It is not generally known that there are " Dark Forces " as well
as the " Light Forces " at work in the world, the former absorbing the
collective influence of the Stars that has been abused by selfish wills
and the latter the Intelligent forces that reach a certain level forming
an atmosphere into which the unselfish thoughts and feelings of men
may be raised. In the constant interplay between these two forces
there are periods when a crisis arises, usually when extremes meet and
cause a storm that bursts over the heads of those strong enough to
battle with it. The world crisis we are now going through, known as
the great European War, was the great storm between the Dark and
Light forces Might and Right liberated at the close of the Uranian
and Neptunian cyclic opposition. Intermingled with the Light and the
Dark are innumerable side issues, scientific, philosophic, political, and
religious; they are the shading, the light pencillings, and the dark
shadows. There is not a thinking man or woman in the world to-day
who is not affected by the present great crisis, and the more pronounced
the thought the more certain will be the attraction to the Light or the
Dark. It cannot be a question of indifference at the present time ;
that will not do ; for indifference means a HO«-human interest, and the
interests at stake at the present time are vitally human. Every
student of Astrology, by his thought on the subject, has invoked the
light or the dark influences during the past three years, for those years
have been years of choice, and consciously or unconsciously we have
been creating an atmosphere around ourselves that is attracted to the
light or the dark. It has been a thought atmosphere tinged with a bias
one way or the other, and it is not too metaphysical to say that we
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY

have either threaded our thought in our own Star-Angel's web of

destiny and linked ourselves with a thread of that great Angel's
intelligence, or woven a coarser strand of material thought with the
darker forces who break those finer threads by stimulating the animal
nature that is within us.
To the few, and we are not many at present, I should like to say
that whether we associate ourselves or not with the astrological
movement that is now going forward, it is destined to go forward with
us or without us.
The torch that was lighted by an earnest prayer in the year 1890,
and reinforced in 1895, has since then lighted many torches that are
now burning brightly round the altar of astrological truth. Prior to
those years that branch of Astrology known as Horary held the day.
It was a form of divination for which Astrology was almost solely used
by those who studied it, and I was told by one who used it extensively
that it was the only form of Astrology worth knowing. Many
horoscope delineations were given when the time of birth was unknown,
on horary figures only, with the same interpretation.
Small wonder that Astrology used in this manner became a farce
and was ridiculed by those who knew the facilities it gave the charlatan
and the impostor! Steady and persistent reiteration, since those
dates, of the well-known dictum Character is Destiny has practically
turned the tide away from Horary to that of Natal Astrology which
has aroused a genuine personal interest, and what is more a firm belief
in the theories of karma and reincarnation.
Now, after a quarter of a century of remarkable propaganda
work we find that another of the weak sides of astrological practice has
to go, that of indiscriminate prediction.
Yes, whatever may or may not be our beliefs or inclinations, as
surely as Astrology is a science so surely must the predictive element
make way for the new thought that EFFORT IS STRONGER THAN
DESTINY.
It will shock some,amuse others, and arouse the interest of a few.
It is the few whose thought power will be strong enough to show the
world why the true astrologer, who believes in destiny, can also believe
in the exercise of man's free will. It is not the will that is self-centred,
but the will that WILLS to unite with the will of the Creator who
 MODERN ASTROLOGV

designed and planned the Universe ; the will that works xvith evolution
and not against it.
This is the secret of the Light and Dark forces, the one wills to
unite and harmonise itself with the many, the other seeks to disunite
and hold its will against the many.
Every day is a Judgment day, and the few are now called to the
seat of Astrological Judgment, The predictive side of Astrology must
go, until we learn how to unbind the fetters of fate by knowledge, and
teach all men that they are not bound and that none other holds them
to the wheel of fate but themselves !
Alan Leo

OUR LATE EDITOR AND HIS WORK

Who dies, if England live ?

Alan Leo has left his body—that is to say the body in which
we knew him—and it is natural for some to regret this as a great blow
to Astrology.
But it need not be. He has left it to us to carry on his work,
and the power that worked through him will work through us, if we
will let it. Indeed, it may even be that a collective vehicle of this
kind will novo prove a more suitable agent for the scattering of the
astrological seed—or rather perhaps 1 should say for promoting the
growth of the astrological seed which he scattered, than he himself
provided: that is, IF WE ARE READY, and I think we are. Things
have been moving very rapidly of late and a great change has been
made, and is being made, in the world's thought atmosphere; and
therefore it does not seem unreasonable to suppose that the ploughing
and seed-scattering which formed the work of Alan Leo in the
astrological field may have been accomplished, and that he was
therefore withdrawn at the very moment of apparent failure and
actual success. The work is greater than the man, always. As a
worker in another field has recently said: " In taking up our work
I set in action forces which have impelled me ; and right throughout
I have been the pushed—not the pusher."
If ours is the right spirit, then, we may later say the same.
 T1MJ UIJITOR'S OHSEUVATOUY 325

A COINCIDENCE

A curious coincidence connected with the September number of

MODERN Astrology may be worth mentioning.
We go to press very early, and Mr Shirley's able com-
ments on the Mansion-IIouse Case [p. 303] only reached me after
my article on the subject was in the printers' hands; and so it
happened that when the magazine came to be " made up," I found
myself with 8 pages too much. Not thinking it a good plan:to carry
forward matter relating to the Case into a new month, I suggested to
Mr Leo that it might be better to enlarge the September number. He
being then in Cornwall, and I in Norfolk, caused delay in the corres-
pondence and I did not get his reply till the page proofs were before
me. His reply was in the negative and 8 pages had therefore to be
taken out.
Fortunately I was able to manage this without interfering with
the continuity of the " Mansion-House " article, in fact the condensa-
tion improved it. But one paragraph had to be omitted which I would
fain have kept in had space allowed. This was it:—
" It may perhaps be wondered why in this issue so large a share
should be furnished by the Sub-Editor and so little, comparatively,
by the Editor. But it must be remembered that as time goes on the
Editor, who has been the life and soul of this magazine for just twenty-
seven years, and who is now approaching the 60th year of an
exceptionally strenuous life, must of necessity find himself able to give
less and less attention to editorial work in view of the other claims on
his energies. That being so, it follows that the sub-editor must
undertake a larger share of responsibility than hitherto, and this was
a suitable occasion on which to make a start."
In the light of what has happened since—what was to happen
within ten days or so after that paragraph was written—one reads the
words with a sense of inner significance of which the writer was uncon-
scious. Mr Leo had more than once expressed his intention of retiring
from active work by 1920, and was then contemplating arrangements
by which this was to be carried out, arrangements which were to be
further discussed between us when we returned to London. Certainly
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

I had not the slightest idea that the end was so near, nor, I think,
had he.
It is easy to anticipate the sneer (though perhaps that is too hard
a word) that may rise to the mind of any casual reader. What ?—an
astrologer, and not know when he is going to die !
Just that, Mr Sneerer, if that is your name ; I make you a present
of it. Please take full advantage of the occasion, and get it done with.
Over and over again in this magazine has our late Editor written
on this subject, namely, as to whether events can be predicted.
Influences can be foreseen, and their nature approximately estimated
but the exact form such influences may finally be expressed in can
not be foreknown, although it is true that in some cases a fair
anticipation may be made. But the whole of this question was
adequately discussed in the September number, pp. 274-280, which
may be referred to for a further view of the " paradox " ; for a paradox
I suppose it must seem to many.

MY FIRST LESSON
" Those who know do not speak ; those who speak do not know."
When in May, 1899, I first heard Alan Leo speak on
Astrology 1 began to study it, and, as always happens unfortunately,
soon began to be looked on by my friends as deeply learned in the
subject; whereas, of course, actually I was still just inexperienced
enough to be unaware how incompetent I was to form a judgment at
all. However, I acted in good faith, and perhaps that kept me from
doing any real harm.
It was not long before a neighbour came to me in great trouble,
and straitly charged me not to conceal my opinion but to tell her what
I thought. She had had a dream in which she saw a dead body
being carried out of the house. Did I think it meant one of the
children, and if so was it Cecil or Phyllis ?
Well, I examined the horoscopes and came to the conclusion that
of the two it was more likely to be Phyllis: it happened that I had
been studying the nativity of my own sister (who died when I was 6)
and I saw a similar position in this child's horoscope. That seemed
to me"'to settle it. And accordingly, as gently as I could, I told the
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY

distressed mother what I thought, giving her my reasons, though

reminding her at the same time that I was only a beginner and couldn't
be sure my view was right. Here are the two maps :
x xi xii { ii iii
Cecil si2-) X29 002 18 J15
Phyllis W28 as 21 fo B30 II22 as 10
G D ? ? <S H •? W 'P
C. ffi20i 11I27I Jlsir D15 T12 II22J esig ninr ni4i
P. 11224" ^3 IIJS mio IB8 0:15 77 70 D25
Soon after I happened to meet Mr Leo and put the point to him.
He told me to send him the two maps, and he would look at them.
I did so, and he wrote me the following letter;
g Lyncroft Garoens, N.W.
Dear Mr Barley, March 14 tgot
It looks as if Phyllis would be the first to go, but I should have to
work out the directions to be sure, and this lam not inclined to do. I have
already enough Karma upon my shoulders without incurring any more.
Astrology has taught me one thing, and that is caution. I am far too busy
a man to go into all these details, and besides unless specially asked 1 never
predict death. There is quite enough sorrow in the world, without inflicting
more upon people. Take my advice and let people dream their dreams, but
you shake your head and don't offer to tell them what the stars say until you
can rank yourself amongst the prophets, the best of us at the game are only
poor students, and in the past we were the fools that rushed in where Angels
would have feared to tread. We have since realised that we know nothing. For
your own guidance I would suggest death to take place when theasc. arrived
at the opposition of the planet Saturn. Be careful how you calculate the
aspect, and when you have done it keep the result to yourself, but treat the
dream as a warning, and tell the pareuts to take extra care of thechild. I
hope you will understand my position. Yours faithfully,
Alan Leo

I have always treasured that letter as containing the gentlest and

kindest rebuke I have ever seen in written language. (He did not
understand quite all the circumstances, and supposed the statement
to have been volunteered by me, I fancy.) Note that he confirms the
judgment, so far as it went.
The words " in the past" I take to refer to the past of Astrology
[i.e., the Middle Ages] and not to the past of his own career or of his
contemporaries.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

" My position " in the last sentence of the letter has no formal
significance ; he did not use it in the sense that he might have said
more had he chosen, of that I am quite sure ; I became familiar with
his modes of expression, later on, and know that all he meant was that
he hoped I would not take it amiss that he had felt obliged to give me
what might seem like a snub.
This, then, was Mr. Leo's attitude towards prediction in 1901.
In the September number, as well as in this number also may
be seen his attitude in 1917. Has it not been consistently maintained
throughout the sixteen intervening years? Take any of the Text
Books or Manuals—every one of them, be it remarked, published
during these sixteen years—and you will find it so.
Notwithstanding which, on July 16th he was fined for" professing
and pretending to tell fortunes."
I once said something to a friend about the trial of Galileo by the
Church. " You've got it the wrong way about," said he. "It was the
trial of the Church by Galileo." Perhaps he was right.

ASTROLOGY WITHOUT PREDICTION

Possibly space may be left to include here the remainder
of the article referred to just now, which had to be omitted from
the September number. The preceding paragraphs had been more
or less occupied with the thought that Astrology is a quite suffi-
ciently interesting and absorbing subject even if the very possibility
of forecasting the future were forgotten. And I went on to give one
or two illustrations of this.
The "Zodiacal and Planetary Temperaments " Series published
in this magazine in 1909-1912 or thereabouts, furnishes an illustration
alike of co-operative work and of astrological study in which the
" predictive" side of the subject is conspicuous by its absence.
Cannot this presentation of Astrology be extended ? Might we not,
amongst students, " boycott " as it were all references to prediction,
directions, etc. ? Might it not gradually come to be looked upon as
bad form to make more than a passing reference to such subjects,—
much as " talking shop " is amongst trading, artistic and professional
people ? In this way a gradual lightening of the astrological thought-
atmosphere might be brought about.
 THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATORY

An incident that occurred during the progress of the recent

Mansion-House case illustrates how Astrology may be made to vivify
and pervade every trivial event of life. I had gone to the Nautical
Almanac Office to procure a draft of the planets' places at 4 a.m.
7/3/'78 London (the data supplied for the calculation of the horoscope),
to bring forward in evidence if required. While the assistant was
writing down the figures he chanced to say, with reference to one of
the planetary symbols, " Let me see, short ' a' isn't it, as in Greek ? "
I said practice varied, but that as a matter of fact I was in the habit
of pronouncing it with the 'a' long, as the short 'a' made the word
sound like a medical adjective of not very pleasant associations. He
smiled, and said that if that was my reason, he thought my preference
for the long ' a' with a stress on it rather strange, as that only made
matters worse ! It took me a moment to see what he meant. But
when I did, I was so struck by the nimbleness of his wit, and the
adroitness of repartee by which he had, as it were, " turned the tables "
upon me that I was certain he must have Gemini strong somewhere ;
not as a rising sign, evidently, for his appearance and somewhat shy
hesitating manner forbade. Nor, did I think, the Moon. Sun, then,
or Mercury ? I made a bold shot.
" You were born in June ? " I asked.
" Yes ! " he said.

Here is another example of the way in which Astrology may be

made of use and interest, without either prediction, horoscopes or date
of birth. " It is very imperfectly realised by the general public,"
remarks a recent writer, " that the influence of the different Zodiacal
Signs is clearly discernible by outward and visible indications apart
from any knowledge of the birth hour or horoscope," and he shows
how this possibility greatly extends the field of observation by an
incident taken from his own experience. One of the Signs, he says,
is given to a certain trifling solecism in speech, such as would usually
be ascribed to slipshod enunciation or indifferent schooling in early
life. He has observed this repeatedly,and in one noteworthy instance
the speaker was a Member of Parliament and a barrister-at-law,
was a foundation scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and had been
educated at Eton ; so that the hypothesis of careless enunciation or
330 MODERN ASTROLOGY

poor schooling is inadmissible. "I have chosen this little illustration,"

he continues, " in order to strike the attention. Inthiscase there were
not only the characteristic bearing and gesture and point of view [of
the Zodiacal Sign in question], but there was also the inner attitude
of mind which, despising detail, remained unconscious of a solecism
which a far less able man would painfully have eschewed. Between
this man and others of the same zodiacal type, therefore, there endures
a something-in-common stronger than all disparities of birth, blood,
education and breeding have been able to efface! And," he asks,
" is not that a fact to give us pause, and make us wonder? And will
not a study which tviu'ers possible such an observation, make for
UNDERSTANDING ? "1
When I first took up the study of Astrology eighteen years aeo,
I fixed it in my mind as a sort of goal, that I would become so expert
that on being given a horoscope of a person unknown, and due to arrive
in London, I would forthwith proceed to any railway terminus and
meet him by train, armed only with this horoscope as a means of
identifying him, (much as a detective might if furnished with a
photograph).
Needless to say, perhaps, I have not attained this ideal proficiency.
But the quotation I have just given seems to indicate a step in this
direction when the zodiacal characteristics become so familiar as to
be recognised at sight without possibility of mistake.
May not some such means of presenting Astrology to outsiders,
instead of the old and perhaps outworn method of "prediction,"
provide a more acceptable avenue of approach by which the public
may be led to make acquaintance with Astrology?
Alfred H. Barley

Astrological Correspondence Lessons.—Mis Bains, of Peterboro,

and Mr \V. H. Shutes, of Hove, have been awarded the Certificate of
Merit.
" Neptune and the New Era."—In reply to our correspondent's letter
■on p. 319 the author of the above article writes that by the " possessing and
ruling classes " he meant the manufacturers and middlemen, who, be contends,
are the real possessing classes and the actual though perhaps not always (he
nominal rulers.
J
" The Work of (he Hermes Lodge " ; p. 10.
 33i

