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                             SPECIAL CONDITIONS:

                        NO. 18A.--DEFICIENCY IN LYMPH:

   Male, born May 11, 1913, 6:59 A.M.

   A CHILD is the subject of this reading,  who was about fifteen months old
at the time the reading was originally made.   Ordinarily it might seem  su-
perfluous  to judge the character and mentality of one so young.   Neverthe-
less, when we consider the body from a spiritual standpoint as the temple of
an indwelling divine spirit,  it will be seen that the builder and architect
of  that temple must be taken into consideration from the very first  breath
until the time when the silver cord snaps.

   The mercurial sign Gemini is rising, but there is not the ordinary Gemini
nature,  for Saturn in Gemini puts his obstructive hand upon this child  and
will give a tendency to melancholy and a retiring disposition,  a desire  to
get away from society.

   Mercury and Venus in Aries,  square to the moon and Neptune,  give a ten-
dency to secretiveness, but the sextile of Saturn to Mars and Saturn's trine
to  Uranus  make the mind idealistic and energetic.  Thus on the whole there

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is  good material for the parents to work upon.   They should by  all  means
discourage the tendency to secretiveness, encourage idealism,  and make  the
youngster   play   with  his  companions.  It  looks  very  much  as  though

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[                           BIRTH CHART NO. 18A                            ]
[                                                                          ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Aquarius 26  SUN: Taurus 20:10          SATURN: Gemini 5:13   ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Pisces 28   MOON: Cancer 24:14         URANUS: Aquarius 7:33 ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Taurus 8    MERCURY: Aries 28:46       NEPTUNE: Cancer 23:36 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Gemini 19:19 VENUS: Aries 26:33R        DRAGON'S HEAD:        ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Cancer 11    MARS: Aries 2:35                    Aries 0:49   ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Leo 2        JUPITER: Capricorn 17:47R  DRAGON'S TAIL:        ]
[                                                              Libra 0:49  ]
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he might be too much taken with himself,  and from the very earliest  child-
hood he should be taught to go among people.   He should never be allowed to
go out by himself more than can possibly be helped.

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   Usually  children of this age sleep largely from morning till  night  and
from night till morning; as soon as they have received food they go out into
dreamland that assimilation may be carried on better.   But this is not  the
case with our little subject; sleeplessness,  restlessness,  and nervousness
are the results of the opposition of the moon and Neptune to Jupiter and the
square  of  these three planets to Mercury and Venus posited in  Aries,  the
sign governing the head.  Thus the whole nature is aquiver, the child cannot
get the needed rest, hence it is sick.

   The  main trouble comes from the fact that the moon is conjunct  Neptune.
This  interferes  with the distribution of the fluid  indispensable  to  as-
similation,  the lymph.   Jupiter is afflicted by these two planets,  and he
governs assimilation.  On account of these two facts the child will not grow
as fast as he might other wise.  He has peculiar notions about his food, and
these ideas will grow as he grows.   This tendency is one of the things that
must be dealt with firmly,  for the square of the moon to Venus gives abnor-
mal  cravings,  the moon and Neptune in Cancer will cause the child to  long
for something that he never finds,  and this might lead to the formation  of
habits that would be extremely dangerous.   No matter how he may protest and
though it may seem that ordinary foods do not agree with him,  he should  be
taught  to eat everything of a good and healthful nature that comes  on  the
table, for the  formation  of a healthy appetite will counteract the strange

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tendency that is dormant in his nature.  Sweets in moderation will help.

   The  circulation is interfered with by the affliction of Neptune and  the
moon to Venus and Jupiter.   Saturn and Uranus are strongly configurated  by
trine and parallel from airy signs; this further reacts upon the circulation
and makes it spasmodic.   The heart has a tendency to flutter on account  of
the presence of Uranus in Aquarius.  Thus the poor little child is consider-
ably afflicted to start with.   Nevertheless there is no need of worry,  for
the sun is trine to Jupiter and sextile to the moon and Neptune.   The  fact
also that it is in the marvelously vital sign of Taurus will operate to pre-
serve life,  and even Saturn on the Ascendant gives persistence,  resistance
to disease, and tenacity of life.

   There will be crises in the life, however, which knowledge of the forego-
ing will make it more easy for the parents to prepare for.   The most severe
one  will  come at the time of puberty.   Then the progressed moon  will  be
working in the 8th house,  the house of death,  and in opposition to its own
place, configurated with Neptune and square to Mercury and Venus.  This is a
serious  position but not all to be feared on account of the fact  that  the
sun is so strong in the horoscope.  Moreover the trine of Saturn and  Uranus
and the sextile of Saturn and Mars give a wonderful elasticity and energy to
the  nature so that no matter though the boy be brought near the  grave,  he
will have the resilience to recuperate with astonishing rapidity.

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   At the present time it should be investigated as to whether the mother is
nursing the child,  and whether she has felt nervous and run down.   If  so,
the child should at once be put upon a diet of goat's milk,  which will give
the needed ether to compensate for the lack of lymph,  and though the  child
may not like the diet, he will grow accustomed to it.

                     NO. 18.B--POLYPI AND KIDNEY TROUBLE:

   Male, born June 3, 1865, at 3:00  A.M.

   WE have here the horoscope of a man with the fixed sign of Taurus on  the
Ascendant,  and the ruler, Venus, posited just above the Ascendant in Taurus
and in the 12th house.  Venus is making but two major aspects, a conjunction
with the Ascendant,  and a square to the inflammatory Mars,  which is in the
fixed sign of Leo and in the 4th house.

   The sign of Taurus rules the neck, throat,  lower jaw,  larynx,  and ton-
sils,  and its opposite signs, Scorpio, rules the rectum,  descending colon,
urethra, and also the nose.  These  signs of Scorpio and Taurus are the most

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vital signs of the twelve.   Mark the strange coincidence which lies in  the
fact that Taurus rules the greater part of the lower head and neck,  and the
organs adjacent to the upper end of the spinal column,  while Scorpio  slips
in  with  its  influence  by  ruling  the  nose  in  addition  to the organs

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 [                           BIRTH CHART NO. 18B                          ]
 [                                                                        ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn 25  SUN: Gemini 12:41        SATURN: Libra 24:05R ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius 20  MOON: Libra 4:19         URANUS: Gemini 28:39 ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces 26    MERCURY: Taurus 18:58    NEPTUNE: Aries 10:10 ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Taurus 12:27  VENUS: Taurus 9:42                            ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Gemini 11     MERCURY: Taurus 18:58                         ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Cancer 4      JUPITER: Sagitt. 25:37R                       ]
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near the lower end of the spinal column.  Leo, the sign which squares Taurus
and Scorpio,  rules THE RIVER OF LIFE, the spinal fluid,  which connects the
organs ruled by Taurus and Scorpio.

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   Now in the horoscope under consideration we find the inflammatory Mars in
Leo,  square  to  Venus in Taurus.   Venus,  being at  home  in  this  sign,
naturally  attracts to herself the inflammatory influence of  Mars  whenever
Mars is found either in Taurus or afflicting her in that sign.   Then we may
look for inflammatory troubles in the nose,  generative organs,  or  rectum.
We may also look for the polypus which is a small growth peduncular in shape
that grows from the mucous membrane of the nose,  and which often closes the
nasal passages,  causing difficulty in breathing.   It sometimes also  grows
within the vagina or rectum.  The habit of mouth breathing in children often
lays the foundation for these growths in the nose when planetary afflictions
are present in the horoscope.   The mucous membrane of the nose is then  ab-
normally  sensitive  and subject to irritation,  which may result  in  these
polypi, frequently causing hay fever or asthma.

   The  patient  whose  horoscope we are  considering  suffered  with  these
growths in both nasal passages, making it necessary that he breathe entirely
through the mouth.   The moon is in 4 degrees and 19 minutes of Libra in the
6th house,  which is the house of health.   The moon is the natural ruler of
Cancer,  the sign ruling the stomach.  At the age of twenty-eight,  when the
moon  by progression had reached its place at birth,  this man became  seri-
ously ill with painter's colic,  which later resulted in permanent injury to
the kidneys.  The latter is due to the moon and Saturn in Libra,  which sign
has rule over the kidneys.  This general break in the health  increased  the

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small growths in the nose, which resulted in an operation when the moon pro-
gressed into Scorpio and was in opposition to Venus.

   By eliminating meat,  tobacco,  liquor,  and all condiments and living as
near as possible to nature's laws, this man is again enjoying good health.

                             NO. 18C--PYORRHEA:

   Female, born July 13, 1871, 5:30 A.M.

   LEO, a fiery sign, here in on the Ascendant with the life ruler, the sun,
in  the  21th  house in Cancer in conjunction with Mercury  and  Uranus  and
square  to Neptune.  We  know from our reading of "The Message of the Stars"
that Cancer rules the stomach,  in which the greater amount of food must  be
digested.   This organ is the central supply station through which the  body
receives its sustenance.  Cancer also rules the esophagus,  the tube between
the pharynx and the stomach, and the thoracic duct, the principal duct which
carries the lymph of the body.

   We  note in this horoscope Uranus afflicted by a square of  Neptune  from
the  Midheaven  and  the  sign  Aries.   With  Mercury  and  the sun also in

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conjunction with Uranus and square to Neptune,  we may expect an abnormal or
a radical mind.   When an idea is formed it is carried to an extreme.   This
woman could find no limit in anything,  and we find this tendency  indicated
regarding food.  With the sign of Cancer on the cusp of the  12th house, the

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 [                         BIRTH CHART NO. 18C                           ]
 [                                                                       ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Aries 14    SUN: Cancer 20:35      SATURN: Capricorn 5:32R ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Taurus 22  MOON: Gemini 4:10      URANUS: Cancer 26:31    ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 1   MERCURY: Cancer 22:58  NEPTUNE: Aries 24:02    ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Leo 1:43    VENUS: Virgo 6:05      DRAGON'S HEAD:          ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Leo 21      MARS: Libra 12:48               Gemini 29:48   ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Virgo 14    JUPITER: Cancer 11:16  DRAGON'S TAIL:          ]
 [                                                        Sagitt. 29:48  ]
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house  of self-undoing and limitations,  and with the above  afflictions  of
Uranus,  Mercury, and the sun we may expect great impulse and a decided ten-
dency to overeat.

