The Kabala of Numbers2 - 1920
The Kabala of Numbers2 - 1920
The Kabala of Numbers2 - 1920
KABALA OF NUMBERS
PART II
A'Handbook of Interpretation
BY
SEPHARIAL
AUTHOR OF **A MANUAL OF OCCULTISM,*
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KABALIST1C ASTROLOGY," UA NEW MANUAL OF ASTROLOGY,"
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DAVID M<KAY
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1920
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION...................................................................................1
xn. PHBENOSCOPY.............................................................................182
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was accordingly done, and a note of warning was given
to the reader regarding the necessity of interpreting by
the key belonging to the system from which the
evaluation of the name was made. Thus, if the Hebraic
values were used, the interpretation should be by means
of the Tarot keys. If the Pythagorean values are used,
the key given on p. 32 ei seq.9 which belongs to the
Pythagorean system, should be used. Similarly, if the
Universal alphabet is used for evaluation of a name,
then the Planetary Key (pp. 45-46) is used for
interpretation. Many readers, and even reviewers who
should be above suspicion, have shown that they use
one method of evaluation and various methods of
interpretation, thus making nonsense of the whole
process. They serve, however, to point out my error of
authorship, which consists in giving various methods
and keys in the same work. If I repeat the process in
these pages, it will be with the express intention of
showing that, properly worked, the methods are not in
conflict but in agreement, and that each presents some
aspect of the truth. Personally, I find the fullest
satisfaction in the use of the Universal or Phonetic
system of evaluation and the corresponding Planetary
Key of Interpretation. This I have more fully developed
in my Cosmic Symbolism, which was intended to be
supplementary to the Kabala, pt. i., but has been found
by many readers, unacquainted with astrology, to be too
far advanced. So here, in these pages, I intend to give
some new material on lines that are sufficiently plain to
avoid all possibility of confusion, and it ie
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INTRODUCTION 3
this end the study of the quantitive relations of
things and persons, as expressed in sound, number,
form, and colour, will greatly aid in the process of
adaptation, by which alone security is assured to
us. Adaptability to environment may, indeed, be
said to be the secret of progress, success,
happiness, and longevity. It represents the line of
least resistance and that of greatest progress ; and it
is only when we fail to adapt ourselves to our
cosmic and social environment that pain and
unhappiness are capable of assailing us. What we
call adaptability on the physical plane finds its
counterpart on the mental plane in elasticity, It is
that quality of the mind which enables us to take an
interest in the trivial
things of life while engaging in the study of its deepest
problems. It is, in a word, sympathy, the power of
feeling and thinking with others, that is the sign of the
most perfect sanity ; and as cause to effect, BO
sympathy moves us to adaptability. It is this flexibility,
this roundness of temperament, that constitutes mental
and physical well-being and fitness. To be wisely
sympathetic would therefore appear most desirable,
since it is in harmony, symmetry, and fitness that we
attain the standards of goodness, beauty, and truth
comprised in the triology of Plato's most desirable
things. The perfect man is symmetrical, and it is by the
study of our Greater Environment, of the laws that
govern the universe in which we live, and of ourselves
in
relation thereto, that we may attain that symmetry of
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CHAPTER I
THE NUMERICAL IDEA
To trace the development of the numerical idea in
human thought would entail too deep a study for a work
of this nature, and indeed I cannot lay claim to that
encyclopaedic knowledge which would be required to
render such a study at all complete. It is, however, a
matter of common knowledge that the development of
the numerical idea was preceded by an instinctive
perception of quantitive relations or ratios. Among
aborigines we find no suspicion of mathematics and no
nearer sense of actual values than is imported by the
common needs of their existence; economics are an
instinct with them, and, like the chimpanzee, they know
"how many beans make five," but not six. In other
words, they have the numerical idea in germ only, and it
is expressed by crude generalities. They take comfort in
numbers without any true sense of their working value ;
but civilisation, with a howitzer and a wireless
detonator, judges two men to be better than a tribe.
Quality begins to attach itself to number as soon as the
primitive man is forced into the paths of civilisation.
The primitive idea is persistent in
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each line by a coloured or marked indicator, the form
being
0123456789
1 9 9 9 9 9
2 8 8 8 8 8
3
7 7 7 7 7
4
5 6 6 6 6 6
6 9 9 9 9 9
7 8 8 8 8 8
8 7 7 7 7 7
9
10 6 6 6 6 6
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and this could be raised indefinitely by shifting the
power line by the addition of a vertical line to the right.
I have seen very elaborate calculations performed in a
few minutes by expert calculators, and I remember to
have begun a kindergarten course of study with
something of the same kind, coloured balls running on
horizontal wires set in a framework of wood ; but I do
not remember to have arrived at any stupendous results,
the machine serving principally as a weapon of assault
upon those who disputed my calculations, or otherwise
disturbed my peace.
It is difficult indeed to show any but traditional
authority for the idea that numbers carry with them a
specific meaning. The key to the position seems to lie
in the association of the number Nine with Vulcan, he
who binds and looses, and thus with the Demiurgos the
creative agent or Logos of the present
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r&ce of humanity, associated in mythology with both
the principle of Good and that of Evil. Man thus
numerically symbolised is the universal solvent, the
maker and fulfiller of his own destiny, himself the
problem and the calculator, the propounder and resolver
of all questions. And here it is well to note that the
questions that vex us are not universal ones, the Great
Artificer has the finished work already in hand, Our
race is not the first humanity to which the earth has
served as seeding-ground. This seminary of Heaven has
already yielded many crops. The problem of existence
is solely and entirely ours, and it is for us to solve it—
suitably by continued existence, for it is probably a true
saying that " Life is a riddle that resolves itself/*
Vulcan, the forger of those chains that bind humanity to
the rock of necessity, is thus seen to be Humanity itself.
Thus Arnold in The Light of Asia, bk. viii.:
•* Ho ! ye sufiEer from yourselves, none else compels; None
other holds you that you lag and stay, And whirl upon the
Wheel, and hug and Idas Its spokes of agony, its tyre of tears,
Its nave of nothingness !n
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as intelligence is the "form” principle. It corresponds to
heat, as intelligence to light. Without this desire-
principle life would be inanimate and colourless, a
valley of shadows, an Acheron. Desire it is that binds
us and desire that sets us free.
Number Nine therefore has that magic in it that the
Kabalists have identified it with the '' Red Dragon " of
Alchemy, the Universal Solvent, and the only means of
transmutation. We cannot count higher than nine
without falling into zero and beginning a new gamut.
That and 0 are the beginning and end of existence, the
Alpha and Omega of human possibility. On other
planes the power is raised ; but the limitation would
appear to be the sflcme. Hence nine is symbolical of the
limit of conscious activity; zero the womb from which
all life emanates and into which it all returns.
If we inquire as to the cause of this limitation of the
mind by which we are compelled to count in terms of
nine, we shall probably oome to the conclusion that
certain fixed laws of thought are imposed upon us by
reason of our production from, and existence in, a
world that is founded upon the cube of three. Our
distance-sensation, which by continuity gives us the
idea of space^ is limited in three directions : as by
length, breadth, and thickness. Our durationsensation,
from which we derive the abstract idea of Time, is also
limited in three directions: as by past, present, and
future. Our sensations of duration and distance are
linked together by our perception of correlated
succession—as, for instance, that bodies are in
continuous juxtaposition in all directions of the same
plane, and that events are consecutive in similar
manner. It is only when we pierce through successive
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planes—as physical, sensory, emotional, mental, and
spiritual—that we emerge upon the abstract ideas of
Space and Time, and find that they are one and the
same, being, in fact, linked together as concepts of the
mind in the consciousness of our continued existence.
The correlated succession of mental phenomena is as
much a fact in psychology as is that of physical
phenomena in physics. If we regard incarnation, apart
from its duration, as a single act, it will be possible to
relate it at once to a past cause and a future effect. The
actor becomes a necessary permanent factor, and his
embodied existence in this world but the consequence
of a past life and the cause of that which is to be.
But I am getting side-tracked in the long grass, and
must return to the idea of numbers.
It would necessarily follow from the consideration
that a certain numerical law governs all phenomenal
sequence, that men would acquire the belief that
particular numbers have a fortunate significance and
others one that is sinister. One of the earliest
conceptions in this direction was that founded upon the
traditional belief that man was first created,
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afterwards woman. Then 1 would represent Adam or
other first of a particular race, and 2 would be the
symbol of Eve or other first of mothers. So numbers
were alternately male and female, the odd numbers
being male and the even female. Perhaps that is why
Oddfellows and others of the male persuasion affirm "
there is luck in odd numbers,and why also their best
Seconds have sworn to be " even " with them.
In process of time, by observation of events of happy
or sinister nature in connection with certain dates, days,
numbers, etc., all the digits would acquire a traditional
significance. Such a significance appears to have
attached to the numbers 3, 7, 12, and multiples of these,
in all theologies. The Masonic symbol of the eye within
the triangle as the emblem of the Deity, has its
counterpart in the Hebraic Yod with the triangle, and
the Elabalistic talisman of the ten yods forming a
triangle thus:
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the text and to the traditional values of the Hebrew
letters, and also to their methods, so that it is surprising
they should have evolved so perfect a system. Indeed it
is open to us to believe either that the author or authors
of the Scriptures deliberately planned the glyph and
communicated the key to the Kabala, or that the writing
of the Scripture was effected under the operation of the
Law of Mind, which finds its interpretation in the
mystical science of numbers; and I have already shown
that such a Kabalism was imposed by the ancients upon
cosmical phenomena, or that, alternatively, cosmic
symbolism gave rise to the methods of the Kabalists.
That they are in singular agreement none will dispute
who have made any patient study of the subject (see
Cosmic Sym~ bolism).
Having given a permanent value to the letters of the
alphabet, the consistent Kabalist proceeded by three
methods to give a new value to every word or group of
letters, and thus a new meaning to every sentence. By
the Notaricon method he extracted the letters from the
beginnings of words, from the ends of words, and by a
regular sequence thus obtained certain letters which,
being brought together and divided into words, gave a
new sentence that was not only intelligible in itself, but
apposite to the purport of the text from which it was
drawn. By Gemetria he gave a value to each letter in a
word and then reduced the whole word to its unit value,
dealing thus successively with the words of the text, so
that finally he had a number of
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which, being converted into letters, gave an oracular
key to the meaning of the text. By Temurah he changed
the letters of the text by the application of certain set
rules embodied in the Table of Tziruph, so that a new
interpretation of the text was open to him. Illustrations
of these three methods will be found in The Manual of
Occultism. I have no part in the Bacon-Shakespeare
controversy, but I am prepared to show that whoever
wrote the plays was a Rosicrucian and Kabalist, and an
expert in the use of Kabalistic keys. For not only does
he extract a truth from the symbolism of Nature and
embody it in his text, but he hides a truth in the text and
gives you the key in the symbol. Also, he makes use of
recondite points familiar only to versed astrologers and
students of alchemical literature. We cannot deny that
all things are possible to genius, since it works by
inspiration; but it is more reasonable to suppose that in
a studied cryptogram of this nature, conscious purpose
was the moving power and experience the chief agent.
The author, however, had many models upon which to
frame his cryptic sentences, for secret writing of this
sort had long been in use during times of wars and
insurrection, and Kabalists continually use such means
of conveying their teachings to those who are keen
enough to perceive that an obscure sentence contains its
own elucidation. Sometimes a signal is given, as by
some typographic error, peculiar spelling, or the use of
an ambiguous word. The writings of Nostradamus are
full of such signals, cryptograms, and anagrams.
Shakespeare abounds with them. In the Exodus there
are three consecutive verses, each consisting of
seventy-two letters, which are used for conveying the
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names of the Seventy-two Principalities known to
Kabalists as the ShemJiamphoroB, and they are each set
over the gates of the temple, six at each gate, and three
gates upon each side—one facing north, another south,
one east, and another west. Astrologers similarly divide
the celestial circle into four quadrants, of three signs
each, answering to the four quarters of the heavens; and
each sign is again divided into three decans of 10° each,
and these are split into two of 5° each, so that in all
there are 4 x 3 x 3 x 2, or 72 u faces,n as they are called,
and each carries its own description and oharacteristics.
When, finally, in the evolution of the numerical idea,
we come to the study of physics, philosophy, and even
art, we find they are all capable of a mathematical and
geometrical statement, and indeed there are some
abstract ideas which cannot otherwise be
communicated but by geometrical symbols and
mathematical formulae. So much is this method in
vogue that it has been said that nothing is to be
regarded as fact which does not admit of a
mathematical statement, and yet we find that all the
higher sciences make free use of symbols and formulae
in connection with them which have no existence as
facts in Nature, but are merely relative truths. It would
be interesting, for instance, to see a mathematical
statement of the real motion in space of a body which
moves in an elliptioal orbit about another body
occupying one of the foci, which itself moves in an
elliptical orbit about a third body. This would be the
moon's actual path in space as seen from a stationary
sun.
But Kabalism is not concerned with such com-
plexities. Rather it seeks to define the Universe as
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Symbol in terms of fixed values which have direct
relation to the nature and constitution of man. Thus,
although it makes use of the parabola, the hyperbola,
and ellipsis, it regards man as a fixed centre of
consciousness, to which all phenomena are related by a
law of correspondence ; himself embodied universe in a
universe that is himself, with numbers as the only key
to the understanding of its mysteries.
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CHAPTER II
THE GEOMETRY OF NATURE
HINTON says in one of his books on the Fourth
Dimension : “ We know a great deal about the How of
things but little or nothing about the Why." Nearer the
truth, we may affirm that we know very little of either.
But what we do know is enough to give a balance in
favour of Hinton's conclusion. We know how water
cryotaliises; we can make ice. We know it crystallises
always at an angle of 60°. But why ? This beats us. We
know the various angles at which the metals crystallise,
but our science does not enable us to say why they
preserve these angles. It only enables us to recognise
them. We have learned, in fact, a great deal of the
physiognomy of Nature, but little or nothing of its soul,
of the intelligence that lies behind its myriad marvels.
Of Nature^ geometry we have learned somewhat; of the
Geometer we know nothing but what is expressed in the
work. ''Looking through Nature “ is therefore the only
sane way of regarding any truths presented as religion.
If we steadily regard the geometry of Nature in the
same patient and sincere manner as as ,
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did Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Kepler, Tycho, Newton,
Kelvin, and others we shall probably come to the
conclusion that number, as expressed in geometrical
relations, is the most intimate expression of the Soul of
things. Doubtless in the aggregate they seem to be
endowed with more obvious qualities, which impress us
in a more superficial way, as when we observe how
beautiful, how grand and strong is Nature, how
persistent and enduring. But closer study will show that
these qualities are facts of our consciousness, that the
standards of beauty and strength are ours, and that what
underlies all natural phenomena is the geometry of
things expressed by definite quantitive relations. Let
these relations be disturbed by even a little and Nature
breaks forth in fierce protest, flashing with the lightning
of her eyes from beneath lowering brows, and calling
with a thousand-voiced thunder across the dark abysm
of night for speedy restitution.
And our study of this geometry has enabled us to
understand and predict her moods, and even to utilise
her magnificent strength in a multitude of ways. It was
that supreme genius John Kepler who first defined for
us the relations of the various bodies in our immediate
universe. What are known &43 Kepler 1® Laws, which
were later demonstrated by Newton, are the first and
fullest expression of the principles of cosmology. They
reveal to us a geometry from which there is no escape,
and anybody bold enough to deny the intelligence
underlying them must be prepared to explain in a
manner satisfactory to the scientific mind why these
laws apply throughout the universe. And this is impera-
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orbit of its own, it was seen that the elliptical orbit
could not be a fact in Nature, but was the expression of
a relative truth only.
To illustrate this, let it be said a man on board ship
walks in an ellipse around a mast. If his course were
traced it would be found that, in relation to the mast, his
course was elliptical, and would represent the orbit of
Kepler^ planet. And let it be supposed that the mast
exerts a magnetic attraction on the man, constant in all
directions. Now, since the mast would be in one of the
foci of the ellipse, it would be necessary that, as he ap-
proached the mast in his elliptical path, he would have
to accelerate his motion in order to resist being drawn
into collision with the mast, since motion is our only
means of overcoming the force we call gravitation. And
to compensate for this hurried transit he might go
slower when, at the greater distance, he was further
from the centre of attraction. This is a crude illustration
of Kepler's law and Newton's conclusion therefrom.
Now, of course, it will b.e said at once that inasmuch
as the mast moves with the ship, it is possible to
describe an ellipse around a moving body. In reference
to the relations of the man and the mast it is so, but
from the point of view of a spectator outside the ship it
is not so. For let the man start on his orbital journey at
the moment he is in line with the mast on board and the
spectator beyond on the wharf. By the time he has
completed his course and come again to the place on
deck from which he started out, it will be seen that he is
no longer in line with the mast and spectator, but many
yards or miles away, according to the relative velocities
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which we may certainly depend with considerable
security. This ie the telescopic point of view. When we
turn to the microscopic and examine her features in
miniature, we find the same coneistency, the same
stability. The oharacteristios of a particle of iron, or of
any kind of stone, or vegetable form are the same to-
day as they were thousands of years ago. We recognise
things by their features. The physiognomy of Nature is
not evasive. It is an interesting f&ct that the superior
metals crystallise at the angle or complemental angle of
a regular polygon. If they sometimes followed one form
and sometimes another we should not reoognise them
for what they are. We depend for the fidelity of our
perceptions upon the integrity of the Great Geometer.
The fact that He never fails us has indeed led the
superficial to presume that He never can, and that there
is a blind mechanical law at work in the world by which
things must inevitably continue as they are and always
have been. “ It always was and always will be n is the
stock phrase of the fryingpan intellect. More depth and
rotundity of mind would enable him at least to see that
God is under no contract with us to complete His work.
The maker of images may destroy his moulds. All the
great world-teachers have laid stress upon the dootrine
of Conditional Immortality, the condition being
obedience to the spiritual law. For aught we know the
physical stability of the universe is conditional too.
Modem research would seem to indicate that post-
mortem existence is an assured fact. But whereas we
may have undeniable testimony of survival of bodily
death in Borne instances, it has not been shown that
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Providing we extend our ideas of Nature to include
the whole telescopic universe, allowing that what is
perceived by us is probably but an infinitesimal part of
the possibly perceptible, and what we know of it
certainly but the smallest fraction of what is possibly
knowable, we may read into these lines, simple as they
are, the most profound philosophical and religious
belief that ever inspired the mind of man. Neither
Pythagoras, nor Plato, nor Kepler, nor Bruno taught
anything that differed from it, or was ever more
profoundly true. All these had communed with Nature
and had oaught some whisperings of the Voice of the
Silence, but who can say that any had entered into her
secret counsel or knew anything of the purpose of
creation —-of the why and wherefore of existence ? As
vessels made to honour, and bearing the inscription,
((
rv\rvh they carry each their quota of the water of life,
which is for the healing of the nations. But the virtue of
communion is not in the wafer or the wine, but in the
attitude of the communicant. It is for us to study the
language of Nature in a proper spirit, if we would learn
to read its symbols and gain any practical knowledge of
its secret operations. And the key to this study is
Numbers —ratios, quantitive relations, the geometry of
things. But whereas it has become the fashion of our
philosophers to state their arguments and conclusions in
complex mathematical formulse, making of
mathematics a recondite and cryptic language that he
who runs may not read, being, in fact, in too much of a
hurry to Understand anything but plain English, the
ancient philosophers were more conservative in the use
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be known. Your average esotericist would cut all his
cake in a dark comer. I am well assured that there is
only one cure for a hungry man, and that is a square
meal of something fit to eat. Previous experience along
these occult lines of study has shown me that only those
who are ready for the idea can apprehend and absorb it.
A good many oan digest it, being of the educated-
ostrich type of mind, keen on anything that means new
knowledge, and punctual at meal times. But very few
assimilate it. It does not enter into their constitution and
become a part of themselves. It fails to affect their
beliefs and their view-point in life. It is an adjunct, not
a component of their mental being. Knowing this, one
does not overfeed them nor put all the good things on
the table at once.
Now, the connection of all this with the geometry of
Nature may appear remote, but it is not really so. I have
sought to show by citation of the conclusions of great
observers and thinkers that Nature has a geometry and
that it is intelligible only because and inasmuch as it
expresses an Intelligence. Doubtless we must finally
conclude that the geometric sense is vested in us,
otherwise we could not apprehend the geometrical. It is
a certain truth that our powers of apprehension are
limited to those things the principles of whose existence
are within ourselves. Does anybody think the rose is
conscious of its own beauty and blushes because we
admire it ? It is we who define our own standards of
beauty, of goodness, of truth. We are conscious of these
things in proportion as they are active principles of our
own minds. They are apprehended by the single sense
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Garden of Eden these summer days, but he has an eye to
the fact that we have brought some money with us. He
has lived fifty years in this Paradise on earth and knows
not that it is beautiful, and that to be in it, if only for
awhile, we are willing to pay the price of many months
of labour! Yet he points with evident pride to that
triumph of porcine culture, the crown of all his labours :
'' That there be a foine pig, look ye !"
