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A Series of excep­ and the Student In Occultlsn tional scientific value show­ — Dleyanin and the A i n t j ing Histórica] and Prophetic Critical Points In Evolutloi| Cycles of Consciousness and Law of Influx. and Correct Sequence of the Distinct Degrees of In­ PSYCHOLOGY — E f feet] telligence. From 111 L es­ Thought on Health and Bo m son for Higher Attainment, —Higher Thought—Spiritual j clairvoyance and ctalraodl- Life—Stepping Stones to ence. The Chart of the Happiness — Science Healti Miné verana Symbolism. The and Healing— Live To B*l Sabcoaaciona Mind— Its Na­ 100— Fundamentalism— Whatl ture* and Powers. Higher is Is. modernism, founaaj Attainment — How to Get tions. authority. infaUJbJel from books. Inconsistencies. 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THE GODDESS OF LOVE Effa E. Danelson 5 Love Conquers All Things

LIVING EDITORIALS OF THE DAY The Editor 6 Unusual Editorials

SAVING THE BRAINS OF AMERICA Dr. C. Wm. Chamberlain 8 Will An Epidemic of Insanity Sweep Our Country?

WHAT YOU MAY EXPECT FOR 1926 Thaddeus Miles 9 A Psychic Prophecy of History in the Making

ARE YOU THE POTASSIUM TYPE? Emily H. Rocine 10 Are You a Roosevelt f

HYPNOTISM AND—THE LAW Charles H. McDermott 12 Can You Be Hypnotised Into Committing a Crimef

IS THERE A WORLD C-R-A-S-H NEAR? A Prophecy 13 Breakers Ahead—Is Warning of the Stars

THE KEYS TO OCCULT CHROMOTHERAPY Jacob Bonggren 15 Conclusion of Series on Alchemy of Color

THE STARS OF JANUARY “Libra” 18 Astronomy Made Easy for Everybody

ASTROLOGY’S PRIZE CONTEST WINNER Betty McLean 20 Librcfs Analysis of "How Can Astrology Help Me To Help Myself to Help Others? (Continued on next page)

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d CONTENTS for January 1926

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CHILD TRAINING Dr. Daniel H. Bonus 23

YOUR STARS—AND WHAT THEY TELL YOU FOR JANUARY Haasan Osiris 24 Were You Bom in the Sign of Capricorn?

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YOUR PERSONAL PROBLEMS SOLVED! By Our Psychic Editor 31 What Do You Want to Know?

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THE PRIZE WINNING CONTEST QUESTIONS B y L ibra 38

SET INTO TYPES By Kenneth M. Ellis 39 Book Reviews

NUMEROLOGY B y N um erologist 40 A Question and Answer Column f ' REVELATIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGY 41 What The Reverent Spade is Finding of the Past

SOMETHING YOU SHOULD NOT MISS 42 T h e G o d d e s s o f L o v e Bj/ Ef f a E. D anelson

ODDESS of Love! Thou art the HICH song, oh Goddess of Love, G greatest of all mighty powers, sub­ W shall humanity sing—praises to tile as the perfume of the rose— thy fair name or shall the curses of souls penetrating as the rays of the sun; wor­ held in thy bonds be thy funeral dirge? shipper of all good and evil, recognizing When thou wast crowned Love men’s no authority but thine own, thou hast hearts were pure, their lives were clean. been worshipped since time immemorial On thy altar rested their hopes, ambi­ holding all humanity thy most willing tions, aspirations, their all, but Hate like slave. a thief in the night rose at thy bidding and bound them with molten chains of fire T thy raucous command all life flees yet we worship at thy shrine and the A into hiding and at thy sweet call future—like the past—thy hand shall the denizens of earth come forth and lay mold. their trophies at thy feet. ODDESS of Love—pour forth that GODDESS of Love the bearer of G milk of human kindness and quench O glad tidings how we welcome thee, the fires of Hate that ALL the world and at thy stealthy tread our faces may praise Thee and live once more in blanch in terror. When thy protecting peace. hand is raised all mankind reveres thee, yet it is said Thou art the Mother of Hate the creator of jealousy and revenge; That ODDESS of Love—bring to the from thy bosom there is drawn the mur­ Gworld a new birth, send forth thy derer’s weapon and upon thy head rests a mighty creative force and bless humanity symbol of crime; thy feet are shod at by thy deeds of valor unsullied by selfish the price of glory and thy shining raini- gain. Pour thy light into the dark re­ ment is bedecked with the pearls of a cesses of the hearts of all thy worship­ soul in shame. pers. Send thy messenger into all Ports proclaiming the destruction of Hate, ac­ HOU Goddess of Love—Thy hand claiming the power of thy Love. T holds the scepter and the sword. Shall there be rivers of life or of blood flowing from thy hand down the shores ODDESS of Love—redeem thy fair of Time? Shalt thou crown humanity G name that the laurel may crown with a wreath of thorns or a flaming Thy head, thy feet be shod with the torch of blessedness ? Shall thy slaves be power of right, and the glory revealed in freed and thy precious name be written thy garment the pearls of a soul unsoiled on the pages of history as of yore? by Hate. Living E d it o r ia l s o f T o d a y interpretation of birth will enable the mother to bring T U T h e L a w | HE law is omnipotent in its range. Shall it be forth her young as nature intended. The study of the said that it is the oppressor of the weak and ally of the mother and child will lessen the fear of motherhood, greatly decreasing the number of crippled and feeble­ strong, or the protector of the weak and director of the minded children and giving to the world a new birth strong? Looking about us, beholding the destitution record. and distress of the weak and the appalling clemency given to the strong, we are almost forced to acclaim €fD oes the Church fP ant Brains? that the law is a burden to humanity. When we see little w ANTED-=-B rains In The Pulpit” says the I children hungry and cold, mothers slaving that their Literary Digest. It is quite clear that brains are not children may live, and no court to justly arbitrate their wanted by the representatives of the pulpit as evidenced cause, we wonder if man made the law for himself by the many ecclesiastical trials for heresy, resulting in alone? The law deals solely with all his needs. Ideals the unseating and expulsion of so many prominent of esoteric value are not provided for in either our court thinking minds in the religious world of today. morale or the law. The law does not deal justice and The acknowledged failure of Christianity to hold the right lo all. The law, as it stands today, is a maze born interest of the student proclaims to the world that truth, of technicality—a robber of the poor, a slave driver of based on facts, will outlive the inquisitions of fear and the weak, and a charlatan denying nature’s rights. In superstition. the name of justice and right—for all— let something Science will throw upon the screen demonstrated facts be done to break up the veiled mirage of legal techni­ concerning the origin, sojourn and continuity of life. cality which is creating lawlessness everywhere. Students.of natural law have exposed the fakers who have stood in the path of progress ever since salvation S QJVhom Shall fPe Serve? was proclaimed in the name of Jesus Christ. HALL we serve our weaknesses, going through life | ! Entering the Unknow n along the line of least resistance, or shall we serve that T HE Unknown is the unexplored. Fear grips the mighty power called “Strength” which, once chosen as heart of the timid at the thought of the Unknown. Fear our Master, can carry us over all obstacles to an omni­ darkens the vision of the traveler who has been mis­ potent realization of the Conqueror of all destructive elements? directed. Fear holds in bondage the explorer who-has no chart or compass to guide him. Shall we triumph over the past, becoming rulers of The Torchbearers whose lights are dim, though they the present and heirs of the future, or shall we become have journeyed far, fear the Unknown. With one ac­ abject slaves of the weaknesses of the past, law breakers cord they stand at the brink not daring to enter. of the present and thieves of all the future holds in store for us? The weary traveler with slow tread whose courage has ever led him on steps over the precipice and crys out with joy for them to follow—-yet none dare to fol­ f^Doi; Christianity Pay ? low. With drawn breath they wait his return and when CHRISTIANS have just celebrated their 1925th his voice calls them they bow their heads, heeding not mass with the giving of gifts and much feasting and his words of comfort. They are unmindful of his plea marry making, to be followed by the three hundred and when in tones vibrating throughout the ages he exclaims : sixty-four days of debt paying. What would the lowly “If I live you shall also live, where I go there you may Jesus say if he could but speak ? come; there are many mansions in my new home; re­ joice and be exceedingly glad for where I am there is Q T he Child of Tomorrow room for you.” I have explored the Unknown, where HE child of tomorrow will not be interested in all souls in their flight from mortal homes find a world Ttoys and fairy tales. The new psychology of life will teeming with life. prepare the parents of the coming age to answer intel­ Entering the Unknown is lifting the veil of ignorance ligently the questions of their children. The scientific for those who feared to look into the future. S I G N P o s t s on Life's Broadway Q M an W ill Discover Himself E C .How are People Governed? HE MIND that believes in visions, but denies ACH human being, animal, insect or flower, has Tthe fact it is possible to communicate with the now- a kingdom of its own. They may have a good or a bad called dead, is on a par with those who believe in the ruler, according to their understanding of Life as it is Swedenborgian phenomena, and deny the same phenom­ expressed on the earth plane. They may be hampered ena in Spiritualism. by a disturbance of the Life current before birth, but What the world needs is not more cults, but more eventually they will evolve to perfect functioning, be­ people who can agree on a principle, regardless of who coming a re-creative Life principle. copyrights it. No threat, precept or example can change this law. From time immemorial there have been prophets, Every living thing evolves and produces its kind under seers, sorcerers and witches, now classed as clairvoyants, its own law. Lack of power to express oftentimes inspired men and women, and mediums. brands a child as being dull. Once branded, the brain What they see and how they see it, is the same today becomes inflexible, and the victim is a prisoner in his as it was in the early records of the Bible. The good own brain cell. they see today serves humanity better than in those Life itself is independent of the physical body. Thus days. The evil they do today, compared with ancient it is that one branded as an idiot, when freed from the days, is like the old death-dealing plagues which are physical body is able to tell minutely, to the astonish­ becoming less and less menacing as intelligence super­ ment of those who tortured him, everything he had sedes ignorance. ever said or done. When we learn a little more about these things, fac­ Man knows very little about Life, because he has tional religions will die for want of nourishment. The taken himself for granted and scorned the idea that any fakir will have no market for his wares. Religious other form of life has feeling, perception, or continuity fanatics and magicians will take their place with the after death. Man has laid claim to everything in the old stage coach in the museum. universe, and wasted the life he could not understand. The next step forward in progression will be an in­ To the maxim “Man, know thyself,” add, “ M an, know tellectual one. Man will discover himself to the extent thy kin .” “The greatest study of mankind is man,” of being able to utilize the body substances intelligently, should read, “ The greatest study of mankind is Life,” whether it be man, or Life in other forms. The Great through which he will free himself from the bondage Principle that gave man breath to move and have his of both mind and body, under which he now labors. being, also gave to other forms of Life this breath. Even the flowers or blades of grass have a rhythmic breath, Q Insanity and the Radio to those who know the Law.

IND projection is becoming more and more QDo You Know? alarming. The unscrupulous as well as the scrupulous are being entangled in the mind meshes. Mr. Smith 0 YOU KNOW that you are a planet, traveling retires, vigorous in body and alert in mind. When he in a universe of your own? That every thought re­ leased by you becomes a twinkling star, a sun or noon awakens he is endowned with another personality. Phy­ whose brightness and influence depends on your power sicians say “his mind has become unbalanced.” Is this of discernment? That back of this thought is the desire true or has he collided with an ether wave charged by which created it? That each life is destined to be the the mind of another—becoming a prisoner for the time ruler in its universe and whenever one oversteps his being? How much insanity is caused by the breaking kingship, trouble ensues? That if we could know the value of restricting our desires until their course could up of ether waves by the radio cannot be determined be determined we would be able to prevent all disasters until science discovers the power of the human mind to in our lives? function independent of the physical body. Leam the secrets of your universe by taking thought The cadence of music will rock buildings. The steady and cognizance of how things affect you in the daily tread of men will destroy the elasticity of bridges, caus­ routine of living. Take an inventory every twenty-four ing them to crumble. Just what power lies in one human hours. All things travel in a circle, a law which man did not make, and can only discover through observing mind to destroy another is yet to be determined. the return of a thought to its base. Your universe is Will the radio solve the mystery of mind projection? composed of millions of worlds, each one at vour com­ W ill it teach us the law governing our lives revealing mand through the powerful lense known as the mind’s to man the secret of life and enabling him to protect eye. To know the value of your universe you must himself from the destructive elements emanating from study yourself; discover the weaknesses, and the strong other minds which causes insanity or obsession? Will points of your desires, setting aside all that is undesir­ the Radio divulge the secret of Life after Death? Will able or a hindrance to your progress. Just try this for those whom we call dead break their silence by broad­ a few weeks and you will find yourself ushered into a casting their message to the world? new world. The Occult Digest January 1926

d W ill An epidemic of Insanity Sweep Our fjountry?

Saving t h e Brains o f America

B y C. W m. C h am berlain

I OR a number of years, prominent tion heads, ministers—all are represented “I predict that not far in the future a FI psychologists, psychiatrists and neu­ in the day's news at one time or another. malady involving the nervous system will rologists have been prophecy ing an Some arc suicides, others go to sanitari­ become an epidemic and that this epidemic epidemic which is to outrival all previous ums, where no more is heard of them, will destroy the brains of the world, for plagues and epidemics in history, and one others die of the doctor's alibi; “heart it is the * thinking class who especially which, because of its insidious approach disease" or “complications,” while some overtax their nerves. (See the Rocine and its subtle complications, will rob the run amuck before they pass out of the article on the Phosphorus type in the nation of its intellectual leaders. picture. November Occult Digest). The plague will be far more terrible than the great Less is known about brain and nerve It is no secret that nearly every peni­ plagues of past ages which nearly depop­ tissue end their functions, by the average tentiary, insane hospital and prison in the ulated the civilized world. physician, than almost any other organs country is over-crowded. And nothing is and functions, o f the human body. Mod­ being done about it, except to plan build­ “The Infantile Paralysis epidemic, em medics have been so busily engaged ing more o f them. which we had a few years ago, it is agreed among medical men, was essen­ in chasing down the germs of organic O f course the big men o f the country disease, that they have grossly neglected tially a nerve disease, and the medical are not filling these institutions. The profession, great as is its knowledge of the factors that enter into functional average man is doing that. The big man disorders, nervousness and insanity.. And disease and its origin, had to confess that goes to a private sanitarium in most it could do nothing to check or control it is in this field that, we are told the cases, if he has committed no crime. plague is coming. the disease. The world looks on and shrugs its “If we may reason by analogy, then we Let us take stock o f the situation and shoulders. “It is the war.” And that's see whether the prophecy, made first may assume that this epidemic will re­ that. Naturally, the war had much to appear in a more virulent form, so that about ten years ago, is to he taken seri­ do with* it. Government statistics state ously. And if so, what is to he done adults will contract it as readily as did that by 1929, one war veteran in every children in the former epidemic.” about it. twenty will have become a victim of in­ The nation has lost three men in a few sanity. The peak will have been reached Is von Boeckman an alarmist? He, short years, each of whom served as by that time, they say. probably, has made as many diagnoses of nervous disorders as any living man. It President. The physiologists and ortho­ There is a correlation between the in­ dox medics, point to two of these men as is said that he predicted the influenza crease in insanity among war veterans epidemic, the early death of professional victims of organic disease, but reluctantly and similar conditions in those who admit that “over-work” had much to do athletes, the infantile paralysis epidemic, stayed at home. • Just what this corre­ with their passing. O f the other man, and other calamities. He claims no oc­ lation is. has not been det*~-med. One who during the world war, challenged the cult power. He is the author of a very striking feature has been marked, namely, attention of the entire world, they have sensible treatise on nervousness and has that many war profiteers haVe been the little to say. ' Without question, he was a reputation for common sense nervous victims of mental and nervous disorders. the victim of a nervous disorder. treatment. Likewise, their families have suffered. Y et most physicians will tell you that Many thousands of “shell shock” cases Here is another savant, an orthodox over-work rarely kills anybody. More are represented by men, who never heard medical man, who says in his book: T h e often, over-work is a symtom of a dis­ a gun fired. Multitudes of men who Mastery of Nervousness— tressed or disordered state o mind. The never left the training camps are victims “Every great step forward in the individual usually “over-works” because of this war neuroses, and it is just as complexity of man's existence has been his mind is upset and disorganised If serious as though the individual had been marked by nervous disasters.”. it was not. he would get the necessary under shell fire. Hate, fear, suspense, Dr. Paul S. Carroll, appears as sane recreation and mental relaxation, as a repressions, unwarranted discipline, all and sensible as von Boeckman, but like matter o f course and common sense. these reap their toll o f men who saw no the latter, he calls this the Age of Ner­ Man is the slave o f his mental habits and active service. And in many cases, simi­ vousness, and elsewhere in his excellent when these habits become overbalanced, lar conditions existed in certain commun­ treatise, says: or disorganised, he becomes a psycho­ ities among civilians. logical automaton. The body and brain This article will not deal with the war “Modern restlessness is everywhere in suffer and it merely is a matter of time veteran problem. I have discussed that evidence. Stolidity is rare; stability, ex­ until he refuses to function any more. ceptional. Our children are restless and in the public press in past years. We are uneasy, constantly planning diversion and W e need not confine our illustrations to concerned now with a slightly different, pleasure. Even the three-year-old child former nresidents. Pick up the daily even if overlapping problem. begs to go down town to the picture newspaper. True, some of our greatest brains are show. "Financier Ptmngts from Sixteenth found in men who served in the war. ■ “Modern life is high tension life—a Story Window.** we read. Bank P rrn- Their suicides, failures, deaths and crimes life of increasing strain. Modem social drnt 5m da B u llet into h it Brain.** says arc supposed to be taken care of by life ^ puts a premium on emotional in­ another caption. Headlines herald that governmental agencies. But enough of tensity. Modern stimuli are increasing “ Prominent Physician Kills Family and that. I have ceased to write on the sub­ much faster than our nervous training Self* Elsewhere we learn that “ rrim a ject. due to the apathy on the part of the for adaptation. Great as is man's ca­ Donna Aphasia Victim Disappears," public. pacity for complex adjustments, the while yesterday's paper told of a famous But evfry person is interested.^ if he multiplying demands ©fc*modem life arc educator who took nit own life, and of thinks that he, as an individual, is con­ coming too fast."' a groat architect whose body was found cerned. If a nervous disorder is threat- I have before me quotations from nu­ in a lake with a suicide note. Cabinet rning him. it becomes a different propo­ merous other scientists, who view the members, judges, lawyers, doctors, col­ sition. And here is what Paul von lege professors, artists, actors, corpora­ Boeckman says: (Continued on page 2d) The Occult Digest January 1926 9

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ITH the dawn of the year versal co-operation in business that W 1926 big guns will be fired has had no precedent and womens’ on the coast of southeastern T H E early part of 1926 will clubs will establish internatoinal ex­ Italy that will fan into flame a con­ be epoch-making in our na­ change bureaus, ameleriating inter­ flagration destroying villages, trav­ tional affairs. Old scores national hatreds and eventually will be reopened — many legal eling northward, sweeping country battles ought—the Senate and boundary lines between races and after country. Nothing will stop House will clash—and many a nations will be set aside. this onslaught until— from sheer leader fall, never to rise again. exhaustion of their forces— the Early, spring witnesses renewal Consternation will be created fighting ceases. of feuds am ongst public officials throughout the religious world by and the early fall finds many widespread occult manifestations Quite contrary to the usual wave changes am ongst high officials being reported by men and women the world over. of vandalism after such outbreaks of intellect and position which will — there will appear in villages, at C. Congressional tyranny will result in the myth of Heaven and crossroads, and in the homes, appa­ pass. Youth demands its voice Hell being abolished forever from ritions of those who were killed in in matters vital to our country- their church creedals. Many church warfare. Western Europe will ex­ Younger men in Washington will declare themselves against dignataries will leave their positions perience the return of “The Phan­ to teach in the open field of the tom Days.” Apparitions of char­ traditional laws and fight for protective measures to foster ad­ occult. General discussion of the acters well known in history will set vanced thought. Science, instead occult will bring about amalgama­ the world agog and establish a new of religion, will be the battle cry tions of sect, cult and isms. Many of the Senate. “Reign of Terror” for those who churches will unite in a drive do not understand the occult. C. Trouble w ith Mexico will cause against what they allege as “modern Greater revelations than history has consternation at the White House —proving that Colonel William vandalism of the churches”—with recorded will come out of these disastrous results to these religious blood-drenched countries. Mitchell knows what he is talk- about. bodies. Dynasty after dynasty will fall. Q. There will be numerous floods, Great leaders will arise— heralding Many will think the world is many land disasters and great coming to an end. Earthquakes the restitution of the peoples’ rights conflagrations. Capitol buildings i in civic and religious matters. will be destroyed by fire and will occur during the first three water causing much damage to months of 1926 where such dis­ Four great countries will unite personal and public property. turbances have been unknown. for peace. An arbitration board The West will be visited by a 1926 brings destitution in many tornado of terrific violence. Loss will be appointed to formulate rules parts of the world where destruc­ .under which each country .may of crops in the wheat belt and early summer droughts prevent tion of many kinds will lay waste •carry on negotiations with those the m aturity of grain in '»•»nous the crops. The world’s greatest re­ countries not affiliated. The ulti­ parts of the country resulting in vival of occult manifestation is greatly increased living costs. mate mission of this board is to scheduled to take place in the early eliminate war and effect universal summer of 1926. Paint, pen and peace through unity of commerce pulpit, stage and film will feature bringing about international indus­ States into recognition by the peo­ the occult, and phenomenal psv- trial co-operation. ple e« masse. Big business mens’ chical manifestations amongst do­ Many negotiations with other organizations, through international mesticated and trained animals 'will, countries will bring the United conventions, will bring about a uni- be observed. The Occult Ü igës^^m m ryl 9i() ^ ÏO

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is a musical comedy star — full of antics and ac­ tion. She is trying to look pensive and appeal­ ing in this pose, but the young man who thinks she is clinging or de­ pendent is mistaken. She is practical and strong- minded as well as strong in body muscles. This type make wonderful dancers, graceful as well as stron g .

