EXPLANATION

It may be observed that two chapters have been crowded out of this volume. We hope however to publish three volumes, the 2nd dealing with the inmates of prisons, asylums, hospitals &c, and the third with rulers and public events; or what is commonly known as mundane astrology. We trust that an ephemeris, will shortly be published in connection with these books. The ephemeris commonly employed and known as the geocentric ephemeris can not be used. By our system there are no retrogrades and no aspects excepting the conjunction. An opposition is regarded as equivalent to a conjunction, and many more conjunctions are formed by this method.

Everything that would not stand a severe practical test has been discarded. Some swear by Ptolemy and some by anything they see in print, but give us the imperishable truth, founded upon a rock if we do have to dig for it.

This being the first edition errors will doubtless be found in it. Any errors in calculation will gladly be corrected if the publisher is notified.

CALIFORNIA

INTRODUCTION

We are not going to write a preface and introduction to this work, because we wish every word of it to be read, and where there is both preface and introduction, either one or both is sure to be skipped. We not only wish every word to be read, but we believe that it requires to be carefully read, not less than three times. Some students call Planetary Influence, a deep study, and so it is, but we have endeavored to simplify the language as far as possible avoiding all technical and high sounding terms, and using illustrating charts abundantly, so that we think with several careful readings any one may become master of the contents without really hard study. Some may master it thoroughly with one reading; they may even see more than the writer; we hope they will. There is nothing that requires to be memorized excepting the indications of the Signs and indications of the planets in the Signs. The book will prove much pleasanter reading if these are first fixed upon the mind. Those who possess Butler's Solar Biology may proceed to work out their birthdates from the Ephemeris contained in it, according to the directions we have given. By applying to the Esoteric Publishing Co., Applegate, California, the Ephemeris to 1915 will be sent for a few cents additional. We should strongly advise every one into whose hands this book falls to learn to work out their own Charts. Don't go to some one who will charge you a dollar or five dollars for a reading; it might not then be correct, and besides you want to thoroughly understand it yourself, so that you can watch it every day, and learn where the good points in your Horoscope are, and when you can be most successful along any given line. With the instructions given in this book, the outline may be worked out in thirty minutes.

We have only been able in this work to touch upon the different phases of the question. We might take any one of the chapters we have written and enlarge upon it. Many of them would demand a volume in order to do them justice. We hope however to devote another volume to the inmates of our asylums and penitentiaries, if birthdates can be secured. If any light can be thrown upon the mysteries which life holds in these places, it is certainly needed. As we have noticed further on, we do not believe that events can be accurately foretold; if we can in any manner, or in any degree, change our own lives, then events cannot be accurately foretold. We are not making any pretention to fortune telling, but we do positively maintain, and have endeavored to prove, that there is a powerful influence emanating from the unseen, and regulated by the position of the planets, which brings prosperity and adversity, just as we come under good or bad influences. We have noted in a large number of Horoscopes the points which brought success and promotion and the points which brought failure and misery. Those whose good and bad planets form conjunctions around the Horoscope do not have the same ups and downs in life as those who have the good planets in one section and the bad planets in another. The former are meeting with obstacles and overcoming them all their lives, while the latter are liable to rise to great heights, only to be cast down again.

We are taking up this study in the order of the Signs. Religion, education, love, marriage, and divorce, coming under the 1st. sign. Money and heaven come under the 2nd. sign. Under the 3rd. we bring writers, musicians painters and actresses; although actresses and singers belong more properly to the 11th; for convenience however we have classified them all together under the 3rd. Traveling also comes under the 3rd. Under the 4th we bring inventors, land, engineering and building, law and medicine; although law belongs more properly to the 3rd Sign.

As we have not devoted very much space to either, we have classed them together. Under the 5th. we bring children, philanthropists and rulers. Under the 12th we bring war, sports, and business coming under the 12th Sign. We merely introduce the questions of crime and insanity; to these we hope to devote an entire volume, provided we can secure birthdates. After glancing over a dozen or more books on criminology, we have failed to find a single birthdate; no one seems to have suspected that the planetary conditions at birth had any connection with these afflictions.

Our aim in publishing this book has been to place within easy reach of all persons young and old the means of studying their own lives in the light of the Solar system.

We have never given an astrological reading, and probably never will. We can each study our own lives much better than any one can study them for us.

If any person desires to be critical, we do not object, knowing that a man's enemies are frequently his best advertisers. Hoping these simple talks upon the subject before us may be received in the spirit in which they are given, we leave them with you; as we have received the message, so have we delivered it to you; To those who have not investigated the question of planetary influence, and are not inclined to believe in it, we would say: Do not condemn us without a trial, and to those who are laboring in the work of reform we would say: The stars are with you. Under the motto, "fiat-justicia ruat caelum," press on avoiding as far as possible acts of violence and undue excitement. God still rules, and justice will be done though the heavens should fall.