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DR. RICHARD GARNETT, C.B., LL.D.

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Notes of the Quarter

E have due cause to be grateful for the generous reception
which has been accorded to THE FORECAST alike by
press and public. Editors who wish to sustain their
reputation for intelligent anticipation, as well as those worldly
wise people who are credited with a faculty for discovering
things in the germ, all, in fact, upon this rather abandoned planet
of ours who take an interest in its secret store of possibilities,
have found something of more than usual interest in our pages.
There is promise of still more.

We think it very gracious on the part of the Government

that it has done its best, and really tried hard to fulfil our
predictions. It was said that certain positions of the planets
clearly indicated that it “would not be a strong Government.”
It has proved itself unexpectedly weak in having taken a rather
high-handed course in regard to the death sentence passed by
the Natal Government upon twelve blacks convicted of murder,
and on the Ministry going out, immediately assenting to the
carrying out of the sentence, and excusing itself in the most
deplorable manner for having interfered with the responsible
Government of Natal. Moreover, the Government was certainly
“not strong" when it yielded to the pressure of the Labour
Party on the amendment to the Trade Unions Bill, and threw
over the Attorney-General. At the present moment it is trying
to further involve itself over Education Reform.

Mr. Chamberlain has been promised some good thing from

the transit of Jupiter over the Ascendant of his horoscope in
July next (p. 10), and it is gratifying, from the point of view of
Astrology, to learn that Birmingham has conspired to do him
honour at that time, Conservatives and Liberals alike celebrating
his thirtieth year of Parliamentary representation of the City.
Some better thing shall happen in the same month two years
hence.
36 THE FORECAST

France has had a terrible visitation in the shape of the mining

disaster at Lens. Italy has been “shocked beyond measure,”
as I have read, by the terrible earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions experienced during the first fortnight in April. Both
countries are astrologically indicated by the sign Leo, and it
was in that sign that the last eclipse of the Moon took place.
The ecliptic conjunction fell on the 9th February in the 20th
degree of the sign Leo. The line of eclipse passed over the
Gulf of Mexico, Central America, and terminated south of the
Sandwich Islands. On the 13th, news was received of a
devastating earthquake and tidal wave, which attacked the
coast-line between Tumaco and Buenaventura in Columbia.
Following closely upon these phenomena came the terrific up
heaval which wrecked the most beautiful city of the Pacific
coast, whereby in less than a single day thousands were rendered
homeless, the loss of property amounting to millions sterling.
That eclipses of the luminaries have a direct influence in
producing seismic phenomena of this order, students of Astrology
have been well assured for hundreds of years past, and their
significance in this connection is to be found in the writings
of Ptolemy, Ricciolus, and others. Recently seismologists
have been demonstrating anew the combined action of the
luminaries in this connection. Elsewhere in these pages will
be found an article dealing with some modern instances of
ecliptic influence.

It is satisfactory to know that these and other similar effects

the to planetary interaction were well defined and predicted.
Thus in the ‘Green Book of Prophecies’ it is said under the
month of February 1906: “During the month there will be
eclipses of the Sun and Moon. In many parts of the world there
will be some serious earthquake shocks soon after these eclipses.
The wreck and ruin of property will be widespread and excep
tional.” Under March, the terrific floods experienced in this
country and at Antwerp and in other parts, were referred to in
these words: “Inordinate rains continue to deluge the land
and produce disasters of various descriptions, causing great
distress among the people in badly-sheltered places.” The
Eapress and the Daily Mirror of the 13th March both supply
graphic descriptions of devastation by the flood tide: “Gales
and squalls, floods and wrecks, furious blizzards, snow, sleet and
hail—such were the weather conditions yesterday.” In the
political arena also, the evidence of planetary influence in human
life is conspicuously to the fore. The rising of the Zulus with
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its consequent tragedies, the punitive expedition against

Bambaata, and the Ministerial protest against the interference
of the Home Government in colonial administration, were thus
tritely indicated : “There are signs of internal troubles in our
South African possessions, and about the end of March or the
beginning of April, there will be some danger of a crisis.”
Thus we see that individuals, nations, and even the terrestrial
body itself, are involved in the play of the celestial bodies.
Why should it be otherwise? So far as we know there is
nothing in the domain of science which militates against the
idea of interplanetary action. On the contrary, it constitutes an
important part of the Newtonian thesis, and there are certan
analogies to be discerned between the Solar System and the
smallest molecule of which its various bodies are said to be
composed, which, taken in relation to the solidarity of the Solar
System, seem to suggest that an Astrology of some sort must be
taken as part of any intelligible theory of Cosmology. How far
this may legitimately be pursued is a matter rather of empiricism
than conjecture, and those who have made a study of it, are
doubtless better able to sound its depths and fix its limitations
than those who have only an uninstructed opinion about it.

We have to ask indulgence at the hands of those who have

availed themselves of the coupon for the test. We have
made notes on dozens upon dozens of cases, but so far have
only been able to send a reading of a portion of those received.
The remainder will be dispatched as early as possible. It is
obvious that a very widespread interest has been evoked by
our appearance, and elsewhere I am printing some few of the
replies received from those to whom answers have been sent.
It would, of course, have been easy enough to have obtained
some degree of assistance in the computing of the various cases
submitted, but as it would in any event fall to our task to make
the final statement, we have preferred the more tedious but
more satisfactory method of dealing with each case personally
da capo ad ſino.
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Dr. Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D.

Scholar and Astrologer

Y the death of Dr. Richard Garnett, the distinguished editor and

B philologist, the science of Astrology has lost a most able and
industrious advocate. It need be no secret now that he was
sincerely in favour of a close and painstaking study of its principles,
and in his own contributions to the literature of the subject he shows
the greatest discrimination and acumen. Always a familiar figure to
me in the British Museum Library, Dr. Garnett came to have a special
interest for me when I discovered that he was the author, under the
pseudonym of A. G. Trent, of an admirable astrological brochure
entitled: The Soul and the Stars, in which a principle enunciated by
Ptolemy was thoroughly threshed out and substantiated by reference to
a large number of historical cases of insanity in notable people. He
proved that abnormal conditions of brain function, obtained wherever
Mercury or the Moon was heavily afflicted by aspect of malefic planets,
though he puts it in a form which, perhaps, would better commend
itself to the scientific investigator. He was not a voluminous writer on
this subject, but a very industrious reseacher, and his contributions to
my journal Coming Events always had point and particularity. He
propounded one or two theories, as the result of his investigations, which
have since been confirmed by independent observation. Dr. Garnett was
born at Lichfield on 27th February, 1835, at 5.30 p.m. when the Moon
and Sun occupied the 5th and 8th degrees respectively of the sign Pisces,
and the 7th degree of Aquarius was rising on the horizon of Lichfield.
It will be seen that Saturn made the transit of the Ascendant of the
horoscope in 1900 and 1901, and passed over the place of the Sun and
Moon at birth in March, 1906, having been stationary close to the Moon's
place in June, 1905.
This transit of Saturn over the place of the luminaries, being of such
rare occurrence and of very sinister import, occurring at so advanced an
age as 71 years, proved fatal, and within a month of its transit of the
Sun's place in the horoscope of birth, the distinguished scholar had passed
away. I have not the slightest doubt that this event was well within
the scope of Dr. Garnett's personal anticipation and reckoning. The
event is only one other proof, among a multitude, of the validity of those
tenets which he expounded with such circumspection and reserve.
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Seismology and Astronomy