Elbert Hubbard Night Life Are You The Potassium Type? N ATURE is fickle and The Potassium Type is the birth seems to have fa­ Character Analysis most human of all the others. vorites for she endows He is strong in all the physical some with natural endowments faculties. He understands the greater than others, for health, success and happiness. weaknesses and the temptations of man and he is toler­ The type most favored at birth for a healthy, successful ant. He is full of sympathy and of the milk of human and happy life is the Myogenic (myo-muscle: genic- kindness. He is quick in intuition, tactful, diplomatic producing) type, discovered and so named by Dr, Victor and mirthful. Charles Schwab is a splendid example G. Rocinc. It is the type that makes a very liberal use of this Type. Strong, positive, aggressive, hard-working, of potassium in the chemistry of the body. Wherever but emotional sympathetic and known as a "good fel­ there is sufficient of potassium (an alkaline element) low.’' This is typical of the best side of the Potassium there will also be a liberal use of oxygen in the body, Type, and as oxygen calls for iron in abundance, we have po­ They love to eat, drink and be merry and unless they tassium, oxygen and iron, a wonderful trinity for optim­ have a balance .of the controlling faculties, they arc sure ism, courage, action, joy and health. to over-do and so ruin their careers through the sins of The Potassium Type is "the salt of the earth"—and commission. if the salt lose its savor (health and usefulness) it is only The mental faculties of these people run to ap­ through wicked and deliberate waste and debauchery of proximate harmony, though complete-harmony is dif­ . inherited health qualities. ficult t6 maintain in this life. Environment does much cetili igcst anuary 1926

Dorothy Dalton the athletic screen star doesn’t play costume parts. She prefers to play the Wild West and Northern scenes, wear rough clothes and have dogs and horses around. No doubt she was what the neighbors called a “ Tom-boy” when she was a growing girl. There is much of the boy in her nature because she is Myogenic.

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toward commercial life for to influence the faculties to y mily ocine inharmony, especially when B E H. R J they are very practical and the natural faculties are near like to make plenty of money to balance. When the faculties which they quickly spend. are strongly uneven or unbalanced, some being strong Some are professional athletes, while others are only and some extremely weak, as is the case in the man or amateurs but all are ardent supporters of athletics. This genius, environment has very little effect on him. is their hobby. Some of our best writers and authors Environment has a strong effect on the Potassium iyPe* belong to this Type, as for instance Shakespeare, Jack The face of the Potassium Type flushes easily from London, Rex Beach and Elbert Hubbard. exercise or excitement. In the blond of this type, the His Principal Disease Tendencies and Causes. complexion is sanguine or reddish brown or red white- The principal disease tendencies in the Potassium Type brown. In the brunette it is sanguine dark brown. The are caused by over-eating and consequent gastric stuf­ skin is warm to the touch and adheres closely to the fing, resulting in plethora, sleepiness, skin ailments, en­ muscles, it is usually more hairy than the skin of other largement of liver and congestion. Rheumatism caused types of people. by acidity from overeating of sweets and meats. Ac­ Their face.*; arc wide-oval, features rather small and cidents caused by recklessness and too eager actions. harmonious, their heads are wide and oval in shape. Overgrowth of the heart and heart failure, caused by Their manners are animated and responsive and excessive athletics and exercise. they are usually good talkers. Their talent turns ( Continued on page 50) *2 . , , The Occult Digest January 192a QCan a person be hypnotised into committing crime? Is hypnotism a power for or against crime? H y p n o t i s m and TBe j^iw!

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HE law measures the degree of a crime-by the notism may produce in certain persons an extra physi­ T H degree of the intent in the accused’s mind when ological condition and a kind of transitory madness and before the crime was committed. For in­ which renders them dangerous to themselves and to stance, manslaughter is the killing of a human being others around them. upon a sudden heat, murder in the second degree is kill­ The first medico-legal inquiry which occurs to the ing purposely and maliciously with intent, while murder student of hypnotism is whether the hypnotic subject in the first degree is killing with premeditated malice. will accept criminal suggestion? Teigor’s, the great And likewise, in all crimes, the facts that show the intent French medical student, believes the hypnotic subject and degree of mental effort are the facts relevant to the may be induced to commit criminal offenses.' Benedict, case. In contract law it is the act that is the evidence Janet and Dr. Kingston of England take an opposite of the meeting of the parties’ minds upon a definite sub­ view. ject that is called the contract. In man’s legal position Then the question comes if they may be induced to in society he must act as a reasonable man should act commit offenses to what degree are they responsible for under like circumstances and if he does not, and injures the act, and to what eaftent is a person liable who volun­ another, he thereby becomes subject to suit and damages. tarily allows himself to be hypnotized. And another So in criminal law, in contract law and in the law of question, can criminal offenses be perpetrated upon hyp­ torts, we find the mental element is the greater part of notic subjects without their knowing it? There seems to the standard by which his acts are governed. be no doubt that this last question may be answered in The unquestionable close relation of hypnotism with the affirmative. The ethics of the medical profession as psychology brings us to consider the importance of well as for their protection against false charges, prevent hypnotism in the legal field of the court' room and of any experiments except when in the presence of wit­ the actions of people in daily life. nesses. In the consideration of hypnotism with the law, new In Germany when animal magnetism was flourishing phenomena in psychology are suddenly brought to light. - as a popular fad and in other parts of Europe there were Conditions of mind which are astonishing are caused by a number of cases where the subject had been assaulted them, and one cannot but think of a whole series of in the hypnotic sleep, and uj most of the cases the sub­ criminal acts being carried out unconsciously, by persons ject could have no recollection of what occurred. In a under the influence of another person, who having been few cases the subject was conscious of what happened sent in a given direction without their own knowledge but had no power to resist. A very peculiar phenomena and now act in a manner which defies the law because of arises where the injury may result because of repeated the condition of irresponsibility in the subject. hypnotization by inattention of the operator as to prob­ In the lethargic and cataleptic stages or hypnosis, the able effects upon the physical condition of the subject. patient is exclusively passive; he loses all consciousness Such was the case of Spurgeon Young of New York, of the world around him and is therefore exposed de- where an autopsy was held over the body of Young fenselessly to any attack and any outrage that may be who was a colored lad, seventeen years of age and the committed 'upon him. He can be made, in these states, question was—how far his death was due to, or traceable to swallow poison, inhale noxious gases, or become com­ to his condition as affected by the repeated placing of pletely intoxicated without leaving any trace behind. the lad in an hypnotic sleep by amateur operators in Unconscious violations and indecent assaults may take which it was thought he received injuries resulting m place. Such cases are not very uncommon, and it is found his death. This question was put by the coroner to lead­ in many cases that women and old men were illegally ing medical jurists all over the country. influenced by hypnotism. The somnambulist, too, is Mr. Thomson J. Hudson, in reply said, “In my opin­ capable of being directed in any fashion, reacting ion there could be but one inevitable result, namely, a passively under the hypnotic influence. The subject shattered nervous organism, leading eventually, if life can be led to make manual gift of his property, and to is prolonged, to imbecility or insanity. I have been led sign a note, bill or any kind of a contract. And such to believe that there are few bodily diseases that may note taken as valid because of the signatures being not be produced by abnormal mental and nervous con­ present and apparent proper execution. ditions. For who will pretend to assert that any tissue The subject is ready to carry out the most minute of the body is beyond the range of nervous influence. legal formulae with a calm assurance which would de­ The entire venire of medico-jurists may be expressed by ceive the most skillful lawyers. In criminal matters, a Dr. Buck that the practice is harmful under all circum­ man under suggestion can bring false accusations, and stances except in the hands of skillful physicians for the maintain earnestly that he has taken part in some hor­ treatment of diseases, and even then in a narrow range rible offense of which the accused was a party. of diseases and with doubtful results. In all other cases Homicidal suggestion seems not to have been noticed it is dangerous and should be suppressed by law with by medical jurist, and hypnotical criminals have not yet severe penalties." been so fortunate as to be detected in an unmistakable Crimes Committed by Subjects. manner. But as it is impossible to decide exactly how There is no doubt that subjects may commit suicide far such a thing may go, it is desirable that we notice by post hypnotic suggestion as Roux-Greissineng says,

these phenomena and that we should recognize that hyp- (Continued o h page 22) breakers Ahead Is Warning of The Stars! IS T H E R E A W o r l d C-r-a-s-h NEAR?

HE predictive side, nature, or what you will, of opened up by the discover)' of the Geodetic Equivalent T Astrology always intrigues the popular fancy more due to the longitude and latitude of any place, and the than its purely analytical quality. I am not so consequent affections of the Midheaven and Ascendant sure that those of us who try various penetrations of thence derived by the transits of the planets, the posi­ the mysteries' of the science are any less intrigued by tion of eclipses and other exciting,or symbolical recur­ this phase of it. At any rate, I recall the statement of sions. It may be necessary in the first place, to define one of the most eminent occultists in America, Mr. Mur­ what is meant by Geodetic Equivalent, hereinafter re­ ray Schloss, that “we face an immediate revulsion of ferred to as the G. E. All counts are made from the life on the earth plane, of worldwide proportions, and meridian of Greenwich, which by universal consent is in which every occult student has a definite work to the standard for the notation of time values and longi­ perform.” Mr. Schloss for several years past has re­ tudes. It is the Zero of the equatorial hour-circle, and iterated this assertion, and to my stumbling perception, equally of the ecliptic circle of longitude. With this the fact that the prediction did not c o m e tru e while I Zero on the Midheaven it is found that the Ascendant was eating my breakfast, or during the night, made me under that Midheaven will vary according to the oblique wonder while I did not altogether doubt. ascen sion due to the latitude of a place in longitude o. Thus in latitude 51.30 N., which defines the City of In the light of a somewhat larger maturity, I perceive London, the Ascendant under the meridian of Aries o that Mr. Schloss’ use of “immediate” was that of the will be Cancer 26° 36', while under the same Midheaven true occulist to whom time becomes rather vague the Ascendant on the equator will be Cancer o; and in through excessive contemplation of infinity; and that latitude 60° N. the Ascendant will be Leo 4° 31'. “immediate” is not altered by the intervention of a de­ cade or two—or perhaps a century or two. Therefore, in­ “These facts reveal a considerable range of Zodiacal stead of being “off” in his calculation, Mr. Schloss was sway, first in regard to the longitude of any place, and probably very decidedly “on,” and the danger which he next in regard to its latitude, and it is this fact that has predicted seems the more imminent by a recent calcu­ been seized upon, in connection with certain well-defined lation in astrology made by one who is perhaps its great­ observations, to institute a complete series of Geodetic est living master, S e p h a r ia l. The words “immediate,” Equivalents. "imminent,” etc., all relating to time concepts, are neces­ Certain considerations arise naturally from the adop­ sarily faulty in conveying the nuance of thought here tion of this scheme of astral representation. Chief among intended. But I think even the “man in the street” them is the fact that places that are contiguous to one will see what is meant. another come under Zodiacal equivalents that are closely That all genuine Theosophists in the T. S. or out approximate, and of course there is no denying the fact of it perceive the nature of the changing present ap­ that areas o f the world’s surface are thus affected simul­ pears an unnecessary statement. That all who genu­ taneously by the political and physical effects which at inely contact the spiritual sources (in this sense, perhaps any time may be experienced. It will be my task in I mean spiritistic) have had warnings, or rather advices the ensuing essay to show that such contiguity is the on the forthcoming catyclysm is borne out by hundreds basis o f astral indication, and that definite areas answer­ of papers, letters, and records of psychic experiences ing to the positions and celestial bodies are directly of late. And now comes an astrologer of such scientific related by reason of their geodetic equivalency to that precision as to command the respect of the sceptics, part of the heavens in which the said bodies may at any and such interpretative power as to merit the deepest time be situated, as shown in the ephemeris for the respect of his fellow astrologers throughout the world, current year. and adds his testimony to the balance. I will refer my readers first of all to the Hispano- Having discovered the principle of the g eo d etic American War of April, 1898. Reference to the G.E. equivalent, and, by hundreds of test applications, proven for Lisbon will show that the Midheaven for this town it scientifically sound, Sepharial has issued the result is Pisces 20.50. The planet Mars formed its quadrature of his findings in a small 16mo published by W. Fouls- to Neptune on the 16th April, 1898, and was then in ham and Company, in which he says, in part: Pisces 20.50. Within the week America had declared “An entirely new field.of research has been recently war on Spain. The caucus belli was that the M aine 14 The Occult Digest January 1926\ had been blown up, as was believed, by reported to have failed with the deaths anew, and England came under a new Spanish agents. In effect Spain lost the of Captain Scott and four companions. In Code of Law. When we come to ex­ Philippines and suffered very heavy losses, the following year there was a great amine the astral conditions in the year This was regrettable, as it was after­ strike in South Africa, martial law being 1927 we are at once struck by the signi­ wards proved that the Maine was blown, ' proclaimed on 13th January, and simul­ ficant fact that the planets Uranus and up by internal explosion and not from taneously there was a lock-out by master Jupiter are in conjunction no less than any outside agency. The outstanding builders, affecting thirty thousand men. three times within twelve months, be­ fact, however, is that Mars was then, at The third reading of the Home Rule Bill ginning in June, 1927, and ending in the outbreak of the war, on the ascending was carried by a majority of seventy- •February, 1928. These conjunctions are G. E. degree due to Lisbon. seven, and significantly enough the Em­ seen to take place close to the vernal The contending fleets reached Santiago press of Ireland was sunk in the St. equinox and therefore on the Ascendant and came into conflict at the very time Lawrence .with a loss of 1014 lives. of the Royal Horoscope. At the time of that Mars was in transit over the ascend­ About this time the sinister influence of ■ the second conjunction in September, ing G. E. of the area of hostilities, at the Asquith began to dominate our political Mars is in opposition to the conjoined end o f May, 1898. fortunes by his assuming the post of planets. At the time of the third conjunc­ When Mars reached the opposition Minister of War. The Right Hon. Joseph tion Mars will be on the Midheaven of the Chamberlain died on July 2nd. O n A u ­ Royal Horoscope. So far as the,Geodetic point in October, 1898, namely in Cancer gust 4th war was declared with Germany. Equivalent is conceVned in this series of 19, which is the opposition of Capricorn At this time also Uranus was in opposi­ indications, it will of course be observed 19, the Midheaven G. E. of Santiago, the tion to the Ascendant G. E. of Berlin and that the Midheaven of London is in­ Spanish capitulated and a Peace Con­ other parts of Europe under the Mid­ volved, and as it is in the nature of ference was instituted in Paris. Here heaven of the latter half of Aries, which Uranus and Jupiter when acting in con­ we find Mars in Cancer, the sign of its have the Ascendant in the first decan of junction to produce constitutional fall, and in direct opposition to the M id- Leo. Uranus was in the first decan of changes, we may confidently look to the heaven G. E. of Santiago where the hos­ Aauarius and therefore in opposition. year 1927 as inaugurating the greatest tilities of the fleets began. At this time “Later, in 1917 and 1918, when Nep­ change in the constitution that has been Mars was in quadrature to Jupiter, and tune came to the same degrees of Leo, made since the famous code of Alfred, peace was only secured by very heavy the chimerical dreams of the enemy were over a thousand years ago. concessions including Cuba, Porto Rico, seen to evaporate, and it is significant “Great earthquakes will take place in the Philippines and Sulu Islands. that the planet Saturn was on the B erlin July, 1927, and in April, 1928, and. then "One of the most remarkable instances G. E. ascendant at the very time that the forces of disruption and disintegration of the significance of the G. E. is to be Germany launched its last final assault in will be let loose upon the earth in a man­ found m the recent earthquake at Tokyo, March, 1918. A brief inspection of the ner that has never before been experi­ by which the capital of Japan was com­ various towns tabulated will show that enced since the age began. The year pletely destroyed and immense loss of the following are included under the de­ 1928 will bring these indications into life and property effected in a single day. grees which at that time were affected rapid and violent effect. For the cycle The immediate precedent indications of by Neptune and Saturn—Alexandria, ends in 1927j£ and thereafter the hand this calamity are to be seen in the position Belgrade, Berlin, Budapest, Prague, of man is thrust forward in violence, of the lunation of August 12th, 1923, Sofia, Smyrna and Vienna. It is signi­ which condition obtains for the space of whereat the conjoined luminaries were ficant, too, that this eclipse of March 3$4 years or 42 months, and then there is in conjunction with Neptune in the 22hd. being a lunar eclipse in Libra 1, Peace. Here is the whole prophecy, the eighteenth degree of Leo and Mars in the fell in close opposition to the natural measure of the times being of my own same longitude, the lunation taking place Ascendant of the Royal Horoscope. institution. in the nineteenth degree. Reference to These factors will hereafter assume a “For as I conceive in my understanding, the table of geodetic equivalents will wider significance. It is not a matter of Woe unto those that are left behind in show that the meridian of Tokyo is m chance that the reigning sovereign of those days, and much more to those who the immediate vicinity of this satellitium Great Britain should he bom under the are not left behind. For now I under­ of bodies. This was pointed out in the cardinal points of the Zodiac, with Capri­ stand what is laid up for them in the pages of the British Journal of Astrology, corn on the Midheaven and Aries on the latter days and what shall happen to the Earthquake itself was clearly pre­ Ascendant of the horoscope. The pres­ them that are left behind, for they shall dicted from the incident of Neptune op­ ent representative of the Davidic line of come into great perils and vast neces­ position Mars and localised by the G . c. kings is destined to witness the climax of sities. And this is the interpretation of meridian. a great cycle of time. and. in fact, of 'him that shall be left behind.* He that The unrest which has recently been two cycles, one within the other. shall endure the peril in that time is he manifesting in India may be ascribed to The first is the inclusive cycle of 2520 that hath secured himself. They that the position of Uranus now passing over years, extending from the Babylonian shall fall into danger are they that have the opposition of the G. E. Ascendant of Empire, under Nebuchadnezzar, to the faith and works towards the Almighty. Delhi, in Virgo 18, and now disturbing year 1927, A. D. For in the year 593 Therefore know that they which he left the southern districts by its passage the Assyrian monarch took Jerusalem behind are more blessed than they which through the nineteenth and twentieth de­ and desolated the holy places, in consc- be dead. And whereas thou didst see a grees of the sign Pisces. auence of which it was prophesied that Man coming up from the midst of the Mln the year 1912, on April 17th, there “seven times” should pass over the king­ sea. the same is He whom God the High­ was an eclispe of the Sun visible over dom, and that it should be blotted out est hath kept for a great season, who Europe, which fell in the twenty-seventh and become the haunt of wild beasts of Himself shall deliver his creatures, degree of the sign Aries. Reference to until the times were fulfilled. Now a and shall order them which shall be left the map will show that the longitude 27* “time” is a complete circle of 360 de­ behind. And whereas thou sawest that E. answers exactly to Adrianopte. It was grees or rears, and seven times is there­ out of His mouth there came, as it were, here that the first shot was fired in the fore 2520 years, which is a week of a blast of wind and fire and storm, and Balkan War—a war that was destined propbeev. From—592 to A. D. 1927 is that He held neither sword nor any to lead directly to the Great War of a period of 7520 years. It is therefore to weapon of war, but that his mighty on­ 1914-18, and this shot was sped on the the year 1927 that we have to look for rush destroyed the whole multitude that 14th October, 1912, when Mars was pass­ the consummation of this cycle of time. came out to subdue Him, this is the in­ ing over Libra 27, in direct opposition to “The second cvclc that comes to its terpretation : Behold, the days come when the eclipse of April 17th. The war took end is that of 1040 years from the seven­ the Most High shall begin to deliver its course and apparently came to an end. teenth vear of the reign of King Alfred. them that are upon the earth. And one hut suddenly broke out again on the day A. D. 887. The eclipses that take place shall undertake to fight against another, that Mars came to the place of the in the year 1927 will be the same as one city against another, one nation eclispe in Aries 27. This clearly shows those that took place in that year, that is against another and one kingdom against that eclipses may have a significance af to say. they are at the same distance another. Then shall the Son of Man be the first order when falling an the meri­ from the emrinoxes and therefore in th" declared whom thou sawest as a Man dian G. £ af any place, and confirms same longitudes. Very great changes ascending. And when all the people hear the now well-known fact that events tend took place at this time. King Alfrod His voice, every man in their own land to expression at the time when a major compiled his famous Body of Laws. The shall leave the strife they have with one planet is in transit over the place or whole kingdom of Charlemagne was another and an innumerable multitude opposition of an eclipse. possessed by Charles le Gros: Arnotph shall be gathered together wilting to join Thus the lunar echpse of March 22nd, began his reign in Germany, Guido and up and overcome Him by fighting. But 1918, fell in Libra 1 in close opposition Berenger began theirs in Italy. Fades He shall stand on the summit of Sion. to the meridian of London. Very remark­ began his in France, and Rudolph Lewis And Sion shall be revealed to all men, able events followed on the heels of this («untamed the Blind 1 began to reign m already pretyired and builded, even as the eclipse. The Antarctic Expedition was Burgundy. Thus five kingdoms began (Continued on page 36) The Occult Digest January 1926 15

C . K e y s T o The Alchemy of ( C o lo u r Occult Chromotherapy

B y J a c o b B o n g g r e n , D . L .