   The  plants  in  the  12th  and  6th  houses  when afflicted are the most

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detrimental  to health,  and in this horoscope we may look to th stomach  as
being the seat of the trouble.   Let us find the reason for this  assertion:
The  moon which is the ruler of the 12th house is in the house  of  friends,
the 11th, and square to Venus in the 2nd in the 6th house sign, Virgo,  rul-
ing labor and sickness.  This plainly shows us that this woman was most hos-
pitable,  loved  to entertain her friends, was happy when she  could  regale
them,  and  as indicated went to extremes in this direction.   Venus  square
moon indicates an abnormal desire for pastry and sugar; it indicates one who
having  eaten  a heavy meal,  richly prepared,  would indulge  in  chocolate
creams and various other ash producing dainties.   This is one of the  types
of women whom we often meet,  whose greatest pride is in cooking and who are
never  so  happy  as when they are entertaining at  a  sumptuously  prepared
table.   Cancer people are good cooks and usually take great pride in cater-
ing to the needs of the stomach.

   In this horoscope we find Saturn,  the planet of obstruction,  in its own
sign Capricorn and in the 6th house, health.  Saturn is in opposition to ju-
piter in the sign of the stomach and in the 12th house.   Planets and  their
afflictions often show their effect in opposite signs, and when Saturn is in
Capricorn we usually expect some derangement of the stomach, for his effects
there  are very similar to those of Saturn in Cancer.   With Jupiter  ruling
the arterial circulation, afflicted by Saturn,  we  may  expect trouble with

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the  circulatory  system of the stomach.  And with the spasmodic  Uranus  in
conjunction with mercury, the nerves are also sensitive and nervous indiges-
tion is indicated.

   Now,  when  Saturn afflicts the stomach,  there is a lack of  pepsin  and
stomach fluids wherewith to digest the food.   Saturn in Cancer or Capricorn
gives  abnormal  appetite and makes one very fond of pastry,  especially  of
sugar,  as does Venus square moon mentioned before.   As  vegetarians,  such
people  find it very hard to keep their bodies in good order for  they  will
usually refuse raw vegetables, preferring the starches and sugars.  As a re-
sult  the body does not receive the proper amount of mineral  elements,  and
the blood soon fills with ash.  When an overabundance of refuse is stored up
in  the blood,  the body must seek a means of eliminating the waste  matter.
If it is unable to find an outlet through which to throw off the impurities,
and if the bowels also refuse to do their part as is often the case when  an
overabundance of food is consumed,  then an illness is the result.   We fre-
quently find cases of catarrh, skin disease, ulcers, etc.,  which are merely
an avenue the body uses to dispose of an excess of ash.

   In  the case of this woman we find the gums eliminating pus and  receding
toward the roots of the teeth.   This disease is commonly called pyorrhea or
Riggs'  disease and is increasing to an alarming degree in America.   It was
rarely heart of fifty years ago, but since there has developed  such a craze

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for sugar and candy humanity is paying the price.

   To overcome this disease a well balanced, simple,  vegetarian diet,  free
from sugars and starches is advisable, and the careful cleansing of the gums
with lemon water each day.

                         NO. 18D.--AUTO-INTOXICATION:

   Male, born November 4th 1882, 11:49 P.M.

   This horoscope is that of a man with the watery sign of Cancer on the As-
cendant.   In diagnosing it is customary to look to the sixth  house,  which
has rule over disease,  and its ruler for the key to the trouble.   In  this
horoscope we have the sign of Capricorn on the cusp of the sixth house, with
its ruler,  Saturn, in the 10th house in conjunction with the Dragon's Tail,
which is Saturnian in its influence.  Saturn is also conjunction Neptune  in
Taurus.   These  are all in opposition to the inflammatory  Mars,  which  is
strong in its home sign Scorpio,  having rule over the rectum and generative
organs.   This  is  a most dangerous and  subtle  affliction,  increased  by
Neptune parallel the sun in Scorpio, and indicates an unrestrained passional

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nature which in childhood found its outlet through the secret habit of  mas-
turbation.  This in time depletes the vitality, stunting the mentality,  and
also the physical growth, and later in life causes much physical trouble.

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 [                           BIRTH CHART NO. 18D                          ]
 [                                                                        ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Taurus 13     SUN: Scorpio 12:38     SATURN: Taurus 23:28R  ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Gemini 8     MOON: Virgo 8:43       URANUS: Virgo 22:05    ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 0     MERCURY: Libra 24:13   NEPTUNE: Taurus 17:33R ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Cancer 24:35  VENUS: Sagitt. 19:55   DRAGON'S HEAD:         ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Virgo 4       MARS: Scorpio 22:57             Scorpio 20:56 ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Libra 13      JUPITER: Cancer 0:57R  DRAGON'S TAIL:         ]
 [                                                          Taurus 20:56  ]
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   Scorpio rules both the rectum and the vital organs, and when excesses oc-
cur they often cause inflammation in the rectum resulting in intestinal hem-
orrhoids, interfering with elimination and causing a general sluggishness of
the excretory duet.

   We find the spasmodic Uranus in Virgo,  the  sign  ruling the intestines;

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it  is also the natural sixth house sign and the sign which rules  sickness.
Uranus is square to Venus, which rules the venous blood.  Here we have indi-
cation  of  restricted  circulation in the small  intestine.   Jupiter,  the
planet of opulence, the planet which wants things in large quantities, is in
Cancer,  the sign ruling the stomach, and in the twelfth house, the house of
self-undoing,  sextile to the ruler of the Ascendant,  the moon,  indicating
that this young man has been a very hearty eater, carrying eating to excess.

   He  dissipated the life forces during the period of life when he  was  in
greatest need of them, and has also consumed more food than the organs could
digest and distribute.  Naturally, when the organs of elimination refused to
work, as might be expected, the blood stream became charged with ash,  caus-
ing  granulation of the joints through the excessive clogging  generated  in
the body from too much protein.   This also burned up the natural body oils,
causing a granulation of the eyelids,  rheumatism,  and a generally weakened
condition of the entire system.

   Our advice to this patient would be to eliminate meats and starches, tak-
ing  very little of the proteins,  and to eat mostly fruits and  vegetables;
also to live a chaste,  clean life.   Care should be taken to have his  sur-
roundings clean and to sleep in a room with plenty of fresh air, for when we
find Saturn afflicted by the Dragon's Tail and Neptune in Taurus,  it  indi-
cates a tendency to neglect the sanitation of the body and surroundings.

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                            NO. 18E--PERITONITIS:

   Male, born August 4, 1862, 11:30 P.M.

   TAURUS,  a fixed and stubborn sign, is on the Ascendant,  with the ruler,
Venus, in the watery sign of Cancer, square to the fiery and impulsive Mars,
and parallel to the ruler of Cancer, and watery moon.   Venus is also  ruler
of the house of sickness,  the 6th house.  Mars is in the 12th house in  its
own sign of Aries.

   We may look for the key to the trouble in the configuration and the posi-
tions of the above three planets, Venus, Mars, and the moon.

   The planets that are in a location corresponding to that part of the body
in which the disease is found are not alone the cause of the disease.   If a
burglar has entered our home and carried away our jewels,  the first step to
be taken to find the culprit is to ascertain the place of his entrance.   So
also must we find the gateway or the cause of the disease.

   Venus,  we know, is the planet ruling sweets, sugars, etc.  Taurus is the
sign  ruling the throat,  the palate;  therefore Taurus has great  influence
over the appetites.  Venus is in Cancer, the sign ruling the stomach and the
thoracic duct, and is afflicted by a square to Mars.  Mars when afflicted by
Venus and when in its own sign of Aries causes  dissipation  and  desire for

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excesses  in eating,  especially when Venus is in the sign of  the  stomach.
Taurians  are  usually very fond of food things to eat and drink;  they  are
hearty  eaters  and  are  apt  to  gourmandize.  Therefore  with  the  above

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  [                          BIRTH CHART NO. 18E                        ]
  [                                                                     ]
  [ MIDHEAVEN: Aquarius 4   SUN: Leo 12:25         SATURN: Virgo 20:34  ]
  [ 11TH HOUSE: Pisces 7    MOON: Sagitt. 8:10     URANUS: Gemini 19:40 ]
  [ 12TH HOUSE: Aries 6     MERCURY: Cancer 27:50  NEPTUNE: Aries 3:39R ]
  [ ASCENDANT: Taurus 0:27  VENUS: Cancer 10:34    DRAGON'S HEAD:       ]
  [ 2ND HOUSE: Taurus 29    MARS: Aries 14:00             Sagitt. 22:36 ]
  [ 3RD HOUSE: Cancer 1     JUPITER: Virgo 26:07   DRAGON'S TAIL:       ]
  [                                                       Gemini 22:36  ]
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afflictions this native would eat and drink to excess.

   Uranus  in Gemini is in a very nervous position.   This excitable,  rest-
less,  and nervous planet, especially as it is squared by Saturn and Jupiter
from  another  mercurial  sign,  Virgo,  will  have a strong effect upon the

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nervous system.