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Venus is setting in that district which covers western Europe,
Great Britain, and part of Germany; the degree containing the planet
will be exactly on the cusp of the seventh house along a line running
from near Trieste, where the fighting between Italy and Austria has
taken place, northwestward to near Amsterdam. The type of influence
likely to be exerted here will be distinctly pacificatory and such as
may result in a lull in the fighting, a drawing more closely together of
allies, and a lessening of the bitterness of enemies, with a strong
tendency towards peace proposals.
The setting Venus is in trine to Mars in Virgo in the fourth house
for Great Britain and western Europe. Mars will be exactly on the
cusp of the fourth in 80E longitude, which runs through west Germany,
Switzerland, and Piedmont. The tendency resulting from such a
position is to disturb and upset rulers and governments, to excite the
people and render them discontented and probably produce a demand
on their part for peace.
The lunation in the sixth house in square to both Saturn and
Uranus points to strikes, to loss of life by sea, land and air, and some
discontent or trouble connected with the national services. It is
unfortunate for the health of the country and for money matters.
At New York Mars will be setting in trine -to Venus in the
eleventh. This pointstosuccess abroad and credit to the country through
its forces, a probability of peace proposals, with closer ties and good for-
tune through allies ; loss of life at sea, disturbance of foreign trade, and
from spies. The indications are not good for health of the community.
332

^.rcomplisljEtr Slrtal

Mr Alan Leo left his body and passed to the astral world under
the directions of his progressed horoscope. This, and the death figure
as well, reveals to a student of occultism great truths.
Examining this we seem to see the power of the ego ruling his
vehicles, transmuting coarser matter in the fire of life's experiences,
changing baser metals into gold, revealing in death as in life that
Character is Destiny. Regard the death figure itself, notice the sign
Libra ascends, the sign of balance and equilibrium; the Sun in the
virgin sign Virgo, the sign of great Purity. Mr Leo's chief ideal was
purity which he made a living power in his life, notice the Moon was
in the sign Aquarius the Man. You will see Sun, Moon and Ascendant
were all in humane signs; the Virgin, the Man and the Scales, a
notable death figure for an occultist. You will also see Venus con-
junction Mercury were rising at death in the sign Libra, trine to Jupiter
in Gemini on the cusp of the ninth house, the house of the Guru,
thus he would get in touch with his Master very quickly. The trine
of the Moon in Aquarius in the fourth house to these planets shows the
purity of the etheric body, the Moon ruling the etheric, and the quick
regaining of consciousness.
An occultist well known to many, told Mr Leo in India that his
individual ray was Venus so he passed out in his own vibrations of
that hour. The Moon in the sign Aquarius is typical of the life just
closed, denoting the profound student of human nature and helper of
humanity, and it defines his future work on Uranian lines, the Moon
being significant of the personality, in the new astrological age which
will come at the close of this century. The foregoing is extremely
significant, for the death figure of an occultist is the great key to his
next birth map and Uranus, Mercury and Venus will prove potent
influences in his next nativity.
Mr Leo passed out in what occultists term the bright fortnight of
the Moon in which all uplifting spiritual influences are potent, while
 AN ACCOMPLISHED IDEAL

the forces which hinder and delay evolution are strongest in the dark
fortnight.
Mr Leo was a practical occultist, maintaining a constant struggle
against his lower nature, becoming the wise man who ruled his stars;
for he knew as a skilful astrologer that the chief flaw of his birth map
was Moon in Aries square Mars and Venus opposition Mars, so he de-
voted himself to the one ideal of purity in thought, word and deed, and
for twenty-five years he was engaged in putting his ideal into practice
and his progressed horoscope and death figure are significant of that
embodied purity which he succeeded in bringing into the physical and
making an accomplished fact. All his lower vehicles became obedient
to the master hand that controlled them, and his favourite text toward
which his life conformed was " Blessed are the pure in heart, for they
shall see God."
Mr Green writes " It is also a remarkable fact that the sign Libra
was rising at the pre-natal epoch, so that here there are three maps,
the epoch, the progressed horoscope, and the death figure all showing
the same sign rising. The sign under which he began his descent into
incarnation is also that under which he left it and entered upon astral
plane activities, and some readers at any rate will understand that a
self-rounded personality like his, capable of useful work and influ-
encing so many people, will be likely to return in the not very distant
future and continue its labours. Moreover this sign Libra was on the
cusp of the third house at birth and matters ruled by this house, writings
and short journeys connected with them carried on in conjunction with
his wife and with others, (Libra,) dominated the latter half of his life."
Bessie Leo

Mrs Bes^nt's Interkment.—One or two students have been asking

for Mrs Besant's " directions " in view of her recent internment (Junex 16 or
17). The progressed horoscope at date July 9, is:—x X9.I5, xi Ti4i 'i n i,
i 9211.58, ii 9527, iii SI15; ©^17.521 DVj'tg.zs, ^ 11127.16, 2 1111.6, 3 bi.S,
If. 95i8.52r, I7 X6.59, ijj'Vi-i.zGr, ^^•27.53. An interesting point is that this
figure shows the exact opposition of 3 and 2 respectively rulers of the
radical first and seventh governing the native and her opponents and open
enemies. The rectified birth-map, as published in The Progressed Horoscope
is:—x V3't-54, xi Vj'zi. xii ^15, i Tj-S, ii b 2°, iii 1114; 0=2=7.54, 50512.52,
?=2=i6.40, 2'==ii.4r, t? b 15.121-, 1^9518.25, b X7.28>-, tf^aS.or:
an instructive judgment upon this map (written many years ago) is given in
Practical Astrology.
 334

®ljc ©rrat Mlnr

By G. E. Sutcliffe,

Author of " The Foundations of Physical Astrology "

VI.—The Strategy of the Hierarchy

and the Cross of Matter

{Continued from p. 255)

The Two Groups of " Servers "

Let us turn for a moment to an aspect of the present age, which

greatly brightens the outlook. During the fourth root-race, at a time
so recent as a million years ago, there was an additional immigration
of high class egos into humanity ; Man, Whence How and Whither,
p. 110. One is inclined to ask, " Is this kind of thing now finished;
or may we have an importation of a still higher type in our fifth root-
race."
I have reason to think that we may, and that such is happening
at the present day. The group of egos that joined the fourth root-race
above mentioned are known as the group of Servers, of which one
portion came in 1,000,000 years ago and another 600,000 years ago:
ib. 65-6, 239. They are classified as Group I {ih. 69), but there is
another group, classified on the same page as Group II, who are
also Servers, who are far ahead of the former group {ib.), and who
have not been accounted for as having yet arrived on the earth. They
are perhaps too far advanced to have required the hammering of the
Atlantean period, and the early days of the Fifth Root-Race, and may
have been reserved for the milder form of evolution of the present and
succeeding ages, and for the beginnings of the Sixth Root-Race,—
just as Group I were used for the beginning of the Fifth Root-Race.
All these came from Globe D of the Moon Chain, but others left the
 THE GREAT WAR 335
Moon Chain on Globe E, etc., who may also form part of our new
recruits: ib. 71.
In my opinion the above possibility is very important, for if it be
true these new recruits will be the leaders of evolution in succeeding
centuries, and are a source of great promise for the future. Be this
as it may, there are many indications that a new race is coming in at
the present time, and that "now a new progeny descends from the
celestial -realms," according to the Sibylline prophecy. Families
appear who are remarkable for their altruism, such as the Eussian
family mentioned by Stephen Graham in his recent work, The Way
of Martha and the Way of Mary (p. 170). The American Bureau
of Ethnology has published various accounts of the new race of
Americans, and Mr Leadbeater finds a new and distinct type in
Australia: The Herald of the Star,Feh 1916,p. 60. Here in India
also, the new generation is markedly different to the old. Whilst
therefore there are indications that those who are in the way of our
further evolution will be moved out of the way by a minor 'Day of
Judgment,' there are also unmistakable indications that advanced
recruits are coming forward who will lead the advance by their
superior altruism, and make our progress rapid.
In spite of the terrible times in which we live, therefore, the future
is full of hope.

Back to Mars

The class of egos which it has been suggested will be removed

are the same as had to be removed for a similar reason from Globe A
of the Moon Chain : Man, Whence How and Whither, p. 59. All
through their history they have been a hindrance. Many of them are
scientific materialists, such as the present inhabitants of Mars: The
Inner Life, ii 420. Perhaps they may be moved back into that
evolution. It would seem like poetic justice if the authors of most of
our past and of our present wars were made to evolve on the planet
of the Martial God whom they have worshipped. It is a pity of
course for any to be put a step backwards in evolution, but the war-
worn nations after the present conflict is over will be inclined to
exclaim with the Lord High Executioner in the Gilbertian opera*
336 MODERN ASTKOI-OG Y
" Put them on the list, they never will be missed." This process of
putting back a stage, so as to have to evolve through a globe, round,
or chain, a second time appears to be a normal and ever-recurrent
operation in the general scheme of things, as shown by Diagram IV,
(frontispiece) in Man, Whence How and Whither.

The Hundred-and-Fortv-Fouk Thousand

" And I looked, and lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him
an hundred forty and four thousand, having the Father's name written in
their forehead These are they which were not defiled with
women, for they are virgins: (Rev xiv, i, 4) Hurt not the earth,
neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in
their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which were sealed ; and
there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes
of the children of Israel: {Rev vii, 3, 4.)"
I would like to suggest that the above virgin egos are identical
with the higher group of Servers above referred to, who are being
drafted into the earth chain at the present time. According to the
succeeding verses of the chapter there are 12000 for each of the
twelve tribes of the Jews, and the question arises: Are they the
missing ten "lost tribes," about which so much has been written?
It would appear that as far as real history is concerned these ten
tribes, as also the Jewish Kings David and Solomon, are purely
mythical.
But such myths usually contain important occult truths. The
story of King Solomon and his Temple is the basis of the scheme of
the Masonic Societies, having the Master in charge of European
civilisation at its head. It cannot therefore be ignored by students of
occultism, but on the contrary it should invite investigation. The
reason assigned for the ten tribes leaving, or refusing to serve under
Rehoboam the son of King Solomon, is full of meaning to astrologers.
—" My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with
scorpions": II Chronicles x 14. This appears to bea direct reference
to the hammering which the backward egos required, and which the
division of the sexes brings about, and is symbolised by the separation
of the astrological sign Virgo-Scorpio. This group of Servers therefore
 THE GREAT WAR 337
was too far advanced to require much of this Scorpio treatment, and
they were in consequence held back until the Atlantean period was
over.
They appear to be a special reserve for the critical period of the fifth
root-race, when a part of the race will be put back, and the remainder
more rapidly pushed forwards. The small group of Servers which
joined the terrestrial scheme towards the close of the Atlantean period
are specially linked with the Manu and Bodhisattva of the sixth root-
race, who left Globe D of the Mcon chain along with them (iWa« ;
etc. 68), and also joined the earth chain at the same time. But
the remaining ten tribes seem to be specially linked with the
Manu and Bodhisattva of theroot-race. They are the reserve
force of their army to be brought forward at the critical moment,
when the Dark Forces are threatening to destroy their scheme of
evolution.
I would point out in this connection that at the last appearance of
the World Teacher, none of the known group of Servers were working
with Him. In this Jewish incarnation two thousand years ago, none
of the characters in "Rents in the Veil of Time" were present.
Neither were they amongst the Arhats who were so numerous at the
last appearance of the Lord Buddha, 2,500 years ago. Whilst the
Manu and Bodhisattva of the sixth root-race left the Moon chain on
Globe D, the Bodhisattvas of the fourth and fifth root-races continued
on the Moon chain toglobe F, where they took the vow of Buddhahood :
[ib. p. 74). The more advanced the egos were, the longer they
remained on the Moon chain. Hence the more advanced group of
Servers, the ten lost tribes, would remain later than the Servers of the
Manu and Bodhisattva of the sixth root-race, which in Biblical
symbology may be termed the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, who
remained in charge of the Temple of Jerusalem. Some of the higher
group of Servers accompanied the Lord Buddha, and the Lord
Maitreya, on to the later globes, the larger part being dropped on globe
D, and smaller portions on globes E, F, and G ; [ib. p. 73). They
were therefore closely associated with these great Beings for a very
long period. All this points to the conclusion that this neglected
group is a special staff for the World-Teachers of the fourth nd
fifth root-races, the root-races now current.
 MODEKN ASTROLOGY

We may further infer from the above that the King David of the
Hebrew Scriptures is the Lord Buddha, whilst Solomon his son is the
Lord Maitreya, since the Lord Maitreya is spiritually the son of the
Lord Buddha. These two Bodhisattvas may be also represented
symbolically by the two pillars of the Temple, Jachin and Boaz:
(/ Kings, vii, 21). For the "Temple " is the body of man which is
to be built up by the fourth and fifth root-races, under the supervision
of the Lord Buddha, and the Lord Maitreya. It will receive the Ark
of the Covenant (ib. ch viii), or the power of creation by Kriyashakti,
in the sixth root-race. This stage seems to be represented by Hiram,
the son of a widow (ib. vii, 14), or one whose mother had no husband,
an indication of the principle of virgin birth. Solomon gave to
Hiram, in return for his help, twenty cities of Galilee.
And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had
given him ; and they pleased him not. And he said, What cities are these
which thou hast given me my brother? And he called them the land of
Cabul; (it. ix, 12, 13.)
The word Cabul signifies 'as good as nothing.' In the fourth and
fifth root-races there are fourteen sub-races, or seven to each of the
root-races under the control of the Lords Buddha and Maitreya,
corresponding to Kings David and Solomon ; but under the decimal
system already explained (p 222 MA July 1917) there would be ten
sub-races in a root-race or twenty in the two root-races. The twenty
cities of Galilee therefore which dissatisfied Hiram may be the twenty
sub-races of the.fourth and fifth ropt-races which are unsuitable for the
Virgin Hiram, owing to the division of the sexes. The " Lost
Word" which gives the power of Kriyashakti cannot be applied to
them.

The Restoration of the Mysteries

The stringing together of the above series of occult facts, and the
application to them of the Astrological Key, may enable us to obtain
some measure of the stupendous importance of the events which are
now taking place. They are a necessary preliminary to the right
understanding of the cruciform configuration of the planets on January
11 1910, which will be expounded later in connection with the events of
 THE CUE AT WAK 339
the war. They lead to tlie deduction that the "Ancient Mysteries" are
about to be restored to mankind, as soon as those who would make an
evil use of such knowledge are safely disposed of, and the altruistic
remainder allowed to lead the race. The former warning given to
occultists, "give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye
your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and
turn again and rend you,"{Mati vii 5), will cease to be applicable to
the new generation.
For the miracle of 2,000 years ago may have its modern counter-
part. "And all the devils besought Him, saying, Send us into the
swine, that we may enter into them. And forthwith Jesus gave them
leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine :
and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea and were
choked in the sea:" Mark v 12-14.
So may the scientific materialists, the spiritual swine of the present
age, who have caused the present war, and into whom have entered
the devils of lust and cruelty, rush down into the sea of Pralaya, and
resume their evolution on the planet Mars. It is singular to observe
how closely the Martian civilisation as described by Mr Leadbeater
U'laer Life ii 420) agrees with that imposed on Germany by its
materialistic oligarchy. Hence Mars to them will be a heaven.
Similarly their departure will give a new heaven and a new earth to
the war-worn nations of this sorrowful planet. It is a consummation
devoutly to be wished.
When the Sou of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels
with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory.
And before him shall be gathered all nations : and He shall separate
them one from another, as a shepherd dividcth his sheep from the goats:
And He shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left
Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me : {Malt
xxv, 31-41.)
Clairvoyant investigators have told us that those who have died
in the present war, when restored to consciousness on the other side
exhibit a joyousness that is remarkable, they literally dance in the
exuberance of their joy. One wonders if this is due to the fact that
they have become aware of the new dispensation that will succeed the
present war, for the indications are that the spiritual powers will i
 MODKKN ASTUOLOGV

future be in much closer contact with humanity, and guide them in the
ways of peace.

