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" io no "" «™° ■ « « ° • - ■ ■ ■■ < - ° ° ■ - ■ ■ I 1 Tlh© Pyramids i 1 j | & - - — ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° o a a & The historian, with the majority of mankind, marvels but is unable to explain the reason for the Pyramids other than that they were simply intended as the bur- ial place of kings. Many authors find in the mechanical exactness of the great pyramid nothing but divine or- igin. Still others see a system for the teaching of as- tronomy. All agree that they stand with their faces to the four points of the compass and stand exactly on the 30th parallel. The astronomer says: "The slow piling up of the vast structure of the Pyramids of Cheops would seem an im- mense undertaking to you, and if you are not too abused by the ruling tyranny to have any more thoughts than a brute animal, you might, as an Egyptian, take some pride in the achievement; but, after all, what inspira- tion could there be in a mere heap of stone, mechanic- ally piled together, with no artistic motive or suggestion? Its bigness was no token of genius. It could not give the slightest impression of mental mastery acquired over material forces, because the construction involved no new principle, but called simply for the employment of the most primitive mechanical powers in a manner hardly varying from the plain methods of nature her- self. The Great Pyramid is not a memorial to human genius, but of human slavery." The astronomer, he who studies merely the form of things, must now give way to the astrologer, he who studies the soul of astronomy. The following article from Science and Key of Life might enlighten our astronomer friends — if they wanted facts. 30 PLANET REAEER PYRAMIDS AND THEIR OBJECTS. ISIS, THE MOON. In the first place we recognize the fact that the chief Goddess of the ancient Egyptians was Isis, the Moon, and there was a time in the past age of the world when Isis, or the Moon, passed vertically over the city of Cairo and the Great Pyramids, and the whole building, and every one of the four sides was, at this time, cov- ered completely by the light of the Moon as she passed exactly over the apex of the Great Pyramid. This was the time when her sacred influence was shed on that fa- vored spot. It was then, chiefly for this reason, and to commemorate this important phenomena that this enor- mous mass of masonry was built up. It was raised at an angle of fifty-two degrees, which was meant to com- memorate the fact of fifty-two weeks in a year, as the moon was taken, from the first, as the great means of measuring time, and to her was appointed the second day of the week, Moonday or Monday, as the Moon governs things connected with that day, and especially with the first hour of that day. The first day was given to Osiris, the Sun, Sunday, as the Sun rules the first day and the first hour of that day. Now in order to find the time at which this important event took place, we have to consider that the obliquity of the ecliptic diminishes at the rate of one-half a sec- ond annually. Then we may take, for example, the twentieth century and find in the year 2000 it will be twenty-three degrees and twenty-six minutes. To this add five degrees and eighteen minutes, for the north lat- itude of the Moon at its maximum, and we have twen- ty-eight degrees and twenty-four minutes, which sub- tracted from thirty degrees gives one degree and sixteen minutes, or four thousand five hundred and sixty sec- onds. This would be passed over by the Moon in nine thousand one hundred and twenty years, at the rate of PLANET READER one-half a second per annum. Then from nine thousand one hundred and twenty years subtract two thousand years, and we have seven thousand one hundred and twenty years remaining as the date of the building of the Great Pyramid, and this was two hundred years subsequent to the beginning of elective kings. It was built to serve, first as a memorial to the fact, great in the ancient religion, of the transit of their goddess over that spot; second, as a means of fixing a great national system of meteorology, and third, for the sepulchre of the great sovereigns. To all these objects it was dedi- cated. It was evident, then, that the various dimensions or measurements, respecting the solar cycle date, repeating the ecliptic cycle, etc., of the ancient Chaldeans and Egyptians, but these have been unknown to modern in- vestigators, owing to the introduction of the solar year, and its varied length enacted by the legislatures of mod- ern times. As the ancient cycles are natural and scien- tific, they differ from anything of the kind attempted by man upon the unnatural lines, though they are the same as many scriptural and prophetic periods, which obser- vation shows are purely astronomical. It is very easy, then, for some modern writers