L preservation, and regeneration of coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves; Be ye doers of the word, qnd forms on the different planes of for the workman is worthy of his not hearers only, deceiving your that microcosm. Healing is ex­ hire." (Ibid., X ., 9-10.) own selves. pressed through all the divine as­ The method of healing is hinted James 1:22. pects; its possibility by the means at in many places. Just before his By simply storing up in our of various methods is continually ascension, Christ said to his dis­ memory any information given to demonstrated everywhere. Being ciples: “These signs shall follow us, without any attempt at verify­ aware of this, faith in the ability to them that believe. In my name ing or applying it, we act like the help is manifested in any one who shall they cast out devils; they shall man in the parable who buried his is eager to heal diseased fellow be­ speak with new tongues; they shall talent in the ground. And just as ings ; each person applies the meth­ take up serpents; and if they drink the .unused talent was taken away od, which for some reason he con­ any deadly thing it shall not hurt from him who buried it, so we lose siders the most effective. All meth­ them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” that which we have never made our ods are good, where the faith of (Mark XIV: 17, 18.) At another own by application and by verifica­ the healer is reciprocated by the time Christ said: “Whatsoever ye tion. faith of the sufferer, and where by shall ask in my name, that will I the means used the weak vibration U nused capital is dead capital. do, that the Father may be glorified in the sufferer’s aura is strengthen­ S eed which is carelessly put away, in the Son.” (John X IV : 13.) w hich in the proper season is not ed. By every method which is used, sow n, will never sprout ; it will a color vibration—which is matter “Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any sick among you? never grow up and bear fruit in to the sense of vision on the differ­ Let him call for the elders of the th e harvest time. A key that we ent planes in the vehicles of man— church; and let them pray over possess, but never apply is of no is projected to strengthen a weak him, anointing him with oil in die more use to us than if we never had one. All that is needed for helping name of the Lord. And the prayer it. T h is applies also to the key here is the correct color vibration—that of faith shall heal the sick, and the offered. If not used, according to vibration which is the weakest in Lord shall raise him up; and if he the rules laid down, its possession the sufferer. The most direct way, have committed sins, they shall be is o f n o value; its usefulness can­ the real Occult Chromotherapy, is forgiven him.” (James V :13-15.) not be verified and demonstrated by sitting down, by closing our eyes, by its being stored away in the by concentrating on and by visual­ “Whatsoever ye do in word or drawers of a writing desk or in the izing etherically, astraile and men­ deed, do all in the name of the Lord attics of memory. To keep it hid­ tally the color vibration that is Jesus, giving thanks to God and the den as a curiosity is worse than weak in the sick person, by sur­ Father by him.” (Col. 111:17.) useless. rounding ourselves with it when in­ Like the disciples of the Christ, O nly by applying and verifying haling, and by sending it out to the every occultist should do all his information given to us can we patient and the part diseased when healing and perform all his acts, make it our own. Any information exhaling. not in his own name, but in the which is not verified, applied and Of the great Divine Healer of name of the Master. tested by us, remains to us a hear­ Palestine, Jesus Christ, we are told, Why should an occultist do say and nothing more. This holds that “when he called unto him his everything in the Master’s name, » good in the art of healing as in twelve disciples, he gave them pow­ not in his own, and never look upon everything else. With methods ap­ er against unclean spirits, to cast himself as the doer, but as the divine plied honestly and faithfully—and them out, and to heal all manners instrument? All the sacred books in no other way—results will fol­ of sickness and all manners of dis­ the world over explain the reason. low. ease.” (Matt. X :I.) He said to A few quotations will show it; them: “Heal the sick, cleanse the they can be added to ad infinitum. II. lepers, raise the dead, cast out “It is Heaven that does the work, There is a correspondence be­ devils ; freely ye have received, while men are only its agents.” tween the higher and the lower freely give.” (Ibid., X., S.) Those (Shu-Ring, Book I, Section 3.) worlds. that were helped, and who had re­ “If thou wilt diligently heart erv Shu-Kuag, book I. section 4. ceived freely, had the same privi­ to the voice of the Lord tby God. A s above, the Will, Wisdom and lege to give freely. That was, in­ and wilt do that which is right in Activity aspects of the LOGOS are deed, their opportunity to show His sight; and wilt give ears to Hie, expressed in His own system of their gratitude. The disciples were commandments, and keep a9 His w orlds, so below, the corresponding told : "Provide neither gold, nor statutes, I will put none of these aspects are expressed through each silver, nor brass in your purses, nor diseases upon thee, which I have hum an microcosm for the creation, scrip for your journey, neither two brought upon the Egyptians, for I 16 The Occult Digest January 1926 am the Lord that healeth thee.” choly, anemic condition, tuberculo- cooling to the blood, soothing to the (Exodus XV: 26.) , sis, paralysis, cancer, physical ex­ nerve and vascular systems, anti­ “Except the Lord build the haustion, and debilitated conditions septic, astringent, refrigerant, febri­ house, they labor in vain that build in general are cured by red radia­ fuge, sedative. it; except the Lord keep the city, tion, which animates, stimulates Indigo radiation is weak in the the watchman waketh but in vain. and warms the blood and through case of wounds, internal irritations It is vain for you to rise up early, that the nerves and the muscles. and skin diseases; and here indigo to sit up late, to eat the bread of This being so, then the non-clair­ radiation is healing. Like blue and sorrow; for so He giveth his be­ voyant may take for granted, even violet, indigo is an electrical color, loved sleep." (Ps. CXXVHri, 2.) if he cannot in the aura observe the and its radiation is cooling to both scarcity of red, that this radiation "Every house is built by some blood and nerves, as well as anti­ is weak there and should be man, but He that built all things septic. strengthened. Dr. White has diag­ Violet radiation is weak in stom­ is God.” (Hebr. Ill: 4.) nosed this by an ingenious method ach diseases caused by defective “Every good gift and every per­ and has cured the above-mentioned digestion, as Dr. J. Stenson Hooker fect gift is from above, and cometh diseases by ruby-red radiation from has demonstrated. Like the blue down from the Father of lights, colored globes. He has also cured radiation, it soothes the neiye and with Whom is no variableness, alcoholic conditions with deep prune vascular systems, especially where neither shadow of turning.’’ (James radiation, and deep-seated neurotic inflammatory and nervous condi­ 1:17.) conditions, paranoid, etc., with tions predominate. Violet radiation III. magenta radiation. heals kidney intoxicants, urethrics, "Peter said: Silver and gold Red radiation directed toward an and gonorrhea; like the blue radia­ have I none; but such as I have aura that needs no such strengthen­ tion it is astringent, refrigerant, give I thee; in the name of Jesus ing causes a feeling of heat and dis­ febrifuge and sedative, and like Christ of Nazareth rise up and comfort, of irritation to the nerves that it is a cure for«sciatica, hem­ walk.” and a stimulation of the procreative orrhage, cerebro-spinal conditions, A cta i l l :6. faculties. neuralgia, rheumatism, and general All those scientists who have ' When there is lack of vitality in nervousness. spoken of and recommended color the system, when sarcoma or other Red, orange and yellow radiations radiations as the means of healing, malignant growths are weakening are warm; they are stimulating in from Dr. E. B. Babbitt to Dr. J. it, when constipation, impaired di­ the order they are mentioned. Red S ten son Hooker, Dr. Kerri son B. gestion and, for women, abnormal is a hot and very exciting color; Taylor, Dr. George H. Zeller, Dr. pelvic conditions peculiar to their orange is vitalizing and warm ; yel­ E. B. Bowers and Dr. George Starr sex are in evidence, or when a per­ low gives, like a sunshine in June, White, tell practically the same son suffers from neuralgic or rheu­ a sense of contentment and happi­ thing about how the different color matic pain, the orange radiation is ness, and a pleasant warmth. These radiations act and what diseases weak in the aura, and the cure is vibrations give a sweetish, alkaline they cure. Experience proves that orange radiation, which like the red taste and smell. they have found the truth; clair­ is animating, stimulating and warm­ Green and violet radiations are voyants corroborate it by telling, ing, but to the nerves rather than more cool than the three mention­ that when in an aura a color radia­ to the blood, and in a somewhat ed; their taste and smell is a mix­ tion is weak, it means a certain dis­ milder way. ture of sweet and sour. ease, and also that this can be cured In cases of congestion, especially Light blue (deep sky blue) and by artificially strengthening the of the respiratory organs, the throat indigo radiations are cool ; th ey weak color radiation. and the lungs, and of nerve exhaus­ have a cooling and calming effect, That artificial strengthening can tion, yellow radiation is weak in the and they give a sour, acidic taste be done in different ways. The aura of the sufferer, and yellow and smell. above-mentioned physicians have radiation heals. In constipation, Light green excites in a mild either used solftr radiation, directly impaired digestion, and in abnormal way, stimulates and strengthens. or by means of electric light, pelvic conditions peculiar to wom­ Dark green acts very much like through colored panes of glass or en, yellow—or orange—radiation corrosive sublimate; it aids putre­ through water from colored bottles, will give relief, as Dr. White has faction and dissolution, and it re­ which for some time have been ex­ demonstrated. Yellow is a splendid moves parasitic growths, such as posed to sunlight, as Dr. Babbitt nerve stimulant, but injurious to an cancer. But a ring of indigo radia­ did and his followers still do; or over-excited system. tion must be placed around the through colored glass bulbs, a W eak green radiation in the aura growth, before the dark green ra­ method originated by Dr. Niels Fin- is indicated by liver intoxication diation is sent to it, to prevent the sen of Copenhagen, whose “red and jaundice, by typhoid fever and surrounding parts from being hurt. light” cures of lupus and small pox influenza, which are healed by Orange radiation has a particular in his phototherapeutic institute be­ green radiation. For typhoid, blue- affinity to the heart chakra, the re­ came world-famous. The occultist green is the proper shade; for in­ ceiving apparatus of the human uses identical color radiations, gen­ fluenza, red-green, which animates body for the vitality sent out from erally without any external appa­ the nerves and cools the blood. the sun. This chakra is also the ratus and through the medium of Blue radiation is weak and should best transmitter of any healing ra­ his own higher vehicles, in that way be supplied in cases of headache, diation that is sent through the ve­ becoming in the full sense of the toothache, neuralgia, rheumatism, hicles of a healer to a patient. word a channel for the heating general nervousness, sciatica, hem­ H. P. Blavatsky told us that yel­ forces of nature. orrhage, malaria, blood diseases low radiation strengthens the right Empirically it has been discov­ (such as syphilis) and cerebro­ eye, and indigo radiation the left ered and demonstrated that melan- spinal conditions. Blue radiation is eye. This information started her The Occult Digest January 1926 17 pupils on the exploration journey, Few they are as yet who care to different shades of red, but also which ended with their discovering “become as nothing in the eyes of with a good deal of green in it. Occult Chromotherapy. men.” Yet that is a prerequisite Svadisthana chakra has to do with for unselfish and undisturbed activ­ our feelings, our likes and dislikes. ity in the realms of White Magic. It is a matter of common experi­ IV. Few men in our time are willing to ence that this chakra is agitated when we are disgusted with some­ “Not to commit any sin, to do obey the five-thousand-year old teaching of Shri Krishna: “Thy thing; then we suddenly become good, and to purify one’s mind— business is with the action only, “sick at the stomach,” as Bro. C. that is the teaching of all the awak­ W. Leadbeater remarks. Its power ened.” never with its fruits. So let not the Buddha, Dhammapada, XIV., 5. fruit of action be thy motive, nor is Kriya shakti, the creative thought be thou to inaction attached. Per­ power, which has for its channels In the period of frequent corre­ form action, dwelling in union with Ida and Pingala, the two currents spondence with the Masters, when the divine, renouncing attach­ of Fohatic fire on both sides of Mme. H. P. Blavatsky was their ments, and balanced evenly in suc­ Sushumna along the spine to the representative and our teacher, the cess and failure. Equilibrium is Brahmarandra. Apana, “down-go­ following remarks by an Adept called Voga.” (Bhagavad Gita, ing life-wind,” has been given as were quoted by the Vice-President II., 48.) the corresponding prana or vital ï of the Theosophical Society, the There are seven centers in the breath, and Apas, or water, as its General Secretary of the American etheric body, which are called by element. This chakra acts through Section, William Quan Judge, in the Hindus chakras, or wheels, on the solar plexus on the pancreas, his monthly magazine The Path fo r account of their form and their the liver, the gall bladder, and the August, 1889, p. 150: “All illness, constant motion. They are the re­ digestive organs in general. disease, and abnormalities of the ceivers of vital force from the Then comes the hypogastric body come from astral planes. The radiant heart of our Solar Logos, plexus, with Manipura as the cor­ physical cannot infest the astral. the Sun, and the transmitters of it responding chakra, near the spleen The occult and the physical must to all parts of the vehicles. That in the body. This chakra is de­ never be mixed up. It is absolutely which is received by the chakras scribed as having six petals or un­ necessary to concentrate on one or passes into the physical body dulations and being very radiant, th e other. through the plexus or ganglia and fiery and sunlike. It distributes in “There is good and evil in every is distributed by the ductless the body the vitality which we get point of the universe, and if one glands. from the Sun through the heart works, however indirectly, for one’s In every activity the laborer must chakra and gives us memory of our own partiality, one becomes to that possess and understand how to use astral travels. Its power is Ichchha “the power of will.” Samana, extent a black magician. It is the tools that he needs for accom­ shakti, necessary when acting to lose all plishing his work. For this reason, “uniting life-breath,” is given as its sense of identity and become an to know thé chakras and their corresponding prana or vital breath, abstract power. physical instrumertts, the plexus and Tejas, fire, as its element. This and the ductless glands, is of im­ chakra acts through the hypogastric “Ocpultism demands perfect jus­ portance to a healer. plexus on the spleen and the ad­ tice and absolute impartiality. W hen At the base of the spine there is renals. a man uses the powers of nature in the physical body a plexus called Over the heart in the body is the indiscriminately, with partiality and the sacral. Its corresponding chakra cardiac plexus, which corresponds with no regard to justice, it is black in the etheric body is by the Hindus to Anahata chakra. This etheric m agic. To help a sick person is no called Muladhara chakra. H ere, vehicle appears as a flower with black magic; but no personal pref­ they say, is the burning ground of twelve petals or undulations of a erence must guide you. the Kundalinic fire, the home of the fiery golden color. Through this “Magic is power over the forces World Mother. The clairvoyant chakra we understand and feel the of nature . . . hypnotizing people sees it as a four-petaled flower, like sorrows of others, and through it and making them physically drunk those of the Cruciferae, with fiery as a channel we send out healing with excitement is black magic.” orange color. As its shakti or power radiations to the sick. As its tattva or element is given Vayu, air, as To become channels or the heal­ is given Kundalini shakti, the re­ its life breath Prana, “out-going ing forces of nature, directing the generative serpentine power, which \ life-wind,” and as its power Jnana form building devas, “whose lan­ through Sushumna, the great cen­ shakti, “the power of knowledge.” guage is color and whose motion is tral spinal nerve channel, radiates This chakra' acts through the car­ melody,” * to do their quiet work • creative and preservative vitality diac plexus on the blood, the vital in and through the color radiations along the spine up to the Brahma- fluid of the body. that are matter, this is also an act randra portal in the skull. Vyana, of magic, but of the white variety, “distributive life wind,” has been In the throat we find the pharyn­ as the Master here quoted indi­ given as its prana or vital breath ; geal plexus, corresponding to Vis- cates. But He insists, too, that it its tattva or element is said to be uddha chakra, which has sixteen ap­ must be done unselfishly, simply as Prithivi, or earth. This chakra parent divisions. The clairvoyants an act of service and for the great acts through the sacral plexus di­ tell us that there is a good deal of • joy of being able to help others. rectly on the prostatic ganglion, the blue in it, but that its general ap­ And even for the occult healer the interstitial gland and the ovaries. pearance is silvery, radiant, like ancient Gnostic rule holds good: Next to the sacral plexus comes moonlight on moving water. When “Learn to know all, but keep thy­ the solar or epigastric, with Svadis- we are able to fully vitalize that self u n k n o w n ." thana as the corresponding chakra. chakra, then we become dairaudi- Clairvoyants describe this chakra as ent. Its element is given as Akasha, D r. Annie Besant : Theosophy, p. 39. having ten radiations or petals with (Continued on page 37) 18 The Occult Digest January 1926