   Now, with Venus, which has rule over the venous blood, afflicted by Mars,
and with Jupiter, ruling the arterial blood, afflicted by the conjunction of
Saturn and the square of Uranus,  this man has a very sluggish  circulation,
especially of the stomach and small intestines.   With both Jupiter and Sat-
urn  posited in Virgo,  what could be expected but that when  an  affliction
touches any of these planets sickness would result?

   At  the age of thirty-nine th native's progressed sun reached the  square
to  Uranus which brought on nervous trouble.  At the same time the  sun  was
within one degree of a conjunction of Saturn radical.   The sun takes  three
years to pass a conjunction; one year applying, one year in conjunction, and
another year separating.   Therefore,  this man passed through a double  af-
fliction at that time, and a severe spell of peritonitis was the result.  He
was  unable to recover readily from this sickness,  since through his  igno-
rance of the causes he did not stop his heavy indulgence in food and  drink.
In 1918,  when the progressed moon came to the square of Saturn and  Jupiter
and the opposition of Uranus, another illness occurred,  which left him with
a severe case of catarrh of the intestines.

   If  a patient of this type should call upon a probationer for advice  and
help,  what should he advise?  He should first find the cause,  and it is so
evident there that excess of food and drink were  responsible that he should

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advise abstinence from food for a short time, especially that ruled by Mars,
such as highly seasoned articles and condiments.   Liquor and tobacco should
be entirely avoided.  A strict vegetarian diet should be advised with plenty
of fresh air and sunshine to assist in relaxing the nerves.  Where the Venus
and Jupiter circulations are sluggish, a friction bath would be advisable.

                         NO. 18F--ARTERIO-SCLEROSIS:

   Male, born July 27th, 1856, 5:00 A.M.

   As  has been often stated in our astrological books and lessons,  man  is
master of this fate.  He has his whole life before him, either to make or to
mar.  Here we have a horoscope for diagnosis that speaks for itself, that of
a man who has had everything in his favor,  with but two evil aspects in the
entire horoscope;  everything else is good.   We find the sun and Venus con-
junction in the sign of the heart,  Leo,  one of the strongest signs of  the
entire twelve.   Both these planets are sextile to the moon and trine to Ju-
piter,  Jupiter being near the Midheaven.  The mentality is decidedly strong
and keen,  especially along metaphysical lines.  Neptune is in its own  home
(Pisces),  sextile to Uranus and trine to Mercury.   The moon is  also  well
aspected  and in a mental sign,  Gemini.  This man has a wonderful start  in
life, and brought over with him from a previous life many fine qualities.

   As is often stated in astrological books by old and reliable writers, Ju-
piter in the Midheaven brings much good to the native.   And surely this man
had many opportunities to succeed.  Now why did he fail?

   First, we find Saturn in Cancer. As stated in "The Message of the Stars",
this "indicates that the stomach is weak and the gums subject  to  pyorrhea.
There  is  inability  to  properly  digest  the  food."    The  stomach   is

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lacking in the fluids necessary to aid digestion.   The native is also  very
peculiar  in  his likes and dislikes as to food.   This is the  key  to  his
bodily afflictions.  We find Saturn making a square to Jupiter,  which rules
the  arterial  blood, and as stated in "The Message  of  the  Stars",  under   

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  [                         BIRTH CHART NO. 18F                          ]
  [                                                                      ]
  [ MIDHEAVEN: Aries 22    SUN: Leo 4:28          SATURN: Cancer 7:49    ]
  [ 11TH HOUSE: Taurus 29  MOON: Gemini 10:07     URANUS: Taurus 24:36   ]
  [ 12TH HOUSE: Cancer 5   MERCURY: Cancer 20:35  NEPTUNE: Pisces 20:10R ]
  [ ASCENDANT: Leo 5:50    VENUS: Leo 6:19        DRAGON'S HEAD:         ]
  [ 2ND HOUSE: Leo 26      MARS: Libra 27:53               Aries 19:07   ]
  [ 3RD HOUSE: Virgo 21    JUPITER: Aries 9:10    DRAGON'S TAIL:         ]
  [                                                        Libra 19:07   ]
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this  aspect the native is "indolent and inclined to drift  with  the  tide;
often  a  ward  of  society either in the poorhouse or prison.   This aspect
also gives a tendency to arterio-sclerosis."

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   We find the coarse, combative, discordant,  passionate,  and hot-tempered
Mars in Libra, a Venus sign.  When afflicted it brings out its own lower na-
ture and that of Venus,  creating undue attraction to the opposite sex.   As
Mars  is co-ruler of the 5th house and is making a square to  the  impulsive
and egotistical Mercury, the native's in harmony and hot temper have led him
to excesses.  Instead of expressing the beautiful, artistic, and musical na-
ture of the sun and Venus conjunction on the Ascendant in Leo trine to Jupi-
ter,  this man has directed an excess of love and vitality in the wrong  di-
rection.   He has indulged too freely in rich food, and has expended much of
his energy through the 5th house,  pleasures.  He has had much in harmony in
the  home,  caused by himself and his temper.   As a result  the  blood  has
become   vitiated,   and   he  now  is  in  a   very   advanced   stage   of
arterio-sclerosis.

   In  order  to  find  out the time of the affliction we  will  go  to  his
forty-fourth year when the progressed moon had reached the 6th house in  the
first  degrees of Capricorn.   It there made an opposition to Saturn in  the
12th house in Cancer, the stomach, and a square to Jupiter in the Midheaven.
At the same time we find Mars progressed has reached 24-51 of Scorpio,  mak-
ing an opposition to Uranus in Taurus.   Impulse and excesses in fast living
at that time broke down his system,  and since then the man has been an  in-
valid, perfectly helpless, wheeled in a chair and confined in hospitals, due
to Saturn and  Mercury  in  the 12th house, self-undoing.  But he has always

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found some kind hearted woman friend to look after his wants.  He has been a
very difficult patient; his temper has been dreadful.  Through his suffering
he has allowed himself to drift into this state of irascibility.  Instead of
responding to the beautiful Venus influence he has given way to Mars  square
Mercury.

   In order to improve he should have a nurse with Saturn well aspected, one
of  an Aquarian nature,  cool,  calm, and collected,  who could soothe  him,
quiet his temper,  and with great diplomacy lead him into right living.   At
present he demands certain food and unless the nurse gives it to him he  has
a  dreadful  spell of temper.   This man would have to be loved  into  doing
things.   To make a demand upon him or to tell him he dare not do a  certain
thing would only awaken the spirit of opposition in him.  Brisk massage with
a pair of rough bath gloves to open the pores of the skin and start the cir-
culation  would be beneficial.   Proper food and assistance to  control  his
temper would in time help him to overcome his condition.

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                    NO. 18G--TYPHOID AND SPINAL TROUBLE:

   Male, born December 29, 2900, 12:45 A.M.

   Four  cardinal  signs are on the angles, with Mars trine to the  sun  and
Saturn.   These testimonies show the person to be endowed with good vitality
and with an active and ambitious nature.   But the counteracting aspects are
also strong.   The moon is square to the sun and Saturn,  Mars is square  to
the ruler, Venus, and the majority of the planets are under the earth.  This
takes  away from the general resistance of the person.   The  opposition  of
Neptune to Jupiter and Mercury in mental signs, Gemini and Sagittarius shows
that the native is of a very nervous temperament.

   Neptune  in  the 9th house usually gives a tendency to be  a  dreamer  of
dreams,  a visionary who grasps at the illusory things in life  rather  than
those that are near by the tangible.   Neptune's opposition to Mercury,  the
planet of reason,  shows that this would be particularly accentuated in  the
present case.   The moon in Aries square to the sun and Saturn would further
make the mind flighty and unstable.

   Mars in Virgo configurated with uranus, whether by good or evil  aspects,
makes  a person liable to intestinal disorders.   Mars is the planet of  in-
flammation and fevers.  He causes operations and other violence.  Configura-
tions  of Mars with Uranus have been observed to result not only in  typhoid
and gastric fevers, but also  very  often  Mars  ruptures the peritoneum and

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causes  the person to have a prominent abdomen.   The young man whose  horo-
scope  we are considering had typhoid fever as an initial disease  when  the
moon  passed  the  conjunction  of  Mars by progression through the eleventh

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 [                          BIRTH CHART NO. 18G                           ]
 [                                                                        ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Cancer 21    SUN: Capricorn 7:05     SATURN: Capricorn 7:24 ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Leo 25      MOON: Aries 9:15        URANUS: Sagitt. 14:10  ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Virgo 24    MERCURY: Sagitt. 23:30  NEPTUNE: Gemini 27:35R ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Libra 17:46  VENUS: Sagitt. 7:20                            ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Scorpio 15   MARS: Virgo 11:12                              ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Sagitt. 16   JUPITER: Sagitt. 25:20                         ]
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house.  Later she came to the square of Neptune, Jupiter, and Mercury.  Then
the native's spine began to weaken.   You will notice that the opposition of
Neptune to Jupiter and Mercury is from Gemini to Sagittarius,  covering  the
region of the spine.  The moon later progressed to the opposition of her own

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place  at birth,  and as the radical moon in Aries has  particular  dominion
over  the cerebellum,  which is the organ of coordination of  movement,  you
will  readily  understand that this makes it difficult for  the  patient  to
walk.

   This is a curious case of interlocking afflictions and good aspects,  for
you  will  observe that whenever the two principal afflicters Mars  and  the
moon,  are struck by an adverse aspect there is always a good set of aspects
to minimize the evil effects.  Were this not so the severe afflictions would
certainly have done away with this young man long ago.   The square  between
the moon and Saturn is particularly inimical.