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye

comfortably to Jerusalcra, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished,
that her iniquity is pardoned ; . . . Every valley shall be exalted, and
every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked shall be made
straight, and the rough places plain ; And the glory of the Lord shall be
revealed, and all fiesh shall see it together; for the month of the Lord hath
spoken it. . . . O Zion, that bringeth good tidings, get thee np into the
high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringeth good tidings, lift np thy voice
with strength; lift it np, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Jndah, Behold
your God He shall feed bis flock like a shepherd ; he shall
gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall
gently lead those that are with young": Isaiah xl.

It thus may happen that this, the greatest sorrow that the earth
has ever known, may be also the beginning of its greatest joy, and
when we think of this our hearts must go out in love and gratitude to
the noble heroes who are fighting the world's great battle, who will
restore our freedom, and inaugurate a Divine Dispensation upon earth.
In the early days, the Golden Age of the fifth Root-Race, the glorious
Being, the Lord of the Earth, known to the East as Sanat Kuraara,
the Ancient of Days, used to show himself annually to His people, and
give them His blessing; Man, Whence Hoiv and Whither, p. 269
What has happened in the past can also happen in the future, and
His will be done on earth as it is done in Heaven. The noble heroes
therefore, who are conquering the forces of evil, and winning for us
spiritual emancipation on the fields of Armageddon, may restore once
more the Golden Age, as foretold by the Sybilline Prophecy. They
are the ' gates,' and the ' everlasting doors,' through which the King of
Glory shall come in.

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and he ye lift up, ye everlasting doors ;

and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory ? The Lord
strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in baltle. Lift up your heads, O ye
gales ; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall
come in. Who is this King of Glory ? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of
glory. Selah : Ps xxiv, 7-10.
 THE GKHAT WAR 341

EPILOGUE

What secsl thou now in thy horoscope, disciple ?

I see all the heavenly bodies at the bottom of the horoscope
mostly in the sign Sagittarius.
And what is the symbol of Sagittarius ?
It is a composite creature half man and half animal, symbolising
man in his present phase of evolution.
What seest thou at the top of the horoscope ?
I see Neptune, the Ray of the Divine Hermaphrodite, in the sign
Gemini, the airy house of Mercury.
And what is the symbol of Gemini *
The Heavenly Twins, the symbol of bisexual Virgin-Man, which
will succeed the other house of Mercury, the monosexual
Virgin of earth. It is the wheat-ear which the earth'y Virgo
holds out to us as a promise of peace and plenty, when she
becomes the Heavenly Virgin.
Then what does the horoscope of the New Era symbolise generally
with Neptune in Gemini at the top of the horoscope.
It symbolises the descent of Virgin-Man from the celestial realms,
and the return of the Golden Age, according to the Sybilline
prophecy.

[The seventh and concluding Article of this Series, entitled" The

Legions of Saturn and Mars" will be commenced in January
issue.]

The Value of Transits.—K. H. writes: "It may be that many

astrological students have experienced some urge to different course of
thought or act owing to the recent between Ij and 9 1° close proximity
to the © (Aug. 1st): Will it not he helpful if we can share these experiences ?"
This conjunction taking place in the sign Leo will naturally affect those
maps by transit, where there are planets in Leo or this sign on an angle.
For myself—with Leo ruling tenth house and Uranus therein—the urge
has been to purification of diet, and gradual substitution of uncooked food;
and 1 find that an astrological friend with Uranus in same sigu and house
is also seeking to purify the present non-flesh diet.
Will readers send particulars of any effect they have associated with
this transit over a sensitive point in their birth figure, to the Acting Editor.
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©Infer jBidft

ON 'FALLING FOUL' OF FRIENDS

Apparently more in sorrow than in anger a writer in a well-known

weekly accuses me of " falling foul of my friends." Now what precisely does
that phrase mean ? The meaning really depends on what one understands
by friendship. To me love ami friendship are very sacred, the most private
and precious things in life; precious and private to the individual. They
must never be allowed to interfere with outside things of life, least of all with
a man's public work. It is not right for a man who is serving his country in
any capacity to esteem his individual pleasure in love or friendship before
the needs and the welfare of his country. That is a course which has led to
many tragedies in the past, will lead to many tragedies in the future. You
may put your honour, but never your reason or your principles, in your
friend's hands; and when the time comes, as it often does, when you and
your friend cannot see eye to eye in some matter, and you have to choose
between friendship and what you know to be right, there must be no
hesitation in the choice. The result will almost inevitably be an interruption
in the friendship—so few people, even when they love each other, can really
"agree to differ "—but you need not' fall foul' of your friend, you need not
you should not, feel bitter against him. I never " lose " a friend, but some-
times, even with my dearest friends, there are occasions when their reason
differs from mine, and I tell them so, forcibly perhaps, and there occurs an
interval till he or I change our point of view—when the issue is a serious one
or appears to us to be serious.
As for the so-called friendships that are founded on political, commercial,
financial obligations—alliances of expediency—to me these are not frieud-
ships at all, absolutely unworthy of that good name. They all hang on one
thing, mutual vested interests, and when that precarious rope goes great is
the downfall ! Herein lies the truth of the wise old proverb that adversity
proves your friends. A friend who is a friend—as every one of mine is—is
.always and inevitably the " thousandth man," who will stick more close than
a brother.
N. Pemberton-Billing, M.P., in The Impefiitlist, 21/7/1917
(Special interest attaches to the above from the fact that the writer
whose horoscope was given in our August issue, p. 238, has both Sun and Moon
as well as Mercury in Aquarius, the sign of friendship.)
 OBITEK IMCTA 343
THE MYSTIC AS POLITICIAN
Under this title the Bombuy Chronicle of 9/7/17 has a striking article by
G. E. Sutcliffe who instances Cromwell and Joan of Arc, and in our own day,
Mrs Annie Besant of whom he says:—"No one but the mystic can really
reach the Indian heart, and Mrs. Besant possesses that heart. She will be
known in future as the Mother of India, the India that will be free, for on
that freedom she has set her heart and devoted her life. To the Indian
there is nothing more sacred than a mother. . . It is this filial emotion
now focussed on Mrs Besant, the most powerful emotion of which India is
capable, which has been universally roused to fever heat by her internment.
Her former enemies eveu immediate^- rally to her side, for this filial instinct
is an irresistible force in the Indian heart. The internment was a master-
stroke not of men but of gods, and against their Olympic forces the opponents
of India's emancipation are pitting their puny strength."
The statement in the English Times of 26/9/17 implying that Mrs Besant
(since liberated) is being asked to cooperate with the Viceroy in helping to
prepare a fitting atmosphere for the reception of Mr Montagu, the new
Secretary of State for India, on his approaching visit, shows that facts have
since justified Mr Sntciiffe's observations.
There is a certain hnmour in the situation, but it is in times of trouble
that we find out where our real friends are to be found, and this is as
true of governments as of persons ; it is therefore a matter for congratulation
that this recognition has taken place.

THE PLANETARY APSES

Modern astronomers have long been aware, observes Sir Oliver Lodge
in an article in the August issue of the Philosophical Magazine (quoted in the
English Mechanic for 17/8/1917), that the observed slow progression of the
planetary apses—amounting to but ii"'25 annually in the case of the
earth—is due to the "perturbations" caused in the planet's orbit by
the gravitational pull of the other planets. The amount of such perturba-
tions can be calculated, and.the observed progression very nearly agrees
with the result of the calculations ; very nearly, but not quite. There is a
minute discrepancy which in the case of Mercury for instance amounts to
about 43" in a century. How is this discrepancy to be accounted for ?
If the electrical theory of matter be correct, it is, Sir Oliver suggests,
demonstrable that a body moving swiftly through the aether develops an
extra or spurious momentum which is not subject to gravitational influence.
This extra momentum, unknown to the older physicists, is he considers the
key to the solution He has developed a formula which gives
concordant results when applied successively to Mercury and Mars.
344 MODEKN ASTROr.OGY

THE PLANET ISIS

"Tsis" writes; Have you noticed the curious fact that in the death-
figure of Alan Leo given on p. 301 October, the hypothetical planet Isis is
exactly setting, i.e. opposing the ascendant. This is interesting because at
birth he had Isis in exact opposition to the Sun, his ruling planet; moreover
in the death figure Venus ruler of the ascendant is within two or three
degrees of the opposition of Isis. So that in both birth and death maps we
have the position ' Isis g ruler.'
Another little fact may be mentioned in this connection. Isis is said to
have to do withaviation (vol. IX, p. 202), and hence presumably with air raids.
At a meeting held in the solicitors'office on Saturday July 7th in connection
with the then forthcoming Mansion-House case, some ten or twelve supporters
of Mr Leo were present with him, and at the very time when questions were
being put the serious air raid of that date was going 011 overhead. A month
after Mr Leo's death a meeting of these same people was called for 6 p.m.
27/9/1917, the date and time beiugfixed with reference to general convenience
and not astrologically, yet—Isis is just on the ascendant!

"SUMMER TIME"
On pp. 157 May and 302 October we drew attention to the necessity of
having a record of the times of adoption and remission of " Summer " Time
in the various European countries. The following incomplete Table we owe
to the kindness of M Georges Vigneau who sent it us in Alarch; our sole
reason for not publishing it earlier is that we have been waiting in the hopes
of receiving some'reply to our request—in vain as it has turned out.
Summer Time adopted Old Time re-established
year country month date time month dale time
(civil)
1916 France June 14th 22h 59HI Sept 301I1 23A sgm
England May 21st 2k oom Oct 1st 3/1 oo»i
N OR WAY ft It »>
Sweden May ijth 1/1 oom Sept joih ?
Holland May 1 st j ? ? ?
Gehmasy p ? ?
IienMark May 15th p ? ?
,] Portugal June 18th ? ? ? ?
' 1 „ 17 th 23A
Greece July 16th 5 5
Italy Jn ne 3rd ? ? ?
1917 England April 8th 2 a.m. Sept lyih 3 a.m.
Switzerland April i6ih 2I1 Sept tyih 3A
Italy March 13th Sept 30th 12 p.m.
from Austria April 1st Sept 3otli
notices in (Germany April 16th 2k Sept 3id
newspapers
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JUtshtfrs to Olitestions1

SyMBOLS.—III "The Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised," Charnbel and

Sephnrial both give their interpretations of each degree. But at times they are
"poles apart " in their results or deductions or sensing; this is a bit confusing to
the student. For instance, of Vy 6° Charubel says: selfish, Crafty and cruel;
Sepharial, a degree of Devotion. Could yon explain ?
The interpretations in this manual should be taken on their merits.
The student will do well to exercise a little thought with regard to each
symbol:—for instance, t/Sb0, according to Charubel, who claims to
have seen the symbol clairvoyantly, the symbol is " A butcher clothed
in his working dress conducting a sheep into the slaughterhouse,"
and the other from La Volasfera for the same degree is " A heart
surrounded by an aureole." At first sight there is no connection
between the two symbols, and if the student follows the advice given
in the preface " that it is the symbol itself which is of the deepest
significance and not the particular interpretation given " he will attach
more value to the symbol than the interpretation that follows and see
in both these symbols an inner meaning.
In the first symbol seen by Charubel it is not the butcher that is
affected but the sheep, and the interpretation, if turned in the direction
of the sheep going into the slaughter house, would be more in
harmony with the La Volasfera symbol for which the interpretation
is far more appropriate, signifying guilelessness and innocence,
passing through trials and tribulations to devotion.
So far as our experience goes, the symbols seen by Charubel are
very suggestive, whereas the interpretations are often erroneous. The
interpretations of the symbols in the latter portion of the book are
those of an astrological student and not of a seer, and are therefore
more specifically applied.
A personal illustration may prove helpful to many who are
1
Questions must be of general interest. They should be written upon
one side of the paperonly, a separate sheet of paper being used for each separate
question, and addressed to Question Department, "Modern Astrology " Office,
40. Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, E.C. Name and address of sender should
be attached to each question. Questions should be put as concisely as possible.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

perplexed with regard to these apparent contradictions. The writer-

claims the SL280 Symbol: A man descending a pit. The interpreta-
tion given by Charubel is far from correct in this case, for instead of
ever remaining near the place of his birth all his days, the native has
travelled over the continent many times and to the East twice, and
although some speculations in mining shares were once very
fortunate there is no inclination or love for such speculations ; but
there «s a great love of probing mysteries and problems, and earnestness
and perseverance into the search into the causes of things.
With regard to the other symbol for SI, 28°, Two hands linked
in a close grip of friendship, the writer has a very high ideal of true
friendship and once a friend always a friend, so much so that although
he has suffered injustice at the hands of one who was thought a friend
the feeling originally given has never changed, except into sorrow for
one who has displayed much ingratitude. Although not claiming to-
be amiable or sociable a constructive harmonising and humane nature
can justly be claimed, and the idea at the back of the mind is always
one of sustaining.
This illustration will show that both symbols may be correct if
looked at intuitively and without bias from the letter of the interpreta-
tions appended. A hint to this effect is given in the last paragraph of
the Preface to the book.
CONCERNING TRANSMUTATION.—SHatyiiig " The Progressed
Horoscope" and " Esoteric Astrology," and the idea fnndameutal to Astrology, i.e.,
transmutation, it appears to me that most if not all desire is derived from a sex
original. Seeing that every hunum being reborn on to this planet (however high in
the scale of progress) is still in physical clothing with the organs of the lowest types
of manifest life on this planet, wer.td not the desire-nature in some amuunt still be
latent, that is to say would there not still be some amount of nntransmntcd energy
or nntransmuled desire however exalted the being, or however much transmutation
may have been achieved in past lives ?
Or, is it necessary to transfer, at same point of evolutian, to another planet
where whatever vehicles and organs were necessary the sex-Organs would nut be ;
that is to say the being would be sexless and the transmuted impulsatary energy
therefore incapable of reversion to its derivative ?
Are you not using the term " desire " in too restricted a sense ? Sex-
desire is only one form of desire among many, and it is doubtful
whether it is the strongest desire ; for among ordinary people desire
for life and to avoid death is stronger still. In fact desire for life, to
live, to be, must certainly come first, for otherwise the remaining
desires could not exist.
 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 347
When a man is attracted by outer objects, such as food, drink,
money, and so on, and when he grasps at the desired object with little
or no attempt to restrain himself, this is desire.
The transmutation of desire is partly into Will and partly into
unselfish emotion. Desire consists in yielding to the attractiveness
of some object, in allowing ourselves to give way to the temptation to
secure that object. Will consists in doing something after having
thought the whole subject over and having decided that to do this is
the wisest and best plan. The man of desire yields to temptation from
without; the man of will is self-controlled from within.
So that two persons may do exactly the same thing and yet one of
them be animated by desire and the other by will. A man who eats
some attractive kind of food that happens to catch his eye is actuated
by desire. Another man who only eats what he has previously decided
upon and at fixed times without gluttony is actuated by will. Or we
may compare a man who earns money for mere greed of money
(desire) with one who earns it only because it is necessary to support
his family (wi 11).
The ideal is to transmute all selfish forms of desire into unselfish
will and into the higher emotions. This process extends over long
periods of evolution, but it can be accomplished in the end.
A book that would probably interest you is: The Science of the
Emotions, by Bhagavan Das. It shows how all emotions are evolved
out of a primordial pair, attraction and repulsion. The book can be
procured from The Theosophical Publishing House, 1, Upper Woburn
Place, W.C. I. Anotherbook you might find of interest, in connection
with the last part of your question, is The Voice of the Silence, where
the commentatory notes—especially those concerning the Nifmanakaya
and the Dharmakaya—would perhaps assist you to find the answer
which you seek. It can be purchased at the same place.
A IR versus EARTH.—If in one horoscope we found an airy sign rising, and in
another an earthy sign upon the ascendant, would the former be the older Ego ?
Or is it necessary to consider the whole horoscope in judging which is the older Ego ?
No. The age of the Ego is not indicated in this way." It is quite
probable that if the "whole horoscope " were known the approximate
age of the ego could be seen, but it would require the insight of an
adept in Astrology to understand it.
 MODKKN AS1 UUI.OGV