VERYONE has heard or read inasmuch as every celestial com

of ocean currents. All bination is repeated after a certain
marinershave reason to know number of years have elapsed, an
them well. They are set more or attempt has been made to refer the
less permanently in definite direc law of periodicity to seismic
tions. Atmospheric currents or disturbances. Indeed it has been
winds are familiar to all, but are ascertained that detached groups of
more capricious: though some, like these phenomena recur after certain
the trade winds and the monsoons, lapses of time. Professor Falb of
have a certain permanent period Vienna has clearly indicated that
icity, blowing in a certain direction he suspects a connection between
for a definite period at regular planetary conjunctions and earth
intervals. Few people, however, quake shocks, and he has made
know much about terrestrial or much of the geocentric conjunctions
magnetic currents, and many have of Mars and Mercury, which recur
never heard of them at all. They after a period of seventy-nine years
are more uncertain and inconstant about the same day of the year.
even than the winds, but like the Thus there are conjunctions of Mars
winds they are always more or less and Mercury on the 19th August
in play. It has been observed, and 5th September this year, and
however, that there are irregular in the year 1827 similarconjunctions
periods when these earth-currents occurred. But it is obviously in
are ofgreaterintensity and frequency adequate to suppose that a complete
than at other times and that earth theory can be founded upon the
quake shocks and violent storms configurations of any two bodies of
are then experienced. A delicate the system to the neglect of others.
instrument called a seismograph If Mars or Mercury or both these
has been invented which makes a bodies have any effect on the
record of any tremor of the earth's electrostatic condition of the earth
crust, and it is possible for a skilled or its atmosphere, so also must
seismologist, not only to determine other bodies have such an effect
the extent and duration of earth in proportion to their distance and
quake shocks, but also to localize IIlaSS.
them. -

A later theory, and one which

While geologists have been has recently received much support
endeavouring to formulate a con is that which seeks to refer earth
sistent theory to cover the pheno quake shocks to the tidal pull of
mena of earthquake disturbances, the luminaries when acting in
astronomers have (maugre their conjunction or opposition, and more
professed disbelief in the principles particularly when acting in a right
of astrology) studiously sought to line upon the earth's centre, as at
link these terrestrial phenomena to times of ecliptic conjunction or
the celestial order of things, and opposition. It was found, for
4O THE FORECAST

instance, that at the Solar eclipse appreciation of some of the better

of May 7th, 1902, the luminaries regulated observations of modern
were vertical over St. Pierre in astrology.
Martinique and immediately the Just as I pen these notes, the
eruption of Mont Pelée and terrific news has arrived of the awful
earthquakeshocks wereexperienced. devastation which has been wrought
The same conditions did not, how by the earthquake at San Francisco,
ever, obtain at the earthquake at now a devastated wilderness of
Lahore, though there was an eclipse flame. Other towns adjacent or
of the Sun visible in those parts on within the area of direct shock are
the 6th March. On the 26th August, also reported to have been disturbed.
1883, there was a terrific earthquake Over two hundred and fifty thou
and tidal wave at Krakatoa in the sand persons have been thus rend
Straits of Sunda, when 35,000 souls ered homeless. It is appalling, and
perished in a single hour. There altogether eclipses the recent event
was not an eclipse of either lumin of the eruption of Vesuvius. The
ary at or near this time. On the city has existed for only fifty-eight
principle that “one swallow does years, having been created by the
not make a summer,” therefore, we gold-rush in 1848. As to causes,
must conclude that the case for there are no less than four distinct
“tidal pull" is not established. scientific theories at our disposal to
That earthquakes and other great account for the disaster. Some
terrestrial calamities are within the authorities, such as Camille Flam
range of prediction, however, there marion, connect it with the eruption
is abundant evidence to show. To of Vesuvius, as being part of the
go no further back than last year I same disturbance over the earth's
find it put forward as a prediction crust. The contraction of the earth's
concerning the opposition of Mars surface by shrinkage is assigned as
and Jupiter in May of that year: the cause of these disturbances in a
“Alarming earthquakes will take general way; failure of the earth to
place and destruction of life and swing true on its axis owing to the
property will be great. The 11th action of sunspots, is also advanced
and 12th May will be particularly as the cause. Another authority
productive of these disturbances.” ascribes the phenomena to a land
An earthquake took place in slip of geological strata. Finally,
Roumania on the 9th, and on the we have the very probable cause
11th the town of Snyder, Oklahoma, given us by Flammarion as “The
U.S.A., was wiped out of existence tension of the over-heated steam
by a tornado. It seems obvious, which we know to exist in pockets
therefore, that any attempt to several miles below the surface
formulate a comprehensive system of the earth.” In review of these
of seismological prediction must several theories it may be said
have regard to the fact of inter that if the disturbances are due to
planetary influence equally as to sunspots, what causes the disruption
that of the luminaries when acting of the sun's envelope to produce
in ecliptic syzygy. The solidarity sunspots P Has the periodicity of
of the solar system is a principle these latter no analogy in planetary
which must be respected in all configurations? As to the failure
scientific inquiries of this nature, of the earth to swing true to its
and there is little doubt that axis, this is an impossibility. What
eventually it will lead to a fuller ever core the earth turns upon is its
 THE FORECAST 4I

axis, and if this were temporarily and succeeding this date, some local
changed by only a fraction of a agency seems to be required to
degree it would immediately be determine the area of disturbance.
detected by the fine instruments of This I find in the total eclipse of
observers from the elevation of the the Moon of February 9th, which
pole and the apparent altitude of was in the zenith of longitude 117
the stars at transit from day to day. W. and latitude 15 N., immediately
Shrinkage of the earth's mass, as in the centre of the affected area.
suggested by Sir Hiram Maxim, is At that eclipse there were no less
no doubt the primary cause. This than five bodies in earthquake
is involved in the geological state producing signs, Leo, Aquarius,
ment of the earth's evolution. It is Scorpio or Taurus, known to the
confirmed by astronomical observa ancients as “fixed ”or “foundation”
tions. The day is shorter than it signs, and when these are the
used to be and the earth is getting sphere of planetary combinations or
nearer to the sun, the source of its eclipses, the foundations are apt to
electrical stimulus. It is giving out be shaken and the most durable
more heat. In effect, it is getting structures to come down fait en
colder and is shrinking. comble / There is an eclipse of the
As to our own position. It is Moon on August 4th, 1906, from
observed that although theshrinkage which I predict that between the
of the earth is the primary cause, I Ith and 12th of that month there
the secondary or exciting cause, is will be exceptionally heavy seismic
planetary action. There has just disturbances, again on the 19th,
occurred a rare phenomenon, the and again on September 4th or 5th.
opposition of the planets Neptune The opposition of Uranus and
and Uranus, which only takes place Neptune will then have worn off,
once in one hundred and ninety and will be replaced by that of
years. They formed the opposition Uranus and Jupiter, and thus
on February 28th. But inasmuch similar positions will be excited to
as they were in opposition during action by the eclipse of the Moon.
the days immediately preceding SEPHARIAL.
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Purblind Science