and investigators to mis- take scientific data for Biblical truths. We shall now go over the different measurements, showing them to be taken from astronomical observations at that time. MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THE PYRA- MIDS WERE BUILT. In the Queen's chamber, or the Moon's chamber in the Great Pyramid will be found a deep marked niche. This niche is fifteen feet high, as this constitutes the Chaldean and ancient Hebrew solar cycle. There are also five stories which answer to the five divisions of the 32 PLANET READER solar cycle, that is, five intercalary periods at the end of each third year. The walls of the King's chamber — the Sun, are composed of stones in five horizontal courses, and above this King's chamber are five cham- bers of construction. Both represent the five divisions of the solar cycle. The coffer in the chamber has five solid external sides, one being the bottom. Then again, we take the entire length of the ante-chamber multi- plied by Pi, which is a proportion known to mathemati- cians: this supplies the exact number of days in the year, or you may say Pi is the proportion of the diam- eter of a circle to its circumference. Thirty-six is another important division in the Great Pyramid. The Grand Gallery is covered with thirty-six stones. These represent the thirty-six divisons of the ecliptic cycle, that is, twelve signs or months, each di- vided into three eighteens. These form the geometrical divisions of the circle three hundred and sixty, which is also a ruling period in scripture. In connection with the ecliptic cycle, that is, twelve signs or months, each di- vided into three eighteens, nine is an important num- ber, as the largest room in the King's chamber is cov- ered with nine blocks of granite, representing the nine cycles of eclipses, of six hundred and forty-eight years each. Thus we have the breadth of the King's chamber, three hundred and twenty-four inches, giving the full date-representing cycle, representing six hundred and forty-eight years. These measurements are a plain indication that the period in which the pyramid was built was that of the early Chaldean. The date repeating cycle of solar eclip- ses, six hundred and forty-eight years, made up of twelve times fifty-four, which is three solar eclipses, on or about the first day of each month of the year, that is, by the system of time observed by the ancients, a solar PLANET READER eclipse occurred thrice at one date, but the period be- tween each was eighteen years. Thus, three times eighteen are fifty-four years, just spoken of, and as there are twelve months, called signs in the Zodiacal circle, the first eclipse in creation year passes through the year, and repeats its date after six hundred and forty-eight years. This is a very good sys- tem of measureing time by the Sun. It is a complete revolution of eclipses upon the Zodiacal circle, and at the same time a grand demonstration of its use. Thus, we see that the use of this six hundred and forty-eight, or nine, is but a natural and scientific measurement in the great pyramid, or wherever it may be found. We find this in the Grand Gallery, which is fifty-four feet long, and therefore has a length of six hundred and forty- eight inches; this is a double reference to the ecliptic cycle. THE PYRAMIDS, TWENTY YEARS IN BUILDING. THE INFLUENCE OF ISIS. ''THE MOON GOVERNS EXIST- ENCE." In order to show the connection of these measure- ments, we will take, for instance, the Great Gallery, which is covered with thirty-six stones, which represent the thirty-six divisions of the ecliptic cycle, formed by the twelve sections or months of the Zodiacal circle. We know that each one of these twelve sections con- tains thirty parts, or degrees, thus forming three hun- dred and sixty, which is the mathematical division of all circles used in geometry, astronomy and also in Bib- lical chronology. This Zodiacal circle was also portray- ed on the outside casing of the huge building, together with the chief constellations. You may judge from this that the builders of the Great Pyramids were well ac- quainted with the twelve signs of the Zodiac and other 34 PLANET REAEER astronomical observations known to modern times, and even more, as you will conclude from these di ta. We also gather that many err in fixing the time when the Great Pyramids were built, when Draco wrs situat- ed at the North Pole, though in reality it would be in the center of the slanting passage, in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six to two thousand one hundred and seventy A. M., about one thousand nine hundred and sixty -nine. It took twenty years to build the same, This would give one thousand nine hundred and eighty- nine A. M., and was in the reign of Cheops who built the Great Pyramid, he being the second king of the Fourth Dynastjr, which began in