There is a great deal of natural curiosity regarding the age of an

•ego which cannot be gratified by any study of the ordinary rules.
The rule of judging the persona! ego by the ruling planet, and all
the other planets as representing the karma, is very good so far as it
■goes, but the nativity is only a portion of the whole horoscope, and is
not even complete when the genescope is known. The rules for
judging the age of the ego embrace a knowledge of cycles, rounds, and
races, etc. In a cycle producing a large number of young egos a
few old egos are born, but they know how to respond to influences to
which the younger egos cannot respond.
OLD EGOS. —Given in one horoscope n square aspect oj Sulurn to Neptune,
both planets being above the earth, and the majority of the planets in an earthy sign
in the fourth and fifth houses: ami in another horoscope the Sun trine, Neptune
.and Saturn, and sextile Jupiter, with Saturn the only planet below the earth and in
■opposition to Jupiter. Which is the more evolved Ego? Both have Venus
conjunction Uranus.
Continuing the answer to the preceding question : It is not wise
to judge any horoscope with vague ideas regarding the age of the Ego,
until the theory of reincarnation and karma is understood ; for the
simple reason that without a fuller knowledge, than we possess at
present, of the Rays and their numerous sub-divisions we cannot judge
such matters by planetary positions and aspects alone.
Consciousness is the common property of all human beings, but its
expression depends upon thequality and conditions of the matter, or
vehicles, through which it is functioning. Old Egos are supposed
to have control over their vehicles and young Egos little or no control,
but this "is due to experience and knowledge and that is why astrology
supports the theory of reincarnation which allows Egos to come upon
the world's stage at all stages of growth.
If you would understand the stages of an Ego's growth you must
understand the true value of each sigu of the zodiac and possibilities,
the Quality of matter it typifies, and its relation to the lattvas, also
the grading? of each planet, and its relation to colour, sound, number,
and so on. We would recommend a careful reading of Esoteric
Astrology, which contains many hints regarding the growth and age of
the Ego, also the " Rays," etc.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Oakland, a city of 100,000 inhabitants three miles
east of San Francisco, escaped with little damage in the great disaster of 1906
(fire resulting from earthquake).— IVhy ? (For lime see " 1001 Nativities," p. 39.
 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

A question of this kind is easier asked than answered. "Two-

women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the
other left." There seems to be something of this principle operating
at the present epoch of the world's history—a twin development, as it
were, up to a certain point and then a sudden testing or sifting which
condemns the one and leaves the other unharmed. As to the astro-
logical factors which might enable one to discriminate between the-
two, one can only speculate. It seems certain, however, that between,
one place and another quite close to it geographically, there may exist
a decided difference in the " elemental essence " flowing into and from
the mineral deposits under the surface. How different, for example,
the climates of Bournemouth and Swanage, yet they are only a few
miles apart and their physical configuration does not seem so very-
dissimilar.
Perhaps some other student may have a more definite suggestion-
to make in answer to this problem ?
MUNDANE.—Would yon pUase sltilt whitl.portions of America art said to'
be governed by ^ and ?
America is a vast continent, and perhaps we are mistaken in
assuming that the questioner is thinking of the United States; but if
he is, and taking as a basis the generally admitted idea that the U.S.
is governed by Gemini, it may be that the eastern, middle, and western
portions correspond to the three decanates of Gemini. If so, it would
follow that the mid-most States, generally, would be under a sub-
influence of Libra.
According to the article by Gertrude de Bielski which appeared
in this magazine some years ago, with a map of the world on Mercator's
projection as frontispiece, the portion of the U.S. from 90° to 120*
West Longitude was under Capricorn, and the western remainder under
Sagittarius.
We think these remarks may be of some assistance to the
questioner. Writing at a distance from books of reference it is
impossible to answer ofthand. We shall be glad if students who
have made observations on this subject will let us know their
conclusions.
 ilfimlu
King or Republic? a tract tor the times. By Ellis
T. Powell, LL.B., D.Sc. ('Financial News'Office, 111, Queen
Victoria Street, E.G. 4 : price sevenpence post free).
This little book will pay for reading, and reading more than
once; a good deal of what is written will be of special interest to those
astrologers who are exercising their minds on national arid racial
problems, with their inevitable corollaries of political problems. There
is much worth quoting, but we limit ourselves to the following as
.affording an instance of the spirit of the book, (and indeed it is a
hopeful sign of the times that such a spirit should be shown in a book
issued from the office of a financial paper) :
"The British Kingship is no longer a personal monarchy. The
Allied Empires—Britain and her Dominions— need no centralised
personal seigniory, based upon the superstitious adulation of a physical
man or woman, to keep their steadfast faces turned towards the rising
-sun of human progress. The idea of the King, as the exalted
head of a caste apart from the rest of humanity, has been replaced by
the knowledge that he is, in our age, only the adumbration of a mystic
psychological entity, far more real than if it were a physical being.
Behind the mortal figure of the King looms the immortal sublimity of
the Imperial Self. That it is a deathless spiritual identity, an actual
psychic personality, sacramental in its mystery and potency, we need
not hesitate to affirm. Hither the devotion of the allied Empires ever
turns. Contemplating one of our great State ceremonials, the
proverbial visitor from another planet might imagine that he witnessed
a nation doing homage to its King. But, in truth, both King and
nation would be bowed in reverent salutation before a supreme
Imperial Intelligence psychically generated by the patriotic yearnings
■of unnumbered men, which is greater than the King, and is destined
to survive, in beneficent activity, long after the individual King and
his people alike have been gathered to their fathers. , It is
surely not coincidence, but design, which at this supreme crisisin world
history has joined under an Imperial flag the fearless and practised
adepts of Eastern mysticism and the restless British conquerors of the
material resources of the earth. Have we not in that alliance,
consummated under the majestic aegis of the Imperial self, radiantly
immortal in the background, another reminder of the splendid destiny
that is before us, and of the inscrutable Pilotage which has guided
our forefathers, and still guides ourselves, towards it ? "
" Summer Time " in Italy.—Summer Time ceases in Italy at niidnight
-on September 30.—Times, 27/9/17.
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HINTS TO COKRESPONDIiNTS.—Letlers of general interest only are

inserted. Writers of signed articles are alone responsible for the opinions contained
therein. Correspondents desiring acknowledgment or reply will please enclose a
stamped addressed envelope.
Letters are inserted at the earliest possible opportunity, but are sometimes
unavoidably held over through lack of space. Correspondents will please remember
(i) that nil communications should be written upon one side of the paper only :
(ii) that planetary positions, ai uvli its birth data, should be given where possible ;
(iiij that information shouldbe put as concisely as is compatible with clearness.
Neglect of these considerations may cause otherwise valuable letters to be
excluded from these pages. Space at the present time is exceptionally scarce.

PREDICTIVE ASTROLOGY
DHAR SIK,
Having read Mr Leo's decision to exclude predictive
Astrology from his work, I trust that you will allow me to express my
opinion that I consider his decision wise and beneficial to the progress
of Modern Astrology.
In my humble opinion it is a sin of the nature of blasphemy to
use the Divine forces of the Seven Spirits who carry out the Will of
the Logos, for the purpose of making predictions which may be used
by the get-rich-quick type of men to obtain material advantages over
their fellow men. I know that Mr Leo has never made such
predictions but I fear many or perhaps most astrologers do so.
Not only are such predictions irreverent, but they are also open
to the great drawback, that the four branches of direction have not
equal power on everyone ; only two of them being as a rule potent for
any native, and the problem of which two will be the potent ones must
always arise. Hence the only man who can predict truly is the native
himself after long study, and generally an astrologer who has made
such a study would never dream of using such predictions for material
gain.
Mr Leo's decision will be a great force for purifying the science
of Astrology from its undesirable exponents.
Yours truly,
29/8/'17 L. Howard-Flanders
[Note.—This letter though dated 29/8/17 was for some reason not
received until 3/9/17, so Mr Leo to whom it was addressed never saw
it, which is a pity as it would have given him sincere pleasure. The
third paragraph may be read in connection with our correspondent's
article on p. 186 June.—Ed.]
352

Astrology for Beginners

THE PLANETS

When a man uses Mars' mighty energy to high advantage he becomes the-
martyr and the saint, the devotee and the ecstatic, the warrior and the
pioneer, the daring explorer and the leader of unpopular causes, but when
a man uses this same martial force for less profitable issues, he makes the
headstrong stirrer-up of factions, the reckless fire brand, the blustering
bully, and the sickly sentimentalist.
The symbol for Mars is composed of the cross above the circle ( J ), for
the cross is the symbol for manifestation and activity, and every man who
responds to Mars will tell you that " actions speak louder than words."
The planet Mars (J1) has much power of Expansion, and so likewise has
the great planet Jupiter (11), the symbol for which is comprised of the half
circle and the cross. The cross signifies (among other things), manifestation
in matter, activity, etc., and the half circle stands as a "container" or
vehicle, and may thus be likened to the brain, the instrument through which
the mind functions.
It is the planet Jupiter that regulates the growth of all cell life in
vegetation and also in the human body, and it is here that its capacity for
increasing and enlarging is fully demonstrated; and when the planet Jupiter
is found prominently placed in any horoscope, posited, for instance, near the
Ascendant, it bestows a body noticeable for bulk, good stature and a
commanding appearance.
The great and mighty Intelligence who uses the planet Jupiter as his
physical garment, as it were, and sends through it his lofty vibrations,
personifies that quality of godhead that we call omniscience, and expresses
the wonderful compassion of the Logos of this System.
When one of us compassionates another, one grows in understanding,
enlarges one's outlook and gets a wider and more extended knowledge of the
world around, and it is in this sense also that Jupiter governs the capacity
for growth and assimilation.
We find the person who is strongly Jupiterian favouring the pulpit, or a
University career with a professorship at the end, and here one sees why the
choice is made, for in both these vocations there is the extending and
expanding of oneself to others.
Secrictakv of Lessens Department^
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"THE ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE"

Modcrp

Astrology
A Journal devoted to the search for truth concerning Astrology

KsSi] DECEMBER, 1917. [No, ,2

/I I a n Leo

Editor-Founder of "riodcrn Astrology"

Born : 7ISI1860 R e-b o r n t 301811917
As a man, casting off worn-out garments, laketh new ones, so the dweller in
the body, casting off worn-out bodies, enlereth into others that are new. Weapons
cleave him not, nor fire burneth him, nor waters wet him, nor wind drieth him
away. Uncleavable he, incombustible he, and indeed neither to be welted not-
dried away; perpetual, all-pervasive, stable, immovable, ancient, unmanifest,
■unthinkable, immutable, he is called; therefore knowing him as such, thou
shouldsl not grieve. . . .
Further, looking to thine own duty thou shouldsl not tremble. . . Taking as
egual pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, gird thee for the
battle. . .
When thy mind shall escape from this tangle of delusion, then shall thou rise
to indifference as to what has been heard and shall be heard. When thy mind,
bewildered by the shruli, shall stand immovable, fixed in samddhi, then shall thou
attain unto yoga. . . He who on every side is without attachments, whatever hap
offair and foul, who neither likes nor dislikes, of such a one the understanding is
well-poised 33hagavad Gixa
354 MOUIiKN ASTKOI.OGY

Thanks are due to a large number of people for the articles ami
extracts which make possible this Memorial Number. On behalf of all
those connected with '■ Modern Astrology " Office I hereby testify to our
deep appreciation of this testimony.
It is only necessary to add that the responsibility for selection and
arrangement, and also in so me cases for the titles appended, rests with the
undersigned. I have given first place to those who, looking upon our
late Editor's work from outside our circle, may be presumed to have an
unbiassed point of view which makes their tribute the more acceptable,
and their recognition of the value of his work the more striking.
Alfred H. Barley,
Hon. Acting Editor

The Work of Alan Leo

as seen by Friends and Helpers

1-—Occult and General Press

MODERN ASTROLOGY

Mr Alan Leo, the Editor of Modem Astrology, and author of

numerous standard works and primers on astrological subjects, who
passed away at Bude, Cornwall, on August 30 last, at the age of 57,
will be regretted by many.
It was only two months ago that I alluded to the trial of the
case of Rex v. Leo and the legal questions which it raised. In
speaking to Mr Leo on this occasion it struck me that he was looking
much aged, but there was no other indication that he was in anything
but his normal health. It is actually twenty-seven years since he
founded in conjunction with " Aphorel " the Astrologers' Magazine^
which was subsequently enlarged and merged in Modern Astrology
after the magazine had been in existence some five years, at which
date Mr Leo took over the sole editorship. Volume after volume on
astrological subjects appeared in connection with this magazine,
generally embodying various articles that had appeared in its pages.
 THE WORK OF ALAN LEO 355
A campaign for the popularisation of astrology among the masses was
started early in connection with the magazine, and test horoscopes for
the low fee of a shilling were offered broadcast by way of familiarising
the public with astrological methods and their practical results. The
remarkable accuracy of the delineations based on many of these
radical figures naturally tended to rouse interest in a subject which
had been hitherto almost taboo, and suggested to many of the less
prejudiced minds that there was very much more in the study than
the scientific wiseacres of the day were willing to admit. Naturally
the delineations in these test horoscopes which summarised the
general positions of the planets in their various signs and mutual
aspects to each other were not, and indeed did not claim to be, of a
very precise character. But judged on the basis of hits and misses
it was easy to see that the conclusions arrived at could not have been
attained as the result of any chance method. A number of students
of the present day have in fact dated their first acquaintance with
astrology from the receipt of one of these test horoscopes,1 and though
they met with a certain amount of criticism from thase in the
astrological field who demanded more exact work, there is no doubt
that they served a very valuable purpose in arousing widespread
interest in a too-long-neglected field of research. To myself it has
always seemed that one of the great drawbacks in connection
with the study of astrology is that when taken up whole-heartedly it
so entirely absorbs the time and energy of the student that there is
little opportunity left for other occupation in life. This was certainly
the case with the Editor of Modern Astrology, and Mr Leo was not
quite unique in this respect. . Being relieved of the necessity for
earning his own livelihood, he found himself, like Charles Darwin in
another line, in a position to apply himself single-mindedly without
the burden of any financial anxiety to the one object to which his
life was devoted.
Alan Leo has been criticised in some quarters for interpreting
Astrology in terms of Theosophy, giving it thereby a wider meaning
than certain of its exponents are prepared to consider justifiable.
Although, however, Mr. Leo regarded himself rightly as a staunch
1
[E.g., the Hon. Sec. of the Astrological Society.]
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Theosophist, his first and last love was always Astrology. Such a
subject, it seems to me, must needs find its proper niche in our
general philosophy of life, and I do not think we weaken its claim by
fitting it into its own place in the scheme of things. There are,
however, doubtless many to whom Astrology makes its appeal quite
apart from any general solution of the problem of life, and by these
the idea that Mr Leo associated it with a school of thought with
which they had no sympathy was perhaps not unnaturally resented.
After all, Astrology stands or falls by the mathematical evidence upon
which it is based, and a science which is demonstrable mathematically
does not admit any specific form of religion or philosophy as its
necessary corollary, to one who has accepted it through the sheer
cogency of evidence adduced.
Mr Leo laid great stress on the factor of character in relation
to the horoscope, and he was, I am sure, fully justified in the attitude
he took with regard to the signs of the zodiac and their vital
significance in the natal figure as indices of character and temperament.
The failure to master the essential meaning of these twelve signs and
their relationship to the planets which occupy them had proved a,
stumbling block to many of his predecessors whose mathematical
abilities were considerably in excess of his own. It was inevitable
that the Editor of such a magazine in bringing out his publications
fathered the work of many of his contributors, and as a consequence
his books have not borne the stamp of a single individuality and a
single point of view to the same extent as books by other writers on
this subject. This fact gave rise to the criticism that the Editor of
Modern Astrology was in the habit of "picking other people's brains."
The criticism was not, I think, entirely illegitimate, but it was, on the
other hand, the natural result of the position that Mr Leo occupied
as the informal President of a coterie of astrologers, the forum for
whose views and discussions his magazine inevitably became.' 1
gather that provision has been made for the continuance of Mr Leo's
work and that Modern Astrology is not likely to lapse with the
lamented death of its Founder and Editor.
Ralph Shirley in The Occult Review
9
See footnote on page 369.
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ASTROLOGER AND THEOSOPHIST

