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CONTENTS SPECIAL ARTICLES. It Is Power T hat Moves the Universe...... 428 The Coming Man...... 428 Creeds ...... '""429 Control of Energy...... 431 Immortality and Logic...... 432 Cbsmical Velocities...... ;■' '434 Esoteric Meaning of- Planetary-Influence...... -'•■<436 Music of the Spheres...... > 437 How Not to Grow Old...... J” 439 Tonics ...... 440 Child Protection...... - ___ .. ______i "441 A Graded Course of Study in. Hygiene...... i 442 Psychical Research.,...... *• 444 Partial Report Of the Proceedings ofirhV American. Society ‘ t of ;Psychical- Research...... — <447

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E A CH child born into the world is entitled to the best guidance and care the parent is capable of giving it. T h e Stellar Ray horoscopes are intended to be an important assistance to parents in the comprehension, education and care of their children. A natal chart— cast for the exact time of the child’s birth reveals that child’s character, mind and disposition, the weak and strong points in the organism as well as the vices and virtues—enables one versed in the science to reveal to the parents or guardians of the child just the lines upon which it can be best trained.

T HEY can lay out a plan of education and training adapted to the exact disposition of their offspring and thus avoid friction and promote harmony. They will endeavor to starve out the evil they see, while nourishing and developing the good. If the child has a passionate temper, they will never excite this side of the character, but will use calmness, tact in management, gentleness, not force. If the moral development be weak and the intellectual strong, then it is the former they will seek to stimulate and develop.

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The Stellar Ray Book Department SCIENCE A N D K E Y

] O F LIFE i < g y i

PLANETARY INFLUENCES

Compiled and Copyrighted by

HENRY CLAY HODGES

It is impossible to give a cursory sketch, within a few pages, that will convey to the mind of the reader more than a faint idea of this important work, or of its value both as a revealer of scientific truth, and as an inspiration to acquire knowl edge regarding a great science heretofore but little understood, although of vital importance to each individual life; however, we ask your attention to a brief sur vey of the different volumes of the grand work:— SCIENCE AND KEY OF LIFE

VOLUME I Volume 1 of this work, introduces the reader to the subject of Planetary Influ ences, Electric and Magnetic, Defines Fate, shows that “thought is the Builder,” and that each individuality is a law unto itself. “Divine Years” and Ages, The Pyramids and the mathematical principles upon which they were built; an Elysian mystery is explained, and the wonderful phe nomena of the variable stars, among them the Star of Bethlehem, form chapters as full of interest as the tales of the Arabian Nights. The impossibility of annihilation and the secret of happiness are subjects of profound interest. This volume contains horoscopal figures of Oliver Cromwell and William II THE STELLAR RAY.

Shakespear, of Napoleon III., of P. B. Shelley, and Emile Zola, which cannot fail to be of great assistance and interest to students of Stellar Science. The effect of different Polarizations of Sun and Moon on character form chap ters of vital importance. This science substantiates through the working of divine law all of the ethical teachings of the Nazarene. The esoteric side of astral science is presented and it is but inadequately de scribed when we state that volume 1 introduces the reader to a new and marvelously interesting field of thought, broadening and elevating beyond expression. VOLUME II This volume contains 245 pages of subject matter whose interest grows upon the reader as he follows the author through chapters upon the life principle and health, the several parts of the body as governed by certain signs; the influence of the Natal Star, "for every human soul there is a Natal Star; sooner or later each one shall set out in search of his Natal Star.” This volume contains a horoscope of Jesus of Nazareth and the truth regarding his supposed supernatural birth is clearly revealed. Horoscopes of Marie Antoinette, George Washington, Lord Byron, Michael An gelo, Napoleon I. and Charles Guiteau. Chapters containing marvelous information relating to musical tones; color vibrations; their connection with Planetary Action; their wonderful symbolism of Human Progress. Genesis explained and illustrated. The successive gaseous, vegetable and animal waves that appeared upon the earth. Anyone interested in studying life’s great problems will receive new light of incal culable value in possessing these volumes. VOLUME III The third volume contains a complete Astrological Dictionary in addition to chapters on eclipses and their effect in various signs, also the sun and moon, to gether with chapter on Election and Horary Astrology, and the strength and in fluence of each planet, the sphere and orbit of each, as well as examples for tak ing siderial time. Horary Astrology is fully elucidated. This volume shows the auspicious times for commencing any business or other undertaking. It also contains tables giving the rule of the planets each hour of the day, with numerous charts and examples, also how to reduce mean to siderial time. Colors of the different planets and Zodiacal signs are given. It also contains a valuable treatise upon marriage. VOLUME IV This volume is in itself a great work containing about 350 pages. It is compiled in four parts. Part one contains eight chapters of intensely interesting information regarding the faces of the signs and the effect on character indicated by the planets when posited in the twelve houses and signs. These chapters must be read to be appre ciated and to give the reader an idea of their interest and value we quote the fol lowing passage from chapter one: “The first face of Aries is martial, giving fearless, courageous ambition, one able to lead and command others; quick and ingenious and generally a very impres sive speaker.” “ * * * The third face of Aries is a face of change and lively fancy. There is a love of fame and activity unrestful, makes many changes in life.” ttiE STELLAR RAY. Ill

From chapter two: “When Saturn is posited in the first house the native is diplomatic, though very suspicious and distrustful. He is liable to be gloomy and retiring at times, and while he has many acquaintances he has few intimate friends. His friends arc apt to be distant from his home; he makes their friendships through letters, writings, journeys and also through the father and elderly persons and those above him in the social scale of life. The native is apt to be brought to public notice through these sources and he possesses much ambition, love of fame and high position. He also possesses power to manage and control others, not through authority, but diplomacy. * * *” Part two contains chapters on Hindu Astrology and others relating to the periods, sub-periods and inter-periods of the planets and concerning the judgments of planetary periods. The subject matter of part three deals with the planetary influences that domi nate the physical form, have only to do with human evolution; the soul’s pilgrim age through matter is graphically depicted in language that is free from the dryness of technical terms and awakens a realization of the Supreme Wisdom from which all existence flows. Every intelligent mind should come in contact with the vast field of thought which this great work opens to view. Few people have any knowledge of the number of fixed stars—stars that seem to be stationary when viewed from our planet, and which are suns the centers of other solar systems. Part four deals with the subject of fixed stars, giving tables of their magni tude, latitude and longitude, also the nature of their influence, which is greater in mundane affairs than in relation to those of the individual.

VOLUME V This great work now carries the student of this divine science into realms of what may be termed the most needed practical application of Planetary Influences, viz: The physical life of mankind. Volume five deals with Astro Physiology, a science but little understood by scientists, although of the greatest importance to the evolution of humanity from the malefic condiions of disease and suffering. The celestial influences are no less potent in the art of healing than in the art of navigation, in which it is universally known that through heavenly bodies (the sun, moon and stars), the navigator is not alone able to ascertain his whereabouts on the ocean, but the nature of the weather, the tempests, calms and atmospheric changes to which he is to be subjected. So may the physician evolve from the practice of an art which is at present reduced to a mere practice of chance—to a truly scientific system based upon clear first principles which will invariably point to the cause of each malady, to its pro gression of increase and diminution, to its remedy if there be one, and how to avoid its redevelopment and to maintain good health. This volume gives tables portraying the planetary influences upon diseases, and indicating the remedies in the form of healing plants and herbs bountifully supplied by beneficent law, to alleviate sickness and suffering in the creatures living upon this planet; the healing power of electric, magnetic, color and tone vibrations. II THE STELLAR RAY.

Shakespear, of Napoleon III., of P. B. Shelley, and Emile Zola, which cannot fail to be of great assistance and interest to students of Stellar Science. The effect of different Polarizations of Sun and Moon on character form chap ters of vital importance. This science substantiates through the working of divine law all of the ethical teachings of the Nazarene. The esoteric side of astral science is presented and it is but inadequately de scribed when we state that volume 1 introduces the reader to a new and marvelously interesting field of thought, broadening and elevating beyond expression. VOLUME II This volume contains 245 pages of subject matter whose interest grows upon the reader as he follows the author through chapters upon the life principle and health, the several parts of the body as governed by certain signs; the influence of the Natal Star, “for every human soul there is a Natal Star; sooner or later each one shall set out in search of his Natal Star.” i This volume contains a horoscope of JesuS of Nazareth and the truth regarding his supposed supernatural birth is clearly revealed. Horoscopes of Marie Antoinette, George Washington, Lord Byron, Michael An gelo, Napoleon I. and Charles Guiteau. Chapters containing marvelous information relating to musical tones; color vibrations; their connection with Planetary Action; their wonderful symbolism of Human Progress. Genesis explained and illustrated. The successive gaseous, vegetable and animal waves that appeared upon the earth. Anyone interested in studying life’s great problems will receive new light of incal culable value in possessing these volumes. VOLUME III The third volume contains a complete Astrological Dictionary in addition to chapters on eclipses and their effect in various signs, also the sun and moon, to gether with chapter on Election and Horary Astrology, and the strength and in fluence of each planet, the sphere and orbit of each, as well as examples for tak ing siderial time. Horary Astrology is fully elucidated. This volume shows the auspicious times for commencing any business or other undertaking. It also contains tables giving the rule of the planets each hour of the day, with numerous charts and examples, also how to reduce mean to siderial time. Colors of the different planets and Zodiacal signs are given. It also contains a valuable treatise upon marriage. VOLUME IV This volume is in itself a great work containing about 350 pages. It is compiled in four parts. Part one contains eight chapters of intensely interesting information regarding the faces of the signs and the effect on character indicated by the planets when posited in the twelve houses and signs. These chapters must be read to be appre ciated and to give the reader an idea of their interest and value we quote the fol-*r' lowing passage from chapter one: “The first face of Aries is martial, giving fearless, courageous ambition, one able to lead and command others; quick and ingenious and generally a very impres sive speaker.” “ * * * The third face of Aries is a face of change and lively fancy. There is a love of fame and activity unrestful, makes many changes in life." ftiE STELLAR RAY. Ill

From chapter two: “When Saturn is posited in the first house the native is diplomatic, though very suspicious and distrustful. He is liable to be gloomy and retiring at times, and while he has many acquaintances he has few intimate friends. His friends are apt to be distant from his home; he makes their friendships through letters, writings, journeys and also through the father and elderly persons and those above him in the social scale of life. The native is apt to be brought to public notice through these sources and he possesses much ambition, love of fame and high position. He also possesses power to manage and control others, not through authority, but diplomacy. * * *” Part two contains chapters on Hindu Astrology and others relating to the periods, sub-periods and inter-periods of the planets and concerning the judgments of planetary periods. The subject matter of part three deals with the planetary influences that domi nate the physical form, have only to do with human evolution; the soul’s pilgrim age through matter is graphically depicted in language that is free from the dryness of technical terms and awakens a realization of the Supreme Wisdom front which all existence flows. Every intelligent mind should come in contact with the vast field of thought which this great work opens to view. Few people have any knowledge of the number of fixed stars—stars that seem to be stationary when viewed from our planet, and which are suns the centers of other solar systems. Part four deals with the subject of fixed stars, giving tables of their magni tude, latitude and longitude, also the nature of their influence, which is greater in mundane affairs than in relation to those of the individual.