one thousand nine hundred and forty A. M. It will be plainly seen, then, that the object of building such a lasting monument was to commemorate the transit of the Moon Isis, their goddess of worship, whom they held in reverence at that day. Some people now have — in the future a larger number will have, everything to live for and nothing to die for. It is the ultimate of man to live at least 150 years. Knowledge will enable him to do so. When he does it the planet will no longer be afflicted with vermin — wit- ness India with its teeming millions of religious fanatics who hold other millions of their kind in bondage, men- tally and physically. The allies should pay their debt to the U. S., but England should not be pressed, ac present. For the next two years she will be sorely troubled. She stands a bulwark between civilization and the fanatical hordes of India and Turkey who so recklessly court death. Ever notice the connection between the ninth sign — the fiery Sagittarius and religious fervor? Is it any explanation to you why religious wars and bigotry are so appalling in fierceness? Sagittarius rules Spain and is the celestial house of religion, hence the inquisition. PLANET READER ASTROLOGY aurad thm Spwlt @ff ftlhi© Age BY ROLLO IRETON The recently expired nineteenth century has been looked at for criticism or for praise from a great diversity of standpoints. There is one standpoint from which it can hardly fail to impress the historian of the future. For better or for worse it has been the great age of revivals. The leaders of thought, who are invariably, in the end, the leaders of action also, have awakened to a realization of one fact which has had an enormous bearing on the his- tory of the age. In grasping more fully than any of their predecessors the many sidedness of life, they have recog- nized how often their fathers have failed of accomplish- ment though tacitly accepting what was uppermost for the moment, through looking upon whatever views had obtained predominance at the particular epoch at which they lived as those after which all creation had been grop- ing blindly and aimlessly until then, and as the criticism by which they were at liberty to judge — and where they thought fit, to condemn — the past. This attitude of self- satisfied pride, of which the eighteenth century was more particularly guilty, resulted frequently in the heavy loss to their own and subsequent generations. The valuable knowledge that one generation heedlessly cast away as be- ing out of date, merely because it did not chime with their own attitude of mind, was not readily recovered by descendants — perhaps was not recovered at all. A gener- ation which valued utility above all things would be blind to a sense of the beautiful in art or in nature, and beauti- ful things would be rejected or destroyed as evidence of imperfect civilization. An age in which reason was val- ued most highly would fail to realize the necessity of faith. When faith held sway on the other hand, reason would be cast to the winds and denounced as an evidence of intel- lectual pride and of revolt against God. The greatness of Shakespeare was not recognized by the contemporaries of Pope. The greatness of Pope is denied today. A century 36 PLANET READER and a half ago the beauties of Gothic architecture were unappreciated, and therefore unseen. It is doubtful if at the preseut time we value at their true worth the splen- did structures of Sir Christopher Wren. But at length we are beginning to feel, even if we fail to appreciate what our forefathers admired, that this may not prove so much to their want of intelligence as the difference from our standpoint. Where we cannot see beauty we no longer so confidently deny its existence. In that which diverges farthest from our own personal opin- ion we — most of us — are ready to admit an element of truth. At no time, and in no country, was the unsympathetic attitude towards the past, to which I have alluded, more glaringly in evidence than in eighteenth-century Frr.nce, and nowhere have its results proved more disas- trous. In their revolutionary zeal, the leaders of the day freely cast away the wheat with the tares. In attempt- ing to inaugurate a new age they imagined they could make a TABULA RASA of all past history ; and while be- lieving in the possibility of this course, they never drer.mpt of questioning its wisdom. Doubtless they did some good in clearing the ground ; that they also destroy- ed much that was of value no sane man doubts today. They did not realize the continuity of history. They thought that they could start the story of the world afresh from the "Year One of Liberty." But history is within the province of Nature, and the Latin proverb holds good: NATURA NON FACIT SALTUM. It was the errors of the eighteenth century that taught the nineteenth century its wisdom. Much