low and very old, and the dogs following threw down a part of the wall ten yards in length, under which Charles Dryden lay buried. He was immediately dug ont, and after six weeks languishing in a dangerous way he recovered. In the 23d year of his age, Charles fell from the top of an old tower belonging to the Vatican at Rome, occasioned by a dizziness with which he was seized, the heat of the day being excessive. He again recovered, but was ever after in a languishing, sickly state. In the 33d year of his age, being returned to England, he was unhappily drowned at Windsor. He had, with another gentleman, swam twice across the Thames, but returning a third time, it was supposed he was taken with a cramp, because he called out for help, though too late. The father's calculation proved but too prophetical." Some persons will say, what is the use calculating horoscopes when the fate is inevitable and cannot be avoided, or in any way warded off, even when the nature of the accident and the time of the event has been predicted? But the reader ought to bear in mind that the aspects in this nativity are what are called marked. The mere expres sion of Mr. Dryden's, that "the child was born in an evil hour (meaning an evil planetary hour); Venus, Jupiter and the Sun were all under the earth, the ascendant being afflicted with a hateful square of Mars and Saturn," alone proves that he was an Astrologer, and also that the child had a marked horoscope and that it would die a violent death. It also shows that the ascendant was what is termed the "Giver of Life," and being so afflicted it was almost impossible for the native to die a natural death. Therefore in horoscopes of this kind, the stars are said to rule or govern the native, and the native does not rule the stars, but he is controlled by them. to Horoscopes, like that of Charles Dryden, are the exception and not the rule, but when we meet with them there is nothing more convincing of the truth of Astrology. Indeed, in this kind of nativities Astrology becomes a positive or exact science, and in such cases it is almost useless fighting against fate. In the case of young Dryden, although he had wealthy, kind and indulgent parents, also servants take special care of him, yet those servants went and led him into the very evil they were charged to guard him against. With such "unfailing experience' no wonder when such men as Sir Isaac Newton, John Kepler, Cardinal Richelieu and John Dryden could see such convincing proofs of the truth of Astrology that they should look upon the science of Astronomy only as an elementary branch of the science of Astrology, as we look upon A, B, C, or the English alphabet, as merely the elements of language. But the real science of language only begins when we associate these letters into syllables and words, and associate meanings to words, and then associate words into sentences, and those sentences into paragraphs, etc. William and Robert Chambers, in their Encyclopedia, say that: "Astronomy or the knowledge of the stars was till a very recent period cultivated mostly with a view to judicial Astrology," and that "this (Astrology) was considered the higher or real science," and as Richard A. Proctor says: The reader ought to bear in mind that those men who held to this "belief" were at that time the most learned men on the face of the earth, and were all able to calculate nativities, and to prove the truth of their observations, and no doubt they were all similar to John Dryden and John Kepler, who had had "a most unfailing experience of the excitement of sublunary nature by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets" in those horoscopes which they calculated. Thus far I wish the reader to understand that in this section I have only been giving the evidence of witnesses against Astrology. If I were a lawyer and were pleading the cause of Astrology before a judge and jury, I think I should be justified in requesting the judge to throw the case out of court if the opponents of that science had no further evidence to offer, as the proof against Astrology so far is not valid or proved beyond a reasonable doubt. But on the contrary the evidence has gone altogether in favor of the truth of that science. But as a vast number of authors who have written against Astrology during the past two hundred years. have employed what they term arguments against the science, and which they deem very conclusive, I think I ought to give some, if not all, of those arguments, and then let the readers judge for themselves. If the reader has been surprised at the testimony already brought by the witnesses against Astrology, I think he will be much more surprised with their arguments; as these arguments could not possibly stand a moment against any other science, no matter how ridiculous or nonsensical that science might be, and the only reason that I can account for these arguments having been brought against Astrology is that the people at large. must be more or less insane and incapable of judging fairly in the matPossibly I am like the man who was confined in an insane asylum. When his friends went to see him they inquired why such a sensible man as he was