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Power. * * * The man who shall be born, whose advent men and events prepare It is power that holds the universe of atoms together, so that they aggregate and foreshow, is one who shall enjoy his in order, forming solid rock or living connection with a higher life, with the cells, and it is this divine force that man within the man; shall destroy dis causes the sequence of cause and. effect trust by his trust, shall u^e his native but and expounds the law of life. It causes forgotten methods, shall not take counsel each bud and blossom to unfold after its of flesh and blood, but shall rely on the own particular type and kind. Soul law alive and beautiful, which works power implies fulness of development over our heads and under our feet. Piti and is the crown of the unfolded life; it less it avails itself of our success, when is, vested in all and is developed by ex we obey it, and of our ruin when we perience and time, the great teachers. contravene it. Men are all secret be lievers in it, else the word justice would Power that is abused becomes dom have no meaning; they believe that the inance, tyranny, arrogance, though its best is the true, that right is done at last, rightful use is protection, deference and or chaos would come. It rewards ac service. In the use of the principle of tions after their nature, not after the love, when used personally and selfishly, designs of their agent. “Work,” it saith seeks its own gratification^ in pleasurable to man, in every hour, paid or unpaid, sensations and animal delights, but when see only that thou work, and thou canst purified from self, becomes that noble, not escape the reward; whether thy self-sacrificing devotion toward human work be fine or coarse, planting corn, or ity in that higher spirit which lends its writing epics, so only it be honest work, ear to every cry ot pain, eager to aid. done in thine own approbation, it shall We can never love anyone too much, and earn a reward to' the senses as well as devotion to the interests of another is to the thought. No matter how often one of the best means of eradicating that defeated, you are born to victory. The selfishness from which all suffer more or less, and of bringing into expression the reward of a thing well done is to have power that moulds the mind and soul done it. into a God-like condition. As soon as a man is wonted to look beyond surfaces and to see how this high There is Indeed a great evolutionary will prevails without an exception or an movement going on, pressing humanity interval, he settles himself into serenity. steadily forward, even though they do He can already rely on the laws of grav not seek to co-operate with it. These ity, that every stone will fall where it is vibrations are set in motion by intelli due; the good globe is faithful, and car gence which has reached another higher ries us securely through the celestial plane of expression, and these influences spaces, anxious or resigned; we need not will make mankind more just and noble interfere to help it on, and he will learn, in spite of himself. His latent faculties one day, the mild lesson they teach, that respond more or less, even though un our own orbit is all our task, and we consciously, for he has within himself all that is essential to a God-like condi need not assist the administration of the tion. universe. Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretentions and the false reputation of Culture is the power which makes a certain men of standing. They are la man capable of appreciating the life boring harder to set the town aright around him, and the power of making concerning themselves and they will cer that life worth appreciating.—Malio clt. tainly succeed. Suppress for a few days THE StktLAk kAY. 429 your criticism on the insufficiency of this same law if obeyed brings the reward of or that teacher or experimenter, and he perfect achievement. will have demonstrated his insufficiency Man finds that his once dreaded en to all men’s eyes. emy the bolt of lightning is his most In like manner, let a man fall into helpful friend, bearing him swiftly the divine circuits, and he is enlarged. where once he toiled wearily on foot, * * * That which befits us, embos pouring radiant light into the darkness omed in beauty and wonder as we are, is of his night, and he comes to realize that cheerfulness and courage, and the en so it is with every force of nature, and deavor to realize our aspirations. he naturally reconstructs his opinions The foregoing is from a lecture en and adopts new creeds. titled. “New England Reformers,” deliv The readers of T iie Stellar Ray arc ered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Arm awake and in correspondence with ory hall, Boston, March 3 rd, 1844. thoughts that would build high towers of observation, some better fortifications And let him go where he will, he can against error, up on the highlands of only find so much beauty and worth as courage, not in the lowlands of fear and dread; also peaceful havens of rest from he carries.—E m erso n . bitter conflicts. They are in direct relation with Speaking of creeds, one is reminded thoughts that would rest the foundations how tolerant should be the mind that of their structures upon the limitless seeks to trace their threads in the tapes possibilities of infinite wisdom, and build try of life. As a child, dreaming, deems their walls with gates that shall ever its fancies real, its structures lasting, so swing far outward as the incoming tide does mankind, amid ceaseless activities, of comprehension flows within their build and tear down its playhouses of arches. reason. Creeds are but opinions, religious, Each succeeding number of The political, social, and what power they Stellar Ray will contain partial re have to sway the destinies of men, what power to rule the world! These opin ports of the proceedings of The ions are built from thoughts; who dare American Society for Psychial Re deny that thoughts are powerful things? search, under the direction of Dr. They marshal great armies, inspire James H. Hyslop. brave leaders and patient martyrs. They As the investigations of this So are citadels of mercy, towers of refuge, ciety are conducted under the most havens of peace, sanctuaries of holiness, palaces of joy. They are flames of rigid scientific regimen, this data purging fire and rivers of purification. will be both valuable and interest These powerful things, mysterious ing. rulers of mankind, are also evil. They The first quota of this subject are traitors, beasts of prey, cowards, matter appears in the present issue murderers; they are dens of selfish mis under the title ‘‘Apparition,” and ery, prison houses of fear and horror, chambers of sickness and sorrow, flames conveys an idea of the character of of destruction and rivers of deadly poi some of the experiences this so son. ciety is endeavoring to deal with From thoughts both good and evil scientifically. have all creeds been formed. Some of Hundreds of instances are being them are feverish, fantastic dreams of thoroughly investigated, then class a creator actuated by purposes beneath the natural impulses of his creatures. ified and analyzed by methods As intelligence wakens it realizes that known to science for determining broken law is the only avenger, that the the laws governing them. 4 3 0 THE STELLAR RAY.

A t the annual meeting of the School killed by intelectuality. Men for the masters' Club—an interdenominational pulpits should be men of rich religious* conference of church and guild workers experience. Experience in religion and state educators—in Ann Arbor, could not be taught, perhaps, but the Mich. Prof. Robert M. Wenley and art and science of religion could and Rev. C. D. Williams, D. D., Episcopal should be in the state universities. bishop of Michigan, addressed the large Ethics should be taught in every public audience. Prof. Wenley’s subject was school as well as higher institutions. “The School of Religion and the State “The state university prepares stu University,” and he said in part: dents to earn bread and butter in var “Scholars do not want a sectarian col ious ways, but does nothing towards lege set down in Ann Arbor, nor to have preparing them for altruistic services. the university connected in any way There should be courses in philan with sectarianism. What is wanted is a thropy. school where religion will be taught by “There is no reason why religion should not be studied impartially, just experts and the worth of it shown—a the same as medicine, law or any other school where religion will be the prime art or profession. There is no reason, consideration and theology relegated to legal or otherwise, why the state should the background. not support such a school of religion. “The modern philosophy has no place “I do not believe in a theological sem in sectarian institutions. This school inary, and consider it is about the worst should not be for the purpose of fitting preparation possible for the ministry or candidates for the ministry. It should anything else. It is the most de-human- be open only to graduate students, and izing thing I know of. But I do believe not the average, but the deepest students in training for religious work along should be enlisted, as religion is one of with other work. That would preserve, the most difficult studies we have. a man’s humanity, would give a breadth “The study of Christianity should find of mind and freedom of thinking, which no favored place in the program, but are the greatest needs in the ministry should be studied along with the reli today.” gions of the orient and savage and 4» primitive races. The students would be taught to find for themselves and, upon Barnacled. no conditions, to accept the usual dog The hml of a greatr-ship that ploughs^ mas and creeds. The scholars want to the ocean from port to port, bearing its remove the reproach of the English- treasures of human life and rich mer speaking world, that there is no place chandise, becomes after a time so en where y-ou can go and study religion wrapped with barnacles that it is taken without sectarianism. This sort of a into dry dock and an army of workmen school would give the best atmosphere employed to free the great -structure possible for the ministry, would be valu of these parasites before it may again able for preachers and invaluable for speed on its mission of usefulness. teachers. Individuals, churches, corporations, “If Carnegie, instead of endowing governments are more or less hampered scores of fiction storehouses would by parasitic growths. spend $1 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 in the endowment of The average man today is barnacled a school for religion, he would possess by social and religious prejudices that a more lasting monument to his name cause him to move clumsily and slowly and give the world a greater boon. along, censuring and being censured by Bishop'Williams, in speaking upon his fellows, harassed.by fears of imagin the same subject, described religion as ary foes and woes. neither creed nor theology, but an ex Churches are restricted in their re perience, an art, a science. He said: form work by creeds, the pa’"'sites of “Religion in a college town is often ignorance and immaturitv THE STELLAR RAY. 4-31 Corporations are bungling along en —can, indeed, make compounds hitherto crusted with the greed of gain. Govern unknown in nature. Similarly, it is ments are crippled by arbitrary rules and more than probable that we shall ere statutes of past centuries—the barnacles long learn to achieve the 'synthesis of or hangers-on of efete conditions. the elements as well as their analysis. While intelligence concedes that these No energy is ever lost. Even when the things are true, it also admits that being radium atom, itself the child of the awake to the truth of an issue is equal uranium atom, breaks down and dissi to one-half of the battle for its accom pates its energy, ending, it is supposed, plishment, and the hull of the great ship as the dull atom of lead, the original of progress is today being stripped of energies are not destroyed. Why should the dead weight of much past error that they not be gathered up again and thus it may move more swiftly through the again become available? Are matter great sea of the problems of human and energy to go on thier way, ultimate achievement. The individual is learning ly destroying the human race? For my to make his own deductions, both social self, I incline to the view that victory and ethical. will rest at last with ‘‘man’s unconquer As the individual becomes free, the able mind.”—C. W . Salecby, F. R. S., in Church must drop its fossilized creeds, Harper’s Magazine. the body politic must swing out into broader, deeper waters—the safer cur The July issue of The Stellar rents of universal welfare. Universal welfare being paramount to the individ Ray will contain an article by Prof. ual, the church, the corporation, the Larkin on the subject A u stra lia n government, because including all parts A p p o r ts . This promises to be of in its simple, majestic wisdom. special interest as the Apports now 4* 4* 4* appearing at the Psychic Research Society in Australia are attracting Control of Energy. wide attention and the Professor

Is It Possible for the Human Race to has a personal friend there watch Avert Extinction f ing everything. The only conceivable way in which Articles from other able writers the human intelligence can ever succeed upon subjects of a most interesting in averting the ‘‘procession of the great character will appear in this jour year” is not by postponing the issue, but nal each month. by reversing the process. The question The reports of the proceedings of is this: While energy is being dissi the American Psychical Research pated in acordance with the natural law, can we so manipulate things as to ac Society under the direction of Prof. cumulate energy, making the unavail- Hyslop will contain incidents and ableable available—notwithstanding the experiences of a phenomenal char fact that cosmic processes seem to be acter and at the same time of deep essentially irreversible ? Now there is interest to humanity at large, for assuredly no inherent reason why we they seem to draw aside the veil should not accomplish this. It is true between this and the future life— that hitherto all the atomic evolution and many times they are incidental that has been observed is atomic disinte with similar experiences, known to gration. We may speak now, indeed, of the readers themselves, but kept the analysis of the elements. But so it was, we may remember, that the older locked secretly from the knowledge chemistry began, and yet analytic chem of the world, lest they be deemed istry was the precursor of synthetic “peculiar” or of unsound mind. chemistry. We began by breaking up To these readers as well as compounds, but now we can make them others whose minds are open to 4 3 2 THE STELLAR RAY.