   The moon progresses around the horoscope in twenty-eight years as we mea-
sure  a  day for a year.   Saturn in the heavens by transit  actually  moves
around the circle of the zodiac in about thirty years.   Thus the progressed
moon and the transiting Saturn are always bound to follow each other  pretty
closely.  When they are square at the birth of a person, they keep that same
relationship for a considerable number of years.   Thus good aspects in  the
horoscope  are offset by the fact that the progressed moon is square to  the
transiting Saturn, and evil aspects are similarly accentuated by this unfor-
tunate square.   Therefore anybody who has this unfortunate configuration is
certainly under the whiplash of Saturn all his life.   Even the good aspects
which we note in this horoscope and  which  are certainly very strong are to

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some degree nullified by the square of Saturn and the moon at birth.

   Saturn  always indicates that part of our destiny which has been  brought
over from previous lives, and is almost unalterable.  Therefore in this case
there  is  unfortunately not much to do.   Baths and massage  applied  by  a
healer  who has Aquarius rising and whose Saturn is not in Libra  or  Pisces
would be most helpful.

                       NO. 18H:  NARCOTICS--CIGARETTES:

   Female, born April 7, 1880, at 7:00 A.M.

   We have here a most interesting case, that of a woman with the fixed sign
of Taurus on the Ascendant, and with the ruler in the watery sign of Pisces,
intercepted  in  the 11th house,  in conjunction with the watery  moon,  and
square  to  the fiery and destructive Mars.  Mars is the ruler of  the  12th
house,  the house of confinement,  and Venus is the ruler of the  6th  house
governing sickness.

   About  1904 the patient was operated on and had one kidney removed.   She
could not give the exact year, but from planetary aspects we feel certain it
was in 1904,  when the progressed sun ha just passed a conjunction with  the
radical  Neptune near the Ascendant,  and the progressed moon was  making  a
square both to the radical Neptune and the progressed sun.   At the  present
writing this poor woman, who is forty-four years of age, expects to become a
mother  in three months,  and is struggling to overcome the  dread  narcotic
habit, which she has had about six years, also the cigarette habit.

   A  most interesting principle is brought out in this horoscope.   Neptune
in  Taurus near the Ascendant is trine to Uranus in Virgo in the 5th  house.
These planets are in signs of mutual reception;  that is,  Neptune being the
higher octave of Mercury is in a Venus sign,  Taurus,  and Uranus the higher

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octave of Venus is in the mercurial sign of Virgo.   The trine of these  two
mystical  planets would indicate the development of the two ductless  glands
represented  by them,  namely the pineal gland by Neptune and the  pituitary
body by Uranus.  When these two glands are for any  reason  awakened and the

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  [                           BIRTH CHART NO. 18H                        ]
  [                                                                      ]
  [ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn 29  SUN: Aries 18:02      SATURN: Aries 18:39   ]
  [ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius 25  MOON: Pisces 23:07    URANUS: Virgo 5:22R   ]
  [ 12TH HOUSE: Aries 2      MERCURY: Aries 2:14R  NEPTUNE: Taurus 10:52 ]
  [ ASCENDANT: Taurus 19:40  VENUS: Pisces 22:25                         ]
  [ 2ND HOUSE: Gemini 17     MARS: Gemini 27:43                          ]
  [ 3RD HOUSE: Cancer 8      JUPITER: Aries 1:06R                        ]
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------

soul does not respond to the higher life but is inclined to drift into  sen-
sual  and  worldly channels,  their awakening then frequently leads  to  the
grossest indulgence of the lower nature--sometimes to drink  or narcotics as

[PAGE 1194]

in the case of this poor woman.

   Venus and the moon in conjunction in Pisces, Venus being the ruler of the
6th house, governing sickness, and Mars the ruler of the 12th house, govern-
ing hospitals,  indicate that some one in a hospital was responsible for her
forming  the habit of taking narcotics from which she is suffering and  this
person we believe to be a doctor friend who attended her.   At the time when
she claimed she acquired the habit of using narcotics we find the progressed
Mercury  trine  to  Uranus  and the progressed  Venus  in  conjunction  with
Neptune.   This would have a tendency to awaken the above  mentioned  glands
and cause a soul hunger,  which in this case the woman mistook for a  desire
to  indulge in soul flights through the use of narcotics instead of  through
living the Christ life.

   But the struggle now comes to get relief when she is in a most  weakened,
despondent,  and generally rundown condition from a spell of influenza  com-
plicated by pregnancy,  nerves,  and insomnia;  also the elimination through
the one remaining kidney is now being interfered with by Saturn  conjunction
sun in Aries, which is producing an effect in the opposite sign of Libra.

   The one gleam of hope held out through the planets is the progressed  sun
within orb of a sextile to the radical Jupiter and the progressed Mars trine
to  the radical moon.   These aspects are most favorable for the aid of  the
Invisible Helpers, who can accomplish much  more  under  favorable planetary

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aspects than at other times.   Especially is she likely to receive help  be-
cause her spirit is most desirous of overcoming,  although she is lacking in
faith  regarding our method of healing.   She was persuaded to call upon  us
for help by her own doctor,  who had been healed through our Invisible help-
ers.

                                  INSANITY:

                           NO. 19A.--A MENTAL CASE:

   Female, born June 12, 1897, 9:00 P.M.

   WE  have at all times tried to impress upon the minds of students of  the
Rosicrucian  Philosophy the great necessity of always looking at the  bright
side of life,  and ever to hold out hope to unhappy and afflicted ones.   If
we  aspire to be helpers of humanity,  workers in God's great  vineyard,  we
must always throw the life line to the drowning man, that is,  give him that
hope,  that help,  which means life to him.   The astrologer who voices  the
doom of his patient and takes the last ray of hope away when one who is suf-
fering  comes to him perhaps as the last resort is little less than  a  mur-
derer.  This may be putting it very strongly, but the writer feels that this
point cannot be emphasized too much.

   To illustrate the danger that lies in the prediction of death:   a  woman
wrote  to Headquarters stating that she had but two more years to live,  for
the astrologers had predicted this.  Would we advise her, she asked, to take

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up  the Rosicrucian Philosophy and astrology, and should she go  ahead  with
the school which she had started,  or would it be best to give everything up
and  prepare  herself  or  the coming event, her passing out of the physical

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[                              BIRTH CHART NO. 19A                         ]
[                                                                          ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Scorpio 5        SUN: Gemini 22:16     SATURN: Scorpio 25:40R ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Scorpio 29      MOON: Scorpio 26:58   URANUS: Scorpio 25:59R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Sagitt. 21      MERCURY: Taurus 29:50 NEPTUNE: Gemini 20:05  ]
[ ASCENDANT: Capricorn 13:06  VENUS: Taurus 9:38                           ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Aquarius 23      MARS: Leo 14:46                              ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Aries 3          JUPITER: Virgo 3:27                          ]
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body?  We can assure you that this woman received a letter from Headquarters
that  as  surrounded by strong vibrations which  scattered  effectually  the
thoughts  of death.   As a result of the letter she became a student of  the
Philosophy and is today an  active  and  healthy  woman, destined to reach a

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ripe  old age.   The astrologer who predicted this woman's death might  have
been  guilty of murder,  but fortunately through her coming in contact  with
one  of  our  pupils  who advised her to write  to  Headquarters,  this  was
averted.

   In 19A we have a patient who has so many weak and afflicted planets  that
the  astrologer must use the greatest diplomacy in order to  encourage  her.
On  the first house is the gloomy,  pessimistic Capricorn,  with the  ruler,
Saturn,  in the Midheaven afflicted by the conjunction of the negative,  vi-
sionary,  worrisome moon and the irresponsible and fanatical Uranus;  and to
make it even more unfortunate these three planets are in conjunction in  the
fixed and martial sign of Scorpio, the natural eighth house sign,  the house
of death.   Mercury,  the ruler of the mind,  is in the gloomy and  stubborn
sign of Taurus in opposition to the afflicted planets in Scorpio.   Could we
find anything more unfortunate for mental trouble?  When Taurus is afflicted
he assists Capricorn in magnifying the gloom side of life and increases  his
brooding  over imaginary ills,  so you can imagine the temperament  of  this
poor woman.  She was sadly in need of help.

   Her request for help came to us in November, 1916.   She was at that time
in such a mental state that she had threatened suicide, could do nothing but
weep,  and was surrounded by imaginary troubles.   But she was very faithful
in  writing  her weekly letters and did all possible to cooperate  with  the
healers.  When she requested healing her progressed  Mars  was square to the

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radical moon, Uranus, and Saturn in Scorpio, which caused this  mental  dis-
turbance. But fortunately the progressed moon at that time was in 25 degrees
of  Cancer  trine and sextile to the afflicted planets in the 10th  and  5th
houses respectively.   This was the life line that was ready to be thrown to
help her.

   Note  that the artistic harmonious,  and musical radical Venus is in  her
own sign of Taurus,  trine to the reverent and optimistic Jupiter.   The one
window  of  light open to her was this good aspect--music and art.   It  was
necessary  to bring harmony into this poor inharmonious mind,  and  we  pre-
vailed upon her and her friends to provide her with music in the home and to
interest her in art.  At the time of her request for help her progressed sun
was  in  9 degrees and 50 minutes of Cancer,  making a good  aspect  to  the
radical  Venus.   This as the means of saving her reason.   In May 1917  she
wrote  us she was feeling so much better that she did not need the  help  of
the healers any longer.

   Here  we can see what a wonderful work can be done through a true  knowl-
edge of astrology.   Had an unscrupulous astrologer met this woman and  pre-
dicted  suicide,  the danger of which as shown so plainly in the figure,  he
might  have been her murderer.   Therefore, dear friends,  we hope you  will
take this as a lesson to use astrology to help and to heal and not to wound.

