This is a very unique old book about Astrology. This volume was published in 1911 by Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, Richmond, Virginia. This is a copy of the seventh edition. The book measures 8 ¾ inches by 11 1/8 inches and contains vi, 71 pages. The green cloth cover has the title in gilt on the front. The cover shows minor signs of wear to the edges, corners (worn to the boards) and to the top and bottom of the spine. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages are printed on a good quality paper and show no signs of rips or foxing. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this 91 year old book is between good plus to near very good.

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There appears to be a wide and increasing interest in regard to Astrology in this country, and perhaps there are some who wish to study it with as much exactness and thoroughness as the peculiar subject is capable of, in its principal branch the doctrine of nativities. I such are very few as yet, the spirit of this age, now inclining to submit the occult and elusive to scientific scrutiny is likely to breed them ere long. The present writer has studied it, in quite a private way, form a rational point of view and with careful induction, for may years, taking its fundamental ideas a probable hypotheses and using a strict mathematical method according to the best works on spherical astronomy, with the intent particularly of testing with scientific caution what correspondence there is between “arcs of direction” and the events of a person’s life, when the data are known to be correct. As geometrical laws shape everything, this is the part that can probably be made nearly exact science. The rest of it -- after rejecting the mouldy old nonsense and jargon, the figments and lies of the books -- is mostly deductions from general and ambiguous symbols which yield little definite meaning to the intellect, though often read wonderfully by some persons who have the fine divining faculty; but this insight, however real in its way, is a raw poetry not science, and is unreliable, especially as to times of events. I have reached numerous confident conclusions on the subject by a long inquisitorial search. Some are negative ones, indeed, yet valuable; but many are drawn from positive proof of close accord between planetary movements and personal events, disclosing to view the main points and lines in the geometrical plan of life, though giving no clear picture of anything…
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