the possibilities hidden in the still that cannot be wholly set aside. But undefined laws of nature; these par the subject cannot thus lightly be dis tial reports. cannot fail to be inter missed. There come times in many lives esting. in which the hope of immortality is the one star shining in a whole night of dis appointment. “In a great emergency like this (the “The oldest nations of which we have panic),” says an editorial of the New York Evening Post, in the issue of any record believed in it in some form; Jan. 28th, 1908, speaking of economics and the newest nations have not been which help to put business on its feet, able to disprove it. We cannot speak “the average smoker might consider too highly in praise of those scholars of cutting down his allowance to one the last century who sought to establish cigar a day. a material foundation for all life, but the “That trifling act of abnegation conclusion must be reached that they would make a difference in the coun we f e so in love with their special pursuit try’s cigar bills of more than three of* knowledge, that they overlooked the and one-half millions a year. spiritual. They did not oppose so much “Statistics show that we are not a as they ignored the soul. The proba whiskey drinking nation at our worst, bility is that the tendency to magnify yet we could save ten millions a year the material at the expense of the men on whiskey alone, and still give one- tal has reached its limit. The spiritual fifth of our population a stiff dram tide is now on. every Saturday night. Beer is another “Nothing that scientific investigation matter. In the recent piping times our has discovered will warrant anyone in per capita consumption of this bever giving up his belief in the superiority of age, babies and all, rose to more than the soul. Evolution is seen now to be a twenty gallons. Put down beer drink builder instead of a destroyer of the be ing as one-third of the population and lief in God. It performs a similar ser each of them could have approximate vice for the soul. If creative force and ly eighteen glasses a week. Reduce purpose have, through a long series of that to two a day and the margin of changes, brought man to his present saving is over fifty million dollars.” high condition, who would dare affirm 4» 4 4» that the end is reached? When the body was attained, the process did not In speaking of immortality as end. It went on and brought forth man, related to pure logic, Dr. Lee Mc- the soul. It is only rational to believe Collester, of Detroit, said recently, that it will go on and produce man, the in part as follows: immortal.” “All may confess that the doctrine of immortality has never been successfully stated in terms of logic. For this fail “I know with certainty that in dying ure, two causes may be assigned. The I shall be happy, and that I shall enter question is very large and, at best, man’s a world more real.” Count Tolstoi reasoning power is but small. The diffi thus sums up his anticipations of culty lies in trying to solve an infinite death in reply to a-friend who congrat problem with a finite mind. The line of ulated him upon his approaching eight human logic is all paid out before the ieth birthday. All earthly life, he says, depths of being are fathomed. is a dream and death the true awaken • “Because every argument partially ing. He awaits that awakening with fails in its purpose, some prefer to re happiness. main silent on the subject. . There are Elaborating on this idea he says: reasons against it we have not heard “Our earthly life is one of dreams answered, and there are arguments for it of another and more real life, and that THE STELLAR RAY. 4 3 3 other rlife is a dream of yet another To The Stellar Ray subscribers and so on ad infinitum even to the last who have received the first Monea life, the life of God.” Lesson, the following offer is made: Of death at different ages and under different circumstances he says: "Death If you will write to the Monea de in youth is as when a man is awak partment stating the results ob ened before he has slept full measure. tained from the practice of lesson Death in old age is as when a man No. 1 and send us one new sub wakes of his own accord after a good scriber, the second lesson (which sleep. Suicide is a nightmare, which is a personal one, meeting the in a man banishes by remembering that he is asleep. He makes an effort and dividual requirement), will be writ wakes.” ten and forwarded to you free of charge. A little more patience, a little more This offer will interest only sin charity for all, a little more devotion, a cere minds who have caught the little more love; with less bowing down spark of new life, which is gener to the past, and a silent ignoring of pre ated by an earnest, open-minded tended authority; a brave looking for ward to the future with more faith in practice of the three brief, but com our fellows, and the race will be ripe for prehensive divisions of the first les a great burst of light and life.— T h e F ra. son. Having received benefit them selves they will say this is an op Professor Edgar Lucien Larkin, the portunity to put some friend or foe director of the great Mount Lowe Ob into relation with a good influence. servatory, near Los Angeles, Cal., has, together with his wide knowledge, the The first lesson is also a free gift gift of being able to convey to others in with each subscription or renewal, clear, comprehensive, beautiful and elo hence we are making it an easy quent language an idea of some of the matter for any one to receive their marvels of the Universe. There is an help. article from his pen in this issue of T he The first lesson alone if sincerely Stellar R ay which will cause the read er to catch a glimpse of the majesty of practiced places the student at once creation, with its unthinkable numbers upon a higher plane and, further of solar systems. Edgar L. Larkin has. more, it contains the principle of recently published a new book entitled development, which if once implant “Radient Energy.” which treats in a pop ed in the mind imbues the individ ular, comprehensive style of the new dis ual with a force that is sure to coveries in astronomy, spectography and improve the health and the power celestial photography. It is profusely illustrated and explains the vast subject to accomplish, and with these come of radiation. To one unacquainted with increased happiness. the style and ability of its author, the Those who have received lesson title alone is most alluring, and to those No. 1 should persist in its practice familiar with his powers of diction the until a realization of its majestic work will be welcomed with delight. In but simple principle dawns in the our advertising columns may be found further particulars of price and where mind. Then will growth come nat this instructive book may be obtained. urally and only as some specific quality of mind needs developing or Quotation is a good thing, there is a a special weakness needs transmut community pf thought in it.—D r. J oh n ing into strength, will further in son . struction b$ required.

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Cosmical Velocities. than the sixth magnitude. There are 6,874 stars above this, therefore this is the sum total that can be seen without W ritten for The Stellar Ray by Edgar optical aid by looking on every dark Lucien Larkin. night throughout an entire year. An The earth moves around the sun at a opera-glass brings out thousands more, speed of 18J-S miles during each second while the great 40-inch lenses of the of time. But a motion of even one mile Yerkes Observatory reveal them by lit per second, is beyond conception, for eral millions. But the retina of the eye even the trained mind of a mathemati cannot store light energy; this is a prop cian cannot comprehend it. The veloci erty of the delicate emulsion, a thin, ties of the planets constituting our little highly sensitive film on glass sheets. family, the Solar system, are: Mercury, Telescopes provided with these plates 30; Venus, 22; the Earth, 18J^; Mars, look at one place in the sky all night. 15; Jupiter, 8 ; Saturn, 6 ; Uranus, 4; and The earth turns from west to east, so a Neptune, 3.37 miles per second, around clock has to be provided that moves the the sun in direction always opposite to telescope from east to west in exact the direction of motion of the hands of ratio. Each sun sends rays through the a clock or watch. But the sun moves lenses and tube to where they fall on the and drags its stately retinue of worlds, plates, and their energy is quenched, moons, comets and streams of meteors absorbed, and stored. The result is a dot along with it, at a velocity of 1 2 miles for each faint sun, too small to be seen per second, through inconceivable deeps by the eye alone, so the plates are exam of space. The direction of motion of our ined with powerful microscopes. Then sun and its system is toward the bright they are stored away. star Vega, in the northern constellation The Harvard College Observatory has Lyna. I used the old fashioned word many thousands in safekeeping. They “star,” but should have written,' “sun.” are of great value. Suppose that at the Every star is a colossal sun, a vast ma expiration of 10, 15 or 20 years a new jority being white hot, hotter than melt photograph is secured of a certain area ed steel or the electric arc. exactly like the first. Then place this The entire area of the celestial sphere above the original. It is clear that if has been photographed on 25,878 large any sun has moved in the meantime, its and highly sensitive plates. The stars— image will not coincide with that on the suns—the smaller magnitudes, make ex first plate. The amount of displacement ceedingly fine points or dots on the sensi can be measured with an instrument in tized surfaces. The points on many the microscope with great accuracy. The negatives and prints have been counted distances of perhaps 50 stars from our on photographs of different parts of the sun are known fairly well. Now, when sidereal structure, and a general average mathematicians know the distance of has been taken. The result is, that about other suns, and the amounts of displace one hundred million suns have made ment of their minute images in a given their tiny images in the molecules of the time, they can compute their velocities. bromide of silver. Thirteen photo And the result comes out, that for all graphic telescopes were engaged in this suns so far computed, their velocities great work for a number of years. These range from four to eighty miles per sec were situated north and south of the ond. These are for suns that are seen equator, so that every square degree of to move sidewise on the plates. But if the night sky could be exposed to the a sun is approaching or receding on a impurturble eyes of the instruments. The straight line, the dot on the photo will unaided eye cannot see a star of less not move laterally. Hence, by that pro THE STELLAR RAY. 4 3 5 cess their rates of motion could never planets, are in a solitary region in inter have been determined. But the spectro minable space, never here before, and scope, one of the most wonderful instru never will be again. Our system moves ments in existence, came to the rescue 372,000,000 miles per year. Light moves and solved this intricate problem. To with the amazing speed of 186,380 miles explain how, would fill a book, but it is per second. This cosmical velocity may able to measure speeds of approach or as well be called infinite, since no brain recession by means of a well known can begin to think about it. Yet light property of waves of light. An almost incredible wonder about it is, it is not requires four years and three months to required to know the distance of a re reach our solar system from its nearest mote sun to find its velocity. And many friendly system. From others, more suns have been tested and the speeds of than 1,000 years. The utmost limit of these also range between 4 and 80 miles velocity so far developed by man, in high per second. An average speed has been power cannons, is to project a shell 3,000 feet per second—feet, not miles. determined, and it is about 2 1 miles per second. Try to think of a force that can cause a gigantic sun to move with a velocity of Not one sun among the 100,000,000 is 80 miles and more per second. The at rest. There are no “fixed stars.” force required to keep our home, the Kapteyn, the great astronomer of Earth, in motion, so it will not fall to the Konigsberg, has detected a motion which sun, in epressed by four quintillion tons. he calls star-drift. There are two im —Lowe Observatory, Echo Mountain, mense streams of stars flowing in oppo California, April 23, 1908. site directions. This streaming of the suns is by far the most majestic discov ery ever made. It may be said without a At one time astronomy and astrology doubt that all that part of the universe were one and the same science, but the within range of the most powerful tele former now treats of magnitudes, dis scopes is in rotation. This would be the tances, composition, masses, motions, best way to explain dritfing in opposite etc. It is based upon observations made directions, for this is the way in which with elaborately constructed instruments. opposite sides of a wheel move. Astronomy is purely an objective' An idea may be had of these velocities science, associated with the forms and when it is told that the nearest neighbor bodies, while astrology may be consid our star, the sun, has is 25 million mil ered as subjective, dealing with the life lion—25 trillion—miles away. The bright inherent in the form, and to deny astrol star Sirius, now so brilliant in the South, ogy is to ignore the existence of the soul is twice as far away, and these are of humanity. “near-by” suns. Others are fully a hun dred times more distant. Two or three suns move much faster than 80 miles T he Stellar Ray believes that the in per second. numerable suns are centers of solar sys Tolerably accurate observations on tems and peopled by intelligent beings flying suns have been made during 150 all on their way up the steeps of evolu years, but the precision has greatly in tion to become one with the great Wis creased within ten years. So far, all dom that has brought them into being. suns measured appear to be moving on To believe that the planets making up straight lines. But all astronomers be our solar system are devoid of such lieve that they move on curves. But the beings and that this little speck we call distances traversed in 150 years, at 80 earth is the only one in which conscious miles per second, are so very short that life is manifesting itself is to deprive the no miscrosco^e can tell whether the infinite Creator of these worlds of com paths are straight or bent a little. Thus mensurate intelligence with the universe our sun, the Earth, and all its sister He has brought into existence. 436 THE STELLAR RAY.