N the editorial Notes of the Month for April, the Occult Review
refers to our initial efforts to popularize the study of Astrology
in terms that are altogether equivocal when not complimentary,
or vice versa, the doubt being raised whether the “man in the street”
knows anything more or less of the celestial science than he who occupies
the professorial chair. But the Editor of the Occult Review should know
that, among things so-called “occult,” Astrology counts more students
than perhaps any branch of science, the most orthodox and matter-of
fact, and that, too, among men in the street ! And as to the ground
in which we dig and delve, it is admittedly far richer in its products
than those particular “potato-patches” worked by the scryers, the
diviners, telepaths, dreamers, and seers of visions, with whom and
whose experiences, reputable magazines are now-a-days concerned.
This is the passage, briefly stated in the Notes, referred to:
“Such planetary positions can be noted by the merest tyro ſtyros
like men are always “mere”—Ed.], and rough general deductions
made from them, while they reflect little credit on the observer,
serve yet to throw into startling relief the utter lack of observation
on the part of men of science of the present day, even of facts that
literally stare them in the face. The generalizations from mathe
matically worked out horoscopes are infinitely more reliable than
the predictions of clairvoyants.”
Which is, perhaps, saying much or little, according to one's experience
of the said clairvoyants. But while bewailing the lack of observation
among men of science of the facts of Astrology, albeit some of our most
prominent scientists are sincerely affected by its principles and are
qualified by no little share of practice to form a competent opinion as
to its paramount truth, to compare predictions made from what is
fundamentally a mathematical science with the psychological facts
imported by the inconstant and elusive faculty of clairvoyance, is surely
mal d propos / The two methods do not rest on the same basis, and
if one can be referred to the other at all it must be on the ground that,
since planetary configurations at birth determine faculty, certain
horoscopical positions produce the clairvoyant.
But why there is a seeming lack of observation regarding the facts of
Astrology among men of science, has already been clearly stated by
me in the Foreword to the first number of The Forecast, where I quoted
the late Professor Max Müller to the effect that popular misconceptions
regarding the science of Astrology prevented men of learning and
distinction from letting their studies be known. What men of science
are capable of observing is one thing, their proneness to declare upon
all observations at inauspicious times and in uncongenial atmosphere is
another; and a science which has attracted and successfully pinned the
attention of the Editors of the Occult Review the Referee, and the
Daily Telegraph, is good meat for the “man in the street.”
 THE FORECAST 43

Studies in Brief

ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR, M.P.

HE ex-Prime Minister and for Mr. Balfour not having married.
present leader of the Op A less fortunate man would have
position was born on 25th put his fortunes to the test in this
July, 1848. Mr. Balfour has previ direction and would inevitably have
ously filled the offices of President had occasion for regret.
of the Local Government Board, At the present time the Sun has
1885; Secretary for Scotland, 1885; reached the 28th degree of the sign
Secretary of State for Ireland, Virgo in the horoscope of Mr.
1887; First Lord of the Treasury, Balfour, and in the summer of
1895; and became Prime Minister 1907 Saturn will be stationary
in July, 1902, his administration close to the opposition of that
ending with the General Election point, and on the 23rd July there
of January, 1906. will be an eclipse of the Moon
The Sun at Mr. Balfour's birth close to the place of the Sun in
was in the 3rd degree of the sign the radical horoscope. These posi
Leo, and when, in the autumn of tions imply danger of ill-health,
1903, Saturn became stationary in loss of influential friends. But in
opposition to this point of the 1908 the Sun will have reached a
ecliptic, there was a wholesale position where it will form benefic
secession of Mr. Balfour's adherents, aspects to the dominant positions
the resignations of the Duke of of the horoscope, and after the
Devonshire, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. transit of Saturn again over the
Ritchie, and Lord George Hamilton Sun's place of direction in March,
among others being recorded. 1908, there will be a stationary
Mr. Balfour is born with a position of Jupiter on the Sun's
satellitium in the beginning of the place at birth. This is calculated
sign Leo, including the Sun and to lift Mr. Balfour once more to
Jupiter. It is just a matter of a position of highest responsibility
coincidence, let us say, that he has in the political world. But in the
been consistently surrounded and meantime considerable care should
sustained by an influential set of be bestowed upon his health, and
friends in the course of his political for this reason it is to be hoped
career, and during his recent ad that his colleagues on the Opposi
ministration an entente cordiale with tion Bench will continue to give
France (whose ruling sign is Leo) him effective support. In the
found spontaneous and popular language of the classics: “May his
expression. Saturn in the western shadow never grow less "
angle at the birth probably accounts

WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.P.

Mr. Churchill entered upon this 1874, when the Sun was in the
sublunary life on the 30th November, 8th degree of the sign Sagittarius
 44 THE FORECAST

and the Moon in the early part of that of Uranus next year. The
the sign Virgo, at the last quadra former influence is exerted in the
ture. The hour of birth is unknown last days of June, and during the
to me, but not undiscoverable, and whole of July, 1906, and again in
were there any sufficient grounds January, 1907, and May, 1907, while
for undertaking the calculation, it Uranus will be affecting the Sun
would be effected. Mr. Churchill by opposition transit from February
was trained at Sandhurst and was to July of that year, forming its
engaged with the Spanish forces in final opposition in December. It
Cuba in 1895, where he gained the is an easy prediction in the light
Order of Military Merit. In 1898 of so much conspicuous affliction
he was attached to the Tirah of the major luminary, to say that
Expedition in 1899, Saturn being Mr. Churchill will be well advised
then on the place of the Sun at to moderate his ambitions and
birth by transit. The following pursue a steady course during the
year he was engaged in the Boer next two years, avoiding as far as
War and was taken prisoner on the possible all contentious feelings,
15th November, when Mars, Venus, especially during July, 1906, and
and Uranus were all conjoined in the summer of 1907.
the 8th degree of Sagittarius, the Mr. Churchill has not a strong
place of the Sun at birth, and the horoscope, the quadrature of the
Moon was in quadrature to Saturn. luminaries at birth being adverse
Within a month the Moon formed to his eventual prospects; but he
the trine aspect of Venus, and the has a good configuration of the
combination of malefic influences Sun to both Uranus and Saturn,
had broken up, so that on the 12th and may look upon Time as a
December he regained his freedom friend and moderator, and perhaps
by a timely and daring effort. his best counsellor. The conjunc
During the whole of his military tion of Mars and Jupiter in opposi
experiences the Sun was directed tion to Neptune at his birth tends
to the sextile aspect of Mars, giving to produce an over-zealous nature,
him successful enterprises of a to the greater distress of his friends
martial character. In 1900, under and the amazement of his col
the direction of Sun to Venus, he leagues. The good aspects of
stood for parliamentary honours in Uranus and Venus to these planets,
Oldham, and under the same con however, will act as moderators,
tinuous influence he has made and it is to these benefic aspects
exceptional progress in his career. at his birth rather than to the
At the present time the Sun is discovery of any conspicuous faculty
directed to the IIth degree of or strength of character that I
Capricornus, the benefic influence should look for such success as
of Saturn's radical aspect to the may attend his efforts. But I am
luminary is on the wane, and Venus, disposed to think he has drawn
now going away from the Sun, also pretty heavily on his credit and
withdraws its pacific and benefic that the future will provide him
influence, while the Sun presently with many salutary experiences.
receives the transit of Neptune and
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ALFONSO, KING OF SPAIN