There are thousands of people all over the world who will have heard
of the death of Mr Leo with very deep regret, for his influence was
felt and his help appreciated in every country, far beyond the limits of
the Theosophical Society. Comparatively few within our Society in
England remember, or have ever realised, that Mr Leo, though he
was best known to the world as an Astrologer, was always, before all,
a Theosophist. He could not think of Theosophy as complete without
the great science of Astrology, but equally he could not imagine
Astrology, one of the great Ways to God, without Theosophy ; and to
an extent that is far too little known, he brought, through Astrology,
many hundreds everywhere to a knowledge of Theosophy, to whom
otherwise probably it never would have made appeal. Those who take
the trouble even to glance at his books and the magazine for which he
was so long responsible, cannot for one moment doubt this.
His work was largely for the future, and when Astrology comes
into its kingdom, as inevitably it will do, that work will be appreciated
and appraised at its true value. Let those who come after him never
forget that his labour and struggles have made their work in the West
possible; and that however much theories and methods may vary, as
they must do, all are to a great extent built upon the principles that he
has laid down.
Those who knew Mr Leo chiefly as the author or transmitter of
judgments on horoscopes, knew very little of the man; and it is matter
for regret that a larger number of us were not able to realise this.
There has been, and still is, much prejudice against Astrology among
those who, of all others, one would expect would keep at least an open
mind. His friends and equals who really reached him, found in Mr
Leo deep insight, a very wide tolerance, and above all a constructive
mind, which to some of us is almost the greatest—and perhaps the
rarest.
His last days here were shadowed by, the prosecution at the
Mansion House in July, just before he left for a brief holiday in
Cornwall. But such eventsmust, in one form or another, be the lot of
every pioneer, and are merelybubbleson the surface of thegreat stream
which is surely carrying the world to a fuller liberty and wisdom. The
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pity of it is that we often do not realise, until it is too late, that such a
fight as Mr Leo waged so steadfastly is a part of the one titanic fight
which all of us are waging against the old cramping materialistic views
of man, the Universe, and God. No one who sat through the hearing at
the Police Court could have failed keenfy and vividly to be conscious-
of this.
Towards the conclusion o! his comments upon this prosecution, in
the September issue of Modern Astrology which must have been
almost the last words that he wrote, Mr Leo says that in the response
that so many of his friends made in this crisis, he realised his " ideal of
friendship." If that be so, it indeed is worth more than all that can be
put into the balance on the other side and so he felt it to be.
Mr Leo joined the Theosophical Society in May 1890, and Mrs
Leo less than two years later. His membership therefore dates back
for more than twenty-seven years, and when it is added that during the
whole of that time he has never been known to falter or waver in his
allegiance to it or in loyalty to its leaders, that surely makes a record
of which any one of us, old or young, might be very very proud.
The Theosophical Society here has lost a strong support, and many
within it and outside it have lost a friend.
S. Maud Shakpe in The Vahan

ASTROLOGER AND MASON

Illus. Bro. Alan Leo was one of the chosen few with which
our Very Illus. Grand President Annie Besant formed the English
Obedience. He was a member of the 30°, and although Freemasonry,
as such, was not his study, perhaps no one has done greater or more
lasting service in the furtherance of its ideals. His life work.
Astrology, has for an object the classification and amalgamation of the
Human Family into that future Cosmos the Brotherhood of Man, and
it was his shewing that each type should be judged according to the
standard of its type and placed in the Cosmic Scheme accordingly,
that constituted his particular contribution to Speculative Co-Free-
masonry.
His personal example was as attractive as his precept. He
was a peculiarly selfless man and the unique place of affection and
 THE WORK OF ALAN LEO 359
esteem he occupied in the hearts of his brethren was a worthy testimony
to the truth of his grand theorems. Astrology to him was something
to be lived, as Freemasonry, and his brethren were not dull to
perceive his merit and accord him the unsought place thereof. It is
this selflessness that was his great asset as also his distinction from
the traditional astrologer. Bro. Leo differed from the latter in that he
sought not to shine himself, but to create a vehicle that would
propagate the light of Astrology enduringly throughout the ages. He
early perceived that to uphold the sacred Light and die was to do but
little more than his predecessors, to provide but a further fitful existence
for Astrology, and that to establish Astrology in the world a Society was
the need as indeed the only way of securing permanence for Astrology.
A Body whose object is constant, despite the change in its personnel
throughout the ages, would secure permanent incarnation for his Ideal.
How nobly, how heroically and with what measure of success
he has striven to create this permanent vehicle only those who have
been privileged to take part in his work can perhaps know. Probably
he only hoped to create the nucleus of such a body. Despite the scorn
of a sceptical public opinion, and the repeated prosecutions for vagrancy,
he has succeeded in establishing that outer vehicle, the Astrological
Society, whose dimensions are sufficiently large to command alike
respect and attention, and that Tutorial Institution, as yet in its infancy,
known as the Astrological Institute. For a Thought Vehicle—a
Thought Form, to range the spheres of thought, remains his first creation,
Modern Astrology,—a monthly magazine designed " thoroughly to purify
and re-establish the ancient science of Astrology which, through
planetary symbology, seeks to explain the ONE universal spirit in its
varied manifestations." His passing is for many of us a sad loss
personally. It would be a surprising revelation to disclose how many of
our number in this and kindred societies turned to him in their troubles
and anxieties for astrological aid. His reputation and renown as an
astrologer, bothalike always of the worthiest character, are world-wide,
for there is not a continent in which the sage and inspiring message of
Modern Astrology does not circulate. But for us we shall ever love to
remember him in that endearing personality he has now laid aside, a
genial, benevolent and intelligent brotherliness, the mask of a strong,
pure and advanced soul—a skilled Master Builder.
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Illus.'. Bro.'. Alan Leo was initiated into Freemasonry in the

Human Duty Lodge, of which he was a member from its foundation.
He subsequently assisted in the formation of the Hermes Lodge in
1905, of which Lodge he was a P.M. He received the 18° in 1907
and the 30° in 1908.
P.M. Hermes Lodge in The Co-Mason

HIS DISTINCTIVE WORK

Mr Alan Leo, whose body was cremated at Golder's Green on
September 5th, founded in Augnst 1890 a monthly periodical entitled
The Astrologer's Magazine, of which he and " Aphorel" were joint
editors. The latter gentleman relinquished his share of the editorial
work in 1895, when the magazine was enlarged and took the name
Modern Astrology which it has retained ever since. For exactly 27
years, then—a generation one might say—Mr Leo has been writing
and publishing articles on astrology, taking no account for the moment
of the seven large text-books issued by him during the last twelve
years, and twice as many small shilling manuals. His name is known
and loved all over the world, indeed it would surprise recent occupants
of the magisterial chair at the Mansion House to know to what remote
corners of the world Modern Astrology is posted month by month.
How true is the saying that " one half the world does not know how
the other half lives."
But there have been writers on Astrology before, and publishers
of astrological magazines, although it is true that no exclusively
astrological magazine has hitherto had a life of more than a few years-
Commander Richard James Morrison, R.N., better known as the first
" Zadkiel," was one, and did more than any other man of his time to
raise the status of astrologyand create respect for the despised science.
A testimony to his work is the fact that the word Zadkiel is found in
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, not in the name section
but in the body of the book; and his edition of Lilly's Astrologyin Bohn's
Library is another monument of his work. He was a man of Mr Leo's
own stamp, and his articles in Zadkiel's Almanack make issues of that
periodical published during his life still of interest and of value.
Wherein then, it may be asked, did the work of Alan Leo differ
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from that of his contemporaries and predecessors? In this, tliat he

Ravea/mr/xjse to astrology—gave, did I say ? rather should I have said
reaffirmed the purpose of astrology. For the ancients had a saying,
one which he was never tired of quoting—" The Wise Man rules his
stars, the Fool obeys them"; and he pointed out the deeper meaning
of the phrase by recasting it thus—" The Wise Man rules himself
in harmony with the stars." For him the stars were beings, not
things, and their influence was not physical only but mental and
spiritual also. He held that the purpose of astrology was that by a
study of these influences we should learn so to blend and harmonise
them in ourselves that life after life we might gradually become
" perfect even as our Father in Heaven (i.e. our Father Star) is
perfect." His courses of lectures before the Astrological Society on
Mars, on Saturn, and on Jupiter, recently published in book form
convey in a simple form some notion of his conception of the nature
of planetary influences and of astrology as a divine science. His life
was a testimony to his faith. He was the friend of all and the enemy
of none. And he was the helper of very many, among whom is
gratefully numbered the writer.
" MercURIL'S" in the International Psychic Gazette

HIS BEST MONUMENT

Alan Leo was born in humble circumstances on the 7th August
1860 and steadily made his way upward, following various branches of
industry with variable success untilhe came to be the chief traveller for
a large confectionery manufacturer in London. It was then that I first
met him, some twenty-four years ago, in connection with his initial
study of Astrology. . In course of time there gathered around him a
few earnest and capable students such as Mr H. S. Green, Mr Lacey
and others, and the Astrologer's Magazine was founded. About the
year 1895 he married his present widow, whose interest in the higher
aspects of astrological thought enabled her to unite with him in the
great work of propaganda. Later he became attached to the Theo-
sophical Society, and was intimate with Mrs Besant during the last
years of his life. His best monument is to be found in the large
number of works which he published and which bear his name.
 MODERN ASTKOI.OGY
Perr.onally, I have always felt that Mr Leo did himself a grave
injustice by deputising so much of his work, thereby robbing himself
of that practical experience which, however dearly bought, is after all
the highest and most permanent reward of our best endeavours, and
that for which men of intellect have the greatest respect.*
SEPHAKIAL in the British Journal of Astrology

A.STROLQGY AND THEOSOPHY

Sepharial's remarks on the late Mr Alan Leo are rather mislead-

ing. Mr Leo called to see me in 1889 and asked my opinion about
the publication of a monthly magazine devoted to Astrology. L
strongly advised him to go in for it and promised my support, and the
first number of " The Astrologers' Magazine" appeared in August
1890, just twenty-seven years ago. He had then a very fair know-
ledge of Astrology and was a keen observer. A few years later he
called again and invited my opinion respecting Theosophy, whether it
was worth studying. I told him to go in for it heart and soul, which
he did, and the result may be seen in the many publications which he
issued, blending Astrology and Theosophy.
Raphael in the British Journal of Astrology

A FORMER ASSISTANT

Although my relations with Mr Leo, astrologically, have not been

of the warmest during the last ten or twelve years, I feel I should be
wanting in respect to his memory if I did not say that I owe much of
my astrological knowledge—and indirectly ray position in the astro-
logical world—to his teaching and personal interest in myself during
the few years of my life with him as his chief assistant. His death
will be a loss to the cause of our science, and his place and influence
will not be easily filled.
E. H. BAILEY in the British Journal of Astrology
8
[The word "deputising" seems to me ill-chosen. We do not speak of an
organist-r ' deputing' his work to subordinates, and the methods of Alan Leo were
emphatically those of the organiser when not the pioneer. The suggestion that he
was lacking ia practical experience would have surprised him, as it surprises me.—Eo.]
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THE DIVINE USE OF ASTROLOGY

Alan Leo was an extremely able astrologer, and his volumes
large and small dealing with the art of which he was a master are
classics never likely to be excelled. But Alan Leo was more than an
astrologer. He was a powerful intellectual and moral force, and his
death at a comparatively early age leaves a gap which it will be
impossible to fill.
I approached his work with considerable prejudice, which a
closer acquaintance with his writings swept away. It is not too much
to assert that what Camille Flammarion is to astronomy Alan Leo was
to the astrological world. He wielded a graphic, luminous and at
times most eloquent pen. He had a mission and he threw himself
into the work of that mission with tireless vigour and enthusiasm. I
owe it to his writings that he helped me to a clearer understanding of
things as I now conceive them (o be. The keynote of his teaching
was just this—that Character is Destiny. What we sow that we
shall reap. So says the Old Book, and if we only realised those
pregnant awful words the world would be a different place from what
it is to-day. Huxley says somewhere that God keeps Hisledgerswith
punctilious accuracy. Not a jot or a tittle is wanting in the great
account, and we shall have to answer and repay to the uttermost
farthing.
This then (as has been well said) is the Divine use of astrology,
a science so ancient and so noble, yet so shamefully degraded of late
years. A man's horoscope shows a man, not as his fellows see him
but as he is. It is the exact reflection of the individual himself. He
may hoodwink his neighbour and deceive his most intimate friend ;
but he cannot get away from that stern and awful test. Mere lip-
service will not do, the mouthing of a creed will not suffice, formal
attendance at service is a sham, snivelling on a death-bed goes for
nought. "What a man soweth that shall he also reap." We come
into the world bearing a burden of responsibility. You can call it
original sin if you like. Anything that holds a true mirror before
your lace, is a good thing. And such a thing is the ancient science of
the stars.
Thanks to the labours of such men as Alan Leo astrology is being
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better known and tens of thousands have to thank him for the light he
has thrown upon the theme ant! indirectly upon their own misgivings
and perplexities. His mortal part is in the grave ; a wiser generation
will give him the honour that is his due.
Arthur Mee in the Llauelly Star

ALAN LEO'S FAITH

[The following iteclaration of faith u'as found among his papers, and though
unsigned and not even in his own handw- it ing, knowing it represents his firm and
well-grounded belief I print it here.—Eo.]