So, as Number is apprehended by us only because it
is inherent in us as a principle of being, so our
appreciation of it in Nature and in our daily life will be
in proportion to the development in us of the numerical
idea. The man of commerce thinks in pounds sterling,
the wrestler and pugilist in pounds avoirdupois. The
linguist thinks in words, the geometer in forms, the
mathematician in numbers. The language we think and
speak in, is the language of our individual natures,
tastes, appetites, desires, and aspirations. We are an
embodiment of cosmic vibrations, we make use of
vibrations and produce them in others. But each of us
has his dominant note, colour, number, or vibration, and
answers to that note in others. Not that we are limited to
sympathy only with those who are of the same character
and governed by the same number, for each of us can
reproduce those states of consciousness and thoee
phases of emotion, desire, passion, etc., through which
we have evolved; but each of us has a basic note, a
dominant which sounds through all the movements and
variations of life's orchestration and adds its power of
tone to 3
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its unit value ■5, which brings him finally under the
signature of Mercury, the colour Indigo and the note E.
Thus any horoscope may be taken showing the places
of the planets in the signs, and the signs being arranged
according to the u elements,M the values attaching to
each plane of activity may be totalled and unified, so
that in the end we may obtain the “signature " or mass-
chord of the man. Suppose, for example, we have a
horoscope in which Saturn is in Libra, Jupiter in
Scorpio, Mars in Aquarius, Venus in Aquarius, the Sun
in Pisces, Mercury in Pisces, and the Moon in Leo. Here
the Sun must be taken as 4, being in a negative sign; and
the Moon as 7, being in a positive sign; the other planets
as given in Kab., i. 42.
The signs and planets involved are as follows :—
A Fire —Leo Moon . ・ ・ 7
=Air —Libra—Aquarius.
Saturn—Mars, Venus ・896
VWater —Pisces— un, Jupiter, Mer
cury ・ ・ ・ .4 3 5
'+Earth —Nil."
The unit values of these are :
Spiritual 7 unit value -7 Mental896 = 23 „
-5
Psychic 435=12 „ -3
Physical 0 „ =0
Mass-chord -15 - 6 Sig.
But inasmuch as Saturn and the other planets are all
represented in the horoscope at whatsoever time it is
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struck, we have to modify their values according to the
signs they are in, since the same coloured light shining
through a differently coloured medium will appear
differently. For this reason certain numbers are ascribed
by the Kabalists to the twelve signs and gates of the
heavens (see Cosmic Symbolism). The number of the
planet and sign being then multiplied together and
reduced to its unit value, the mass-chord will be
diflEerent for each combination of planetary influences,
and the resultant signature will be one of the nine digits.
But a more convenient method of enumerating the
planetary configurations is to multiply the planetary
number by the number of the planet whose sign it
occupies, and then to reduce it to a unit value. Those of
my readers who are interested in numerical horoscopy
will no doubt take the hint and follow it out to its proper
conclusion. I have here sought only to indicate that the
geometry of Nature finds expression in the individual
solely because he is compounded of the cosmic
elements and himself a reflex of all that he beholds. For
if man looks into the mirror of Nature fairly and
squarely, and not obliquely or with a mental squint, he
will inevitably see only himself.
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THE idea of the Universe as Divine Ideation in
expression of Form leads directly to the subject of
human thought in relation to number, and of number as
expressing thought.
If we regard thinking man individually as a centre of
consciousness in the Divine Mind we shall logically
proceed to argue his physical existence as corresponding
with a cosmic brain-cell, and of his consequent
subjugation to a Law of Mind imposed upon him by
reason of this relativity. A man cannot think as he will.
If he thinks at all, he thinks as he must. He is bridled
and directed by the laws of his being. It is even logical
to carry the argument to the Supreme Centre and say
that God is what He is by reason of His deity. Accord-
ing to the laws of our thought He cannot transcend the
Law of His Being. He must be good, being God. He
must preserve that which He has created because it is
the consistent continuance of His Divine thought.
Without the physical universe He can have no bodily
existence. The visible universe is the vestment of God.
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disturbance taking place in our system would be
instantly known and provided for in the Supreme
Centre.
And, according to Oriental teachings, in the
Guptavidy&, our humanity has not attained to a higher
vibration than 5. We find man of this world blessed
with five senses and five digits on foot and hand. It is a
limitation imposed by correspondence, and the rest of
this cycle of evolution will proceed along this fivefold
line of development. Five is the number of Mercury,
and its supreme function is the getting of knowledge.
The quest of knowledge is therefore the key-note of our
cycle. In all our Kabala we find a place for it in the
centre of our scheme. In Cosmic Symbolism I have
shown that it is the only number that is universally
related and has no polarity, being itself the symbol of
the co-ordinating centre of our material consciousness,
i.e. the sensorium. All the five senses yield their
impressions to the sensorium. The sum-total of our
sense-impressions is experience. We are limited
therefore to a fivefold apperception of things, and the
development of a sixth sense lies in the experience
thence derived. If now we regard all sensations as sets
of vibrations, coming to us through atmosphere as
sound, through light as colour, through privation of
light as form, etc., then we shall come close to the
perception of the numerical relations of thought. Our
sense of harmony is bounded by a definite set of
vibrations. We instinctively sense the fitness of certain
sounds to express particular emotions. A military
march,
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of our true relations to the infinite universe about us.
Seeing, then, that sensation follows a certain growth
or development from one grade of touch to another that
is finer, we may quite reasonably suppose that in a
future state of evolution mankind will become
possessed of yet finer faculties and correspondingly
finer organisms than at present he possesses. Yet even
in regard to those that we have it is seen that there is a
considerable range, and only the educated sense,
whether it be that of touch or sight or any other, is
capable of defining our standards of perception.
The idea is that within this general fifth stage of
human development in the present cycle of human**
ity there are nine principal modulations. They are
sensory as to degree and mental as to expression. The
degree of individual development will determine the
particular tastes, inclinations, and habits of mind
evinced by a man. One man thinks in terms of the
public, and according to his degree of development he
may be a caterer, entertainer, politician, writer, or
teacher. Another thinks iu terms of conquest, and may
thus be an explorer, soldier, pioneer, or reformer. One
comes under the lunar inflaence or the yellow ray, the
other under the martian influenoe or red ray. One
answers to the number 2 and to vibrations of that
number, the other to the number 9 and its vibrations.
But 2 may develop to the higher expression of the lunar
ray, from yellow to white, the resolvent being, as
universally, 9, i.e. strife, energy, effort. Thus :
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234—567
9——18
27
9
The numbers 2 and 7, 3 and 6, 4 and 5 naturally balance
one another, being each in combination of value of 9.
To complete the series we note that 1 and 8-9, leaving 9
as the only digit standing unpaired.
Thought bears a definite relation to truth inasmuch as
it approximates to a true expression of fact or is
removed therefrom. Correct thought is formal truth, and
it follows definite lines towards a conclusion involved
in the premisses. All consistent thought, therefore,
lends itself to numerical expression because as a
formulation of some truth it responds to the same test—
harmony. Our thought is built up in much the same way
as a material edifice. We select our ground, lay our
foundations on the bed-rock of observed fact, and
proceed by the addition of a variety of materials, which
are fitted in their respective places, until we get a
complete edifice designed and fitted to accommodate
its tenant. Thus we build our thought around a central
idea. It is a geometrical structure and answers at all
points to the law of numbers.
The number 1 represents the straight line, whether by
level or plumb; it is the symbol of integrity, of
rectitude.
2 indicates parallelism, comparison, correlation, and
relativity.
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3 denotes mensuration and the bringing together of
things in apposition upon the common basis of fact) as
positive and negative are united in force, force and
matter in existence, man and woman in humanity,
wisdom and love in God. The Indian Trimurti, or
threefold aspect of the Deity, employs Brahma the
Creator, Vishnu the Sustainer, and Shiva the Resolver
or Destroyer of the universe. The planets answering to
these are Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn, and their
corresponding colours are violet, indigo, and red. Violet
is the oombination of the other two. So life and death
are both involved in the process of creation. We cannot
add anything to the sum-total of matter in the universe
nor to that of force. Neither can we take away from the
sum-total of either. But we can convert both. Hence, in
the building up of thought, we are continually
converting and rearranging materials and energy we
have already used. Our various expressions of truth as
we see it are merely kaleidoscopic, and the same pieces
of coloured glass go into the making of our
transformations. The oonservation of energy, the
indestructibility of matter, and the law of permutations
are the controlling factors of all human thought.
Thought is only a process of mensuration, and it is
grounded in form. For this reason we cannot ultimately
escape the anthropomorphic conception of Deity. All
thought, to be definite, must have form, and form
involves material. Hence, because the property of form
is dimension, our thought is compassed by the
geometrical laws and answers to number.
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viewpoints of B and D, and those of C and D, there is
formed an angle of parallax, which from their relative
standpoints gives the impression of a mental squint.
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correct results. At the International Club for Psychic
Research, three successive experiments resulted in as
many successful findings. I frequently use the method
for friends and associates. In one instance a legal friend
had lost some valuable papers containing a precis of a
case and a bill of costs wanted for immediate dispatch.
In his dilemma he appealed to me, and I at once told
him that he would find it on a shelf in his office among
some other papers, and suggested including the
mantelpiece as a shelf. Having already searched all
shelves in the office, he was struck by the last
suggestion and at once turned to the mantelpiece, on
which stood a folding cupboard ; and on this, among
papers of various sorts relating to almost everything
except his business, he at once found the paper.
Another reader of the Kabala wrote me soon after its
publication informing me that by its aid he had found a
valuable document which covered a considerable sum
of money, and which he had long sought for in vain.
Obviously, there is a certain spontaneity of mental
action required. The process should be as automatic as
possible. Some persons are incapable of this
automatism; others cannot avoid it, being defective in
the faculty of direction of thought.
There remains, however, in the presence of many
failures on the part of particular individuals, quite
sufficient evidence of the working of a law of mind by
which numbers come to have a significanoe other than
that of mere quantity. They are found to have direct
relation to the nature of our thought
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years, man has one of 8*7 years. This periodic law
appears to be at the root of the old Alfridaries, of which
I have given an example in Kab., i. oh. xiii. An ancient
Egyptian Alfridary divides the stream of life into two
branches called the Sun and Moon, or the Light and
Dark Paths. If a child is bom during the daytime he is
under the influence of the Sun and follows the Sun Path
; but if born at night he foDows the Moon Path. By
daytime is understood the period from sunrise to
sunset, and night is the period from sunset to sunriee.
Then they divide the life into periods of five years
each, which they set under the planets in their Chaldean
order, and from the combined action of the two sets of
planetary influence, the Solar and the Lunar, they
determine certain climacteric periods in the life of the
child then born. The following is the Table of the Sun
and Moon Paths, showing the ages at which the planets
rule according to the Egyptian scheme.
The years 1, 4, 8, 11, 15,18, 22, etc., are formative
and creative, involving organic changes. The years 5, 7,
12, 14, 19, 21, etc., are chaotic and destructive. The
years 8, 13, 20, etc., are increscent and beneficial. It is
di 伍 cult to say how they applied these set alfridaries to
individual cases, but they serve to show that a law of
periodic was more than hinted at in their speculations.
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0o 1 DD
5 2 9
2 3 9
D 4 o
<5 5 b
6 U
b 7 i
50 8 D9
5 9 9
? 10 5
D 11 o
i 12 b
13
h 14 i
9O 15 D5
5 16 9
2 17 5
D 18 0
i 19 b
u 20 U
h 21 i
DO 22 DO
5 23 9
9 24 5
etc. etc.
Sun Moon
The successive periods of 4, 8, 10, 19, 15, 12, and 30
years, following the order of the planetary velocities,
are well known in association with the Seven Ages of
Man. They are referred to in the
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comedy As You Like It, and take the following form:—
1 一 4 years, Childhood—VariabiKty.]>
4-12 „ Schooling—Knowledge. 9
12-22 „ Courtship—Love. $
22-41 „ Ambition—Virility.®
41-56 ,, Concentration—Intensity. J
56-68 „ Fulfilment—Maturity./
68-98 „ Decline—Senility
The recognition of this cyclic law in human
development is a plenary acknowledgment of the fact
that the phenomena of life answer to numerical
sequence, and if we understand that the phenomenal
world is the reflex of the numerical, we shall of course
require that number is the controlling factor in the
development and expression of human thought.
Moreover, we cannot begin to study the laws of
cosmos, nor those of any science whatsoever, without
recourse to numbers as a means of expressing those
laws. Therefore whatever we think of the universe or of
natural phenomena must finally lend itself to numerical
expression. Measure, capacity, density, bulk, gravity,
velocity, weight, proportion, are all comprehended in
number, the perception of which is the determining
factor of mental acumen. We see therefore that
mentality is
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WHEN Goethe called a cathedral " frozen music "
he was expressing that sense of the relations of
sound and form which invests the words of every
poet. What Goethe apprehended by the instinct
of poesy as rhythmic structure, science has later
developed experimentally in such part that we are
able to say that certain forms correspond with and
are the natural embodiment of sound. The eido-
phone and phonograph produce definite records of
sound, and it has been found that the same forms
are constantly reproduced from the same sounds.
By this knowledge the science of acoustics was
immensely enlarged. The eidophone is a simple
apparatus that anybody can construct. It consists
of a tin funnel with an extended tube of the same
material elbowed so as to form a stem to the funnel
like that of a tobacco-pipe. Across the mouth of
the funnel a sheet of thin guttapercha is stretched
very tightly and tied round to keep it taut and
secure. On top of this membrane is placed some
podophyllin, lycopodium, or other light powder. A
note being sounded down the aperture, the powder
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into the air by the vibration of the membrane, and will
fall back again in a definite geometrical form. The notes
of the scale being sounded clear and strong from a comet,
each will yield its corresponding form, and a return to the
same note will reproduce the same form. A more
elaborate instrument employs an ink-pen turning upon a
universal joint attached to a needle which is actuated by
the vibrations of a wire connected with a tympanum.
This instrument reproduces the most complex and
beautiful geometrical forms, resulting from a scroll-work
of very fine pen-lines.
If you look at the frost-ferns on a frozen pavement or
window-pane, you see there the splash of the wind upon
the moist surface of the hard body just at the moment
when the frost seized it in its icy grip. The whole of
visible Nature is an embodiment of vibrations, and the
ancient belief was that the first forms were produced
from plastic world-stuff by the Logos or Word, by which
all things were created. “And God said : Let there be
--------------------------------------------, and it was 80."
We all learn to interpret these sound-forms as soon as
we learn the mother-tongue. We cannot see the
atmospheric forms created by speech, but we have a
sense-organ that registers them, and we read them off by
sensation of hearing—at first singly, then by twos and
threes, and lastly by phrases. Soundforms that appeal to
us through the sense of sight have also a meaning, but the
science of symbolism is not so fully developed that we
can understand this process of signalling by form so well
as we do that of signalling by sound. The semaphore and
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soope are less in vogue than the telephone and
phonograph, and they are very clumsy in comparison
with them. How little we take the meaning of Nature's
form-message is seen by the commonplace response to a
perfect conspiracy of form and colour, " Pretty place/*
says one. “ Very pretty," says another—and that is an end
of impressions. What it means is beyond them. The
geologist, the naturalist, the botanist, each catch
disjointed sentences. The artist may or may not
apprehend its meaning, but he catches all of its feeling.
And this brings me to a consideration of vibration in
relation to feeling as expressed chiefly in sound and
colour.
None can listen to one of Mendelssohn^ " Songs
without Words " and not be impressed by a definite
feeling which, by the highest science of expression, the
composer conveys to us in his wonderful melodies. You
know that he is portraying a definite sequence of
emotions, and you feel those emotions in yourself. He
made no use of words to define them, nor have you need
of words to feel them, but he nevertheless succeeds as
fully in conveying his feeling by music without the use
of words, as a poet does by words without the use of
music. Hence we see that, as regards feeling, which in
effect is all there is of life or in it, the language of music
and the language of words are of equal value. But there is
this in language that does not pertain to music. It is
capable of stirring up strife, which no music ever did.
The nearest to it I have ever heard was produced by
chromatic
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at quick time, and was intended to indicate a rabble.
The natural scale bears a definite relation to oosmical
factors, and because the planets correspond with colours
and numbers, there is a harmony, through cosmic
sequence, between sound, colour, and number. Thus :
Saturn . . D Indigo 8
Jupiter. ・ B Violet 3
Mars・ ・ G Red 9
Sun ・ ・ C Orange 1 or 4
Venus・ ・ A Blue 6
Mercury . E YeUow 5
Moon . . F Green 7 or 2
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choly99 planet, its sobering influence when prominent in
the horoscope at birth being very marked. It was rising in
conjunction with Mercury and the Son at the birth of
Dante, “ the man who went down into hell “; and rimng
also in that of Edgar A. Poe, “the night owl “ of poetry. It
held the highest position in the horoscope of Napoleon,
“the man of destiny." It is generally prominent in the
horoscopes of the philosophers, and it induces to depth of
thought whenever it dominates the mind. Hence indigo is
allied to the melancholic, and its primary significance is
steadfastness. In contra-distinction to these we find
orange and deep yellow, the vital and active colours.
Jupiter, the optimistic planet, indicating expansion,
hopefulness, etc., has relation to the colour violet. It is
the colour produced by passing & white ray through a
very thin sheet of silver, and is related to the auric
envelope of the normal man in the same way as green is
to the astral body. In the Indian cosmogony we find
Brahma, the Creator (from the root Brih, to expand),
investing the Brahmdndam, or egg of the universe,
wherein, by expansion of himself, the universe is created.
Hence we trace a connection between Brahma and
Jupiter (Deo-pitar^the Father God), and between Jupiter
and the aura, or egg of individuality. In esotericism this
is tho persistent vehicle of the imperishable and evolving
monad. It is cosmically referred to as hiranyagarbha or
Golden Egg, and represented as floating in the waters of
space, while over it is seen Kalahamsa, or the Swan of
Time. As
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expansion of the One Self the universe was created, so by
the expansion of the individual the fulness of life is
attained. Jupiter therefore as Brihaspati, or Lord of
Expansion, corresponds with violet, the colour of the
vital optimist.
When Jupiter is prominent in the horoscope we find
that optimism and power of expansion are characteristics
of those then bom. The planet was rising in the
horoscope of King Edward VII., in that of Lord
Northcliffe, and others of this temperament. The number
3, corresponding with Jupiter and violet, is seen also to
represent t( ovals and bodies capable of expansion and
contraction " (Ka&., i. 59). Violet is essentially the
colour of Hope.
Mars, the ruddy planet, is seen to correspond with the
flamboyant note G, with the colour red or crimson, and
the number 9. The association of Mars with all forms of
hurt and strife is well known. From mama, to strike, we
have marta, killing, and such derivatives as to murder, to
mar, martial, etc. Among forms we have " all sharp,
keen, and pointed things—spears, lances, scalpels,
swords, knives, flints, and tongues of flame. ,> The
connection between t( tongues of flame “ and inspiration
is familiar through the Pentecostal fire. Nine is the
number of regeneration, of spirituality, freedom, self-
extension, and pervading. Mars is associated with
Vishnu, the energiser of the created universe, from Vish,
to pervade. Fire, intensity, zeal, ardour, and keenness are
all characteristic of the planet Mars so far as its cosmic
qualities are represented in human character; thus its
associations
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with the colour red are therefore so appropriate &8 barely
to need comment. All these qualities, characteristics,
colours, and sounds, that are ascribed to the planets
obtain their significance for us by reason of their appeal
to our feeling, through consciousness. Colour, form, etc.,
have no qualities per se. It is we who invest them with
such, and we do so because of the influence they exert
upon our emotions. When we listen to music we are con-
scious of certain emotions stirring in us, and we attribute
to the music all that we experience in ourselves. The
truth is that there is nothing in the music itself but the
series of rhythmic vibrations of which it consists, and
these are in reality perfectly noiseless atmospheric
moticns which attain the significance of sound only when
they enter our con- Bciousness. What we feel is what the
musician felt when he was composing, and he made use
of the language of music to express his feelings. If we
would really know how much feeling there is in language
per se, and beyond what we impart to it, try some
Choctaw language on the first man you meet, and, unless
he is an American polyglot, he will probably suggest that
you ask a policeman, or tell you that he feels like that
himself sometimes, and will encourage you to work it all
off before going home. .
