Sun and Moon and planets will travel in 10 hours and 33 minutes, and add that sum to the longitude of the planets and Sun and Moon given in the Ephemeris on Feb. 23d, 1897, at noon in London.

665 The easiest way to make these calculations is to see in the Ephemeris how far each planet travels in 24 hours, and divide that sum by 2 to find how far they travel in 12 hours, and add the remainder to the longitude of the planets as they are printed in the Ephemeris, and then deduct the distance that each one will travel in one hour and a half, and the student will get very close to the exact longitude of each planet.*

If the student turns to page 288 paragraph 625, he will find the "Election for laying the first stone of a building," and will there see that the old Astrologers had serious objections to the Watery triplicity particularly to Pisces and Scorpio; but Cancer is objectionable, because it is unsafe to erect a building on the water. Cancer, Scorpio or Pisces on the ascendant, or the Moon in these signs, (particularly Cancer as it is a moveable sign) is very evil for laying the first stone. The rule is to have the Moon, either in a fixed sign, or have a fixed sign on the ascendant and the Moon in good aspect to that sign. But if the student turns to the chart of the heavens for the laying of the first stone of the School of Theosophy, he will find Cancer is on the ascendant, and the Moon lady of that sign is within 2° of the conjunction of Saturn; also just leaving a conjunction of Uranus, which are two very evil afflictions to that luminary.

The old authors on Astrology all agree that a planet or the Moon leaving a conjunction, square or opposition of one or more evil planets in a horary question, laying the first stone, or in a nativity, is more unfortunate or weaker than a planet applying to an evil aspect, as they say that the Moon or the planet leaving the evil aspect is so completely saturated with the evil influence of the planet that it is leaving, that it takes it a long time to overcome that influence. They compare it to a miller whose clothes and everything about him gets so impregnated with flour, that if he leaves the mill, it takes a long time for him to get rid of it; it has so penetrated into his clothing.

In all charts of the heavens, the old Astrologers say: whether in a time of birth, or a question, or laying the first stone of a building never have the Moon afflicted. They say: It is better to have the lord of the ascendant afflicted than the Moon." The Moon is not only afflicted in the foregoing horoscope, but it is also lady of the ascendant, which causes it to be doubly afflicted. The Moon after leaving a conjunction of Uranus and Saturn is making a square of Jupiter, lord of the 9th, (house of science and religion,) and also a square of the Sun, and the Sun and Jupiter are in exact opposition. The Moon is also making an opposition of Neptune and Mars. The only good aspect the Moon makes is a sextile of Mercury, but Mercury is setting. It is a particularly evil horoscope for the laying of the first stone, as Venus, although in the midheaven, is seriously afflicted on account of being in its detriment and in square to the ascendant. The ancients say, "let the fortunate planets, Jupiter and Venus be in good aspect to each other or to the degree ascending." Jupiter could hardly be more afflicted, and has no aspect to the ascendant, and Venus is in square to the degree ascending.

*There is no doubt the stone was laid within a very few minutes of 2,45 P. M., as I asked a gentleman who was present at the laying of the corner stone, and he told me when he arrived at the gate of the grounds he looked at his watch, which he set by Standard or San Francisco time, and it was 25 minutes to three; and he calculated it would take 10 minutes to walk the short distance, and for Mr. Hargrove to deliver the speech which he made previous to laying the stone.

What a pity it is that people do not pay attention at the present day to these rules and principles which have been known and used to such great advantage by the ancients for thousands of years.

My father had a saying that "experience is a dear school, but fools will learn at no other." Unfortunately there are some people who will not even learn at the school of experience, and those fools are generally known by the name of "Christians."

I learn from the newspapers that the School is going to be completed, and used as a Sanitarium. The building will be unfortunate as a Sanitarium, and the patients who attend there are more likely to die than to get well, as Jupiter, lord of the 6th, (the house of sickness) is in close opposition to the Sun in the 8th, (the house of death,) and the Moon, lady of the ascendant makes a square of both. The building will not be a paying institution as a Sanitarium, as the Sun, lord of the 2d house, (the house of money) is so afflicted by the opposition of Jupiter, lord of the 6th and 9th houses, (the houses of science and sickness.)

The following appeared in the "New York Sun," Tuesday, Dec. 28th, 1897, under the head of "Theosophists all Awry."

"There is, in the words of one of the advanced enthusiasts of the Theosophical Society, a violent row' in the organization, manifesting itself, both here and abroad. It is said to be due to dissatisfaction with Mrs. Kittie Tingley, the head of the esoteric body here. There are people who do not wholly approve of Mrs. Tingley's high place in the society, and according to the story, their number is growing so fast that already two esoteric Presidents have resigned, and the resignation of a third is expected.