Astrology is the science that defines ian influence will begin to manifest, the actions of the heavenly bodies upon and there will be entirely different vibra all forms of matter as well as individuals tions. in the human expression. It is the soul The Jupiterian influence will be one of astronomy and through it the equali of aspiration and devotion manifesting ties of the human race are explained. upon the religious world. All who are It points out the working of a definite beginning to realize that there is some law through jvhich humanity can realize thing beyond the physical life, are com that “As ye sow so likewise shall ye ing into these Jupiterian vibrations, reap.” while those who have overcome the de Its origin began with man. It was for sires of the objective have reached up ages a secret science in the East, and. into the higher Saturine influence. its true teachings have ever remained so Many on the earth today are working to this day. The abuse of this science by out of the Martial into the Jupiterian those who practiced it, solely for per influences. sonal gain, has brought about so much There are few in mortal form who corruption that the key has been lost, as have attained the higher Saturine vibra it were, to this beautiful science. tions, have controlled their thought, can ♦ ♦ ♦ meditate steadily, although there are Esoteric Meaning of Planetary those who are very thoughtful who are coming under their influence. The Influences. planet having control over the next In considering the general conditions higher condition than Saturn is Urania, of humanity today, those who know ruling the metaphysical, and it is here something of higher esoteric truths and that the spiritual self-consciousness is would give out the knowledge to others, manifested. The' smybol used to de find as they approach the average in scribe Urania, if carefully studied, will dividual that he is not interested unless show that the complete influence of the he can be shown how to increase his seven planets are shown, and it is pe material possessions. culiar how this Uranian influence mani This is to be deplored, but when the fests in the lives of those having this cause back is considered, we do not planet prominent in their birth figure, wonder, for we realize that the majority and more especially when they cannot of mankind today is manifesting under respond fully to the vibrations created the lower influence of Mars, for Mars by this planet, and in truth to the u n is dual in his true influence. a w a k e n e d soul Urania is the most male Mars governs force, meaning both fic of any of the planets, for the reason animal and spiritual force, the lower that there is an influence acting upon being the animal, and the larger portion them which they cannot understand and of humanity are working through their cannot consequently respond harmon lower nature, and are engaged so much iously. with matters associated with the lower senses, that it is impossible for them to ( Copyrighted .) become interested in any higher thought or occult study. Mars describes the greatest selfishness Every personality is surrounded by in mankind, passion, hatred and all a zodiac of his or her own, upon which those violent forces that cause him to the thought currents act and react con be turbulent and fiery. tinuously, causing the aura to become Humanity is at present just emerging fine or coarse. Therefore the purer from the iron ages, which are governed and stronger the life, the more deli by Mars, and are going into an entirely cate and beautiful will the radiation of new age. The sixth sub-race will hard the colors in th6 aura become. Each ly come under the influence of Mars, one should realize the importance of and in the seventh sub-race the Jupiter- refining the astral colors.—A lv a d is .

/ THE STELLAR RAY. 4 3 7 The distance separating the earth vibrations in excess of these limits be from the sun is of so much importance called “soundless?” It is well known in astronomical computations, that it is that animals, other than man, perceive sometimes spoken of as the “astrono vibrations at undulatory velocities that mers’ yardstick.” are outside of the limits I have given An opportunity to increase the accur for the human ear, and they can be acy of this fundamental measure will be mechanically registered. Why assert presented within a few months, when such vibrations are soundless, then? the asteroid Eros, famous for approach We know, too, that there are light ing the earth nearer than does any other rays beyond and below the ken of the heavenly body except the moon, will be human eye. Behold as proof the won in opposition to the sun. derful results obtained from the use of The method of observation will be by the “X-rays,” which lie beyond the vio making photographs showing the posi let (highest) end of the light spectrum. tion of Eros among the stars as seen Then, in much lower ranges than the from different parts of the earth. From red (lowest) end of the solar spectrum the comparative displacement of the lie the series of electrical waves used asteroid in the various photographs, by the Marconi and other wireless sys owing to the separation of the points of tems in sending their messages over sea observation, the distance of the sun can and land. The human eye cannot see be computed. It is probable that these those waves, yet the photographic plate, will be the most accurate measurements more sensitive than the human retina, of the sun’s distance yet made.—Phila easily records them, the same as it does delphia Record. the far off stars, which through the most powerful telescopes remain unob «$» «g» served by the human eye! Then there are the well-known heat Music of the Spheres. rays, much lower in rapidity of vibra tion than the light rays that our nerves By Dr. C. Henri Leonard. of sensation are attuned to, and the In the early days Astronomy and Mu nerve fibrillae of our bodies most mar sic were closely related to each other velously pick them up and send them to and were taught in the same schools and our ever-active brain-cells to register by the same philosophers. for us the phenomenon we call heat. Pythagoras, the great Greek philoso Physicists also know that sound and pher, born about 582 B. C., first an musical notes can come from currents nounced the musical harmony in plane of induced magnetism and the voltaic tary revolution and promulgated in his current, all due to the molecular dis school of philosophy his belief in the turbance in receiving and parting with actual “Music of the Spheres.” the magnetic rays of induction. And why may not this be possible? The unequal expansion and contrac What is Music? What is sound but the tion of different metals, when properly registered vibrations of some physical arranged on a sounding bar, will give medium, fluid, gaseous or solid, that out musical notes during the slight causes a registration of such pulsations vibratory motion of the molecules in upon the eardrum? duced by the molecular disturbances The ear is a marvelous piece of mech caused by moderate heat. The common anism, scientifically adapted and “tuned” gas flame, under certain physical condi to the receiving of these vibrations, but tions, also becomes unmistakably musi in a very limited way. Anything lower cal. than 16 per second or higher than 36,500 Why, then, may it not be possible for vibrations per second (and most persons the spheres, in their ceaseless rounds cannot perceive sounds at either of the through space at various velocities, to extremes above noted) falls soundless give off harmonies the human ear has upon the human ears! Why should all never kenned, even as Pythagoras 4 3 8 THE STELLAR RAY.

dreamed of in the long ago, centuries how it is possible for an individual to before any of the scientific facts above reach perfection with just one physical enumerated became known to man? We expression, but study will demonstrate know the sun throws earthwards light that the soul can still attain experience rays, heat rays, chemical rays and mag in the ethereal and astral spheres, to netic rays by the millions every hour of serve all necessary purposes toward a time. Why limit the belief to these four perfected soul consciousness. when the sound waves are so closely in A better understanding of the heavens terwoven in our human experience with or the spiritual and subjective world will all four of these other phenomena. dispel all doubt regarding the accumu Do not misunderstand me;. I am not lation of all sufficient experience for the seriously advocating the old Pythagor progress of the.soul in its flight to a ean doctrine; only showing that rela sphere of perfected beings, toward which tively it might be possible. He claimed all humanity are now trending their way for his theory that the sounds were so and where they will eventually arrive. fine that the human ear could not detect them, but that the “music” was really there. That Saturn, being the farthest Astrology is the science of self- knowledge. It is one of the seven away, and slowest (of the planets then known) in motion, would give out the keys of wisdom. There are two ways of acquiring self-knowledge, by the greater note, and that the Moon, the swifter in motion and the nearest to the science of mind and the science of the earth, would give out the higher note, soul. Astrology shows the first of and that the intermediate notes would these; and teaches that none are fall be furnished by the other planets in har en so low but can be awakened and mony with their velocity of motion. become self-conscious. When we con trol our thoughts we shall become * * * masters of our destiny and rulers of the stellar forces. Teachings of Stellar Science. * 4* ,4* According to the ideas of many, the value of the science of planetary influ ence can only be appreciated as a means New Destroyer of Bacteria. to obtain wealth and possessions and To the scientific marvel mysteries of minister alone to the material and per this age must be added ozone. It has sonal wants; but there could never be a been found that the greatest purifying greater error than to expect that noth agent in existence is contained in this ing more than this could be gained from new gas that is generated by electricity knowledge of this science of life, or that from the free air around us. It does it should be a means whereby one might many wonderful things. In the com gain an advantage over others, and those mercial world it is used for bleaching who have no other motive will never be and refining mineral oils, for whitening able to realize that the science of astrol wax, gum lacquer, ivory, bone, feathers ogy posesses a higher esoteric side—the and various other things. In the manu most essential and important of all. facture of starch, ozone has been util Of what aid can it be if it does not ized for bleaching purposes; it has been help to develop latent talent and found possible to use it to harden and strengthen character? Why should val ripen the kind of wood that is used in uable time be devoted if it does not assist musical instruments; in Paris the linen to raise the consciousness and expand from hospitals is disinfected by ozone, the knowledge of that universal spirit, and in innumerable ways the gas has immortal in the human race? been put to work by ingenious man to The majority of humanity do not accomplish things that have heretofore grasp the possibilities and opportunities been done with difficulty by other means. of the spiritual life, and cannot realize — Technical World. HEALTH AND HYGIENE How Not to Crow Old. food which was absolutely pure, and which was of the fullest nutrition and power. Thousands of people gorged By Dr. J. Stenson Hooker, of London, themselves with food, and then had to E n g la n d . go to the Continent to be washed out l Dr. Hooker recently delivered a lec It was an absolute fact that people need ture before the Psycho-Therapeutic So not get rheumatism, gout, and many ail ciety at the Caxton hall, Westminster, ments which they already suffered from. in which he gave some practical ideas One of the greatest dangers in middle and suggestions, as quoted in part below life was obesity, which rendered impos from The Health Record, published at sible that exercise which was necessary. Bedford Square, London, Eng.: Therefore, if they desired to live to a grand old age they must have pure dietr * * * Some little time ago there and not too much of it. was brought before the attention of him Unfortunately, it was a custom with self and others a case of “delayed senil people when they reached middle life to ity.” At seventy-five years of age the eat more than they did before, whereas man had not a grey hair in his head, his they should eat a great deal less, because limbs were perfectly flexible, and the they should eat a great deal lss, bcause pulse splendidly soft and natural, and he naturally the organs were not quite so could do a good day’s work then. That active as before, and they did not take should be possible to many more of us that amount of exercise that they were in this present age of increased knowl in the habit of taking when younger. edge of the laws of health. He was not, When they reached the age of seventy however, saying that so much to those they should eat still less, because still who had reached middle age, but to less was required, and they should sim those who were young, and who had plify their diet more and more. As they every opportunity of taking the good grew old in years they reverted in many lessons to heart, and, consequently, of respects to the condition of childhood, being young at seventy-five like the man or rather, the condition of childhood’s he had referred to. It was true that they requirements. They wanted more sleep could not put back the calendar, bu t th ey and rest, and they did not require such need net look at it so often. Let them gross and solid diet. Icok not cn their years, but the glorious As regarded exercise, he was quite activities of life. sure they left off exercising, especially There were also mental, moral, ethical walking, far too soon. They should be and spiritual conditions to be taken into able to walk at sixty or seventy as well account, and all these were, in so many as at twenty or thirty, and it was a cases, at the present moment making for splendid way of keeping young. They old age, instead of acting in the opposite also gave up running too soon. He knew way. The most important considera that there was far too much running in tions, physically speaking, which were some respects—particularly violent run apt to induce old age were wrong diet ning. Those who had some degenera and want of exercise. They must not tion of tissue would, of course, have ta take into the system any food or nour exercise care, but if they skipped and ishment which was likely to cause de ran about they would find themselves composition, fermentation, uric acid, or growing more vigorous in every way, an excessive deposit of lime, which filled and warding off that old age which, after up the arteries and blocked those canals all, none of them desired. which carried the streams of blood to As to the mental condition, their a tti nourish all the parts. They could not tude of mind had much to do with grow expect to grow old at all if they took ing old, and the whole world in this 4 4 0 THE STELLAR RAY.