Venus is the acknowledged representative of music,
art, poetry, and all the finer sentiments of the human
mind. It is the embodiment of the rhythmical, the
sympathetic—in a word, of harmony. It embraces all the
harmonious and rhythmic arts—
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d&ncing, music, poetry, painting,—and all industries in
which the artistic element is the principal factor. Its
colour, blue, is in the nature of an anodyne— soothing,
pacifying, and non-irritant. It is on the negative side of
the spectrum and absorbs the yellows. Blue as a nerve-
rester is well known and fully employed by
chromopathic healers, such as Babbit, Albertini, and
others. In the pathology of colour, blue is the tone used
for allaying irritation and the efEects of nervous
corrosion. It answers to the note A, and by a certain
fitness of things this note is used in orchestration as the
pitch-note by which all instruments are brought into
accord. The celestial vestment of the Madonna is that
blue which represents mercy, loving-kindness, purity,
and grace—in a word, harmony.
Mercury is related to the colour yellow, which is the
most luminiferous of the spectrum. Mercury corresponds
to the intelligence principle of the mind, the perceptive
and rational faculties, and their appropriate memories.
Ptolemy, in his Tetrdbliblos, says that the Moon governs
the natural or animal soul and Mercury the human or
rational soul, the epithemia and phr^n of the Greek
classification. Light is that which reveals all form and
colour, and Mercury, as indicating luminosity, is thus the
Awakener, the Anubis of the Egyptian theogony, the
wolf-headed god who awakened the Sleeping Souls and
conducted them to the Hall of Judgment. The Hebrew
equivalent is Ish-caleb (man-wolf), from which the
Greeks derived their ^Esculapius, the god of medicine.
Knowledge, as represented
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by Mercury, is the one cure for that great disease of mind
known as ignorance. Man is agnostic until the messenger
of the gods brings him the torchlight of revelation ; then
he is gnostic, and joins the followers of Hermes. Yellow
unites with blue (Venus) to form the Nature-colour,
green. So Hermes and Aphrodite, Mercury and Venus,
unite to form the Hermaphrodite, or natural man. So 6
Venus and 5 Mercury unite to form 11 = 2, the number of
the Moon, which corresponds in our table to green. When
Mercury, the intelligence principle, is united to its
ethereal counterpart, the result is enlightenment. The
Gnostics spoke of two aspects of the mind, and above the
sphere of the Christos, or Mercury (messenger), they
placed the sphere of Eros. Mercury is represented as
bearing the caduceus, the Hellenised form of the Hebrew
Qedeshi-aah, or Fire of the Holy Ones. The idea that it is
the symbol of Peace is very modem and incorrect. It
represents the mteraction of the Ida and Pingala, or
male-female creative fires, united in the Shushumna, and
the rod is the Brahmadandam, or spinal column,
represented by the bamboo stick of the yogi, with its
notches or nodes corresponding with the nervous ganglia
of the spinal process. It stands for the Hermetic Art or
Secret Knowledge. Mercury in this capacity of staff-
bearer is akin to Prometheus, who brought the fire of the
gods down in a fennel-stalk for the use of mankind. As
interpreter of the gods, Mercury represents the faculty of
translation By knowledge of universal symbolism we are
enabled to translate form into
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colour into sound, and both into number. By the alchemy
of the mind, represented by Hermetic Art, we transmute
feeling into thought and thought into feeling. It is
through the intelligenoe principle, therefore, that number
as represented by Mercury is capable of a direct
correspondence with feeling. The number of Mercury is
5, and it is the Nature-number which stands for embodied
humanity. In the Boole of Lo the ancient Chinese em-
bodied the symbolism of Nature in the form of a “ Square
of Three ° (Kab.f i. p. 41), where 5, the symbol of man
the Cogniser, is centred, contributing to the 10 of a
perfected environment the value of cognition, which
converts the totality of phenomena (10) into the totality
of noumena (15), and thus gives to Nature the functions
of divinity, the stature of the God-man being represented
by the number 15.
The Moon is related to two numbers, 7 being the
positive aspect and 2 the negative. As 7 it is the full
Moon acting in opposition to the Sun, when we get the
combination 1 + 7 = 8 sinister; and at the New Moon the
value 2 in combination with the Sun, number 1 = 3,
which is a fortunate number, being increscent, whereas 8
is decrescent, for 3 is the number of Jupiter and denotes
expansion, and 8 is that of Saturn and denotes
contraction. In conjunction with the Sun the Moon is
negative, or female; while in opposition it is positive, or
male. Hence the Romans, following the more ancient
custom of the Sabeans and Hebrews, instituted a festival
to Juno-Lucina, at which the people changed
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garments for those of the opposite sex. So, while the
Moon's body was called Lebenah by the Hebrews, the
soul of it was Gebur~one being “ the fair," and the other u
the strong.“
The number of the Moon being 2, it denotes relativity,
vacillation, change ; but as 7 it denotes fulness, stability
(Kab.9 i. 8). In the Hebraic system the numbers followed
the days of the week, namely:
Sunday 0 1-8
Monday 》2-9 Tuesday J 3
Wednesday § 4
Thursday 、 5
Friday $ 6
Saturday b 7
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Perizzites, Gergashites, Jebuzites, and Amalekites are the
various passions and evil principles that “he who would
prevail" (Israel) has to overcome before he can pass
through the baptism of Jordan (yar-din), or River of
Spiritual Knowledge, and enter the Promised Land of his
spiritual heritage. Therefore, in the Yetzirah, or
Transformations, they trace man through the cadence of
his inoamations from the Sun (the spiritual state) to
Saturn (the state of spiritual darkness), and then back
again from Saturn to the Sun.
Th© Moon has always been identified with the Earth,
and in symbolical systems, which have regard to the
point of view of embodied man, the Moon is set between
the planets Venus and Mars. Its colour, green, is that
resulting from the admixture of blue and yellow, the
colours of Venus and Mercury, and, as we have seen, the
numbers of these planets, 6 and 5=11 = 2, the number of
the Moon (negative). Now, green is the colour of the
Earth's livery, and is the Nature-colour, having its place
in the midst of the spectrum between the blues and
yellows.
Now, if we regard the blues as denoting Thought and
the yellows as denoting Feeling, we get in green a
combination of the two as the colour-symbol of the
natural man. In ancient belief the souls of men came to
earth through the Moon sphere. Occultists do not regard
this as referring to the Moon as a body, but to that
circumferential sphere of the astral plane which,
according to the principles of gravitation, would lie
outside and around the earth as far
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as the orbit of the Moon. The confusion of the names
Selene (the Moon) and Selinon (parsley) sufficiently
explain why, according to the tradition of dames,
children are bom in the parsley-bed, why preparations of
parsley are used as emmenagogues, and perhaps also
why old herbalists call it the “lunatic herb " and place it
under the dominion of the Moon.
Here I may bring out the relations of the planetary
colours according to this scheme of correspondences in a
diagrammatic form.
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Then the S'aktia or female counterparts of the
Prajapatis or Lords are set in apposition thus:
4 Brahma―Saraswati 9 i Vishnu—Lakshmi
9 b Shiva—Parvati D
These are their cosmic gods and goddesses, but the
manifestation of the Supreme Deity is Krishna, the Sun-
bom.
Hence it appears there are various aspects of one and
the same truth, the fact being that from whatever point of
view we regard Nature we shall find her full of
correspondences and symbols, and at all times answering
to a numerical law, because it is we who impose those
correspondences and make use of those symbols, and
because also they answer to a law of mind which is
vested in numerical ratios, or rather in our perception of
quantitive relations. Without man as cogniser Nature
would hold no such significance. It is not a self-
conscious aggregate. Consciousness seems to begin when
Life comes into relations with matter at a certain stage of
its development, and self-consciousness when Mind
takes possession of the vitalised organisms.
Consciousness, therefore, appears to result from the
strain set up between energy and matter through
resistance, and self-consciousness from the relations of
soul to environment, or mind-force in association with
organic matter. The first results in sensation, the last in
Feeling. The position that what we call inanimate matter
shows sensation-con sciousness by its response to
stimulus has already been argued 5
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(Cosmic Symbolism), and there is no need to do more
than affirm it in this place. As sensation is the begiiming
of consciousness, so Feeling is the end of self-
consciousness. The evolution of man is through his
sensorium, and finally he must become a perfected
sensory creature capable of the highest expressions of
Feeling. The highest form of feeling is Sympathy—
another name for syntonic vibration. Number, as
represented by vibration, lies at the root of all being, and
invests colour, form, sound with all the significance they
have for us. We may apprehend them intellectually, but
they do not become part of us until we feel them.
The scheme here presented of Colours and Numbers in
relation to Thought and Feeling may be summarised thus :
Jupiter—Violet, Saturn—Indigo, Venus—Blue, Moon—
reen, Mercury— 3—Hope, optimism, expansion.
Yellow, 5— 8—Contemplation, philosophy.
Mind, 6—Purity, spirituality, peace.
intellection, 2—Sensation, variability.
perception.
Sun—Orange, 4—Vitality, force.
Mars—Red, 9—Zeal, energy, intensity.
We may observe that Orange, the Sun colour, becomes
red, Mars, when vitality becomes concentrated. Then we
get zeal, intensity, and ardour as the effects of the vital
powers being brought to a focus and directed along
specific channels towards the accomplishment of some
particular object. It is in accord with the Doctrine of
Correspondences that we should regard Number as
related to Thought t
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Colour to Feeling. That one corresponds with and gives
rise to the other is evident by natural science and
psychology. Consequently we find Number more
immediately connected with Science, and Colour with
Art, the one being capable of intellectual demonstration,
the other of artistic expression. Therefore, Science
(Mercury) is considered as masculine and exterior, while
Art (Venus) is regarded as feminine and interior. The
consideration that the more interior is the more spiritual
leads to the higher appreciation of Art as the expression
of Feeling. From the point of view of evolution, the artist
is therefore in advance of the man of science, and in all
systems of symbolism Venus is placed above Mercury,
and it is interesting to note that among the planetary
orbits Mercury shows the greatest divergence from the
circular, i.e. its eccentricity is greatest, while Venus
shows the least, its orbit being all but a perfect circle. In
days to come, when Venus makes an orbit that is
perfectly symmetrical, the world will get a perfect
expression of Feeling as developed in Art. The post-
impressionist of modem evolution is a decadent scion of
Venus. He only portrays Nature as reflected in a cracked
mirror. He has no constant plane of perception and no
fixed view-point. Consequently he depicts a man'g left
optic as in the middle of his forehead, his right ear where
his nose should be, and the lapels of his coat on the back
of his neck. In an age of buffoonery the effort to be
original must needs lead to some strange eflEects; but
Feeling should be the lingua sancta of the true
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and reversion to standards of Beauty in colour and
form―in a word, naturalness —will be his only
legitimate means of progress.
Bringing our researches regarding Colour and
Number into line with what has been observed
regarding Sound, we find the correspondence of
primaries to result as here shown :
Planet
Note
•o kD 0E DF G 9A %B
Number .c
.4-1 8 5 7-2 9 6 3
Colour .Orange Indigo Yellow Green Red Blue Violet
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spiritual, and human planes. In this scheme of thought
every life is a partial expression of the One Life, and
every phase of human character and destiny is the
reflex, under limitation, of the One Intelligence and
Will. The idea is laid hold of by Armand Silvestre:
“Thou art Cause Supreme of Life, The hidden Good in every
ill— Which even they who live in strife Do serve with an
unconscious will,— Thou art the salve of hearts that bleed,
The grave of every ruined oreed ! “
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is a long process, and we have no reason to suppose
that it is compassed in one life or even one hundred
lives. But, in order to illustrate our insistent law of
numerical ratios, it will be necessary to make use of a
number of striking instances, restricting ourselves to
the one life that is presently patent to us.
It has already been shown that the Moon represents
the element of variability, and that its numbers are 2
and 7. It is proposed to show that the sign occupied by
the Moon at the birth of a person is that which, by its
planetary and numerical affinity, oontrols or determines
the particular characteristic that is dominant in that
person.
Granted for the moment that the premiss of astrology
is vaKd, and that the disposition of the cosmic factors
at the moment of birth is the key to character and
fortunes, then it will follow that, inasmuch as the
Moon's apparent motion in the zodiac is the greatest,
and that whereas the Sun remains in the same sign for a
month, and other of the celestial bodies for many
months together, while the Moon passes from one sign
to the next in the space of only sixty hours, it must be
of ohief importance in the estimate of individual
faculty, character, and even destiny. Such, indeed, we
find it, although it is not that which finally determines
the line of individual evolution.
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In order to examine these cases in the light of the
values already ascribed to the numbers 1 to 9, we shall
have to give a value to each of the signs in terms of the
planet which has affinity with each. Thus :
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and Scorpio signs, of Mars, answer to number 9 Taurus
and Libra, „ Venus „ 6
Gemini and Virgo, ,, Mercury „ 5
Cancer, ruled by the Moon, „ 2 and 7
Leo ruled by the Sun, „ 1 and 4
Sagittarius and Pisces, ruled by Jupiter, „ 3
Capricornus and Aquarius, ruled by Saturn „ 8
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strong egotism, denoted by the number 7, and fatality
denoted by the number 8. The disturbance of the
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position of the Moon in the sign of Saturn, answering
to the sinister influence of the number 8. This is the
number of dissolution, of cyclic evolution, reaction,
revolution, fracture, disintegration, decomposition,
anarchism, lesion, separation, and divorce.
The Moon being in the sign of Saturn, and Saturn in
the sign of the Moon, there was a particular
strengthening of the fatal egotism which determined the
destinies of the great general.
King Henry of Navarre. According to Morinus the
Moon was in Aries, ruled by Mars, number 9. Bom
13th December (O.S.) 1553. Here we have the scion of
Mars, answering to the high vibration of liberty and
conquest indicated by the number 9. But Mars, being in
the sign of Saturn—namely, Capricornus—answering
to the number 8, there was a sinister resolution to his
career, which ended in his murder at the hands of
Ravaillac.
Queen Alexandra, bom 1st December 1844. Moon in
Leo, ruled by the Sun, number 1. Dignity, honour,
prestige, success, distinction, rulership. Sun in
Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, number 3. Generosity,
expansiveness, increase, benevolence. The combination
of Sun, Moon, and Jupiter is very fortunate.
“ Carmen Sylva,Queen of Roumania. Moon in Aries,
ruled by Mars, number 9. Penetration, incisiveness,
courage, fortitude, determination, zeal. Mars in Pisces,
ruled by Jupiter, number 3. Generosity, increase, and
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Charles I. of England. Moon in Libra, ruled by
Venus, number 6. Venus in Sagittarius, ruled by
Jupiter, number 3. This combination indicates a strong
artistic sense, gentleness, suavity, love of pe&oo and
harmony, fondness for the play, musio, dancing, etc. A
sociable nature with keen sense of justioe and a
benevolent disposition.
Joan of Arc, bom 6th January 1412. Moon in Libra,
ruled by Venus, number 6. Gentleness, suavity, peace,
harmony, and love of the beautiful. Venus in
Capricorn, ruled by Saturn 8. Disappointment, loss,
captivity. A more positive element is found in the
horoscope by the conjunction of Moon and Jupiter, and
the mental peculiarity is derived from the opposition of
Mercury to Neptune.
Annie Besant, bom 1st October 1847. Moon in
Ganoer, number 2. Change, variability, travelling,
alternation, publicity. The more positive aspect of the
Moon is related to the number 7, and denotes
attainment, fulness, completion, satisfaction, equi-
librium.
Kaiser Wilhelm II. Moon in Scorpio, ruled by Mars,
number 9. Zeal, energy, courage, decision, strength,
and endurance. Mars in Pisces, ruled by Jupiter,
number 3. Generosity, magnanimity, increase, and
good works. Impulsiveness.
Rudyard Kipling. Moon in Gemini, ruled by
Mercury, number 5. Intellection, reason, logic,
travelling. Mercury in Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter,
number 3. Expansiveness, generosity, increase,
aucoem. The horoscopical conjunction of Mercury
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clearly the poetio bias of the intellect, ruled by
Mercury.
Lord Northcliffe. Moon in Aries, ruled by Mars,
number 9. Courage, persistence, keenness, penetration,
attack. Mars in Virgo, ruled by Mercury, number 5.
Alertness, intellection, commerce, astuteness.
Now, if we take these few cases, which might have
been multiplied indefinitely, and find the numerioal
equivalent of the Moon and planetary combination, we
shall have the key to the oharacter.
Napoleon I. 2 Moon, 8 Saturn. Sum 10 or 1. Empire,
rulership, egotism.
Henry of Navarre. Moon, Mars, Saturn«298 n 19= 1.
Rulership, empire, egotism.
Queen Alexandra. Moon, Sun, Jupiter = 213 = 6.
Grentleness, refinement, harmony, charity.
Carmen Sylva/* Moon, Mars, Jupiter =*293 = 5.
Intellection, intelligence, alertness.
Charles I. Moon, Venus, Jupiter = 263 = 2. Va-
cillation, variability.
Joan of Arc. Moon, Venus, Saturn = 268 = 16 = 7.
Attainment, completion, perfection, publicity.
Annie Besant. Moon (in its own sign) = 2.
Variability, popularity.
Kaiser Wilhelm II. Moon, Mars, Jupiter=793 = 19=
1. Conquest, empire, egotism.
Rudyard Kipling. Moon, Mercury, Jupiter = 263 =
10=1. Conquest, dominion, rulership. In the case of a
commoner it denotes suooess, distinotion, and
authority.
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Lord Northoliffe. Moon, Mars, Mercury— 295 =7.
Perfection, completion, attainment, publicity.
It will be observed that we take the Moon as the
basis of the calculation in each case and apply to it the
number of the planet in whose sign it is, ex- ceptmg
when it is in its own sign, when it is taken by itself
alone, and to these we add the planetary value for the
sign in which the Moon-ruler is found.
Most frequently it will be found that people who
have prominent parts to play in the world have the
Moon-rulers in prominent positions at the time of birth,
so that they come under that ray or vibration which at
the time is the most powerful. Thus Napoleon, whose
Moon-ruler was Saturn, had Saturn in the mid-heaven
of his horoscope. The present Emperor of Germany,
whose Moon-ruler is Mars, has Mars in the mid-
heaven. But this is not always the case, and it may well
be that there are other combinations of planetary
influence producing vibrations in the constitution to
which the singular prominence of an individual may be
attributed. It is a patent fact, however, that those
planets which hold the four angles of a horoscope
namely,
the Mid-heaven, Ascendant, Descendant, and Na(Ur
―have always a most marked effect in the charaoter
and destiny of individuals.
Thus in Napoleon^ horoscope Saturn was in the mid-
heaven and the Moon in the lower angle. In King
Edward's horoscope (see Prognostic Astronomy)
Jupiter was in the eastern angle or Ascendant. The
same was the case with Lord Northcliflfe (Answers}.
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inconsequence of temperament, even in those whose
faculties are conspicuous.
Therefore, when we speak of a person answering to
the number 9, we do not mean that he is disposed to the
more forceful methods of the average Martian, but that
he is capable of great intensity of purpose, much zeal,
independence of spirit, and freedom of opinion. Then,
again, there is the abnormal aspect of this particular red
ray of the " nine " vibration. In such case it produces
the maniac, the firebrand, the anarchist, and the
homicide—the man who “sees red." In a last analysis it
will probably be found that Mars and the number 9, the
colour red, and all their natural correspondences,
signify merely intensity. It is as if the vital principle
answering to Orange (the Sun) had been brought to a
focus, and that from this concentration of the vital
principle a species of fever had been induced. All men
attain to this fervour of feeling and intensity of purpose
and action in their supreme moments; while to genius,
and its near neighbour insanity, it is more or less
habitual and constant.
Similarly, the man who answers to the vibrations of
the planet Jupiter, the violet ray, and the number 3. He
may be generous, magnanimous, benevolent, and
sympathetic; but also he may be nothing more than a
bombast, abounding in excesses and extravagance,
jovial, but self-indulgent, and as much indisposed to do
harm as good because both entail too much effort and
trouble. In either oase the expression of the number 3 is
expansion. In the one case it acts normally by sympathy
and altruism,
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significance of the number 8, which probably may be
accounted its highest faculty. The lower aspect is that
which abides in the dark and cold alleys of & cheerleM
misanthropy, finding occasion in the byways of life to
snatch some small advantage from the forgetfulness or
need of another, a sordid miserable type that finds
comfort in privation in order to save expense. Between
this miserable parasite of the Earth and the sublime
philosopher whose seat is upon the summit of intellect
and whose fearless eye looks into the very heart of the
Sun, there would appear to be &n immeasurable gulf.