"The information received yesterday from London included a strong intimation of the intention of one of the other European Presidents to resign shortly. Complaints are made that the society in this city no longer studies Theosophy, and that it has been converted into a charitable organization, the work of which is carried on in the name of the International Brotherhood League.'

'Mrs. Tingley's pet project, the School for the Revival of the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity,' it is said, has so far fallen into desuetude that the building which was only just begun at Point Loma, near San Diego, Cal., is to be completed and turned into a Sanitarium by Dr. Loren A. Wood, formerly of Westerly, R. I., to whom it has been turned over. Dr. Wood was on the recent crusade of the Tingley Theosophists. Mrs. Annie Besant's proselyting here last spring has begun to tell. Branches of the Society in different cities have deserted the body whose esoteric head Mrs. Tingley is, and have joined themselves to that fostered by Mrs. Besant. The branch at Lynn, Mass., Mrs. Tingley's former home, has gone over to the Besant enemy."

In ancient times the people not only chose the most propitious times according to the planetary influences for "turning the sod," laying the first stone, or driving the first pile for the erection of important structures, but they actually built those structures on the principles or order of the planetary system.

For instance there is a model made of the Tower of Babylon in the National Museum, at Washington, D. C., which if the student examines he will find the walls of the first story were painted black, the color of Saturn, the second a deep orange, the color of Jupiter; the third, red, Mars's color; the fourth gold, the Sun's color; the fifth white, the color of Venus; the sixth blue, the color of Mercury; the seventh silver, the Moon's color. A picture of which the reader will find on page

There is a printed page pasted on the model which states that the "Tower of Babel was originally painted these colors when first built. Not only that, but in late excavations in that country they have discovered two other structures, one underneath the other, and near where the Tower of Babel stands at the present day, each of these structures were built with seven stories, similar to the Tower of Babel. The deepest or most ancient of these buildings had been the most perfect in its architecture and construction.

There are cuneiform writings on these structures, giving certain astronomical calculations which prove beyond question, that the most ancient of these structures is over 9,000 years old, or more than 3,000 years older than the Mozaic History of the Creation of the world.

TOWER OF BABEL, OR BABYLON. (FROM THE BIBLE-GENESIS, XI., 1-9.)

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And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. As they journeyed from the East they found a plain in the land of Shinar and dwelt there. said one to the other: Go to, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly, and they had brick for stone and slime they had for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build a city, and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth, and the Lord came down to see the city and tower the children of men builded. And the Lord said, let us go down, and there confound their language. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth, and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Description of the Tower of Babel.

The drawing on the opposite page is from the model of the Tower of Babylon in the National Museum, at Washington, D. C., and copied from the New York Sunday Journal of October 17, 1897. The model was made by Mr. Palmer, and conforms to the theory of the Tower by Sir Henry Rawlinson, the great Orientalist, who gives the dimensions of the Tower as follows:

"The first was a stage or platform of crude brick raised a few feet above the level of the plain. The first story of the Tower or basement was an exact square of 272 feet each way, and 25 feet in perpendicular height; the second story was 230 feet each way, and 26 feet high; the third story was 180 feet square each way, and 26 feet high; the fourth was 146 feet square, and 15 feet high; the fifth 104 feet square, and 15 feet high; the sixth 62 feet square and the 7th, 20 feet square, and both were 15 feet high.

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Concerning the origin of the "Tower of Babel," little is known save from the Bible. The historian Herodotus mentions it, and there are also certain cuneiform inscriptions on some of the bricks which give the name of Nebuchadnezzar as the person who finished the building of the Temple. These inscriptions state that it was commenced by a former king, but that king never finished it. It was said to have been built in honor of the Babylonian god, called Nebo or Nabu. There were seven stories of this temple; each story was painted a particular color, each color being governed by one of the seven planets. The lowest story was painted black, the color of Saturn; the next story above was painted a deep orange, the color of Jupiter; the next red, the color of Mars; next the Sun, a golden color; next white, Venus' color; next Mercury's color, blue; and the top story the Moon's color, a silvery or kind of glistening color."-New York Journal.

The above colors are those which are said to be ruled by the planets at the present day in the books of "Modern Astrology," The Tower gives the color of Venus as white, but in books of Modern Astrology the color given is light blue or light sky color; all the other colors correspond or nearly so. In Raphael's Horary Astrology, on page 53, the colors there given as ruled by the planets, are as follows: That of Saturn rules black; that of Jupiter green spotted or ash color; Mars red or scarlet; Sun saffron or yellow; Venus lightish blue; Mercury gray or buff-color; Moon white or cream, but the Moon also governs silvery or glistening color; these colors of the planets vary somewhat when they are in different signs of the Zodiac, and it depends on what sign the planet is in in regard to the various shades, and it also depends on what house it is in, as that sometimes varies the shade or color that the planets rule.