that was cast aside as worthless in the last century was subsequently re-adopted, often in a modified form, by its successor. It may be stated as a general truth that every step in ad- vance gained by mankind is gained at the expense, or the sacrifice of something else. We win, it is to be hoped, more than we lose. That we always lose something in making fresh conquests there is ample evidence in the past history of mankind to show. 1 1 has been the business of the present age to pick up a iiw of the precious things that earlier generations have dropped in the hurry of their onward march. We have PLANET READER succeeded in reviving not a few of the ideas of earlier times. We have sougnt inspiration for our art in the genius of the past. We have re-adopted their principles of architecture. We have recalled to political existence ancient people. We have made a nation of geographical expression. In the religious world we have seen Christ- ianity awake from her slumbers to renewed life and act- ivity. We have revived the wisdom religion of the East in the form of theosophy. Thus in looking back over the pages of the past history of man, over the beliefs, thoughts and modes of lLe, which were realities to them, but which are no longer realities to us, a feeling comes over us that the ' 'spirit may yet revive; that what looks like death is perhaps but a deep trance, and that it only needs "the fated hand" for which the ages are expectant to "smite this sleeping world awake." But it is not enough to reanimate these faiths of our fathers into the mere semblance of life. It is not enough to carciature mediaevalism, or to adopt as a quaint conceit in the present an attitde of thought which sprang from the very inmost depths of the soul of the past. And so, in looking at such renewals of ancient forms, one is tempt- ed to ask oneself with doubt and misgiving, "Can the spirit re-awaken in the form or is this merely a clever trick whereby it is galvanized to life?" Time alone can determine this, but at least we can fair- ly claim that in attempting to reawaken to life one or more of the giants of the past — a belief which played no mean part in the story of the earlier days of the world — the belief in the direct influence of the apparent motions of the Sun, Moon and p ] anets upon life, character and actions of men, we are in accord with the spirit of the age. It matters little if astrology is ridiculed by science and the newspapers. The heresy of today may be the ortho- doxy of tomorrow; and if we would win our share of the plunder of the ages we must be up and doing while ortho- dox science lies asleep. But as a matter of fact whether they see it or not, the scientists are being slowly but surely borne along by that irresistible current which leads mankind on from point to 38 PLANET READER point of knowledge until they will be forced to face the question which Astrology claims to solve. There is one thing above all others, the truth of which the development of science has tended to establish, and which each fresh advance only goes to emphasize more strongly. This truth is the universality of the reign of law, unbroken and unvarying throughout all Nature. There is no room for caprice in the Universe so far as Science has been able to observe it; no room for caprice except it be in the actions of man. But for all Science knows to the contrary, the history of mankind upon this earth may be the result of a series of accidents. Science advances no theory which explains the rise and fall of na- tions, or the rise and fall of individual men. It may in- deed admit with the poet that — We, in some unknown power's employ, Move on a rigorous line; Can neither, when we will, enjoy, Nor when we will, resign. — but that is all. It is here then, that Astrology steps in, and extends this theory to the universality of the laws of Nature to the domain of man. Born into a world where natural law holds universal sway, it shows that man, in entering this world, must subject himself to this law, and cannot hold himself apart, an isolated single instance to disprove the harmonious ordering of the universe. He must needs, sooner or later, admit himself no excep- tion, but only another and more marvelous instance still of that law of universal sympathy whereby The whole world round in every way Bound by gold chains about the leet of God. The field which Astrology occupies immediately in front in the exact line of the 'orward march of Science. What will Science do when it reaches this point, and has to make the choice? Will it turn aside in devious by-paths and so turning aside stultify itself for all future time? Will it say "Astrology blocks the way," and fear to fol- low in the footsteps of Kepler and Galileo? Or will it, after a frantic protest from the camp of the orthodox, and PLANET READER much dallying and delay, look facts in