Si j'étais roi! The possibilities influences, he will perforce gather

from any point of view, providing around him those in whom the
one has an object in life, are im blighting effect of discontent will
mense ! We know what men and engender the wish that the range
women of ideas would do if they of his influence may be curtailed.
were suddenly to become million There is this threat in the horoscope
aires. They have all told us. But, and it will be in evidence during
if one were King? What then P the years 1912 and 1913.
Perhaps the experience of Don The oriental position of the
Caesar de Bazan might help us a planet Mars gives a degree of
little in estimating the effect upon enthusiasm, recklessness, and scorn
ourselves of such a responsible of consequence, which contributes
position, but as to our influence so largely to the general impression
upon others from that position, no of cordiality and ardour for which
man can judge for another. At the the young King is so remarkable.
back of each of us there are two Just now he is adding new con
great streams of heredity, hedging quests to his record, and captivating
us upon all sides in an environment English hearts as he has already
of other men's making, and in front done those of his own people. His
of us is the ever-present problem prospective alliance with Princess
of exigence versus duty. Pitch Ena is not undertaken under the
forked, as it were, into such con most favourable influences, for he
ditions, what is a soul to do? There will shortly be under the adverse
is only one thing possible. He influence of the planet Mars and
must make the best of it. This, it may become involved in trouble
seems to me, is what the young through acts of rashness and in
King of Spain intends to do. discretion to which his ardent and
Born on the 17th day of May, fearless nature predisposes him.
1886, with the Sun close to Neptune Five years hence there is a most
in the sign Taurus, these bodies critical period in his life which
being in elevation in the horoscope, is fraught with grave personal
it cannot be said that Alfonso XIII dangers, and King Alfonso will be
is likely to exercise the most fortun well advised to temper his actions
ate influence on the destinies of with discretion and order his goings
his country, and it must not be with circumspection.
overlooked that in reflecting these
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Abdul Hamid
Sultan of Turkey

HE Sultan of Turkey was born on the 21st September, 1842,

at Io.42 in the morning, when the 26th degree of the sign
Scorpio was rising. The character presents some singular features,
among which are reserve, determination, and subtlety. While Mars and
the Sun in elevation indicate an independent and bellicose spirit, the
opposition of the Moon to Mercury shows vacillation and craftiness.
Abdul is daring enough to play with fire and gunpowder, but too
cunning not to employ agents at a safe distance from his person to do
the dangerous work.
Abdul Hamid II ascended the throne on the 31st August, 1876,
when Jupiter was in transit over the Ascendant of the horoscope in
Scorpio 26. He appears to take an almost morbid delight in sailing
close to the wind. He is continually getting into trouble with the
European Powers, and so far as his relations with them enable us to
judge of his methods of government, it would seem that he is a capable
diplomat and quite able to hold his own with the most astute ambassadors.
Prevarication and procrastination have been his watchwords for years
past. Such temporary reforms as he has initiated, have been wrested
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from him by a demonstration in force by one or another of the Powers.

In the case of the Paris Note of November 4th, 1901, he allowed affairs
to reach a crisis before he attempted an understanding. At that time
the Moon had reached Gemini 15.3 by direction, and a conjunction of
Mars and Uranus took place in Sagittarius I 5.3, in exact opposition
to the Moon on the very date of the ultimatum ! It is noteworthy that
the total eclipse of the Moon of May 18th, 1901, fell in the 26th degree
of Taurus, in exact opposition to the Ascendant of the Sultan's horoscope.
At the present time Abdul is causing us a great deal of trouble in Egypt,
and the report goes that the King is coming home from his much
needed holiday in the Mediterranean to receive the advice of the Cabinet.
Saturn has just crossed the lower meridian of the horoscope, and will.
be again stationary in opposition to the Midheaven in November.
There will be the usual retreat from the “unalterable position ” of
the Porte, an undertaking which will never be carried out, further
trouble in the course of the next six months, the demonstration in
force—et voilà tout / Abdul has a profound sense of the humorous,
and is well content, no doubt, to remain the bone of contention for
all Europe. It has been said that the sublime Porte is seated over a
powder magazine. It may be so, but Abdul has wit enough to know
that the hand which carries the torch will be slow to exert itself.
Between now and then he may smoke many cigarettes in peace. But
when the end comes it will be short, sharp, and sudden, for Uranus
occupies the lower angle of the horoscope and is in opposition to
the Sun.

The Dreadnought
N Saturday the IOth February, 1906, at II.58 a.m., His Majesty
King Edward VII launched the largest war vessel ever constructed
within the history of the world. This magnificent triumph of the
shipbuilding craft, having a displacement of over 18,000 tons, took the
water when the 22nd degree of the sign Gemini was rising on the horizon
of Portsmouth. At this time the Sun was close on the meridian in
conjunction with Venus, while the Moon being just past eclipse was in
close opposition to Saturn. This latter position is not of good import as
regards the vessel's future, and the opposition of Neptune and Uranus
from the cusps of the 8th and 2nd divisions of the heavens is a further
augury of evil portent. Two years from the time of launching, the vessel
will be in action, and about June, 1908, will come by some accident to its
bows. The hull, especially about the magazine and engine room, is
particularly liable to serious injury, and also the propellers at the stern.
From a calculation made off this horoscope, I judge that the vessel will
be disabled in 13 years, and lumbered at 17. The Dreadnought has
nothing to dread except the adverse influence of the stars, commonly
called “disaster,” and until that befall let us repeat the benison—“Good
luck to all who sail in it !” SEPHARIAL.
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Phenomena Interpreted