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                             NO. 19B--INSANITY:

   Female, Born January 7, 1868.

   Although  we are unable to predict the dates of crises in her illness  on
account of the lack of the birth hour, still the aspects between the planets
in this woman's chart,  show sufficiently well the nature of the illness and
the yearly crises.  We find the erratic and eccentric Uranus in the psychic
sign of Cancer,  in opposition to Mars,  the planet of impulse and reckless-
ness.   Uranus is also in opposition to the life-given sun and  to  Mercury,
the planet of reason, both placed in the belligerent and violent sign Capri-
corn.   All four of these planets are square by Neptune in Aries,  the  sign
which rules the head and the brain.

   We  find that the benevolent ray of Jupiter is quenched by its  placement
in  the  twelfth  house  sign of Pisces,  indicating  sorrow,  trouble,  and
self-undoing.   There is is conjoined with the saturnine Dragon's  Tail  and
squared by the moon,  the giver of visions and imagination,  making the mind
morbid.   He is also squared by Saturn,  the planet of gloom and melancholy.
As a result of all these adverse,  perverse,  and perverting influences  the
poor woman has always been weakminded, impulsive, reckless, gloomy, erratic,
and visionary.  In the year 1915 matters cam to a crisis when the sun was in
the  twelfth  house  sign  of  Pisces,  ruling  hospitals  and asylums.  The

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progressed moon also was there in conjunction with the sun and th  saturnine
Dragon's Tail, and all of them square Saturn, with the result that the woman
as taken violently insane and had to be confined in an asylum, where she has

   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  [                   BIRTH CHART NO. 19B  [FLAT CHART]                  ]
  [                                                                      ]
  [ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn  SUN: Capricorn 16:31     SATURN: Sagitt. 2:11  ]
  [ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius  MOON: Gemini 11:51       URANUS: Cancer 10:38R ]
  [ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces    MERCURY: Capricorn 6:31  NEPTUNE: Aries 12:21  ]
  [ ASCENDANT: Aries      VENUS: Aquarius 11:54    DRAGON'S HEAD:        ]
  [ 2ND HOUSE: Taurus     MARS: Capricorn 15:13             Virgo 7:44   ]
  [ 3RD HOUSE: Gemini     JUPITER: Pisces 6:02     DRAGON'S TAIL:        ]
  [                                                         Pisces 7:44  ]
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------

been ever since.  There has been little or no improvement so far as the men-
tal  condition  is  concerned,  and the condition of physical health is also
delicate.

   It is not a hopeless case, however, for the principal inimical influences
are from cardinal signs, whose  force  is  comparatively soon spent, and the

[PAGE 1201]

remainder  are from common or flexible signs which are subject to  modifica-
tion.  Not that Neptune, the planet of the spiritual mind, is sextile to Ve-
nus,  the planet of music, and to the moon, the planet of impressionability.
Venus  and the moon are trine;  this shows that the native loves  music  and
that  she may be helped by it.   With respect to health we find the moon  in
Gemini,  the sign that rules the lungs, which gives a tendency to  colds  in
the lungs.  Uranus is in Cancer, squared by Neptune and in opposition to the
sun,  Mars,  and Mercury, which shows nervous indigestion,  for Cancer rules
the stomach.   This can be minimized by proper food, and if this can be pro-
vided it will help considerably to clear the mind.

   In dealing with the question of insanity students should remember that it
is a rupture, complete or partial, in the chain of bodies linking the spirit
to the physical vehicle.  When the rupture occurs between the dense body and
the vital body, or between the latter and the desire body, we have the harm-
less  idiot.   When the break is between the desire body and the  mind,  the
reckless, impulsive, and violent desire nature takes charge of the lower ve-
hicle,  and we have the violently raving maniac who must be restrained by  a
straight-jacket and padded cell.   But when the rupture takes place  between
the mind and the spirit,  the cunning and craftiness of the mind exert them-
selves to take charge of the lower personality; an insane person of this or-
der  may  go  about  among  us  for  years  plotting  and scheming with such

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consummate cunning that we never suspect him of being abnormal until he car-
ries  out  some diabolical plot and then laughs and glouts  over  the  ruin,
sorrow, and suffering which he has brought upon his victims.

               NO. 19C--INSANITY, OBSESSION, AND TUBERCULOSIS:

   Male, born January 30th, 1889, at 12 noon.

   THIS horoscope was sent us by the relatives of the native,  with  permis-
sion  to use it as a lesson.   We find some very interesting points  in  it,
which may be of interest in the study of the science of diagnosis.

   Two special points must be taken into consideration in the horoscope of a
patient:   the sign on the Ascendant and Mercury.   The Ascendant shows  the
strength of the personality.  If fixed signs are on the four angles, namely,
the first, fourth, seventh, and tenth cusps, then the patient will be apt to
help  the  healer with his will to overcome disease.   If,  however,  common
signs are on the angles, then the patient is apt to drift with the tide, and
is  prone to lean upon the Invisible Helpers,  expecting them to do all  the
work,  failing  usually  to  do  anything  for  himself.   To  get  the best

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cooperation  from the patient it is most necessary that the mind be  willing
to help.   Where there is a weak or a stubborn mind, the patient can do much
to thwart the efforts made in his behalf, as we find in this horoscope.

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[                           BIRTH CHART NO. 19C                            ]
[                                                                          ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Aquarius 7    SUN: Aquarius 10:50      SATURN: Leo 17:24R     ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Pisces 2     MOON: Capricorn 28:48    URANUS: Libra 21:59R   ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Aries 16     MERCURY: Aquarius 29:11  NEPTUNE: Taurus 29:33R ]
[ ASCENDANT: Gemini 11:06  VENUS: Pisces 26:28                             ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Cancer 1      MARS: Pisces 16:15                              ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Cancer 18     JUPITER: Sagitt. 28:45                          ]
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   Mercury  being in a fixed sign in the tenth house and square  to  Neptune
here gives a most dominating and stubborn mentality.   This is a person  who
will bear no interference or domination from others.

   He has naturally a very devout and religious nature,  but instead of fol-
lowing  the  soul's  ideals,  which  are expressed by Jupiter in Sagittarius

[PAGE 1204]

sextile to Mercury in Aquarius,  his stubborn and ambitious mind led him  to
respond to the vibrations of Venus square Jupiter,  Mercury square  Neptune,
and moon square Uranus.

   Venus is exalted in Pisces, the sign of self-undoing, and in the eleventh
house,  square to Jupiter,  which is strong in its own sign of  Sagittarius,
the sign of religion.   This indicates that a woman friend with her flattery
and attention,  signified by Venus, was responsible for leading him from his
religious ideals into negative metaphysical speculation.   In addition,  the
versatile  and restless moon makes a trine to Neptune in the occult  twelfth
house,  which gave him the desire for occult knowledge, but the moon,  being
square to Uranus, led him to his undoing.  A person with the planetary posi-
tions and aspects which we find in this horoscope is not satisfied to follow
instruction or heed the warnings of those who know about occult matters, but
he must needs rush in and investigate for himself.  the sun in the Saturnian
sign of Aquarius in opposition to Saturn in the sign of Leo gives a vein  of
skepticism, a nature which demands evidence and which must prove all things.
This spirit was his undoing.   The sun and Saturn being in mutual  reception
in the tenth and fourth houses respectively, strengthened this tendency.

   With  the  moon  trine  Neptune and  square  Uranus  this  man  developed
mediumship  very quickly and was able to contact the invisible realms.   But
he heedlessly sought his knowledge  along  dangerous  paths.  While the yogi

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teachings  may be safe for the Fourth Race people,  the orientals,  and  for
those  of the Western races who are still on the lower rounds of  evolution,
yet  to one of the sensitive Western type these oriental teachings are  most
dangerous.  This poor man became attached to a group of Hindus, from whom he
received instructions in breathing exercises and psychic development.  He as
also active in spiritualism wherein mediumship was encouraged.

   After  a  few  years the progressed moon reached the  opposition  to  the
radical  Saturn and later a conjunction with the radical Mercury.   Neptune,
being  the higher octave of Mercury, works largely upon the nervous  system,
and  any undue stimulation will sometimes cause mental unbalance if  Neptune
squares the mental planet Mercury, often expressing itself through religious
mania.   This poor man repeatedly claims that he is the reincarnated  Jesus.
Especially will Neptune give this tendency when in the twelfth house,  where
it often causes incarceration in an institution for the insane.  The moon in
the ninth house in Capricorn,  square to Uranus,  here increased the evil by
attracting  undesirable  entities to this already weakened mind,  which  was
easily driven out of the body, giving the obsessing entities freedom to take
possession of it.

   To top off this most unfortunate condition the poor man,  who has been in
an insane asylum for some years,  is slowly dying of that dread disease  tu-
berculosis.  This is shown by Jupiter in Sagittarius (Jupiter ruling the ar-
terial blood) square to Venus (which has rule over the venous blood) in  Pi-
sces, two common signs.

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                                   ASTHMA:

                              NO. 20A.--ASTHMA:

   Male, born August 15, 1915, 2:00 P.M.

   WE  find the fiery sign of Sagittarius on the Ascendant,  and its  ruler,
Jupiter,  at home in Pisces.   This planet is at home in two  signs,  Sagit-
tarius and Pisces.  When planets are posited in the 1st, 4th, 7th,  and 10th
houses,  their influence is much more potent, much stronger for  either good
or  evil  than elsewhere,  and especially if they are in fixed signs  or  in
their own homes.  Jupiter is in its own home and in the 4th house, an angle,
and  rules the arterial blood.   It is in square aspect to the  fiery  Mars,
which is in the sign of the lungs,  Gemini.   Mercury,  the ruler of Gemini,
ruling  the air passing through the lungs,  is in conjunction with the  sun,
and  these two planets are in the fiery sign of Leo ruling the  heart.   Now
that would be the physical effect of the two afflictions noted above?