Yet it is bridged by the one word loneliness.
This isolation, oonservatism, insularity, is directly
opposed to the publicity and democratic publicity of the
negative lunar character, responding to the number 2.
Saturn 8, rules Capricorn ; and the Moon 2, rules
Cancer, the opposite sign.
Similarly we have the dark blue of Saturn opposed to
the yellow of the Moon.
Mars and its corresponding number 9 are allied to
force and strife, while Venus and its number 6 to
persuasion and peace. Consequently, we find Mars
associated with the signs Aries and Scorpio, opposite to
those of Venus, which are Libra and Taurus.
Thus, while it is extremely easy to " place " an
individual by reason of his dominant characteristic,
whether the intensity of Mars, the pacivity of Venus, the
mutability of the Moon, or the isolation of 6
Saturn, etc., it is by no means so easy to determine the
particular grade to which that individual belongs. For, as
we have seen, there are extreme poles of any particular
ray, colour, or planetary vibration, and between them
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PLANETABY VARIANTS
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Violet Red Orange Blue
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No. 8 -3 9 1-4 6 5 7-2
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It will be observed that the several oolumns maintain
the polarity already referred to, and that this is again
repeated along the several lines,— Saturn being
polarised by the Moon, Mars by Venus, Jupiter by
Mercury; while the central column under the symbol 0,
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indicating the vital principle, finds its modifications
through the Moon, Mars, etc., and falls into extinction in
its negative pole under the
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the Moon; under the Moon, through Veniui.
Thus the destructive element of Saturn is •!> prawed
in warlike or martial forms ; the theologieal Jupiter
finds philosophical expression ; tiie zealous Mars gains
intellectual and commercial expression ; the vitality of
the Solar Man gains forceful or muscular expression in
physical culture; the Venusian art applies to the
ecclesiastical; the principle of intellection has
expression in versatility of thought, while commerce is
wholly dependent on publication and advertisement;
and lastly, the lun&r ray of publicity is expressed in the
development of artistic effects, and principally applied
to pleasure, OMO, comfort, and luxury. The net result of
all these manifestations of individual character may be
called " the Spirit of the Age," the Demagorgon of our
sublunary sphere. Of course it will be understood that
these ascriptions of the oh&racter-notes, colours,
numbers, etc., are applicable only to the denizens of our
own sphere. On other planets the humanitiee, being in a
more or less advanced stage of evolution, will respond
to different gamuts and will be collectively in various
stages of those getmute. The cosmogonic relations of
the Martians or the Jovians will place them in
subjection to an entirely different astrology, and the
various cosmic factors would have to be interpreted in
terms of the Martian in the one case, and of the Jovian
in the other. If these ascriptions were universal we
should argue that the Earth sees these oorrespondences
through a medium of green, or within the vibrations of
the
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green ray, and thus at once partition our humanity into
the yellow-green (2) and the blue-green (7),
representing the naturals and the intellectuals; and all
the universe would be in terms of this order of
perception. But there is not the slightest ground for
thinking that these are absolute cosmic
correspondences. On the contrary, it is extremely
probable that the Martian red bears the same relations
to the constitution, physical and mental, of the Martian
man, as does the terrestrial green to ourselves. Unless,
therefore, we are prepared to be extremely complex, we
must restrict our study of character and destiny to their
expressions as they are known to us in our earth-
humanity alone, and leave the wider field to those in
whom the self- extensive faculty is fully developed. It
may be of interest, however, to compare the statements
of that great seer Emanuel Swedenborg oonoerning the
inhabitants of other planets of the solar system with the
characteristics connoted with them in this scheme, in
which colour, sound, and number are seen to bear
certain well-defined relations to individuals bom under
the influence of those planets. See therefore Earths of
the Universe, by Emanuel Swedenborg, in publication
by the SwedenLorg Society.
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CHAPTER VI
CO-ORDINATION OF VALUES
WE have seen that the expression of Character as Will
has a certain relation to quantitive values. Will is the
human expression of cosmic energy, the various
physical and chemical forces known to us, and also
dynamic force. It therefore has its numerical relations,
because all these oosmio, chemic, and dynamic forms
of energy, another name for Life, have their
mensuration.
If we take the numerioal series as comprehended in
the numbers 0 to 9, we shall find that, by continual
addition of the odd and even, positive and negative,
male and female numbers, we eventually derive a
further series in which the same values are present, but
in a varied order. In each new series the value of nineis
absent, as shown in the following form: 0123456789
135792468
48372615
3219876
6 3 18 6 4
84951
3456
792
72
9
87
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In the first addition of the digits by pairs we get the
series 1 3 5 7 9, including all the odd numbers,
followed by 2 4 6 8, all the even numbers. In the next
row the first and last numbers, 4 and 5, pair to nine, and
so of the rest, 3 and 6, 5 and 4, etc.; but the number 9 is
absent from the series. It appears again in the fourth
row, but the numbers 4 and 5 are absent. In the fifth
row 9 disappears, but the equivalent value is lacking in
the figures 2 and 7. In the sixth row 2 3 6 7, making
two nines, are absent. In the seventh row 1 2 7 8 9,
making three nines, are absent. In the eighth row 13 4 5
6 8, making three nines, are absent. In th© ninth row 1
3 4 5 6 8 9, making four nines, are absent. In the end
we have a return to the unit value of nine. Hence we
see that the possible variants of the complete gamut of
expression are ten in number, and that they finally
resolve themselves into the number nine, which is the
symbolical expressicn of the Adamic race, the 12 x 12
or 144, indicated by the values ADM= 144, according
to the Hebraic Kab&la.
By pairing the first two rows we have 5 nines, the
next two rows yield 4 nines, the next two yield 3 nines,
the next two rows give 2 nines, and last two yield 1
nine. Hence, from the ten rows we obtain 10, 8, 6, 4, 1,
or 29 pairs, falling into the single unit value of nine. In
this process it will be observed that the final resolution
is via the two lunar numbers 7 and 2, one positive, the
other negative, and both answering to the characteristic
of variability. They are Moon numbers, representing
the blue-green and the yellow-green of the spectrum,
and therefore
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representing the two aspects of the soul in its natural or
vital development and its spiritual or mental
development.
In this scheme, therefore, we see that the whole
gamut of human expression, so far as it can be
represented by unit values, is included in the numbers
1-9, and that through successive pairings or
polarisations, we arrive finally through the element of
variability at the single expression of Humanity = 9.
(Kab., i. ch. xv.)
From this scheme also we extract the polarisations of
each numerical type. For obeerve that whatever line we
may take we shall find that the first and last, second
and last but one, etc., in each line, adds to nine, and is
itself an expression of the Planetary Values which have
been determined by experience to attach to them, and
wliich will be found fully explained and tested in my
book on Cosmic Symboliem.
In this system the Sun (positive) -1
Saturn . ・ 8
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Jupiter answers to the number . 3
Venus to the number . . 6
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Mercury answers to the number . 5
The Sun (negative) to . . 4
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Mars, the tonic of our scale —9
Moon, the variable factor, 7 positive and 2
negative —9
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These constitute the natural pairs, and, if we regard
Mars= 9 as the index of the Man or Microcosm, “made
in the image and likeness of Elohim," then 7-2, the
numbers of the Moon, will indicate that element of
variability which makes for perfection. From this we
oan derive Bruno's saying: " Infinite variability is the
eternal juvenescence of God."
If we take the positive valuesT-rl, 3,5,7,9—we find
that they correspond with Sun, Jupiter, Mercury, Moon,
and Mars, all positive; while the negative values—2,
4,6, 8― nswer to Moon, Sun, Venus, and Saturn in
their negative aspects. Pairing these we get from either
series the value of 10, leaving 5 unpaired. Hence Ten
has been regarded as the Perfect Number, while Five is
the number of discrimination, discernment, intellection.
It stands for the present race-value of humanity, the
Man in the midst of a world of
relativity,alternation,pairs of opposites,etc.
We may give a significance to these numbers in
terms of our daily life and experience, so that they shall
answer to character and fortunes whenever they are
applied to individuals. This has been done to some
extent in the first part of this work, and may be here
extended to cover particular cases which afford
abnormal indications. Let us therefore presume that the
following characteristics are those suited to the
expression of the several numerical values :
Dignity 1 Pride.
Flexibility 2 Vacillation.
Grenerosity 3 Extravagance.
Practicality 4 Ostentation,
Discernment 5 Inquisitiveness.
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Grentleness 6 Laxity.
Purpose 7 Prejudice.
Discretion 8 Timidity.
Zeal 9 Bigotry. '
We shall then find that there are abnormal as well as
normal characteristics to be accounted for These
abnormalities arise from the opposition of different
planets, sets of vibrations, etc., and, as these have not
been hitherto represented, they may be noticed in this
place.
It should be observed, then, that numbers which
enter into the enumeration of a birth-rate, as set forth in
the Kabala of the Square of Three (Kdb.^i. oh. iv ・),
and that are not brought into alliance by the inter-
position of another number, are said to be in opposition
if in the same perpendicular or horizontal line.
Thus, to cite a particular instance, St Louis was born
on the 23rd April 1215, and this by the Kabala is found
to give the following Square of Three:
3 1
2 4
Sum = 6 Venus.
The sum is seen to respond to the value of Venus 6,
which denotes gentleness. Also by the planetary
conjunctions we find the Sun in conjunction with
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Cagliostro. In the cases of both Louis XVI. and St
Louis we have the triangle of 3-5-2—namely, Moon
and Mercury, Mercury and Jupiter. This is repeated in
the case of Queen Victoria.
Therefore, from a variety of considerations which
employ numbers as factors for the estimating of
oharacter and destiny, we may derive considerable
information if we take these numbers as answering to
the various planets of the system, regard them as
incorporated in tile date of birth, and then find their
conjunctions, oppositions, and trines, and 00 make
account of the results attributable to these interactions,
taking the sum of the scheme to be indicative of the
particular vibration to which the whole nature
responds.
Thus, in the case of Charles, Duke of Bourbonnais,
Constable of Bourbon, who was bom on the 25th
February 1489 (converted to new style), or 16th Feb-
ruary, old style, we have the scheme as here shown :
2' 8
Sum = 26 = 8 Saturn.
Conjunctions.
Mars and Mercury.
Moon and Saturn.
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Sum - 34 « 7.
Conjunctions.
Sun and Mars. Sun and Moon. Moon
and Saturn.
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in the sum of the scheme, has a sinister import as
regards material affairs.
Sum, 17 = 8 Saturn.
Conjunction, ・
Jupiter and Venus.
It should be observed that the value of 4 is not the
same as 5, though both apply to the Sun. But 1 has
direct reference to character and 4 to material
prosperity. Similarly, 7 and 2 are not to be regarded as
having the same significance in a scheme, for 7 has
relation to purpose and character, whereas 2 has
reference to material change and circumstance. Thus
the conjunction of Sun 4 and Saturn 8 Kas an entirely
different value to a conjunction of Sun 1 and Saturn 8.
In the first case there is material disaster, and in the
other there is loss of reputation and honour.
It has been suggested that instead of taking the
secular notation of the month of birth, as 1 for January,
2 February, etc., it would be more consistent to take the
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while quite in line with the traditional methods of the
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there is a date in each month on which the Sun changes
its sign, which is about the 20th of each month, though
it differs by 1 to 3 days according to the month and
year in question, owing to the difference between the
secular months and the astronomical month.
Further, it would be in keeping with this scheme to
take the actual day of the week on which a person was
bom and use the value of the planet ruling that day.
Students should employ both these variants and
observe which method gives the best results. It is
admitted that there is no necessary connection between
the secular dates and the characters and fortunes of
those bom thereon once we dismiss the idea of law and
number as the governing factors in all manifestation. If,
however, we see fit to adhere to these conceptions,
unorthodox though they may be, we shall find occasion
and reason for mduding all apparently chance
happenings in the category of things related and
designed.
For the purpose of comparing the systems of Kabala,
however, it may be well to give the day and date
numbers.
DAYS OF THE WEEK
The day of the week begins at noon for each day.
Sunday ruled by Sun—Number 1 when Sun is in a
male or odd sign.
Number 4 when Sun is in female or even sign.
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Monday—Number 7 whta the Moon 10 in a Male
sign.
Number 2 when the Moon is in a female sign.
Tuesday—Number 9.
Wednesday—Number 5.
Thursday—Number 3.
Friday—Number 6.
Saturday—Number 8.
DAYS or THE MONTH
January 1-20—ruled by Saturn—Number 8.
January 21-February 19 — ruled by Saturn —
Number 8.
February 20--Maroh 19—ruled by Jupiter— Number
3.
March 20-April 19—ruled by Mars—Number 9.
April 20-May 20 ruled by Venus—Number 6.
May 21-^June 20—ruled by Mercury—Number 5.
June 21-July 22~~ruled by Moon—Numbers 7 and
2.
July 23-August 22 ruled by Sun—Number* 1
and 4.
August 23-September 22—ruled by Mercury—
Number 5.
September 23-October 22—ruled by Venus—
Number 6. .
October 23-November 21―ruled by Mars—
Number 9.
November 22-December 21 一 ruled by Jupiter—
Number 3.
December 22-December 31―ruled by Saturn—
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Number 8.
Note,—In June, July, 钱 nd August female births take
the number of the planet agreeing with the sex—
namely, 2 for the Moon and 4 for the Sun. Male births
take 7 for the Moon and 1 for the Sun.
This question being disposed of by the simple
expedient of giving such building material as is
required for the work, and letting everybody suit
himself as to the particular style of architecture he
fancies, we may pass on to the consideration of
SOUND VALUES,
concerning which there is considerable dispute. This
must inevitably be the case so long as you have
dialectical differences. In the Hebrew evaluation there
is no such difficulty, inasmuch as the Hebraic
equivalent of every English letter is well known, and
the values are applied irrespective of the phonetic value
a letter may have in a word. Thus, by the Table of
Hebraic Values (Kdb.9 i. p. 30), we have for the name
Aboyeur (Fr.) 1271562=24 = 6, and there is no doubt
about it. But when we come to the Universal or
Phonetic Values (ibid.), which I have said is the most
satisfactory in its general application, we are faced by
the difficulty that two persons may give different
phonetic quantities to the same word. Thus, Aboyeur
may be coded as 126162 (A-bo-yur), but a French-
speaking student would code it 226112 (A^bwah-ySr),
though the English transliteration does not quite convey
it. The evaluation of the name in the one case is 18 = 9,
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and in the other 14=5, and because 9 and 5 are taken in
some systems as interchangeable, both would consider
that they had coded it correctly.
A more difficult case would be the name of the
Australian horse whose name is Urelia, 162131 = 14=5
(U-reel-ya), but which the inconsequent pencillers
converted by laying the stress on the penultimate, to
which " You're another " appeared to be the only
suitable reply.
Granted, however, that we are agreed as to our
quantities, there is certainly no more satisfactory
system of evaluation of names than the Phonetic. But,
as I have always insisted, and here repeat, u Each
system has to be employed in relation to its own
method of interpretation, *J and to make no doubt of it,
I have specifically cited two cases i. 30): “The Hebrew
method is employed for the kabalistic interpretation of
the Scripture, as in the Zohar. It is especially suited to
the Tarotic interpretation by the Twenty-two Major
KeysM; and "The Pythagorean alphabet is used in
connection with the interpretation employed in that
system." There cannot, therefore, be any doubt in the
matter. If people use one method of evaluation and
another of interpretation and find there is no truth in it,
the fault is with them and can be easily corrected.
It is, of course, possible to apply one's own
evaluation, but more difficult to find a method of
interpretation which fits it. Thus I have seen some
curious results derived by the use of the decimal
evaluation of the English alphabet:
ABCDEFGHIJ 123456789
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KLMNOPQRS 123456789
TUVWXYZ
and when the letters are taken in connection with the
signs of the zodiac and applied to the names of
competitors to know the result of a contest, the reading
has been singularly curious. In this scheme the letters
fall thus :
Aries Taurus Gemini Canoer Leo Virgo Libra
AN BO CP DQ ER FS GT
Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces
HU IJVW KX LY MZ
The day being divided into 24 hours and counted
from equatorial sunrise (which is 6 o'clock) to the time
of an event, beginning with that planet and number
which belongs to the day, as Moon 7 on Monday, Mars
9 on Tuesday, and so on, then that planet which
coincides with the hour in which the event took place
will, by its position in the zodiac, give a numerical
value to every letter in the name of the winning
competitor. These being computed and reduced to a
unit value, they are found to correspond with the
planetary number governing the hour in which the
event took place.
But it will be found, upon examination, that however
ingeniously we labour with such cypher alphabets we
shall oome no nearer than to note a
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correspondence between the values ascribed to the
letters and the planet that happens to be in rotational
order at the moment.
Far more significance attaches to the language of the
heavens if only we are able to read it, and in such case
it gives its message clearly and without ambiguity,
neither is there need to make any calculation in the
matter save to find what planet holds the greatest
significance by chief position in the heavens at the time,
as indeed some examples will readily show.
These " pointers,n as we call them astrologically,
doubtless depend upon the harmony of form, colour,
name, and number that is seen to characterise the whole
physiognomy of Nature, so that, while one may be
intent upon discovering a ruling number, another will
be searching for the prevailing colour, another for the
dominant sound, and so forth, while the astrologer
merely seizes on the general physiognomy of the case,
taking the aspect of Nature at the moment, and finding
in her at all times a revelation of some hidden truth. By
way of illustration I may adduce the following few
examples from among a large collection of others
coming under my notice from time to time.
Mars being in the ascendant in its own sign Aries,
being the only planet in its own sign at the time, °
Rubra(red) won a race from five competitors. Note that
the planet Mars rules red.
The Moon exactly rising in the military sign Aries,
“The White Knight" won from several competitors.
Here Moon is u white n and Mars is “ knight.”
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CHAPTER Vn
THE LAW OF PERIODICITY
IT has been shown, from a careful computation of
factors involved, that as regards a pack of cards, a
roulette wheel, and many other methods of employing
the element of chance, a certain combination may be
counted upon to recur at stated intervals; and although it
cannot be shown that these intervals can be predicted, it
cap certainly be shown that they do recur within given
limits.
But this is quite different from showing that
particular factors are bound to recur at stated and
predicable intervals, and, as this is my task, it will be
seen that there can be only one way through, and that is
by employing natural factors. For Nature undoubtedly
has a periodicity which can be understood and
anticipated.
Naturalists observe that certain habits of creatures 6re
governed by the seasons, though they cannot say how
the intelligence or instinct of those creatures can
compass the vagaries of an English climate and yet
strike true within twenty-four hours, as may be observed
in the migration of birds, the various periods of nesting
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and similar natural phenomena apparently governed by
in- stmct~~an unknown quantity to human methods of
intelligence.
Astronomers also observe that there are cycles and
periods within which Nature repeats her phenomena,
from the rising of the sun to the apparition of a comet.
These observations submit readily to a mathematical
law, and the recurrence of similar celestial phenomena
are therefore predicable. It is from this basis that I shall
be able to demonstrate that matters Apparently
governed by chance are subject to a like periodicity to
that which we observe in Nature, and for the reason that
they, too, are governed by natural laws.
Let us take two factors only as the ground of our
argument—the Sun and Moon, When these bodies are
conjoined in the heavens, so as to appear in the same
meridian at the same time, we get what are called
Spring Tides. The Sun and Moon are then acting
together on the same side of the earth, and consequently
the tides are highest. But when they are acting from
opposite sides of the earth, as at the full moon, we get
Neap Tides. Now, if there were no interaction between
the Sun, Moon, and Earth, and if, further, there were no
periodicity or regular recurrence of their mutual
relations, then we could not construct a Tide-table such
as forma part of our annual almanacs. But this we can
do for years and decades in advance, so that the
common formula 片 has a numerical significance which
is quite appreciable and has a constant value for the
same
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day of the Moon's age for every month in the year.