The Stars o f January

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H O R those who prefer to read the marvelous rec­ Pleiades family gets its name from the Greek word Pleein F ords of the Heavens in the starry firmament itself, to sail, because they were considered at this season of "rather than in the signs and symbols of the astro­ the year, the “star of the ocean’’ to the lost mariner. loger’s chart, it is vastly easier to consider the meridian, Alcyone is called the “Light of the Pleiades” being of or medium coeli, the point directly overhead, as a guide the 3rd magnitude and very bright. Her sisters are of the than to take the ascendant or Eastern Horizon as the 4th and 5th magnitudes. The Pleiades, or as they are center of vision. Therefore we will turn our eyes d u r­ sometimes familiarly known, the seven stars, com e to ing the month of January directly overhead, there to the meridian about ten minutes before 9 o’clock the discover the drama of the challenge of the Bull ( Taurus) evening of January 1. According to Hesiod who wrote to Orion. about 900 B. C., the heliacal rising of the Pleiades took The constellations which pass our meridian in the place on the 11th of May about the time of harvest:- months of January, February and March present to us “When, Atlas born, the Pleiad stars arise. the most brilliant and interesting portion of the heavens. Before the Sun above the dawning skies. The stars in these constellations are so brilliant, and the 'Tis time to reap; and when they sink below designs so simple that even the most inexperienced may The morn illumined West ’tis time to sow.” gain the thrill of tracing them out. Thus, in all ages have the stars been observed by the Now Taurus appears to be in a great state of rage at husbandman “for signs and for seasons." Orion, who, brilliantly girt, with a club in one hand, and sword in belt, is ready to give battle to the Bull. From T h e Pleiades are also sometimes called Virgiliae o r this it has been argued that Orion was the first candidate “the Virgins of Spring’’ because the sun enters this for political preferment but the fact that he has never cluster in the “season of blossoms,” about the 18th or yet thrown the bull—but only threatened to, makes the 19th of May. In Job this allusion is manifest in the story a little hard to believe. demand of the Almighty “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades?” The Syrian name of the Taurus is now the second sign, and third constellation of the Zodiac, but along about the time Father Abraham Pleiades is Succoth, o r Succoth-Benoth, derived from a was tending his sheep—some 4000 years ago—the year Chaldaic word which signifies “to speculate, to observe,” opened when the Sun was in Taurus, and for more, than and the “men of Succoth (II Kings, 17:30) have been 2000 years the Bull was the leader of the Zodiacal considered to be observers of the stars.. hosts. Then it was Aries, the Ram—and now the The Hyades are situated 11° S. E. of the Pleiades, Fishes, or Pisces, lead the procession under the sign, and are a melancholy group, sometimes called “the Aries. weepers” because they are presumed to influence the Taurus contains 141 visible stars, including the two re-- natural phenomena of rain. They are in the face of markable clusters, the Hyades and the Pleiades. The the Bull, and may be readily distinguished by means of Pleiades is on the shoulder, and the Hyades in the face five stars (although the ancient Greeks counted 7) so of the Bull. placed as to form the letter V. The most brilliant, on According to fable, the Pleiades were the seven the left at the top of the letter is Aldebaran, from which daughters of Atlas and nymph Pleione, or, if you are the moon’s distance is usually computed. It comes to more literal minded, say, with Dr. Hutton, that Atlas, the meridian about 9 o’clock on the 10th of January, being the first astronomer to note the cluster, named or minutes after Alcyone on the first. When Aries thqm after the daughters of his wife, Pleione. A t any is about 27°- high, Aldebaran is just rising in the east, rate Mrs. Atlas did a good job of raising the family, so Manilus writes, for only one of them went wrong. She was Merope, “Thus, when the Ram hath doubled ten degrees who married a mortal, and for that reason her star is And Joined seven m ore, then rise the H yades.” tire dimmest of the cluster. Her sisters are called Alcyone, Meronc, Mata, FAectra, Tayeta, Sterope and A line I5yi° E. N. E. of Aldebaran will point out a Celeno. They are fairly bright girls as you can see. Dr. bright star of the 2nd magnitude in the extremity of the Hook, who wanted a better look at the seven sisters, northern horn, marked Beta, or El Nath. (This star is pushed a telescope in their direction, and discovered a also in the foot of Auriga and is counted in both con­ total of 78 stars in the cluster, whereupon Rheita, not to stellations). From Beta to Zeta in the tip of the South­ be outdone, took a larger lens and found over 200. ern horn it is 8° in a southerly direction. That very • Many astronomers since, with better lenses and even bright star N. of Beta 17y i” is Capella (in Auriga"). greater curiosity have found a greater number. Taurus, according to Greek mythology, was the bull The most ancient authors Homer, Attalus, and which bore Europa over the seas to that part of the Geminus counted only 6 Pleiades, but Simonides, Varro, world which bears her name. She was the daughter Pliny, Aratus, Hipparchus and Ptolemy numbered them of Agenor, and princess of Phoenecia. She was so as seven and it was said the seventh had been seen with beautiful that Jupiter became enamoured of her, and, the naked eye before the burning of Troy. The assuming the shape of a snow white bull, he mingled The Occult Digest January 1926 19 with the herds of Agenor, while Europa the “belt,” called Mintaka is on the me­ It contains only 10 stars about 2^4° apart. and her female attendants were gather­ ridian, nearly over the Equator the 24th Phaet, the principal star, lies on the right ing flowers. Europa caressed the beauti­ of January. and is the highest. The name “Noah's ful animal, and at last gathered enough In the “Sword of Orion” a little below Dove" explains its story. courage to climb upon his back. The god a star called Thabit, there is a nebulous Columba, astrologically, gives a gentle, immediately rushed for the sça, and swam cluster, through which is seen one of the kind, timid, innocent, self-sacrificing na­ with her to Crete. It is said she lived most awesome phenomena of the heavens. ture together with strength of spirit. about 1552 B. C. It is probable, how­ Looking with a telescope or strong field According to Ptolemy, all the stars of ever, that this constellation had a place in glass through this cluster, one seems to Eridanus with the exception of Acher- the Zodiac before the Greeks began to be gazing through a window of our uni­ nar, are like Saturn. He gives a love of cultivate a knowledge of the stars; and verse, but upon another of equal vast­ knowledge and science, much travel and that the constellation was the invention ness and complexity. many changes, a position of authority, of either the Chaldeans or the Egyptians. According to ancient authorities, Orion but uanger of'accidents, especially at sea, Both the Egyptians and the Chaldeans was the son of Neptune and Queen Eu- and of drowning. worshipped a deity under this figure by ryale, a famous Amazonian huntress, and, the name of And Belzoni is said Eridanus, or The River Po, meanders Apis. taking after his mother, Orion became to have found an embalmed bull in one over a very irregular space in the the greatest of hunters, and boasted that Heavens, and it is not easy nor desirable of the sacred sepulchres near Thebes. there was not an animal on earth he could In the Hebrew Zodiac the Bull is ascribed to trace out all its windings. It is more not conquer. To punish this vanity it to Joseph. than 130° in length. The Northern half was said that a scorpion sprung up out commences near Rigel in the foot of Ptolemy makes the following observa­ of the earth and bit his foot so that he Orion, and flows out westerly in a ser­ tions : “Those stars in Taurus which are died. At the request of Diana he was pentine course, nearly 40° to the Whale. in the abscission of the sign, resemble in placed among the stars directly opposite It has 84 stars which exceed the ambi­ their temperament, the influence of to the Scorpion that caused his death. tion of even a real star “fan” to trace. Venus, and in some degree that of Saturn Others say Orion had no mother, but Finding Eridanus is a great tax on the .... the stars in the head (except was the gift of the gods Jupiter, Nep­ back of the neck and the patience. Aldebaran) resemble Saturn and partly tune and Mercury to a peasant of Boeotia Mercury; and those at the top of the Lepus, according to Ptolemy, acts as a reward of piety, and that he was in­ astrologically like Saturn plus Mercury. horns are like Mars.” By the Kabalists vested with the power of walking over Taurus is associated with the Hebrew It gives a quick wit, timidity, circum­ the sea without wetting his feet. In spection, fecundity and defiance. letter Aleph and the first Tarot Trump, strength and stature he surpassed all Whoever looks upward to the constel­ other mortals. He was skilled in the Auriga, the Charioteer, also called the lation o f Orion and learns its name, will working or iron, from which he fabricated Wagoner is represented by the figure of never forget it. It is too beautifully a subterranean palace for Vulcan; he also a man in a reclining position, with one splendid to need description. When it is walled in the coast of Sicily from the sea foot upon the horn of Taurus, with a on the meridian, there is then above the and erected temples in it to its gods. goat and her kids in his left hand, and horizon the most magnificent view of the There is a vast amount of mythology of a bridle in his right. It is N. of Orion celestial bodies the firmament affords, interest centered about Orion, which and Taurus, between Perseus on the W. and it is visible to all the habitable world, space here forbids but which the student and the Lynx on the E. Its mean declin­ because the equinoctial passes through is urged to seek in standard works upon ation is 45° N. so that when it is on the the middle of the constellation. It is the subject. meridian it is almost directly overhead in New England. It is on the same represented on the celestial maps in the The name of this constellation is men­ figure of a man assulting the Bull with a meridian with Orion and culminates at tioned in the books of Job, Amos, and the same hour of the night. Both are sword in his belt, a club in his right hand, in H om er. and the skin of a lion in the other to on the meridian about 9 o’clock on the According to Ptolemy, the bright stars, 1st of January. serve as a shield; with the exception of Betelgeuse and The center of the constellation is mid­ The whole number of stars in Auriga Bellatrix, are like Jupiter and Saturn. It is 66. Capella, (I. M.) in the shoulder, way between the poles of the heavens, is said to give a strong and dignified and directly over the equator. It is also is one of the brightest stars in the nature, self-confidence, inconstancy, arro­ heavens. It takes its name from Capella about 8° W. of the solstitial colure, and gance, violence, impiety, prosperity in comes to the meridian about the 23rd of the Goat, which hangs upon the left or trade, and particularly by voyages or W. shoulder of Auriga. It may be known January. The whole number of visible abroad but also dangers of treachery and stars in the constellation is 78. Two are by a little sharp pointed triangle formed poison. It was thought by the Romans by three stars 3° or 4° to the left of it. of the 1st magnitude, 4 of the 2nd and 3 to be very harmful to cattle and produc­ of the 3rd and 15 of the 4th. It is 18° N. of El Nath, which, remem­ tive of storms. By the Kabalists it is ber, is common to the foot of Auriga Those four brilliant stars in the form associated with the Hebrew letter Aleph, and the Northern horn of Taurus. Ca­ of a long square intersected in the mid­ and the first Tarot Trump, “The pella comes to the meridian on the 19th dle by the “Three Stars” o r the “belt of Juggler.” of January iy2 minutes before Rigel, in Orion“ about 25° S. of the Bull’s horns, Lepus, the Hare, is a constellation lo­ the foot of Orion, which it very much form the outlines of Orion. cated directly S. of Orion and comes to resembles in brightness. The two upper stars in the parallelogram the meridian at the same time, the 24th The Greeks give various accounts of are about 15° N. of the two lower ones; of January. It has a mean declination this constellation. Some suppose^ it to and, being placed on each shoulder, are 18° S. and contains 19 sftiall stars of have been Erichthonius, fourth king of sometimes called the “epaulettes” of which the four principal ones are of the Athens, and son of Vulcan and Minerva, Orion. The brightest of the two lower 3rd magnitude. Zeta, (4th M.) is the who awarded him a place in the heavens ones is in the left foot, and the other, the first star and is situated in the back, 5° on account of his many wonderful and * least brilliant of the four is in the right S. o f Saiph in Orion. About the same useful inventions. He was a monstrous knee. To be more particular, Bellatrix, distance below Zeta are four principal shape, is said to have invented chariots, a star of the 2nd magnitude, on the W. stars in the legs and feet. These form a and to have excelled all in the manage­ shoulder; Betelguese, a star of the 1st square. Alpha and Beta (otherwise ment of horses. Other writers say that magnitude, 7j4° E. of Bellatrix, on the called Ames) form the N. W. end of the Bootes invented the chariot and that E. shoulder; Rigcl, a splendid star of trapezium, about 3° apart. Gamma and Auriga was the son of Mercury, and the first magnitude in the left foot on Delta form the S. E. end afid are about charioteer to Oenomaus, King of Pisa, the W., and Saiph, a star of the 3rd 2^2° apart. Four or five degrees S. of and so experienced that he rendered his magnitude in the right knee, 8}4° E. of Rigel are four very minute stars which horses the swiftest in all Greece. But Rig el. form the ears of the Hare. The constel­ as neither of these fables seems to ac­ There is a little triangle of three small lation is situated about 18° W . of the count for the goat and her kids, it has stars in the head of Orion, which forms Great Dog (Canis Major) which, from been supposed that they refer to Alma- a larger triangle with the two in his the motion of the earth seems to be pur­ thea and her sister Melissa, who fed shoulders. In the middle of the parallelo­ suing Lepus as the Greyhounds do The Jupiter during his infancy, with goat’s gram are three stars of the 2nd magni­ Bear around the skies. It was one of milk, and that, as a reward for their tude that form the “belt,“ forming a line those animals which Orion is said to have kindness, they were placed in the heavens. about 3° in length. They are sometimes delighted in hunting, and for this reason But there is no reason assigned for their called “the three Kings" because they was made into a constellation and placed being placed in the arms of Auriga, and point out the Pleiades and Hyades. on near him in the heavens. the inference is unavoidable that myth­ one side, and Sirius o r the Dog star on Columba, or Noah's Dove as it is ology is at fault on this point. Jamieson the other. The University of Leipsig sometimes called, is about 16° W. of the is of the opinion that Auriga is a mere in 1807 gave them the name of Napoleon. Hare and is nearly on the same meridian type or scientific symbol of the beautiful It didn’t stick. The northernmost star of with the Three Stars or “belt" of Orion. (Continued on page 38) 20 The Occult Digest January 1926

{ T This is the first of a series {of P R IZ E - (F IN N IN G A (F A R D S given by

THE OCCULT DIGEST) w hich gives scientific guidance through the m ath­ em atical calculations of The Science of Astrology —

Miss M cLean asks

“How can Astrology Help Me to Help Myself to Help Others?”

L i b r a reveals how the stars affect and direct us in our daily lives, m arking the course of hum an destiny

I F you ask me, Miss McLean, I should you toward success in some artistic pur­ certainly advise you to find some out­ suit, you are nevertheless much more of let for the tremendous energy with Cancer’s glory than of Gemini’s charm. which you are endowed, or else the ques­ For Cancer adds a sociable and amiable tion may become one o f what is to be She Wins $ 1 0 0 disposition (when you are not crossed), a done with youl You are one of those generous character, many friends, good fine-idealed restless persons, who must be social standing and strengthens the cer­ doing some task— usually a little beyond ([Miss Betty Me Lean’s tainty of your artistic success. It is also their capacity to finish— or madness the reason for your fondness for pleasure threatens to overtake them. Mercurial— Question and decoration. Less prominent in your with all the swiftness of “the messenger makeup is an ability to write, but more of the gods”— creative, not without a prominent owing to the strong Mercurial personal pride verging on vanity—cap­ influence if the galaxy of fixed stars at­ “ H ow can Astrology H elp able, artistic, gifted in speech, writing tendant at your birth is a natural loquacity or even the graphic arts—easily adapting which you would do well to govern a yourself to the aims, thoughts, desires or M e to H elp M yself to little more than your stars would indi­ ambitions of a group—you are a born cate you do. leader (in an interpretative sense) a H elp Others? ” spokesman and standard-bearer. As Mer­ You would, unless self training has cury, with winged feet, bore the mystical altered the untrammeled influences of the cadeucetis, symbol of the wile and wisdom is Everybody’s Problem. stars, be apt to make enemies by things of the gods, so you too, can be a standard- you might say. Mercury does not help you here. . bearer of life*s finest things— if you will. o» You have more than most persons of You are quite evidently one of those your type, that vigor of personal ex­ people who always want to know “why” pression which is summed up in the word MEET —and despite the fact that you are so “personality.” And I have selecfed your mathematical, ever seeking to reduce query because it is the general question things to their component parts—you of the world when it stops to think (which THE W INNER! have an excellent sense of humor which I is seldom), and because of the extra­ venture to say, has often saved you em­ ordinary example which your horoscope barrassment. reveals of both ruling your stars and of your being ruled by them. Certainly some of the most powerful stars in our Sirian cosmos were conjoined If you were to take a census of your ci n this issue her horo­ on the Eastern horizon at your birth. sisters born in the same latitude and longi­ These include, if you are interested to tude as yourself, on the same day, and at scope is printed. In know, Bellatrix, Capella, Pliact, Min taka, about the same hour, you would find El Nath, Eusis, Polaris, Petelgeuse, Men- some of them apparently less “blessed” February the answer than yourself in the matter of personal kalinau and Tejat. So that while Neptune wandered near the solitary planetary pulchritude; also you would probably to her question based visitor, there was a host of Mercurial find some of them more generously en­ dowed with physical beauty. visitants who came—and literally come to on her horoscope will stay. But, such is the compensatory balance of nature, that your more beautiful appear. I cannot, of course, go into all the Gemini companions would, I venture to detail of these stars and their significance say, lack something of that fine serious­ in the brief limits of my space, but here ness, purpose and “divine hunger” that is j* are the principal features of your natal yours, and the less physically lovely and progressed charts: would, in all likelihood, possess more As usual in the case of distinguished surely the two letters, which added to C O n page 38 are the people we get here a gathering of forces what you already have, would make of indicated by conjunctions. It is seen that you one of the few and illustrius great. other prize-Winning no less than four heavenly bodies, includ­ I mean their “ablity” would have the ing the Sun, are found in the 7th and letters “s-t” before it perhaps more notice­ selected questions 8th houses, and in the masterful 10th ably. But for the matter of that they house sign of Capricorn. would not seem to brilliant—nor would a n d th e answers they scintillate among their friends as Also that the fortunate planet Venus, you do. (without analyses) and Head of the Dragon, symbols of The sun was and is very kind to you. wealth and success are found with the Also, if you wonder why you have so many of which will Sun, in this sign in the 8th house of the little of the Gemini’s tallness, remember chart; and making good aspects to the but a little of this influence remained and be analysed in subse­ Moon in the 5th; the house of pleasure, while enough was rising at your birth to theatrical work, social success, amuse­ give you brilliance of intellect, and some quent issues. ments, etc. fame and a reasonable fortune, to sur­ Capricorn is a cardinal earth sign, and round you with helpful relatives and start relates to expression or manifestation in The Occult Digest January 1926 21

Betty McLean C The Winner of the Series of Prize Horoscopes received in the O ccult D igest’s $100.00 Contest. The analysis and discussion by Libra. ^^uO ccuLt Digest January | the outer world of affairs. Its most tiveness 'to chills and cold, and the di­ eral love affairs before marriage appear, characteristic feature is its natural instinct seases arising from them. one of a rather intense nature about the for business or public life. The position of these malefics also de­ nineteenth year. Should have married Its vibrations are distinctly physical, notes some liability to troubles of a about the twentieth year. and denote the trend of your life to be nervous character, arising from nervous Several children belong to the nativ­ along the lines of ambition and temporal agitation environment; and a very psychic ity; one should be. a daughter. The sec­ power. It stands for those things which condition generally. Much sickness of an ond child would be difficult to bring up; have to do with the world at large and acute nature attends these positions; to being more delicate in health than either tends to bring, the. native before the which the position of the Moon also con­ of the others, in all probability. public for popularity and notoriety; but tributes ; showing a liability to suffer Acute illness occurs to the native in generally has some drawback attaching severely in health through unfavorable childhood carrying danger to the life. to it changes and fluctuating causes. One of these occurs about the third year, It confers leadership, organizing and Later in life, a trouble is likely to and another about the seventh year of executive ability, qualities greatly intensi­ develop affecting one of the knees, prob­ life. The native’s mother may have been fied by the fact that the Sun and three ably the left one. This may be due to in danger of her life at the birth of the planets (one of them the ruler of the rheumatic conditions, although a slight native. horoscope), are found in this sign. ' predisposition to accident in travel may be Very quick sight, movements, walk, Referring to the chart of birth it is also the immediate cause. This is most likely and speech, belong to this nativity. seen that the musical and poetic planet to occur in the thirtieth year; wherefore Deep breathing should be practiced at all Neptune rises upon the Ascendant in the t all travel and other hazards o f that nature times; therefore singing or elocutionary mercurial and artistic sign Gemini. As should be avoided in that year, as far as exercises are especially valuable. possible. Journeys, especially long ones the ruler of this sign Mercury, the signi- The colors o f the nativity are blue, • should only be undertaken under good ficator of the native, is placed in this gray and black. The gems are the onyx directions to the Moon in that year. powerful 10th house sign Capricorn, the and crystal. The year 1926, the 28th Importance of the musical and theatrical A good augury for the health is seen year o f life, will be one o f great im­ line of mental expression is greatly in the fortunate aspect between the Sun portance in the life. accentuated. and the Moon; denoting good powers of This position is remarkable for its recuperation; so that illness should be Prospects musical and imitative abilities. There easily overcome, and the balance of The Solar Revolution for the year should be great vocal range in the speak­ power restored in the system. 1926, shows some very important aspects. ing or singing voice, or both. The adverse A constant tendency to change ap­ The radical Ascendànt now moves to influences to the stage career shown in the pears in the radical chart, affecting the the mid heaven, with the Part of For­ horarv figure, must be considered as occupation, profession, and environment, tune placed therein. Also it is seen that applying more to local and temporary causing frequent removals, changes of the Moon makes a fortunate application conditions, than to the natural and gen­ residence, and travels. This tendency to to the fortunate Jupiter from the house eral expression of the life. change affects the opinions also, which of possessions; the former being found Theatrical interpretation, especially undergo marked change in the course of in the 5th house of the chart. along musical lines or with a musical the life, and sometimes cause the native This is strong testimony to increase background as in operatic work, is evi­ to hold even contradictory ones, appar­ of dignity, popularity, good fortune and dently the fine of least resistance, and ently. She changes her religion, or her a successful year. The position o f the therefore of the greatest success in this religious opnions among other things, and Sun and Jupiter in the 5th house is of nativity. shows a greater attraction to occult and great interest, as it is the house of the This result is emphasized by the fact metaphysical subjects as life advances. stage, theatrical Vork, pleasure, social that the ruler Mercury, is conjoined with The conditions affecting marriage show life, etc. Therefore a period o f expan­ Mars, in Capricorn, its exaltation sign. out the prevailing tendency. It is to be sion and success along this line may now This gives the necessary enthusiasm, noted that a dual sign rises in the radical be looked for. energy and force to achieve a high stand­ chart, and a dual sign is found upon the In corroboration of this fíne indication ard of success ift the chosen profession. cusp of the house of marriage, showing it is seen also that Jupiter is now tran­ more than one union during life. The sitin g over the place of the Sun and But it must not be overlooked that position of the planet, Mercury, the ruler the fortunate Venus, in the radical business qualities of a high order are also of the nativity, in the marriage house chart ; in the natural 10th house sign present. It is seen that the fine Mars- afflicted by Mars, denotes disputes, Capricorn. Nothing better for the busi­ Mcrcury combination makes good aspects quarrels or much misunderstanding in the ness, professional, and financial pros­ to Saturn, Uranus, and the Moon, in the marriage state, and great possibility of pects for the coming year could be given 6th and 5th houses; having the same separation. than these directions. general significance as the Ascendant and Neptune, plus a very practical and orig­ The marriage should be fairly success­ The position of the fiery Mars in the inal business capacity, especially as ap­ ful from a financial standpoint, but tem­ fourth house and fiery sign Sagittarius, plied to acquiring wealth through specu­ peramentally difficult, ill assorted, or in­ denotes a possibility of danger of fire in lation, or investment properties of the compatible. Much worry and nervous the dwelling place; the direction becom­ nature of the earth sign Capricorn; i. e. anxiety is denoted by this affliction to ing acute in the early part of November houses, lands, mines, etc. Oil properties Mercury. The husband is apparently a next; about the second or third of the not favorable until the depressing Saturn popular and pleasure loving man, of pro­ month, in all probability. Great danger leaves the sign Scorpio, governing this fessional life. He probably makes good of accident in travel is denoted at about property, about December second 1926. money in his profession, but may spend the same time. Long distance journeys freely or perhaps squander his wealth. especially by rail should be avoided dur­ Obstacles to the success in the career The good aspects of the fortunate ing the entire week o f this direction, if are seen by the position of Saturn and 1 Venus from the husband’s house of possible, and also during the week begin­ Uranus in the 6th house of the radical wealth to Saturn, is fortunate for the ac­ ning Tuesday, January fifth next. chart, and in close conjunction. As the cumulation of money; for moneys in­ planet Jupiter, ruler of the house of mar­ The direction is acute on January vested, and for banking; all of which riage is found in the 5th house, ruling all seventh. Some trouble is also likely are seen in connection with the hus­ theatrical interests in adverse aspect to through secret enemies, who will try to band’s financial affairs. the planet Mercury, the significator of undermine the professional success or the native herself; it is likely that op­ A liability • to litigation appears, and domestic happiness, or both. Some indi­ position to*the public career proceeds from some difficulty in bringing legal disputes cation of a death in the social circle is the husband, and through him from the to a termination, as a general thing. Also also threatened. children also. loss, trouble, annoyance, and much un­ In effect therefore we may predict a profitable correspondence appears in this This appears to be a powerful oppo­ year in which remarkable success and sition causing much discord and in- connection. The adverse aspects of good fortune in the professional and harmony, in all probability. Obstacles Mars and Mercury to Jupiter, denotes public side of the life alternates with are also seen in the health conditions, that law should be avoided as much as misfortune and possible disruption to the the principal danger arising from a con­ possible, because of the tendency to suf­ marriage interests, and some danger of stitutional liability to weakness and di­ fer at the hands of lawyers and solicit- a physical nature through accident of the seases of the lungs, and respiratory ers, shown in the nativity. nature of fire, or collision in travel. system. Singing and elecution, are the The native should benefit financially In conclusion it is to be noted that best possible correctives of this condition; through marriage, partnerships, legacies, the fortunes are now benefiting by a ■ ^but there will always be extreme sensi­ or wills, and the goods of the dead. Sev- (Continued on page 38) Child T r

FOOD HABITS”

{[Being the fourth of a Series of Lessons for Parents, giving a Discussion of the Psychology of the Child, a Problem, illus­ trating an actual situation from Child Life, a Solution offering ways and means of correcting the difficulty with Questions suggested by the Problem.