respect required “suggestion” treatment. the quiet man or woman who became a They wanted someone of great power power in the world. Married people and standing to “suggest” to the whole seemed to live longer than single ones world that the world was an ass in this therefore his advice was, "Get married.”' respect, for it had somehow got into its Never worry, for that is fatal. Be opti stupid head that men and women must mistic at all times. The miserable, be old at seventy years of age, or, even croaking pessimist will grow old—and sooner. That was ridiculous, and the ugly as well—very soon. * * * It sooner a different idea, or counter was, of course, useless to live to an old suggestion, was driven into their age to be glued down in the chimney subconscious minds the better. If corner. Living just to eat, drink and a man thought he was going to vegetate was scarcely living at all. What be old at sixty, he assuredly would they desired was to be so buoyant and be, for truly, “as a man thinketh feel so young, lithe, and active as to be in his heart, so is he.”' Many authori able to enter into and enjoy the thou ties, men of genius, had placed it on sand and one activities which were open record that it was quite possible and to them. Dr. Peebles was a splendid natural that men and women should live example, so were Bismarck and Glad to be 1 0 0 , or even 1 2 0 , years of age. stone. In the main, it was a question of Of course, the Psalmist had said that the living simply, naturally and purely, and allotted span of life was three score not selfishly, and in that way only would years and ten, but that was an unfor they reach a grand old age. tunate mistake. Many great men did their best work after that age. Person 4* 4 * ally, he had put down ninety-three as his age limit! Tonics. 'The Prophet Joel had evidently a knowledge of the ideas of mental science Speaking of tonics, Mr. Albert B. when he declared, “Let him that is weak Olston says in part: * * * “You say that he is strong.” Another prophet need a tonic. Indeed you do, but said, “In confidence and quietness shall you fly to the kind of a tonic be thy strength.” It was in the quiet that takes a stronger man than you to ness that they got intuitions by which dispose of. You take your tonic, your they would be able to live the true and irritant; thus you lay the lash upon these healthy life. impoverished workers and require of Then there was the help we could de them ‘bricks without straw.’ rive from entering into the many re “Let us.look at the happier side of this formative and philanthropic movements matter. Going back to those same cells, # of the time. If we kept ourselves busy let us see what we can do for them. In over these, and kept the heart young, we the lungs we find a quantity of blood should keep the body young also. In that has come up from these parts. It is short, he would say, “Never relinquish laden with waste matter that must be plenty of exercise; exercise your mind taken out by the air, and oxygen put in to its very fullest capacity; don’t retire its place. You feel languid and tired. at all unless to meditate, which should You get up and expand your lungs by be an every day practice; live a simple filling them fuff of fresh air. The blood life, don’t be afraid of ideals; do good in your lungs takes advantage of this and be good; radiate great love to all greater volume of air and throws off its mankind. Do these things and your impurities and loads up oxygen and has days will be long, happy and bright in tens to cary it down to these cells of the land.” which we are speaking. They in turn They must conserve their force instead appropriate to themselves the needed of wasting it in every possible way. The properties, and thus being strengthened man who was always getting out of tem and stimulated they faithfully set about per lost many years of his life. It was their duties and soon have poured into THE STELLAR RAY. 4 4 1 the stomach the liquid of their manu better care of their children. Many in facture. fants lose their lives annually through “This attacks the food, causing the “overlying,” and irom ourns and scalds necessary changes, and its nutriment is through unguarded fires. Parents are added to the blood. It is not long before to be punished tor tnese things unless this enriched blood has reached these they can prove that every precaution has cells. They feed upon it and are made been taken, and severely punished if stronger and find in it the needed ele neglect is due to drunkenness. ments. Their product of digestive fluid The new bill absolutely prohibits ju is increased, which increases the appe venile smoking. The sale of cigarettes tite, heals the sick man and strengthens and cigarette papers to boys under 16 is every part, even to the processes and prohibited, and smoking by persons un character of his mind. der 16 in the streets is prohibited, with “This illustration holds good for every a fine after the first offense. A boy’s part of the body. All the blood of the tobacco is to be confiscated and auto body reaches the lungs. Every part matic machines supplying cigarettes are casts off waste matter and takes up oxy also to be confiscated. gen. The lungs then serve a double pur Government inspection is to be pro pose. The capacity needs looking after. vided for all homes for children sup A little time each day given to deep ported by the public, and in this way all breathing, with the mind upon what you fraudulent institutions and day nurseries wish, will suffice to keep these organs will be detected and closed. enlarged and powerful. As for time, This whole scheme for the betterment you can do this wherever you are and of children is to be supported by the have a moment to spare. The Creator establishment of juvenile courts through made the air and said you must use it out the country. They are to be separ freely. You say that it is not a tonic? ate from all other courts. In London, a Try to do without it for two minutes, special children’s magistrate is to visit and then note the magic of it as you in turn special children’s courts, and deal gladly relinquish yourself to its inflow. with the children, who are to be kept in Your creator made it and told you to special places of detention. The impris take it. Don’t accuse him of making the onment of children is to be abolished many substitutes you may be disposed to altogether. In this way it is hoped that take.”—From Mind Power and Priv parents will be made to feel a fuller ilege. responsibility for the wrongdoing of their children.—Episcopal Recon.

I have been reading T he Stellar Child Protection. Ray and find it rich with inspiration. A measure likely to prove far-reach If any of your readers are running a ing in its benefits has just been intro Rest Home, ask them to speak of it, duced into the British house of commons, as I am interested in that line of work, where it seems destined to meet with God’s work, and a word in T he Stel more than usual favor. The measure lar Ray might be a help to many. proposes to unite in one measure all Yours truly, previous laws for the protection of chil Mrs. A. Crawford, dren, and to improve on them. It is 1412 Chapin St., somewhat lengthy, being composed of Washington, D. C. 119 clauses. It begins by defining a child as under 14 years of age, and a Some of our readers may care to young person as between 14 and 1G. correspond with Mrs. Crawford upon In four particulars at least the meas the subject of Rest Homes, even if ure is worthy of reference. The preven they have not any data of special in tion of cruelty to children act is to be terest to contribute to T he Stellar amended so as to make parents take Ray. ■4-42 THE STELLAR RAY.

■ Dr. Graeme Hammond, the eminent them, did they but know what books are “alienist and student of criminalogy, says: published, where obtainable, I have (be “It has been discovered by science that ing, perhaps, in an unusualy good situa the application of X-rays renders sterile tion to know of such publications), un the spark of future life, and I am heart dertaken to compile a brief list of the ily in favor of the enactment of legisla most important works dealing with all tion that would permit such application branches of the subject, from the hy to be made to all persistent offenders gienic standpoint. against the laws." I will but say that I disclaim, in the Dr. W. J. Morton, the leading X-ray following list, any title to completeness, expert of this city and the man who and have only aimed to give th e b e st, found that cancer might be cured by and those books most worthy study, of radium, confirmed the news of the dis the thousands (literally) now upon the covery of the mysterious ray’s power. market. With this understanding, and ■ “From all indications, criminals so without more ado, I will accordingly treated would be the last of their genera proceed to my list, as indicated. tion,” he said. “The result of the appli It is of prime importance that the cation of X-rays is apparently sure and student should first obtain a thorough permanent. And such treatment would understanding and appreciation of the be entirely painless, besides.” p r in c ip le s upon which the hygienic The discovery is said to have been theory of disease (and its cure) de made by accident. pends. For that purpose I suggest the * * * following: A Graded “Course” of Study in The True Healing Art. By R. T. Trail, M. D. Hygiene. Nature vs. Drugs. By A. F. Rein Giving a List of the Most Important hold, M. D. Books on Hygiene and Kindred Sub The New Science of Healing. By jects Which Every Physical Culturist Louis Kuhne. or Hygienist Should Know. Facial Diagnosis. By Louis Kuhne. Compiled by H ereward Carrington. Nature’s Household Remedies. By Many persons, I am convinced, lack Felix Oswald, M. D. confidence in the hygienic system of The Natural Cure. By Chas. E. Page, medication (as opposed to the medical) M. D. for the simple reason that they have Health and Disease. By W. E. For never had the subject properly presented est, M. D. to them; they have heard a few scattered Fasting, Hydropathy and Exercise. remarks, a lecture or two, aftd, perhaps, By Bernard Macfadden and Felix Os may have read the current magazines wald, M. D. dealing with these questions, and even a The Hydropathic Encyclopedia. By few of the multitudinous books dealing R. T. Trail, M. D. with the subject. But their knowledge Having obtained a good grounding in is, generally speaking, incomplete and the hygienic theory of disease, we may fragmentary; and not one person in a now turn to those books describing in thousand has the true ra tio n a le of the detail the practical application of the hygienic treatment of disease at heart, remedial measures indicated and advised and thoroughly appreciates the complete in the above mentioned works. Firstly, ness, yet simplicity, of the Natural, or I shall consider what I conceive to be Hygienic, explanation of “disease,” and the most potent and far-reaching of all its Natural Cure. As I believe, never the remedial measures quoted, viz.: theless, that there are very many per F a stin g . The student cannot do better, sons who would be pleased to know of in order to obtain a knowledge of this what good books exist, pertaining to subject, than to consult the following: these questions, and, knowing of their The True Science of Living. By E. existence would gladly read many of H. Dewey, M. D. THE STELLAR RAY. 4 4 3