   It  is necessary that a certain amount of air be taken into the lungs  in
order  to supply the oxygen which is needed to give life to the blood  which
feeds the heart.   With the ruler of Gemini, Mercury,  burned up by the heat
of the sun and the capillaries of the lungs filled with the fire of the  fe-
verish and afflicted Mars, we have a congested and  feverish  chest, and the

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[                           BIRTH CHART NO. 20A                            ]
[                                                                          ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Virgo 27      SUN: Leo 21:52          SATURN: Cancer 11:50    ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Libra 26     MOON: Libra 22:18       URANUS: Aquarius 13:22R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Scorpio 17   MERCURY: Leo 23:21      NEPTUNE: Leo 0:59       ]
[ ASCENDANT: Sagitt. 6:08  VENUS: Leo 14:16        DRAGON'S HEAD:          ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Capricorn 10  MARS: Gemini 27:40             Aquarius 17:05   ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Aquarius 19   JUPITER: Pisces 27:20R  DRAGON'S TAIL:          ]
[                                                         Leo 17:05        ]
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blood is clogged and becomes sluggish, causing spasmodic action as it passes
through the aorta.  The lungs become feverish and breathing laborious, caus-
ing spasms.   We find Mars parallel to Saturn,  which is in the sign of  the
stomach, Cancer, and i the 8th house, indicating poor  assimilation  of  the

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food.   We find the planet Venus, which rules the venous circulation, in the
hot and fiery sign of Leo in opposition to the spasmodic retrograde  Uranus,
which is strong in its own sign Aquarius, giving uneven action to the heart.

   This boy will suffer more or less all through life with what is  commonly
termed by the doctors,  asthma.   The first few years he suffered very  much
from spasms.  He will also be subject to coughs and colds, which will,  how-
ever, never develop into consumption as is often the case.  With Mars ruling
the lungs there is frequently a congested,  feverish condition in the capil-
laries  which  burns  up the oxygen.   But here Mars is in  sextile  to  the
life-giving  sum in Leo,  hence this boy will recuperate very  rapidly.   He
will be above the average in health in spite of the many afflictions, and he
will reach a ripe old age.

                    NO. 20B:  ASTHMA--MORPHINE ADDICTION:

   Male, born August 15, 1869, 9:00 A.M.

   WE will judge first the character of this person and for this purchase we
note that there are four cardinal signs on the angles.  This is a great help
toward  making  people mentally alert and well balanced,  but  unfortunately
here we find that mercury, the significator of the mind is combust,  and the
moon is in conjunction with Saturn.   This renders the mind slow and  melan-
choly,  subject to fears, which of course never materialize.   Uranus is el-
evated and square to Neptune,  which gives a tendency toward spirit control,
but we have the trine of the sun to Neptune to minimize the danger.  The na-
tive  has a strong love nature as shown  by the trine of Venus and  Jupiter,
but  the conjunction of moon and Saturn shows that the marriage  partner  is
likely always to wet-blanket and resent advances.   Mars opposition  Neptune
from the first to the seventh house makes it plain that there will be  quar-
rels and trouble,  all of which have an important bearing upon the  sickness
and its cause.

   The  sun  in Leo afflicted by Jupiter in Taurus shows that  the  arterial
circulation is poor, a condition which is somewhat minimized by the trine of
Jupiter and Venus,  the two planets which govern the circulation.   But  the
rhythmic  motion of respiration is seriously interfered with because  Uranus
is  in  Cancer  and  elevated.  This  planet  is spasmodic in its action and

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affects the diaphragm when placed in Cancer.   Here it is,  as said,  highly
elevated  and square to Mars and Neptune,  both in angles,  a  configuration
that  is  very  strong.  The  rhythmic  rise  and  fall  of the diaphragm is

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  [ MIDHEAVEN: Cancer 8    SUN: Leo 22:42         SATURN: Sagitt. 10:32 ]
  [ 11TH HOUSE: Leo 13     MOON: Sagitt. 5:59     URANUS: Cancer 19:52  ]
  [ 12TH HOUSE: Virgo 12   MERCURY: Leo 26:12     NEPTUNE: Aries 19:28R ]
  [ ASCENDANT: Libra 6:33  VENUS: Virgo 19:05                           ]
  [ 2ND HOUSE: Scorpio 2   MARS: Libra 16:45                            ]
  [ 3RD HOUSE: Sagitt. 3   JUPITER: Taurus 19:58                        ]
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absolutely essential to proper and regular respiration, an as this action is
interfered with to a degree by the afflictions here shown,  we have the con-
dition known as asthma.

   It  is  well  known  that sufferers from this disease sometimes go a very

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long time without sleep because of their inability to lie down.  Morphine is
often  given  to relieve their condition and give them the rest  they  crave
with  all their being.   The danger of this drug cannot be overestimated  in
any  case,  but it is greater for a patient who has Jupiter  in  Taurus  af-
flicted by the sun like this one, for this always gives an inherent abnormal
appetite,  a tendency to go to extremes in whatever is taken by way  of  the
mouth.   Hence it is no wonder that this person has become addicted  to  the
use of morphine.

   There is hope,  however,  as shown by the horoscope.   The moon rules the
alimentary canal and is responsible for the passage of the food through  the
digestive  tract.   She is conjunct Saturn, and naturally this results in  a
sluggish condition of the bowels.   Uranus in Cancer operates upon the stom-
ach in such a way as to distend it periodically.  With a full colon,  a dis-
tended  stomach,  and the diaphragm moving erratically what wonder that  the
heart refuses to force the vital fluid into the lungs and take it from them?
Heroic methods should be taken to clear the system and keep it clear.  While
this will not relieve the spasmodic action of the diaphragm,  it will at any
rate  take the pressure away from the apex of the heart and thus  materially
help to reduce the condition.   Mars is sextile to the sun,  therefore,  the
heart  can be strengthened.   He is also sextile to Saturn showing the  pos-
sibility of securing at least better action and circulation in the digestive
tract.

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   The  worst condition in this horoscope, the one most difficult  to  over-
come,  is Jupiter in Taurus square to the sun.   It has been our  experience
that  even though it is pointed out to people that they have abnormal  appe-
tites and they acknowledge it,  they usually refuse to mend their ways.   As
the above affliction is in fixed signs, it is exceedingly difficult to over-
come.  The best assistance, however, would be from the trine of Venus to Ju-
piter,  which excites the love nature and makes the native amenable to kind-
liness.  The tender care of a woman would perhaps do more than anything else
to help him overcome the habit he has formed.  A healer with Aquarius rising
and whose Saturn is not in Pisces would very likely have a beneficial effect
in this case.

                           NO. 20C--D--E:  ASTHMA:

   The disease designated by the name of asthma is one of the most difficult
to diagnose, for many are suffering from symptoms which are diagnosed by the
doctors as those of asthma because of the shortness of breath, wheezing, and
coughing when frequently the person does not in reality have asthma.   There
are various kinds of this disease.  For instance there is hay asthma,  which
comes in the fall of the year when the hay and grain are ripe.  Sometimes it
comes from the noxious pollen of poisonous flowers,  which causes a contrac-
tion  of  the passages to the lungs;  these when inactive fill  with  mucus,
causing labored breathing.  Then we have the heart or stomach asthma,  which
is often the result of irregularity of the blood flow through the valves  of
the heart,  resulting in labored breathing and contraction of the chest  and
lungs.  Therefore the astrologer may find the diagnosis difficult.

   We will in this lesson endeavor to give a few helps showing according  to
the  afflictions the differences in diseases which may have similar  outward
symptoms but the causes of which may be different.

   Case 20C is that of a man born March 6, 1831,  4 P.M.   The horoscope for
this case is 10A, page 263.  We find the disturbing Saturn in Leo,  the sign
ruling the heart,  square to Mars in Taurus, which has rule over the throat,
and opposition  to  Mercury, which is in the nervous sign of Aquarius.  Mars

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is  also square to Mercury and parallel to Neptune.   This configuration  of
planets in fixed signs,  would indicate spasmodic heart action,  for Mercury
opposition  Saturn  would  cause contraction of the  valves  of  the  heart,
thereby interfering with the excessive blood flow caused by Mars square Sat-
urn.   We also find the sun in Pisces, a common sign,  square to the moon in
Sagittarius.   Common signs when afflicted interfere with the organs of res-
piration,  given a tendency to trouble with the lungs.   This  man  suffered
greatly  with  what  some doctors diagnosed as asthma and  others  as  heart
trouble, and he also frequently suffered from severe colds.  Astrology shows
that  he  had  valvular heart trouble and that is was not  a  true  case  of
asthma.   He died from an abscess of the liver.   For details regarding this
condition see No. 10A.

   In the case of horoscope 20D, that of a man born August 25, 1867, we find
Saturn  in Scorpio,  a fixed sign,  square to Venus and Mercury in Leo,  the
sign ruling the heart.   We again find some trouble with poor heart  action;
but the most disturbing affliction is found in th stomach,  for the moon and
Uranus  are in conjunction in the sign of Cancer,  which has rule over  this
organ,  and  both  are square to the inflammatory Mars,  Uranus  also  being
square  to Neptune,  all in cardinal signs.   In this horoscope we find  the
seat of the trouble in the stomach,  showing impulsive and unnatural  habits
regarding food, with a tendency to bolt the food and also excessive drinking

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with  meals,  which  would cause the stomach to  become  distended,  thereby
pressing upon the heart and interfering with respiration.