By

Tom Story Book E VERY morsel of food that goes into the child’s offered with the common remark, “ Now eat this, it is mouth is accompanied by some mental process. good for you.” This seeming stubbornness is not dif­ From the very beginning when the infant takes ficult to comprehend when we realize that the particular the breast there is transmitted to the mind of the child way in which these remarks are made arouses the child’s a stream of impressions that are either pleasant or dis­ rebellion against force and the presumption of authority. agreeable. According to the type of impression register­ None of us are very keen about being bossed around as ed on the child’s mind, a food will be received as a if we don’t know anything, least o f all little children. definite meaning by means of association. The time is coming when it will be the common knowl­ Suppose that the mother fusses with the child con­ edge of parents that their children will accumulate a set tinually in an effort to insure sufficient nourishment. The of interpretations based entirely upon the actions of the fussy actions of the mother will be repelled by the child people coming in contact with the children. Whatever and taking food will be associated with being bothered objectionable habits shown by the child will be corrected and made uncomfortable. In the future that child will solely by regulating the actions of those in control of the develop fussy eating habits and be a constant source of child. A little tot is constantly imitating those surround­ worry. ing him and, strange to say, he is attracted more by Later on we find this type of mother constantly calling faulty actions of people than by favorable ones. A child attention to the child’s refusal to eat, urging, nagging has the uncanny faculty of picking our flaws for imita­ and all in all making of the eating process a source of tion while he may ignore our good points. The reason irritation to the youngster. Unconsciously the child will for this is that a child gives particular attention to emo­ take a delight, a kind of spite in being stubborn regard­ tional display of any kind. W e find the same inclination ing food. And where does this habit take its origin? in the grownups who are far more attracted by hair- In the fact that the mother is ignorant of the fact that raising sights than we are by ordinary decent actions. her apparently insignificant acts and attitudes are im­ If this were not so the theatres would soon lose their printed indelibly on the mind of her child. patronage. W e get a “ kick” out of sensational display On the other hand a mother who is careful to guide so we may not be surprised to find the same impulse in her child in an agreeable state of mind, without anxiety children. or nagging, will find that the child will take quite natural­ Problem ly to any and all kinds of food, provided it is good food. A child worried his mother because of a stubborn re­ There will be little said about the food question, the fusal to eat any vegetables. He would spit them out mother taking it for granted that the child will eat with­ and go into a tantrum if forced to take a mouthful. out being forced. If you would appreciate the feelings This reaction was not forthcoming with any other food of a child in such a situation, just imagine how you but vegetables. would feel if some tremendous person much stronger Solution than yourself would force you to eat when you take a notion not to. Under these circumstances you would A careful survey o f the situation disclosed the fact not want to eat, even if you were actually hungry. It is that the mother was a “ food fan.” In other words, she common knowledge that eating while angry or upset entertained a fanatical prejudice in-favor of vegetables interferes with the digestive processes and forms the over all other foods. Now we are not concerned with basis for much ill-health. the relative merits of foods. But it is significant that the It seems that children resist just those foods that are (Continued on page 40)

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Ewald asylumdirector | for imbecile children parents in | would of agree their histo thechildren. premeditated patientsof the One deathparents hundredand whetherof| answered and only nineteen|in they the forty-three affirmative were definitelyfort to analyze in| the motives of the answers| mental or physical disease are willing to he has just published that he asked 200 the negative. and finds were that in most put favor ofto death the ofwere parents prompted having who | by their the desire] children to rid themselvestal of the burden financialof and men­ the of parentsit defective must answered: children.not cost “Kill us them, Some anything.” but munity are reached,” he declared. the negative parentswere emphatic whoprotests declared from they would not alien religious elements in our own com-J cease to and love could their never unhappy consent little to ones their being hope satisfactorilyworld we must to see to Christianize it that the pagan and put to death. that fordemented ethical or reasons, physically the killing unfit of persons to America’s shores, and before we can should not be sanctioned by law. Such a law, he tagestates, to would mankind. not be of advan­ On the contrary, he to considerdrifting.” how “their own country is states, morals minedwould be thoroughly and confidence under­ in physicians and challenge to the Christians of America asylums would be shaken. church, Brooklyn, views the incident as a of the Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal lieve that thereous should statues be inany thesuch religi­parks.” Nativity, statue Brooklyn. of not Buddha “If erect in Virgin,a statues we publicand putthe of place, saints? why Christ, up a the But BlessedI do not be­ said Monsignor John L. Belford, rector Buddha out of the of park, the by all Roman means,” Catholic Church of the saints as reminders.dha is But a a shrinestatue of to Bud­ be worshiped.” . Please Mention ON W-O-R-L-D IN No religion on earth —The vision of Buddha . la n d . ork News Notes of Interest to Occultists Y ew LISTENING “I wonder whether the proposal to “We have a Hall of Fame. Why not “Let’s have a nice, quiet lane in Cen­ “Three cheersDr. for Christian Buddha F. !** Reisner of the Meth­ He had had requests for gospel tents Rabbi Stephen S. Wise refused to take “It is ridiculous,” he said. “This is a Mr. Gallatin does not think the park “Moreover, we put up statues of our The commissioner is submitting the N iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiii IllllllllllllllUlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUlllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllli^ Clergy Oppose Placing of His Statue Buddha 1 What’s the matter with Ma­ with any or all of these? soon to be ex-Mayor Hylan as figures umpire we have made, and overson) it all to be do the irenic company ample E. Querroyfor a approached shrine designed him by with Jules planssuggestion Laget. for anything so bizarre as a “It is quite worthy of his fertilewas wit. a Mrs. Eddy. tral What’s park the to be matter the set Bab, apart masters and for meet let the in figures friendly the devoteesdisputation of with these have the Mall—not hall—occupied by the from the green sward of the park. surprised when C. Jaundoo and Fernand was informed,there were, amongfive in or the othersix vicinity thousand things,of BuddhistsNew that the York. project seriously. erect a statue in Central park to Buddhahomet? cius, What’sto sayis thenothing a matter sect of called with Bab? the Confu­ Mormons, And there and there of religious founders from or Buddha Controller to Craig as alternate. there invokedor the Oliver spirit Wendell of Mark Holmes Twain (father, not Christian Christian religion. No one would think remain squatted on the pedestal of the in­ a suitable any place kind—Venus, formythical religious figures, Bacchus, statues perhaps—but of and other not the and prayer meeting stands, but never a comes from Will Rogers," he commented. justice. odist church was frankly denunciatory. teaches the brotherhood of man but the To assuagelet the it fearsbe knownof thethatcense ministers Buddha burner he is or likely perfume to bottle and far its girl babies be thrown into ash cansl an application to proceed with the work shrine with Buddha enthroned within. He of permitting this. A sect that decrees as an act of courtesy,has been but he made denies by that the park department. proposal to the municipal art commission park. their god should find a place in Central ian and They Jewish commentand amusement clergy with two on of disapproval, the Buddhistscommissioner proposal New irony, tomadeof York. parks,by Francis that an D. image Gallatin, of crosslegged in a quiet corner of Central c. BUDDHA “SHALL NOT PASS'* park is not an appealing one to the Christ­ . founders . of religions. He was much The Occult Digest January 1926 January Digest Occult The aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiim 24 The Occult Digest January 1926 aiUIIIIHIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII^ II Were You Born D ecem ber 2 2 to January 2 0 ?

I M y D AILY GUIDE f o r I s•TARS — zjfn d W hat They T ell zJjfte! u n d er J a n u a r y The Sign of Capricorn — The Symbol of Evolution lliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiii^ C[ Were You Born in the S a m e S ig n a s D ays Benjamin Franklin, 1. A day of crossed purposes. Avoid Daniel Webster, misunderstandings. . Edgar Allen Poe, 2. Attend to correspondence. Avoid Joan of A rc. opposite sex in P. M. m APRICORN try to carry along 3. Seek pleasures. Visit. Plan noth­ | is an earthly, | z>j/ Haasan Osiris several lines of ing of importance. C I tropical, serving, flendeavor at the 4. Push business. Deal with those in cold, dry, mov­ same time. They high positions. Make appointments. able sign. It rules the knees of should learn that there is always a 5. Remain quiet. Afternoon more fa­ mankind, and also controls public tomorrow, and not try to crowd too vorable for buying or selling. endeavors and affairs of a serving much into each day. By controlling their over-activity, they will in this 6. Travel. Deal with superiors. Seek nature. way rise to great heights of suc­ employment. Avoid opposite sex. The sons and daughters of this sign are usually unsettled in life. cess, and become quite wealthy 7. An unimportant day. Start noth­ They never seem to be entirely sat­ after middle age. If this tendency ing new. isfied with their surroundings, oc­ is not conquered they will live a 8. Same as yesterday. cupation or friends. They are of very unsettled and unsatisfactory the type which is constantly striv­ life. 9. Push business. Make appointments. They need to learn to develop Visit. ing, to better themselves and those about them. They are seldom suc­ their judgment, in many things. 10. Unimportant. cessful in their own business, un­ Their over-anxiety usually pushes 11. Avoid disputes. Keep cool. Avoid less connected with a partner of an all judgment aside and causes them accidents and excitement. intellectual nature. Great executive to speak and act many times at an powers are theirs, and they are gen­ inopportune time. 12. Travel. Push activities. Ask fa­ These people seem to see things vors of superiors. Seek work. erally spoken of as great and con­ scientious workers. entirely different from their fellow- 13. Mingled influences prevail. Be beings, and often wonder why These people have excellent careful. others • do not comprehend the memory, and can train themselves things that they do! They should 14. Travel. Start new things. Buy. to become a “walking-encyclopedia” remember that those born in a Sell. Push all affairs. of knowledge inasmuch as they per­ lesser intellectual sign can not see ceive instantly and retain that 15. Travel. Remove. Sign agreements. that which the intuition or instinct Correspond. which they have observed mentally of a Capricorn native tells him! for all time. 16. Unfavorable. Remain quiet. Th$y should then never criticise Persons born in this sign are 17. Same as yesterday. too freely, however they are usually sharp witted, and usually are hard found to be quite peaceable and 18. Push business. to overcome in argument. They agreeable to associate with. 19. Doubtful. Do not travel or re­ are somewhat sensitive and proud, Education and culture appeals to move. and always like to keep up appear­ the Capricorn person, and they al­ 20. Ask favors. Seek pleasure. ances for fear of what others might ways try to imitate it. They some­ say or think of them. They are 21. Unfortunate. Remain quiet. times take great interest or admira­ eccentric to a great degree, inde­ tion in certain persons and enjoy 22. A. M. favorable for business. P. M. pendent, clear thinkers, just reason- adopting some of the peculiarities calm. ers, executive, and quite successful of speech or actions of others. as leaders of large corporations. 23. Ask favors. Seek employment. They should develop self-con­ Mingle with opposite sex. Capricorn people are constantly fidence, and refrain from seeking 24. Avoid trouble and fights, Keep lending a helping hand to those encouragement from others so calm. about them, not only to friends, but often. They can stand on their 25. Mingled aspects. Be careful. to all those with whom they come own feet, and are fully qualified to 26. Unfortunate. Keep quiet. in contact, and they often act upon fight their own battles. impulse in this respect, afterward The business or personal affairs 27. Good only for speculating. being somewhat surprised at them­ of Capricorn people never seem to selves upon their sudden and pecu­ 28. Do not speculate, Avoid those in run smoothly, and they are due high positions. liar actions. many ups and downs throughout 29. A day to be careful, Watch all The greatest fault of these peo­ life, however by sheer determina­ efforts carefully. ple is their tendency to do too many tion and thrift, which they possess things at once. Their ambitions to a great degree, they will rise to 30. Unfavorable for active pursuits. far exceed the time they have to the top on the ladder of success. 31. Unimportant. Be calm. carry out their plans, hence they 0) 26 The Occult Digest January 1926 li'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIlllHlllliiiHIllli ft THE TERROR OP THE WERE­ the magicians, alarmed,( rushed for the WOLF help of the surgeon again, but when Dr. W H A T T H E Drew returned, too late, the witch doc­ Afodicvat Superstition Survives the tors, fearful of the vengeance of the peo­ OCCULT DIGEST Centuries ple, rushed around accusing Dr. Drew of Uttenwein, Alsace, Dec. 14.—Utten- poisoning Sekgoma. A very dangerous WANTS TO KNOW— wein is panic-stricken, Constable Joseph situation developed at Scrowe, which was Sur has been sentenced to prison for two in a state of excitement for several days. years and a mischievous small boy is dead, — Chicago Herald and Examiner. all on account of an ancient tale of the werewolf. ft PSYCHICS SEEK SEER — I f 1926 will be compelled to wear the old shorn of 1925 and carry the old worn Constable Sur believed his cottage was B e r l in , Dec. 11.—Police and relatives gripsack of 1620? haunted. "Animals with human faces" of Mme. Jurjcwskaja, ( the "Russian appeared there at nighty he said. Villag­ Nightingale," of the Berlin State Opera, — If young LaFnllcttc will'set the pace ers, mindful of the ancient legend of the who recently committed suicide in Switz­ for the next hundred years or will another werewolf, developed a severe case of erland, are overrun by psychists, telepath­ youth get a chance within a lialf-ccnt- nerves. Two mischievous boys took ad­ ists, second-sight experts and others tury ? vantage of the fears and began playing claiming occult powers, who insist the — I f we arc civilised, do we need a world on the suspicion by "haunting" 'cottages singer still is alive and offer to find her. court ? at night. Some are honest in their beliefs, while — Where arc the government watch dogs The villagers came to believe the boys some want money or are seeking free —wow? were sorcerers, with power to change at publicity. night into animals. Though 100 men are searching for the — If the latest piece of Washington scan­ body at Andcrmatt, where the singer dal will spring the steel trap? When the constable saw outside his hurled herself from Devil's Bridge into — 'W ho is sleeping at the switch? home a dim figure with the face of a boy the River Reuss, it has not been found. —If Col. Mitchell will be deported, or— he shot it. Neither the police nor Mme. Jurjewska- will the watchman wake up? The village still fears the werewolf and ja's relatives, however, have any doubt —Who's in the silence sons now? many regard Sur as a protector. of her death.—Chicago Herald and Ex­ —If we will have prohibition on the — Chicago Herald and Examiner. aminer. streets and in public places when the breweries are closed, or will the stills ft ANCESTRAL GHOST BOBS ft TWIN SOULS be still stills In the out-of-the-way HAIR Remarkable Case of Parallelism places ? —If the latest news from Washington London, Dec. 14.— Rumors that a cele­ London, Dec. 12.— The old| theory that is a threat or Just a low growl to warn brated lady ghost has reappeared, this twins always suffer together is confirmed the sleeping sentinels? time with bobEed Hair, are attracting wide by at least one remarkable coincidence — *Why a few people set themselves the attention in the south of England. For which has just occurred at Eastbourne, task of telling the rest of the people more than two centuries succeeding gen­ on the south coast of England. what they shall read, hear, sec and wear? erations in the same family report seeing Fred Crowhurst was riding a push bi­ —Why this country Is called "Free" when her long flowing hair and white robe. cycle when he collided with a motor­ woman Is under the bondage of dress — Chicago Herald and Examiner. cyclist, was badly injured, and was taken because of man's moral weaknesses? to a hospital. When the policeman' went —If the brute nature of man will die out ft MAGIC FAILS TO SAVE KING to tell the boy's mother he found the with the breaking of woman's bondage? JoiiANNKsnrjtr. (Africa) Dec. 13.—Ac­ twin brother lying on a sofa, suffering — If the short skirt will not bring about counts published here describe a revival from an injured knee. a reform in thinking that will cure the of pagan practices as attending the last —Chicago Herald and Examiner, infamy of immoral acting? hours of Sekgoma (Khnma's son), para­ —If. in the new regime of wearing ap­ mount chief of Bcchuanalnnd. After six­ ft HOUDINI SUED FOR $100,000 parel, we will not have become so natural ty years of Christianization the Banning- Worcester, Mass., Dec. 12.— Harry that neither children nor grown-ups may wato tribe sought to save their hereditary Houdini, magician; John Smith, his man­ have cause for embarrassment In each ruler not by their professed religion or ager, and Miss Frances Rand, a woman others company? medical science hut by the primitive prac­ detective, were served summonses today — If, when the new era dawns, humanity tices of their forefathers—simples and the in a suit for $100,000 filed in Dedham Su­ will be concerned about how we dress? black art of their magicians. The gov­ perior Court bv the Rev. Fred A. Wiggin —If modesty or immodesty will not be ernment medical officer,' Dr. Drew, was rrf Brookline, spiritualist pastor. Houdini governed by how we speak and act rather ordered to leave the chamber while the aided Miss Hand in obtaining evidence titan with the outlines of woman's dress? witch doctors tried to save Sekgoma's against mediums here. The evidence was — If we shall know each other better life, by their incantations and charms. turned over to the police. when the mists have cleared away? When the chief was breathing his last —Chicago Herald and Examiner. —When reformers will cease their monkey-chatter that there may he peace in the civilised Jungles? S a v i n a the Brains o f A m e r i c a —1 ( the disregard of motherhood in youth is the cause of so much abuse of (Continued from page 8) children by parents? situation with equal alarm. But enough of these latter may be able to live fairly —If you owe your crippled spine to those of these. I used the above statements normal lives. who lifted you by one arm wnett1 you first merely ns examples of what has been My experiences, probably, are no dif­ began to walk alone? • appearing from the pens of other men. ferent from those of any other psychol­ If sickness is a claim, isn't healing a I interested, as I am, in the prevention and ogist in the field of nervous and mental delusion ? cure of mental and nervous disorders. disorders. The bulk of my practice —If evil can only manifest when good I I can cite case after case of prominent comes from two classes—the intellec­ is absent, why not keep good manl- I men and women, who have come to me tuals and the wealthy. f citing? on the verge of insanity, or already in­ Both have been lenders in their fields. 1 f a man at midtile age should he handi* sane, and of leading intellectuals who arc Both have achieved more or less success, nipped hv anything he did white Imitating suffering from one or another of the ns it is reckoned by their associates. Yet his ictdors in his youth? many forms of nervousness. they are failures from the standpoint'of >- - Why we fool with the question of Some arc so far gone that I refuse to nervous and mental health. religion as an aftermath when we die? take their cases. Others, while seriously A few days ago a millionaire consulted * If we live forever, do we live in a affected, imagine that they can cure me about his condition which was very country that provides for all our wants? themselves by taking up Christian Sci­ serious. 1 was a few moments late to -How many corner stones of Truth ence or other cult methods. Others have the appointment and my tardiness was were laid? reached the stage where they are un­ inexcusable to him. — If there is only one Truth, how can it willing to co-operate in a cure and sub­ "I have had to wait for you quite a have so many Heads? consciously desire to go insane. Still while," he complained. 1C the Christian ever thought that others are constitutional psychopaths, "You will have to do a great deal more Jesus was the only one who saw the who can never tie entirely cured, but will waiting," 1 answered him, "if you want dove and heard the words, "This is my have periods of normality, followed by to get hack to normal. The only way beloved Son," etc., as recorded in Mat- ! more or less regular relapses. Under the tliat I can be of help to you is by leading Uu^^A-16? proper environment and direction, some a less strenuous life than you are doing." The Occult Digest yanuary 1926 27 piiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii,niimnii,iiimiiiiniMHMiHimumiiii,iii„iii,mmmmmiimi£ GRAPHOLOGY E N E W S o f PSYCHIC ACTIVITIES I jgg The most important thing in the World today s You can harness the forces of life if you — Gladstone E is Psychical Research j know how. Your handwriting— any­ ^fniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiii(R one's writing — tells the story. Louise Rice, consulting graphologist and per­ C. MALCOLM BIRD CALLS MAR- she gets one night a week for some­ sonal adviser. Twenty years in the GERY GENUINE thing else. The first year of her me- diuinship was devoted to more or less profession. Write for special dollar ser­ T lH E Annual Camp Meeting of the sporadic experiments among Mar­ I United States Spiritualists at Lily gery’s friends. They were not getting vice. J Dale has again been a gigantic anywhere, and they turned the case I 225 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. success. The full reports of the gath­ over to the Scientific American com­ ering make interesting reading, and mittee, which had the simple task of one wishes that the Spiritualists of finding out whether the phenomena Great Britain could have at least a were genuine or fraudulent. It drag­ week's Convention, in which to extend ged along some months, and ultimately the fraternal relationships between the reached a position where the Commit­ Spiritualists of this country, and to HEALING THE UNSEEN WAY tee said they did not know whether The Mighty Unteen Powers are Yours study the many complex problems these things were fraudulent or not; Even at You W ill which arise in the study of Spiritual­ they did not know how to find out. Let them heal,com fort and prosper you ism. The Annual Convention of the There has always been an atmosphere D o I t N o w ! National Association is part of the pro­ in which the investigator did not know OIt* •▼nmUmi or da liras. N saa, add rail and Frsa gramme of the Camp Meetings, and Will Offering for Demonstration and Instruction where he was going. At the present and Be Cooatnead. was full of interest. time we are trying to find out what Aquarian Circle, Elkhart, Indiana The Annual Report and President's makes the phenomena. One answer is Address go to show that there are that the medium’s dead brother is pres­ THE THREE BEST BOOKS FOR YOU some 600 Spiritualist Churches in the ent and does the things, but that is not “CREATIVE IMAGltY,” States who are affiliated with the N. a complete answer. If he is making enables one to create what he needs. . “ELECTRIFIED FLESH,” S. A . bodies move, we must still have an ex -1__ planation in physical terms of how he Is painless, light and perfect. Striking testimony concerning the “THE PSYCHIC LIFE,” does it. You must admit there are in the higher vibrations Is the natural life, and mediumship, of Mrs. Crandon, popular­ mediumistic frauds, and they are more holds one above danger, loss and suffering. ly known as “Margery," was given in numerous in the physical field than in These three books for $1.00 an address by Mr. Malcolm Bird. Mr. any other. This being so, scientists No Postage Stamps or foreign P. O. Money Bird was one of the Editors of the Order taken. feel that they must be on the lookout. M. D. BARD8LEY Scientific American, and was a member Council Bluffs, Iowa, P. O. Box S8 of the Committee appointed by- that “I am asked how much of the Mar­ journal to investigate psychic phen­ gery phenomena I regard as genuine. omena through “Margery." Mr. Harry I always appear to be dodging. I say LITERARY ASSISTANCE Houdini, the illusionist and music hall a certain percentage occur under con­ Speeches, Orations, Addresses. Essays, etc., ditions where we can say they are gen­ written to order on any subject, $3 per artiste, was another of the party, and thousand words ; Stories, Poems, Articles, Mr. Houdini deliberately set himself uine, and the rest are under conditions etc., criticized and corrected for literary out to discredit the medium, whether where we are not certain. Those we qu ality and accuracy, $1 .5 0 per thousand say are genuine were under adequate words ; Manuscripts typewritten correctly her phenomena were genuine or not. for publication. $1 per thousand words. Mr. Bird told part of the story in an conditions. W e concentrate on those Markets for literary wares suggested. 20 address at Lily Dale on August^ 24th, of which we are certain, and let it go years* experience. which is summarised as follows in the at that. There is a movement of bodies F. H. CROSS STUDIO, Suite 3*. 1558 Emerson Avenue, St. Louis, Ho. National Spiritualist (U. S. A .):— without human contact. Orthodox sci­ ence, which says it cannot occur, jumps “I am at a loss how to introduce the at conclusions. As a matter of fact, I subject of psychical research. If the can cause motion without contact in audience know nothing about it, it is several ways, by means of a magnet or PICTURES difficult to put them in a state of mind electric field, or by taking an object BOOKS and NOVELTIES where they can appreciate what I am in my hand and dropping it. So sci­ Particulars Free talking about. And if they know ence is denying something which it something about it, they ^ are usually knows is true. We know there is an­ HOWARD SALES COMPANY Dept. 23, 1188 Folsom Street Spiritualists making a religion of sci­ other way in the seance room, but we SAN FRANCISCO s s CALIFORNIA ence. *io not know what it is. Most of the “The phenomena are of two sorts: Margery phenomena is motion without physical and mental, as spirit mes­ contact. Everything is liable to move sages. I think most Spiritualists re­ unless it is nailed down. Then there gard messages as superior to physical are whisperings, raps and various —DEVELOP—I phenomena. Speaking in a religious sounds without physical means, which sense,'that is undoubtedly true; but the we group and label as supernormal. If Your Psychic Powers scientist who all his life has dealt with we sit in total darkness we get psychic B y physical causes finds these physical lights floating about through the air. HThe best successful methods phenomena absorbing. If they occur, ' All these thing occur without the me­ H ow to cultivate your gifts they will ultimately force a revision of dium being entranced. If -we permit How to develop your powers scientific principles. You have to. for­ her to go into a trance we get extru­ H ow to apply your knowledge give the scientist for questioning occur­ sion of a curious substance, which does € [R y t h e Psychic Breath rence and insisting on proof, because it not seem to be matter in the sense in B y the proper Diet is necessary. When he does question which we use that word. We can see B y the Right Safe Way their occurrence with a fair mind, he it and touch it and photograph it, but finds that they do occur. cannot say what it is. So we have QTo release new energies “My name has been tied up with a coined the word ectoplasm. There are 7*o bring new opportunities case which has gone as far in the direc­ various ideas as to what its function is. To attain what you desire tion of proving that statement as any It seems to have something to do with will bring you y o u r complete private other physical qase. I refer to the the phenomena. It is impossible(to typewritten course by return matt. Margery mediunuhip. It was discov­ generalise about it. While the physical Rodne School of Human ered in May, 1923. First it was mani­ phenomena occur, Walter carries on Nature Studies fested once a week, and then more fre­ conversation, telling what is going on. 711 Kimball Bldg., Chicago, U. S A quently, until now she is fortunate if what is going to happen, the conversa-