The New Era for Women. By E. H. at least occasionally, and its great im Dewey, M. D. portance in all cases of disease, is well The No-Breakfast Plan and the Fast brought out in a booklet entitled “The ing Cure. Internal Bath,” by Laura M. Wright, M. Experiences of the No-Breakfast Plan D., and in Dr. A. B. Jamison’s books, and the Fasting Cure. “Intestinal Ills” and “Intestinal Irriga Perfect Health. By Chas. C. Haskell. tion.” Closely akin to the above, and next in The number of books on E x e r c is e is order, is the subject of D ie t. Some of now legion. Books and “courses” on the best works on this subject are, per physical culture are well nigh innum haps, the following: erable. Many of these books are too Food and Feeding. By Sir Henry well-known to need mention, while oth Thompson. ers teach .what I consider to be a vicious system of training. While enumerating, Diet in Relation to Age and Activity. then, a few of the (both good and popu By Sir Henry Thompson. lar) works on this subject, I shall also Vitality, Fasting and Nutrition. By mention some excellent, though appar Hereward Carrington. ently little known, books dealing with What; Shall We Eat? By Alfred An this subject: drews. The Verile Powers of Superb Man Strength from Eating. By Bernarr hood. By Bernarr Macfadden. Macfadden. The Power and Beauty of Superb Digestion and Dyspepsia. By R T. Womanhood. By Bernarr Macfadden. Trail, M. D. Physical Training. By Bernarr Mac The Diet Question. By Susanna W. fadden. Dodds, M. D. Japanese Physical Training. By Eating for Strength. By M. L. Hol Tracy Hancock. brook, M. D. Physical Training for Women by Jap- How Nature Cures. By E. H. Dens- The Illustrated Family Gymnasium. more, M. D. By R. T. Trail, M. D. Diet and Food. By Alex. Haig, M. D. Physical Education. By Felix Os Natural Hygiene. By H. Lehman, wald, M. D. M. D. anese Methods. Scientific Basis of Vegetarianism. By Perfect Health. By Weinburgh. R. T. Trail, M. D. The Body Beautiful. By Nanette M. Vegetarianism. By Harriet P. Fow Pratt. ler. How to Get Strong and How to Stay The Good Value of Meat. By W. R. So. By W. Blackie. C. Latson, M. D. Physical Culture Simplified. By A. Shall We Slay to Eat? By J. H. Kel- Barker. log, M. D. After exercise—r e s t! The tremen Fruits and Farinacea: The Natural dous economy of vital force due to Food of Man. By J. Smith and R. T. p r o p e r resting of the body is well Trail, M. D. brought out in Annie Payson Call's in Fruit and Bread. By Prof. Schleckey- genious booklet, “Power Through Re sen. pose.” The vital importance of mastication, Books relating to bathing, the water while eating, is splendidly treated by Mr. treatment and the care of the skin gen Horace Fletcher, in his two recently erally, are, again, manifold. From those published books: “Glutton or Epicure” published I may perhaps select for men and “The A B C of Our Nutrition.” tion : The diet of the in fa n t is magnificently Water Cure for Chronic Diseases. By handled by Dr. Chas. E. Page, in his Jones M. Gully, M. D. booklet on “How to Feed the Baby.” The Uses of Water. By J. H. Kellog, The importance of flushing the bowels, M. D. 4 4 4 THE STELLAR RAY.

The Bath: Its History and Uses. By many of the above books belong to no R. T. Trail, M. D. definite category, but are themselves ‘Water Cure for the Million. By R. general. The following, however, are T. Trail, M. D. certainly of this class (though their My Water Cure. By S. Kneipp. titles may not sometimes suggest it), The Philosophy of the Water Cure. while others treat of special subjects By John Balbirnie, M. D. from a general hygienic standpoint: The tremendous importance of m e n ta l Notes on Nursing. By Florence influence in disease is, as yet, vastly Nightingale. underestimated—alike by physician and The Natural Cure of Disease. By layman. Apart from the claims of the Bernarr Macfadden. Christian Scientists (Mrs. Eddy’s The Aristocracy of Health. By Mary “Science and Health”) or the “Extrem Foote Henderson. ist” school of mental scientists (see e. g. The Hygienic Handbook. By R. T. Henry Wood’s “Ideal Suggestion Trail, M. D. Through Mental Photography”), and The Art of Living Long. By Luigi Charles Brodie Patterson’s last book, Carnaro. “The Will to Be Well,” there is a “scien Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis. tific” school of mental healers, who are By A. F. Reinhold, M. D. undoubtedly performing some very won Strong Eyes. By Bernarr Macfadden. derful cures, and forcing this subject Hair Culture. By Bernarr Macfadden. before the attention of the medical I have now given, in brief outline, a world. Among the best of this class of list of the most important books on hy publications are: giene, and those it will well repay the The Law of Mental Medicine. By physical culturist or hygienist to peruse Thompson J. Hudson. and study. In this list there are un Suggestive Therapeutics. By H. doubtedly many omissions—even of Bernheim, M. D. good and important books—but these I Treatment by Hypnotism and Sugges must beg my readers to excuse, and take tion. By C. Lloyd-Tuckley, M. D. into consideration the lack of space at Hypnotism. By T. Milne Bramwell, my disposal. M. D. My hope is that the list may prove of Dr. Hack-Turkes. a “Influence of the interest to the readers of this magazine, Mind over the Body.” and I can assure them that another— Horace Fletcher’s “Happiness.” equally long—will be forthcoming when And many other Psychological and notification has been received that this “New Thought” publications, and espec has been completed, and, like “Oliver ially many brilliant articles in the P r o Twist,” my readers are asking for ceed in g s of the Society for Psychical “more.” ______Research. A tale is told of Robert Bonner and As S le e p is the great recuperative of his belief in advertising. One day agent, and as we all spend a third of our he engaged a whole page of a news lives, more or less, under its magic in paper and repeated a two line adver fluence, we should make at least a b r ie f tisement upon it over and over again. study of this important subject. For It must have been repeated 5,000 times this purpose, I know of nothing more upon the page in the smallest type. terse, or better, than Dr. Marie de Man- “Why do you waste your money, Rob acune’s “Sleep: Its Physiology, Path ert?” asked a friend. "I noticed that ology, Hygiene and Psychology” ($1.50) same line so often. Would not half a I will sum up by adding a few more page have answered your purpose?” books of general interest, and that cover, "Half a page would never have caused more or less, the whole field of hygiene. you to ask the question,” replied Mr. Many of the books above quoted do this, Bonner. “At least five people will ask and indeed, my classification must be that to every line was the way I figured taken as altogether “in the rough,” as it.” SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

In the April issue of The World ditions and nature of the phenomena— Today appeared an article by Sir for the ascertainment of law. Oliver Lodge upon “Psychical Re So it is in every branch of science. search,” which we give in part in At first, among new phenomena careful the pages of this issue, confident observation of fact is necessary, as when that our readers will be interested Tycho Brahe made measurements of the in reading a summary of one of the motion of the planets and accumulated a greatest living physicists, upon the store of careful observations. Then came the era of hypothesis, and Kepler subject which has received a large waded through guess after guess, testing share of his attention as a scientist, them pertinaciously to see if any one of “The business of science,” as he de them would fit all the facts, the result clares, “being not belief but inves of his strenuous life-work being the tigation.” three great laws which for all time bear his name. Then came the majestic de ductive epoch of Newton, welding the Psychical Research. whole into one comprehensive system; B y S ir O liver L odge. subsequently to be enriched and extend ed by the labors of Lagrange and La Sir Oliver Lodge is one of the great place; after which the current of scien est living physicists. Of late years he tific inquiry was diverted for a time into has been very prominent in the Psychi other less adequately explored channels. cal Research Society, and has written Not at all times is everything equally extensively on immortality and other re ripe for inquiry. There is a phase, or it ligious subjects. The present article is may be a fashion, even in science. a good summary of his attitude toward Geographical exploration was the fea the investigation of phenomena some ture of Elizabeth’s time. Astronomical times called occult but more generally inquiry succeeded it. Optics and chem known as psychical. istry were the dominating sciences of The business of science is not belief the early part of the nineteenth century, but investigation. Belief is both the heat and geology' of the middle, electric prelude to and the outcome of knowl ity and biology of the latter portion. edge. Jf a fact or a theory has a prima Not yet has psychology had its phase of facie case made out for it, subsequent popularity. It is a subject of special investigation is necessary to examine interest, and therefore perhaps of spe and extend it. The object of investiga cial danger. In that respect it is like tion is the ascertainment of law, and to other studies of the operations of mind, this process there is no end. like a scientific enumeration of the What, for instance, is the object of phenomena of religion, like the study of observing and recording earthquakes anything which in its early stages looks and arranging delicate instruments to mysterious and incomprehensible. detect the slightest indication of earth Training and some admixture of other tremor? Every one knows that earth studies are necessary for its healthy in quakes exist, there is no skepticism to vestigation. overcome in their case; even people who The assuring ourselves as to facts is have never experienced them are quite one of our duties, and it is better to ready to believe in their occurrence. hesitate too long over a truth than to Investigation into earthquakes and the welcome an error, for a false gleam may whole of the motile occurrences in the lead, us far astray unless soon detected. earth’s crust is not in the least for the Another duty is the making and testing purpose of confirming faith, but solely of hypotheses, so as gradually to make for the better understanding of the con a map o f the district and be able to ex- 446 THE STELLAR RAY.

plain it to future travelers. We have unpopular and mistrusted still, and still to combine the labors of Tycho with good people are found who will attribute those of Kepler, and thus prepare the anything unusual to the devil, and warn way for a future Newton who has not young people from it—but I refer to yet appeared above the psychical hori some slight traces of lingering prejudice zon. against the orthodox sciences of chem To be scientific does not mean to be istry and physics and biology. They infallible, but it means being clear and have achieved their foothold, they are honest, and as exact as we know how to regarded with respect, people do not be. In difficult investigations pioneers disdain to make money by means of have always made some mistakes; they them when the opportunity is forthcom have no immediate criterion or infalli ing, but they are not really liked. They ble touchstone to distinguish the more are only admitted to schools on suffer true from the less true, but if they ance, as an inferior grade of study, suit record their results with anxious care • ed to the backward and ignorant; they and scrupulous honesty and painstaking are not regarded with affection and en precision, their mistakes are only less thusiasm, as revelations of Divine work valuable to the next generation than ing, to be reverently studied nor as sub their partially true generalizations. jects in which the youth of a nation may Sometimes it turns out, after a century be wholesomely and solidly trained. or so, that mistakes made by early pio Still more is the time not quite ripe neers were no such thorough errors as for psychical research. Pioneers must had been thought, that they had an ele expect hard knocks, the mind of a peo ment of truth in them all the time, as if ple can change only slowly; and until discoverers were endowed with a kind the mind of the people is changed new of prophetic insight whereby they dimly truths born before their time must suf glimpsed theories and truths , which it fer the fate of other untimely births, would take several generations of work and the prophet who preaches them ers to disencumber and bring clearly to must expect to be mistaken for a useless light. fanatic, of whom every age has always The term “science” was not always had too many. He must be content to respectable. To early ears it sounded be literally or metaphorically put to almost as the term witchcraft or magic death, as part of the process of the re sounded, it was a thing from which to generation of the world. The dislike warn young people. It led to atheism and mistrust and disbelief in the validity and to many other abominations. It or legitimacy of psychical research is was an unholy prying into the secrets familiar. of Nature which were meant to be hid Why should not psychical investiga from our eyes; it was a thing against tion lead to practical results? Are we which the Church resolutely set its face, satisfied with our treatment of crimin a thing for which it was ready, if need als? Are we as civilized people content were, to torture or to bum those unlucky to grow a perennial class of habitual men of scientific genius who were born criminals, and to keep them in check before their time. I mean no one church only by devices appropriate to savages; in particular, I mean the religious world hunting them, flogging them, locking generally. Science was a thing allied to them up, exterminating them ? It is un heresy, a thing to hold aloof from, to wise and unscientific to leave prisoners shudder at, and to attribute to the devil. merely to the discipline of wardens and The recognition of science was not, to the preaching of chaplains. That is however, immediate and universal. Dis not the way to attack a disease of the like of it, and mistrust of the spread of body politic. I have no full-blown treat scientific inquiry, persisted well into the ment to suggest, but I forsee that there Victorian era, and is not wholly extinct will be one in the future. Society will to this day. I do not refer to investiga not be content always to pursue these tion into affairs of the mind—that is methods of barbarism; the resources of THE STELLAR RAY. 4-4-7