I am convinced that the problem of the inequalities of the human

race can only be successfully solved by a knowledge of Astrology.
I believe that the Principle which gives life dwells in us and
without us comes from the Supreme Intelligence through the Rays of
the Sun, and I am convinced that this life is affected or modified every
four minutes in time by the diurnal revolution of the Earth, also by
the annual motion of the Earth round the Sun, affecting the Changes
of Season and men's individual natures.
I believe the Soul of Humanity is immortal or perpetual ; and I
am convinced that each individual soul or mind is symbolised by the
Moon in its ebb and flow, and various phases, also by its relation to
the Planetary Spheres of Influence; and as the Moon affects the
tides so does it affect lunacy and influence the sanity of individuals.
I believe every human being belongs to a Father Star in heaven
or Star Angel as did Jesus Christ according to our scripture; and I
am convinced that every man derives his will power from a Planetary
Sphere of Influence which lie uses, or abuses, by which he can over-
come evil tendencies and control his animal nature, hence Astrology
teaches that Character is Destiny, also that the Wise man rules his
Stars while the fool obeys them.
1 know that, although many •attempts have been made, Astrology
has never been successfully refuted or disproved, and to-day its
ancient teachings are being rediscovered through its remarkable
symbology and illuminative symbols.
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2- -Members of our Staff

SOME REMINISCENCES

1 first made Mr Alan Leo's acquaintance in the early autumn of

the year 1890. It came about in this way. About two years before,
1 had been in correspondence with Mr F. W. Lacey on astrological
subjects as well as with the late Mr John Thomas, well known to
many under the pen name of " Charubel." The correspondence
lapsed for a time under the pressure of other activities, but was
renewed when I went to live in the south of England in the above
year. Charubel then informed me that Mr Lacey in conjunction with
a friend had started a new astrological magazine and that they would
be glad to receive articles by me. On looking back I see that my
first contribution appeared in November in The Astrologer's Magazine
and that Charuhel's " Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised "commenced
in the following issue.
Mr Lacey's co-editor proved to be Mr Alan Leo, up to that date
entirely unknown to me, and he called upon ine on Mr. Lacey's
suggestion. Mr Leo was at that time travelling frequently through
various parts of England, and this gave him the opportunity of calling
upon those whom he knew to be interested in Astrology and of forming
a rapidly increasing circle of friends.
An additional link between us was, that besides our both belonging
to the Theosophical Society, some of those who were thus brought into
touch had previously been in correspondence with Charubel, who was a
man of considerable natural psychic gifts, and bad formed a small society
of persons interested in occult and psychic subjects, most of them
living at considerable distances from each other. Mr Leo had
belonged to this society, some of his experiences in connection with
it being referred to in his " Editor's Observatory " a year or two ago.
Each member was given a name, Mr Leo's being " Agorel" ; and
such names were said to have definite meanings, indeed each letter
had a meaning, after the fashion of some ancient languages, and they
were associated with numbers, colours, and with a geometrical diagram
which was said to express the character and real nature of the person.
 MODERN ASTROLOGY

Mr- Leo showed me the diagram given to him, but 1 cannot recall it
sufficiently'accurately to describe it. The meaning of ail these names,
diagrams, and other symbols was explained by Charubel to the
members, and various essays and articles containing information
psychically obtained by him were circulated. So far as I know,
nothing of this was printed by Mr Leo except the Degrees of the
Zodiac Symbolised; hot a fair amount of it was of astrological interest.
Whether any of this manuscript is still in existence I do not know.
Charubel affirmed that lie received much help and instruction
from certain advanced beings whom he termed his Masters and who
visited him astrally. On one occasion he described one of them as
visiting him spontaneously and as fully materialised and as wearing on
his breast the diagram of the cross within the circle. About twenty
years after this, and after Charubel's death in 1908, a former member
of the society who had long before allowed his membership to lapse,
happened quite on the spur of the moment to attend a public lecture
in London on "Auras" with clairvoyant delineations, and greatly to
his surprise a description was given him of a man wearing the cross
within the circle on his breast, the whole answering fairly well to
Charubel's account; this raised the question whether these Masters
might perhaps have been members of the Yucatan Brotherhood.

Visits to Astrologers

After Mr Leo's first visit to me many others followed at intervals

of two or three months for a succession of years until about the time
of his marriage, after which his work confined him more definitely to
London and his visits were at longer intervals. During these journeys
about the country he called upon many astrologers and attended
theosophical lodges whenever he had an opportunity, delivering
lectures and having astrological talks with all who were interested.
These experiences he narrated to me on his successive visits, and-in
this way I heard about many astrologers and theosophisls who were
personally strangers to me. At this date none of his books had been
written and his name was not widely known as it is now, but he had
what was probably a wider circle of personal friends and acquaint-
ances than any other living astrologer, because of his many journeys
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into all parts of the country; in the Astrologer's Magazine for

January 1891, for instance, there appeared a notice that "Alan Leo,
one of the Editors of this Magazine, purposes visiting various towns
in the North and West of England for the purpose of giving lectures
on Astrology." This not only made new friends but also increased
the interest of many whose enthusiasm might otherwise have cooled.

Free Horoscopes

All yearly subscribers to the Magazine were entitled to a free

horoscope and a brief delineation, and an announcement to that effect
appeared in the first number. This was another successful means of
attracting readers, and I often heard him describe what an enormous
mass of calculation and correspondence it entailed every week. It is
a wonder that anyone who had business to attend to outside Astrology
and the task of editing should be willing to undertake so much heavy
additional work of a kind which, I think, no editor does free nowadays ;
but the Moon in Aries in trine to Mercury in Leo provided him with
an inexhaustible fund of mental vitality and energy.
These free horoscopes had effects in more ways than one and led
to some important developments not originally intended. In the first
place the number of applicants increased steadily year by year, those
who had been provided with a horoscope one year being supplied with
annual directions in subsequent years. This increase became so
marked and caused so much additional work that eventually a small
charge had to be made although there had originally been no intention
to make the work professional, but it was practically unavoidable ; and
from this, which was a mere side issue at first, grew the professional
side of his work, which made greater and greater demands upon him
as the years went by. He would willingly have put the whole of this
on one side, and had every intention of doing so in the latter years of
his life, but he had (so to speak) raised a demon that he could not lay,
and he was unable to escape from the toils of professional work.
But the free horoscopes had another issue, for one of them
ultimately led to his marriage. I myself introduced Astrology and the
magazine toagentlemauat Bournemouth, a member of theTheosophical
Lodge there, who in his turn spoke of the subject to a lady visitor and
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suggested that she should apply for one of these free horoscopes. This
was done, in course of time an interview with the editor took place,
and marriage followed about three years later. So that the offer of free
horoscopes, which was originally only intended to attract subscribers,
had these two far-reaching effects not contemplated at the start.

Recent Events

To pass from these reminiscences of the earlier years and to skip

to the end of the chapter, in January 1917 I wrote to Mr Leo calling
his attention to the fact that the conjunction of Neptune and Saturn
on August 1st fell in his twelfth house near the conjunction of his
Jupiter and the opposition of his progressed Mars, and I suggested that
this might bring danger of prosecution; for I had noticed that the
twelfth house—that of imprisonment—is often concerned in cases of
prosecution. The suggestion did not make much impression, perhaps,
and indeed it is doubtful whether he could have done much to avoid
the danger.
Many years ago I had pointed out to him that a strict application
of the Ptolemaic theory of the hyleg would make the Moon in Aries
in the ninth house hyleg in his case, that while its trine to the planets
in Leo gave him abundance of mental and physical vitality the
squares to Venus and Mars were dangerous, and that he was unlikely
to outlive the direction of the opposition of the Sun to the Moon.
The result has justified this prognostication, for the direction although
within orbs was not completed at the time of death and the part
affected, the head, shows the Moon in Aries to have been a critical point.

Cheerfulness and Energy

One of Mr Leo's most prominent characteristics was his extreme

cheerfulness, accompanied by an exuberant vitality. When visiting
him at his office on a dull winter day he has told me that to him the
room appeared as if flooded with sunlight, so much so that he found
it difficult to realise that the Sun was not actually shining. Astrologers
will readily link this with the presence of five planets in fiery signs,
four of them in Leo, and with the conjunction of the Sun, his ruler
 THIS WOKK OF ALAN LEO

with Jupiter in Leo, the limitations signified by Saturn exactly on the

ascendant having evidently been overcome.
Another characteristic was his capacity for work, which was
remarkable, and for getting the best work out of others.
Many people were associated with him who did their best work
directly or indirectly in connection with him, and who were pleased
that he should act as a centre for their united activities.4 In this
respect and in his ability to influence, mould or "manage a
consideiable mimber of people, lie seems to me to bear some
resemblance to Col. H. S. Olcott, although on a smaller scale. Each
was strong willed, cheerful, and generous ; and each made his influence
felt very widely and practically in the world, and was a nucleus round
which many congregated. Finally both were Sun in Leo men, Col.
Olcott having Sun conjunction Venus in that sign and Mr Leo Sun
coniunction Jupiter therein.
H. S. Gkekn, author of "Muiuhiiie Astrology "and other manuals

CHARACTER IS DESTINY

All who were good and great loved and honoured him. My
conceit of his person was never increased towards him by his place or
honours; but I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was
only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one
of the greatest of men, and most worthy of admiration, that hath been
in many ages. In his adversity 1 ever prayed God would give him
strength, for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole a
word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident can happen to virtue,
but rather help to make it manifest.
If the source of these quotations be recognised, their aptness will
be granted by those in a position to pronounce an opinion.
Alfred H. Barley, Sub-Editor of this magazine since 1903

* [This sentence presents perhaps the best reply to the criiicism mentioned on
p. 356. the ulterers of which can surely have but a poor notion of what is meant
by ioo/imtlioii. Among those who had the privilege of working with, and for.
Alan Leo the suggestion that he was in the habit of "picking other people's
brains" will provoke more amusement than indignation. Is a pioneer usually
regarded as a picker of the brains of those whe rally round him, one wonders ?
Poor Columbus !—El).]
37° MOUEKN ASTUOLOGY

ALAN LEO IN HOME LIFE

Life in the home is quite different from life in the editorial oHicer
class room or lecture hall, and calls forth a different phase of the
character and disposition. Few of the many thousands Mr Leo-
influenced by means of his books, journal, and pen, knew him socially.
He was far too busy a man to entertain, and indeed needed the rest
and quiet of home life to recuperate after a strenuous day spent in a
city office; but it is possible that readers of MODERN ASTROLOGY
will be interested to hear how its founder spent his leisure hours.
Had he any hobby apart from Astrology ? Yes he certainly had,
and it was Music. Like most persons with a strong Saturn in the
horoscope, sound had a peculiar fascination for him, and the harmony
and melody of music were a great source of recreation for him.
Some years ago he purchased a piano-pianola and through autumn,
winter and spring would spend sometimes two hours listening to the
melodies of Beethoven, Chopin, Wagner, Mozart, and others: he
generally played himself.
Occasionally he enjoyed a good short story or a game of draughts,
but directly the weather wasgood his garden was his great delight. He
revelled in nature and always declared he came near the " heart of
things" amidst the stillness and peace of the country. He loved the
evening shadows and walked amongst the trees and flowers musing
and meditating.
Alan Leo was a great home lover and a real server in home life
(2 95), quite as capable as a woman in the domestic sphere, and when
there occurred one of those domestic upheavals which occasionally
happen in these days of servant-scarcity, he cheerfully and successfully
filled the gap. In home as in public life, he was always radiant and
joyous: (O d U), He was never ill, sad, or depressed, but would
whistle and sing about the house as gaily as a child. Depression and
sadness would vanish in his presence, the atmosphere of the house
was positively charged with his solar life, and it was indeed a happy
home, the harmony being well-nigh perfect. By habit punctual and
methodical, in temperament he was a great lover of beauty and
elegance, and I never knew him grumble or find fault in all the
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twenty-five years of our married life. He certainly had a quick

temper, but it only lasted a few minutes, for he had great self-control
and a most forgiving disposition.
Unselfishness was his key-note. He had the greatest possible
consideration for other people and never gave any trouble through
want of thought. This endeared him to all his personal attendants
and to the one or two personal friends who occasionally visited us.
While reserved and dignified with strangers, in his private life he was
playful, contented, and joyous as a boy. Truly a very happy
man.
He was simple in his tastes, a vegetarian, non-smoker, and
teetotaller for nearly twenty years. He used to advise me when I
was troubled or depressed to follow his plan,—go away to a quiet
place alone and think of the Great Star Angels and the Divine Love
brooding over the world. " I can always remove any disharmony of
vibration in myself this way," he said, " and then nothing is a trouble
any more." But my husband lived in his higher mind and could call
down forces not many could wield. He believed implicitly in the
"Great Law," God's Law, and used to quote from Ella Wheeler
Wilcox's poem—•" Whatever is, is best."
On the day he had the summons to the Mansion House, I said,
" How now, Alan—do you still affirm, ' Whatever is, is best' ? " He
unhesitatingly replied, " Yes ! It's all EXPERIENCE, and therefore must
be for the best : I have surely some lesson to learn."
Such was Alan Leo, as I knew him—the most devoted of
husbands, the staunchest of comrades, the most reliable of friends.
For twenty-five years he was the sunshine of my life and home, he
never once failed me in any event in life, and made me completely and
entirely happy. Ours was an astrological marriage, my Sun being on
his Moon in the same degree of Aries. With four planets in Leo, his
heart was quite as active if not more so than his head, and indeed (to
quote from the Psychic Gazette), " He was the friend of all, the
enemy of none."

Bessie Leo, author of

" Rays of Truth," Astrological Tissays, etc.
 MUDKRN ASTUOI.OGY

HOW HE WORKED
To me, though the personal side of Alan Leo was a very
endearing one, the other non-personal side was the real man, and as it
was that side of him with which I was brought more into contact
I feel that is the side it is fittest I should write about.
His WOKK was the main-spring of all his actions. Frequently
when in the presence of people not directly connected with the work,
he would keep up a light kind of airy banter, immediately dropping it
as soon as they had gone with the air of—" Now then, let's get to
business." For with him the work was everything, and all the rest
was mere bubbles on the water; though I sometimes suspected that
he had a deeper motive underlying the apparently easy chit-chat.
I think that for myself I learned more from his little casually
dropped phrases than from the study of many books. Curious little
" pearls" would often drop from his lips, which proved extraordinarily
useful and illuminating in times of difficulty. For instance, if a hail
of bombs were dropping around, I am certain that his quiet and half-
amused remark would be " Well, it's all experience ! " If one smiled a
doubtful smile, he would quietly repeat, " Well, so it is; we learn from
our experience, nothing teaches us so much as that." Judged from that
standpoint, he must have gained great knowledge! "Take it all as
just a vibration," he would say when I had told him a rueful tale
of the difficulties and worries one meets with in trying to work with
and for people. And truly, when one thinks of annoyances and
troubles as " just a vibration," they at once lose their sling.

Helpeks Wanted
I knew Alan Leo first in this life in 1907. and very shortly after
I first saw him, I was fired with the idea of the greatness of his work,
and I felt I wanted to help in that work, though then I was totally
ignorant of Astrology and literally did not know the difference between
Aries and Taurus, nor even how to make the symbols. What I did
know was that I wanted to work for this man or for his cause, I didn't
mind which, and on the second occasion of seeing him, I took my
courage in both hands and went up to him and asked him if he could
give tne "something to do." He smiled and said, " We'll find you
 THK WORK OF ALAN LEO 373
something some day," and there, so far as I could see, the incident
ended. However, some twelve months afterwards he asked me one
day if I would come to his office and give him a little help,
" Yes, certainly," I said ; " What work is it ? "
" Oh never mind that," said he, " people who want to do work
mustn't pick and choose what work they'll do."
And when I got to the olfice I found it was only a job of sorting
some papers, and though I did it I don't know that the work was ever
used—I fancy not. However, shortly after he told me to my great
surprise that he wanted me to be Hon. Sec. of the Astrological
Society, which post I still fill. I find that I am including a good
deal about myself, but I am doing it only for the purpose of giving a
little insight into the methods of the man. His purpose, as I now see,
•was to find a worker willing to do anything that was asked, without
" jibbing " at being given an apparently insignificant job.