thus confined. He made answer by saying: "It was only a matter of opinion which caused my confinement; I said that all the world was crazy, and they said I was crazy, and the majority ruled." ter. THE SUPPOSED ARGUMENTS WHICH THE ENEMIES OF One of the main arguments those professors always bring against Astrology is the law of gravitation. They argue that as the Sun, Moon, planets and Stars are so far away from the earth, and man being such a small body, that the law of gravitation or attraction must have such a very insignificant effect on him that it is impossible to be felt or calculated, or that it can have any influence whatever." If it could be proven that the law of gravitation was the only law, force, or influence in the heavens above, or on the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth, and that the planets and signs of the Zodiac or the Sun or Moon could not act on the earth and its inhabitants in any other manner, then that argument might have some weight, but until that is proven no person but one perfectly ignorant of the laws of nature would think of making use of such a plea; yet I have known graduates and professors of colleges to bring it forward, deeming themselves very learned and wise in being able to urge such a weighty consideration against the science of Astrology, and in their wisdom they laughed at me for stating my belief in that science, and at my proofs of such belief. Any person having a knowledge of modern science, I think, must admit that there are other influences and laws at work in nature, besides the law of gravitation. Take, for instance, the science of electricity. There are laws and principles in that science that are altogether at variance with the laws of gravitation, so far as we understand them at the present day, or are ever likely to understand them. The rapid progress that is now being made in electrical science is simply astonishing. It looks at the present time that electricity is going to supersede steam and coal gas, and that before long our machinery, ships, railways and mills will be run by electricity, and that our houses will be lighted and warmed by that method. Only compare electricity at the present day with what it was a hundred years ago, and the reader must admit that it is simply marvelous. Even if the professors of colleges could have had proofs at that time that there was no other force or influence in existence but the law of gravitation, such proofs would have very little weight at the present day; besides, there are other new forces constantly cropping out; we need only to look at photography at the present day, and look at it fifty years ago and compare the difference. The discovery of the X-Ray is another remarkable proof of forces and laws existing in nature that were previously never thought or dreamed of. In the early part of the present century, Professor Faraday, of England, in studying the galvanic cells, discovered that two electric currents are in motion, and he named one "Cathode," the other "Anode." The first name was applied to the current entering the cell and the latter to the one leaving. These currents when passing through glass tubes produce a spark or glow. Other electricians and chemists have made investigations in that direction until Professor Roentgen, of Germany, in the latter part of 1895, was able to photograph through a plank of wood a foot in thickness, and various other substances which formerly it was believed that light never entered. Aluminum is very susceptible of having light transmitted through it. This light is believed to be the quintescence that the old philosophers tried to discover and make use of for thousands of years. Professor Edison has improved on those experiments by the use of electric light, and what is termed the X-Ray; and there is no telling at the present day what may be accomplished in that direction at some future time in the arts and sciences, The ancient philosophers and Astrologers divided everything on the earth into four divisions, which they styled the elements or essences, and which four elements they named fire, earth, air and water; they also divided the heavenly bodies into those elements or essences, especially the signs of the Zodiac, and the planets, and the Sun and the Moon. The signs of the Zodiac were called the trigons or triplicities.. The fiery signs were Aries, Leo, Sagittary; the earthy signs were Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn; the airy signs were Gemini, Libra and Aquarius, and the watery signs were Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. The signs of any particular triplicity are in trine aspect to each other. The fiery signs were termed hot and dry; the earthy signs, cold and dry; the airy signs were hot and moist, and the watery signs were cold and moist. They also divided the nature or qualities of planets into. these four elements or essences. The planet Saturn is cold and dry Jupiter is hot and moist; Mars is hot and dry; the Sun is called temperate; that is, neither hot nor cold, and neither dry nor moist. Venus is cold and moist. Mercury is termed changeable, and it depends on what aspect it has to other planets, and is so