civilization are not really exhausted, We can finish nothing in this life; bu: though for centuries they have appeared we may make a beginning and be to be. queath a noble example.—Smiles. The criminal demands careful study on the psychical side, and remedy or. * * * palliation will be a direct outcome of one aspect of our researches. The influ A p p a r itio n . ence of the unconscious or subliminal From the report of The Ameri self, the power of suggestion, the influ can Society for Psychical Research ence of one mind over another, the published in April, 1908. phenomena of so-called “possession,” these are not academic or scientific All communications to this so facts alone; they have a deep practical ciety should be addressed to Dr. bearing, and sooner or later it must be James H. Hyslop, 519 West 149th put to proof. The establishment of St., New York City. cases of real prediction, not mere infer C------, Ohio, May 6, 1907. ence, is so vital and crucial a test of something not yet recognized by science P rof. J ames H . H yslop: that it is worth every effort to make its Dear Sir: •evidence secure. I hope you will pardon me for my Another thing on .which I should seeming boldness, but ever since the Aralue experiments is the detection of death of Dr. Richard Hodgson I have slight traces of telepathic power in quite been anxious to write you, since occa normal persons, in the average man for sionally, reports have come that he instance, or rather more likely, in the has indeed communicated through re average child. liable psychics to his friends on the earth side of life. I had hoped such The power of receiving telepathic im would be the case and thus settle the pressions may be a rare faculty existing question of life beyond the grave to only in a few individuals, in them fully such as are susceptible of reason, and developed; but it is equally possible, and not bound to be skeptics, even in the more likely, that what we see in them is face of abundant proof. but an intensification of a power which I have read Hudson’s Law of ■exists in everyone as a germ or nucleus. Psychic Phenomena and if, as he If such should be the fact, it behooves urges, telepathy is the key to all the us to know it. * * * wonders, why cannot one out of the If there is any object worthy the pa body use the same key on occasions ? tient and continued attention of human Of course I know that the majority of ity, it is surely these great and pressing mediums are frauds. They are after problems of whence, what and whither the almighty dollar, as are their breth that have occupied the attention of ren in the other kinds o f business. prophet and philosopher since time was. Still, I have long believed that there The discovery of a new star, or of a were the genuine, who sometimes marking on Mars, or of a new element, opened the door between us and the. or of a new extinct animal or plant is other world; that the great gulf had interesting; surely, the discovery of a been crossed in some manner on the new human faculty is interesting, too. wings of love. I was brought up a The discovery of telepathy has laid the Methodist, and it would be hard for way open to the discovery of much me to throw away my belief in Christ, more. and I have felt it is not necessary. I Our aim is nothing less than the in have simply added to my faith that of vestigation and better comprehension of spirit return. A Methodist cannot say human faculty, human personality and to me there is nothing in spiritualism human destiny. since I am enough a student of the 448 THE STELLAR RAY.

Bible to know that the Scriptures conscious of him saying, “I have come teach it. home.” I am now going to give you an ac She says she never saw her father count of what seems a pretty fair test more distinctly in her life. There was to me of spirit return. I shall not be a light in the lower hall turned down obliged to go back over a period of a little and one also in the upper hall. years to bring forward the facts in He did not look as he did with the sur the case. geon’s wounds on his forehead, but as My son-in-law died the 17th of Feb he looked before being operated upon. ruary last, at L------Hospital, ------. A few days after this, I do not remem He had suffered so much with pain in ber just how many, four or five per his head that he became delirious. The haps, when this girl was returning physician called the disease grippe, but home at dusk, she saw her father evidently did not diagnose the case standing in the living room looking correctly. He, the patient, was oper •out of the window. She hurried ated on, an opening made between the through the hall to the kitchen where eyes and one over one eye; the trontal her mother was to get her, if possible, sinus was found packed with pus. Af in time to see him, but when they re ter the operation, the patient became turned he had vanished. rational, and, as we supposed, was go This young woman is eighteen years ing to recover, when finally pneumonia old, not at all imaginative, but practi set in and, after twelve hours of awful cal. She never attended a spiritualis suffering, he died. tic seance in her life and took no in His wife and daughter stayed with terest whatever in anything of the him as much of the time as they were kind. Her father had two uncles who allowed to do so. The day before he were spiritualists who died, I think, died he begged piteously to be taken five or six years ago. His own family home. His wife said to him, “Just as are not spiritualists; neither was he. soon as the doctors will let me, I will I fancy these uncles might have helped take you home.” “I want to go home,” to identify himself. I do not know he said, “I shall never get well.” “Oh, that his widow would like me to give yes you will,” replied his wife, “the his name; however, I will run the physicians say you are doing nicely.” risk, and if this phenomenon should be This was on Saturday, and on Sunday of any importance to you, I will try morning at nine o'clock, or about that to have her allow you the use of the time, he died. name; but if she doesn’t see fit, you This death of a good, useful man, will, of course, be kind and silent in one trustworthy in every sense of the regard to it. His name was A ----- word, about killed us all. The body B------. I give the name that you was left at the undertaker's rooms for better understand my sincerity, a post mortem and prepared for burial. myself, I can give you refcrei My daughter was nearly crazed with you so desire. If the one tl^g grief and the Sunday evening after girl saw wasn’t hec^pL ,his death an opiate pill had been given her to induce sleep.. At about nine was it? m L/ o’clock in the evening, her daughter started to go down stairs, when she saw her father standing on the land ing. Three or four stairs led to the landing, and from there the stairs turned leading to the hall below. This young woman said she saw her father’s lips move, but while there was no aud ible sound, she heard him say, or was THE STELLAR RAY. 449

Bible to know that the Scriptures conscious of him saying, “I have come teach it. home.” I am now going to give you an ac She says she never saw her father count of what seems a pretty fair test more distinctly in her life. There was to me of spirit return. I shall not be a light in the lower hall turned down obliged to go back over a period of a little and one also in the upper hall. years to bring forward the facts in He did not look as he did with the sur the case. geon’s wounds on his forehead, but as My son-in-law died the 17 th of Feb he looked before being operated upon. ruary last, at L------Hospital, ------. A few days after this, I do not remem H e had suffered so much with pain in ber just how many, four or five per his head that he became delirious. The haps, when this girl was returning physician called the disease grippe, but home at dusk, she saw her father evidently did not diagnose the case standing in the living room looking correctly. He, the patient, was oper ♦out of the window. She hurried ated on, an opening made between the through the hall to the kitchen where eyes and one over one eye; the trontal her mother was to get her, if possible, sinus was found packed with pus. Af in time to see him, but when they re ter the operation, the patient became turned he had vanished. rational, and, as we supposed, was go This young woman is eighteen years ing to recover, when finally pneumonia old, not at all imaginative, but practi set in and, after twelve hours of awful cal. She never attended a spiritualis suffering, he died. tic seance in her life and took no in His wife and daughter stayed with terest whatever in anything of the him as much of the time as they were kind. Her father had two uncles who allowed to do so. The day before he were spiritualists who died, I think, died he begged piteously to be taken five or six years ago. His own family home. His wife said to him, “Just as are not spiritualists; neither was he. soon as the doctors will let me, I will I fancy these uncles might have helped take you home.” “I want to go home,” to identify himself. I do not know he said, “I shall never get well.” “Oh, that his widow would like me to give yes you will,” replied his wife, “the his name; however, I will run the physicians say you are doing nicely.” risk, and if this phenomenon should be This was on Saturday, and on Sunday of any importance to you, I will try morning at nine o’clock, or about that to have her allow you the use of the time, he died. nam e; but if she doesn’t see fit, you This death of a good, useful man, will, of course, be kind and silent in one trustworthy in every sense of the regard to it. His name was A ------P. word, about killed us all. The body B------. I give the name that you may was left at the undertaker’s rooms for better understand my sincerity. As to a post mortem and prepared for burial. myself, I can give you references if My daughter was nearly crazed with you so desire. If the one the young grief and the Sunday evening after girl saw wasn’t her father, what his death an opiate pill had been given was it? her to induce sleep.. At about nine Sincerely, o’clock in the evening, her daughter J------T------R------. started to go down stairs, when she saw her father standing on the land (Mrs. Charles R------♦) ing. Three or four stairs led to the landing, and from there the stairs Inquiries for corroboration for furth turned leading to the hall below. This er details brought out the following re young woman said she saw her father’s ply with letter from the wife of the de lips move, but while there was no aud ceased man and from the daughter who ible sound, she heard him say, or was was the participant: THE STELLAR RAY. 449