D URING the summer quarter, which for purposes of our publication ends
with the month of August, there are several important phenomena which
call for consideration. At the beginning of June, Venus, which will be
an “evening star,” will form its opposition to Uranus and conjunction with
Neptune. This will have a disturbing influence on political affairs in South
Africa, and will further act upon the weather to produce heavy rains. Between
the 6th and Ioth of June there will be conjunctions of Mercury, Sun, and Jupiter, in
quadrature to Saturn. Torrential rains and thunderstorms will characterize this
period; but as the benefic planet Jupiter is on the Ascendant of the Metropolis,
some distinct benefits should accrue to the City and County of London between
the 8th and 11th of June, either by the opening up of thoroughfares, or extension
of traffic, and other facilities of communication. From the 16th to 19th, Mercury
passes from conjunction with Mars to conjunction with Neptune and opposition
to Uranus. These positions point to a crisis in South Africa and a sharp out
break of hostilities. Between the 22nd and 26th, Mars forms its conjunction
with Neptune and opposition to Uranus. There will consequently be a great
political strain at this time, and violent storms will occasion much damage to
property. The ancients, who had observed this coincidence of atmospheric
disturbances with crises occurring in human affairs, regarded the two sets of
phenomena in the light of cause and effect. The Astrologer arose who pre
dicted both from the single cause of planetary configuration, and thus aided
materially in the founding of a synthetic philosophy.
The above configurations clearly show that the month of June will not be a
peaceful or temperate month. What of July P -

The chief configurations during the month are Sun conjunction Neptune on
the 2nd. Sun conjunction Mars on the 15th, and Venus opposition Saturn on
the 28th. These positions indicate further complications and troubles in South
Africa. It will be an unexpected blessing if fighting and bloodshed are avoided.
During the month there will be an aggravation of existing evils in the Ottoman
Empire, but matters should not take particular form of expression until the end
of the month.
August has one or two positions of extreme importance. These are, a con
junction of Mars and Mercury on the 19th, and the opposition of Jupiter and
Uranus on the 24th. The first of these phenomena will be immediately fol
lowed by sharp earthquake shocks, and some recrudescence of recent troubles in
France and Italy. Within the next three weeks Austria will have registered the
effects of this influence, and a sudden blow to that country through its aged
monarch will bring consternation and unrest to its people. The later pheno
menon of the 24th will stir up religious strife, and recriminations will be heard
upon all sides in connection with the Education Reform Bill. On all the above |
dates the weather will respond to the celestial phenomena, producing on June
6th and 7th, heavy depression, cold air, rain; 8th, wind, and some local thunder
storms; 9th, thunderstorms in temperate N. zone; 16th, electrical phenomena,
magnetic disturbances, storms; 18th, 19th, gales; 29th to 2nd prox., gales, high
winds, sudden changes.
July opens with a spell of fine weather after the 2nd; 15th, heat; 28th,
heavy showers.
August 19th, violent storms and seismic disturbances; 24th, thunderstorms.
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Market Forecasts

Stock and Share Market

T is my intention under this head from time to time to demonstrate

the validity of that wise saying of Solomon: “There is a time for
everything, and a season for every purpose under the heavens. A
time to buy and a time to sell, etc.” All I purpose to show is that, after
tracking the fluctuations of any stock or produce over a period of several
years, it is possible to construct a chart, and thereafter to predict within
limits what will be the next and succeeding movements in the price of
that stock or produce, and with particular accuracy to say when there
will be a rise and when a fall. Thus in 1900, The Daily Mail published
an interview wherein I predicted that during the following years Consols
would be as much below par as they were then above it. They were
at 112, and have since touched 88. This was owing to the Boer War
foreseen and predicted. Similarly with the Hispano-American War
of 1898, the fall of Spanish Fours was foreseen and predicted, as also
the reconstruction in 1900 which was given to The Financial News
before its public announcement. More recently still the Russian defeat
in Korea and Manchuria, and the Revolution, were predicted with
perfect precision, and the fall of Russian Stocks was foreseen as a
consequence. These are the big things made for big “bears,” and do
not occur every month. Here it will be my endeavour to signalise
those minor fluctuations in prices which give the small man a chance.
In extension of my notes upon the markets for the month of May,
it will be remembered that I have given indications of a rise in American
Rails between the 5th and 12th of the month, and I would now add
that in my opinion the most favourable lines to take up, as being those
most likely to respond to the best conditions of the market at the time,
are Aitchisons, Chicago Milwaukee and St. Pauls, Illinois Central,
Louisville and Nashville, Wabash, and Canadian Pacifics. United States
Steel Corps are much talked of at the moment, and although very good
for April, I am doubtful whether they will run at equal strength during
May. I therefore mention them with reserve.

JUNE.—The tone throughout the month is far from satisfactory, and

although there may be some slight improvement in the second week,
values are sure to decline on the month.
Consols show marked declines at the end of the first and fourth weeks.
More confident feeling is shown for a short spell about the 8th to 12th
and recent declines may be recovered. On the month the general tone
of the market affects values unfavourably.
Home Rails. Among these Metropolitans should advance midmonth
and the tendency is to keep up prices till the last week, at the beginning
of which rather free selling will bring prices down. # #
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American Rails. These open with a sharp fall, but prices are more
than recovered by the end of the first week and look like having a spurt
up to the 12th at least. The trading conditions generally through the
month are favourable to an appreciation of values. 2
Kaffirs. These open weak and down, but there will be a rally about
the end of the first week. Thereaſter successive falls brought about by
the tension in South Africa and consequent bear sales and clearances,
will further bring prices down, the conditions during the last fortnight
verging on those of panic.
JULY.—The market tone is by no means good, though a firmer and
steadier market will be maintained about the beginning of the second
week. Critical conditions obtain midmonth.
Home Rails are steady to firm on traffics for the first account, and
show advances at the close of the first and second weeks. Afterwards
the conditions are not conducive to a further marked advance, and the
close is not equal to the best for the month.
American Rails. The prevailing conditions in the market are decid
edly favourable to an advance in prices, especially from the 12th to 15th
and again about the 20th onwards to the 25th. The market falls, how
ever, at the close of the month and with some notable exceptions prices
should recede.
A affirs. A rally will be made in Kaffir shares during the first week
and buyers will regain confidence on free covering by bears, the conditions
are steady and favourable till after the 8th and may reach the 15th on a
bull market. In such case prices will have plenty of opportunity to
advance and recent bearish conditions may be permanently reversed.
Turkish Cedulas should improve and show bull profits between the
19th and 26th, but will fall back again at the month end and finish
weak.
AUGUST.-The tone is moderately good until the close, when con
siderable firmness and strength is shown, gilt-edged stocks advancing
under more cheerful conditions. The improvement sets in about
the 27th.
Home Rails. The market conditions respond to traffics throughout
the month, and these appear to be quite up to the average. There are
no remarkable features to record, and a steady market may therefore be
predicted. -

American Rails. Recent conditions are not likely to be maintained.