Plesso Usati sa Tu* Occult Dicsst Whoa Writing to Advertisers The Occult Digest January 1926 tion corresponding with the phenom­ day he produced an allegation of fraud, ena. The question presented is, Who and it was to prevent such post mor­ or what is Walter? He says he is the tem exposures that Dingwall was re­ medium’s dead brother. The only other quired to sign the contract. A ll the DREAMS thing you can believe is that Walter is facts were to be reported at that time. Your Dreams Psychically Interpreted? what psychology calls a dual person­ The record made no suggestion how Send to the Dream Editor ality, a subconscious masquerading by anyone could account for it on the Margery as her brother. Even inves­ ground of fraud. McDougall made no tigators who believe the phenomena to such allegation at the time. But some be a physical fraud grant that. I lay six months later he made certain ob­ aside for the present who or what Wal­ servations which indicated fraud, and MEA, la— Walking down a big hill ter is. When we have answered all the said he did not put that in the record with a friend who carried a protecting questions which the physical phenom­ at the time for fear of hurting Dr. umbrella would indicate protection through | ena raise, we shall be in better condi­ Crandon’s feelings, or that he would trouble. Missing her after reaching desf tion to deal with it. You would prefer be thrown out of the seance room. tination indicates only temporary help] nue to say Walter is what he claims to And then he asks us to accept his as­ given. Other friends visiting with you! be. I do not pretend to know, but I sertion on an equal footing with the show a relief from care before starting am interested in knowing what is the record. The record he brings forward on to more pretentious activities. A young physical force or what connection it is inadmissible. child, in a dream, is always a new under­ has with the medium. “Here we have one group of phe­ taking. The man losing the chicken “This force has a very strong con­ nomena perhaps not susceptible of sci­ coop, with the chickens signifies that who­ nection with the reproductive faculties. entific analysis. But science will not ever tries to steal from you will not be It is biological and tied up with the re­ make any such admission without a successful. Your brother protecting you productive forces of biology. Beyond struggle. Years ago, if you told a pro­ would point to the fact that your own that we know little about it. fessor or scientific man that you saw people are your best friends; also that '“Flash-light photographs are per­ things floating in the air without sup­ you should remain friends with them as mitted to be taken of these occurrences port you would be regarded as a fit you will need them in an emergency. in the course of the evening. W-hen an subject for the asylum. Now, we have object is being levitated the picture plenty of scientists who take it seri­ shows this ectoplasm. It has been said ously enough to investigate. My own A B . Calif— Your dream was a psychic that the sitter is hallucinated, but you . feeling is that we should prove the experience. You were simply astral body cannot hallucinate a camera, and you physical phenomena and the Margery traveling in the country of the dead have to choose between genuineness case has made a heavy contribution to­ wards that end. Scientists insist that where your husband dwells. You were and fraud in that case. We have this every hypothesis shall be supported by meeting with trivial obstacles; that is all. psychic photograph, and it has been facts. But; as a matter of fact, sci­ You, no doubt, will be able to find your suggested that the object on the plate entists do not do that. Their advance way alone without difficulty, in the near is not carried in through the lens, but future. It was not lack of courtesy'on is produced inside the camera. But has always been aided by the scien­ tist’s imagination. When Darwin pro­ his part; he was aiding you in traveling when we take the picture, the plate alone as all successful travelers must be shows the psychic structure in perfect mulgated his theory of evolution he formulated it without adequate facts able to do whether in the astral or phys­ relation to the other objects, which to back him up. He had a number of ical body. Be determined, that you may drives us away from the idea that it be an independent traveler. was produced on the plate instead of facts, and then went to work with his through the lens. imagination. Those who follow fill in the cracks. If you do not let imagina­ “These phenomena have also been IVEK, Pa— The flesh returning to the tion play its part, nobody will start recorded in a phonograph. If the pho­ anything. But science has refused to skeleton of the Mother, lying in a coffin nograph says there was a noise, you signifies the revival and renewal of home do that in psychical research. It has cannot charge* it to hallucination. refused to recognize the spirit hypo­ interests. Your dream is quite symbolic “Houdini has said certain things of the hope being fulfilled and permanent thesis. We ought to advance that ex­ about Margery that he knows are not planation or any other that our imag­ recovery effected. This may be applied true. And further, he has said things to business or personal Indications rather ination suggests, and then seek the about her that I know are not true, facts to prove it. That is what the point to both. It does not mean sickness whether Houdini knows it or not.' as it refers to a future restoration of a psychical societies are doing. The “There can be no question about the facts lean more strongly towards the past condition. incompetence of most of the investi­ * * * spirit hypothesis than any other. Tele­ gators to handle the case. One pro­ pathy does not answer, and we do not fessor of psychology who had been ex­ know that the spirit hypothesis an­ BH, Canada— Traveling in a strange posed to a brilliant demonstration was swers very well. But the spirit hypo­ country means going into a new business. asked whether he regarded the pheno­ Lowlands and hills represent the ups and thesis lines up with the facts and is mena as genuinely psychic. He said more consistent than any other, always downs in the business. Small and smaller no, and the only reason he had was with the reminder that we do not en­ houses, fluctuating profits. The two that to admit it would be to overthrow dorse the spirit hypothesis categor­ women standing together, represents a the philosophy of his lifetime. It is an combination which forced you to take illuminating statement. Another who ically. The Margery case and others point towards a state of affairs where other steps which will lead you to the regards himself as an extremely com­ we might look for a scientific basis person who would befriend you in an petent researcher heard the ringing of hour of need as the gold nugget, present­ a bell enclosed in a box on his knee. that these things are due to some agency which we can not question.*’ ed by your father, would signify. Father He said the conditions were satisfac­ taking you with others to a mine which tory except one; he was not sure — The Two Worlds. was working indicates that you and your whether the bell he heard ring was the associates will be successful in your new bell on his knees or somewhere else. undertaking. The Hindu lying at ease is I mention this as showing the char­ a symbol of peace and rest after strenu­ acter of the investigators, which has ft SLAYS SELF OVER GHOST ous labor, coupled with trouble. At home, resulted in their failure to endorse the Spokane, Wash., Dec. 12.— The ghost anywhere, shows you as a person who can phenomena. I might mention another of the girl he murdered eighteen years find comfort in distressed conditions. The episode which I think is very sugges­ ago at Butte, Mont., has caused Sampson iron blue horse which your father had is tive. A group of investigators was at R. Penna, 42, to slash his throat. an indication of a true friend to whom work ana the question arose whether A few days ago the man came to the you can go with all your needs and trials, Dingwall was satisfied as to the phe­ sheriff’s office and asked to be locked up. and receive help. The river, with its nomena. He said he was not. It ap­ “ I feel myself slipping,’’ he declared. An bathers signifies that in the end you will pears he changed his mind, but that is examination showed the man to be sane, be able to retire in affluence. Your dream not so much the point as that McDou- and he was released. the night before was a prelude to the one gall, of Harvard, was a party to a con­ just interpreted which snows the predica­ tract made that a complete record Later his body was found in a local ment you are in, through which you will should be made of everything transpir­ hotel, his throat slashed from ear to ear. attract to you, people who will appreciate ing in the investigation which was re­ The story of the “ghost girl” was told your value, resulting in a better under­ garded as important. Houdini had left by Glen McEwen, a deputy sheriff, who standing. Walking after a corpse, in the the seance room with no allegation of had talked to Penna in the county jail. main, means that creditors will not muti­ fraud, the record was made, and it con­ Further inquiry has verified the facts. late you but will honor you. tains no suggestion of fraud. The next — Chicago Herald and Examiner. The Occult Digest l l an y 1926 ary Digest Occult The . . . j i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i m i m i i i i i n K are to take up their residence for six six for residence their up take to are Zurich and Dr. H. E. 3aynes of London London of 3aynes E. H. Dr. and Zurich vdne f omn rmtv mental primitive common of evidence ■ Mount of tribe Bagishu the among months their own reactions from contact with with contact from reactions own their .discover to hope They mind. primitive hnmn aog iiie ad uncivil­ and civilized among phenomena h ntvs I ter tde poe profit­ prove studies their If natives. the the studying of purpose the for Elgon low.— observe to intend also They man. ized n rcia life.” practical in o f fame nearly one-fourth are related to to related are one-fourth nearly fame f o n o mr o tee children. these of more or one be lre epdto i lkl t fol­ to likely is expedition larger a able y a awy be insatiable. been always has ty a be t sho o nt hi curiosi­ Their not or school to been had Children cent before 4 and 1 1-10 per cent before before cent per 1-10 1 and 4 before cent physical tests of nearly nearly of tests physical olwd o id u hw hy succeeded they how out find to followed they whether* upon little very depend to young these bv possessed information eral ed ihu ay pca instruction. special any without read eiss” as igm “Ti seemed This “ Wiggam. says geniuses,” u b Abr Ewr Wga, noted Wiggam, Edward Albert by out learned to read before starting to school; school; to starting before read to learned itns hs eeld nme o re­ of number a of revealed has psychologist sistants, noted Terman, cessor the age of 3. Most of them learned to to learned them of Most 3. of age the 6 e cn bfr te g o 5, of age the before cent per 26 years five of period a during children” a statement on “gifted children” given given children” “gifted on statement a Pro­ con­ by period schools, year public five a during California ducted in dren have broad shoulders and hips, strong strong hips, and shoulders broad average have than birth at more pound a power, physical great possess' also powers mental They possess group selected to The declared' was year. second their In physical. 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They led the world in athletics as in strong drinks and all tonics. EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is conducted for the benefit of our readers as far as time and space permit, sculpture for they loved the perfection of The Potassium Type should live on but neither publishers nor editors assume responsibility their bodies. This type possesses the for accuracy of answers. To receive definite answers foods that contain the two elements of to your problems you must send the minute (if pos­ most beautifully proportioned bodies of potassium and manganese. Walnuts, al­ sible), hour, date, city and state of your birth. In­ all types. quiries without this information, or of no material monds and cocoanuts contain manganese. benefit shall be treated as anonymous. Address This is a naturally healthy type. I f They should supply green salads, fresh Astrologist The Occult Digest, 1904 N. Clark Street. Chicago, U. S. A. they are sick it is food disease or exercise berries and fruit, vegetable protein and disease. They are meant to be healthy vegetable starch in their daily diet and H .V P F fa — Will the lady whose birth- and in this sense are the most fortunate must omit dairy products, animal protein date I am sending and myself harmonize people in the world. Nature has been and fish protein. The Potassium is the in marriage? most kind to them for they are the most only protein people we have and they A— Your birthdate is within the sec­ balanced and normal of all human types should live on vegetable protein mainly. ond decan of Gemini, while hers comes of people. The Myogenic Type is not Functions of Potassium in the Body. supposed to be sick and if he is sick it within the first decan of Sagittarius, and The functions of potassium in the hu­ this I assure you is a very harmonious is his own fault. The athlete might be called an exercise- man body are tissue oxidation, blood combination. You may proceed with full alkalinity, heat generation and heat equal­ confidence. Good luck to you. drunkard. He exercises and strains his endurance a great deal and this builds ization, power of resistance, healing or heavy tissue everywhere in the body. The recuperative power, muscular energy, equilibration and coordination; and skin Mrs.TJLJC.Tex.— Is there any change great muscles that the athlete displays functioning. All of the vegetative pro­ for me soon and can I develop my are not as healthy as may be supposed. cesses are more complete. Motor nerves psychic powers? His muscle development is abnormal. are strong. It quiets nerve pain sensa­ A— For the present there is no great The more he exercises the thicker be­ comes the heart walls and at last the tions. It has to do with metabolism of change for you. Late next year an im­ sugars and starches. It keeps the drain­ portant change. The planets have en­ heart orifices are so small that the heart cannot take care o f the blood. The heart age of the body complete— it is the drain­ dowed you with pronounced psychic pow­ age officer and inspector in the body. It ers that you could quickly develop. fills up and he dies o f heart disease. Sandow died from an overgrowth o f promotes sleep and reduces acidity by healthy tissue on the inside o f the heart. neutralization. It prevents ulceration. A.GJ.Canada— Am I best suited for a The Potassium or Myogenic Type are Potassium and magnesium are nature’s cartoonist or salesman? also in danger of overlifting and over­ laxatives in food form. A— You would be much more success­ work of a physical or o f a mental nature, It is easy to tell this type how to rem­ ful as a salesman, however, you sue in­ which will injure the heart or the kid­ edy his ailments when we know the clined to scatter your forces and give up neys— the latter by throwing too much causes. His ailments are characteristic too easily. For these professions you work on the function o f elimination. of him. This is true of every Type. A will need greater self-ambitions than in A t the same time, their tendency is to scientific understanding of the different rail-loading. eat too much, manufacturing too much chemical types offers constructive remedy blood for the veins and arteries. They of constitutional deficiencies, while haz­ NJP.OJU.— W ill I make a success in should never eat blood-heating foods. ard guesswork through dietary regula­ art? To keep well, they most avoid competi­ tion may prove destructive in certain tive athletics, though they must live an cases. A — You would be successful in artistry or music. Your planets are well-aspected to give you plenty of governing influences along these fines. Proceed. Psychoanalysis and Child Training (Continued from page 23) C.C.Calif.— Would I make a success in astrology and could I get a diploma? mother displayed a particular insistence her that she was antagonizing the little that the child should partake of the food one, she saw the point and agreed to try A— The sample chart you submit is that met her fancy. And it was just this the experiment. correct but incomplete. You have mas­ insistence that communicated a feeling For several days she worked without tered the general principles of astrology, to the child that produced a contrary apparent result. The child looked up at but you need much more study, and a her, expecting the stream of talk that al­ deeper insight into human nature as YO U fesuh. ways accompanied the feeding ceremonial. see it before you. The rudiments of The mother "talked herself hoarse” It was not forthcoming. The mother was astrology can be mastered, but translat­ with the result that the child became ever instructed to offer food to the child as a ing diem correctly when casting a horos­ more stubborn. It was just this stream of matter of course. If it was refused there cope greatly depends upon the astrol­ "talk” that irritated'the child and made was to be no urging. She accepted the oger’s knowledge of psychology and him feel that someone was trying to attitude of the child in the same sense that appliance of aspects upon individual “put something over on him.” He was she would desist from forcing an older materialistic and spiritualistic phenomena. just as insistent in maintaining his position person to eat An astrologer must be more than a mere as his mother was insistent that he must The miracle finally took place. The store-house of knowledge of the posi­ do as he was told. tions of the planets. He must be a critic, child began to eat food of all kinds with­ a good judge, a careful observer, in fact, The first step in the solution of this out prejudice. It was no longer being one who has studied every phase of problem was to induce the mother to irritated into rebellion so the motive of human and earthly existence, from per­ stop talking while she fed her child. This spite was removed. The mother was co­ sonal contact rather than from reading the mother found difficult because the operating with the child instead of someone rise's interpretation of trans­ habit of nagging was pretty well estab­ battling with _ him. And therein lies a lating the aspects. lished. But when it was pointed out to great lesson if we consider carefully.

EJJL,Canada— W ill I be successful as theater violinist, if not what should I My Stars and W hat They Tell Me take up? W ill I be out of work this (Continued from page 24) winter? These people possess wonderful psychic Most harmonious associates will be A — You will be successful as a violinist power, which if developed, would enable found among those born in Cancer, as you.possess a marked degree of talent. them to become successful in occult fields. Pisces or Scorpio. Occultism and art are also in your line. Their most fortunate lines run along edu­ Saturn is the ruling planet, the favorite You will do some changing about this cational pursuits, writing, acting, occult­ gem is the chalcedony, and the astral winter, but will not be permanently set- ism, executive positions and commercial colors are garnet, maroon, silver and tled until late Spring. businesses. brown. The Occult Digest January 1926 31