To go a step further, let us suppose that the tidal
energy has an equivalent in regard to animate life, as we
find it to have in regard to the inanimate waters of the
globe. Let us presume that it has a subtle, although as
yet undefined, action upon the sap of plants, the juices
and humours of animals, and the blood-pressure of
human beings. And this, when carefully thought over, is
not presuming very much, for it is certainly the fact that
atmospheric pressure is increased at the new and full of
the Moon, and that lunatics and feeble-minded persons
respond to increased blood-pressure at such times. We
call them lunatics simply because they are subject to
this lunar influence. The Sun maintains approximately
the same relations with a given meridian at .the same
time each day, but the Moon does not do so, and it is to
her variability that the gradual recession of the tides
upon a meridian is due. For if on a particular day the
Sun and Moon are conjoined, the next day will see the
Sun at the same hour in the same relations with the
meridian, but the Moon will be about 12° to the east,
having advanced about 13° in its apparent orbit, while
the Sun has only advanced 1°. The following day the
Moon will be a further 12° east of the Sun, and so it will
continue until the two bodies are in opposition and cross
the meridian on opposite sides of tho earth at the same
time. The distance between the Moon and Sun is called
Elongation, i.e. longitude out of the meridian which the
Sun holds. If we multiply
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this distance or elongation by 4, we shall convert
degrees of longitude into minutes of time, and this time
will be the time after noon at which normal high tide is
due at a place ; and this would actually be the time at
which it happened but for local disturbing causes. With
these, however, we are not now concerned, and I only
venture upon a popular explanation of the tides in order
to establish the premiss of my argument, which is that
the Moon as variable factor is what we must look to in
connection with any periodicity we may hope to find in
connection with apparently chance events.
Imagine a number of competitors in an event as
having an equal chance of success. Such, for example, is
the idea aimed at in the process of handicapping by
distance from “ scratch, n or by additional weight. In the
c&se of racehorses this is effected by allotting weight
for age, plus penalties, or additional weights, for
successive wins. In effect we find that we are able to
distinguish the competitors by the weights they carry,
but we cannot distinguish the winner because the
handicapping has given to each an equal chance. Hence
the grounds for speculation and wagering which is a
feature of all such contests, “ the spice in the pudding, M
as its advocates affirm. *
By a comparative study of various records, I find that
I am able to present the net results of my investigations
in a single glyph which, from what has been said, will
doubtless be appreciable by the intelligent reader.
The fact is that one may triangulate upon any series
of events of like nature with an absolute certainty of
gaining a majority of them by as many as seven in every
ten, or seventy per cent., and that by no further trouble
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than is involved in the study of the tidal law we have
been considering. It will be observed that the circle or
sphere of action is divided by interlaced triangles into
12 arcs of 30°
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work. I have therefore only hinted at the method of
procedure.
But as soon as we come to the study of sound values,
i.e. the numerical value of vibrations, we are able to
exemplify this law of periodicity in a simple and
convincing manner. This statement, however, involves
the fact of such phonetic values having cosmic
equivalents, and hence that the planets are linked up
with number and sound as well as colour in such
manner that by tracing planetary periods we are
simultaneously tracing their numerical and phonetic
correlatives. Thia, I endeavoured to show (Kab,9 i. ch.
viii.), was actually the fact, and I so far succeeded as to
stimulate inquiry for further examples, illustrations, and
rules, and, as this is within the scheme of my chapter, I
may do so here.
It was seen that the basis of our calculation was the
Sun's true centre rising. This means that the
astronomical longitude of the Sun is rising on the
celestial horizon of the place for which calculation is
made. On p. 86, however, the rule was transposed in
error. The ascensional difference of the Sun must be
added to 90° when the Sun's declination is North, and
subtracted when it is South ; and the result multiplied
by 4 will give the minutes in time before noon at which
the Sun rose. The example on p. 86 is worked correctly
and will serve as a guide. It should be remarked,
however, that the rule should be reversed for places
South of the Equator, as for Australia, New Zealand,
etc., and the ascensional difference added when the
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declination is South, and subtracted when North.
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In order to prove the periodicity of numerical values
and their sound equivalents, we have only to take two
consecutive days and show that the same unit values are
in force at corresponding times, i.e. at times when the
planetary periods are the same ; or, alternatively, we
may take two consecutive Wednesdays, or Thursdays,
and show the same results from the same or equivalent
times. Let us take two consecutive days.
Newmarket—Wednesday, April 17th, 1912. L&t. 52 。
15' N. 0*8 declin. N = 10° 21'.
To find the Sun's ascn. difference, add together the
logarithms of the tangents of 52° 15' and 10° 21 Thus:
Log. tan. 52° 15' 1011110
„ „ 10° 21' 9-26158
„ sine 13° 38*' - 9*37268
These logarithms will be found in Chambers^
Mathematical Tables. The sum of the two logs, gives us
the log. sine of the Sun's ascensional difference, and, as
the declination is N. and the latitude of place N. , we
must add 13° 38 矿 to 90° and multiply by 4 in order to
find the time before noon at which the Sun rose on
Newmarket.
Thus, 90°+ 13° 38*'= 103。38 矿
4
34s = 6h 54m 348
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Hence the local time of sunrise was 5.5 a.m. nearly,
and the corresponding Greenwich time would be 5.4
a.m.
The Sun will be 6h 55m coming from the horizon to
the meridian, and the same time, approximately, from
meridian to sunset. We are only concerned with the
afternoon of April 17th, and so we take the semiarc of
the Sun from noon to setting, viz. 6 h 55m, and divide
this by 6 to get the length of the planetary hour = l h 9m
nearly. As there are 6 planetary hours from sunrise to
noon, the seventh hour will begin at noon, and the
Horary Speculum (Kdb., i. p. 84) tells us that on
Wednesday the seventh hour is ruled by Venus and the
eighth by Mercury. Each "hour 99 is at this date lh 9m in
length, and therefore Venus will rule from noon to 1.9
p.m・,and Mercury will begin at 1.9 p.m. and continue
to rule till 2.18 p.m.
But each hour is subdivided into seven parts, and
each of these sub-periods is ruled successively by the
planets in rotation. Then to find the length of each sub-
period divide lh 9m by seven, which is 10 m nearly. With
these preliminary calculations we can set out the Table
for the day, showing the beginnings of the hours or
periods, and also those of the sub-periods, for
Wednesday, April 17th, 1912. It will be observed that
the 8th sub-period, which would be ruled by the same
planet as that which governs the hour, syncopates in
this scheme, and is replaced by the planet governing the
next hour and sub-period in succession. Otherwise the
Chaldean order is in every respect observed, thus:
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Wedtbesday, Apinl 17, 1912
Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars 5-
120 1-9 218 3-27 436 45
S? 5 p <f
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539249356116
Now let us take the next day, April 18th. The Sun's
declin. being 10° 42' log. tan. 9*27635
Lat. 52° 15' „ „ 1011110
104° 7/
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The events were as follows :—
1.01.0
At ― the
hipshape 38318=23from
period was just changing = 5. Mercury to
1.30—Biter
Moon, Bit
and, allowing 2142for
1 minute 24 east
= 15 longitude
= 6. of
2.0 —Thrace
Newmarket, 9216=18
there was 1 minute = 9. period to
of Mercury's
2.30at一~the
expire Jingling Geordie
set time 352352
of the race. 32241 = 32we
Consequently = find
3.0 —Distcha 5. 4631 = 14=5.
Shipshape = 5 winning under its own number. This is
3.30Tullibardine
irregular if a 9 was present, 423212415=24=6.
but it is not in
contravention of the law.
At 1.30 the Sun was ruling, and he was on this date
in Taurus, ruled by Venus, who won under its own
number 6.
At 2.0 the Moon was ruling. 9 won, this being
contrary to our rule, but in agreement with the
suggestion that Mars is the alternate to the Moon
(Cosmic Symbolism).
At 2.30 the Sun was ruling. Here the Sun in
Tauni8=3, and Geordie=3, but the full name=5, a
misfit.
At 3.0 the Moon was ruling. Winner = 5. See above
where Mars (negative 5) wins in same period.
At 3.30 the Sun again rules in Taurus=3, but the
positive number 6 wins.
The results, though involved, are mainly in support
of the theory we have adopted. Taken over a period, the
findings are abundantly satisfao- tory. But this, of
course, is not advanced as a system of selection. At
best, and like all other systems depending on name
values, it is a system of exclusion, or what is called in
science a method of exhaustion. I presume it would be
impossible to formulate any law which does not admit
of exceptions, because our laws are founded upon
observation of the direct working of one form of
energy, and this may be interfered with by the
operation and interaction of other forms of energy,
whether by resistance or by deflection.
A method for emplojdng the positive numbers of the
planets may here be mentioned. It is based on the
Hebraic view that the day commences at noon and not
at sunrise, as is generally and erroneously believed.
The statement in Genesis is, “ The evening and the
morning were the first day." Not by any stretch of
fancy could we speak of the period from sunrise to
sunset as €<the evening,n nor from sunset to sunrise as "
morning." But we can quite legitimately refer to the
period from noon to midnight as “ the evening, M and
from midnight to noon as ° the morning.”
The planet giving its name to the day takes rule over
the first hour after noon, and is followed in the
Chaldean order by the other planets, and so on in
rotation. Each hour is taken as 60 m in length, and is
subdivided into 15 parts of 4 minutes each, the first of
which is ruled by the planet of the day, and followed by
the rest in rotation. Thus Sunday is divided as follows :
Noon to 1 p.m. Sun
1 p.m. to 2 „ Venus
2 ,, to 3 „ Mercury
3 „ to 4 „ Moon
4 „ to 5 „ Saturn
5 „ to 6 „ Jupiter
etc., etx)・
Then the hour of Venus, from 1 to 2 p.m., will divide
into sub-periods thus:
10, 2?, 35, 4》,5hf 6 斗,73, 8©, 9?, 105, 11》, 12h, 13
% 143, 150.
The planet ruling the day, that ruling the hour, and
that ruling the sub-period, are represented by their
positive numbers, and these being added together, the
sum is reduced to its unit value. The winner of a race or
contest taking place in the limits of the sub-period
should have a name which is the phonetic equivalent of
the unit value of the three factors.
The Tables of the Hours and sub-periods of the week,
counted from noon each day, are as follows:
Sunday 1657839 recurring
・Monday . 7839165 ,,
Tuesday ・ 9165783 99
Wednesday ・ 5783916 99
Thursday . 3916578 ,,
Friday . 6578391 ,,
Saturday . 8391657 ,,
Hours ・ . 1234567 from noon
Periods ・ 1234567 from Hour
Saturday =8
3rd hour = 9
8th period=8
25=7, won by Holt's Pride = 2.
Negative》period = 2.
Saturday =8
4th hour = 1
1st period = 8
17 = 8, won by Chasuble = 4.
Saturday =8
4th hour = 1
8th period=8
17 = 8, won by Cylgad = 8.
Saturday =8
Sth hour =6
1st period=8
22 = 4, won by Montmartre = 8.
Saturday =8
5th hour = 6
8th periods 8
22 = 4, won by Wolftoi = 8.
The Coding used is as follows :
225416 Countess Mao 412 = 27 = 9. 563468 24 =
38=11 Holfs Pride = 2. 317623 = 22 = 4.
Chasuble 613214=17 = 8. 425241242 = 26
= 8. Cylgad 6238421 = 26 = 8.
Montmartre
Thus Wolftoi it will be seen that, with the
exception of the first event, all
the results are in harmony with our
customary evaluations, and support the scheme here for
the first time advanced. In the first case it is of interest
to note that the Moon 7 was, on 11 September 1911, in
the sign Aries, ruled by Mars 9; and this fact appears to
support the general ascription of “ variability “ applied
to the Moon. Certainly it is repeatedly observed that the
Moon can win in any period whose mass value (as
above) agrees with the planet ruling the sign it is in, as
follows :
n AS
a 4 t
9 6 5 2 4 5 9 3 8 8 3
"7
Some little while ago I instituted a test with an old
student of the “ Mysteries of Sound and Number,n &
man whose patience and faculty for figures were
backed by a considerable knowledge of turf matters. In
making selections before the event and using the above
system called “ Trilogia," because it employs three
arguments, it was found that I could easily double his
successes, after making my selections in half the time.
The reasons for this superiority were that I had not to
speculate on the " off " time, but merely to use the set
time of the event; that I had not to take any count of the
distance to be run; and, finally, that my method of
coding was simpler than his. But probably the chief
reason lay in the fact that he was never correct in his
times of sunrise except for places in or about the same
latitude as Greenwich— and fortunately for him, and
the system he followed, these included Bath, Salisbury,
Windsor, Gatwick, Epsom, Kempton Park, Hurst Park,
Alexandra Park, Asoot, Bibury, Brighton, Folkestone,
Lewes, Goodwood, Lingfield, Sandown Park, and
Newbury. This was the broad base on which an
astounding fallacy was erected, and when we came to
deal with Liverpool, Manchester, York, Newcastle,
Ayr, and some other northern centres, the record he had
been building in the South went to pieces.
We may now look at the subject of periodicity from
another point of view.
CHAPTER VIII
PERIODICITY OF EVENTS
IN trying to trace a law of periodicity in regard to
things of chance which apparently have but small
significance in the main purpose of human life, and
yet which, being included, must in some way be
conformable to the general plan and subject to
universal laws, we may find ourselves forced to
rely upon partial and sporadic successes. We may
assume a broader base with more certainty of
success. It is easier to indicate which way the
wind is blowing on the open plains than to take» our
reading from the play of some little eddy in the
byways of a town. Consequently, when we come
to the study of the law of periodicity in relation to
the broad facts of history, we find that the indi-
cations are more marked and easier to discern.
Wo take our pointers from the same cosmic factors
that have guided our investigations from th© first,
and trace in the mutations of the planets certain
definite changes in human affairs. From like causes
we argue like effects, and the fact that these effects
are repeatedly observable serves not only to confirm
the validity of our argument, but also enables us
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to establish a law of periodicity in regard to events
which, if they were not disposed by superior causes,
would not respond to this law, being apparently
under human control.
We have already seen that Mars represents energy,
©xecutiveness, and when vitiated its abnormal
expression is seen to be violence, strife, and
lawlessness. Normally it denotes freedom, abnormally it
indicates licence. Saturn we have found to be associated
with the number 8, which indicates destruction,
revolution, inversion. One is a positive planet and the
other a negative. The two acting together produce
outbreaks of public feeling, violence, and mortality.
Elsewhere it will be seen that the sign of the zodiac
ruling England is Aries, governed by Mars, and
responding to the vibrations of th© number 9 and the
colour red. The popular expression " the all-red '' refers
very aptly to the British. By some play of human faculty
this has been sensed and identified with all that is
British, and accordingly we find our atlas showing ths
Empire extending across the two hemispheres all red.
Therefore we may expect that Mars stirs up strife in
various countries as it passes through the signs of the
zodiac governing them, and that its conjunction with
Saturn in the sign ruling a country is of sinister import.
We find it so, in fact. Thus there was a conjunction of
Saturn and Mars in Aries in 1879, and there followed
the terrible Afghan and Zulu Wars. Passing into Taurus
(ruling Ireland) th© planets produced the agrarian
outrages in Ireland. In 1883 the conjunction fell in
Gemini (ruling Lower Egypt), and was at once followed
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its effects disturbing and destructive.
But we may take the cycle of 265 years, which
admits of many minor cycles, and we find the same
planets conjoined in exactly the same part of the zodiac.
Thus from the epoch 1909-10 it brings us to 1644 and
the overthrow of the Royalists at Marston Moor. Then
from 1644 we take the cycle again and come to 1379
and the RebeUion under Wat Tyler. From that date we
go back to 1114, when England was disturbed by the
wars waged by Henry I. against Robert of Belleme and
France. Going a further cycle back, to 849, we come to
the Danish invasion during the reign of Egbert. Prior to
this epoch history becomes obscure in regard to British
affairs, and so we may leave it. The cycle has been
traced in regard to other countries ruled by other signs
than Aries, and undoubtedly we have complete evidence
of a connected periodicity of events due to the
combined action of these two major planets.
Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter lead to great
mutations in those countries ruled by the signs in which
the conjunctions fall. The conjunctions differ from those
of Mars and Saturn in this respect, that whereas the
latter pass regularly through the signs at intervals of
about two years, those of Saturn and Jupiter remain in
the same triplicity for several decades. At present they
are in the earthy triplicity, embracing the signs of
Taurus, Virgo, and Capri- oom, and have been so since
1842. Every twenty years these planets are conjoined In
one of these signs—namely, in 1842, Capricorn; 1861-
2, Virgo; 1881, Taurus ; 1901, Capricorn ; 1921, Virgo ;
1941, Taurus ; 1961, Capricorn ; 1981, Libra. Thus we
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human thought and polity which we have been
considering.
There are other features of this periodic law which
depend on numerical sequences (Kab., i. 71, 133).
Some illustration of these has been given in the
Manual of Occultism. What are called the fatal periods
recur after a certain interval of years, depending on the
radix. These are such as make the unit value of 13 and
16. The sequence is derived from the addition to any
radical date of its own unit value, as 1870= 16, which,
being added to 1870, gives 1886 = 23, and this is
repeating continuously. Thus Napoleon I. was bom in
1769, and his numerical sequence would therefore be :
1769=23 Birth number.
23
1792 The Revolution.
23
1815 Waterloo.
Another and more general sequence is this :
1769=23
23
1792=19
19
1811=11
The year 1811 corresponds with the turn of the tide in
Napoleon's fortunes, for in that year Wellington
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1861 = 16 、
the fatal number, which kabalistically answers to “The
Stricken Tower " (Kab.f i. p. 29).
Other illustrations, taking as radix the founding of a
dynasty or some great epoch in the history of a nation,
will be found in my previous works. The accession of
George I. to the throne of Great Britain and the
establishment of the Hanoverian dynasty in 1714 yields
by numerical sequences the years 1727, 1744,
1760,1774,1793, and 1813; corresponding with the
accession of George II., the Stuart Rebellion, the
accession of George III., the American Rebellion, the
French Revolution, and the Grand Alliance. The Fall of
Napoleon, 1815, gives 1830, Fall of Charles X., and
this latter is derived also directly from the Fall of
Robespierre in 1794. Shelley's career shows a curious
periodicity by numerical sequence.
He was bom 1792 = 19
19
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again, the year 1822 is seen to have the unit value of
13, " The Reaping Skeleton = Death," while the age of
thirty years, attained in 1822, gives 1852 = 16,
“Th 。 Stricken Tower." All subjects do not respond to
the same kabalism, but all are subjects of some
periodicity in the course of events, and frequently it
will be found that, instead of the birth date, we have to
take this of the first great event, and in my own case I
find:
1868 Death of father.
1868- 23
1891 Death of mother.
The House of Brunswick came to the British throne
in the person of King William IV., from which we
have the events :
1830=12 Accession of William IV.-
12
1842 = 15 Scinde War.
15
1857 = 21 Indian Mutiny.
21
1878=24 Afghan War.
24
1902 = 11 Accession of Edward VII.
Boer War ended.
11
1913 = 14 Balkan War and (?).
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Sum, 24 — 6, Venus.
Conjunctions.
Moon and Venus.
Moon and Saturn. Saturn and Sun.
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It is an unfortunate scheme, and we may therefore
expect that Servia will not come out well from the
melde in the Balkans.
The Kabalists have cycles of 15, 34, 65, 111, 175,
260, and 369 years, which are the cycles of Saturn,
Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon
respectively. An example of the constitutional effect of
the Sun's period is seen in the case of Ireland:
1801 The Union.
Ill Cycle of Sun.
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to the Chaldeans, the values of these being :
For the Moon 4 yeaie.
Mercury 10 “
Venus 8 “
Sun 19 ”
Mars 15 n
Jupiter 12 ”
Saturn 30 “
The K&balists, however, extract the values of the
planets from these periods, giving to Saturn 6, Jupiter
7, Mars 2, Sun 3, Venus 4, Mercury 8, and the Moon 9,
as radical numbers, and they are used for the
evaluation of names according to the Hebraic system.
By kabalistic progression the further key numbers of
the planets are derived, viz. Saturn 8, Jupiter 3, Moo 邛
7, Mercury 5, Mars 9, Sun 4, Venus 6, which, as will
be seen, are the numbers already and frequently
associated with them by Haydon and others, the
peculiar feature being that the Sun'g negative number 4
and the Moon^ positive number 7 are alone employed
for those bodies.