   In horoscope 20E,  that  of  a  woman  born June 23, 1898, we find a very

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   [                   BIRTH CHART NO. 20D  [FLAT CHART]                ]
   [                                                                    ]
   [ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn  SUN: Virgo 1:46        SATURN: Scorpio 18:23 ]
   [ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius  MOON: Cancer 6:36      URANUS: Cancer 11:40  ]
   [ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces    MERCURY: Leo 14:14     NEPTUNE: Aries 14:14R ]
   [ ASCENDANT: Aries      VENUS: Leo 23:22                             ]
   [ 2ND HOUSE: Taurus     MARS: Libra 9:09                             ]
   [ 3RD HOUSE: Gemini     JUPITER: Pisces 2:40R                        ]
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different  cause,  and we may diagnose this as a real case  of  hay  asthma.
Neptune  is conjunction Mercury in the sign of Gemini,  which has rule  over
the lungs.  From the indications of personal appearance we should think that
this young woman had Virgo rising with  Gemini  in Midheaven, giving Mercury

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as the life ruler.   Neptune,  being the higher octave of Mercury,  has rule
over  the  nervous  system.   Neptune's influence  is  similar  to  that  of
Saturn--constricting,   astringent.    When  in  Gemini,  we  may  expect  a

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   [                 BIRTH CHART NO. 20E  [FLAT CHART]                  ]
   [                                                                    ]
   [ MIDHEAVEN: Capricorn  SUN: Cancer 1:59       SATURN: Sagitt. 7:18R ]
   [ 11TH HOUSE: Aquarius  MOON: Leo 19:05        URANUS: Sagitt. 0:21R ]
   [ 12TH HOUSE: Pisces    MERCURY: Gemini 23:42  NEPTUNE: Gemini 22:38 ]
   [ ASCENDANT: Aries      VENUS: Leo 4:00                              ]
   [ 2ND HOUSE: Taurus     MARS: Taurus 11:51                           ]
   [ 3RD HOUSE: Gemini     JUPITER: Libra 1:24                          ]
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disturbance in the bronchioles, especially during the summer months,  as was
the case with this young woman,  whose trouble was caused by the  inhalation
of the pollen of certain grasses and flowers.

   You will, however, find that in  most  cases  of asthma there is impaired

[PAGE 1214]

circulation.   The blood stream is sluggish,  showing an affliction to Venus
or Jupiter.  When the blood is impure, elimination will also be sluggish.

   Great care should be used in the selection of food.   The patient  should
eat  very lightly and only such foods as are easily digested but which  give
the proper nourishment.   Especially is this true of the evening meals,  for
attacks of asthma invariably follow a heavy meal at night.   Raw onion sand-
wiches  eaten the last thing at night and cut the phlegm and insure a  sound
sleep.

                                   CANCER:

                               NO. 21A--CANCER:

   Female, born July 14, 1897, 4:00 P.M.

   Sagittarius, a common sign, is on the Ascendant, and the life ruler,  Ju-
piter  is in the 9th house in the sign of Virgo;  Jupiter is also square  to
the Ascendant.  People with common signs on the four angles rarely make suf-
ficient effort to surmount the obstacles of life,  and when we also find the
afflicting planets in these common signs,  and the sun in the watery sign of
Cancer  an in the 8th house,  we have as in the case of this woman  one  who
would rather be an invalid than make the effort to keep the body in  health,
and we can see how weak the effort will be to overcome.

   First,  people  with  the sun and moon in Cancer are very  fond  of  good
things to eat,  and when the moon is also trine to Venus this enhances their
love for food and there is a tendency to overeat.   Let us see what will  be
the result.

[PAGE 1215]

   We find the planet Venus,  which has rule over the venous blood,  in  the
sign of Gemini, and in the 7th house, square to the inflammatory Mars and to
Jupiter.  Jupiter, which has rule over the arterial blood, is afflicted by a

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 [                           BIRTH CHART NO. 21A                          ]
 [                                                                        ]
 [ MIDHEAVEN: Virgo 22      SUN: Cancer 22:37      SATURN: Scorpio 24:17R ]
 [ 11TH HOUSE: Libra 22     MOON: Aquarius 1:48    URANUS: Scorpio 25:10R ]
 [ 12TH HOUSE: Scorpio 16   MERCURY: Cancer 21:22  NEPTUNE: Gemini 21:13  ]
 [ ASCENDANT: Sagitt. 4:48  VENUS: Gemini 7:09                            ]
 [ 2ND HOUSE: Capricorn 8   MARS: Virgo 3:49                              ]
 [ 3RD HOUSE: Aquarius 15   JUPITER: Virgo 8:20                           ]
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conjunction  of Mars,  hence the circulation is very much obstructed,  espe-
cially as Jupiter is in the sign of Virgo, which has rule over the small in-
testine.   When the patient eats very heartily (especially as Cancer  people
are  very fond  of  starches),  with  the  obstructed  circulation  and  the

[PAGE 1216]

disturbed assimilation of food in the small intestine what may we expect but
that the bowels are filled with putrid matter.  Fermentation set in, causing
derangement of the entire circulatory system.   Saturn,  the obstructor,  in
conjunctionn  with Uranus in the sign of Scorpio,  which has rule  over  the
rectum,  and in the 12th house, the house of self-undoing, also the house of
hidden things,  is an indication that the young woman had formed secret hab-
its which caused much irritation to the organs of elimination and which  had
their result in causing cancer of the rectum.

   She was ailing for a long time with dreadful pains across the lower  bow-
els and at the lower end of the spinal column.   The question may be  asked,
Is  there not a cure for this dread disease of cancer?   Yes,  when  in  its
first stages, it may be cured by eliminating all food for a few days, drink-
ing  only pure,  distilled water flavored with lemon juice,  and giving  the
bowels  a  thorough  cleansing  with  high  enemas.   Then  start  with  the
mono-diet,  continuing this for three weeks if the patient is able to  stand
it,  but not to exceed three weeks.  The patient should eat nothing but car-
rots.   This vegetable may be prepared in various ways to make it palatable,
grinding it and drinking the juice,  baking or steaming it or making it into
salads  flavored with a little olive oil and lemon.   The carrot has a  pro-
nounced  healing effect,  especially when used as a poultice,  and it has  a
wonderful healing power for ulcer and cancerous growths.

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                              NO. 21B--CANCER:

   Male,  born December 14, 1857.  Place and hour of birth unknown, but from
personal  appearance and traits of character we have placed  Sagittarius  on
the Ascendant.  Planets' positions for noon, G.M.T.

   THE doctors had told this man that he had cancer, and nothing could shake
his belief that he would some day pass out with the dread disease.   He kept
up  his letters to the Healing Department regularly for several months,  but
they were always filled with doubt of our methods and discouragement regard-
ing the future.  He also rebelled at the restrictions in diet, claiming that
he was too weak and sick to live without his daily beefsteak and fried pota-
toes.

   Later through the instrumentality of his son,  who was working in our of-
fice  as stenographer,  this man with his wife rented a cottage on  a  tract
which adjoined the Headquarters grounds.   In order to make it possible  for
his father to partake of the health diet served in our dining hall,  the son
applied for a job as gardener for his father.

   The first few weeks this poor man as a great trial to the cook.   When he
failed to get what he demanded, he left the table hungry.  This lasted for a
few days until hunger forced him to eat what was served.   His demands  were
for two eggs fried in butter, a large bowl of soft, boiled mush with several
teaspoons  of  sugar  and  plenty of cream, fried potatoes, white bread, and

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two or three cups of strong, black coffee with several teaspoons of sugar in
each.   The sugar bowl was emptied at each meal.   He greatly tried the  pa-
tience  of  both  Mr. Heindel  and  myself.  But  the  young  son,  who  had

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[                           BIRTH CHART NO. 21B                           ]
[                                                                         ]
[ MIDHEAVEN: Virgo 27      SUN: Sagitt. 22:31       SATURN: Cancer 27:14R ]
[ 11TH HOUSE: Libra 26     MOON: Sagitt. 1:11       URANUS: Taurus 26:16R ]
[ 12TH HOUSE: Scorpio 19   MERCURY: Capricorn 6:16  NEPTUNE: Pisces 19:56 ]
[ ASCENDANT: Sagitt. 8:45  VENUS: Sagitt. 4:17      DRAGON'S HEAD:        ]
[ 2ND HOUSE: Capricorn 11  MARS: Libra 16:22               Pisces 22:26   ]
[ 3RD HOUSE: Aquarius 25   JUPITER: Taurus 6:25R    DRAGON'S TAIL:        ]
[                                                          Virgo 22:26    ]
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supported  his father for a number of years was desperately anxious to  help
us to help the latter.  After a few weeks the patient adjusted himself,  and
immediately his health began to improve.   The eruptions on his face and his
breast began slowly to disappear, and his general health and strength  began

[PAGE 1219]

to return.

   During  the day it was observed that he was constantly eating candy;  his
pockets were filled with this sweet.  Before coming to Headquarters he would
eat one to two pounds of candy every day,  and thought it necessary to do so
to keep up his strength.

   We note the conjunction of the moon and Venus just above the Ascendant in
the negative sign of Sagittarius.   The moon and Venus conjoined,  no matter
where they may be in the horoscope, give a desire for sweets, pastry, etc.

   In  this case we find Saturn posited in the sign of the stomach,  Cancer,
and  retrograde  to a square aspect with Mars,  which is placed in  a  Venus
sign.  this man had for years filled his body with an excess of starch, pro-
tein,  and sugar.  With his afflicted progressed Saturn in Cancer he was not
able  to  extract the vitamines from his food,  and he was in the  habit  of
overeating and of bolting it.  Naturally the body stores up excess amount of
food  taken.   His  stomach refused to digest such quantities  of  food,  or
rather was too weak and lacking in the juices necessary in digestion.  There
was also a large amount of waste matter which the organs of elimination were
unable  to throw off.   Mars has rule over the rectum,  being the  ruler  of
Scorpio  which governs this organ.   With Mars afflicted by the  obstructive
progressed  Saturn we might expect that the man would suffer from  constipa-
tion.