There are several indications of the relapse of last month end being
fitfully continued, and falls will be recorded in most shares at middle
month, from 12th to 15th, and again about the 21st and 22nd. On the
close of the month there will be a brisk recovery and prices will then be
at their best for the month.
Kaffirs. A better feeling prevails in this market, and there will be
some talk of the new era in South African prosperity. I would advise
buyers to get in early in view of considerable all-round advances on the
autumn market. There will, however, be some check to the immediate
realization of the prospective conditions, and a sharp fall about the 24th
may prove a little disconcerting. This will pass over quickly, and at the
close of the month I expect to see the first indications of the promised
recovery in this market. I recommend Turkish Cedulas, India Threes,
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most Kaffirs and Argentines for a quick flight between the 24th and
31st.
SPECIAL REPORTS on individual stocks and shares, produce markets
and industrials can be obtained at the schedule rates. These reports
deal with stocks apart from general market conditions and are spoken
well of by clients. Address inquiries to SEPHARIAL.

Partial Eclipse of the Sun

This will take place on the 21st July. The Moon has considerable latitude
and will only be visible as an eclipse in high southern latitudes. The luminaries
will be in conjunction on the meridian of the West Coast of Africa and near the
zenith of the Senegal, where disturbances may ensue. The eclipse, however, is
not of sufficient magnitude to produce very striking effects.
Total Eclipse of the Moon
This phenomenon will be produced at the syzygy of the 4th August. Though
invisible here, it will be a fine spectacle in the Far East and one that the inhabit
ants of those parts are likely to pay heavily for about the middle of the same
month. From the 13th to 15th appears to be the period when the earliest
effects of this eclipse will be experienced, and its influence will range over about
four months. In the Seghalien and Yezo, which come within the direct line of
meridian influence, there will be a series of disturbances, and earthquake shocks
may be expected generally around the Falklands.

Reports on the Tests

THE following, among a host of others, all more or less conclusively in
favour of establishing the science of Astrology as a dependable source
of information, have been received. Space limitations prevent further
recital.
“Greatly indebted for your telling me the chief events of life with
such marvellous accuracy. I am not a novice in astrology myself.
You are wonderfully accurate about my eyes. I had an operation for
congenital cataract. Your accuracy is astounding.”—H. A. G.
(Ilford.)
“Very correct. You have, so far as I can judge, hit me off very
accurately. I shall write you on all important matters and new
undertakings.”—J. W. (West Bromwich.)
“The characteristics are exact. In my own study I feared there
might be some bias, and I am thankful to have your judgment.”
—M. A. (York.)
Owing to the great number of readers who have availed themselves of
the Coupon, it is decided to discontinue its publication, but No. 1 of
The Forecast, containing the coupon, may be obtained from the publisher.
After May 31st the coupon will be suspended, but others may make
experiment of the “Snapshot Study” specially designed for inquirers
and those wanting evidence at small initial cost. (See Advt., p. 3 cover.)
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Weather Predictions

HE forecasts made in this journal are for the North Temperate Zone, and
| are especially applicable to North America, the British Isles and the
Continent, due regard being had to local conditions and averages. In
the first number of THE FORECAST the predictions under this head will be found on
p. 20. While passing through the press it may be noted that the Storms predicted
for the 6th and 7th May have taken effect within twenty-four hours of the
given dates. About 3 p.m. on the 7th a heavy pall settled over a large area of
England, and as the day advanced the temperature rose considerably, a heat
wave gripping the land at nightfall. The following day was marked by a
cloud-burst, violent storms, thunder and lightning; while in some parts of the
country the houses were flooded by the downfall and much property destroyed.
In France, on the other hand, terrific hailstorms were experienced, stones as
large as pigeon's eggs lying several inches deep upon the roads.
The weather predictions for the ensuing Quarter will be found in this number
of THE FORECAST incorporated with “Phenomena Interpreted.”

Horse-racing and Astrology

HAVE been asked by many correspondents why I do not establish the

claims of astrology by the popular exposition of its principles in relation to
turf anticipations. My answer invariably has been that the feat is an impos
sible one. If anybody is clever enough to be able to determine the number of
the runners and the exact time of starting, astrology can cover the rest of the
ground; but without these essential particulars horse-racing by means of astrology
must remain, what it now is, a “spot” system, and therefore outside the range
of reliable forecast.
There are several methods, all of which show a large percentage of results,
already before the public. The peculiar virtue of these systems consists in their
being applied to results / Prediction has never been attempted with anything
like the same show of success. Indeed, any system of prognosis which relies
upon either the number of actual runners or the time of starting or finishing a
race is bound to come to grief as anything else than a spot system. I may
have occasion to examine and pronounce upon some of these methods of finding
the winner in a subsequent number of this journal. As to the merit or demerit
of putting astrology to such uses, I have an entirely open mind and desire that
others should form their own opinions. Whether the methods employed are
dependable, and to what extent so, is another matter. But until proved
successful in a large percentage of cases by individual experimenters, I should
advise my readers to ignore the printed professions of all exponents whomsoever.
If the results are found conformable to the principles of astrology, so much the
better for both the system and the science; but any amount of “wisdom after
the event’’ will not serve to establish either the reputation of the science or
the bona fides of those who claim to have successfully applied it in this direction.
- EDITOR ‘THE FORECAST.’
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PYTHAGORAS
AND HIS SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY

(THE DEZPHIC MYSTERIES)

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF

EDOUARD SCHURE
BY

FRED ROTHWELL, B.A.

.
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“Know thyself, and thou wilt know the Universe and

the Gods.”—Inscription on the Temple of Delphi.

Evolution is the law of Life,

Number is the law of the Universe,
Unity is the law of God.
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Continued from page 3o.

GREECE IN THE SIXTH CENTURY II

Pythagoras crossed the whole of the ancient

world before giving his message to Greece. He
saw Africa and Asia, Memphis and Babylon, along
with their methods of initiation and political life.
His own troubled life resembles a ship driving
through a storm, pursuing its course, with Sails un
furled, a symbol of strength and calmness in the
midst of the furious elements. His teachings convey
the impression of a cool fragrant night after the
bitter fire and passion of an angry, blood-stained
day. They call to mind the beauty of the firma
ment unrolling, by degrees, its sparkling archi
pelagoes and ethereal harmonies over the head of
the seer.

And now we will attempt to set forth both his

life and his teaching apart from the obscurities of
legend and the prejudices of the schools alike.