the face, however much they may conflict with preconceived theories, and march gallantly forward? This is what frequently happened in the past. Doubt- less it will happen again. Meanwhile we must educate our teachers. Science does not realize the time of day. It is on the brink of the discovery, or rather the recognition, of facts that will wonderfully modify its present attitude, and which will, in changing that attitude, make it eventual- ly grander in scope than it has ever been heretofore — which will open its eyes to realms of imagination, to realms of thought hitherto regarded as totally outside its purview. Many scientists would doubtless be willing enough to admit the probability of the existence of a natural law under which the destinies of mankind are played out. What they fail to recognize is, that in the science of Astrology the rudiments of this natural law, which sci- ence is yet to seek, have been already found out for us by the wise men of old. If we blame the scientists it is because they obstinate- ly shut their eyes to facts which are open to their obser- vation — facts, which, being accessible to the careful stu- dent, should at least, if they are untrue, be sifted and disproved. They have some excuse for not having done so. As- trology when it reaches the eyes of the public, does not reach them, generally speaking, in a form which com- mends it to the notice of serious or scientific men. "I know not," says the poet — I know not if they erred Who thought to see The tale of all the times to be Star charactered; I know not, neither care If fools or knaves they were. It is greatly to be feared that there has been among the fellowship who have professed a study of the stars of the fates of men examples of one and the other; and, indeed, wherever prediction of the future comes in there 40 PLANET READER are always many dying to be deceived, and as ever, the demand for deception creates the supply. The school of poo-poo scarcely merits consideration. It has had its votaries in all ages and times, and today they are sufficiently numerous. Under whatever guise or in whatever form they appear, they never fail to make themselves contemptible. It is better that they should not laugh as they generally have done hitherto — at some foolish figment of their own brain, which they take to be that ancient science. The opening which man now finds for himself is the best way for him. Do not make the mistake of want- ing all people to be saved in our way, in our own particular line. This cannot be, and because an- other person's way differs from our own we should not look down upon it, rather let us consider it worthy our respect and study. —Science and Key of Life. 1 The question is often asked how the stars can af- 1 i feet people and their affairs — rule their destiny? 1 {What is the medium of communication? That 1 wonderful unseen power that holds the world in ] \ place — magnetism, is the answer. The earth was 1 once a part of the Sun and man being a product of T the earth is governed by the same force that gov- 1 erns the earth — the Sun. Man and the Sun are j closely related, man and the earth being but a 4 { spark from the parent source. When the Sun is aspected by the planets, causing high or low cur- {rents of electricity, man and all created things quick- ly respond. Harmonious currents produce like ef- {fects; so also do cross currents. WHEN MARRIAGE MAY BE EXPECTED— In the horoscope of a woman if the Sun is in good aspect {to Jupiter, Mars, Saturn or Uranus, marriage comes at one of the following periods: 18, 22, 24 or 26. If i the Sun be exactly 120 degrees from Jupiter the f woman marries at the age of 24 unless a bad aspect (to the Sun occurs at the same time, which would cause disappointment and prevent marriage. 4 WHEN GOOD FORTUNE WILL COME— If at birth the Sun is in good aspect to Jupiter the good for- ^ tune is promised every two years, but at the ages i of 12, 24, 30, 60 and 72 greater prosperity will ap- f pear. If both the Sun and Moon are found in I good aspect to Jupiter at birth and not afflicted by [ an evil aspect, then good fortune is ever attendant 4 LUCKY DAYS— When the Moon or Sun pass the place held by Jupiter at birth is a lucky day unless I an unfavorable transit is in operation at that time i when both good and bad conditions will appear on I same day. 1 If the Moon is in good aspect with the Sun at f birth every time the Sun forms a good aspect to 1 that place is a lucky day, for business especially. If Uranus afflicts the Sun and either occupy the | seventh house, that person will be happier single. ! It is possible for Mars, Venus and the seventh 7 house and its ruler to cause a plethora of loves. ©*C CYCLE ATURM B9 en) LIBRARY OF CONGRESS IWIIIHIIM! 022 190 275 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 022 190 275 • LIBRARY OF CONGRESS llll 022 190 275