The astronomical period of 19 years ascribed by the
Chaldeans to the Sun has a close connection with the
periodicity of events, because every 19 years the Sun
and Moon form their phases on, or close to, the same
date ; and as the recession of the Moon's nodes has a
period of about 19 years also, it follows that there are
two or three successive eclipses of the same kind in the
same longitude at intervals of 19 years. Thus, there was
an eclipse
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of the Sun on January 22nd, 1860, in = 2°, another in
1879, January 22nd, in h 2°, another in 1898, January
22nd, in = 2°, the difference being in their respective
magnitudes. From time immemorial eclipses have been
regarded as significant portents in human affairs, and
their symbolical value may readily be conceded, while
as physical phenomena eclipses have recently received
considerable attention from men of science, it having
been conclusively shown that definite physical effects
have followed immediately upon the obscuration of the
luminary, more particularly in those parts where the
eclipse was visible, and especially where it was vertical
at the time of central conjunction. It is in the
symbolical sense that we regard eclipses, and this
because there is a periodicity attaching to their zodiacal
position which is
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year of the last of the series of eclipses. In other cases it
is found that half the period of Saturn = 15 years,
which alone is the whole period of Mars, has a sinister
significance and recurs from the year in which Saturn
transits a significator in the horoscope.
The study of planetary periods in the symbolical
sense leads to a curious numerical fact which evidently
has a significance in regard to the periodic law. If we
place the Chaldean period of the planets in the order of
the apparent velocity of the planets, thus :
Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus Mercury Moon 30 12
5 8 10 4
and divide them into their least common multiple, 120,
we shall get:
4 10 8 15 12 30
the same values in reverse order. Now, as 120 is the
whole period of the planetary cycle according to both
the Chaldean and Indian systems of astrology, we may
see here a definite relationship of periods to polarities.
For Saturn and the Moon are opposed to one another in
respect of their signs Capricorn and Cancer; Jupiter and
Mercury in respect of their signs Sagittarius, Gemini
and Pisces, Virgo; Mars and Venus in respect of their
signs Aries, Libra and Scorpio, Taurus (Kab.9 i. p. 81).
Then, if the circle of 120 years responds to the oirole of
360。it follows that the periods answering
to the aspects 45°, 90°, 135°, 180°, which are regarded
as malefic, being formed upon the cross, namely, the
15th, 30th, 45th, 60th, 75th, 90th, and 105th years of
life are adversely climacteric. On the other hand, the
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THE method of finding sunrise, and hence the planetary
hours and their sub-divisions, has already been given,
and it will be found upon examination that many
remarkable effects attach to the rulership of the planets
during these periods. But very frequently it will be
found that the planet ruling the day, or its zodiacal
alternative, will take possession of and rule the whole
day. One or two illustrations of this will not be without
interest, and may possibly lead to further research along
profitable lines.
Th© planet u Jupiter rules on Thursday and gives its
name to the day. Its zodiacal alternative is Mercury, so
called because it rules the opposite zodiacal signs to
Jupiter. Thus :
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It will be seen that the Hebraic values are used for the
evaluation of the names, and that all the events are
under Jupiter or Mercury, values 3 and 5.
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8254521222 = 42 = 6, Venus; Thimble Colt = 514235
2734 = 36=9, Mars; and Dennery= 4555521 = 27 = 9,
Mars.
Peculiar sequences of weights may also be noticed in
connection with a series of events. Thus, in the first
instance, 15th August, we get the following values :
2.0 winning weight 9*1 —1
2.30 „ „ 8-9 =8
3.0 „ „ 7-2 =9
3.30 ” ” 9'8 = 8
4.0 ” ” 8,9 =8
4.30 „ „ 7 10=8
Here the values are those of the Sun and Saturn, with
a single interloping of Mars in the third event. The 12th
August, as given above, shows the following curious
coincidence :
2.0won by weight 8*11=1
2.30 „ „ 8-2 =1
3.0 ” „ 712 = 1
3.30 „ „ 8*9 =8
4.0 ” ” 8,7 =6
4.30 ” ,, 7,8 = 6
Four of the events were won by the numbers 1 and 8,
Sun and Saturn. On the following day there was an
alternation of Sun and Moon numbers :
2.0 won by weight 8,11 = 1 Sun
2.30 „ „ 97 =7 Moon
3.0 ” „ 85 =4 Sun
3.30 „ „ 812=2 Moon
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TABLE OF WEIGHTS
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have the winning chances, selection being made by
triangulation of the values involved. Thus : Lincoln
Handicap, 1912. Dominant planet Saturn = weights 8,13
Mercutio, 8*4 Long Set, 7,9 Moscato, 7,0 Cinderello,
6*5 Ben Alder, 5e 10 Warfare —weights involved 9-6-
61. The triangulation brings out the weights 8*4 and
7*3, and Long Set, the nearest to 8*4, won, while Uncle
Pat, 7*3, was second, Warfare being third. Our
planetary weight would therefore have taken us directly
to Long Set when triangulated.
At 3.10 on Thursday, 28th March, at Liverpool, the
Spring Cup was won by Subterranean. The dominant
planet was again Saturn, and among his weights we
have already found 7,0, which was the weight carried
by the winner of this event. The frequency with which
this gravity of the planets, as determined by their
respective numbers, is carried out by events is really
surprising, and deserves attention. It illustrates more
forcibly and conclusively than anything else could do
the existence of a law of numerical ratios, a geometry
which encompasses both gravity and planetary
velocities. It informs us once more that the force of
gravitation is inversely as the velocity of the body
attracted. Thus, we see that a bodymoving at a tangent
to the line of attraction can only overcome gravity by its
velocity. If it had no motion it would be immediately
impelled along the line of attraction directly to the
centre ; but, in proportion as it has velocity, it is able to
overcome attraction. We overcome the gravity of
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S is the horary equivalent. This is so uniformly the case
that it puts the question of chance entirely out of the
field. Consequently, when estimating the chances of a
given event falling to a definite selection, we only
employ the doctrine of probabilities in default of any
certain knowledge of a Law of Values; but in
knowledge of this law we wisely drop the word “
chance “ out of our vocabulary. It is found that every
competition, no matter how many competitors may
engage, can be reduced so as to divide the winning
chance between two, and this will yield the winner in 80
out of every 100 events. This surely puts the case
beyond doubt.
It has been suggested that the same principles might
be applied to lottery numbers, and some investigations
into this matter have yielded curious results. For the
purpose of illustrating a successful method of dealing
with lotteries, I shall have recourse to a. further
exposition of the " Secret Progression “ (Kdb., i. p. 67
et 8eq.)・
Having obtained the five numbers of the last drawing
of the lottery, they must be set down in a line, and
reduced by consecutive subtraction (adding 90 when
necessary, as there are 90 numbers in the drawing), and
thus a second line of numbers will be obtained, which,
being similarly dealt with, will yield a third line of
numbers, and these again
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27 54 87
81
The Mother Number is therefore 24. This is
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formed. Thus:
2 3 4
5 6 7
8 9 1
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24 3— 4-
5— 6- 7一
8— 9一 1-
24 39 45
51 66 72
87 93 18
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24 + 39 = 63 84 = 39 +
45
51 + 66=27 48 = 66+72
87 + 93 = 90 21 = 93+18
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Rome on 13th January 1894, and these, as shown, yield
12 or 21. Accordingly, the winning numbers on the 20th
January were 37—9—39—21—1, As these include one
of the numbers selected, the result is satisfactory. As the
curious reader may wish to test the value of the method
for himself, I here give the actual figures drawn for
January 1894:
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Total 12 4 10 w 14 = 50
Unit 3 4 1 10
1 5=14
2. 9 3 6 9 9
1 4 1 5 3
10 7 7 14 12 = 50
1 7 7 5 3 = 23
3. 9 3 6 9 9
4 1 5 3 1
13 4 11 12 10 = 50
4 4 2 3 1 14
4. 9 3 6 9 9
1 5 3 1 4
10 8 9 10 13 = 50
1 8 9 1 4 = 23
6. 9 3 6 9 9
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5 3 1 4 1
14 6 7 13 10 = 60
5 6 7 4 1 = 23
Our unit totals are 14, 23, which, being added, yield
37. These three numbers are to be followed for the
drawings of 13th, 20th, and 27th January 1894. Results:
Observe also : .
14 = 5
23 = 5
9—3—6—^—9 = 36
Add 14
50 = 5
Chance number 14 = 5
a »» 23 = 5
The numbers drawn for the 3rd February 1894 were
80, 83, 4, 19, 78.
Reduced to unit values :
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8—2—4—1—6 = 21
Add 14
35
This number 35, when resolved by its five circular
parts, 31415, yields the Chance Numbers 17 and 26,
which, being added together, give 43. Hence the
numbers 17, 26, and 43 are to be followed for the next
three drawings. Result:
10th February 57-76-59-81-74
17th „ 68-17-42-57-31
24th „ 43-79- 8-13-25
28
But 3-1 181
Plus 3—1—4—1—5
6—2—5—9—6 = 28 which is the unit
value total.
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But 3 11
Plus 1—4—1—5—3
4— —2—13—4 =28
and 4—5—2— 4—4 ■■ 19
47
Therefore 47 becomes 74, and 14 will be our other
number, being a multiple of 28.
Result of the subsequent drawings :
10th March 22-74-44-43-81
17th „ 36-68-14-25-57
24th „ 72-14-36- 2-40
31st „ 62- 6-14-78-26
Here our numbers come out no less than four times in
as many drawings.
This kabala is not invariable, but has a basis in fact
which renders it extremely valuable. The following is
the paradigm.
The digits 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 45, and 4+5=9.
Therefore 9 is the basis of the unit value of all numbers
and the key to the mensuration of all chances. The value
3*1415= 14, and is the expression of the relation of the
circumference of a circle to the diameter of the same. A
nearer expression is 3,14159 (Kab.9 i. p. 13).
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book intended for public circulation. Here it is only
possible to give hints that are valuable in proportion to
the intelligence and interest of the reader. One such is
contained in a very astute statement by one of the old
writers, who uses the pentagon in much the same way
as I have used the pentacle. His key numbers are 7, 29,
and 34. He arranges the five numbers last drawn at the
five points of the pentagon, and successively adds
together ABC, BAD, CAD, D C B, and multiplying the
sum by E, and also dividing, he gets three numbers
which may be used either singly or in a combination for
the next drawing.
A similar idea is contained in the cross of numbers
said to be appropriate to each month of the year. Thus,
for January they have :
1
342
4
To these are attached certain cryptic verses, and
concerning the above it says, in the last line of the
quatrain : " Dieci volte il destro ed una al lato ‘‘ —“Ten
times the right and one to the side." The right-hand
number being 2, the value is 10x2+1 = 21.
In addition to this, we have the numbers 14, 44, 41,
34, and a reasonable degree of success marks the
proceeding when compared with the records. Thus, in
January 1894, we have drawn 44, 21, 14 ; in January
1895, 44; in January 1896, 44; in January 1897, 34 and
41. But it would be quite impossible to follow all the
combinations of the Cross of Numbers through the four
drawings in each month with hope of ultimate
advantage. The only possible means outside of the
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THB general experienoe of uncertainty which pervades
the question of planetary periods and the mode of their
reckoning, together with the yet more doubtful problem
of phonetic values, has induced me to give the matter
some attention. It will be convenient if in this place I
indicate, for the benefit of those who have not ploughed
through my Cosmic Symbolism, what are the points at
issue.
It was the ancient astrological practice in India to count
time from sunrise, and it persists to this day. Obviously,
in the state of astronomical science among the populace
of India, nothing but approximations could be expected.
But the jyoshis and others skilled in the mathematics of
the subject were, and are, capable of giving the time of
apparent sunrise with great accuracy. That is to say,
they could determine the apparent longitude of the Sun
at any time by means of their astronomical tables, and
could calculate the time at which this longitude would
be on the celestial horizon of any locality. They then
divided the day into 60 164
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hours of 24 mins, each, counting from sunrise as we
count from noon. Approximately, there would be 5
ghatikas, or 120 mins., for the rising of each complete
sign of the zodiac, or 4 mins, for each degree, and hence
a person bom so many ghatikas andvighatikaa (hours
and mins.) after sunrise could be informed from the
position of the Sun in the zodiac at the time of its rising
under what degree of the zodiao he was bom. But the
chronometry of the anoient astrologers was very faulty,
and the 8un*dial was perhaps the most accurate means
of measuring time known to them. They had no mean or
true clock-time. But nevertheless they divided the signs
into 30 parts called trims'dmshaa, and allowed 4 mins,
for each of these parts. They gave the same names to
the days of the week as do we, and they recognised the
same zodiacal order of the signs and the same planetary
rulerships in those signs. European astrologers later
gave attention to the subdivision of the day, and intro-
duoed what are called " planetary hours.0 The planetary
hour is one-twelfth of the time between sunrise and
sunset. Now, in equatorial parts, this would be almost
uniformly 12 hours, but in northern latitudes the length
of the day would vary according to the season of the
year.
Hence the doubt has arisen as to whether the hour
should be a secular one of 60 mins, or a planetary one
of one-twelfth the diurnal arc of the Sun. My own view
is that, counted from sunrise, the hours should measure
of equal length from sunrise to sunset, six of such hours
being included between sunrise and noon, and six
between noon and sunset. The mistake some astrologers
have made is that they have counted the hours from
midnight, making a blend of secular and astronomical
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TABLE OF PERIODS
Noon to 7 p.m.
Sunday . 12© 19 h 3
4h
Monday ,
O D i Tuesday ・ DO
1 D
。O 5" ?
5 Wednesday
i b
6 Thursday .
<J A 2 5 n <J O
9 b Friday . 3 h ? 5 J) i
2 4 5A
Saturday . OD h 6
b O
2 bQ
i D
Signs of Zodiac . /X e -3 OD
Day planet 9 =6
Hour „ b =8 ・
Period „ $ =6
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20=2
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688=22=4.
Wavelass, 616316=23=5 won.
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symbolism of the Moon, ruler of the ascending sign
Cancer, being exactly on the cusp of the second House
(finance) and in good aspect to Uranus, Mars, and
Venus, and conjoined with Neptune. Here Cancer and
Neptune rule the ocean wave, and the Moon is that lass
that loves— or loveth not a sailor, according to
its fickle whim.
Take another place on the same day:
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periodicity of the planets. I cannot say if in the 1.30
event there was no 8 or 1 present, but I observe that, in
any case, Saturn 8 was on that day in the sign of Venus
6, and that 6 won. This would only be allowable in
default of 8, when of course it would be quite regular
and what we should expect by the rule.
The next day at Plumpton affords further indications
of the general reliability of this very simple method.
6th January 1912. Saturday =8.
1.15 upiter 3—Per. Sun 1.
831 = 12=3.
Beauty Bird, 2641224=21 *3 won.
1.45 upiter 3—Per. Venus 6.
836 = 17=8.
Penitent, 8154154=28=*! won.
2.15— Mars 9—Per. Sun 1.
891=18=9.
Saucepan, 62685=27 =9 won.
2.4—Mars 9—Per. Venus 6.
896=23=5.
Early Closing, 1231 236752=32=5 won.
3.15 un 1—Per. Sun 1.
811=10 = 1.
Campamento, 2148141546 —36 = 9 won.
3.40—Sun 1—Per. Sun 1.
811=10 = 1.
Snap, 6518=20=2 won.
AU but the last two events are in line with the
11
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down in this new theorem. It will be seen that we have
held rigidly to the positive values of the planets except
in the case of the Moon when operating in combination
with a masculine or positive planet, such as Saturn,
Jupiter, and Mars. Also it will be seen that the values
of the sounds are those given in Part I. of the Kabala of
Numbers. The whole name is used in every case. Only
the schedule or set time of the event is employed, no
allowance being made for a speculative " ofi ” time.
Finally, we employ all the factors, namely, the day,
hour, and period planets, and the combination of the
positive values of these three factors gives us 14 out of
18 events in harmony with the rules.
I will take only one more example and complete the
illustration with events at Haydock Park on the same
day, namely :.
6th January 1912. Saturday «8.
1.0― upiter 3—Per. Saturn 8.
838 = 19 = 1.
Barnet Fair, 212514 812»26«8 won.
1.30— upiter 3—Per. Saturn 8. *
838 = 19 = 1.
Shaun Aboo, 325 126 = 19 = 1 won.
2.0—Mars 9—Per. Saturn 8.
898=25=7.
Blunderbuss, 2325412226 =29 = 2 won.
2.30— Mars 9—Per. Saturn 8.
898=25=7.
Borough Marsh, 2264123=20=2 won.
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3.0―Sun 1—Per. Saturn 8.
818 = 17=8.
Bembridge, 214223 = 14=5 won.
3.30— Sun 1—Per. Saturn 8.
818 = 17=8.
Uston, 13645 =« 19 = 1 won.
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for all events that are timed by the clock in the limits of
this country.
Here, then, are nineteen out of twenty-four events in
direct succession, bearing out the values ascribed to the
planets, the phonetic values of names, and the alternate
values of the various periods. This high record of 79
per cent, is altogether beyond the limit of a fortuitous
coincidence, and hence we must conclude that our
evaluations are valid, and that our rediscovery of the
ancient system of time-division is upheld by the facts.
I have purposely chosen events of popular interest
because they are on record and can be checked in every
detail. It would have been possible to extend this
survey indefinitely, and I have some months of
consecutive records on h&nd. I am not, however,
writing a book on Turf Uncertainties, but merely
stating a theorem, viz. that the day begins at noon, and
I am here giving a kabalistic proof that it is so.
Obviously, any system that employs name-values is
comparatively useless, for the reason that there will
most frequently be one or more competitors whose
name-values are of equal unit significance > i.e. of the
same or alternate values, as Velca, Remiss, Sfax, Lady
Senseless, all in the same event won- by Sfax. In short,
a method of exclusion has no practical value, and only
a scientific method of selection is at all worthy of
consideration. It can be shown that a definite method of
selection based on the gravity-values of the three
factors, and supported by the laws of Tycho and
Ptolemy in regard to cosmic interaction, is a scientific
fact that has been under rigid test for years past, and the
average percentage of such tests is not less than 75
continuously.
It may be of use for the testing of this method of
Planetary Periods if I here give a Table of the values for
every haE-hour during the week from noon to six o'clock.
Time. 12.0 12.30 1.0 1.30 2.0 2.30 3.0 3.30 4.0 4.30 5.0 5.30
Sunday . 2 2 7 7 6 6 8 8 9 9 44
Monday . 5 5 6 6 1 1 7 7 8 8 44
Tuesday . 9 9 1 1 6 6 5 5 7 7 88
Wednesday . 1 1 3 3 4 4 8 8 5 5 66
Thursday . 6 6 3 3 4 4 9 9 8 8 11
Friday ・ 3 3 2 2 4 4 5 5 9 9 66
Saturday . 7 7 2 2 8 8 9 9 5 5 44
These values are for the day and hour planets combined,
and the times indicate the beginning of their influence. To
these values must be added the number of the period
planet.
Rule.—Divide the minutes after the complete hour by 4.
The product will give the period planet counted from the
day ruler.
Example.—On Tuesday, what rules at 2.35 p.m. ? 36+4
= 9. Counted from Mars (Tuesday) we arrive at Sun = 1.
Then 2.0=6 and 2.35 =6 4-1 or 7.
The idea that man may compass a fortuitous fortune by
the application of numerical systems to the chance events
of life is by no means an extraordinary one. It is by means
of a mensuration of
the various subtle forces in Nature that man has been able
to avail himself of them in his daily life ; and chemistry,
among other of the sciences, only began to be properly
studied when it was allied to mathematics, So far as the
world in general knows anything at all about the action of
the luminaries upon mundane affairs, the belief is that the
Sun is the source of light and heat, and that it exerts a
gravitational pull upon all the planetary bodies, including
the Moon and Earth. It is further believed that the Moon is
the chief cause of the tides, and that it has some vague
traditional associations with lunacy. It is known to reflect
light. Not everybody knows that it also reflects heat, or
that of the light rays it reflects some are converted into
heat rays by the earths atmosphere. But who gave out that
light, heat, and gravitation were the only forces exerted by
the luminaries, or that the planets exerted none at all of
their own ? We cannot accuse the ancients of this
exclusiveness. They fully recognised that each of the
planets transmitted the vital energy of the cosmic heart in
varied forms. They affirmed that the rays of Mars were
irritant, that those of Venus were soothing, that Jupiter
augmented the vital forces and Saturn diminished them.