(The work of Edouard Schuré, of which these

pages are a translation, will shortly be published
in a volume entitled “Pythagoras—His System
of Philosophy.” Price 2s. met.)
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CHAPTER II

Y E A R S OF T R A V E L

At the beginning of the sixth century before our

era, Samos was one of the most flourishing islands
of Ionia. Its harbour fronted the violet peaks of a
slumbering Asia Minor, the abode of luxury and
charm. The town was situated on a wide bay with
verdant coasts, and retreated, tier upon tier, up the
mountain in the form of an amphitheatre, itself
lying at the foot of a promontory on which stood
the temple of Neptune. It was dominated by the
colonnades of a magnificent palace, the abode of
the tyrant Polycrates. After depriving Samos of
her liberty he had given the island all the lustre of
art and Asiatic splendour. Courtesans from Lesbos
had, at his bidding, taken up their abode in a
neighbouring palace to which they invited the
young men and maidens of the town. At these
fêtes they taught them the most refined voluptuous
ness, accompanied with music, dancing and feast
ing. Anacreon, on the invitation of Polycrates, was
transported to Samos in a trireme with purple sails
and gilded masts; the poet, a goblet of chased
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YEARS OF TRAVEL I3

silver in his hand, sang before this high court of

pleasure his languishing odes. The good fortune
of Polycrates had become proverbial throughout
Greece. He had as a friend the Pharaoh Amasis
who often warned him to be on his guard against
such unbroken fortune, and above all not to pride
himself on it. Polycrates answered the Egyptian
monarch's advice by flinging his ring into the Sea.
“This sacrifice I offer unto the gods,” he said.
The following day a fisherman brought back to the
tyrant the precious jewel, which he had found in
the belly of a fish. When the Pharaoh heard of
this, he said he would break off his friendship with
Polycrates, for such insolent good fortune would
draw down on him the vengeance of the gods.-
Whatever we may think of the anecdote, the end of
Polycrates was a tragic one. One of his satraps
enticed him into a neighbouring province, tortured
him to death, and ordered his body to be fastened
to a cross on Mount Mycale. And so, one even
ing as the blood-red orb of the sun was sinking in
the west, the inhabitants of Samos saw the corpse
of their tyrant, crucified on a promontory in sight
of the island over which he had reigned in glory
and abandonment.

To return to the beginning of Polycrates' reign.

One star-lit night a young man was seated in a
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I4 PYTHAGORAS

wood of agnus castus, with its glimmering foliage,

not far from the temple of Juno, the Doric front of
which was bathed in the rays of the moon, whose
light added to the mystic majesty of the building.
A papyrus roll, containing a song of Homer, had
slipped to the ground, and lay at his feet. His
meditation, begun at twilight, was continued into
the silence of the night. The sun had long ago
disappeared beneath the horizon, but its flaming disc
still danced in unreal presence before the eyes of
the young dreamer. His thoughts had wandered
far from the world of visible things.
Pythagoras was the son of a wealthy jeweller of
Samos and of a woman named Parthenis. The

Pythoness of Delphi, when consulted during a

journey by the young married couple, had promised
them : “a son who would be useful to all men and

throughout all time.” The oracle had sent them

to Sidon, in Phoenicia, so that the predestined son
might be conceived, formed, and born far from the
disturbing influences of his own land. Even before
his birth the wonderful child, in the moon of love,
had been fervently consecrated to the worship of
Apollo by his parents. The child was born ; and
when he was a year old his mother, acting on
advice already received from the priest of Delphi,
bore him away to the temple of Adonai, in a valley
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YEARS OF TRAVEL I5

of Lebanon. Here the high priest had given him

his blessing and the family returned to Samos.
The child of Parthenis was very beautiful and
gentle, calm and sedate. Intellectual passion alone
gleamed from his eyes, giving a secret energy to
his actions. Far from opposing, his parents had
encouraged him in his precocious leaning towards
the study of wisdom. He had been left free to
confer with the priests of Samos and the savants
who were beginning to establish in Ionia schools in
which the principles of natural philosophy were
taught. At the age of eighteen he had attended the
classes of Hermodamas of Samos, at twenty those
of Pherecydes at Syros; he had even conferred
with Thales and Anaximander at Miletus. These

masters had opened out new horizons, though none

had satisfied him. In their contradictory teach
ings he tried to discover the bond and synthesis,
the unity of the great whole. The son of Par
thenis had now reached one of those crises in which

the mind, over-excited by the contradictions of

things, concentrates all its faculties in one supreme
effort to obtain a glimpse of the end, to find a path
leading to the sun of truth, to the centre of life.
Throughout that glorious night Pythagoras fixed
his gaze on the earth, the temple, and the starry
heavens in turn. Demeter, the earth-mother, the
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Nature whose secrets he wished to pierce, was

there, beneath and around him. He inhaled her
powerful emanations, felt the invincible attraction
which enchained him, the thinking atom, to her
bosom, an inseparable part of herself. The sages
he had consulted had said to him : “It is from her

that all springs. Nothing comes from nothing.

The soul comes from water, or fire, or from both.
This subtle emanation of the elements issues from
them only to return. Eternal Nature is blind and
inflexible, resign thyself to her fatal laws. The
only merit thou wilt have will be that thou knowest
them, and art resigned thereto.”
Then he looked at the firmament and the fiery
letters formed by the constellations in the unfathom
able depths of space. These letters must have a
meaning. For if the infinitely small, the move
ment of atoms, has its raison d’être, why not also
the infinitely great, the widely scattered stars, whose
grouping represents the body of the universe?
Yes; each of these worlds has its own law; all move
together according to number and in supreme
harmony. But who will ever decipher the alphabet
of the stars? The priests of Juno had said to him :
“This is the heaven of the gods, which was before
the earth. Thy soul comes therefrom. Pray to
them, that it may mount again to heaven.”
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These meditations were interrupted by a voluptu

ous chant, coming from a garden on the banks of
the Imbrasus. The lascivious voices of the Lesbian

women, in languishing strains, were heard accom

panying the music of the cithara, responded to
in the Bacchic airs chanted by the youths. Sud
denly other cries, piercing and mournful, from the
direction of the harbour, mingled with these voices.
They were the cries of rebels whom Polycrates
was embarking to sell as slaves in Asia. They
were being struck with nail-studded thongs, to
compel them to crouch beneath the pontoons of
the rowers. Their shrieks and blasphemous cries
died away in the night and silence reigned over all.
A painful thrill ran through the young man's
frame; he checked it in an attempt to regain pos
session of himself. The problem lay before him,
more pressing and poignant than before. Earth
said: Fatality. Heaven said: Providence. Man
kind, between the two, replied: Madness! Pain /
Slavery / In the depths of his own nature, how
ever, the future adept heard an invincible voice
replying to the chains of earth and the flaming
heavens with the cry: Liberty! Who were right;
sages, or priests, the wretched or the mad, or was it
himself 2 In reality all these voices spoke the truth,
each triumphed in its own sphere, but none gave
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up to him its raison d’être. The three worlds all

existed, unchangeable as the heart of Demeter, the
light of the constellations and the human breast,
but only the one who could find agreement between
them and the law of their equilibrium would be
truly wise; he alone would be in possession of
divine knowledge and capable of aiding mankind.
It was in the synthesis of the three worlds that the
secret of the Kosmos lay !
As he gave utterance to this discovery he had just
made, Pythagoras rose to his feet. His eager
glance was fixed on the Doric façade of the temple;
the majestic building seemed transfigured beneath
Diana's chaste beams. There he believed that
he saw the ideal image of the world and the solu
tion of the problem he was seeking. The base,
columns, architrave, and triangular pediment sud
denly represented, in his eyes, the triple nature of
man and the universe, of the microcosm and the
macrocosm crowned by divine unity, itself a trinity.
The Kosmos, controlled and penetrated by God,
formed
“The sacred Quaternion, the source of Nature;
whose cause is eternal.” 1
Yes, here concealed in these geometrical lines
was the key of the universe, the science of numbers,
* The Golden Verses of Pythagoras.
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the ternary law regulating the constitution of

beings, and the septenary law that governs their
evolution. Pythagoras saw the worlds move
through space in accordance with the rhythm and
harmony of the sacred numbers. He saw the
balance of earth and heaven of which human liberty
holds control; the three worlds, the natural, the
human, and the divine, sustaining and determin
ing one another, and playing the universal drama
in a double—ascending and descending—move
ment. He divided the spheres of the invisible
enveloping the visible world and ever animating it;
finally, he conceived of the purification and liber
ation of man, on this globe, by triple initiation. All
this he saw, along with his life and work, in an
instantaneous flash of illumination, with the abso

lute certainty of the spirit brought face to face with

Truth. Now he must prove by Reason what his
pure Intelligence had obtained from the Absolute,
and this needed a human life, it was the task of a
Hercules.