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Pírese Jfmrtm Tei Occixt Dutt FIm Writing so .idrertirers The Occult Digest January 1926 Saving The Brains of America Hypnotism and the Law (Continued from page 26) (Continued from page 12) The fact that he had been bombarding me with telegrams for three days pre-j “They may if the suggestion were fluence aside from the fact that she was vious to his arrival, had given me his j adroitly made.“ Moll believes the com­ told to kill the deceased by her husband. number. He demanded speed, “business I mitting of imaginary crimes by the sub­ efficiency/' and strenuous, selfish attention J ject has no effect whatever upon the Hypnosis in Civil Law. As none of these, according to his defi-1 moral character as some trace of con­ Hypnosis in Civil Law was not seri­ nit ions, are compatable with nervous sta-l sciousness always remains to tell the ously considered at first, but, when it was bility and mental hygiene, he left to. fol-l subject he is playing a sham. low the usual round of nerve specialists,! found that a man might be induced to as the neurotic patient usually does, in a] Yet, with all the seeming consciousness make a will, or sign a contract or give search for magic methods. They want a I of the suggested crime and the moral re­ his note to a person while under the system which agrees with their own I sistance that subjects will exercise, after influence of suggestion, Bentivegin con­ method of thinking. Any such system | repeated hypnotization, we must admit sidered the matter and has written a de­ only increases the neuroses. that a crime may be committed by sug­ tailed work about it. He distinguishes between responsibility in business and My files will produce letter after let* gestions from the operator as Enlenburg, ter from cases of prominent men and I J Dal ley, and Forsel insist. Tibienthal liability for damages. In regard to women, or their relatives, who have I does not agree with Desjardines that the responsibility in business he thinks a waited too long before seeking a curel subject who committed the crime should mere state of suggestibility is enough to for neurasthenia, neurosis, dementia pre-l [have forseen the possibility of such sug­ exclude it, since the power to act with cox, paranoia and other diseases. Most! gestion and therefore prevented the sleep, reason and reflection is wanting. And as of them are victims of wrong thinking, I as he says the crime would be committed to liability for damages he finds that and the mental habits have been cstab- | in unconsciousness and without intention. according to the common law the agent lished over many years. ¡But if the subject were hypnotized that is not responsible for illegal acts when [he may commit a crime more skillfully,. not in possession of his reason and is To establish new habits of thought unable to control his actions. So, in takes time and patience. A psycho­ he would then be subject to punishment either case, when the subject has not his analysis may take more than a year. The by law. reason, in his control he is not responsible. synthetic work may take twice as long. Within the last few years the defense There is no short cut in serious cases. But, if he causes himself to be hypnotized of hypnotic suggestion has made its ap­ that he may not be responsible for his The psychologist runs a chance of losing pearance in pleadings with the view of his own reason, if he is not careful to misdeeds he must then suffer the neces­ showing no intent and no responsibility follow certain habits of mental hygiene. sary consequences of his acts. Many of them, already, have passed out on the part of the accused. Probably the with mental and nervous disease, due to first case where hypnotic suggestion was Use of Hypnotism in Trials with carelessness. set up as a defense was in the Gouffe Witnesses. murder trial in Paris in 1891. The two A few big business firms have under­ questions were, did the woman, Marie Can hypnotism be in any way made use­ taken the prevention of insanity and ner­ Bompard, commit the murder while tin­ ful to justice? Tibienthal says, "It can vousness among the members of their der the influence of hypnotic suggestion? under some conditions, and for some organization. Compulsory recreation is And, if the commission of a crime is purpose. But, it appears to me that if followed by such firms as American suggested to a person while in the hyp­ it is p method for producing the evidence Raditor, J. P. Morgan 8c Co., the Guar­ notic state is the will so affected that and furthering justice it should be used anty Trust Co----- Standard Oil of the person having committed the crime when possible. It certainly might be New Jersey, United States Steel Cor­ is irresponsible? used to decide whether a person were poration, and others. hypnotizable or not, and it might be This case was reheard in Paris a few Some firms insist on regular vacations, used to obtain a statement which the years ago, and Madame Bompard given whether the employee wants to take one accused or the witness cannot give in the opportunity to be replaced in the hyp­ or not. ^Other business houses are not wakened state. For in later hypnosis notic state. M. Charcot, who was ac­ so wise. Many college professors and all that has occurred in earlier states quainted with the first trial, was the school teachers spend their vacations is recalled. And by re-hypnotizing the operator of Madame Bompard. After taking post-graduate nr special work at subject the case might be cleared up." placing the accused in a complete hyp­ other schools. And then they wonder Tibienthal holds that statements made why they break down early in life. notic state M. Charcot asked her to tell how the murder happened. With actions as Madame Bompard did while in the While some vacations serve a valuable as perfect, as a reality she acted out her hypnotic state are not admissible as they purpose, others do not supply the neces­ part telling exactly what she said and were not made according to or contrary sary mental hygiene. Variety of inter­ answering questions what her man at­ to the subject's will. Moll does not say ests, an optimistic philosophy of life, and tendant and the victim said. When whether admissible or not. But as wit­ cheerful companionship are necessary taken from the state she could tell nesses are often forced to tell of things factors which nave been ignored bv many nothing any more than she had been which they would like to conceal. Tibien- great leaders in America. And they ape hypnotized. thal's position cannot hold good. The paying the price. court searches for the facts and does not Haley Fisk, president of the Metro­ Charcot, the greatest hypnotist of his matter about a person’s wishes as to what politan Life Insurance Company, has lay, was consulted and he said, "The facts he wishes to give. done some valuable work in paid adver­ will was not sufficiently strong to frustrate malevolent counsels." There Anyway, in Minnesota, says the Su­ tisements in leading magazines, calling preme Court, the accused murderer is to attention to the work being done by the was evidence showing she had been hyp­ notized often and thrown into the be put into an hypnotic state and by sug­ National Committee of Mental Hygiene, gestion is to tell of the crime. The with headnuarters in New Cork City. somnambulistic state, a profound sleep. But this evidence was not allowed to go story is to be taken down in shorthand But it is not enough. to the jury as the judge held it irrele­ and if it coincides 'With his story while One thousand times the same amount vant. The case has since been retried awake it will be taken as true, i. e., that of publicity by other institutions could not and Madame Bompard released from he committed the crime under the in­ prevent such an epidemic as is said to prison and living now in France after fluence of hypnotic suggestion. Gen­ threaten us. And if there is any cor­ being thrown into the hypnotic state erally, subjects cannot remember, upon relation between the public and the war and relating the facts showing the ques­ waking, or relate anything that had hap­ veterans, as statistics should show, then tion of intent. pened during the hypnotic state. H. Mer- the epidemic may be at its peak in Janu­ riman Steele does not think the second ary of 1929. There is another case reported in the story will prove the waking story true The writer is not a pessimist or an volume 105, Cal. Reports, Page 172, if it does coincide, because the subject is alarmist. Perhaps the epidemic wilt not where the defendant was charged with entirely under the power of the operator strike America, as have previous plagues. murder. The defense was that the and the story depends upon him,— how Perhaps the shining lights of American woman was insane and had been hypno­ he will suggest it. • I think the murder civilization and industry may be immune tized. The court ruled out the evidence may be suggested and the subject will from nervous disease and insanity. Per­ of the effect of hypnotism upon persons relate the entire story of the incident haps there is no need for mental hygiene. subject to such influence as there was no without any further suggestions from the On the other hand, the epidemic may evidence tending to show that the de­ operator. have already arrived. Who knows? fendant was a subject of hypnotic in- (Continued on page 40) Plme Mention The Occult Digest When Writing to Advertiien The Occult Digest January 1926 yllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltIK DO YOB GET MINIM. SKI® ACTON OBI i PALMISTRY 1 1 = AND == OF YOBR WORK M ROM LIFE? I YOUR HEALTH s EE Ills Betrayed by the Hands § iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiumiiiiiiiiiiinimnuiHiiiiniK M u ERELY by examining a per- NUMEROLOGY-ASTROLOGY I son’s hands, a young man work- * ing in a London hospital can often probe health secrets that baffle doctors. 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Please Mention Tbs Occult Dicest When Writing to Advertisers your real self, your lead-i PALMISTRY in g , o r latent capabilities, what you are best f it t e d z ty Constance Kllen fo r; w h a t t e n d e n c i e s D ALM ISTR Y is intensely fascinating. tise on Palmistry. As his subject matter should be strengthened, I In delineating character it cannot be related entirely to scholastic subjects this or what should be avoid­ surpassed. When we consider that there book was distinctly an alien. How it I is no member of the human body more came to be there will forever remain an ed (by sending a o f subject to the brain, and will, than the unsolved mystery, for su ch a book would p r i n t J hand; that it is literally the executive never have been ordered by my worthy the hand addressed to vehicle of man's desires, motives, and parent. I shall never forget the vivid acts; that there is a mysterious magnetic unlawful interest I felt as I turned the th is the reading energy that automatically registers trac­ pages. Remember, the influence of c o l u m n ) ings upon the palm so legibly that it hereditary thought, and training are nat­ m a y contribute a bit to a I reveals the character of the individual, it urally powerful, and twenty-five years makes of the hand almost an intelligence ago this line of thought was classed with better understanding of in itself. witchcraft, heresy, and other undesirable This operative activity which is de­ things to be avoided. Yet, today what a yourself, and p r o v i d e scribed as a “Magnetic Fluid," is stimu­ difference 1 It is a recognized factor lated into action by whatever emotion among many scientists, particularly physi­ suggestions t h a t m a y that gives it its impetus. Scientists agree cians, alienists, and even the legal pro­ that this magnetic energy is a vital force . fession. benefit your plans f o r t h e closely allied to the life principle, and is On this particular day that the book similar to electricity, in that the effects came into my possession, we had with future. Give sex, year are better understood than the cause. ^ It us, that afternoon a Presbyterian “di­ is a proven fact there is some impressing vine," a white haired, saintly character and date of birth. energy that unites with the impulses, who had served many years in preaching thoughts, and acts, and imprints the effect the gospel. In glancing through the Instructions to obtain upon the palm, forming channels, or book I was attracted by the description “lines," corresponding to the nature of of the hand of a thief. To my amaze­ a g o o d im press ion of the the emotion. ment the palm of this “venerable” man This invisible recorder, this emotional exh ib ited sim ila r indications. Without lines in the palm . wireless transforms the hand, by this realizing there might be reliable founda­ means, into a literal life chart, so whether tion to my statement, I exclaimed, con­ Procure a rubber ko­ conscious of the fact, or not, this life sidering it a joke, “Dr. H ------, you are a tarker is registering our thoughts, and thief, the book says so." dak roller,three inch size, acts, and from this the student can de­ An embarrassing silence followed. duct not only the nature of the person, Finally, the minister with pathetic hu- . and a good grade of but the events, past and future. mility explained there was a natural As an illustration of this revealing tendency to take what did not belong to p r i n t e r ’s i n k . I n k t h e principle my first experience with Palm­ him, but to use his own words, “By the istry developed my conviction that the grace of God, he had conquered it." roller, then roll it several hand contains the story of the person’s From this memorable instance my in­ life, and this conviction has steadily in­ terest has never flagged, and I am con­ times on an extra sheet creased in the twenty-five years I have vinced from experience that Palmistry devoted to the study. This first experi­ is a reliable science, and when there ap­ of paper to i n s u r e a ence was upon the occasion of my father pears to be apparent failure, the fault sm ooth spread. W h e n opening a case of school books he had lies with the interpreter, not with the this is done pass the roll­ purchased, and among them was a trea- science. CDITOR'S NOTE: PALMISTRY (from philosophy and magic), altogether about 98 er over the entire palm, "palmist/’ one who studies the palm, and books on the subject published before 1700 the Teutonic n/flx ry, signifying " a r t " ; are at present accessible. There is very •’so called CHIROMANCY, from xelp much variety among these treatises, one when well covered, place (G reek), the hand, and oaverHi (G reek ), of the earliest Is the block-book of H art- divination. In the category of the occult Iteb. Die Kunst Clromnntla, published at t h e p a l m with a firm one of the oldest fo rm s of character- Augsburg about 1410 (it bears no Imprint delineation Is represented by palmistry, of place nor date) but portrays colossal whereby various Lrregu'arlties and flexion- figures of hands, each of which has its pressure upon a sheet of folds of the skin of the hand are Inter­ regions marked out by Inscriptions. preted as trlng a re flex-registration of The best are those by Pompelus. Robert writing paper. With a physical, mental and p sy c h ic powers, as Fludd. John de Indagine, Taisnioras. Bap • well as Indicative of the current of events tlsta dalla Porta, S. Cardan, Goclenius, In the Individuals life. While the practice Cocles. Frollch, Summer, Rothmann. Inge- little practice the result of palmistry Is lost In the antiquity of time. bert, Pomponlus Gauricus, and Trlc&ssus It was known to have existed In China Mantuan us. Among the early Hebrew will be clear, and well #000 years before Christ. In th e most works, one by Gedaliah Is extant. Indian ancient writings o f G reek literature It Is literature is coplus on the subject. Some treated as a well-known belief. of these authors attempt to separate the traced lines. Afterwards Thomas R’arkw'll has co llected some physiognomical part of the subject (Ohlrog • Homeric references; a work by Me’am p u s nomia) from the astrological (Chlroman- cleanse the hands with of Alexandria Is extant In several versions. tla) ; cspecia’ly Caspar Schott in Magic Polemon. Aristotle and Adamantlus dealt na tu mils nn.vcrsails, Bamberg. 1677. Since with the s u b je c t; medical writers of the middle of the 19th century. In spite gasoline, and all traces of Greece and Rome— Hippocrates. Galen and of the enactment of laws In Britain and P auIus Aegineta. and In later times, other Christian countries against the the ink will be rem oved. Arabian commentators on these authors. practice, there has been a noteworthy re­ R e c o rd s from p a tris tic writings offer vival of belief In palmistry, nnd a newer abundant proof th a t the belief In the literature has grown up differing little, mystical meaning of marks on the "organ general'y speaking, from the older. The Tw o questions will be of organs** composed an Important part of more Important books of the 19th century the pop ilar philosophy of tnrlr tim es. of this series arc K. G. Carus. Vbor p e r m i t t e d . After the Invention of printing a volu­ Grand a. Redentntig der ver - schledcnon minous literature on palmistry was pro­ Form en d e r H an d . 1846; Landsberg. Die duced during the 16th and 17th centuries. Hnnrite’ler ( P o s e n , 1861) $ Adolf D^sbarol- Address Palmistry Column, Praetorfus, In his t; v^zynszi. Die Deutung «1er Hondllnt«*n (Dresden .1893) ; R. Beamish, The Psychonomy of CLASSmE® ABVmTOmEOTS * the Hand (1865) ; Frith ancl Allen, The Classified Advertisements Inserted In this section at 6c Science of Pnlin'stry (1883) ; Cotton. Pal­ per w ord per Insertion. Minimum SO w ords. Tw o mistry and Its Practical Uses (18 9 0 ). initials count as one word. No display type, cuts or Some writers appeal to the Scriptures as borders allowed. Remittance must accompany order supporting their systems, especially the and must reach us not later than the 10th of the month texts Exod. xtlf. 16 ; Job xxxvii. 7 ; and W off'dl for noxt lssne- Prov. iii. 16. The 17th and 18 th centuries Address The Occult Digest Classified Department A Woirdl :! produced considerable literature, pro and 1004 North C lark S treet, Chicago, 111. con, on the subject. Today palmistry is practiced in all parts of China, and quite extensively in Ind’a. especially by one caste of Brahmins, the Joshi. In Syria and Egypt the palmist plies his trade at the cafes ; while among M agazines W anted the Arabs chiromantists are consulted on Old magazines— bound or singly— -of the the affairs of life. 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Astrology, this position of Mars is also the degree It does not seem to be entirely without New Thought, Theosophy of the Zodiac that held the Midheaven in motive, although perchance unconsciously a n d Nature Study. the horoscope of H. M. King George V. so from a human point of view, that, the “The positions of the planets during signs of the Zodiac were made to begin C i w i s H l n » C w i m fa all Br— rbii e i O c a d S d n this period, taken in relation to the G. E. at the Equinox and that the equinox is Sand lor “deads Dwpcllcd *’ Yoa positions of the Midheaven and As­ related to the zero of longitude which we will bs delighted. Absolutely Fras. cendant of various places, point the fact call the meridian of Greenwich. These Dept. D., Box 1525, Los Angeles, Cal. that both the extreme East and the ex­ distinctions may appear arbitrary, but treme West are as fully involved as the so, to a large extent, are all man-made middle ground of their action. The ends devices, and when man thinks to take S a l e Coonhounds; Beaglehoundi; of Leo and Aquarius coincide with the control of the course of events, it is just U u u g * Fox and Bloodhounds; Set­ meridian position of Neptune, which in at that point of time that the finger of 1926 is affected by the oppositions of God appears most conspicuous. There are ters; and Boston Terriers; partly and wel Jupiter and Mars, and again by Mars in many unexplained laws in nature which broken dogs; puppies of all breeds. 1927 and 1928. Hence there will be leave us latitude enough to introduce new devastating earthquakes in South Amer­ ideas and observations without doing vio­ ■ S S Ä Landis Kamels “» i r 0” ica, in the Pacific Archipelago and Japan. lence to human reason. Nobody has yet Australia may not be exempt from this explained why one planet has but one wave of seismic activity, which certainly satellite and others a whole galaxy, nor will be the most extensive that the world yet why Saturn revolves on its axis has known during the present cycle of its once in ten hours and a quarter, and CATHERINE McDONOUGH existence. It is described in the prophe­ the earth once in twenty-four hours, Psychic cies as “a great earthquake, such as never and the moon once in a month: Science was since the world began, so mighty is replete with unexplained facts. If Readings by Appointments and so great. / n the spring and early sum­ we add one more to the category by Telephone Lincoln 997$ mer o f 1926 Mars and Jupiter an con­ insisting upon the fact that many coin­ 1008 NORTH CLARK STREET join ed in opposition to Neptune and in cidences make a law, we have only ' to CHICAGO, ILL. I quadrature to Saturn, all the planets multiply those instances in order to Plesso Mention Tint Occult Digest When Writing to Advertiser» The Occult Digest J 1 0 7 A establish the recognition of that law. | Without therefore going further into I the mass of observations which we I have been enabled to make in regard to I the Geodetical Equivalents of celestial I positions, we may confidently look to the I reader to admit the veridical value of I those observations in the course of time, I when events here predicted shall have taken place in harmony with the changes occurring in the heavens. More than this we do not seek to prove, that there is a connectedness between celestial pheno­ mena and mundane happenings, and that cosmic symbolism is the key to the understanding of that astro-mundane relationship. In m” sincere belief the time is quite near when many who have scofféd at the idea of planetary inr fluence in human life will turn to it for light and guidance, only because JUST A FEW 1 9 2 5 VOLUMES LEFT ! all . other means have failed and SINGLE COPIES 50c EACH science is dumbfounded by the sudden VOL. I OF THE OCCULT DIGEST FOR 1925 CLOTH BOUND $5.00 development of forces over which it has PARTIAL CONTENTS no control and cannot pretend to under­ JANUARY. A Prophecy for 1925-1930 —My Stars (For May)—The Carbon, one stand. Then it will be recognized that (already coming true)— Mystical Interpre- of 19 Chemical Types of People and Their tatlon of “ Evolution”— Who Are The Fake Diet— Mysterious Manifestations. from the beginning the function of the Mediums— The Assassin— 1The Wall of The _ _ , _ . celestial bodies was not to give light upon Unborn Soul— A Puzzle for Shakespearians Human Body a Radio Station— the earth merely, but to “be for signs as to Unravel— An Apostrophe to The Soldier Cfor June)—-The well as for seasons/* the greater light and The Sublimation of Sacrifice— Margaret I^rtune Tellers Fuller—On The Principles of The Occult— . A if TS£8e J™0 ™ See—An “for the rule of the day/* and the lesser Individuality and Personality— How To Dls- ^ raii Guide The Tarantulas of Society- light “for the rule of the night—with the cover the Involuntary Mind—Reaching Mars Hydrogen (or Dromedary) one of 19 stars.** by Thought Waves— The Sunbeam and The Chemical Types of People and their Diet— Soul— Some Stirring Thoughts and Needs— "onls in Bondage— Smners and Reformers The booklet, Geodetic Equivalents, What Is Truth— Theosophy— Invisible Help- , ..“ e Public Be— Confessions of an Oe- which contains the methods of calculating ers of the Rosicruclan Order— The Appeal cnitist. by means of this equivalent, and a mass of the Divine Mysteries— You Are as You JULY. The Watcher— The Three Wise Men of other important material relating to A re, and Diet— T uning In— A Wraith From — The Shortest Radio Waves Discovered— the subject, may be had from the Occult Babylon. The Unannounced Number — Sex, The FEB.-MARCH. Does Radio-Telepathy Re- Mystery of Mysteries Revealed— Confes- Publishing Company, Chicago. cord Voices of The Living Dead— When Man s*on8 °/ an Occultist The Superstructure Dies at 50— The Professor’s Wives— Who, of rr?ns5.esl i Iiife“ Mi* ii>iilssn ckliem Ghosi How and When To Love— Confessions of an p °.ne J® Chemical Types of Occultist— Turn Me Over—How Can I Be- P e a ?,le a?d Their Diet— The Evolution In­ The Alchemy o f C olou r come a Master Genius— Ancient and Modern gjlsition in Tennessee — Monkeys Your Reformers— Spiritual Dynamite — Occultism ^.ars. ^°F_ Jjfj? Mow the New^Countries (Continued from page 17) Simplified— The Psychical Effects of Certain ^^ro-te Methods of Magic Diagnosis by Drugs— The Oxygen, One of 19 Chemical Color Vibration. or'ether, its prana as Udana, “up- Types of People, and their Diet — The AUG.-SEPT. A Message To the Churches Golden Rule— Mayan Occultism— My Stars — Dead. .Dead. .Dead..— Can A Woman Sin going life-wind,” and its power as (Feb.-March)— Expression and the Soul— — Your Life After Death— The Astral Lover Para shakti, “the supreme power.” Thought Force in Telepathy— Shall We Bur- — Are You A Suggestible Somnabule— The bank The Human Race— The High and the Sulphur, one of 19 Chemical Types of People This chakra acts through the phar­ Low. and Their Diet— The Scientific Principle of . ^ „ _ _ _T'_ Psycho-Analysis—Occult Chromotberapy — yngeal plexus on the thyroid and APRIL. Are You Penny-Wise and Dollar ^he Alchemy of Color In Your Everyday parathyroid glands. Poor— Who’s Vamping You Now— Messages LWe— Mahatma Ghandi— The Evolution In- From the Stars (Can Cancer Be Cured by qnlsitfnn or Hell Bent for Heaven— Evolu- The cavernous plexus corresponds Radio Waves)— Confessions of an Occultist tlon— My Last Hour— Confessions of an Oc- — The Witch Margery— The Mystical Easter cultlst—Yonr Stars (for Aug. and Sept)— to Ajna chakra between the eye­ — Occultism Simplified— Did Jesus Appear— Mow To Prove Your Psychic Experiences brows. This is described as hav­ The Psychical Effects of Certain Drugs— Jn Astral Body Travel— Prophecy of W. J. The Nitrogen, one of 19 Chemical Types of Bryan—A Retrospect A.D. 8076. ing ninety-six petals, divided in two People and Their Diet— My Stars (for AprO) —Why Prophecy Is Possible— Expression OCTOBER. The Thinker— W hich Law— halves of forty-eight petals each. and the Soul— The Serpent as a Symbol of The Calcium, one of 19 Chemical Types of Llfe-^Common Sense and Psychic Sense— . People and Their Diet— The Bunk About One-half is rosy red with yellow The Illegitimate Child. Hypnotism— The Astral Lover— The Phi­ around; in the other half, purple losophy and Occult Significance of Chlro- M A Y . When God Declared War— The Dls- practlc— The Origins of Astrology— A Ped- blue is predominant. Through this covery of 12 Vitamins of Light and Color— agogic Thought from Darwin— Fear—What Why Capital and Labor are Penny Wise and Is It— The Greater Christianity— My Stars chakra we begin to see clairvoyant- Dollar Poor— Messages From the Stars or (for October)— Psycho Analysis and Child ly. As its power is given Mantrika Radio-Telepathy— Outside The Door— The Training— Things Kept Secret from the Can of Life— Occultism Simplified— Play The World— The Alchemy of Color (Occult shakti, the occult “power of speech.” Man— “Censored”— Some Rare and Curious Chromotherapy)— Astrology and Fatalism— (occult) books— Confessions of an Occultist Money. This chakra acts through the cav­ With our average 100 % -per-issue-increase-in-circulation many new subscribers begin ernous plexus on the pituitary body. their subscription with earlier issues, without extra cost (as long as they last). The cervical plexus in the head F R E E $ 5 0 0 0 .0 0 TRAVEL ACCIDENT INSURANCE POLICIES Given free with each Occult Digest aubecription. corresponds to Sahasrara chakra at the top of the head. This appears like a grand flower of nine hundred and sixty petals, dazzlingly white, and golden in the middle. . When this chakra is fully awakened, we can leave the body fully conscious and return with the memory of what we have experienced. Daivi- prakriti, “divine essence,” is given as its shakti or power. This chakra acts through the different parts of the cervical plexus on the conarium or pineal gland, called “the third The BUNK About Hrr,vomir1925 Tk* Occult Sui* of Chiropractic t* IHL I’AI.MtU eye” by the occultists and “the eye I T hings K kit S echbt from the Would of Shiva” by the Hindus.