controlled by their natures whether those planets are cold or moist, hot or dry, etc.. The Moon is cold and moist. Besides these four elements or essences of nature, the ancients were confident that another essence existed, which they called the quintessence, from the Latin quinti, five, and they believed that this quintessence pervaded all nature by a peculiar ether, that penetrated all nature, both animate and inanimate, on the same principle that the X-Ray discovered by Professor Roentgen penetrates or is transmitted through all bodies, especially animal and vegetable. And the ancients also believed that it even extended from one planet to another, and from the Sun to the Moon and the earth. The ancients spent much time and labor in trying to get at and understand the quintessence by all kinds of chemical experiments and processes, and these philosophers were afterwards called alchemists. Hence we have the word chemistry derived from “alchemist.” I have a number of large volumes that were written and published hundreds of years ago by those alchemists, which treat altogether on this quintessence; they believed that in some way this influence or quintessence of the planets acted on the earth and its inhabitants, and ruled, controlled or influenced the earth and its inhabitants. And those passages in the Bible referred to in a former part of this work referred to the Astrologers who were possessed of that belief. At the present day it is generally believed by most learned men that all light and sound and other phenomena of nature are produced in some way by this universal principle and allpervading ether or quintessence. Mr. Keeley, of Philadelphia, has been working on this quintessence most of his life, and hopes to produce a substance that he thinks will revolutionize all motive power, as steam power superseded hand or manual labor, and which will 66 66 66 eventually do away with steam or electricity as a motor. But no matter how the planets act on the earth and its inhabitants, there is one thing that is certain and absolute, that is, that they do act in one way or another. Any person giving the subject a thorough investigation cannot deny that fact. The young student of Astrology may have to calculate and look through a number of horoscopes before he can bring one, positive fact to bear in proving the science absolutely true, on account of the influence of the planets, one operating on and against another, and presenting conflicting testimony, as it is termed. As an illustration, the chemists may have to search through material nature a long time to find a piece of pure iron, or gold or silver, or of other substance not in combination with any other substance or metal. But when he can find the pure article he knows it has certain qualities or properties which it always retains when in a pure state; so when we can get any particularly clear aspect, or planetary influence, the effect is always certain, but the effects may not always be exactly the same. For instance, I will mention that the signs of the Zodiac, besides being divided into fiery, earthy, airy and watery signs, are also divided into what is termed ' tall and “slender" and "short" and "stout" signs, and light" signs, and "dark" signs, and so are the planets also divided into" tall," " short," "dark," "light," "" slender " or stout" planets; persons born under them are tall, short, light or dark, etc., and when we can find a tall light sign on the ascendant, and the planet which rules or governs that sign is in another tall light sign, or in the same tall or light sign in the ascendant, and the Moon is in a similar tall light sign, the person born at that time is always tall and light complexioned, and even if he is a negro he is much lighter complexioned than negroes generally are or either of his parents, and is also tall. When there is a short, stout sign on the ascendant, and the planet which has the most influence in the ascendant, or is lord of that sign, is in a short, stout sign, or in the same sign in the ascendant the Moon also in a short, stout sign, that person is always short and stout, no matter how tall and slender both his parents are. Also in marriage there are certain rules in Astrology which I might state never can be overcome, as they always have an effect. For instance, if he marries, he always marries a lady described by the planet that the Moon first applies to by aspect, if he marries at all, and if the Moon makes an evil aspect of an evil planet, say, for instance, the square or opposition of Saturn or Mars, and particularly if there are evil planets in the seventh house (the house of marriage) he is always unhappy in his married life. But if the Moon makes a good aspect of a good planet, and there are good planets in the seventh house, that person always lives happily in married life, no matter how vile or vicious he may be himself, he gets a good, affectionate wife, she almost worships him, and is very much affected at his death. Also in a woman's horoscope; she marries a gentleman described by the planet that the Sun first applies to by aspect, and if the Sun makes an opposition or square of Saturn and Mars, and particularly |