MANY attempts have been made to bring the study of Astrology within the reach of all persons endowed with an active mind; but, owing to the magnitude of the subject, and the great amount of time and labour required to reduce a metaphysical science into terms of natural philosophy, the object has hitherto been only partly achieved. In the present work a final attempt is made by the author to reach the multitude of earnest and thinking searchers after truth: whose numbers are steadily increasing, and especially those who wish to have some practical demonstration of the widespread belief that a wise Ruler is behind all manifestation of life, guiding and influencing humanity towards a perfect ending-the Millennium-in which perfection is the goal.
The day is past for writing a defence of Astrology, and no amount of argument will ever convince the sceptic, who is either too perverse or too indolent to investigate so grand a science as Astrology, a science which explains the law that governs all things. The best test that can be applied to this, as to all other subjects where first hand knowledge is required, is that of experience.
Reason, thought, and experience are the basis upon which the system adopted in this work is built. The ripened fruit of many years' toil and practice are offered to those who are sufficiently thirsty for the knowledge that Astrology brings to mankind, and the main object of the present publication is that of 'satisfying a demand made by the growing students of Astrology for more light.
ASTROLOGY is the oldest of all sciences. Its history can be traced so far into the past that it becomes a hopeless task to actually dis. cover when and where it had its origin. From Babylonia and the Chaldeans we find a belief in Astrology spreading throughout the whole world. Once the religion of a great and mighty race, it taught its people wisely, lifting their aspirations by faith, hope and reverence through the media of the planetary spirits to the supreme One and Universal Spirit, the Logos of the solar system.
Since the days of happy Chaldea, whose wise priests by the expansion of their consciousness could reach the shining ones, the star of Astrology appears to have waned, and for the multitude to have entirely disappeared. Its rediscovery is due to the spiritual activity that is again reviving the wisdom religion taught by Pythagoras and his earnest followers, and now once again we hope to see the star of stars slowly rising to again shine in all the splendour of its beneficent glory.
Berosus, the Chaldean priest, to whom a statue with a gilt tongue was erected at Athens, translated the Illumination of Bel, an early Babylonian work, and introduced Astrology into Greece. The Greeks held the old traditions for a time, but it became more an art than a science with them, and had so far waned that little trace of the original Astrology can be found, and it was left to the Romans. to finally destroy the little life that was left in it as an exoteric study.
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