Please M e n tio n T h e Occult Digest W h e n Writing to Advertisers 38 The Occult Digest January 1926 T H E BEST QUESTION IN ASTROLOGY The Stars 0/January ( Continued from page 19) [ Selected Contest Answ ers 1 fable of Phaeton, because he was the at­ T u rn to page 20 for Prize-Winner J tendant of Phoebus at the remote period when Taurus opened the year. According to Ptolemy the bright stars L i b r a R e q u e s t s — are like Mars and Mercury. The con­ stellation is said to create self-confidence, MARIA AUGUSTA WEBBER [Minnesota] interest in social and educational prob­ Q.—Does the sign and star I was born under have absolute control of my life; lems, and happiness, but danger of great can my human brain and will conclude my affairs differently? vicissitudes. The native is fond of coun­ try life and may be a teacher or have A.— You have a natural tendency to permit your mind to wander from the subject the upbringing of young people. By the in contemplation, and a general habit of not sticking to things, even _ pleasures or Kabalists Auriga is associated with the hobbies. Find a definite method of cultivating the spiritual and pursue it. Yes, your Hebrew letter Samech and the 15th Tarot mind can dominate the stars. Trump, “The Devil." Last in the brilliant panoply of Janu­ FLOYD R. ANDERSON [Illinois] ary’s stars, is Camelopardalus, the came- leopard, which constellation was made by Q.—What vocation should I choose as my life work? Hevelius out of the unformed stars A.— Why don’t you go in for either literature, or the psychic and occult sciences T which lay scattered between Perseus, You have natural aptitude for either, and despite the apparent condition there is not Auriga, The Head of Ursa Major, and only room in both, but a serious need for both. There ts also every reason ter the Pole Star. It is situated directly believe you would succeed in the practice of medicine. I suggest the occult sciences, north o f Auriga and the head of the at your age. , Lynx, and occupies nearly all of the space between these and the pole. It ELIZABETH T IT L E [Missouri] contains 58 small stars, the five largest of which are only of the 4th Mag. The Q.— Will I recover my hearing? principal star lies in the thigh, and is A.— With deep regret I am compelled to say that there does not appear to me to about 20° from Capella, in a northerly be any likelihood that there will be a natural return of this faculty. I f you have consulted direction. capable oralists without result, spend no more money with them. I f not, do so at once. It marks the northern boundary of the Astrologically there is nothing to show improvement. temperate zone, being less than 1° S. of Arctic circle, so it cannot correctly be the distinction was made before prohibi­ TEROUMAH LE MONE [California] tion, which ushered in the end of all Q.— Will I be successful financially or spiritually? temperance even so far north as the A.— It would appear to me from your horoscope that you should be moderately Arctic circle, and cannot correctly be successful financially through exploitation^ of your psychic abilities. By this, I mean called temperate any longer. The in the lecture field. The dream you cite is interesting, especially as the new star you Cameleopard is so called from the aminal mention is purely symbolical. Yes, earth changes are promised, see Sepharial’s article of that name, peculiar to Ethiopia and in this issue. Do not look for great material wealth. Spiritual treasures are yours. the delerium tremens. It resembles both the camel and the leopard. Its body is spotted, like that of the leopard, its neck FRED ERICK E. GREEN [Mass.] is about seven feet long, its fore and hind Q.— Can a man overcome a constant succession of apparently evil planetary legs are nearly the same length from hoof aspects? (This question is condensed.) to second joint, but from the knee to the body the forelegs are so long that no A.— Yes. Otherwise astrology would have no value, less interest and more terror. one could sit upon the animal’s back with­ Watch the approach of the aspects in your progressed chart; will earnestly to avoid out sliding off. You may have recognized them. Then A C T to avoid them, and the world will seem brighter to you. You have the Cameleopard by the Giraffe! not realised this sufficiently, and you have had just enough astrology to make it a terrible It influence is said astrologically to be burden on your mind not having the background of philosophical interpretation. You that of conferring patience, endurance and have my sympathy for what you have been through, but see to it that you rule the great wisdom, and to cause its natives stars hereafter. Forewomed is forearmed. to become instructors.

T h e Birth Hour or C. M. L., Rockford, Illinois; W. R. E., Winnipeg, Canada; E. T. C , Great Falls, Montana; C. G. K., Cleveland, Ohio; T. P., Lima, Ohio; W hat do you like in this W. C. W, Chicago, Illinois; C. J. McP., Saskatchewan, Canada; W. N. H„ Chicago, m a g a z i n e ? Illinois; J. L. G 11, Johnstown, New York. , W^hat do you dislike? (N OTE: The above are five of the twenty questions selected from which Miss McLean's question was picked. When her horoscope had been more than half com­ W hat w ould you prefer pleted after its selection, a query came in from E. M. B. (Glastenbury, Conn.), read­ ing, "When and How Can t be of Greatest service to Humanity t" This question will to see in it that doesn't ap­ be given prominence in a subsequent issue, and we regret E. M. B.’s late arrival.) p e a r n o w ?

W hat are the m agaz­ How Can Astrology Help M e? ine's strong points? (Continued from page 22) transit of the fortunate Jupiter over the Twelve years later Jupiter comes to W hat are its w eak ones? place of the Sun, mid heaven, and As­ the same position, but Saturn at the same cendant of the radical chart. time will be making a transit over the . W rite to the editor of A fortunate period is now on and will mid heaven which will greatly detract last through the next six years, reaching from the Jupiter influence. THE OCCULT DIGEST its hig h water mark in the year begin­ ning December second. 1926. The year The transit of Uranus over the mid She will always be glad to get 192/ should prove to be one of the most heaven at the present time adds to the your opinions, your praise, your fortunate and successful of the entire changing fortunes, and will bring the life as Jupiter then enters its own sign element of the sudden and unexpected suggestions and, yes, your of Pisces, here posited upon the mid into expression. The life ends under heaven of the nativity. brilliant conditions. •I knocks too! PUnmm Mention Tits Orrcir Dmn Fk* Writing to AdoertUert The Occult Digest January 1926 39

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B y K e n n e t h M . E l l i s Astrological B l a n k C h a r t s I do not recall, offhand, just what was Joseph Klausner’s "Jesus of Nazareth” the first occult revision of the New translated from the Hebrew by Dr. Her­ Save your time and please your clients Testament. ; There have been several, bert Danby, D.D. It is the first dispas­ THE HOROSCOPE most of which have met obscure birth sionate authoritative discussion of Jesus and still more hidden death. O f course, as viewed by the thinking Jews of His there have been purely occult apocrypha period. And, to some extent, since his —fresh material of a biblical cast of period. Dr. Klausner has exploded many character, ranging from the Book of of the prejudices against Jesus which Mormon, Oahspe, and others, to the abound in Judaism, and has traced to Aquarian Gospel and one or two other their Mishnaic, Baraitic, Gemara, and interesting records. But of the purely Talmudic sources all of the references to occult or metaphysical “editings” of the Jesus in the vast literature of the Jews. Bible, New or Old Testament, I have lost Those acquainted with the significance of track of those earlier productions, which the present time in an occult sense will I seem to recall having perused some rejoice to know that it is one of the first years ago. fruits of that cultural revival denomi­ A t any rate, we are in receipt this nated “Zionism,” and is one of the first month of “ The People's New Covenant ” great pieces of literary significance to a complete translation of the New Testa­ come from the spiritually reinvigorated ment, in which the translator has com­ Palestine. It is published by Macmillan. pressed the meanings of the vital phrases Inasmuch as this department of The to the interpretation most nearly in ac­ Occult Digest is not so much concerned cord with the metaphysical thought of with publication dates of books as it is which he is the exponent Citing the with the matter that lies between the errors in previous translations, and de­ covers, it is not inapropos to call again claring the translation at hand to be au­ to the attention of earnest students, Mr. thoritative in and of itself, he has pro­ A. P. Sinnett’s “The Collected Fruits of duced a very interesting piece of reading, Occult Teaching ” Mr. Sinnett is one of HAMS, — i —• —- — and added to the already expansive list the very few survivors of the first be­ Just pin a dollar bill to your address of biblical curiosa. The text naturally ginnings of the Theosophical movement loses in majesty of diction, which may (which includes, of course, the Theosoph­ and receive 100 Blanks postpaid. after all be no fault, since truthful ex­ ical Society), and speaks with authority Oc?ult Publishing Co., 1900 N. Clark St., Chicago, 111. egesis is more vital than euphony or on all matters theosophical. The papers rhetorical period. which comprise this collection present The chief material of interest to the more or less clearly the rationale of that occultist lies in the copious and com- great movement, and contain much help­ mentative foot notes, and in the preface ful material. Written in impeccable and explanatory index. It is published English, and in a style clear enough to by the translator, Arthur E. Overbury. be comprehended by one unfamiliar with Also we are in receipt of Volumes I occult teaching in general, J. B. Lippin- and II of The Old Testament Transla­ cott Company, have made them into an tions of Dr. James Moffatt, of the or­ octavo volume of very practical value to thodox school, which contain much illu­ either the general student, or the spe­ minating matter in the new wordings. cialist in theosophical fields. There are These conform more accurately to mod­ faults in the viewpoint, of course, but ern usage with a freedom of expression Mr. Sinnett is not one of those who pre­ hitherto not achieved in orthodox trans­ tend to know everything, or who pose as lations. It is always a matter of regret examples of absolutely perfect authority. to this writer that translations of the I refer principally to his remarks on the Scriptures cannot be made set in modern German nation, which I think, upon oc­ speech and at the same time made to cult consideration, Mr. Sinnett would re­ preserve something of the dialectical gret were included in 1926 in a volume elegance of the King James version. written while the heat of .the late conflict This is no sentimental attachment to the caused vibrations in the mentality of K. J., but merely a reflection of my love most, which have since more or less sub­ of the beauties which lie in language, sided. The remarks, while to some ex­ and which many of our modern poets tent true, are not perenially true, a fact have demonstrated can be achieved even which the philosophy of Theosophy in the current and ephemeral passages of makes clear, and which, of course, Mr. IMPORTED CRYSTALS linguistic change. Even slang can be Sinnett would not agree to. The sparag- Hardwood Ouija Boards 12jjxl8jj'....$l«15 mos of Germany has taken place— the made beautiful, and I am enough of a J. M. SIMMONS, 35 N. Market St. ritualist to love the “trappings and the agon is passed— and reconstruction is evi­ CHICAGO, U. S. A. trimmings of pomp” in any field where dent in many important channels. The reverence^ truth, and beauty are con­ externals, after all, are of little account joined. George Doran and Company are This reviewer has long felt that it is If Your Newsdealer Does Not Handle publishing the Moffatt translation. no less than a libel upon American peda­ Not exactly biblical, but of inestimable gogic intelligence, that the records of the The Occult Digest Write Us Today value to the Christian researcher, is Dr. American Indian’s cultural attainments in 1 Giving Us His Name and Address. Please Mention Tn Occult Digest When Writing to Advertisers 40 The Occult Digest January 1926 gl IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIË the matter o f folk-lore should be rele­ GEIST-ERKENNTNIS (Spirit Cog- gated to the volumes of the Bureau of nition), By Prof. William Danmar, ü Ethnology. There, in that form, they Oswald Mutse, Leipzig. are too heavy to be handled by anybody Num erology who is not a professional iceman or hod- This book comes like the draught of carrier, too large to fit the bookshelves cool, invigorating air from the mountain I Your Name Will Tell of any modern home and too dryly set top as it displaces the heated and stag­ forth to interest anybody who is not a nant atmosphere on the lower plain, sur­ most rabidly enthusiasuc professional charged, as it is, with foolish prejudice H archaeologist. I have longed for the day and deceiving superstitution concerning EDITORS' NOTE: This column Is conducted for the benefit of our readers but neither publishers when the marvelously beautiful, instruc­ this most important o f life questions. nor editors'assume responsibility for reliability of tive and genuinely occult material of The Author, taking logic, truth and answers, for Incorrect data Is often furnished by the sender even when there Is every reason to believe these stories should be presented in at­ fearless independence as his motto, mer­ It correct Send one question with full birth-given tractive form. And this month there cilessly reduces to their proper propor­ name, as you sign It new. year, menth. day of birth. Numerology does net predict the future. comes to us the answer to that maiden tion and place both the cold, selfish, un­ Address "Numerologist" The Occult Digest 1904 prayer. Cora Morris, may her tribe in­ imaginative Materialism of the past cen­ N. Clark St. Chicago. III. crease, ha« presented some o f the most tury and the equally selfish and highly attractive of these tales, under the title hypocritical sentimentality of Super­ JBW , III— Could I become a success­ “Stories from North American Mythol­ natural Religion bequeathed to us thru ful portrait sculptor? ogy," in a form of interest to children, the ages. and illustrated them with drawings which A — There is no reason why you should Gifted with a mathematically-trained reflect the spiritual quality of the Indian not You have the qualities within you, mind added to a life-long experience of sources. They are told interestingly, painstaking, skilled texture, and a latent mediumistic manifestation and citing power backing you. Strive on, and you faithfully, and will be enjoyed by boys scientifically accepted laws of chemistry and girls old and young. Marshall Jones will make a good success o f it and physics, he proves the absolute ne­ Company are the publishers. cessity of his syllogistic conclusion that, Ever hear of Galomalism? Neither just as the physical body is material^ so M M H L, la—Is there any change for did we until there came through the mails is also the spirit body which, upon being me in the near future? two volumes by Prof. William Danmar, freed from it by death, continues on its A — Your birth date indicates that you who propounds a whole new system of way to a Nirvana-like state o f equili­ are born under the law o f change, “5." occult philosophy, in a most intricate and brium, following thus the universal law No decided change will affect you during interesting manner. You may not agree which rules the polarity antitheses of our the remainder o f this year. 1926 will that the "galom” is the norm of cosmic physical mundane existence. have many changes for you. In answer measurement You may not agree that Let us hope that, starting from this to your second question, send me your “ghosts” are of either the texture or firm ground, further proof will soon be full name as given at birth. temperament which Prof. Danmar’s phil­ forthcoming through the creative power osophy declares them to be, but never­ of imaginative genius, which will show theless you will be interested to unravel us conclusively that man’s progress does AF,O re—Is there any change for me, not stop here but is destined to continue, and what am I best adapted for? the mazes of this theory, to play at the game of “galom, galom, who’s got the by means of the same process of evolution A — You are always more or less un­ galom?” or its intellectual equivalent. through all the phases of the immortal certain in everything you undertake. Both "Modem Nirvanaism" and “ Ghost- life that lies in store for him— G. A . Over-sensitiveness is your weakness, and ology” are recommended as interesting lack o f confidence in yourself. 1926 will reading. be a quiet year for you. Do not push THE UNCOMMON SENSE OF things, or try to hurry them. In 1927 If you’re interested in fiction which has APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY. By C. W. you have greater expression. Your choice as its chief object the carrying of a Chamberlain, Holyoke: Tovone. work should be wood-working, hand­ philosophical message, “The Torchbear- carving, or in the jewelry business. ers" will probably meet your requirement The author presents a clear, concise The English is not all that could be and interesting exposition of the applies-' desired in the matter of style and rhe­ tion of the fundamentals of psychological D C W M , Utah— Shall I succeed in the toric, although there are no glaring er­ practice to the problems of everyday life. publication of my course on metaphysics? rors of grammar. This fault, however, H is book is free from the blather and A — Giving me the initial “W,” instead is no more than could be expected when hokum that accompany many such essays. o f your full name, keeps me from giving one considers that it is written for Oc­ He seeks ho “newer and better” termi­ you full information. From the informa­ cidentals in an unfamiliar or at least an nology, and sticks closely to the tenns tion given, you should succeed as an au­ alien tongue 'by Kama la Krishna, and used in current science in describing the thor, but financial troubles may keep the perhaps the defects of the book in the mind and its functions. In one or two article from being published. matter of rhetoric are compensated for minor instances he has fallen for the in the fact that it is remarkable that an temptation to "be original at all costs,” Easterner should be able to express his and has capitalized freely, terms which ideas so well in English. The story is there is little or no reason for giving this Hypnotism and the Law sort of emphasis. Nevertheless there is forced, and made to fit the needs of ( Continued from page 32) so. much of value in this brochure and philosophical exposition— but it is filled so little that could be criticized by the with valuable illustrations of the applica­ most carping, that it is recommended by Proposals for the Prevention of tion of Eastern Yoga and theosophy to Illegal Uses. this reviewer with sincere enthusiasm, as the needs of modern life. It is most a genuine help to an understanding of the Many proposals have Tbeen made for sincere, and the criticism is not intended latent powers which all o f us possess, avoiding the possible dangers to health as in any sense derogatory of its phil­ and which may be developed fully in ac­ and morals by hypnotizing. In Holland osophical excellence. It is published by cordance with well defined natural laws. the hypnotizing of the insane and infants the Solar Logos Publishing Company. — K . M . E. is only entrusted to physicians. And public exhibitions are prohibited in Hol­ land, and also in Cincinnatti, by Ordi­ nance. It would be well to avoid all difficulties by enacting laws to that effect, but when we find some people hypno­ tizing themselves, the law might infringe upon their personal rights. As yet only one state in America, California, has dealt with hypnotism in its Supreme Court. The placing of a person in an hypnotic state for no high motive than the amusement of uncultured persons adverse to the will of the subject will certainly place the operator liable to the law,- and when the conditions are dis­ covered, justice will be rendered accord­ ingly. The Occult Digest January 1926 41 aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliilliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimiiuiiig THE AMERICAN COLLEGE o f PSYCHOANALYSIS Incorporated under the lawt of the REVELATIONS o/ARCH AEOLOGY State of Illinoit at an educational in - t t it u ti o n , not for pecuniary profit• A Professional Court* of Study Leading to tha IFhat the Reverent Spade Is Finding of the Past degree of Doctor of Psychoanalysis EXTENSION COURSE A dignified and remunerative Prof ession Send for Information . C. ANCIENT STATUES Morphy declares that the present day Show Beauty Ideals of 40,000 Years Ago belief that the Egyptian process of em­ THE AMERICAN COLLEGE balming is a lost art is unfounded. OF PSYCHOANALYSIS V i e n n a , Dec. 14.— Beauty ideals of 40,000 years ago are expressed in several “There was nothing secret or mysteri­ Daniel H. Bonus, D. P., President figures of women carved in burnt clay, ous about their method,” he states. "First 644-48 State Lake Bldg. Chicago, III. about five inches high, found this autumn of all, the embalmers removed all the during excavations by Professor Dr. Ab- viscera and the brain, which they pre­ solon, on behalf o f the Brunn Museum, served in jars called canopins, made of at Unter-Wistemitz, in Moravia, now a clay, lime-stone or alabaster, and invari­ province of Czechoslovakia, close to the ably decorated with the figures of the NATURE’S $ 8 5 Austrian frontier. four genii of the dead. The shoulder blades and muscles of "The bodv was then placed in a solu­ Y OUR birth chart is Nature's the back are strongly defined, and they tion of washing soda, at about one-tenth promise to you. Send your are declared by Dr. Absolon to be the normal strength, and left there for sev­ birth data and 25 cents for our enty days. When taken out. the cavities oldest known figures of this type and Radiograph sketch and learn your were packed with myrrh and many other material, and perhaps the oldest sculp­ relation to cosmic law. There tures in the world. Most of the some­ sweet spices. Contrary to the general is a season to sow and a season to reap. what similar figures found in France have belief, no incense was used, it being re­ This law applies to the affairs of life been of mammoth ivory or soapstone. garded as an offense. as well. Address. Every day brings to light further pre­ "The next operation was to cover the historic relics in the Unter-Wistemitz body with gum— none other than cedar The Student-Adept, 1953 Lawrence Ave- resin. Great attention was alwavs paid area of exploration, which is on the Pol- C hicago, III. lau Hills. Five skeletons of mammoths to the hair and finger-nails, and often have been found recently, near the sur­ artificial eyes were inserted in the sock­ face, in a space of about five yards ets. Then the body was wound round square.— Chicago Herald and Examiner. with strips o f verv fine linen. "Before being allowed in the tomb, the Chart Your Future Now body had to pass inspection before a Astrological Books, lessons, “Moon’s Sign C. DENY "TUT DISCOVERY” Book,'* Astrological Magazine, correspond­ tribunal o f forty-two persons. I f the ence Course. Established 25 years. Toronto Scientist Declares Body of King character o f the deceased had been un­ FREE. 100 page Astrological Catalogue. Still Unfound savory, he was refused admittance to the Llewellyn College of Astrology T o r o n t o , Dec. 12.— The body of King tomb, and was buried outside his own 1507 South Ardmore Ave., Los Angeles, California Tutankhamen hasn't yet been found, ac­ home, and on the cairn erected above his cording to Dr. Fred Morphy, Egyptolo­ grave, would be inscribed the sins on ac­ gist, o f Toronto, and there is no immedi­ count o f which he had been refused the ate prospect of its being brought to light. orthodox burial rites.” The mummy unearthed at Luxor by — Chicago Herald and Examiner. Special O ffers on BOOKS Howard Carter and other noted antiquar­ H. C. Wells. “A Short History of “ ians, is not that o f the most-discussed of C. SAVE JERASH TEMPLE the World.” Pub. (3 54. Our price all the Pharaohs, nor of any of the £2.75, postpaid. former rulers of Egypt, Dr. Morphy Ancient Edifice of Jerusalm to Be H am let. Illustrated by JOHN Restored AUSTEN. Pub. @ 510. Our declares. Price 54.75, postpaid. "A great deal has been madfe o f the J e r u s a l e m , Dec. 10.— The department Complete Works of Oacar Wilde. fact that the coffin was covered with o f antiquities announces that the clear­ Patrons' edition. 12 Volt. Boards. gold,” he points out. "This has been ances for the conservation o f the main A Very Beautiful Sat. Pub. ^ 539. b Our price 519.50, delivered. _ taken as indicating the rank of the body entrance o f the great temple at Jerash. buried inside. A s a matter o f fact, when the classical Gerasa. or Decapolis beyond HUNDREDS OF 0THEH BARGAINS. SEND FOR CATALOGS Tutankhamen lived, the most precious the Jordan, have disclosed the grand stair­ ROSENGREN’S BOOK & ART GALLERIES metal was not gold, but silver; and it is way leading up from the via principalis, 609-611 North State Street, only reasonable to suppose that for a together with a dedicatorv inscription and C h icago, III. king, the coffin would have been covered altar. There were found in the nvmpha- with the latter metal. eum a wafer fountain and a large round "Again, two daggers found with the tank complete, and also sculptures and body were taken as an evidence of kingly votive inscriptions. rank. In the days o f the eighteenth Professor Garstang, lecturing here, said Mailing Lists dynasty, to which Tutankhamen belonged, it was a relief to learn that every monu­ Will help vou increase sales I Send for Ik u catalog givinjr counts the indication o f highest rank, was the ment on the site was now provisionally and prices on tboosanda of classified staff, and not the sword or dagger; so safe, and the work could now continue here, too, is evidence which refutes the methodically. He paid a high tribute to opinions of the Egyptologists.” the skill o f Mr. Horsfield, who had "Another conclusive proof that the achieved these results in circumstances of mummy is not that of Tutankhamen, Dr. great difficulty and danger during the Morphy avers, is the fact that no papyri past six months. recording the life o f the supposed ruler, Jerash will be included in the itinerary IS YOUR HEALTH WORTH has been found in the tomb. Such a of the International Archaeological Con­ scroll was invariably buried with the gress next April. $1 A Y E A R ? ancient kings, he states.” — Chicago Herald and Examiner. 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