TtiE Cause Everything

And so it came about that I had the privilege of working in close
touch with Alan Leo and of realising what he stood for. l ie worked
never for his own glorification or for his own good, but he was a
perfect example of one who realises that the great thing is that ifie
Cause shall go forward; the agent matters nothing. His life work
was to cleanse the Augean stables of Astrology, and only those who
worked in close touch with him know what an accumulation of filth
there was in those stables, and what slime he waded through to
accomplish his purpose—the purpose from which he never swerved or
turned aside. One could only look on in helpless wonderment at the
tremendous burden he carried on his shoulders—the heavy Karma of
Astrology,—and hope to be of some small assistance in the sharing
of that burden.
I have said that his theme was the work is everything, the doer of
it nothing. That is the thought with which I would like to finish,
because to Alan Leo this was the great maxim. " Don't think of Alan
Leo," he often said ; "think of the work that is given to him to do."
And, for the purpose of trying to lead people from the persona) to the
impersonal, he was gradually withdrawing his own personal influence,
so gradually however that only the few realised it.
374 MODEHN ASTKOLOGV

" I want," he said to me once, " to get the name of Alan Leo
quite out of the work. I do so greatly wish that people could realise
that Astrology is the most impersonal of all philosophies or sciences;
we must make people realise this, and this is where we differ from the
religions of the world. They all teach devotion to a personal god or a
personal founder or teacher; but we want to make people understand
that the personal is transient and unreal, the impersonal is eternal and
real—and that is Astrology."
And again: " Religion is that which is taught by leaders,and you
will find in all religions that the followers look up to and quote their
leaders as authorities; that is right and natural for that type; but the
astrologers ought to be those who gain knowledge through themselves—
reach it down from the plane of knowledge where all knowledge exists
for those who can take it; they should have no need for authorities and
teachers. We must work to teach our people that while the knowledge
must increase, the teacher must decrease."
My hope is that those who are left to carry on his work may
ever keep that ideal in view.
ANNIE L. Barley : flon. Organising Secretary, Astrological
Institute and Hon. Secretary, Astrological Society'

A STIMULATOR AND A HARMONISER

It is now over twenty-two years since I first met our late

Editor. One of my brothers had shown me a small astrological
magazine, and its contents had captured me at once, for they seemed
strangely familiar and fascinating. I begged my brother to ask the
Editor whether he would hold a students' class for the study of
Astrology ; and with characteristic generosity he sent word that he
would hold a class at his office in Bouverie Street one evening in each
week. The class numbered only ten people, among them being
Mrs Leo, Mr Robert King, my sister and brother and myself; and
in this class we each week considered the quite elementary reading of
a horoscope.

0
[Since this article was written Mrs Barley has resigned the position of Hon.
Organising Secretary of the Astrological Institute.—Ed.]
 THE WORK OE ALAN LEO 375
An Astrological Society was at length started, was dissolved,
re-started, again dissolved, and again re-started, but I persisted in
remaining a member ; and the debt I owe for these many opportunities
of gaining astrological knowledge I have never yet discharged.
There are some debts that one feels one can never wipe out; one can
merely give out the knowledge one has obtained, and so " keep the
ball rolling."
So the years passed, and when in the early part of 1912 Mr and
Mrs Leo ran across me in South Devon, he asked me to take up the
work of Secretary of the Astrological Correspondence Lessons which
he was then preparing. I accepted, though with considerable
diffidence, for I have always felt unable to refuse help where Astrology
was concerned, and of late years have made it a rule not to refuse.
In the work of these past five years I have been immeasurably the
gainer. No one ever worked with Mr Leo who was not the gainer
from a spiritual standpoint. His method was to develop the
initiative of his co-workers, and to this end he often gave us work that
seemed quite beyond us—in order, I could see, to draw out the powers
and -faculties latent within us. This often meant much trouble to
himself ; but he seldom or never blamed, shouldered the responsibility
if things went awry, and righted them when wrong.
There was an atmosphere about our " Chief," an indefinable
something that stimulated us and harmonised us, and it is this which
we miss as much as anything now that he has left us. When I first
heard of his passing, the cry of Isis for the death of Osiris seemed wrung
from me—" The Lord of all the World is dead ! "—but that darkness
has passed, and now, in its place, there is the consciousness that in our
sleeping hours he will still teach and stimulate us, and that he is
engaged in work that will help the astrological movement even more
than the work he was engaged in at the time of his promotion.
When, as is my custom, I used to enter the office at 8.45 a.m. he
was always to be seen at his desk, busily writing, for the after-hours
of the day brought clients, dictation and business generally, and this
was the one time when he could work undisturbed. He had no idle
moments.
There comes to my mind a dream that he told me he had had
during the early days of July while the Mansion-House case was
 376 MODKKN AS THO LOGY
pending. In his dream he found himself walking by the sea-shore,
carrying something in his hand, and looking at it he became conscious
that it was lifeless, and so said to himself " It's no use carrying a dead
thing," and threw it far into the sea. He watched it splash into the
water and disappear, but from the place of its disappearance there
came up a water bird, whose head shone with vivid peacock-blue
colouring ; and it swam to the land and walked about, shaking itself
free of water and growing larger and more brilliant as he watched it.
And it seems to me that it is up to us now, as the best tribute we
can offer to our beloved Chief, to make this vision a reality, and to
endeavour by every means in our power to co-operate with him in his
working on other planes, to rid Astrology of its material touch and
place it on the highest spiritual basis possible, sure always of his
inspiration and his aid.
Florence A. Higgs, Secretary of the Lessons Departweut

AN ALL-ROUND HELPER

I find it rather difficult to know where to commence to pay my

little tribute to the memory of Mr Leo, for it was not so much in any one
thing that I personally felt his help, but in many—or in fact in
everything. The magnetism and life which flowed from him, and
which one could feel when he returned to office after being away at
any time, was such that it permeated the whole rather than touched
any particular part of one's character. I shall always be thankful to
him for the immense help he has always been to me at all times, for
helping others out of difficulties was not recognised as troublesome by
him, for he was ever willing to throw out the best that was in him,
and I can certainly testify to his being of great spiritual help to many
hundreds of people, in all departments of life.
His physical presence is no longer with us, but whether we can
consciously feel it or not, his influence is always around those who are
seeking guidance along astrological lines, for that was his special
work, and he carried it out as no other man could do, for he lived the
life that earned him the right to receive the spiritual knowledge that
he had, and which he so generously gave out. ■ He helped all who
came into contact with him, to live their lives the better for having
 THE WORK OF ALAN LEO 377
met him, for he appealed always to the best in a person and not to the
worst, teachinK us always to build " good stuff" into our characters
rather than to bewail our past errors—to rise again after falling, as all
must fall from time to time. He always said it was encouraging to
know that all our kindly thoughts and unselfish actions were stored in
the bank of consciousness to be given back to us in another life as
Character, and that it was up to us to make our banking account as
good as possible in order that we could be found worthy to help others
even as we had been helped.
My association with Mr Leo will always be one of the brightest
memories to look back upon, and although he has passed beyond the
physical I still thank him most sincerely for the beauties of life to
which he opened my eyes.
M, Kobbins, member of Staff of " Modern Astrology " Office

3.—Readers of " Modern Astrology "

. Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in (he dust

Extracts from Letters Received

From a large number of extracts from letters received, some in
connection with the recent prosecution and others since Mr Leo's
death the following more or less haphazard selection has been made.
The writers' initials are appended in each case.
The first, from one of the most capable and hard-working of the
staff of " Modern Astrology " Office, has an eloquence not suspected
perhaps by the writer; for it is not everyone who realises that
simplicity is a gift denied to the fluent, as fluency is denied to those
of deep feeling.
" I am sorry, but I cannot do what you want; it is not because I
won't do it, but because I do not fee) capable of doing anything good
enough for print. Writing comes easy to you, as to many, but not to
me, so please do not say any more about it, for I have delayed
answering yours hoping some inspiration would come, but it won't and
I don't like having to refuse."—H. R.
 MODEUN ASTROLOGY

" One of the wisest and most intuitional astrologers of all time,,
and, I believe, a highly advanced Soul, he lived to make the great
science of Astrology practical for all sorts and conditions of men. To
this end, having proved it, he taught that Character is Destiny. It
seems to me that his peculiar gift and legacy to us is an extra-
ordinary study of human nature. It is written in simple words, with
a wealth of homely illustration which makes it clear to the unlearned,,
but every kind of temperament, from the most rudimentary to the
most complex, is described in it. He did not use the language of
philosophy, and I never heard him call himself a psychologist, but no
one has better understood our mortal combination of Emotion,
Reason and Will, or set it out so plainly before us. He saw each
characteristic,—whole, yet in its smallest detail, and he knew how it
would work out in life. He was eminently sane in his occultism.
He realised material conditions as keenly as he realised the finer and
freer spaces beyond them. He has left us a keen appreciation of the
value of this earthly life, and of its proper demands and requirements,
while to those who can follow him he has shown something of the
great powers which order the world. His unique and notable studies
of human diversity lead to unity ; through the many to the one. No
one need any longer blunder through his days in that utter ignorance
of his inner self which has spoiled' the greater number of lives.
Power of judgment, that blending of all the influences of a horoscope
in which he reached the height of genius, cannot be conveyed or
taught or bequeathed, but the experiment and experience of the daily
round and the common task is clarified and-dignified for everyone of
us. Those of his disciples who knew him best, and loved and
honoured him most, regret that he passed from us just when he had
promised to show us more of the wider reaches of spiritual progress.
But when we have learned to live generously, actively, and open-eyed,
as he lived himself, with unshakable faith, universal tolerance, and
never failing hopefulness, the next step upwards will assuredly be
made plain to us, and he would have preferred that we should find it
of ourselves."—E. E. D.
"Alan Leo needs no monument. His work speaks for him with
no uncertain voice. He has laid the foundation well and truly, and it
is for us to see that the erection of the building proceeds until its-
 THE WORK OF ALAN LEO 379
white towers proudly raise their heads as a landmark to mariners
struggling on the sea of Life ; a sure and certain guide to anchorage
in the harbour of Knowledge. I trust that none of his activities will
be allowed to droop because he has left us, but I know full well that
in faithful hands like yours and others this cannot be. If in my
humble way I can assist, let me know."—E. D.
"Of course there must be a memorial to such a great teacher,
and monumental and enduring as his work is, it is not sufficient;
therefore I would humbly like to suggest that we students who love
him and owe so much to him, work harder than ever to carry the work
on, and to accomplish that which he would have us do: his assistance
and inspiration will aid us. We must not be satisfied—if even then—
until we have brought the higher Astrology to the notice of everyone.
If we are occasionally rebuffed, no matter."—H. W.
" In my own family we always spoke of him as ' the Chief '; we
honoured and esteemed him above all men and loved him for the good
he had wrought in our hearts." He has gone, but the work he
sacrificed so much for will live and endure and his spirit will watch
over and animate those upon whom the duty of continuing that work
will fall."—G. C. J.
"I imagine it must have been heart-failure; and probably he
was prepared to expect this. In no other sense than the physical one,
did that brave heart ever fail I am certain. . The loss to
all of us students of Astrology, from the humblest to the most
advanced, is not to be expressed."—G. W. C.
"When I first saw him I had the feeling—almost the huoicledge
—that I had met him before, and I always felt drawn to him and
better for having seen him. He was a real good sort and I'll warrant
there isn't a man living who has a grain of enmity towards him, in his
heart of hearts, nor one who doesn't truly regret any wrong he ever
did him."—H. T. W.
" With regard to the meeting of the Astrological Society and also

'■ 1 echo ihis statement, and respectfully present it to occupants of the

magisterial bench and others who associate our work with 1 fortune-telling,'
leaving it to them to explain how far the telling of fortunes is likely to work good
in the human heart.—Alpked H. Barlev, Acting Editor.
 THE WORK OF ALAN LEO 381
influence and writings, Mr Leo's name will be held in very thankful
memory, and all praise given to his life's splendid work."—J. H. E.
" I never had the privilege of meeting him, but I have read and
possess most of his publications, which have been of great help and
inspiration to me, and they will prove to be a lasting memorial to his
unselfish labours in promoting the study of Astrology. His passing is
a great loss to all concerned and also to the world."—J. K.
"Mr Alan Leo came into my life when I thought myself, and
was so esteemed by others as a failure, [there are many of us who
can say the same.—Ed.], but the truth he taught gave me a new
inspiration towards the duties of life, and I can truly say that he taught
me to stand alone."—A. D.
" The writings of our late Editor have helped me to a better
conception of psychological interpretation than I have ever obtained
from any other source, and the calm lucidity and absence of personality
appealed to me in a way I am unable adequately to express; many
thousands of people must owe him as much as the writer."— H. F. C.
" Although for some years I have felt the urge, it is only during
the last two months that I have seriously taken up the study
of Astrology.' During that lime I have seemed to come into close
touch with Mr Alan Leo through his text-books and it came as a
very great shock to me on obtaining my first copy of Modern
ASTROLOGY to-day, to read the sad news of his passing. His work
means much to me and I feel I cannot let this opportunity pass
without one small word of appreciation sent to those associated with
him in it. It cannot be doubted that the best memorial of such a man
is the continuation and extension of his life's work, and I cannot but
wish godspeed to those who have expressed their intention of facing
the campaign of calumny which has been launched against the science
they are pledged to uphold."—G. H. A. H.
" When the trial came on, Mr Leo wrote asking me if I could
attend and give him support, an invitation which I naturally accepted.
Perhaps many people have not realised the intense strain of the ordeal

7
[These words are here italicised in view of the fact that the letter is dated
zSlgl'ij. Two months earlier would therefore carry one back to the end ol ]uly, a
fortnight after the Mansion House prosecution, and the writer may therefore be
reckoned one of Alan Leo's latest followers.]
 WODKKN ASTROLOGY

he went through, but to those who were present it was obvious that
the conflicting forces in the Court were very great—as I can testify
from personal experience. During the whole morning of the adjourned
trial I sat next to Mr Leo, and when I left the Court at the luncheon
interval I was almost in a state of nervous collapse. Perhaps, if
people had but known it, the immediate future of Astrology was
decided in the verdict of the magistrate, so that henceforth all that
appertains to the esoteric side will be carefully guarded and only a
very small portion given out, and then only to those who are prepared
to receive. Doubtless Mr Leo realised this, and this realisation may
have led to the withdrawal of the ego."—C. G. M. A.
" No one could go'through the Course of Correspondence Lessons
without perceiving that Mr Leo's chief object was to make us under-
stand the Divine Love, the one universal spirit. One also feels
the generosity of his nature, for he seemed to be always giving—
giving all the treasures of heart and mind, his grand intellect, all to
benefit the world and to further the science he loved above everything.
His physical body is not here but his spirit remains stronger than
ever: he fills all, therefore his place can never be empty.
But after all we can show what we think of his work by spreading out
the truths he gave his last heart-beats for."—M. E. W.
"At the last meeting of the Cardiff Astrological Society it was
proposed that we write some expression of our deep sympathy with
you [Mrs Leo] at this strange time. The Society expressed
their great admiration of Mr Leo and his wonderful work in the
interests of Astrology, and the opinion was unanimous that his work
will live after him and his name be a universal one as the ages roll
by."—T. G.

Concerning the recent Prosecution

We add one or two extracts from letters written to Mr Leo just
before his death. While we do not pretend to withhold sympathy from
what the writers say, our own attitude towards the whole matter has
been explicitly, and finally, stated in the " Mansion House " article.
" It seems to me, that when there are within a hundred yards of
you, probably, men who are morally ruining scores of people, and
profiteers who are sucking out the lifeblood of the nation, and
 THE WORK OF ALAN LEO
gamblers and card-sharpers, who are just allowed to go on their ways
heedlessly, that you should be singled out for persecution, is an actual
abomination; and certainly if I were a rich man I would make every
effort that the matter should come before the House of Lords and that
once and for all this utterly illogical and absurd method of persecution
should be for ever brought to an end. Fof years in numbers of
magazines and papers all over the country, astrologers of more or less
competency have been exercising their calling, ' none to make them
afraid and here in this city [a county town] we have a phrenologist
and palmist who for several years has been allowed, perfectly satis-
factorily, because he is a thoroughly honest man, to pursue his
vocation, but if that same man were to go to , or [other
county /owns] and open his voice for clients he would be immediately
prosecuted ! The thing is too absolutely absurd for words."—E. H. S.
" The Occult Review has put your case so very well and clearly.
I hardly think I could have put it with so much moderation ; but of
course that makes it all the more telling. Does it not seem as if this
great effort of materialism to stop the advancing tide (as also in the
case of Mrs Besant) must be part of the same thing that we are
fighting against in the War ?—part of the great struggle made by the
powers of evil to avert the coming of a fresh great advance in
knowledge and illumination ? "—G. W. C.
" I hope you were not much upset by the Case. I wonder what
you are thinking of doing in the future. I feel, personally, that it is
almost too much to expect to get a Charter for a College of Astrology
from our Government—even in these days of and even though a
belief in Astrology is spreading in all directions. And I have never
been able to feel sure that the knowledge should be made public—it
might do so very much harm.8 And yet there ought to be some
means of getting it, for those who are genuinely worthy."—E. E. D.
" I am sorry you are not going to appeal. I think it would be
so helpful to the cause of Astrology if you did. Whether there are
fraudulent astrologers does not matter, after all,—there are fraudulent
people in all professions—but the great thing is to get Astrology
recognised as a real science legally ; and here was a fine opportunity
for an effort quite worth being fined for, in order to have the chance
8
[I propose to deal with this point soon in the "Observatory."—Ed.]
384 MODERN ASTROLOGY
of appeal. What would losing a few hundreds of pounds (possibly)
really matter if one could help the cause of Astrology thereby ? "
(see p. 273 Sept.J.—M. M.
" I thought your case practically a perfect one for appeal because
of its being so clear of specific prediction, and gave an opportunity
for testing the validity of Astrology as a well-established science
founded on the effects of planetary influences as observed in all times,
and arriving at its verdicts by mathematical calculations and not by
the methods of a spae-wife ! Your case I think was quite as good a
one to win on as that of Miss Adams [M.A. 1915 p. 296] which
secured a favourable verdict for America."—-J. L.
" It is many years since I had your Reading No. 6511 : I think
some 17 years ago. All I can say is, that those who know me best
are astonished at your correctness, (I am a member of the Spiritualists'
Alliance, St. Martin's Lane); and looking over some old papers
to-day, your name and reading is before me and I feel led to express
my sympathy with you in the recent prosecution."—T. K. B.