   With  all  this  ash  stored up in the body can we wonder that the system

[PAGE 1220]

has to find some means of throwing out this poison?  The result was that the
skin of the nose, throat, face and breast (Mars ruling Aries the face, Scor-
pio the bridge of the nose,  and Saturn in Cancer the breast) was used as  a
dumping ground for the body waste.  After eight months of Mt.  Ecclesia diet
this man moved back to the city with not a trace of cancer on his body;  all
sores had entirely healed.   Mars sextile to the life-giving sun brought vi-
tality.  Wherever a good aspect between these two planets is found, there is
great hope of overcoming disease.

   Saturn in Cancer in the eighth house, the house of death, will eventually
be  the case of the native's demise,  together with the moon and Venus in  a
common sign and in the house of self-undoing.  In time his desire for sweets
and rich food will probably lead to excesses which will be the cause of  his
death.

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                             ROSICRUCIAN HEALING:

                     HOW THE ROSICRUCIANS HEAL THE SICK:

   THE  Rosicrucian work of healing is carried on by the Elder  Brothers  of
the Rosicrucian Order through a band of Invisible Helpers whom they are  in-
structing.

   The work is conducted according to the commands of Christ Jesus,  namely,
"Preach the gospel and heal the sick."

                             THE ELDER BROTHERS:

   These are high spiritual beings through whom the Christ Spirit is working
for the benefit of humanity.

                            THE INVISIBLE HELPERS:

   The  Invisible  Helpers are those who live a worthy life  of  helpfulness
during  the daytime while in their physical bodies,  and whose  evolutionary
development  is such as to EARN the privilege of being helpful  through  the
instrumentality of the  Elder  Brothers  at night while functioning in their

[PAGE 1222]

etheric  bodies,  as indicated in the words of the Rosicrucian Evening  Ser-
vice:   "Tonight while our physical bodies are peacefully resting in  sleep,
may  we as Invisible Helpers be found faithfully working in the vineyard  of
Christ."   These Invisible Helpers are gathered together in bands  according
to their temperaments and their abilities.   They are under the  instruction
of other Helpers WHO ARE PHYSICIANS, and all of them work under the guidance
of  the Elder Brothers,  who naturally are the moving spirits of  the  whole
work.

   Not  infrequently  patients are aware of the presence  of  the  Invisible
Helpers.

                      RIGHT LIVING NECESSARY FOR A CURE:

   The Invisible Helpers never refuse to answer an appeal for help,  but  in
order to respond to the Divine Healing Force patients must adopt the  gospel
of right living;  they should observe a pure meatless diet;  they must  fill
their  living  and  sleeping  rooms with pure air,  their  minds  with  pure
thoughts and their daily lives with pure actions.   The Divine Healing Force
is  pure;  if you ask for it in order to be relieved of your  ailments,  you
must  be willing to conform to the natural laws of purity.   Pure air,  pure
food,  pure thinking and pure living!  If you ignore these great health giv-
ing factors you may have called in vain upon the Divine Healing Force.

[PAGE 1223]

                                HEALING FORCE:

   The healing force comes from God, our Heavenly Father,  the Great  Physi-
cian of the universe;  it is latent everywhere;  by prayer and concentration
it is liberated and directed to the sufferer; it manifested through the Mas-
ter,  Christ Jesus;  it goes forth from the weekly healing meetings held  at
the Rosicrucian Fellowship Headquarters.   Through the workings of this  su-
preme  force the Invisible Helpers raise the vibrations of the patient to  a
higher rate,  thus enabling him, first, to eliminate the disease poison from
the system, and second, to rebuild every blood corpuscle, fibre, tissue, and
organ until the whole body is made new.   This is done,  not in a miraculous
manner  but in accordance with nature's laws.   If the patient continues  to
break these laws and by a wrong mode of living to accumulate poisonous  sub-
stances in the system, he frustrates the healing work.

                              CAUSE OF DISEASE:

   The  wonderful  organism called the human body is governed  by  immutable
natural  laws.   All disease results from willful or ignorant  violation  of
nature's laws.   People are ill because in this earth life or in a  previous
one they have disregarded the fundamental principles on which the health  of
the body depends.   If they wish to regain and to retain their health,  they
must learn to understand these principles and to regulate their daily habits
in conformity with them.

[PAGE 1224]

   This is what the Master Healer,  Christ Jesus,  meant when he said to the
man who was a cripple:   "Thou art made whole:   sin no more,  lest a  worse
thing come unto thee."  (John 5-14.)  Even the Christ could not give lasting
health  unless the recipient of the healing force refrained  from  indulging
wrong  habits which cause disease,  and lived in obedience to the  God-given
laws that rule man's body as well as his relations to his fellow creatures.

                             THE RIGHT TO HEALTH:

   Some  people "demand"  perfect health and claim they have a right to  it.
They  forget that either in this or a former life some have forfeited  their
God-given right through disobedience to nature's laws, which are God's laws.
Through  suffering they have to learn obedience.   When they  have  mastered
their lesson and are willing to "sin no more," their right to health will be
restored to them.

                      VIOLATIONS OF THE LAWS OF HEALTH:

   The Divine Healing Force is constructive;  wrong methods of living  which
disregard the laws of nature are destructive.

   The omissions and transgressions responsible for wrong living and  conse-
quently  for disease are many;  the following are the principal  ones:   Un-
natural food;  too much food;  ill-proportioned food;  lack of fresh air and
sunshine;  lack of cleanliness;  lack of exercise;  lack of rest and  sleep;
lack of self-control; sleeping in unventilated  rooms; harboring thoughts of

[PAGE 1225]

anger,  hatred,  and resentment; yielding to a hasty temper;  gratifying low
desires;  harming fellow creatures whether human or animal;  abusing the sa-
cred generative function.

   Since  all the organs and functions of the body are  interdependent,  the
abuse  and consequent affliction of one part hurts all the others,  furthers
the accumulation of disease poison throughout the system, and lowers the vi-
tality of the whole.  The local symptoms are only evidence of the whole body
being at fault.   Therefore,  all true healing,  in order to achieve lasting
results,  is directed not to the suppression of symptoms but to the  removal
of the cause that made the symptoms appear.

                              SPIRITUAL HEALING:

   Spiritual healing operates on the higher planes of being but is  effected
in  strict  adherence to natural laws which prevail below as  above;  conse-
quently all natural therapeutics applied on the physical plan are in harmony
with the work of the Invisible Helpers on the higher planes.

                       RIGHT FOOD IS NATURAL MEDICINE:

   As  the body is built up of the physical substances introduced  into  the
blood  by the daily food,  right food is the NATURAL medicine which the  pa-
tient  must take in order to cooperate with the Invisible Helpers  in  their
task of reconstructing his system.

[PAGE 1226]

                    EFFLUVIA TRANSMITTED IN WEEKLY REPORT:

   Before the Invisible Helpers can work with the patient they must have ef-
fluvia from his vital body, which is the etheric counterpart of the physical
body  and the operating sphere of the vital forces.   The effluvia  are  ob-
tained  by having the patient write every week a letter consisting of a  few
words or a few lines with PEN AND INK.   This is important as a pen  charged
with fluid is a greater conductor of magnetism than a dry pencil.  The ether
which thus impregnates the paper upon which the patient writes week by  week
gives  an indication of his condition at that particular time and  furnishes
an entrance key to his system.  IT IS SOMETHING WHICH HE HAS GIVEN VOLUNTAR-
ILY AND FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF FURNISHING ACCESS FOR THE INVISIBLE HELP-
ERS.   Unless the patient does his part to do anything for him; so it may be
seen  that it is of the utmost importance to keep up the weekly  letters  to
Headquarters.

                           TIME REQUIRED FOR CURE:

   Instantaneous  cures are frequent where the Invisible Helpers are  called
upon to assist in cases of acute disease.   In the case of a chronic ailment
which is of long standing and has taken years to develop,  a certain  amount
of relief may be experienced immediately; complete recovery, however,  which
is equivalent to a renewal of the whole system, can usually be achieved only

[PAGE 1227]

in gradual stages.   As said before, the healing work of the Invisible Help-
ers  is not suppression of symptoms but reconstruction of the whole  system,
and  in order to be accomplished it requires time as well as  the  patient's
faithful and constant cooperation along the lines indicated above.

                      HEALING MEETINGS AT HEADQUARTERS:

   Healing meetings are held at Rosicrucian Headquarters on the nights  when
the moon enters cardinal signs in the zodiac.   The hour of service is about
6:30  P.M.   The virtue of the cardinal signs is dynamic energy  which  they
infuse  into every enterprise started under their influence,  and  therefore
the  healing  thoughts of the helpers all over the world  are  endowed  with
added  power when launched upon their errands of mercy under  this  cardinal
influence.

   If you would like to join in this work,  sit down quiet when the clock IN
YOUR  PLACE OF RESIDENCE points to the given hour,  6:30 P.M.,  meditate  on
HEALTH,  and pray to the Great Physician, our Father in Heaven, for the res-
toration to health of all who suffer, particularly those who have applied to
Headquarters.

   At the same time visualize the Ecclesia,  the healing Temple at Headquar-
ters,  where the thoughts of all aspirants are finally gathered by the Elder
Brothers and used for the stated purpose.

Continued with file "RC2027.TXT"

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