Thales believed that the universe was made from water, a
fluid base. Doubtless he was led to this belief by the fact
that water crystallises at an angle of 60°, and that this
angle has first importance in the mensuration of a circle. It
was observed, too, that planets at an angle of 60° or 120°
affected one another in a manner which was not
the case at 59° or 61°, at 119° or 121°. It has always been
our fault that we have regarded the ancients as necessarily
more ignorant than ourselves. As a matter of fact,
however, it will be found that as to essential facts they
knew as much as ourselves —I think they knew very much
more,—and that only in the matter of more accurate
observation we have excelled them by the use of modem
instruments. Modem science has not even arrived at the
conclusion that Saturn has any influence at all upon other
bodies of the system, still less on human life. Ignoring the
prime postulate of the solidarity of the solar system, the
interaction of the planetary bodies plays no part in modem
science. The idea that everything exists for use is not ade-
quate excuse for a scientific interest in these remote bodies
of the system, and, placed as they are at thousands of
millions of miles from the Sun about which they revolve,
they are regarded as barren wildernesses upon which no
conceivable humanity can exist. And yet if they are held
by the force of gravitation, the light, heat, and vital energy
of the Sun must also reach them. It is rather a sorry case
that men of science know so much about the microscopic
germs of disease and nothing at all about a planet that is
more than a thousand times larger than the Earth, and
whose rays have probably more to do with pathology than
all the bacteria that were ever isolated and classified. Of
course, all this about planetary influence may be a mere
superstition, but that does not prevent us from making a
Bcienoe of it by noting coinoidences. The idea
that the Moon has something to do with the tides may be a
superstition, but it does not hinder us from noting the
coincidence of its elongation with the daily recession of
the time of high - water. Science is not concerned with
causes, but with the tabulation and comparison of facts.
Hence we may evade the philosophical consideration of
causes and apply ourselves solely to the task of noting the
coincidences between sound, number, and planetary
velocities, and thereby establish what we may call the
science of phonetic values, of numerology, and of
planetary symbolism. It may well serve as a working
hypothesis for a very much wider view of cosmic and
human relations than has yet been adopted.
CHAPTER XI
COLOUR VALUES
So far we have been dealing principally with numbers and
their significance in human affairs. It has been suggested
that Sound and Colour have their numerical relations. So
far as Sound is concerned we have, I think, consistently
shown that phonetic values are linked up with planetary
influence, or ft least that there is a correspondence
between the unit value of a name and the planet which, in
the Chaldean scheme of astronomy, answers to a particular
time when that unit value is conspicuous. We may now
deal with Colour values.
According to the scheme already propounded, the
planets are each related to one of the primary or prismatic
colours. In this scheme
Violet is related to Jupiter.
Indigo >> ,, Saturn.
Blue »> ,, Venus.
Green 99 ,, Earth's satellite.
Yellow 9» Mercury.
Orange 99 Sun.
Red , 99 Mars.
In this scheme Venue denotes the Intuitive or Spiritual
Intellect and Mercury the Rational or Material Intellect.
They are united temporarily
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in earth-life, indicated by the Earth (for which the Moon
stands proxy) and the colour Green. The permanent union
of the lower and higher phases of the mind, through the
experience of incarnation, is an amalgam which, according
to the Hermetic Philosophers, changes copper into pure
gold. In all these philosophical speculations we find that
mercury is the active principle. It stands for experience,
and when this is properly digested in the " egg
philosophical" and united to copper, the mercury is
entirely absorbed and the copper is changed to gold. The
philosophers speak of the perfect man as Hermaphrodite,
that is to say, a permanent blend of the two natures,
Hermes = Mercury, and Aphrodite = Venus.
Changing our theme we may change our colours, and
find them thus related to numbers: Violet = 3, Indigo =
8, Blue = 6, Green = 7, Yellow =5, Orange =1, and Red
= 9.
Arranging the digits in their numerical order,
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energy in the cosmos ; and 5 is the experience principle
in man, intelligence in the cosmos. These two
principles of life and consciousness answer to the gold
and mercury of the alchemists; the desirable thing and
the means of its attainment. Mercury 5, therefore, was
regarded as the universal solvent. Its symbol is
compounded of the Circle, the Crescent, and the Cross,
the three great religion symbols of the world.
Hermetically, they stand for the Spirit, Soul, and Body,
the Sun, Moon, and Earth, and are comprehended only
in Mercury, the principle of consciousness. But when,
by means of the " Red Dragon, n the planet Mars, the
number 9, which are symbols of the Will, the ens had
been incorporated with the quicksilver = Mercury, then
we might look for the realisation of our quest in the
production of the material gold. Thus:
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great work, can alone be brought to a satisfactory
conclusion. When, therefore, we seek to bring our
speculations to a satisfactory conclusion, we must make
prime use of experience.
Now, we have seen that certain numbers or unit
values of sounds answer to planets, and therefore to
colours, for Sound, Number, and Colour are bound up
together in the universal expression of the Law of
Vibrations.
Saturn and the number 8 are thus related to all
sibilant sounds, such as S, Sh, and Z. They answer to
the colour Indigo.
Jupiter and the number 3 are related to all palatals, as
Ch, J, and soft G. They correspond with Violet.
Mars and the number 9 are related to the sounds
K, hard G, and R. They answer to the colour Red. The
Sun and the numbers 1 and 4 are related to
the sounds A and I, and to the colour Orange ; also the
consonants M, D, T.
Venus and the number 6 are related to the
vowels 0 and UW, and to the colour Blue.
Mercury and the number 5 are related to the sounds
E, the aspirate H, and N, and to the colour Yellow.
The Moon has relation to the numbers 7 and 2, and
to the labials B, P, F, V, and to the colour Green.
It may be said that some writers fix the corre-
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govern the letters or sounds G (soft), L, Sh ; and so of the
rest. But to this arrangement experience offers some excep-
tions, especially regarding initials.
Returning now to our colours, we have found that there is
a gamut of colour as well as a gamut of sound and number
related to tho planets. In order to make a test of the colour
values it will be necessary to introduce some elements of
astrology. A figure of the heavens being set for the time and
place of an event in which contestants may be known from
their colours, it will be found that three specific points or
parts of the heavens will give a clear indication of the
dominant or winning colour. In the case of the Wars of the
Roses, we had but to decide between the relative strength of
the red and the white, i.e. Mars or the Moon. But in a mixed
field, where the colours represent a financial as well as a
sporting interest, the variety may be so great as to require
some discrimination. It will be found then that the body
colour which is dominant is that chiefly to be regarded. The
head or cap is related to the first House, which corresponds
with the sign Aries, and is that section of the heavens
immediately below the horizon of the East. The body
colour, which is the principal one, is determined by the fifth
House, the part of the heavens which is from 120° to 150°
from the East horizon, and which corresponds to the sign
Leo.
These Houses, of themselves, answer to the colours
White and Gold; but when occupied by any sign they
take the colour of that sign, which is determined by its
ruling planet. Thus, if Saturn were in the fifth House at
the time, we must look for Indigo or Black to win, or if
Capricorn were there it would be the same, because
Capricorn is ruled by Saturn. If Mars were just rising, or
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the sign Aries was on the East horizon, a red cap would
fit the winner very well indeed.
So, according to the signs and planets occupying the
fifth and first Houses, we judge of the body and cap
colours of the winning competitor. But if a single planet
be conspicuous in the heavens, either by its exact rising,
culmination, or setting at the time, or by its being in
elevation in its own sign, then that planet will give its
note of colour, to the exclusion of all others. In this
connection it should be noted that the Moon, when in a
watery sign— ancer, Scorpio, or Pisces—shows green;
but in other signs it shows straw colour, pale yellow, or
cream. The colours of the planets are variously :
Neptune—Lavender, lilac, heliotrope.
Uranus― tripes, grey, black and white. Saturn—
Indigo, dark blue, black, or chocolate. Jupiter—
Violet, purple.
Mars—Red, scarlet, crimson.
Sun—Gold, orange.
Venus—Primrose, turquoise, pale blue. Mercury—
Yellow, sometimes pink.
Some useful examples of the working of this colour
scheme in matters of selection will be found in The Silver
Key.1
Let us now examine the working influence of colour in
daily life. Red is perhaps the most striking colour it is
possible for a man or woman to wear. It immediately arrests
attention, and generally excites comment. The pathological
effects of colour must have been noted by the publisher who
first blazed into public notice by using red^covers for the
display of his books. Red is an irritant to all but Martians,
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and to them green probably means the same thing as does
red to us Terranians. The pathology and psychology of
colour are things to be noted in daily life. Green has a
soothing effect, as all know who have lived long upon the
sandy plains of the tropics. It conveys a sense of
refreshment and acts as an anodyne. The red hair of the true
Martian is always accompanied by the steel-grey eye : " An
eye like Mars to threaten and command." Soldiers whose
regimentals are red attract general notice―too much so in
action,—and "one drunken soldier damns the army “
because of this conspicuous colour. The rank and file are
getting a better reputation since they went into khaki. We
never imagine how much influence colour exerts upon us
until we study it in a critical manner. We are affected by
scenery without understanding art; we are moved by melody
without a knowledge of musio ; and, similarly, we are
influenced by colour without any idea of what chromopathy
may mean.
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Foulsham & CJo., London.
The young lover who is scrupulous about the setting
of his cravat has a fancy for colour, the science of
which altogether escapes him. Neither does he know
that the colour of his cravat, the carpet on which he
stands, and the wall-paper which forms a background
to his figure, have quite as much to do with the success
of his campaign as any undiscovered traits of character
of which he may imagine himself to be possessed.
Blact, which is defined as the absence of colour,
arises naturally from the privation of light, either radial
or reflected. It is universally associated with evil and
death. Its influence is depressing, and the pathology of
colour has been so far apprehended by the poets that
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they uniformly picture despair as black. Disaster has
produced a " Black Monday, n disease has made “ the
Black Death “ famous throughout Europe, and what are
known as “ the Black Assizes “ are so characterised by
reason of the outbreak of jail-fever. What was formerly
known as Merrie England has been transformed into
Melancholy England since Puritan methods obtained in
regard to dress. But, according to The Tailor and the
Fashion Book, we are beginning to wake up and find
that life has some joy and colour in it.
Purple and gold belong to royalty, because they are
the colours of Jupiter and the Sun, the two greatest
bodies of our system and the symbols of opulence and
grandeur. The Order of Melkizedec arose from the
association of Jupiter (Zadok) with the priestly kings,
and they are represented as clothed in purple.
The fire and energy of Mars is well expressed in the
properties of the colours red, crimson, and scarlet. It is the
planet of Freedom, answering to the number 9. The Red
Cap, or Bonnet Rouge, of the Revolutionists is the Cap of
Liberty, or shall we say, in this case, of licence. In its
sinister aspect Mars is the symbol of carnage, fire, and the
sword. Its conjunctions with Saturn (symbol of Death) in
the various signs of the zodiac have been seen to coincide
with bloodshed and carnage either by international or civil
war in those countries ruled by such signs (Kab., i. 78-80).
In 1792 Mars was stationary in the sign Virgo, ruling Paris,
and in that year the Revolutionaries established the Re-
public. In the cyclic revolution of the universal horoscope
the present age comes up under the dominion of the sign
Aries, ruled by Mars. Consequently it has been called the
Iron Age, because steel and iron belong to Mars by tradition
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and to the great cosmioal artificer Vulcan. After the Iron
Age is the Copper Age, then the Age of Amalgams, then the
Silver Age, and, lastly, the Golden Age. These are under the
dominion of Venus, Mercury, the Moon and Sun
respectively. .
Blue is akin to green in that it acts as an anodyne. It is a
true nervine, and restores the equilibrium of the nerves
produced by the effects of light and activity. Consequently
it symbolises Peace, Purity, Truth, and Grace. It is the
vesture colour of the Madonna in combination with white.
Yellow is a laxative colour and acts as a purgative, like
mercurous chloride. It corresponds to the 12 stage between
disease and health when Nature is putting off effete tissue
and impurities of all kinds. It also responds to the state of
Purgatory, which is that between the worlds of Death and
Life, of earth and heaven. In medical practice it is cus-
tomary after disease to employ purgatives before
administering tonics. Mercury, as related to the colour
yellow, is also the cosmic symbol of experience, which is
the means used by the Spirit to purge the mind of errors and
delusions. We do not therefore need to subscribe entirely to
the verdict of Solomon that this world's experience is “
vanity and vexation of spirit? J Vexation of spirit it may be;
but it is not in vain, since it forms a natural and necessary
part of the process of evolution.
Red is a stimulant and tonic, and purple increases
blood - pressure; black, brown, and indigo are
depressants. The mental atmosphere of the pessimist is
brown, and even black; that of the philosopher and deep
thinker is indigo. Indigo is intensified blue, the deep
well of truth into which the speculative soul gazes when
contemplating universal problems.
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If any doubt exists as to the actual influence of
colour on the human system, it is only necessary to take
a number of coloured glasses—red, yellow, and blue,—
fill them with pure distilled water, and expose them for
twenty-four hours to the sun's rays. It will be found in
effect that if the contents of the red glass are taken on
an empty stomach they will act as a tonic, those of the
yellow glass as a purgative, and those of the blue glass
as a nerve tonic, of particular use in neuritis. By
combining the red and yellow, the red and blue, the
blue and yellow in equal proportions a variety of effects
will be observed. Temperature rapidly decreases under
a combination of the yellow and blue waters. Anybody
experimenting along these lines will be convinced of
the ohemic action of light upon water through coloured
media. In New York there was established some years
ago a hospital for fevers,, in one ward of which all the
smallpox cases were treated. The window-glass of this
ward was of a red colour, and none of the cases showed
〜 any “pitting." Prof. Babitt and Dr Albertini have
written extensively on the pathological effects of
colour, and have adduced numerous instances of cases
successfully treated. In acute cases of neuritis and
mania the use of "all-blue" surroundings has repeatedly
proved to be efficacious. A correspondent informs me
that he has repeatedly dreamed of persons dressed in
grey, and in every case they have met with accidents
immediately afterwards. I have personal experience to
the same effect. It is obviously Uranus at work.
These remarks refer to the pathological effects of colour.
In material affairs the colours appear to be transmitted
through a coarser medium than the astral body, for we
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repeatedly find that Mercury (yellow) is represented by the
Moon, that Mercury takes up pink as if it were tinctured by
Mars. On the other hand, green is often represented by the
Moon in certain zodiacal positions.
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These things being duly observed, it vill be possible
to institute a chromoscopic science in regard to matters
in which colour variations are apparently of
significance. Patrons of sport appear not altogether
indifferent to the influence of colour, and " owner's
colours " have before now been consulted in regard to
speculations of this kind with commendable success.
One system presents a colour for each House, another
for each sign, and a third for each planet. But
sometimes, as I have shown, all the colour is in the
name, as, for example, Rubio = red, White
Knight=white in red sign, Cream of the Sky = yellow
in green sign, Grey Barbarian = grey (black and white)
in white sign. The colours attaching to the Houses will
be found in Cosmic Symbolism. Those of the planets
are already known, and will be found in The Manual of
Astrology. The sign colours are Aries, red; Taurus, pale
blue ; Gemini, yellow ; Cancer, green ; Leo, orange ;
Virgo, dark green ; Libra, pale yellow; Scorpio, black;
Sagittarius, purple; Capricorn, white ; AquariuF, blue ;
Pisces, grey.
Many of these colours are modified by the amount of
light they reflect. Thus Pisces is a shining grey or pearl
grey, not a dead ash colour. The green of Cancer is a
shining green ; that of Virgo a dead green. I have also
found that Scorpio is sometimes related to a deep
blood-red, the colour of the carbuncle, as contrasted
with the red of Aries, which is bright red like a ruby.
Here it would seem that there is a red which is
equivalent to black, and t1. .3 both are related to the
sign Scorpio. From some experience in this direction of
colour significance, I have not the slightest doubt that a
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consistent study of winning colours in relation to
dominant planetary influence would lead to an orderly
science of chromoscopy which could be profitably
followed out.
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CHAPTER XII
PHRENOSCOPY
IT is not usual for the common-sense man, the spinner
and toiler in the workaday world, to reflect upon his
relationship to the universe of which he is an integral
part. It is exceptional that he should consider anything
of greater importance for the moment than the man who
elbows him in the street or those with whom he is
immediately concerned in business. But merely because
he does not reflect upon this relationship of himself to
his greater environment, does not alter the fact in itself.
He is, nilly willy, an integral part of the great universe
around him, and, all unconscious though he may be of
the sources from which he is impelled to think and act,
they nevertheless continue, without interruption, to
influence him in every decision of his life, every project
of his conception, every undertaking in which he may
engage.
Man thinks himself independent of his environment,
and able at all times to act with perfect freedom. This is
the conceit and vanity of human nature. It is not a fact.
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dependent on the very air he breathes, the quarter
whence the wind may blow, and the light and heat
which stream towards this our earth from the central
luminary of the world, so long is he physically bound to
respond to his environment in terms of his own nature.
But man is not a body only. He is not even essentially a
body. Rather is he a mind possessed of a body. And equally
by his mind man is related to the greater world around him.
By the incident of birth he is already endowed with a definite
character, a number of specific tendencies ; and these, being
related to an environment already in existence, must
constitute for him the sole means of relative expression by
which he is known to the world for what he is. Except in the
few very rare colourless and inept characters which one may
meet in the course of a long experience, it will be found that
everyone is possessed of some dominant characteristic which
enters into the expression of his nature in every single act of
life. He has some dominant passion which controls his
actions, shapes his ideals, and determines his attitude
towards the world around him. He has some special aptitude
which, unsuspected though it may be, finds illustration in
every act of daily life. Seeing, then, that everyone has a
predisposition, more or less strongly marked according to
the inherent force of his nature, towards definite modes of
thought and feeling and volition, we may inquire how he
comes to be possessed of this individual accent; and how,
being in possession of it, he can render it
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of automatic in expression; consciously directing his
powers towards definite and predetermined ends, always
following the line of least resistance, which is ever that
of greatest progress, instead of blundering through the
world half his time trying to find a place that fits him
and one that he himself can fill.
The human brain, or that part of it which we employ
in the process of thinking, is a congeries of minute cells
which coBectively constitute a speoies of galvanic
battery, which is capable of generating waves of
electrical energy, differing in intensity and in mode of
vibration according to the basic constitution of the mind
itself, and the efficiency of its instrument—the brain.
Brain-cell vibration is at the root of every thought, every
act, every effort of the will. The brain, as the root of the
whole nervous system, is endowed with the power of
affecting and of being affected ; and it is a matter of
daily experience that very few brains exactly syntonise
or show responsiveness to one another. If two persons
live together for any length of time they become
syntonised automatically, the more powerful of the two
bringing the brain of the other down to the frequency
and mode of vibration proper to itself. Thus thay arrive
at a sort of understanding which is a tyranny of the mind
on the one side and a slavery on the other. Occasionally,
as by nature endowed, we find two persons who are
capable of entering into immediate sym- pathetio
relationship, who understand one another instinctively,
so to speak, and are in such perfect
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“ rapport M as to be able to impress one another even at &
distance. This is the mystery of telepathy feeling at a
distance—which has recently engaged the minds of those
interested in the study of psychological phenomena and
mental science. The sympathy exists in the dominant mode
of vibration, not in its frequency alone, though this is
neoessarily syntonised where such telepathic
oommunioation is possible. It may be produced
automatically, as by hypnotism and other means.
The dominant characteristic, the ruling passion, the
special aptitude is ever that which controls the greater
issues of life and renders the individual effective for good
or evil in the world. For although the whole brain is not
employed in any single operation of the mind, yet those
parts of the brain which are the more active claim an
allegiance and a support from all other parts, so that if
acquis* itiveness or money-making (avarice) be the domi-
nant passion, even love will be subservient to it, and a "
marriage of convenience" will follow. This is what
phrenology would teach us. But we are not immediately
concerned with it or its problems. >
How do we come possessed of certain charac- teristios,
certain dominant passions and special aptitudes ?
Some may say it is hereditary influence, atavism. In
such case the natives of India, and other countries where
the caste system prevails, and where the individual is
thereby relegated to a particular sphere of work and to a
particular grade of social life, should for that reason be a
specialist. Emphatically, he is not. The Brahmin ryot is not
an expert agriculturist. He can learn in our colleges what
his ancestors have never dreamed of nor taught him. The
soldier (kshetrya) is not a specialist. He is better trained by
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Sun, the Moon, and the seven planets.
Now, we are informed by the study of embryology that
the segmentation of the ovarian cell, the microscopic world
in which organic life is commenced, is crucifonn. That is to
say, the cell, which consists of a wall enclosing a space, is
first of all bisected by a direct line or wall of matter, and
afterwards by another that is transverse to it. We learn also
from a study of the tides that the attraction of the earths
mass is greatest when the luminaries are acting along the
same meridian, and next when they are in quadrature ; and
further, that the local influence of any celestial body is
greatest on the meridian and on the horizon of a place. And
since the meridian and horizon are planes at right angles to
one another, we are led to the conclusion that there may be
an analogy and a correspondence between these two orders
of fact, the physiological and the astronomical. Experience
shows this to be the case.