There is no doubt that all of these stories dedicated to their respective planets, were commenced when these planets were in the most fortunate positions in the Zodiac, and in good aspects to other planets, especially to what are called the two fortunate planets, Jupiter and Venus.

The Tower of Babel may have been used as a fortification against the enemies of the Babylonians, as the extra Tower built on the top of the seven stories, which is shown in the small cut underneath the large picture, and which was afterwards added to the top of the original Tower by some Babylonian king whose name is not mentioned; this appears to be indicated by the top Tower, and it also might have been used as a lookout for watching the approach of enemies of the Babylonians.

Antiquity of Astrology Proved by the Tower of Babel.

The ruins of the ancient "Tower of Babel" prove unquestionably that Astronomy and Astrology were well understood and practised over 9,000 years ago, and that the people conducted their business and controlled the various events of life by the principles and rules of these sciences. It is also stated that the bricks that the Tower of Babel was built with, even at this day, are in a good state of preservation, or at least people who have been to Babylon and examined them make this statement, and it is more than 4,000 years since the latter building was finished by Nebuchadnezzar. Were bricks that buildings are now made of exposed to the action of the weather, either in England or the United States, only for a few hundred years, they would crumble to dust,

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I wish the reader to understand that I have no particular spite against the editor of the New York Times, as I honestly believe that he is not any more prejudiced against Astrology than most editors in New York, only he happened to lay himself open to criticism at the present time, which has caused me to give more attention to him than to other editors.

Had Mrs. Maud S. sent her daughter's time of birth to an editor of almost any other newspaper in the United States, or for that matter to any newspaper in Europe, they would have given her a similar answer to the one she received from the "New York Times," * and no matter how much these editors might differ in politics, or on the labor or money question, they would all agree that calculating horoscopes was a "debasing superstition and whould have expatiated on the "harmful influence on children's minds" of such calculations. If she had sent her daughter's time of birth to all the Christian Ministers in Europe and America, no matter how much they might quarrel or disagree on religious doctrines, or of the meaning of any passage of the Old or New Testament, they would have been unanimous in saying that calculating horoscopes was a debasing superstition, and in denouncing the Astrologer as an impostor or a fraud, and in consigning him to everlasting torment. It would have been the same if she had sent the time of birth to any lawyer, or judge on the bench in any Christian country of the world, no matter how much they might differ on law points, quarrel and call each other hard names, they would all have been of one opinion on the merits, or rather the demerits of Astrology; and no matter how many times the judges reversed each other's decisions on other matters they would have all decided alike when it came to their judgment on Astrology.

I will even go further and state that if Mrs.' Maud S. had sent her daughter's time of birth to the doctors of the United States, Canada or Europe, they would all, with very few exceptions, (and those exceptions are doctors who are now using Astrology in the practice of medicine,) if they had answered her letter have agreed that Astrology was a "de-basing superstition," no matter how much they quarrel among themselves, and call each other quacks, frauds and impostors on account of their not agreeing on any particular school of "pathy." Yet, if Mrs. Maud S.'s daughter had been taken sick, and she called in twenty or thirty of those same doctors, each and every one of them would have diagnosed the case differently, and each would contend that she had a different disease or complaint, and no two of them would have agreed in the treatment of any one symptom, and each would have put her under different, or almost opposite treatment, and diet, and it would have been the same if those twenty doctors had all graduated from the same college, and had been taught by the same professors, and yet we talk about the science of medicine.

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But if she had sent her child's time and place of birth to twenty Astrologers, they would have all agreed, or come very near agreeing in regard to the child's diseases or complaints in the different periods of her life, and the parts of the body which would be affected at those times, thirty or forty years before these periods of sickness would take place.

*Although when the Editor of the New York Times, was writing the criticisms on Astrology, the New York Sunday News was publishing three or four columns of horoscopes each Sunday; the Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch from twelve to fourteen columns each week; the Pittsburg Leader three; columns; the Cincinnati Inquirer about six columns; the Louisville Courier Journal three columns; the Illustrated American was publishing two pages; the Manchester Mirror (N. H.) was publishing three columns; the Harrisburg (Pa.,) Telegraph one column per week. Besides there were a number of other papers publishing horoscopes, during 1893, 1894, 1895 and 1896.