CONTINUATION OF "MODERN ASTROLOGY"

On p. 290 of October issue it was stated that Mr Leo had made

arrangements for the continuance as hitherto of the work so long
associated with his name as " Modern Astrology "—magazine, books,
lessons, etc. The words ' made arrangements ' were written by me in
good faith, but I have since learned that no legal weight being attached
to the paper of instructions drafted by Mr Leo, and enclosed with his
Will, all decisions as to business policy will necessarily lie with the
sole executrix and legatee, Mrs Bessie Leo, who will of course act as
circumstances dictate.
No definite arrangements have been completed at present, as the
Will has not yet been proved, and I can therefore say nothing further
for the moment.
All editorial correspondence should be addressed to the office of
" Modern Astrology," but private letters requiring an answer from
myself personally should b« sent to 22 Temple Gardens, Golders
Green, N.W. 4. Alfred H. Barley,
4/jl/'i7 Hon. Acting Editor
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with regard to the magazine and astrological work generally from
Imperial Buildings, I would urge you to be bold and to permit nothing
to interfere with the ever-widening interest which has been generated
by our dear friend Alan Leo, by yourselves and all those associated
with him, in Astrology in all its expressions including that of
prediction."—F. T.
" Perhaps but for this Great War, which has altered the course
of life for so many of us, he might have been with us still, [compare
p. 383 par. 2] : the strain on an overworked mind and heart, and that
last cruel and treacherous thrust in return for faithful and loving work,
may have hastened the end? Yet from this very strickening may
arise the freedom for Astrology as he taught it in its truth and purity,
and mankind will see its shining light and be guided and comforted in
the pain of evolution. For myself, I know thatxhis teaching has
brought me from the-cold intellectual side of Theosophy—the Law,
letter and duty—to the warmth of heart, the Life and Spirit side.
The two sides are needed."—G. M. G.
" It now rests with us to carry on his great life-work, the full
beauty of which few of us ever comprehend. It is immense and of
inestimable worth. He has opened up the way, and made compara-
tively easy the path for us to follow. It is sad to think there is no
one who can fill his place."—D. B.
" For modern astrologers his name was synonymous with our
beloved science. Bringing a new light to bear on a little known and
much abused Spiritual Science, he will ever remain the torch-bearer
of Astrology. With patience, forbearance and serenity he withstood
the many blows aimed at the Divine Wisdom. As an exponent of the
science it may safely be said of him—Nulli Secundus.
Nevertheless, we must not be down-hearted. There is much to do in
the astrological world. The seed that our leader planted has borne
fruit, for his pupils are of the spiritual school."—D. F.
" He has done a very fine work and one that will live for many
centuries. I feel sure that when next he takes birth he will find his
books still in use, and will be able to take up his work again where
he left off. There are few of whom that can be said."—L. H. F.
" By the great many who .have been brought into the inspiring
study and understanding of Astrology mainly through his lofty
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VOL. XIV., NEW SERIES: (XXVIII., OLD SERIES)
Absorbing an Inflcence, Decanates :—43.
Adam Kadmon :—227-8.
Aeroplanes, Libra:—235.
Air v. Earth :—347.
Alchemists and Astrology J49.
American Astrology ;—135.
Aspects of 1910 Cross, 311 :—Good and bad
50, good only 182. head and tail 67. the
war 6; Aspects of Sun, Moon and planets
with judgment : Sun and Moon, conjunction
16, square 49 ; Sun and Mars, conjunction 47,
75, 87, 142,square, 48, 93, 94, opposition 206;
Sun and Jupiter, sextile 242, square 19, 94,
opposition 43: Sun and Saturn, conjunction
202. trine 48, 93. square 119, opposition 206;
Sun and Neptune, conjunction 83, 85,119, 123,
202, opposition 206; Sun and Uranus, con-
junction X17, opposition 242 : Sun, Ascendant
and M.C. parallel ascendant 49, conjunction
M.C. 22, opposition M.C. 124; Moon and
Mercury, conjunction 206. opposition 66. 142 ;
Moon and Venus, opposition 66; Moon
and Mars, conjunction 47, trine 83, square
333 ; Moon and Jupiter, sextile 66, 169,
trine 83: Moon and Saturn, conjunction
169, trine 48, square 43, 84, 87, 93,
33X ; Moon and Uranus, conjunction 217.
square 331, opposition 65, 136; Moon and
Neptune, trine 83, 136; Moon and Ascendant,
conjunction 82, sextile 119, opposition 136;
Mercury and Venus, conjunction 67, 233,
trine 66: Mercury and Mars, conjunction 75,
opposition 206; Mercury and Jupiter, con-
junction 104, sextile 242, square 16, 78;
Mercury and Saturn, trine 19, 48. 65, 67,
opposition 103 ; Mercury and Uranus, trine
66, 67 ; Mercury and Neptuoe, opposition 45 ;
Mercury and Ascendant, opposition 136;
Mercury aspecting Venus, Mars, Jupiter and
Saturn, 155; Mercury afflicted, 183 ; Venus
and Mars, trine 119, 331, square 19, 65,93, 94,
opposition 333: Venus and Jupiter, trine 66.
square 45, opposition 48 ; Venus and Saturn,
trine 66. conjunction 208 : Venus and Uranus,
conjunction 103, 216 ; Venus and Neptune,
conjunction 208; Venus and M.C., trinei24 ;
Mara and Jupiter, conjunction 134, 169, 216,
square 78, 239, 242 ; Mars and Saturn, con-
junction 142, 314, square n, 46, opposition
78, 206: Mars and Uranus, trine 238 ; Mars
and Neptune, opposition 95: Mars and
Ascendant and M.C., conjunction Asc. 206;
square 17, trine M.C. 84; Jupiter and Saturn,
conjunction 216. sextile 309, trine 83 ; Jupiter
and Uranus, conjunction 124. square 169;
Jupiter and Neptune, sextile 309. square 76;
Jupiter trine Jupiter, 154: Jupiter square
Ascendant 83, trine M.C. 76; Saturn and
Uranus, conjunction 66, trine 19 ; Saturn and
Neptune, conjunction 202, 341 ; Saturn con-
junction M.C. 17. 153: Saturn conjunction
Saturn r, 206 ; Uranus and Neptune, trine 242 ;
Neptune and Ascendant, sextile 154, trine 83,
opposition M.C. 124
Astrology, Definition of :—36: " faked," 290;
great advance of, 322; is occult, 51, 53: a
religion. 197 ; universal, 93.
Atlantis :—51, 53 ; reincarnations from, 53.
Atma and Bdddhi :—59.
Atom Described :—244.
Adgdst, 1890—Adgdst, 1917 225.
Aura and Neptdne ;—216.
Aura and Urandb:—216.
Austria, Emperor of, 63.
Besant, Mrs., in India:—138. 231, 343.
Beast, The, Reign op :—250.
Bird-like, Perky People :—128.
Birth-DATA;—89, 145. 171, 188. 207.
Birth-time Never Exact:—63.
Births, how they come :—162.
Bismark, Lord of the Dark Face ■—52.
Black Magic :—245.
Boer War 56.
Bdddha, The Lord, King David:—338.
Calendar, The :—4.
Cardinal-Air :—20.
Catherine de Medicis, Neptunian :—216.
Charlatans:—68, 70.
Children's Home described :—64, 72.
Christ, Krishna or Buddha : —228.
Cleopatra, Neptunian :—215.
Colours:—216.
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Comets :—211.
Cots at the Children's Home;—73, 224.
Dark Face, Lords ok :—52, 122, 254.
Dark Powers, Victory of 51.
Death Aspect :—140.
Death—What then ?—38.
Death, "There are no dead."—35.
Death, Directions after :—293.
Death Figure :—301, 332. 344.
Death, Soldiers' state after ;—339, 340.
Dean Inge on Astrology
Decanatbs, Importance of 43, 144.
Decanates, Horoscope showing :—45.
Differences of Opinion. 135.
Directions and Egos :—1S6.
Easter Moon, 129.
Eclipses:—7, 17, 171, 208.
Eclipses. Trooble in London :—210.
Edward VII., King;—87, 149.
Eco, Age of:—347, 348.
Equipoise :—126,
Era, The NEW :—99, 205, 214.
Explosions 94, 139
Fatalism :—112, 161.
Football and Races :—57.
Freewill;—163, 165, iCS, 187, 323.
Genescope :—45;
Genesis:—1. 14, 226.
Germany, Astrology made in :—137.
German Emperor, Directions :—82.
Germany;—Vehicle of Lords of the dark face,
the moral cancer. 53.
Golden Age :—54.
Guardian of the Threshold ;—8r.
Guild of Astrologers :—26..
Head and Tail Aspects 67.
Horary Astrology ;—323.
Horoscopes :—see List of Contents ; the Cot,
73 ; without reincarnation mean fatalism, 229.
Ideal Accomplished :—332.
Introduction to Astrological Magazine:—
226.
I sis :—344.
Isis and Osiris :—159.
apanese Zodiac :—144.
on, xxvni. 31 :—226.
Judgment Day ;—253,
Jupiter and Art or Sport :—315.
Jupiter, Elevation of :—205.
Karma;—112, 162; and reincarnation, 229;
and the War, 56,
Kitchener, Lord :—Birth lime, 13, 61 ; Death
not believed, 294.
Kriyashakti, 251, 338.
Laplace's Mistake :—19.
Latent Possibilities :—166.
Law, The. and " Fortune Telling " ;—6g.
Legal Birth-time ;—10.
Legality of Astrology :—260.
LENT ;—106, 129.
Leo, Alan ;—Hislast article, 321 ; bis passing,
290. 296; his memorial number, 353.
Lodge, Sir Olivrk :—34.
Lords of the Flame:—180.
Love, Future of:—251.
Luke xxi. 11-25:—226.
Malefics mean Activity :—142.
Mansion House Trial :—232. 303.
Mark of the Beast :—220. ~
Mark Taplev and Trouble :—25.
Marriage Tie:—250.
Mars and Uranus Fatalistic:—164.
Materialists Scientific:—335.
Materialists "Spiritual Swine " :—339.
Mediums and Planets ;—70.
Moon. Another :—184.
Modern Astrology, copies wanted:—139,
Moral Cancer, Germany:—53.'
Morals None, Neptune :—215.
Mysteries, Restoration ok :—338.
Neptune: — anarchists, 1,72: Buddi. 27 •;
Cancer's probable Ruler, 247 ; Demos, Uranus
autocrat, 203 ; higher octave of Venus. 177;
and Magdalenes, 247; new music, 315; and
old Souls, 215; Ray of the World Teacher,
82, 175, 179; and Saturn, 215 ; and socialism,
246 ; and Uranus, 246.
New Era :—214, 245, 310, 319.
Old Souls:—215.
Opinions Differ :—127, 135, 195.
Opposition of Uranus and Neptune:—59.
Orb of Ponderous Planets:—<37.
Pacifists Neptunians :—313.
Parent, Attraction to :—184.
Parent hating child:—188.
Passing of Alan Leo ;—296. |
Payment for Astrological work :—282.
Pemberton Billing ;—237.
Perfection, how got:—52.
Personal Appearance:—Scorpio. 32; Aquar
ius. 96: Gemini, 128; Virgo, 160 ; Sagittarius,
192 ; Pisces, 256.
Pineal Gland :—251.
Planets:—Astrology for beginners, 320, 352;
positions, 6 ; Orbs of ponderous, 67 ; rays of,
28 ; twelve suggested, 190.
Plumbline 98, 101.
Poets and Astrology ;—226.
Pot Boilers, Jupiter :—315.
Poverty :—191.
Prayer, Great Value of ;—56.
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Predictions;—71, 165, 351.
Prediction, Astrology withodt :—279. 323.
Prenatal Epoch 31, 53. 90.
Primary Directions, 1904 8 :—58.
Punishment por Cruelty ;—313.
Raymond:—34.
Reception :—239.
Rectification :—difficulty of, 140, 318; three
wrong results, 213.
Regeneration :—130.
Reincarnation :—22, 166.
Rex v. Leo :—257
Rocnds and Races :—2.
Sanat Kamara : —178.
Satan :—81.
Satellitidm op Planets :—210.
Saturn Transit:—n.
Separate Sexes;—175. iSo.
Sex.1 Importance of :—63.
■Shirley's, Ralph, Article on Rbx v. Leo;—
303-
" Sick of the War " :—98, 158.
Signs Specially Mentioned :—Aries-Cancer,
Leo-Sc«rpio, evolution, 131 : Taurus, the Sun
in, 129; Leo, Saturn in. 6: Sagittarius the
present man, 341 : Capricorn 2nd decanate 1,
Sign of Ritual 132. Aquarius. 19, 65,90, 102,
132, 202, 237-g. not ruled by Uranus 316,
the glyph two waters. 31G": Pisces, regenerate
man. T32 ; Signs and Lent, 106.
066:—222. 252.
Spiritual Law ;—167.
Spirits, Talking to ;—185.
Star in the East, Ordbk or:—217.
111
Stars, Ruling Thevi :—186.
State of the Churches to-day:—310.
Stocks and Planets ;—123.
Summer Time :—122. 157, 302. 344.
Symbol of the Rose;—220. 223.
Symbols by Ciiarubel:—345.
Systems, Religious, and Astrology;—228.
" Swine, Spiritual " :—the German race, 339.
Tailor-made Gowns ;—192.
Telephone, Wireless Telegraphy :—235.
Ten Tribes, The Lost ;—336, 337.
Theosophy and Astrology ;—27. 36.
Tickets, Food ;—79.
Transits 57. IJL 341-
Transmutation :—346.
Travel and the qtk House :—142.
Triplicities and Egos :—188.
Twelve Apostles. The;—143.
"Twitching Astrologers" :—68.
Uranus ;—causes dyspepsia, 316: dejpises
ceremonial, 315: and Greece, Gi ; and
Neptune as rulers, 189; Ray of, 175; in 4th
House, revolutionary, 19; and socialism, 174 :
and suicide, 164.
Vagrancy Act :—265. '
Vayu Tattva :—236.
Vbnus ;—Rising, 19; the asUulogiCal Kay, 28.
Waitb's Compendium :—143.
War, The, how it began :—51. 54. 55, 60.
Weather, The:—76. 79.218, 234.
Women's Suffrage Movement:—250.
Yoga of Astrology :—227.