When at the moment of a birth the meridian or horizon is
occupied by any one of the nine celestial
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combative
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ness, friendship, and inhabitiveness; and the Moon
relates itself to the Instinctual group, common to man
and the lower animals, including conjugality,
amativeness, love of offspring, love of life. Uranus is
related to the medulla and spinal cord, and Neptune to
the more interior parts and processes
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easily and effectively expressed, and in what particular
line of life success will be assured. The Key to this
information is contained in the following
PHBENOSCOPIC CHART
Neptune acts upon the mind of man to produce a highly-
strung nervous temperament, often allied to either insanity
or genius ; neurosis, aphasia, etc. It produces complications
in business and an involved state of affairs generally.
Disposes to fraud, doubledealing, and irresponsible actions.
In the body it produces waste of tissue and a consumptive
habit.
Uranus gives an eccentric mind, waywardness,
originality, inventiveness. Acting on the affairs of business,
it produces sudden and unexpected developments,
irregularities, rapid rise and fall, instability, unexpected
turns of good and bad fortnne. In the body it has relation to
the nervous system, and its diseases are those of paralysis,
lesion, and nervous derangement.
Saturn produces a thoughtful, sober, ponderable mind;
steadfastness, patience, and endurance; disposition to
routine and habit, method. In financial affairs it gives
steady results commensurate with labour, success that is
slow but sure, durance* hardships,privations. In the body it
is related to the osseous system, and its ill eflEects are
brought about by obstructions, chills, and inhibition of
function.
Jupiter gives joviality, optimism, bountifulneee,
generosity, a rich and fruitful mind. It renders the
subject fortunate in his affairs, giving success and
frequently opulence. With this planet strong, a person
never ** goes under." In the body it has relation to the
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related to the sensorium, the centres of
sensation, and reflexly controls the nerves of
action.
The Moon gives gracefulness of manner and suavity of
speech, softness and adaptability of nature, variableness,
love of change, romance, and adventure ; disposed to
exploration and voyaging. In the body it corresponds to the
glandular system, and its diseases are those incidental to
the lymphatic glands and vascular tissue.
The Sun renders its subjects magnanimous, noble, proud,
despising all mean and sordid actions ; loyal, truthful, and
fearless. It produces honours and the favour of dignitaries,
and renders the subject fortunate in the control of his
affairs. In the body it controls the vital principle.
SUMMARY Grace, idealism.
ABNORMAL.
NORMAL. Insanity, obsession. Obstinacy,
Neptune Genius, inspiration. Uranus eccentrioity. Deoeitfulness,
Originality, invention. Saturn suspicion. Ostentation, profligacy.
Steadfastness, fidelity. Jupiter Impulse, destructiveness.
Benevolence, joviality. Mars Energy, Vanity, egotism. Self-indulgence,
executiveness. Sun Dignity, disorderlineas. Inquisitiveness,
independenoe. Venus Affability, art. meddling. Inconstancy, awkwardness.
Mercury Alertness, ingenuity. Moon
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CHAPTER Xm
PLANETARY HOURS
HAVING shown that planetary hours count from noon in
the most ancient system of time-division, it may now
be of interest to learn of what use this knowledge is to
us and how it oan be turned to account in daily life.
For the sake of oonvenience to the reader I have here
set out the numerical values of the twenty- four hours
counted from noon of Sunday, which, by the same
system, was always the first day of the week, as
Saturday was the Sabbath (seventh) or last. To these
values w© have to add those due to the minutes past
each hour. Thus we find that on Saturday &t 2
p.m ・ , which is the beginning of the third hour from
noon, the value is 8, and if we want the value for 24
minutes past 2 o'clock, then we have to divide 24 by
4=6, and count to the sixth period from Saturn, which
is Mercury=5, and by adding this to the day and hour
value in the above Table, namely 8, we get 13, the unit
value of which is 4. This responds to the negative Sun,
the significanoe of which will be found in the
following pages.
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obtain at once the unit value of 7, which is the number
of the Moon, and we therefore know that the value 7 is
ruling for 3 minutes after 5.25 p.m., and that it is under
the direct or positive influence of the Moon. Again,
supposing that the time given were 3.45 on Wednesday
morning. Let it be supposed that a child were bom at
that time. It is required to know under what number and
Star it was bom. According to Table I. it is seen that
Tuesday, at 15 hours after noon, is under number 1 9
and Table II. informs us that on a Tuesday 45 minutes
after the hour is under 6. Therefore we have 1 plus 5
equal 6, which is the number of the Nativity, and hence
the child would be bom under the planet Venus. .
Supposing that there is a competition which begins
at a particular time, as, for instance, a race of any
description. By means of these Tables we may at once
decide upon the numerical value of the winning
competitor^ name, or number if he carries one. For in a
very large majority of cases— so large as to preclude
the idea of a fortuitous coincidence~~it will be found
that the planetary value of the time of commencing the
competition or raoe will coincide with the value of the
name of competitor or the number he carries.
But it is found that the hours have a significance
which is dominant during their rule or sway, and the
use to which this oan be put is in the selection of the
times for performing any work according to its nature,
and aldo a knowledge of the influenoe
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of the ruling planet enables us to make forecast of the
result of any effort, the contents of letters, the nature of
messages, etc., that may be received under their rule.
For this purpose Table I. is alone to be used.
The influence and signification of the planets are as
follows :
PLANETARY INDICATIONS
1. In the hour ruled by this number. Persons
indicated by this number will be independent, proud,
and magnanimous, scorning decepticm and meanness of
every sort. They are bold and fearless, and capable of
governing others and taking positions of trust and
authority. Subject when iU to defects of the heart and
circulation, and to hurts and diseases of the right eye.
Things sought for in this hour should be found in the
East, and are brought to light at the full of the Moon.
Persons applying to one in this hour are ruddy, with
grey or blue eyes and strong active bodies.
Letters received during this hour are relative to affairs
of credit and position, honours, dignities, public persons,
places of government, etc.
2. This hour is ruled by the Moon in its negative
aspect, and is unfortunate, especially in regard to all
matters having to do with females, changes, etc. Things
lost will not be found. Persons applying are shifty and
unreliable. Journeys are unfortunate. Letters refer to
changes and misfortunes, and are often of the nature of
evasion.
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3. Ruled by Jupiter. A fortunate hoar. Persons
indicated by this planet are generous and even
extravagant, disposed to help others, to tiieir own
detrim^it. Fond of good living and very grandiose in
their ideas, pompous, but kind. They usually have full
foreheads and protrading eyes, large teeth and plentiful
hair, waving or curling, but in mature years they are
disposed to baldness.
Things sought for in this hour may be recovered by
searching in tiie N.-E. direction. If stolen, 低妙 y will be
restored if notice is given, with a reward.
Complaints to which the subject is predisposed are
those of the liver and *leen, congestion and surfeit,
sometimes flatulence.
It is a fortunate hour in which to avail oneseU of legal
advice, to oansult churchmen, and to obtain favours
from judges and magistrateB. It is fortunate for all
financial tranBactions and ior general oommerce, also
for advancing one^ interest in any direction. It is
unfortunate for sailing or for dealing in cattle.
Letters received during this hour will have reference
to money, trade, justice, and are always indicative of
some advantage to the person receiving them.
Information given at this time is reliable.
4. This number is ruled by the Sun, but is negative
and unfortunate. Persons applying to one during this
hour are haughty and pfoud, conceited and overbearing,
fond of display and bigoted.
Things sought for in this hour are seldom recovered,
but may be so at the New Moon if sought iov in the N.-
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Sometimes easy-going and lovers of pleasure, to their
own hurt and detriment. The body is well favoured and
fully fleshed, the limbs round and supple. The hair fine
and of a light brown or flaxen colour, sometimes very
black and abundant. The eyes may be either dark and
sloelike, or of a fine blue colour, as suits the
complexion. Generally good-looking if male, and pretty
if female, but always attractive.
The hour is good for all matters pertaining to the
sexes and for the pursuit of things of beauty, fashion,
and pleasure. It is good at this time to prefer a suit, and
to become engaged or to marry. A good hour for
domestio affairs and for entering a new home. Good for
journeys and for taking trips, but not for setting out on a
long voyage, and principally for matters of a domestio
and social nature—visiting, shopping, oalling on friends,
etc.
Things lost in this hour are to be found in Che West.
The diseases to which those bom under Venus are
subject are those arising from the morbid expression of
the passions, sexual oomplaints, and diseases of the
throat and kidneys; skin diseases, phlebitis, etc.
Letters received at this time relate to pleasure and to
domestio and social affairs, and sometimes to affections.
7. Ruled by the Moon. The person applying under
this number is usually of full body, fleshy and pale, with
rounded features and odourless complexion. Hands and
feet small, head large. In character the individual is self-
assertive and fond of praise.
The Moon governs all persons attached to public
service. It denotes pubUo bodies and Government or
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municipal servants.
Things lost or observed to be lost in this hour will be
recovered if public notice is given of the fact. The thing
should be looked for in the North, and will come to light
in the full of the Moon.
The diseases to which those bom under this influence
are subject are chest affections, diseases and oomplaints
of the stomach and breasts, bad digestion, injuries or bad
defeots of the left eye and the brain. .
The hour is good for dealing with matrons and all
public ooncems, municipalities, affairs of public
interest, journeys, voyages, changes of aD sorts,
advertising, etc.
Letters and messages at this time relate to journeys
and ch 皿 ges, and there are female influences involved.
The hour is good in ccmtra- dietinoticHi from the hour
ruled by Moon under number 2.
Nevertheless it is best not to take any important steps
under this influence, as changes of plan and arrangement
are apt to intervene to spoil the best results. It is
especially good for dealing with 破 1 matters affecting
the public, and also public bodies of government.
8. This number is ruled by Saturn. It is m evil hour,
and bad for almost all affairs, but singularly good for
dealing in land and the produce of. the earth—minerals,
crops, etc.
Persons applying are usually of a dark and lean
visage, sinister in appearance, and stooping in gait.
Hardly to be trusted, because selfish and material to a
degree.
The hour is good only for dealing with the aged and
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infirm, and for matters oonnected with the produce of
the soil, such as crops and minerals; but also for any
matter in which time is a prominent factor, as in the case
of contracts reaching over many years.
Things lost during the hour of Saturn are seldom if
ever regained, but should be looked for in the South, and
they may be found, but only after long delay.
Letters in this hour relate to death, sickness, misery,
disease, misfortune, darkness, mourning, and delays.
It is not a good hour in which to deal with anything,
as it flhowa delays, deceptions, treachery, and loss. The
Hebrews made the whole day, so far as it related to
business, a holiday and period of rest.
A person falling sick in this hour will have a long
period of illness, and will only recover after much care
and expense. Mental impressions received during this
hour should be carefully thought over before being acted
upon, as they are generally faulty.
The diseases of Saturn are those of the bones and
artioulatione, morbid decay, consumption, melancholia,
and religious mania.
9. This number is ruled by Mars. Persons applying
during this hour are such as have a sandy or ruddy
complexion and grey, steely eyes. They are usually
strong and muscular and very militant in their manner. It
is better to placate them than to oppose. They are
petulant and fiery and very impulsive, yet frank and
outspoken, and easily dealt with on that account alone.
You know what they mean and intend to do as soon as
they speak.
Things that are lost in this hour are usually found
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made.
I have found that the ancient method of using the
hours is in close agreement with the events of daily life,
and for that reason alone have adhered to it in practice.
Elsewhere in the pages of this work I have given
examples of the manner in which the evaluation of
names by the Phonetic alphabet brings them into accord
with the value of the Day, Hour, and Period involved,
and these examples will be sufficient proof of the
integrity of the system. We have now to consider one or
two propositions of a more recondite nature connected
with the subject of planetary influence in human life,
and these will suitably conclude the second part of the
Kabala.
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CHAPTER XIV
SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION
IN the foregoing pages we have seen that there is a Law
of Values attaching to Form, Sound, Number, and to all
expressions of the universal vibration of the etheric
agent. It has been demonstrated in other places that the
planets deflect and transmit the Solar rays in altered
magnetio and electrical conditions, differing as does the
nature of the planet transmitting them. Those who are
disposed to regard the conclusions of astrology as
fanciful and inconsequent should reflect on the fact that
the planet Mercury is second to none in importance
among the spheres, which would certainly not be the
case had the ancients judged by appearances only and
not by experience and reason. Here we have a planet
which is about 22,500 times smaller than Jupiter, and so
near at times to the Sun as to be seldom visible; indeed,
I believe I am right in saying that the great astronomer
Copernicus confessed never to have seen it. Yet this
planet above all others is taken to be the specific
significator of man, inasniuch as it is related by
astrology to the intellectual and reasoning faculties as
distinguished
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the emotional and passicmal common to man and the
lower animals. With thinking people this fact will
weigh very heavily, and in the scientific mind it may
serve to remove the prejudice which has long existed
against the science on account of immature presentation
and frequent misrepresentation at the hands of criticB
who are wholly ignorant of the subject.
It is a matter of considerable satisfaction to me to
know that Mr George F. Chambers, F.R.A.S., in his
admirable little work, The Story of Eclipses, has
admitted that there is prima facie evidence for scientifio
inquiry into the connection between eclipses and
earthquakes. He says: " Perhaps this may be a
convenient place to make a note of what seems to be a
fact, partly established, at any- rate, even if not wholly
established, namely, that there seems some connection
between eclipses of the Sun and earthquakes. A German
physicist named Ginzel has found a score of coincides
cee between solar eclipses and earthquakes in California
in the years between 1850 and 1888 inclusive. Of
course, there were eclipses without earthquakes and
earthquakes without eclipses, but twenty coincidences
in thirty-eight years seems suggestive."
Had Ginzel taken the trouble to extend Ids
observations beyond California, and to include eclipses
of the Moon as well as those of the Sun, and further,
had he taken note of planetary transits over the places of
eolipse, his coincidences would have been
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fundamental ooncept of Newton's Principia, that of the
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planetary perturbation caused by the interaction of the
large bodies of the system they do not care to inquire
whether there may not be other forces than the
attraction of gravitation at work in the system. In this
they err very greatly. It was by the recognition of the
law of planetary interaction as implied by the concept of
the solidarity of the system that Laplace discovered the
great perturbation of Saturn by the planet Jupiter, and
paved the way to the discovery of Uranus by Herschel,
the discovery of which was a unique performance in the
history of astronomy.
Sir David Brewster was more catholic in his ideas,
and fully admitted that if the Sun's rays were necessary
for the development of chromatic effect and the faculty
of vision, there may be other rays which enable us to
hear, to taste, and to smell. I would go further and say,
without any reserve whatsoever, that there are rays,
more subtle than those of light, more far-reaching than
the force of gravity, which impel men to think and to
act, which create disasters, produce various forms of
sickness, inspire ambitions, and dispose men to definite
lines of conduct. And I say this with as much authority
and from as weighty an experience as any which at any
time has been adduced in support of a scientific
proposition. In line with me are suoh men as the
astronomers Tycho, Kepler, Newton, Wiohell, Wing,
Flamsteed, and Christie;
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writers Sir Thomas Browne, Dryden, Varley, and
Garnett, and a host of others whose names and works
have embellished the records of antiquity.
In these pages I have not advanced any one of the
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more weighty arguments, nor adduced any part of the
voluminous body of proofs which might be urged in
favour of an astrologia sana such as that to which
Bacon subscribed, for it has been my express purpose to
entertain the popular mind with such material as can
legitimately be advanced as a part of the Kabala.
Incidentally, however, this matter goes to prove that
there is a definite law of correlation at work in the
universe, and that, whether we regard the cosmic as
embodied Force or merely as a symbol of Mind, it
submits equally to an orderly and systematic
interpretation.
I have purposely refrained indeed from making any
specific references to the scientific and philosophical
value of astrology as a system of interpretation. This is
not from want of any material, but from lack of space in
which to deal fairly with it. But yet I have felt that there
is a subtle connection between numerology and the
various branches of kabalism, and astrology, which
renders the development of the one almost impossible
without the introduction of the other. Certainly, without
a knowledge of astrology one cannot go very far in
kabalism, and I think that symbolism of any sort,
whether it be religious, Masonic, Rosi- oruoian, or pure
Art, cannot go far without coming into direct relations
with astrology.
For purely forensic purposes it may be conveni-
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ent to regard all celestial configurations as merely
symbolical. It is a somewhat difficult matter, apart from
the introduction of a species of occultism, to argue a
connection between the presence erf Mars in a
particular degree of the zodiac and a blood temperature
of 105°, between the passage of Uranus over the place
held by the Moon at a birth and the presence of the
subject in a motor smash-up, or between the transit of
Venus over the place of the Sun at birth and the
marriage of the person at an age exactly corresponding
to the interval of time between the birth and the transit
at the rate of a day for a year. Yet these are among the
common observations of the student of astrology. If,
however, we regard the planets as symbols, the
argument rests solely in the correspondence of symbol
and event, and the man who would talk them out of
existence must inevitably fail.
In seeking for purely physical conneotions between
earthquakes and eclipses, we may consider the fact that
the lifting power of the Moon over all fluidic nature is
exceedingly great, so great indeed as to raise millions of
tons of water several feet in the course of a few hours.
There are various means by which this may be effected,
and the popular view is that it is caused by the attraction
of the Moon upon the particles of water composing the
ooean. When the Sun and Moon are conjoined, and both
pulling in the same direction, we have what are called
Spring Tides, when the effect is greatest. When pulling
from opposite sides of the earth, the same bodies
produce Neap Tides, when
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effect is not so great. Now it is known that the period
from one high tide to the next is 12 hours 25 minutes,
and this interval comprises a half revolution of the
earth on its axis plus the 25 minutes represented by the
meridian passcge of the Moon's elongation (increase of
Moon‘8 longitude over the Sun's) during the interval.
We are able therefore to link up the tides with the
Moon's elongation and to define the joint action of the
luminaries as greatest at conjunction. But all
conjunctions of the Sun and Moon are not eclipses of
the Sun, the reason being that the Moon's path does not
lie in the same plane as that of the earth, and conse-
quently crosses it at an angle, which is found to be
about 5°. The point of intersection is called the node,
and it is only when the luminaries are conjoined on, or
close to, this node that there can be an eclipse of the
Sun. They are then pulling in a right line together on
the same side of the earth, and the visible effect is that
the sun's rays are cut off from the earth in that region
where the eclipse is central at noon, that is to say,
where the centres of the Sun and Moon appear to
coincide when they are exactly on the meridian. At the
eclipse of the Sun on 12th April 1912, and in other
cases, the fall of temperature at the moment of greatest
obscuration was such as to be a matter of general
comment. What would be the effect of this sudden
disturbance of the temperature ? Obviously there would
be an immediate uprush of heat from the interior parts
of the earth to counteract the chill and to restore the
equilibrium. Further, the electrostatic con-
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observations and records. In one instance, at all events
—that of the Cumana earthquake,—he spe- oifically
predicted and located the disturbance. It does not
appear to have arrested scientific attention, however,
and probably because at that date no soientifio
authority had argued a connection between earthquakes
and eclipses. It is well to keep these facts warm,
however, for it is commonly observed that the folly of
to-day is the science of to-morrow. A hundred years
ago you could not photograph a body through a brick
wall, or fly in the air, or communicate with a person a
thousand miles away in a few minutes; nor, for that
matter, could you predict the time and place of an
eclipse with any certainty, and, with the exception of
the latter, any talk of doing these things would have
been a “ sure sign “ of enfeebled intellect.
When, therefore, we hear people talk of the folly of
planetary influenoe in human life, which is the
description of what astrology imports to us, we get
impatient, first because they are inconsistent, and next
because they are presumptuous in pretending a
knowledge they do not possess. For, beyond all human
cavil and controversy, there is the fact that we are
creatures of the Earth ; the further fact that the Earth is
an integral part of the Solar System; and, moreover, the
fact that every atom exerts a direct influence on every
other atom throughout the system to which it belongs.
When, therefore, we are asked to believe that cosmical
conditions, at a time when the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and
the Earth are all in the same line, are exactly
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this connection the present effort may be of service as
showing the existence of many curious coincidences
which can hardly be accounted for except on the
grounds of a universal physiognomy, a symbolism that
touches all phases of human experience and vaguely
approaches the cusp of science. In connection with it
we have been able to trace the Law of Vibrations, that
of Periodicity, and the relations of both to matters of
common human interest. A kabalism that is so
inclusive can hardly lay claim to be considered in the
light of a science, but it leads directly to the study of
the problems of science which we have touched upon
in this chapter, and perchance it may extend to that
region of Higher Physics which pertains to the science
of Mind. That it is not wholly without interest is
sufficient excuse for its publication. If it should also be
found to have a use, so much the better for the patient
reader, to whom my thanks are due.
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