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By
SEPHARIAL
EDITOR OF “MOORE’S” AND “OLD MOORE’S” ALMANACSAUTHOR OF “THE MANUAL OF ASTROLOGY,” “PROGNOSTIC ASTRONOMY,”“THE BIRTHDAY BOOK OF DESTINY,” “THE CRYSTALAND THE SEER,” ETC.
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Since the publication of this small manual of practicalAstrology, two editions of which have been exhausted,the attention given to the subject has so far extended asto create an increased demand for a concise work of thisnature, designed for the initial use of students and offeredat a price that is within the means of all. It is believedthat the revision and enlargement of the present work willrender it even more popular than hitherto with beginners.
The practical uses of Astrology are daily more andmore recognized and appreciated, and although some ofthe higher and later developments of Astrology in itsrelation to every-day problems have necessarily been withheldfrom these pages, yet it is to be hoped that so much asis here presented of an abstruse and recondite sciencewill enable the student to pursue the subject with increasingassurance and satisfaction, in which case doubtless he willreadily discover for himself, and without any special pointingon my part, that Astrology is primarily and finally a practicaland useful study.
There are, of course, many aspects of this fascinatingsubject which find no place in this small work, whichdeals solely with Genethliacal Astrology, or the doctrineof Nativities. Yet if it be true, as I think to be the case,that “the proper study for mankind is man,” then undoubtedlywe are right in selecting this phase of Astrological Scienceas that to which the student should first devote himself.
When we have thoroughly arrived at an understandingof the complex nature of human character and the primarycauses of variety in expression, when we have seen[Pg 6] for ourselveshow the many-coloured dome of Life overarches us of thissublunary world with its kaleidoscopic interplay of forces,we shall be to some extent better equipped not only to dealwith character as we find it, but also to direct the forcesof the human mind along channels which lead to the preservationof our social economy, and that not by any restrictive measuresor harmful suppression of natural passions and powers, but byconversion of them into forms that are conservative and useful.
To apply oneself to the specialization of inherent faculty,to find the line of least resistance, and to discover themeasure of one’s own soul in the universe and the limitto which ambition can safely aspire, these are thingsnecessary to be known and things that Astrology makesclear to the mind in the very earliest stages of our study.
And apart from the scientific verities to which thescience of planetary influence directs us, there are othernot less important and fascinating truths of a purely philosophicnature to which it inevitably impels the mind and whichcannot fail to exercise a tremendous influence in the shapingof our thought in regard to the purpose of life.