Where could he find the knowledge necessary to

bring such a labour to a successful issue? Neither
the songs of Homer, nor the sages of Ionia, nor the
temples of Greece would suffice.
The spirit of Pythagoras, which had suddenly
found wings, began to plunge into his past life,
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into his mist-enveloped birth and his mother's

mysterious love. Childhood's memory returned to
him with striking clearness. He recalled the fact
that his mother had carried him in her arms, when
only a babe of twelve months, to the temple of
Adonai, in a vale of Lebanon. He saw himself
again as a child, clinging to the neck of Parthenis,
with mighty forests and mountains all around,
whilst the river formed a waterfall close by. She
was standing on a terrace shaded with giant
cedars. In front of her stood a majestic-looking,
white-bearded priest, smiling on the mother and
child as he uttered grave-sounding words the little
one did not understand. Often had his mother

brought back to his mind the strange utterance of

the hierophant of Adonai : “O woman of Ionia,
thy son shall be great in wisdom; but remember
that, though the Greeks still possess the science of
the gods, the knowledge of God can no longer be
found elsewhere than in Egypt.” These words
came back to him along with his mother's smile, the
old man’s beautiful face, and the distant murmur of
the waterfall dominated by the priest’s voice, with
that magnificent scenery all around, like the dream
of another life. For the first time he guessed the
meaning of the oracle. He had indeed heard of the
wonderful knowledge of Egyptian priests and their
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dreadful mysteries, though he thought he could

do without it all. Now he understood that he

needed this “science of God,” to penetrate to the

very heart of nature, and that he could find it only
in the temples of Egypt. It was the gentle Par
thenis who, with maternal instinct, had prepared
him for this work, and borne him as an offering to
the sovereign God l From this moment he made
up his mind to go to Egypt, and there undergo
initiation.

Polycrates prided himself on being the protector

of philosophers as well as of poets. He willingly
gave Pythagoras a letter of recommendation to
Pharaoh Amasis, who introduced him to the priests
of Memphis. The latter were opposed to receiving
him, and were induced to consent only with the
utmost difficulty. Egyptian sages distrusted
Greeks, whom they charged with being fickle and
inconstant. They did all they could to discourage
the young Samian. The novice, however, sub
mitted with unfaltering patience and courage to the
delays and tests imposed on him. He knew before
hand that he would only attain to knowledge by
entirely mastering his will throughout his entire
being. His initiation under the pontificate of
Sonchis the high priest lasted twenty-two years.
All the trials and temptations, the soul-rending
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dread and ecstatic joy pased through by Hermes,

the initiate of Isis, even to the apparent, or cata
leptic death of the adept and his resurrection in the
light of Osiris, were experienced by Pythagoras, so
that he now realized, not as a vain theory, but as
something lived through, the doctrine of the Logos
Light, or of the universal Word, and that of human
evolution through seven planetary cycles. At each
step of this giddy ascent the tests became more for
midable. A hundred times the risk of death was
incurred, especially if one’s object was to gain con
trol over occult forces, and attain to the dangerous
practice of magic and theurgy. Like all great men,
Pythagoras believed in his star. No path that led
to knowledge disheartened him, the fear of death
could not check him, for he saw life beyond.
When the Egyptian priests had recognized that he
possessed extraordinary strength of soul and that
impersonal passion for wisdom, which is the rarest
thing in the world, they opened out to him the
treasures of their experience. Whilst with them he
daily improved, and became filled with divine
knowledge. He mastered sacred mathematics and
the science of numbers, or universal principles,
which he formulated anew and made the centre of
his system. The severity of the Egyptian discipline
in the temples also impressed on him the prodigious
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power of the human will when wisely trained and

exercised, the endless applications, both to body
and to soul, that can be made of it. “The science
of numbers and the art of will-power,” said the
priests of Memphis, “are the two keys of magic;
they open up all the gates of the universe.” It was
in Egypt that Pythagoras obtained that view from
above, which allows of one seeing the spheres of
life and the sciences in concentric order, and under
standing the involution of the spirit into matter by
universal creation, and its evolution or re-ascent
towards unity by way of that individual creation
called the development of a consciousness.
Pythagoras had reached the summit of Egyptian
priesthood, and was perhaps thinking of returning
to Greece, when war, with all its misery, burst upon
the valley of the Nile, carrying away the initiate
of Osiris in another direction. The despots of Asia
had long been meditating the ruin of Egypt. Their
repeated attacks had failed, for centuries past,
before the wisdom of the Egyptian institutions, the
power of the priesthood, and the energy of the
Pharaohs. But the refuge of the science of
Hermes, the kingdom from time immemorial, was
not to remain for ever. Cambyses, son of the con
queror of Babylon, descended on Egypt with his
innumerable hosts, famished as clouds of locusts,
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and put an end to the institution of the Pharaohs,

the origin of which was lost in the night of time.
In the eyes of the sages this was a catastrophe for
the whole world. Hitherto Egypt had sheltered
Europe against Asia. Her protecting influence
still extended over the whole basin of the Mediter

ranean, by means of the temples of Phoenicia,

Greece, and Etruria, with which the high Egyptian
priesthood were in constant connection. This ram
part once overthrown, the Bull, with lowered head,
was about to burst upon the land of Greece. Pytha
goras saw Cambyses invade Egypt, he may have
beheld the Persian despot, worthy scion of the
crowned villains of Nineveh and Babylon, plunder
the temples of Memphis and Thebes, and destroy
that of Ammon. He may have seen the Pharaoh
Psammitichus brought in chains before Cambyses,
placed on a mound, and surrounded by the priests,
the principal families, and the royal court. He may
have witnessed the Pharaoh’s daughter, clad in rags
and followed by all her maids of honour similarly
demeaned, the royal prince and two thousand young
men, brought forward, bit in mouth and bridle on
neck, before being beheaded; the Pharaoh Psam
mitichus, choking back his sobs before the frightful
scene, and the infamous Cambyses, seated on his
throne, gloating over the anguish of his vanquished
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