Book Description
Astrology it is a science far more difficult to master than the highest mathematics. Every great astrologer admits man’s free will, though not absolute, and therefore man’s liberty to react against the occult influence of the heavenly bodies upon his destiny. The two prerequisites for proficiency in astrology are the apperception by intuition of the ramifications of Universal Sympathy, and a pure life — physically, morally, and spiritually. Like alchemy, modern astrology is no longer the pure and divine science of the schools of Thoth-Hermes, of the first Egyptian Dynasties. The Kabbalistic Gematria is arithmetical, not geometrical. It is one of the methods for extracting the hidden meaning from letters, words, and sentences. It consists in applying to the letters of a word the sense they bear as numbers, in outward shape as well as in their individual sense. Mathematics is the only exact and infallible science, for it proceeds from universals to particulars. Astrology is a mathematical science, which reveals to us what particular causes will produce what particular combination of effects, and gives us the means of knowing how to guide our future births. As the clock merely indicates, it does not influence the time, so the astrologer cannot shape destiny. While the science of astrology determines the nature of effects, by a knowledge of the law of magnetic affinities and attractions of the planetary bodies, it is the Karma of the individual himself, which places him in a particular magnetic relation. The Great Pyramid of Egypt was an Observatory of Occult Astrognosy. It must have been built at a time when Draconis, the then Polar Star, was at its lower culmination and the Pleiades, Alcyone especially, were on the same meridian above.