C------, Ohio, May 12, 1907. her mother were in the room, the little D r. J ames H . H yslop: dog acted as if he saw someone, and Dear Sir: gave a low growl. It was in the early Your letter was received May 10th, twilight, and the dog seemed to be and yesterday I gave it to my daughter. looking near that part of the living I did not see my grand-daughter, but room where Mr. B-----’s easy chair I think she will give you her expe stood, when he was alive, and where rience. Her mother said that perhaps it has been kept since his death. There it would be better to give only the first was no one visible in the house to at experience. The second time my tract the dog’s attention in this direc grand-daughter saw him (her father) tion. This has not happened when my the features were not nearly so dis daughter was there, unless Ruth was tinct. She also said that Ruth thought with her. All this may mean nothing, she saw him faintly for a moment, and yet it may mean a great deal. I once afterwards, but as the last two hope to be able to give you some in appearances were so much less clearly formation later that will be valuable. defined, she thought it would be well Sincerely, not to add them to the narrative, or J------T------R------. rather insert them in it. My daughter said, a few days after The following is the confirmatory account of the percipient, the daughter the second appearance, to Ruth (my grand-daughter): “I think you imag of the deceased man: ined that you saw your father the sec (Received in a letter whose enve ond time,” when it seemed that a cold lope is postmarked June 17th, 1907, 1:30 p. m., C------, Ohio.—J. H. H.) hand or something of the kind touched (Received June 18th, 1907.—J.H.H.) her head, and then passed down her spine like a cold wind, leaving her Dr. J ames H. H yslop: chilled from head to foot. She won Dear Sir: dered if it were possible that her hus My father, Mr. Albert C. B------, band had tried to let her know that it died in L------Hospital, C------, Feb. ■was indeed he, whom Ruth saw. But 17th, 1907, two days after an operation in thinking it over, she concluded it had been performed on him. Two in was, perhaps, the result of not being cisions had been made in the forehead in the best of health. She is, how to relieve the pressure on the brain, ever, very much inclined to be scepti brought about, as the physicians cal and is extremely positive. She is thought, by some foreign substance not in the least afraid, and has hoped lodged in the frontal sinus, and which and prayed that her husband might ap they removed. pear to her, and has tried time and . My father’s body was not brought again in the twilight or in the half- home on the day of his death, but darkened room to see him. I said to taken to the undertaking rooms to be her, ‘‘try and be passive,” but she told prepared for burial. me it was out of the question with one My mother, worn with grief, had of her temperament. Ruth in coloring been induced to lie down to get a lit and in temperament is like her father, tle rest, and sleep as I hoped. My and that may account for his coming father passed away about nine o’clock to her. Sunday morning. About nine, on the I do not suppose my daughter will evening of the same day, I was pass mention any of these things, as she ing through the upper hall, where the will be afraid they will be attributed to stairs, five in number, lead down to nervousness; but I wanted you to the landing, and from which the stairs know of them, though of course they then turn and lead down to the hall aren’t to be published. Another thing below. A light, turned low, was burn lias happened that seems strange. On ing in both halls. As I glanced down tw o or three occasions, when Ruth and the stairs, I distinctly saw my father 450 THE STELLAR RAY. standing on the landing. His forehead My first thought was that perhaps my did not show the wounds made by the husband had caused this to be done to surgeon’s knife, but looked as he did convince me our daughter had indeed before he was taken to the operating seen him. Afterward, in thinking the table. I saw his lips move, though I matter over, I did not know but the heard no audible sound; but I heard fact of my being in ill health, the re him say with my inner ear, if I may so sult of the trying ordeal through which express it, “I have come home.” Not I had passed, was the cause of this as one would more often say, “I’ve strange sensation. come home.” These words were as Another peculiar thing happened that distinct to me as if they had been I cannot explain satisfactorily to my spoken audibly. self. On two or three occasions, when The following Thursday, Feb. 21st, there was no one but my daughter and after attending to matters that had myself in the house, and no disturbing called me out, I was returning home element apparently outside the home, at dusk, (but an electric light was our little dog seemed to see someone burning on the street, as nearly as I we could not see, either sitting in, or can judge about 100 feet to the north standing near my husband’s favorite of my home). As I passed through chair, where he always sat to read. the gate I saw my father looking out The dog seemed to be watching some of the living room window. There one intently, and gave a low growl,, was no light in the living room, but more of fear than of anger. This, the porch of the house was well light never occurred when I was with him ed by the street light just mentioned. in the room alone, but when both mjr His features were not so clearly de daughter and myself were there. fined as when I first saw him, but suffi Sincerely, ciently so for me to recognize him. L u c ie J. B------. Startled, I hurried through the hall to the back part of the house, where my mother was, and we came back at once “No, I don’t believe in expensive prac to the living room, but he had van tical jokes,” said a San Francisco busi ished. Once afterward, I thought I ness man, “except by way of retalia saw him for an instant, but I cannot tion. be positive of this. “Now last year I received a telegram If this incident can be used to sub from a friend who was traveling irn stantiate any of the proofs you are Italy. It came collect and cost me seven* seeking for, you are at liberty to use dollars; and when I opened it, all I read, it, but please withhold the names of was, ‘Thank, you, I am well.’ all persons connected with it. “Then I sallied forth and sought me Sincerely, out a cobblestone—a nice, large cobble R u th A. B------. stone weighing about eleven pounds. The following is a corroborative And I wrapped it in excelsior, pink cot statement of the wife of the deceased. ton and white paper, and I boxed it up- It will be observed that it notes the in a handsome box; and I sent it by conduct of the dog: express, collect, to my facetious friend’ Some days after my daughter saw far across the bounding billows. her father looking out of the living “And when he had paid his little fif room window, I said to her that I teen dollars, and had opened the box thought she was mistaken about see in St. Petersburg, if I remember rightly, ing him the second time. I had scarce he found in addition to the precious, ly finished the sentence when some contents a note from me that explained, thing, it seemed not unlike a cold ‘This is the load that rolled off my heart- hand, was laid on my head for a mo on receipt of the news of your good* ment, and a rush of cold air passed health.’ ”— Woman’s Home Companiom over me until I was completely chilled. for A pril. BOOKS AND PERIODICALS

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I do Two girls of similar circumstances not hesitate to say that in my judgment and education are friends. One marries a large percentage of disease is caused a man of moderate means and does all by poorly selected and improperly pre the housework, having little or no money pared food. My personal experience she can call her own. The other does with the fully-cooked food, known as the same kind of work in another house, Grape-Nuts, enables me- to speak freely receiving good wages. But the former of its merits. is M rs.------, a lady, the latter is only a “From overwork, I suffered several servant. years with malnutrition, palpitation of “I joined a Bible class,” said the the heart, and loss of sleep. Last sum young Englishwoman referred to above. mer I was led to experiment personally “There were about 30 girls in it and with the new food, which I used in soon they wanted to know about me. conjunction with good rich cow’s milk. 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^J*HE editor of THE STELLAR RAY takes pleasure in an nouncing that this magazine has greatly increased the facilities of its Astral Science Department. We are prepared to give greater attention in the future, to the casting of horo scopes and the spreading of that personal knowledge among our large family of subscribers and readers, that is so important to the true living and the true development. In an article en titled “What Parents and Guardians Ought to Know,” elsewhere in this number, is fully explained to you, the importance and necessity of the right kind of guidance for children, according to the influences that are expended upon them by the Stellar bodies. It is also the duty of each one of us to know and appreciate the conditions that surround our own existence, so that we may, by the proper use of the knowledge which our horoscopes give us, get the most of happiness, health and success out of our lives. This is not a matter to be passed over lightly, but should be given the best thought and attention of all. Below, you will find a blank, which, if you will cut out and mail to THE STEL LAR RAY, the Astral Science Department will immediately take up the matter with A ' ^ you personally, and give you full W S k w formation regarding the great work k & W M of the Astrological Department s y j j j and the individual and p A? S S B f i general benefit that must EayV v

The sun passes into the Zodiacal sign Gemini on the 20th of May, leaving it the 21st of June. It will be noted that it is not a difficult matter to determine, approximately the time of year in which a person is born by comparing his characteristics with those designated as belonging to those individuals born at certain periods. For example, people who were born on or between the dates of May 20th and June 21st will recognize some of the characteristics given below as belonging to them. The sun in Gemini, or third house, strengthens the intellect, inclining to the pursuit of literature, science or art, and to following some occupation connected with these. It favors educational, secretarial and clerical work, writings, documents, letters, literary work of a short ephemeral kind, such as magazines, newspapers, pamphlets or small books, work connected with messengers, means of transit, the post office, etc. The mind is versatile and fond of change, but positive and strong. Somewhat ambitious and aspiring, and may turn to public work, connected with education, local politics or public speaking and lecturing. Fond of moving about, of walking, of short journeys, principally by land. Has friends among literary people and others signified by Gemini, and may join some secret society or association, the activities of which are those of Gemini. May be the most clever or best educated of his family. This position gives several brothers or.sisters. It also signifies the birth of twins and a double marriage, as Gemini is a double sign. While the sun is 30 days in Gemini, we also find the moon in the year 1908 to be in the sign Pisces on May 20th. One born on that date will be apt to be practical, ingenious, active, combative, dissatisfied. On the 21st and 22nd the moon is in Aries, denoting one aspiring, a seeker for truth, ambitious, independent. On the 23rd and 24th, the moon is in Taurus and indicates decision, perception, some self-conceit and possible disregard of others’ feelings. On May 25th and 26th the moon will be in Gemini and this indicates an illumined mind, self-esteem, independence of character, cleverness of thought, and a determination to carry out the inclinations. Such persons have fair success in business affairs and find their greatest enjoyment in life in the activities of both mind and body. They are not easily led by their sympathies or turned from their own decisions. This position gives literary ability and artistic tendencies. The 27th, 28th and 29th the moon will be in Cancer, and the native will be anxious, economical, discontented, sensing others' feelings which affect them greatly. On the 30th of May the moon is to be in Leo and this tends to the morbid, weak, with small determination, superstitions. Thus it can be seen that with the sun in Gemini, there are many positions of the moon, which for lack of space we will not give further at this time. ♦* Scale of Fees for Casting Stellar Ray Horoscopes, by the Astral Science Department of this Magazine, No. 1—Fee, $1.00. The nativity cast from the data furnished and all calculations made as accurately as in other more costly work, except that a reading of the chart is not included nor charged for. This is a good chart for those who have text-books, or copies of Science and Key of Life to obtain the correct planetary positions as a guide by which to find all that can be told them from these works. No. 2—Fee, $2.00. The Nativity cast, explained from the following:—the solar position; the rising sign; the ruling planet; the sign occupied by the ruler; the position of the ruler; the ruler’s aspects; the mental qualifications; Mercury’s position, the health, financial prospects and marriage. No. 3—Fee, $3.00. The Nativity explained from the following:—The solar posi tion; the rising sign; the ruling planet; the ruler’s sign; the position of the ruler; in dividual characteristics; personal characteristics; the mental qualifications; Mercury’s position; health; finance; marriage; environment, and a summary. No. 4—Fee, $5.00. The Nativity fully explained from the following: The solar position; the rising sign; ruling planet; ruler in the sign; the position of the ruler; ruler’s aspects; the rising planets; individual character; personal character; Moon’s position; mental qualifications; Mercury’s position; health; sickness; finance; marriage; friends; travel; profession; environment; a summary, and three years’ future prospects. No. 5—Fee, $10.00. The Nativity fully explained in all its details, so that it may act as a Guide in Life, with ten years’ or more future prospects. This horoscope is recommended, as it is equal in value to any horoscope for which twenty-five dollars is n charged by other astrologers. n No. 6—Fee, $25.00. This is the fullest reading of a horoscope that can be obtained apart from “Directions” year by year. It contains a special reading by the n editor of this department. s DIRECTIONS. :8 N. B.—“Directions” can only be obtained when the horoscope has been properly cast, p and judged. « No. 7—Fee $2.00. Future prospects for twelve months. A description of the 8 aspects in operation. 8 No. 8—Fee, $3.00. “Directions” for one 3’ear, from any date, with a sketch of details for each month, according to the aspects in operation. No. 9—Fee, $5.00. One year's complete “Directions” with events for each month during the year, from the aspects operating. (Three years’ “Directions” may be had for $ 10 .0 0 , or five years for $15.00, etc.) No. 10—Fee, $5.00. A special expansion of No. 3 may be had if desired for this fee. It is offered for the purpose of making the No. 3 horoscope complete in itself. No. 11—Fee, $10.00. An esoteric expansion of No. 3 or.4. This is recommended :: to those who wish to make occult progress, and more fully undrestand their inner a nature. No. 12—Fee, $2.00. This fee is for rectification of the horoscope when the time of birth is not accurately known. No. 13—Fee, $3.00. For finding the exact time of birth, when the day only is known. The particulars required for rectification are as follows:—Important dates, such as the death of parents, sickness, accidents, marriage, travels, etc., a special form may be had on application. Special questions requiring calculations, $1.00 each. cs*n*:w:*B*B*n*B*a*a*::*:2* THE DR. C. O. S A H L E R SANITARIUM

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